Packet 8 Hmongdaw

Maryland Fall 2015

Packet 8 – hmongdaw

Questions by Jordan Brownstein, Ani Perumalla, Emma Stevens, Sam Rombro, Sarang Yeola, Will Alston, Weijia Cheng, Naveed Chowdhury, Justin Hawkins

Tossups

1. WikiLeaks has alleged that this country’s head of state embezzled $9 billion from state funds with Lloyds Bank. That head of state cooperated with French forces to capture Carlos the Jackal in this country. In July 2015, this country’s president evaded arrest by sneaking out of South Africa. In June 2011, this country opened an embassy in a newly independent southern neighbor’s capital (*) Juba. In March 2009, this country’s head of state became the first to be indicted by the ICC, regarding his order of killings in Darfur. For 10 points, name this country whose current president is Omar al-Bashir.

ANSWER: Sudan

2. During the Night of Terror, activists for this cause were beaten in the Occoquan Workhouse. Minor v.Happersett was a major setback for this movement. Poster advising the “Kaiser” to “take the beam out of your own eye” were used to picket for this cause by the Silent Sentinels. In 1869, (*) Wyoming Territory implemented the goal of this movement. The NAWSA campaigned for this cause, whose chief supporters included Alice Paul and Susan B.Anthony. For 10 points, name this cause that succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which doubled the number of voters in the US.

ANSWER: women’s suffrage [or universal suffrage; or anything indicating votes for women; prompt on “women’s rights” or equivalents]

3. A chiral example of these substances is named for Tröger. Lithium diisopropylamide is a rare example of one of these compounds which is not nucleophilic, but most of them are. Sodium amide is an example of the “super” form of these substances. One of these substances is used to convert triglycerides to a namesake product in (*) saponification. Lewis defined these substances as electron donors, while Brønsted and Lowry described them as proton acceptors. Sodium hydroxide is an example of the strong type of these substances, which turn phenolphthalein pink. For 10 points, name these compounds with a pH greater than 7, the opposite of acids.

ANSWER: bases

4. At the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, this man wore a paper bag on his head that said, “I am not famous anymore.” Two days later, in hashtag IAMSORRY, he invited people to talk to him wearing the same paper bag and a tuxedo while crying. In one franchise, he played a disciple of Jetfire named Sam Witwicky. On a “normal (*) Tuesday night,” you stab this man’s kidney, according to a Rob Cantor song. This actor played a character nicknamed “Caveman” in a 2003 adaptation of a Louis Sachar novel. For 10 points, name this star of Transformers and Holes who recently gave a motivational speech in which he asked viewers to “Just do it!”

ANSWER: Shia Saide LaBeouf [accept either underlined name]

5. The toothless veterinarian Darbon looks after one of these animals in the Andalusian village of Moguer. Christy Mahon impresses some women by winning a contest involving one of these animals in The Playboy of the Western World. One of these animals named Benjamin is the only animal besides the pigs that can read fluently in Animal Farm. Platero and I features one of these animals, and Lucius accidentally (*) turns himself into one of these animals in a novel by Apuleius titled after a golden one. One of these animals named Dapple is ridden by a servant to a windmill fighting knight-errant. For 10 points, name this animal ridden by Sancho Panza.

ANSWER: donkeys [or asses; or mules]

6. For supporting this person, and claiming to have seen God in human form, a Breton woman named Pierrone was killed. This person was the subject of a posthumous trial called by Calixtus III. One of this leader’s allies was a knight who was later found to have murdered hundreds of children in his castle. This person defeated John Talbot at the Siege of (*) Orleans. Before obtaining an audience with King Charles VII, this person claimed to have heard the voices of Saint Michel and Saint Catherine. She was captured by the Burgundians and turned over to the English, who burnt her at the stake for heresy. For 10 points, name this peasant girl who led French forces during the Hundred Years’ War.

ANSWER: Joan of Arc [or Jeanne d’Arc; or la Pucelle]

7. A beam of light interacting with one of these entities has its plane of polarization rotated in an effect named after Faraday. The strength of this entity produced by a steady current can be calculated using the Biot–Savart Law. This quantity is crossed with velocity to find the (*) Lorentz force, and the electric field divided by the permeability of free space crossed with this quantity is the Poynting vector. A current flowing perpendicular to one of these results in a voltage difference in the Hall effect. For 10 points, name this field denoted by a capital B, the counterpart of the electric field.

ANSWER: magnetic field [prompt on “B field”]

8. This poem describes women as a “shrew of fate” that “does nothing but sit on her ass / and snip the intellectual golden threads of the craftsman’s loom.” The speaker of this poem references a vision of “Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated.” This poem is dedicated to a man who “presented [himself] on the granite steps of the madhouse” after throwing potato salad at people. The narrator of this poem makes frequent references to a “heavy judger of men!” named Moloch and repeatedly reassures Carl Solomon that “I’m with you in Rockland.” For 10 points, name this poem that begins with the line “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,” written by Allen Ginsberg.

ANSWER: “Howl”

9. Photographs were used to help restore a painting from this art movement which depicts animals in agony in a forest fire. This movement’s founder outlined his theory of how color can express the soul in the essay “On the Spiritual in Art.” The painting for which this movement was named is a blurry depiction of a field with an forest at top right, though later artists said the name derived from a common subject of (*) Franz Marc. This movement’s founder created abstract paintings called “Compositions” and was an immigrant to Germany from Russia. For 10 points, name this art movement founded by Wassily Kandinsky named for a brightly colored man on a horse.

ANSWER: The Blue Rider [or Die Blaue Reiter]

10. An army of these people was defeated when they charged at a circle of ox wagons set up by Andries Pretorius at the Battle of Blood River. A leader of these people outlawed the planting of crops or the drinking of milk after his beloved mother died of dysentery. The (*) buffalo-horn formation and a spear called the assegai were among the military innovations of one leader of these people. These people fought battles like Isandlwana and Ulundi in their namesake wars with the British. For 10 points, name this South African ethnic group unified by Shaka.

ANSWER: Zulu [or amaZulu]

11. A Mission named for the “divine” type of this phenomenon incurred a massive debt for its poorly attended Millennium ’73 festival while under the leadership of 15-year-old Guru Prem Rawat. Allah is compared to a glass-covered object in the 24th sura, which is named for this thing. A world of this thing is ruled by the Father of Greatness in Manichaeism. God is identified with this thing, called nur, in (*) Islam. Quakers believe that souls possess an “inner” form of this thing, and Jesus claims to be this thing “of the world” in John. For 10 points, what phenomenon is produced by the menorah on Hanukkah, which is called the festival of these things?

ANSWER: lights [or lux; or nur before read; prompt on “fire” or “flames”]

12. In this novel, the horse Diamond lames itself before Fred can sell it to pay off his debts. Walter Tyke is chosen over Camden Farebrother to be chaplain of a new hospital in this novel. John Raffles blackmails the banker Bulstrode in this novel, and Rosamond marries a poor doctor. A man living at Lowick refuses to admit that the research for his book (*) The Key to All Mythologies is out of date. Despite a clause in her first husband’s will, the protagonist of this novel marries Will Ladislaw. For 10 points, name this novel centering on the life of Dorothea Brooke, Tertius Lydgate, and other residents of the titular town, written by George Eliot.

ANSWER: Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life

13. Sulfonylurea receptors are the target of drugs that promote the release of this molecule. Norepinephrine inhibits the release of this molecule, leading to high levels of a related molecule during stress. The cleavage of C-peptide brings together the A and B chains of this molecule composed of 51 amino acids. This molecule’s action is reversed by (*) glucagon, and in humans, this molecule is produced by beta-cells in the Islets of Langerhans. For 10 points, name this hormone secreted by the pancreas, which type 1 diabetics cannot produce.

ANSWER: insulin

14. The center of one city in this country contains the Max Liebling House, Dizengoff Square, and thousands of Bauhaus and International Style buildings designed by exiled German architects in its White City. The Tikotin Japanese Art Museum and Bahá’í Gardens are located on Mount Carmel in this country. Caesarea Maritima and (*) Masada are Roman-era sites in this country. The white-domed Shrine of the Book in its capital houses the Isaiah and other scrolls found by Bedouins in a Qumran cave. Buildings in its capital must use local white limestone, as in the Western Wall. For 10 points, name this country where the golden Dome of the Rock is found on the Temple Mount in its capital, Jerusalem.

ANSWER: Israel

15. William Lane Craig championed a syllogism on this idea derived from kalam philosophy. Gaunilo of Marmoutiers imagined a “more excellent” island to refute an argument for this idea found in the Proslogion. The existence of contingent things and the concept of an “unmoved mover” are two of the (*) “Five Ways” that one man argued for this position. This position is supported by the teleological argument, which often uses the “watchmaker analogy,” and by Anselm’s ontological argument. This position is challenged by arguments based on the existence of evil. For 10 points, identify this idea that atheists oppose.

ANSWER: the existence of God [or answers indicating God is real]

16. People of this type were banned from Pompey after a violent riot with citizens of Nuceria. Murmillos were one type of these people. These people often lived at facilities operated by lanista such as Lentulus Batiatus. The retiarius type of these people usually carried a (*) fishing net. Emperor Commodus pretended to be one of these people. These people would be killed if they received the pollice verso, which may have been a thumbs-down signal. For 10 points, name this type of person who performed in the Colosseum, where they fought each other for the amusement of the Roman public.

ANSWER: gladiators [prompt on “slaves”]

17. This author wrote a story told from four different perspectives about the servant girl Zohra. This author wrote about the untrained dentist named Dr.Booshy and a barber who gets beaten to death by British soldiers after throwing his beer glass in a prostitute’s face in a novel about the residents of the title street. In a novel by this non-Nabokov author, a woman is hit by a car after leaving the house against her (*) husband’s orders. This author wrote about Ahmad Abdel Gawad and his family in a series containing the novels Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. For 10 points, name this Egyptian author of the Midaq Alley and Cairo Trilogy.

ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz

18. The Flinn–Engdahl regions are used to describe where these events occur. The orientation of the point at which these events occur can be described by a focal mechanism. Liquefaction often results from these events, which occur at dip-slip and (*) strike-slip boundaries. The deadliest one of these events killed over 800,000 people in China in 1556, while the strongest one measured a 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, which superseded the Richter scale. Many happen near the San Andreas Fault. For 10 points, name these events that result in the shaking of the Earth’s surface.

ANSWER: earthquakes

19. A player of this instrument popularized the songs “Potato Head Blues” and “Heebie Jeebies” while recording with the Hot Five and Hot Seven Bands. Another player of this instrument worked with Chano Pozo on one of the foundational tunes of Afro-Cuban jazz, “Manteca.” The composer of the bebop tune (*) “Salt Peanuts” puffed out his cheeks while playing a bent version of this instrument. This was the primary instrument of Dizzy Gillespie as well as the composer of a song with the lyrics “And I think to myself / What a wonderful world.” For 10 points, name this instrument played by Louis Armstrong.

ANSWER: trumpet

20. This figure’s rape of the nymph Carna resulted in the birth of the god Cardea. Some myths describe this god as a king who ruled on Mount Ianiculum with Camese while others describe him as the husband of Juturna and father of Fontus. This god caused a volcanic hot spring to erupt and kill the men attempting to avenge the Sabine women. The (*) entrance to this god’s temple was kept open during war and closed during peace. This god was able to see the past and the future simultaneously and therefore was depicted as having two faces. For 10 points, name this Roman god of doors, the namesake of the first month.