2009 Cardinal Classic XVIII: Sir Peter Wimsey and the Case of the Lost Monocle
Packet by Bruce Arthur, Mike Bentley, Billy Beyer, Jonathan Magin
Tossups
1. Count Wintzingerode protested against it while in the making, and Leopold von Plessen wasone of the initiators.The third part of this law created an investigatingcommittee based at Mayence. Frederich Gentz suggested obtaining the support of Russia for this law, whose supporters included Baron Berstett, and parts of it were drafted by Adam Muller. Proponents of this law were concerned by the possibility that Karl Follen was in league with an organization that attended the Wartburg Festival, known as the “Unconditionals”. Passed in response to August von Kotzebue being assassinated by Karl Sand, for 10 points, name this set of repressive laws passed by the German Confederation in 1819 and favored by Metternich, whose goal was to suppress radical student groups.
ANSWER: Carlsbad Decrees [accept: Karlsbader Beschlusse]
2. Henri Vieuxtemps revived the concerto for this instrument with works such as "Sauret" and "Le Gretry." The final movement of Henryk Wieniawski's second concerto for this instrument contains a Hungarian rondo marked" à la Zingara." Other works for this instrument include "Tambourin chinois" and "Schön Rosmarin," as well as Tartini's sonata "The Devil's Trill." Virtuoso players of this instrument included Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Sarasate, and Eugene Ysaÿe, who composed six sonatas for it. A set of compositions for this instrument includes pieces named "Devil's Laughter" and "La Campanella," and ends with a piece that inspired variations by Brahms and Rachmaninoff. For 10 points, name this instrument used to play twenty-four caprices composed by Niccolo Paganini.
ANSWER: violin
3. Helen Codere attempted to correct misconceptions about this group in an article about the "amiable side" of their life. This group displays emus [eh-muss] masks during funerals, and first names children when they are ten months old, in a ceremony where the children's faces are painted with ochre. This group divides the year into two parts--spring and summer, or "bakoos," and winter, or "tsetseka," when members of this group perform the hamatsa, or cannibal dance. This group's society was described as "Dionysian" in Patterns of Culture, which contrasts them with the Zuni and Dobu. Chiefs in this group attain status through ceremonies where they gave away huge amounts of food and gifts. FTP, name this Native American society whose ceremony of the potlatch was described by Franz Boas.
ANSWER: Kwakiutl [accept with astonishment Kwakwaka'wakw]
4. Bartlett used this quantity to predict the stability of xenon hexa-fluoro-platinate. One refinement to the most common equation used to calculate this quantity includes a term symbolized by a lowercase rho that is equal to 35 picometers for alkali metal halides. A constant associated with one way of computing it is a summation of all of the attraction and repulsion terms, and is equal to 1.75 for sodium chloride. One equation used to calculate theoretical values of this quantity is known as the Born-Landé equation, while another is the Kapustinskii equation. It is proportional to the Madelung constant and is sometimes determined using a Born-Haber cycle. For 10 points, name this quantity, the energy change for the formation of one mol of an ionic solid from its constituent gaseous ions.
ANSWER: lattice energy or lattice enthalpy
5. This play ends with its protagonist asserting that "each deceiver to his cost may find / That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind." In the fourth act, the protagonist recites Edmund Waller's line "Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy" to finish a couplet begun by the female lead, who is also pursued by Petulant. A servant in this play pretends to be Sir Rowland in order to secure six thousand pounds for the protagonist after marrying Foible. In this play's final act, Mincing reveals Mrs. Marwood's secret affair with Fainall, preventing him from stealing the fortune of Lady Wishfort. Ending with the engagement of Mirabell to Millamant, for 10 points, name this final Restoration drama by William Congreve.
ANSWER: The Way of the World
6. The proper method for conducting this ceremony is the subject of a Decree of Eugene IV to the Armenians, which urges them to adopt the imposition of hands, and the first formal rules for this ceremony were laid out by Pope Siricius. Participants in this ceremony, which can occur after sunset on a Saturday or early on a Sunday, lay prostate on a carpet and receive a stole and a chasuble. Participants in this ceremony, which must be performed by a bishop, receive sacramental grace and sanctifying grace, which allows them to perform tasks such as Extreme Unction and Baptism. For 10 points, name this Catholic sacrament through which one becomes a member of the clergy.
ANSWER: Holy Orders [accept: Ordination]
7. Early in this event, a mysterious public speaker compared an officer of the Attendants of the Bedchamber, Calopodius,to Judas. One Catholic group was bribed by a gold-wielding eunuch to stop participating in this event. Many participants in this event were Monophysites who sought to restore the faction of Anastasius I, and they demanded the resignation of John the Capadocian, the prefect Eudaemon, and Tribonian. After the burning of the Hospice of Sampson, Hypatius was crowned by a mob before Mundus, Narses, and Belisarius ended this event via a slaughter in the Hippodrome. For 10 points, name this rebellion against Justinian that takes its name from the Greek word for “victory”.
ANSWER: NikaRevolt
8. Transforming growth factor beta, in the presence of interleukin-3, suppresses their differentiation, and the migration of them is regulated by chemokines such as CCL11 and CCL24. An abundance of them are associated with Löffler's syndrome, and levels of them decrease by fifty percent in normal patients in the Thorn test. Associated with the cytotoxic PRG2, which is also known as major basic protein, they contribute to the IgE-mediated response. Along with neutrophils and basophils, these polymorphonuclear cells are part of a group known as granulocytes. Colored bright orange by a namesake acidic stain, for 10 points, name these white blood cells that are important in defense against parasitic infections.
ANSWER: eosinophils
9. In this work, a letter written containing a reference to a "watermark of light" is censored. Near the end of this work, the title character works in a hospital with crippled children, and near its beginning, its protagonist is designated to serve as the fiancée of Noel de Witt. Other characters in this work include a boxing promoter named Fats, a boy named Baasie who is taken in by the central family, and a man whose story is based on that of Bram Fischer. The title character of this work obtains a passport from Brandt Vermeulen, and has an affair with Bernard Chabalier while spending a year in Nice, France with Katya Bagnelli. The title character's father was a doctor named Lionel who served as a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa. For 10 points, name this novel by Nadine Gordimer.
ANSWER: Burger's Daughter
10. An artist of this ethnicity, who led many of his expatriates in Italy, executed works such as the five-paneled Sulamit e Maria. Another artist was responsible for The Triumph of Religion in Art. An emigrant with this ethnicity heavily decorated the corners of the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Antecamera de Gasparini in his Apotheosis of Hercules and became the First Court Painter of Carlos III of Spain.One of its most notable artists painted a wrecked ship in a sea of ice in The Polar Sea, and showed three figures looking to the ocean in The Chalk Cliffs on Rügen.The home of the artist who painted The Cross in the Mountains and Wanderer Above the Clouds as well as the Nazarenes, for 10 points, identify this modern day country which produced artists like Phillipp Runge and Caspar David Friedrich.
ANSWER: Germany (prompt on various German states such as "Lubeck", "Bavaria", etc.)
11. One leader in this conflict, along with his brother Frederic, the Duke of Bouillon, narrowly escaped arrest, while another man in this conflict, whohad earlier returned victorious from another conflict's Battle of Lens, did get arrested during it.After his release, that manbenefited from La Grande Mademoiselle's decision to fire on opposition troops under Turenne. It was temporarily ended by a peace where the king agreed to hold a Lit de Justice in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and which urged the sending away of Archduke Leopold, an agent of Philip IV, signed in Rueil. Broken into phases such as "of the Parlements" and "of the Princes", this conflict partially involving the Prince of Conde occurred during a larger war that was ended by the Peace of the Pyrenees. A result of discontent over the regency of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin, for 10 points, give the name for these collective revolts early in the reign of Louis XIV, named for a type of sling.
ANSWER: The Frondes
12. Swap functions are often used to avoid data corruption when using these, and some of these constructs can be classified as "basic" or "strong" by Abrahams Guarantees. The Eiffel language's design by contract approach to these does away with changes in control flow, and they are often implemented using C's longjump function. Some languages support these in a vectored rather than structured form, and checked ones appear in a method's signature and must be dealt with in calling methods. They provide clearer and more verbose descriptions than return codes, and can terminate a program when propagated completely up the call stack. Handled via catch blocks in Java, for 10 points, name these constructs including IndexOutOfBounds and NullPointer types.
ANSWER: Exceptions
13. One of this author's poems calls "Eternity" a "Five Year Plan" and repeats the question "who dares to call himself a man?" This author reminisced about an uncle who farmed vegetables, chickens, and then skunks before dying and beginning a worm farm in a poem beginning "nobody loses all the time." This poet wrote "your slightest look will easily unclose me / though i have closed myself as fingers" in his love poem "somewhere I have never travelled / gladly beyond," and asserted "there's a hell of a good universe next door;let's go" in his poem "pity this busy monster, manunkind." This poet of "Jehovah buried,Satan dead" and "my father moved through dooms of love" asked "how do you like your blueeyed boy / Mister Death" in his poem "Buffalo Bill's / defunct." For 10 points, name this American poet of "anyone lived in a pretty how town," whose poems feature unusual punctuation.
ANSWER: Edward Estlin Cummings
14. Humphrey Lloyd confirmed this man's prediction of the existence of conical refraction in biaxial crystals, while his namesake equations are often written in symplectic form. A different equation involves his namesake characteristic function symbolized W, and automatically gives all constants of motion, and is named for this man and Jacobi. His namesake equations calculate the time derivatives of generalized momenta and generalized coordinates. His namesake variational principle is a general version of the principle of least of action, and states that the time integral of the Lagrangian has a stationary value. For 10 points, name this scientist who discovered quaternions, and whose namesake function is the total energy of a system.
ANSWER: William Rowan Hamilton
15. In the late 19th century, oceanographic studies of this body of water were led by Wolf and Luksch, and during the 1st World War, the Tegethoff class battleships operated here. Notable islands in this body include Premuda and Cres, and a minor port on it is Risan. This body receives the Cetina, Neretva, and Krka rivers, while the Orjen Massif overlooks a fjord in this body known as the Bay of Kotor. This body includes the lesser and greater Kvamer Gulfs, and its deepest points come at its middle and southern pits, which are separated by a deposit called the Palagruza [palagruzha] Sill. This body, which was traditionally said to end at Mt. Gargano, contains the Gulf of Manfredonia, and major cities on this body include Durres and Split. Ranging from the Strait of Otranto to the port of Trieste, for 10 points, name this arm of the Mediterranean that separates Italy from the Balkans.
ANSWER: Adriatic Sea (prompt on “Mediterranean” until mentioned)
16 This book's twenty-eighth section asserts that different languages have different tempos, and argues that the German language is incapable of presto. Its fourtieth section states that false and shallow interpretations cause masks to grow continually around each "profound spirit." It mentions sacrificing God "for the nothing" in its section "What is Religious?" and this book contains aphorisms like "when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you," as well as the first expression of its author's concepts of "master morality" and "slave morality." Beginning with a section about the "prejudices of philosophers," and a preface asking what if we suppose truth is a woman, FTP, name this book by Nietzsche about transcending the dualistic worldview of the title entities.
ANSWER: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future [or Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft]
17. This author rewrote a Frèdèric Gaillardet play about Marguerite de Bourgogne, who drowns her lovers before being exposed by the philosopher Buridan. In addition to The Tower of Nesle, this author warned of German aggression in The Prussian Terror. This author sued Eugène de Mirecourt for accusing him of exploiting scribes in a "literary factory," and used the murder of the De Witte brothers as the starting point for his novel about Rosa Gryphus and Cornelius van Baerle, The Black Tulip. This author was notably assisted by the history teacher Auguste Maquet, and continued one of his novels in the sequels The Vicomte of Bragellone and Twenty Years After. That novel begins with the protagonist visiting Monsieur de Tréville, where he meets Aramis, Athos, and Porthos. For 10 points, name this French author of The Three Musketeers.
ANSWER: Alexandre Dumas père
18. At this battle, Martha Stevens used garments to provide bandages for the wounded, and Richard Kirkland notably gave a wounded enemy soldier some water. Thomas Cobb was killed at this battle, at which engineers constructing pontoons were engaged by William Barksdale's sharpshooters. Jubal Early's division eventually drove back a force led by General Meade that was initially halted by the "Gallant Pelham." The losing side endured the Mud March following this battle, in which a "sheet of flame" prevented Union forces from taking Marye's Heights, despite six attempts. For 10 points, name this December 1862 battle fought near the Rappahannock River, a loss for Union forces led by Burnside.
ANSWER: Battle of Fredericksburg
19. There is still dispute over the discovery of a Baragwanathia fossil that allegedly lived during this period, as it would indicate the presence of lycophytes during it.Its latter portion saw a temporary reduction in conodonts as part of the Lau event, which occurred before its Pridoli epoch.Baltica's collision with Laurentia resulted in the beginning of the Iapetus Ocean's closure during its Ludlow Epoch, and this period saw the emergence of the first coral reefs. Other developments include the evolution of the first freshwater fish as well as the proliferation of bony and jawless fish coinciding with its significant glacial melt. Also seeing the development of Cooksonia, the first vascular land plants, for 10 points, name this period during the Paleozoic era, in between the Ordovician and Devonian periods.
ANSWER: Silurian Period (prompt on “Paleozoic Era” before mentioned)
20. One opera by this composer features a character named Martha, whose "Divination" scene features her looking into a bowl of water and telling of Prince Galitsin's upcoming downfall; that opera ends with Martha and Andrew, along with other Old Believers, dying in a funeral pyre. Another opera by this composer includes the Hopak dance movement, is named for the locale where Gritzko asks Tcherevik for his daughter Parassia’s hand in marriage, and includes a devil who takes the form of a pig and is looking for the sleeve of a garment. Zhenitba and Salammbô, in addition to the aforementioned Khovanshchina and The Fair at Sorochyntsi, are operas by this composer, whose most famous opera includes the Polish Act, and a chronicling monk named Pimen, who shares a cell with Grigory, a pretender claiming to be Dimitri. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of the opera Boris Godounov, and whose orchestral works include Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain.
ANSWER: Modest Mussorgsky
21. This deity’s nicknames include “Garbha Pati”, or “Lord of Fetuses”, and this god is also credited with creating a useful ape named Nala. This god was married to Saranyu and his grandsons were known as the Ribhus. This god had a son with three heads named Trisiras, who was slain by Indra. A story about the wife of King Indradyumna walking into a room with this deity in it after being told not to is used to explain why the Jagannath has no arms or legs. This deity used the bones of the sage Dadhichi to craft weapons for another god, and this god’s mount is a swan. For 10 points, name this god of craftsmen and architects, the divine smith of the Hindu pantheon.