2009 Cardinal Classic XVIII: Sir Peter Wimsey and the Case of the Lost Monocle
Packet by Chicago B (Lily Vonderheide, Nicholas Allen, Tyler Smith)
This packet only has 20 tossups!
Tossups:
1. George Erskine was one of the men opposing them, while Philip Mitchell neglected to act against them. They sometimes referred to themselves as the KCA, and they were characterized by secret initiations and oath-swearing ceremonies incorporating mystical elements. One of their leaders was man known as General China, and the governor, Evelyn Baring, had over 100 of their leaders arrested in an operation known as Jock Scott.Stanley Mathenge and Dedan Kimathi were 2 ofits other leaders, and they had their main support among the Kikuyu.By 1957 all of the leaders had been imprisoned or executed, but the lasting effects included the growing influence of moderate African politicians and, in 1963, the end of colonial occupation in Kenya. For ten points, identify this guerilla society led by Jomo Kenyatta.
ANSWER: theMau Mau
2. Lawesson’s reagent is formed by a ring-closing mechanism similar to one seen in this reaction, and it yields products that are also obtained via a reaction named for Julia and Lythgoe. Similar reagents in it are used in the Still-Gennari reaction, the Arbuzov reaction, and the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction. It is thought to proceed through a betaine intermediate, which is required for one modification of this reaction named for Schlosser. The Horner modification to this reaction produces(E)-alkenes, though normally the formation of(E)-or(Z)-alkenes is determined the stability of its ylide intermediate. For ten points, name this reaction that uses triphenyl phosphine to generate alkenes from carbonyl compounds.
ANSWER:Wittigreaction
3. John Constable described this man’sThe Millas one of the four memorable paintings in the history of landscape.Mythological-themed works by this painter include a depiction of Ganymede crying and urinating and another of Danae, which was vandalized with sulfuric acid in 1985, while his religious works include The Blinding of Samson and Joseph Accused by Potiphar’s Wife. He studied painting under Pieter Lastman for only six months, and some of his most famous works were done on commission from groups such as a surgical association and members of an Amsterdam militia. Famous for his many self-portraits, this is, FTP, what Dutch, Baroque painter of the Night Watch and The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp?
ANSWER:RembrandtHarmenszoon van Rijn
4. When her husband threatens to kill himself rather than marry his lover or leave his wife, the latter writes a letter to the former, suggesting that she can save his life by forsaking him. The lover, a prostitute, does pretend to leave him, but Jihei is still publicly humiliated when she's purchased by one of his rivals. Aghast, Osan tries to convince Jihei to sell their last goods and buy Koharu back, but her influence evaporates when her father, Gonzaemon, shows up to annul the dishonored marriage. With Osan out of the picture, the lovers proceed to throw themselves off a bridge. For ten points, identify this bunraki drama by Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
ANSWER: The Love Suicides at Amijima
5. On October 24th, the Third Supreme Command made a river crossing to attack their opponents' weak northern flank. This was the twelfth engagement at the site; the Third Command was seeking to reinforce their allies under Arz von Straussenberg after a loss to the defending army at Gorizia.Otto von Below, the local commander of the winning side, made extensive use of Huttier tactics in this battle, though the combined German and Austro-Hungarian forces were unable to fully exploit their initial gains as Luigi Cadornowas able toorder an organizedretreat towards Tagliamento and Venice, setting up defensive positions near the Piave. The humiliating defeat caused political upheaval and obliged Cadorno to resign as chief of staff. On the other hand, French and British troops were alerted to the weakness of the Italian front, and sent in divisions for the first time in the war. For ten points, identify this Italian battle of 1917, notably described by Hemingway inA Farewell to Arms.
ANSWER:Battle ofCaporetto [or12thBattle of theIsonzo]
6. Logan pass is located in this area, whichhas the highest concentration of grizzly bears anywhere in the contiguous United States. The land is scared to the Blackfeet, particularly Chief Mountain, a solitary spur of the Lewis Range. In 1901 George Bird Grinnell dubbed it 'the Crown of the Continent' and lobbied Congress to have it federally protected. It borders Waterton Lake National Park, and key landmarks include Triple Divide Peak, the site of three separate continental watersheds, Mt. Cleveland, and St. Mary Lake at the eastern end of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. For ten points, identify this Montana national park, whose namesake geologic features willprobably meltby 2030.
ANSWER:Glacier National Park
7. Muslims believe that Jabal Harun is where this man died and was buried. His sons Nadab and Abiu were burnt to death for bringing “strange fire” before the Lord, after which his grief made him forget to eat a sacrificial offering within the Sanctuary. His sister was stricken with leprosy and removed from the Israelites’ camp for seven days after she denounced their younger brother, while he remained unafflicted, despite doing likewise. After his death at Mt. Hor, another of his sons, Eleazer, took over his priestly duties. Earlier in life, he was spared by his brother, despite having crafted a golden calf at the foot of Mt. Sinai. This is, FTP, what sibling of Moses, the first high priest of the Israelites?
ANSWER:Aaron
8. It is triggered by a mutation on the β-hexosaminidase α-subunit gene and is characterized by the inability of that hydrolytic enzyme to fully catalyse the breakdown of gangliosides, derivatives of fatty acids, leading to the buildup of GM2 in the nerve cells of the brain. Afflicted individuals present with hyperacusis and a cherry red spot on the retina, and in later stages, mental and physical deterioration as nerve cells are distorted by the accumulation of gangliosides. The anomalous presence of this disorder within certain French Canadian and Cajun populations led to the “Jewish Fur Trader” hypothesis, but it is more commonly connected with another ethnic group. For ten points, identify this autosomal recessive disease, most often carried by Ashkenazi Jews.
ANSWER:Tay-Sachsdisease
9. One of his early works, "The Massacre at Paris" was inspired by the influx of Huguenot refuges to his hometown, Canterbury. While at college in Cambridge, he was almost certainly recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to serve as a British spy, and possibly worked to forestall the assassination of Queen Elizabeth by uncovering the Babington Plot. His alleged atheism and connections to an intellectual society headed by Sir Walter Raleigh tainted his literary reputation , though he was popular in London as member of the Admiral's Men company. An exact contemporary of Shakespeare, he has been posited as an alternative author for the Shakespearian sonnets. For ten points, identify this Elizabethan dramatist, author of Dido Queen of Carthage, the Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine the Great.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe
10. This kingdom broke the treaty of Tudilen when its king James I conquered Caudete and Villena. This kingdom was founded by the son of Sancho the Great, Ramiro I, who added to it the counties of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza. In 1591, Felipe II invaded this kingdom so as to suppress a revolt there.Alfonso V of this kingdom conquered Naples and Sardinia in the 15th century, and Alfonso I conquered Zaragoza, which became its capital. Its fueros were abolished by the Nueva Planta decrees of Philip V, as punishment for siding with Charles VI in the War of the Spanish Succession. This kingdom was joined with Catalonia and gained control of Navarre before the marriage of its king Ferdinand II to Isabella united this kingdom with Castile. For 10 points, name this Spanish kingdom, the homeland of Henry VIII's first wife.
ANSWER:Aragon
11. One of his works included chapters on "Thinking Clearly" and "Keeping Busy," and was cowritten with Margaret Vaughan. Robert Epstein worked extensively with him, and edited one of his works calledNotebooks. This author ofEnjoy Old Agealso developed the three-term contingency model, and introduced concepts such as the autoclitic and mand in another work that was criticized in a noted review by Noam Chomsky. In addition to writingVerbal Behavior, he wrote a work arguing that the idea of autonomy and freedom is outdated and calling for a "technology of human behavior." FTP, name this author ofBeyond Freedom and Dignity, a behaviorist who developed operant conditioning and wroteWalden Two.
ANSWER: B.F.Skinner
12. The final episode of this program was obscure that baffled fans staked out the scriptwriter's house, demanding an explanation. The show was largely filmed at the WelshPortmeirionHotel, but this wasn't announced until the end of the series in order to protect the resort owner's privacy. The protagonist always appears in the same black jacket, while his peers wander around in a variety of Edwardian bathing costumes and natty nautical suits. Other recurring symbols include an old-fashioned pennyfarthing bicycle and an animated balloon that keeps people in line by suffocating them. The unnamed hero spends every episode devising new escape attempts in, for ten points, this 1960's British spy show, parodied in the Simpsons episode where Homer becomes "No. 5"
ANSWER:ThePrisoner
13. De Bruijn invented an alternative syntax for use in this system, and Sinot created director strings in order to find the complexity cost of beta reduction in this system. Rosser and one formulator of this system found a paradox proving the untyped version of this system to be inconsistent as a basis for logic, while Rosser and the other creator of this system showed that this system possesses confluence. The funarg problem can arise when implementing this system in stack-based languages, since such an implementation requires treating functions as first-class objects. Containing “abstractions” and “applications,” this system was shown to be Turing-complete. Implemented in functional programming languages such as Haskell and Lisp, for 10 points, name this formal system for representing functions, developed by Stephen Kleene and Alonzo Church and named for a Greek symbol.
ANSWER:lambda calculus
14. The original screenplay adaption of this novel called for Sir Ambrose, the expat Englishman, to be played as a leather-wearing transvestite. As conceived by his author, Ambrose is a curmudgeonly old man who spends his days drinking G&T's with the other expats, though he is unsympathetic when one of them commits suicide. Meanwhile, the novel's hero masquerades as a non-sectarian minister in order to win the love of the heroine, who is unable to choose between him and another man. Unfortunately, the other man, along with being a bit of a necrophiliac, is obsessed with his own morbidly obese mother. The members of the love triangle are coworkers at a business founded by the Dreamer, a creepy visionary whose appears only as a disembodied voice spouting from quasi-religious aphorisms from hidden speakers. For ten points identify this novel featuring Dennis, Aimee, and Mr. Joyboy, set at Whispering Glades Cemetery, a work by Evelyn Waugh.
ANSWER:The Loved One
15. In one expedition, he was accompanied by a fleet commanded by Gonzalo de Salazar, and his own ship was called the San Cristobal.Juan de Anasco took captive four Indians from the village of Ucita a year before this man arrived there.His expedition gave the name Lake of the Rabbit to Myakka Lake.He met a boy who had been tortured by Chief Hirrihigua, and that boy, Juan Ortiz, would serve as his scout.Earlier, he had joined an expedition to the West Indies by Pedro Arias Davila.His expedition was ambushed in the village of Mabila by followers of Chief Tuskaloosa in 1540.He had landed in Florida the previous year, and eventually took a circular route to Mississippi and Louisiana.FTP, identify this Spanish explorer, the first Europeanto sight the Mississippi River.
ANSWER:Hernandode Soto
16. This figure guards the fountain of the Waters of Life and Death, travels with a whole army of spirits, and announces her arrival with the sound of trees groaning and wind rustling the leaves. Her visitors must answer a single question: did they come freely or were they sent? If she doesn't like the answer, she kills them. However, there are very few visitors because she lives in remote places and is guarded by three unearthly red, white, and black horsemen, as well as a bone fence topped by glow-in-the-dark skulls. Vasilisa the Blessed stumbled upon the cottage, but escaped her clutches because this figure is disgusted by sanctimonious children, and refused to eat the girl. For ten points, identify this Slavic witch, who travels by mortar and chicken hut.
ANSWER:Baba Yaga
17. A model named for him and Drude calculates dispersion by showing how light interacts with charged harmonic oscillators.A force proportional to charge squared times jerk is named for him and Dirac and Abraham, and is also known as the radiation reaction force.Along with Cauchy, he names a lineshape that describes pressure broadening in spectral lines and which is also known as a Breit-Wigner distribution.He is also the partial namesake of an equation for the index of refraction of a dilute gas, equivalent to one named for Clausius and Mossotti. He also names a phenomenon sometimes also named for Fitzgerald, his namesake contraction. For 10 points, name this Dutch physicist whose namesake transformations are central to special relativity.
ANSWER: Hendrik AntoonLorentz
18. Years later, two old friends of the protagonist discover his illegitimate daughter working in the army's laundry department. She never met her father, as her parents were separated before she was born and her mother was forced to abandon her at a train station. As for the protagonist, he was raised by his uncle after being orphaned at a young age; he first met his lover when her mother attempted to commit suicide. After the suicide attempt, the Guishars move away and the lovers lose track of each other, but when conditions get harsh, the protagonist moves his family to a collective farm, where he meets her once more. The predatory Komarovsky first appears as an antagonist, but as the civil war grows more violent, the hero forces the heroine to flee with him in order to save her life. Meanwhile, he resolves to confess his adultery to his family, but his plans are foiled when he's kidnapped by partisans. After further angst and adultery, everything ends badly: he dies of a heart attack, she wastes away in a concentration camp. For ten points, identify this novel of the Russian Revolution, written by Boris Pasternak.
ANSWER: Doctor Zhivago
19. These architectural works were given their characteristic shape in order to maximize waterfront exposure. They were the brainchild of sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, whose poetry was incorporated into the project, spelt out in Arabic calligraphy. Built out of natural materials, they were constructed via a process called 'rainbowing' wherein a dredging ship pulls up seabed sand and sprays it into place. Facing a shortage of funds, the architectural company recently signed a contract with Anheuser-Busch to build several theme parks on the site, including SeaWorld Dubai. For ten points, identify this luxury resort project of the United Arab Emirates.
ANSWER:Palm Jebel Alior DubaiPalm Islands
20. The VLBI method of analyzing group delay between radio telescopes can give an estimate of the amplitude of this effect, while Kinoshita and Souchay have developed a popular theory of this effect. The dissipation effect at the core-mantle boundary can be measured through observation of the free core variety of this phenomenon. This effect's frequency is proportional to the angular momentum divided by the moment of inertia and it has a period of 18.6 years for the Earth, and its "free" variety is called the Chandler wobble.Caused on Earth by the variation of tidal forces over time, for 10 points name this phenomenon, a wobbling in the axis of rotation of precessing objects.
ANSWER:nutation(of the Earth)
Bonuses:
1. They can be divided into signal and rectifier types. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these circuit elements that allow current to pass in only one direction, with a notable light-emitting variety, as well as a Zener variety.
ANSWER:diodes
[10 This type of diode uses a metal-semiconductor junction. This allows for low forward voltage drops and the ability to quickly switch between conducting and non-conducting states