Packet by Lisgar B and Mike Bentley / Jonathan Magin

VETO 2009

Packet by Lisgar B and Mike Bentley / Jonathan Magin

1. This work calls Edmund Spenser a better teacher than Duns Scotus or Aquinas because of the part of The Faerie Queene in which Guyon passes through and rejects the pleasures of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss. It argues that a man who believes something "only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason" is a "heretic in the truth." Later, it compares England to "an Eagle muing her mighty youth" to protest against setting "an Oligrarchy of twenty engrossers" over its minds. This essay contends that licensing stems from the Inquisition and the Catholic Church, and warns that a proposed law would destroy "the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life" because "he who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God." For 10 points, name this essay against censorship of the press, written in 1643 by John Milton.
ANSWER: Areopagitica

2. A scherzo marked Allegro Leggierissimo makes up the third movement of his Octet for Strings in E flat major. His literarily-inspired works include the concert overtures Ruy Blas and Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. His violin concerto opens with the soloist playing the notes of its namesake E minor chord, and that work has no pause between movements. One of his symphonies was inspired by a trip to Holyrood castle, while another includes a tarantella, and one of his concert overtures in B minor opens with the strings repeating a motif of F sharp-D-C sharp-D-B-F sharp to represent waves. One of his suites was inspired by writing an overture that includes a depiction of a man turning into a donkey, and includes a fairy wedding march. The composer of “Songs Without Words,” “The Hebrides Overture,” and the Scottish symphony, for 10 points, name this romantic composer of the Italian symphony and the Midsummer Night’s Dream suite.
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn [accept Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy]

3. This man, whose mother hailed from Fara, made heavy use of Sorko fisherman in fighting his river wars; one of those wars saw him attempt to build a canal to Walata until the Mossi invaded. Although this man was courted by Muhammad-n-Adda, that monarch's son Umar antagonized him by sending him a nasty letter. Other victims of his wrath included scholars who hailed from Sankore, and this man spent some seven years besieging the wealthy trading city of Jenne before eventually dying on a campaign against the Fulani in 1492. He was succeeded by a man sometimes known as Muhammad Toure, and after defeating the Tauregs, he famously sacked the city of Timbuktu. For 10 points, name this predecessor of Askia Mohammad I, who brought the Songhai empire to prominence.
ANSWER: Sunni Ali Ber (or Sonni Ali Ber)

4. This school was heavily influenced by a work that discussed the rise of evolution of Market Towns and Capital Cities, an essay by Richard Cantillon. In Switzerland, this school was primarily led by Iselin, while one of the more notable concepts formulated by this school divided agents into Produced, Proprietary and Sterile classes. Another person grouped into this school identified the diamond-water paradox, the Scottish-born John Law. The “Rural Philosophy” was advanced by another member of this school, Mirabeau, while one of the most influential members of this school established the concept of the tableau economique, which argued that wealth could be traced back to agricultural surpluses. Primarily led by Francois Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, they were critical of the policies of Jean Baptiste Colbert. For 10 points, name this group of anti-mercantilist French economists.

ANSWER: Phsyiocrats

5. Newly formed vaccines against this disease include the 72F Fusion Protein and MVA85A, while the CDC classifies the XDR form of this disease as being resistant to at least one of amikacin, kanamycin or capreomycin. One test formerly used to screen for this disease was named for F. R. G. Heaf, while a form of this disease which affects the spine is known as Pott's Disease. Patients who test positive for this disease often receive the BCG Vaccine. Mantoux screening tests and Pirquet tests can screen for this bacterial infectious disease, and it is the most common form of death in patients with HIV or AIDS. For 10 points, name this infectious disease caused Mycobacteria, resulting in flu-like symptoms and the destruction of the lungs, sometimes called consumption.

ANSWER: Tuberculosis [accept TB or consumption before mentioned]

6. A political party known as the "True [This] Party" held power under leaders like William R. Tolbert and William V. S. Tubman for over 100 years in Liberia. William Pulteney led a faction of 17 people known as these type of Patriots in opposition to Robert Walpole. An American political party of this name saw Willie Person Magnum and Hugh Lawson White run for president on this ticket in the same year, and that party also failed to elect Theodore Frelinghuysen as Vice President. The most notable party with this name traces its origins back to Charles James Fox, while the American party of this name was more successful in electing "Old Rough and Ready", Zachary Taylor. For 10 points, identify this shared name, which identifies the common name for the 17th-19th century political opponents of the Tories.

ANSWER: Whig

7. Conn Iggulden fictionalized the life of this person in the novels The Death of Kings, The Field of Swords, and The Gods of War. This person is the first title character of a play which inspired Otto Skorzeny to roll up Miklós Horthy in a carpet during Operation Panzerfaust. This author of the polemic Anticato is transformed into a star at the end of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Bernard Shaw wrote a play about this person "and Cleopatra," and he is paired with Alexander the Great in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. In a play named for this character, his ghost returns to say "thou shalt see me at Philippi." For 10 points, name this author of Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, a Roman emperor given a funeral oration by Mark Antony in a namesake Shakespeare play about his assassination on the Ides of March.

ANSWER: Gaius Julius Caesar [prompt on partial answer]

8. This man cut the wealthy Kotan-Shorai into five pieces after he denied him lodging, and in one story this man spit out the god Ame no Oshi-ho-mimi. This deity was once woken up by a harp brushing against a tree, and he loaned his weapons to a figure with eighty brothers who all wanted to marry Yakami. This man launched an arrow into a meadow which he later lit on fire in order to test his future son-in-law, who managed to survive a room full of centipedes. This man’s daughter Suseri-hime married the aforementioned Okuni-Nushi, who later ruled this man’s province of Izumo. In a more famous story, this man instructs an old couple to prepare 8 cups of wine in order to ensnare the serpent Orochi, and this god married Kushinada-hime after killing that creature. He uprooted the rice fields of heaven and flayed a heavenly horse, leading to his sister hiding herself in a cave. For 10 points, name this brother of Tsuki-yomi and Amaterasu, a Shinto storm deity.

ANSWER: Susanoo-no-Mikoto

9. Advice strings are used in the not very useful non-uniform type of this categorization, while the Robertson-Seymour Theorem guarantees that several graph algorithms are in this categorization. This categorization has been shown to be equal to the AL ["A-L"] categorization, which consist of algorithms solvable on an Alternating Turing Machine. One graph algorithm in this complexity class is known as the Chinese Postman Problem and is a generalization of the Eulerian Cycle problem. Other examples of graph algorithms in this complexity class include Greedy MST Algorithms like Prim's Algorithm, as well as Dijikstra's Algorithm. It is a superset of L, which can be solved using Logarithmic memory on a Turing Machine, and a probable subset of problems like the Knapsack and Traveling Salesman Problems. For 10 points, name this complexity class, subject of an open problem as to whether it equals its superset, NP.

ANSWER: P (or PTIME or DTIME or Polynomial Time)

10. The protagonist of this novel is rescued from drowning in a lake by Rough Lock Bill after being lured onto a raft by Kenji. This novel's protagonist is terrified that the King bird will cut out her tongue if she lies, and is sexually abused by Old Man Gower. This novel begins with the lines "There is a silence that cannot speak. There is a silence that will not speak," and contrasts Emily's fervent desire for social justice with the the title character's quiet acceptance of injustice. That title character becomes a mother figure to this novel's narrator, who recounts being taken to a camp in Slocan. Narrated by Naomi Nakane, for 10 points, name this novel about the internship of Japanese Canadians during World War II, written by Joy Kogawa.
ANSWER: Obasan

11. Potted plants can be seen growing on a deck behind the only woman depicted in this painting, who is wearing a maroon smock with white circles on it. Oil was used on beaverboard to depict the background of this painting, where the tops of trees are visible in the upper left side and a red building in the upper right. The Northern Renaissance influence on this painting was first explored by its artist in Woman with Plants. A fist juts out at the viewer in the bottom center of this work, which currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago, while the white house depicted in the background of this work still exists in the town of Eldon. Hailed as one of the canonical examples of Regionalism, it depicts the painter's sister and dentist. For 10 points, identify this painting that sees a man holding a pitchfork in front of a house of a certain architectural style, a work by Grant Wood.
ANSWER: American Gothic

12. One character in this film commands another to "get them off the fucking grid", which follows a scene where Les Grossman orders Steve Coogman's Damien Cockburn punched in the face. After another character in this film is asked about the location of his farm, he yells "I'm a lead farmer, mother fucker!" A pyro-maniac in this film states that he lost an appendage while filming Driving Miss Daisy, while Matthew McConaughey cameos as Pecker Peck, who promises a Tivo for one of this film's stars. This film makes frequent references to the drink Booty Sweat, while one of the main characters of this film states that he "felt really retarded" while starring in Simple Jack. It opens with a preview for Scorcher VI and other fake trailers, one of which stars Jeff Portnoy, who is played by Jack Black. Also starring Ben Stiller as action star Tugg Speedman, for 10 points, name this film about the making of a Vietnam War movie, starring Robert Downey, Jr. in blackface.

ANSWER: Tropic Thunder

13. This statement was rediscovered and expanded on in Morris Kharasch’s paper “The Addition of Hydrogen Bromide to Allyl Bromide”. It is often paired with a different statement that deals with elimination reactions and mandates that the main products of a reaction are paired with a certain compound with a more stable double bond. Modern formulations of this law are based on the part of a reaction with the more stabilized carbocation. The original form dictates that halogens get added to a compound with the lowest number of hydrogen substituents while hydrogens get added to the carbon of a compound when hydrogen halides react with unsymmetrical alkenes. Reactions which do not obey this are governed by the “anti” form of this law. For 10 points, identify this rule from organic chemistry named for a Russian chemist, not to be confused with Zaitsev’s Rule.

ANSWER: Markovnikov’s Rule

14. William Tetley authored an "An Insider's View" of this event. John Starnes defended the actions of the government during this event when talking to the Keable Commission, which was set up to investigate "dirty tricks" used during the height of this event. Opposition to one of the more controversial actions during this period resulted in the first defeat of Lucien Saulnier to Jean Drapeau in a mayoral election, and after the technical end of it, David MacDonald was the only MP to vote against the Public Order Temporary Measures Act. The strong measures used in this conflict were supported by Robert Bourassa and it centered on the fates of Pierre Laport and James Cross. Resulting in the only invocation during peacetime of the War Measures Act, for 10 points, name this event during the administration of Pierre Trudeau that saw the FLQ kidnap some members of the government during a certain month.

ANSWER: October Crisis

15. Socrates discusses the myth of this god in the Phaedrus, which details how this deity visited King Thamus. This god was said to have a child named Neferhor with the goddess of protection, Nehmauit, in Khnum, while his more famous consort was known as the Mistress of the House of the Architects. After this god won a bet to receive one seventy second of the light of the moon from Iabet, Nut was able to give birth on one of the five newly created days of the calendar. Responsible for asking questions of the newly deceased, he also provided the spell necessary to resurrect Horus. Sometimes depicted completely as a baboon, this deity was canonically shown holding a reed pen and a scribal palette. For 10 points, name this ibis-headed Egyptian god responsible for speaking for Ra and for inventing writing.

ANSWER: Thoth (or Djeheuty or Thoot)

16. A city with this name served as an amusement park in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts for the first half of the 20th century, and the 1908 Olympics saw several of its events take place in a Stadium named for this type of city. A river of this name was dammed to form Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, while a sea of this English name contains Solovetskiye Island and connects through the Gorlo Strait to the Barents Sea. A dam with this color in its name formed Schwatka Lake, and this color also appears in a nearby city served by Erik Nielson Airport that took over capital status from Dawson City. This color was used to describe a location built by Daniel Burnham and terrorized by serial killer H. H. Holmes during the 1893 World's Fair; that location was Chicago's [This Color] City. For 10 points, give this color which also appears in the name of the capital of the Yukon.
ANSWER: White

17. After the grandmother of this novel's narrator dies, his mother begins reading the letters of Madame de Sevigne. In the second section of this novel, the narrator meets the impressionistic painter Elstir in the seaside town of Balbec. In its fourth section, this novel's narrator becomes obsessed that his lover is having illicit lesbian sex with Andree, causing him to virtually imprison her in his house. That lover, Albertine, finally leaves the narrator in this novel's sixth section, usually translated into English as The Fugitive. This novel contrasts the rise of the bourgeoisie Verdurins with the fall of the aristocratic Guermantes family, and begins with memories of Combray evoked by the narrator's taste of a madeleine. Including the sections In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Swann's Way, for 10 points, name this magnum opus of Marcel Proust.
ANSWER: In Search of Lost Time [or Remembrance of Things Past; or A La Recherche de Temps Perdu]

18. Prior to this event, a group under the leadership of Rainald of Breis captured the castle of Xerigordon, while an offshoot of that group was disastrously defeated at the battle of Civetot, which also took place before this event. One group present at this event was led by Bohemund of Otranto, and a polity founded during this event saw a struggle for control between the patriarch Dagobert and its king, Godfrey of Bouillon. Other leaders of participants in this event included Raymond of Toulouse, while popular support for this venture was fomented by Walter the Penniless and Peter the Hermit. This military expedition resulted in the founding of the state of Edessa and a principality at Antioch, as well as a federation known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Beginning after Alexius I of Byzantium requested Western aid against the Seljuks, for ten points, identify this military expedition called together at Clermont by Urban II.

Answer: First Crusade

19. When a crystal block is excited with piezoelectricity, the traveling elastic waves exhibit the Schaefer-Bermann type of this phenomenon. The Two-Stage and Rietveld Methods are two ways to use one type of this phenomenon, while another type of this is named for Laue. The Kirchhoff formalism for this phenomenon derives it from a scalar differential wave equation, while the Cornu spiral is a representation of the Fresnel integrals used to compute the effects of this phenomenon, and an X-Ray Powder type is used to rapidly perform phase identification on crystalline materials. The size of the Airy disk produced by this phenomenon yields the minimal resolvability criterion due to this phenomenon, which is known for Rayleigh. For ten points, identify this phenomenon in which light passing through an aperture bends.