Packet by Mike Bentley, Mike Cheyne, Michael Hausinger and Guy Tabachnick

GUERRILLA III

Packet by Mike Bentley, Mike Cheyne, Michael Hausinger and Guy Tabachnick

1. Prior to one of these actions, a Dr. Kirkbride told Dorothea Dix the offending party would see “the ghosts of insane people around his bed.” After one of these actions occurred, Daniel Webster noted the Constitution was on the verge of not surviving “to its fiftieth year.” A group of Congressman who opposed expanding the ability to perform this action were ruled to lack standing in the case of Raines v. Bird. The ability of Congress itself to perform this action was curtailed in the case INS v. Chadha. By performing a specific type of this action, one man prevented Southerners from having to swear an Ironclad Oath since he favored the Ten Percent Plan. One of the more notable instances of this action affected the proposed Maysville Road construction in Kentucky. Andrew Johnson earned a derisive nickname for performing this action frequently, although over half the time it was overridden. A variant of this action involves doing nothing and is called the “pocket” type. For 10 points, identify this presidential action, which may or may not involve writing bad questions for a Canadian quizbowl tournament.
ANSWER: Performing a Veto [accept word forms, accept Pocket Veto; be nice and accept Line-Item Veto on a buzz on the Raines v. Bird clue]

2. One of these animals stands at the crest of Yukon’s coat of arms. A companion of Thoth named Aani is an ape with the head of this animal. One of these named Surma guards the entrance to Tuonela in the Kalevala. In Vedic mythology, two of these named Syama and Sabala have four eyes and are owned byYama, the first man. One of these animals was kept in the cave Gnipahellir. One figure with the head of this creature is often shown with deformed feet pointing backwards. After Asclepius was abandoned at birth, one of these animals guarded him as a goat suckled him. The aforementioned god with the head of this creature was the psychopomp twin of Quetzalcoatl, Xolotl, while another of these creatures was Garm. For 10 points, name these animals, one of whom named Argos waited for twenty years for his master, Odysseus, and another of whom has three heads and guards the entrance to Hades and is named Cerberus.
ANSWER: dogs

3. Canadian thinker Samuel Delbert Clark wrote a 1966 book about this kind of society. An Andres Duany book describes this kind of nation, attaching it with “the decline of the American dream.” Lisa McGirr wrote about this kind of warrior in describing the John Birch Society and the Goldwater campaign. Robert Beauregard’s history entitled “When America became this” uses such flash points as the creation of the interstate highway system and white flight. The Malvina Reynolds song “Little Boxes” is a criticism of this type of landscape. The first mass produced types of these communities were meant to appeal to returning veterans caught in the housing crunch and were called “Levittowns.” For 10 points, identify this adjective which applies to the particular residential areas that Mike Cheyne studies, communities adjacent to but within commuting distances of larger cities.
ANSWER: Suburban [accept word forms]

4. Tak wah Mak and others at the Ontario Cancer Institute cloned receptors found on this type of cell using the MOLT-3 line and compared the results to the CEM and Jurkat lines of this type of cell. Mutated cells of this type migrate to the skin in Sezary syndrome and other forms of mycosis fungoides. Gamma-delta cells of this type have a poorly understood function, and may have played an important role in the early development of an immune system. Another subcategory of these cells recognize proteins presented by the class I major histocompatibility complex and destroy infected cells. The CD4+ cells of this type are infected by HIV, and AIDS patients have especially low numbers of them. Exemplified by “cytotoxic” and “helper” ones, for 10 points, name this type of white blood cell which matures in the thymus.
ANSWER: T cell (prompt on white blood cells or lymphocytes)

5. Robert Gurik wrote a 1968 version of this play which served as an allegory for the Quebec independence movement. The first production of Genesis Repertory Ensemble was this play, set in 1963 Washington and called the “Kennedy [this play]”. One famous staging of this play involved a single set whose size and shape were altered by large, abstract screens. That production was Edward Gordon Craig and Constantin Stanislavksi’s Moscow Art Theatre production in 1912. A famous Hollywood adaptation of this play earned both a Best Picture and Best Lead Actor Oscar for Laurence Olivier, and that version began with the famously reductive opening, “This is the story of a man who could not make up his mind.” Wikipedia claims the highest-grossing adaptation of this play to date is The Lion King, although more traditoinal versions contain characters like Fortinbras, Rosencrantz, and Guildernstern.For 10 points, name this Shakespeare play about a melancholy Dane.
ANSWER: The Tragical History of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark

6. Sylvia Daoust created a sculpture of this figure for a cathedral of the same name in Montreal which is a scale replica of St. Peter’s Basilica. Lorenzetto designed a statue of this figure with one foot on a stone, flanked by two purple columns in the Pantheon above the tomb of Raphael. Three depictions of this figure are displayed side by side in the Uffizi, including Cimabue’s one formerly displayed at the Santa Trinita church, and Michelangelo created a relief showing this figure with two children dancing on stairs in the background. This figure appears seated and wearing black while surrounded by angels and saints in an altarpiece commissioned by the city of Sienna, the Maesta by Duccio. Other depictions of this figure include one where her child holds a red fruit, Botticelli’s one “of the Pomegranate.” For 10 points, name this figure who holds a giant baby Jesus in Parmigianino’s depiction of her with a Long Neck.
ANSWER: Mary or the Madonna

7. The discharge of this element from a process to synthesize acetaldehyde by the Chisso corporation was the cause of Minamata Disease. Bacteria can add alkyl groups to the 2+ cation of this element, forming a product which complexes with cysteine and is recognized by LAT transporters in the body as methionine. In a 1971 issue of the Canadian Field Naturalist, Fimreite et al reported that justdownstream of paper mills and chlor-alkali plants, especially high levels of this element were found in fish in Lake St. Clair. Its dimethyl form is extremely toxic, while the methylated form, a bioaccumulant, builds up in fish near the top of the food chain. For 10 points, name this metal found in amalgams and which exists as a liquid at room temperature.
ANSWER: Mercury(Note: the Candian article is actually important, since my professor who used to work at BASF talked numerous times about how their process was affected)

8. The people who provide “voices” for this country, “in bliss to th’ stars they were dancing, th’ / creatures n flesh, of one mind n body” according to a bill bissett poem. In the 19th Century, autonomous control over part of this modern day country was given to a body called the mutasarrifiyah. A confessional provision that divided this nation’s legislature in a6 to 5 ratio is one of the chief reasons why a census hasn’t been conducted in this country since 1932. The 1930s also saw a struggle between the Constitutional Block and the faction led by Emile Eddé. After this country revised its constitution to eliminate all French influences in 1943, its president, Bishara al-Khuri was arrested. In 1970, a large group of militants entered this country following an expulsion from another nation during Black September. One of its chief political parties was founded by Pierre Gemayel and is known as the Phalange. For 10 points, name this country, invaded in 1982 by its southern neighbor, Israel.
ANSWER: Lebanon

9. The New York Times criticized an authorized biography of this thinker by Michael Ignatieff for spending too much time relating an anecdote about Winston Churchill and not enough about this man’s biography of Karl Marx. This man criticized attempts like that of Thales to find the one true answer for a given question as the “Ionian fallacy”. He looked at Joseph de Maistre as a leader of the Counter-Enlightenment in an essay published in the collectionThe Crooked Timber of Humanity. This thinker contrasted a lack of constraints imposed on someone by others with autonomy and the ability to pursue goals as the positive and negative forms of the title concept of one essay by this man. In one work, this thinker determined that Tolstoy was one of the two title animals, but thought it best to be the other. For 10 points, name this author of “Two Concepts of Liberty” who distinguished between those who know many little things and those who know one big thing in “The Hedgehog and the Fox”.
ANSWER: Isaiah Berlin

10. Bertram Brockhouse won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on scattering of and spectroscopy with this type of particle, including his work on a triple-axis spectrometer. Analysis of elements such as hydrogen, boron, carbon, and nitrogen can be conducted with promptgamma ray activation analysis, which uses a beam of these particles. A related technique allows nondestructive testing for mass fractions of up to 40 elements in a material. During the decay of this particle, one of its two down quarks is converted to an up quark via the weak interaction. Their existence was first posited in an effort to explain the results of alpha particle collisions with beryllium-9 and the subsequent radiation produced. First suggested by James Chadwick, for 10 points, name this component of the nucleus which has no charge.
ANSWER: Neutron

11. David Thibodeau, who wrote a “Survivor’s Story” of this event, attacked the impartiality of Paul Gray in assessing who started a fire during this incident. Other accounts of this event include an Academy Award-winning documentary by William Gazecki subtitled The Rules of Engagement. It’s not chess or killing lots of animals for sport, but the male title character liked playing a 3D re-creation of this event with Jimmy in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. One of the most prominent figures involved in this event was a successor of Florence Houteff and son of Benjamin Roden. This event was sparked by a UPS driver discovering that he was delivering a package of explosives to the central group, leading to an investigation by the ATF. One of the men who died during this event was accused of fathering numerous children with underage girls and was the subject of the influential newspaper article, “The Sinful Messiah”. This event took place on Mount Carmel and largely involved followers of David Koresh. For 10 points, name this 1993 incident where the US government set fire to a Branch Davidian center in Texas.
ANSWER: The Waco Siege

12. This character’s “continual obsession with his carnal nature” is used to show his childishness in a lengthy character study by Mary Ragland. This character at one point seeks advice from Herr Trippa. In one scene, he relates a fable about a horse named Sir Grandpaw Steed and an ass named Roger, and shortly thereafter he throws a purse of gold on the ground in order to solve a riddle proposed by the Gripe-men-all. A lost manuscript by the creator of this non-title character is supposedly discovered in Robertson Davies’ The Rebel Angels. After being made Laird of Salmigondin, this character starts earning 6.7 billion gold royals per year from the extremely fecund Utopians he rules. This man eventually decides to marry after Bacbuc determines that the word “trinc” must mean “drink” after consulting the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. He had earlier sought marriage advice from Friar John, and he famously knows 63 ways to make money and 214 ways to spend it. For 10 points, name this companion of Pantagruel in a Rabelais masterpiece.
ANSWER: Panurge

13. One work of this name, composed by Howard Shore, was premiered on the Wanamaker Organ and celebrates Macy’s 150th Anniversary. Elgar wrote one for orchestra (without violins) and organ for the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford. One by Britten written for threetrumpets, with each part in a different key, was written for St. Edmundsbury. A piece opening with quarter notes played on a woodblock and inspired by a sports car, John Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”, is a piece of this type “for Orchestra.” Perhaps most famous is one which was reincorporated into its composer’s third symphony and which was originally written to inspire patriotism during World War II. For 10 points, name this type of piece typically used for ceremonial purposes and exemplified by a Copland one “for the Common Man”
ANSWER: Fanfare

14. According to Wikipedia, a recent Canadian miniseries based on this book was criticized for making Turkey look like an Arabian country. A lesser-known book with this title by Michael Jecks features Simon Puttock and Sir Baldwin Furnshill solving some murders in Devon. In one chapter of this work, Mitch Adeson is injected with a hypodermic needleat gunpoint. One character in this work became religious after his father shot himself, and works with Nick Aparo and Monsignor De Angelis. In this book, four knights attack the Metropolitan Museum of Art, causing archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly to set off on a chase. The title character of this work, Martin of Carmaux, tries to bring a chest to Paris aboard the Falcon Temple after Aimard of Villiers dies. For 10 points, name this Da Vinci Code clone whose title sadly does not refer to Jacques de Molay, written by Raymond Khoury.
ANSWER: The Last Templar

15. A plague of these creatures is presumably described in the second novel of The Last of the Crazy People author Timothy Findley. They’re not cobras or baboons, but Swihart showed that special air sacs allow types of these creatures in the Hamadryas group to hear, while hearing is used to evade predators by those in the Maniola genus like theMeadow Brown. Species in the Miletinae subfamily are some of the only types of these creatures to be predatory; those creatures are more commonly called Harvesters. They almost all are grouped in the Heteroneura clade, and brush-footed types of these creatures include admirals and tortoiseshells. Females of one sub-species of these creatures display Batesian mimicry to appear like the Crimson Rose. Besides the Common Mormon type of these creatures, others include a type noted for their migration patterns, the Painted Lady. For 10 points, name these insects which come in varieties like “Monarch”.
ANSWER: Butterflies

16. Wikipedia notes that a play about a Prince of this city by George F. Walker “was criticized by many critics; none of them had very many positive comments on the play”. Those embarking on an Edgar Degas heritage tour might stay at the Palazzo Pignatelli in this city. Clark Gable and Sophia Loren argue over the custody of Nando in a film whose title lets us know“It Started [In This City]”. This city’s underclass, known as the lazzaroni, opposed the establishment of a Republic here in 1799. Titian’s portrait of Paul III and his Grandsons is located in this city’s Capodimonte Gallery, while the Farnese Hercules can be found in this city’s National Archaeological Museum. The underworld of this city is controlled by the Camorra. A former cavalry officer named Joachim Murat served as king of this city for seven years following the rule of Joseph Bonaparte. The resort island of Capri is visible from this city and resides in its namesake bay. For 10 points, name this city of Southern Italy located near Mount Vesuvius.
ANSWER: Naples [or Napoli or Neapolis]

17. Deaf old Uncle Aron holds up a comically large earpiece as two young twins sing for him in one scene in this film. The protagonist lives with his housekeeper Agda after the death of his wife, although he’s reminded of his unhappy marriage after the Almans, a bickering couple, are picked up in one scene. Early in this film, the narrator describes a “weird dream” where he walks on an empty street and gazes up at aclock with no hands on it. Like the protagonist of this film, Ken Harrison of a Canadian pop band of this name behind the album Bet You Think I’m Lonely, is a doctor, although it’s unclear if Harrison also forgot that a doctor’s first duty is to ask forgiveness after being rendered unable to see into a microscope during an exam flashback. Before going to sleep in its final scene, the protagonist is comforted by his son Evald and his daughter-in-law Marianne. The central character, Isak Borg, is set to receive an honorary degree in Lund Cathedral. For 10 points, name this Ingmar Bergman film titled for some uncultivated fruit.
ANSWER: Wild Strawberries [or Smultronstället or The End of the Day]