2011 Moon Pie Classic Round 6
Packet by a Horde of Virginia Tech People, VCU’s George Berry, and editors
1. The Tonghak Rebellion was the impetus to the buildup of forces between this war’s major combatants. Regional rivalries in the army of one side caused the Beiyang army to take the brunt of the attacks from their opposition; and although it was considered the “best in Asia” and outnumbered their enemy's entire fleet, the regional Beiyang navy was annihilated by the end of the Siege of Weihaiwei. The official declaration of war was sent on August 1, 1894, although naval and land engagements had occurred before that around Asan. Including such battles as Pyongyang and Yalu River, for 10 points name this war between the Qing and Meiji Empires that ended with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki on April 17, 1895 that gave influence over the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Empire.
Answer: First Sino-Japanese War
2. A technique for interrogating the intensity of these structures was developed by Leslie Lemon, and involves the use of a vertical profile to identify echo overhangs and reflectivity holes, which can indicate the existence of a weak echo region. The amount of energy available for the development of these structures is measured by taking the integral of the area between the moist adiabat and the temperature curve on a skew-T diagram, which is known as CAPE. An increase in wind speed with direction can induce rotation, creating a mesocyclone. For 10 points, identify these structures associated with cumulonimbus clouds.
Answer: thunderstorms [or supercells; or mesocyclones until mentioned]
3. This author once quipped that archaeologists make ideal husbands since their interest in their wives only increase as they age, and her own marriage to an archaeologist would provide her with some experiences in the Near East which would prove invaluable to her later work. Equally useful was her experience working in a pharmacy during World War 2, which gave her a functional knowledge of poisons. Some of her works include The Pale Horse and A Pocketful of Rye, and her most famous character was introduced in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and would star in another 32 novels. For 10 points name this wife of archaeologist Max Mallowan, the creator of Hercule Poirot and author of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile.
Answer: Dame Agatha Christie
4. It is not the Red River, but it flows through both Texas and Oklahoma. It marked the northern boundary of the Choctaw nation after the Treaty of Doak’s Stand. It begins just south of the Raton Pass on the Colorado/New Mexico border, and flows through New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma, meeting up with the Arkansas River after flowing through the Eufaula (Eu-Fall-A) Reservoir. For 10 points, identify this river, named for inhabitants of a North American country.
Answer: Canadian River
5. Peasant uprisings during the Thirty Years’ War were the result of this man’s gabelle and taille taxes, and were ruthlessly crushed. Attempts to remove him from one position of influence were foiled during the do-called Day of the Dupes. Often associated with François Le Clerc du Tremblay, who as “Pére Joseph” became known as the “Grey Eminence”, this one-time protégé of Marie de Medici commanded French forces during the Siege of La Rochelle. Widely considered to be the world’s first Prime Minister, this is, for 10 points, what French statesman during the reign of Louis XIII?
Answer: Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu
6. The tail version of this process can be used to save space on the call stack. Used in functional computer languages, this technique can be found in divide and conquer algorithms like merge- and quicksort. This process is also used in solving problems like the Towers of Hanoi and in the Fibonnacci sequence. For 10 points, name this method which describes an implementation where a function calls itself within a program.
Answer: recursion [accept word forms]
7. In this character’s first appearance he is robbed by his friend as a prank, although the money stolen from him is money he has stolen from travelers. Later in the same play, he avoids combat by feigning death. In another play, he is ultimately rejected by the crown prince upon the death of that prince’s father, but he is brought back in another play that would provide the inspiration for operas by Salieri and Verdi, one in which he is target of many tricks by Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. For 10 points, name this comic character, a portly knight who is Prince Hal’s companion.
Answer: Falstaff
8. The Mishnah says that it was created on the twilight of the 6th day of the Creation. The Epistle to the Hebrews says that a jar of this is kept inside the Ark of the Covenant. Its name is often derived from the Hebrew for “what is it”, and it remains a pertinent question, though popular theories suggest honeydew from scale insects and the resin of the tamarisk tree. Spoiling in one day except for the day before the Sabbath, it is described as the color of coriander seed; the size of hoar frost; and with a taste of honey, bread, or oil depending on the age of the person. For 10 points, name this substance from Heaven first mentioned in the Book of Exodus that provided nourishment to the Israelites during the travel through the wilderness.
Answer: manna
9. They were the first team to be defeated by Southern Methodist University following the “Death Penalty” in 1988. Their live mascot, Jonathan XIII, and his predecessors have all been in the care of Alpha Phi Omega. In their first post-season appearance, they defeated Hampton University before losing to eventual 1-AA runner-up Georgia Southern in the 1998 season. A noted basketball program with its men’s team playing for the 2011 NCAA Division 1 Championship, this is, for 10 points, what Big East university whose coaches include Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma?
Answer: University of Connecticut [accept UConn]
10. This painting shows a road and a body of water from a perspective in Utsikten. The straight brown lines of the road in the foreground stand in contrast to the swirling red and blue lines of the sky and the water in the background. . Its creator painted two oil and two pastel versions of this painting, which may help explain why it is seems to be stolen so frequently; the version belonging to the version National Gallery in Oslo was stolen in 1994 and recovered three months later. Famously depicting a reddened sky caused by the affects of the sunset of the eruption of Krakatoa, for 10 points, name this painting, the other version of which was stolen along with the same painter’s Madonna in 2004 from the Munch Museum.
Answer: The Scream
11. His military experiences in his youth include bearing the news of the victory at Martinque in 1762, which got him a promotion to major after gaining valuable organization experience serving under Robert Monckton and John Stanwix. Years later, the repulse of invaders from the fort named after Stanwix would be the key to his most significant victory. A better organizer that a field commander, her nevertheless led men after replacing Philip Schuyler, and though he in his youth he had shown great courage under fire during Braddock’s Monongahela campaign, where he was badly wounded, that courage seemed to desert him as he is alleged to have mounted the fastest horse in the American army in his flight from an 1780 defeat. For 10 points, who was this Revolutionary War general, given credit for victory at Saratoga and for defeat at Camden?
Answer: Horatio Gates
12. The development of this disease has been linked to the consumption of MPTP by heroin addicts, and a point mutation on the LRRK2 gene is another risk indicator. The development of this disease is also identified by the presence of Lewy bodies, which contain large quantities of ubiquitin, and by the disappearance of the substantia nigra portion of the basal ganglia. Injections of GNDF can slow neuron loss associated with this disease. Treated by levodopa, the most common symptoms of this disease are triggered by a roughly 80% decrease in the production of dopamine. For 10 points, identify this disease, named for the author of an 1817 Essay on the Shaking Palsy.
Answer: Parkinson's Disease
13. A central theme of this work is impermanence, and a great fire which in 1177 burned through the Imperial Palace in the country where this novel is set is featured in the first part of this story. Chapter 6 features a dream of a burning carriage to Hell by one character’s wife in retaliation for his destroying Buddhist temples and statues in the previous chapter, and he later dies from what could be sarcastically described as a supernatural fever. In addition to such misadventures of Kiyomori and his wife, Chapter 9 features a scene from the Battle of Awazu in which Yoshinaka is killed by an arrow when his horse gets stuck in the mud and Kanahira commits suicide upon hearing of it. The name of this story comes from the alternate reading of the character for the Taira clan. For 10 points, name the epic Japanese tale that focuses on the Gem pei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
Answer: The Tale of Heike (accept Heike Monogatari)
14. Friedrich and Stein created a variation on an experiment by this man involved children watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and this man's work pioneered Social Cognitive Theory. One part of an experiment by this man saw children divided into three groups and involved watching footage of a man yell “SOCKAROO!” as he attacked the title object. That experiment saw children become more aggressive when watching such behavior go unpunished. For 10 points, name this sociologist that designed and carried out the Bobo Doll Experiment.
Answer: Albert Bandura
15. An extremely conservative work called the Athenaion Politeia whose author is now known as the “Old Oligarch” was once attributed to this man, while works more comfortably attributed to him include one whose is often assigned to fifth-semester classics students, a dialogue on household management. Much more difficult is his text written in the style of Thucydides which attempts to pick up where the latter ended. In later life he became an ardent lover of Sparta, watching as an observer when they fought and defeated his own city at Coronea, though he is best known for his account of a different set of battles, one in which he fought against Artaxerxes II under Cyrus the Younger. For 10 points name this author of the Hellenica and Oikonomikos best known for his account of the “up-country march” from Cunaxa narrated in the Anabasis.
Answer: Xenophon
16. This process includes two steps involving isobaric heat transfer. The first step is pumping the working fluid to a high pressure, which is at that stage a liquid. The second step is heating the working fluid to the point where it becomes a saturated vapor. The third step is expanding the working fluid through a turbine; this step is responsible for generating eighty percent of the world’s electricity. The fourth step condenses the working fluid back to a liquid. In power plants, the efficiency of this cycle can be increased with by adding a reheat or feedwater heating step. This power generation cycle models steam engines, and is named for a Scottish engineer. For ten points, identify this thermodynamic cycle, a more practical version of the Carnot cycle.
Answer: Rankine cycle [Do not accept Carnot cycle]
17. At two points during this poem Jesus is invoked, the first time by one of the characters who prayed for rescue and especially thought about how Jesus “stilled the wave/, on the Lake of Galilee”, and a second time in the last stanza, where he is called upon to “save us all from a death” on Norman’s Woe. In it, a little girl with “cheeks like the dawn of day” and a bosom “white as the hawthorn buds/ that ope in the month of May” asks her father to explain the meanings of church bells, the sound of guns, and a gleaming light, though her father cannot answer the last, as he has frozen to death. This death comes from ignoring a man who had experience in the Spanish Main, an “Old Sailor” who feared a hurricane, and in the end neither the Skipper nor the daughter he lashed to the mast is saved. Ending with the discovery of the girl’s corpse still lashed to the mast, for 10 points name this poem inspired by real life events from 1839, a poem about a maritime disaster by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Answer: “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
18. According to Chinese folklore, Fu Xi and Nuwa established the customs associated with this, which in Greek mythology is associated with Hymenaios. In Japanese mythology, one of these events is redone because in the first one Izanagi did not speak first. In In Norse mythology, Thor must disguise himself as Freyja and participate in one of these events in order to recover his hammer from Thrymr. Agamemnon tells Clytemnestra that Iphigenia will participate in one of these events before he sacrifices her, and Eurydice dies at hers. Eris throws an apple into one of these events because she was not invited to it. This is, for 10 points, what ceremony, after one of which the daughters of Danaus killed their husbands and during another Jesus turned water into wine?
Answer: wedding [accept any answer that includes wedding or marriage]
19. Within two years three songs with this title were released by three different groups, of which the latest was an R&B tune whose release as a single was so vehemently opposed by one of the members of the group who performed it that she threatened to appear in the video with tape over her mouth. That song describes the twenty-second and twenty third of loneliness, and a woman who compensates for her man’s cheating on her by secretly cheating as well. The other two are alternative hits, with one featuring fairly stupid lyrics like “Livin’ under house/Guess I'm livin’, I'm a mouse” before taking “time with a wounded hand”, while the other with sublime lyrics like “I don’t care if it hurts/I want to have control/I want a perfect body/ I want a perfect soul”. That song is also notable for a bit of harsh noise produced, in the words of Johnny Greenwood, when “I hit the guitar hard – really hard”. For 10 points give the title of songs put forth between 1993 and 1994 by TLC, Stone Temple Pilots, and Radiohead.