ROUND 2
RELATED TOSSUP/BONUS
TOSSUP 1. A lack of Duffy antigens or a genetically deficient version of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase can confer immunity to it, as can a disease which prevents the merozites of its causative agent from invading red blood cells. This obviates the need for drugs that treat it such as cotrifazid, doxycycline, and quinine. For 10 points, name this blood disease common in tropical areas and not affecting sickle cell carriers, caused by four species of the Plasmodium protozoan that are transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito.
ANSWER: malaria
<Wolpert>
BONUS. Name some pieces of chemistry lab equipment, for 10 points each.
[10] Volumes measured using this device should be measured at eye level at the lowest point in the convex meniscus.
ANSWER: graduated cylinder
[10] Used for gravimetric chemical analyses, they can be made either of an inert metal or a graphite-clay composite, so as not to react at high temperatures with samples placed inside of them.
ANSWER: crucible
<Ismail>
TOSSUP 2. It can be diagnosed with the Brown Scale or the Connors Rating Scale, and those with it have assymetrical caudate nuclei. APA criteria diagnose it when six or more traits on a checklist are observed to a “maladaptive” degree in two environments, and it is often treated with methylphenidate, which increases norepinephrine levels only in those with this condition. For 10 points, identify this disorder which may be treated with Concerta, Strattera, or Ritalin and is often diagnosed in children who have trouble focusing in school.
ANSWER: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [prompt on ADHD; prompt on partial answer]
<J. Bykowski>
BONUS. Name these controversies of international trade, for 10 points each.
[10] This 1992 attempt at greater integration among the economies of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada still engenders opposition despite positive annual growth rates in each country.
ANSWER: NAFTA [or North American Free Trade Agreement]
[10] An ongoing dispute between Canada and the US involves US import restrictions and Canadian producer subsides directed towards Canadian suppliers of this material, with both sides alleging NAFTA violations.
ANSWER: softwood lumber [prompt on less specific answers; accept equivalents such as coniferous lumber or pinewood]
<Weiner>
TOSSUP 3. He argued for a truly national art in his manifesto Revolt against the City. A year later he would illustrate Lewis’ Main Street, while a John Ford film would inspire his Sentimental Ballad. He utilized a bird’s eye-view in his Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and though he would eventually exhibit in New York he chose to found his art colony at Stone City near Anamosa, Iowa, where he was born. His most famous work featured the artist’s sister Nan standing next to B.H McKeeby, the family dentist. For 10 points identify this creator of American Gothic.
ANSWER: Grant Wood
<Berdichevsky>
BONUS. Identify these Russian composers who only got around to writing three symphonies, for 10 points each.
[10] His third symphony is subtitled “The Divine Poem.” He also wrote The Poem of Ecstasy and the “White Mass” and “Black Mass” Sonatas.
ANSWER: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
[10] A chemist by profession, his works include In the Steppes of Central Asia as well as the Polovtsian Dances from his opera Prince Igor.
ANSWER: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin
<Ismail>
TOSSUP 4. The special school, or “Calmecac,” was found near the House of Music in its center. Its fall was precipitated by the “Sad Night” which saw Pedro Alvarado’s commander escape, only to return with thirteen brigantines and an army of Tlaxcalans to take his revenge. According to legend, its location was chosen after wandering tribes saw an eagle eating a snake on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. For 10 points, identify this city conquered by Hernan Cortes, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
ANSWER: Tenochtitlan
<Berdichevsky>
BONUS. Answer the following about a noted political leader, for 10 points each:
[10] Assassinated outside of Mexico City in 1940, this leader of the Revolution split with Stalin after Lenin’s death and was eventually expelled from the politburo.
ANSWER: Leon Trotsky
[10] In 1921 Trotsky led the Red Army in suppression of an anti-Bolshevik military revolt at this Russian seaport.
ANSWER: Kronstadt
<Berdichevsky>
TOSSUP 5. “A Tale” of this man is the subtitle of Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd, and song 26 of Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion describes the activities of his followers around Huntingdon. Thomas Percy and Joseph Ritson tried to compile all of the ballads about him, including the stories of his meetings with Guy of Gisborne and Allen a Dale. His adventures were popularized by Howard Pyle, who focused on his love for Maid Marian. For 10 points, name this foe of the Sheriff of Nottingham and friend of Little John.
ANSWER: Robin Hood
<Berdichevsky>
BONUS. Identify these American naturalists, for 10 points each.
[10] This marine biologist and author Under the Sea Wind wrote a fictionalized insecticide exposé, Silent Spring.
ANSWER: Rachel Carson
[10] This Scottish naturalist discovered a namesake glacier in Alaska and crusaded for national parks as the founder of the Sierra Club.
ANSWER: John Muir
<Berdichevsky>
TOSSUP 6. After succeeding “Ol Buck” Buchanan as congressman in 1941, he gained the nickname “Landslide” for allgedly rigging his eighty seven vote victory over Coke Stevenson for a seat in the U.S. Senate, and Robert Caro’s biography Master of the Senate details this man’s stint as majority leader. and he said “There goes the South for a generation” after signing the Civil Rights Act. Deciding not to seek re-election following the surprising success of his insurgent primary opponent Eugene McCarthy in 1968, for 10 points name this President whose Great Society was undermined by the unpopularity of the Vietnam War.
ANSWER: Lyndon Baines Johnson [accept LBJ]
<Douglass>
BONUS. Identify these charitable organizations from a description of their founders, for ten points each:
[10] Originally known as the East London Revival Society, it still publishes the War Cry and was founded by William Booth.
ANSWER: Salvation Army
[10] Founded on Halsted Street in 1889 by Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams, this settlement served as community center and, sometimes, home for the neighborhood poor.
ANSWER: Hull House
<Berdichevsky>
TOSSUP 7. In one poem, this man addresses smoke as an “Icarian bird” and a “lark without song,” while another of his poems begins “I am a parcel of vain strivings tied / By a chance bond together.” One book by this man collects essays which describe his trips to Chesuncook, the Allegash and East Branch, and Mount Ktaadn [ka-TAHD-in]. In addition to the volume The Maine Woods, he wrote a book about a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, though his best-known book includes chapters on “Higher Laws,” “Economy,” and one entitled “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.” Name this transcendentalist author of Walden.
ANSWER: Henry David Thoreau
<Berdichevsky>
BONUS. The hospital superintendent, Miss Van Campen, believes that Lieutenant Henry has given himself jaundice by excessive drinking and revokes his leave. For 10 points each:
[10] In what novel, where Dr. Valentini saved Henry from an unnecessary convalescence by boldly operating on his leg?
ANSWER: A Farewell to Arms
[10] This English nurse-aide falls in love with Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms and dies of a hemorrhage after a stillbirth.
ANSWER: Catherine Barkley [accept Barkley]
<Douglass>
TOSSUP 8. The reason that Agamemnon could not get favorable winds at Aulis was because of a boast made after killing one of these, and a large one took the place of Iphigenia in the sacrifice made to reverse the weather. One of them was had golden horns and lived in Cerynitia, where Apollo and Artemis confronted Heracles for wounding it. Another man was tranformed into this in the vale of Gargaphia as punishment for seeing Artemis naked. For 10 points, name this animal in whose form the unfortunate hunter Actaeon was then killed by his own dogs.
ANSWER: deer [accept stag; accept hind; accept red deer]
<Weiner>
BONUS. Identify these Jewish holiday texts, for 10 points each.
[10] It contains traditional answers to questions asked by the children at the beginning of the Passover Seder.
ANSWER: Haggadah shel Pesach
[10] It provides the origins of, and instructions for celebrating, Purim.
ANSWER: Book of Esther [or Megillat Esther]
<Yang>
TOSSUP 9. One woman in this play claims to be twenty-nine years old when pink lampshades are present, and thirty otherwise. That woman breaks and then reforms her engagement with the gossipy Duchess of Berwick’s brother, Augustus Lorton. For 10 points, the title character attempts to move out after finding check stubs made out to Mrs. Erlynne, but all is solved shortly after Erlynne’s explanation for a certain object’s presence in Lord Darlington’s apartment, in what Oscar Wilde play?
ANSWER: Lady Windermere’s Fan
<Weiner>
BONUS. Identify these Anton Chekhov plays, for 10 points each.
[10] The title character sacrificed the best years of his life to support his brother-in-law, the professor Serebryakov, despite his unrequited love for Serebryakov’s wife Elena.
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya [or Dyadya Vanya]
[10] The title characters of this play include Fyodor Kuligin’s wife, Baron Tusenbach’s fiancé, and the headmistress of the local school.
ANSWER: The Three Sisters [or Tri sestry]
<Douglass>
TOSSUP 10. The failure of this equation under certain conditions is described by Saint-Venant’s Principle. It was extended to three dimensions by Cauchy, incorporating a compliance matrix. Its elementary isotropic form may include a term for Poisson’s ratio, and it often includes the Young modulus as a constant of proportionality. Most simply expressed as F equals k times x, this law is inapplicable to zero-length springs. For 10 points, name this basic law of physics which says that stress is proportional to strain within the elastic limit.
ANSWER: Hooke’s Law
<Westbrook>
BONUS. Name some primitive data types found in the Java programming language, for 10 points each.
[10] This 64 bit data type conforms to IEEE 754 floating point specifications, and is often used to represent large non-integer values.
ANSWER: double
[10] This simple data type can only contain the values ‘true’ or ‘false’, and is useful in a namesake type of logic.
ANSWER: boolean
<Wolpert>
CATEGORY QUIZ TOSSUPS
TOSSUP 11. In one of his more unusual works Pridamant consults a magician to find his lost son. He also wrote about a conspirator against Augustus Caesar who is unexpectedly pardoned by the emperor in his play Cinna. In one of his tragedies, an Armenian nobleman converts to Christianity and is martyred by the Romans. In addition to Polyeucte, his classical works include 1640’s Horace and a 1637 play which sparked a literary controversy over its failure to observe the three unities. For 10 points, name this French dramatist of Le Cid.
ANSWER: Pierre Corneille
<Berdichevsky>
TOSSUP 12. Along with the distance between atoms of a diatomic hydrogen molecule, this value can be calculated using the Heitler-London covalence theory. The gravitational variety is the work that must be done to separate an object into widely scattered dust. Iron is the most stable element because this energy of its nucleus is highest, and in terms of electromagnetic forces, it takes the form of ionization energy. For the hydrogen atom, it is 13.6 electron volts. For 10 points, what is this energy released when a composite system is separated into constituent parts?
ANSWER: binding energy
<Reece>
TOSSUP 13. The founder of this school was a student of Gorgias named Antisthenes. Another member of the school was a man who tried to live “according to nature” and adhered to a principle of independence known as autarkeia. That man was a native of Sinope (sin OH pee) who walked around with a lantern looking for an honest man, Diogenes (dye AH juh neez). For 10 points, name this school of ancient philosophers whose name comes from a Greek word for “dog.”
ANSWER: Cynics [or Cynicism]
<Yaphe>
TOSSUP 14. He is currently entering a scandal regarding payments to Carla Katz, who was the leader of the public employees union in his state while dating this man. This former Goldman Sachs CEO defeated Doug Forrester in a 2005 election, which led him to resign from a Senate seat in which he both replaced and served with Frank Lautenberg. For 10 points, name this man who paid a forty-six dollar fine for not wearing a seatbelt in 2007 and will finish his term as governor of New Jersey despite being several injured in a car crash.
ANSWER: Jon Stevens Corzine
<Weiner>
TOSSUP 15. His mysterious death came shortly after an uprising in which his subjects branded him a traitor and pelted him with stones. After his death, his daughter was rechristened as Isabel, and he was succeeded by his brother Cuitlahuac, who in turn was succeeded by Cuauhtemoc. This man’s downfall began when he misinterpreted the arrival of conquistadors as the return of Quetzlcoatl and welcomed them into Tenochtitlan. For 10 points, name this Aztec ruler who was captured and put down by Hernando Cortez.
ANSWER: Montezuma II [or Mohectezuma II]
<Frankel>
TOSSUP 16. Usually associated with low pressure, high humidity, and severe weather such as thunderstorms, they occur north of the equator off the African and Central American coasts. Carl Gustaf Rossby modified Hadley’s interpretation for their existence by comparing them to the horse latitudes, which by contrast have high pressure. They are the source of hurricanes, and are found between belts of northeasterly and southwesterly trade winds. Caused by rising hotter air, they are also called intertropical convergence zones. For 10 points, name these equatorial regions of relative calm.
ANSWER: the doldrums
<Luo>
TOSSUP 17. The top two record for margin of victory in this event are held by Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris. J.H. Taylor, Harry Vardon, and Gary Player all won this event in three different decades, and it was the only major ever won by Greg Norman. Tiger Woods is the two-time defneidng champion of this event, which awards the Claret Jug and is the only major regularly played on links courses. For 10 points, St. Andrew’s and Carnoustie are frequent locations for what golf major, the only one played outside of the United States?