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National Scholastics Championship at George Mason University
Round 1
Related Tossup/Bonus Round
1. Landau proposed that excitations in these propagate via “rotons,” and glitches are thought to occur in pulsars when neutrons turn into these, explaining their unusual vorticity. They can also form Rollin films, which exhibit the Onnes effect, wherein capillary forces acting on them are greater than gravity, and they have infinite thermal conductivity. Occurring below the lambda point for helium, for 10 points, identify this property exhibited by a liquid which has zero viscosity.
ANSWER: superfluid [or superfluidity]
<Kandlikar>
It explains why Amish communities have members with extra toes, and why Pingelap islanders have a greater-than-normal incidence of color-blindness. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon in which a small population forms an isolated colony and thus causes reduced genetic variation among its populace.
ANSWER: founder effect
[10] The founder effect is a specific type of this evolutionary mechanism in which allele frequencies shift due to random, non-selection forces.
ANSWER: genetic drift [accept allele drift]
<Wolpert>
2. A 1925 paper arguing against skepticism, written by G.E. Moore, was titled "A Defense of" this. It was the primary method of reasoning used in the treatises of Claude Buffier, who influenced a circle including Dugald Stewart and Thomas Reid which exalted it in Scotland. From 1816 to 1870, it was declared the official philosophy of France, and this phrase also titled a work which blamed hereditary succession of kingship and the failure to immediately declare independence for the troubles of colonial America. For 10 points, name that influential tract of Thomas Paine.
ANSWER: common sense
<Weiner>
It prohibited any large country from claiming an exception from taxes on harbor and railroad usage. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this policy formulated by Secretary of State John Hay, which also stated that China's independence should be respected and all nations should have equal access to trade in China.
ANSWER: the Open Door policy
[10] This author of the collection Door Into the Dark included such poems as "Digging" in his Death of a Naturalist, and he later made a noted translation of Beowulf.
ANSWER: Seamus Justin Heaney
<Weiner>
3. Its symbolic end came at the bloodless Battle of Ugra, in which Akhmet withdrew his forces. It won a key victory at the Vorskla River against Vytautas, and its general Mamai lost another battle at Kulikovo. Mamai’s successor Tokhtamysh fought Timur, and it long had a capital at Sarai Berke. Its original capital was named for Batu, and perhaps its greatest leader was Oz Beg. For 10 points name this westernmost division of the Mongol Empire’s lands, that included much of present-day Russia and was named for the color of some of its early leader's tents.
ANSWER: Golden Horde [or Ulus Juchi; or Kipchak Khanate]
<Douglass
Identify the following about life before and after Alexander the Great, for 10 points each.
[10] This father of Alexander gained control of Greece after his victory at Chaeronea and married Olympias.
ANSWER: Philip II [or Philip of Macedon]
[10] With a name from the Greek word for "succesors," these men took over Alexander's empire after his death. They included Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus.
ANSWER: the Diadochi
<Douglass>
4. This novel features a story describing Franz Pokler’s yearly meetings with his daughter Ilse, and it is revealed that the protagonist was once conditioned by Laszlo Jamf. Margherita Erdman, whom the protagonist had met in The Zone, leads him to the Anubis, while another scene in this novel sees a giant octopus during a meeting with Kate Borgesius. It opens with, “A screaming comes across the sky” and ends with Captain Blicero placing Gottfriend into the V2. For 10 points, Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is the protagonist of what novel by Thomas Pynchon?
ANSWER: Gravity’s Rainbow
<Jang>
A sausage-seller attempts to unseat Cleon in this author’s play The Knights. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Greek playwright whose comedies include The Frogs and Lysistrata.
ANSWER: Aristophanes
[10] In this Aristophanes play, Dicaeopolis attempts to establish a personal peace treaty during the Peloponnesian War, only to be hounded by a chorus of coal-sellers.
ANSWER: The Acharnians
<Magin>
5. This man discussed phrases which describe objects we are not acquainted with in his essay “On Denoting.” He argued that objects are inferred by logical constructs that are formed from quanta of sensation in his 1918 lectures on Logical Atomism. This author of Why I am not a Christian found a paradox in Frege’s theory, wherein a set cannot be a member of a set of all sets that are not members of themselves. For 10 points, identify this philosopher who collaborated with Whitehead on the Principia Mathematica.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
<Kandlikar>
He was inspired by Siyyad Ali-Muhammad of Shiraz, who took the name Bab (“Bob”). For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author of The Seven Valleys, a founder of a world religion.
ANSWER: Baha’u’llah or Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri
[10] Baha’u’llah founded this Persian religion that believes that Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, the Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, and Muhammad are among the messengers of god.
ANSWER: Baha’i Faith
<Hart>
6. In one of his works, Pierpoint Mauler runs a corrupt meat packing plant, which is opposed by the Black Straw Hats. In another play by this author, Shui Ta is the cruel alter ego of Shen The who runs a tobacco factory. He also wrote about Grusche, who refuses to pull the baby Michael out of the title object, leading to the judge Azdak declaring Grusche the true mother. Kattrin, Eilif, Swiss Cheese, and Anna Fierling are title characters of another play by him. For 10 points, name this author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and her Children.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht
Gioia
Inspired by a scene from the ninth book of the Odyssey, it describes objects which "bloom below the barren peak" and "blow by every winding creek." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem about people who are perpetually under the influence of drug-like flowers, which ends with a narration from a sailor who resolves to live there forever.
ANSWER: "The Lotos-Eaters"
[10] "The Lotos-Eaters," like "Ulysses," is a Homeric-themed poem by this author of Idylls of the King.
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
<Weiner>
7. George Rappleyea, the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, organized this event. Its namesake published his memories in Center of the Storm, and Reverend Lemuel Cartright opened this event with a prayer. Broadcast over WGN Radio, it addressed a violation of the Butler Act and was presided over by John Raulston. The prosecutor died four days after winning this case, which was argued by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. For 10 points name this 1925 court case against a substitute biology teacher who lectured on evolution.
ANSWER: Scopes "monkey" trial
<Douglass
Answer the following about the history of Argentina, for 10 points each:
[10] A former dancer, she succeeded her husband as president of Argentina in 1974. Her presidency was marked by a failing economy, and she was overthrown in 1976 by Jorge Videla.
ANSWER: Isabel Peron [prompt on Peron; do not accept Eva or Evita Peron]
[10] Videla initiated this campaign of political suppression, in which fifteen thousand Argentines were killed or disappeared. The Mothers of the Plaza de Maya brought attention to this conflict.
ANSWER: Dirty War [or Guerra Sucia; or Process of National Reorganization]
<Douglass>
8. Its fifth movement uses a double-bass to play the melody of a waltz, while its eighth uses ill-tuned violin shrieks to depict “Persons With Long Ears,” and its eleventh uses badly-played scales to depict “Pianists.” Following the cello melody of the thirteenth movement, its finale turns into a playful dance after recapping the piano tremolo of its opening, “The Introduction and Royal March of the Lion.” For 10 points, name this work whose sections include “Fossils,” “The Aquarium,” and “The Swan,” by Camille Saint-Saens.
ANSWER: The Carnival of the Animals [or Le Carnaval des Animaux]
<Letzler
It is interchangeable with “Lento,” and is applied to the second movement of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this slowest unmodified tempo, usually indicating forty to sixty beats per minute.
ANSWER: largo
[10] An arrangement of the “Ombra mai fu” aria of this composer’s Xerxes is often played by string ensemble at solemn events, where it is called his “Largo.”
ANSWER: George Friedrich Handel
<Letzler
9. An ongoing clinical study compares the effectiveness of Iosartan and atenolol on elastin fibers in this structure. A septal defect lies directly under this structure, which is “overriding,” in the tetralogy of Fallot, and in Takayasu disease this structure’s namesake arch is inflamed. This structure’s namesake valve contains the nodules of Arantius, and its branches include the subclavian and the brachiocephalic. It arises in the left ventricle, and it carries oxygenated blood to the entire body. For 10 points, name this largest artery in the human body.
ANSWER: the aorta
<Hart>
Identify the following industrial processes, for 10 points each:
[10] Ammonia is oxidized using a largely-platinum catalyst in this reaction, which creates nitric acid.
ANSWER: Ostwald process
[10] This process uses cryolite to lower the melting temperature of alumina and uses a high amperage current to convert alumina to aluminum.
ANSWER: Hall-Heroult process
10. One model for explaining this phenomenon relies on the assumption that productive capacity is at its maximum and advocates controlling it via the quantity theory. The "gap" named for this happens when government spending is greater than the difference between production and consumption. Subsidy programs for needed labor can cause the "demand-pull" variety, while the normal kind experienced in the first world is "cost-push." or 10 points, name this phenomenon in which more money is required to buy the same goods, causing a drop in the value of money.
ANSWER: inflation
<Weiner>
One important operation in these is the subject-auxiliary inversion, and most current research on them is done through the minimalist program. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of grammar posited in Syntactic Structures.
ANSWER: Transformational-Generative Grammar
[10] Syntactic Structures was written by this student of Zelig Harris and current professor at MIT.
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky
<Mukherjee>
Category Quiz: Tossups
11. Carved ceiling figures extend nearly halfway to the floor as a man takes a bowl from a woman at a bucket of water in one version of this event. Another painting, originally intended to depict this scene, was retitled to a setting at the house of Levi. In addition to those works by Tintoretto and Veronese, another of these paintings contains a mysterious knife and separates the figures into three groups, with the central one wearing blue and red and one side of the table unoccupied. For 10 points, name this Biblical scene, also painted by Leonardo.
ANSWER: the Last Supper
<Weiner>
12. In one role, this man’s character declares "Killian, here's your Sub-Zero, now plain zero”, and in another, he grudgingly replaces a sick Phoebe O’Hara, using a ferret to make friends. As Dr. Alex Hesse, he declares “It’s not a tumor!” and, insulted, asks another character “Does my body disgust you?” One of his characters allies with the boss of Bane to save his cryogenically preserved wife, while another must save John Connor. For 10 points, name this star of such movies as The Running Man, Kindergarten Cop, and Junior, who played a futuristic cyborg in the Terminator series.
ANSWER: Arnold Schwarzenegger
<Razvi>
13. In 1928, he took charge of purging the Moscow party of anti-Stalinist elements, and from 1930 through 1941, he was chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars. Two years before hs 1986 death, Konstantin Chernenko invited him to rejoin the Communist Party; forty years earlier, he had rejected Soviet participation in the Marshall Plan, but was exiled to Mongolia a few years later. For 10 points, name this Soviet diplomat, who engineered a 1939 pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop and is the namesake of certain bottles of flammable liquid.
ANSWER: Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
<Douglass>
14. Recent data suggests that this body has experienced five volcanic events, occurring between 3.5 billion and 100 million years ago. One such eruption likely occurred from the Arsia Mons, a member of the Tharsis Montes which was named by Giovanni Schiaparelli. A better known feature is a shield volcano 27 kilometers high, whose lava residues were explored by the Express orbiter in 2004 and is the tallest known mountain in the solar system. For 10 points, name this home to Olympus Mons orbited by Phobos and Deimos, the fourth planet from the Sun.