Richard Montgomery-Beavercreek Collaborative Tournament
Questions written by Richard Montgomery (MD) and Beavercreek (OH)
Edited by Joe Czupryn and Ellen Spence
Packet 9 – Tossups
1.This figure’s most famous efforts were aided by publicity from the British socialite Mary Clarke. While stationed at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, this reformer developed the polar area diagram as an improvement over the pie chart for representing combat casualties. After the (*) Crimean War, she founded the first secular nursing school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, where she trained leading nurses from across the world. For 10 points, name this British pioneer of modern nursing, famous for her persona as “the lady with the lamp,” in the bleak field-hospitals of the Crimean War.
ANSWER: Florence Nightingale
2.In 2017, this piece was played in the televised memorial for the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing. This piece begins with a sustained B-flat in the first violins, and a notable excerpt from this work is C, D-flat, B-flat, C, D-flat, C, D-flat, E-flat, C. This piece was first premiered by (*) Arturo Toscanini in the Rockefeller Center in 1938, and this work saw many adaptations, including its composer’s “Agnus Dei,” a one movement choral composition. For 10 points, name this work played at the funeral of John F. Kennedy, composed by Samuel Barber.
ANSWER: Adagio for Strings [acceptBarber’s Adagio before mentioned; prompt on “Adagio”]
3.An alkali metal can be used to create alkoxides, which are used to synthesize these compounds in an SN2 displacement reaction. Mercury is combined with an acetate ion that is used alongside sodium borohydride in a method known as oxymercuration in order to synthesize these. (*) Williamson names a method for the synthesis of these compounds, and Grignard reagents are stored in them. A cyclic variety of these compounds are known by the name “crown.” For 10 points name these compounds which consist of oxygen bonded to two alkyl or aryl groups, and include epoxides.
ANSWER: Ethers
4.One character in this work warns that the protagonist is “making the beast with two backs” to discredit his position among the senators. That same villain starts a drunken brawl by getting Cassio drunk. In this play, the title character mishears a discussion about a planted (*) handkerchief and becomes convinced his wife Desdemona is unfaithful. This is part of Iago’s elaborate plan to destroy the title protagonist, although his motivations are never really clarified. For 10 points name this Shakespearean tragedy featuring a Moorish admiral of Venice.
ANSWER: Othello
5.The trophy for this event was changed after 1970 and ceased to be named for this event’s creator, Jules Rimet(ree-MAY). North Korean media claimed Kim Jong-Il used an invisible cell phone to achieve a strong showing against Brazil at this event. In 1966, controversy erupted at this event when a (*) Soviet linesman wrongly awarded a goal to host England against West Germany. Against the hosts of the 2014 edition of this tournament, Germany trumped Brazil, seven to one. For 10 points, name this quadrennial soccer tournament that will be held in Russia in 2018.
ANSWER: FIFA World Cup
6.The narrator of one of this author’s works uses only plural pronouns before discovering the word “I” in a book. That character, Equality, runs away with Liberty after discovering electricity, eventually finding that the “Unspeakable Word” is Ego. Other than writing (*) Anthem, she also developed the philosophy of objectivism. In her magnum opus, she creates the character of John Galt, who organizes a strike against the government, and Dagny Taggart, the vice president of a railroad company. For 10 points, name this author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
ANSWER: Ayn Rand
7.During the 1800’s, this city’s “Babu Culture” fostered a cultural revival in it. One battle that took place near this city saw YarLutuf and Mir Jafar betray one side. After losing the Battle of Buxar, Mir Qasim was forced to give up this city to the British East India Company. Robert (*) Clive launched a campaign against Sirajud-Daulah as a result of an event that occurred in this city. That incident occurred when Siraj trapped several British prisoners of war in a cramped prison cell. For 10 points, name this Indian city that was the location of a notorious “Black Hole.”
ANSWER: Calcutta [accept Kolkata]
8.A man in one of this artist’s sculptures may be leaning away from the facade of the Church of Sant’Agnese for fear of it crumbling on him. This artist sculpted a dove on the alabaster window of the Throne of St. Peter. Members of the Cornaro family can be seen watching the title event from a balcony in one of this sculptor’s works. This sculptor depicted the (*) Ganges and Rio de la Plata in his Fountain of the Four Rivers. In this sculptor’s most famous work, an angel aims an arrow at the title saint while light rains down. For 10 points, name this sculptor who created the Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
9.The Majorana particle must contain a value of zero for this quantity. Weak interactions were shown to violate symmetry related to parity, time, and this quantity. Surface integrating the electric field gives this quantity according to (*) Gauss’ law. In a capacitor, this quantity can be written as the product of capacitance and voltage. Coulomb’s law can be used to find the force between objects as a function of distance and this quantity. For 10 points, name this quantity that is positive for protons, negative for electrons, and is the reason for force in an electromagnetic field.
ANSWER: Charge
10.During Operation Snow White, this organization was responsible for the largest infiltration of the United States government in history. This organization operates multiple naval vessels and an officially unrecognized paramilitary group from the port of Curaçao. This cult is officially based at the Gold Base in Riverside County, (*) California. This religion uses auditors to spiritually rehabilitate its members and believes that Emperor Xenu brought his people to Teegeeack before executing them with hydrogen bombs.For 10 points, name this cult founded by L. Ron Hubbard, the religion of Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
ANSWER: Church of Scientology
11.The town of Wallace, located in this state, proclaims itself to be the center of the universe, since no one can prove it’s not. Lava flows are found in Craters of the Moon National Monument in this state, which also contains a part of a national park in which, because of a legal loophole, one could technically get away with murder. This state, whose eastern border is the Bitterroot Mountains, has a northern (*) panhandle in a different time zone from the rest of the state. This state is also home to cities such as Coeur d’Alene and Pocatello, which is located near the state’s Potato Museum. For 10 points, name this western U.S. state with capital at Boise.
ANSWER: Idaho
12.One section of a work by this author is written by an inmate named Georg (GAY-org) Tenno. That work, by this man, philosophizes that “Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble, and his conscience devoured him… Without evildoers there would have been no (*) Archipelago.” This author of “Apricot Jam and Other Stories” also wrote about a man accused of being a spy being sentenced to ten years in a Soviet labor camp under Tiurin, the foreman of the 104th labor team. For 10 points, name this Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
ANSWER: AleksandrSolzhenitsyn
13.Encke names a type of these objects that was used to attempt to prove the validity of the luminiferousaether. Though unrelated to planets, these objects undergo outgassing. Much of our measurements of the surface of Jupiter come from the impact of one of these called (*) Shoemaker-Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. Short period ones of these objects typically originate from the Kuiper Belt, while long period ones originate from the OortCloud. For 10 points, name these astronomical objects that are made of ice and have a coma and tail.
ANSWER: Comets
14.Female members of this profession included figures such as Ching Shih and Mary Read. A famous practitioner of this profession was despised by Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood and died at Ocracoke Island. The Brethren of the Coast was a multinational alliance of these people based in Port (*) Royal, where they were commissioned to operate by the English crown. The seas surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Barbary Coast were well-known for being full of these people. For 10 points, name this profession of hunting down maritime shipping, historically common in the Caribbean.
ANSWER: Piracy [accept word forms]
15.This thinker erroneously proposed what he termed the “seduction theory” of neurosis. That, along with his belief that cocaine was some sort of wonder drug, led to disastrous results on his patients like Emma Eckstein. He also theorized in Beyond the (*) Pleasure Principle that the death drive and the libido in perpetual conflict make up the human psyche. For 10 points, name this Austrian psychologist who famously pioneered psychoanalysis and uncomfortable theories like the Oedipus complex.
ANSWER: Sigmund Freud
16.Oscar Neebe referred to Officer Michael Schaack’s men during this event as “among the city’s worst gangs.” The newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung called for this event; that newspaper’s editor, AugustSpies, was executed for his actions during it. Governor John PeterAltgeld pardoned the participants during this event, which began as a (*) strike at the McCormick Reaper Factory. After Samuel Fielden gave a speech during this event, a bomb was thrown, killing several policemen. For 10 points, name this worker’s riot for an eight-hour work day that took place in Chicago.
ANSWER: HaymarketSquare Riot[accept anything mentioning Haymarket]
17.This author's short story collection, South Sea Tales, includes a tale about a pearl buyer named Charley who shares a boat with Otoo on the Pacific. This author’s dystopian novel, told through two perspectives, begins with the scholarly narrator explaining that (*) Avis will be executed during the Second Revolt. Grey Beaver takes in Kiche and her half-wolf cub, the title protagonist of this author’s novel, who kills Lip-Lip. For 10 points, name this American novelist who was a member of “The Crowd” and is known for stories like “To Build a Fire” and the novel The Call of the Wild.
ANSWER: Jack London
18.In one account, this being lusts after a sea-nymph who does not return his affections. In rage, this being attempts to murder the shepherd-boy Acis after seeing him embrace Galatea. In another account, Achaemenides was left behind on this being’s (*) island after a successful escape by a man who called himself Outis. For 10 points, name this one-eyed being who Odysseus escapes by stabbing his eye out with a red-hot poker, a cyclops who had eaten several of Odysseus's men.
ANSWER: Polyphemus
19.Etienne-Jean Georget commissioned this artist to paint his patients in Insane Woman and Portrait of a Kleptomaniac, and this artist painted two men in a horse race in The Derby at Epsom. This artist depicted a Napoleonic cavalry officer rearing his horse in (*) The Charging Chasseur. This man’s most famous painting depicts a man waving a red flag on top of a pyramidal pile of bodies. For 10 points, name this French painter who depicted a shipwreck off of the coast of Africa in The Raft of the Medusa.
ANSWER: Theodore Gericault
20.These animals have evolved from the small, multi-toed Eohippus to the modern-day single-toed variety. The New World stilt-legged species of these animals became extinct in North America. These animals crossbreed to form sterile offspringlike the(*)hinny. The only truly wild subspecies of these animals left are Przewalski’s version. Breeds of these animals are loosely defined as hot-blooded, cold-blooded, and warm-blooded. For 10 points, name these animals that belong to the genus Equus and whose males are called stallions.
ANSWER: Horses
Tiebreaker
21.One of this man’s approximations is used in molecular spectroscopy to simplify energy calculations as a result of electronic and vibrational effects. An upper bound on the mass of neutron stars is named for Tollman, Volkoff, and this man. Along with Max (*) Born, this man names an approximation that the wavefunction can be split into electronic and nuclear components. This man quoted the Bhagavad Gita in saying “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” For 10 points, name this “father of the atomic bomb” who led the Manhattan project.
ANSWER: Robert Oppenheimer
Packet 9 – Bonuses
1.Prior to this battle, Ursuline Nuns prayed to Our Lady of Prompt Succor. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this battle, the last of the War of 1812. A resounding American victory, this battle was ironically fought weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had been signed and prevented British seizure of a crucial southern port.
ANSWER: Battle of New Orleans
[10] This future president commanded U.S. forces at New Orleans. After New Orleans, he fought in the First Seminole War, one of the many times this man came into conflict with Native Americans.
ANSWER: Andrew Jackson
[10] Jackson’s forces were aided by this Frenchman at the Battle of New Orleans. This Baratarian Pirate agreed to defend the Crescent City in exchange for pardons for him and his men.
ANSWER: Jean Lafitte
2.For 10 points each, identify these genetic disorders.
[10] This disorder has a notable increase in frequency in Ashkenazi Jews. It causes a defect in lipid metabolism in brain cells, which leads to blindness and early death, and it presents with a cherry red spot on the retina.
ANSWER: Tay-Sachsdisease
[10] The sixth amino acid in hemoglobin, glutamic acid, is replaced by valine in this recessive disorder. It causes red blood cells to take on a crescent shape, which can clog blood vessels.
ANSWER: Sickle Cell Anemia
[10] Interestingly, one copy of the sickle cell allele gives an advantage to people who live in areas where this disease is common because of the tendency of Plasmodium to rupture red blood cells of heterozygotes.
ANSWER: Malaria
3.Celtic myth was best preserved in Ireland. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this figure, a hunter who burnt his finger while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge and whose time as a giant led to the creation of everything from the Giant’s Causeway to the Isle of Man.
ANSWER: Fionn mac Cumhaill [accept Finn MacCool or Deimne]
[10] This hero of the Ulster cycle was victorious at the Cattle Raid of Cooley, and he wielded the GáeBulg, a spear made from the bones of the Coinchenn, a sea monster.
ANSWER: Cúchulainn [accept CúChulainn]
[10] This Celtic Goddess of War was commonly described as a trio of Badb, Macha, and Nemain. She commonly appears during battle to portend death as a crow.
ANSWER: Mórrígan [accept Mór-Ríoghain or Morrígu]
4.How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real? For 10 points each, answer some questions about some notable philosophical issues.
[10] Instances of this concept include the Ship of Theseus, where no original part of an object remains, and the statement that all Sicilians are liars, made by a Sicilian. This concept relates to any statement that contradicts itself.
ANSWER: Paradox [accept word forms]
[10] This man showed there were contradictions in some of Georg Cantor’s formalizations. One specific paradox involved a set of all sets that are not members of themselves. This man also used the analogy of a teapot in space to refute the existence of God.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
[10] This Greek philosopher’s paradoxes include one about a tortoise maintaining a lead against Achilles in a race and one about an arrow that may or may not be in motion. This philosopher was also one of the first to use reductio ad absurdum as a method of proof.
ANSWER: Zeno of Elea
5.In one story written by this author, the title character encounters mysterious bearded men while hiking in the Catskills. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this early American author of “Rip Van Winkle,” in which the title character sleeps for twenty years and misses the American Revolution.
ANSWER: Washington Irving
[10] In Irving’s other short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this protagonist, a Connecticut schoolteacher, vies for the love of Katrina Van Tassel, but is killed by the Headless Horseman.
ANSWER: IchabodCrane [accept either]
[10] Both stories appeared in this collection of Washington Irving works, which was written under a pseudonym. This collection became one of the first American works to achieve success in Europe.