Prison Bowl V
Questions written and edited by Hunter College High School (Mehnaj Ahmed, Lily Chen, York Chen, William Dou, Matthew Gurevitch, Willie Ha, Sarah Hamerling, Sophey Ho, Brent Morden, Alex Moschetti, Paul Moschetti, Tenzin Norzin, Wilton Rao, Karina Xie, David Xu, Richard Yu, Marianna Zhang, Zihan Zheng).
Round 06 – Tossups
1. Complications of this condition include HELLP syndrome, and another which causes tonic-clonic seizures, hypertension, and proteinuria. It can be resolved via dilation and currettage or vacuum aspiration. During this physiological phenomenon, the secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin causes the corpus luteum to continue progesterone production. Sometimes complicated by eclampsia, it can be ectopic. It normally lasts 9 months and sometimes ends in a miscarriage. For 10 points, name this condition leading to the birth of a human infant.
ANSWER: human pregnancy or gestation <DX>
2. Before this event, New York police officer Jack Caulfield proposed the aborted Operation Sandwedge. Senator Stennis was involved in one “compromise” in this event, and Justice Rehnquist recused himself from one case involving it. One group involved in this event, which included E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, was formed after a previous action by Daniel Ellsberg. In this event, two men both resigned before Robert Bork carried out the Saturday Night Massacre, firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Woodward and Bernstein investigated, for 10 points, this scandal about a certain Washington D.C. hotel that ended the presidency of Richard Nixon.
ANSWER: Watergate scandal<RY>
3. One of this religion’s deities is part of a triad including the water god Apam Napat. That deity created Asha Vahishta, Haurvatat, and four other “divine sparks” or Amesha Spenta, who are opposed by the daevas. Those who successfully cross the Chinvat Bridge are united with this religion’s deity of good, and the Vendidad is a collection of discussions between him and a certain prophet. That text is part of the Avesta. This religion contrasts the evil deity Angra Mainyu with the good deity Ahura Mazda. For 10 points, name this dualistic religion that was founded by a Persian prophet.
ANSWER: Zoroastrianism <RY>
4. One book from this country that repeats the phrase “the office boy left today” is a “Factless Autobiography” by assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares. The heteronym-loving author of The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa, hails from this country. A novelist from this country describes the title peninsula detaching from the continent and floating away in The Stone Raft, while another novel where the title affliction begins at a busy intersection. For 10 points, name this country home to Jose Saramago and The Lusiads, a work about the explorations of Vasco da Gama.
ANSWER: Portugal <YC>
5. This composer wrote a concerto for organ and orchestra whose second movement imitates the sound of birds and nicknamed “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale,” as well as an ode titled Alexander’s Feast. He set a Tasso poem to music in his opera Rinaldo. He is better known for a piece utilizing a Dead March as well as imitating the release of a spear titled Saul. Using an alla hornpipe in his Water Music, this man also composed a piece featuring a call and response chorus and switches between different type of recitatives. For 10 points, identify this composer of a Hallelujah chorus in his oratorio Messiah.
ANSWER: George Frederic Handel <KX>
6. Van Deemter’s equation for this process accounts for Eddy-diffusion and mass transfer, and the Kovats index describes the time taken for one form of this process. Another form of this process uses high pressures to improve performance. The extent of the solvent front is used to calculate the retardation factor in the thin-layer form of this technique. Often performed in a silica-packed column, it involves mobile and stationary phases. A common demonstration of it involves using filter paper strips to separate pigments. For 10 points, name this group of techniques for separating mixtures.
ANSWER: chromatography <SH>
7. According to some stories, this goddess destroyed a statue of her husband and shacked up with a servant in order to steal the gilding, before being killed. She owns a falcon cloak and has the power of prophecy, though she keeps silent about her knowledge. She was once shared by Vili and Ve when her rightful husband was away for a time. This fertility goddess once asked everything to refrain from harming her son, but neglected to ask the “harmless” mistletoe. For 10 points, name this wife of Odin and mother of Baldr.
ANSWER: Frigga <WD>
8. Thomas, Julie, and Edmund pull this figure by a cable to a grave in a novel by Donald Barthelme (“Bartle-may”) about a dead one of these figures. A vermicelli maker with this role appears in a novel in which Vautrin attempts to cause the death of Victorine’s brother. That character, who has a stroke upon hearing that the family jewelry is being sold, has this relationship to Anastasie and Delphine in Balzac’s novel about one of these figures named Goriot. It is the first word in a novel about Arkady Kirsanov’s nihilism. For 10 points, name this familial relation which, in an Ivan Turgenev novel, is paired with “sons.”
ANSWER: fathers <YC>
9. Later in life this leader went on a “Southern Tour,” leading to the formation of many Special Economic Zones. This leader advocated the “Four Modernizations,” removed his liberal general secretaries Hu Yaobang and Zhao (“jow”) Ziyang, and had been placed under house arrest after the death of Zhou (“jo”) Enlai. Opposition to him was a key factor in the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, in which he was purged twice. For 10 points, name this Chinese leader who began the “reform and opening” policy and suppressed the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
ANSWER: Deng Xiaoping <RY>
10. One character on this show considers opening a restaurant called the Low-Cal Calzone Zone. That character bankrupted an entire town by creating the ill-fated sports complex Ice Town, during his stint as mayor when he was eighteen. A pair of characters set aside a day to "Treat Yoself" with the purchase of expensive clothes and spa treatments. Characters besides Ben Wyatt, Tom Haverford, and Donna Meagle include part-time nurse Ann Perkins, portrayed by Rashida Jones. For 10 points, name this show centering on a government department in Pawnee, Indiana, starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope.
ANSWER: Parks and Recreation<MA>
11. This author of On the Freedom of the Will called the ontological argument a “charming joke.” One of his works refutes the Kantian belief that noumena are independent of human awareness. He stated that all truths have an underlying reason in On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. In one work he describes aesthetics as a short-lived escape from willing and argues that the human body is the representation of the two title concepts, which are respectively its internal and external aspects. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who authored The World as Will and Representation.
ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer <MZ>
12. One of this author’s poems refers to the “mankind making / bird beast and flower / fathering and all humbling darkness” and describes how “After the first death, there is no other.” Another of his poems ends “Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea,” and this author of “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” and “Fern Hill” declared that “Old age should burn and rave at close of day” in a poem written for his dying father. For 10 points, name this Welsh author of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”
ANSWER: Dylan Thomas <YC>
13. Hilbert’s basis theorem states that certain rings of these objects are Noetherian, and Eisenstein’s criterion tests for their irreducibility over the rationals. The Abel-Ruffini theorem states the impossibility of a solution in radicals for some of these expressions. Descartes’ Rule of Signs can be used to find the number of positive, negative, and complex solutions to one of these, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra states that they have a number of roots equal to their degree. They are infinitely differentiable and cross the x-axis at their roots. For 10 points, name these expressions composed of variables and their powers, written as sums of monomials.
ANSWER: polynomials <LC>
14. A rebellion against Michael II led to this place’s conquest by the Aghlabids. This island, once inhabited by the Elymians and the Sicani, was invaded by the Norman Robert Guiscard. An earlier invasionary force on this island was lead by Nicias. With Naples, this island formed a country called the “Kingdom of the Two” of this island, and it saw a rebellion on Vespers. It was conquered in the Expedition of the Thousand by Giuseppe Garibaldi, and this island was the target of Operation Husky, which began the Allied liberation of Italy. For 10 points, name this island home to the Mafia.
ANSWER: Sicily [accept Sicilia] <RY>
15. Richard Coutts hypothesized that these entities help select for schema accommodations, and Hobson and McCarley developed the activation-synthesis theory for these entities. One work contrasts their “manifest content” and “latent content,” and begins with a description of one of these about a woman with nasal turbinates in her throat, “Irma’s Injection.” That work posits that these entities are “disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes” and was written by Sigmund Freud, titled The Interpretation of [these]. For 10 points, name these scenes imagined while sleeping.
ANSWER: dreams [accept word forms like dreaming] <LC>
16. One character in this novel is deeply moved by the piano playing of the black pianist Blind d’Arnault, who plays at Mrs. Gardner’s hotel. One character rejects the advances of her boss Wick Cutter after leaving the Harling family in this novel. The title character eventually marries Anton Cuzak after having an illegitimate child with Larry Donovan, while the protagonist has an affair with Lena Lingrad. Set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, for 10 points, name this novel about Jim Burden’s obsession with the title Bohemian girl, written by Willa Cather.
ANSWER: My Ántonia <YC>
17. One of these objects is held by Cornelia’s friend in a painting by Angelica Kauffman. A triskelion and a repeated letter-S motif are found on one of these objects in a painting of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein. Many of them are roped around a jug in The Death of Sardanapalus. One made of vines and another with blue stones are shown frequently in the works of Frida Kahlo, and Ophelia wears one made from violets in a John Everett Millais painting. For 10 points, name this type of jewelry worn around the neck.
ANSWER: necklaces [accept close equivalents such as chain] <ZZ>
18. Von Weizsäcker names a functional for this quantity, whose average value is given by the virial theorem. Symbolized by a capital T in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulas, it can be calculated as “p squared over 2 m.” The change in this quantity equals the work done by the net force. It is conserved in elastic, but not inelastic, collisions. For rotational motion, it equals “one-half I omega squared,” while for a non-rotating object it equals “one-half m v squared.” For 10 points, name this type of energy often contrasted with potential energy.
ANSWER: kinetic energy <LC>
19. The ruthless actions of the Georgian king George XI in this country led to the rise of the Hotaki dynasty. This country was ruled by the Durrani Empire after the assassination of the Afsharid ruler Nader Shah. Britain fought three wars in this country, and after leaving what is now Uzbekistan, the Mughal emperor Babur ruled in what would become this country. Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson helped push Operation Cyclone, which aided this country’s jihadist resistance against a Soviet invasion. For 10 points, what Central Asian country, home to the Pashtun, was formerly ruled by the Taliban?
ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan<RY>
20. The text “This is America... Keep it Free!” is superimposed over a photograph by this artist in a propaganda poster. Initially skilled in portraiture, she took photographs commissioned by the War Relocation Authority, including some pictures at Manzanar of Japanese people in internment camps. This photographer also worked for the Farm Security Administration, which commissioned a photograph showing a haggard-looking woman named Florence Owens Thompson with two children huddled behind her. For 10 points, name this photographer known for works like Migrant Mother that portray Depression-era poverty.
ANSWER: Dorothea Lange <MA>
TB. One pope of this name feuded with the Orthodox Patriarch Eutychius over the corporeal nature of Christ’s rebirth. That pope allegedly said “They are not Angles, but angels” after seeing English slave boys, and sent Augustine of Canterbury to convert the Anglo-Saxons. One man took the Walk to Canossa to repent to a pope of this name. That Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, had been excommunicated for his role in the Investiture Controversy. The first pope of this name gave his name to a form of plainchant. For 10 points, give this name of the pope who reformed the Julian calendar.
ANSWER: Gregory <RY>
Round 06 – Bonuses
1. Its second section introduces Isao, a rightist samurai. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this tetralogy where Shigekuni Honda meets reincarnations of Kiyoaki like the Thai princess Ying Chan and the orphan Toru Yasunaga. It opens with the books Spring Snow and Runaway Horses.
ANSWER: The Sea of Fertility
[10] In this novel by the author of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Mizoguchi befriends the delusional Kashiwagi and believes to see Father Dosen with a geisha. He ends up burning down the title structure.
ANSWER: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
[10] This Japanese author of Confessions of a Mask committed seppuku after a failed coup, and wrote the Sea of Fertility and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima <YC>
2. It has O, A, B, and C horizons. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this substance consisting of small particles of rock, composed of clay, silt, and sand. It is affected by erosion, and hydroponics concerns the cultivation of plants without this substance.
ANSWER: soil [prompt on “dirt”]
[10] This type of pale yellow soil consists of wind-blown silt. Valued for its high agricultural fertility, it is found along the Mississippi and Rhine Rivers, and in a namesake plateau along China’s Yellow River.
ANSWER: loess
[10] This type of soil is composed of an even mixture of clay, silt, and sand. It is the ideal topsoil for agriculture, as it is more nutrient-rich than sandy soils, has better drainage than silty soils, and is easier to till than clay soils.
ANSWER: loam <LC>
3. Answer some questions about related artists, for 10 points each:
[10] This Nuremberg artist was known for his woodcuts such as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as well as another woodcut depicting a rhinoceros.
ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer
[10] Another work by Durer features a knight, the devil, and this figure, who rides a pale horse beside the knight. This figure is often depicted as a winged angel or a skeleton carrying a scythe.
ANSWER: Death [prompt on “the grim reaper” or similar answers]
[10] Red ants crawling over a Möbius strip are featured in one of this man’s woodcuts, though this Dutch artist is more famous for his Metamorphosis series as well as a depiction of two hands drawing each other.
ANSWER: Maurits Cornelius Escher <WR>
4. He is the leader of the Gana, his father's celestial army. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this elephant-headed “Remover of Obstacles” who rides a mouse.
ANSWER: Ganesha
[10] This goddess is the mother of Ganesha. In one popular story, she formed Ganesha to prevent anyone from entering her house while she was bathing.
ANSWER: Parvati
[10] Another Hindu deity, Hanuman, is one of the vanaras, who took the form of this animal. A popular motif in Japanese folklore has three “wise” ones of these animals covering their eyes, ears, and mouths, and is probably associated with the phrase “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
ANSWER: monkeys <WR>
5. This dictator invited a number of black baseball players from the United States to play for his team Los Dragones, organized by Leroy “Satchel” Paige. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this ruler who ordered the Parsley massacre, and who was allegedly killed with help from the CIA.
ANSWER: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina
[10] Trujillo was the leader of this Caribbean country, the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, located on Hispaniola.
ANSWER: Dominican Republic [accept Republica Dominicana]
[10] Trujillo killed thousands of people from this country. It was later led by “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who utilized the brutal Tonton Macoutes militia. It also experienced a devastating earthquake in 2010.
ANSWER: Republic of Haiti [accept Repiblik Ayiti; or Republique d’Haiti] <RY>