Round 11 Tossups

Buckeye Spring Tournament 2012: Spider-Man Gives Chase! FAPPO!
All questions by Ohio State University (Max Bucher, Will Davis, Avery Demchak, Jacob Durst, Tyler Friesen, Matt Gerberich, Nandan Gokhale, Jarret Greene, Richard Hersch, Peter Komarek, Jasper Lee, Simon Lui, Lauren Menke, Asanka Nanayakkara, Brice Russ, Kirun Sankaran, Andy Sekerak, Keith Stephens, Joe Wells) and Virginia Commonwealth University (George Berry, Sean Smiley, Cody Voight)
Edited by George Berry, Jacob Durst, Jarret Greene, Jasper Lee, Andy Sekerak and Cody Voight

Round 11 – Tossups

1) In fish, this organ carries out its primary function through the conus. The most popular measure of this organ's function contains a QRS complex. VSDs and ASDs are congenital defects in this organ. The innermost layer of tissue of this organ contains Purkinje fibers. This organ is surrounded by a double-walled, fluid filled sac. The (*) superior vena cava ends in this organ's right atrium. The primary function of this organ is regulated by pacemakers. For 10 points, name this organ responsible for circulating blood through the body and susceptible to a namesake "attack."
ANSWER: heart
[CV]

2) One character in this novel is known to have donated ping-pong tables to the South Side Boys’ Club. One scene early in this novel concerns the planned robbery of a deli, which is thwarted when this novel’s protagonist attacks Gus and forces him to lick his blade. That protagonist later rapes and kills (*) Bessie in an abandoned building and tries to frame Jan Erlone for another act he committed earlier in this novel. Boris Max defends the protagonist at trial after he kisses Mary Dalton and then accidentally smothers her with a pillow. For 10 points, name this novel centering on Bigger Thomas, a work of Richard Wright.
ANSWER: Native Son
[JG]

3) The Sikh version of this practice is preceded by the Ardas prayer and involves the passing of a sword while stirring Amrit nectar central to this practice. Huldrych Zwingli did not believe that this practice should be considered one of the sacraments, and his teachings about this act are practiced by Mennonites. Mormons have performed this action on (*) Holocaust victims, and dictate this practice must be by full immersion, followed by confirmation. This practice rejected by Quakers is notably performed in the Jordan River. For 10 points, name this practice of initiating a person into a religion, usually using water.
ANSWER: Baptism
[JG]

4) In one scene in this play, a character appears only after a host of ladies’ hats and cloaks are taken off and hung on racks. That scene is followed by one in which a character suggests that another remove her dress, a scene that was brought about when that man’s wife was sent to be with his secretary, prompting him to go to the brothel of Madame (*) Pace [“PAH-chay”]. The Step-Daughter character does appear at the brothel in this play, which ends with the suicide of the Boy after the drowning of the Little Girl. This play begins when the title figures interrupt a rehearsal of The Rules of the Game. For 10 points, name this Theatre of the Absurd drama by Luigi Pirandello.
ANSWER: Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Comedy in the Making
[JG]

5) In one work by this man, a chorus of Hebrew slaves sings "Va, pensiero." A song in another opera by this man asks "Who turns the gypsy's day from gloom to brightest sunshine?" and includes an instruction to "lift up your hammers!" That song from Il Trovatore is the (*) "Anvil Chorus." The Duke of Mantua sings that "woman is fickle" in "La donna e mobile," from the third act of this man's opera Rigoletto. The title character of an opera by this man sings the arias "Ritorna vincator" and "O patria mia" before being buried alive with Radames. For 10 points, name this prolific Italian composer who showed the death of the title Ethiopian princess in Aida.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Verdi
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6) Fred Trump and Belinda Mulroney became successful hoteliers during one of these events, and writer Robert W. Service would record personal accounts from participants in them. One of these occurred at New Zealand’s Central Otago District in the town of Gabriel’s Gully, and Big Bend, Stikine, and Cariboo lend their names to some of the many that have occurred in (*) British Colombia. In the 1850s, Australia witnessed the Victorian one of these, while the Klondike one in the Yukon Territory would inspire the writings of Jack London. For 10 points, name this type of event in which a large number of people migrates to find a certain precious metal.
ANSWER: gold rush [accept clear equivalents such as gold strikes or finding gold]
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7) This man asked to accompany Vladimir Horowitz in a performance of this composer's Third Piano Concerto. This man adapted a work by Arnold Bocklin to write "The Isle of the Dead." A poem by Edgar Allen Poe about “tintinnabulation that so musically wells” inspired this composer's The (*) Bells. This composer adapted another man's 24th Caprice into a work with a well-known 18th variation. During his tours of the West, crowds often demanded encores of a short piece by this man that was included in his Morceaux de fantasie. For 10 points, name this Russian composer who created a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and a “Prelude in C-sharp Minor.”
ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff
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8) Radio host Mitch Levy made a wager to spank one member of this city’s WNBA team based on her assists to turnover ratio. A team from this city coached by Lenny Wilkens and led by Dennis Johnson team won the 1979 NBA title. This city has an MLS team known as the Sounders, and its NFL team, owned by Paul Allen, made the 2010-11 playoffs with a (*) losing record. One team in this city used to play in the Kingdome before moving to Safeco Field, where it now fields such players as Felix Hernandez and Ichiro. For 10 points, name this city where Sue Bird plays for the Storm, the former home of the Supersonics, where the Seahawks and Mariners play.
ANSWER: Seattle, Washington (accept Seattle Storm before the first mention of city)
[AS]

9) This deity wrapped the serpent Vasuki around his neck. This god is often depicted holding an object that he broke so that he could record a work dictates by Sri Veda Vyasa. This god walked around his parents allowing him to win a race around the (*) world, and more commonly travels atop a mouse. This remover of obstacles received his most notable feature after his father Shiva went to visit Parvati and did not recognize this son of theirs and decapitated him. For 10 points, name this hindu god with the head of an elephant.
ANSWER: Ganesha [or Ganapati, Vinayaka, or Pillaiyar]
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10) This ruler ordered his servant and childhood friend Ibrahim executed for treason after previously making him Grand Vizier. Some 94 mosques were built by this man’s chief architect, Mimar Sinan. This man’s admiral Barbarossa won the battle of Preveza over (*) Andrea Doria, and his conquest of Rhodes was far more successful than his earlier failure to capture Malta from the Knights of St. John. After successfully defeating Louis II at the Battle of Mohacs, this husband of Roxelana failed in his siege of Vienna. For 10 points, name this Ottoman sultan, the son of Salim the Grim, who oversaw his empire at the height of its power, known as “the Magnificent.”
ANSWER: Suleiman I [accept Suleiman the Magnificent before mention, also accept Suleiman the Lawgiver or Suleiman Kanuni]
[JG]

11) One painting by this artist was later used as the inspiration for Francis Bacon’s Screaming Pope. A painting by this artist features a woman lying on her side with her back towards the viewer, and looks at the viewer in the mirror. This painter of a Portrait of Pope Innocent X and of the Rokeby Venus was the court painter to (*) Charles V. Other works line the walls of another painting by this artist, in which he includes himself working on a painting of the Infanta Margarita, her maids, a dog and a dwarf. For 10 points, name this Spanish painter of Las Meninas.
ANSWER: Diego Velasquez
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12) In one battle during this conflict, the Duc d’Enghien used his cavalry to outflank the tercios of his opponent, eventually forcing their surrender. In addition to the Battle of Rocroi, another battle during this conflict saw one side’s forces come under the leadership of (*) Axel Oxenstierna following the death of his superior at that Battle of Lutzen. That man, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, had dominated this war by winning at Breitenfeld over the Catholic Count of Tilly. Beginning with the Second Defenestration of Prague, for 10 points, name this brutal Seventeenth Century European religious war that concluded after three decades.
ANSWER: Thirty Years’ War
[JG]

13) Cape Monze and the peninsula of Menora are located near this country’s largest city, which is locally known as the “City of the Quaid.” The Zhob and Sutlej are rivers that run through this country, and the cities of Gwadar and Pasni are found along the Arabian Sea in this nation’s province of (*) Baluchistan. The Spin Ghar Mountains are cut by the Khyber Pass on this country’s western border, and it shares the mountain K2 with China. This country’s largest city is Karachi, and it has a noted territorial dispute with India over the region of Kashmir. For 10 points, name this South Asian nation whose capital is Islamabad.
ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Pakistan

14) One of the two major kinds of these entities are created by cabbeling. Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition proved the existence of one of these. One example of these entities is the Kuroshio. The global conveyor belt consists of them, as do gyres. A displacement in these entities by the Coriolis effect is known as the Ekman spiral. The Humboldt one is associated with (*) upwelling near Peru. Eddies can be formed by their type formed by wind, surfaces ones, which are contrasted with deep water ones. For 10 points, identify these masses of moving water that include the Gulf Stream.
ANSWER: ocean currents
[CV]

15) This poet denounced the removal of the Elgin marbles in "The Curse of Minerva." One poem by this author concludes with the lines "A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!" This poet of "She (*) Walks in Beauty" was inspired by a prohibition against pet dogs to keep a bear as a pet at Trinity College. This poet became famous after the publication of his tale of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which features the first example of a namesake form of literary hero. For 10 points, name this poet that inverted the story of a famous seducer in his epic "Don Juan."
ANSWER: George Gordon, Lord Byron
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16) This man discussed increasing public debt and the failings of paper currency in The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance. In one work, this thinker advocated giving people ten pounds every year upon turning fifty as a way to combat poverty, and in another he likens Christianity and the Bible to a system of mythology. In addition to Agrarian Justice and The (*) Age of Reason, he wrote a series of articles that begins “These are the times that try men’s souls.” That series, The American Crisis, was a response to the Revolutionary War, and his most famous work outlined the argument for American independence from Britain. For 10 points, identify this American pamphleteer who wrote Common Sense.
ANSWER: Thomas Paine
[AS]

17) The pH indicator bromothymol blue is this color at low pHs. A class of accessory pigments of this color in plants has a namesake cycle which converts pigments that do not quench energy into those that do. That class of accessory pigments is xanthophyll. Hydrated iron (III) oxide is this color and is also known as (*) ochre. An intermediate step in the processing of uranium ore yields a powder named for this color. Conducting the flame test on sodium yields this color. Phosphorus appears to be this color when it contains both red and white phosphorus. For 10 points, identify this color of crystalline sulfur at room temperature.
ANSWER: yellow
[CV]

18) This man ordered Fort Gadsden built at a site where Edmund P. Gaines destroyed a fortification known as the “Negro Fort.” This leader later authorized the executions of Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister on charges of aiding enemies during the (*) Seminole campaign. As a commander, he pardoned William Weatherford, leader of the Red Stick Creeks, after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. He enlisted the support of pirate Jean Lafitte to help him win a victory, even though Treaty of Ghent had already been signed. For 10 points, name this American general, nicknamed “Old Hickory,” who won the Battle of New Orleans and eventually became the seventh U.S. President.
ANSWER: Andrew Jackson
[AS]

19) The kinematic form of this quantity is equal to the dynamic form divided by density. The effects of this property are most significant in the boundary layer. This quantity depends on the magnitude or duration of the shear stress in (*) non-Newtonian materials. The ratio of inertial forces to this property's forces is known as the Reynold's number. This quantity is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain and is constant for Newtonian fluids. For 10 points, name this property defined as a fluid's resistance to flow.
ANSWER: viscosity
[CV]

20) In one work by this author, several characters read the novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and that novel “of our world as it might have been” diverges from history with the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt. This author of The Man in the High Castle wrote about a dose of Substance D causing a man known as Agent Fred to slowly lose touch with reality in his A (*) Scanner Darkly. An empathy test is used to determine Rachael Rosen is not human in a novel by this author, in which Rick Deckard hunts escaped synthetic beings. For 10 points, name this author, whose works are primarily science-fiction, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
ANSWER: Philip K. Dick
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