T-Party 2010: OM NOM NOM KENZABURO OE
Edited by Bruce Arthur, Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Shantanu Jha, Bernadette Spencer, and Andy Watkins
Packet by Illinois A (Ike Jose, Trygve Meade, Mike Sorice)
TOSSUPS
1. This operation can be accomplished using a bis-iodozincio compound in the absence of metal salts in an ionic liquid as a single substitution, or via the reaction of formaldehyde to a malonic ester in the presence of an amine, a reaction named for Knoevenagel. Using a compound with two cyclopentadiene ligands, a titanium carbenoid, this operation occurs as a single substitution at a carbonyl in the Tebbe olefination. The group added in this reaction is named for how it would appear following homolytic cleavage, a neutral one-carbon species with two unpaired electrons; that group is the simplest carbene. For 10 points, name this type of reaction in which a CH2 group is attached.
ANSWER: methylenation [accept equivalents like adding a methylene group; accept adding a CH2 group before “CH2” and prompt on it afterwards; prompt on making a terminal olefin; prompt on alkylation]
2. A painting depicting an incident from this event is Qui Ying’s Minghuang’s Journey to Sichuan. One participant in this event declared himself head of the “Yan dynasty” after taking control of Luoyang. It occurred during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong and its leaders included Shi Siming. Chancellor Yang Guozhong was executed during this event, in part because Yang Guifei, his sister, had empowered the leader of the opposing side. For 10 points, name this 8th century rebellion that destabilized the Tang dynasty and was led by a namesake Turk.
ANSWER: the An Lushan rebellion [accept An Shi rebellion until “Shi Siming” is mentioned]
3. One of this person’s characteristic orchestral motif is a scherzo consisting of alternating elaborations in an ABABA form. This artist’s distinct version of the sonata form uses three sonic areas rather than two, as can be heard in the first and fourth movements of all but one of his major orchestral works. Clashing cymbals, along with triangles and timpanis, feature at the climax of the second movement of this man’s seventh, or “Lyric”, symphony. He created two study symphonies sometimes numbered zero and double zero, and he added a Volksfest finale and a “Hunt Scherzo” to another work. For 10 points, name this Austrian whose fourth symphony is called the “Romantic”.
ANSWER: Anton Bruckner [or Joseph Anton Bruckner]
4. The speaker of this work refuses to use the terms “harsh or grating” to describe the “sad music of humanity” and declares that not “all the dreary intercourse of daily life shall prevail o’er us.” This poem describes a “delightful stream” where the speaker stood with a figure that had “far deeper zeal of holy love.” Closing by mentioning “these steep woods and lofty cliffs, / and this green pastoral landscape,” the speaker counts the “five years have passed; five summers with the length / of five long winters,” in this final poem in Lyrical Ballads. For 10 points, name this poem whose speaker returns to a building on the Wye River with his sister Dorothy, a work of William Wordsworth.
ANSWER: “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey”
5. Because of Kemp’s research, a continuous differential interpretation of this tool can be given by considering this construct as a cone, and considering the vertex of that cone as something to subtract the values represented on the axes from before dividing one by the other. The marginal rate of transformation is defined as the slope of this construct, and points outside of it are unattainable. This construct works by having the possible quantities of goods on two axes, and a smooth curve linking the two quantities, reflecting the concept of opportunity cost. For 10 points, name this economic concept that shows all possible permutations of producing the quantities of two types of goods.
ANSWER: production possibility frontier or production possibility curve [accept “possibilities” for “possibility]
6. A satellite to this infectious agent worsens its symptoms and was fully modeled by Klaus Schulten. Klug reported a cylindrical intermediate essential to the formation of the long helical rod shape of this infectious agent. Fraenkel-Conrat showed that it reproduces using RNA, and its p30 protein causes swelling in the plasmodesmata of its hosts. Wendell Stanley’s experiment on this organism showed that after this virus had crystallized, it was still fully functional. It causes a namesake mottling pattern on leaves and can also infect tomatos and peppers. For 10 points, name this first virus discovered, which affects its namesake plants.
ANSWER: tobacco mosaic virus
7. This event was prompted after one participant refused the terms of the “Stennis Compromise.” One participant in this event was the first ever administrator of the EPA, while another participant is the only man to serve in four different Cabinet-level positions. Legislation passed after this event helped extend the power of such individuals as Lawrence Walsh and Kenneth Starr. Robert Bork ended up having to execute the wishes of the president after William Ruckelshaus refused. For 10 points, name this October 1973 incident during the Watergate scandal when special prosecutor Archibald Cox was fired and Attorney General Richardson resigned.
ANSWER: Saturday Night Massacre [prompt on Watergate]
8. One character in this film is horrified to find his nickname is the “Little Man.” Another character incorrectly says the phrase “That’s a bingo!” One scene sees characters playing a parlor game where one character has a card identifying him as King Kong, while another scene has a character posing as an Italian stuntman. A film-within-a-film is the patriotic epic Nation’s Pride. This film features Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa and another character named Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt. For 10 points, name this 2009 Quentin Tarantino film about the titular Jewish commando unit kicking ass in World War II.
ANSWER: Inglourious Basterds
9. As an artist, this man put on the Berlin exhibit The End of the World. In a novel by this man, the narrator is told about a Grand Marshall witnessing a nun cutting open herself in a bathtub and dumping out all her intestines. The author of a play in which the generically named Woman is killed by Crowd while protected by Man calledThe Other Shore, one of his protagonists follows biologists studying pandas; that protagonist appears in a work translated into English by Mabel Lee. That character splits into I and You and rallies against the Three Gorges Dam. For 10 points, name this author of Soul Mountain, China’s sole literature Nobel Laureate.
ANSWER: Gao Xingjian
10. In the presence of the Annunaki, this figure uttered “the cry of guilt.” During childbirth, this figure was convinced by the kurgarra and the galatur to allow them to take back an earlier visitor. The primary temple to this figure was located in Kutha, and this goddess was served by the minister and messenger Namtar. Her first husband was Gugalana, the Bull of Heaven, but after his death this goddess married Nergal. She required her sister to remove a garment at each of the seven gates leading to Irkalla and then demanded that that sister sacrifice her consort Tammuz. For 10 points, identify this sister of Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess of the underworld.
ANSWER: Ereshkigal [accept Irkalla before it is read]
11. This work's protagonist suggests that one should pay a trainer of horses, not a teacher of children, and claims that his "customary sign" indicates that he can look forward either to meeting famous figures or a single night's sleep. Its speaker, who compares the state to a steed slowed down by its very size, requiring a gadfly to stimulate it, tricks his interrogator into accusing him of both worshipping demons and being an atheist, and he reminds Meletus and the jury that the heretical beliefs he is accused of holding actually stem from Anaxagoras. For 10 points, name this dialogue in which Socrates defends himself against charges of “corrupting the youth of Athens,” written by Plato.
ANSWER: The Apology of Socrates [or Apologia]
12. This husband of Margaret of Provence once sent William of Rubruck as an ambassador to the Mongols. A younger brother of this king founded the House of Anjou. Advisors to this king include his biographer, Jean de Joinville. This king lost the Battle of Fariskur after he captured Damietta while attempting to conquer Egypt. This son of Blanche of Castille is most famous for leading the Seventh and Eighth crusades. During the latter event, he died and was succeeded by Philip III. For 10 points, name this King of France who was canonized by the Catholic Church.
ANSWER: Louis IX [accept: St. Louis]
13. In general, these statements can be found by inspection by considering that the symmetry of the integrand in the transition integral is the direct product of the symmetries of the transition moment operator, and the conjugate-initial and final wave functions, as that symmetry dictates when that integral is zero. For hydrogen-like atoms one of these exists for all multipoles against the case in which the initial and final states have zero total angular momentum; consequently, transitions between such states do not occur. Transitions subject to one of these are known as allowed or forbidden. For 10 points, name these quantum mechanical strictures that dictate when a transition is possible.
ANSWER: selection rules [prompt on transition rules]
14. In one tradition this figure breaks an oath to follow without questioning while on a journey with Al-Khidr. In another tradition, this figure receives a vision of Adam and Eve’s family in his namesake book in The Pearl of Great Price. This man ordered the slaughter of Midianites to retaliate against Balak, and he mounted a brass serpent on a pole to ward off snakebites after producing water from a rock and making manna rain from heaven. This husband of Tzipporah was raised by the Pharaoh’s sister and announced the arrival of ten plagues with his brother Aaron. For 10 points, name this prophet who received the Torah on Mount Sinai and led the Israelites out of Egypt.
ANSWER: Moses [or Moshe; or Musa]
15. A man from Black Bear Lake becomes engaged to Irene Scheerer in a work by this man that details six encounters between Judy Jones and Dexter Green. In another of his stories, the sudden arrival of Duncan Schaeffer and Lorraine Quarles horrifies Marion Peters, thus preventing Charlie Wales from recovering his daughter Honoria. Another of his protagonists learns from Kismine that Percy Washington's parents shoot down airmen who observe the Montana mountain that holds a certain gemstone. For 10 points, name this author of “Winter Dreams” and “Babylon Revisited” who told of John Unger in “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” and penned The Great Gatsby.
ANSWER: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald [accept “Winter Dreams” before “this man” is read]
16. One of this man's still life paintings shows a Japanese fan and porcelain Buddha statue near a horse's head. A dog sniffs around the foreground of a work showing a woman in a purple dress playing a flute, Joyousness. A nude woman slyly looks at the viewer as another nude lies on the beach in What, Are You Jealous, while a black idol seems to stare at a nude woman lying on a yellow bed in this man's The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch. A long brown form divides the nuns from an angel in purple with golden wings in this man's Vision after the Sermon. For 10 points, name this post-Impressionist of The Yellow Christ, a painter known for his depictions of Tahitians.
ANSWER: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
17. This city is home to Longhua Park and the People's Park, and this city's surrounding islands include Hengsha and Chongming. This city's Yuyuan Garden is located near the city of Suzhou, and religious sites in this city include the Hall of the Great Hero and the Jade Buddha Temple. This city contains a Europeanized section called the Bund, and the World Financial Center, Pearl Twoer, and Jin Mao Building are located in its Pudong area. Located in Jiangsu Province on the Huangpo River near the mouth of the Yangtze River, for 10 points, name this site of the 2010 World Expo and largest city in China.
ANSWER: Shanghai
18.The Kania government was overthrown in a military coup after deciding to negotiate with this organization. This organization first emerged to oppose the budget cuts of Edward Gierek. Under one compromise, the government bought leaders of this group one-way tickets out of the country. This group engaged in the Round Table Talks with General Jaruzelski. Agitation from this group eventually led to free elections, leading to this group’s leader becoming President and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. For 10 points, name this group led by Lech Walesa, which opposed Communism in 1980’s Poland.
ANSWER: Solidarity [accept: Solidarnosc]
19. The Strouhal number governs flow that arises due to these phenomena. Helmholtz is the namesake of three theorems that concern the physical shape of these objects, and when these objects possess no shear factor, their equation of motion shows that all points in them possess the same angular velocity. Theodore von Karman is the namesake of a sheet that shows how these objects can induce motion in fluids. For 10 points, name this phenomenon that is the namesake of a characteristic measured by taking the curl of the velocity of a fluid or taking circulation and dividing it by area, a fluid phenomenon that swirls.
ANSWER: vortex [or vorticity]
20. Benedetto Croce claimed this work's fortune is comparable to a smiling and lovely girl. It remarks that men should extract their wings from the “loving birdlime.” One character builds a bridge to atone for his drunken murder of a princess mourning Zerbino after he quarrels over Doralice with Mandricardo. That character is killed by a man who earlier rode a hippogryph to save a girl who chooses Medoro after seducing Rinaldo and the title character. Featuring Bradamante, Rogero, and Angelica, for 10 points, name this poem about a paladin of Charlemange by Ludovico Ariosto.
ANSWER: Orlando Furioso [accept Orlando the Crazy or Orlando the Mad or similar]
TIEBREAKER
This man produced the bronze Shrine of St. Zenobius, which contains such scenes as The Miracle of the Strozzi Boy and The Miracle of the Servant. This man received much support from the Calimala guild, and he produced monumental statues of Saint John the Baptist and St. Matthew for the Orsanmichele. This man created a scene depicting the sacrifice of Isaac for his most famous work, and beat Jacopo della Quercia and Filippo Brunelleschi in a competition to win the commission to build that work. For 10 points, identify this Renaissance artist who produced the eastern doors to the Florence baptistery, which are known today as the “Gates of Paradise”
ANSWER: Lorenzo Ghiberti [accept Lorenzo di Bartolo]
T-Party 2010: OM NOM NOM KENZABURO OE
Edited by Bruce Arthur, Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Shantanu Jha, Bernadette Spencer, and Andy Watkins
Packet by Editors 5
BONUSES
1. This story ends with the line “Romance at short notice was her specialty.” For 10 points each,
[10] Name this work in which Vera tells Framton Nuttel that a group of hunters who’d left her house by the title passageway had been missing for three years. When the hunters return that night, Framton runs away in fright.
ANSWER: “The Open Window”
[10] “The Open Window” is a work by this pseudonymous British short story master, who wrote about Felicia Hemans and John Stuart Mill action figures in “The Toys of Peace” and about a talking cat in “Tobermory”.
ANSWER: Saki [or Hector Hugh Munro]
[10] In this other story by Saki, Conradin starts a religion based around the titular polecat-ferret, who is described as beautiful and who crushes his enemies even though they beg for mercy.
ANSWER: “Sredni Vashtar”
2. Local legends tell of how this person will shoe a horse if a coin is left on a capstone. For 10 points each:
[10] This figure had the sinews in his legs cut after he was captured following the departure of his swan-princess wife, Hervör. This blacksmith originally fashioned the sword Gram.
ANSWER: Wayland (the) Smith [accept Weland or Volundr]
[5,5] Among the swords credited to Wayland is Durandal, which was said to have been owned both by a Frankish paladin who died at Roncesvalles and a Trojan prince whose brother was Paris. For five points each, name them.
ANSWER: Roland [accept Hruodland or Orlando] and Hector
[10] After the sack of Troy, Hector’s wife Andromache was taken as a concubine by this son of Achilles, who also sacrificed the Trojan princess Polyxena.