Early Fall Tournament (Westbrook – Packet 2)
1. The homeostasis of this molecule varies according to gender in rats, when they were unable to make use of its classical 7-alpha-hydroxylase pathway. The isoprenoid intermediates in its synthesis may in turn be used to synthesize coenzyme Q, like IPP which isomerizes with DMPP and condenses to form FPP. HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting enzyme in its synthesis which converts the molecule to mevalonate, and later a two-step cyclization converts squalene to this molecule, after a series of 19 reactions. FTP, name this molecule which may be stored in LDL or HDL forms, a substance known for clogging the arteries.
Answer: cholesterol (accept “bile acids” or “cholic acid” before intermediates)
2. Mikhail Bakhtin wrote a study on the “Author and Hero” in this type of activity. Herbert Marcuse wrote his final book on this “Dimension,” subtitled as a critique of the Marxist type of it.A recent study by Torres and Kamhi presents Ayn Rand’s formulation, citing her work on the “inferiority of politics” and the “psycho-epistemological” nature of it. Coined as a term by Alexander Baumgarten, Kierkegaard argued it asa stage on life’s way along with the ethical and the religious and more explicitlypaired it with the ethical in Either/Or.FTP, name this branch of philosophy which may be defined as the philosophy of sensory perception or art.
Answer: aesthetics (aesthetic theory, etc.)
3. One character in the work talks about a god who is older than the Sea and is hailed by going up a mountain to say “O” to him, a god named Benamuckee. After forcing an oath “by Mahomet and his father’s beard,” the main character accepts the boy Xury as a friend, but eventually gives him away. At the end, that character is only able to find two sisters of his remaining, but the widow has faithfully kept his money safe in England. More famously, he rescues the Spaniard and protects a cannibal who runs into his shelter, naming him for the day these events happen, Friday. FTP, name this Daniel Defoe novel written as an autobiography of the titular guy, who is stranded on an island.
Answer: Robinson Crusoe (slap anyone who gives the full title, I’m not listing it)
4. Early in life, this man was a teacher of mathematics on a warship called the Natchez, and later he would be tainted by the murder of Jose Berreyesa and the de Haros. He allowed the opposing army to escape as the main commander at the Battle of Cross Keys, years after he attained a famous post following the Treaty of Cahuenga. He refused to serve under John Pope and resigned, after being relieved when he declared martial law in Missouri after the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. FTP, name this man who married the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton named Jessie and ran for president against James Buchanan in 1856, also an explorer known as the California “Pathfinder.”
Answer: John C(harles) Frémont
5. One story of its founding says that a prince was attacked by earth-born enemies under cover of darkness, as Apollo warned him he would be, when mice began nibbling at his war armor. Another story says that the death of Iasion caused his brother to migrate across the sea on a raft made of inflated skin ballasted with four stones, where he was received and given the princess Bateia in marriage. Some say it was founded when a dappled cow won at a wrestling contest lied down on the hill of Ate, and Ilus stopped there, prayed and found a large wooden object sunk into the earth which turned out to be the Palladium. FTP, name this city, which would later be ruled by Laomedon and Priam, and notably fought the Greeks in a war.
Answer: Troy
6. Men who have written on this subject include Adolphe Coste, who wrote about the principles of the objective type of it in 1899. Vilfredo Pareto wrote a general treatise on it, and Robert Park and Ernest Burgess wrote about the science of it in 1921. Franklin Giddings wrote works about the principles and elements of it, while works on the pure, the applied, and most notably the dynamic type of it have been composed by Lester Ward. Karl Mannheim frequently discussed it “of knowledge,” and Albion Small headed the first department dedicated to it in the U.S. at Chicago. A term coined by Auguste Comte, FTP, name this discipline which may be defined as the study of collective human action within a society.
Answer: sociology
7. A noted 1994 publication subtitled “Scientific Discovery at the Frontier” talks about one of these that has been namedPriscilla. In metals, they will reside near the bottom of their band in a delocalized Bloch state, a fact exploited by a techniquecalledACAR to map Fermi surfaces. The DBS technique takes advantage of the trapping of one in a defect, as does their namesake lifetime spectroscopy.Patrick Blackett and Giuseppe Occhialini are known for confirming their existence, verifying the increased radius of curvature observed above the lead plate in a cloud chamber by Carl Anderson in 1933. First postulated by Paul Dirac, FTP, name these particles, the positive equivalents of electrons.
Answer: positrons
8. A modern retelling of this poem talks of the title object as the “father of great Ceyx,” which is logical given its mythological roots. One character is described as having eyes as blue as the fairy flax and cheeks like the dawn of day, with a bosom as white as hawthorn buds. It appears alongside “Blind Bartimeus” and “The Goblet of Life” in Ballads and Other Poems, where it precedes the author’s more famous poem “Excelsior.” The aforementioned character exclaims that she hears church bells ring, hears the sound of guns, and sees a gleaming light, but sadly she does not receive a response to the last remark, because her father is dead. FTP, name this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the destruction of a ship.
Answer: “Wreck of the Hesperus”
9. Some of the military defeats that this man’s army suffered include the Battle of Killiecrankie and the Battle of Landen, where the marshal Luxembourg routed him at the Battle of Neerwinden. A secret letter of support was delivered to him during the Trial of the Seven Bishops by a group known as the Seven Immortals, though his rule would later be opposed by the archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft. The Glencoe Massacre was a result of his lack of support in Scotland, but his rule would be solidified by the Peace of Ryswick.FTP, name this English king who succeeded James II by way of the Glorious Revolution, a man from the house of Orange who ruled with his wife Mary.
Answer: William III of Orange (or William IIIor William II of Scotland)
10. Sights in this nation include the manmade Mount of Glory and the Dudutki museum complex. Its largest lake is LakeNarach and the far south is home to the Pripyet Marshes. Flowing through the center of the country is the BerezinaRiver, while the DaugavaRiver cuts through the very north. Also home to the Khatyn memorial and MirCastle, its main cities include Hrodna or Grodno, Homel’, Mahilyow, and Brest. Located east of Poland and north of the Ukraine, FTP, name this former Soviet republic which has its capital at Minsk.
Answer: Republic of Belarus
11. Plans were originally submitted for its design by Arata Isozaki and Coop Himmelblau. It accommodates a giant badminton shuttlecock created by Claus Oldenburg placed in what was referred to as the “Flower” atrium, as well as an original winding steel construction by Richard Serra known as Snake. Its entrance features Jeff Koons’ floral Puppy sculpture, and its location fronting a freight yard contrasts with its “fish-scale” exterior and the La Salve Bridge which crosses at one end, along the NervionRiver. Designed by Frank Gehry, FTP, name this museum in Bilbao, Spain, which shares its name with a Frank Lloyd Wright museum in New York.
Answer: GuggenheimMuseum in Bilbao, Spain (just Guggenheim is fine, I suppose)
12. This concept was somewhat expanded in the unique case of Summers v. Tice, and the res ipsa loquitur doctrine may be used to imply the existence of this cause of action. Its existence was defined in algebraic terms by suggesting that it is present when B is less than P times L, by Learned Hand in US v. Carroll Towing. Benjamin Cardozo notably refused to extend it in the famous Palsgraf case. Prior to the mid-twentieth century, almost all states recognized the contributory type of it, but now most have moved to some sort of comparative regime. Sometimes spoken of as a violation of the standard of care, FTP, name this tort which might also be described as “gross.”
Answer: negligence (accept cause, proximate cause, or cause-in-fact before “cause of action”)
13. This word may describe a cloning vector made from the virus bacteriophage lambda and used to clone DNA. In computer science, it is the name of a command used to create glue code that enables Moby programs to access C data structures. In astronomy, it names an object discovered in connection with the calculations of Robert Harrington. The discovery of this object, which features a surface of crystalline ice, is credited to James Christy. The largest moon of Pluto, FTP, give this name which is also a ferryman of Greek myth who conducts souls across the river Styx.
Answer: Charon
14. This nation has been home to a number of ideological groups, including the Sakdalist peasant movement. Years earlier, it saw the formation of a secret society known as the Katipunan, and after World War II, it saw the rise of a pro-Communist wingcalled the Hukbalahap, or the Huks, led by Luis Taruc. It was granted independence by the rejected Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act and then by the Tydings-McDuffie Act in 1935, establishing Manuel Quezon as president. At other times led by people like Emilio Aguinaldo and Ferdinand Marcos, FTP, name this island nation in the Pacific with capital at Manila.
Answer: Republic of the Philippines
15. Minor generic characters in this novel include Fred Clement and the Reverend Padover on one side, and Stoneman and Black on the other. Near the end, one character talks of the death of his grandfather, a sculptor who deserves to be mourned for changing the world. The protagonist futilely tries to talk to Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles in the section “The Sieve and the Sand,” and the book ends by suggesting that mankind should first build a mirror factory. The protagonist seeks out Professor Faber, whom he’d met in the park years earlier, after his life-changing encounter with 17-year-old Clarisse McLellan. The story of Guy Montag, FTP, name this dystopian work by Ray Bradbury which gets its title from the temperature at which firemen in the novel burn books.
Answer: Farenheit 451
16. This player spent a brief stint with the Oakland Athletics from 1998-99, but was traded away to the Mets in return for Terrence Long. The Athletics had acquired him from the Yankees, in return for third baseman Scott Brosius. Known for spending his childhood picking strawberries on his father’s farm, he is now a three-time Gold Glove winner, probably partly for his habit of diving recklessly off the mound to field ground balls. Second all-time in pickoffs behind Mark Langston, his no-hitter came against the Angels in 1994. Selected by Ozzie Guillen to start this year’s all-star game, FTP, name this veteran Detroit Tigers pitcher infamous for knocking over a cameraman who is logically known as the “Gambler.”
Answer: Kenny Rogers
17. The second act begins with maidens seated around a stove engaged in a spinning-song, and the central female is chided by her nurse Mary. After several characters lie down for a rest, the first act sees an aria in which the main character laments that the “time has come and seven years have again elapsed.” At the end, that character announces “I am the terror of all devout men,” but the lead female still refuses to marry the huntsman and keeps her promise by tossing herself off a cliff into the sea, only to be seen rising to heaven with the Sun. That woman is Senta, the daughter of Daland, a Norwegian fisherman who betrothes her to the title guy. FTP, name this opera by Richard Wagner which features the title ghost ship.
Answer: The Flying Dutchman
18. One of these in Paramecium is called mate-killer and is induced by mu particles, while the killer one is induced by kappa particles. The position effect occurs when one is changed by alteration in configuration, and variegation occurs when there are differing ones in sectors of tissue. Sectors by definition possess different ones than surrounding tissue. When a single mutation affects several apparently unrelated aspects of one, the effect is known as pleiotropy. The inheritance of a rare ABO blood group is called the Bombay one. FTP, give this term for the observable characteristics of an organism, as opposed to the genetic characteristics or genotype.
Answer: phenotype
19. The victorious army here was successful at Leukas and Patrae, from which the losing army advanced commanded by men including Sosius and Dellius, who is said to have eventually defected. The city of Nicopolis was founded in celebration of victory, and its buildup saw the capture of Methonesome five years after the Battle of Naulochus. The loser found himself trapped in the AmbracianGulf by a fleet of Liburnian ships commanded by Marcus Agrippa. FTP, name this landmark naval battle in 31 B.C. which saw Octavian establish himself as leader of the Roman Empire after defeating Mark Antony.
Answer: Battle of Actium
20. This is the first name of the central character in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree, a professional nurse who gives a lethal dose of morphine to Bessy Westmore. It also names the Egyptian wife of a banker Nessim who meets the writer Darley in her namesake novel, the first novel in the Alexandria Quartet. It is the first name of the faithful housekeeper Moritz hired by Elizabeth Lavenza, only to be executed for murder in Frankenstein. It is also a titular character who is ravaged by monks until she is saved by a bolt of lightning while her less virtuous sister Juliette triumphs in a novel by the Marquis de Sade. FTP, give this name shared by Belgian tennis player Henin-Hardenne and Family Ties actress Bateman.
Answer: Justine
TB. Robert Carnog studied its decay, but it was supposedly first predicted by Walter Russell. Its production by the effect of cosmic rays on atmospheric nitrogen was first identified by Willard Libby. It can be produced in nuclear fission reactors by the activation of lithium-6. The credit for its formal discovery is given to Paul Harteck, Mark Oliphant, and Ernest Rutherford. Consisting of a proton and two neutrons, FTP, name this isotope of hydrogen, heavier than deuterium.
Answer: tritium
1. Answer questions about Launcelot in literature, FTPE.
A. Launcelot Langstaff was a pseudonym of this author in his Salmagundi Papers, or you may know him better for writing about the legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
Answer: WashingtonIrving
B.For Launcelot Andrews is a collection of essays by this writer who wrote other essays like Tradition and the Individual Talent, plays like The Cocktail Party, and poems like “Gerontion.”
Answer: Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. This Launcelot is the title character of the fourth novel of Tobias Smollett, who has a squire Timothy Crabshaw and loves Miss Aurelia Darnel.
Answer: Sir Launcelot Greaves
2. Only because I can’t justify writing a tossup on her, answer this bonus about the career of Melissa George. FTPE:
A. She plays Cleo, a girl obsessed with Conan O’Brien, in this delightful 2001 movie about cheerleaders who rob a bank to help out their pregnant friend played by Mena Suvari.
Answer: Sugar & Spice
B. Melissa teamed up with John Stamos for this quickly-cancelled ABC show about two criminals Rita and Johnny who make a deal with the FBI. It was definitely no She Spies.
Answer: “Thieves”
C. ABC felt bad enough about the suckitude of “Thieves” that they gave Stamos the show “Jake in Progress” and gave Melissa a role as Lauren Reed, Vaughn’s nefarious wife on this ABC drama that made a star out of Jennifer Garner.
Answer: “Alias”
3. Name some eclectic historians, FTPE.
A. This guy was exiled from Helicarnassus and later went to the colony of Thurii, but his lasting contribution are his Histories detailing the rise of Persians and other things, earning him the moniker of father of Greek history.
Answer: Herodotus
B. This interdisciplinary historian of the Annales school is known for works like Civilization and Capitalism and The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.
Answer: Fernand Braudel