VETO 2011 – packet by Will Nediger
Tossups
1. This lake contains the uninhabited Michipicoten Island. It is also home to La Pointe, the birthplace of Chief Buffalo, which lies on Madeline Island. The Pic River and the Pigeon River are among the rivers that feed this lake. Pukaskwa National Park lies on the shore of this lake, whose largest island by far is Michigan’s Isle Royale. It is drained by the St. Marys River, which forms part of the Canada-U.S. border. This lake, which is also called Gitche Gumee after the Ojibwe for “big water,” is home to the cities of Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay. For 10 points, name this largest of the Great Lakes.
ANSWER: Lake Superior
2. Adding one term to the nonlinear version of this equation results in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Loop quantum gravity uses a timeless analogue of this equation, the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. A confirmation of this equation came when it was used to solve the hydrogen atom and predicted energy levels which accorded with Rydberg’s law. Systems in a stationary state can be described using the time-independent form of this equation, which can be derived from the classical wave equation and the de Broglie relation. For 10 points, name this equation which describes how a physical system evolves over time, named for an Austrian physicist who also has a namesake cat.
ANSWER: Schrödinger wave equation
3. One character in this novel tells a story about how, after a woman on a train snatched the cigarette from his mouth and threw it out the window, he responded by throwing her lapdog out the window. Another character in this novel is a teenager named Ippolit who suffers from tuberculosis and tries unsuccessfully to shoot himself in the head. Ganya and Rogozhin are among the characters who are in love with the capricious Nastassya Filippovna, though the protagonist only feels “pity-love” for Nastassya and is really in love with Aglaya, one of the daughters of Madame Yepanchin. For 10 points, name this Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel about the innocent and simple-minded Prince Myshkin.
ANSWER: The Idiot
4. The speaker of one of this band’s songs says “I catch the scent of ambergris and turn my head, surprised / My gaze is caught and held and I am helpless, mesmerized.” That song is divided into six sections, including “Bacchus Plateau” and “Didacts and Narpets.” The lengthy instrumental “La Villa Strangiato” and “The Trees” both appear on their album Hemispheres, but a more famous instrumental by this band is “YYZ,” which appears on the album Moving Pictures, along with songs like “Vital Signs” and “Limelight.” For 10 points, name this band consisting of Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, and Geddy Lee, known for songs like “Fly By Night” and “Tom Sawyer.”
ANSWER: Rush
5. A major centre of worship of this deity was the city of Nekhen. This deity was adapted to Greek mythology, in which he was given the name Harpocrates. One story tells of how he tricks his rival into eating his semen by spreading it on a piece of lettuce. He also loses his left eye in a fight with that rival, explaining why the sun is brighter than the moon. This deity was conceived after his mother fashioned a golden phallus to attach to the reconstructed body of Osiris. This god of war and of the sky is associated with the symbol of the wadjet eye. For 10 points, name this falcon-headed Egyptian deity.
ANSWER: Horus
6. This work’s first movement opens with a counterpoint to the main theme played by two basset horns, which were invented not long before this work was composed. Some scholars have noted that one movement of this work contains a lengthy paraphrase from the Sparrow Mass. The Amen Fugue is sometimes thought to belong in this work, after the Lacrimosa. It was completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, since it was unfinished at the composer’s death. Although it was commissioned by Franz von Walsegg, there is a myth that it was actually commissioned by Antonio Salieri, who planned to claim that he had written it. For 10 points, name this mass for the dead by the composer of The Magic Flute.
ANSWER: Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor
7. This ruler’s sister was named Mutbenret, who is sometimes identified with the wife of Horemheb, which would mean that this ruler’s father was the 18th-dynasty pharaoh Ay. In 2003, Joann Fletcher claimed to have identified this ruler’s mummy in the Valley of the Kings. This ruler is sometimes identified with a pharaoh whose first name is Ankhkheperure and who, according to Manetho, ruled for slightly over two years. Ludwig Borchardt discovered an iconic bust of this woman, attributed to Thutmose, which now resides in Berlin. For 10 points, name this famously beautiful wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.
ANSWER: Nefertiti
8. This author wrote a sketch in which a baby named Gustavus Adolphus explodes after eating thirteen Christmas dinners concentrated in a pill. That sketch, “The New Food,” appeared in his first collection of comic writings, Literary Lapses. His most famous work spawned a follow-up entitled Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich. That work is a series of sketches about the love-struck bank teller Peter Pupkin, the gargantuan hotel owner Josh Smith, and other denizens of the fictional small town of Mariposa, which is modelled on Orillia. For 10 points, name this Canadian humorist who wrote Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
ANSWER: Stephen Leacock
9. One proposed solution to this problem involves the theorem that every set possesses at least one subset that is not an element of that set, and includes an axiom of separation. Another proposed solution to this problem involves the requirement that a mathematical object can only be built from objects of a lower type; that solution is known as type theory. This problem, which afflicts the naïve set theory of Gottlob Frege, was discovered by the mathematician who co-wrote the Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead. For 10 points, name this paradox which arises from asking whether the set of all sets that are not members of themselves is a member of itself.
ANSWER: Russell’s paradox
10. In the 1860s, one of these events forced Finland to borrow money from the Rothschild family. The economic policies of the British Raj are often blamed for one of these events which took place in India in the 1870s. Ethiopia has suffered a number of these events, including one which led to the fall of Haile Selassie and a “great” one which took place in the late 19th century and was caused by rinderpest. One of these events took place in the Ukraine in the 1930s and is considered by many to be a genocide committed by the Soviet government. For 10 points, the Holodomor is one example of what type of event, the most famous of which affected the potato crop in Ireland?
ANSWER: famines
11. This man resigned his position as Minister of Finance after a pair of financial scandals involving the MNEF and Elf Aquitaine. In the 1990s, he also served as mayor of Sarcelles and Minister for Industry under Pierre Bérégovoy. In the 2007 election, he ran for the candidacy for the Socialist party, defeating Laurent Fabius but losing to Ségolène Royal. In his most famous position, he had an affair with Piroska Nagy, leading one newspaper to dub him “the great seducer.” In the wake of a recent scandal, he was controversially defended by Ben Stein and Bernard-Henri Lévy. For 10 points, name this former director of the IMF who was recently charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
ANSWER: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
12. This theory was defended by Timothy Sprigge in The Rational Foundation of Ethics. Daniel Dennett argues that this theory would be difficult to implement, giving the example of the Three Mile Island accident. According to Derek Parfit, this theory is susceptible to the mere addition paradox, which results in what he calls the repugnant conclusion. Prominent proponents of this ethical theory include R. M. Hare and Peter Singer, but it is most associated with the inventor of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham. For 10 points, name this ethical theory which says that the best actions are the ones that results in the greatest total happiness.
ANSWER: utilitarianism
13. In addition to memory, the Papez circuit regulates these phenomena. An 1872 book by Charles Darwin deals with the expression of these phenomena in humans and animals. The Cannon-Bard theory says that they occur simultaneously with physiological phenomena, in contrast to the earlier James-Lange theory, which claims that they result from physiological phenomena. A more current theory of them is the Schachter-Singer theory, also known as the two-factor theory of these phenomena, which are sometimes described as mental states organized in the limbic system of the mammalian brain. For 10 points, name these states of mind that include pride, anger, and happiness.
ANSWER: emotions
14. One character in this series reminds himself to “add Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack to workout mix.” Another characters visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo and explains the plot of Inception to one of the natives in English, so as not to spoil it for his friend who hasn’t seen it yet. That character is an anthropology professor played by Betty White who is replaced by the tippling psychology professor Ian Duncan. This series takes place at a school where you can get a degree in theoretical phys ed, and whose mascot is the Human Being. For 10 points, name this NBC series starring Alison Brie, Chevy Chase and Joel McHale as students at Greendale.
ANSWER: Community
15. As a response to this event, a group of people blockaded a railway line in Seton Portage, British Columbia. The subject of a documentary by Alanis Obomsawin, this event was sparked off by an announcement by Jean Ouellette. A famous photograph taken during this event shows a standoff between Brad Larocque and Patrick Cloutier. This conflict resulted in the death of Marcel Lemay, and saw the establishment of a blockade on the Mercier Bridge. It arose due to the planned expansion of a golf course to land which included a Kanesatake burial ground. For 10 points, name this 1990 land dispute between the Mohawk people and a certain town in Quebec.
ANSWER: Oka Crisis
16. This disease can be tested for by blood tests called micro-CATT and wb-CATT. Drugs used to treat it include pentamidine and melarsoprol. In addition to being used to treat hirsutism, eflornithine is used to treat this disease, although it is only effective on the gambiense form, not the rhodesiense form. Chagas disease is caused by parasites of the same genus as the ones which cause this disease, whose symptoms include severe swelling of the lymph nodes, which causes Winterbottom’s sign, and disruption of the sleep cycle. For 10 points, name this disease of sub-Saharan Africa, transmitted by the tsetse fly, whose common name is derived from the fact that it causes fatigue.
ANSWER: trypanosomiasis [or sleeping sickness]
17. In Euripides’ Orestes, Helen commands a character of this name to pour libations on Clytemnestra’s grave. In D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, this is the first name of the wealthy temptress whose former affair with Birkin causes strain in Birkin’s relationship with Ursula. When the first three letters of this name are capitalized, it forms the title of an autobiographical novel by the poet H.D. A more famous character of this name is accused of infidelity by her husband Leontes; that character is the Queen of Sicilia in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. For 10 points, give this name which is also shared by Miss Granger in the Harry Potter books.
ANSWER: Hermione
18. One artist from this country created a sculpture called The Ninth Hour, which depicts Pope John Paul II being hit by a meteorite. Another artist from this country created a semi-nude reclining sculpture of Pauline Bonaparte as the Venus Victrix as well as a depiction of Psyche being revived by Cupid’s kiss. The sculptor of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space was from this country, like many members of the Futurist movement. More famous sculptures from this country include one in which the titular saint’s heart is pierced by an angel. For 10 points, name this country which is home to the sculptors of The Ecstasy of St. Teresa and the most famous depiction of David.
ANSWER: Italy
19. One type of these objects includes a graphite rod and a paste made up of manganese dioxide, zinc chloride, ammonium chloride, and is named for Georges Leclanché. Another type of these objects includes dilute sulfuric acid and makes use of the oxidation of lead, the reduction of lead oxide, and the precipitation of lead sulfate. The former is an example of the primary type, which involves an irreversible reaction; the secondary type involves a reversible reaction, so they can be recharged. Other examples of these objects include the nickel-cadmium type and the lithium-ion type. For 10 points, name these devices which derive energy from chemical reactions and which are used in batteries.
ANSWER: voltaic cells [or galvanic cells; or electrochemical cells; accept batteries before mentioned]
20. One of the heroes of this poem saves a baby from being eaten by a bear by stuffing a rock down the bear’s throat, and then gives the baby to a childless couple. Another hero of this poem is accompanied by a Palmer, who advises him that in order to defeat the madman named Furor, he must first restrain the hag named Occasion. Villains in this poem include pagan knights named Sansfoy, Sansjoy, and Sansloy, as well as the deceitful Duessa and the sorcerer Archimago. The hero of the first book is Saint George, although he is known in the poem as the Redcrosse Knight, and he serves Gloriana, who represents Elizabeth I. For 10 points, name this allegorical epic by Edmund Spenser.
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene
21. An important victory in this campaign resulted in one of the combatants adopting a new coat of arms depicting some golden chains on a red background. This campaign is traditionally said to have begun with a battle in which the Virgin Mary of Covadonga supposedly aided the winning side. One side suffered a defeat known as the Disaster of Alarcos, but soon after recouped their losses at the decisive Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. This campaign ended in 1492, when Granada was captured from Mohammad XII by the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. For 10 points, name this campaign in which Christian states recaptured the territory in the Iberian Peninsula which had been held by the Muslims.
ANSWER: Reconquista
22. This theorist argued that objective knowledge of social reality is impossible in his essay “Objectivity” in Social Science. He wrote books about ancient Judaism and about the religions of China and India, and he identified three ideal types of religion, including world-rejecting asceticism, in his posthumously published work Economy and Society. He defined a state as an entity with a monopoly on the use of force in the essay Politics as a Vocation. His major work argued that Calvinist ideas led large numbers of people to engage in trade, which was a factor in the development of capitalism. For 10 points, name this sociologist who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
ANSWER: Max Weber
23. The largest lake in this country is Lake Izabal, which lies near Amatique Bay. Its department of San Marcos is home to the highest mountain in Central America, Volcán Tajumulco, which is part of the Sierra Madre range. Cities in this country’s southwest include Huehuetenango and Quetzaltenango. Flores is the capital of the largest department in this country, Petén, which takes up around one third of its area. It is bordered to the south by El Salvador and Honduras. For 10 points, name this country, the only country other than Belize on Mexico’s southern border.
ANSWER: Guatemala
24. In 2010, this man called for the cancellation of a Smithsonian exhibit which included an image of a crucifix covered with ants. He is the only currently serving member of the Gang of Seven, which vocally criticized the House banking scandal. During the Bush administration, he acted as Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Workforce. He has served as both the House Majority Leader and the House Minority Leader, and was both preceded and succeeded by Nancy Pelosi in the latter position, as well as being preceded by Pelosi in his current position. For 10 points, name this current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
ANSWER: John Boehner
Bonuses
1. Name some ridiculously prolific authors, for 10 points each.
[10] This American has written over 100 books, but some of her most popular novels include Zombie, them, Bellefleur, and We Were the Mulvaneys.
ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates
[10] This horror author downplays his productivity in his memoir On Writing, but his prolific output includes novels like The Stand, The Green Mile, and Cujo.