ACF Fall 2006
Tossups by Maryland A
1. One of this man’s colleagues was a son of Gesco who bore the same name as he, and who married his daughter Sophoniba to the Numidian king Massinissa. This man left the front lines to deal with the rebellion of Syphax and left Mago in charge of his sphere of responsibility in modern Spain. After his fleet was destroyed at Tarraco, he resumed his ground campaign, fighting unsuccessfully at Dertosa after putting down an uprising of the Turdetani. He lost at Baecula but was responsible for victory at Upper Baetis, which killed the elder generation of Scipios. However, he met a final defeat at the MetaurasRiver, after which Gaius Claudius Nero ordered this man’s head thrown into his brother’s camp. FTP, name this Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War who was the second son of Hamilcar Barca and the brother of Hannibal.
ANSWER: Hasdrubal Barca
2. One character in this work loses three fingers after his secret love affair is revealed by Count Jean de Satigny. Another character performs an abortion on his brother’s girlfriend Amanda, whose socialist brother loves Alba. At the Red Lantern brothel one of the main characters meets Transito Soto, who uses her influence to free his granddaughter from jail. The main character is traumatized by a rug made from the hide of her dead dog gifted her by her husband, who was formerly engaged to her green-haired sister. She was mute for the nine years following Rosa’s death, after which she foretold her marriage to Esteban Trueba at age 19. FTP name this novel about the family of Clara del Valle by Isabel Allende.
ANSWER: The House of the Spirits or La Casa de los Spiritos
3. He began to compose a cantata in 1863 which was based on a dramatic poem by Goethe, and is named for a knight who becomes enchanted by the witch Armida. He adapted the theme from the Presto section of the Choral Symphony for the final movement of his first symphony, which took him fifteen years to complete. One of his most famous works was written for the newly born son of his friend Bertha Faber, while he combined a full chorus, solo voices, and an orchestra with texts from the Lutheran Bible for his great choral work, the German Requiem.FTP, identify this Romantic composer from Austria, best known for variations on themes from Haydn and Handel, the Academic Festival Overture, and for his Lullaby.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
4. In the early nineteenth century, it was ruled by Emir Bashir II, while in the twentieth, it has been dominated by the system known as “confessional politics.” Events in the 1980s here included the Damour massacre and the Sabra and Shatila massacres, which were investigated by another country’s Kahan Commission. It was the site of a 1958 U.S. Marine landing in support of the Eisenhower doctrine, and was a French mandate territory following World War I, leading to preferential treatment for the Maronite Christian minority. More recently, the kidnapping of Omar Souad, Adi Avitan, and Binyamin Avraham resulted in an invasion of it, targeting Hassan Nasrallah. FTP, Israel recently signed a cease-fire with what country, the home of Hezbollah?
ANSWER: Lebanon [or Al Jumhuriyah al Lubnaniyah]
5. In one of this author’s works, the feminist Bertha attempts to humiliate her artist husband with the help of Abel. The arrival of Eleonora helps to redeem the Heyst family in a play set on a certain holiday. The Baron and Baroness Sprengel are featured in a one-act play in sixteen scenes known as The Link, while in a more famous work Captain Adolf is taken to an insane asylum due to the machinations of his scheming wife Laura. The student Arkenholz is the protagonist of a work which, along with After the Fire, Pelican, and The Storm makes up his series of Chamber Plays. His better known characters include the writer Arvid Falk in The Red Room and a titular girl who seduces and makes a suicide pact with the valet Jean. FTP name this author of Miss Julie.
ANSWER: August Strindberg
6. The fourth movement is in G sharp minor and features an alto saxophone melody over a drone ostinato in 6/8 time, which represents a minstrel playing a mandolin. A later movement uses a tenor tuba solo to depict some animals pulling a wagon. In addition to "The Old Castle" and "Cattle," this composition includes "The Catacombs" and "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," which is preceded by a Promenade. A stately procession through a never built Ukrainian structure was the inspiration for the last movement, entitled "The Great Gate of Kiev." FTP, name this suite famously orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, based on some art works of Viktor Hartmann and composed by Modest Mussorgsky.
ANSWER: Pictures at an Exhibition
7. This principle is invoked in a term in the Weizsaecker Formula for determining the binding energy of nuclei, and the related liquid drop model utilizes a consequence of this that favors nuclei with even numbers of protons and neutrons. It explains the formation of neutron stars through degeneracy, and it leads to the formation of a "Fermi sea" at absolute zero. Symmetric wave functions are not governed by this principle, but the anti-symmetric wave functions of spin one-half particles are. FTP name this principle that says no two fermions can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.
ANSWER: Pauli exclusion principle
8. This man’s biographers include Joseph Dorfman and J.P. Diggin, who called him “The Bard of Savagery.” Early in his career this man wrote an article on “The Barbarian Status of Women,” and he was the original translator of Ferdinand Lasalle’s Science and the Workingmen. Longer works include The Instict of Workmanship and The Place of Science in Modern Civilization, and along with Charles Beard and John Dewey he founded the NewSchool for Social Research. Best known for a work containing a section on the fur trade, this is, FTP, what economist, who coined the term ‘conspicuous consumption” in his The Theory of the Leisure Class?
ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen
9. It was founded by two brothers named Forrest and Leroy, who originally wanted to name this establishment BigTex. First opened in 1964 in Ohio, this company is sometimes located together with a T.J. Cinnamons. On the episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Dealership", Elaine and Puddy make a deal to only go to this restaurant once a month. Specialty items here include Jalapeno Bites, Jamocha milkshakes, and Market Fresh sandwiches. The voice of Tom Arnold can be heard in its commercials featuring a talking Oven Mitt. FTP, name this fast-food restaurant noted for their curly fries and roast beef sandwiches.
ANSWER: Arby's
10. Republican National Committee chairman John Hamilton warned that workers would be forced to wear dog tags after the passage of this act, whose goal was similar to the Ham and Eggs movement and the Bigelow plan. Its constitutionality was upheld by Steward Machine Co. v Davis in 1937. Amended in 1972 to include automatic cost-of-living adjustments, it was partially inspired by the Townsend Plan, which proposed a national two percent sales tax to pay for guaranteed monthly pensions. FTP, name this 1935 act which established national retirement benefits to people over the age of 65.s
ANSWER: Social Security Act
11. This former chairman of the Banobras campaigned on a promise to implement life prison sentences for kidnapping. He defeated Santiago Creel in the primary and went on to a debate, where he denied allegations that, as the Secretary of Energy, he gave contracts to the Hildebrando Company which his brother-in-law founded. He met his wife, Margarita Zavala, after succeeding his father as chairman of the National Action Party, and the Federal Election Tribunal eventually certified his victory in the general contest, allowing him to succeed Vicente Fox. FTP, identify this man elected to a six year term over Andres López Obrador in 2006, the new president of Mexico.
ANSWER: Felipe de Jesus Calderón Hinojosa
12. Like other Dromaeosaurids, it had a large brain for its body size, and it inhabited hot, dry ecosystems about 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.The fossil remains of one were found with a Protoceratops, as they had killed each other in battle. There is only one recognized species of it, V. mongoliensis, named for its discovery in central Asia. About two meters long, current theory suggests it may have been covered with feathers, and it had a sickle-like, 9 centimeter retractable claw on the middle toe of each foot. A bipedal dinosaur that may have hunted in packs with a name meaning “swift robber,” FTP identify this dinosaur made famous by Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.
ANSWER: Velociraptor
13. In 1442, the Council of Florence ordered an end to this practice. Early Israelites performed this action at Gilgal, but Paul stated it was not necessary for converts. A Christian feast with this name occurs on January 1st, and Elijah is considered the patron of this act, which Joshua performed with rocks before entering the Promised Land. Abraham performed this act when he was ninety-nine, and Ishamel was thirteen when he completed this act, which is the age Muslims perform it. In Judaism, it is performed by a Mohel on the eighth day after birth in a rite known as a bris. FTP, name this religious ceremony involving the removal of foreskin.
ANSWER: circumcision
14. According to Johan Galtung, it can occur when there is a harmony of interest between the elites of the center and the periphery. It forms the title of a John Hobson work that attributes it to economic instead of nationalistic factors, while Lenin wrote that it developed from the inevitable rise of international monopolies, making it the “highest stage of capitalism.” Marxist theorists often pinpoint it as the major cause of World War I, while its prevalence in the late 19th century caused China to be divided into spheres of influence. Defended by Rudyard Kipling as “The White Man’s Burden,” FTP name this practice whereby powerful nations exercise political or economic control over weaker ones.
ANSWER: imperialism
15. In 1998, astronomers discovered Cha H-alpha 1, the first one of these objects to emit X-Rays. They can be difficult to identify because their diameters are often comparable to those of massive planets, although their density is much greater.Most of the known ones have been identified through the detection of lithium, which is not typically found in their larger counterparts.The first verified one, Teide 1, was found in 1995, fitting the classification of having a mass greater than 12 times that of Jupiter, the minimum mass for performing deuterium fusion. FTP, name these non-luminous sub-stellar objects that do not have a large enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium, often known as "failed stars."
ANSWER: Brown Dwarfs
16. This name was adopted by Kate Cunningham for a 1922 march on Washington demanding an end to the imprisonment of anti-war activists. Participants in an earlier event known by this name believed that the Mediterranean would dry up, while another mostly dispersed after delivering a letter to Philip Augustus. Led by Stephen the shepherd and Nicholas of Cologne, the two movements under this name ended when Innocent III released participants from their vows, and when most members were sold into slavery from Marseille. FTP, identify this event, often called the inspiration for the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend, which was a thirteenth-century attempt to recapture the Holy Land by young soldiers.
ANSWER: the Children’s Crusades
17. At one point in this novel a fat man recites a limerick about a lady who wished to be wild after delivering a racist polemic a against a porter named George. Minor characters include the bohemian widow of a paper-dealer, and Vergil Gunch, who entreats the protagonist to join the Good Citizens’ league. The protagonist and his wife go on vacation to Maine after he rails on Zilla for abusing her husband, his best friend. His children include Verona and Ted, whom he advises to become a mechanic after Paul Riesling is incarcerated for shooting his wife. A proud possessor of a standardized home in Zenith, he returns to his wife Myra after she becomes ill and reforms his liberal ways. FTP, name this Sinclair Lewis novel whose title character is now synonymous with conformity.
ANSWER: Babbitt
18. In the standard implementation of it, the worst case runtime occurs when the input data is already in the desired order.The recursive, partitioning nature of this algorithm makes it susceptible to boosts from parallelization.It can be optimized using in-place memory allocation to use only Big O of log n additional memory, and its worst case runtime can be avoided by picking a random element of the list to use when subdividing the list into smaller lists.FTP, identify this algorithm that operates by moving elements along a pivot that runs in big O of n log n time with a small constant, named for its speedy organization.
ANSWER: Quicksort
19. In the Simmons-Smith reaction, these compounds react with iodomethyl zinc iodide to form cyclopropanes, and the same product can be formed by reacting them with a carbene. Treatment with mercury acetate in aqueous solvent followed by reduction leads to alcohol formation, as does reacting them with borane followed by treatment with hydrogen peroxide, the latter of which leads to the anti-Markovnikov product. Osmium tetraoxide adds to them to form diols, and they can be cleaved by ozone into two carbonyl containing compounds. Commonly formed from the dehydrohalogenation of an alkyl halide or dehydration of an alcohol, FTP name these organic compounds characterized by the presence of a carbon-carbon double bond.
ANSWER: alkenes [accept olefin]
20. In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Reuven compares Danny to this figure when he first visits him in the hospital. In one poem, this figure is “slow to smite and swift to spare/ Gentle and merciful and just!”, while he is “not forced to frame excuses for his birth/ Fed from within by all the strength he needs” in a poem by James Russell Lowell. This person “came when days were perilous/And hearts of men were sore beguiled” in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem “The Master.” He “will not rest/ near the old courthouse pacing up and down,” in a poem in which he “Walks at Midnight,” while in a more famous poem, he has “fallen cold and dead” even though “the ship has weathered every rack/ The prize we sought is won.” FTP, name this man who is twice referred to as “captain” in the title of an elegy by Walt Whitman, the 16th President of the United States.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
TB. In Aboriginal mythology, this role is fulfilled by Wurugag. In Sumerian myth, Adapa, the son of Ea, became this after refusing Anu’s hospitality in heaven. The twin brother of Yami in Hindu myth, Yama, served as a judge of the dead after his stint in this position as well. In Norse myth, Ask became it after Odin, Ve and Vili provided him with wit, emotions, senses, speech and life. FTP, identify this role also held by Deucalion, a son of Prometheus, in Greek mythology and Adam in Western mythologies.
ANSWER: First man (accept equivalents, prompt on “first human”)
ACF Fall 2006
Bonuses by Maryland A
1. She helped pioneer the hospice movement in the United States. FTPE:
[10] Name this psychologist who theorized a five-stage response to grief.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
[10] According to Kübler-Ross, the stages of denial and anger are followed by this stage characterized by the terminally ill subject’s wish to make a deal with a higher power in order to stave off death.
ANSWER: bargaining
[10] Kübler-Ross described “the fear of death” in this 1969 work, which also introduced her theory on the stages of grief.
ANSWER: On Death and Dying
2. Name these things from Chinese philosophy, FTPE.
[10] One half of a Taijitu features this positive, bright, and masculine symbol found in Chinese dualistic philosophy.
ANSWER: yang
[10] This philosophical school, originated by Han Fei, was the central philosophical ideal of the Qin Dynasty, and centered on the primacy of the rule of law.
ANSWER: Legalism
[10] Legalism flourished during this period, also called the Golden Age of Chinese thought. Occurring between the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, it is named for the large number of philosophical schools at the time.
ANSWER: Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought
3. It shows wealthy teenagers planning ridiculously extravagant parties and has featured such celebrity performers as Ciara, Three 6 Mafia and Sugarcult. FTPE:
[10] Name this MTV reality show.
ANSWER: My Super Sweet 16
[10] Although originally designed for 16th birthday parties, the show has made some exceptions for these celebrations thrown for some Latinas on their fifteenth birthday.