ACF Fall 2006
Tossups by Michigan A and Georgia A
1. This man’s only drama concerns a Greek scientist who comes to Rome bearing the inventions of the steam engine, gun powder, and the printing press and was adapted from the author’s short story “Envoy Extraordinairy.” The pederast Mr. Sebastian Pedigree spurns the overtures of friendship by the burn victim Matty Windrave in one of his novels, while in another Roger Mason attempts to rebuild the title structure onto Jocelin’s cathedral. In addition to Darkness Visible and The Spire, he wrote an epistolary novel about Reverend Colley’s relationship to the haughty Edmund Talbot, Rites of Passage. In a better-known novel he writes about the ultimately spurious stranding of a navy officer on a barren rock. Also known for Fire Down Below and The Inheritors, this is, FTP, what author, best known for his tale of depraved schoolboys trapped on an island, Lord of the Flies.
ANSWER: William Golding
2. After helping to overthrow two successive governments, he briefly withdrew from politics and devoted himself to a group of smalltime white collar criminals known as the Green Gang during the mid-1910s. He converted to Christianity in 1930 under the influence of his wife’s family, the Soongs, but four years later he began the New Life Movement, a neo-Confucian state cult. He had spent two years in the Japanese army as a youth, and he later could be convinced to resist the Japanese occupation only after being kidnapped in the Xian incident. This Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army succeeded Sun Yat Sen as the leader of the Kuomingtang, and he later became the first president of Taiwan. FTP, name this leader of the Nationalist forces which opposed Mao Zedong’s Communists in the Chinese civil war.
ANSWER: Chiang Kai-Shek or Jiang Jieshi
3. Their existence for neutral atoms and molecules was demonstrated in 1930 by Stern and Estermann, and the first method for detecting them was proposed in 1925 by Walter Elsasser. Two scientists at Bell Labs were the first to detect them, which happened accidentally while studying electron reflection from a nickel target that had been oxidized. Those two, Davisson and Germer, were unaware of Elsasser's suggestion, Schrodinger's complete theory of them, or the inspiration of the graduate student who proposed their existence and claimed that their frequency was equal to their total energy divided by Planck's constant. FTP name these manifestations of wave-particle duality, matter waves named for the French physicist who proposed them and their eponymous wavelength.
ANSWER: DeBroglie waves [prompt on 'matter waves' or 'particle waves']
4. This man joined the staff of the Burgholzli Asylum under the direction of Eugen Bleuler and had great success with association tests. Samuel Beckett claimed to experience a revelation after hearing a lecture in which this man referred to a patient as having never properly been born. He gained fame in his field after publishing The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, and his publication of Psychology of the Unconscious in 1912 led to his break with Freud. In Psychological Types, he divided people into introverts and extroverts, but he is even more famous for studying the shadow and the anima. FTP name this Swiss founder of analytic psychology who researched the role of archetypes and the collective unconsciousness.
ANSWER: Carl Jung
5. Freeman Cleaves used this battle to title a biography of the victorious commander, and the spot where it took place is now part of the appropriately named town of Battle Ground. The attackers became paranoid about guerilla harrassment and slept in their clothing the night before this battle after leaving Vincennes with a force of a thousand men. This battle led to the flight of Laulewasikau to Canada and the eventual death of that commander’s brother at the Battle of the Thames. Fought in 1811, it destroyed the Shawnee alliance which the Prophet and Tecumseh were building. FTP, name this battle used by victorious general William Henry Harrison in a campaign slogan that paired this name with that of Tyler, too.
ANSWER: Battle of Tippecanoe
6. Among the episodes related in this book is the attack of Baasha upon his rival Asa, and the fortification of Rama that prevented anyone from going in or out. Baasha’s line would be wiped out by a drunken officer, Zimri, who himself would be killed by the general Omri. Another episode tells about the campaign of Jehoshaphat against the Aramites despite the advice of the prophet Micaiah. The book ends with Ahaziah returning to the worship of Baal and incurring God’s displeasure. A more famous episode involves the revolt of Adonijah against his father, an elderly David. Other important episodes discuss the son of Omri, the wicked king Ahab, and the deeds of Elijah against him. FTP, name this book of the Bible, that describes the split between Israel and Judah and the deeds of their earlier rulers.
ANSWER: I Kings (prompt on Kings, do not prompt on II Kings)
7. Setting the partial derivative of this quantity equal to zero will allow one to arrive at the standard form Kohler Equation, and at constant temperature, the partial derivative of this quantity with respect to pressure is simply equal to volume. For a single species in a mixture and all else constant, the partial molar value of this quantity is equivalent to its chemical potential. Its standard change in a voltaic cell is defined as the negative product of moles of charge, Faraday constant, and potential difference, while in a chemical reaction it is the negative product of the ideal gas constant, temperature, and the equilibrium constant. Most generally defined as enthalpy minus the product of temperature and entropy, FTP name this thermodynamic parameter whose change must be less than zero for a reaction to be spontaneous.
ANSWER: Gibbs Free Energy
8. In Act I of this opera, the song "As Someday it May Happen" goes through a "little list" of the singer’s many irritations with society, two of which are “the nigger serenader” and “the lady novelist." Following the relative failure of “Princess Ida,” Richard d’Oyly Carte gave the composers a six-month deadline in which to produce this opera. The title character of this opera sings “See how the Fates their gifts allot” near the end of Act II, which is set in Ko-Ko’s garden. Ko-Ko, the Head Executioner of Titipu, plans to commit suicide upon learning that the title character plans to visit because he has not committed a single execution. The ineffectual Ko-Ko ends up marrying Katisha, but only after being unable to marry Yum-Yum, who has married Nanki-Poo, the son of the title character. FTP, name this pseudo-Japanese Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, their ninth collaboration.
ANSWER: The Mikado
9. Bryan Cranston’s character in this film shares his name with Larry Brandenburg’s character in Fargo, Stan Grossman, and another character shares his full name with one of the main characters from Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions. That character, Dwayne, has a nervous breakdown in California after recognizing his colorblindness and breaks his month-long vow of silence. Not long before, Dwayne’s grandfather, played by Alan Arkin, died in his sleep of a heroin addiction. Dwayne’s son, a failed motivational speaker named Richard played by Greg Kinnear, has married Stacey, whose brother Frank, played by Steve Carell, is a suicidal Proust scholar. Those characters and Olive Hoover are all on their way to, FTP, what titular beauty pageant in a VW Bus with no clutch?
ANSWER: Little Miss Sunshine
10.These entities can have an anti-terminator, such as LicT protein for sacPA, which stabilizes a secondary RNA structure. Early termination of their processes, which can occur via an alternate loop structure with excess of a particular amino acid, is known as attenuation. They can be inducible, as by IPTG for a well known example, and they can contain two kinds of repressors: a translational one, and a better understood transcriptional one, which binds to the operator site. All of them must have these operator sites, as well as promoter sites where RNA Polymerase originally binds. FTP, name these prokaryotic strips of DNA that regulate expression of related genes, which include the trp [trip] and lac varieties.
ANSWER: operons
11. In one of his poems this man writes that his shadow “glides in silence over the watercourse” and “moves like a huge violet-colored mosquito.” He claims he will “be a free sign of oppressed norms on the neck of the stiff branch” in a poem known only as “sonnet.” In a play by this author a woman lusts after the shepherd Victor after strangling her husband, while another work features a woman who sings a lullaby about a horse who “won’t drink from the stream” and a young woodcutter who represents the moon. Adela hangs herself after her mother threatens Pepe with a pistol in the third play of his Rural Trilogy, The House of Bernarda Alba. FTP name this Spanish author of Blood Wedding who was shot to death on the orders of Francisco Franco.
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca
12. Examples of these materials include methoxy-benzilidene butylanaline and fluorinated tolans. The Onsager model can be used to explain lyotrophic examples, which undergo phase transitions as a result of concentration changes rather than temperature. Cholesteric varieties, which induce circular dichroism, exhibit chirality and are sometimes known as twisted nematic. In the typical nematic phase, their molecules have a random distribution but preferred orientation, while their smectic phase displays an ordered layered structure. In their most famous application, a thin layer of them is placed between two cross polarizers, and applied electric fields can create order in them to stop the transmission of light. FTP name these substances used in namesake displays in computer monitors and HDTV's.
ANSWER: liquid crystals
13. Arias of this composer include "Cinta di Fiori" and "Qui la Voce Sua Soave," which appears his work based on the literary work Old Mortality. His tombstone contains the line "I did not think to see you extinguished so soon, oh flower," which is a line found in his opera which features characters such as Lisa, Elvino, Amina, and Count Rodolfo. Felice Romani was the librettist for many of his operas, including The Pirate. The title character of another of his operas, the daughter of Oroveso, is a Druid priestess who has two children with a Roman proconsul named Pollione. FTP, name this Italian composer of The Puritans, The Sleepwaker, and Norma.
ANSWER: Vincenzo Bellini
14. The "Dedekind" version of this property states that any bounded, nonempty subset has a least upper bound, while the "Cauchy" version of this property states that if the terms of a sequence are eventually contained in an epsilon-neighborhood for every epsilon, then the sequence is convergent. In the real numbers, this property is equivalent to the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem, which states that every bounded sequence has a convergent subsequence, as well as the Nested Interval Property. FTP, name this property that is essential to the real number line as constructed from Dedekind cuts of rationals, indicating that nothing is left out.
ANSWER: Completeness
15. It typically occurs at triple junctions, though often one arm becomes a failed rift, as happened with the Red Sea and the Niger River. Debate continues over whether this process is driven by active or passive upwelling, but bands of alternatingly polarized ferromagnetic deposits confirmed its existence. Proposed by Harry Hess in the 1960s, it is now believed to be caused by convection currents in the upper mantle. Notably occurring at the East Pacific Rise and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, FTP name this geological process in which oceanic crust is created, the mechanism that drives plate tectonics.
ANSWER: Seafloor Spreading
16. Along with Rembrandt's Sea of Galilee, this painting is critiqued in Eric Avery's Haitian Interdiction print. This work's artist never visited the site depicted and gleaned most of the details from the engravings of Peter Canot, including its depiction of Morro Castle at the upper right. The title character, a future Lord Mayor of London, lies below two men in white shirts who reach out toward him. Modern theorists make much of the impassive stance of the African-American man in the center of this work, who limply holds a rope, while his white companion furiously thrusts a spear at one of the denizens of Havana harbor. FTP, identify this painting featuring a boat's crew attempting to rescue the title figure from a bloodthirsty animal, the most famous work of John Singleton Copley.
ANSWER: Watson and the Shark
17. Count Greffi is a virile 94-year old who acts as a father figure to the protagonist in this work, and Ralph Simmons is an untalented student of opera. While the hero is recuperating after an operation done by Dr. Valentini, he comes down with jaundice and Miss Van Campen accuses him of malingering. An accident while attempting to reach Udine leads to an altercation with two Italian soldiers, one of whom the protagonist shoots in the back. Eventually he flees from the retreat at Caporetto to Switzerland with his lover, a nurse who dies in childbirth. For ten points, name this novel about the relationship between Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry, set in Italy during World War I, a work of Ernest Hemingway.
ANSWER: A Farewell to Arms
18. Susanne Wood and Marshall Grossman have written extensively about the relationship of a poem by Amelia Lanyer to one of this man’s famous works. A monologue from one of this man’s works describes a woman who makes it a point “Still to be neat” and is alternately titled “Simplex Munditiis.” That play features the character Sir Amorous La-Foole and concerns Morose’s hatred of noise. Plays by this author include The Isle of Dogs and one about the witless goldsmith Touchstone, Eastward, Ho! Better known are a poem about Phillip Sidney’s house, “To Penshurst,” a song that begins “Drink to me, only, with thine eyes,” and a play about a fox. FTP name this author of To Celia, better known for plays like The Alchemist and Volpone.
ANSWER: Ben Jonson
19. It is asserted in this work that the law of God does not permit a better man to be harmed by a worse, and the true champion of justice must shun politics to survive. As proof of his character, the speaker points to distinguished military service at Potidaea and Amphipolis and recalls his refusal to fetch Leon for execution. He begins by claiming that his accusers lied when they implied he was a skillful speaker, unless by skillful they mean truthful, and while interrogating his accuser Meletus he points out that the heretical astronomical beliefs at issue really belong to Anaxagoras. For ten points name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates unsuccessfully defended himself in the court of Athens against charges of atheism and corruption of the youth.
ANSWER: Apology or Apologia
20. One king of this name abdicated from the throne of Mercia to become abbot of Bardney. Another came to the throne under a cloud of suspicion after the mysterious death of his half-brother Edward the Martyr, and his ordering of the St. Brice’s Day Massacre further poisoned relations between the Saxons and the Danes. He was forced to flee to Normandy when the Danish leader Sweyn Forkbeard was accepted by most of the Anglo-Saxon thanes. FTP, name this ineffective Anglo-Saxon ruler who fathered Edmund Ironsides and Edward the Confessor, and who is best known for his epithet “the Unready.”
ANSWER: Aethelred IIs
TB. After one of his victories, the King of France awarded him a gold-hilted sword, although he had gone to Paris for the purpose of seeking funds for continued raiding. He entered his chosen profession by way of the slave trade in Jamaica, but found his first command by accident, when he was a passanger on a ship that lost both its captain and first mate en route to Scotland. Despite being accused of murdering Mungo Maxwell, he went on to command the Alfred, the Providence and the Ranger, though he would not captain the ship he made famous until 1779. When taking a British convoy defended by the Countess of Scarborough and more famously, the Serapis, he delivered a famous line. FTP, name the “father of the American navy” and captain of the Bonhomme Richard, who declared “I have not yet begun to fight.”
ANSWER: John Paul Jones
ACF Fall 2006
Bonuses by Michigan A and Georgia A
1. Name these entities from the Gallic Wars FTPE.
[10] The movement of these people, whose name sometimes graces Switzerland, gave Rome the pretext needed to invade the unconquered parts of Gaul.
ANSWER: Helvetii
[10] This Arverni chief led an uprising, joined by several Gallic groups, against Roman rule in 52 BCE, emerging victorious from the siege of Gergovia.