2004 ACF Fall
Tossups by PrincetonUniversity
1. His behavior reminds the narrator of how the provocation of Samuel Adams drove John Colt to commit murder, especially when he is caught one Sunday morning lodging in the narrator’s office, where he has set up his “hermitage.” The narrator tries unsuccessfully to have Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut confront him, and after moving to a new office, the narrator learns that this character has been arrested for vagrancy and sent to the Tombs. Quiet except for his repeated, passive refusal to perform certain tasks, this is, FTP, what Herman Melville-created clerk whose catchphrase is “I would prefer not to?”
Answer: Bartleby the Scrivener
2. It is connected to the inferior vena cava by Cantlie’s line and positioned at the bottom right side of the falciform ligament. Located on its walls are tubular structures called the ducts of Luschka, which drain into it, until it eventually contracts and empties upon the release of the hormone CCK by the duodenum. A common disorder that affects this organ is cholelithiasis [KO-lay-lith-EYE-uh-suss], which occurs when salts or cholesterols build up into crystalline deposits. FTP, name this small organ that is located next to the liver and has the primary function of storing bile.
Answer: gallbladder (prompt on “cholecyst”)
3. The image of Mary Ann Vecchio, then a teenage runaway, kneeling and screaming in horror, was captured after this event in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by John Filo. Glenn Frank was credited with preventing more casualties by rushing in after the violence began and pleading with the crowd to disperse. The culmination of tensions that began when Governor James Rhodes ordered troops to watch over a demonstration against action in Cambodia, it left nine wounded and four dead. FTP, name this May 4, 1970, incident that saw the National Guard fire into a crowd of student protestors at an Ohio university.
Answer: KentState massacre
4. The relief on the base of Phidias’ Athena Parthenos depicts the origin of this woman, and herstory precedes that of the story of the Four Ages inOvid’s Metamorphoses. She is not named in Hesiod’s Theogony but referred to as a “beautiful evil.” However according to The Works and the Days she is taught to weave by Athena, given a thieving mind by Hermes and built by Hephaestus. She was then givenin marriage to Epimetheus to punish man’s acceptance of the gift of fire from Prometheus. FTP name this first mortal woman who unleashes evil onto the world by opening her namesake box.
Answer: Pandora
5. Its opening scene begins with an Allegro Giusto movement and shows the protagonist on the eve of his coming-of-age ceremony, celebrating with his friend Benno and his drunk tutor Wolfgang. To escape the Queen Mother’s reminders of his eventual need to marry, the protagonist goes hunting in the forest and is discovered by the evil wizard Von Rothbart, who plots to have his daughter Odile seduce the hero and prevent him from breaking the curse placed upon Odette. Such is the story of Prince Sigfried, in, FTP, what Tchaikovsky ballet about a maiden who spends her days in the form of a white bird in the title pond?
Answer: SwanLake
6. It is prefaced with a quote placing Venus as both Hesperus, the evening star, and the morning star – a quote by Plato. The thirty-sixth stanza makes an allusion to Leigh Hunt’s mentoring, and the forty-sixth stanza makes reference to Chatterton, Sidney, and Lucan in echoing the poem’s intent. Its fifty-fifth and final stanza ends with the claim that the soul of the title character, “like a star, / Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.” Written in 1821, the year of its subject’s death, FTP, name this elegy on the death of John Keats composed by Percy Shelley.
Answer: Adonais
7. One result of these objects is the Tonks-Girardeau gas. In 2003 teams led by Rudolf Grimm and Deborah Jin showed that they could be formed from molecules. Two useful methods for creating them are laser cooling and magnetic evaporative cooling. Often created from (*) rubidium, they are very similar to lasers, where all the photons are identical, since each compound in it is identical. First created in 1995 by Cornell and Wieman, this is, FTP, what fifth state of matter in which individual atoms combine into one superatom?
Answer: Bose-Einstein Condensate or B-E-C
8. Pope Martin V named him the head of the Order of Christ, which became the primary source of funding for his ventures. Made Duke of Viseau by his father, he played a large part in the capture of Ceuta which he briefly governed. He showed poor leadership in a campaign against Tangier where he was forced to leave his brother Fernao as hostage. However he had success with Gil Eanes’s rounding of CapeBojador and the organization of voyages to Cape Verde through his school at Sagres. FTP, name this Portguese prince remembered as a patron of explorers.
Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator
9. An oddity in this painting is a scene in the background at the far right, featuring a toga-clad man unrolling a parchment and standing in front of a large unfinished pillar. The central scene is set against a backdrop of a red curtain, where the title character, clad in flowing brown and blue robes, sits and rests her feet on pillows while a quintet of androgynous youths stare over her shoulder in awe of the unnaturally shaped child that lays in her lap. FTP, name this Mannerist work painted by Parmigianino and named for an extended feature of Mary’s anatomy.
Answer: Madonna of the Long Neck or Madonna dal Collo Lungo
10. Oscar Eckenstein’s 1902 expedition, Charles Houston’s 1938 expedition, and Fritz Wiessner’s 1939 expedition all marked failed attempts at the first full ascent of this mountain. Finally, an expedition led by Ardito Desio in 1954 saw the Italians Lacedelli and Compagnoni become the first people to reach its summit. Today, the most common route for climbers is the Abruzzi Spur on its Pakistan side, though routes also exist on its side in China. Also known as Godwin-Austen, FTP, name this tallest peak in the Karakorum range and second highest mountain in the world.
Answer: K2 or Chogori (accept early buzz of “Mount Godwin-Austen”)
11. At the time of his death, his novels Fruitfulness, Labor, and Truth were the completed works in his unfinished Four Gospels series. An earlier trilogy, which contained works about Rome, Lourdes, and Paris, marked his return to novel writing after his foray into criticism, which produced the treatise The Experimental Novel. Another set of novels, including The Human Beast, The Dram Shop, and The Belly of Paris, comprises hisRougon-Macquart Cycle, which follows a large family during the decline of France’s Second Empire. FTP, name this naturalist author of Nana and Germinal, who also penned a defense of Alfred Dreyfus with his “J’Accuse.”
Answer: Emile Zola
12. When reacted with hydroxylamine it forms an oxime and when reduced by a sodium amalgam it is converted into isopropyl alcohol. Not surprisingly, the chief commercial means of producing this chemical is by catalytic dehydrogenation of isopropanol. This effective solvent has a chemical formula of CH3COCH3, and is also known as 2-propanone. FTP, name this organic compound, the active ingredient in nail-polish remover and the simplest of the ketones.
Answer: acetone or dimethyl ketone or propan-2-one or beta-ketopropanone (accept early buzz of 2-propanone)
13. Its Fourth Article promised future talks at St. Andrews to resolve an earlier disagreement. James Gambier, William Adams, and Henry Goulburn were the British signatories of this document. Both sides did agree to determine a boundary from the St. Croix River to Lake of the Woods and to eliminate the slave trade and hostilities with Indians. The impressment of American sailors was not addressed and despite this accord, the Battle of New Orleans was fought the next year. FTP name this treaty that ended the War of 1812
Answer: Treaty of Ghent
14. He accompanied General St. Clair as a judge-advocate on a mission to Vienna and Turin but he would not become famous on the continent till the translation of his Political Discourses into French. Shortly thereafter the first volume of his six-volume History of Great Britain appeared. His first success, Essays Moral and Political, was surpassed by a reworking of a portion of his Treatise of Human Nature. FTP, name this philosopher who wrote Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Answer: David Hume
15. Their earliest success came with the singles “Arnold Layne” and “See Emily Play” which were followed by an album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. 1969 saw their release of the soundtrack for the filmMore as well as the double album Ummagumma. They were initially led by Syd Barrett, but he went insane and was replaced by David Gilmour on lead guitar and vocals. However, it was bassist Roger Waters who really took charge of the band, and led it to such songs as “Eclipse” and “Money.” FTP, name this band whose albums includeThe Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.
Answer: Pink Floyd
16. She is known for her skill at salting pork, and her name is described as “musical, uncommon, and significant.” When we are first set to meet her, the priest and barber appear and interrupt the delivery of a letter to her. Though her name is frequently invoked, as before the adventure with the Biscayan, she never physically appears during the course of the novel. FTP, identify this character, whose real name is Aldonza Lorenzo and who is the sworn love of Don Quixote.
Answer: Dulcinea del Toboso (accept early buzz of Aldonza Lorenzo or Aldonza del Toboso)
17. PurdueUniversity’s Louis De Branges de Bourcia claimed to have a proof for this in June 2004. It initially began with Euler’s definition of the related function, which he evaluated only at real numbers and which he investigated at Bernoulli numbers to show that the sum of the squares of the inverses of the integers equals pi over two. Its namesake extended that function, the zeta function, over the complex plane and made, FTP, what hypothesis that all the non-trivial zeros of this function would lie along the critical line, having real part equal to one half?
Answer: Riemannhypothesis
18. Among the lowlights of his reign was the exile and subsequent execution of Helvidius Priscus. His rise to emperor was due mainly to the military success of Antonius Primus and the support of Mucianus. His reign saw the re-building of the Capitol, which had been burned during a conflict between his supporters and those of his predecessor Vitellius, whom he rebelled against while commander in Judea. Succeeded by his son Titus, FTP, name this Roman emperor who began construction of the Colosseum and who founded the Flavian dynasty in 69 AD.
Answer: Caesar Vespasianus Augustus or Titus Flavius Vespasianus
19. In one of this novel’s tragic scenes, afalsely accused character falls into the Old Hell Shaft and dies. By the endSleary, the proprietor of a local circus, helps the real culprit Tom flee England. A related plot thread follows James Harthouse’s seduction of Tom’s sister, Louisa, who is unhappily married to Josiah Bounderby. Tom and Louisa are the two children of Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy merchant of Coketown, the industrial setting for this novel. FTP, name this Charles Dickens workwhose title echoes the difficult era depicted.
Answer: Hard Times
20. One recent, and unlikely, method for achieving this was given experimental evidence by Rusi Taleyarkhan, who applied sonoluminescence. Other methods even less likely to succeed include the muon-catalyzed and anti-matter catalyzed varieties. An important goal for the useful application of this is the ignition point, but an easier goal is the Lawson Criterion, or break-even point, where a net energy is actually created. FTP, name this nuclear process in which two atoms combine to create one larger atom, and which takes place in our Sun.
Answer: nuclear fusion (do not accept “cold fusion”)
21. In his earlier years, he was inspired by a visit to Alassio for his overture In the South, and he paid homage to a medieval historian in his Froissart Overture. Major successes included his Imperial March and a four-part work, whose first part, “Land of Hope and Glory,” would become his nation’s unofficial second national anthem. Another major piece was a fourteen-part collection that depicted numerous friends of his, and contained such cryptically titled movements as “C.A.E.” and “Nimrod.” FTP, name this British composer of the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance marches.
Answer: Sir Edward Elgar
22. Argyll-Robertson Pupils, though very rarely seen in Diabetes patients, is often associated with the tertiary form of this disease. Other signs include Charcot’s Joints and Clutton’s Joints, and a primary sore at the site of initial exposure called a chancre. Easily detectable via the Wasserman test, it is caused by the bacteria treponema pallidum. FTP, name this common sexually-transmitted disease.
Answer: syphilis (accept “diabetes” before it is mentioned)
23.One of his earlier purges targeted members of the Lango and Acholi tribes in the army, most of whom supported his main political rival. During his rise to power, he gained goodwill by dissolving the secret police and ordering a state funeral for King Freddie; though when he ruled, his home at the Nile Mansions hotel became an infamous center of torture and executions. A 1979 counter-invasion ordered by Julius Nyerere saw the army of Tanzania drive him out, leading to his replacement by the man he had earlier deposed, Milton Obote. FTP, name this former dictator of Uganda.
Answer: Idi Amin Dada Oumee.
24. The birth of this mythological figure was met with a chilling prophecy of civil war and rivers of blood from the sage Cathbad, prompting the king’s knights to call for the death of this child of Elva and Felim. However, the predictions of this child’s beauty aroused the interest of King Conchobar, who spared her with the intent of eventually marrying her. First, she fell in love with the youth Noisi and ran off with him, prompting Conchobar to have Noisi and his brothers killed, which in turn drove her to kill herself. FTP, name this woman from Celtic myth known for her “sorrows.”
Answer: Deirdre
2004 ACF Fall
Bonuses by PrincetonUniversity
1. Name these people associated with the founding of American colonies, FTPE.
A. (10) He was named Virginia’s governor for life in 1610 and never set foot in the nearby state which was named for him. He died when returning from England to investigate charges against his deputy, Samuel Argall.
Answer: Thomas West or ThomasDe La Warr or Lord Delaware
B. (10) His vision of a slavery-free colony to serve as a refuge for debtors in criminals culminated in his 1733 founding of Georgia, which actually did not have any criminals among its founding members.
Answer: James Oglethorpe.
C. (10) In 1638, this Puritan leader spearheaded the creation of the first colonial constitution, his colony’s Fundamental Orders.
Answer: Thomas Hooker.
2. Name these authors of western-themed works, FTP each:
A. (10) A close friend of Teddy Roosevelt, he pioneered the genre of Western novels with The Virginian.
Answer: Owen Wister
B. (10) He was the first editor of the San Francisco-based literary journal, The Overland Monthly, in which his story, “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” was published.
Answer: Frances Bret Harte
C. (10) Popular works by this prolific novelist include The Last of the Plainsmen, Lone Star Ranger, and Riders of the Purple Sage.
Answer: Pearl Zane Grey
3. Name these terms from stereochemistry, FTP each:
A. (10) This is the name for any of a group of molecules with the same number and kind of atomic groupings but with a different, nonsuperimposable spatial arrangement. There are two types of them – geometric and optical.
Answer: stereoisomer
B. (10) These mixtures are produced by reactions labeled “not stereoselective,” and contain an equal number of right- and left-handed isomers. As such, these mixtures do not rotate plane-polarized light.
Answer: racemic
C. (10) Described by the formula C4H6O6, this acid has a racemic form and is frequently used in sour-tasting candies, despite having a fatal dose of 12 grams for a human.
Answer: tartaric acid
4. Name these surrealist paintings, FTP each:
A. (10) A black train is running out of a fireplace, while a black clock that reads approximately 12:43 rests on the mantel above in this Rene Magritte painting.