Valencia Delta Burke 2010
Round 5
1. One novel by this author has the subtitle "The Romance of Monte Beni," and centers on Kenyon, Hilda, and Miriam, who are American art students in Italy. In addition to The Marble Faun, this author wrote a short story in which the title character sees his wife Faith and clergy member Deacon Gookin at an evil forest ceremony. This author of "Young Goodman Brown" also wrote a novel in which Mistress Hibbins meets the Black Man in the forest, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge, and Hester Prynne wears the titular patch of fabric. For 10 points, name this author of The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. In the Luo-Benson expression, this quantity is related to the number of valence shell electrons divided by the atomic radius. Another method to calculate this quantity uses effective nuclear charge values, and is named for Allred and Rochow. Electron affinity and ionization energy are added together in a measure of this property named for Mulliken, and fluorine has the largest value on the scale of it named for Pauling. For 10 points, name this property that measures the ability of an atom to draw the electrons in a bond to itself.
ANSWER: electronegativity
3. One ruler of this name and number was brother of Perdiccas III and is the formulator of the hammer and anvil military tactic his son made famous. Another ruler of this name and number became king of Portugal in what the Portuguese refer to as the “Babylonian Captivity.” That monarch also married Mary I of England and tried to invade that country when Elizabeth wouldn’t marry him, subsequently losing the Spanish Armada. The French ruler of this name and number went on the Third Crusade and quarreled with Richard the Lionhearted. FTP what is the shared name of these three rulers, the earliest of which was father of Alexander the Great?
ANSWER: Phillip II
4. Cape Sable, separated from the mainland by Whitewater Bay, marks the southwestern end of this national park. The area known as Ten Thousand Islands sits off its western shore, and the Harney and Shark Rivers run west to east through it. Fed by the Kissimmee River, it acts as a watershed for the Biscayne Aquifer. Home to the endangered Florida Panther, FTP name this large “river of grass,” a national park in South Florida.
ANSWER: Everglades National Park
5. In this faith, those who follow only their own desires can be referred to as “manmukh,” as they are under the power of “haumain,” or self-centeredness, whereas those who want to follow the truth of God are referred to as “gurmukh.” Those who have undergone the amrit sanchar, or baptismal ceremony, can be considered “pure,” or “Khalsa,” in this faith. The Khalsa should be distinguished by their “kesh,” or uncut hair, and “kirpan,” or dagger, along with three other ‘k’-characteristics. FTP this describes what syncretistic religion based on the Adi Granth and founded by Guru Nanak?
ANSWER: Sikhism
6. This artist was influenced by Charles Blanc and Ogden Rood. A woman in yellow performs horseback aerobatics in his The Circus. This artist preferred the word divisionism for his style, which was also used by Paul Signac [sen-YAK]. He painted Bathers at Asnieres [ah-NYER], and another work depicts a crowd of people on an island in the Seine [SEYN], including several women with parasols, and a woman holding a monkey on a leash. For 10 points, name this artist associated with pointillism who painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
ANSWER: Georges Seurat
7. This entity does not exist in a model known as Technicolor, and it was predicted in 1964 by its namesake, along with Englert, Brout, Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble. Possibly produced by the decay of two gluons, it could also be made by combining the particles that mediate the weak force. Lacking intrinsic spin or electric charge, it is believed to impart mass to other particles, and it is sometimes known as the God particle. For 10 points, name this eponymous boson that has yet to be observed.
ANSWER: Higgs boson
8. A group of women plot to kill Euripides because his plays have slandered females in one play by this author set at the title festival of Thesmophoria. A dog is tried for the theft of cheese in a play which attacks the leadership of Cleon by this author. In addition to The Knights, he also wrote a work in which Peisetairos and Euelpides convince the title characters to build a city between the earth and the home of the gods to be called Cloudcuckooland. FTP who is this author of Greek comedies like The Birds and The Frogs?
ANSWER: Aristophanes
9. Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola failed to assassinate this man. Tom Pendergast suggested this man run for the Senate, and his namesake committee investigated World War II defense contracts. Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over this president's veto, and he issued Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the armed forces. This president's namesake doctrine provided aid to Turkey and Greece to help contain communism. For 10 points, name this man who decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima shortly after succeeding FDR.
ANSWER: Harry S. Truman
10. The third section of this work argues that the French version of the title group has been “one-sided” and emasculated, as opposed to that put forward by Germans. Its second section argues that modern man had replaced religious and family value for “exchange value,” also stating that the title group would differ from other working-class parties by not invoking national interests, but only class interests. Ending by stating that “proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains,” FTP what is this 1848 work that exhorted, “Workers of the world, unite!” a work by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
ANSWER: The Communist Manifesto
11. Before joining the Sex Pistols, John Lydon was known for wearing one of this band’s t-shirts on which he had painted the words “I hate” before the band’s name. The only song on which all five central members performed is “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” That song appears on their album A Saucerful of Secrets, which preceded Atom Heart Mother and Meddle. Their next album briefly charted number one and then remained on Billboard’s Top 200 for 714 weeks, longer than any album in history. That album featured classic rock staples like “Us and Them” and “Money.” Fronted variously by Syd Barret, Roger Waters, and David Gilmour, FTP, name this British band behind The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.
ANSWER: Pink Floyd
12. The protease papain cleaves their Fc portion from their Fab portion. The antinuclear type of these molecules is present in sufferers of lupus. They can participate in opsonization, and ELISA can be used to determine their concentration. These Y-shaped molecules consist of two heavy chains and two light chains. Hybridomas are needed to produce the monoclonal type, which are specific for the same epitope. Part of the humoral response, they are secreted by B cells. For 10 points, name these proteins that bind to a specific antigen in an immune response.
ANSWER: antibodies [or antibody; or immunoglobulins]
13. In this author’s first novel, many workers are killed on the title structure due to the title character’s illicit affair. In another novel by this author, Thea Kronborg finds success as an opera singer. This author of Alexander’s Bridge and The Song of the Lark wrote a novel in which Carl Linstrum never gets to marry Alexandra Bergson as well as a book in which Jim Burden meet the title woman in Black Hawk, Nebraska. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia.
ANSWER: Willa Cather
14. This thinker wrote of the “most mendacious minute” of human history being when mankind decided that its idea of truth mattered, cosmically, in “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.” This writer declared Spinoza to be “the purest philosopher” in a work that celebrates the “free spirit” and denies the role of genius in art, Human, All Too Human. This author contrasted artistic tendencies towards order and chaos as “Apollonian” and “Dionysian” in his The Birth of Tragedy. For 10 points, name this author who proclaimed that Europe had killed God in The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche
15. Andrew White wrote down every note in over six hundred solos recorded by this musician. One album by this man features a modal performance of the title track, which was based on a song from The Sound of Music. Another album by this man is named for the "loping instrumental gait" of Paul Chambers, and includes the songs "Countdown" and "Naima." His furiously paced streams of notes were described by Ira Gitler as "sheets of sound." For 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist who recorded the albums My Favorite Things, Giant Steps, and A Love Supreme.
ANSWER: John Coltrane
16. A thousand years ago this modern nation’s Isan region was dominated by the Si Kottaboon people. Another Middle Ages culture in this modern nation was the Dvaravati, the cities of which clustered around the Chao Praya River. Its namesake people drove out the Wa people around 1000 CE, and those people eventually established the Ayutthaya Kingdom, which ended with Burmese incursion in the mid-18th century. Including rulers like Mongkut and many Ramas, FTP what is this Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Siam, with capital at Bangkok?
ANSWER: Thailand
17. The speaker of one poem by this author asks, "What’s the Latin name for parsley," exclaims "Hy, Zy, Hine," and wishes to send Brother Lawrence "flying off to hell." Another poem by this author describes a sculpture of Neptune taming a sea-horse, along with a Fra Pandolf painting of the title female, who was murdered by the Duke of Ferrara. This man's collection Bells and Pomegranates contains those poems, "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" and "My Last Duchess." For 10 points, name this poet whose wife Elizabeth Barrett wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese.
ANSWER: Robert Browning
18. These objects are replaced during serialization in a process called unswizzling. Automatic garbage collection is one feature of the smart type, although segmentation faults or general protection faults can be the result of the dangling type. Each node of a doubly linked list contains has a forward and backward one, and an asterisk is used to dereference them. For 10 points, name these variables that store memory addresses.
ANSWER: pointers
19. The first to hold this legislative post was Frederick Muhlenberg. In 1998 Bob Livingston was set to assume this post until an extramarital affair forced him to resign since he had been loudly critical of Bill Clinton’s affair. Illinois’s Joe Cannon is often considered the most powerful man to hold this post, though his power and the position’s were diminished when he was stripped of complete control of the Rules Committee. Dominated by Democrat Tip O’Neill in the 1980s and by Newt Gingrich in the early 1990s, FTP what is this legislative post currently held by Nancy Pelosi, the presiding officer of the House of Representatives?
ANSWER: Speaker of the House
20. This deity’s minister Ninshubar created two beings, Kurgarru and Kalaturru, to bring the “food of life” and “water of life” to the underworld to restore this deity. Prior to dying there, this deity had been divested of the Shugurra, her royal staff, her necklace, and five other items as she passed through the seven gates of the underworld ruled by her sister, Ereshkigal. Venturing there to find and restore her beloved Tammuz, FTP who was this goddess associated with the planet Venus, the Assyrian and Akkadian goddess of sex and war?
ANSWER: Ishtar (accept an answer of “Inanna” until “Ereshkigal” is read; after that, prompt)
Valencia Delta Burke 2010
Round 5 Bonuses
1. Answer the following about performing a titration in chemistry lab, for 10 points each.
[10] This tall graduated glass tube has a stopcock at the bottom, which is quite useful for measuring out small quantities of liquid during a titration.
ANSWER: buret [or burette]
[10] This indicator is often used in acid-base titrations because it is colorless in acidic or neutral solutions, but pink in basic solutions.
ANSWER: phenolphthalein [fee-nawl-THAL-een]
[10] One chemist with this surname is the namesake of a titration used to measure small amounts of water, and another chemist with this surname is the namesake of some projections used in organic chemistry that represent a three-dimensional chiral structure in two dimensions.
ANSWER: Fischer
2. DeWitt Clinton advocated for this artificial waterway. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this canal completed in 1825 that connects the Hudson with its namesake Great Lake.
ANSWER: Erie Canal
[10] This other waterway was completed by the United States after a failed attempt led by Ferdinand de Lesseps [le-SEPS]. Its namesake Zone was the birthplace of John McCain.
ANSWER: Panama Canal
[10] This man is the namesake of some treaties with Pauncefote [PONS-foot] and Bunau-Varilla that led to the creation of the Panama Canal. He served as Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905.
ANSWER: John Hay
3. Seiji Ozawa preceded James Levine as music director of this city's Symphony Orchestra, which often performs at the Tanglewood Music Festival during the summer. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this city whose Pops Orchestra is currently conducted by Keith Lockhart.
ANSWER: Boston
[10] This man was commissioned to compose the Symphony of Psalms for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His ballets include The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.