Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament
Tossups by Maryland A (Mike Bentley, Brittany Clark, Jonathan Magin, and Casey Retterer)
1. This work’s second section ends with an invocation to “let everyone fly out of Sodom” and argues that its addresses have an “extraordinary opportunity” because “the door of mercy [has been thrown] wide open.” Based on a verse from the twenty-third chapter of Deuteronomy, “Their foot shall slide in due time,” its first part mentions “wicked men” kept out of Hell by God’s pleasure, although the speaker constantly warns that God’s wrath will send all the subjects there, likening them to a spider held over a fire. For ten points, name this 1741 sermon by Jonathan Edwards.
Answer: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
2. One character in this work by a man who used to bring her watermelons with E. A. T. his initials, carved into them. After a stop for lunch at “The Tower”, that character invents the story of a secret panel filled with silver before her “horrible thought” causes Pitty Sing to jump on Bailey’s shoulder. John Wesley and June Star then repeatedly scream “We’ve had an ACCIDENT!” until the arrival of a bespectacled man whom the grandmother identifies as the Misfit, after which he and his henchmen gun down the family. For ten points, name this short story by Flannery O’Connor, the title of which is a cliché that proves true.
Answer: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
3. The quantum problem of this type can be solved by the algebraic method to yield wave functions that are Gaussian-weighted Hermite polynomials. Phasors may be useful in solving equations of motion of this type, arising from central square potentials. The classical variety of this type of system is analogous to an RLC circuit but is most often identified with a simple mass on an ideal spring. For ten points, name this type of physical system in which damping and driving combine to yield periodic behavior.
Answer: harmonic oscillator
4. This poet drives Jesus to Golgotha in Richard Brautigan’s poem “The Galilee Hitch-Hiker.” He collected his insults to Belgians in Pauvre Belgique and coupled his translation of Confessions of an English Opium Eater with his “Poem of Hashish” in Artificial Paradises. He also wrote poems like “The Swan” and “The Litanies of Satan,” which appear in a collection that includes sections on “Death,” “Revolt,” and “Spleen and Ideal.” For ten points, name this French poet of The Flowers of Evil.
Answer: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
5. This person told Esquire that an ideal commercial would end with a boy in a wheelchair clotheslining a little girl. Recently winning a contest over teammate DeShawn Stevenson using one hand, he expressed a willingness to “give up one NBA season” to play a game against Duke. For reasons unknown, earlier this season, this guard began yelling “hibachi” every time he made a shot. Nicknamed “Agent Zero,” he makes up the “Big Three” along with Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler. For ten points, name this Arizona alumnus, the point guard for the Washington Wizards.
Answer: Gilbert Arenas
6. This name is shared by two dissimilar entities, one of which can be managed with a so-called buddy block allocator that partitions data into the smallest chunk of size, two to the k. The data structure of this name can come Leftist or Fibonacci versions and is the basis for a namesake n log n sorting algorithm. For ten points, name this term that identifies either an area of dynamic memory allocation analogous to the program stack, or a special case of a binary tree in which each child is either greater or less than its parent, both of which are named for their potentially arbitrary size.
Answer: heap
7. This person wrote two contradances for Count Czernin as well as a mock-heroic funeral march for “Signor Maestro Contrapunto.” He composed variations on “La belle Francoise” and “Ah! vous dirae-je maman,” as well as the Odense and Paris symphonies, while his early works, like the Sonata in C major, were composed in Salzburg. All of his works are categorized by Köchel numbers, while his better-known pieces include the “Ave verum corpus” and Jupiter symphony. For ten points, name this German composer of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the opera The Magic Flute.
Answer: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (or Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart)
8. This person’s wealth went to such projects such an estate in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, where he spent much of his later life with a prostitute named Caroline Lacroix, and the Royal Glasshouses. While he earned the moniker the “King Builder” in his native country, a vigorous campaign against this ruler by E. D. Morel and others in England forced him to relinquish a generator of rubber revenue to his country’s parliament. A onetime employer of Henry Morton Stanley and the subject of an Adam Hochschild book, for ten points, name this Belgian king best known for forming and exploiting the Congo Free State.
Answer: Léopold-Louis-Philippe-Marie-Victor II of Belgium (or Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor II of Belgium; prompt on “Leopold”)
9. Until recently the world’s tenth-largest cotton producer, this nation’s oil reserves remain underdeveloped due to pipeline monopolies by its neighbors. Its highest mountains are in the Kopet Dag Range with major rivers including the Hari Rud, Murghab, and Amu Darya. It is currently ruled by Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow and bordering Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. For ten points, identify this landlocked Central Asian country with capital at Ashgabat, famously ruled by Turkmenbashi.
Answer: Türkmenistan
10. This work sees mandrake root used by the protagonist to help her mother’s pregnancy. It features an orge who eats children and has his eyes in his hands called “The Pale Man,” but its true villain bludgeons a farmer to death with a bottle. Captain Vidal is also responsible for the first and last scene of the film as he shoots his stepdaughter, Ofelia. This work centers on the quest of Princess Moanna, as guided by a character played by Doug Jones. For ten points, identify this 2006 Guillermo del Toro film set during the Spanish Civil War that traces the fate of an innocent girl in a maze of man-made evil.
Answer: Pan’s Labyrinth (or El Laberinto del Fauno)
11. This country saw the July succession of a faction led by Barre Adan Shire Hiraale, the Juba Valley Alliance. For several years, this nation fought a civil war in its northeast region of Puntland, which is currently classified as semi-autonomous. A JVA ally, the Transitional Federal Parliament, presides in Baidoa, the site of the first battle in this country’s more recent conflict. For ten points, name this African country that saw the ousting of the Union of Islamic Courts after the start of a war with Ethiopia late last year, best known to Americans for its capitol, Mogadishu.
Answer: Somalia
12. Aristotle describes this thinker as older than Empedocles, but “after him in works.” He thought that heavenly bodies were pieces of Earth that had broken off and were ignited from rotation, which got him exiled from Athens. Apparently an adherent of Anaximines’ thought, he postulated a plurality of “seeds,” which were the smallest independent elements out of which everything was made, proceeding from the nous. For ten points, identify this pre-Socratic philosopher from Clazomenae, author of “On Nature.”
Answer: Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
13. A story by this author ends with a man masturbating in a woman’s bedroom after they view some Gerhard Richter paintings. One of his plays centers on Sean and Toinette’s decision whether or not to end the life support of the vegetative Alex. This author of Love-Lies-Bleeding described Bill Gray, who dies on a ferry to Beirut, in Mao II, and wrote about waste expert Nick Shay in Underworld. In another of his novels, a professor of Hitler Studies becomes obsessed with obtaining Dylar, a drug that frees people from their fear of death, after an “airborne toxic event.” For ten points, name this American author of White Noise.
Answer: Don DeLillo
14. This conflict was sparked by the execution of three men alleged to have been responsible for the death of John Sassamon. According to legend, a ghost led an unprepared militia to victory its decisive battle of Hadley. It was exacerbated by the murder of Wamsutta, which greatly angered his successor, the namesake of this war. Also precipitated by the deaths of treaty signers Massasoit and William Bradford, for ten points, name this 1675-1676 conflict between New Englanders and the namesake leader of the Wamponoag Indians, also known as Metacom, who was nicknamed for his similarity to Alexander the Great’s father.
Answer: King Philip’s War (accept Metacomet’s War before “Metacom”)
15. The chemicals produced by this structute’s parafollicular or c cells is stored in this organ’s namesake –globulin, created by its follicles. This organ is affected by Grave’s disease and Hashimoto’s syndrome, which can affect calcitonin production, but its diseases can sometimes be treated by injections of iodine-131, since this organ concentrates iodine, the lack of which causes a goiter. For ten points, and this endocrine gland located on the throat that produced thyroxine.
Answer: the thyroid gland
16. This artist convinced Segei Shchukin to let him alter the color scheme of one of his works before it was purchased. His Seated Riffian shows the title character in a green shadow, while Green Stripe shows his wife in a Japanese hairstyle. Many of his works from the early twentieth century feature a motif of five nude forms holding hands and dancing in a circle. For ten points, name this French Post-Impressionist, creator of The Red Room, The Joy of Life, and the series La Danse and The Blue Nude.
Answer: Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
17. One character in this series learns that his wife has been hit by a car, so he throws her out for walking outside without permission. A crucial turning point comes when Yasin discovers his father visiting a brothel. In the last volume, the focus shifts to the home of Khadija and the disillusionment of Kamal, who escape their father al-Sayyed Ahmad. Following three generations of the Abd al-Jawad family from World War I through the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952, for ten points, name this series comprised of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street, written by Naguib Mahfouz.
Answer: the Cairo Trilogy (prompt on “Palace Walk” before “volume”)
18. Yuma County is the location of this state’s lowest point and the Sangre de Cristo mountains divide its two main geographical features. Its rivers include the Arikaree, Laramie, and Canadian, while its national parks include Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Mount Elbert in this state’s Lake County is the highest point in the Rocky Mountains. For ten points, identify this state with boundaries consisting only of lines of latitude and longitude; the only state entirely 1000 meters above sea level.
Answer: Colorado
19. This story opens on a train to Marwar Junction on which the narrator meets a ragged, red-bearded man whose companion says “We are not little men” before asking the narrator, a newspaperman, for a map. One of the main characters bleeds after being bitten by his native wife, showing that he is not a god descended from Alexander the Great. Carnehan is then crucified between two pine trees and the title character is killed after falling off a rope bridge, still wearing his golden crown. For ten points, name this Rudyard Kipling short story about an ex-soldier Daniel Dravot’s attempt to become the monarch of Kafiristan.
Answer: “The Man Who Would Be King”
20. Until recently, the known recorded history of these people consisted of a single document called the Edict of Telipinus. Their Indo-European language was referred to by native speakers as Nesite. After the turmoil caused by Sea Peoples, their empire disintegrated into city-states in their so-called “Neo” period. At their height, their empire spanned central Anatolia, northwestern Syria and upper Mesopotamia. For ten points, identify these people defeated by the forces of Rameses II at the Battle of Kadesh; foreign rulers of Egypt during the New Kingdom known for their chariots and iron weapons.
Answer: Hittites
21. A forged letter of invitation ending this event was handed back to the government in the 1990’s. Symbolically tipped off with appearance of the so-called “Two Thousand Words,” this event got underway in earnest with implementation of the “Action Program,” Its aftermath saw promulgation of the Brezhnev Doctrine. Ended without help from Romania on August 21st, this event had started with the ascendancy of Alexander Dubcek to General Secretary. For ten points, name this brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, taking place in a certain city during a certain season.
Answer: the Prague Spring of 1968
Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament
Bonuses by Maryland A (Mike Bentley, Brittany Clark, Jonathan Magin, and Casey Retterer)
1. He wrote of a Babylonian philosopher persecuted for challenging religious orthodoxy in Zadig. For ten points each…
1. Name this French author of the Henriade and Zaire.
Answer: Voltaire (or François-Marie Arouet)
2. Voltaire is best known for this novel, the title character of which learns that life is not “the best of all possible worlds” despite the teachings of Dr. Pangloss.
Answer: Candide
3. Candide is kicked out of the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-trunckh for kissing this girl, his cousin, who ends up marrying him at the end of the novel.
Answer: Cunégonde
2. Identify these anthropologists with something in common for ten points each.
1. A lesser-known work by this woman who did fieldwork in Polynesia is titled Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies and concerns the origins of gender differences in those societies.
Answer: Margaret Mead
2. This colleague of Mead’s is responsible for Patterns of Culture and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, a study of Japan.
Answer: Ruth Benedict (or Ruth Fulton)
3. A cultural relativist, this colleague of Mead and Benedict is mainly known for opening anthropology to the study of black Americans in such works as The Myth of the Negro Past and The Human Factor in Changing Africa.
Answer: Melville Jean Herskovits
3. Identify some of these unsolved problems from mathematics for ten points each.
1. Although Schrinelman proved in 1939 that every even number can be written as the sum of less than three hundred thousand primes, this claim that every even number greater than four can be expressed as the sum of two primes remains unproved.
Answer: the strong Goldbach conjecture (or binary Goldbach conjecture)
2. The extended Goldbach conjecture is related to the constant named for numbers of this kind. These are pairs of irreducible numbers p and p plus two; their namesake conjecture posits an infinite number of them.
Answer: twin primes
3. P would be NP if someone finds a polynomial-time algorithm to find one of these in an undirected graph. Names for the Irish deviser of the quaternions, it is defined as a path that visits every node in the graph exactly once before returning to the starting node.
Answer: Hamiltonian cycle (or Hamiltonian circuit or vertex tour; prompt for Hamiltonian on “cycle” or “circuit” or “graph cycle” or “graph circuit;” prompt for cycle or circuit or closed on “Hamiltonian” or “Hamiltonian path”)
4. Identify these contemporaries of Shakespeare for ten points each.
1. This poet and solider wrote The Defense of Poesy and Astrophil and Stella.
Answer: Sir Phillip Sidney
2. This author wrote a play about Tamburlaine, as well as the poem “Hero and Leander.” Like Shakespeare, he wrote a play about a Jewish merchant intent on revenge, although his character, Barabas, far outdoes Shylock by actually killing people and leading a big Turkish army to sack a city.
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
3. This late contemporary of Shakespeare wrote macabre tragedies such as The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi.
Answer: John Webster
5. Although it restored the rights of Catholics to worship in parts of the country that they had been prohibited to do so and also limited the further increase of Protestantism, it faced sharp criticism from Pope Clement VIII. For the stated number of points…
1. (5 points) Name this proclamation that granted religious tolerance to French Huguenots in 1598.
Answer: Edict of Nantes
2. (5 points) The Edict of Nantes was issued by this king who had converted to Catholicism to subdue religious tensions in his country.