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HARVARD FALL TOURNAMENT 2006
ROUND THREE
TOSSUPS
1. The title character’s name was a reference to Europe’s second largest lake. This novel was studied
obsessively by Nabokov and this book was written serially like many other 19th century novels, but its
unusual verses of iambic tetrameter were so unique that a certain type of poetic stanza was named for the
title character. The narrator assures us that the title character is a fop whose “play was love,” a remark
which does not explain his almost noble refusal of Tanya’s francophone advances. It is ironic that the
author died in a duel to defend the honor of his wife, Natalya Goncharova, since the title character of this
novel kills his best friend Vladimir Lensky in a duel under similar circumstances. FTP, identify this novel
in verse, written by Alexsandr Pushkin.
ANSWER: Eugene Onegin (accept Yvgeny Onyegin)
2. Its companion case, Bolling v. Sharpe, applied a similar rule to the District of Columbia, using the Fifth
Amendment instead of the Fourteenth. The Supreme Court’s ruling in this case itself was probably
influenced by the death of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, which Felix Frankfurter called “the first
indication I have ever had that there is a God.” One year after this case was initially decided, the Court
ordered states to comply with the ruling “with all deliberate speed.” While he conceded that Monroe
Elementary had no specific deficiencies, attorney Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP argued that
separation by race was inherently unequal. FTP, name this 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled
unconstitutional racial segregation in public schools.
ANSWER: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka I
3. Accelerations due to it are most important when the Rossby number for a system is small, and it is given
by A equals negative two omega cross v, where v is the velocity of a particle and omega is the angular
velocity. An early investigator of it was William Ferrel, and a mass affected by it will move in a circular
path called an “inertial circle,” causing an object in freefall on Earth to be deflected slightly to the east. For
ten points, name this effect, a result of the Earth’s rotation, which affects many weather patterns, including
the rotation of cyclones.
ANSWER: Coriolis effect (accept Coriolis force)
4. The Mascarene and Kerguelen Plateaus lie under it, as does the Ninety-East Ridge, which is named for a
line of longitude that passes through it. It touches Wilkes Land along much of its southern shore, frigid
because of the West Wind Drift, while the warm Agulhas Current flows south along its western shore. Its
inlets include the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman, which are connected by the Strait of al-Mandab and
the Strait of Hormuz respectively to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. It surrounds the islands of
Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar. FTP, name this body of water, the third largest of the world’s
oceans.
ANSWER: Indian Ocean
5. This man “castrated” the manuscript of his most famous work before its 1739 printing to on the urging of
Bishop Joseph Butler, who disagreed with his position on miracles. This writer argued that free will
implies that human actions are random and proposed the doctrine of instrumentalism, the belief that an
action’s rationality depends on the actor’s goals and desires. His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
display his skeptical view of arguments for God’s existence, and, in an argument known as his “fork,” he
separated statements about ideas from statements about the world in his Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding. FTP, name this naturalist philosopher and author of A Treatise of Human Nature, an
important figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
ANSWER: David Hume
6. The process of its transmission is believed by some to have been associated with epilepsy, since the
person receiving it is reported to have been cold at first and then have sweated profusely. Other times, it
was understood as part of an ocular vision of a being occupying every horizon, which is odd because we
usually associate it with a memorized oral tradition. Its words were promptly recorded by a following of
secretaries, who arranged them in the midst of previous verses called surahs, which is why it is difficult to
pinpoint the first part to have been revealed. It was not codified in its entirety until the reign of Uthman as
caliph, and it was known to change frequently as God revealed more and more of it to his prophet. FTP,
identify this holiest scripture of Islam.
ANSWER: The Holy Qur’an
7. The key to it may be the tiny frog in the lower left corner, as the French word for “frog” was slang for
“prostitute.” It took its inspiration from The Judgment of Paris, an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi,
and Concert Champêtre, a painting by Giorgione and Titian. Three figures sit in the foreground, with the
one on the right, a bearded man, leaning back and stretching his hand forward to the man and woman
across from him. A second woman stoops in the background, but, unlike the first woman, she is clothed.
Innovative for its combination of portraiture, landscape, and still life – the last represented by the spilling
picnic basket in the lower left – this is, FTP, what 1863 painting by Edouard Manet?
ANSWER: Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe (accept Luncheon on the Grass)
8. This 1861 German invention comes in conventional sizes of 50, 125, 250, 500, and 1000 milliliters. A
cross between it and the Griffin beaker gives the fleaker, a type of container for liquids. Well-suited for
many tasks, it is used to store liquids because of its compatibility with rubber bungs. It is also used in
titration, possessing a form that allows for both quick, efficient heating and thorough manual swirling.
FTP, identify this common piece of lab glassware that differs from a beaker in its extended cylindrical neck
and conical base.
ANSWER: Erlenmeyer flask
9. One of the workers there, Frank Wills, contacted police after noticing a small piece of tape propping
open one of the doors, and the police promptly arrested five men, including Frank Strugis and James
McCord, for breaking into an office there for the second time in three weeks in order to fix faulty wiretaps.
McCord’s notebook contained the phone number of E. Howard Hunt, who was soon arrested in connection
with the crime here, though Press Secretary Ron Ziegler famously called it nothing more than a “third-rate
burglary.” The dogged investigation by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward,
however, turned it into a major scandal. FTP, identify this Washington, DC, hotel and namesake of the
scandal that forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
ANSWER: Watergate Hotel
10. Sylvester Mazzolini wrote the response to this document at the behest of Pope Leo X, who believed that
its author “when sober [would] change his mind.” Translated into German, it was spread rapidly by the
newly invented printing press. It was inspired by a fundraising project for renovations to St. Peter’s
Basillica in Rome, which saw Johann Tetzel wander through Europe selling indulgences, and this
document may have been mailed to the Archbishop of Mainz rather than nailed to the door of the Castle
Church in Wittenberg as legend says. FTP, name this numerical list of grievances against the Catholic
Church, written by Martin Luther.
ANSWER: 95 Theses (accept The Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of
Indulgences)
11. If the theater is not quiet during this film, then “it’s gonna get tragic,” note two enthusiastic young men
who add that they are “about to be taken to a dream world of magic.” Before the beginning of this film,
they note correctly that Matthew Perry was once Bruce Willis’s co-star. The men have found this film’s
theater using Google Maps, and after paying for tickets to see it, the men note that you can “call [them]
Aaron Burr by the way [they’re] dropping Hamiltons.” FTP, name this 2005 film that famously became the
subject of Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell’s “Lazy Sunday” rap on Saturday Night Live.
ANSWER: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (accept The
Chronic-What!-cles of Narnia from someone enthusiastic)
12. She was an early advocate of adultery for married women and of abortion; Procopius claimed in his
Secret History she had benefited from the latter herself. He also wrote that her father was a circus bear
trainer and that her mother was a prostitute. She had a son as the mistress of one courtesan, yet she still
managed to marry a powerful man and to achieve sainthood. It was her advice during the Nika riots of 532
that probably saved both her husband and his empire, and when she died of cancer, she was buried in the
Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. FTP, name this Byzantine empress, the wife of Justinian I.
ANSWER: Theodora
13. Its developer, John Backus, received the Turing prize in 1977 for his work on it, and its first version
appeared in 1957, with subsequent major revisions in 1966, 1977, and 1990. It has evolved to include
many modern features, including procedure pointers and elements of object oriented programming, and this
programming language is still in widespread use in climate modelling and other scientific applications.
FTP, name this first high-level programming language, whose name is a contraction of “Formula
Translating System.”
ANSWER: Fortran (accept FORTRAN, preferred for versions prior to 1990)
14. In June 1830, he was killed while riding home from a constitutional convention over which he had
presided in order to hold his country together. In the nineteen years before 1830, he had led a distinguished
military career, which included victories at Pichincha in Ecuador and Junín in Peru, which were followed
by his miraculous victory at Ayacucho, which ensured South American independence from Spain. Seeking
to retire, it was against his own will that he then became president of the newly created state of Bolivia.
FTP, name this chief lieutenant of Simón Bolívar who lent his name to the judicial capital of Bolivia.
ANSWER: Antonio José de Sucre
15. This author took the title of one of his novels from the poem “The Journey of the Magi,” and his novel
begins in medias res with the main character’s trial for accepting bribes. That character, Obi, travels to
England for university at the cost of the Umuofia Progressive Union, but he returns home to work at the
Scholarship Board, where he rejects the sexual advances of a girl who wants a scholarship. It is the
character’s relationship with the outcast Clara, however, that leads to the character’s downfall. That novel,
No Longer at Ease, was the sequel to a more famous novel, which tells of the struggle of Okonkwo to come
to grips with colonialism and which took its title from William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” FTP,
identify this famous Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Chinua Achebe
16. First observed in 1842 by botanist Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, this type of macromolecule can be seen
effectively by applying colchicine to cells in a vial and then staining them. In fact, the macromolecule's
name comes from the Greek words for color and body, though they are not visible under light microscopy
during all stages of the cell cycle. While they may be circular in prokaryotes, eukaryotic versions have two
arms called “p” and “q” that are both duplicated during mitosis. FTP, give the name of these molecules of
DNA, of which most human cells have 23 pairs.
ANSWER: chromosome
17. He sings of his happiness in “Vi Ricorda, O Boschi Ombrosi,” then his sadness in the poignant
recitative “Tu Se’ Morta” in a 1607 opera. Franz Liszt wrote a tone-poem about him, and Igor Stravinsky’s
1947 ballet named after him combined romantic and neoclassical themes. One inspiration for Stravinsky’s
ballet was that original opera in which this mythological figure uses the song “Possente Spirto” to try to
win over Caronte. In an irreverent 1858 work featuring the music now known as the Can-Can, this
character plots with Pluto to kill his wife, is forced by Public Opinion to retrieve her, and, due to Jupiter’s
thunderbolt, turns around in the final scene. FTP, identify this namesake of a Claudio Monteverdi opera
and a Jacques Offenbach opéra bouffe set “in the Underworld,” the husband of Euridice.
ANSWER: Orpheus (accept Orfeo)
18. The youngest brother in this book is upset by a sport he watches through the “curling flower spaces”
and recalls an occasion when T.P. drank “sassprilluh.” The oldest cuts his finger when he breaks a watch
his father gave him and attempts to communicate with an Italian girl he calls “little sister.” The middle
brother is frustrated by the slowness of Western Union updates on the stock market and surreptitiously
cashes checks sent by his sister. That sister, the “absent center” of this novel, once climbed a tree, allowing
her three brothers to see her muddy drawers; she later became pregnant by Dalton Ames. FTP, name this
1929 stream-of-consciousness novel in which Benjy, Quentin, and Jason Compson remember their sister
Caddy, the masterpiece of William Faulkner.
ANSWER: The Sound and the Fury
19. A family plans to have six children, each of which is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. The family
wishes to know the probability that at least four of their children will be boys. This may be computed by
summing up the probabilities of having exactly four, five, and six boys. (pause) Given that this is equal to
one sixty-fourth times the quantity six choose six plus six choose five plus six choose four, FTP, what is the
probability that the family has at least four boys?
ANSWER: 11/32 (Accept 22/64 or even more ridiculous, unsimplified fractions)
20. He wrote conquest of Granada and The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus during his tenure as
ambassador to Spain, where he researched the legends of the moors for Mahomet and His Successors and
Tales of the Alhambra. He is more famous for writing Bracebridge Hall, but his most famous work was a
collection of short stories, including “The Boar’s Head Tavern,” “Christmas Day,” “The Pride of the
Village,” and “The Spectre Bridegroom.” Popularizer of the nickname Gotham for his home state of New
York and of the term knickerbockers, this is, FTP, what author whose The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
included “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”?
ANSWER: Washington Irving
BONUSES
1. FTPE, name the following sub-disciplines of anthropology
(10) This branch studies primate behavior, human evolution, osteology, forensics, and population genetics;
it arose from the studies of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel's work on genetics.
ANSWER: Physical (accept Biological) Anthropology
(10) This branch studies social networks, social diffusion, and the normative aspects of culture; it focuses
strongly on field work and participant observation. Claude Levi-Strauss and J. G. Frazer are good examples
of anthropologists in this field
ANSWER: Cultural Anthropology (Prompt on Social)
(10) This branch studies the variation in languages and language development across history and the
relationship between languages and cultures. Prominent figures in this field include Edward Sapir and
Franz Boas.
ANSWER: Linguistic Anthropology
2. FTPE, name these types of tea
(10) This type of tea has undergone minimal oxidation. It is popular in China and Japan, and its health
benefits have been extensively researched.
ANSWER: Green Tea
(10) More heavily oxidized than green tea, this has stronger flavor and more caffeine. Earl Grey is a blend
of this type.
ANSWER: Black Tea
(10) This tea, whose name means “black dragon” in Chinese, is between green and black tea in oxidation.
Is it commonly served in Chinese restaurants.
ANSWER: Oolong Tea
3. FTPE, given a list of three rivers, place them in order of increasing length, shortest to longest (all or
nothing).
(10) Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná.
ANSWER: Orinoco, Paraná, Amazon
(10) Danube, Rhine, Volga.
ANSWER: Rhine, Danube, Volga
(10) Niger, Orange, Zambezi.
ANSWER: Orange, Zambezi, Niger
4. FTPE, given a Shakespeare character, name the play.
(10) Rosalind
ANSWER: As You Like It
(10) Rosencrantz
ANSWER: Hamlet
(10) Banquo
ANSWER: Macbeth
5. FTPE, answer the following questions about “The Marriage of Figaro.”
(10) Name the composer who wrote that opera.
ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(10) This is Figaro’s betrothed. This part is sung by a soprano.
ANSWER: Susanna
(10) This boy is Count Almaviva’s page. He is in love with the idea of love, as he expresses in the famous
aria Voi, che sapete.
ANSWER: Cherubino
6. FTPE, given a description of what happens, name the phase of mitosis.
(10) In this phase, the cell elongates, a new nuclear envelope begins to form around the chromosomes,
which are unwinding back into the less dense chromatin.
ANSWER: Telophase
(10) In this phase, the centromeres of the chromosomes line up along the equatorial plane of the cell.
ANSWER: Metaphase
(10) At the end of this phase, the cell has successfully separated identical copies of the genetic material into
two different sections of the cell.
ANSWER: Anaphase
7. FTPE, identify the Jane Austen novel given a house that appears in that novel.
(10) Donwell Abbey
ANSWER: Emma
(10) Kellynch Hall
ANSWER: Persuasion
(10) Netherfield Hall
ANSWER: Pride and Prejudice
8. FTPE, answer these questions about a certain work of art.
(10) An angel sits dejected at the edge of the sea below a magic square and among geometric solids in this
work by Albrecht Dürer.
ANSWER: Melancolia I
(10) Melancolia I is an example of this type of print in which grooves are hollowed out in a copper plate.
Ink fills the grooves and is then transferred to the paper.
ANSWER: Engraving
(10) Dürer worked more often in this form of print, in which one gouges what become the areas of white
space.
ANSWER: Woodblock
9. FTPE, given the amount, name the common prefix used for it in the metric system. For example, given
10, the answer would be “deka-”
(10) 100
ANSWER: hecto(10)10 raised to the negative 6
ANSWER: micro(10) 10 raised to the ninth
ANSWER: giga10. John L. O’Sullivan first used this term in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1945.
FTPE (10) Name this phrase that referred to Americans’ divine right to expand across the North American
continent.
ANSWER: Manifest Destiny
(10) In his editorial, O’Sullivan worried that foreign powers were trying to stop the American annexation of
this large state.
ANSWER: Texas
(10) Mexico recognized the United States’s rights to Texas in this 1848 treaty that ended the Mexican War.
ANSWER: Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo
11. FTPE, name the atomic element from clues.
(10) The 255 isotope of this element was found in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, but it was named
after an Italian émigré scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1938
ANSWER: Fermium
(10) this element, also called Radium F, was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, and was named
after Marie’s homeland, which at the time was not recognized as an independent country.
ANSWER: Polonium
(10) This element, number 72 on the periodic table, was discovered in the capital of Denmark, and uses the
city’s Latin name as a basis for its own.
ANSWER: Hafnium
12. FTPE, identify these medieval kings of England.
(10) This husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine ordered the murder of Thomas à Beckett in Canturbury
Cathedral.
ANSWER: Henry II
(10) Henry II was deposed by this son of his, who is most famous for leading a crusade.
ANSWER: Richard I (accept Richard the Lionheart)
(10) Richard I was succeeded by this brother of his, most famous for signing the Magna Carta.
ANSWER: John
13. FTPE, answer the following questions about the hopeful European politics of the 1920s.
(10) Germany joined this multi-national organization decreed in the 14th Point in 1926.
ANSWER: League of Nations
(10) In 1928, fifteen countries signed this pact named for an American secretary of state and a French
prime minister that renounced war as an instrument of national policy.
ANSWER: Kellogg-Briand Pact
(10) In 1925, Germany and France settled their border disputes, while Britain pledged to defend both
France and Germany against the other, at this Swiss town.
ANSWER: Locarno
14. FTPE, identify these 20th century American plays.
(10) This play about the Tyrone family is based on Eugene O’Neill’s own family. A major theme is Mary
Tyrone’s morphine addiction.
ANSWER: Long Day’s Journey into Night
(10) This David Mamet play chronicles a real estate firm that sells bad property at high prices. The four
salesmen working at the firm are named Levene, Roma, Moss, and Aaronow.
ANSWER: Glengarry Glen Ross
(10) This play by Tennessee Williams debuted in late 1961. It takes place in Mexico, and the main
character is in ex-minister leading a group of Baptist tourists.
ANSWER: The Night of the Iguana
15. FTPE, identify these astronomically inspired songs.
(10) Bob Dylan sang “you were trying to break into another world / a world I never knew” after seeing the
title celestial object in this song.
ANSWER: “Shooting Star”
(10) This song by Train is replete with astronomical references, asking “did you sail across the sun?” and
“did you make it to the Milky Way?”
ANSWER: “Drops of Jupiter”
(10) Bonnie Tyler sings “your love is like a shadow on me all of the time” in this song whose title
references a celestial event.
ANSWER: “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
16. FTPE, name these locations in Norse mythology.
(10) Meaning “middle enclosure,” this word referred to the realm inhabited by humans
ANSWER: Asgard
(10) Ruled by Hel, this cold, dark place was the dwelling place of most of the dead.
ANSWER: Niflheim
(10) To the Norse, the earth is a flat disc in the branches of the world tree, named this.
ANSWER: Yggdrasil
17. FTPE, identify the following characters in Goethe’s Faust.
(10) This “spirit of negation” first appears in the form of a black poodle and is trapped in Faust’s study by a
pentagram.
ANSWER: Mephistopheles
(10) Faust’s assistant, who also appears in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, defends pedantic study and creates a
miniature man, Homunculus.
ANSWER: Wagner
(10) Faust seduces this girl, who later drowns their child, and kills her brother Valentine in a duel. She
reappears in the last scene as a penitent in heaven.
ANSWER: Margaret or Gretchen
18. FTPE, answer the following questions about oscillation in physics
(10) This type of oscillation arises when the force on a mass is proportional to but opposite in direction to
the displacement. It is exhibited by the movement of a pendulum with small angular amplitude.
ANSWER: Simple Harmonic Motion
(10) A system with a mass attached to a spring may undergo simple harmonic motion, because according to
this law, the spring exerts a force proportional to the distance it is stretched.
ANSWER: Hooke’s Law
(10) This phenomenon arises when a simple harmonic oscillator is subject to an external force at a certain
frequency. It is responsible for the breaking of wine glasses by high-pitched sounds.
ANSWER: Resonance
19. FTPE, name these Jewish holidays in Tishrei.
(10) This holiday, on the 10th of Tishrei, is the day of atonement.
ANSWER: Yom Kippur
(10) This seven-day festival, beginning on the 15th of Tishrei, celebrates the harvest. It is one of three
traditional pilgrimage festivals.
ANSWER: Sukkot
(10) This holiday falls on the day following Sukkot, when Jews in ancient times prayed for rain.
ANSWER: Shemini Atzeret
20. Messing with Cicero was likely to get one vitriolically denounced. FTPE, name these Romans who met
that unfortunate fate.
(10) Cicero’s Philippics attacked this member of the second triumvirate who, with his lover, committed
suicide in 30 BC.
ANSWER: Mark Antony (accept Marcus Antonius)
(10) A series of Cicero’s orations were directed against this patrician who plotted to overthrow the Roman
Republic.
ANSWER: Catiline (accept Lucius Sergius Catilina)
(10) Cicero first gained prominence from his prosecution of this corrupt governor of Sicily in 70 B.C.
ANSWER: Gaius Verres