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Michigan State University/University of Delaware High School Tournament:
Round 12 Tossups:
1. A type of this process in which collisions are much more likely than is typical is named
for Knudsen, and multicomponent systems use the Maxwell-Stefan model. The
proportionality between the flux of this process and its namesake coefficient is established
by Fick’s first(*) law. Integral membrane proteins aid in this process’ facilitated type. When it
occurs with water over a semipermeable membrane, it is called osmosis. For 10 points, name this
process in which molecules of a substance spread from areas of high concentration to low
concentration.
ANSWER: Diffusion [do not accept “osmosis”]
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2. The Great Manmade River brings water to the populated regions of this country, the site
of the Arkenu Craters. This country’s highest point is Bikku Bitti, located in the Tibesti
Mountains, which this country shares with its southern neighbor. The Nafusa Mountains
pass through the northwest of this country near(*) Misrata. The Gulf of Sidras forms an
indentation of the northern shore of this country that is home to the city of Benghazi. For 10
points, name this African nation, once known as Cyrenaica, that has its capital at Tripoli.
ANSWER: Libya
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3. This man ruled a writ of error needs to have a citation in Bailiff v. Tipping. This man
participated in the peace talks that ended the Quasi War with France, where he was
involved in the XYZ affair. This man stopped states from invalidating contracts in
Dartmouth(*) College v. Woodward, and he broke up monopolies by affirming the Federal
Government’s ability to regulate commerce in Gibbons v. Ogden. This man’s most famous
opinion established the principle of Judicial Review. For 10 points, name this longest serving
Supreme Court Chief Justice who wrote the opinion in Marbury v. Madison.
ANSWER: John Marshall
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4. One of this author’s title characters looks into a diorama and climbs into a kiln after
searching for “unpardonable sin.” This author of “Ethan Brand” wrote a novel in which
Holgrave tells Phoebe about two Maule spirits who prevent the spirit of(*) Colonel Pynchon
from telling his heirs where a deed is. In another novel, Pearl kisses her father, Reverend
Dimmesdale, after he shows the entire town a physical manifestation of his complicity in Hester
Prynne’s adultery. For 10 points, name this author of The House of the Seven Gables and The
Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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5. Arabesque swastikas decorate the arch closest to the viewer in this painting. A sculpture
of a man holding a sphere appears on another arch towards the rear of this work next to
which can be seen glimpses of blue sky. Statues of Minerva and Apollo flank the central
group of this painting, which includes depictions of(*) Zoroaster, Epicurus, and Avveros. This
painting contains a depiction of Michelangelo resting his head on his arm, and another of
Diogenes sprawled out on a set of stairs reading a scroll. Also depicting Plato and Aristotle, for
10 points, identify this fresco by Raphael.
ANSWER: The School of Athens
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6. One character in this work resorts to drinking the blood from his own arm in order to
speak. In a later scene, that character’s unsuccessful attempt to pray leaves his “heart as
dry as dust,” as he looks upon the bodies of two hundred dead men whose souls were(*)
won in a dice game by Life-in-Death. When this work’s narrator expresses appreciation for the
company of water snakes, the albatross hanging around his neck falls off. For 10 points, identify
this poem in which the title character recounts his saga to a Wedding-Guest, by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
ANSWER: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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7. This actor died just before he was to appear in Scary Movie 2. His performances in
1952's Viva Zapata! and 1953's Julius Caesar earned Best Actor Oscar nominations. Late in
this actor's career he played Jor-El in Superman. He won an Oscar in 1954, when he played
a(*) boxer-turned-dock worker in On the Waterfront. He refused to accept his next Oscar, which
he won for portraying the head of a mafia family. For 10 points, name this actor who pioneered
the method acting technique and played Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
ANSWER: Marlon Brando
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8. This thinker argued that the theater rarely supports moral ideals in a letter to Jean
d’Alembert, and in one work, he argued that the invention of private property led to all
evils. This author of Discourse on Inequality promotes “negative education” in which
learning is an(*) autonomous process in one work, while another described people within the
state using the word “sovereign,” to create the general will. For 10 points, name this FrancoSwiss author of Émile who claimed that “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” in
The Social Contract.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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9. Each movement of Stravinsky’s concerto for this instrument begins with the same chord,
and a cadenza appears in Sibelius’s D minor concerto for this instrument. Beethoven’s
Kreutzer Sonata was composed for it, and “The Devil’s Laughter” is one of Paganini’s 24
Caprices for it. Famous makers of this instrument include(*) Stradivari, while notable
performers include Jascha Heifetz and Itzhak Perlman. Its four strings are G, D, A, and E, and it
is featured in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Also called a fiddle, for 10 points, name this highest
member of the string family.
ANSWER: Violin
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10. In one work from this country, the protagonist adopts a pup to protect it from
extinction. This setting of Wolf Totem also produced a work in which the freeing of 108
spirits from beneath a tortoise leads to a gathering of outlaws. One work from this country
claims “A cup of wine levels life and death”. This country, responsible for(*) Water Margin
and “Drinking Alone by Moonlight”, is the site of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Romance of
the Three Kingdoms. For 10 points, identify this country, home to such authors as Lu Jiamin, Li
Po, and Luo Guanzhong.
ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China, or Zhongguo, or Wolf Totem before
mentioned]
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11. This type of stone can be used in lithography to print an image onto multiple sheets of
paper. It may dissolve upon coming in contact with carbonic acid due to its high
concentration of aragonite; that reaction helps create(*) Karst topography. The abundance of
shells of dead shellfish, algae, and coral make the Bahamas Platform the site of a major deposit
of this rock. In damp caves, flowstone, stalagmites and stalactites may form out of travertine, one
variety of this material. For 10 points, identify this type of sedimentary rock mostly composed of
calcite, that includes chalk.
ANSWER: Limestone [prompt on “Sedimentary” before “carbonic]
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12. One body of water named for this man is bounded by the Brunswick Peninsula on one
side. Rajah Humabon convinced this man to attack Datu Lapu Lapu on the island of
Mactan, an engagement that resulted in Juan Sebastian Elcano taking control of this
explorer’s mission. This explorer’s namesake strait lies to the north of the(*) Drake Passage
and was the quickest way from the Atlantic to the Pacific before the twentieth century. For 10
points, name this Portuguese explorer who, although killed in the Philippines, is credited with
being the first man to circumnavigate the globe.
ANSWER: Ferdinand Magellan [or Fernando de Magallanes]
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13. This place is home to a saffron-clad goddess called Melinoe. In Aztec mythology, this
place had a guide called Xolotl who took people to it through a moving mountain range. In
Mesopotamian myths, Namtar advises a goddess who watches over this place, Ereshkigal.
Egyptians believed that Ammit ate those who failed(*) Anubis’ weighing of the heart in this
location. In another myth, Orpheus tried and failed to bring Eurydice back from this location. For
10 points, identify this place where souls go after death, exemplified by Tartarus.
ANSWER: The Underworld [or obvious equivalents like “Hell” or “The Afterlife”, or Hades
before “Xolotl”]
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14. This man's political career began with a defeat of Anastasia Garcia for his state's 111th
House District. His memoir “An American Son” recounts his nearly 20 percentage point
victory in the Republican primary over the then-governor of the state he represents. In
June 2012, the primary legislative goal of this man who defeated(*) Charlie Crist in that
primary was co-opted by an executive order, preventing him from presenting a conservative
alternative to the DREAM Act. For 10 points, name this Florida Senator, the son of Cuban
immigrants.
ANSWER: Marco Antonio Rubio
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15. The Lotus Temple in New Delhi is a shrine for this religion. One of its texts which
chronicles a soul’s spiritual journey is titled The Seven Valleys. This religion uses a
calendar with nineteen months, each bearing the name of some aspect of(*) God. One of its
teachings holds that spiritual history has unfolded through a series of prophets that suited their
time, the most recent of whom is Bahá'u'lláh, who fixed many of this faith’s doctrines. For 10
points, identify this monotheistic faith that focuses on the unity of human beings and originated
in 19th century Iran.
ANSWER: Baha’i Faith
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16. Hamilton Jordan participated in negotiations to resolve this event, and it was ended
with the signing of the Algiers Accords. Ebrahim Asgharzadeh planned this event, which
was carried out mostly by students. Eight soldiers died when a helicopter and airplane
crashed during a failed attempt to end this event,(*) Operation Eagle Claw, and this event
started when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi sought medical treatment in the US. For 10 points,
identify this 444 day incident in which 52 Americans were held hostage after a breakin of the
Embassy in Tehran.
ANSWER: Iranian Hostage Crisis [or Iran Hostage Crisis or obvious equivalents]
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17. In the presence of zinc ions, this molecule forms hexamers. One chemical precursor to
this molecule has its C-peptide excised in the endoplasmic reticulum. In the liver, this
hormone activates hexokinase and inhibits glucose-6-phosphatase, thus promoting the
phosphorylation of(*) glucose. This peptide hormone is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in
the pancreas, and its deficiency induces Type 1 diabetes. For 10 points, name this hormone that
induces cells to uptake glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen, opposing the activity of
glucagon.
ANSWER: Insulin
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18. The first charge of this battle was made in tight formations to counter the opposing
general’s preference for massed short range musket barrages. Mistaking casualty trains for
a retreat, one side ordered a series of cavalry charges at the enemy center under Marshal
Ney, but those troops failed to spike the enemy cannons. This battle’s winners were helped
by(*) wet ground, which delayed its start and allowed time for Prussians under General Blücher
[BLUE-ker] to arrive and seal this battle's outcome. For 10 points, name this battle, the Duke of
Wellington’s final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in Belgium.
ANSWER: Battle of Waterloo
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19. This phenomenon can occur at room temperatures when catalyzed with muons, and the
Lawson criterion defines the conditions at which this phenomenon starts. The C-N-O cycle
is used to achieve this process, which can occur only when the Coulomb(*) Barrier is
overcome. Using lasers to achieve this process is known as inertial confinement, and this process
can occur inside of tokamaks. For iron and heavier elements, this reaction requires extra energy.
For 10 points, name this phenomenon that fuels stars in which two lighter nuclei are combined to
form a heavier nucleus.
ANSWER: Nuclear Fusion [do not accept “fission”]
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20. One character in this work is Munodi, whose verdant estate is surrounded by barren
fields. After learning firsthand that Alexander the Great died of overdrinking, the
protagonist is disappointed to hear that the immortal Struldbrugs lead wretched lives. This
novel’s first section sees that protagonist lose favor with a king after he saves his palace(*)
by urinating on it, while in its fourth section, he is mistaken for an unclean and brutish Yahoo by
a race of civilized horses. Laputa and Lilliput are among the places explored in, for 10 points,
what novel by Jonathan Swift?
ANSWER: Gulliver’s Travels [or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four
Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships]
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21 (Tiebreaker): One character in this work sings about a whiting and a snail while
demonstrating the Lobster-Quadrille. Another character orders the protagonist, whom he
mistakes for his servant, Mary Ann, to retrieve gloves and a fan, and sends Bill to search
for her when she has an(*) unexpected growth spurt. This work’s protagonist seeks advice from
a caterpillar and attends a tea party, where she is bullied by a hatter and the March Hare. For 10
points, identify this Lewis Carroll novel in which a young girl follows a white rabbit down a
hole.
ANSWER: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [do not accept any answer containing “Through
the Looking Glass”]
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Round 12 Bonuses:
1. This enzyme only binds to one strand of DNA as topoisomerase works to prevent coiling
caused by its work. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this enzyme, found at a replication fork, which is responsible for splitting the
double helix of DNA.
ANSWER: DNA Helicase
[10] This enzyme, which vaguely resembles a human hand, is responsible for linking nucleotides
together by the AT/CG rule and building a new DNA strand once it has a primer.
ANSWER: DNA Polymerase
[10] This enzyme prevents DNA shortening during replication by attaching a repeat sequence to
the end of DNA strands after replication. Recent research has shown it plays a role in aging.
ANSWER: Telomerase
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2. Their written language and calendar were the most developed in the pre-Columbian Americas.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula who built many Pyramids and
chronicled their mythology in the Popol Vuh.
ANSWER: Mayans
[10] Some of the most famous Mayan pyramids were located in this city, noted for its varied
architecture and giant square Castillo [cas-TI-yo] pyramid.
ANSWER: Chichen Itza
[10] The Maya lived near this other Mesoamerican civilization. It inhabited the Oaxaca Valley
and developed a writing system before the Mayans.
ANSWER: Zapotec
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3. This composer wrote the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto during his neoclassical period, and
omitted upper strings and clarinets in the Symphony of Psalms. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composer who included the “Infernal Dance of All Kastchei’s Subjects” in a
work composed for the Ballets Russes, The Firebird.
ANSWER: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
[10] The second section of this Stravinsky ballet super-imposes irregularly accented F-flat and Eflat seventh chords, while a girl dances herself to death in the “Sacrificial Dance.”
ANSWER: The Rite of Spring [or Le Sacre du Printemps]
[10] A famous chord in Stravinsky’s Petrushka uses this harmonic device, which involves
playing multiple keys at the same time, with C and F-sharp major arpeggi [ar-PEJ-ee-eye].
ANSWER: Polytonality [accept word forms and “bitonality”]
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4. These semiconductor devices come in varieties such as the bipolar junction type and
MOSFETs. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this electrical component with at least three terminals that can act as a digital switch
or an amplifier. They are often found in integrated circuits or their namesake type of radio.
ANSWER: transistor
[10] This component of modern computers executes most general computations and resides on a
single integrated circuit, often with multiple cores.
ANSWER: Central Processing Units [or “microprocessors”, or CPUs]
[10] This eponymous rule states that the number of field-effect transistors in an integrated circuit
doubles every two years.
ANSWER: Moore’s law
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5. Notable casualties in this battle included John Reynolds, Richard Garnett, and Lew Armistead.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this decisive turning point in the American Civil War. In it, Robert E. Lee’s second
invasion of the North was defeated by a force led by George Meade in Pennsylvania.
ANSWER: Battle of Gettysburg
[10] Despite the protests of General Longstreet, Lee ordered this disastrous attack against the
Union center on the third day of the battle with the goal of seizing a clump of trees.
ANSWER: Pickett’s Charge
[10] On the second day, this Union Colonel held the extreme left flank on Little Round Top,
ordering a last ditch bayonet charge when ammunition ran out.
ANSWER: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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6. Compounds containing these bonds usually exhibit high melting points and solubility in water.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this type of molecular bond, in which an electron is nearly completely transferred
from one atom to another, creating positively and negatively charged particles.
ANSWER: Ionic Bonding
[10] This form of intermolecular bond plays a crucial role in the vulcanization of rubber, and
also connects the strands of the DNA double-helix.
ANSWER: Hydrogen Bonding
[10] This type of intermolecular force arises from electrostatic alignment of charges in atoms,
linking positive and negative regions of compounds. London Dispersion Forces are examples.
ANSWER: Induced Dipole interactions [or Dipole-Dipole Interactions]
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7. Identify these paintings that were victims of art theft, for 10 points each:
[10] Stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and missing for two years, this Leonardo da Vinci portrait
of the wife of Francesco del Giocondo is noted for its eyebrowless subject’s mysterious smile.
ANSWER: The Mona Lisa [or La Giaconda]
[10] This painting of a man holding his hands up to his shocked face on a bridge has been the
victim of multiple thefts, most recently in 2004.
ANSWER: The Scream [or Skrik]
[10] The Just Judges, a panel of this huge Flemish polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers depicting
the adoration of the mystic lamb, was stolen in 1934 and has not been recovered.
ANSWER: The Ghent Altarpiece
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8. This property results in the Gabor bound in signal processing, and its most general form is
represented by the Robertson relation. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this property stating that there is a limit to the precision with which quantum
measurements of position and momentum may be made.
ANSWER: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle [or Heisenberg Indeterminacy Principle, accept
either underlined portion]
[10] In the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the product of the uncertainty in position and
momentum cannot be less than this number.
ANSWER: h bar over two [or h over four pi, or Reduced Planck’s Constant over two, or
Planck’s Constant over four pi, or 5.272 times 10 to the negative 35 Joule Seconds]
[10] The Uncertainty Principle also relates the precision of another pair of physical observables,
energy and this quantity.
ANSWER: time [prompt on “t”]
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9. One character in this work received a bronze star after deserting his unit. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this novel in which Sheriff Bell must protect Llewelyn and Carla Jean Moss from
the psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh.
ANSWER: No Country for Old Men
[10] Chigurh is struck by one of these objects after the climax of the novel, which is also the
cause of death for Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby.
ANSWER: Car [or obvious equivalents such as automobile]
[10] No Country for Old Men was written by this man, who also told the tale of a nameless father
and son traveling through a post-apocalyptic ashen world in The Road.
ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy [or Charles McCarthy]
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10. This council moved from Ferrara in 1493 to avoid a plague. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this ecumenical council that was held in the Santa Maria Novella. It was called in
order to reconcile Eastern and Western Christianity.
ANSWER: Council of Florence
[10] The Council of Florence preceded this church council that saw the banning of the sale of
indulgences and the condemnation of Protestantism. It was convened by Paul III.
ANSWER: Council of Trent
[10] This church agreement, signed with Mussolini's Government, established Vatican City as a
sovereign nation in 1929.
ANSWER: Lateran Accords [or Lateran Treaty, or Lateran Pacts, or Lateran Concordat]
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11. This movement’s slogan is “We are the 99%,” and it was first promoted by Adbusters
Magazine. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this protest movement that arose in Fall 2011 in New York City against wealth
inequality.
ANSWER: Occupy Wall Street [or Occupy Movement, or OWS, prompt on “American
Spring”]
[10] This city was the site of major Occupy protests, including a general strike and march to shut
down its port. Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen was injured by police officers clearing it.
ANSWER: Oakland, California
[10] The Occupy Wall Street movement began with demonstrations in this park in Lower
Manhattan. It was cleared by New York police on November 15, 2011.
ANSWER: Zuccotti Park [or Liberty Plaza Park]
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12. He describes his boyhood “on the windy banks of the river Rhone” and meeting Robert of
Naples and Giacomo the Younger of Carrera in his “Letter to Posterity”. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this author, who expresses his “hope to find pity, and forgiveness” and notes that
“the world’s delight is a brief dream” in the first poem of his Il Canzoniere.
ANSWER: Francesco Petrarca [or Petrarch]
[10] Many of Petrarch’s poems were written in the Italian version of this fourteen-line poetic
form. The English variety of it is also named for William Shakespeare.
ANSWER: sonnet
[10] In Il Canzoniere, Petrarch writes that this woman’s “soft gentle smile quitens my ardent
desires”. He also describes her as having “golden hair spun fine as silver”.
ANSWER: Laura
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13. Ancient Greek politics were dominated by city states. Answer some questions about them,
for 10 points each:
[10] This city, the leader of the Delian League and home to the Academy of Plato, was led by
Pericles during the Peloponnesian War, which it fought with its perennial rival, Sparta.
ANSWER: Athens
[10] This major city of Boeotia was a frequent foe of Athens. After Sparta’s victory in the
Peloponnesian War, this city defeated it under the command of Epaminondas.
ANSWER: Thebes
[10] This city fought with Sparta during the Peloponnesian War, but, after Sparta’s victory, allied
with Thebes to start its namesake war against Sparta. It was completely destroyed by Lucius
Mummius.
ANSWER: Corinth
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14. This thinker argued that separate objects cannot share all their properties with his principle of
the identity of indiscernibles, introduced in his Discourse on Metaphysics. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this German rationalist philosopher and scientist who championed the principle of
sufficient reason and wrote Theodicy. He also argued that this world is the best of all possible
worlds.
ANSWER: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
[10] By making that claim about the quality of the world, Leibniz articulated this philosophical
position opposed by the pessimism of thinkers like Schopenhauer.
ANSWER: optimism
[10] Leibniz outlined this other position by arguing that reality consists of eternal, irreducibly
simple monads. Democritus was a pre-Socratic champion of this position.
ANSWER: atomism [or equivalents including atoms]
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15. His Bardi Altarpiece depicts the mystical marriage of Saint Catherine, and his Vision of Saint
Jerome is housed in the National Gallery in London. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this painter famous for a work that depicts an emaciated St. Jerome holding a scroll,
as well as Cupid Making his Arch.
ANSWER: Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola or Parmigiano]
[10] Exemplified by Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck, this art style took liberties with
details, with features such as elongated limbs. It was also practiced by El Greco.
ANSWER: Mannerism
[10] Parmigianino was a painter from this present-day country, also home to Tintoretto and the
artist of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Benvenuto Cellini.
ANSWER: Italy
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16. In one work by this author, Senor C. muses over world affairs and politics alongside diary
entries of his secretary that he lusts after. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author of Diary of a Bad Year and The Life and Times of Michael K, in which the
title character returns his mother to her birthplace of Prince Albert.
ANSWER: John Maxwell Coetzee
[10] Coetzee was originally from this country, also home to writers such as Nadine Gordimer
and Athol Fugard.
ANSWER: Republic of South Africa
[10] Coetzee twice won this literary award, given to writers from the Commonwealth Countries,
for Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K.
ANSWER: Man Booker Prize
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17. A good is called normal if when income increases, this quantity increases as well. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this economic concept whose eponymous law states that as price increases, the
quantity of this decreases, which results in a downward sloping curve for it.
ANSWER: demand
[10] The price variety of this quantity is used to determine the effect of a price change on the
demand of a good. Luxury goods typically have a high value of this quantity.
ANSWER: elasticity
[10] If two goods have a positive cross-price elasticity of demand, the goods are said to be these,
since consumption of one increases as the other becomes relatively more costly.
ANSWER: substitutes [or word forms such as substitutable]
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18. Answer some questions about overseas territories still owned by European nations, for 10
points each:
[10] This Arctic island is the largest in the world. A possession of Denmark, its capital is Nuuk,
was formerly known as Godthab.
ANSWER: Greenland [or Kalaallit Nunaat or Gronland]
[10] This Dutch possession in the Caribbean, a popular tourist spot due to its location outside of
the hurricane belt, lies just off the coast of Venezuela.
ANSWER: Aruba
[10] This Portuguese possession of volcanic islands lies 1500 miles off the Portuguese coast in
the middle of the Atlantic, far west of the Madeiras.
ANSWER: Azores
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19. Upon inheriting the title estate, Hindley heaps abuse upon his adopted brother, who spends
the rest of his life seeking revenge. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this novel, which includes Nelly Dean’s account of Heathcliff’s fall into bitterness
and cruelty following the death of his beloved Catherine Earnshaw.
ANSWER: Wuthering Heights
[10] The first few chapters of Wuthering Heights are narrated by this man, who travels to
Thrushcross Grange seeking solitude, but finds himself tormented by nightmares.
ANSWER: Mr. Lockwood
[10] This author originally published Wuthering Heights as the first two volumes of a
compilation that included her sister Anne’s novel, Agnes Grey.
ANSWER: Emily Brontë [prompt on Brontë, prompt on or Ellis Bell]
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20. Answer some questions about the Greco-Roman underworld, for 10 points each:
[10] This god, a brother of Zeus, ruled the underworld and with the help of a pomegranate,
forced Persephone to become his bride.
ANSWER: Hades [or Pluto]
[10] This three-headed dog guarded the entrance to the underworld and prevented souls from
crossing back over the River Styx.
ANSWER: Cerberus [or Kerebos]
[10] Sisyphus is forced to continuously push a rock up a hill in this, the lowest region of the
Greek underworld.
ANSWER: Tartarus
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