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MINI-ROUND
7
University of Maryland
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1. TOSSUP. He supposedly saw Ernest Hemingway shoot the head off a chicken, which
may explain why the protagonist of one of his novels so despises A Farewell to Arms. He
forbade further adaptations of his work after a poor movie version of “Uncle Wiggly In
Connecticut.” Like his first published work, “The Young Folks,” many of his short
stories, such as those found in the Glass Cycle, contain youngsters such as Franny and
Zooey. For 10 points, name this author of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” “Raise High
the Roof Beam, Carpenters,” and a novel about Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: Jerome David Salinger
<Wolpert>
BONUS: Identify these figures associated with the missionary activities of St. Paul, for
10 points each.
[10] On his second missionary journey Paul took Silas with him, not this younger
contemporary and writer of the earliest of the 4 Gospels. He later got back in Paul’s good
graces.
ANSWER: St. Mark [or John Mark; or Marcus]
[10] Mark’s uncle, he accompanied Paul on his first missionary journey to Cyprus and
Asia Minor and split with Paul after he refused to take Mark with him.
ANSWER: St. Barnabas
[10] This man was said to be converted by Paul on the first journey and was established
as bishop at Ephesus, where he was later martyred. Paul addressed two of the so-called
“pastoral epistles” to him.
ANSWER: St. Timothy
<Wehrman>
2. TOSSUP. The most common form is the relapsing-remitting variety, in which a
symptom lasts for a few days or weeks, before it disappears. During its “secondary
progressive” phase, Wallerian Degeneration takes place due to the absence of Brain
Derived Neutrophic Factor, causing axons to die despite the lack of an inflammatory
response. An autoimmune disease, the onset age is roughly 30 years old with three
women suffering for every two men. For 10 points, name this debilitating disease in
which neurons in the brain and spinal cord are demyelinated.
ANSWER: Multiple sclerosis [accept M.S.]
<Chuck>
BONUS: Answer the following about an episode in U.S.-France relations for 10 points
per part.
[10] In this 1797 incident, the French foreign minister demanded a bribe from American
treaty negotiators, leading to a naval skirmishes and the Convention of 1800.
ANSWER: XYZ affair
[10] The foreign minister in question was this man, who later represented France at the
Congress of Vienna.
ANSWER: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
[10] With John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry, he was part of the American delegation and
is said to have cried “No! No! Not a sixpence!” upon Talleyrand’s request. He was later
the losing Federalist presidential candidate, in 1804 and 1808.
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ANSWER: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
<Weiner>
3. TOSSUP. Their name was originally a code word used to hide their true purpose from
Germany, The first one was Little Willy, and they appeared in battle in 1916 at the
Somme. Germany only built twenty of them during the war, and the one time they made a
difference in trench warfare, British horse cavalry failed to follow up on the break in the
trenches. For 10 points, name this military item that originally took four people to steer
and had a maximum speed of four miles per hour.
ANSWER: tank
<Connolly>
BONUS: Identify these characters from the novel Lolita for 10 points each.
[10] Lolita is the nickname of this twelve-year-old who is the object of an older man’s
affections.
ANSWER: Dolores Haze [prompt on Haze]
[10] This middle-aged professor from Europe obsesses after Dolores and accompanies
her across the United States after the death of her mother.
ANSWER: Humbert Humbert
[10] The antagonist of the novel is this man, who convinces Dolores to run away with
him instead. Humbert Humbert dies of cancer in jail while awaiting trial for his murder.
ANSWER: Clare Quilty [accept either or both names]
<Greenstein>
4. TOSSUP. It divided its goals into three “strands” of relationships and created the Civic
Forum and the North-South Ministerial Council. Approved by over seventy percent of
referendum voters, its first condition fulfilled was the release of certain paramilitary
prisoners. Those retaining weapons were excluded from political office at the insistence
of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, who, along with Social Democrat head John
Hume, won the Nobel Peace Prize for signing it. For 10 points, name this accord among
the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and factions in Northern Ireland, finalized
on a holiday in 1998.
ANSWER: Good Friday Agreement [or Belfast Agreement; or Stormont Agreement;
accept equivalents]
<Weiner>
BONUS:
Answer each of the following about an electron structure for 10 points each.
[10] This four-lobed orbital corresponds to an angular momentum quantum number of
three.
ANSWER: d-orbital
[10] D-orbitals have this may sub-orbitals, corresponding to the number of values that the
magnetic quantum number may take.
ANSWER: 5
[10] Sideways overlapping d-orbitals create this “sauage roll” shaped bond.
ANSWER: δ-bond [delta bond]
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<Sorice>
5. TOSSUP. A 1753 Act of Parliament prohibited the manufacture of these items outside
of the Home Islands. The first one was invented as the aeolipile by Heron of Alexandria,
and one of its first practical uses was in 1698, when Thomas Savery used it in coal
mining. For 10 points, name this powerful device later improved upon by Thomas
Newcomen and James Watt.
ANSWER: steam engine
<Chuck>
BONUS: Answer these questions on protein structure for 10 points each.
[10] Exposing a protein to extremes in temperature, pH, or specific solvents can result in
this general process in which a protein unfolds from its native state.
ANSWER: Denaturing (accept equivalents)
[10] Forming a stable rod-like structure with all the side chains on the exterior, this
spiral-shaped motif is consists of 3.6 residues per turn.
ANSWER: Alpha helix
[10] At neutral pH, amino acids have a positive charge due to proton transfer to the Nterminus and a negative charge at the C-terminus. What term best describes this type of
molecule, whose name comes from the German word for “hybrid”?
ANSWER: Zwitterion
<Chuck>
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