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2009 ACF Fall: Quizbowl is my Hot Hot Sex
Edited by Evan Adams, Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Mehdi Razvi, and George Stevens with help by the
honorable Seth Teitler
Packet by Rice University (Zachary Yeung, Henry Gorman) and University of Michigan
Tossups
1. This philosopher insisted that enjoyment is subjective in Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime.
He proposed an early version of democratic peace theory in his essay, “Perpetual Peace.” He described the title
concept as “man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity” in “What Is Enlightenment?” He was the first
philosopher to delineate the difference between analytic and synthetic propositions, and in his Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals, he introduced the concept of the categorical imperative. For 10 points, name this author of
the Critique of Pure Reason.
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
2. During his last night in Ossenburger Hall, this character reads Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa. Acquaintances that he
makes include a nun with whom he discusses Romeo and Juliet. His voyeurism at the Edmont Hotel results in his
seeing a transvestite and a couple that spit their drinks at each other. He backs out of a tryst with the prostitute Sally,
and asks where the ducks in Central Park go during the winter. Amidst his wandering, he recalls his relationships
with Jane Gallagher and Sally Hayes while reflecting on the suicide of James Castle and the death of his younger
brother Allie. For ten points, name this main character of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: Holden Caulfield [accept either name]
3. During this conflict, one country established a puppet regime known as the Terijoki Government, and it began with
one side shelling their own border village of Mainila. The eventual losers of this conflict showed the prowess of
their motti tactic in a remarkable incident at Raate Road in which 3,600 soldiers ambushed, broke up, and defeated a
force of 25,000, and that battle prevented the other side from marching to Oulu and splitting the country in half.
Fears over the nationalist and anti-communist Lapua Movement contributed to one side’s participation in this
conflict, and that side eventually broke through the Mannerheim Line and captured Karelia. For 10 points, name this
World War Two-era invasion of Finland which showed the weakness of the Soviet military.
Answer: Winter War [or talvisota]
4. One character in this film introduces himself as a teacher on sabbatical who just won the lottery after refusing to stay
at a shoddy hotel. Yusef Kabira is killed after trying to seduce a Canadian with an identical necklace to one carried
by the protagonist. Earlier in this film, one character steals an earpiece from a gift bag and uses it to disrupt a
clandestine meeting at a performance of Tosca. The ecological organization called Greene Planet is run by Dominic
Greene, who is left in the desert with a bottle of motor oil after assisting in a scheme to limit the water supply of
Bolivia. For 10 points, name this 2008 sequel to Casino Royale, the twenty second Bond film.
ANSWER: Quantum of Solace
5. The enantioselective reduction of these compounds by a bicyclic boron-containing proline derivative in the presence
of diborane was pioneered by Corey, Bakshi, and Shibata. A hydroxyl aryl version of this functionality is produced
in the Fries rearrangement. When acting on a secondary but not a primary alcohol, the Jones reagent produces this
functionality. In the presence of acid or base, it forms a tautomer with enol, and in solution with ammonium silver
nitrate, this compound fails to produce a precipitate. Thus, it has a negative result in the Tollens test. For 10 points,
name this functional group, consisting of two alkyl groups attached to a carbonyl group, the simplest of which is
acetone.
ANSWER: ketone [prompt on “carbonyl”]
6. In the bottom right of this work, a partridge is perched on a branch. In the background, several ships can be seen
sailing near a port which is surrounded by cliffs and lies across from what appears to be a volcano. Near the center
of this painting, a man leaning on a stick looks skyward rather than monitoring the sheep surrounding him. Other
figures include a fisherman and a plowman, both of whom ignore the titular event, as does the ship passing the title
character. For 10 points, identify this painting depicting the drowning of the son of Daedalus, by Bruegel the elder.
ANSWER: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
7. The Privilegium Minus placated this group's member Henry the Lion with the creation of the Duchy of Austria.
Their titular rebellion occurred while Conrad III was fighting the Second Crusade, and they supported Otto IV
during the succession dispute with Frederick of Sicily for the Imperial crown. Charles of Anjou helped this group in
establishing themselves in their most important city where the Donati and Cerchi families created "black" and
"white" factions, Florence. Also controlling Milan, Genoa and Bologna, their main opponents controlled Siena,
Arezzo, and Pisa. For 10 points, name this political faction from the 12th to 14th centuries in Germany and Italy
who supported mercantile interests and the papacy against the Holy Roman Emperor, and were pitted against the
Ghibellines.
ANSWER: Guelphs [or Guelfs; or Welfs]
8. When two of these are near each other, the Fujiwhara effect occurs, resulting in their centers orbiting around a point
in between the two systems. Their formation is aided by upper-level speed divergence in the vicinity of the jet
stream coupled with weak surface convergence. They must form in high humidity regions at least 5 degrees from the
equator because the Coriolis effect is crucial to their initial rotation. These systems are classified by winds reaching
a 12 on the Beaufort scale. For 10 points name these tropical storm systems that contain areas of low pressure and
warm circulation, an example of which sees a calm at its center or “eye.”
ANSWER: tropical cyclone [or hurricane; cylonic vortex; typhoon; tropical storm until mentioned; tropical
depression; prompt on partial answers of any of these; do not accept “low pressure center” or “tropical wave”]
9. This psychologist used the case of Mrs. L and her son Jim to illustrate his most famous theory in his book
Counseling and Psychotherapy. His A Way of Being was a follow-up to a work in which he asserted that “the good
life is a process, not a state of being” and discussed the development of “trust in one’s organism,” On Becoming a
Person. This psychologist developed a system of therapy involving a non-directive approach based on unconditional
positive regard for the patient. For 10 points, name this psychologist who developed client-centered therapy.
ANSWER: Carl Ransom Rogers
10. The protagonist of this novel forgets to turn off his scent tap before flying by helicopter to Malpais. Other characters
in this work include a Polish boy named Reuben Rabinovitch, who learns English in his sleep. Technologies
introduced in this work include Malthusian drills, Podsnap’s technique, and Bokanovsky’s human egg fertilization
process, which is used to distinguish between Alphas and Epsilons. When Lenina brings John the Savage back to
London, he gains instant celebrity. This novel is set in 632 Year of our Ford, and ends when Mustafa Mond exiles
Helmholtz and Bernard Marx. For ten points name this dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.
ANSWER: Brave New World
11. The first of this composer’s four piano trios notably opens in B major and ends in B minor. The A-E-F motif
dominates the Double Concerto in A minor of this composer, who created a work whose movements begin “for all
flesh is grass” and “blessed are they that mourn,” a seven-movement piece with text from the Luther Bible. This
man sought to balance his Tragic Overture with a joking work with the “Fuschlied” and “Gaudeamus igitur” songs,
which celebrate student life at the University of Breslau. For 10 points, name this German composer of the German
Requiem and Academic Festival Overture.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
12. Parks in this city include one called Riverside Promenade which offers a view of a section of the city called the
Bund that contains numerous buildings built by the British and French. This city's Century Park is its largest, located
in Pudong, and other attractions include the Jade Buddha Temple which contains the Hall of the Kings of Heaven. A
tea house is located in the center of a lake in this city located near the Yu Garden. This city is located just south
of Hengsha Island and east of Lake Tai, the source of the Huangpu River which bisects this city, but more notable is
this city's location on the delta of the Yangtze. For 10 points, name this Chinese port city located east of Nanjing on
the East China Sea.
ANSWER: Shanghai
13. One character in this novel tells a story in which the tortoise loses the smoothness of his shell after being invited to a
feast by the birds. Reverend Smith replaces the tolerant Mr. Brown in this novel. The protagonist of this work
wrestles with Amalinze the Cat, and is given custody of Ikemefuna. An exploding gun causes the protagonist of this
work to accidentally kill a boy. Enoch unmasks the egwugwu causing the rampage and eventual suicide of the
protagonist of this work. This novel takes place in Umuofia and takes its title from the Yeats poem “The Second
Coming.” For 10 points name this novel about the Igbo Okonkwo, a work of Chinua Achebe.
ANSWER: Things Fall Apart
14. Participants at this meeting decided to attack Generals Alfredo and Guzzoni next, and it occurred after the Battle of
Bizerte. This event's namesake communique stated that naval operations in the Atlantic were given top priority in
order to secure shipping routes, and the Trident Conference would occur after this meeting. The non-stop air
bombing of Germany was planned here, and Sicily was named as the next target for Allied invasion at this
conference that followed Operation Torch. In order to placate one of the absent leaders, one participant also issued
the doctrine of unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy, and Japan in, for 10 points, which 1943 meeting between
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt without Joseph Stalin located in a seaside city on the North African
coast?
ANSWER: Casablanca Conference
15. Various phenomena associated with this force can be described by the creation and annihilation of modes called
shearons. Defects along a surface can lead to energetic corrugations resulting in this force according to the
Tomlinson model, which describes it on the atomic level. The triboelectric effect is charging as a consequence of
this force, whose “skin” variety occurs at a body-fluid interface. It is independent of surface area according to one of
Amontons’ Laws, and superlubricity is the total absence of this force. For 10 points, identify this force which is
perpendicular to the normal force and provides resistance when two surfaces slide over each other.
Answer: friction
16. The Voluspa states that this figure and his wife lie “under a grove of hot springs,” and later refers to him as the
brother of Byleist. This figure killed a man in the form of an otter, paying the weregild for that death with gold
stolen from Andvari. This killer of Fimafeng was punished with the death of his son Narfi, whose entrails were used
to bind him to a tree. This god writhes in agony as a snake drips venom on his face, which occurs whenever Sigyn
has to empty the poison bowl. This god arms Hoder with a sharpened sprig of mistletoe, which is used to kill Balder.
The father of Hel, for 10 points, name this trickster god of Norse mythology.
Answer: Loki
17. In mammals, these entities may be influenced by light-sensitive melanopsin ganglion cells. They are entrained by a
periodic environmental signal called the zeitgeber and are called "free running" in the absence of such a signal.
Their occurrence is coordinated by an area within the anterior hypothalamus, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and
disorders related to these in humans include advanced sleep phase syndrome. In diurnal animals these are controlled
by levels of melatonin. For 10 points, identify these cycles providing the body with an internal clock lasting
approximately 24.3 hours in humans.
ANSWER: circadian rhythms
18. Types of this phenomenon include acculturative, which is associated with the conflicts of maintaining a minority
identity, and transitional, which is associated with conflict across important developmental periods. Hans Selye
described a universal response to this, which he termed the General Adaptation Syndrome. It can mediate illness by
increasing high-risk behaviors and depressing the immune system, and Type A personalities experience higher
levels of it than Type B personalities. For 10 points, name this phenomenon which is characterized by mental or
emotional strain.
ANSWER: stress
19. After this man met Benjamin Lundy he joined the immediatism movement, and he burned a copy of the Constitution
on the Fourth of July because he believed it was an agreement with the devil. In Thoughts on African Colonization,
this man condemned recolonization efforts and the Liberty Party split from this man after he lost support while
campaigning against capital punishment, tobacco, and imprisonment for debt. Inspired by The Book and Slavery
Irreconcilable to found a certain organization, for 10 points, name this abolitionist leader who called for "no union
with slave holders" in The Liberator and also founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
ANSWER: William Lloyd Garrison
20. The protagonist of this novel learns that one character is a printer named Gerard Duval after finding his wallet. In
one scene in this novel, three characters swim naked across a canal carrying only boots full of food. Earlier, the main
character is attacked by a bull mastiff when he and Kat steal a goose. This novel’s brief final section features an
abrupt shift to the third person, and earlier in this novel, Mueller takes a pair of boots from the dying Himmerich.
The protagonist of this novel helps beat up Himmelstoss, the drill sergeant who trained Paul Baumer’s squad before
it was sent to the trenches. For 10 points, name this World War I novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western Front [or Im Westen nichts Neues]
Tiebreakers
One opera by this composer begins with a prelude repeating “Open are the double doors of the horizon/Unlocked are
its bolts.” That opera by this composer contains a second-act recitation of Psalm 104, following a duet in which the
title character reads love poems to his wife, who is in a lower register. Another opera by this composer contains an
electric organ accompanying repeating countdowns as well as “All Men are Equal” and “Mr. Bojangles” in its first
“Trial,” which precedes the second of the five “knee plays.” For 10 points, name this minimalist composer of
Satyagraha, Akhenaten, and Einstein on the Beach.
ANSWER: Philip Morris Glass
Richard Wright was inspired by the work of this author to spend the final months of his life writing poetry. This
author’s first book written without collaborators was Seashell Game, and he created a new subgenre with his
collection Winter Days. He was inspired by Butcho to publish A Visit to the Kashima Shrine. He wrote a famous
poem about a frog leaping into a pond, and took his name from the banana plant hut he once lived in. Many of his
works were based on the idea of sabi, the perfect spiritual serenity obtained by immersing oneself in nature. For ten
points, name this poet of Narrow Road to the Deep North, an Edo period Japanese author and master of the Haiku.
ANSWER: Matsuo Basho
2009 ACF Fall: Quizbowl is my Hot Hot Sex
Edited by Evan Adams, Auroni Gupta, Will Nediger, Mehdi Razvi, and George Stevens with help by the
honorable Seth Teitler
Packet by Rice University (Zachary Yeung, Henry Gorman) and University of Michigan
Bonuses
1. Max Planck stated that this law of thermodynamics allows for the definition of a temperature function. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this law of thermodynamics which says that if system A is in thermal equilibrium with system B, and B
is in equilibrium with C, then systems A and C are in thermal equilibrium.
ANSWER: zeroth law of thermodynamics
[10] Another thermodynamic equilibrium is one in which the chemical potentials of two systems are the same. In
that equilibrium, this process, the movement of molecules down a concentration gradient, no longer occurs.
ANSWER: molecular diffusion
[10] For a one-component system, this relation states that SdT minus VdP plus Ndμ is zero, where μ is the chemical
potential.
ANSWER: Gibbs-Duhem relation/equation [prompt on partial answer]
2. The Federal Plaza in Chicago contains this sculptor’s stabile Flamingo. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American sculptor who is better known for his mobiles, such as the sheet metal, wire, and paint
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, which hangs in the MoMA.
ANSWER: Alexander “Sandy” Calder
[10] "Calder’s mobiles were influenced by this Dada sculptor who submitted a urinal as Fountain under the name R.
Mutt. He also created The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
ANSWER: Marcel Duchamp
[10] Another public art fan and bathroom device aficionado was this Swedish-American sculptor of Soft Bathtub
(Model), and the tank-supported Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks.
ANSWER: Claes Oldenburg
3. A chorus in this play consists of old men who light fires under the Acropolis to try to smoke out the women who
have captured the treasury. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which Cleonice and the title character convince the women of Athens and Sparta to withhold
sex from their warring husbands.
ANSWER: Lysistrata
[10] This comic Greek playwright of The Birds and The Clouds wrote Lysistrata.
ANSWER: Aristophanes
[10] In this Aristophanes play, Cleon controls a representation of the Athenian people named Demos until he is
challenged by the Sausage Seller.
ANSWER: The Knights [or Hippes]
4. Answer the following about gods of lightning and thunder, for 10 points each.
[10] The Brontes, Arges, and Steropes fashioned thunderbolts for this chief god of the Greek pantheon, who was
raised on Mount Ida and who had affairs with Metis, Semele, and others.
ANSWER: Zeus
[10] The lightning axe of Chaac is a famed weapon in the mythology of this civilization, whose underworld was
Xibalba and whose Hero Twins’ exploits were codified in the Popul Vuh.
ANSWER: Mayan civilization
[10] This Japanese deity is accompanied by his brother, the wind god Fūjin. This demon god beats Tomoe-bearing
drums to create thunder, and purportedly feasts on the navels of children.
ANSWER: Raijin [grudgingly accept Raiden]
5. For 10 points each, identify these schemes from British history:
[10] This Roger Catesby-led plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and James I was foiled when Lord Monteagle
had a letter from his brother warning him to stay away read aloud during a meeting of parliament. Robert Cecil
ordered investigations which turned up a certain Guy Fawkes guarding a pile of firewood.
Answer: Gunpowder Plot [or The Powder Treason]
[10] This fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates and Israel Tonge accused the Catholic church of plotting to
kill Charles II. It led to the arrest of five Catholic lords the Early of Shaftesbury pushed for a law that excluded
James II from succession after it.
Answer: Popish plot
[10] Arthur Thistlewood and his fellow Spencean Philanthropists, angered by the Six Acts and the Peterloo
massacre, planned to kill and decapitate all of Britain's cabinet ministers as well as Lord Liverpool in this plot.
Answer: Cato Street Conspiracy
6. For 10 points each, identify these Nobel prize-winning economists from the 1970s.
[10] This 1970 winner wrote Foundations of Economic Analysis, in which he used the thermodynamic methods of
Willard Gibbs. He also wrote an influential textbook, simply titled Economics.
ANSWER: Paul Samuelson
[10] This economist, who won the Nobel in 1972 along with John Hicks, is known for his namesake “impossibility
theorem” about voting systems.
ANSWER: Kenneth Arrow
[10] This economist shared the 1974 prize with Gunnar Myrdal. He wrote The Constitution of Liberty and discussed
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in The Road to Serfdom.
ANSWER: Friedrich von Hayek
7. Betz cells are the largest cells of this type in the CNS, and Purkinje cells are bipolar examples of them. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify these cells, which possess axons and dendrites to transmit electrochemical signals in the nervous
system.
ANSWER: neurons [or neuronal cells; prompt on “nerve” or “nerve cell”]
[10] Astrocytes and Schwann cells are examples of these non-neuronal cells that serve such diverse functions as
providing structure to neurons and producing myelin.
ANSWER: glial cells [or neuroglia]
[10] The thin epithelium of CSF-filled ventricles of the brain is formed by these glial cells, which are responsible for
CSF circulation and production in the choroid plexus.
ANSWER: ependymal cells [or ependyma]
8. For 10 points each, name these violent works of Asian cinema.
[10] In this Kurosawa film, villagers recruit the leader of the titular group to defend their town, after watching him
rescue a boy held hostage by a thief.
Answer: The Seven Samurai [or Shichinin no Samurai]
[10] In this film, the Millennium Educational Reform Act sends one class of students every year to an isolated
island. The students are fitted with electrical collars and forced to gruesomely kill each other.
Answer: Battle Royale [or Batoru Rowaiaru]
[10] In this classic of Hong Kong cinema, the title character punches off the limbs of the opium growing inmates
known as the “Gang of Four” before throwing the warden into a meat grinder.
Answer: Riki-Oh [or The Story of Ricky; or Lik Wong]
9. Many Eugene O’Neil plays contain prostitutes. Name some plays that fit that description, for 10 points each.
[10] The prostitute Minnie sleeps with two generations of Cabots in this drama. Simeon’s claim that “No one never
kills nobody” is disproven when Abbie Putnam smothers her baby.
ANSWER: Desire Under the Elms
[10] Jamie reminisces about sleeping with Fat Violet in this play, which details the internal struggles of the Tyrone
family.
ANSWER: Long Day’s Journey Into Night
[10] Pearl, Margie and Cora are dollar streetwalkers who frequent Harry Hope’s Last Chance Saloon while waiting
for the arrival of Hickey in this O’Neil play.
ANSWER: The Iceman Cometh
10. Step into the shoes of quizbowl's most notable traveler, Charles Meigs, and answer these questions about locations
in Central Asia, for 10 points each.
[10] While fleeing Turkmenistan after insulting the memory of Supramanat Niyazov, Meigs might be forced to
follow the largest irrigation canal ever constructed through this desert, which is rapidly expanding into the Aral Sea.
Answer: Karakum or Garagum
[10] After escaping from Turkmenistan, Meigs might want to chill at the Bibi Khanym Mosque in this city, the
second-largest in Uzbekistan. It's also notable for being the capitol of Tamerlane's empire.
Answer: Samarkand
[10] Meigs's fleeing from the Turkmen authorities may eventually lead him to hide out in this high Tajik range
which contains peaks such as Mount Communism.
Answer: Pamir Mountains [or Congling]
11. For 10 points each, identify these topological constructs.
[10] This is a one-sided surface with zero Gaussian curvature. It can be produced from a rectangular slip of paper by
creating a half-twist and then joining the ends together.
Answer: Mobius Strip
[10] Dissecting this other non-orientable surface yields two Mobius strips. According to the Heawood conjecture,
six colors are needed to color a map on its surface.
Answer: Klein bottle
[10] The image of this type of knot in R3 has derivatives that are tangent to the standard contact structure at all
points. Its namesake also names associated polynomials that appear in the angular part of solutions to Laplace’s
equation in spherical coordinates.
Answer: Legendrian knot [or Legendre’s knot]
12. For 10 points each, answer these questions about a noted skeptic.
[10] This guy who worried a lot about mind-body dualism attempted to build up the sum of knowledge from the
statement “I think, therefore I am.”
ANSWER: René Descartes
[10] Descartes first stated “I think, therefore I am” in Part IV of this work, which, along with Meditations on First
Philosophy, forms the basis for Cartesian rationalism.
ANSWER: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences [or
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences]
[10] Descartes tried to solve the mind-body problem by positing this anatomical part as the connection between the
mind and the body. He called it “the seat of the soul.”
ANSWER: pineal gland
13. Although industry thrived, the Progressive Era belonged to the reformers and whistleblowers. For 10 points each,
name these muckrakers.
[10] Instrumental in closing down New York City tenements, this photographer documented the horrible conditions
in How the Other Half Lives.
ANSWER: Jacob August Riis
[10] Railing against corruption in his The Shame of the Cities, this McClure’s writer wrote of the Soviet Union, “I
have been over into the future, and it works.” He also published “Tweed Days in St. Louis.”
ANSWER: Joseph Lincoln Steffens
[10] This journalist was a colleague at McClure’s of Steffens and Ray Stennard Baker. Failing to mention that her
brother owned a competing company, she wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company, which helped lead to its
demise.
ANSWER: Ida Minerva Tarbell
14. The servant Face avoids punishment by arranging a marriage between his master Lovewit and Dame Pliant. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this play in which Epicure Mamon is among those duped by the title character.
ANSWER: The Alchemist
[10] The Alchemist was written by this author of The Poetaster, Bartholomew Fair, and Every Man out of His
Humour.
ANSWER: Ben Jonson
[10] The title character of this Jonson play, whose name means “The Fox,” is undone because of his trust in his wily
sidekick Mosca and his love for Corvino’s wife Celia.
ANSWER: Volpone
15. This composer created a challenging lied Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel from the text of Goethe’s Faust. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this Austrian composer of the Rosamunde string quartet, who created a piano quintet whose fourth
movement was a set of variations on his earlier “The Trout” lied.
ANSWER: Franz Peter Schubert
[10] Leopold Godowsky wrote a passacaglia on this famous Schubert work, whose two complete movements are in
B minor and E major, and whose third is a partial scherzo in 3/4 time.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor [or Unfinished Symphony; or Unvollendete]
[10] Schubert used Goethe’s text for this lied about a supernatural creature who sings undulating arpeggios in
pianissimo, and who kills the child that the father cradles in his arms.
ANSWER: Der Erlkönig [or The Erlkönig; accept The Elf King]
16. This religion celebrates Vaisakhi on the 13th of April, which corresponds to the laying down of Khalsa. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this Indian religion with ten gurus such as Gobind Singh and Teg Bahadur, whose male adherents wear
turbans and adhere to the five Ks.
ANSWER: Sikhism
[10] This primary Sikh holy text is often identified as the eleventh guru after Gobind Singh’s death in 1708. It lays
down the Sikh morality codes.
ANSWER: Adi Granth [or Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib]
[10] The Kara is a small steel bangle and the Kesh is the practice of wearing unshorn hair. Name any of the three
physical objects that correspond to the other three Ks.
ANSWER: a comb, a knife, and an undergarment [or dagger; or underwear; accept any of the underlined]
17. This statement can be derived from Fermat’s principle of least time, which explains that path length of light waves
must be stationary. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this law of refraction, which states that ratio of the sines of the incident and refracted angles at an
interface are related by the appropriate indices of refraction of the surfaces at that interface.
ANSWER: Snell’s law
[10] Some light is typically reflected at the boundary of two surfaces, but at this incident angle, all plane-polarized
light is transmitted through the second surface.
ANSWER: Brewster’s angle
[10] This other angle, given as the inverse sine of the ratio of the indices of refraction, is the angle beyond which
total internal reflection occurs.
ANSWER: critical angle
18. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, he claimed that works of art cause an inner resonance in the soul. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this painter of the Composition series, which included three paintings confiscated by the Nazis as
“degenerate art.”
ANSWER: Wassily Kandinsky
[10] A Kandinsky painting gave rise to the name of this school, which was led by Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Other
artists associated with this school include Albert Bloch and August Macke.
ANSWER: The Blue Rider [or Der Blaue Reiter]
[10] This painter of such works as Viaducts Break Ranks and Fish Magic was also associated with the Blue Rider.
He also depicted several birds connected to the title device in Twittering Machine.
ANSWER: Paul Klee
19. He wrote a four part work based on Genesis in his Joseph and his Brothers series. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this German author of Doktor Faustus, The Transposed Heads, and Magic Mountain.
ANSWER: Thomas Mann
[10] Thomas Mann's response to Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is titled after this character “in Weimar.”
Werther falls in love with this character but commits suicide because of his unrequited love for this character.
ANSWER: Lotte in Weimar [or Charlotte]
[10] Having to wait for his lost luggage while stranded in Como, the protagonist of this Mann novella suffers the
title misfortune after watching Jaschiu press Tadzio’s face into the sand.
ANSWER: Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]
20. Answer the following questions about linguistic confusion, for 10 points each.
[10] “The horse raced past the barn fell” is an example of one of these sentences, which initially lead the listener to
an incorrect parsing.
ANSWER: garden path sentences
[10] Garden path sentences are an example of this phenomenon in which a word or phrase has multiple possible
interpretations. It is classified into lexical, syntactic, and semantic types.
ANSWER: ambiguity
[10] These are substitutions occurring at the level of segments or syllables, resulting in phrases such as “parrots and
keys” for “carrots and peas.”
ANSWER: spoonerisms
Tiebreaker
This author wrote Flower Fables while tutoring Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author who described her time as a Civil War nurse in Hospital Sketches and wrote about the
community of Fruitlands in Transcendental Wild Oats.
ANSWER: Louis May Alcott
[10] Louisa May Alcott wrote this novel in which the tomboyish Jo and the artistic Amy are among the title
members of the March family.
ANSWER: Little Women
[10] In Little Women, this March sister contracts scarlet fever from the immigrant Hummel family and later dies of
the consumption.
ANSWER: Beth [or Elizabeth]