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Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament 2012: Even Revolutionaries Like Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Tossups
1. This author’s first novel details how Eugene Dawn goes insane while working on the Vietnam Project; that novel
is Dusklands. This author created a fictional writer who moves in with Rayment in the novel Slow Man. That
creation of this author is the writer of The House on Eccles Street. The title character of another of this man’s novels
is repeatedly imprisoned and forced to do hard labor, and successfully brings his mother’s ashes to Prince Albert.
The protagonist of another of his novels stands in stark contrast to his uptight daughter Lucy, and loses his position
as an English professor. For 10 points, name this South African author of Elizabeth Costello, The Life and Times of
Michael K and Disgrace.
ANSWER: John Maxwell Coetzee
2. This man once told a crowd that “the man with two tunics should share with him who has none.” Because this
man’s father had been struck mute, his father had to use a writing tablet to indicate his name after his birth. While he
was still in the womb, he leaped for joy, startling his mother, Elizabeth. This son of Zechariah predicted that
someone whose sandals he was not fit to carry would come, and also denied being the Prophet or Elijah. After
speaking against the king’s marriage to Herodias, he was executed at the request of Salome. This prophet wore
clothes of camel hair while eating a diet of locusts and honey in the wilderness. For 10 points, name this prophet
who predicted the coming of Jesus and got his name because he submerged people in the River Jordan.
ANSWER: John the Baptist [prompt on partial answers]
3. Prior to this event, one man gave a speech asking if the government’s failures were the result of “stupidity or
treason.” After one phase, the Women’s Battalion of Death was formed. Journalist John Reed wrote the book Ten
Days That Shook the World about this event, which culminated in the cruiser Aurora beginning an assault on a
former palace. The eventual government that was created signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to end war with
Germany. In this event’s “February” phase, a provisional government was formed, but in October, Alexander
Kerensky’s government was toppled and the new government executed the Romanov family. For 10 points, name
this 1917 event in which Nicholas II abdicated, eventually leading to a Bolshevik government under Lenin.
ANSWER: Russian Revolution of 1917 [accept February Revolution or October Revolution until mentioned,
accept Revolution of 1917 until mentioned, accept overthrow of Nicholas II until mentioned, accept logical
synonyms for “revolution”]
4. This author wrote one short story in which Reuben marries Durcas and later accidentally shoots their son at the
same spot that he had seen the title character die. The protagonist of another short story by this man keeps
encountering a man with a face painted red and black, and is told that he can succeed in life without the help of the
title relation. This author of “My Kinsman, Major Molineaux” wrote a story which ends with Giorgiana dying with
the disappearance of the title imperfection. That story is titled “The Birthmark” and is part of the collection Mosses
From an Old Manse. The protagonist of another of his short stories imagines witnessing his wife Faith participate in
a satanic ritual. For 10 points, name this American author of “Young Goodman Brown.”
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. One group of these minerals is further divided into a sanidine variety, and these minerals can be distinguished
from a similar group of minerals because these minerals cleave across planes. These minerals have a K-type and are
exemplified by labradorite. Members of this group of minerals have varying number of aluminum and silicon atoms,
but all of these minerals have eight oxygen atoms. One subset of these minerals has a value of 6 on the Mohs
hardness scale, and on the Bowen’s reaction series, these minerals make up the continuous branch. For 10 points,
name these minerals that make up a majority of the Earth’s crust, which are classified as orthoclase or plagioclase
ANSWER: feldspars [accept specific types].
6. This figure bore a son who was simultaneously suckled alongside Telephus, and that son later joined the Seven
Against Thebes. This mother of Parthenopaeus dispatched the lusty centaurs Hylaeus and Rhaecus, and she was
presented a prize that signaled the end of King Oeneus’s woes by a man whose life ended with the burning of brush.
Either Melanion or Hippomenes made use of golden apples to trip her up, thus earning her hand in marriage. This
figure was exposed on a mountain at youth by her father Iasus and survived by being suckled by a she-bear. For 10
points, name this huntress whom Meleager presented the pelt of the Calydonian boar.
ANSWER: Atalanta
7. This man wrote about how science helps Sebastian overcome a religious crisis in the autobiographical Recherche.
In one of his studies, he used the “three-mountains problem” to demonstrate his theory of egocentrism. This man’s
most notable theory was critiqued by Lev Vygotsky, whose “zone of proximal development” theory contradicted
this man’s set hierarchy. This author of The Grasp of Consciousness argued that subjects use assimilation and
accommodation to create symbolic and behavioral schemata. Conservation of numbers, classification, and seriation
are traits of the concrete operational stage of this man’s four-stage theory of cognitive development. For 10 points,
name this Swiss psychologist noted for his studies with children.
ANSWER: Jean Piaget
8. One participant in this event used the name Isaac Smith while renting the Kennedy Farmhouse. The poem “Year
of Meteors” refers to the aftermath of this event with a line about “an old man, tall, with white hair.” The first of the
main participants in this event to die was Dangerfield Newby. Afterwards, the leader of this event wrote that he was
certain that the crimes of the United States “will never be purged away but with blood” before his execution. That
leader had earlier hacked five men to death in Pottawatomie Creek after the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, and this
event ended when he was captured by Marines under the command of Robert E. Lee. For 10 points, name this
October 1859 event in which a radical abolitionist tried to seize a United States Arsenal in Virginia.
ANSWER: raid on Harper’s Ferry [accept John Brown’s raid; accept obvious equivalents that include Harper’s
Ferry; accept John Brown’s execution until “Dangerfield Newby”]
9. This artist made two depictions of his family's coat of arms with a cock and a skull, and he showed a sultan clad
in a blue robe pointing to a recently severed head in his The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand. This artist often
signed his works with a monogram in which the the first letter of his last name sits under the first letter of his first
name. This artist depicted a figure without a nose or lips holding an hourglass to the central armor-clad figure in one
work which also shows a dog running between two horses. The title figure hunches over a desk in a room which is
also occupied by a dog and a lion in another of his works. One work by this artist of Knight, Death and the Devil
depicts a magic square next to a gloomy angel. For 10 points, name this Renaissance era German artist of
Melencolia I and Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer
10. One of this thinker’s books argues that we “must love the holy demon” after proposing a concept translated as
love of fate – amor fati. That work by this man proposes a thought experiment in which a demon informs humanity
that the life he is living right now is the life that he is doomed to eternally repeat. This thinker described his own
work as questionable in his essay “An Attempt at Self Criticism,” which is a preface to a late edition of one of his
works that argued Wagner is reviving the title art form that Euripides murdered. That work discusses the Dionysian
and Apollonian and is called The Birth of Tragedy. A madman announces that “God is Dead” in another work by
this author called The Gay Science. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra.
ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche
11. If the overlap integral for these quantities is large, then these quantities are thought to look alike. Spin has half
integer values for particles when these quantities are antisymmetric under interchange. Measurement of observables
causes its reduction to the eigenfunction of the observed eigenvalue. One equation regarding these entities relates
their Hamiltonian to their time derivative. Max Born suggested that squaring this quantity represent the probability
distribution, which was the founding principle of the Copenhagen interpretation. In the Schrodinger equation, this
quantity is the dependent variable. For 10 points, name these entities that characterize a system in quantum
mechanics, commonly symbolized psi.
ANSWER: wavefunctions
12. As a child, this character owned a beloved pet sehlat named I-Chaya. He is temporarily blinded by a Denevan
neural parasite and is the unrequited object of Nurse Christine Chapel’s affections. In one movie, his half-brother
invites him on a search to find God. This son of Amanda Grayson once fought his superior while under a spell of
madness induced during the mating time of pon farr. This character apparently sacrifices himself to save the crew
after Khan arms the Genesis Device, but manages to place his soul into the ship’s doctor. In his last film appearance,
he witnessed the Romulan Nero destroying his planet and met his time traveling future self, played by Leonard
Nimoy. For 10 points, name this Vulcan science officer from Star Trek.
ANSWER: Mister (or Doctor or Ambassador) Spock
13. After initially being turned down for marriage, this man burnt his violins and pursued a military career. He
teamed with the Dutch at the Battle of Quatre Bras, while his first major victory was at Assaye where he defeated
the Maratha Confederacy. As Prime Minister, this Tory politician passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act, but was
replaced by Earl Grey after staunchly opposing the Great Reform Act. This man led British forces to victories at
Vitoria and Salamanca, crushing King Joseph’s forces in the Peninsular War. In his most notable military victory, he
fought Marshal Ney with Gebhard von Blucher’s Prussian forces, ending a certain emperor’s “Hundred Days” return
from the island of Elba. For 10 points, name this duke who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
ANSWER: Duke of Wellington [accept Arthur Wellesley or Arthur Wesley]
14. The protagonists of this work flee a tavern and make Alicandro foot their bill, and Benoit drunkenly admits to
have had an affair with a sketchy woman in this work’s first act. One protagonist of this opera pockets a key which
was lost after two candles are blown out by the wind in one scene, and one character sings the aria “ Quando me ‘n
vo” to a former lover in this opera. A poet buys his lover a bonnet in this opera, which opens with the central
characters using a manuscript as fuel for a stove. Colline sadly pawns his coat to get money for medicine towards
this opera’s ending. For 10 points, name this opera set in the Latin Quarter which ends with Mimi dying in the arms
of Rodolfo, written by Giacomo Puccini.
ANSWER: La Boheme
15. One modification of this law allows for its applicability to the analysis of tissue in near-infrared spectroscopy
and was developed by Maikala. This law can be derived by treating molecules as opaque disks whose cross sectional
areas are encountered by a certain particle and integrating the product of this area and the number of particles in an
infinitesimally thin slab. This law sets the quantity it explains equal to two minus the log of transmissivity, and that
quantity can also be calculated as the product of path length, concentration and the extinction coefficient. For 10
points, name this law that relates the properties of a material to the absorbance of light traveling through it.
ANSWER: Beer-Lambert-Bouguer Law [accept either underlined name, or both in either order]
16. This character notes that “many a king is ruled by his prime minister and many a minister by his secretary.” He
later refers to himself as “a wanderer on this earth—a pilgrim.” This character loses himself in his emotions when a
new friend says “Klopstock.” He receives a “Wetstein Homer” to replace his “Ernesti edition” as a gift from Albert
on his birthday. The work titled for this character is mostly comprised of a series of his letters written to William
about his love for Lotte. He eventually commits suicide over his unrequited love in an action that was imitated by
many impressionable 18th-century European youths. For 10 points, name this “young” character whose “Sorrows”
title a Goethe work.
ANSWER: Werther [or The Sorrows of Young Werther; or Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers]
17. Bohuslav Martinu composed a concerto for this instrument “and Small Orchestra” for Jiri Tancibudek. The
movement “Deploration”, which ends a 1962 sonata for this instrument and piano, was Francis Poulenc’s final
composition, while Benjamin Britten wrote a solo work for it called Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. Mozart
composed a well-known concerto for this instrument for Giuseppe Ferlendis. It’s not the viola, but the “Et in
Spiritus Sanctus” movement of Bach’s Mass in B Minor features the “d’amore” version of this instrument. It
evolved out of the earlier shawm, and it is pitched a perfect fifth higher than the related English horn. For 10 points,
identify this double-reed woodwind instrument whose conical bore creates its piercing tone.
ANSWER: oboes
18. This non-American city’s Monument to the Unknown Soldier is represented by a shield falling from the hands of
a warrior. Another monument here is a pair of arches consisting of hands holding crossed swords. During one event
in this city, a ruler was rolled up into a rug and trampled so as to avoid having the earth touch royal blood. This city
is divided into the Red and Green Zones and is the home of the Republican Palace. It was home to a massive library
called the House of Wisdom and was constructed by Al-Mansur, who intended for it to replace a previous capital at
Damascus. In 1258, Hulagu Khan’s Mongols sacked this city, which reportedly made the Tigris turn red with blood.
For 10 points, name this capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, the modern-day capital of Iraq.
ANSWER: Baghdad [accept Madinat al-Salaam]
19. Some strains of these organisms are capable of synthesizing verotoxin, which resembles shiga toxin, and
infection of humans by those strains often leads to hemolytic uremic syndrome. One structure found in these
organisms is often upregulated by adding IPTG, and the activity of that structure in these organisms is indicated if
X-gal turns blue in a commonly used assay. That structure codes for beta-galactosidase and is the lac operon. This
organism was the subject of the Messelson-Stahl experiment, and the T4 bacteriophage infects these organisms. For
10 points, name this rod shaped gram negative bacterium, whose strains include the virulent O157:H7.
ANSWER: Escherichia coli [or E. coli]
20. In one scene in this play, the main character implies to his wife that there are horns growing out of his head. In
another scene, the protagonist bizarrely yells “goats and monkeys” after arriving at the central location. Much of this
work centers on an object with a strawberry motif that was given by an Egyptian sorceress to the title character’s
mother. In the opening scene Brabantio yells at the protagonist, and in its last pages, the main villain is apprehended
by Ludovico. The fifth act begins with a lieutenant killing Roderigo and being wounded in the process and ends with
the title character stabbing himself because he used a pillow to smother his wife Desdemona. For 10 points, identify
this William Shakespeare tragedy about the title “Moor of Venice.”
ANSWER: Othello [accept Otello]
TB.
This leader crossed the Dog River and defeated the Shardana and Lukka people in naval battles. One of his building
projects was famously discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli, while another was cleared of sand by Giovanni Belzoni.
This man married Bint-anath, his daughter by his second wife Isetnofret, who was also the mother of his eventual
successor, Merenptah. He married the daughter of Hattusilis and signed a treaty with Hattusili after Mursilli III fled
to his country. This ruler erected a temple to celebrate what he claimed was a victory over the Hittites at the Battle
of Kadesh. He also dedicated the temple of Abu Simbel to his favorite wife. Nefertari was the first wife of this son
of Seti I. For 10 points, name this Pharaoh known as ‘the Great.’
ANSWER: Ramesses II [prompt on “Ramesses”; accept Ramesses the Great before ‘the Great’ is read]
Bonuses
1. A man’s zombie ex-wife kills him and people turn into cats when sexually aroused in films discussed in this
novel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel where the effeminate Molina entertains the journalist and revolutionary Valentín as they share
a prison cell.
ANSWER: The Kiss of the Spider Woman [accept El beso de la mujer arana]
[10] Another effeminate male character created by this author is the movie maniac Toto Casals, who appears in his
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. This novelist penned The Kiss of the Spider Woman.
ANSWER: Manuel Puig [accept Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne]
[10] José Hernández wrote Martin Fierro, an epic poem in the gaucho literary form often associated with this
country. This South American country is the homeland of Manuel Puig.
ANSWER: Argentina
2. They are derived from the principle of conservation of angular momentum, since celestial bodies do not
experience a net torque. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this set of laws, the second of which states that planets orbiting the sun will sweep out equal areas in
equal time. The first of these laws states that the orbit of a body around the sun will always be elliptical.
ANSWER: Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
[10] Kepler’s 3rd law states that the square of the orbital period is proportional to the cube of this quantity of the
orbit. For a hyperbola, this quantity is equal to the distance from its center to a vertex.
ANSWER: semi-major axis [do not accept or prompt on “major axis”; do not accept “semi-minor axis”]
[10] The direction of an object’s angular momentum is determined by the cross-product, which can be visualized
using this pedagogical tool. It can also be used to determine the direction of a magnetic field expelled by a wire
carrying a current.
ANSWER: right-hand rule
3. This artist painted Giulio Clovio, Raphael, Titian and Michelangelo into the lower right corner of a painting
which shows an angry Jesus whipping merchants away from the temple. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this artist of Christ Driving the Money Changers From the Temple who depicted a much kinder looking
Jesus heal a man as bystanders look on in Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind.
ANSWER: El Greco [accept Doménikos Theotokópoulos]
[10] El Greco painted his own son into this work, in which the Madonna and Christ are looking down from heaven
while below several noblemen dressed in black surround Don Gonzalo Ruíz.
ANSWER: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
[10] El Greco's depiction of this event shows the central figure stand atop a crescent moon. Rubens also painted a
version of this event in which several people reach out to touch a shroud.
ANSWER: assumption of the virgin Mary
4. William Thornton led one of the few successful British attacks during this battle. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this battle in which General Edward Pakenham was killed. Buccaneer Jean Lafitte provided assistance to
the victorious side in this battle, which took place after the battle of Lake Borgne.
ANSWER: Battle of New Orleans
[10] The Battle of New Orleans launched the political career of this president, nicknamed Old Hickory, who fought
against the Second Bank of the United States and signed the Indian Removal Act.
ANSWER: Andrew Jackson
[10] This 1835 treaty was signed in Georgia and established terms in which the Cherokee Nation ceded territory and
pledged to move west to Indian Territory. Principal chief John Ross begged the Senate not to ratify this treaty.
ANSWER: Treaty of New Echota
5. This deity hired a group of sailors, but they proved to be pirates so he turned their oars into serpents, so they
jumped into the ocean and became dolphins. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this son of Zeus and Semele, the Greco-Roman god of wine and revelry.
ANSWER: Dionysus [or Bacchus]
[10] Dionysus is often accompanied by troops of these creatures that are characterized by a mix of human, horse,
and goat-like features. They also name the third type of ancient Athenian drama along with tragedy and comedy.
ANSWER: satyrs
[10] Dionysus rewarded King Midas with his golden touch because Midas took care of this drunken satyr, the tutor
of Dionysus.
ANSWER: Silenus
6. Answer the following about the boring end to the college football season, for 10 points each.
[10] The BCS championship game was won by this Nick Saban-coached SEC team, which completely shut down
Les Miles’ LSU Tigers.
ANSWER: University of Alabama Crimson Tide [accept Alabama, accept Crimson Tide]
[10] If you watched the championship game, you would have heard announcer Brent Musberger endlessly repeating
this nickname of LSU player Tyrann Mathieu, which references an Internet meme involving a “crazy nastyass”
animal.
ANSWER: “Honey badger”
[10] This former LSU quarterback led the team to a title in the 2007-2008 season. This man recently worked as
Aaron Rodgers’ backup in Green Bay and torched the Lions in the final game of last season..
ANSWER: Matthew Clayton Flynn
7. Name the following from the exciting field of cobalt coordination chemistry, for 10 points each:
[10] Complexes of cobalt(III) tend to exhibit this geometry in which the central ion forms six coordination bonds
with its ligands. Sulfur hexafluoride also has this geometry.
ANSWER: octahedral
[10] The substitution of six ammonia ligands for six water ligands causes a cobalt(II) complex to change color from
pink to orange because ammonia ligands create a larger splitting in energy of these atomic orbitals, which hold ten
electrons.
ANSWER: d-orbitals
[10] Molecules with octahedral geometry often undergo distortion due to this effect. This effect results in the
breaking of symmetry in molecules.
ANSWER: Jahn Teller effect
8. The protagonist of this play shows the title object to Lord Darlington at a party. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which the protagonist suspects her husband of having an affair. However, the “other
woman,” Mrs. Erlynne, turns out to be the protagonist’s own mother.
ANSWER: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Play About a Good Woman
[10] Lady Windermere’s Fan is a work by this author, who also wrote a comedy about the assumption of fictitious
identities in The Importance of Being Earnest.
ANSWER: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
[10] This 1970’s play took characters and scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest. Set in Zurich, its
protagonist is Henry Carr, and it also features real-life personalities such as James Joyce, Lenin, and Tristan Tzara.
ANSWER: Travesties
9. This artist’s The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse is made up of a sewing machine covered up with a cloth, and one of
his photographs shows a nude woman on whose back are painted two f-holes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this photographer of the Violins of Ingres (“eng-re”) series who als took many pictures of a certain
“Rrose Sélavy,” (“r-rose selavy”), who was actually just one of his friends cross dressing.
ANSWER: Man Ray [or Emmanuel Radinitzky]
[10] The aforementioned Rrose Sélavy was actually this man, who made readymades such as “Bottle Rack” and
“Bicycle Wheel.” He painted a goatee and a mustache to Mona Lisa in a painting he titled L.H.O.O.Q.
ANSWER: Marcel Duchamp
[10] Duchamp stirred up controversy when he showed this work at the Armory show. This work was described as an
“explosion in a shingle factory” by Julian Street
ANSWER: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 [or Nu descendant un escalier n° 2]
10. This man once fell asleep with his feet pointed towards Mecca, angering some watchmen. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man who advocated selfless worship of God through sharing, honest living, and chanting God’s
name, or naam japna.
ANSWER: Guru Nanak Dev Ji
[10] Guru Nanak founded this monotheistic religion that blended elements of Hinduism and Islam. Particularly
devoted members of this religion form part of the khalsa.
ANSWER: Sikhism
[10] One of the symbols of Sikhism, kachcha, is a special version of this item. Mormons are given a sacred version
of this item at a ceremony and wear it for the remainder of their life.
ANSWER: underwear [accept equivalents like undergarments]
11. This man’s Prime Minister, Emile Ollivier, led the push to create a more “liberal empire.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this French monarch, who notably commissioned Baron Haussman’s plan to modernize Paris. He also
supported Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico.
ANSWER: Napoleon III [accept Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, prompt on Bonaparte]
[10] During Napoleon III’s reign, a French company built this artificial waterway in Egypt which connects the
Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It took 10 years to construct.
ANSWER: Suez Canal [accept Qanat al-Suwais]
[10] This Frenchman founded the company which constructed the Suez Canal. He would later lead a failed attempt
to build the Panama Canal and would formally present the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
ANSWER: Ferdinand de Lesseps [accept Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps]
12. Methionine cannot form these structures despite having the element central to them, and intracellular proteins
typically lack these structures because they are in a reducing environment. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these linkages, typically reported as a part of a protein’s tertiary structure, in which the thiols of two
amino acids are oxidized and covalently bond with each other.
ANSWER: disulfide bonds [or disulfide bridges]
[10] Disulfide bridges are typically made between two residues of this amino acid, whose side chain has chemical
formula CH2SH. Protein prenylation involves covalent modification of residues of this amino acid.
ANSWER: cysteine
[10] The sulfur containing methionine is coded for by the codon AUG, which is also the start codon that initiates
translation of proteins at these structures. The rough endoplasmic reticulum is lined with these organelles.
ANSWER: ribosomes
13. This work details the murder of Herbert Clutter and his family. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this non-fiction novel that is considered to be the first of the "true crime" genre. It focuses on the
psychological state of the killers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
ANSWER: In Cold Blood
[10] In Cold Blood was written by this author, who was photographed looking “fierce” for his novel, Other Voices,
Other Rooms. He also wrote about Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
ANSWER: Truman Capote [accept Truman Streckfus Persons]
[10] This contemporary of Capote was a counter-cultural author who wrote about loggers in Sometimes a Great
Notion. Another of his novels ends with the Chief smothering Randall McMurphy to death.
ANSWER: Kenneth Elton Kesey
14. The first movement of this work ends with the orchestra building to a G major triad foreshadowed earlier by its
famous opening chord, an E minor triad scored such that G predominates. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this work, commissioned by Serge Koussevitsky to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Boston
Symphony. The last of the texts it sets ends with the line “Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord”.
ANSWER: Symphony of Psalms
[10] A C major and an F major triad are combined in the chord named for this ballet, a work of the same composer.
It is divided into four tableaux, including “The Shrovetide Fair” and “The Moor’s Room”, and it centers on a puppet
brought magically to life.
ANSWER: Petrushka [or Petrouchka]
[10] Symphony of Psalms and the music for Petrushka were composed by this Russian, whose other works for
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes include The Firebird and The Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [or Igorʹ Fëdorovič Stravinskij]
15. This work seeks to achieve happiness through virtue, and proposes a golden mean of what is right. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this work which proposes that eudaimonia is the highest human virtue that man can achieve. It is named
for the author’s son.
ANSWER: Nichomachean Ethics
[10] Nichomachean Ethics is a work by this ancient Greek philosopher who also wrote about the three classical
unities in his Poetics.
ANSWER: Aristotle
[10] Aristotle wrote another work on ethics titled for this student of his who edited Aristotle’s works and wrote a
History of Geometry and a History of Astronomy.
ANSWER: Eudemus of Rhodes [accept Eudemian Ethics]
16. This work calls the reader a hypocrite in the poem "Au Lecteur." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1857 poetry collection that includes the section "Spleen and Ideal" as well as the poems "The
Albatross" and "The Vampire."
ANSWER: Les Fleurs du Mal [accept The Flowers of Evil]
[10] This French poet wrote Les Fleurs du Mal. He also worked as a translator of Edgar Allan Poe works.
ANSWER: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
[10] Baudelaire wrote criticism of this fellow French author, who wrote about a magical item in The Wild Ass’s Skin
and about the miserly father of the title character in Eugenie Grandet.
ANSWER: Honore de Balzac
17. Answer the following about the Prime Minister known as “Supermac,” Harold Macmillan,” for 10 points each.
[10] Macmillan served as Housing and Defence Minister in the government of this Conservative Prime Minister in
the 1950’s, who had more notably replaced Neville Chamberlain as Britain’s leader during World War II.
ANSWER: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
[10] Macmillan attended the Four Power Paris Summit, which collapsed over tensions due to this 1960 incident, in
which the namesake American spy plane piloted by F. Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet air space.
ANSWER: U-2 incident
[10] Macmillan’s ministry was itself severely damaged by this 1963 scandal, in which the namesake Secretary of
State for War had an affair with Christine Keeler, who was also reportedly the mistress of an alleged Russian spy.
ANSWER: Profumo Afair
18. One example of the negative type of these is pollution. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these unintended costs or benefits that are not accounted for by the producer and are incurred by a third
party.
ANSWER: externalities
[10] This theorem of externalities requires that a set of conditions, including property ownership, be in place for
negotiations to reach the ideal level of externalities, which is somewhere in the middle.
ANSWER: Coase theorem
[10] This economist names a type of taxes levied on producers of negative externalities and wrote The Economics of
Welfare and The Theory of Unemployment.
ANSWER: Arthur Cecil Pigou
19. It can be represented as an alternating sum of Betti numbers and it is equal to two minus twice the genus. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this topological invariant symbolized chi which may considered as the number of vertices minus edges
plus faces. It is named for the Swiss mathematician who founded graph theory by solving the Bridges of
Königsburg problem.
ANSWER: Euler characteristic
[10] This generalization of the four-color theorem says that the minimum number of colors required to color a graph
on a surface is the floor of 7 plus the square root of 49 minus 24 times the Euler characteristic all over two.
ANSWER: Heawood conjecture [accept Ringel-Youngs theorem]
[10] The only surface for which the Heawood conjecture fails is this non-orientable, boundaryless surface of Euler
characteristic zero. Dissecting it along its plane of symmetry yields two Möbius strips.
ANSWER: Klein bottle
20. During this event, there was a skirmish to secure the Luding Bridge. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1930’s event. Its most famous component featured a group fleeing from Jiangxi to Shaanxi to avoid
the pursuing Kuomintang forces.
ANSWER: Long March [accept Changzheng]
[10] During the Long March, this man emerged as the leader of the Chinese Communist forces. As Chairman of
China’s Communist Party, he pushed such policies as the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.
ANSWER: Mao Zedong [accept Mao Tse-tung]
[10] This man was present at the Luding Bridge assault. In 1958, he became Vice Chairman of the Communist Party
under Mao and was seen as a probable successor until his mysterious death in a 1971 plane crash, possibly after
masterminding an assassination attempt on Mao.
ANSWER: Lin Biao
21. The title woman of this work lives in a tower that overlooks "a space of flowers" on a "silent isle" in a river that
is banked by "long fields of barley and of rye." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem about a woman who "weaves by night and day" until she sees Sir Lancelot out her window.
ANSWER: "The Lady of Shallott"
[10] This English poet wrote "The Lady of Shallott" as well as "Crossing the Bar" and "The Charge of the Light
Brigade." He was the longest serving Poet Laureate of England.
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[10] This work by Tennyson tells the story of Arthur and his knights in twelve poems, including "The Coming of
Arthur" and "The Last Tournament."
ANSWER: Idylls of the King