Download FINAL_Harvard+Queens_A - Collegiate Quiz Bowl Packet Archive

Terrapin Invitational Tournament 2011
Edited by Maryland (SteveJon Guth, Chris Ray, Logan Anbinder, Paul Marchsteiner)
Harvard (Stephen Liu, Dallas Simons, Andy Watkins) and Queen's A
1. This author retold a story in which the Merchant of Priceless Jewels takes from the Black Road a piece of
Master Almondtree’s soul in “Tatuana’s Tale,” part of a collection entitled the “Legends of” his home
country. One novel by this author sees Maria Tecun run away from her blind husband Goyo Yic, while
Machojon and his wife are killed by a curse after helping the Mounted Patrol to betray (*) Gaspar Ilom, who
cultivates the titular crop. In another novel by this writer involves a plot to blame the Zany’s murder of Colonel
Sonriente on General Canales, whose daughter Camila becomes a love interest of Angel Face, who serves the titular
politician. For 10 points, name this Nobel laureate who included The Green Pope in his Banana trilogy and wrote
Men of Maize and El Senor Presidente, a Guatemalan author.
ANSWER: Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales
2. The gene that codes for one component of this protein is contained in the short arm of chromosome 5,
which is deleted in cri du chat syndrome, and that gene's loss of function may contribute to that condition.
Inhibitors of this enzyme may be of limited efficacy in treating a certain disease due to the existence of the
ALT pathway. Scott Cohen discovered that this enzyme contains two molecules of dyskerin. This enzyme is
named for the (*) repeats of TTAGGG that it adds to the 3’ end of chromosomes. For 10 points, name this enzyme
discovered by Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn, that compensates for the continual shortening with each
replication of its namesake aging structure.
ANSWER: telomerase
3. British historian Robert Irwin criticizes this thinker's thesis in the book For Lust of Knowing, while George
Landow directly attacked this man's scholarship. Justus Weiner has accused this man of falsifying his
autobiography to better effect a "subaltern." He defended Barenboim's performance of Wagner in Israel in
the article "Better to Know." Along with Cedric Watts, this thinker disagreed with Chinua (*) Achebe's
characterization of Joseph Conrad as a terrible racist. And the most famous work by this thinker quote Victor
Hugo's poem "Lui" to support the thesis that all Arabs are seen either as oil suppliers or terrorists. For 10 points,
name this Palestinian-American postcolonialist who wrote Culture And Imperialism and Orientalism.
ANSWER: Edward Said
4. A song remixed on Daiquiri Factory warns fans of this substance “instead of 28, you cookin' 26;” that song
by San Quinn and Andre Nickatina wonders if you like this “like Boston George.” Rick Ross notes that he's
“got a tendency/To send 'em up to Tennessee” in a work crediting his financial stability to this substance,
which was modified with the aid of Wikipedia by notable rapper Thugnificent. The invocation of Dwyane
Wade in (*) “Empire State of Mind” calls into question Jeezy’s assertion of his status in an earlier song that uses
Kobe and Lebron’s jersey numbers to refer to preferential price-discrimination involving this substance. This
substance is employed “if your thing is gone and you wanna ride on” in a song noting “you’ve got to take her out” if
“you wanna hang out” by Eric Clapton. For 10 points, name this substance which undergoes its own version of a
remix in which baking soda is used to convert it to a smokable form, crack.
ANSWER: cocaine or blow or peruvian fine [accept equivalents; be generous and prompt on “crack”]
5. This philosopher discussed the origin of one of the Catholic sacraments in the unpublished The Confessions
of the Flesh. Another work by this author of The Archaeology of Knowledge identifies medieval scenes like
gargoyles and jesters as representative of the first titular concept, which appeared as the Ship of Fools and
Tom o’ Bedlam in the Renaissance. That work develops this thinker’s concept of (*) “bio-technico-power,” and
another work discusses the relationship of representation and subject through the example of Velazquez’s Las
Meninas. This philosopher also borrowed Bentham’s idea of the Panopticon in a work that analyzes the history and
nature of prisons. For 10 points, name this French philosopher, the author of Madness and Civilization, The Order of
Things, and Discipline and Punish.
ANSWER: Michel Foucault
6. Known as the Canon Quartet, this opera's aria “A wondrous feeling fills me” is sung by four characters
about another's attraction to the title character, shortly after she rejects a marriage proposal. The “Hah!
What a moment!” aria is sung by this opera's villain as he explains his plan to kill a man that the minister
Don Fernando already believes to be dead. The title character helps (*) Rocco the jailor to dig a grave for that
man, who had been imprisoned two years earlier for trying to expose the tyranny of Don Pizarro. Containing an
overture named for the true identity of the title character, this opera includes characters like Marzelline and ends as
Florestan is reunited with his wife. For 10 points, name this work in which Leonore disguises herself as a man to
free her husband, the only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven.
ANSWER: Fidelio
7. Nonlinear systems with this property can be separated into Lax pairs. The Toda lattice is a classic example
of a system that possesses soliton solutions as well as this property. A system is described by the Frobenius
form of this property if it generates an ideal closed under exterior differentiation, whereas a completely this
Hamiltonian system is a Hamiltonian system admitting the most possible constants of motion. The (*) three
body system lacks this property, causing its solutions to be chaotic. The Lebesgue form of this property extends the
Riemann form to sets of general measure. For 10 points, name this property which implies roughly that a given
function has an antiderivative.
ANSWER: integrable [accept word forms such as integrability, integration]
8. A kingdom in this state traced its founding to an apocryphal victory over Natanleod, while the first
reliably-dated event in this region is the baptism of Cynegils by the bishop Birinus, its namesake “apostle.”
This region was legendarily founded by Cerdic and Cynric when they established a beachhead at
Southampton and saw its most famous ruler commission a namesake jewel of quartz and filigreed gold; that
man was chronicled by (*) Asser, won the Battle of Ashdown, and signed a treaty with the Danes under Guthrum.
This region's power base was pushed southward by enemies like Penda, who threatened it from Mercia. Alfred the
Great led, for 10 points, what Anglo-Saxon kingdom that unsurprisingly joined states like Northumbria, Sussex, and
Essex in the Heptarchy?
ANSWER: Wessex
9. This man wrote an adaptation of a Restoration comedy in which Tom Fashion competes with his brother
Lord Foppington for a wealthy woman, entitled A Trip to Scarborough. This librettist of The Duenna also
wrote a work that sees the rehearsal of a play in which the actors may rework the script as they like and is
entitled The Spanish Armada. That work features the playwrights Sir (*) Fretful Plagiary and Mr. Puff as well
as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, who have the titular profession. In addition to The Critic, another work by this
playwright sees Sir Oliver and Sir Peter Teazle discover Joseph’s dishonesty while Charles Surface wins the hand of
Maria, despite Lady Sneerwell’s gossip, while a play set in Bath sees Captain Absolute’s attempts to marry Lydia
Languish disrupted by her aunt Mrs. Malaprop. For 10 points, name this eighteenth century English playwright of
The School for Scandal and The Rivals.
ANSWER: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
10. He summarized observed coincidences in the order of magnitude of ratios of fundamental constants,
namely, the repeated occurrence of the exponent 40, in his “large numbers hypothesis.” Solutions to his
namesake equation can be expressed as spinors. A function named for this physicist, also called the Shah
function, is equal to its own Fourier transform, and is known as his (*) “comb.” He introduced a namesake delta
function in a book that unified matrix mechanics and wave mechanics, and subsequently showed that the existence
of magnetic monopoles would explain charge quantization. He names an equation that accounts for special relativity
in describing spin one half particles. For 10 points, name this physicist whose namesake "sea" predicted the
existence of antimatter.
ANSWER: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
11. The titular goddess's golden armor is visible through her green cloak in this painter's Pallas Athene. A
deer-headed man holds a bow while a naked goddess gives him the stink-eye in this man's Myth of Diana and
Acteon, while a horse with a spotted fur saddle rears over the titular saint in his version of the Conversion of
St. Paul. John the Baptist adopts a dynamic pose and points a creepy finger toward an illuminated Madonna
and child while the title figure slumbers at right in his (*) Vision of St. Jerome. St. Jerome reappears in the
background of another work by this man, in which he stands before a row of columns and unfurls a scroll. This artist
himself appears wearing a gold ring on his pinkie in a painting that features a curved window at top left. For 10
points, name this Mannerist who created Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and a giant Christ child in Madonna of the
Long Neck.
ANSWER: Parmigianino [Accept Parmigiano or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]
12. Both the Syrian warrior goddess Anat and the Canaanite mother goddess Astarte are sometimes
identified as this figure’s wife. This god’s sister disguised herself as an old woman to reach the Island-in-theMidst, where she cheated this god out of the white crown of Egypt. One story about this god, whose cult was
centered at Avaris, describes how his boat sank in a race after his opponent painted his own boat to look like
stone. Another story about this husband of (*) Nephthys describes how he took the form of a hippopotamus in
one battle, while he squares off daily with the serpent Apep as Ra's barque travels across the underworld. The
bizarre “Typhonic Beast” represents this god of the desert who was worshiped by the Hyksos and famously
dismembered his brother before being defeated by his nephew, Horus. For 10 points, identify this Egyptian god of
storms and chaos who slew his brother, Osiris.
ANSWER: Set [Accept Seth, Sutekh, or Setan]
13. One kingdom in this region may have grown out of the Mahan Confederacy and moved the capital to such
cities as Sabi. A major democratization movement arose on May 18, 1980, after students protesting the
closure of a university in this region were attacked by soldiers. A vitriolic debate about the status of this
region known as the Seikanron led another country to recall the (*) Iwakura Mission before plunging into civil
war, while the final years of one dynasty that ruled here are known as the “Hermit Kingdom,” referring to its
isolationism; that dynasty signed the Treaty of Gyehae to curb piracy under Sejong the Great. The Silla state was
one of the Three Kingdoms of this polity, which was later led by the Joseon dynasty before a landing at Inchon led
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to the establishment of the DMZ, splitting it into two countries along the 38 parallel. For 10 points, name this
peninsula divided between Pyongyang and Seoul.
ANSWER: Korea [accept anything mentioning North or South Korea]
14. This author called a good reader one who "has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic
sense," rather than belong to a book club in Lectures on Literature and he used Antiterra as the setting for his
story Ada. In one of this man's stories, Aleksandr Luzhin begins to believe that he is playing some unseen
opponent because the world is a big chessboard, that story was translated as The Defense. In addition to his
autobiography (*) Speak Memory, the mad king Kinbote comments on a thousand line poem by John Shade in one
work by this author, while in another C Cincinattus is executed for gnostical turpitude, those are Pale Fire and
Invitation to a Beheading. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Pnin who created the character of Humbert
Humbert in his novel Lolita.
ANSWER: Vladimir Nabokov
15. As a colonel, this president led a brigade that followed White’s West Virginians in a frontal assault at
Cloyd’s Mountain. This president appointed William Woods and John Harlan to the Supreme Court, and
faced the Shamokin Uprising and labor unrest in Martinsburg, West Virginia during a large railroad strike
in his first year in office. His Treasury Secretary John Sherman launched the Jay Commission, leading this
man to remove Alonzo Cornell and (*) Chester Arthur from their positions with the Port of New York. Horace
Greeley's fabricated story about an opponent's “Cipher Dispatches” helped this man win an election resolved by
Thomas A. Scott. This President saw his veto on the Bland-Allison Act overridden, delighting his foe Roscoe
Conkling. For 10 points, name this President whose victory over Samuel Tilden in 1876 led to the end of
Reconstruction.
ANSWER: Rutherford Birchard Hayes
16. A university professor in this novel lectures on “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and Carl Peterson
undergoes tests at the Ministry of Mental Hygiene at the suggestion of a man who believes that homosexuality
is both a sickness and a political crime. Pornographic movies are shown at an Annual Party hosted by one
character in this novel who takes a baboon to the opera. That character, A.J., lives in a city where (*)
centipede flesh and mugwump fluid is sold on the streets. INDs are humans who have been transformed into
zombies by the experiments under Doctor Benway, who works for Islam, Incorporated. The aforementioned city is a
combination of the South, South America, Panama, New York, and Tangier, and is called Interzone. For 10 points,
name this novel about the drug addict Bill Lee, written by William S. Burroughs.
ANSWER: Naked Lunch
17. One publication by this group likens the small minority for which this group does not speak to the third of
humanity that it believes will be killed following a thermonuclear attack on New York City. The architect of
this group's current executive structure died shortly before the culmination of the Ten Year Crusade, which
was completed by the Hands of the Cause. This faith regards as illegitimate the followers of Charles Mason
Remey, who himself was declared a (*) covenant breaker for claiming to be an eligible successor to the only one in
their tradition to hold the title of “Guardian.” That man, Shoghi Effendi, laid the basis for the modern leadership of
this religion based on the tenets put forth in the Book of Certitude. For 10 points, identify this faith whose current
dogma is thusly governed by the Haifa-based Universal House of Justice, a religion founded by Baha’u’llah.
ANSWER: Baha’i [accept Universal House of Justice before mentioned]
18. Piano pieces like "Innocence" and "Dejection" form this man's opus 6 collection of bagatelles and
impromptus, while his opus 4 and 5 Skizzen, or sketches, were also written for piano. He wrote both a
symphonic poem and fanfares based on Shakespeare's Richard III, while the first of this composer's two
string quartets is written in e minor and includes an Allegro moderato a la Polka second movement. That
work, entitled (*) "From My Life," was written shortly after this man lost his hearing. This composer also wrote a
cycle of six symphonic poems, the fourth of which, "From Bohemia's woods and fields," celebrates his nation's
countryside, and the second of which begins with a flute solo and depicts the Vltava river, or "Die Moldau." For 10
points, name this Czech composer of Ma Vlast who also created the opera The Bartered Bride.
ANSWER: Bedrich Smetana
19. Geoffrey Parker examined the “Grand Strategy” of this ruler, whose signing of the Treaty of Joinville
provoked one major rival to agree to the Treaty of Nonsuch; that treaty promised support to a city viciously
torn apart by this man's soldiers after a fleet containing 400,000 florins of their back pay was captured by
enemy forces. Cultural changes under this employer of Alexander Farnese were described in a Fernand
Braudel work about the (*) “Mediterranean World in the Age of” this monarch. This man expanded his empire
after the Battle of Alcacer Quibir took the life of Sebastian the Desired and employed an administrator who
established the Council of Blood. William the Silent revolted against this employer of the Duke of Alba, embroiling
him in a feud with a Tudor monarch that would lead to his most notable failure. For 10 points, name this Spanish
king who beat the Turks at Lepanto but failed to unseat Elizabeth in 1588 through his Spanish Armada.
ANSWER: Philip II of Spain or Philip the Prudent
20. Fukuyama developed a method to produce these compounds from thioesters and organozinc halides.
These compounds are reacted with 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine, giving a positive result, in Brady’s test.
These compounds and alcohols are produced from a peroxide rearrangement named for Kornblum ad
DeLaMare. These compounds may be oxidized in the presence of a peroxyacid to an ester in a procedure
named for (*) Baeyer and Villiger, and addition of a single equivalent of Grignard reagent gives a tertiary alcohol.
For 10 points, name this functional group featuring a carbon with two single bonds to carbon and one double bond to
oxygen, the simplest example of which is acetone.
ANSWER: ketones [prompt on “carbonyl”]
21. Most recently Mary Brogger created a bronze monument to this event, while a streetcar driver
intentionally crashed his vehicle into one of the first monuments to this event, created by Johannes Gelert.
William Seliger turned state's evidence in the aftermath of this event, and much later Albert Weinert created
a monument to this event at Waldheim. August (*) Spies spoke from an open wagon immediately prior to this
event. Eight police officers died, leading to the trial of eight anarchists, none of whom had thrown the bomb that led
to the police officers’ deaths near the McCormick plant. For 10 points, name this 1886 demonstration of striking
workers in Chicago.
ANSWER: Haymarket Square riot [accept equivalents]
1. It focuses on the personal, subjective meanings attached to things and concepts, and this term was first coined by
Herbert Blumer. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this theory of human interaction championed by Erwin Goffman in The Presentation of Self in Everyday
Life and by George Herbert Mead in his work Mind, Self, and Society.
ANSWER: Symbolic Interactionism
[10] This American sociologist is best known for his concept of the looking glass self. His other works include
"Personal Competition" and Social Organization, both of which describe the importance of primary groups.
ANSWER: Charles Cooley
[10] One influence on symbolic interactionism is the philosopher John Dewey, who wrote about this institution "and
Education." De Tocqueville wrote about this institution "in America," noting its success because of the separation
between church and state.
ANSWER: Democracy
2. This artist included a crane and a frog, references to status and promiscuity, in a framed portrait of a geisha, his
only major flirtation with the Japanomania that was sweeping his compatriots. For 10 points:
[10] Identify this artist, for a time essentially adopted by the Roulin family, whose other atypical but paintings
include Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette.
ANSWER: Vincent Van Gogh
[10] This Van Gogh work was created early in his career, as is evident by the distorted perspective. It shows five
figures crowded around a table beneath a burning lamp as they chow down on the titular tubers.
ANSWER: The Potato Eaters or De Aardappeleters
[10] One of the most creatively significant periods of Van Gogh's life occurred during his time in “The Yellow
House,” part of which was spent with this other artist, who spurred the infamous de-earing after a furious argument.
He painted The Yellow Christ and Breton Calvary.
ANSWER: Paul Gaugin
3. This governor of Massachusetts and one time president of Harvard University was the Secretary of State under
Millard Fillmore. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this statesman who served as a vice presidential candidate for the Whig Party and who spoke for two
hours in the speech preceding Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
ANSWER: Edward Everett
[10] Edward Everett also served as the vice-presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party, culled
together from ex-Whigs and the remnants of this horrendously xenophobic nativist party, who ran Fillmore in 1856.
ANSWER: The Know-Nothing Party [accept the American Party]
[10] Everett expired due to vigorous campaigning for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 against a ticket featuring General
McClellan and this Ohio peace Democrat. This man's most notable effort, actually crafted in significant part by
Dorman Eaton, was expanded to curb political participation by 1939's Hatch Act.
ANSWER: George Pendleton
4. This poem describes “the loveliest maiden” who “combs her golden hair...with a gilded comb,” as well as a
“boatman aboard his small skiff” who “has no eye for the jagged cliff.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem based on a German legend in which the titular “dulcet-voiced” woman causes sailors on the
Rhine to drown.
ANSWER: “Die Lorelei” or “The Lorelei”
[10] This poet of Germany: A Winter’s Tale and several series of Travel Pictures wrote “Die Lorelei.” He was one
of the foremost German lyric poets of the nineteenth century, most famous for his Lieder.
ANSWER: Heinrich Heine
[10] This mock epic by Heine begins with the title character dancing with his wife Mumma. This poem about a bear
that is hunted is subtitled “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
ANSWER: Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. This problem in optimization theory considers a graph each of whose edges has a weight that refers to the
capacity that can travel through it. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this problem, which requires that that graph has a defined source and sink, that was first solved by the
Ford-Fulkerson algorithm.
ANSWER: max flow
[10] Another problem on graphs attempts to find this acyclic connected graph that contains each vertex with
minimum total weight.
ANSWER: minimum spanning tree [prompt on “TSP”]
[10] This problem takes a totally connected graph and tries to find the minimum-weight cycle; it is named for a
person who might want to use such a cycle to peddle his wares in many different cities.
ANSWER: traveling salesman problem [or TSP]
6. Just like the Diels-Alder reaction, your question writer has a noted Endo preference. Answer the following related
to that author, FTPE.
[10] Shusaku Endo’s most famous novel is this one, about the discrimination faced by a Jesuit missionary in Japan
as he attempts to locate his former mentor, Christovao Ferreira.
ANSWER: Silence
[10] This other Endo novel tells the story of a group of Japanese tourists in India. Members of that group in this
novel include Isobe, who travels to the Ganges to look for his wife Keiko’s reincarnation after her death by cancer.
ANSWER: Deep River
[10] Endo shares the distinction with almost every other member of the Japanese lit canon of having won the
prestigious award named for this Japanese writer, whose stories include "Rashomon" and "In a Grove."
ANSWER: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
7. This element’s allotropes include forms named for their colors: white and red. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this element, which forms a common ligand when bonded to three phenyl groups, as well as the ion that
bridges the DNA backbone.
ANSWER: phosphorus [accept P]
[10] White phosphorus has this crystal structure as its main repeated structural unit. Inorganic compounds with
ligands arranged in this orientation have the d_xy, d_yz, and d_xz orbitals at one energy and the d_x^2-y^2 and
d_z^2 orbitals at one lower energy, the reverse of an octohedral orientation.
ANSWER: tetrahedral
[10] d-orbital splitting diagrams are essential to this model of coordination complexes. Modifications to account for
MO theory gave ligand field theory.
ANSWER: crystal field theory
8. This treaty was followed by the Treaty of Mersen, and split Carolingian holdings between Lothair, Charles the
Bald, and their brother. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 843 CE treaty which shares its name with a World War I battle.
ANSWER: Treaty of Verdun
[10] Besides Charles and Lothair, the Treaty of Verdun was signed by a ruler of this name who bore the epithet “the
German.” Epithets born by French rulers of this name include “the Saint,” “the Universal Spider,” and “the Sun
King.”
ANSWER: Louis
[10] The Treaty of Verdun was negotiated after this 841 victory for Charles the Bald and Louis the German over
Lothair, facilitated after the brothers had sealed their alliance in the Oaths of Strasbourg.
ANSWER: Battle of Fontenoy
9. This man mocked the church by comparing it to the “broad-backed” beast that “rests on his belly in the mud” in
“The Hippopotamus,” in addition to writing other poems like “Sweeney Among the Nightingales.” For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this poet of a work that begins "Time present and time past/ Are both perhaps present in time future,"
"Burnt Norton," as well well as the play The Cocktail Party.
ANSWER: Thomas Stearns Eliot
[10] In addition to some metaphorical dillying about whether the speaker "dare[s] to eat a peach," this very famous
poem by T. S. Eliot begins “Let us go then, you and I” and includes the refrain, “In the room the women come and
go talking of Michelangelo.”
ANSWER: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
[10] This other play by Eliot depicts Thomas a Becket resisting tempters as he knows he is walking toward his
martyrdom.
ANSWER: Murder in the Cathedral
10. This man was “imperially slim” and “always quietly arrayed,” and when he went to town the people saw him as
“a gentleman from sole to crown.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this title character of a poem that states, “So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without
the meat and cursed the bread,” while this man “went home and put a bullet through his head.”
ANSWER: Richard Cory
[10] Richard Cory is a resident of Tilbury Town, a fictional place found in this poet’s works. He also wrote about a
character who “called it fate and kept on drinking,” Miniver Cheevy.
ANSWER: Edwin Arlington Robinson
[10] This poem by Robinson urges the title character to “go to the western gate...where the vines cling crimson on
the wall” before telling him that “if you trust her she will call.”
ANSWER: “Luke Havergal”
11. Figures in Greek mythology often came in threes. For 10 points each:
[10] Also known as the Moirae, these three goddesses were born to Zeus and Themis and controlled the destinies of
human beings.
ANSWER: the Fates
[10] This member of the Fates was responsible for measuring out the string that determined how long someone
would live.
ANSWER: Lachesis
[10] These sisters, named Dino, Enys, and Pemphredo, shared one eye and one tooth between the three of them.
They notably helped Perseus on his quest to kill Medusa and are named for their old age.
ANSWER: Graea or the Grays
12. The challenge in modeling these objects arises because they have variable mass, since their motion requires them
to expel propellant. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these objects, whose applications are omnipresent in military technology and space flight, examples of
which include the V-2.
ANSWER: rockets
[10] The rocket equation giving the maximum delta-v is often named for this Russian physicist, "the father of the
rocket" who did some of the first math proving that a multistage rocket could reach orbit in his publication The
Space Rocket Trains.
ANSWER: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
[10] The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation gives the maximum change in the speed of a rocket as exhaust velocity times
this function of initial mass over final mass.
ANSWER: natural logarithm
13. This work depicts a monument in its first movement, “The St. Gaudens in Boston common.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work whose other two movements are entitled “Putnam’s Camp, Redding Connecticut” and “The
Housatonic at Stockbridge.”
ANSWER: Three Places in New England
[10] This American composer of The Unanswered Question created Three Places in New England.
ANSWER: Charles Ives
[10] Paired with The Unanswered Question in the “Two Contemplations” and also grouped with “The Pond” and
Hallowe'en in “Three Outdoor Scenes,” this Ives composition amusingly calls for a player-piano to complement the
grand piano in the score.
ANSWER: Central Park in the Dark
14. The core tenets of this policy included a one-party state under the CCM, mandatory universal education, and a
massive collective farming initiative that collapsed the national economy. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this program of “African socialism” promoted in the Arusha Declaration.
ANSWER: Ujamaa
[10] This first President of Tanzania put forth the doctrine of Ujamaa with somewhat disastrous consequences for
his nation, but still held power for almost 25 years before stepping down in 1985.
ANSWER: Julius Nyerere
[10] Nyerere beat back a disastrous attempt to invade his country by this oppressive cannibal, who overthrow Milton
Obote to become President of Uganda in 1971.
ANSWER: Idi Amin Dada and all that shit in general and Uganda in particular
15. This leader recently appeared on television and declared he was taking power in his North African nation. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this man, appointed by interim president Fouad Mebazaa to be prime minister of a nation that has
recently seen widespread protests.
ANSWER: Mohamed Ghannouchi
[10] Ghannouchi took power in this North African nation.
ANSWER: Tunisia
[10] Tunisia’s former president, its second, fled those protests.
ANSWER: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
16. Books like The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Record are collections of questions and statements used in this
religion. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this religion popular in Japan that uses koans like “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
ANSWER: Zen Buddhism
[10] Zen Buddhism is commonly traced to this Dharma talk conducted by the Buddha. It notably involved the titular
object, which the Buddha’s disciples were challenged to interpret.
ANSWER: Flower Sermon
[10] This school of Zen Buddhism derives from the Chinese Linji school. It emphasizes kensho, a form of
enlightenment and along with the Soto and Obaku schools is among the leading sects of Zen in Japan.
ANSWER: Rinzai school
17. You breathe thousands of times a day, so it should be easy to answer questions about the lung for 10 points each.
[10] These small hollow cavities are the final branching of the respiratory tree. These are the main gas exchange
sites of the lung, allowing oxygen to enter the pulmonary vein.
ANSWER: Alveoli [or Alveolus; do not accept alveolar sacs or ducts]
[10] This two-layered, fluid filled serous membrane covers and protects the lungs. This membrane secretes a fluid,
allowing the lungs to expand and contract with the movements of the diaphragm.
ANSWER: Pleura
[10] The first form of this peptide is activated by a namesake converting enzyme found mainly in the capillaries of
the lung. Along with renin, this oligopeptide regulates blood pressure by promoting vasoconstriction.
ANSWER: Angiotensin
18. This king's rule was interrupted by that of Edward IV, and he founded Eton College and signed the Treaty of
Tours with Charles VII of France. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this English monarch who ruled from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, amid bouts of
recurring insanity due to his manipulation by the Earl of Warwick against his cousin, Edward IV.
ANSWER: Henry VI
[10] Henry VI's army crushed this rebellion at Sevenoaks in 1450. It took place in Kent and its namesake leader
called himself “John Mortimer.”
ANSWER: Jack Cade's Rebellion
[10] Henry VI was in power during the beginning of this large conflict, which also included the First and Second
Battles of Saint Albans. It was named for the contrasting symbols of the houses of Lancaster and York.
ANSWER: Wars of the Roses
19. Name some things from the philosophy of language, FTPE:
[10] Gottlob Frege responded to the Millian theory of proper names as mere denotators in a paper titled after these
two concepts, in which he suggests that “the morning star” and “the evening star” have somewhat different
meanings despite describing the same object.
ANSWER: sense and reference (accept On Sense and Reference)
[10] The seminal 1905 paper “On Denoting,” written to replace Frege’s concept of “sense” with a theory of definite
descriptions, was written by this man who co-authored Principia Mathematica with Whitehead.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
[10] Definite descriptions were in turn supplanted by rigid designators by this Princeton philosopher whose lectures
on the subject were compiled into Naming and Necessity.
ANSWER: Saul Kripke
20. Answer the following about cathedrals in France, for 10 points each:
[10] Several cathedrals in France are known by this name, the most famous of which is located at Ile de la Cite in
the Seine, and may or may not have housed a friendly hunchback.
ANSWER: Notre Dame
[10] Abbot Suger was largely responsible for the remodeling of this cathedral, transforming it into the Gothic style
and revolutionizing cathedral design in France.
ANSWER: The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis
[10] A large Tree of Jesse and three ornate rose windows are among the magnificent stained glass features of this
cathedral, which supposedly houses the sancta camisa. A text by Henry Adams paired this location with MontSaint-Michel.
ANSWER: Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres