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Penn Bowl XIX: “The packet wins again!”
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Maxfield, Ian Eppler, Ben Cohen, Goda Thangada)
Tossups
1. He attempted to impart a Middle Eastern flavor to works such as the Nuit persane and his fifth piano concerto,
known as the "Egyptian." This composer of the Spanish-flavored Havanaise also wrote a piece which contrasts a
reflective opening with a faster section in which the soloist plays in 2/4 against the orchestra's 6/8. Another work
for violin and orchestra by this composer required an E to E flat scordatura tuning, was based on a Henry Cazalis
poem, features an oboe near the end symbolizing a rooster call and uses the xylophone to depict rattling bones. For
10 points, name this composer of the Introduction and Rondo Cappricioso, Danse Macabre, and Carnival of the
Animals.
ANSWER: Camille Saint-Saens
2. Under this government, the dismissal of the Confucian advisor Arai Hakuseki prompted the transformation of rice
markets into security exchanges with the appointment of nengyoji. Price controls were lifted under Mizuno
Tadakuni's Tenpo Reforms, and the beginning of this polity saw the passage of the sakoku, or exclusion edict. This
government set up an system of alternating attendance among feudal lords, and was brought down by a movement
that sought to “revere the emperor and expel the barbarians”. The Sakuradamon Incident saw the assassination of Ii
Naosuke for his signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an extension of the Convention of Kanagawa pushed
forward by Matthew Perry. For 10 points, name this Japanese government that existed before the Meiji Restoration.
ANSWER: Tokugawa Shogunate or the Tokugawa bakufu [Accept Edo Period until mentioned]
3. The final section of this work begins “Arise to birth with me, my brother” and goes on to ask the dead to “Speak
through my speech, and through my blood.” Twice during this long poem, the speaker plunges his hand into the
ground and, on the second occasion, discovers man. In the third part of this work, the speaker says that every person
dies “little deaths” every day and later asks where the builder of the titular location has gone. In a larger work, it
appeared alongside other sections like “The Earth’s Name is Juan” and “The Liberators.” For 10 points, identify this
second canto of Canto General by Pablo Neruda that is titled after an Incan Ruin.
ANSWER: The Heights of Macchu Picchu [or Alturas de Macchu Picchu]
4. The presence of these proteins in apoptotic blebs may be responsible for the development of autoantibodies in
Lupus, and variants of them include CenpA and 2AX, the later of which is an indication of repair. In Drosophila the
Suppressor of Variegation proteins are partly responsible for modifying these proteins, and the Polycomb and
Trithorax proteins have opposing effects on the clustering of these proteins. The PRMN4 pathway also acts on these
proteins, and Jenuwen and Allis postulated the idea of a code of them, in which a combinatorial set of modification
of them is an indication of gene expression in particular regions. They can be palmitoylated, phosphorylated,
ubiquitinated, but more often they are acetylated and methylated in order to form open and closed chromatin,
respectively. Present in an octomeric form known as a nucleosome, for 10 points, name these highly positively
charged proteins, which are responsible for binding to DNA.
ANSWER: Histones
5. In one incident, this figure correctly read the mind of Daulat Khan, who was thinking of buying horses in Arabia
rather than praying. After a religious experience in the Kali Bein, this man went on a series of travels with Mardana
that are documented in the Janamsakhis. In another documented incident, this man slept with his feet towards the
Kaaba, justifying it by stating that God is everywhere. Upon his death, his friends were conflicted as to where they
should place flowers around his body but later found only flowers in place of his body. This man famously declared
that “there is no Hindu and no Muslim”, laying the foundations for a certain religion. The teachings of that religion
are contained in the Adi Granth, a collection of this man’s sayings. For 10 points, identify this first guru of Sikhism.
ANSWER: Guru Nanak Dev J
6. Actors featured in the music video for this song include Gabrielle Bramford, Ella Joyce, and Bokeem Woodbine,
and in one scene, a woman takes a condom out of a man’s hand before proceeding to give him a sexually transmitted
disease. One of the singers states that “Skies have dried the tears from my eyes” and that “the system’s got you
victim to your own mind” while the beginning of the song sees “a lonely mother gazing out of the window staring at
her son that she just can’t touch” and who ends up getting shot by gangsters. The chorus informs the listeners that
you are moving too fast and that you should stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to instead of chasing
the titular objects. For 10 points, identify this single from the 1995 album CrazySexyCool, a megahit for TLC.
ANSWER: “Waterfalls”
7. This character posits that “our monuments/ shall be the maws of kites” and that he has begun to “doubt the
equivocation of the fiend.” He tells a servant to “go prick thy face” and compares a “yellow leaf” to how his “way of
life is fall'n into the sear”. This character, who has “supp'd full with horrors”, asks for a “sweet oblivious antidote”
before telling the Doctor to “throw physic to the dogs.” He questions why he should play the Roman fool shortly
before his killer exclaims “turn, hell-hound, turn!” This character speaks of “the last syllable of recorded time” in a
speech that declares “life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets” and mentions a tale “full of
sound and fury, signifying nothing.” For 10 points, name this character, who kills Duncan and is killed by Macduff.
ANSWER: Macbeth
8. A superstructure that contains several of these is found in peridin pigments, and a bundle of four of these
structures form a bromodomain. A structure that contains several of these structures between 50-degree turns is
known as the globin fold. These structures have a double minima at 208 and 222 nm on far-UV circular dichroism
spectroscopy, and Davydov solitons propagate along them. The introduction of glycine into one of these motifs
causes a significant entropy increase, and they appear in the third qudrant of a Ramachandran plot. Occuring due to
hydrogen bonding between every fourth amino acid, for 10 points, name this protein secondary structure that often
traverses membranes, the alternative to a beta sheet.
ANSWER: Alpha helix
9. Following one battle leading up to this campaign, the losing general was offered the hospitality of a goblet of
water, but insulted the winning commander by allowing someone else to have a drink. That battle was an attempt to
relieve Lady Eschiva in Gallipoli and saw the death of the Lord of Kerak, as well as the loss of the True Cross
sparking this campaign. Late in this campaign, Christians were rescued from the Citadel in Jaffa, and it was begun
following the defeat of Guy de Lusignan at the Horns of Hattin, leading to the bull Audita tremendi issued by
Gregory VIII. Partly seeking to relieve the siege of Acre, for 10 points, name this crusade in which Barbarossa,
Richard I, and Phillip II attempted to regain the holy land from Saladin.
ANSWER: Third Crusade [accept Kings Crusade before mentioned]
10. This opera begins with a four-chord leitmotif that recurs throughout, even after the character it signifies has been
killed. Another recurring musical theme, sung by a tenor in one of its iterations, accompanies the suicide of the title
character. An interrogation in act two is juxtaposed with music offstage from a concert in which the heroine is
singing, while the act one finale, featuring spoken text and bells, is a Te Deum. For ten points, name this opera
featuring the arias "Recondita armonia" and "E lucevan le stelle," whose title character agrees to sleep with the
police chief Scarpia to save her lover Cavaradossi, composed by Giacomo Puccini.
ANSWER: Tosca
11. One form of this god gets his toes cut off after rejecting an offer of gruel but accepting a bribe of a gold ring in
ferrying an old crone to an island. Anti or Nemty was a personification of this god, who was regarded as a savior or
a child in the form of Shed. In art, this god wore a single lock of hair on the right side of his had and was sometimes
seated on a lotus with a finger in his mouth. In one story, this deity painted a wooden boat to resemble stone so that
his rival's boat would sink in a race. That rival once consumed a piece of lettuce with this god's semen on it,
allowing for the gods to proclaim him victor. This Wedjat-bearing deity was conceived with a golden phallus and
ripped off a testicle off his rival, explaining the infertility of the desert. Set was constantly foiled by, for 10 points,
what falcon-headed Egyptian god, whose human form was embodied by the pharaohs?
ANSWER: Horus
12. This works' title entities are described as “like exhausted women resting their sagging breasts and hands and
hairs on its roof, and when it rains their tears trickle down monotonously and rot on the shingles.” Throughout the
action of the play two of the characters frequently discuss the prospect of going to the gold fields of California, and
leave the farm at the end of the first act. The main action of the play centers around the half brother of those two
men, Eben, and his adulterous relationship with his stepmother, the young Abbie. Eventually a baby is born from her
relationship with Eben, which his father Ephraim Cabot believes to be his own. Abbie eventually murders the baby,
causing Eben to turn her over to the sheriff. FTP identify this Eugene O’Neill tragedy originally published in 1924.
ANSWER: Desire Under the Elms
13. The Baum-Welch and Viterbi algorithm are used to find parameters of a type of model that uses one of these
mathematical entities. The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a method of sampling that combines a Monte Carlo
method with one of these mathematical objects. The Chapman-Kolmogorov equation can be used to find the joint
distribution of the entities contained in one of these objects, which when aperiodic and positive recurrent are
referred to as ergodic. They are usually defined by a transition matrix and unlike a martingale only rely on the
previous state. Usually defined by a transition matrix and used in a namesake type of hidden model, for 10 points,
name these mathematical construct that has a series of states and probability of transition between them.
ANSWER: Markov chains (accept Hidden Markov Model throughout)
14. He took part in a "secret meeting" held at the home of Mary Talbert which helped found a notable organization.
This editor of Atlanta University's quarterly Phylon wrote in another work about the death of his child, in the chapter
"the Passing Of The First-Born". One article by this man cited the examples of Alexander Crummell and Benjamin
Banneker to emphasize the importance of educating black intellectuals, and was a longtime editor
of Crisis magazine. Writer of "The Talented Tenth", and founder of both the Niagra Movement and the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for 10 points, name this opponent of Booker T. Washington's
policy of accommodation, author of The Souls of Black Folk.
ANSWER: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
15. This author wrote of the potential for the development of racial prejudice as a result of anthropological work in
an essay written for UNESCO, Race and History. He critiqued “monoculture” and described his tenure at Sao Paulo
University and his travels among the Bororo in Tristes Tropiques. This theorist denied the concept of totemism in
one work, while the titular dichotomy of another work by this author differentiated between items of “natural” and
“cultural” origin, a work that was the first in this author’s collection Mythologiques. For 10 points, name this
structuralist anthropologist, author of The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked.
ANSWER: Claude Levi-Strauss
16. In 1927, Fredrico Garcia Lorca wrote a letter to this artist, talking about his liking for the painting Honey is
Sweeter than Blood. This artist made a painting symbolizing his country's civil war entitled Soft Construction with
Boiled Beans. He also created some religious painting with his own versions of The Last Supper and Corpus
Hypercubus, which features Jesus crucified on an octahedral hypercube and he used his sister Anna Marie as the
inspiration for the painting Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity. He also made a movie
with Luis Bunuel. For 10 points, name this Spanish Surrealist painter of Persistance of Memory.
ANSWER: Salvador Dali
17. In the separately-published Postscript to this work, this book's author cites his own Opera aperta in a section on
"constructing the reader" and claims "I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it". One character in this work gets a
new pair of glasses from the glazier Nicholas and his discussions of herbalism are critiqued in the fake translator's
note which precedes the story of this novel. In this work, Berengar is found with a black tongue, a result of poison
being applied to a laughter-sanctioning tome hidden in the finis Africae. Both the Aedificum and the second volume
of Aristotle's Poetics are destroyed by the blind librarian Jorge of Burgos in, for 10 points, this novel in which Adso
of Melk helps William of Baskerville investigate a series of murders in a medieval monastery, by Umberto Eco.
ANSWER: The Name of the Rose (or Il nome della rosa)
18. One example of this class of particles participates in the GIM mechanism. That particle in a certain pair
undergoes OZI-suppressed three pion decay when in the n=1 and n=2 states. Theoretically, bombarding a deuterium
nucleus with gamma rays will produce the undiscovered penta- form of this class of particles. A phase in QCD
consisting of free floating particles of this type and gluons forms the namesakeplasma containing these particles.
The J-psi particle is comprised of one variety of this particle and its antiparticle, and one type of this particle is the
heaviest of all elementary particles and was discovered at Fermilab in 1995. For 10 points, name this elementary
particle with varieties like strange, top bottom, up, down, and charm.
ANSWER: quark [accept charm until "penta"
19. A collection by this author includes a section arguing that a single experience can be part of two minds, and
replies to Waler Pitkin's charges that the titular approach is solopsistic. In addition to this author’s Essays in Radical
Empiricism, another work by this author contrasts the “mind-cure movement” and “hell-fire theology” and describes
a group that seeks to provide a “state of assurance.” A work by this author includes a chapter on the “stream of
thought” and opposes Wilhelm Wundt, and another work by this author is subtitled “a new way for some old ways
of thinking” and described a man who chases a squirrel around a tree. For 10 points, identify this author of The
Varieties of Religious Experience, Principles of Psychology, and Pragmatism.
ANSWER: William James
20. As a youth, this man nearly gave in to his passions with his neighbor, a Strozzi exile. A sermon at Faenza
reaffirmed his faith, and upon leaving his hometown he began to recite the prayer “Lord! Teach me the way my soul
should walk” daily. He levied a tax known as “la decima” and wrote the tract “Contempt of the World” while
studying at the University of Ferrara. This author of The Triumph of the Cross took advantage of the period
following Charles VIII’s invasion to gain authority by ousting the Medicis. Opposed by the Arrabbiati, he was
excommunicated by Alexander VI, potentially for an action he committed against what he called “immoral art”. For
10 points, name this Dominican friar who, in 1497, ordered a burning of various books and art in the Bonfire of the
Vanities.
ANSWER: Girolamo Savonarola
TB1. Lake Balkash lies within this nation and its capital lies on the Ishim River. The former Semipalatinsk nuclear
test site and the towns of Semey and Kurchatov are located in this nation, whose borders contain the mouths of both
the Syr Darya and the Ural Rivers. Nikita Khrushchev’s Virgin Lands program opened up large amounts of
unsettled land in this nation to settlement. This nation also contains the northern half of the Aral Sea and borders the
eastern part of the Caspian Sea near its border with Turkmenistan. For 10 points, name this country, the largest
landlocked nation in the world, whose capital was moved to Astana in 1997 after having long been in this country’s
largest city Almaty.
ANSWER: Kazakhstan
Bonuses
1. For 10 points each, identify the following about genetics.
[10] This form of genetic drift and loss of variation occurs when a small percentage of one population breaks off and
establishes a new community.
ANSWER: Founder effect
[10] Genetic variation occurs during this process in which alleles exchange between chromosomes during meosis.
ANSWER: crossing over
[10] In this process, named after a German-American geneticist, asexual reproduction leads to irreversible genetic
issues and an inability to remove harmful mutations.
ANSWER: Muller’s ratchet
2. Stories in this collection include "This Blessed House" and "A Temporary Matter" as well as the titular story
which sees Mr. and Mrs. Das choose a driver for the day. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this short story collection which looks at the cultural ambiguity facing Indians and Indian-Americans.
ANSWER: Interpreter of Maladies
[10] This Indian author of The Namesake penned the Interpreter of Maladies.
ANSWER: Jhumpa Lahiri
[10] This story from The Interpreter of Maladies is about a non-Indian Miranda and her affair with a married Indian
man named Dev.
ANSWER "Sexy"
3. This city's street network was organized around the "seven Vs", and it is encircled by a protected green belt
entitled the "Periphery". For 10 points each:
[10] Name this city, built to replace Lahore as the provincial capital of Punjab, whose notable monuments include a
Modulor figure and the Open Hand Monument.
ANSWER: Chandigarh
[10] Chandigarh was planned by this Modernist whose crazy Plan Voisin wanted to replace the center of Paris with
some towers-in-a-park, illustrated his "five points" in Towards a New Architecture, and built the Villa Savoye.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)
[10] Another Westerner who built stuff on the subcontinent was this architect of the National Assembly Building in
Bangladesh and a business school in Ahmedabad. This fan of monumental forms is also known for his Trenton Bath
House and the barrel-vaulted Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth.
ANSWER: Louis Kahn
4. Identify the following related to the works of a poet for 10 points each:
[10]Works of this poet include those that deal with aged empires “A Dialogue Between Old England and New” and
the “Four Monarchies”
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet
[10]This is the name for the collection of her poems, originally published without her knowledge in England.
ANSWER: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America or Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit
and Learning
[10] Centuries later, this poet wrote “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet”. Other works of his include a sequence of
385 poems entitled “The Dream Songs”.
ANSWER: John Berryman
5. According to the Nernst equation, the standard electrode potential is equal to RT over nF times the natural log of
this quantity. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this quantity equivalent to products over reactants for a chemical reaction.
ANSWER: Keq [or equilibrium constant]
[10] This equation is used to determine the derivative of the equilibrium constant with respect to temperature. Its
namesake also names a factor measuring a ratio of solubility, symbolized i.
ANSWRE: van't Hoff equation
[10] This principle of chemical kinetics states that for a pair of readily formed intermediates in irreversible reactions,
the ratio of the products is independent of equilibrium constant.
ANSWER: Curtin-Hammett Principle
6. Identify the following Hebrew based on their famous prophecies, for 10 points each.
[10] This man’s eponymous book was possibly written by three men under the same title. It contains messianic
prophecies like the Suffering Servant and foretells the coming of the “Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
ANSWER: Isaiah
[10] This minor prophet said that although Bethlehem was small among the clans of Judah, a ruler of ancient origin
would come out of that city and rule over all over Israel.
ANSWER: Micah
[10] Along with a vision of four horsemen, this prophet foretold a king coming to his people on the back of a
donkey, often compared to Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
ANSWER: Zechariah
7. The pose of the main group was borrowed from Raimondi's engraving after Raphael’s Drawing The Judgment of
Paris, and it is said that Napoleon III hit this painting with a riding whip. For 10 points:
[10] Name this painting that features a picnic scene painted by Edouard Manet.
ANSWER: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (accept Luncheon on the Grass)
[10] This Manet Painting inspired by a Goya painting features a man being shot by a firing squad, while onlookers
watch on.
ANSWER: The Execution of Maximilian
[10] Manet’s portrait of this man features Manet’s name on a magazine cover. Other notable objects in the
background include a Utamaro print and a print of Olympia.
ANSWER: Emile Zola
8. This ruler appointed Stanislaw Poniatowski as King of Poland upon her ascendance to the throne. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this female ruler of Russia that succeeded Elizabeth after deposing her husband, Peter III.
ANSWER: Catherine the Great [or Catherine II]
[10] Catherine successfully overcame this challenge to her rule in 1775. The namesake of this rebellion by Cossacks
in the Ural region decreed an end to serfdom while claiming to be the dead Peter III.
ANSWER: Pugachov’s Rebellion
[10] General Suvorov’s tactics crushed Pugachov’s rebellion at this battle in what is now Volgograd.
ANSWER: Battle of Tsaritsyn
9. For 10 points each, answer some questions about the original flood story.
[10] That flood occurred in an epic about this person, a selfish king of Uruk that is later accompanied on his travels
by Enkidu.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh
[10] Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight against this voracious monster surrounded by a layer of radiance and possessing
the face of a lion. It was sent forth by Enlil to guard the Cedar Forest and terrorize mankind.
ANSWER: Humbaba [or Huwawa]
[10] After Enkidu’s death, Gilgamesh decides travel to this place, appropriately named as it is “the mouth of all
rivers at the end of the earth.” Gilgamesh must pole-vault across the Sea of Death to reach this land where
Utnapishtim resides.
ANSWER: “Far-Away”
10. Along with Stanley Schachter and Kurt Bach, this psychologist worked on a study of the Westgate West
apartment complex that led to the theory of the propinquity effect. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this psychologist, who co-wrote a work about Marian Keech’s UFO cult, When Prophecy Fails.
ANSWER: Leon Festinger
[10] Festinger explored this concept in When Prophecy Fails. It results when an individual holds two contradictory
ideals simultaneously.
ANSWER: cognitive dissonance
[10] Festinger studied under this formulator of field theory, who also developed force field analysis and is
considered the “father of social psychology.”
ANSWER: Kurt Lewin
11. Throughout the course of this work, one sees Gabriel Oak's sheep die, his marriage proposal initially rejected,
and he eventually becomes a ballif and married, For 10 points
[10] Identify this work, which also see's Mr. Boldwood killing Sergeant Troy because of his love of the female
protagonist
ANSWER: Far From the Madding Crowd
[10] Far From the Madding Crowd is by this British author and poet of such works as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and
creator of Wessex where the story takes place.
ANSWER: Thomas Hardy
[10] This is the protagonist of Far From the Madding Crowd who eventually ends up with Gabriel Oak at the end of
the novel.
ANSWER: Bathsheba Everdene [accept either name]
12. Answer the following about space geography, for 10 points each.
[10] This largest mountain in the solar system puts Mt. Everest to shame, clocking in at seventeen miles high.
ANSWER: Olympus Mons
[10] Speaking of volcanoes, this Galilean moon is the most geologically active site in the entire solar system.
Ionized sulfur and oxygen species from its atmosphere are swept up by Jupiter's magnetosphere.
ANSWER: Io
[10] While not as cool as molten lava, Voyager 2 discovered two nitrogen geysers on the surface of this moon. It is
the only moon in the solar system with an orbit opposite of the rotation of its planet.
ANSWER: Triton
13. Answer the following about a certain war for 10 points each.
[10] Beginning in 431 BC, this conflict was sparked when Sparta claimed that Pericles and Athens had broken the
truce of the Thirty Years’ Treaty. It was famously chronicled by Thucydides.
ANSWER: Peloponnesian War
[10] Although listed as an ally, Athens attacked this colony of Corinth, thus beginning the chain of events that led to
the Peloponnesian War.
ANSWER: Potidaea
[10] The Delian League was disbanded after its defeat at this 405 naval battle, which saw victory for Lysander and
the Spartans near the Dardanelles.
ANSWER: Aegospotami
14. Answer the following about compositions inspired by some deadly World War II occurrences, for 10 points
each.
[10] This Steve Reich piece, which contrasts the titular conveyances used to transport Holocaust victims with
Reich's childhood travels, is written for string quartet and tape loop, and uses melodies derived from human speech.
ANSWER: Different Trains
[10] This avant-garde Polish composer of Utrenja and the St. Luke's Passion first came to prominence with
his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima.
ANSWER: Krzysztof Penderecki
[10] This Czech composer of the oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh and six symphonies commemorated the victims of
a famous Nazi massacre with his 1943 Memorial to Lidice.
ANSWER: Bohuslav Martinu
15. For 10 points each, answer the following about an ancient philosophical movement:
[10] This school of thought, founded by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Kitium, claimed that inner pease, or
eudaimonia, could be achieved through cultivated detachment, or apatheia.
ANSWER: Stoicism
[10] This Stoic and Roman emperor collected a series of personal recollections and aphorisms in the twelve books of
his Meditations.
ANSWER: Marcus Aurelius
[10] This Greek stoic’s teachings were catalogued by his student, the historian Arrian, in the four books The
Discourses and more succinctly in the Enchiridion or Handbook.
ANSWER: Epictetus
16. Answer the following about the French and Indian War, for 10 points each:
[10] This pivotal denouement of a British siege resulted in the death of both commanders, the Marquis de Montcalm
and James Wolfe.
ANSWER: Battle of the Plains of Abraham or Battle of Quebec
[10] This battle on the banks of a river in present-day Western Pensylvania prevented English Major General
Edward Braddock from reaching Fort Duquesne and also resulted in Braddock’s death.
ANSWER: Battle of Monongahela
[10] One of the French's staunchest allies in the war was this Indian nation, otherwise known as the Wyandot, who
frequently sparred with the Iroquois Confederacy.
ANSWER: Huron
17. These entities are similar in nature to the rudimentary leyden jar. Answer the following, for 10 points each.
[10] Name this circuit element, capable of storing charge between two parallel plates.
ANSWER: capacitor
[10] The plates of a capacitor sit on either side of this material which often increased the capacitance of the element.
ANSWER: dielectric
[10] A kind of dielectric relaxation, named after this Dutch chemist is equal to the difference of the permittivity of
the minimum and maximum frequencies divided by one plus the quantity i times frequency times relaxation time all
plus the permittivity of the maximum frequency.
ANSWER: Debye
18. For 10 points each, name these Spanish cities.
[10] This city on Spain’s eastern coast, the capital of an eponymous autonomous community, was famously
conquered in 1094 by El Cid Campeador.
ANSWER: Valencia
[10] The largest city in Basque country and located in Spain’s north on the Bay of Biscay, is best known for its
Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim Museum.
ANSWER: Bilbao
[10] This major city of southern Spain and capital of Andalusia contains the supposed tomb of Columbus and once
held a virtual monopoly on Spain’s New World commerce.
ANSWER: Seville
19. Identify the following regarding the interpretation of the poetry of John Slade for 10 points each:
[10]This is the only extent work of John Slade who allegedly appointed Charles Kinbote as the editor and publisher.
Kinbote himself was allegedly “Charles Xavier the Beloved”, a deposed king of Zembla.
ANSWER: Pale Fire
[10]Pale Fire was written by this creator of Humbert Humbert, the protagonist of Lolita
ANSWER: Vladimir Nabokov
[10]In the foreward , this character is among Kinbote's referenced colleagues as the head of the Russian department.
The other novel he appears in sees him lose his position at Waindell college and fails to regain his wife Liza.
ANSWER: Prof. Timofey Pavelovich Pnin
20. The second act of this play is known as Walpurgisnacht. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which George and Martha torment each other in the company of Nick and Honey. That son
they were talking about? He isn’t real.
ANSWER: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
[10] Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a work by this playwright who also wrote A Zoo Story and A Delicate
Balance.
ANSWER: Edward Albee
[10] Albee also wrote this short play, in which Mommy and Daddy bring Grandma to the titular location where she
converses with the Young Man, who claims he is the Angel of Death.
ANSWER: The Sandbox