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Round 10
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Tossup 1. This man and his brother plotted and failed to dispose Harold Harefoot but failed, and
they were exiled to Normandy. After a fight between the people of Dover and Eustace II, this
man exiled his father-in-law Godwin with the support of Leofric of Mercia. His reign began in
1042 with the death of Harthacanute but he was not crowned until the following year. For 10
Points, identify this penultimate Anglo-Saxon King of England and son of Ethelred the Unready
who founded Westminster Abbey and was canonized in 1161.
ANSWER: Edward the Confessor [Prompt on Edward III]
BONUS: Fought nine years before the Battle of Mantinea, this battle took place in a village in
Boeotia.
[10] Name this 371 BC engagement that was a decisive defeat of the Spartans under
Cleombrotus I.
ANSWER: Battle of Leuctra
[10] The Spartans at Leuctra were defeated by forces led by Epaminondas from what other city
that was destroyed in 338 BC by Philip II?
ANSWER: Thebes
Tossup 2. Extinct classes of this phylum include Pelmatozoa and Blastozoa, the latter of which
are often called sea buds. They possess a unique water vascular system and an open circulatory
vessel with five vessels but no heart. Their larvae are bilaterally symmetric, but one side of the
body gradually evolves and absorbs the other. Some of the living classes of the phylum are
Homalozoa, Crinozoa, and Asterozoa. For 10 points, identify this phylum whose name means
“spiny skin” and includes starfish and sea urchins.
ANSWER: Echinoderms [Echinodermata]
BONUS: Name some scientific thought experiments, for ten points each.
[10] Developed to illustrate the problems of the Copenhagen interpretation, this experiment by
the creator of the wave equation says that until we look inside the box, the titular animal is
simultaneously dead and alive.
ANSWER: Schrodinger’s Cat
[10] Envisioned by a French mathematician, if this entity knew the exact location and
momentum of every particle in the universe at a single point in time, then it could reveal the
entire future.
ANSWER: Laplace’s Demon
Tossup 3. One of his earlier works shows a flower being removed from a head, though the
painting is titled The Extraction of the Stone of Madness. He painted an allegory entitled The
Ship of Fools, as well as a tabletop of circular images entitled The Seven Deadly Sins and the
Four Last Things. Only 25 works are definitely attributable to him, many of which were owned
by Philip II of Spain, including a triptych depicting paradise and hell. For 10 points, identify this
mysterious Dutch painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights.
ANSWER: Hieronymus Bosch
BONUS: It depicts a house located in Cushing, Maine, and a girl lying on the ground due to
muscular dystrophy.
[10] Name this 1948 painting which shows a barn and a building known as the Olson house.
ANSWER: Christina’s World
[10] This American artist painted Christina’s World. He also painted 247 studies of Helga
Testorf, and the Brandywine River Museum and Farnsworth Art Museum have among the largest
collections of his art.
ANSWER: Andrew Wyeth
Tossup 4. To create the illusion that he had double the number of men he actually did, he had his
forces march out twice successively during the August 1812 Siege of Detroit, in which he
commanded alongside Isaac Brock. His attempt to seek out allies in the South led to a civil war
among the Creeks, and, in his absence, his younger brother failed to stop William Henry
Harrison’s forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe. The Battle of the Thames was, for 10 points, the
site of the death of what Shawnee chief?
ANSWER: Tecumseh
BONUS: Though he instituted free-market rules, the Rettig Report concluded that over 2000
people were killed on his orders. For ten point each:
[10] Name this dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
ANSWER: Augusto Pinochet
[10] Pinochet led the armed forces in a coup d’etat, which prompted this socialist president to
commit suicide while the presidential palace of La Moneda was shelled.
ANSWER: Salvador Allende
Tossup 5. He rejected what is now known as his namesake equivalence, which argued that
demand would be affected equally by a raise in taxes as by an increase in government debt. He
articulated the law of diminishing returns in an essay relating the value of stocks to the price of
corn, and, after arguing for the repeal of the Corn Laws, he formulated the idea of comparative
advantage. This is, for 10 points, what British economist, best known for writing On the
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation and for formulating the Iron Law of Wages?
ANSWER: David Ricardo
BONUS: It provided empirical evidence for classical conditioning, though it also provoked
criticism for its methods.
[10] Identify this psychological experiment where a baby who feared loud noises was also taught
to fear rats when the researchers produced a loud sound whenever the baby reached for the rat.
ANSWER: Little Albert experiment
[10] The Little Albert experiment was conducted by this psychologist who wrote “Psychology as
the Behaviorist Views It,” and who is credited with establishing the psychological school of
behaviorism.
ANSWER: John Broadus Watson
Tossup 6. An expedition against the robber Cycnus sets the scene for a 480-line poem often
attributed to this writer. That poem, The Shield of Heracles, is an imitation of the portrayal of
Achilles’s shield as described by Homer. A longer work of this writer’s begins with Gaea, Nyx,
and Eros and describes the origins of the world. His earlier 800-verse epic lays out the Five Ages
of Man and celebrates the role of honest labor in daily farm life. For 10 points, Theogony and
Works and Days are among the few surviving works attributed to what 8th-century BCE Greek
poet?
ANSWER: Hesiod
BONUS: It ends with a “punch line” from Dr. Spielvogel, the protagonist’s psychoanalyst. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this 1969 novel about the often Oedipal sexual frustrations of the titular character.
ANSWER: Portnoy’s Complaint
[10] Portnoy’s Complaint was written by what Jewish-American writer also known for works
such as Goodbye, Columbus and the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral?
ANSWER: Philip Roth
Tossup 7. One of these was a half-man, half-tortoise who prevented the mountain Mandara from
falling into the sea. The third one carried his opponent to the bottom of the ocean after battling
him for a thousand years. The last one, whose name roughly translates as “Destroyer of foulness”
is set to arrive in the year 428899. The first canto of the Bhagavata Purana lists 22 of them and
the ten greatest ones are known as the Dasavatara. For ten points, these are all what forms taken
by a certain Hindu god called the ‘preserver’?
ANSWER: Avatars of Vishnu
BONUS: After being freed from jail by the Babylonians, he fled to Mizpah in Benjamin. FTPE:
[10] Identify this prophet who preached during the last days of Judah. He is the author of the
Book of Lamentations and whose actions are described in his namesake book.
ANSWER: Jeremiah
[10] Jeremiah was rescued from a well by this last king of Judah, who was deposed by
Nebuchadnezzar II in 588 BCE.
ANSWER: Zedekiah
Tossup 8. In an article that appeared in the November 1967 issue of SPORT magazine, he
credited his team’s performance that season to Dick Williams and the influx of new players. He
was the only hitter in the American Leagueto hit over .300 in 1968, the so-called “Year of the
Pitcher,” but in 1975 he hit a ball which became the final out of the World Series. In 1989, his
number, 8, was retired by the Boston Red Sox. Name this 23-year player for the Boston Red Sox,
the last man to win the batting Triple Crown.
ANSWER: Carl Yastrzemski
BONUS: It seems the big game studios have run out of sequels, which may explain the recent
flood of prequels. For ten points each, name some of these highly anticipated prequels.
[10] This prequel to the original PlayStation 2 game takes Kratos to places like Attica and Hades
as he attempts to resolve a moral dilemma presented by the gods.
ANSWER: God of War: Chains of Olympus
[10] Also on the PSP, this game puts you in the role of Zack Fair as you learn the secret of
Sephiroth’s hatred for Shinra.
ANSWER: Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
Category Round Tossups:
Tossup 9. One ruler of this empire turned the city of Djenne in to a center of learning. It emerged
from small settlements under the Za dynasty, who were based in Kukiya. Sonni Baru’s lack of
strong Muslim belief led many to fear that he would cut off trade, which a rebellion which
overthrew him. The empire came to an end in 1591 at the hands of invading Moroccans. For 10
points, name this pre-colonial African empire once ruled by Sonni Ali and Askia the Great,
centered at Gao on the banks of the Niger River.
ANSWER: Songhai Empire
Tossup 10. This man published a pamphlet entitled “Proposal for the development of 3dimensioal chemical structural formulae. His equation relates the change in the equilibrium
constant at different temperatures given the change in enthalpy. His work on solutions and his
investigations of osmotic pressure earned him the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. For 10
points, this was what Dutch chemist, whose namesake factor gives the number of moles of solute
dissolved in solution per mole of solid solute added?
ANSWER: Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
Tossup 11. It ends with the townspeople singing “Wer win holdes Weib errungen.” As the opera
opens, Jaquino requests Marzelline’s hand in marriage but she rebukes him, as she has fallen in
love with the title character. In the opening of the second act, Florestan sings “Gott! Welch
Dunkel heir!” while sitting in his jail cell. It first premiered under the title Leonore, but the
composer continuously revised the opera and the overture alone went through four versions.
This is, for 10 points, what only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven?
ANSWER: Fidelio
Tossup 12. The boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian stages of this period marks the
Kellwasser event, while the end of the period itself marks the Hangenberg extinction event, one
of the largest ever. The fossil bed of the Rhynie chert dates to the early epoch of this period,
making it one of the oldest sites anywhere containing terrestrial fossils. By the end of this period,
ferns and the first trees had evolved, and early fish called ostracoderms had evolved. For 10
points, identify this geological period which followed the Silurian and preceded the
Carboniferous.
ANSWER: Devonian Period
Tossup 13. When her brother Cadmus, the king of the future Thebes, married Harmonia, this
woman presented Harmonia with a necklace given to her by her lover. Another brother, Cilix,
settled in Asia Minor after giving up the search for her. Some sources say that the creature who
carried her off was the same one that Pasiphae fell in love with. A certain god saw her gathering
flowers by the sea, and she climbed upon his back after he transformed into a bull. For ten
points, name this Phoenician princess raped by Zeus, the namesake of an icy moon of Jupiter.
ANSWER: Europa
Tossup 14. The protagonist’s estate is eventually given to Graziano by Lodovico, who had earlier
carried the message that the protagonist was being replaced as governor of Cyprus by a man who
had stabbed Montano in Act II. In Act III, that new governor Michael Cassio finds a
handkerchief that the protagonist had once given his wife, who is eventually smothered to death
as a result of the machinations of Iago. The title character commits suicide after killing
Desdemona at the end of, for 10 points, what Shakespeare play about a titular Moor?
ANSWER: Othello
Category Bonuses:
Arts: His first major work was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. For
15 points, name this Finnish-American architect who designed the main terminal at Washington
Dulles International Airport and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
ANSWER: Eero Saarinen
Current Events: She entered the political forefront on Tuesday for the first time in over 20 years.
For 15 points, name this former Vice Presidential running mate who left the Clinton campaign
after saying that if Obama were white, he would never have gotten as far as he has.
ANSWER: Geraldine Ferraro
Geography: The towns of Villa San Giovanni and Reggio are both located on its east side. For 15
points, name this strait separating Sicily from the Italian mainland, named for the Sicilian town
on its west end.
ANSWER: Strait of Messina
History: For 15 points, identify the treaty signed in March 1918 between Russia and the Central
Powers which marked Russia’s exit from World War I.
ANSWER: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Literature: Her parents, James and Lady Charlotte, want her to marry the wealthy Roger Solmes,
but she refuses. For 15 points, name this virtuous woman who dies after Robert Lovelace rapes
her, the title character of a Samuel Richardson epistolary novel?
ANSWER: Clarissa
Math Computation: What is the geometric mean of 2, 4, and 5?
ANSWER: 2 times the cube root of 5 (accept variants)
Science: This volatile compound is perhaps best known as the primary ingredient in mothballs.
For 15 points, name this white hydrocarbon composed of two fused benzene rings.
ANSWER: Naphthalene or napthene, tar camphor, white tar, albocarbon, or antimite
Trash: May 28th will mark the 10th anniversary of his death. For 15 points, name this former SNL
regular was known for playing Bill McNeal on NewsRadio as well as a certain washed-up actor
who you may remember from such films as “Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly.”
ANSWER: Phil Hartman
Tossup 15. After moving to Paris at age 34 to write a biography of salon leader Madame Roland,
she began supporting herself by writing magazine articles about the city. She later wrote a
serialized biography about Napoleon, and her study of Abraham Lincoln drastically increased the
popularity of McClure’s magazine, which later published nineteen installments of her most
famous work, an expose about the business tactics of John D. Rockefeller. For 10 points, who
was this leading muckraker, the author of The History of the Standard Oil Company?
ANSWER: Ida Tarbell
BONUS: Because this unit is so large, the gauss is sometimes used instead.
[10] Name this MKS unit of magnetic field, named for a Serbian physicist.
ANSWER: Tesla
[10] This law, one of Maxwell’s Equations, relates the magnetic field around a closed loop to the
electric current moving through the loop.
ANSWER: Ampere-Maxwell Law (accept variants)
[10] This equation, named for two French physicist, is an inverse square law solution to
Ampere’s law, used to compute the magnetic field generated by a steady current.
ANSWER: Biot-Savart Law
Tossup 16. The Japanese release of this album contains a bonus track titled “Put the Boy Back in
Cowboy,” and albums bought from Target also featured the track “Walk Like a Man.” Other
tracks include “Summertime” and “Till We Ain’t Strangers Anymore,” which features LeAnne
Rimes. The album was conceived as a result of the success of “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,”
a duet with Jennifer Nettles, on their previous album. For 10 points, name this tenth studio album
by Bon Jovi.
ANSWER: Lost Highway
BONUS: Identify the following things about ice in Norse Mythology, FTPE:
[10] This northern realm is an icy plain, and is often mentioned interchangeably with Helheim.
When the cold from this realm met the sparks from Muspellheim, Ymir was created.
ANSWER: Niflheim
[10] When the cow Audhulma licked the icy blocks of Niflheim, she revealed this first god, as
mentioned in the Prose Edda. He was the father of Borr and grandfather of Odin.
ANSWER: Buri
[10] This goddess of ice and winter married Njord for a time. She also put a serpent over Loki’s
head whose venom would torment him until the end of days.
ANSWER: Skadi
Tossup 17. Experiments at CERN’s SPS were the first to try creating a form of plasma formed
entirely of quarks and these particles. They are electrically neutral but can carry both color and
anticolor charge simultaneously. Eight of them are known to exist, and hypothetical hadrons
composed of them are called glueballs. The study of the force controlled by these particles is
called Quantum Chromodynamics. For 10 points, identify these gauge bosons which mediate the
strong nuclear force and derive their name from how they hold nuclei together.
ANSWER: Gluons
BONUS: This group of Scots-Irish frontiersmen was responsible for the extermination of the
Susquehannock tribe.
[10] Name this vigilante organization who marched on Philadelphia in 1764, where Ben Franklin
put an end to the crisis.
ANSWER: Paxton Boys
[10] The Paxton Boys revolted in response to the attacks of this Ottawa chieftain who led an
uprising in the Great Lakes region.
ANSWER: Pontiac
[10] This last colonial governor of Pennsylvania placed the last fourteen Susquhannocks in
custody in Lancaster, but the Paxton Boys still broke in and killed all but two of them.
ANSWER: John Penn
Tossup 18. The speaker relates the story of how his late friend Chaerophon asked someone if
anyone was wiser than the speaker himself. He says that people dislike him thanks to the
allegations of a comic poet, probably referring to the play The Clouds. The speaker ends by
saying that he bears no grudges, and hopes that his sons will grow up well. Before he is
sentenced to death, he offers an alternate punishment of free food in the Prytaneum. FTP,
identify this Platonic dialogue, an account of Socrates’ defense at his trial.
ANSWER: Apology
BONUS: Its name was coined by Richard N. Goodwin, and its goals were outlined in a May
1964 speech delivered at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
[10] Name this program for domestic reform that included the War on Poverty and a series of
Civil Rights Acts.
ANSWER: The Great Society
[10] The Great Society was spearheaded by what 36th President of the U.S.?
ANSWER: Lyndon Baines Johnson
[10] Among the Great Society legislation was the Social Security Act of 1965, which created
what program to provide healthcare for welfare recipients of all ages?
ANSWER: Medicaid
Tossup 19. MacNoughton Mountain in this range is over 4,000 ft. tall, but it was mistakenly left
off a list of its 46 “High Peaks,” which include Mount Skylight and Mount Haystack. Many
historic summer homes are located in the Great Camps built near its lakes, which include
Raquette Lake, the Saranac Lakes, and Lake Placid. Its highest point is Mount Marcy, which is
adjacent to the source of the Hudson River. Bordered on the east by Lakes Champlain and
George, this is, for 10 points, what mountain range in northeastern New York?
ANSWER: the Adirondack Mountains
BONUS: Name these moons for 10 points each:
[10] The coldest body in the Solar System and the only large moon with a retrograde orbit, this
largest moon of the outermost planet contains cryovolcanoes which spew ice.
ANSWER: Triton
[10] This outer moon of Mars is too small to retain spherical shape, much like its sister, Phobos.
Its name comes from the Greek for “panic.”
ANSWER: Deimos
[10] This moon of Saturn is responsible for clearing material from the Cassini ring. It’s most
notable feature is the Herschel crater, which measures 130 km across.
ANSWER: Mimas
Tossup 20. The year after a love affair at work forced him to resign from his job as the editor-inchief of a women’s magazine, his second novel, which features a protagonist who has an
illegitimate child by Senator Brander before falling in love with Lester Kane, was published.
That novel, Jennie Gerhardt, was followed by a trilogy of novels about Frank Cowperwood,
beginning with 1912’s The Financier. More famous as the creator of protagonists Caroline
Meeber and Clyde Griffiths, this is, for 10 points, what author of Sister Carrie and An American
Tragedy?
ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser
BONUS: At the end of this novel, Mozart appears in the Magic Theatre to comdemn the
protagonist for killing Hermine.
[10] Name this 1927 novel whose title refers to the jaded, middle-aged intellectual Harry Haller.
ANSWER: Steppenwolf
[10] After writing works such as Siddhartha and Demian, this German wrote Steppenwolf.
ANSWER: Hermann Hesse
[10] Hesse’s final work was what novel set in the fictional province of Castalia which follows
the life of Joseph Knecht, a player of the titular game?
ANSWER: The Glass Bead Game (accept Magister Ludi)
Tossup 21. This man wrote Flos Campi for solo viola, small orchestra, and a small chorus, and
he composed a Serenade to Music, which was a setting of a scene from The Merchant of Venice.
His seventh symphony was based on his film score for Scott of the Antarctic, and his operas
include Hugh the Drover, The Pilgrim’s Progress, and Sir John in Love. He used texts by
Whitman as the basis for his Sea Symphony. For 10 points, name this composer of The Lark
Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.
ANSWER: Ralph Vaughan Williams (do not accept or prompt on ‘Williams’)
BONUS: Its last piece ends, “It is the hour of departure. Oh abandoned one!”
[10] Name this poetry collection written in Spanish and first published in 1924, beginning with
“Body of a Woman” and containing as its penultimate piece “Tonight I Can Write.”
ANSWER: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
[10] What Chilean poet of “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” wrote Twenty Love Songs and a
Poem of Despair?
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda
[10] “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” is the second section of what collection of 231 poems
written in an attempt to chronicle the history of Spanish America?
ANSWER: Canto General
Tossup 22. A more general version of this law is called the DECHEMA model. The GibbsDuhem equation can show that if this equation holds for the first component of a binary solution
over the whole concentration range, then the same must hold for the second component.
However, at low concentrations, Henry’s Law takes over if the solution is non-ideal, then
Henry’s Law takes over For 10 points, identify this law of chemistry which relates the vapor
pressure and mole fraction of each component in a solution to the total vapor pressure of the
solution.
ANSWER: Raoult’s Law
BONUS: It paraphrases text from First Kings detailing the anointing of Solomon. FTPE:
[10] Name this anthem which has been performed at every British coronation since King George
II’s in 1727.
ANSWER: Zadok the Priest
[10] Zadok the Priest was written by this German born-composer who also composed Music for
the Royal Fireworks to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
ANSWER: George Frideric Handel
[10] This Handel oratorio contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus.
ANSWER: The Messiah
Tiebreaker #1: A servant at an inn in this work loses his leg when he develops gangrene after the
surgery intended to correct his club-foot fails. That surgery is performed upon Hippolyte by a
doctor in the provincial town of Yonville, where that doctor and his wife meet the law student
Leon Dupuis and as the wealthy landowner Rodolphe Boulanger. Both of these men have affairs
with the doctor’s wife, Emma, the title character of, for 10 points, what 1857 novel by Gustave
Flaubert?
ANSWER: Madame Bovary