Sun ‘n’ Fun XI: Ars Longa, Tossups Brevis
Packet by Maryland Blind
Tossups
1. Skansa Beacon Inc. and this architect were being sued for design and construction flaws related to moisture
buildup for a recent addition to the MIT campus. He entered the public conscious with corrugated cardboard
furniture such as his Easy Edges Wiggle Side Chair. He designed the successor to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in
Los Angeles, $147 million over budget, but it received praise despite heating adjacent sidewalks to over 140
degrees with its stainless steel exterior walls. One building designed by this architect circumvented legal restriction
on building height by being classified as a work or art, that building is the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. His most famous
deconstructivist work utilized seemingly random curves to catch the light and sits above the Nervion River. For 10
points, name this Canadian-American Pritzker prize winning architect of the Guggenheim Bilbao.
ANSWER: Frank Owen Gehry [accept Ephraim Owen Goldberg]
2. A character in this work gets fake papers, which describes him as a dealer of barometers. After a character in
this work is betrayed to the Austrian police, his banishment decree was modified by the Baron Binder, which
demanded that he eschew all reading material written after 1720 except for the novels of Sir Walter Scott. After
being arrested, the jailer’s wife is able to conceal that character and provide him with the belongings of a soldier
who had been arrested for stealing a cow and some silver spoons. Aunt Gina and Count Mosca try to assist the
main character in this novel by sending him to seminary in Naples. The central character, an ardent admirer of
Napoleon who grew up near Lake Como, ends up fighting at Waterloo. For 10 points, name this novel about the
life and adventures of Fabrice del Dongo, who ends up becoming a monk in the title establishment by Stendhal.
ANSWER: Charterhouse of Parma
3. Techniques such as PC-SPI and adiabatic RF pulses can be used to accomplish this during NMR spectroscopy.
Intersystem crossing can trap materials in this state, as in phosphorescence, and these states are usually
stabilized by selection rules preventing rapid spontaneous decay from a triplet spin-state. This condition cannot
exist in a two-state quantum system according to Einstein's A and B coefficients, and this state is sometimes
described by a negative temperature. Sometimes achieved via pumping, this state is required for an optical gain
greater than one, via stimulated emission. For 10 points, name this situation commonly found in lasers in which
the majority of particles exist in an excited state.
ANSWER: Population inversion [prompt on "lasing"]
4. After the greatest naval victory of this people and one of its allies, Diodorus claimed that they stoned to death
the prisoners at the city at which this culture erected its Sarcophagus of the Spouses. Dionysisus of
Halicarnassus relates that these victors at the Battle of Alalia saw their army of half a million repulsed by forces
led by Aristodemus at Cumae, losing their control of Campania. Aristodemus also defeated an army of these
people led by Arruns, at Arcia. Arruns’s father had earlier been so impressed by a youth who stoically put his left
hand into a fire after being captured by these people that he lifted his siege of Rome. Lars Porsena was a leader of,
for 10 points, what civilization which provided many early Kings of Rome, including Tarquin the Proud, a
predecessor of Roman culture eventually absorbed into Rome?
ANSWER: Etruscans
5. Though it’s not The Maids, a wind-up clock in this work allows characters to act out imaginary events, and one
character claims he "can wrap up in the smell of” another when he dons his overcoat. One character in this play
soaks his feet nightly in bath salts because he has footsore from his job as a gatekeeper at the zoo, and at the
climax, that character spends his life savings on a suit instead of saving to buy a farm. One scene sees two
characters play roles in apartheid and nearly come to blows. Those two characters invite a white pen pal to Port
Elizabeth, but that woman, Ethel Lange, gets married and never visits. For 10 points, name this play about
light-skinned Morris and dark-skinned Zachariah by Athol Fugard in which the title object is the bond between
brothers.
ANSWER: The Blood Knot
6. This composer wrote the song “You Are My Heart's Delight,” which was popularized by Richard Tauber. One
work by this composer features grace notes on the second and third beats of its first theme, which also features
a triangle and arpeggios by the harp. That work, which includes a coda in its sixth motif featuring ascending
trumpet arpeggios as a parody of Wagner is often included in this composer's best known work. That work by
this composer features a subplot where Camille attempts to seduce Valencienne with a fan with the words “I love
you” written on it.” That work also sees the bar Maxim's replicated by the singer of the Vilja Song, Hanna, who
seeks to marry Danilo. For 10 points, name this composer of “Gold and Silver Waltz,” which is often incorporated
in his The Merry Widow.
ANSWER: Franz Lehár [or Lehár Ferenc]
7. The Arisaig Sea Cliffs date from this geologic period, during which eurypterids or sea scorpions first
developed. The monograptus forms a useful zone fossil for this period, which is associated with limestone
because of an explosion in coral reefs notably populated by brachiopods and crinoids. The supercontinent
Laurasia began to form at the end of this period, which began with the Llandovery epoch and ended with the
Pridoli. Both freshwater fish and jawed fish first appeared at the end of this period, as did cooksonia, the first
vascular plants. This period was marked by stabilized, warm climates, and it was named by Sir Roderick Murchison
while studying fossils in South Wales. For 10 points, name this period of the Paleozoic following the Ordovician and
preceding the Devonian.
ANSWER: Silurian Period
8. At this church council, a resolution was passed affirming that Antioch had no jurisdiction over Cyprus. Acacius
of Mitylene defended another figure by quoting him as saying "We must not say that God is two or three
months old." The emperor and Count Candidian supported the heretic denounced at this council, which was
confirmed by St. Sixtus III. In the fifth session, John of Antioch was excommunicated, and the sixth session
declared that one should not make any creed beyond the Nicene Creed. St Cyril accused the principle defendant of
heresy at, for 10 points, what third ecumenical council of 431 that condemned Nestorianism?
ANSWER: Council of Ephesus
9. This modern country is home to the ruins of Naletale, a site occupied by the Torwa, which are not far from the
much larger ruins of Dhlo Dhlo, which was the home base of the Rozwi people. A historically questionable leader
named Nyatsimba Motota left the area in what is now this modern nation to establish the city of Zvongombe in
an area now part of this modern nation’s northern neighbor while looking for salt. The above-named tribes were
all Shona states, the predecessors of whom were creators of namesake birds carved from soapstone which were
found in the ruins of the Great Enclosure of this nation’s most famous site. For 10 points these peoples populated
the plateau named for what modern nation in which Ian Smith was forced out when it was known as Rhodesia?
ANSWER: Zimbabwe
10. He discussed the First World War in his work The Hope of the Great Community, and the potential for the
namesake institution to promote peace in War and Insurance. This thinker propounded that the "central and
essential postulate" of every religion is that "man needs to be saved," which was in direct reply to William
James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, found in this thinker’s The Sources of Religious Insight. In another
work, instead of an Absolute mind, he posited the world as a universe of signs interpreted by a community of
minds and guided by spirit of truth seeking. For 10 points, name this American absolute idealist who wrote The
Problem of Christianity, The Philosophy of Loyalty, and The World and the Individual.
ANSWER: Josiah Royce
11. Its central weapon system, slated to replace the Sineva, carries the NATO designation SS-NX-30. That system,
however, has suffered at least seven failures in thirteen tests since 2004, the last occurring in December 2009,
when that system fell victim to a possible third stage malfunction, which generated a much-photographed death
spiral in the atmosphere over Norway. That system is called the Bulava. This class of vessel is meant to replace a
class made famous by The Hunt for Red October, the Typhoon. For 10 points, name this forthcoming class of
Russian ballistic missile submarine, sometimes referred to by the name of the first boat in the class, which is
named after the Russian prince credited with founding Moscow.
ANSWER: Yuri Dolgorukiy (accept Borey class)
12. This thinker describes as "useful inefficiencies" the tendency of politicians to shelter interest groups from
globalization. He claims in one work that the attraction of hard currency is too great for all but the most resolute
despots to ignore, and cites the example of European indecisiveness in Yugoslavia to explain why there must be
a power broadly acceptable to as a leader. This man co-developed the concept of “complex interdependence” in
Power and Interdependence and he attacks foreign policy decisions that promote arrogance, unilateralism, and
parochialism in his book Paradox of American Power. His most important theory suggests that the ability of a polity
to attract others is through the legitimacy of its policies and the values that underlie them. For 10 points, name
this co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of neoliberalism and proponent of soft power.
ANSWER: Joseph S. Nye Jr.
13. The introduction to the latest Random House edition of this text was written by the recently deceased critic
Frank Kermode. One character in this work named her horse Beelzebub because “if you can ride the devil, you
can ride anything.” A search for Effie at the Old Hundredth lands “Boy” Mulcaster in jail, and he is bailed out by
the Canadian Rex Mottram, Julia's fiancé. Julia's brother first met the protagonist one night at Oxford by throwing
up in his window, a precursor to his severe alcoholism later on. The novel opens as that protagonist, an
architectural painter and soldier, unexpectedly catches sight of the titular estate. For 10 points, name this work
narrated by Charles Ryder, a novel by Evelyn Waugh.
ANSWER: Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
14. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is caused by a mutation in a gene coding for a molecule associated with these.
The drug Taxol prevents their depolymerization, as does nonhydrolyzable GTP, but Colchicine, colcemid, and
nocadazol inhibit their polymerization. Tau proteins form these molecules into bundles, and MAPs bind to them.
Kinesins and Dyenins move toward the plus and minus end respectively of these structures, and they form a nine
plus two pattern in flagella. They form linear filaments from alpha and beta tubulin dimers, and are formed at the
aster, though in animal cells they originate from a centrosome. For 10 points, name these components of the
cytoskeleton along with actin fibers and intermediate fibers, molecular fibers that form spindle fibers during
mitosis.
ANSWER: Microtubules [accept tubulin until "depolymerization"]
15. One legislative response to this action was passed only after the Scottish parliament threatened to withhold
needed funding and troops for Marlborough’s forces in the War of Spanish Succession. That threat forced Royal
Assent for the Act of Security, which briefly removed Scotland from the effects of this earlier legislation. One
mandate of this legislation was the elimination of the monarch’s power to appoint and dismiss judges, instead
giving judges the right to serve until the monarch’s death, with 1761 revision providing for lifetime tenure. Its
provisions were finally extended to Scotland after the signing of the Treaty of Union. Fears of the accession to the
throne of the “Old Pretender,” James Stuart, drove, for 10 points, the passage of what British act, which selected
Sophia, Electress of Hanover, as successor and mandated that English monarchs not be or be married to Catholics,
passed in 1701?
ANSWER: Act of Settlement, 1701
16. A Peter Taylor short story about the Dorset couple shares its title with this painting. One figure represented
by a bald old man whose arm extends through most the top of this painting. An old woman pulling at her hair in
the background of this painting is said to represent either Jealousy, or the effects of syphilis. Two discarded
masks, in the right foreground, mirror the mask-like face of Oblivion in the background, who is trying to wrest a
curtain from one of the title figures. In front of the curtain, a girl with a honeycomb and a snake's body peeks out
from behind a putto throwing flower petals. One of the central nude figures appears to be slipping her tongue into
her son's mouth as he gropes her breast. For 10 points, name this ambiguous allegorical painting by Bronzino.
ANSWER: Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time [accept An Allegory of Venus and Cupid and A Triumph of Venus]
17. This figure judged his son worthiness to marry Suseri-hime by having him sleep in a room full of snakes. This
figure was convinced to engage a monster, when a couple near the River Hi offered their daughter, and this
figure instructed that couple to brew eightfold-sake and construct attendant cupboards. A calmer version of this
figure is said to have counted and named the plants and animals with his son, O-kuni-nushi. He once lost a bet with
a relative when be bit her fertility beads to produce children, but more famously he threw a flayed horse through
her sitting room scaring her so much that she hid in a cave. Born when his father Izanagi washed his August nose,
for 10 points, name this brother of Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi, the Japanese god of storms and the ocean.
ANSWER: Susanoo No Mikoto [prompt on something that sounds like Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male]
18. One man who prevented one of these actions was later outed as gay by Harvey Milk, who convinced
columnist Herb Caen to write that ex-marine Oliver Sipple was homosexual against Sipple’s wishes. Sipple had
caused a person attempting this action to misfire, leading the bullet to ricochet and graze a cab driver. Another
attempt at this action was foiled by the man who is now head of security for the US Olympic Team, who at the
time was able to jam the skin of his thumb into the firing mechanism of the gun used by another person
attempting this action. Taking place just seventeen days apart, after the second of these actions the intended
victim was able to go ahead with his meeting with Governor Jerry Brown in California. For 10 points, what action
was attempted by Sarah Jane Moore and Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme in September, 1975?
ANSWER: assassinate Gerald Ford [accept reasonable equivalents involving Ford’s name and verbs involving killing]
19. Some accused the author of this poem of plagiarizing part of Lydia Sigourney’s poem “Musing Thoughts”
published in her collection The Token. The “kingly halls” and “Babylon-like walls” are not lit by “rays from the
holy heaven” and the "wilderness of glass" gives no hint that "each idol's damned eye" is bejeweled, though "a
stir is in the air" that resembles "no earthly moans” suggest a “void within the filmy Heaven.” The "wreathed
friezes" contain "the viol, the violet, and the vine" but the "shrines and palaces and towers" "resemble nothing
that is ours." The poem ends with "waves" that "now have a redder glow" and "Hell, rising from a thousand
thrones" and it opens with the observation that "Lo! Death has reared himself a throne." For 10 points, name this
Edgar Allen Poe poem about the titular underwater town.
ANSWER: The City in the Sea [accept “The Doomed City” or “The City of Sin”]
20. This parameter is varied in Hartree-Fock methods to improve numerical stability, at first increased and then
slowly reduced to its correct values as orbitals begin to converge. A set of equations used to correct this quantity
were motivated by the trial wavefunction psi proportional to the negative exponential of an effective value for
this quantity minus s. That set of equations were semi-empirically derived by Slater and can be used to find these
values for use in the Allred-Rochow form of electronegativity, which assumes that this value decreases due to the
shielding effect. For 10 points, name this value which, via Coloumb's law, determines how strongly electrons are
bound to an atom.
ANSWER: Effective Nuclear Charge [accept kernal charge, accept Z or Z-eff or Z-effective, accept "shielding
constant" until "this quantity minus s"]
Bonuses
1. Name some things from the illustrious career of Nicholas Kaldor, for 10 points each.
[10]Kaldor improved on Pareto optimality with the help of this British economist. This economist helped to
develop the IS-LM model with Harrod and Meade, and he names a type of demand contrasted with Marshallian.
ANSWER: John Hicks
[10]Kaldor also developed an expenditure tax which was implemented in two South Asian countries that he
worked in as a consultant. Name either.
ANSWER: India or Sri Lanka [accept either, accept both from people who can't follow directions]
[10]He also created a model of growth based on this law, which states that increased production leads to
increased production efficiency. Rowthorn also tried to derive this result from the Cobb-Douglas production
function, getting the namesake coefficient equal to alpha minus one over alpha.
ANSWER: Verdoorn's Law
2. The hapticity, the number of electron sharing bonds in to the central atom, is by definition ten in these
compounds. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this class of organometallic compound that contain a metal such as iron bonded to two cyclopentadienyl
molecules, a type of sandwich compounds.
ANSWER: Metallocenes [accept ferrocenes, but no other specific kinds]
[10]This is the name given to the cyclopentadienyl bonded to the central metal. More generally, this refers to any
atom or molecule bonded to a metal to form a coordination complex.
ANSWER: Ligands [do not accept “chelate”]
[10]Nickelocene catalyzes the reaction of a compound of this type to form polymethylene. This class of chemicals
is useful for creating carbon-carbon bonds, and its namesake functional group is a carbon double bonded to a
nitrogen double bonded to another nitrogen.
ANSWER: Diazo Compounds [accept Diazomethane]
3. The title character was driven to the central action because of his immense lard deposits, and was sent to find
the sewn up dusty witch to have it performed. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this story about a murderous carnival man, which became the frame story for a collection including "The
Long Rain" and "The Rocket."
ANSWER: The Illustrated Man
[10]This author of The Illustrated Man may be better known for creating the fireman Guy Montag.
ANSWER: Ray Bradbury
[10]This Bradbury story follows the GI Johnny Choir, who thinks that the Italian campaign was a game, and thus
cannot be shot even by the treacherous Melter.
ANSWER: Bang! You're Dead!
4. Answer the following about a possibly insane leader of Paraguay, for 10 points each:
[10]Name this beady-eyed president of Paraguay from 1862, until his death in 1870. This dictator made an Irish
woman Elisa Lynch, or “La Lynch” his mistress. His aggressive foreign policy got him into war with multiple
countries.
ANSWER: Francisco Solano Lopez
[10]Solano Lopez is seen as the primary antagonist in this conflict. Major battles during this conflict include
Riachuelo and Matto Grosso.
ANSWER: War of the Triple Alliance
[10]Solano Lopez met his timely end at this last battle of the War of the Triple Alliance; he was killed trying to swim
across the Aquidaban River by a lance wielded by a Brazilian known as Chico Diabo.
ANSWER: Battle of Cerro Cora
5. The center of this work features a waterfall, and the lower right corner one can spot a conspicuous clump of
blue flowers. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this landscape of a certain South American mountain range.
ANSWER: Heart of the Andes
[10]This painter of Heart of the Andes also painted this landscape, which features a fiery red sky which is reflected
by the river below.
ANSWER: Twilight in the Wilderness
[10]This Church landscape features a hazy sun barely breaking through the mist over a serene river. It lacks the
fiery red sky found in his Twilight in the Wilderness, instead capturing the title moment with a flight of distant birds
over the water.
ANSWER: Morning in the Tropics
6. It was translated in its modern form by Lady Charlotte Guest, and contains tales from the White Book of
Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this collection of Welsh tales, contains such stories as “Culhwch” and “Olwen” and the “Tale of Taliesin.”
ANSWER: The Mabinogeon
[10]One of the three Welsh Romances details the adventures of this knight, who marries the Lady of the Fountain.
Chretien de Troyes wrote a poem about the same story, and it notably includes an appearance by a lion.
ANSWER: Owain [accept Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, be flexible with titles]
[10]Another tale from the Mabinogeon tells the story of this British king, who seeks counsel from his brother
Llefelys about how to overcome three plagues: a race of invaders with incredible hearing, a ghastly wail on May
Day, and a magician who steals food.
ANSWER: King Llud
7. This work's composer said in summary of it, “The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual.” For
10 points each:
[10]Name that work, the first of the composer's English operas, based on George Crabbe's poem The Borough. It
opens with a fisherman being questioned about the death of his apprentice.
ANSWER: Peter Grimes
[10]This composer of A Young Person's Guide to Orchestra and the opera Death in Venice wrote Peter Grimes.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten
[10]Benjamin Britten's penultimate work was this opera produced for television, and centers on a young pacifist
who claims he would make war a crime. It is based on a Henry James short story of the same name.
ANSWER: Owen Wingrave
8. For 10 points each, name some characters from As You Like It:
[10]This young man leaves Rosalind a lot of awkwardly written love poems, and is the target of her affections after
he wins a wrestling match.
ANSWER: Orlando
[10]While Rosalind is in the Forest of Arden disguised as the boy Ganymede, this ungainly shepherdess falls in love
with her. Rosalind, as Ganymede desperately tries to convince her to love the shepherd Silvius.
ANSWER: Phebe
[10]This character is best remembered for his monologue on the Seven Stages of Man.
ANSWER: Jaques
9. Answer some questions about DNA binding motifs for 10 points each:
[10]This member of the helix-turn-helix family of DNA binding proteins is constructed from three alpha helices. It
consists of a highly conserved set of sixty amino acid residues and is usually responsibility for anatomic
differentiation.
ANSWER: Homeodomain Fold [accept Homeobox]
[10]This element is found in a namesake finger motif where it coordinates an alpha helix with a beta sheet. This
mineral may help treat Wilson's disease because absorption of this element is mildly antagonist with copper
absorption.
ANSWER: Zinc [accept Zn]
[10]This hydrophobic amino acid is found in a namesake "zipper" motif where it dimerizes to clamp DNA. It has
one additional methylene group compared to valine, which like this amino acid has a branched side chain. A
mutation relating to the metabolism of this essential amino acid can cause maple syrup urine disease.
ANSWER: Leucine
10. His namesake commission during the Regan Administration studied the effect of pornography on society, for
10 points:
[10]Name this conservative dude, the 75th Attorney Gener.al under President Regan, and a chairman of the
Heritage Foundation. He once suggested that people who are innocent of crime are rarely suspects therefore the
Miranda warning was unnecessary and harmful.
ANSWER: Edwin Meese III
[10]During the People’s Park protest associated with the riots at this school, Meese advised then governor Regan
to declare a state of emergency and to send in the National Guard.
ANSWER: Berkeley Riots
[10]Meese resigned his post after his complicity in this political scandal was revealed by an independent counsel. It
is named after the South Bronx defense contracting firm that received over $200 million in no-bid contracts
through illicit ties to the White House.
ANSWER: Wedtech scandal
11. This poem suggests that the politicians of the author’s country “are back in giant hidden steps of howitzers, of
detonators-the eagles descend on us, bayonets and cannons,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this work which prophesizes a bleak future for the author’s country “For the Eagles are now in sight:
Shadows in the Horizon,” and serves as his “last testament.”
ANSWER: “Elegy for Alto”
[10]”Elegy for Alto” was written by this Nigerian poet who was killed by the Gowon military one year after writing
that poem, some of his other works include “Heavensgate” and the collection Labyrinths.
ANSWER: Christopher Okigbo
[10]This six-poem sequence of Christopher Okigbo’s includes “Elegy for Alto” as well as “Elegy for Slit-Drum,” and
“Elegy of the Wind,” the three other sections ostensibly describe the progress of the title weather phenomenon.
ANSWER: “Path of Thunder”
12. This Empire was ruled at one point by Kaloyan the Romanslayer, who naturally wanted to take revenge against
a certain Bulgarslayer, for 10 points:
[10]Name this Empire ruled by Kaloyan, which existed between 1185 and 1422.
ANSWER: Second Bulgarian Empire [prompt on partial answer]
[10]This is the name of that Bulgarslayer against whom Kaloyan sought revenge. When he wasn’t slaying Bulgars,
this Byzantine Emperor was forming an alliance with Vladimir I of Kiev to quell revolts among his generals.
ANSWER: Basil II
[10]The Bulgarian Empire was reestablished as a result of this rebellion beginning in 1185, and named after the
two warlords who had originally been defeated by Isaac II Angelus. After raiding Thrace they obtained a truce
giving them possession of Bulgaria.
ANSWER: Rising of Asen and Peter [accept anything that mentions their names and suggests they were rebelling]
13. The authors suggest that outside of the introduction or conclusion the namesake sections can be read in any
order, for 10 points:
[10]Name this postmodern text, which uses the botanical metaphor of a rhizome to explain the non-hierarchical
multiply-realized nature of knowledge and lies in contrast to arborescent totalization. This work is the second
volume in a series, which begins with Anti-Oedipus.
ANSWER: A Thousand Plateaus
[10]This is the name of that series which is composed of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus.
ANSWER: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
[10]Capitalism and Schizophrenia was written by this dynamic duo of French post-structuralist thought, other
works by this tandem include Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature and Nomadology: The War Machine.
ANSWER: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari [accept in either order]
14. Name some plays by Henrik Ibsen, for 10 points each.
[10]This play, Ibsen's final, sees the sculptor Rubek and the model Irene die together in a violent storm, while
Rubek's wife Maya is occupied by the bear hunter Uflheim.
ANSWER: When We Dead Awaken [accept Naar vi dode vaagner]
[10]The title architect's wife thinks that he, Halvard Solness, is in love with Kaja Fosli, but it is only a ruse to keep
Ragnar Brovik working for him. In the end, Solness falls to his death after climbing a building he designed.
ANSWER: The Master Builder [accept Bygmester Solness]
[10]In this play, Erhart is claimed by his neighbor Fanny Wilton, his dying aunt Ella, and his distant mother Gunhild
who has not spoken with her husband, the title character, in eight years.
ANSWER: John Gabriel Borkman
15. Name some results associated with quantum mechanics, for 10 points each:
[10]This result explains why the commutator of position and momentum cannot be less that h-bar over two. It
states that we cannot observe conjugate variables to arbitrary precision at the same time.
ANSWER: Heisenberg uncertainty principle
[10]This quantum analogue of Newton's second law states that the center of a wave packet moves like a classical
particle. Its namesake also names a paradox in which relativistically rotating disks contract only along some axes.
ANSWER: Ehrenfest's theorem
[10]This theorem states that for a perturbation Hamiltonian, the derivative of the eigenvalue energies with respect
to the perturbation parameter is equal to the expectation value of the derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect
to that parameter.
ANSWER: Feynman-Hellman theorem
16. From the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, one can see the south side of what has been called the “finest and
most dramatically designed architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles.” For 10 points each, answer
some questions about the buildings in that ensemble:
[10]At the center of the design sits this strictly classical residence, the first major commission of Inigo Jones after
his 1613-1615 grand tour of Italy. It remains one of his best-known works.
ANSWER: Queen's House
[10]The Queen's House is flanked on either side by this set of Baroque buildings, separated in the middle so as not
to obstruct the queen's view of the Thames. The most prominent are the Queen Mary Court and the King William
Court.
ANSWER: Greenwich Hospital [accept Old Royal Naval College]
[10]This architect designed the Greenwich Hospital. He is best known for rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral and 51
London churches after the Great Fire of 1666.
ANSWER: Christopher Wren
17. He defined a law to be a "command from a sovereign," which when applied to a democracy typically is taken to
mean an office or an institution. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this founder of analytical jurisprudence who wrote The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.
ANSWER: John Austin
[10]H.L.A. Hart revived this theory of law associated with Austin, which asserts that a morally neutral theory of law
is possible beginning from the pedigree thesis and separability thesis. This theory is typically contrasted with
natural law.
ANSWER: Legal Positivism [prompt on "command theory of law"]
[10]Austin was influenced by this utilitarian, who calculated utility with a felicific calculus and wrote Offenses
Against One’s Self: Pederasty.
ANSWER: Jeremy Bentham
18. They are contrasted with raster graphics which assign values to a grid. For 10 points:
[10]Name this image data type, whose name comes from how it stores the edges of polygons.
ANSWER: Vector
[10]This algorithm, named for an IBM programmer, converts vector data to raster data by filling certain boxes in a
grid. It works by incrementing along the line's path, and using integer math to determine when to take diagonal
steps.
ANSWER: Breshenham's Line Drawing Algorithm [accept equivalents]
[10]One way to encode vector data uses these piecewise polynomials. Unlike polynomial interpolation, they avoid
Runge's phenomenon, and a common variety is named for Bezier.
ANSWER: Splines [accept quadratic, cubic, or quartic splines]
19. Answer the following about recent military activity in South Asia, FTPE.
[10]On March 26, 2010, this South Korean corvette sank off the west coast of the Korean peninsula. A South
Korean-led international investigation determined North Korean culpability, but China has disputed the findings.
ANSWER: ROKS Cheonan
[10]China has objected to joint U.S.-South Korean exercises in response to the Cheonan sinking, particularly the
entry of the U.S. carrier George Washington into this body of water where the sinking took place.
ANSWER: Yellow Sea
[10]According to an August 2010 AP report, China is currently developing this “carrier-killing” ballistic missile
capable of targeting U.S. carriers at sea.
ANSWER: Dong Feng 21D
20. Answer the following about Yom Kippur, for 10 points each:
[10]This Hebrew word for confession is represented in prayer during Yom Kippur with such recitations as the
Ashamnu prayer, which lists a litany of sins in alphabetical order. During Yom Kippur, congregants often pound
their chest with their fist as they recite each word of the Ashamnu.
ANSWER: Vidui
[10]Yom Kippur eve is referred to by this name, which comes from the Aramanic for "all vows." Its namesake
declaration asserts an intention to annul all promises made from this Yom Kippur to the next, lest the congregation
renege on their agreements.
ANSWER: Kol Nidre
[10]Yom Kippur ends with the blowing of this ceremonial instrument, crafted from a ram's horn. The final note
played on this instrument, t'kiyah g'dolah, is a long, sustained blast.
ANSWER: Shofar