ANGST 2010
Edited by Kurtis Droge, Sinan Ulusoy, Hannah Kirsch, and Mike Bentley, with help from Matt Bollinger, Trygve
Meade, Andy Watkins, and Daniel Pareja
Packet by John Lawrence (and his team), Woburn (Bosco), and Editors
TOSSUPS
1. When labelled, these objects can be placed in one-to-one correspondence with Pruefer sequences. A wellknown algorithm due to Tarjan finds lowest common ancestors in them. Along with Sleator, Tarjan also
developed one type of these objects that is self-organizing, while another variety of these objects assigns a (*)
colour to each node. In addition to the "splay" and "red-black" varieties, balanced varieties of these objects can be
used for "symbol table" or "dictionary" data structures in many programming language standard libraries. Their
conventional depiction on paper shows they are upside-down relative to the real-world objects after which they are
named. For 10 points, name these connected acyclic graphs, which contain leaves and sometimes roots, collections
of which are known as forests.
Answer: trees
2. One of them tells the story of a man who, after choosing to be wise instead of a king, earns the respect of
his slave-master by bringing him both the heart and the tongue of a sheep when asked to deliver the best and
then the worst parts of the animal because they are pure in good men but corrupt in evil ones. Another of
them contains parables contrasting an enslaved man to a free man and a man who is burdensome to a man
who commands justice; that one also describes how the title creatures' creation of a multi-colored fluid that
heals men is evidence of the greatness of god. In addition to ones named after (*) Luqman and Bees, one of
them tells how the flesh of a sacrificed cow was used to perform a miracle on a murdered man so that he could
identify his killer. The shortest one, the first, proclaims "Praise be to Allah." For 10 points, name these chapters of
the Qur'an.
ANSWER: suras
3. A man rests his hand on a woman facing away from the viewer in this artist’s The Misstep. In one painting
by this artist, a retreating couple peers over their shoulders at embracing couples lying in the grass near a
statue of Venus, The Pleasures of Love. The titular figure has a pained look on his face while strumming a
guitar (*) in his Mezzetin, and he also did a painting in which customers mill around the title establishment as a
portrait of Louis XIV is packed away. His commedia dell’arte-inspired pictures include his depiction of a Pierrotfigure, Gilles, while he’s best known for a painting where a man with a staff leads aristocrats on a pilgrimage to the
birth-place of Venus. For 10 points, this is what French Rococo painter of Geraint’s Shop-Sign and Embarkation for
Cythera?
ANSWER: Jean-Antoine Watteau
4. One ruler of this polity ordered the construction of the Bayon Temple, which was famous for its fifty
towers. That man came to power by driving the Champa Kingdom from this polity's former capital, though
his son would later make concessions to Champa as well as give up the territory that would be used to found
the Sukhothai Kingdom. This polity's next ruler would pay tribute to Kublai Khan to preserve his rule as
well as oversee the destruction of many (*) Buddhist statues in favor of his Hinduism. That ruler was deposed by
his son-in-law, who received the Chinese diplomat Chou Ta-kuan and was named Srindravarman. Several rulers
named Jayavarman and Suryavarman also ruled this kingdom known for constructing the temple complex of Angkor
Wat. For 10 points, name this empire based in Cambodia.
ANSWER: Khmer Empire
5. In this novel, a device called “Magic Fingers” helps the protagonist go to sleep, while he is reminded of the
lynching of a Polish man when he hears a song sung by a barbershop quartet known as the Four-eyed
Bastards. That man meets a 44-year old teacher from Indianopolis, Edgar Derby, in a prison camp, and is
the target of a death threat from a car thief from Illinois after that criminal believes the protagonist to be
responsible for the death of Roland (*) Weary. Though the protagonist is married to Valencia Merble, he has a
child with Montana Wildhack while he is held captive in a sort of zoo, and he has recurring hallucinations of the
world Trafalmadore. Also featuring the author's recurring character Kilgore Trout, for 10 points name this novel
about Billy Pilgrim written by Kurt Vonnegut.
ANSWER: Slaughterhouse-Five
6. This organ is absent or underdeveloped in a syndrome whose other symptoms include tetralogy of Fallot
defects and hypocalcemia, DiGeorge syndrome. Tumors originating from the epithelial cells of this organ are
more common in patients with myasthenia gravis. Within this organ are lobules consisting of reticular cells,
along with flattened cells known as Hassall’s corpuscles. Its follicles are composed of cortical and medullary
tissue, the former of which consists mostly of (*) lymphoid cells. After puberty, this structure begins undergoes
involution, a process during which much of it is replaced by adipose tissue. Located behind the sternum and between
the lungs, the main products generated in this structure are divided into helper and cytotoxic varieties. For 10 points,
name this organ of the immune system, the site of production of T cells.
ANSWER: thymus
7. This composer wrote his own name into the theme of his Piano Sonata in E minor, and while he is not
Chopin, he wrote a Ballade in G minor in the form of variations on a folk tune called "Mountain Song."
Scampering passagework over an E-flat minor ostinato characterizes his piece "Puck," which, along with the
final waltz “Remembrance” and the “March of the Dwarves,” is part of his collection of (*) Lyric Pieces for
piano. A timpani roll culminating in a crashing chord from the solo instrument open's this composer's only piano
concerto. His most famous orchestral work includes a third-movement mazurka for strings and triangle called
"Anitra's Dance," and it opens with a flute solo in E major and 6/8 time called “Morning Mood.” For 10 points, this
is what composer who depicted the hero being chased by the titular troll in “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from
his incidental music to Peer Gynt?
ANSWER: Edvard Grieg
8. One of his poems describes a "land beyond the sea" "Where amid her mulberry-trees / Sits Amalfi in the
heat, / Bathing ever her white feet." He wrote of objects that are the voice of the church and the voice of the
past in a poem that asked what they said “to ships that southward pass / From the harbor of Matzatlan?” in
“The Bells of San Blas." In a sonnet to his dead wife, Frances, he describes a memorial for her displayed in
the ravines of a “mountain in the distant West," “The (*) Cross of Snow”. He used dactylic hexameter in a poem
that sees the titular maiden search for her lover Gabriel; that poem begins by saying that “This is the forest
primeval." He wrote of the grandson of Nokomi whose wigwam sits by the shores of Gitche Gumee in his most
famous work. For 10 points, name this American Fireside poet of “Evangeline” and “The Song of Hiawatha."
ANSWER: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9. The second one saw the creation of the so-called "national workshops" to help the unemployed poor, the
passage of a constitution that provided for a 750 person assembly, and violence associated with the June Days
Uprising. One early event from the third one was the 16th of May Crisis, which led to the deposition of
Patrice MacMahon, while the third one later saw the creation of a public education system with the passage
of the (*) Jules Ferry Laws. The fourth one was governed by coalitions known as Three Parties and Third Force,
and it ended because of ongoing violence in Algeria; it was replaced by the fifth one under the auspices of Charles
de Gaulle. The first one had seen a number of crazily named reactions as well as the Reign of Terror. For 10 points,
name these governments which ruled over a certain European nation with capital Paris.
ANSWER: Republics of France (prompt on just republics, but do not accept answers that mention other countries
or other forms of government)
10. This philosopher discussed the concept of the uncanny in the choral ode of Sophocles’ Antigone and the
concept of the river as an enigma in the titular poem in his lecture course Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister.” He
postulated the concept of "gestell" as a mode of human existence in a work that discussed how examples of
the title entity, such as the hydroelectric power plant, have changed how we interact with the earth. In
addition to writing The Question Concerning (*) Technology, he analyzed the Van Gogh painting A Pair of Shoes
in an article based on his lectures on aesthetics, The Origin of the Work of Art. His most famous work introduces a
nearly untranslatable concept of existence in the world, "dasein." Controversial for his associations with the Nazis,
this is, for 10 points, which German philosopher of Being and Time?
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger
11. One character in this novel learns the history of the son of Margaret Devereux from Lord Fermor, and
that character's wife Victoria eventually leaves him for a pianist. The protagonist of this novel finds himself
personally identifying with a performance of Tannhauser. Also featuring a scene at an opium den with the
ruined Adrian Singleton, this novel's protagonist tells an (*) actress that his name is“Prince Charming” although
she performs poorly in Romeo and Juliet. After rejecting that character, Sibyl Vane, the protagonist sinks deeper
into the life of sin he had been led into by Lord Henry Wotton. For 10 points, name this Oscar Wilde novel about a
portrait that ages instead of its subject.
ANSWER: The Picture of Dorian Gray
12. One extended form of this equation contains the particle size divided by 305 while in extreme conditions,
this equation is replaced by the Pitzer equation. The Davies equation is a size independent form of this
equation, which contains the cube of the charge of an (*) electron divided by 4 pi times a term containing the
permittivity of free space and relative permittivity; that term eventually simplifies to about .51 in room temperature
water. One term in this equation is equal to one half the sum of concentration of each ion multiplied by the square of
its charge. Containing the square root of the ionic strength, this equation calculates a quantity often used to replace
ordinary concentration. For 10 points, name this equation developed by a Dutch and German chemist that calculates
activity coefficients.
ANSWER: Debye-Huckel equation
13. In one film titled for these characters, a horse named Sahara goes missing after one of them gets her
portrait painted like a peacock. A series devoted to them contains a recurring song that notes, “Reflections in
a diamond sky / Come shining all through;” that song is titled “If You Can Dream”. A Direct-to-DVD release
sees one of them given a wand by Merryweather. Oprah Winfrey (*) voiced the mother of the most recent one,
whose dreams of owning a restaurant are derailed when she is transformed partially due to voodoo practitioner Dr.
Facilier. In order to reach one to whom he is betrothed, Phillip must hack through a thicket of thorns erected by
Maleficent, and another, who pretends to be a peasant, owns a pet tiger named Raja. For 10 points, name this group
of cartoon characters including Tiana, Jasmine and Aurora, the last of whom starred in Sleeping Beauty.
ANSWER: Disney Princesses [accept obvious equivalents; prompt on “Disney heroines” or the like]
14. This battle occurred after an engagement at Totopotomoy, after which an early force led by General
Sheridan engaged troops under General Fitzhugh Lee. The final assault of this battle, intended to push
Confederate forces back to the Chickahominy River, had been continually delayed to give rest to the II Corps
under Winfield Scott Hancock, allowing troops of John Breckinridge and Ambrose Hill to reinforce the dug
in Confederate forces. In his memoirs, Grant regretted that final assault, the last major battle in a (*)
campaign that included the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse and the Battle of the Wilderness which ended with
Union forces marching towards Petersburg. For 10 points, name this 1864 battle of the Overland Campaign, a
lopsided Confederate victory fought near the surprisingly inland town now known as Mechanicsville.
ANSWER: Battle of Cold Harbor
15. One of this man's works criticizes Descartes for relying on a deus ex machina to solve the problem of how
man interacts with the outside world; that paper, "The Genesis of the Self and Social Control," appeared
before the collection of this man's Carus lectures. This man wrote that the growth of the self arises out of
partial disintegration in "The Social Self" after writing about the relationship between impulse and
manipulation in "The Philosophy of the Act." In another work, he wrote that people learn to function as a
(*) subject and an object through playing; the action nexus appears in that work, which also raises a significant
distinction between the I and the me. For 10 points, name this man who wrote about symbolic gestures in Mind, Self,
and Society and began to theorize symbolic interactionalism.
ANSWER: George Herbert Mead
16. Tosio Kato showed that it is self-adjoint, making it a useful tool for its most famous application. If the
Poisson bracket is applied to this quantity, the result will be the time derivative for that quantity therefore
necessitating that a Poisson bracket of zero is a constant of motion for that system. It is given by the formula
h-bar omega times quantity a dagger a plus one half, and when this quantity is applied to the (*) wave
function, it gives a multiple of the wave function, which means the time-independent Schrodinger equation is
actually an eigenvalue equation in it. It can be obtained by a Legendre transform of the Lagrangian, and it contains
both a kinetic and potential energy term. FTP, name this operator from quantum mechanics, named for the Irish
inventor of quaternions and symbolized with a capital H.
ANSWER: Hamiltonian (prompt on "H")
17. This king's unpopular adviser Michael de la Pole was ousted with the help of the so-called Wonderful
Parliament. Forces loyal to this king, led by Robert de Vere, were defeated at Radcot Bridge by a group that
purged his court in the Merciless Parliament. Ten years later, he arrested and tried that group, which
included the Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Warwick, the Lords Appellant. His marriage to Anne of
Bohemia failed to result in the strong military alliance he had hoped for, and he moved the capital to
Chelmsford for five days to escape violence fermented by John (*) Ball and Wat Tyler, who led the Peasent’s
Revolt during his reign. His reign was finally ended by a son of John of Gaunt named Henry of Bollingbroke, whom
he unsuccessfully tried to disinherit. For 10 points, name this Plantagenet son of Edward the Black Prince, the
predecessor of Henry IV.
ANSWER: Richard II
18. Erving and Miriam Polster wrote a book about integrating this type of therapy that was earlier
advocated by Isadore From, who was himself an early student of Fritz and Laura Perls. One person
associated with this movement argued against Thorndike's Law of Effect by claiming that some animals
experience a moment of insight when figuring out how to construct a ladder from boxes in a book which was
based off of research he conducted in the Canary Islands. Another person associated with this movement,
Kurt (*) Koffka, wrote an introduction to its theory titled Perception and participated in studies of the phi
phenomenon with Max Wertheimer. Also ssociated with graphics such as the Rubin Vase and the Necker Cube and
the principle that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole, for 10 points, name this German psychological
movement.
ANSWER: Gestalt psychology (accept Gestalt therapy before "animals")
19. A skeleton can be seen smooching a skinless model in the closet in the background of one of these works.
Reproductions of Rembrandt’s Ganymede and Correggio’s Jupiter and Io reinforce what the characters are
doing in another of them. In another, a servant can be seen yawning beneath a painting covered by a curtain,
while others depict (*) Silvertongue. The final scene in this series sees an emaciated dog chewing at a pig’s ear in
front of an open window revealing that the characters have had to move to the waterfront. Containing characters
like Viscount Squander, the first work in this series shows the central couple paying no attention to each other as
their relatives negotiate a settlement. Created by the artist of the Rake's and Harlot’s Progresses, for 10 points,
name this series by William Hogarth that shares its title with a John Dryden play.
ANSWER: Works in Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode Series [prompt on “Paintings of William Hogarth” or
"Engravings of William Hogarth" or "Works of William Hogarth" before “series” is mentioned]
20. This play ends with one character's marraige to Basileia. One character in this play, a poet, recites such
bad poetry that an acolyte is ordered to give him all his clothing in order to get him to go away. Another
character wishes to join the city that is the setting of the play in order to take advantage of the law that allows
sons to beat their fathers. The protagonist explains to (*) Herakles that he will inherit nothing from Zeus because
he's a bastard, shortly after being warned by a parasol-wielding Prometheus that an angry committee of the gods is
coming to complain that the titular chorus has been blocking sacrifices from reaching the heavens. For 10 points,
this is what play by Aristophanes in which Pisthetairos convinces the Hoopoe to let him found the kingdom of
Cloudcukooland?
ANSWER: The Birds [or Ornithes]
BONUSES
1. President Truman vetoed this bill, claiming it would make a mockery of the Bill of Rights, although his veto was
easily overridden. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1950 act that required the registration of all “subversive” groups in the U.S.
ANSWER: McCarran Internal Security Act
[10] The McCarran Act was passed three years after the publication of this article by George Kennan that first
developed the Cold War strategy of containment.
ANSWER: X article (accept equivalents mentioning the letter x; also accept Long telegram)
[10] The same year that the McCarran Act was passed, this Wisconsin senator gave a speech in Wheeling, West
Virginia where he claimed to know of 205 communists in the State Department.
ANSWER: Joseph McCarthy
2. In prokaryotes, these are extended specifically by DNA polymerase III. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these pieces of DNA formed during DNA replication on the lagging strand that are stitched together by
DNA ligase to form a complete new strand of DNA.
ANSWER: Okazaki fragments
[10] DNA ligase works by creating this type of bond between 3’ site of one nucleotide and the 5’ site of another
nucleotide.
ANSWER: phosphodiester bond
[10] Ligase used in experiments is often isolated from this organism, a virus that notably infects E. coli and can go
through only a lytic life cycle rather than either lytic or lysogenic.
ANSWER: T4 bacteriophage
3. This work compares the philosopher to the cartographer, claiming in its introduction that one must construct a
logical geography. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this 1949 philosophical work that argued against dualism, instead promoting a sort of philosophical
behaviorism.
ANSWER: The Concept of Mind
[10] This philosopher of The Concept of Mind included "Negative 'Actions'" and "Thinking and Saying" in his
collection On Thinking.
ANSWER: Gilbert Ryle
[10] The Concept of Mind introduced the dogma of one of these "in the machine;" that phrase was taken by Arthur
Koestler for a work critical of behaviorist psychology that posits the destructive tendencies of mankind, especially
with the advent of nuclear weapons.
ANSWER: ghost in the machine
4. In the first play of this trilogy, General Ezra Mannon returns from the war to find that his wife, Lavinia, is having
an affair with Captain Brant. For 10 points each,
[10] Consisting of The Homecoming, The Haunted, and The Hunted, this is what trilogy that updates the Oresteia to
the end of the Civil War?
ANSWER: Mourning Becomes Electra
[10] Mourning Becomes Electra was written by this American playwright who wrote about Theodore Hickey’s
attempts to burst his friends’ pipe dreams in The Iceman Cometh.
ANSWER: Eugene O’Neill
[10] Old Chris reunites with his daughter, the title character, only to discover that she has become a prostitute and to
see her fall in love with Mat Burke in this O’Neill play.
ANSWER: Anna Christie
5. The singer envisions himself “playing basketball with the president” and “on the cover of Forbes magazine”. For
10 points each:
[10] Identify this 2010 song, in which the artist wishes to acquire enough wealth to achieve the titular status.
ANSWER: “Billionaire”
[10] “Billionaire” appears on Lazarus, the first solo CD from Travis McCoy, formerly linked romantically to this
artist of “Ur So Gay” and “I Kissed a Girl”.
ANSWER: Katy Perry [or Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson]
[10] Travis McCoy had another hit in 2007 with “Cupid’s Chokehold”, which was released on Fueled by Ramen.
The label has also released this group’s albums, All We Know is Falling and Brand New Eyes, both of which
featured singing from Hayley Williams.
ANSWER: Paramore
6. For 10 points each, identify some 11 th century popes.
[10] He excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy, culminating in Henry
VI’s Walk to Canossa to beg forgiveness.
ANSWER: Gregory VII
[10] An ally of Gregory VII while Cardinal of Ostia, he launched the First Crusade after convening the Council of
Clermont. He also aided Roger I of Sicily in his conquest of Campania.
ANSWER: Urban II
[10] This sainted pope defended the authenticity of the Donation of Constantine and asserted papal primacy in his
debates with Michael Cerularius, thus precipitating the Great Schism of 1054.
ANSWER: St. Leo IX
7. According the official government definition of a city, this country has only five. For 10 points each:
[10] The cities of Newport and Bangor are located in what country whose county boroughs include Caerphilly and
Monmouthshire?
ANSWER: Wales [or Cymru]
[10] This city in Glanmorgan county is notable for its Norman castle, which was rebuilt and redesigned by notable
Victorian architect, William Burges, and for being the capital of Wales.
ANSWER: Cardiff
[10] Also in Glanmorgan is this coastal city, which was once known as the copper center of the UK. The second
largest city in Wales, it is located near the Gower Peninsula and Black Mountain.
ANSWER: Swansea
8. He satirized his contemporary, Samuel Richardson, in his first novel, Shamela. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this English novelist best known for a novel about a foundling raised by Squire Allworthy, Tom Jones.
ANSWER: Henry Fielding
[10] Fielding further satirized Richardson in this novel, whose title character, Pamela’s brother, loves Fanny
Goodwill and must resist attempts of seduction from his employer, Lady Booby.
ANSWER: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
[10] Fielding’s next novel tackled the story of this famous, real-life “Thieftaker General," who scammed people by
helping them recover property that, in fact, had been stolen by his gang of thieves.
ANSWER: The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
9. Name some organic chemistry reactions, FTPE:
[10] This reaction uses aluminum trichloride as a Lewis acid catalyst in order to carry out alkylation and acylation
on a benzene ring.
ANSWER: Friedel-Crafts reaction or acylation or alkylation
[10] In this modification of the Friedel-Crafts reaction, hydrogen chloride can be reacted with carbon monoxide in
order to generate a formyl chloride product.
ANSWER: Gatterman-Koch reaction
[10] Like the Gatterman-Koch reaction, this other reaction also uses copper to carry out its key step. This reaction
generates an aryl halide from a diazonium salt.
ANSWER: Sandmeyer reaction
10. This man worked with his rival to complete Maderno’s Piazza Barberino and designed the Sant’Andrea al
Quirinale. For 10 points each:
[10] This is what Renaissance architect of the Piazza San Pietro in the Vatican, who may be better known for a
sculpture containing a spear-wielding angel and rays of light shining down on the titular saint, housed in the Cornaro
Chapel.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
[10] Bernini sculpted many of the fountains of Rome, including this obelisk-topped fountain that includes allegorical
representations of the Danube and the Ganges.
ANSWER: The Fountain of the Four Rivers [or Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi]
[10] Bernini’s rival was this architect of the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant’Agnese in Agone.
ANSWER: Francesco Borromini
11. It occurs when the wind is perpendicular to the direction of water transport, causing water molecules at the
surface to drag those in lower layers in the same direction, FTPE:
[10] Name this type of current, named for a Swedish oceanographer, which takes its namesake shape up to a depth
of one hundred meters.
ANSWER: Ekman spiral
[10] The Ekman spiral occurs due to a result of this entity, which is due to the rotation of the earth and causes water
in your toilet to flow counterclockwise.
ANSWER: Coriolis effect or force
[10] When the Coriolis force is balanced with the force created by the pressure gradient, this type of flow is said to
occur.
ANSWER: geostrophic flow
12. This composition borrows from Liszt's fifteenth Hungarian rhapsody for its "Hungarian March," and it also
includes a “Ballet of the Sylphs.” For 10 points each:
[10] This is what “légende dramatique” by Hector Berlioz, which ends with the title character’s descent into Hell
with Mephistopheles as Marguerite ascends to heaven?
ANSWER: The Damnation of Faust
[10] This French composer of Romeo et Juliette wrote the most famous operatic adaptation of the Faust legend,
which is simply called Faust and which includes a famous “Soldier’s Chorus” and a “Jewel song” for Marguerite.
He is also known for his Funeral March of the Marionette.
ANSWER: Charles Gounod
[10] This Austrian composer portrayed the despondent side of Marguerite in his lied Gretchen am Spinnrade. His
other lieder include Erlkonig and Die Forelle, whose theme was used in the final movement of his Trout Quintet.
ANSWER: Franz Schubert
13. Bradley Nowell doesn’t practice it, but about 22,000 other Americans do. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this syncretic religion that uses a dialect of Yoruba, whose priests are known as “Fathers Who Know the
Secrets” and who have been criticized for their ritual use of animal sacrifice, though laws explicitly targeting their
sacrificial practices were struck down in the Supreme Court case Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City of Hialeah.
ANSWER: Santeria
[10] These figures, spirits that are forms of the deity Olorun, are prominent in the Santeria faith. Examples include
Chango and Obatala.
ANSWER: Orishas
[10] Also derived from Yoruban beliefs is this religion practiced mainly in regions near Bahia in Brazil. Adherents
also believe in the power of Nkisis, or sacred objects thought to have spiritual power.
ANSWER: Candomble
14. Characters in this novel include Plato and Paul Klee. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work in which H.H. joins “The League,” which falls apart when their servant Leo is lost in Morbio
Inferiore.
ANSWER: Journey to the East
[10] Journey to the East is by this Swiss-German author who depicted Emil Sinclair in Demian.
ANSWER: Hermann Hesse
[10] The ferryman Vasudeva helps the titular friend of Govinda achieve enlightenment in this other work by Hesse.
ANSWER: Siddhartha
15. His first taste of military victory came in the Battle of San Lorenzo, and he met with Simon Bolivar to decide
the future of South America at a conference held in Guayaquil. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this Argentine general who led the Army of the Andes in the Battle of Chacabuco.
ANSWER: José de San Martin
[10] San Martin also led the Army of the Andes in this decisive April 5, 1818 battle against Spanish commander
Mariano Osorio that ended the Chilean War of Independence.
ANSWER: Battle of Maipú
[10] Fighting alongside San Martin in the Battle of Chacabuco was this Chilean commander who later became the
first Supreme Director of an independent Chile.
ANSWER: Bernardo O’Higgins
16. For 10 points each, name these Japanese novelists.
[10] Sensei explains to the narrator why he chooses to commit suicide after his friend K does so as well in this man's
novel Kokoro.
ANSWER: Natsume Soseki (accept either underlined name for all parts of this bonus)
[10] He wrote about in affair between Komako and Shimamura in Snow Country, while his other works include
Thousand Cranes and The Sound of the Mountain.
ANSWER: Yasunari Kawabata
[10] This author, who wrote about four tourists including Osamu Isobe traveling to India in Deep River, is best
known for a novel in which Sebastiao Rodrigues, a Jesuit, comes to Japan to investigate accusations against
Cristovao Ferreira.
ANSWER: Shusako Endo
17. For 10 points each, name some things about the mythological king of Pessinus named Midas.
[10] Midas once gained the ability to turn things into this material when he touched them, supposedly accounting for
the abundance of it in the Pactolus River. Strangely, a number of mythological apples are also made out of this
substance.
ANSWER: gold
[10] According to Ovid, Midas gained that ability from Bacchus after finding this satyr and treating him hospitably
for ten days.
ANSWER: Silenus
[10] In another story, Midas received the ears of an ass after being the only judge to question whether Apollo's
music was more beautiful than that of this challenger who was brutally flayed after he lost the contest.
ANSWER: Marsyas
18. Name these physics experiments, FTPE:
[10] This 1922 experiment fired a beam of silver atoms through a split magnetic field. It proved the quantization of
spin.
ANSWER: Stern-Gerlach experiment
[10] This 1887 experiment used a light source, two mirrors and a silver glass (and, of course, an interferometer) to
eventually disprove the existence of the luminiferous ether.
ANSWER: Michelson-Morley experiment
[10] This 1914 experiment confirmed Bohr's theory of energy quantization by firing a beam of electrons through a
tube containing gaseous mercury.
ANSWER: Franck-Hertz experiment
19. This work's three sections are titled "The Value of Freedom," "Freedom and the Law," and "Freedom and the
Welfare State." For 10 points each,
[10] Name this book, first published in 1960, notable for saying that "those who cherish freedom... find themselves
much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change" in its section "Why I Am Not a
Conservative."
ANSWER: The Constitution of Liberty
[10] This author of The Constitution of Liberty also wrote Individualism and Economic Order and Law, Legislation,
and Liberty.
ANSWER: Friedrich von Hayek
[10] Hayek may be best known for this tract which associates the rise of power within the state to the oppression of
the common people; it also notably argued that fascism was a fundamentally socialist form of government rather
than a fundamentally capitalist one.
ANSWER: The Road to Serfdom
20. The disorganization of one side's forces at this battle initially led them to fall victim to a chariot charge, forcing
them to retreat to their camp, but later on their enemies were surprised to find other divisions approaching from
unexpected directions. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this battle in which one side was eventually driven back to the River Orontes, though the Egyptians were
unable to launch a siege of the namesake city and were forced to withdraw south towards Damascus.
ANSWER: Battle of Kadesh
[10] This Egyptian pharaoh, the long reigning successor of Seti I, led that country's forces at the Battle of Kadesh.
He also built the temple complex at Abu Simbel.
ANSWER: Ramesses II (accept Ramesses the Great)
[10] This Hittite leader at the Battle of Kadesh moved his capital to Tarhuntassa. He was succeeded by his son
Mursili III.
ANSWER: Muwatalli II (accept Muwatallis II)