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Tossups
1. One of this composer’s masses features a Credo in which the first tenor sings four steps up and down the C Major
scale corresponding with the Latin words ascendit and descendit, and the tenor and bass omit the standard
phrase Benedicimus te in his generically titled Missa Brevis. This composer’s motet Cantantibus Organis was used
as the basis for a triple-choir mass composed as a collaboration between this man and other members of the
Congregation of the Lord’s Music. This teacher of Annibale Stabile and Giovanni Dragoni also wrote a Second
Book of Spiritual Madrigals and a mass featuring an unusual two-part Agnus Dei written for six voices a
capella and specifically designed for the words to be intelligible. FTP, name this Italian composer who may have
influenced the Council of Trent’s decision not to ban polyphonic music with his Pope Marcellus Mass.
ANSWER: Giovanni Palestrina
2. One extension of this economic model theorizes free capital mobility, exchange rate stability, and independent
monetary policy as an “impossible trinity” since only two of the elements can be achieved
simultaneously. Extended to open economies by the Mundell-Fleming model, the application of Walras’ law to all
financial assets is an underlying assumption when deriving one component of this model, and another component of
this model makes use of the Kahn-Keynes multiplier and is derived by equating aggregate supply and aggregate
demand. This model was first elucidated in the 1937 paper “Mr. Keynes and the Classics”. Consisting of two
curves whose intersection gives the general equilibrium, FTP, name this economic model developed by John Hicks.
ANSWER: IS/LM Model [accept Investment Savings / Liquidity Preference and Money Supply Equilibrium]
3. In one scene in this novel, a neighbor of the title character hands over a broken tablet with half of a poem that
seems to criticize the King, which leads to trouble until a parrot brings the second half. The title character’s eventual
wife is found among a group searching for a basilisk to cure Ogul in Syria where we meet the fisherman and cheese
maker Arbogad. Merchants in this novel gather at the Balzora Fair to discuss religion and include one who lives
with his tribe in the Desert of Horeb, where the title character annoys priests first when he ends the practice of
widows burning themselves and then when he is saved from execution after ending a fight among a Celt, an Indian,
a Chaldean and an Egyptian with the help of Almona. In addition to Arimaze the Envious, another character,
Missouf, is mistaken for a queen and marries Moabdar, and Almona marries Sétoc, the owner of title character, who
himself marries Queen Astarte. For 10 points, name this satirical novel about the titular prime minister of Babylon
written by the author of Micromégas, Voltaire.
ANSWER: Zadig: Ou, La Destinée, histoire orientale or Zadig: Or, The Book of Fate
4. In one of the plays by this author, the rich uncle Dvoetochie decides to build a boys’ school and a girls’ school
and takes in Vlass after his profession of love is turned down by Maria Lvovna. In one of his novels, the protagonist
witnesses his schoolmate Ezhoff give a speech to a group of printers, rebels against his river merchant father Ignat,
runs off with a girl named Sasha, and causes scandal by commandeering and crashing a barge. Another novel by this
man concerns Ilya and Pyotr’s management of a factory in Dromov, and Andrey and Pavel are arrested and exiled
to Siberia for spreading Socialist propaganda in another. This author of Foma Gordeyev and The Artamonov
Business also wrote a play in which The Actor hangs himself after being told of a hospital for alcoholics by the old
man Luka. FTP, name this Russian author of Mother and The Lower Depths.
ANSWER: Maxim Gorky [accept Alexey Maximovich Peshkov]
5. Martin Fleischman used pyridine adsorbed on silver which had been electrochemically roughened to develop this
phenomenon’s surface-enhanced variety, and conjugated molecules with large dipole moments can produce a
stronger form of this phenomenon’s hyper version. One of the byproducts of its stimulated variety can be amplified
to produce a namesake laser. Discovered in crystals by Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Mandelstam, its linearly
polarized and circularly polarized radiation is governed by the Stokes parameters. Divided into Stokes and antiStokes varieties, FTP, name this inelastic scattering of a photon named for its Indian discoverer.
ANSWER: Raman Scattering [accept Raman Effect and accept Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering before
reading “surface-enhanced”]
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6. One of this writer’s works includes an undivided section titled “Rooms,” as well as individual entries such as “A
Red Stamp” and “Roastbeef.” This poet penned the line “Egg be takers” and included the phrase “Pat ten patent” in
the poem that includes this writer’s most quoted line. One of this author’s works has a Part Two but no Part One,
contains multiple Chapter Xs and Chapter 10s, and opens with the line “Once. Always excited to say twice.” This
author of Alphabets and Birthdays also wrote that Brim Beauvais, as well as the poem Sacred Emily. In addition to
writing about the titular writer who wishes to meet this author, “Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead” for her
hypothetical book The Wives of Geniuses I Have Sat With, this poet gathered verbal fragments in a cubist style for
her Tender Buttons. For 10 points, name this author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, the poet behind the
line “a rose is a rose is a rose.”
ANSWER: Gertrude Stein
7. Gerald J. Smith has suggested that this poem may have its origins in Thucydides’ recording of The Funeral
Oration of Pericles. This poem’s second section urges the addressee to “Take the wings / Of morning, pierce the
Barcan wilderness / Or lose thyself in the continuous woods / Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound”. The first
section speaks of “When thoughts / Of the last bitter hour come like a blight / Over thy spirit” and begins by
referring “To him who in the love of Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms”. Its concluding section tells
the addressee to “go not, like the quarry-slave at night / Scourged to his dungeon”. FTP, name this “Meditation
upon Death” by William Cullen Bryant.
ANSWER: Thanatopsis
8. Sir Robert Sheffield, who opposed this man over Hunne's Case, died in the tower, a victim of what his enemies
said was misuse of Star Chamber. He took the blame for the failure of the Amicable Grant, which caused rebellion
in Suffolk, and detained Cardinal Campeggio at Calais until Campeggio's office of papal legate was bestowed on
him as well. The founder of Christ Church College, Oxford, he was briefly restored to his see as archbishop of York
before he died at Leicester Abbey en route to the Tower of London under charge of high treason. For 10 points,
Hampton Court Palace was originally built for what clergyman, who failed to obtain a divorce for his master, Henry
VIII?
ANSWER: Thomas Wolsey
9. This group occupied the Wolff Telegraph Bureau as part of its protest against the dismissal of Emil Eichhorn, but
it was repressed by a man who volunteered to act as a "bloodhound," Gustav Noske. Its failure has been attributed
to the advice of Karl Radek, who ignored the warnings of its best-known leader, the author of The Accumulation of
Capital and The Crisis of Social Democracy. It declared itself a communist party just before its January 1919
rebellion, which ended when the Freikorps assassinated Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. For 10 points, what
German socialist group took its name from a Roman slave revolt?
ANSWER: Spartacus League [accept Spartakusbund or Spartacists, Left Radicals or Linksradikale]
10. In one chapter, this work compares a certain type of man to a parrot in a Portuguese story and criticizes him for
believing he can "do what he jolly well likes." This work quotes Anatole France on why fools are worse than
knaves, while its last chapter argues that there is no "new morality" and its third chapter presents an epoch "superior
to other times, inferior to itself." Besides chapters like "We Arrive at the Real Question" and "The Height of Our
Times", this work comments on how technicians ignore the "marvelous efficiency" of science as well as of how
specialists engage in barbarism and primitivism. This work argues that a society is a society in proportion to how
aristocratic it is, drawing a contrast between the noble man and the common man. Published nine years after its
author's Invertebrate Spain, for 10 points, name this work of Jose Ortega y Gasset decrying the "mass-man."
ANSWER: The Revolt of the Masses or La rebelión de las masas
11. One character in this novel loses his faith in God after hitting his nose while praying, and that character falls in
love with his future wife while examining select parts of her body during illness. The protagonist of this novel
relates his experience with Mary Pereira during the delivery of the “Tryst with Destiny” speech. The protagonist
compares this novel’s thirty chapters to pickle jars and experiences childhood flashbacks after tasting a pickle before
becoming the manager of a pickling factory. That character is unknowingly the son of a poor singer and is
challenged by a street urchin for leadership of a conference he calls. A canine unit enlists the protagonist, wielding
a powerful and telepathic nose, who later marries Parvati the Witch after she is abandoned by General Shiva. FTP,
name this novel about Saleem Sinai, who is born at the moment of Pakistan’s creation, by Salman Rushdie.
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ANSWER: Midnight’s Children
12. One essay by this man claimed that "the foreign book has been conquered by the natural man," and called for an
entry into the community of nations by a figure using a rosary as its guide, with "its head white and its body
mottled." The author of essays on Whitman and Emerson, he founded the Revista Venezolana and collaborated with
Maximo Gomez in an attempt to prevent a race war in his homeland, where he was killed at the Battle of Dos Rios.
The American radio station broadcasting against the Castro regime is named after, for 10 points, what author of the
essay "Our America" and the poetry collection Versos Libres, a modernist and Cuban patriot?
ANSWER: Jose Marti
13. The drink Red Bull takes its name from a creature from this people’s mythology; a shape-shifting enforcer of
divine will often appearing in the incarnation of a literal translation of his name, a young red bull. In this people’s
mythology, the moon Ile is a daughter of the supreme goddess, and one race in this people’s mythology consists of
hairy giants who are tall enough to walk in the ocean, and other creatures include the seven-headed dragon
Herensuge. In addition to the aforementioned Aatxe and jentilak, one of whom spends his life living in the
mountains making toys for children and serves as this people’s version of Santa Clause. In addition to Olentzero,
other figures in this people’s mythology include the two weather-associated complementary male and female
supreme deities. Worshipping the serpent-consort Sugaar and his wife Mari, FTP, name this people who notably
speak Euskara.
ANSWER: Basque
14. This man, whose rise to power started with the defeat of boss James Guffey, was the driving force behind a child
labor bill that died in the Senate and a co-author of the Underwood tariff. Defeated by Boies Penrose in his bid for a
Senate seat of his own, he moved on to a post where he caused controversy by continuing in peacetime injunctions
obtained under the Lever Act. Acting Secretary of Labor Louis Post undid many of this man's actions, which
included a crackdown on the Union of Russian Workers for producing an anarchist manifesto. He refused to serve as
Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson, citing his pacifist faith that gave him the nickname "The Fighting
Quaker." For 10 points, name this attorney general, a protagonist of the Red Scare who led a series of namesake
raids.
ANSWER: A. Mitchell Palmer
15. One character in this work spells “dear” with three letters, “D-I-R”. The protagonist of this work breaks his leg
ice skating after a girl, and his refusal to bend it upsets his parents. He spends one Thanksgiving with his
girlfriend’s family, and he is afraid to use their toilet. He is brought to tears by memories of the neighborhood adults
playing softball as his plane lands in Israel, where he attempts to have sex with a girl named Naomi. His other
girlfriends include one who laments her inability to perform fellatio on him and another whom he abandons
in Europe referred to as “The Monkey”. FTP, masturbation and over-bearing Jewish parents are the two main
themes of what Philip Roth novel?
ANSWER: Portnoy’s Complaint
16. In one of this composer’s operas, one character sings the aria Vy starenko expressing jealousy of his halfbrother, the chorus sings the protagonist’s favorite song Daleko siroko, and a repeated xylophone motif represents
the turning of a mill-wheel. In another opera based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Storm, the title character cheats
on her husband Tichon with Boris and drowns herself in the Volga. In another opera, Kristina burns the formula for
an elixir of life given to her by an ancient opera star who causes the suicide of Janek, Emilia Marty. The anticonscription song Vseci za zenija is sung in another opera after Steva escapes conscription, and that opera sees Laca
disfigure the face of the titular character, whose baby is drowned by Kostelnicka, before gradually winning her
love. FTP, name this Czech composer of Kata Kabanova, The Makropulos Affair, and Jenufa.
ANSWER: Leos Janacek
17. Jan Bialostocki argued that this work's composition was marked by a constant reversal of motifs, such as in the
preliminary drawings at Rennes, the Hermitage, and Lille. Burchard and d'Hulst argued that one drawing for this
work was transposed from a drawing of the same subject by Cigoli and that it drew from Daniele da Volterra's
depiction of the same event. A portrait of Nicolaas Rockox is found on the closed outer wings of this work, which
also features a nighttime depiction of an old man with lamp illuminating St. Christopher, whose connotation as the
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"bearer of Christ" thematically links the different scenes in this work. The left panel depicts the Visitation, while the
right panel depicts the presentation to the high priest in the temple. The central panel uses a single diagonal as the
focus, with St. John in a scarlet robe holds the weight of Christ's body as it is let down with a large white sheet. For
10 points, name this work located in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, a companion to The Raising of the
Cross by Peter Paul Rubens.
ANSWER: The Descent from the Cross
18. Surname’s the same. In the introduction to one work, one thinker with this surname cites Renée Green and the
definition of “beyond” in a discussion of “Border Lives.” Another man with this name worked with Walter Heitler
on a Cascade Theory of cosmic radiation that predicted muons and names a phenomenon that takes contributions
from both the s- and t-channels and is similar to Möller scattering. The author of Nation and Narration included the
essay DissemiNation in a study of the notion of “hybridity” in another work. The physicist gave this surname to a
phenomenon that , consisting of virtual photon exchange between a positron and an electron. For 10 points, give this
shared last name of two thinkers, one the “Father of India’s Atomic Energy Program” and namesake of a scattering
and one a postcolonial critic author of Location of Culture, both of whom have the first name Homi.
ANSWER: Bhabha
19. One fresco of this scene in the Pantheon is ascribed to either Melozzo da Forli or Antoniazzo, or a collaboration
between the two. Mikhail Nesterov's version shows a woman robed in sapphire blue in front of a blooming orange
tree. El Greco's depiction of this scene shows angels suffused with gold in the top left, while the right focuses on a
figure wearing a golden habit over a red robe. In another depiction of this scene, the lines of the red marble floor
converge on a landscape as one figure kneels and his red robes billow. One depiction of this scene is the main
painting of the Prado altarpiece and shows the Expulsion from the Garden to the left as the two primary figures are
separated by a column, an architectural demarcation shared by depictions of this scene in the Cortona altarpiece
and a work at San Marco. Besides Botticelli's depiction of this scene at Cestello and the various versions by Fra
Angelico, depictions of this scene often involve God sending a dove with rays of golden light, as well as an angel
holding a white lily. For 10 points, name this Biblical scene, which shows Gabriel telling Mary that she will conceive
Jesus.
ANSWER: Annunciation
In 1826, this man earned the right to represent the seventh district of Tennessee in the House
of Representatives by defeating Felix Grundy. Starting in 1847, he served as a Tennessee Senator
along with Hopkins Lacy Turner and James Chamberlain Jones. In 1834, this statesman
succeeded Andrew Stevenson as Speaker of the House. In 1841, William Henry Harrison chose
this statesman as Harrison’s first Secretary of War. By defeating William Alexander Graham and
John McLean, this statesman would win the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia as a
presidential candidate. Instead of choosing Sam Houston or John Crittenden, this statesman
chose Edward Everett as his running mate. Known as The Great Apostate, for 10 points, name
this American politician who ran on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860.
ANSWER: John Bell
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Bonuses
1. This man created St. Gregory's polyptych, while only portions remain of this man's influential San Cassiano
Altarpiece. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this painter of the San Cassiano Altarpiece, which was influential on Venetian art as well as a St. Jerome
in His Study under a triumphal arch. He was known for taking inspiration from Flemish painting.
ANSWER: Antonello da Messina or Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio
[10] Antonello da Messina painted Sibiu, Antwerp, and London versions of this scene, which shows Christ on the
cross between two thieves.
ANSWER: Crucifixion
[10] This man's massive and dynamic Crucifixion depicts soldiers huddled and playing dice, though he is better
known for The Miracle of the Slave.
ANSWER: Tintoretto or Jacopo Robusti
2. Crystals are not always perfect, FTPE:
[10] One way a crystal could be imperfect is the existence of these vacancies, named for the inventor of the pentode
who also names some barriers and a diode.
ANSWER: Schottky Defects Prompt on Defect
[10] This physicist posited a theory of crystal defects called dislocations, and his work on mathematical biology led
to a formulation of predator-prey equations independent of Alfred Lotka.
ANSWER: Vito Volterra
[10] Dislocations are examples of this type of crystal defect described by gauge theories; they differ from bulk
defects and do not include stacking faults.
ANSWER: Linear Defects
3. Near the end of this novel, Harriet Smith marries Mr. Martin, Jane Fairfax marries Frank Churchill, and the title
character marries Mr. Knightley. FTPE:
[10] Name this novel about a girl who’s not very good at matchmaking.
ANSWER: Emma
[10] Jane Austen also wrote this epistolary novel divided by the arrival of Frederica and centering on the scheming
villain Widow Vernon.
ANSWER: Northanger Abbey
[10] This early short story by Austen is written as a series of letters from Laura to Marianne at the request of Laura’s
friend Isabel.
ANSWER: Love and Friendship
4. One of the characters in the ninth of these works inspired its director's later The Double Life of Véronique. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this collection of short films, including Thou shalt have no other gods before me and Thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's wife.
ANSWER: The Decalogue or Dekalog
[10] The Decalogue was a work of this Polish film director.
ANSWER: Krzysztof Kieślowski
[10] This director of A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove wrote a foreword to Decalogue.
ANSWER: Stanley Kubrick
5. Religions derived from this mythology system include Santeria, Umbanda, and Oyotunji. FTPE:
[10] Name this African belief system prominent in Benin and Nigeria whose holy sites include the Osun-Osogbo
and the city of Ife.
ANSWER: Yoruba
[10] According to Yoruban mythology, the creation of the world began at Ife under the direction of this supreme
Yoruban god.
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ANSWER: Olodumare
[10] After Obotala created the first people from clay, this divine being was crowned the first king of the Yoruba, and
divinity was claimed by the later Yoruba kings through descent from this being.
ANSWER: Oduduwa
6. Give the following from classical literature, FTPE.
[10] Encolpius narrates this man’s most famous work, which contains scenes such as Trimalchio’s Feast and one in
which Encolpius escapes with Eumolpus onto Lichas’ ship.
ANSWER: Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Note: the work is the Satyricon)
[10] This piece of nonfiction traces Roman history during the time of Tiberius and Germanicus, then completes with
six books on Claudius and Nero. The last section is notable for its coverage of Piso’s trial.
ANSWER: Cornelius Tacitus’ Annals or Ab excessu divi Augusti
[10] Not actually a piece of classical literature because it was written in 1896, this novel employs Tacitus’ account
of Nero and names the enemy of Tigellinus Petronius. Vinicius and Lygia both play central roles in this work of
Polish literature.
ANSWER: Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
7. The first of these begins by analyzing the meanings behind the word “Nevermore” as used by Poe in The
Raven. FTPE:
[10] Name this set of works which defines the phoneme’s position along the axes of simultaneity and succession and
discusses the linguistic signifier as a sequence of phonemes.
ANSWER: Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning
[10] Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning is a work of this Prague School linguist who theorized six communication
functions, coined the term “structural linguistics”, and wrote The Sound Shape of Language and Preliminaries to
Speech Analysis.
ANSWER: Roman Jakobson
[10] This author of Europe and Mankind and fellow Prague School linguist defined the phoneme in his major
work Principles of Phonology.
ANSWER: Nikolai Trubetzkoy
8. One refugee from this event was Madikane, who founded the Bhaca chiefdom. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this event in South African history, a 19th-century upheaval whose name is translated as "the crushing"
or "the scattering."
ANSWER: mfecane (uhm-FEH-kah-nay) [accept difaqane or lifaqane; be generous with pronunciation]
[10] A major protagonist of the mfecane was this ruler murdered in 1828 at the instigation of his brother, Dingane.
ANSWER: Shaka Zulu [accept Shaka kaSenzangakhona]
[10] Shaka's victory at the Mhlatuze (um-SHLA-too-zay) River destroyed the power of this rival kingdom led by
Zwide kaLanga.
ANSWER: Ndwandwe (uhnd-WAHND-way)
9. This opera concludes with Dido immolating herself and placing a curse on Aeneas. FTPE:
[10] Name this five-act opera which begins with rejoicing by the tomb of Achilles whose other characters include
the Ghost of Hector, King Priam, and Hecuba.
ANSWER: The Trojans
[10] This work by the same composer includes an aria in which one character sings a setting of Goethe’s poem The
King in Thule and concludes with the apotheosis of Marguerite.
ANSWER: The Damnation of Faust
[10] This 1843 work of music theory by Hector Berlioz which claims that the timpani are the most valuable
percussion instruments and frequently cites Weber, Beethoven, and Gluck to demonstrate the proper use of various
elements of the orchestra.
ANSWER: Treatise on Instrumentation
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10. FTPE, name these scientific things named for pioneers of cell theory.
[10] These cells, named for the theorist of the idea that animals are composed of cells, form the myelin sheaths of
axons, can facilitate the creation of Remak bundles, and, unlike oligodendricytes, each insulate a single axon.
ANSWER: Schwann Cells
[10] Named for a German polymath, this condition describes an enlarged feature of the left supraclavicular region.
ANSWER: Virchow’s Node
[10] This ideal quantum system is comprised of two electrons in an external field with a potential energy which is
defined harmonically.
ANSWER: Hooke’s Atom
11. Mrs. Montgomery and Lavinia Penniman are widow sisters of the two main male characters. FTPE:
[10] Marian Almond is the aunt of the main female character, who met Morris Townsend at one of Mrs. Almond’s
parties. Dr. Austin Sloper has to protect his fortune as he nears the end of his life in this novel.
ANSWER: Washington Square
[10] In this novella by the author of Washington Square, treatment of the family servant Eugenio and Randolph’s
actions are some of the reasons people like Mrs. Costello believe the title character to be of too low a class.
Giovanelli and Frederick Winterbourne do not mind.
ANSWER: Daisy Miller A Study
[10] The author of What Maisie Knew also penned this novel. Gloriani and Sam Singleton are among the admirers of
this novel’s title character by, who once saw Cavaliere Giacosa and the Light women while sketching at the Villa
Ludovisi.
ANSWER: Roderick Hudson
12. FTPE, name these methods of synthesizing ethers.
[10] Named for an English chemist, this synthesis proceeds via an SN2 reaction and creates ethers by reacting an
alkoxide ion and a primary alkyl halide.
ANSWER: Williamson Synthesis
[10] This triply eponymous reaction uses a sulfur ylide to convert a ketone into the corresponding epoxide, a type of
cyclic ether.
ANSWER: Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky Reaction
[10] When conducted in an alcohol solvent, this two-step reaction commonly used to synthesize alcohols from
alkenes can be used to synthesize ethers, as in the second step, a molecule of the alcohol solvent acts as a
nucleophile and attacks the mercury-substituted carbocation.
ANSWER: Solvomercuration-Demercuration [accept Oxymercuration-Demercuration to be nice]
13. The protagonist of this work is immersed in materialism while serving Kamaswami. FTPE:
[10] Name this novel about a Brahmin who is taught to listen to the river by the ferryman Vasudeva.
ANSWER: Siddhartha
[10] Siddhartha’s best friend, this character joins Siddhartha in joining the samanas and parts with him when he
pledges to follow the Illustrious One.
ANSWER: Govinda
[10] Siddhartha learns the art of love from this courtesan who later bears him a son who runs away from Vasudeva’s
home.
ANSWER: Kamala
14. He earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from UC-Santa Cruz for his "Study of Repression in
America." FTPE:
[10] Name this founder of "intercommunalism," who gained notoriety after his 1967 conviction for manslaughter in
the death of Officer John Frey.
ANSWER: Huey P. Newton
[10] Newton collaborated with Bobby Seale to found this radical organization, noted for its opposition to police
brutality.
ANSWER: Black Panther Party for Self-Defense [or Black Panthers]
[10] The Black Panthers took their logo from the "freedom organization" Stokely Carmichael had founded in this
Alabama county.
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ANSWER: Lowndes County
15. This work includes the pieces El Puerto, Almeria, and El Polo. FTPE:
[10] Name this piano suite composed in four books which begins with Evocacion and concludes with Eritana.
ANSWER: Iberia
[10] Iberia is a work of this Spanish composer who wrote the music for the operas The Magic Opal and Henry
Clifford.
ANSWER: Isaac Albeniz
[10] This other Spanish composer wrote twelve Danzas Espanolas for piano and a suite subtitled The Majos in
Love which includes Los Requiebros and El Amor y la Muerte, his Goyescas.
ANSWER: Enrique Granados
16. FTPE, name these Italian thinkers.
[10] Often considered the founder of Renaissance humanism, this philosopher famously proposed a defense of nine
hundred theses and wrote the foundational text Oration on the Dignity of Man.
ANSWER: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
[10] This other humanist who pioneered the methods of analyzing ancient texts exposed many significant religious
and political documents as forgeries, most notably the Donation of Constantine.
ANSWER: Lorenzo Valla
[10] This pre-Galilean astronomer wrote a series of Latin works including On the Infinite Universe and Worlds in
the 1580s advocating a heliocentric model of the solar system and was condemned as a heretic and burned at the
stake in 1600.
ANSWER: Giordano Bruno
17. FTPE, name these methods of synthesizing ethers.
[10] Named for an English chemist, this synthesis proceeds via an SN2 reaction and creates ethers by reacting an
alkoxide ion and a primary alkyl halide.
ANSWER: Williamson Synthesis
[10] This triply eponymous reaction uses a sulfur ylide to convert a ketone into the corresponding epoxide, a type of
cyclic ether.
ANSWER: Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky Reaction
[10] When conducted in an alcohol solvent, this two-step reaction commonly used to synthesize alcohols from
alkenes can be used to synthesize ethers, as in the second step, a molecule of the alcohol solvent acts as a
nucleophile and attacks the mercury-substituted carbocation.
ANSWER: Solvomercuration-Demercuration [accept Oxymercuration-Demercuration to be nice]
18. FTPE, name these sites of significant events in the Irish troubles:
[10] Thirteen protestors were killed by British Army paratroops on January 30th 1972, this city's "Bloody Sunday."
ANSWER: Derry [accept Londonderry]
[10] Northern Ireland's single most violent incident of the troubles was the August 1998 car bombing in this city,
attributed to a faction calling itself the Real IRA.
ANSWER: Omagh
[10] The Parliament of Northern Ireland, which was suspended in 1972, was commonly known by this name, the
neighborhood of Belfast where it had opened despite a nationalist boycott forty years earlier.
ANSWER: Stormont
19. At the end of this work, characters reminisce about how much greater two characters were than the weapon that
killed them. FTPE:
[10] Name this play in which Leonardo and a participant in the titular event kill each other in the woods.
ANSWER: Blood Wedding [accept Bodas de Sangre]
[10] Blood Wedding was written by Federico Garcia Lorca, who also wrote this poem which opens with a section
repeating the line “at five in the afternoon” whose title figure’s head is gilded by the air of Andalusian Rome.
ANSWER: Lament on the Death of a Bullfighter [accept Lament for a Bullfighter or Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez
Mejias]
Cameron and Tommy Open/Tommy and Cameron Open Round 6
[10] This Garcia Lorca play features a crazy old lady who chases off her daughter’s suitor Pepe el Romano with a
gun, causing her daughter Adela to hang herself in the belief that he is dead.
ANSWER: The House of Bernarda Alba [accept La Casa de Bernarda Alba]
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Tiebreaker/Replacement
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