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 Ottawa (Jeffrey)
TOSSUPS
1. One commander who served under this dyansty, Qi Jiguang, fought off pirates at battles fought in
Zhejiang and Nan'ao. One emperor of this dynasty was held hostage by Esen Khan after a disastrous attack
against the Mongols, but later returned to the throne as Emperor Tianshun. Emperors of this dynasty were
guarded by a secret police called the Jinyi Wei. The final emperor of this dynasty hung himself on Coal Hill
after the capital was captured by the emperor of the Shun Dynasty, the (*) ‘Dashing Hero’ Li Zicheng. This
dynasty was founded after the Red Turban Rebellion by a peasant named Zhu Yuanzhang who took a name meaning
“vast military,” the Hongwu Emperor. This dynasty also patronized the voyages of Zheng He. For 10 points, name
this Chinese dynasty that preceded the Qing and had lots of pottery.
ANSWER: Ming Dynasty
2. The second chapter of this novel, "The Broom Tree", contains a scene in which a series of women are
appraised on a rainy night. Its later chapters center on the title character's grandchild and grand-nephew, and
their relation to the daughters of (*) Eight Prince; those chapters are set at Uji. Two advisors in this work bear the
names of Minister of the Right and Minister of the Left, and one antagonist is Kokiden, whose son eventually rises
to power. The protagonist's love interests include Third Princess, the daughter of Akashi, Lady Fujitsubo, his first
wife who is named Aoi no Ue, and a character who is a namesake of this work's author. For 10 points, name this
novel, a masterpiece of the Heian Period by Murasaki Shikibu.
Answer: The Tale of Genji
3. The Karzok and Pangboche craters are located on this body. The aureole surrounding it suggests
development and resurfacing associated with glacial activity. Formed during the Amazonian epoch, it is
located in the western end of Valles Marineris, in the Tharsis region. After it was photographed by Mariner
9, it underwent a name change, likely because it is located 21 (*) kilometers above the surface of its planet,
making it sufficiently high to avoid the frequent dust storms found there. A lack of tectonic plates has been
hypothesized as one of the reasons why this shield volcano, the size of Arizona, is three times larger than Mount
Everest. With a six kilometer high scarp, FTP, name this body, located on Mars, the largest mountain in the solar
system.
ANSWER: Olympus Mons (prompt on "Mount Olympus". Accept "Mars" before "aureole", do not accept or
prompt after)
4. This man argued that play functions as a means by which children can think and behave in ways more
advanced than would otherwise be possible by allowing them to realize unobtainable desires. This man
advocated scaffolding as a method of teaching in which the adult adjusts the level of help provided in relation
to the child’s level of performance. In one work, he analyzed the concept of inner speech to illustrate the
connection between (*) Thought and Language. The distance between what a child can accomplish alone and what
the child can achieve under the guidance of an adult is what this man called the zone of proximal development. For
10 points, identify this Soviet developmental psychologist who argued that children internalize the society in which
they live in.
ANSWER: Lev Vygotsky
5. A man in an orange tunic grasps a bucking white horse in this artist’s An Allegory of Passion. In another
of his works, a cartellino appears pinned to the wall above the head of a man standing in front of a spherical
glass vase of flowers. Besides that portrait of Georg Gisze, he took a frontal-approach to one of his most
notable patrons in a portrait that also depicted that patron with the (*) Barber-Surgeons’ Company. This artist
also executed a series of 91 woodcuts based on the Old Testament in addition to a series including the Death of
Lucretia titled The Dance of Death. In his most famous work, a globe is one of the many objects resting on a table
that sits behind the two title figures; that work also sees a crucifix in the top left peeking through a green curtain.
Also known for his portraits of Henry VIII, for 10 points, name this artist of the French Ambassadors.
ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger
6. One recent play by this writer dramatizes the very early days of television and is titled the Farnsworth
Invention. This writer’s breakout success came for a work where Daniel Kaffee admits, “you’re goddamn
right I did!” in reference to ordering Code Red. He won acclaim for writing “In Excelsis Deo”, wherein we
learn that a Korean War veteran died alone in DC wearing a coat donated by Richard Schliff’s character.
This writer of A Few (*) Good Men, also created a work that frequently dealt with the religious concerns of a
devout Christian named Harriet Hayes and saw a partnership between Matt Albie and Danny Tripp. His most
successful show contained characters like Moira Kelly’s Mandy Hampton and Jimmy Smits’ Matt Santos. Also the
man behind Sports Night, for 10 points, name this creator of shows like Studio 60 and The West Wing.
ANSWER: Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
7. This ruler faced the August Coup, led by a group that formed the State Emergency Committee; that
uprising led to the arrest of the Gang of Eight. One of his first actions was to institute a tax on liquor that
caused a disastrous reduction in government revenues because of an increased black market for alcohol.
Another of his early moves was replacing long-time foreign minister (*) Andrei Gromyko with Eduard
Shevardnadze. One of his policies, gospriyomka, referred to stricter state supervision of quality control in
manufacturing, while the Law of Cooperatives was included in his policy of openness, which he termed Glasnost.
Also known for enacting restructuring, or perestroika, for 10 points, name this last leader of communist Russia who
was succeeded by Boris Yeltzin.
ANSWER: Mikhail Gorbachev
8. One character in this novel, whose friends include the Mora sisters, loses her uncle Marcos after he flies
away in an airplane he built himself and loses her parents in a car accident before giving birth to twins; she
then stores her father’s detached head in a hat box. In this novel, the patriarchal figure forces his daughter to
marry the count Jean de Satigny to punish her for her dalliances with (*) Pedro Tercero Garcia. At the end of
this novel, Esteban Garcia tortures the daughter of Blanca until she is saved by Transito Soto, although that woman,
Alba, bears his child. After the death of the green-haired Rosa the Beautiful, the estate of Tres Marias becomes
home to the psychic Clara and her enraged husband Esteban. For 10 points, name this novel which chronicles the
Trueba family, a work by Isabel Allende.
ANSWER: The House of the Spirits
9. One disorder with symptoms almost identical to those of this disease results from a mutation in the Kell
protein on the surface of red blood cells and is a type of acanthocytosis. Intracellular antibodies have been
found to reduce aggregations of N-terminus protein mutants in this disease, and levels of CREB binding
protein are lowered in this disease. A type of this disease with unusually early onset is known as its (*)
Westphal type. Sufferers of this disorder, which destroys neurons in the basal ganglia, have a mutation that leads to
a large number of CAG repeats on chromosome 4, causing symptoms like memory impairment and personality
changes. For 10 points, name this autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder whose sufferers exhibit
abnormal jerky movements, or "chorea."
Answer: Huntington’s disease [or Huntington's chorea before mention]
10. One minor character in this book, Memucan, advises that the scope of a certain crime is greater than one
would expect because "the ladies of Persia and Media" "shall despise their husbands in their eyes" and that
"there shall arise too much contempt and wrath." One figure in this book dreams of “a little fountain” of
tears “that became a river” and of two dragons fighting one another. Another figure in this book is (*) read
the chronicles of his rule to help him sleep, during which he is reminded that his advisor saved him from the plot of
two eunuchs named Bigthan and Teresh. The title figure of this book was once named Edissa, but took a name
meaning “star” after replacing Vashti as the wife of Ahausuerus. In this book, the evil advisor Haman is hanged on
the gallows that he built for the wise Mordechai. For 10 points, name this book whose events are celebrated in the
holiday of Purim.
ANSWER: Book of Esther
11. Archaeological sites associated with this country include Clapham Junction and Ghar Dalam, and it
commemorates an event in which British soldiers fired on protesters in the holiday of Sette Giugno. Napoleon
captured this country from Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim. During World War Two, Crucial supplies
were delivered to this nation in Operation Pedestal, and its takeover was planned by the Axis via Operation
Herkules; George VI later awarded its citizens the George Cross. Earlier, Romegas’ capture of several (*)
Ottoman ships sparked an attack on this nation that saw the death of Turgut Reis; during that attack, this nation was
defended by Jean de Valette. For 10 points, name this island naiton off the coast of Italy with capital Valletta which
was besieged by the Ottomans in 1561.
ANSWER: Malta
12. The poem itself invokes the image of a dresser that lacks three glass knobs as a place where the
embroidered fantails that the main subject once made could be housed. This poem also invokes the reader to
"let the lamp affix it's beam," and its first stanza proclaims "Let the (*) wenches dawdle in such dress / As they
are used to wear, and let the boys / Bring flowers in last month's newspapers." Later shifting to describe a dead
woman whose "horny feet protrude ... To show how cold she is" this poem's first stanza ends with the invocation "let
be be finale of seem." Opening with a command to "Call the roller of big cigars ... and bid him whip ...
concupiscent curds," for 10 points, name this poem about the lord of a cold foodstuff by Wallace Stevens.
ANSWER: "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
13. McLeod et al. produced the canonical review of one reaction developed by this scientist that features an
alkyl imido metal reagent. That reaction employs quinine derivatives to enantioselectively synthesize 1,2
amino alcohols. He also names a method that reacts compounds named AD-mix alpha and AD-mix beta with
olefins. In addition to the aforementioned oxyamination and dihydroxylation reactions, both of which use
(*) osmium tetroxide as a catalyst, this chemist also names a method of epoxide synthesis using titanium
tetraisopropylate on allylic alcohols. However, he is best known for his development of a special type of chemistry
that reliably synthesizes easily made compounds using heteroatoms as linkers. FTP, name this Scripps chemist, the
creator of "click" chemistry.
ANSWER: Karl Barry Sharpless
14. One political party espousing this philosophy was founded in time for the 2008 presidential election and
ran a ticket featuring Tom Stevens and Alden Link. According to its founder, it begins with three axiomsthose of identity, consciousness, and existence. Many of its adherents, such as Nathaniel and Barbara
Branden and Leonard Peikoff, met as part of a group known as "The Collective." The book The Virtue of (*)
Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism was mostly a compendium of articles from a namesake newsletter that was
published during the 1960s. It holds that reality exists outside of our own consciousness, and that, since the only
reasonable goal is to obtain happiness from self-interest, governments should stress individual rights and liberties.
For 10 points, name this philosophic viewpoint espoused in works like Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
ANSWER: objectivism (accept word forms)
15. This piece begins with a four-note theme used in the finale of Mozart's Jupiter symphony that originated
as a motif in Gregorian-era Magnificats, and the Andante third movement ends with the low strings playing a
long, sustained G. This piece was actually written immediately prior to its composer's second, "choral"
symphony. This work's main theme is in the tonic minor of the key its composer claimed it was written in,
and it contains recurring instances of a motif that was also used by Wagner as the (*) Grail motif in Parsifal.
That motif is a rising six-chord sequence common in church music, the "Dresden Amen," and the flutes and cantatas
quote the Lutheran hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" in the finale. For 10 points, name this composition written
to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, the fifth symphony by Felix
Mendelssohn.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 5 in D, "Reformation" by Felix Mendelssohn [Reformation is necessary after the
mention of "fifth symphony"; accept Symphony in D major or Symphony in D minor]
16. In this man's most notable position, he succeeded Jean Erdman, the Baron Dieskau, and feuded with
Pierre Francois de Rigaurd, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, over whether or not to use skirmishing tactics. When
James Abercrombie decided to launch a frontal assault using without field artillery, troops under this man
taught him a lesson at the Battle of Carillon, which led to the capture of Fort (*) Ticonderoga. His early
victories included the captures of Forts Oswego and William Henry, but, after he was forced to retreat to his
stronghold, he was unable to prevent a British river crossing despite winning the Battle of Beauport. Rather than
endure a wintry seige, he decided to engage James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, leading to the fall
of Quebec. For 10 points, name this French commander during the French and Indian War.
ANSWER: Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (accept either underlined portion)
17. Responsible for killing the giant Hippolytus, this figure was also responsible for turning Battus and
Aglaurus into stone. This deity's offspring included a friend of Heracles who was devoured during his eighth
labor, the grandfather of Odysseus who was known as the prince of theives, and a man whom the nymph
Salmacis loved so much that she wished never to be separated from him. In addition to Abderus, Autolycus,
and Hermaphroditus, through the nymph Dryope he was the father of (*) Pan. Born on Mount Kellina in the
region of Arcadia, in The Odyssey he is responsible for delivering the herb moly to Odysseus to protect him from
Circe. For 10 points, name this counterpart to the Roman Mercury, an inventor of the lyre and the Greek messenger
deity.
ANSWER: Hermes
18. In a relief work that used to reside under the pedestal of another of his sculptures, a figure flying in from
the top of the scene is about to slash his sword at the dragon poised to eat the title character. Besides
sculpting The Freeing of Andromeda, this man’s Crucifix, sculpted in white marble, was donated to Philip II
of Spain and now rests in the Escorial. His name is written across the sash (*) of one of his nudes, who holds
by the hair the decapitated head of Medusa; that version of Perseus was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici. His
most famous work has representations of Day, Night, Dawn and Dusk carved in relief on its base, contains a small
temple with a reclining figure atop it, and depicts Neptune and Ceres reclining and looking at each other on its top.
For 10 points, name this goldsmith of the Salt Cellar of Francis I.
ANSWER: Benvenuto Cellini
19. In 1897, Jagadis Chandra Bose used a setup consisting of two prisms to study this phenomenon. The
"frustrated" form of it is similar to quantum tunneling, and is the basis for a type of fluoresence
spectroscopy utilizing this effect and allowing one to visualize cell surfaces. The Goos-Hanchen shift led to a
controversy over this effect owing to an unexpected displacement in the resultant (*) wave. Optical fibers use
very small angles of incidence to achieve this effect, allowing them to transmit light across great distances. If the
index of refraction of the first medium is greater than that of the second medium then, because light must bend
away from the normal, this effect can occur at the critical angle . FTP, name this phenomena, where light at a
boundary does not refract.
ANSWER: total internal reflection (accept: TIR)
20. In one play by this author, an 18 year old woman's complaints cause her 53 year old husband to walk out
on her, though when he later returns disguised as a puppeteer she inadvertently tells him of her undying
love. Another of his plays features parts for three fireflies; in that work, Dona Proudbeetle is the mother of
Sylvia and the title character rejects the love of a cockroach. In addition to The (*) Shoemaker's Prodigious
Wife and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, he wrote a play whose third act opens with a discussion of events between group
of woodcutters and ends with the deaths of Leonardo and the Groom and a drama in which Pepe el Romano is the
suitor of Angustias, the title character's daughter. For 10 points, name this Spanish playwright of Blood Wedding
and The House of Bernarda Alba.
ANSWER: Frederico Garcia Lorca
BONUSES
1. He has a sister named Pheobe whom he takes to Central Park and he lets her ride on a carousel. For 10 points
each,
[10] This protagonist of the The Catcher in the Rye gets himself kicked out of Pency Prep and visits the teacher Mr.
Antolini.
ANSWER: Holden Caufield (accept either)
[10] Another memorable scene from the novel is Holden's conversation with this prostitute, who eventually asks for
additional money, leading her pimp Maurice to beat Holden up.
ANSWER: Sunny
[10] This other American author wrote a play in which Dodge’s wife Halie has a child by another man which Dodge
drowns and Vince discovers years later. He also wrote La Turista and Tooth of the Mind.
ANSWER: Sam Shepard
2. Simply put, they are costs that are incurred in making an economic exchange. For 10 points each,
[10] Name these costs that title a work of Oliver Williamson and were also studied by Williamson's teacher, Ronald
Coase.
ANSWER: transaction costs
[10] Coase analyzed transaction costs that occur in the market as one reason for the formation of the titular
conglomerates in this 1937 article.
ANSWER: "The Nature of the Firm"
[10] In "The Problem of Social Cost," Coase dealt with this economic phenomenon in which the actions of one party
affect another unintentionally; they can be dealt with through Pigouvian taxes.
ANSWER: externalities
3. This law was interpreted and expanded in United States v. Hutcheson and New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary
Grocery Company. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this anti-injunction act that outlawed yellow dog contracts.
ANSWER: Norris-Laguardia Act
[10] Amended by the Landrum-Griffin act, this New Deal legislation created the National Labor Relations Board
and allowed for collective bargaining, catalyzing the growth of labor unions.
ANSWER: Wagner Act
[10] This 1947 Act amended the Wagner Act by outlawing the “closed shop,” creating the FMCS, and enacting
other provisions to restrict “Big Labor.” Its requirement that union leaders not be communists was declared
unconstitutional in United States v. Brown.
ANSWER: Taft-Hartley Act
4. For 10 points each, name some things about Jacob.
[10] Jacob’s only daughter, her rape by a Canaanite priest and the subsequent vengeance of her brothers Levi and
Simeon is told in Genesis 34.
ANSWER: Dinah
[10] After Jacob worked seven years to marry her, he ended up getting her sister, Leah, instead. Not phased, he
ended up working another seven years to obtain this younger daughter of Laban.
ANSWER: Rachel
[10] Jacob saw this structure while journeying on his way from Luz to Haran, and he heard God's voice telling him
blessings from its top. If you feel like a much more difficult literary clue will help, it also names a Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings short story in which Florry and Matt leave their home during the Great Depression.
ANSWER: Jacob's Ladder
5. In its main form, it states that a force applied to an object will produce an acceleration inversely proportional to
its mass, FTPE:
[10] Name this law of physics which can also be stated as Fnet=m*a (EFF-net equals em times eh).
ANSWER: Newton's second law
[10] An alternate form of Newton's second law can be obtained by applying this operation to the momentum
operator.
ANSWER: time derivative (accept equivalents like "taking the derivative with respect to time", prompt on
anything with "derivative" until they mention "time")
[10] That above formulation can be used to derive this quantum mechanical equivalent of Newton's second law,
which requires one to find the expectation value of that operator against the system's Hamiltonian.
ANSWER: Ehrenfest's Theorem
6. In this work, Sieur Clubin drowns while trying to escape a sinking ship with the owner’s money. For 10 points
each:
[10] Set on the island of Guernsey, this novel sees Gillat salvage an engine from a shipwreck, earning him the right
to marry his beloved Deruchette, but instead he lets her marry the man she loves, Ebenezer Caudry.
ANSWER: Toilers of the Sea
[10] Toilers of the Sea was written by this author of Last Day of a Condemned Man and Les Miserables.
ANSWER: Victor Hugo
[10] In Les Miserables, this bishop gives shelter to Jean Valjean, but Valjean steals this bishop's silverware in return.
Nevertheless, this bishop forgives Valjean, inspiring the criminal to reform.
ANSWER: Bishop Charles Myriel (accept either)
7. Founded by Georg Carstensen, it is home to a roller coaster known as Mountain Track that is one of the world's
oldest coasters still in operation, having been built in 1914 in Malmo. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this facility that also includes the Pantomime Theatre and, during the 19th Century, featured a namesake
symphony orchestra directed by Hans Lumbye.
ANSWER: Tivoli Gardens
[10] Tivoli Gardens is located in this city, the capital of Denmark, that is located on the islands of Zealand and
Amager.
ANSWER: Copenhagen
[10] Tivoli's original name include a reference to this London garden whose earliest mention comes from the diary
of Samuel Pepys. A rival of Ranelagh Gardens, during its rococo period, it was home to a Turkish Tent.
ANSWER: Vauxhall Gardens
8. For 10 points each, name these Roman Emperors that have been villified as some of the worst.
[10] The uprising of Boudica occured during his reign, but he may be best known for supposedly fiddling while
Rome burned.
ANSWER: Nero
[10] This man's actions include executing Ptolemy of Mauretania and promoting Herod Agrippa to the governorship
of Trachonitis, but his extravagance, exemplified by his construction of an over two-mile long pontoon bridge,
earned him much animosity.
ANSWER: Caligula
[10] This emperor replaced Ulpius Marcellus with Pertinax as governor of Britain, but he really got people pissed
after a grain riot occurred despite the continuing patronage system promoted by Cleander.
ANSWER: Commodus
9. The only light in this painting comes from the gas lamp above the five wretched figures. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this painting where a lower class family consumes the titular foodstuff.
ANSWER: The Potato Eaters [or Der Aardappeleters]
[10] The Potato Eaters is a painting by this artist, also known for painting lots of Sunflowers.
ANSWER: Vincent Van Gogh
[10] Van Gogh made numerous portraits of these objects, including one owned by Gauguin that was located in the
Yellow House. Gerrit Rietveld created a red and blue one of these in the De Stijl style.
ANSWER: Armchair
10. FTPE, identify the following about a chemistry lab procedure:
[10] This procedure is used for separating mixtures based on differences in volatilities. Variations include simple,
fractional, steam and vacuum.
ANSWER: distillation
[10] Frequently used in distillation is this doubly-eponymous experimental setup allowing one to remove water
from the system. It consists of several columns, a condenser and a pot.
ANSWER: Dean-Stark apparatus
[10] A Dean-Stark apparatus is frequently used when dealing with these types of mixtures, in which the
composition of the boiling vapour remains constant.
ANSWER: azeotrope (accept word forms)
11. It begins when a woman named Miss Wonderly contracts Miles Archer and Sam Spade to follow Floyd
Thursby. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this novel in which Spade eventually turns in Brigid O'Shaughnessy, as Miss Wonderley's identity is
proved to be called, for killing Archer after he realizes that the title object is a fake.
ANSWER: The Maltese Falcon
[10] This author of The Maltese Falcon created the pair of Nick and Nora Charles for his novel The Thin Man.
ANSWER: Dashiell Hammett
[10] Hammett also created this detective who never gives his real name despite appearing in the short story "Arson
Plus" and the novels The Dain Curse and Red Harvest.
ANSWER: The Continental Op
12. Several of the characters on this show work for Sam Merlotte. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this HBO series based on Charlaine Harris’ series of books, The Southern Vampire Mysteries.
ANSWER: True Blood
[10] This best friend of Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood is played by Rutina Wesley. She gets an exorcism in the
first season.
ANSWER: Tara Thornton [accept either underlined answer]
[10] True Blood shouldn’t be confused with the CW’s Vampire Diaries, which stars Paul Wesley as Stefan
Salvatore. Wesley’s other television roles include a six-episode stint on this Lifetime series, which began by seeing
Roxy get a job at a Jody bar after marrying PFC Trevor.
ANSWER: Army Wives
13. His defense team was led by Raymond de Seze, though he was still voted as guilty by a vote of 693 to none,
with 23 people abstaining. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this French monarch who was beheaded during the start of the French Revolution.
ANSWER: Louis XVI
[10] Leopold II and Fredereck William II jointly issued this statement that provided a pretext to go to war with
France if Louis's government was threatened.
ANSWER: Declaration of Pillnitz
[10] This phase of the French Revolutionary Wars consisted of an uprising in the namesake region south of the Loire
River. It saw the so-called "infernal columns" enact pillaging under the command of Louis Turreau.
ANSWER: Vendee (accept longer answers as long as Vendee is said)
14. It is characterized by the abnormal, rigid shape of red blood cells, FTPE:
[10] This describes what disease, prevalent in Africa due to fact that heterozygosity confers resistance to malaria?
ANSWER: sickle-cell anemia (prompt on "anemia")
[10] Sickle-cell anemia occurs due to a point mutation converting glutamic acid to this. This amino acid's isopropyl
side chain hydrophobicity is what prevents the hemoglobin from folding correctly.
ANSWER: valine (accept: Val or even just V)
[10] Another cause of anemia is this genetic disorder, in which one of the globin chains is not produced at the same
rate as the others. It exists in alpha, beta and delta forms depending on the affected chain.
ANSWER: thalassemia
15. According to one story, this figure caused a hot spring to erupt when Romulus's men attempted to kidnap some
Sabine women. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this Roman deity, the doors to whose temple were closed only during peacetime.
ANSWER: Janus
[10] Janus was notable for having two of these body parts. Cerberus had three of them, and the Hydra had nine,
though they were notably hard to cut off because it could regrow them.
ANSWER: heads (I guess prompt on faces, even though that would be a weird answer to give with the Hydra clue)
[10] Associated with scepters and lightning, this deity, the husband of Uni and the father of Menvra, was considered
to be the head of the Etruscan pantheon.
ANSWER: Tinia
16. For 10 points each, name these authors who are buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
[10] The first writer to be interred in Poet’s Corner was this poet who told of being guided through a temple to
Venus by Scipio Africanus in The Parlement of Fowls. More notably, he wrote The Canterbury Tales.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
[10] This poet of "The Convergence of the Twain" considered "some blessed hope, of which" the title figure "knew /
and I was unaware" in a poem in which he "leant against a coppice gate."
ANSWER: Thomas Hardy
[10] Also buried in the corner is this writer who used the phrase "lest us forget" in his poem "Recessional" and wrote
another poem in which "You'll be a man, my son!" provided that one can endure tribulations such as watching "the
things you gave your life to, broken".
ANSWER: Rudyard Kipling
17. It stretched along much of the course of the Suez Canal, though little attention to paid to area near Great Bitter
Lake because it was presumed that it would be too difficult to cross. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this defensive line built to keep out the Egyptians during the Six Day War.
ANSWER: Bar-Lev Line
[10] This country, which fought in the Six Day War as well as in the Yom Kippur War, built the Bar-Lev Line.
ANSWER: Israel
[10] During the Six Day War, Israel captured this region from Syria, pushing the border to what became known as
the Purple Line. Its once flourishing city of Quneitra is now largely abandoned.
ANSWER: Golan Heights
18. A group of prisoners, held captive in the titular location, can see only their shadows because they are projected
from behind with the use of a large fire. For 10 points each,
[10] So begins which philosophic parable, illustrating its creator's theory of forms, in which a prisoner who is
eventually led out into the light would then become an outcast from society?
ANSWER: "The Allegory of the Cave" (prompt on The Republic, but do not mention it if not said by teams)
[10] Thrasymachus, Glaucon, Adeimantus and Socrates take on major roles in this Platonic dialogue that contains
"The Allegory of the Cave."
ANSWER: The Republic
[10] This other Platonic dialogue questions whether the title character, a poet, has talent because of inherent skill or
because he has the favor of the Gods.
ANSWER: Ion
19. This quantity can be calculated by taking the average sum of the square differences from the mean of each data
value, and then taking the square root, FTPE:
[10] This allows you to calculate what value, symbolized sigma, that tells us how spread apart the data are?
ANSWER: standard deviation (do not accept or prompt on "variance")
[10] The square of the standard deviation is frequently used in this statistical test that is used to compare the means
of multiple samples.
ANSWER: analysis of variance (accept ANOVA, prompt on "variance" for those that weren't paying attention)
[10] Variance is also used to calculate this measure, which describes the "peakedness" of a distribution. It can come
in meso, lepto and platy forms depending on which direction the excess occurs.
ANSWER: kurtosis
20. This composer wrote a three-movement string symphony that brings in a trumpet for only the final movement.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Swiss-French composer of Le roi David and Rugby, as well as a work imitating the titular steam
train.
ANSWER: Arthur Honegger
[10] This other French composer of such colorfully named works as Kentuckiana Divertissement is more famous
for composing ballets like The Ox on the Roof and The Creation of the World.
ANSWER: Darius Milhaud
[10] Honegger and Milhaud were both members of this group of loosely related French composers. The group's
name is a play on the Russian "Mighty Five."
ANSWER: Les Six [or The Six]