2017 Maryland Fall
Packet 2
Edited by Jordan Brownstein, Weijia Cheng, and Sam Rombro
Questions by Alex Echikson, Jack Nolan, Weijia Cheng, Sarang Yeola, Justin Hawkins, Ani Perumalla, Yu Lu, Siri
Neerchal, Jordan Brownstein, Naveed Chowdhury, Graham Reid, Rohan Laljani, and Nathan Fredman
Tossups
1. The never-completed Jonglei Canal would have diverted a tributary of this river through the Sudd
wetlands. The felucca is a traditional sailing boat used on this river, whose height was once measured by a
device on the island of Elephantine. Lake Kyoga is formed by a tributary of this river on which the city of
Jinja is located. The other major tributary of this river begins in Lake Tana. The (*) White and Blue tributaries
of this river meet near Khartoum. The annual flooding of this river is controlled by the Aswan High Dam. For 10
points each, name this long African river that empties into the Mediterranean Sea after flowing through Egypt.
ANSWER: Nile River [accept White Nile or Blue Nile]
<AE, Geo/CE>
2. The wife of a doctor in this novel mistakenly receives a form letter lamenting the death of “your husband,
son, father or brother.” A businessman in this novel purchases eggs from Malta for seven cents each and sells
them for five cents each. The main character of this novel refuses to wear clothing and sits in a tree during
Snowden’s funeral. Dr. (*) Daneeka and Milo Minderbinder appear in this novel, in which a computer glitch
results in the promotion of Major Major Major Major. The title clause of this novel forces sane and insane people to
fly missions on Pianosa. For 10 points, John Yossarian stars in what satirical World War II novel by Joseph Heller?
ANSWER: Catch-22
<NC, American Lit>
3. In the 1930s, an economist from this country developed the mathematical technique of linear programming
while consulting for its plywood industry. This country sought to expand its cultivated land through the
Virgin Lands campaign. This country experienced a gap between industrial and agricultural prices during its
“scissors crisis,” which was caused by its New (*) Economic Policy. This country’s policies caused a man-made
famine called the Holodomor. This country’s economy was decentralized under the perestroika program. For 10
points, name this country whose economic policies were guided by Five Year Plans created by Joseph Stalin.
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept Russia]
<AE, European Hist>
4. By heating up the elements yttrium, indium, and manganese, a chemist accidentally produced YInMn
(“yin-min”), a pigment of this color and the subject of a September 2017 Crayola naming competition. The
presence of iron in biopsy specimens can be detected using an iron-containing anion that dyes the tissue this
color, called Prussian this color. Mixing a starch solution with (*) iodine causes a delayed “clock” reaction in
which the solution changes from clear to a dark shade of this color. In a flame test, a piece of cobalt glass of this
color is used to filter out the yellow flame of sodium. For 10 points, name this color of cerulean pigments.
ANSWER: blue [accept Bluetiful, Prussian blue, or cobalt blue]
<SY, Chemistry>
5. This composer combined a C major triad and an F-sharp major triad into a bitonal chord for one of his
ballets. This composer of The Soldier’s Tale omitted violins and clarinets from a choral symphony he wrote
for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary. This composer of the Symphony of Psalms wrote a
(*) ballet in which the sorcerer Koschei (“kuh-SHAY”) is put to sleep by the “Infernal Dance” of the title creature.
A riot erupted at the 1913 Paris premiere of a work by this composer whose two sections are “The Adoration of the
Earth” and “The Sacrifice.” For 10 points, name this composer of Petrushka, The Firebird, and The Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
<AE, Auditory Arts>
6. This ruler established a capital named after himself at the site of the older city of Avaris, a cult center of
Seth. This ruler’s mother Muttuy was depicted near the feet of a massive statue of this ruler carved out of a
cliffside in Nubia. After this son of Seti I crossed the Orontes River and won victory in a battle against (*)
Muwatallis, he signed the earliest recorded peace treaty with Hattusilis III. This pharaoh ordered the construction of
the Abu Simbel temple complex, which contains a temple dedicated to his favorite wife Nefertari. For 10 points,
name this Egyptian pharaoh with the epithet “the Great,” who defeated the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh.
ANSWER: Ramses II [or Ramses the Great; accept Ramses after “Great” is read, but prompt on Ramses before
“Great” is read]
<AE, World Hist>
7. Vural the goalkeeper tells stories in one of these places where Kadife later shoots Zaim in Orhan Pamuk’s
Snow. A place of this type has a sign reading “Price of Admission – Your Mind,” and is where a protagonist
stabs Hermine when he sees her in bed with the saxophonist Pablo. That (*) “Magic” place of this type is
visited by Harry Haller in Hesse’s Steppenwolf. A young girl drowns in a fountain and a boy shoots himself during a
play set in one of these locations, where a group led by the Father disrupts a practice. For 10 points, name this sort
of place where, in Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, a rehearsal is conducted by actors.
ANSWER: theatres [or stages; or playhouses]
<AP, World/Other Lit>
8. A stone in this city is said to have the impression of a footprint left by Abraham when he stood atop the
stone. In this city, a woman’s frantic search for water is commemorated by a ritual in which participants
walk between two hills. Another ritual held in this city involves throwing seven stones at three pillars as part
of the “stoning of the devil.” Pilgrims in this city drink water from the well of (*) Zamzam, which miraculously
appeared to provide water for Hajar and Ismail. While performing tawaf, pilgrims in this city touch the Black Stone
and walk around the Kaaba seven times. For 10 points, name this holy city in Islam and destination of the hajj.
ANSWER: Mecca [or Makkah]
<WC, Religion>
9. This mass-dependent quantity is constant in any central-force system, so it serves as a first integral in the
two-body problem. In those problems, this quantity is perpendicular to the plane of the objects’ motion.
Noether’s theorem implies that the conservation of this quantity can be traced back to a (*) rotational
symmetry of the action. This quantity can be determined from the l and m quantum numbers, which comes in spin
and orbital varieties in quantum mechanics. The time derivative of this quantity is torque. For 10 points, name this
quantity that can be calculated as r cross p.
ANSWER: angular momentum [do not accept or prompt on “momentum” or “linear momentum”]
<JN, Physics>
10. This general’s operations against the B&O Railroad resulted in the destruction and salvage of locomotives
at Martinsburg. Nathan Kimball inflicted this general’s only battlefield defeat at the Battle of Kernstown,
which took place during the Shenandoah Valley campaign. This commander of the “foot cavalry” routed
Joseph Hooker’s right flank during a battle that saw the amputation of his left arm after it was (*)
accidentally shot by his own men. That battle, which led to this general’s death, was the Battle of Chancellorsville.
For 10 points, after the First Battle of Bull Run, which Confederate general was given the nickname “Stonewall?”
ANSWER: Stonewall Jackson [or Thomas Jonathan Jackson]
<AE, American Hist>
11. This television show’s theme song was performed by The Rembrandts. A monkey on this TV show names
a baseball projection system, Marcel. One character on this show uses the pseudonym “Regina Phalange”
and marries Mike Hannigan. Another character’s wedding is called off when he refers to his fiancée Emily by
the wrong name. This show’s title (*) sequence shows its main characters sitting on a couch in a park. One longrunning plot on this show was the relationship between Ross, played by David Schwimmer, and Rachel, played by
Jennifer Aniston. For 10 points, name this sitcom that used the song “I’ll Be There for You” and depicted the lives
of the title group of six people.
ANSWER: Friends
<NC, Trash>
12. Francis Bacon painted a “study” of one character from this film, depicting her in the nude and in a bare
dark green room. Red color was added to a flag frame by frame in this film, which was eventually banned for
fear that it would spark riots. A woman carries her dead baby toward an approaching line of soldiers in a
scene from this film that also depicts a (*) baby carriage tumbling down the Odessa Steps and exemplifies its
director’s theory of montage. In this this film, meat covered in maggots prompts a revolt. For 10 points, name this
film directed by Sergei Eisenstein about a naval mutiny on the title vessel.
ANSWER: Battleship Potemkin
<JH, Any Art>
13. A proof for this man’s namesake conjecture about the most space-efficient way to pack spheres together
was supplied by the mathematician Thomas Hale in 1998. This scientist attempted to model the universe
using nested platonic solids in his Mysterium Cosmographicum, which also defends the ideas of (*) Copernicus.
This man authored the Rudolphine Tables and Astronomia Nova using data collected by Tycho Brahe, whom this
man had served as an assistant to in Prague. This scientist postulated that planets orbited the sun in ellipses, his first
law. For 10 points, name this astronomer who names three laws of planetary motion.
ANSWER: Johannes Kepler
<AE, Other Sci>
14. In this non-Greek work, the characters Baucis and Philemon are murdered by guards so their house can
be repossessed. Euphorion, the son of this work’s protagonist, flies off a mountain and dies in this work. The
protagonist searches the Pharsalian Fields for Helen in this play’s second scene set on Walpurgis Night. In
this play, angels proclaim that a character who (*) drowned her baby is saved. A character in this play follows
the main character home in the form of a poodle before promising to help him woo Gretchen. Mephistopheles
appears in, for 10 points, what play by Johann Goethe about a scholar who makes a deal with the devil?
ANSWER: Faust: A Tragedy [or Faust: Part One; or Faust: Part Two; do not accept or prompt on “Doctor
Faustus”]
<JN, European Lit>
15. In 2010, Italian scientists fully sequenced the genome of the cultivated variety of these plants, proving that
the Malus sieversii species is their progenitor. Michael Pollan’s best-seller The Botany of Desire describes
these plants in the context of the human desire for sweetness. Along with pears, fire blight can threaten the
production of this fruit. It is dipped in (*) honey and eaten on Rosh Hashanah. In Greek myth, Hippomenes used
these fruits to distract Atalanta in a footrace, and the Garden of the Hesperides is the origin to a golden type of these
fruits. For 10 points, name this fruit whose popular varieties include Granny Smith and Red Delicious.
ANSWER: apples [accept golden apples]
<AE, Other>
16. After this event, William Sancroft and other Nonjurors refused to take oaths of allegiance. Prior to this
event, Arthur Herbert delivered a letter from the Immortal Seven to a leading figure of this event. This event
began with one side’s landing at Brixham. Following this event, forces loyal to the monarch deposed during
this event were defeated at the Battle of the (*) Boyne in Ireland; those forces were Jacobite rebels. This event led
to Declaration of Right being written into the English Bill of Rights. A prince of Orange came to power through this
event. For 10 points, what 1688 event deposed James II, and resulted in the ascension of William III and Mary II?
ANSWER: Glorious Revolution [or Bloodless Revolution or Revolution of 1688 until “1688” is read]
<AE, European Hist>
17. This deity, who was born when her father washed his left eye, refused to speak with her brother, who was
born from their father’s right eye, after he murdered a food goddess. A temple of this goddess is torn down
and rebuilt every twenty years and contains her sacred mirror. The commotion another deity made by
dancing on top of a tub convinced this goddess to emerge from a (*) cave in which she had hid after her brother
threw a horse at her. This goddess, who is worshiped at the Ise shrine and is the daughter of Izanagi and brother of
Susano’o, is claimed as an ancestor by the Japanese imperial family. For 10 points, name this Shinto sun goddess.
ANSWER: Amaterasu-ōmikami [or Ohirume-no-muchi-no-kami]
<AE, Myth>
18. An excess amount of this compound causes memory impairment and encephalopathy in Wernicke–
Korsakoff syndrome. Disulfiram produces a severe reaction when it reacts with this compound by inhibiting
an enzyme that breaks down an oxidation product of this compound. An enzyme that breaks down this
compound contains a zinc atom at its active site; that enzyme converts this molecule into (*) acetaldehyde and
is this molecule’s namesake dehydrogenase. Scar tissue caused by inflammation from a hepatitis of this molecule is
called cirrhosis. For 10 points, name this depressant that is metabolized in the liver, a type of alcohol.
ANSWER: ethanol [prompt on alcohol until read; accept ethyl alcohol or drinking alcohol]
<SY, Biology>
19. In one of this author’s poems, the speaker promises to the title figure to “be thy priest, and build a fane in
some untrodden region of my mind.” In a poem by this author, the speaker biblically alludes to Ruth when
“she stood in tears amid the alien corn.” The speaker claims to be “half in love with easeful Death” and tells
the title figure (*) “Thou wast not born for death” in one of this author’s poems. Another of his poems is addressed
to a “still unravished bride of quietness” who tells mankind that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” For 10 points, name
this English Romantic poet, whose 1819 odes include ones “to Psyche,” “to a Nightingale,” and “on a Grecian Urn.”
ANSWER: John Keats
<YL, British Lit>
20. After seeing this painting, Gertrude Stein claimed that “we should fear” the artist “for his devastating
satire.” A woman allegedly said that the artist’s “head [should be] bashed in” for this painting. It contains a
cameo broach and a potted begonia that also appears in the artist’s Woman With Plants. Cartoonishly-round
tree tops and a red building are visible in this painting’s background. The title of this painting comes from
the (*) style of the window and white boards behind people modeled by the artist’s sister and dentist. For 10 points,
name this painting in which a woman in an apron and a man with a pitchfork stand at a farm house by Grant Wood.
ANSWER: American Gothic
<JH, Visual Arts>
Bonuses
1. During an occupation of this town, the Vietnam War veteran Buddy Lamont was shot by a government sniper.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this town in South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, which was occupied in 1973 by member of the
American Indian Movement. In 1890, over a hundred Sioux were massacred by the US Army near this town.
ANSWER: Wounded Knee
[10] The Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890 were members of this religious movement. This movement’s
adherents believed that wearing certain shirts could protect them from bullets.
ANSWER: Ghost Dance
[10] Wovoka, the founder of the Ghost Dance movement, was from this tribe. During the Mountain Meadows
massacre in Utah, a group of Mormons and members of this tribe killed migrants headed toward California.
ANSWER: Paiute [or Numa]
<YL, American Hist>
2. Supersymmetry augments this theory by adding superpartners to the objects it describes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this commonly used theory of particle physics that describes three generations of quarks and leptons.
ANSWER: Standard Model
[10] In the Standard Model, this force confines protons and neutrons to the nucleus, although its finite range
prevents it from acting on larger scales.
ANSWER: strong nuclear force [or strong interaction]
[10] In this phenomenon characteristic of particles governed by the strong force, the force decreases between
particles as the distance between them decreases.
ANSWER: asymptotic freedom
<JN, Physics>
3. The most recent release in this series follows the characters Alm and Celica and is a remake of the second entry in
this series. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this video game series that includes entries subtitled Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Fates.
ANSWER: Fire Emblem
[10] The original version of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon marked the debut of this blue-haired prince, who has
appeared in every Super Smash Bros. game since Melee.
ANSWER: Marth
[10] The principal antagonist of Shadow Dragon is this title Earth Dragon and ruler of Dolhr, who is resurrected by
the sorcerer Gharnef.
ANSWER: Medeus
<JN, Trash>
4. In the section “Of Commonwealth,” this book’s author discusses how people can mutually agree to give up their
right of governing to a single man or group of men, thus forming a commonwealth. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this book of political philosophy that articulates a theory of social contracts and advocates for
government by an absolute ruler, who is compared to the titular Biblical sea monster.
ANSWER: Leviathan
[10] Leviathan was written by this English political philosopher. He also wrote the book De Cive, which is the origin
of the Latin phrase “bellum omnium contra omnes,” often translated into English as “war of all against all.”
ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes
[10] Three answers required. In Leviathan, Hobbes characterized the life of men in the state of nature, a war of all
against all, with five adjectives, beginning with “solitary” and “poor.” Give the remaining three adjectives.
ANSWER: nasty AND brutish AND short [accept answers in any order]
<WC, Philosophy>
5. At the beginning of this novel, the narrator recalls being fascinated by the “blank spaces” when looking at maps
as a child. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which Marlow journeys down the Congo River in search of the ivory trader Kurtz.
ANSWER: Heart of Darkness
[10] Heart of Darkness was written by this British-Polish author of Lord Jim and Nostromo.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad
[10] In Heart of Darkness, Marlow learns that some notes in a book on seamanship that he had assumed to be a
cipher were written in this language by a native speaker of it, a devotee of Kurtz who wears a harlequin-like jacket.
ANSWER: Russian
<AE, British Lit>
6. Answer some questions about the theory of integration, for 10 points each.
[10] Integrals and their inverses, derivatives, are central to this branch of mathematics. This branch of mathematics
also studies limits, series, and sequences.
ANSWER: calculus [or analysis]
[10] Most students learn how to perform this mathematician’s namesake integral first. A hypothesis proposed by this
man asserts that all the nontrivial zeros of a certain function have real part equal to one-half.
ANSWER: Bernhard Riemann [accept Riemann integral or Riemann hypothesis]
[10] Although the Riemann integral is useful for physicists and engineers, most mathematicians prefer the more
general integral named for this man, which relies on measure theory.
ANSWER: Henri Lebesgue (“luh-BEG”)
<JN, Other Sci>
7. This commander suffered his first military defeat when Archduke Charles attacked this commander’s forces while
they were crossing the Danube. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this commander who was defeated at the Battle of Aspern-Essling just a few weeks before his decisive
victory at the Battle of Wagram ended the War of the Fifth Coalition.
ANSWER: Napoleon Bonaparte [accept either underlined answer; accept Napoleon I]
[10] Although Napoleon occupied Moscow after defeating Mikhail Kutuzov at this 1812 battle, his invasion of
Russia failed due to Russian use of scorched earth tactics..
ANSWER: Battle of Borodino
[10] Napoleon’s final defeat came at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at this 1815 battle, which put an end to the
Hundred Days. After Napoleon’s defeat at this battle, he was exiled to the island of St. Helena.
ANSWER: Battle of Waterloo
<AE, European Hist>
8. The title character of this poem reunites with her long lost love Gabriel while working as a Sister of Mercy in
Philadelphia, only for him to die in her arms. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that begins “This is the forest primeval” and follows
the title Acadian girl during the Great Upheaval.
ANSWER: Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
[10] In another history poem by Longfellow, this man makes his midnight ride after seeing a signal light in Boston’s
Old North Church.
ANSWER: Paul Revere [prompt on Paul]
[10] In this other history-inspired Longfellow poem, Priscilla Mullens asks “Why don’t you speak for yourself,
John?” when John Alden proposes to her on behalf of the title character.
ANSWER: “The Courtship of Miles Standish”
<JH, American Lit>
9. Answer the following about the labors of Heracles, for 10 points each.
[10] Heracles was forced to perform 12 labors for this man, who hid in a bronze jar after Heracles returned from
defeating the Nemean lion.
ANSWER: Eurystheus
[10] With the help of his nephew Iolaus, Heracles slew what multi-headed serpent that grew back two heads each
time one was chopped off?
ANSWER: the Hydra
[10] Heracles’s fifth labor was to clean the stables of this King of Elis.
ANSWER: Augeas
<AE, Myth>
10. One of these two artists accidentally melted the colors of a painting he was doing in competition with the other
artist when he tried to dry it with two pots of burning coal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these two rival artists who painted the frescos The Battle of Cascina (“KAH-shee-nah”) and The Battle of
Anghiari on opposite walls of the Hall of the Five Hundred.
ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci AND Michelangelo Buonarroti [accept da Vinci in place of “Leonardo” and
Buonarroti in place of “Michelangelo”]
[10] Those artworks were painted for the Palazzo Vecchio (“VEK-yo”) of this Italian city, where Leonardo and
Michelangelo were patronized by the Medici family.
ANSWER: Florence
[10] Vasari claimed that Leonardo moved to this country to avoid Michelangelo’s hatred of him. Leonardo spent his
last years under the patronage of a king of this country who commissioned Benvenuto Cellini’s Salt Cellar.
ANSWER: France (The king is Francis I.)
<JB, Visual Arts>
11. During this process, chromosome segregation can be inhibited by colchicine (“COAL-chih-seen”) to induce
polyploidy. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this process of cell division that creates four haploid gametes.
ANSWER: meiosis
[10] Chromosome segregation occurs in this specific phase of meiosis during which chromosomal crossover occurs.
It follows interphase.
ANSWER: prophase I [prompt on prophase]
[10] This zipper-like structure that holds together homologous chromosomes is formed during the leptotene stage of
prophase I.
ANSWER: synaptonemal complex
<SY, Biology>
12. Answer the following about the African National Congress, also known as the ANC, for 10 points each.
[10] This leader of the African National Congress became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 following
the abolition of apartheid. This leader was incarcerated for nearly twenty years on Robben Island.
ANSWER: Nelson Mandela
[10] Mandela helped found this militant wing of the ANC secretly headquartered at Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. In
1983, it carried out the Church Street bombing, targeting the headquarters of the South African Air Force.
ANSWER: Spear of the Nation [or Umkhonto we Sizwe or MK]
[10] This South African president, who freed Nelson Mandela from his imprisonment, also lifted a ban on the ANC.
With Mandela, he shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
ANSWER: F. W. de Klerk [or Frederik Willem de Klerk]
<AE, World Hist>
13. An armed conflict between ISIS-affiliated Islamic militants from Abu Sayyaf and government forces is currently
ongoing in this country’s city of Marawi. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this country with capital at Manila, where an ongoing drug war has led to numerous extrajudicial killings
against suspected drug users and drug dealers.
ANSWER: The Philippines
[10] This foul-mouthed president of the Philippines signed Proclamation No. 216 to suspend habeas corpus on
Mindanao in response to the situation in Marawi, and initiated the drug war in his country upon taking office.
ANSWER: Rodrigo Duterte [or Digong]
[10] Before becoming President of the Philippines, Duterte served as mayor of this largest city of the island of
Mindanao. He has been accused of giving orders to this city’s “Death Squad” to execute petty criminals.
ANSWER: Davao City
<AE, Geo/CE>
14. Along with Stanley Schachter and Kurt Back, this psychologist studied the role that proximity played in the
formation of friendships in MIT dormitories. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this psychologist who wrote about a UFO apocalypse cult in his book When Prophecy Fails.
ANSWER: Leon Festinger
[10] In When Prophecy Fails, Festinger pioneered this theory, which refers to the mental discomfort one suffers
from holding two or more competing beliefs.
ANSWER: cognitive dissonance
[10] Festinger published the outline of his theory of cognitive dissonance while he was working at this university.
Philip Zimbardo conducted a namesake “prison experiment” at this university.
ANSWER: Stanford University
<JH, Social Science>
15. The character performing this action justifies it by saying that one of her victims used to sell snakes as dried fish.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of theft performed by an old woman in Akutagawa’s short story “Rashōmon,” which prompts
the main character to steal her kimono.
ANSWER: stealing hair from corpses to make wigs [accept anything about taking hair off of dead people; prompt
on answers only mentioning wigs or hair without the fact that the victims are deceased]
[10] The author of “Rashōmon,” Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, names a semi-annual literary award in this native country
of his. Its first Nobel Literature Laureate was Yasunari Kawabata.
ANSWER: Japan [or Nippon]
[10] This author won the Akutagawa Prize in 1958 for his story “Prize Stock.” This author of The Silent Cry drew
on the childhood of his son, the composer Hikari, for novels such as A Personal Matter.
ANSWER: Kenzaburō Ōe (“oh-ay”)
<JH, World/Other Lit>
16. These compounds are made up of positively charged and negatively charged constituents. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of compound. Many examples of this type of compound are soluble in water, such as sodium
chloride.
ANSWER: ionic compounds [or salts]
[10] When mixing two ionic solutions, the ions can switch places in a double replacement reaction. Double
replacement reactions often result in this process in which one or more product forms a namesake sediment.
ANSWER: precipitation [accept word forms; prompt on metathesis]
[10] The nitrate of this metal can be used to test if a solution contains chloride ions or other halides, because it forms
an insoluble white precipitate with chloride but not fluoride.
ANSWER: silver [or Ag]
<GR, Chemistry>
17. In the first of these pieces, a series of quick 32nd notes is supposed to represent thunderstorms in the
countryside. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this series of four violin concertos from The Contest Between Harmony and Invention, that are meant
to evoke nature.
ANSWER: The Four Seasons [or Le quattro stagioni]
[10] Both The Four Seasons and The Contest Between Harmony and Invention were written by this Italian Baroque
composer nicknamed “The Red Priest.”
ANSWER: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
[10] Vivaldi’s Opus 3 is this set of 12 concerti written for four violins, two violas, cellos, and basso continuo. Parts
of the sixth piece from this collection are played in Suzuki Books 4 and 5.
ANSWER: L’estro armonico
<AE, Auditory Arts>
18. Answer the following about deuterocanonical texts, which are found in Catholic and Orthodox bibles but not
Protestant bibles, for 10 points each.
[10] In this deuterocanonical book, the namesake pious widow saves the people of Bethulia from an Assyrian army
by seducing the Assyrian general Holofernes and beheading him while he is drunk.
ANSWER: Book of Judith
[10] In a deuterocanonical addition to this book, the namesake prophet foils a plot by two elders to put Susanna to
death after they attempt to seduce her in a garden. The namesake of this book is also thrown into a lion’s den.
ANSWER: Book of Daniel
[10] In the Book of Tobit, Tobias journeys to Rages with this angel, who is disguised as Tobias’s relative Azariah.
This angel teaches Tobias how to use a fish’s gall to cure his father Tobit’s bird dropping-caused blindness.
ANSWER: Raphael
<WC, Religion>
19. In order to breach the walls of this fortress, the Tenth Legion Fretensis, commanded by Flavius Silva, had to
construct a massive earthen ramp. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this fortress where a force of Zealots, led by Eleazar ben Jair, committed suicide along with their wives
and children before this fortress was taken by besieging Romans.
ANSWER: Masada [or Mezada]
[10] The Zealots were members of this religion, whose revolt against Roman rule led to the destruction of the
Temple in Jerusalem.
ANSWER: Judaism [or Jews or Jewish]
[10] The First Jewish Revolt, which ended with the fall of Masada, took place during the reign of this Roman
emperor, whose son Titus fought alongside him during the revolt.
ANSWER: Vespasian [or Caesar Vespasianus Augustus or Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
<AE, European Hist>
20. The narrator of this story believes that he has inherited the Spanish throne, leading him to take the name
Ferdinand VIII. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this story narrated by the civil servant Poprishchin, who believes he has overheard the conversation of
the dogs Meggie and Fidele.
ANSWER: “Diary of a Madman”
[10] “Diary of a Madman” is a short story by this author, who wrote about Chichikov’s plot to earn a profit by
buying deceased serfs in his novel Dead Souls.
ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol
[10] One Gogol story tells of Major Kovalyov awakening to find that this body part has left his face. In a children’s
novel by Carlo Collodi, a wooden puppet carved by Geppetto has one of these body parts that grows when he lies.
ANSWER: a nose
<JH, European Lit>