THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Tossups by Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Jonathan Magin,
Chris Chiego
Finals 1
1. Gildas, a 6th century cleric, is one of the three ancient authors who mention this event. It saw the sack of
the town of Verulamium and a major misstep in this event occurred when Catus Decianus provided only two
hundred soldiers worth of reinforcements. During this event, Quintus Petilius Cerialis suffered a disastrous
defeat when trying to relieve a siege, an incident known as the Massacre of the Ninth Legion. This event was
ultimately subdued by Gaius Paulinus Suetonius and much of what we know about this event comes from
Tacitus, who was the son-in-law of one of the participants, Agricola. This revolt came to an end at the Battle of
Watling Street, but not before the namesake wife of Prastugas had burned the town of Londinium. For ten points,
name this 60-61 revolt in ancient Britain led by the queen of the Iceni.
ANSWER: Boudicca’s Revolt
2. One of these works promises to pick up the man who bars his servant from prayer by “his lying, sinning
hair” and takes its name from the “clot” from which God made man. The shortest of these reads, in its
entirety “to thee we have granted the Fount/Therefore to Thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice/For he who
hateth thee, he will be cut off.” The 30th of these works encourages readers to look forward to the victories of
Emperor Heraclius. The final two proclaim “My resort is the Lord of the New Morn” and “My resort is the
Lord of Mankind;” those are termed the “verses of refuge.” The 36th of them, titled (*) Ya Sin, is termed the
“heart” of the work it appears in, but is dwarfed in quizbowl popularity by the second one, which expounds the “six
articles of belief” and contains the “Throne Verse.” Verses called “ayat” make up these works, which include one
describing a cow. For 10 points, identify these chapters of the Qu’ran.
ANSWER: sūrahs
3. One character in this novel has his ear nailed to the title object for encouraging resistance. Another
challenges an inveterate gambler to gamble for his life at the same locale, curing the gambler’s addiction. A
drunk young gypsy named Salko Corkan avoids dying on the title object of this novel, for which a hotel is
built by Lotte near the novel’s end. All of this happens after the kapia on the title structure is opened to
women for the first time. Resistance to the tyranical Abidaga delayed the construction of the central (*)
structure of this novel, which links the outside world to the little village from which Mehmed Pasha Sokolli was
taken under devshrime. This novel spans nearly four centuries from 1516 until the title construction is destroyed by
the bombs of World War I. For 10 points, identify this novel about a structure spanning a Bosnian waterway, the
masterwork of Ivo Andric.
ANSWER: The Bridge on the Drina [or Na drini cuprija]
4. Weakly coordinated versions of these species can be synthesized by adding an alkyl halide to silver
hexaflourophosphate, and the first one imaged by NMR was created by reacting hexamethylbenzene with
with methyl chloride and aluminum chloride. During monoterpene biosynthesis these species are created with
the loss of pyrophosphate at several intermediate steps. An unusually stable one of these species has a
norbornane backbone, and the structure of stable ones was deduced by George Olah using superacids. They
undergo the superfast Wagner-Merwein Rearrangement. They have an approximately sp2 structure and are
stabilized by hyperconjugation, which explains why tertiary ones are more stable than primary ones. Appearing as
intermediates in SN1 and E1 reactions, for 10 points, name these reactive intermediates, a carbon atom with a
positive charge.
ANSWER: Carbocation
5. One story says that a ruler of this empire died when drinking from a cup formerly filled with poison that
had not been cleaned. This empire lost much of its northern territory in the disastrous Battle of Merj Dabik.
An attempt to reform this empire was effectively halted by the Massacre of the Citadel in 1811. One ruler of
this empire once wrote a victory letter to Bohemond VI, describing the grisly massacre which that ruler had
committed after the siege of Antioch. This empire utilized explosive hand cannons while defeating the forces of
Hulagu Khan at the Battle of Ain Jalut. Featuring notable rulers such as Baybars, this empire fell under Ottoman
control in 1517. It would continue to rule the country it is most associated with until the invasion of Napoleon, who
fought the Battle of the Pyramids against its forces. For 10 points, name this sultanate of former military slaves who
controlled Egypt until the rise of Muhammad Ali.
ANSWER: Mamluks [or Mamelukes] Empire/Sultanate [do not accept Ayyubid, while Baybars fought for them,
he never ruled for them, accept Bahri or Burgi Dynasties]
6. Nazi soldiers forced Jewish prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp to perform this musical work
sixteen times. This composition includes a part in which four offstage trumpets playing fanfares are answered
by increasingly louder brass instruments, timpani, and bass drum, before the tension subsides and a bass
soloist sings “mors stupebit.” This composition ends with the solo soprano singing in unison with the chorus
the words "libera me," and its second section begins with crashingly loud brass chords and a pounding bass
drum punctuating its (*) “Dies Irae.” Mocked by Hans von Bulow as an “opera in ecclesiastical robes” after its
premiere in 1874, it was composed in honor of the death of Alessandro Manzoni. For 10 points, name this mass for
the dead written shortly after its composer finished the opera Aida.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Verdi’s requiem [prompt on partial answer]
7. One character in this work trains eagles to reach for meat attached to four poles at the corners of his
throne, flying himself to China in this manner. That character rules for 150 years and threatens the gallows
for a hero that he sends Geew to fetch. A white-skinned giant is killed by this work’s hero, who undertakes
seven labors to free his sovereign. Manūchehr avenges the death of his grandfather, who had been killed by
two sons of the world-emperor Fereydūn, sparking the war between Turan and the country that this work
originated from. The precocious son of Tahmineh is tragically killed by his own father. After describing the
devil and the first man, (*) Gayōmart, this work describes the albinism of Zaal and his care under the wise bird
Simurgh, as well as the story of Sohrāb and Rustam. For 10 points, identify this long work written by Ferdowsi, the
national epic of Iran.
ANSWER: Sāhnāmeh [or Shah-nameh; or Book of Kings; accept equivalents]
8. The RGD domain of von Willebrand factor binds to one of these proteins, and the anti-angiogenic factor
cilengitide binds to one of these. The receptor for adenovirus is one of these molecules. Glanzmann’s
Thrombasthenia is caused by a defect in one of these proteins. The anticoagulant monoclonal antibody
abciximab attacks one of these proteins, which binds to fibrinogen in an ADP-dependent manner. The Ntermini of their alpha-subunits bind to divalent cations. The binding of talin binds to and activates these
proteins, which can trigger the activity of focal adhesion kinases. These heavily glycosylated proteins consist
of a heterodimer of an alpha and beta subunit, which bind to collagen and other extracellular matrix components.
For 10 points, name these cell surface proteins named for the fact that they are integral to the cell membrane.
ANSWER: Integrins (prompt on glycoproteins)
9. After World War II, this man wrote two books decrying colonialism titled after “the primeval forest.” This
man delivered a speech that cites the dangerousness of strontium-90 to health studies of residents nearby
Nagasaki to conclude the abolishment of nuclear proliferation will be similar to “rays of sunlight” that
humanity hopes for in his “A Declaration of Conscience” speech. His doctrine of “To be in awe of the mystery
of life” or the “reverence of life” led him to write The (*) Decay and Restoration of Civilization. This Bachenthusiast and author of The Mystery of the Kingdom of God and The Psychiatric Study of Jesus also wrote a book
that attempts to give a fact based biography of the titular New Testament figure. For 10 points, name this theologian
and physician who wrote The Quest for the Historical Jesus.
ANSWER: Albert Schweitzer
10. In the Republican primaries prior to this presidential election, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. won the New
Hampshire primary on a write-in vote organized by amateurs on a whim without Lodge’s support. The
controversial film Choice was made to promote the losing candidacy in this election. At the Democratic
convention, Fannie Lou Hamer and other Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates attempted to be
seated. During this election, Ronald Reagan achieved national prominence by giving his “A Time for
Choosing” speech in support of the losing candidate. This election saw the first Republican victories in the Deep
South since Reconstruction and the losing candidate in this election was maligned for making statements like
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” and was painted as a warmonger by the famous “Daisy” TV
advertisement. For 10 points, name this election year in which Lyndon Johnson retained the presidency by thrashing
Barry Goldwater.
ANSWER: Election of 1964
11. A poet with this surname described those who find “a famished kitten on the step” and save it “from the
fury of the street.” Another poet with this surname wrote a poem whose addressee’s “lover threw wild hands
towards the sky;” the speaker in that poem is repeatedly told “do not weep.” The latter wrote about “three
little birds in a row” who laugh at a man trying to sing. A poet with this surname wrote “Chaplinesque” and
described “the dice of drowned men’s bones” in (*) “At Melville’s Tomb.” “A clang and clang of spear and
shield” appears in another work, which describes a creature enjoying a dish that is bitter, just because it’s his own
heart. The magnum opus of another poet with this surname includes “Powhatan’s Daughter” and “Cutty Sark.” For
10 points, identify this surname shared by the authors of “War is Kind,” “The Black Riders,” and The Bridge, whose
first names are Stephen and Hart.
ANSWER: Crane [be nice and accept Hart Crane or Stephen Crane at any point before mention from confused
folks]
12. The Yengi Yezik alphabet of the language belonging to these peoples was invented in the 1950’s to
incorporate elements of the Latin alphabet into the language of these peoples. A study of these peoples’ music
by Nathan Light chronicles the making of the twelve Muqam found in their music. The qara buran or the
black wind disrupts the agricultural practices of these peoples, whose oasis at Turfan is a symbol of their
identity. They are the subject of Blaine Kaltman’s 2007 study Under the Heel of the (*) Dragon. A Congress
named after these peoples is currently led by Rebiya Kadeer, who participated in the Ghulja Incident. Members of
this ethnicity rioted in 2008 when Mutallip Hajim died in police custody. For 10 points, name this ethnic group that
is advocating for their own country in the Xinjian autonomous region called East Turkestan.
ANSWER: Uighurs
13. In hearings regarding this event, Sam Yorty was criticized for temporarily leaving town. In a
controversial sociological text, Edward Banfield interpreted this event as conducted “mainly for fun and
profit.” One underlying cause of this event was resentment over the passing of Proposition 14, while the event
was precipitated by Marquette Frye failing a sobriety test. During this event, William Parker compared
participants to “monkeys in the zoo.” After this event, Governor Pat Brown commissioned the McCone Report,
which blamed it on unemployment and education problems. Radio personality “Magnificent Montague” popularized
the expression “Burn, baby, burn” used in this event. The city in which this event took place was previously hit by
the Zoot Suit Riots and would later be hit by the Rodney King riots. For 10 points, name this 1965 riot which
ravaged a certain Los Angeles neighborhood.
ANSWER: Watts Riots [prompt on Los Angeles Riot until mentioned, accept Los Angeles Riot of 1965 until
mentioned]
14. A tree near the center of this work has a single long red leaf hanging off of it, and in the middle a black
canoe can be seen in the distance. On the far left of this painting a green protrusion can be seen on top of a
rock face, in front of which stands a man in a white shirt and brown pants. The sky in this painting contains a
round reddish cloud and a taller white cloud on the left. The scene takes place in a crescent-shaped rock
formation. This painting, a classic example of the paranoic-critical method, shows a group of very thin trees
right behind the three title subjects, who are on a lake. For 10 points, name this painting in which three waterfowl
create odd images in the water, a painting by Salvador Dali.
ANSWER: Swans Reflecting Elephants
15. In 2001, the KEK PS E373 created of particles that consist of a doublet of this property in the NIAGRA
event. Farhi and Jaffe created a model of stable matter with this property. The horizontal lines on a baryon
decuplet diagram show particles with equal amounts of this property, which was postulated when a certain
particle had a measured lifetime 13 orders of magnitude greater than its predicted lifetime. The lambda and
omega baryons have this property, and first-order weak interactions usually change this property by 1. Adding this
property to the baryon number, multiplying the quantity by one-half, and adding the isospin gives the hypercharge
according to the original Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula. K-mesons contain this particle along with either an up or
down quark or antiquark. For 10 points, name this second-generation quark flavor discovered along with charm.
ANSWER: Strangeness (accept strange quark)
16. In one play by this author, a couple utters the word “Sollocks” to prevent their arguments from getting
out of hand. In another play, a character complains about a “gothic edition of Wembley Stadium” after
discussing the affairs of Henry Lyppiatt. That play describes a sort of family formed by the members of
Garry Essendine’s crew, all of whom buy tickets to Africa, and was double-billed with this author’s play This
Happy Breed. Ruth gets killed driving a car sabotaged by the medium Madame Arcati in one play by this
author, who loved having his characters tiptoe off-stage as the curtain dropped. In addition to writing Present
Laughter and (*) Private Lives, this author wrote about the Bliss family in one play and a play about Charles
Condomine that takes its title from Shelley’s “To a Skylark.” For 10 points, identify this classy English dramatist
who wrote Hay Fever and Blithe Spirit.
ANSWER: Sir Noël Peirce Coward
17. Federico Fellini built a set of this building, only to tear it down unfilmed. Major works of art here include
the Milan Madonna, choir screen paintings of Saints Peter, Felix, and Nabor, and the Lochner Altarpiece.
Nicolas of Verdun’s Reliquary Shrine of the Three Magi stands in the choir; the Gero Cross, the earliest lifesize crucifix, hangs outside the sacristy. This building made headlines recently when it was the only UNESCO
world heritage site in the developed world to be deemed endangered, and in 2007, Cardinal Joachim Meisner
derided Gerhard Richter’s window for this building as “degenerate.” The building’s triangular black towers were
finished in 1880, 632 years after the laying of the foundation stone, and it withstood bombing during World War II.
The tallest building in the world before the construction of the Washington Monument, FTP, name this German
Gothic cathedral on the Rhine.
Answer: Cologne Cathedral (accept Kölner Dom, Hoher Dom zu Köln, Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria)
18. Michael Resnik’s work on this philosopher suggests a “platonic taxonomy” to classify “abstract objects”
that he formulated. Crispin Wright has popularized a school of thought named after this thinker, defending
the so called Principle of Unrestricted Comprehension or this man’s “Basic Law V.” One work by this man
describes the derivation of the Dedekind-Peano axioms from Hume’s Principle, which is a result now known
as his namesake theorem. Another work discusses the differences between (*) “morning star” and “evening
star” and attacks the notion that the equality operator is not inherently true when referring to two mathematical
expressions that are equal. For 10 points, identify this 19th century logician who wrote The Foundations of
Arithmetic and On Sense and Reference.
ANSWER: Gottlob Frege
19. One approximation for doing a certain mathematical operation developed while using this representation
involves the hexadecimal magic constant 5f3759df and is used to calculate a “fast inverse square root” if the
input is represented in this format. De-normalized numbers are used to resolve arithmetic underflows that
occur when using this representation, while an exception named after this representation is often thrown
when dividing by zero. The current standard regarding the implementation of these entities is the (*) IEEE
754-2008 standard, which specifies the amount of precision they have. In C++ they typically consume less space
than the related double but store more information than a simple int. For 10 points, name this common way of
representing numbers using significant digits and an exponent, which are not fixed point numbers.
ANSWER: Floating Point Numbers
20. One of these figures ate powdered mica and promised to remain a virgin after a god appeared to her in a
dream. Another of them once poured several cups of wine out of a container to demonstrate his power. One of
these figures, given the epithet “old”, had a donkey that he could fold into his pocket. During another one’s
birth, beams of light filled the delivery room, and he didn’t stop crying for seven days afterwards. Another of
these figures occupied the body of a hobo after his student forgot to bury his original body; that figure is the
patron of the poor and is depicted with an iron crutch. These figures lived on a set of five islands surrounded
by still water, which they crossed by using clouds, and their leader once slept and saw eighteen years worth of
dreams in the time it took his millet to cook. Lead by Lu Dongbin, they are revered alongside the three pure ones.
For 10 points, name these Daoist deities, an octet of figures who cannot die.
ANSWER: Eight Immortals or Ba Xian or Pa-Hsien
21. Willie Stargell notably described it as a “butterfly with hiccups”. Some of the first baseball players
credited with using it include Ed Summers and Eddie Cicotte, while modern-day users of it include Houston
Astro Josh Banks and New York Met R.A. Dickey. 18-year-old Eri Yoshida became the first woman to play
professional baseball in Japan for her proficiency with this. In 2004, Doug Mirabelli occasionally replaced
Jason Varitek in the line-up because of his ability to handle this, while Geno Petralli had a record four passed
balls in one inning because of his battery mate's Charlie Hough's specialty with this. Hall of Famers Jesse Haines,
Hoyt Wilhelm and Phil Niekro relied on this pitch which normally ranges in speeds between 60 and 70 miles per
hour. Utilized most notably today by Tim Wakefield, FTP, name this characteristically wild pitch named for a part
of a hand.
ANSWER: Knuckleball or knuckler
THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Bonuses by Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Evan Adams, Chris
Chiego
Bonuses
1. Answer the following questions about calorimeters, for 10 points each:
[10] Calorimeters operate on this principle, which can be stated as the internal energy of a system is equal to the heat
added to the system minus the work done by the system.
ANSWER: First Law of Thermodynamics
[10] This type of calorimeter keeps a constant volume and is used to find the energy generated by combustion
reactions. It consists of a cup holding the sample within a reaction chamber, which is suspended in a water bath.
ANSWER: Bomb Calorimeter
[10] Differential scanning calorimetry relies on the use of one of these devices, which is a junction between two
metals that generates an electric current between them when there is a temperature difference between them.
ANSWER: Thermocouple
2. It contains a work discussing poets called Why Poets? For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this volume of six essays that contains Hegel’s Concept of Experience, as well as a piece on
Anaximander, and one about aesthetics called The Origin of the Work of Art.
ANSWER: Off the Beaten Track or Off the Beaten Path or Holzwege
[10] Off the Beaten Track is a volume of essays by this thinker, a Nazi enthusiast who wrote The Question
Concerning Technology.
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger
[10] This work of Martin Heidegger discusses the hermeneutic center in relation to the first title concept; it later on
discusses dasein in its relation to German angst.
ANSWER: Jean Francois Lyotard
3. This group’s founder was also a member of the wonderfully named Odd Fellows. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this group founded by Uriah Stephens and led by Terence Powderly. An early union, it fought for the
eight hour day and successfully waged the Wabash Railroad strike before being discredited by the Haymarket riot.
ANSWER: Knights of Labor
[10] The Wabash Railroad strike was directed against this robber baron, who was involved with the Wabash, Erie,
and Union Pacific railroads at one point. He is best known for trying to corner the gold market on Black Friday with
a New York stockbroker.
ANSWER: Jason “Jay” Gould
[10] The Knights supported the Chinese Exclusion Act and the nativist views of this California politician, who
served as the Secretary of the Workingman’s Party. He gave many anti-Chinese speeches, denouncing immigrant
workers, by saying “The Chinese must go.”
ANSWER: Denis Kearney
4. This work argues that the business executive is placed in a very tight position because he must abide by the
principles of competitive business while simultaneously making sure he increases his base of knowledge. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this 1936 work that discusses why people of the United States constantly seek a university degree in
order to obtain a job that pays more and provides a higher social status.
ANSWER: The Higher Learning in America
[10] The Higher Learning in America is work by this American economist who framed the desire of keeping up with
the Joneses as the spread of conspicuous consumption in a different work.
ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen
[10] A different article by Veblen discusses this French finance minister during the American Revolution. His
works, such as Reflexions, critiques and improves upon the theories of land by physiocrat Francois Quesnay.
ANSWER: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
5. The first of these theorems states that every group has a maximal p-subgroup for an p that divides the order of G,
while the second says that all such subgroups are isomorphic to each other. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this set of three theorems from group theory, named for a Norwegian.
ANSWER: Sylow Theorems
[10] This theorem is a partial converse to the Sylow theorems. It states that for any subgroup of a group, the order of
the subgroup divides the order of the group.
ANSWER: Lagrange's theorem
[10] All subgroups of groups with this property for its operation are normal. Abelian groups have this property, in
which it doesn’t matter which order the group operation is performed in.
ANSWER: Commutative
6. One collection bundles this play with its author’s play Deathwatch and contains an introduction describing the
“whirligig” relationships of its characters. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this play in which the sadistic Solange and her sister Claire “merge” in their desire to poison Madame
with a cup of tea laced with phenobarbital.
ANSWER: The Maids [or Les Bonnes]
[10] Genet’s The Maids is analyzed in this author’s essay “Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr.” His other critical works
include Black Orpheus, though he is better known for a play that exemplifies hell being other people, titled No Exit.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
[10] Both Claire and Solange are sexually involved with a milkman with this name. Another character with this
name was created by Thomas Mann and is a native of Torri di Venere who assassinates the fascist hypnotist
Cipolla.
ANSWER: Mario
7. At the tender age of 20, he earned his military stripes with a valiant effort at the Siege of Vienna. For ten point
each:
[10] Name this general, who was injured at the Siege of Mainz during War of the League of Augsburg. He also
teamed up with Duke of Malborough to win at Oudenarde and Malpaquet during the War of Spanish Succession.
ANSWER: Eugene of Savoy
[10] Eugene of Savoy’s victory at Petrovaradin over Siladhar Pasha ultimately led to this 1718 treaty. The Ottomans
lost part of Serbia and Venice was returned some lands in the Peloponnesus and Crete.
ANSWER: Treaty of Passarowitz
[10] Eugene of Savoy was a general for three kings from this dynasty, which ruled Spain, Austria and the Holy
Roman Empire. Other famous rulers from this house include Charles V and Ferdinand I.
ANSWER: Hapsburg
8. According to Art Blakey, who added extra percussion each time he ended a show with it, this piece was written
on the bottom of a garbage can. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this composition also called “Interlude,” which titles a version with lyrics by Sarah Vaughan and Anita
O’Day. This signature bebop big band piece is thoroughly Afro-Cuban, with the former being indicated by its title.
ANSWER: “A Night in Tunisia”
[10] “A Night in Tunisia” was composed by this jazz trumpeter, a pioneer of the development of bebop along with
Charlie Parker.
ANSWER: John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie
[10] Another artist who covered “A Night in Tunisia” was Stan Getz, who worked with the Gilbetos on “The Girl
from Ipanema,” a masterpiece of this style of Brazilian jazz music.
ANSWER: bossa nova
9. This poem opens by describing a man who “did not wear his scarlet coat/For blood and wine are red.” For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this poem that describes “alien tears” filling “pity’s long-broken urn” and notes that “with a flattering
word” or without, “each man kills the thing he loves.” Its author was incarcerated in the title location not long before
this poem was published.
ANSWER: “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
[10] “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” was written by this author who was jailed for his homosexuality after publishing
The Happy Prince and his novel about Basil Hallward, The Picture of Dorian Grey.
ANSWER: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
[10] This final play of Wilde’s details the past shared between the middle-aged dandy Lord Illingworth and Mrs.
Arbuthnot, a widow who bears the former’s child.
ANSWER: A Woman of No Importance
10. This composer’s third symphony heavily borrows music from his ballet The Fiery Angel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Russian composer of the opera Love for Three Oranges and Peter and the Wolf.
ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev
[10] Prokofiev stripped the music for this suite from his ballet Ala I Lolli, which concerns the title nomadic people.
Leonid Sabaneyev bitterly attacked a premiere of this piece that never occurred.
ANSWER: Scythian Suite
[10] Prokofiev dedicated his Symphony-Concerto in E minor to this great Russian cellist, who had his Soviet
citizenship revoked in 1978.
ANSWER: Mstislav Rostropovich
11. Tyranny was an important thing in the ancient world. Name some stuff about that thing, for ten points each:
[10] This city was ruled by the Thirty Tyrants after the Battle of Aegospotammi and was home to the tyrannicides,
Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Other notable tyrants from this city include Peisistratus, Hippias and Hipparchus.
ANSWER: Athens
[10] This city was ruled by tyrants like Gelon, Dionysius, Agathocles and Hieron from 491BC – 214BC. Founded
by Corinth in 734 BC, it was sacked in 212 BC by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.
ANSWER: Syracuse
[10] This tyrant of Corinth succeeded his father, Cypselus, and was not a very nice guy. This member of the Seven
Sages of Greek raped his wife, Melissa, and exiled his son, Lycophron.
ANSWER: Periander
12. One writer who rose to fame due to involvement in this group described two women who solve a murder case
involving the slaughter of a pet bird in her story “A Jury of Her Peers.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this group whose members included Susan Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill, who moved from their
namesake Massachusetts town to New York and changed the course of American theater.
ANSWER: Provincetown Players
[10] This member of the Provincetown Players managed to sneak The Book of Repulsive Women under the radar of
the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. She achieved notoriety for the overt lesbian themes in her
masterwork, Nightwood.
ANSWER: Djuna Barnes
[10] Player Marty Martin produced a play repetitively named for this author, who wrote about “The Good Anna,”
“Melanctha,” and “The Gentle Lena” in Three Lives, wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and noted that
Hemingway belonged to a “lost generation.”
ANSWER: Gertrude Stein
13. One writer who rose to fame due to involvement in this group described two women who solve a murder case
involving the slaughter of a pet bird in her story “A Jury of Her Peers.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this group whose members included Susan Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill, who moved from their
namesake Massachusetts town to New York and changed the course of American theater.
ANSWER: Provincetown Players
[10] This member of the Provincetown Players managed to sneak The Book of Repulsive Women under the radar of
the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. She achieved notoriety for the overt lesbian themes in her
masterwork, Nightwood.
ANSWER: Djuna Barnes
[10] Player Marty Martin produced a play repetitively named for this author, who wrote about “The Good Anna,”
“Melanctha,” and “The Gentle Lena” in Three Lives, wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and noted that
Hemingway belonged to a “lost generation.”
ANSWER: Gertrude Stein
14. One of the fundamental differences between Otto Rank's conception of this figure with that of its creator is that
the this figure for Rank begins with the birth, while for its originator, it begins with his adventure. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this generic figure which includes Moses and Osiris, who ostensibly leave the realm of the common
day to venture into the realm of the supernatural, and hopefully return to assist in an "application of the Boons."
ANSWER: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
[10] This mythographer wrote a series of essays called The Hero with a Thousand Faces, his other similar works
include The Mythic Dimension and Thou Art That.
ANSWER: Joseph Campbell
[10] Joseph Campbell elucidated a seventeen stage process describing this generic pattern of a hero’s journey,
ending with “a freedom to live.” It is so named because across cultures, this generic pattern follows the same
structure.
ANSWER: monomyth
15. This hormone’s sialic acid modifications increase its half-life, and it shares its alpha chain with thyroidstimulating hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, and LH. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this hormone, which in men stimulates Sertoli cells to form tight junctions and secrete inhibin. More
famously, it stimulates the granulosa cells of the ovary to form a namesake structure that nourishes an ovum.
ANSWER: Follicle-stimulating hormone or FSH
[10] Upon ovulation, the ovarian follicle turns into this structure, which secretes progesterone and other hormones to
maintain the endometrium. Its named for its yellow color and eventually degrades into the corpus albicans.
ANSWER: Corpus Luteum
[10] This hypothalamic hormone triggers the release of FSH and LH from the anterior pituitary. In Kallman’s
syndrome, the neurons that secrete it do not migrate properly.
ANSWER: GnRH or Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
16. The painting with this figure in the title shows a bunch of black flags flying as police clash with demonstrators
at the title event. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Italian anarchist, whose funeral was painted by Carlo Carra in a painting that currently resides in the
Museum of Modern Art.
ANSWER: Angelo Galli
[10] The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli is painted in this style. Fillipo Marinetti wrote its namesake manifesto, and
other works in this movement include Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
ANSWER: Futurism
[10] This other futurist painted The Street Light and Abstract Speed+Sound depicted a woman pulling on the title
animal, with both her’s and said animal’s legs seen as a blur of movement, in Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
ANSWER: Giacomo Balla
17. The painting with this figure in the title shows a bunch of black flags flying as police clash with demonstrators
at the title event. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Italian anarchist, whose funeral was painted by Carlo Carra in a painting that currently resides in the
Museum of Modern Art.
ANSWER: Angelo Galli
[10] The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli is painted in this style. Fillipo Marinetti wrote its namesake manifesto, and
other works in this movement include Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
ANSWER: Futurism
[10] This other futurist painted The Street Light and Abstract Speed+Sound depicted a woman pulling on the title
animal, with both her’s and said animal’s legs seen as a blur of movement, in Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
ANSWER: Giacomo Balla
18. Sherrington and Kirkpatrick developed a model for these systems based on the ising model, and these systems
have frustrated interactions between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic centers. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this type of stochastically chaotic system with a lot of strange metastable states.
ANSWER: Spin Glass
[10] Ferromagnets become paramagnetic above this temperature. Its namesake was married to the pioneering female
scientist who discovered radium and radon.
ANSWER: Curie point
[10] The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model used this kind of approximation, in which a collection of particles is treated
as a single particle under the sway of an external force. The Hartree-Fock method uses it too.
ANSWER: Mean field approximation or Self-consistent field
19. In another version titled for “this novel” Revisited, Bob Ford forces the protagonist into a sexual encounter and
then leaves. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this novel about the various affairs of the homosexual protagonist Jim Willard in places like rural
Virginia, New York, Beverley, and the Yucatan.
ANSWER: The City and the Pillar
[10] The City and the Pillar was written by this author, who wrote about an acting academy whose students include
Mary-Ann Pringle, Rusty Godowsky, Buck Loner in his novel Myra Breckinridge.
ANSWER: Gore Vidal
[10] The City and the Pillar is often compared to this author’s novel Other Voices, Other Rooms. This author wrote
about Holly Golightly in his magnum opus, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
ANSWER: Truman Capote
20. This polity saw the revolt of Al-Mukhtar during the reign of Abd al-Malik, who also constructed the Dome of
the Rock in Jerusalem. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this caliphate, whose first leader was Muawiyah I, and which had its capital at Damascus. It was also
rocked by a civil war called the Third Fitna.
ANSWER: Umayyad caliphate
[10] After being overthrown by the Abbasids, the Umayyads established a government headquartered at this city.
That caliphate broke up into several Taifa kingdoms in 1031, and for a time it was ruled by Abd-ar-Rahman, who
was known as the “Falcon of Andalus”.
ANSWER: Cordoba
[10] The Umayyad downfall was triggered by their defeat at this 750 battle, in which Abbasid forces under al-Saffah
formed a spear wall. Marwan II’s forces decided to simply charge said wall, and were slaughtered.
ANSWER: Battle of the Zab
21. Answer some questions about the history of European sea trade, for 10 points each.
[10] Trade on the Mediterranean increased dramatically after the invention of coins in this nation, which ruled the
majority of Western Anatolia. Its capital was at Sardis.
ANSWER: Lydia
[10] A major British economic collapse occurred after speculation in this company, which mostly traded in slaves in
South America, collapsed.
ANSWER: South Sea Company
[10] The South Sea Company got the exclusivity contract on slaves in the Americas for a while as a result of this
British-Spanish Treaty, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.
ANSWER: Treaty of Utrecht