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 Waterloo et. Al (Huma)
TOSSUPS
1. A graduate student finds himself transforming into the title author in this man's short story, "Dickens
Digested," which can be found in his collection, High Spirits. One of his novels concerns the fake engagement
of Pearl Vambrace and Solomon Bridgetower, while a later work by this author takes place during the (*)
Toronto International Film Festival, where the protagonist sees films about his ancestors after he is murdered by the
Sniffer. Those novels are Leaven of Malice and Murther and Walking Spirits. The last novel in his most famous
series describes the life of the magician Magnus Eisengrim, who is born prematurely after Boy Staunton hits his
pregnant mother with a stone-laden snowball. For 10 points, name this author who wrote the Salterton and Cornish
trilogies, in addition to creating the character of Dunstan Ramsay in his Deptford Trilogy.
ANSWER: Robertson Davies
2. One period in this polity’s history is known as the “three years and eight months” and saw incidents like a
massacre of wounded soldiers at St. Stephen’s College. That period was the result of a battle in this polity
that began with the breaching of the Gin Drinkers’ Line and ended with the surrender on “Black Christmas”
in (*) 1941, leading to Japanese occupation until the end of World War II. At that time, this polity was restored to its
previous owner, who had this polity ceded to them in 1842 after the First Opium War. That owner also leased this
polity’s New Territories for 99 years starting in 1898, after which the entire territory was returned to its original
owner. For 10 points, name this colony owned by the British until July 1, 1997, when it was handed over to its
current owner, China.
ANSWER: Hong Kong
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's arrangement of this composition replaced trumpet with French horn in a
section that was originally criticized for not using trombone instead. It includes a purely instrumental Pifa
movement his piece's first bass accompagnato includes the lyric, "And I will shake all nations, and the desire
of all nations shall come." The alto/tenor duet (*) "O Death, where is thy sting?" appears in the second section of
this work. The third and final part of this composition begins with the soprano aria "I know that my Redeemer
liveth." Commonly excerpted portions of this piece include "Every valley shall be exalted" and "The glory of the
lord shall be revealed," but it is best known for a movement that proclaims, "And he shall reign forever and ever."
For 10 points, name this oratorio by Handel best known for its "Hallelujah" chorus.
ANSWER: The Messiah
4. Compounds with this property have a negative value for Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift of a lithium
ion, and the "Mobius" variety of this property was predicted by Heilbronner and contains a single out-ofphase overlap, thereby violating this property's most famous criterion. That criterion is also violated by the
(*) "anti" variety of this property, as it lacks the necessary electron delocalization. Pyrrole has this property because
its lone electron pair can occupy a p orbital, thereby ensuring that it is cyclic, planar and conjugated with 4n + 2 pi
electrons. Usually obeying Huckel's Rule these are examples of, FTP, what property which imparts an unusual
amount of stability to a system, shared by anthracene, napthalene and benzene?
ANSWER: aromaticity
5. One of these texts consists of six questions put forth to Pippalapada, while another recounts how
Hayagriva obtained the head of a horse. One of them states that “the door of the True is covered with a
golden disk;” that text, which consists of only eighteen verses, describes the nature of the supreme controller,
(*) Ish, and is called the Isha. The final one includes a list of all the canonical ones, and is called the Muktika.
Another of them contains the doctrine of neti neti, which is described by the sage Yajnavalkya. It also contains a
story in which the thunder repeats the syllable “da,” which inspired the final section of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
For 10 points, name these sacred texts in Hinduism which consist of 108 commentaries on the Vedas.
ANSWER: Upanishads
6. This artist’s late travels in the Middle East was characterized by works like Procession Bearing Food to the
Dead, Upper Egypt. In one work by this artist, the the title figure sits on bundles of luggage with his hands
folded in his lap and his face turned towards the side, and in another the title path extends straight into the
horizon. Besides creating The Road West and one about a (*) Japanese Boy, this artist's first "street" work shows
a row of men in hats with their back to the viewer while a single man faces forward, leaning over a fence with his
hands clasped in front of him. This artist of The White Angel Breadline in San Francisco created a more famous
work in which Florence Thompson leans her chin on her hand while her children look away. For 10 points, name
this photographer of Migrant Mother.
ANSWER: Dorothea Lange
7. Burke’s modification of this process adds sodium bicarbonate, while a modification of it using ammonium
oxalate to prevent precipitation was developed by Thomas Hucker. One alternative to this process was
developed by Ziehl and Neelsen and is used because this process is ineffective on acid-fast organisms. That
modification uses a more basic compound in the final step to avoid adverse reactions to (*) safranin. It involves
the use of acetone or alcohol as a decolorizer and iodine as a mordant, as well as crystal violet, which results in a
purple colour in the presence of peptidoglycan in the cell wall. For 10 points, name this method for separating
bacteria into “positive” and “negative” groups, a stain named for its Danish creator.
ANSWER: Gram stain
8. In 2009, it was announced that this city's Clover Bar Landfill had reached full capacity. That structure is
located on Meridian Street within this city's Waste Management Centre, which also contains the largest
composting facility in North America. 2009 saw plans to expand this city's Light Rail System north to
Gorman station, east to the community of Mill Woods, and south across the North (*) Saskatchewan River and
through this city's loop highway, Anthony Henday Drive. This city also contains the Citadel Theatre in Churchill
Square and the Royal Alberta Museum as well as a famous complex whose World Waterpark and Ice Palace skating
rink were flooded by thunderstorms in 2004. For 10 points, identify this Alberta city whose west side contains
North America's largest shopping mall and that is notably not Calgary.
ANSWER: Edmonton
9. One leader of this country was a founder of the National Agrarian Party, which collaborated with the
LANC party of A.C. Cuza. In addition to Octavian Goga, this country also saw the leadership of a man who
hired miners to quell riots led by disgruntled students called "Golanis." Another leader of this country was
threatened by a faction led by Horia Sima, but quelled the Legionary movement of that faction, the (*) Iron
Guard. Later in the 20th century, it was led by a dictator who had a secret police force called the Securitate, passed a
1966 decree that outlawed abortion, and issued the July Theses; that man, who succeeded Gheorge Gheorghiu-Dej,
was overthrown in a 1989 revolution. For 10 points, identify this country which has seen leaders such as Ion
Antonescu and Nicolae Ceausescu.
ANSWER: Romania
10. In one poem, this man wrote that "Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart/push in their tides" and
"Light breaks where no sun shines." This poet invoked the “mankind making/bird beast and flower/fathering
and all humbling darkness” in a poem that ends “After the first death, there is no other.” In another work,
this poet wrote “Though they go mad, they shall be sane/though they sink through the sea they shall rise
again.” This poet of “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” “sang in [his] chains like
the sea” when he was (*) “young and easy under the apple boughs.” This poet’s most famous work states that
“blind eyes could blaze like meteors” and exhorts the reader to “rage, rage, against the dying of the light.” For 10
points, name this Welsh poet of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”
ANSWER: Dylan Thomas
11. This man gives his name to a method for simulating fluid flow which arose out of the lattice gas automata
methods. His namesake machine is similar to a stochastic version of a Hopfield net. His assumption of
molecular chaos in the second law of thermodynamics was challenged by Loschmidt, and his namesake
equation is used to find the (*) distribution function of a fluid. This scientist also names a formula that gives the
entropy of a system given the number of microstates, S = k log W. With a namesake constant that is equal to the gas
constant over Avogadro’s number name, FTP, this physicist who also names a law of blackbody radiation along
with Stefan as well as a distribution of kinetic energy with Maxwell.
ANSWER: Ludwig Boltzmann
12. One of these begins by noting, "The creature gazes into openness with all/its eyes. But our eyes are/as if
they were reversed, and surround it/everywhere". The last one describes the speaker's journey into "GriefLand", while the seventh tells of a man calling after his dead lover, and states, "O to be dead at last and know
[the stars] eternally... for how, how, how to forget them!" The fifth one is dedicated to (*) Frau Hertha von
Koenig, while the fourth one invokes a tree of life. Also containing a poem dedicated to the "perfect woman"
Gaspara Stampa, for 10 points, name this series of poems which begins, "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among
the Angelic Orders?", a work by Rainer Maria Rilke.
ANSWER: Duino Elegies
13. In Beowulf, it is said that one of these animals adorned the helmet of Onela, supposedly to protect the life
of its wearer; that effigy represented Hildisvini, which was sometimes used as a mount by Freya. In Hindu
mythology, this creature represents the third avatar of Vishnu, Varaha. In Norse mythology, Eitri and
Brokkr fashioned a (*) golden one of these creatures named Gullinbursti. According to the Prose Edda, one of
these called Saehrimnir is killed and eaten every night by the inhabitants of Valhalla. In Greek mythology, Adonis
was killed by one of these creatures, Heracles drove one of them into a patch of snow as one of his labours, and one
of them sent by Artemis was wounded by Atalanta and killed by Meleager. For 10 points, name this animal that
came in Erymanthean and Calydonian varieties.
ANSWER: boars [prompt on pigs]
14. Johnny Pacar and Alyson Michalka starred as characters in this occupation in a 2005 Disney Channel
Original Movie. Alan Davies played a man who solved crimes and came up with ideas for people in this
occupation on the BBC show, Jonathan Creek. A person with this real-life occupation played Drell, the exfiance of Hilda Spellman, on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch; that man also hosted the short-lived game show
(*) Identity. In a Neil Burger film, Edward Norton played a person in this profession named Eisenstein. GOB
[“johb”] is barred from their namesake alliance on Arrested Development after blowing the lid on The Aztec Tomb.
Also the occupation of the protagonists of The Prestige, for 10 points, name this occupation of TV celebrities Criss
Angel and David Blaine.
ANSWER: Stage Magicians [accept reasonable equivalents]
15. This man's Scottish campaign saw George Monck sack Dundee as well as a decisive victory despite being
besieged by David Leslie in the Battle of Dunbar. He chaired over the Putney debates, acquired his highest
title with the passage of the Instrument of Government, and accepted the provisions laid out under the
Humble Petition and Advice. The First (*) Anglo-Dutch war came to an end during his rule, and the Self Denying
Ordinance barred members of Parliament from leading a group headed by this man. That group gained prominence
due to an early victory at Marston Moor. His most notable victory came at the head of his New Model Army against
forces led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine at the Battle of Naseby. For 10 points, identify this man who ruled as the
Lord Protector of England after the death of Charles I.
ANSWER: Oliver Cromwell
16. In one of her works, this thinker discussed the primping habits of the men of the Tchambuli society,
which were contrasted with the purely practical and warlike manner of their women. This writerco-authored
a study of the foyer, a relationship model in French society, with Rhoda Metraux. In addition to Themes In
French Culture, this anthropologist's works include a study of gender differences among (*) pacific islanders in
Male and Female as well as her most well-known work, a study of adolescent rites among women on the island of
Tau that was famously challenged in a book which described her "fateful hoaxing" which was written by Derek
Freeman in 1983. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist, the author of Coming Of Age In Samoa.
ANSWER: Margaret Mead
17. This man was excommunicated after his General Cialdani decisively defeated Lamoriciere's forces at the
Battle of Castelfidardo. This man's father abdicated after losing a decisive battle at Novara to Joseph
Radetzky, with whom this man was forced to sign a truce at Vignale, and another of his early actions saw him
suppress a revolt in Genoa. This man's advisor resigned after the treaty of (*) Villafranca was concluded, but
returned after La Gueronnier and Mocquart published a pamphlet called The Pope and the Congress. While allied
with the French, his armies won victories at Magenta and Solferino. During his reign, The March of The Thousand
by Garibaldi led to the annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. For 10 points, identify this Savoyard ruler
whose reign saw the reunification of Italy during the risorgimento.
ANSWER: Victor Emmanuel II [or Vittorio Emmanuale II]
18. One work by this philosopher, written in response to an essay contest posed by the Royal Danish Society
of Scientific Studies, contains a history of ethics, especially criticizing those of Immanuel Kant, before
claiming that it is sympathy that forms the titular basis of morality. He argued that a certain group of
people "remain children their whole life long" and "take the shortest way to their goal" in his essay "On (*)
Women," which was originally included in his collection Parerga and Paralipomena. He used the categories of
“becoming,” “knowing,” “being,” and “willing” in his doctoral dissertation, entitled On the Fourfold Root of the
Principle of Sufficient Reason. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who argued that electricity and gravity
were the two components of desire in The World as Will and Representation.
ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer
19. One mathematician defined these objects as all objects whose Hausdorff dimension is greater than their
topological dimension, and that mathematician's namesake "tree" is an example of one of these. Many of
these objects can be expressed in terms of Lindenmayer systems, and one example of these can be found on a
Henon map, and is used to determine a system's trajectories. That example is the (*) "strange attractor". Spacefilling ones, such as the Hilbert curve, do not satisfy the above definition given by Mandelbrot and other ones, such
as the Rabbit and Dendrite types of these objects, can be generated using Julia sets. Including the real-life examples
of coastlines and snowflakes, FTP, name these mathematical objects who portray a degree of self-similarity at all
levels of magnification.
ANSWER: fractals
20. In one of this man's stories, Ulises stabs a green-blooded old hag to free the title character, who then flees
from him across the desert. Another of this author's characters recalls his love affair with Manuela Saenz
while making a last trip with his servant Jose Palacios down the Rio Magdalena. In his most recent novel, a
ninety-year-old man decides to deflower a young (*) virgin. One of this author's protagonists abandons his 14year-old charge and lover America Vicuna, who commits suicide, to pursue his true love, formerly married to
Juvenal Urbino. This author created such characters as Santiago Nasar, Fermina Daza, Remedios the Beauty, and
Colonel Aureliano Buendía in his more famous novels. For 10 points, name this author of Chronicle of a Death
Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: Gabriel García Márquez (prompt on partial last name)
BONUSES
1. Simurgh delivered this man via Caesarean section from his mother Rudabeh, and he killed a huge white elephant
as a child. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this hero who slept with Princess Tahminah of Sangan while searching for his horse Raksh, then, years
later, tragically killed the son born from that liaison.
ANSWER: Rostam
[10] This 11th-century poet poeticized the tale of Rostam and Sohrab in his magnum opus.
ANSWER: Ferdowsi
[10] Ferdowsi’s Book of Kings was written in this language, although Arabic was the primary language for literature
at the time.
ANSWER: Persian or Farsi
2. It occurs between the ages of zero and two and is characterized by the learning of behaviours such as grabbing
objects and thumb sucking. For ten points each:
[10] Name this first stage of cognitive development that precedes the preoperational stage.
ANSWER: sensorimotor stage
[10] The sensorimotor and preoperational stages are among the four stages of cognitive development developed by
this Swiss psychologist.
ANSWER: Jean Piaget
[10] Piaget notes that the ultimate objective of the sensorimotor stage is to develop and internalize these entities.
They include both reflexive behaviours, such as swatting away foreign objects, and habits.
ANSWER: schemes
3. They are commonly defined as a five-tuple consisting of a finite, non-empty set of states, an alphabet, a transition
function, a start state, and a set of final states. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these models of computation which can come in deterministic and non-deterministic varieties.
ANSWER: finite automata [accept finite state machines; prompt on partial answer]
[10] Finite automata can be transformed into pushdown automata with the addition of this first-in-last-out memory
construct. It's functions include push and pop.
ANSWER: stack
[10] Adding a second stack to a pushdown automaton yields a model equivalent in power to these objects, which
have the ability to compute any computable function.
ANSWER: Turing machines
4. One portion of this work is a play on the last name of Arthur Jaeger, and another, "C.A.E.", is named for its
composer's wife. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composition, each movement of which depicts one of the composer's friends or family members.
ANSWER: Enigma Variations
[10] This British composer of the Enigma Variations also wrote an oratorio based on a poem by Cardinal Newman,
The Dream of Gerontius, and Pomp and Circumstance.
ANSWER: Edward Elgar
[10] This Elgar composition popularized by Jacqueline du Pre opens with a recitative and cadenza by the solo
instrument, after which the violas first state the main theme.
ANSWER: Cello concerto in E minor
5. In the aftermath of this battle, its victor founded the Corinth-based Hellenic League to launch his efforts against
Persia. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 338 BC battle at which a coalition of Athens and Thebes was defeated.
ANSWER: Battle of Charonea
[10] Demosthenes gave a set of orations against this ruler, who won against the Athens-Thebes alliance at Charonea.
He was the father of Alexander the Great.
ANSWER: Philip II of Macedon
[10] Philip won the 3rd and 4th of these conflicts, which were fought over the oracle at Delphi. The second of these
conflicts saw Phocis's power reinstated in Delphi.
ANSWER: Sacred Wars
6. In this work, the “self-taught man” Ogier P. is thrown out of the library for being gay. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work in which Antoine Roquentin attempts to write a biography of the Marquis de Rollebon, but
slowly sinks into despair.
ANSWER: Nausea or La Nausee
[10] Name this play which sees Hugo ordered by Louis to murder Hoederer in the name of the Communist party.
ANSWER: Dirty Hands (accept Les Mains Salés)
[10] Name this author of Dirty Hands and No Exit who wrote about the von Gerlach family in his play The
Condemned of Altona.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre
7. For 10 points each, name some things about a certain university's contributions to the field of economics.
[10] An exogenous growth model, that was simultaneously developed by Trevor Swan and uses labor and capital as
inputs, is named for this man.
ANSWER: Robert Solow
[10] Solow worked for nearly 40 years with this other economist best known for authoring the textbook Economics:
An Introdutory Analysis.
ANSWER: Paul Samuelson
[10] Both Solow and Samuelson, as well as Franco Modigliani, worked at this east coast college whose original
campus was built near the town of Cambridge by William Bosworth.
ANSWER: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (accept MIT)
8. The main theory behind this concept is named for chemist Adolf von Baeyer and it explains why cyclopropane is
so unstable, FTPE:
[10] Name this type of energy which can come in torsional and angle varieties, of which an example is the 1,3diaxial interaction.
ANSWER: strain
[10] One type of strain in cyclic compounds occurs because angles deviate from this value, the angle between the CH bonds in a tetrahedral compound.
ANSWER: 109.5 degrees (accept anything within 0.5 degrees)
[10] This rule disallows carbon-carbon bonds at the bridgehead position of a multi-ring compound due to the
excessive strain it causes. Only rings with a sufficient amount of flexibility can disobey it.
ANSWER: Bredt's Rule
9. In 2007, this religion made the news when some of its members were targeted in a series of suicide bombings.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Kurdish religion whose central deity is a peacock angel named Melek Taus.
ANSWER: Yazidi [accept Dasni]
[10] Melek Taus is sometimes associated with the Devil by followers of this religion, in which the Devil is known as
Iblis or Shaitan.
ANSWER: Islam
[10] The ritual of the stoning of the Devil takes place as part of this pillar of Islam.
ANSWER: hajj [or pilgrimage to Makkah]
10. One side in this conflict recruited piked soldiers called Landsknechts, but that side was decisively beaten at
battles such as one fought at Dornach. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this conflict fought in the late 1400s which saw Switzerland defeat a disorganized league of nobelmen
from a namesake region of Germany.
ANSWER: Swabian War [or Schweizkrieg from disgruntled Swabians]
[10] The Kappel Wars were fought between Catholic and Protestant parties of Zurich in 1529 and 1531. The wars
saw the death of this Zurich-based reformer who debated Martin Luther at the Marburg Colloquy.
ANSWER: Huldrych Zwingli [or Ulrich Zwingli]
[10] This city, which had remained at least nominally neutral during the Swabian War, had earlier hosted an
eccumenical council that led to the election of Felix V as antipope.
ANSWER: Basel
11. Quantized versions of this theory typically use the Polyakov action as opposed to the Nambu-Goto action. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this theory, in which quarks are actually one-dimensional objects which move and vibrate. It also comes
in a “super” variety, which incorporates supersymmetry.
ANSWER: string theory
[10] In 1995, Edward Witten proposed this 11-dimensional theory, with the intention of uniting the five superstring
theories.
ANSWER: M-theory
[10] One major flaw of bosonic string theory, the original formulation of string theory, is that it predicts the
existence of this particle, whose presence would violate causality.
ANSWER: tachyon
12. One of the wall tiles behind the title figure in this painting depicts Cupid, and a clothes basket that had appeared
by the title figure's feet was later removed by the artist. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this painting in which a woman pours the title substance into a Dutch oven set on a table surrounded by
baskets of bread.
ANSWER: The Milkmaid [or The Kitchen Maid or De Melkmeid or Het Melkmeiseje]
[10] This Dutch artist painted The Milkmaid, as well as Girl With a Pearl Earring.
ANSWER: Jan Vermeer [or Johannes Vermeer or Johan Vermeer or Johanis Vermeer]
[10] In this Vermeer painting, a mirror reflects back the image of the woman playing the large instrument in the
background. It's sometimes called Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman.
ANSWER: The Music Lesson
13. The author feared that she had created "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like". For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel about the meddling Miss Woodhouse, a work by Jane Austen that is also one of the editor's
favorite novels.
ANSWER: Emma
[10] Emma eventually marries this brother-in-law whom she realizes she loves only after Harriet becomes attracted
to him. He owns the estate of Donwell and is rumoured, at one point, to be interested in Jane Fairfax.
ANSWER: George Knightley
[10] Emma earlier convinces Harriet that this man is in love with her--a mistake since it turns out he loves Emma
instead. Emma rejects his proposal of marriage and he soon after weds the obnoxious Augusta Hawkins.
ANSWER: John Elton
14. He possesses an I-Ching calculator of questionable quality and enjoys scamming old ladies with his Holistic
Detective Agency. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this protagonist of a series of novels by Douglas Adams.
ANSWER: Dirk Gently [or Svlad Cjelli; accept any underlined answer]
[10] Dirk visits this British poet at the end of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, interrupting a dream
supposedly induced by an alien spirit rather than opium. Dirk thus believes that this man's poem, "Kubla Khan" is
really a secret alien message.
ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[10] Dirk’s story is set in motion by an electric one of these type of people. A television character with this surname
learns that his dead wife had been having an affair with “The Judge”, aka Ethan Rickover, and in later seasons
visited with therapist Neven Bell.
ANSWER: Monk
15. Ivan Skoropadsky replaced this man as the leader of the Cossack Hetmanate. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this badass who chose to ally with Sweden's Charles XII against Peter the Great in an effort to preserve
Cossack autonomy over Ukraine.
ANSWER: Ivan Mazepa
[10] Mazepa's decision to side with the Swedes occurred because Peter the Great wanted the Cossacks to fight in
this conflict. Sweden scored an early at Narva, but was decisively defeated at the Battle of Poltava.
ANSWER: Great Northern War
[10] The Great Northern War was ended by this treaty, in which Sweden ceded claims to Ingria, Livonia, and
Estonia, but managed to maintain much of its territory on the other side of the Baltic.
ANSWER: Treaty of Nystad
16. The title character of this novel nearly dies when a gas leak occurs in his study, but he is saved by the
seamstress Augusta. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel concerning the memory of Tom Outland as related by Godfrey St. Peter.
ANSWER: The Professor's House
[10] Name the author of The Professor's House who also wrote The Song of the Lark and a novel about the Bergson
family.
ANSWER: Willa Siebert Cather
[10] This other Cather novel, narrated by Jim Burden, describes the title Bohemian girl's life in Nebraska, including
her affair with Larry Donovan.
ANSWER: My Ántonia
17. He discussed “religion as a natural phenomenon” in the book Breaking the Spell. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this philosopher who proposed the multiple drafts model in Consciousness Explained and contrasted
“skyhooks” and “cranes” in his best known work.
ANSWER: Daniel Dennett
[10] Dennett has criticized this thought experiment by John Searle, an argument against strong AI involving a
computer program which outputs characters in the namesake language.
ANSWER: Chinese Room
[10] Dennett’s views on evolution are often compared with those of this author of The Selfish Gene, who adopted
Dennett’s concepts of skyhooks and cranes in the “ultimate Boeing 747 gambit” to argue against the existence of
God in The God Delusion.
ANSWER: Richard Dawkins
18. Germline mutations in the gene which encodes this protein are linked to Li-Fraumeni syndrome. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this tumour-suppressing protein which is sometimes called the “guardian of the genome” for its role in
preventing cancer.
ANSWER: p53
[10] One of the ways in which p53 prevents cancer is by promoting this form of programmed cell death, which,
unlike necrosis, does not cause damage to organisms.
ANSWER: apoptosis
[10] A protein known as Mdm2 targets p53 for degradation by the proteasome by attaching this protein to it.
ANSWER: ubiquitin
19. It was the first feature film of a man who would later direct Crazy Pete and The Little Soldier. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this film in which the protagonist seeks Patricia’s help to hide from the police after he steals a car and
shoots a police officer.
ANSWER: Breathless [ort À bout de soufflé]
[10] Breathless was one of the earliest examples of the New Wave movement in this country. This country also
produced The 400 Blows.
ANSWER: France [or French Republic or Republique francaise]
[10] In this other Jean-Luc Goddard film, Lemmy ends up falling in love with Natacha, the daughter of the scientist
who created the character he seeks to kill. By now, all high school players probably know that a love hotel was
named for this film in Haruki Murakami's After Dark.
ANSWER: Alphaville
20. Along with Sayil, Kabah, and Labna, it forms a part of the Puuc Route, and the most notable structure at this
location is The Pyramid of the Magician, which has an oval base. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this site in the Yucatan Peninsula, which is thought to have been ruled by the Tutul Xiw people during
its Golden Age from 700-1000 AD. Since it lacks continuous freshwater supply, several cisterns called chultuns
were built at this site.
ANSWER: Uxmal [OOSH-mahl]
[10] Uxmal rose in prominence roughly at the same time as this other Yucatan site and Maya population center. Its
most notable structure is the El Castillo step-pyramid that served as a temple for Kukulkan.
ANSWER: Chichen Itzá
[10] The Mayan ruins of Copan are located in this modern-day country, which fought the Soccer War against El
Salvador.
ANSWER: Honduras