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 UTS
TOSSUPS
1. One of this composer's earliest works is a comic opera in one act called The Stubborn Lovers, and he wrote
a "Carnival Overture" as part of a trilogy called Nature, Life, and Love. A "Tempo di valse" movement that
ends on a major chord despite being in C sharp minor appears in his Serenade for Strings, which he wrote in
only twelve days, and the deaths of his children prompted him to write his ten-movement (*) Stabat Mater. His
first symphony is subtitled "The Bells of Zlonice," and he wrote a six-movement piano trio subtitled "Dumky." This
composer drew from "furiant" folk songs to write a series of piano duets that he later orchestrated, and another one
of his works uses tunes inspired by "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "The Song of Hiawatha." For 10 points, name
this Czech composer of the Slavonic Dances and New World symphony.
ANSWER: Antonín Dvořák
2. One member of this group wrote Nègres blancs d'Amérique while imprisoned for activites related to this
group. While plans by members of this group to kidnap Israeli and United States consuls failed, they did
detonate bombs in mailboxes and factories, and at Mayor Jean Drapeau's home. This group's actions would
lead to the rise of a political party whose supporters called themselves (*) péquistes and a referendum on
sovereignty-association. Members of this group kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Minister of
Labour and Immigration Pierre Laporte. In response, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act;
Laporte's kidnappers killed him a day later. For 10 points, name this separatist group associated with the October
Crisis in Québec.
ANSWER: Front de libération du Québec (accept "FLQ"; prompt on "October Crisis" from "Members of this
group" until mentioned)
3. This man argued that the U.S. invasion of Iraq serves as a warning to Iran and North Korea that they can
dissuade U.S. military action by having proper defenses in his article "Dilemmas of Dominance," while
analyzed the roots for Middle Eastern contempt of the U.S. going back to the policies of the Eisenhower
administration is his article "9/11: Lessons Unlearned;" both of those pieces were included in his book
Interventions. He claimed that American intellectuals could be held responsible for the events of the (*)
Vietnam War in his book American Power and the New Mandarins. At the highest level of his namesake hierarchy,
a Turing Machine can regonize all languages that are generated. For 10 points, name this proposer of X-bar theory
and developer of generative grammar, the author of Syntactic Structures and a noted anarchist and professor of
linguistics at MIT.
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky
4. Near the start of this novel, the main characters witness a dead dog at the top of a waterfall, providing a
chance for the grand-niece of the Abbess of Gesshu to steal some time alone with the main character, her
eventual love interest. One scene from this novel sees a character who lost an emerald ring and his friend be
forced to search for it in a lawn during a downpour, prompting them to leave school; those characters are two
(*) princes from Thailand known as Chao P and Kri. After arranging an abortion, Satoko Ayakura runs away to live
in a convent, while it ends with the death of Kiyaoki Matsugae, who tells his friend Shigekuni Honda that, in his
dreams, he knows they will meet again, foreshadowing the events of Runaway Horses and The Temple of Dawn.
For 10 points, name this first novel in Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility series.
ANSWER: Spring Snow
5. One instrument used to measure this was invented by Thomas Turner in 1896. A different measure of it is
given by the equation 1854.4 times load over mean diagonal length squared. A third measure of it is equal to
the degree to which a certain hammer will bounce off of a material when dropped from a fixed height. The
device which performs this measurement is the scleroscope, and it can be measured in Shore units, but in the
1970s, the Leeb (*) rebound test was created to replace it. Also measured by the Knoop and Brinell tests, the most
famous test for measuring it gives diamond a value of 10. These three measurements are respectively the rebound,
indentation, and scratch versions of, FTP, what property of solid matter, often characterized by the Mohs scale?
ANSWER: hardness (accept scratch hardness before the equation)
6. The French forces at this battle, since they were waiting for some 5,000 troops under the command of the
Dukes of Brabant, Anjou, and Brittany, delayed their attack for over three hours after sunrise, but were
prompted by an unexpected enemy advance. One French success was their attack on the enemy's supplies
under the command of a native named Yzembart. Their commander, Charles (*) d'Albret, split his troops into
three lines and personally commanded their vanguard, though the narrowness of the battlefield spelled their defeat
because it meant that they were vulnerable to Thomas Epringham's archers as they marched across a muddy field in
full armor, some of them on horseback. For 10 points, name this English victory of Henry V during the Hundred
Years' War.
ANSWER: Battle of Agincourt
7. Along with Lifshitz, this man lends his name to an equation that gives the magnetization of a ferromagnet
in terms of its torques. This man also names an effect where the intensity of brehmsstrahlung radiation is
reduced at high energies, and that effect is named for him, Pomeranchuk and Migdal. In addition to naming
a flawed theory of turbulence along with Hopf, this man won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
explanation of helium's (*) superfluidity. A type of damping that occurs in plasmas is named for this man, as is a
theory of superconductivity based on his research in second-order phase transitions with Ginzburg. FTP, name this
Soviet physicist, the author of Course in Theoretical Physics, who supposedly died in a car accident in 1962.
ANSWER: Lev Landau
8. On Mount Zephon, this figure battles with a personification of death who had earlier been slain by his
sister Anat. His palace, originally constructed without windows, was, with the help of Athirat, built by
Kothar-wa-Kathis, who had also loaned him two magical clubs to help defeat a foe who was aided by sea
monsters. This opponent of Mot and Yamh is usually credited to be a son of Dagan, though sometimes he is
said to have been fathered by (*) El, a sort of supreme deity to whom he is subordinate. The namesake of a cycle
unearthed on clay tablets by a Syrian farmer, he is also the namesake of a demon and of a deity whose cult was
ended by Jehu in Israel. For 10 points, name this Semitic god of storms and rain known as Haddad whose name also
refers to a number of less relevant, cult deities, especially those referred to in the Bible.
ANSWER: Ba'al (accept Haddad before demon)
9. This author wrote a play in which a fourteen year old black boy is killed after he supposedly whistled at a
white woman; that work was based on the real story of Emmett Till. Her only short story contains a scene
where two women who first met at an orphanage have a fight through hoisting up a series of picketing signs
during civil unrest over the integration of a busing system. In addition to writing about Twyla Tharp and
Roberta Fisk in (*) "Recitatif," she wrote a novel in which Golden Gray runs away with Wild and in which Joe
Trace cheats on his childless wife Violet with a younger girl named Dorcas. In another of her novels, Claudia
MacTeer attacks a white doll she is given and Pecola Breedlove longs for the titular facial feature. For 10 points,
name this author of Jazz and The Bluest Eye as well as Beloved.
ANSWER: Toni Morrison
10. Tours to this location often start with boatrides down the Carrao and Churun Rivers, though it is also
visible from a distance on Raton Island. One of the primary attractions of the Canaima National Park,
explorers associated with it include Aleksandrs Laime and Ernesto Sancho de la Cruz. It was the (*) pilot of
the El Rio Caroni, though, who crash landed his plane and then had to make an eleven day long descent near their
path, who is their namesake to the western world. Their name in the native Pemon language, Kerepakupai Meru,
was advocated by Hugo Chavez. Located on the face of Auyan-tepui, they directly feed the Kerep River, though
much of the water is vaporized upon contact with the rocks over 3,000 feet below their summit. For 10 points, name
this Venezuelan waterfall, the tallest in the world.
ANSWER: Angel Falls
11. She repeated, “oh, put your freakum dress on” on a track from her second album, a disc also containing
two songs made into one music video, “Kitty Kat” and “Green Light”. This singer once played Carmen
alongside Mekhi Phifer and Mos Def on a made-for-TV MTV movie. This artist’s most recent studio album
sees the singer fantasizing, “I’d roll outta bed (*) in the morning / And throw on what I wanted then go / Drink
beer with the guys” on its lead single. As a youth, she appeared with cousin Kelly Rowland in a group originally
called Girl’s Tyme, and she has “gloss on my lips, a man on my hips” in one hit . In a guest role, she delivered the
lines, “Callin’ like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer” on Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”. For 10 points, name this
R&B singer famous for songs such as “Halo” and “Single Ladies”, a one-time member of Destiny’s Child.
ANSWER: Beyonce Knowles [accept either underlined answer; also accept Sasha Fierce]
12. This play's opening scene, set in a town square after a church service, sees the protagonist receive a tie
and a comb from his friend, on whom he accidentally spills his drink when his love interest walks by. The
main character proceeds to defend his alcoholism by saying that he doesn't have any sense of self-identity
except when he's drunk. Minor characters in this play include a grocer who is devastated by the loss of his
(*) cat, Botard and Dudard, two of the protagonist's co-workers, and a logician whose arguments often don't make
any sense. The protagonist's love interest, Daisy, is unable to resist undergoing a transformation that Mr. Beouf's
wife also undergoes in order to be with her husband. Jean also transforms into one of the titular creatures; the only
character who does not is the protagonist, Berenger. For 10 points, name this play by Eugene Ionesco.
ANSWER: The Rhinoceros
13. One scandal associated with this polity occured when its crown prince, Anthony, eloped with and then
married a commoner named Kathleen Hudden, while another controversy involved the flamboyancy of the
daughters of its last ruler, who came to be known as Princesses Gold, Baba, and Pearl. That last ruler,
Vyner, allowed it a liberal constitution in exchange for a payment from the treasury before departing for
Australia, while his predecessor, Charles, had overseen the development of what would become the SMK
Green Road school. Its first ruler, who faced uprisings from Sharif Masahor and Rentrap, was James (*)
Brooke, who had founded it on land obtained from the Sultan of Brunei. Ruled from Kuching by a series of White
Rajahs, for 10 points, name this kingdom on the island of Borneo, which, along with Sabah, is the namesake of one
of two states now governed by Malaysia on that island.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Sarawak
14. The title figures can be seen standing next to a storm drain in his Man and Dog. He introduced a closet,
an arrow and a man with a cast on his leg into his version of Ingres’ Oedipus and the Sphinx, and one of his
works was partially inspired by a close-up of a woman being shot from Sergey Eisenstein’s Battleship
Potemkin. He painted a series of eight paintings of a seated figure (*) getting more and more pissed off in Study
for Portrait I-VIII after Muybridge. In one of his best known works, a red stain appears above a man’s open mouth,
although that figure’s eyes are obscured by the umbrella above him. Also known for a series of works inspired by
Velazquez, the Screaming Popes, for 10 points, name this British artist behind Painting and Three Studies for
Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
ANSWER: Francis Bacon
15. This man's namesake line passes through the orthocenter and the center of the nine-point circle of a
triangle, among other notable points. In an investigation of the number of ways of dividing a polygon into
triangles, he was the first to describe the Catalan sequence. A constant named for this man is the infinite sum
of the harmonic number minus the natural logarithm of n and is also named for (*) Mascheroni. His namesake
paths in a graph visit each edge exactly once, and these were first discussed in relation to seven bridges often
associated with him. Also the namesake of the equation e to the power i pi equals negative one, FTP, name this
Swiss mathematician after whom the base of the natural logarithm is named.
ANSWER: Leonhard Euler
16. Because of his subjects' religious tendencies, this figure instituted a rule that let him sleep with all new
brides during the first night of their marriage; it was in opposition to that rule that he is forced to fight with
the husband of Shamhat, though after he defeats that man he becomes his close friend. Later on, after that
friend's death, he undertakes a journey past Mount Mashu where he meets (*) Siduri and the ferryman
Urshanabi, who offers him passage across a sea to see a flood survivor who supposedly possessed the secret of
immortality, Utnapishtim. Earlier, he had slain Humbaba in the Cedar Forest and defeated the Bull of Heaven that
had been sent by Ishtar, both with the help of his friend, a one-time wild man named Enkidu. For 10 points, name
this Mesopotamian hero, the namesake of an epic.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh
17. One force of these peoples, led in part by Cerethrius and Bolgios, defeated a force of Greeks under
Calippus at a battle fought at Thermopylae. Another force of these people, after conquering Clusium, won
the Battle of the Allia and then proceeded to be paid off with a thousand pounds of gold, though a lengthy
dispute over the weight of a pound enabled (*) Marcus Furius Camillus to expel that force, under the command of
their ruler Brennus, from Rome. They were defeated in the Battle of Bibracte before winning a decisive victory at
Atuatuca Tungrorum under the command of Ambiorix; those events happened in their namesake war, which also
saw battles at Gergovia and Alesia that involved Vercingetorix and Julius Caesar, who wrote a commentary about
that conflict. For 10 points, give the name for these European peoples, the namesake of a Roman province that
encompassed France.
ANSWER: Gauls (accept Celts; accept Pannonians before Clusium)
18. The addition to this protein of a Kozak translation initiation site by changing its second residue to valine
has improved the expression of it in human tissues. An A206K mutation in it stops it from dimerizing, and
certain pH-sensitive mutants of this protein are called super-ecliptic pHluorins. Other variants of it are
particularly useful for (*) FRET experiments. An extra double bond differentiates this protein from a variant of it
isolated from members of the genus Discosoma. An arginine and a glutamate residue may catalyze cyclization
reactions in the Ser65–Tyr66–Gly67 sequence in this protein's beta barrel structure. Chalfie, Shimomura, and Tsien
received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for their work with this protein, which was first isolated from
Aequorea victoria, a type of jellyfish. FTP, name this protein, often used as a reporter, that fluoresces when exposed
to blue light.
ANSWER: Green Fluorescent Protein
19. This work claims that modern society is plagued by "the epidemic of over-production" after having
compared it to a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the power of his spells; those revelations follow a
lengthy discourse on the abandonment of the feudal guild system of production, which was checked by the
nobility. It goes on to argue that the workman has been reduced to "an appendage of the machine," and that,
though his wages are lowered, the price of goods rises because it is dependent on the costs of production,
something that would come to be known as the (*) labor theory of value. It describes how the history of all
society has been "the history of class struggles," primarily between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. For 10
points, name this work of Marx and Engels that claims that "A specter is haunting Europe- the specter of" the titular
form of government.
ANSWER: The Communist Manifesto
20. This author's only play is titled after a friend of Aspasia who converts to Islam to gain favor with a sultan
named Mahomet, and he also wrote an allegorical tale in which Pekuah wants to live in a convent after she
accompanies the title character and his advisor, Imlac, on a quest for happiness. "When Statutes glean the
Refuse of the Sword, / How much more safe the Vassal than the Lord" is a line from one of his poems whose
second section tells of how, "With chearful Wisdom and instructive Mirth," Democritus will rise once more
from the Earth. That poem, a reworking of Juvenal's Tenth Satire, is titled "The (*) Vanity of Human
Wishes." Also the author of a noted dictionary, he wrote a travelogue detailing his trip to the Scottish isles with a
friend who would write his biography. For 10 points, name this author whose "Life" was written about by James
Boswell.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson
BONUSES
1. The name of this subfield of Biology was coined in 1979 by Paulien Hogeweg. FTPE:
[10] Name this field which entails the development of algorithms, databases, and computational techniques to solve
problems relating to biological data.
ANSWER: Bioinformatics
[10] This important bioinformatic tool uses a heuristic algorithm to find homologous sequences to a given input. It
takes as its input sequences in FASTA or Genbank format, and is most often used directly from the NCBI’s webpage.
ANSWER: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
[10] The NCBI database was used to complete this project which determined there are approximately 30,000 genes
in your body.
ANSWER: Human Genome Project
2. It was besieged by Shalmaneser V, Nebuchadnezzar, and, most famously, by Alexander the Great, who
constructed a causeway from the mainland to the island on which it lay. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this city now located in Lebanon, the namesake of a purple dye.
ANSWER: Tyre
[10] Tyre is generally included to be a part of this civilization known for its advanced Alphabet and its colonies such
as Carthage, Utica, and Hadrumentum.
ANSWER: Phoenician
[10] Now the third largest city in Lebanon, this other Phoenician city, named for the word fishery, is notable for the
discovery of the burial site of its ruler Eshmunazar II.
ANSWER: Sidon
3. For 10 points each, name these Greek muses.
[10] Usually depicted holding a globe, this namesake of one of the planets was the muse of astronomy.
ANSWER: Urania
[10] The mother of Orpheus, her domain was epic poetry, and she was said to have inspired the works of Homer.
ANSWER: Calliope
[10] The muse of tragedy, she was often shown wearing a crown of cypresses and wearing boots known as
cothurnus.
ANSWER: Melpomene
4. For 10 points each, name these African cities, none of which are national capitals.
[10] Though South Africa has three capitals, this most populous city in that nation is not one of them. It does house
the country's Constitutional Court, though.
ANSWER: Johannesburg
[10] This is the third most populous city in Morocco after Casablanca and Marrakesh. It is home to the AlKaraouine University, and much of its commercial activity occurs in its "new city" area.
ANSWER: Fez
[10] This capital of a namesake Nigerian state was once the capital of the breakaway Republic of Biafra.
ANSWER: Enugu
5. The narrator of this novel, Mr. Overton, bribes his friend Ernest's corrupt wife Ellen so that she goes away
quietly. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this novel that chronicles several generations of the Pontifex family, including Ernest's father Theobald
and his wife Christina.
ANSWER: The Way of All Flesh
[10] This author of The Way of All Flesh included his essay "Darwin Among the Machines" in the section "The
Book of the Machines," which appears in his most notable book.
ANSWER: Samuel Butler
[10] The aforementioned notable Butler book is titled after this location in which banks have their own currency; in
a novel in which Butler "Revisited" it, Higgs returns here only to be threatened by two professors named Hanky and
Panky.
ANSWER: Erewhon
6. It lays out seven propositions, the first three of which deal with a picture theory of language and the last of which
says that "Where one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence." For 10 points each,
[10] Name this philosophical treatise, first published in 1921, much of which was written while its author was
fighting in World War One.
ANSWER: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
[10] This author of the Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus is also known for writing about how other philosophers have
gotten confused in his Philosophical Investigations.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein
[10] This Wittgenstein collection argues that strong forms of doubt are inherently contradictory and that there are
certain principles that must be exempt from doubt.
ANSWER: On Certainty
7. For 10 points each, name these Supreme Court cases of the 1960s.
[10] Stemming from the break-in of a pool hall in Florida, this case expanded a right granted on the federal level in
Betts V. Brady to the state level as well.
ANSWER: Gideon V. Wainwright (accept Wainwright V. Gideon)
[10] Modified by the recent case of Berghuis V. Thompkins, this case invalidates statements made by defendants
who have not been informed of their rights.
ANSWER: Miranda V. Arizona (accept Arizona V. Miranda)
[10] Justice Hugo Black's dissent to this case explained his viewpoint that even silent means of protest could be
disruptive, referring to its namesakes' and Christopher Eckhart's decision to wear a certain article of clothing in
support of the Christmas Truce promulgated by Robert Kennedy.
ANSWER: Tinker V. Des Moines (accept Des Moines V. Tinker)
8. An array of characters named after body parts appear in his play The Gas Heart, while a convoluted love triangle
is at the center of his The Handkerchief of Clouds. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this Romanian author who also wrote the poem "The Approximate Man."
ANSWER: Tristan Tzara
[10] Though Tzara's work was later associated with Dadaism, his early poetry is usually classified as part of this
movement whose manifesto was written by Jean Moreas. It included much of the work of Paul Verlaine.
ANSWER: symbolism
[10] The origins of symbolism are often traced back to the work of this other French poet who included sections
named "Spleen and Ideal," "Death," and "Wine," in his collection Les Fleurs du Mal.
ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire
9. Parson Alltalk sings "Good Advice" in this work to instruct the townspeople to always love each other and love
truth. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this opera whose title character is saved from being thrown into a wasp's nest by Remus after she foils
the attempts of the "conjuremen" to sell her mother a bag of luck.
ANSWER: Treemonisha
[10] This African-American composer and pianist wrote Treemonisha, as well as a whole lot of rags.
ANSWER: Scott Joplin
[10] This Joplin rag gained fame after it was used as the theme to the movie The Sting. Its name probably relates to
its dedication to "James Brown and the Mandolin Club," and it may have been "orchestrated" to include mandolin
accompaniment.
ANSWER: "The Entertainer"
10. Name these principles from optics, FTPE
[10] This principle states that every point on a wavefront can be considered as a new source of spherical waves.
ANSWER: Huygens' Principle
[10] Sometimes derived from Huygens principle, it states that a ray of light travelling between two points will take
the shortest path between those points.
ANSWER: Fermat's Principle of Least Time
[10] This is the name of the angle of incidence at which light of a certain polarization is completely transmitted
through the boundary between two media of different refractive indices.
ANSWER: Brewster's angle
11. One of his works alternates the colors of blue and yellow and is called Target with Four Faces, and he also did
a series on the Seasons. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this American artist known for his encaustic paintings of flat objects like 1965’s Double White Map.
ANSWER: Jasper Johns, Jr.
[10] Jasper Johns is best known for his paintings of these objects. Variations on the theme include painting three of
them and creating a white one.
ANSWER: American Flags
[10] Johns’ late work, Between the Clock and Bed, takes its title from a self-portrait by this artist. Charlotte Corday
is a naked redhead in his version of the Death of Marat, and he also painted 1895's Death in the Sickroom.
ANSWER: Edvard Munch
12. For 10 points each, name some things about Poland's relations with other nations.
[10] Following the 1569 Union of Lublin, Poland was unified with this polity to form a namesake commonwealth;
as per the terms of the Union of Grodno, this polity had ties with the Duchy of Livonia.
ANSWER: Grand Duchy of Lithuania
[10] The Treaty of Tilsit established this polity to rule Poland; effectively, it allowed Napoleon's ally Frederick
Augustus I of Saxony to rule over the nation.
ANSWER: Grand Duchy of Warsaw
[10] This organization, backed by Catharine the Great of Russia, convinced Stanislaw Poniatowski to support it after
the Battle of Dubienka, eventually leading to the second partition of Poland.
ANSWER: Targowica Confederation
13. Under the traditional Pauling scale, Fluorine has the highest value at 4.0, FTPE:
[10] Name this quantity, the ability of an atom to attract electrons to itself in a bond.
ANSWER: electronegativity
[10] This other scale defines electronegativity as the average of ionization energy and electron affinity.
ANSWER: Mulliken scale
[10] This less-commonly used scale considers the effective charge on an electron as a function of its radius from the
center of the atom.
ANSWER: Allred-Rochow scale
14. It demonstrates the relationship between interest rates and national output, which usually label the two axes
when drawn on a graph. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this macroeconomic model first presented by John Hicks.
ANSWER: IS-LM model (accept investment saving - liquidity preference money supply model)
[10] This doubly-eponymous extension of the IS-LM model assumes open markets rather than closed markets.
ANSWER: Mundell-Fleming model (accept names in either order)
[10] The Mundell-Fleming model holds that domestic monetary policy is ineffective in combination with this policy;
China recently abandoned it, meaning that now the yuan will be allowed to fluctuate independently of the dollar.
ANSWER: fixed exchange rate (accept equivalents)
15. For 10 points each, name some things about Scandavian literature.
[10] This Danish author wrote about Isak and Inger in The Growth of the Soil. His other novels include Hunger and
Mysteries.
ANSWER: Knut Hamsun
[10] Credited to Elias Lönnrot, this Finnish naitonal epic tells the story of Vainamoinen, who isn't invited to the
wedding of Ilmarinen and the Maid of the North.
ANSWER: Kalevala (also accept Land of Heroes)
[10] Part of a trilogy about the Norweigan experience in the Midwest, this novel centers on Per Hansa and his wife
Beret and their differing views on their new life in America.
ANSWER: Giants in the Earth
16. For 10 points each, name these British reform movements from the 19th Century.
[10] This social movement saw the breaking of machinery and has come to describe people opposed to new
technology; the Pentrich Rising, led by Jeremiah Brandreth, is usually included as part of it, and the Frame Breaking
Act was passed to counter it.
ANSWER: Luddites
[10] This group's six point plan for social reform was championed by notable members such as John Frost, Henry
Vincent, and Feargus O'Connor.
ANSWER: Chartism
[10] This splinter group of The Fellowship of the New Life counted as founding members John Davidson, Havelock
Ellis, and Edward Pease.
ANSWER: Fabian Society
17. For 10 points each, name these Latin American poets.
[10] The fact that his first collection was called Twilight should not dissuade you from liking the poetry of this man,
who wrote that "The memory of you emerges from the night around me. / The river mingles its stubborn lament
with the sea" in his "Song of Despair," which was included in a collection with twenty love poems.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda
[10] This other Chilean poet is known for her collections Sonnets of Death and Desolation.
ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral
[10] He wrote that "The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient" in "Fatality," while he said that "The voice that
would reach you, Hunter, must speak / in Biblical tones" in a poem that describes the U.S. as thinking that "life is a
fire" and as "lacking one thing: / God!"
ANSWER: Ruben Dario
18. It was condemned by the First Council of Nicaea, but was then promoted by the Synod of Tyre. For 10 points
each,
[10] Name this heresy which held that the son of god was inferior to his father, and that the holy spirit was inferior
to the son of god.
ANSWER: Arianism
[10] This anti-Arian names a creed that promotes the equality of the three parts of the spirit and promotes the
concept of anathemas against non-believers; his writings include the Letter of Eusebius, Against the Heathens, and
an Encyclical Letter.
ANSWER: Athanasius
[10] Arius and Athanasius are both said to have hailed from Alexandria, as did this earlier Biblical scholar who
wrote the Hexapla, as well as On Martyrdom and Against Celsus. He feuded with Demetrius, and he thought that
the concept of logos was subordinate to that of god, angering the Gnostics.
ANSWER: Origen
19. Hyperproduction of this hormone by a tumor leads to violent red eruptions on the skin called necrolytic
migratory erythema, although a more direct result of overproduction of this hormone is hyperglycemia. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this hormone that induces the liver's conversion of branched glucose polymer into glucose, raising blood
sugar.
ANSWER: glucagon
[10] This organ secretes both glucagon and its opposing hormone, insulin.
ANSWER: pancreas
[10] The delta cells of the pancreas release this hormone that inhibits the secretion of growth hormone from the
anterior pituitary and also inhibits the release of gastrointestinal hormones like ghrelin and secretin.
ANSWER: somatostatin
20. It opens with the line, “this is the story of the period between two world wars—an interim during which insanity
cut loose, liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat”. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 1940 film centering on Adenoid Hynkel, the titular despot.
ANSWER: The Great Dictator
[10] The Great Dictator is one of the best known films starring this alliteratively named comedian of the Silent Film
era, often seen with a cane, bowler hat and trademark mustache.
ANSWER: Charlie Chaplin [or Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin]
[10] Chaplin first used talkie techniques in this film, where he played an assembly worker who gets involved with an
orphan played by Paulette Goddard. It contains a famous scene where Chaplin goes through an automated feeding
machine.
ANSWER: Modern Times