Dunbar Academic Fall Tournament 2009
Round 10 Tossups by Shen Gong (6), Thomas Littrell (5), Jason Loy (3), Aaron Cohen (2),
Sandy Huang (2), Benji Nguyen (2), Amit Bigli (1), Jeffrey Hill (1), and Connie Prater (1)
1. The site where this battle occurred was recaptured by forces under Elie-Frederic Forey about
ten months after it occurred, and this battle was followed by a victory at Orizaba. The defenders
in this battle were fortified on top of the Cerro de Guadalupe, and this battle was won when the
flank of one side was turned by forces under Porfirio Diaz. Charles Laurencez commanded the
French forces in this battle, which was prompted when Napoleon III invaded Mexico after Juarez
stopped making payments on Mexico's debt. For 10 points, name this battle won by Ignacio
Zaragoza that is now celebrated on Cinco de Mayo.
ANSWER: Battle of Puebla
<Littrell>
2. Strychnine works by inhibiting the receptor for this molecule, which is not needed in the
human diet since this molecule can be created and synthesized from the enzymes like serine
hydroxymethyltransferase. This molecule can be manufactured by reacting chloroacetic acid
with ammonia, producing a compound that can be referred to as 2-aminoethanoic acid. Making
up about a third of collagen, this molecule is the only achiral amino acid. This molecule has the
formula NH2CH2COOH, for 10 points, name this simplest of the twenty amino acids with a
hydrogen side chain.
ANSWER: glycine
<Cohen>
3. The tutors present in one of this writer’s works include Zava, Moadine, and Somel. Celis
dominates her relationship with Jeff Margrave, Alima divorces Terry O. Nicholson, and Ellador
accepts her husband Van Jennings in this writer’s work entitled Herland. In another one of this
writer’s works, the rest cure applied to the narrator was created by Weir Mitchell. In that work
by this writer, the narrator’s sister-in-law who acts slightly more sympathetic is known as Jennie.
John takes on a paternal role for the narrator in that work by this writer. For 10 points, name this
American writer who wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.
ANSWER: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. This work of art was inspired by a similar painting completed thirteen years earlier by Thomas
de Keyser featuring Sebastian Egbertzs. One figure in this work is a convicted armed robber who
went by the pseudonym Aris Kindt, and another man in the background holds a piece of paper
while focusing on the titular figure wearing a garish black hat. A copy of a Vesalius treatise can
be found in the lower left hand corner of this work, while seven men watch the titular doctor
explain the former function of Kindt’s arm muscles. For 10 points, name this Rembrandt painting
depicting a medical demonstration.
ANSWER: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
<Loy>
5. Posthumous published works of this philosopher include one with a proclamation on the
“death of art.” In addition to Lectures “on Aesthetics” and “on the Philosophy of History,” this
philosopher discussed abstract right, ethics, and morality in his Elements of the Philosophy of
Right. More works by this philosopher include one split into objective and subjective sections,
and another which discusses self-consciousness through the master-slave dialectic. For ten
points, name this philosopher who penned the Science of Logic and The Phenomenology of
Spirit.
ANSWER: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
<Gong>
6. This economist explored how medical licensing had raised the income of doctors relative to
dentists in Incomes from Independent Professional Practice. This economist argued that
government spending could not increase incomes through the multiplier effect and that people
only increase their spending when they perceive a long-term rise in income. In addition to A
Theory of the Consumption Function, this economist advocated economic freedom as a means
for political freedom. For 10 points, name this economist who formulated the permanent income
hypothesis and wrote Capitalism and Freedom and A Monetary History of the United States.
ANSWER: Milton Friedman
<Littrell>
7. In 1997, USA Today named this basketball player as High School Player of the Year for his
performance at Mount Zion Christian Academy. In the 1997 NBA Draft, the fourth pick was
originally going to be used on this basketball player after a trade between the Vancouver
Grizzlies and the Chicago Bulls involving Scottie Pippen. In 2001, this basketball player earned
the Most Improved Player Award while playing with the Orlando Magic. In 2004, this basketball
player was traded for Cuttino Mobley and Steve Francis of the Houston Rockets. For 10 points,
name this basketball player who, for the past 5 years, has teamed up with Yao Ming.
ANSWER: Tracy McGrady
8. An analog of this effect was discovered by Corbino, while Dyakonov and Perel formulated
one version dependent on spin. In another version of this effect, electrical conductance is found
to be any integer v times the elementary charge squared over Planck's constant. That quantized
version of this effect, which is mostly found through experimentation on gallium arsenide, was
expanded on by Laughlin but was first discovered by von Klitzing. Caused by a Lorentz force
creating an unequal distribution of charge density, for 10 points, name this effect in physics
where a potential voltage is created across a conductor by a perpendicular magnetic field.
ANSWER: Hall effect
<Gong>
9. One character in this play claims that the soul of Pythagoras is in the body of a hermaphrodite.
That character was depicted in this play as the dwarf named Nano. Another character of this play
is a man who is mistaken for a tortoise as part of Peregrine's prank. In one scene of this play,
Bonario witnesses the titular character's attempted rape of Celia from behind a curtain. Another
scene in this play features the embarrassment of Sir Politic Would-Be. Corbaccio, Corvino, and
Voltore all wish to inherit the estate of the titular character and his servant Mosca. For 10 points,
name this play about a foxy con man, written by Ben Jonson.
ANSWER: Volpone
<Nguyen>
10. A dispute between this leader, who was married to the daughter of Claudius Pulcher, and
Cicero began when Cicero cancelled the appointment of this leader’s friends, who was using this
leader’s position to extort repayment of a loan from Salamis. This leader’s life was saved by
Servillia after Pharsalus, and this leader married Porcia, the daughter of the uncle who had
adopted him, Cato the Younger. The only man to coin money with his face on it after fleeing to
Asia after the death of Caesar, name, for 10 points, this man whose distant ancestor drove out the
Tarquins, and who joined with Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar.
ANSWER: Marcus Iunius Brutus [or Quintus Caepio Brutus; do not accept Lucius Iunius
Brutus]
<Littrell>
11. This composer of Three Bavarian Dances wrote an oratorio in which the titular character's
soul encounters the Angel of Agony on the way to seeing God. That work by this composer
forms a trilogy along with The Apostles and The Kingdom. The finale of this composer’s sixmovement Coronation Ode features Land of Hope and Glory, which was worked into another
piece consisting of five marches, which takes its name from Othello. This composer of The
Dream of Gerontius is also known for a set of fourteen pieces which include “Dorabella” and
“Nimrod.” For 10 points, name this British composer of the Enigma Variations.
ANSWER: Edward Elgar
<Nguyen>
12. Born into a Khatri caste, this figure purportedly demonstrated interest in the divine to a
teacher by explaining the implications of the first letter of the alphabet. Stories from this figure’s
life are collected in vars, which were written by the scribe Bhai Gurdas, as well as in the Janamsakhis, which also detail this figure’s last days in Kartarpur. At age thirty, while bathing in the
Kali Bein, this figure suddenly decided to engage in pilgrimage to locations such as Tibet and
Mecca, declaring that “here is no Hindu, there is no Muslim.” Succeeded by Baba Lehna, for 10
points, name this founder and first guru of Sikhism.
ANSWER: Guru Nanak Dev
<Gong>
13. In one tale, this figure killed Otr with a sling and captured Andvari in the form of a pike with
Ran's net. At the hall of Skrymir, this figure lost an eating contest to a personification of fire
though he did help Thor recover Mjollnir in the guise of a bridesmaid. This mythological figure
is the source of earthquakes, as poison drips from snakes dangled above this figure’s head when
this figure’s wife Sigyn is not around to catch it. This figure slept with Angrboda to father Hel,
Jormungand, and Fenrir. He was killed by Heimdall at Ragnarok and he had plotted for Hoder to
use a mistletoe spear to kill Balder. For 10 points, name this Norse trickster god.
ANSWER: Loki
<Gong>
14. Part of this country's eastern border is formed by the Cavalla River, while cities near its
northern border include Saniquellie and Voinijama. St. Paul is the longest river in this country,
whose Cape Mount county receives most of its rainfall. Mount Nimba is shared with two of this
country’s neighbors but Mount Wuteve is the tallest mountain in this nation, whose civil war
from 1988 to 2001 saw Charles G. Taylor engage in trade with RUF insurgents in this country's
western neighbor. Bordered by Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Sierra Leone, for 10 points, name this
West African country whose capital of Monrovia was founded by freed slaves.
ANSWER: Republic of Liberia
<Gong>
15. During this battle, the earl of Oxford had one side draw up in a wedge between two banners,
and Peter J. Foss has argued that this battle actually occurred at Redemore. The losing
commander in this battle was buried at the Grey Friars monastery, while the winning commander
landed at Milford Haven preceding this battle. The earl of Northumberland did not engage his
troops in this battle during which the initial charge was led by the Duke of Norfolk, John
Howard. Ending with the treachery of Thomas, Lord Stanley, for 10 points, name this battle
which ended with the defeat of Richard III by Henry VII and ended the Wars of the Roses.
ANSWER: Battle of Bosworth Field
<Littrell>
16. Robert French proposed the Category Rating Game as an alternative for this entity, and
another researcher criticized this entity using another entity known as Blockhead. John Searle
developed the Chinese Room Experiment to question the validity of this entity, while the
Loebner Competition rewards programs such as ELIZA and ALICE that attempt to meet this
criterion. An entity can pass this test if an interrogator believes that it is human 70% of the time
while performing a five-minute imitation test. For 10 points, name this test developed by its
namesake British computer scientist that determines if a machine is intelligent.
ANSWER: Turing test [or Turing machine]
<Loy>
17. Donald M. Frame asserts that this collection’s last book had been compiled from unfinished
material. The introduction to this series instructs readers to “BE HAPPY!” and bakers who
refuse to sell cakes to shepherds cause a war declared by King Picrochole in the first book. One
book of this series tells how two characters discuss with many people whether or not one of them
should get married, and the Shysteroos are encountered in another book in Friar John’s quest to
find the Oracle of the Holy Bottle with Panurge and one of the titular characters. For 10 points,
name this series of five novels about two giants by Francois Rabelais.
ANSWER: Gargantua and Pantagruel [or The Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua
and His Son Pantagruel; or La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel]
<Prater>
18. When these organisms reproduce, they form a thin structure called the protonema. These
organisms can be divided into two groups, one of which contains the antheridia and archegonia
on the same body and are referred to as monoicous. Throughout most of their life cycle these
organisms exist as a haploid gametophyte while during reproduction, the sporangium is encased
in a stalk called a seta. This group, which includes genus Marchantia, contrasts with
tracheophytes in their lack of xylem and phloem. For 10 points, name this group of land plants
that are non vascular and non flowering and include liverworts and mosses.
ANSWER: Bryophytes
<Cohen>
19. In one of this writer’s plays, Atossa summons the ghost of Darius, who expresses contempt
for the hubris of his son, King Xerxes. In another play by this writer, the titular character is
struck by lightning after refusing to tell Zeus who would overthrow him. Earlier, Kratos and
Hephaestus chain him to a rock. Beyond The Persians and Prometheus Bound, this writer wrote
of a man who is put on trial for the murder of Aegisthus and his lover, who had plotted together
to kill his father, Agamemnon. For 10 points, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides make up
what ancient Greek playwright's Oresteia trilogy?
ANSWER: Aeschylus
<Gong>
20. This leader joined British general Henry Procter and attacked Fort Meigs where this leader
successfully resisted a relief force led by William Dudley. This leader had led part of
Bluejacket's force that was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and openly criticized the
chiefs who signed the ensuing Treaty of Greenville. Richard M. Johnson was elected vice
president under Martin Van Buren following a campaign proclaiming that Johnson had
personally killed this chief at the Battle of the Thames. For 10 points, name this Shawnee Indian
chief who lost the Battle of Tippecanoe during which his brother Tenskwatawa also fought.
ANSWER: Tecumseh
<Hill>
TB. Types of cells present in this structure include enterochromaffin ones and zymogenic ones,
which secrete I and II type-precursors of an associated enzyme. Parietal cells are found in a
region of this structure called the fundus, and certain diseases of this structure are caused by
Helicobacter pylori. This structure’s walls contain folds called rugae, which become prominent
when the contents of this organ are emptied from the pyloric canal into the duodenum after
producing chyme via the action of pepsin, produced in the gastric pits. For 10 points, name this
human digestive organ located between the esophagus and small intestine.
ANSWER: stomach
<Loy>
TB. This entity fought at a battle that saw the defeat of Colonel Baum as he went on a raid for
supplies for Burgoyne's army. During the Battle of Bennington, this entity was commanded by
the man who led them in storming Crown Point, Seth Warner, and John Stark, and this entity’s
leader supposedly tried to negotiate Vermont's return to British control. Originally known for
beating settlers from New York with birch rods, this group formed to defend the rights of
colonists west of their namesake feature. For 10 points, name this group that captured Fort
Ticonderoga and was led by Ethan Allen.
ANSWER: Green Mountain Boys
<Littrell>
TB. The story Zohra is retold from many perspectives in this writer’s novel Miramar. A novel
by this writer concerns the protagonist’s murder of his boss after he becomes engaged with his
true love. Another novel sees Ra’uf take advantage of Said after learning of his wife’s betrayal.
This writer of The Day the Leader was Killed and The Thief and the Dogs also wrote a novel
about the barber Abbas and café owner Kirsha’s lives on the title street after World War II. For
10 points, name this writer of Midaq Alley, who also wrote a trilogy that includes Sugar Street
and Palace Walk named after the capital of his home country, Egypt.
ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz
<Bigli>
Dunbar Academic Fall Tournament 2009
Round 10 Bonuses by Aaron Cohen (5), Sandy Huang (5), Shen Gong (4), Matt
Chadbourne (3), Ping Chen (2), and Alvin Shi (2)
1. The concentration of this hormone goes up when the pituitary glands release
Adrenocorticotropic hormone. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this hormone produced by the adrenal glands sometimes called the “stress hormone”
due to its role in regulating blood pressure, blood sugar and fat metabolism.
ANSWER: cortisol
[10] Cortisol contains this structure with four fused hydrocarbon rings. Human growth hormone,
which baseball players seem to enjoy, also contains this structure.
ANSWER: steroid
[10] This condition is caused by an abnormally high amount of cortisol and causes rapid weight
gain in the upper body
ANSWER: Cushing’s syndrome
<Cohen>
2. In his second voyage, this man attempted to colonize Taiwan for the U.S. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American naval commodore who opened Japan up for the west.
ANSWER: Matthew C. Perry
[10] This was the 1854 treaty that opened Japanese ports for trade with the U.S. It was among the
main causes of the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
ANSWER: Treaty of Kanagawa of Kanagawa Convention
[10] Perry once commanded this vessel, which was captured in Pensacola during the Civil War
and was named after the man who designed The Clermont with Robert Livingston.
ANSWER: Robert Fulton
<Cohen>
3. Gottfried von Vittlar’s testimony inadvertently results in the protagonist’s conviction for
murder in this novel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel where Oscar Matzerath willingly decides to stop growing at the age of
three to protect himself from the insane society of Nazi Germany.
ANSWER: The Tin Drum
[10] This German writer wrote The Tin Drum.
ANSWER: Gunter Grass
[10] This Gunter Grass novel centers on a narrator who is dominated by his wife named Ilsebill
similar to a tale told in “The Fisherman and His Wife.”
ANSWER: The Flounder
4. This epic is important to India. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this epic, which details the titular character's battles against the rakshasis of Ravana
in order to save his wife Sita
ANSWER: Ramayana
[10] This ally of Rama reaches Sita first, but she refuses to be saved by him. Though captured by
Ravana, only his tail is set on fire, which causes him to burn down Lanka in a fit of rage.
ANSWER: Hanuman (or Anjaneya; or Maruti)
[10] This “first poet” and author of the Yoga Vasishta is the composer of the gandas of the
Ramayana. According to legend, he composed the first sloka of Sanskrit literature.
ANSWER: Valmiki
<Gong>
5. This painter painted dogs. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Spanish court painter to Philip IV, famous for paintings like Los Borrachos, Old
Woman Frying Eggs, and the portrait of Pope Innocent X.
ANSWER: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez
[10] Perhaps best known is this Velasquez painting depicting the Infanta Margarita and her
maids. She is surrounded by two dwarves, one of whom tries to kick a dog awake.
ANSWER: Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor]
[10] A horse dominates the right side in front of many upright spears in this painting by
Velasquez, which depicts two men in the center transferring the keys of the title city.
ANSWER: The Surrender of Breda
<Gong>
6. This city’s leader is Rodney Berman. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this seat of Glamorgan county, featuring such locations as the Barry docks, Radyr,
and the Millenium Stadium.
ANSWER: Cardiff
[10] Cardiff is the capital of this United Kingdom country, north of Bristol Channel, which
contains the region of Snowdonia and cities such as Swansea, Newport, and Penarth.
ANSWER: Wales
[10] This river rising in the Brecon Beacons is formed by a “little” and “big” section which meet
at Merthyr Tydfil. It is joined by the Cynon and Rhondda rivers before flowing into Cardiff.
ANSWER: River Taff [or Afon Taf]
<Gong>
7. This event was caused largely by the enforcement of a poll tax meant to finance the Hundred
Years War and the earlier signing of the Statute of Laborers in 1351. For 10 points each:
[10] Name that English uprising in the late 14th century.
ANSWER: Peasant’s Rebellion [or Peasant’s Revolt; or Wat Tyler’s Rebellion]
[10] The Peasant’s Rebellion was led by this man, who was killed by William Walworth during a
confrontation at Smithfield.
ANSWER: Wat Tyler
[10] The Peasant’s Rebellion occurred during the reign of this English king who was advised
largely by John of Gaunt during his younger years.
ANSWER: Richard II
<Cohen>
8. Kvashnya marries Abram Miedviedieff in this play. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which Natasha and Vaska Pepel emerge victorious over Vassilisa
Karpovna who cuckolds her husband Mikhail Kostilyoff.
ANSWER: The Lower Depths
[10] This Russian writer wrote The Lower Depths.
ANSWER: Maxim Gorky
[10] This other Russian write wrote of Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Myshkin in The Idiot, Dmitri and
Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, and Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.
ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. According to Herodotus, she was taken by Minoans in retaliation for the abduction of Io. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this daughter of Agenor who was given the bronze man Talos, the dog Laelaps, and a
magical javelin by her more famous abductor.
ANSWER: Europa
[10] When Zeus carried Europa to Crete, she bore him this son who unsuccessfully chased
Britomartis and Miletus before marrying Pasiphae. He eventually died after boiling water was
poured on him.
ANSWER: Minos
[10] This man's daughters killed Minos. This king of Sicani sheltered Daedalus, who then built
Megaris, Acragas, and Selinus for him.
ANSWER: Cocalus
<Gong>
10. The Stern-Gerlach experiment demonstrated that this value is equal to negative or positive
one-half for the electron. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this quantum number that represents intrinsic angular momentum of a particle.
ANSWER: spin
[10] This principle states that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state.
ANSWER: Pauli exclusion principle
[10] This hypothetical particle is hypothesized to have spin zero. The Large Hadron Collider was
designed to search for it.
ANSWER: Higgs boson
<Chadbourne>
11. In one work regarding this action, the author found that the rate of this action is higher for
Protestants than Catholics and is higher in Scandinivan countries. He also divides this action into
four types: altruistic, egoistic, anomic, and fatalistic. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this action, which usually results when you kill yourself, and is the namesake of the
aforementioned work.
ANSWER: Suicide
[10] This sociologist is the author of the book Suicide. He also posited the idea of organic
solidarity in modern societies in his The Division of Labor in Society, and tried to established
sociology as a science in his Rules of Sociological Method.
ANSWER: David Émile Durkheim
[10] This 1912 Emile Durkheim work attributes the development of religion to the emotional
security attained through communal living.
ANSWER: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
<Shi>
12. This pitcher used to play for the Seibu Lions. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Japanese starting pitcher known for a $51 million dollar bid and for the gyroball
pitch.
ANSWER: Daisuke Matsuzaka
[10] Daisuke Matsuzaka plays for this baseball team in Boston.
ANSWER: Boston Red Sox
[10] This pitcher of the Boston Red Sox pitched the final game of the 2007 World Series.
ANSWER: Jon Lester
13. Give the following concerning mental disorders. For 10 points each:
[10] This disease that is associated with heavy hallucinogen use was treated by chlorpromazine
in the 60's and is subdivided into catatonic, disorganized, and paranoid types.
ANSWER: schizophrenia
[10] This 20th century Swiss psychologist treated Najinksy after his 1919 breakdown and coined
the term schizophrenia.
ANSWER: Eugen Bleuler
[10] Eugen Bleuler also studied this disease whose spectrum includes ASD, PDD, and Asperger
syndrome.
ANSWER: autism
<Chen>
14. Some sources claim that works of Botticelli were targeted during this event, while other
sources mention the art of Fra Bartolomeo. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1497 mass burning in Florence.
ANSWER: Bonfire of the Vanities
[10] The Bonfire of the Vanities was led by this priest who was made leader of Florence
following the French invasion of Charles VIII.
ANSWER: Girolamo Savonarola
[10] Savonarola was excommunicated in 1497 by this Pope who also wrote the Treaty of
Tordesillas.
ANSWER: Alexander VI [or Rodrigo Borgia]
<Cohen>
15. Mrs. Reed locks the titular character in a dark room for punishment. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel depicting the eventual marriage of Edward Fairfax Rochester and the titular
character.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre
[10] This English writer wrote Jane Eyre.
ANSWER: Charlotte Bronte
[10] This Charlotte Bronte novel depicts the eventual marriage of Monsieur Paul Emanuel and
Lucy Snowe
ANSWER: Villette
16. These compounds differ in the R group which is attached to their alpha carbon. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this group of twenty compounds, the building blocks of proteins.
ANSWER: amino acids
[10] This 1952 experiment performed by two University of Chicago chemists produced amino
acids by simulating what they believed to be conditions on a young Earth.
ANSWER: Miller-Urey experiment [or Urey-Miller experiment]
[10] This series of reactions named after a German chemist also synthesizes amino acids from
ketones or aldehydes.
ANSWER: Strecker amino acid synthesis
<Chadbourne>
17. This opera's first performance was at the Josias Priest girls' school, and one aria in this work
features a prominent basso ostinato sequence. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this baroque opera which contains the aria “When I am laid in Earth”, and tells the
story of a certain Virgil hero and a Queen of Carthage, albeit with some changes to the original
story, including the addition of evil witches.
ANSWER: Dido and Aeneas
[10] Dido and Aeneas is perhaps the best known-composition by this English composer, whose
other works include the operas King Arthur and The Fairy-Queen.
ANSWER: Henry Purcell
[10] Purcell also composed this opera based on a John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard play. In
this opera, Montezuma tries to win the hand of the Peruvian Princess Orazia against both her
father Ynca and his buddy Acacis in the middle of a messy Peruvian-Mexican war.
ANSWER: The Indian Queen
<Shi>
18. While commander of the Austrian navy, this man commanded the first Austrian ship to
circumnavigate the globe. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man who was made emperor of a certain country south of the United States in
1864 with the backing of Napoleon III.
ANSWER: Maximillian I
[10] This was the country Maximillian I was made emperor of.
ANSWER: Mexico
[10] The French invasion occurred after this four year civil war fought against the government of
Ignacio Comonfort which caused Mexico to suspend payments to foreign countries.
ANSWER: Reform War or War of the Reform
<Cohen>
19. Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken proved this theorem using a computer in 1976. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this theorem, which gives the maximum number of different labels needed to label
regions on a map.
ANSWER: Four color theorem
[10] The four color theorem was developed by Leonhard Euler who was born in this country,
with a capital located at Bern, known for staying neutral during wartime.
ANSWER: Switzerland
[10] This generalization of the four color theorem gives the maximum number of colors needed
to label any graph on a surface of any genus.
ANSWER: Heawood conjecture
<Chadbourne>
20. Mistress Higgins is a witch in this novel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel depicting Pearl as a child of Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne who
was married to Roger Chillingworth.
ANSWER: The Scarlet Letter
[10] This American writer wrote The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
[10] This Nathaniel Hawthorne novel depicts Donatello who falls in love with Miriam Schaefer.
ANSWER: The Marble Faun
21. Great Britain did not appreciate the United States breaking off. For 10 points each:
[10] This war on American soil saw the Shawnee leader Tecumseh killed at the Battle of the
Thames and the White House burned.
ANSWER: War of 1812
[10] This agreement that ended the War of 1812 did nothing more than restore the antebellum
status quo.
ANSWER: Treaty of Ghent
[10] This bloody battle was a draw in terms of casualties but a strategic battle for the British in
that it forced the Americans to withdraw to Fort Erie.
ANSWER: Battle of Lundy's Lane
<Chen>