1. This author's "In Death Cannot Reach What Is Most Near" and "Birdbrain" were included in an
Illuminated version of this man's work ,with illustrations by Eric Drooker. His words were printed on a
background of railroad images in Iron Horse, which he would later place under the heading of a
collection which begins with a quotation from Democratic Vistas, The Fall Of America: Poems of These
States. Another work of this man's, notably transcribed from an Uher tape recorder while driving across
the country, calls "all Powers of imagination to my side in this auto to make Prophecy" and invokes
figures like Shambu Bharti Baba, Jesus Christ, and Hare Krishna to declare an end to the Vietnam War,
while another well-known poem of his claims he "saw you, Walt Whitman... poking among the meats in
the refrigerator". FTP, name this author of "Wichita Vortex Sutra" and "A Supermarket in California"
who "saw the best minds of [his] generation destroyed by madness" in Howl.
ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg
2. Based on experiments performed on zinc sulfide by Mathieu, longitudinal and transverse optic phonons
were recognized to contribute to this effect. The resonance version of this effect was discovered by
Placzek. The photo-induced phenomena in NaV2O5 involves the time-resolved version of this effect.
Pyridines absorbed silver electrodes as observed in the first surface enhanced version of this effect. This
effect was first predicted by Smekal and discovered in crystals by Mandelstam. In this effect, molecules
lose and absorb energy corresponding to anti-Stokes and Stokes lines respectively. Vibration modes are
studied by this effect’s namesake spectroscopy. In liquids this effect is one-thousandth the strength of
Rayleigh scattering. For 10 points, name this inelastic scattering of photons named after the 1930 Nobel
Physics laureate, an Indian physicist.
ANSWER: Smekal-Raman effect [or Raman scattering; prompt on Raman spectroscopy]
3. In addition to a crust of bread and the titular object, a six-tined fork sticks in a rotten apple in this
artist’s cryptically political Still Life With Old Shoe. This man employed another fork, pointing upward, to
indicate a celestial body in a sculpture originally titled The Sun, The Moon, and One Star and now known
as [this man’s] Chicago for its location within the Loop. Upon arriving in Paris, he rejected Cubism,
remarking that he would “smash their guitar”, and an early work in his mature style features an ear
growing out of a one-eyed tree and a plow labeled “JOUR”. Perhaps best known for a work which
included a ladder to the left of the titular animal and celestial object, FTP, name this Catalan surrealist
who employed flattened forms and bright colors in works like Chiffres et Constellations, The Tilled Field
and Dog Barking At The Moon.
ANSWER: Joan Miro (accept “Still Life with Old Shoe” before “this artist”)
4. This year and team’s manager began writing the number “64” on top of the lineup card after meeting a
high school football player with cancer who wished to “donate” his number to this team. This team
became the first-ever to sweep a series against both the Mets and the Yankees in the same year and was
on the losing end of Tim Lincecum’s first Major League win. After this year, this team scaled back the
use of Manny Corpas as a closer, going to Brian Fuentes almost exclusively, and lost Kaz Matsui to free
agency. This team’s shortstop, who finished second to Ryan Braun in Rookie of the Year balloting, turned
an unassisted triple play in April. In a twenty-two game stretch beginning on September 15, this team
won twenty-one times, perhaps thanks to the home run power of Brad Hawpe, Garrett Atkins, and Matt
Holliday, before defeating Trevor Hoffman in the thirteenth inning to win a tiebreaker game. For 10
points, identify this team which beat the Padres, Phillies, and Diamondbacks to win the NL pennant
before falling in the World Series to the Red Sox.
ANSWER: the 2007 Colorado Rockies [accept Colorado as the team name; prompt on just Colorado or
Rockies if given without a year]
5. This political party’s central committee, or Ard Chomhairle, requires that at least a quarter of its
members be female. After a 1969 conference, or Ard Fheis, a Marxist faction of this political party
became the Workers Party. This party reached a landmark accord after secret negotiations with John
Hume’s Social Democratic and Labour Party, and its member Alex Maskey was soon after elected to an
important mayoralty. In the 1980s, this party advocated a policy known as “the ballot and the Armalite,”
which culminated in 1986 when it reversed its policy of not occupying seats won in elections for the Dáil.
A member of this party, Martin McGuinness, became the deputy in a power-sharing government headed
by Ian Paisley. Named for a passive resistance policy advocated by Arthur Griffith in 1902, this group
was decimated in 1926 when Eamon de Valera led most of its members into Fianna Fáil. For 10 points,
name this political party led by Gerry Adams which, in the 1990s, agreed to popular sovereignty over the
future of Northern Ireland and nominally renounced its ties to the militancy of the IRA.
ANSWER: Sinn Féin [accept We Ourselves or Ourselves Alone; do not accept or prompt on “IRA,” as
the group is clearly referred to as a political party throughout]
6. The last speaker during its final session was John of Sebaste. The second session began with an
argument between Cecropius, who wanted an immediate decision, and Florentius, who pleaded for time
to resolve the central issue. Among those present on behalf of one of the major parties were the priests
Basil and Boniface, the latter of whom presided over much of it. The decisions it reached included
forbidding simony, elopement, and marriage for monks and nuns. It opened with Paschanisus denying a
seat to Dioscorus, who would be exiled as a result, and it concluded with the affirmation of 27 cannons.
It was called by Emperor Marcian, who was amenable to disputing the decisions of the so-called Robber
Synod two years prior. FTP, that affirmation of the “tome” of Leo I declaring both Christ’s divine and
human natures took place at what fourth ecumenical council held in 451?
Answer: Council of Chalcedon
7. An allele of the apolipoprotein E gene on chromosome 19 increases the risk and lowers the age at onset
of this disease. Microscopically it is characterized by Hirano bodies, and it results in changes in the
nucleus basalis of Meynert. It is associated with “tangles,” which show the MAP2 protein and abnormal
forms of tau protein, as well as the presence of amyloid angiopathy and typical plaques, and symptoms
include aphasia and progressive disorientation, indicating cortical dysfunction. Patients rarely become
symptomatic before 50 years of age. but within the following 30 years up to 40% of the populace starts
suffering from this disease. For 10 points, name this degenerative neurological disorder, the most
common cause of dementia in the elderly.
ANSWER: Alzheimer’s disease
8. This author introduced the idea of corporeal vulnerability in a work calling for the re-emergence of
poststructuralist political critique in the post-9/11 world, Precarious Life; and along with Gayatri Spivak
called political boundaries obsolete in Who Sings the Nation-State? Another of this thinker’s texts, which
critiques the “objet petit a” of Zizek and Lacan and includes an essay on “Paris is Burning”, attempts to
probe the “discursive limits” of a certain category often presumed to be material. That work is a follow
up to her most famous book, which criticizes the “grand narrative” of psychoanalysis and calls for “drag”
as a corrective parody, and is subtitled “Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”. Advocate of the idea
of “gender performativity”, FTP, name this author of Bodies That Matter and Gender Trouble.
ANSWER: Judith Butler
9. This work asserts that is is "not improbable" that a Trojan army led by a "Northern king" "would have
driven Agamemnon and Achilles into the sea more decisively than the Greek hexameter routs the
alliterative line." Originally delivered as the seventh Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, this essay claims
that the work it addresses is “wild” only in the sense that King Lear is “silly” and repeatedly critiques the
notion that its subject places “the unimportant things at the centre and the important on the outer edges."
This work quotes and attacks W.P. Ker's assertion that "there are other things in the lives of Hercules and
Thesues besides the killing of the Hydra or of Procrustes," whereas another figure has "nothing else to
do." Claiming that “a man might well exchange for one good dragon what he would not sell for a
wilderness,” this essay notes that there are only two important dragons in all of northern literature, the
other being Fafnir. This lecture claims that a certain work ought to be studied to promote “understanding
the poem as a poem” rather than as a mere historical or linguistic source and disputes the notion that
battles with fantastic creatures render literature unserious. For 10 points, identify this lecture by J.R.R.
Tolkien which defends the quality of an anonymous Old English poem.
ANSWER: “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”
10. The reliefs on this people’s major temple showed snakes with human heads, birds eating hearts, and
marching ranks of cats and dogs. That temple’s roof was supported by four fifteen-foot statues of
warriors, and was located in a city of this people which characteristically used colonnades and columns to
support flat roofs of buildings. In addition to controlling a city with two ball courts and that five-stepped
temple pyramid, this people formed military orders later adopted by other groups, including the Eagle and
the Coyote. Under the leadership of the Cloud Serpent, Mixcóatl, they sacked Teotihuacán in 900. Their
next leader, Ce Acatl Topiltzi, changed his name to Quetzalcóatl. Before being shattered by Chichimec
invasions, they ruled from their capital known as the “Place of the Reeds,” Tollan or Tula. For 10 points,
name this group that dominated central Mexico from the tenth to twelfth century, prior to the rise of the
Aztecs.
ANSWER: Toltecs
11. He claimed that "conceptual truths may or may not be necessary truths" in a paper which attempted to
answer questions posed at the end of Naming and Necessity, "Psychophysical Nexus"; and mused on
President Clinton's impeachment, the Sokal hoax, and Richard Rorty in Concealment and Exposure. An
early work of his revives Kantian notions of ethics in arguing for a rational type of the titular behavior,
and the title of another of his books, which talks about "dual aspect theory" and refers to a "strain of
idealism" in contemporary philosophy, refers to the attempt to find a truly objective conception of reality.
His most notable work cites Davidson's anomalous monism, and chooses its central figure due to having a
"sensory apparatus" strikingly different than man so as to illustrate the centrality of the "subjective
character of experience" to the mind-body problem. FTP, name this author of The View From Nowhere
and The Possibility of Altruism who argued against reductionism using the example of a chiropterist in his
paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?"
ANSWER: Thomas Nagel
12. One of this man's play was the model for Charles Sedley's Restoration drama Bellamira. In one of this
author’s plays, a man encourages his ward to marry by tearing down the wall separating his house from
that of his girlfriend. In another of this author's plays, a man recalls getting drunk and using the
pseudonym Stilpho in order to start a secret family in Lemnos away from his Athenian wife Nausistrata,
before being undone by the titular lawyer. Another of his works is named for the disguise taken by
sixteen-year-old Chaerea in order to rape Pamphila, the sister of the prostitute-protagonist Thais. All six
of his extant plays were later rewritten on Christian themes by Hroswitha. For 10 points, name this author
of The Self-Tormentor and The Eunuch, a Carthaginian-born slave who became a noted Roman
playwright of the second century BCE and shares his name with a character who is told "Mithridates, he
died old" and "you eat your victuals fast enough" in a poem that informs him of some "stupid stuff" by
A.E. Housman.
ANSWER: Terence [or Publius Terentius Afer]
13. A more advanced form of it exhibits sigmoid behavior and is named for Goldbeter and Koshland. The
Hill formula is preferred as an alternative to it since it cannot be used to describe behavior in instances of
cooperative binding. Among the graphical depictions of it are the Hanes type, which is the most accurate,
and the Eadie-Hofstee, which best shows bad measurements. However, in the lab it is most often
represented by a linear double reciprocal or Lineweaver-Burke plot. Among the constants it utilizes are
the namesake, better known as Km [K-sub-m], and Vmax [V-max]. Illustrating in mathematical terms the
relationship between initial reaction velocity and substrate concentration, for 10 points, name this
equation of enzyme kinematics.
ANSWER: Michaelis-Menten equation
14. The 2009 special edition of this film replaces Peter Bogdanovich’s commentary with that of Drew
Casper, a scholar of this film’s director’s work. The protagonist at one point assumes the role of a
businessman with lumber interests from Oregon by the name of Conrad Burns. He had already obtained
some information from the insurance agent Hughson in an attempt to prove his innocence, which he does
at the climactic scene set at the Sanford villa. At the end of a costume ball the protagonist reveals the
guilt of Danielle Foussard and her employer Bertani following a chase on the villa’s tiled rooftop. As a
result John Robie, or The Cat, proves he is not behind the series of recent jewelry heists on the French
Riviera. FTP, name this Alfred Hitchcock film starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant.
Answer: To Catch A Thief
15. In both 427 and 387 BCE, this city was razed by enemies, and it was not rebuilt until 338 under Philip
of Macedon. The Tegean contingent was the first to charge in a battle at this city, which, like Chaeronea
decades later, saw the destruction of Thebes’s Sacred Band. Before the battle at this site began, one side
launched a raid to defile the other’s water source, which had been left undefended. This battle did not
begin for eight days after the arrival of the armies at a nearby location, due to neither’s unwillingness to
give up favorable position. The troops under Amompharetus nearly abandoned this battle due to that
commander’s pique at being left out of the planning council. This city’s strategic position came from its
overlooking the road from Thebes to Corinth. Located on a triangular outcropping of Mount Cithaeron. In
an event commemorated by annual sacrifices to Zeus the Liberator, and taking place on the same day as
the naval Battle of Mycale, an army under Mardonius was defeated here by Pausanias. For 10 points,
name this site of the 479 BCE battle which ended the Greco-Persian wars.
ANSWER: Plataea
16. Martin’s axiom implies that there are sequential spaces of sequential order four with this property.
Sets with this property include those named after Eberlein, Valdivia, and Corson. Stone and Cech name a
technique for mapping a topological space to a Hausdorff space with this property. The Cartesian product
of any number of sets with this property also has this property by Tychonoff’s Theorem, which is
sometimes used to prove a theorem stating that a subspace of Euclidean space has this property if and
only if it is closed and bounded, the Heine-Borel theorem. For 10 points, give this term referring to
spaces or sets in which every open cover has a finite subcover.
ANSWER: compactness
17. This novel recalls an incident in which a clerk known as The Tiger for his soccer prowess became
involved in a gunfight over the pock-marked girl Joana, in the chapter “Of the Law of Concubines.”
When asked how to entice one character in this novel, Professor Josué says to write a ballad instead of a
sonnet, and this novel is in fact prefaced with a poem in rondeau form that praises “His beard a sheet of
dreams, the Imperial beard.” Hanging over the entire timespan of this novel is the shooting of the doctor
Osmundo Pimentel and the doctor’s lover by the woman’s husband, who is imprisoned only at the end of
the work after the regime of Ramiro Bastos and the other colonels is brought low by Mundinho Falcão.
Against the political backdrop, this novel discusses the title character’s many affairs in the cacao-growing
town of Ilhéus, where that character works at the Vesuvius Bar run by Syrian-born Nacib Saad. For 10
points, name this book in which Nacib is enticed by the titular smell and skin color of the titular woman,
written by Jorge Amado.
ANSWER: Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon [or Gabriela, cravo e canela]
18. One minor party candidate in this Presidential election went on to write a history of Madagascar after
running for a ticket that briefly revived the names of both the American Party and Anti-Masonic Party.
The fourth-place candidate in this election was the man who earlier suppresssed the Portland Rum Riot
and promoted the Maine Law, Prohibitionist Neal Dow, while the leading third-party candidate in this
election, running for the first time, was the great-grandfather of Dennis the Menace creator Hank
Ketcham. One candidate in this election became prominent for taking a light hand as the commander of
the military occupation of Texas and Louisiana. That candidate's supporters in this election blanketed the
nation with graffiti and signs bearing the number “329,” representing the number of dollars that the
winning candidate received from Crédit Mobilier. The winner of this election, who defeated both the
Democratic candidate and third-party challenger James Weaver, ran the original “front porch campaign”
after surviving convention strife between the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds. However, that infighting
came back to haunt the winner of this election, who heard the declaration “I am a Stalwart of the
Stalwarts and Arthur is President now” just nine months after taking office. For 10 points, name this
election in which Winfield Scott Hancock lost to future Charles Guiteau victim James Garfield.
ANSWER: United States Presidential election of 1880
19. Among the obstacles he faced on his greatest quest was the mountain Mainaka, which could grow to
any size. He utilized his speed to avoid the serpent Surasa and crossed the last of the one hundred yojanas
necessary to seek his quarry. It was at his urging that King Sugreeva had earlier agreed to give aid to his
future master, who would learn to utilize this figure’s special skills. His father told that he would be the
greatest of the Vanaaras, and among his feats earning that title were the recovery of the Sanjivani herb to
save Lakshman’s life and nearly burning the entire city of Lanka. His mother was Anjana, hence his
alternate name of Anjaneyu, and his father was the wind god Vayu. FTP, name this figure who features
prominently in the Ramayana, a monkey-god of Hindu myth.
Answer: Hanuman (accept Anjaneyu before it is mentioned)
20. This man sought to replace “utility” with “ophelimity” in a work which changed the focus of the
Lausanne School founded by Leon Walras, his Cours d'économie politique. Another work of his spoke of
how people were divided into six kinds of “residues”, or illogical sentiments justified post-hoc via
“derivations”. However his most famous ideas are the distribution log N = log A + m log x, a related
principle regarding the concentration of wealth also known as the principle of factor sparsity, or the 80-20
rule, and a condition that is more stringent than a similar one named for Kaldor and Hicks. FTP, name
this author of Trattato di sociologia generale and The Mind and Society who lends his name to a situation
in game theory where no actor can unilaterally make themselves better off without harming the other
actor, this man’s optimality.
ANSWER: Vilfredo Pareto
For 10 points each, name these advisors to late Russian tsars.
[10] This tutor to Alexander III became director of the Most Holy Synod in 1880 and used his influence
to harass Jews and oppose all efforts at liberalization or constitional government. Dostoyevsky described
him as “the only man who can save Russia from the revolution.”
ANSWER: Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
[10] In his ten years as finance minister, this nobleman promoted railroad construction and the position of
Russia as a trade link between east and west. His success earned him the position of chief negotiator for
Russia at the Treaty of Portsmouth.
ANSWER: Sergey Yulyevich, Count Witte
[10] After attracting attention as the governor of Grodno and Saratov, this anti-Duma prime minister
began privatizing land in 1906 and introduced a system of military courts for revolutionaries. Dmitry
Bogrov assassinated him at the Kiev Opera in 1911.
ANSWER: Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin
Egon Voss has speculated that this work’s action was moved to Palermo from its source material’s Venice
in order to escape the notice of Metternich. However, its premiere was so disastrous that it ended up
escaping the notice of everyone, and wasn’t performed again for nearly 100 years. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “carnival opera” in which the viceroy Friedrich ultimately fails to impose his strict
Germanic morality on the populace, a “free adaptation” of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
ANSWER: The Ban On Love (Das Liebesverbot)
[10] The Ban on Love was an early opera by this composer who notably used the half-diminished seventh
chord to great effect in Tristan and Isolde.
ANSWER: Richard Wagner
[10] This Wagner opera broke with convention by having the ballet scene in Act 1, and notably occues in
“Dresden” and “Paris” versions. It tells the story of a titular medieval minstrel who ultimately rejects the
love of the goddess Venus for the spiritual Elisabeth.
ANSWER: Tannhauser
Name these things about novels set during the Civil War, FTP each:
[10] Ira Claffey, a Georgia plantation owner, is the central character of this Mackinlay Kantor novel about
an infamous Civil War location.
Answer: Andersonville
[10] Adam Rosenzweig is a German Jew whose attempts to join the Union Army are hampered by his
club-foot in this man’s novel Wilderness. His other novels include At Heaven’s Gate and Night Rider.
Answer: Robert Penn Warren
[10] “Vendee” and “Ambuscade” are just two the seven stories chronicling eleven years of the Sartoris
family in this Civil War era Faulkner novel.
Answer: The Unvanquished
They include all sorts of crazy astronomical objects like quasars, blazars BL Lac objects, and LINERs.
For 10 points each:
[10] Give the umbrella term for these regions at the center of a galaxy that emit abnormally high amounts
of radiation, thought to contain supermassive black holes.
ANSWER: active galactic nuclei [or AGN; accept the singular]
[10] Active galactic nuclei are often divided into two general classes, quasars and these usually-spiral
galaxies that can be divided into Type 1 and Type 2 depending on whether the spectra are dominated by a
broad-line or narrow-line component.
ANSWER: Seyfert galaxies
[10] This classification scheme divides active galactic nuclei into two classes depending on whether the
distance between the two brightest peaks is more or less than half the total distance covered by the radio
source; it can also divide AGNs by luminosity.
ANSWER: Fanaroff-Riley classification/morphology/etc.
It argued that social support and deeply-held convictions were necessary for the described effect to take
place. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1956 book about Marion Keech’s doomsday UFO cult, a case study which popularized the
idea of cognitive dissonance.
ANSWER: When Prophecy Fails
[10] This author of Social Pressures in Informal Groups wrote When Prophecy Fails along with Henry
Riecken and Stanley Schacter.
ANSWER: Leon Festinger
[10] Leon Festinger was a student of this pioneer of social psychology who founded the Research Center
for Group Dynamics at MIT. He drew on Gestalt psychology for his “field theory” and a namesake
equation which asserted that behavior is a function of both a person and his or her environment.
ANSWER: Kurt Lewin
Secondary characters in this work include the English-educated Bullet, and the shadowy Manmuswak,
who kills him. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work about Mene, an apprentice lorry driver from Dukhana who ends up fighting in the
Nigerian Civil War.
ANSWER: Sozaboy
[10] This Ogoni activist, who was executed in 1995 after a show trial, wrote about the corruption of Royal
Dutch Shell in Nigeria: The Brink of Disaster, but is best known for the aforementioned Sozaboy.
ANSWER: Ken Saro-Wiwa
[10] Ken Saro-Wiwa used this term to refer to the language in which Sozaboy was written, a “mixture of
Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and occasional flashes of good, even idiomatic English.”
ANSWER: “rotten English”
These types of molecules, originally named for trimethylglycine, have cations with no hydrogen atoms.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name these neutral molecules with nonadjacent positive and negative charges.
ANSWER: betaines
[10] Betaines are intermediates in the Wittig reaction, which have the phosphonium type of these
molecules. These molecules are like betaines but have adjacent positive and negative charges.
ANSWER: ylide or ylid
[10] Azomethine ylides are used in this reaction where they combine with nanotubes to form a soluble
product.
ANSWER: Prato reaction
This group tried to get radio play with the songs "Honestly" and "Lyric" off of their only album, Mary
Star of the Sea. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this band which existed from 2001 to 2003 and included Paz Lenchantin and Matt Sweeney.
ANSWER: Zwan
[10] The most prominent member of Zwan was this singer, the once and future leader of Smashing
Pumpkins.
ANSWER: Billy Corgan
[10] Paz Lenchantin is no stranger to singers’ second-most-famous projects, having also played bass for
this band, led by songwriter Billy Howerdel and Tool singer Maynard James Keenan, whose songs
include "Judith" and "Weak and Powerless."
ANSWER: A Perfect Circle
It was based on an incident in the Ming Dynasty, which involved a revenue ministry secretary who was
sentenced to death for criticizing emperor Shaizong but reprieved and made chief censor by Wei
Zhongxian. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1962 play and opera by Beijing deputy mayor Wu Han, which symbolically criticized
recent actions of Mao Zedong.
ANSWER: Hai Rui Dismissed from Office [or Hai Rui ba guan; or 海瑞罷官]
[10] Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was interpreted as criticism of Mao’s 1959 demotion of this man,
who succeeded Zhu De as army leader in 1954, becoming China's first defense minister.
ANSWER: Peng Dehuai
[10] Peng had criticized this famine-inducing program of rapid small-scale industrialization launched by
Mao, which led to millions of famine deaths between 1959 and 1962.
ANSWER: the Great Leap Forward [or Dayuejin; or 大跃进]
They include Harvatat, or Perfection, and Khshathra Vairya, or Desirable Dominion. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these three male and three female beings which execute the will of Ahura Mazda in
Zoroastrianism.
ANSWER: Amesha Spentas
[10] This patron of cows and fire conducted Zoroaster into Ahura Mazda's presence and is the only being
capable of repeating the feat on behalf of a mortla. He is the Amesha Spenta of wisdom and love.
ANSWER: Vohu Manah [or Good Mind]
[10] Tasks of the Amesha Spentas may include opposing this six-eyed dragon and thief of cattle, who is
imprisoned on Dermawend by Thraetaona, and is fated to die in the Ayohsust river of fire during the
Frasokereti.
ANSWER: Azi Dahaka
According to a middle-school PowerPoint presentation plagiarized from Everything2, the namesake
substance of this scandal was contaminated with "gristle, bits of rope, maggots, and poisonous
preservatives." For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this catchily-named embroglio arising from spoiled meat shipped in cans to American
soldiers fighting the Spanish-American War.
ANSWER: embalmed beef scandal
[10] The embalmed beef drum was beaten by this senior Army officer during the Spanish-American War,
who had earlier been a rival of Howard and Crook in his many expeditions against Indian leaders.
ANSWER: Nelson Appleton Miles
[10] Miles was attempting to make a political name for himself in order to secure the Democratic
nomination in 1904, expecting to run against this man, who was instead assassinated by Leon Czolgosz
six months into his second term.
ANSWER: William McKinley, Jr
It is one of several musical figures named for a school which formed around Carlo Grua and includes
Franz Richter and Christian Cannabich, along with the eponymous "birds," "crescendo," and "sigh." For
10 points each:
[10] Name this series of broken chords which moves briskly from the lowest to highest possible notes
over a bass ostinato, used, among in, among other pieces, the opening of Beethoven's first piano sonata.
ANSWER: the Mannheim Rocket
[10] This 1788 symphony in G minor, the latter of the two minor-key symphonies by its composer, uses a
Mannheim Rocket to start its fourth movement.
ANSWER: Mozart’s Great symphony [or Mozart’s 40th symphony]
[10] After the Great symphony, Mozart only wrote one more symphony; this one, containing a fugato in
five voices and named for a deity.
ANSWER: Jupiter [prompt on 41st]
Name these methods used to sequence DNA, for 10 points each.
[10] This type of sequencing uses nucleotides that lack a hydroxyl group on the 3’ carbon, thus stopping
DNA replication at that exact nucleotide, then running the DNA through gel electrophoresis.
ANSWER: Sanger dideoxy method/sequencing [accept either]
[10] Developed contemporaneously by Allan Maxam and Walter Gilbert, this process uses hydrazine to
react with pyrmidines, dimethyl sulfate to react with purines, and piperidine to catalyze the namesake
process on the phosphodiester bond.
ANSWER: chemical cleavage method/sequencing
[10] Large segments of DNA can be sequenced using this method, in which the DNA is randomly cleaved
into smaller fragments, each fragment is sequenced, and computers detect overlapping fragments and
piece together the original segment.
ANSWER: shotgun sequencing
The first story in the collection concerns four aristocrats who are caught in a flood on the German coast.
For 10 points each:
[10] “The Deluge at Norderny” opens this collection which also includes “The Supper at Elsinore “ and
“The Old Chevalier”, and were so named for the early-19th century style they imitated.
ANSWER: Seven Gothic Tales
[10] This Danish author of Seven Gothic Tales is better known for “Babette’s Feast” and an
autobiographical account of her time living in Kenya, Out of Africa.
ANSWER: Isak Dinesen (accept Karen Blixen)
[10] Written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel, this only full-length novel of Isak Dinesen tells the
tale of two abandoned girls, Zosine and the orphan Lucan. It is often seen as an allegory of the Nazi
occupation of Denmark.
ANSWER: The Angelic Avengers
He developed a namesake scale which ranged from antilocution to extermination in The Nature of
Prejudice. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this pioneer of American psychology who developed trait theory and emphasized the
differences between individuals in such works as Pattern and Growth in Personality.
ANSWER: Gordon Allport
[10] Gordon Allport may be best remembered today as the teacher of this psychologist whose small-world
experiment invented the “six degrees of separation” idea, and whose most famous work, Obedience to
Authority, revealed some, ahem, “shocking” results.
ANSWER: Stanley Milgram
[10] Another student of Gordon Allport was Leo Postman, whose “interference theory” attempted to
explain this phenomenon in terms of the dynamic interactions of past, present, and new memories.
ANSWER: forgetting
This work inverted Clausewitz’s famous formulation, asserting that the titular event was “the absence of
politics by other means”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this collection of three essays taken from The Guardian and Liberation which argued that the
titular conflict was not a conventional conflict at all, but merely a media spectacle meant to showcase
American military power.
ANSWER: “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place” [or The Gulf War Did Not Happen, etc]
[10] “The Gulf War Did Not Take Place” was written by this poststructuralist who argued that the
metanarratives of history have collapsed in the face in increasing globalization in The Illusion of the End.
ANSWER: Jean Beaudrillard
[10] This 1985 Baudrillard work draws upon Borges’ story of an empire-sized map, “On Exactitude in
Science”. Subtitled “The Body in History,” it posits three ages of the titular concept, the third and present
of which is “hyperreality”, in which symbols and images have replaced reality.
ANSWER: Simulacrum and Simulation [or Simulacres et Simulation]
This atheist-minded leader of the Society of United Irishmen collaborated with French general Lazare
Hoche in an ill-fated 1796 attempt to bring a 43-ship navy to Ireland. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Irish rebel, who killed himself in prison after being captured at Lough Swilly during the
1798 Irish uprising.
ANSWER: Theobald Wolfe Tone
[10] Tone collaborated with this French Revolutionary government, which involved five executives, such
as Sieyès, Barras, and Treilhard, cooperating with a legislature comprised of the Council of Ancients and
Council of Five Hundred.
ANSWER: the Directory
[10] Named for the ancient Irish kingdom that is now the region comprising counties Galway,
Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, and Mayo, this state with a bizarre half-and-half flag was proclaimed by
Jean Humbert during the French invasion of Ireland in 1798.
ANSWER: Republic of Connaught
The center foreground of this work features two flower vases, and the prominent figure may be Mary,
who is kneeling in prayer covered in a dark blue dress. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this triptych depicting the Adoration by Hugo Van der Goes which depicts its namesake patron
and his family on the outer two wings.
ANSWER: Portinari Altarpiece
[10] Caspar presents the infant Christ with a china cup in this man’s The Adoration of the Magi. This
early Renaissance artist may be best known for The Entombment of Christ, as well as several depictions
of Saint Sebastian.
ANSWER: Anthony Mantegna
[10] An Adoration of the Magi with [this figure] was painted by an anonymous Franco-Flemish master
and features a bright red background. This founder of monasticism was depicted holding a bell in the
Portinari Altarpiece.
ANSWER: St. Anthony
The force on a current-carrying wire is defined as the length of the wire times the cross product of the
current and this other vector. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this field generated by moving charged particles, which is most commonly encountered as a
dipole.
ANSWER: magnetic field
[10] These devices can measure magnetic fields as small as ten to the negative fourteenth Tesla and thus
have wide applications in biomedical imaging, among other fields.
ANSWER: SQUIDs [or superconducting quantum interference devices]
[10] SQUIDs make use of this kind of “junction,” which consists of two superconductors separated by a
thin insulator; an effect named after the same man predicts a current in the insulating gap in the absence
of an electric field.
ANSWER: Josephson junction
Name these things about fictional figures who deal with magical potions, FTP each:
[10] This title character of play assumes the role of Scoto Mantua and hawks an oil advertised as a
panacea in his attempts to glimpse a sight of Celia, the beautiful wife of the Venetian merchant Corvino.
Answer: Volpone
[10] Nemorino buys the titular love potion, actually some Bordeaux wine, from this quack in his attempts
to woo Adina in Donizetti’s opera The Elixir of Love.
Answer: Dr. Dulcamara
[10] Canto I of his long poem Tristram of Lyonesse ends with Tristan and Iseult drinking their love
potion. However, his most famous long poem probably remains Atalanta in Calydon.
Answer: Algernon Charles Swinburne