Minnesota Open 2010: Brought to You by the Citizens and Officials of Rutland, Vermont
Questions by The Four Historians of the Snowpocalypse (Bruce Arthur, Mike Bentley,
Trevor Davis, Doug Yetman) and Penn (Dominic Machado, Eric Mukherjee)
Edited by Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Gautam Kandlikar, and Bernadette Spencer
Tossups
1. Near the end of this man’s life, after his railroad ventures bombed, he ran a prison work
farm on President’s Island in the Mississippi River. This man’s namesake great-grandson
was the first American general to be killed in action during the European phase of World
War II. One of this man’s greatest victories saw him defeat Samuel Sturgis’ much larger
force during the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads. Near the end of the war he is most associated
with, he was unable to stop Wilson’s Raid into Alabama. He disgustedly asked “What does
he fight battles for?” after disagreeing with Braxton Bragg after the Battle of Chickamauga.
This man is frequently linked to the phrase (*) “get there firstest with the mostest,” reflecting his
views on mobile warfare. His most notorious action was ordering the massacre of black troops who had
apparently surrendered after the Battle of Fort Pillow. For 10 points, name this Confederate cavalry
officer, best known for being the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
ANSWER: Nathan Bedford Forrest
2. A group of three men wear straw hats that obstruct their eyes and paddle down a river in
small crafts in this man’s painting Canoes, also known as Perissoires. Three men with their
back to the viewer stand on the titular blue expanse in one of the “most complicated and
carefully prepared” of his works, The Europe Bridge. This artist, whose personal collection
ended up forming the core of the Musee d’Orsay, painted a work in which a cup and a wine
bottle sit on a table on the right while three (*) shirtless men perform some menial labor. A green
street light occupies the center of his best known work, which also depicts numerous people walking along
a cobblestone street and a woman holding the arm of a man with a moustache and top hat in the
foreground. That work prominently features gray umbrellas. For 10 points, name this patron of the
Impressionists who painted The Floor Scrapers and Paris Street, Rainy Day.
ANSWER: Gustave Caillebotte [accept Canoes or Perissoires before “this man’s” is read]
3. In one of this author’s final works, the titular piece of clothing creates a “world map”
that calls to mind “Dead white males in malls. / Prayer breakfasts. Pay-phone sex”; that
poem is called “Self Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker”. In another poem he describes putting
together a jigsaw puzzle with his Alsatian governess, who he refers to as “Madamoiselle”.
In that poem, this author also describes how “the owlet umlaut peeps and hoots / Above
the open vowel” while “ransacking Athens” and attempting to recall Rainer Maria Rilke’s
version of the Paul Valery poem “Palme”. The first section of his best-known work begins
with the pun, “Admittedly I err by undertaking / This in its present form”, and that work
goes on to envision W. H. Auden dictating his poems in the underworld and has a first part
titled “The Book of (*) Ephraim”. That most famous work was inspired by his partner, David Jackson,
operating a Ouija board. For 10 points, name this author of “Lost in Translation” and “The Changing
Light at Sandover”.
ANSWER: James Ingram Merrill
4. This man used the allure of To-Phalion Base, the home of Project Vorknkx (VORX-nix),
in order to entrap and defeat Demetrius Zaarin. During the Camaas Document crisis, Vilim
Disra hired the actor Flim to impersonate this figure, who was discovered in exile by Voss
Parck. In his first appearance, this figure correctly predicted that an Elomin commander
would easily fall victim to a Marg Sabl maneuver. He stated “But…it was so artistically
done” after being stabbed by one of his own bodyguards during the battle of Bilbringi,
leading his subordinate, (*) Gillad Pelleon, to withdraw his fleet. He was noted for using the art of his
enemies to pry into their weaknesses. For 10 points, name this Chiss Grand Admiral who led a campaign
against the New Republic, introduced in the Timothy Zahn-penned Heir to the Empire, a villain in the
Star Wars universe.
ANSWER: Grand Admiral Thrawn [or Mitth’Raw’Nuruodo from Matt Weiner or fellow Chiss
(or...both?)]
5. Eigler used an ellipse of cobalt atoms with an atom at one focus in an experiment that
observed the resonance associated with this phenomenon at both foci. For this effect to
occur with the presence of large spin atoms, the magnetic anisotropy must produce
degenerate ground state levels accompanied by a spin flip in the large atom, and it arises in
host materials with magnetic (*) impurities as the conduction electrons are scattered and screen the
impurity. It sees the formation of a many-body ground state and involves a log-T contribution to resitivity
at low temperatures. For 10 points, identify this effect which was first observed with the divergence of the
resistance of at temperatures close to the absolute zero, and is named for a Japanese physicist.
ANSWER: Kondo effect
6. One notable referendum in this country’s history saw leftist groups use the “Three Times
Yes” campaign to get votes. A resistance group in this nation was the “Cursed Soldiers,”
whose last member was killed in 1963. The Orange Alternative group in this nation
protested the government by staging happenings like an event commemorating toilet paper
or by painting graffiti of its symbol, a dwarf. A 1965 letter written by bishops from this
country contained the phrase (*) “We forgive and ask for forgiveness.” This nation used a brutal
paramilitary force called the “ZOMO.” It saw a 1956 “October thaw” that brought brief liberalizations.
During almost all of the 1970’s, this country was led by Edward Girek, while martial law was imposed in
1981 by dictator Wojciech Jaruzelski. For 10 points, name this country that saw anti-Communist agitation
during the 1980 labor strikes at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.
ANSWER: Poland
7. The Trizol reagent is sometimes used in this procedure, and one reagent in this
procedure sometimes has isoamyl alcohol added. A common alternative to this procedure
is performed using a silica-gel spin column sold by QIAgen. The products of this procedure
are considered pure if the ratio of absorption at 260 nanometers and 280 nanometers is
greater than 1.8. Guanidinium thiocyanate is sometimes used as a chaotrope in this
procedure, which uses a reagent that is sold in a stabilizer to prevent its conversion to (*)
phosgene. It may be preceded by a digestion of the sample with proteinase K. An ethanol precipitation
usually follows this procedure. For 10 points, name this method that uses two namesake chemicals to
partition nucleic acid from protein in a solution.
ANSWER: Phenol-chloroform extraction
8. One ballet composed by this man was revived under the title The Capricious Woman and
had some of its music taken for the male variation of the pas de trois in Paquita. This
creator of The Devil to Pay composed a ballet that opens with a miniature overture by
Cesare Pugni and was based on a poem by Lord Byron. That ballet contains a pas de fleurs
in le jardin animé scene that was composed by this man's pupil, Leo Delibes, and a pas de
deux between Medora and the title character, Conrad. Another ballet composed by this
man contains the "Grape-Pickers" march and a pas de deux between the protagonist and a
prince disguised as (*) Loys. In the second act of that ballet, Hilarion dies at the hands of a group led
by Queen Myrtha, and the title peasant girl saves her love, Albrecht, from death at the hands of the Wilis.
For 10 points, name this French composer of the ballets Le Corsaire and Giselle who also composed "O,
Holy Night".
ANSWER: Adolphe Adam
9. The protagonist of one of this author’s works falls in love with the sailor Charlie Kinraid,
but ends up marrying her cousin after he is drafted. Another one of this author’s
protagonists is sent to the Hamley family after her father discovers one of his apprentices
has fallen for her. This author of Sylvia’s Lovers wrote about Laura Gadolino and Mr
Homer in My Lady Ludlow. This author’s “Mr Harrison’s Confessions” is a prequel to a
more famous work, which consists of a series of narratives told by Mary Smith about
people in the title town. Another of her protagonists refuses the marriage of (*) Jem Wilson
for the wealthy Harry Carson and joins the Chartist movement. Yet another of her works sees Margaret
Hale sympathize with a group of striking miners. For 10 points, name this author of Cranford, Mary
Barton, and North and South.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Gaskell
10. With Michael Sadler, this thinker advocated university extension in one work, and
another work by this thinker was followed up with an article in which he stated that the
USSR had captured a key position in his theoretical framework. He published a history of
the Rhine and eight lectures on India, as well as an introduction to civics entitled The
Modern British State. One article by this man divided the world into the world (*) island, the
offshore islands, and the outlying islands, and posited that whoever controlled the Heartland at the center
of the World Island would control the world. For 10 points, name this geographer who expanded
geopolitical analysis worldwide in his “The Geographical Pivot of History”.
ANSWER: Halford John Mackinder
11. In negotiations during this battle, a diplomat, perplexed at a blunt pen, joked to the
invading force that their guns were hopefully better pointed than their pens. Six years after
this battle, another skirmish at the same site saw forces under James Gambier notoriously
bombard civilian centers. Sir Thomas Hardy spent the night before this battle doing recon,
but did not participate in the actual fighting. This battle, along with a leadership change in
Russia, effectively ended the attempts of the Second League of Armed Neutrality to
maintain trade with France. The most notable incident in this battle saw (*) Sir Hyde Parker
order retreat, only to have his second-in-command ignore it. That incident saw the commander of the
Elephant say “I really do not see the signal!” to his captain while holding a telescope to his blind eye. For
10 points, name this 1801 battle in which Horatio Nelson led an attack on a Danish-Norwegian fleet
anchored just outside a major Scandinavian city.
ANSWER: Battle of Copenhagen
12. Settings of the three stanzas of Rilke’s poem “The End of Autumn” are scattered
throughout the twelve movements of this composer’s choral eighth symphony, while the
sole movement of his second symphony is in modified sonata form and features numerous
quotations of “Silent Night”, giving it its informal nickname “Christmas”. Various tools are
used to strike an iron bar in the second of his Lucretius-inspired pieces called De Natura
Sonoris, while his other compositions include the electroencephalogram-inspired (*)
Polymorphia and a symphony called Seven Gates of Jerusalem. An a cappella major triad at the end of
the Stabat Mater and another major triad at the very end are the only exceptions to the atonality of his
1966 St. Luke Passion. His most famous work opens with a number of staggered dissonant blasts from the
52 stringed instruments for which it is scored; that work was originally titled “8:37”. For 10 points,
identify this Polish composer of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.
ANSWER: Krzysztof Penderecki [accept variants of “Penderecki’s Symphony No. 8”, or “Songs of
Transience”, or “Lieder der Vergänglichkeit” before “this composer” is read]
13. The protagonist of this novel likes to sit on a stairway landing which contains an
araucaria plant that he considers a symbol of “bourgeois cleanliness.” A character in this
novel shoots the drivers of passing automobiles during a war between men and machines.
The protagonist of this novel commits a gaffe at a dinner party when he insults a portrait
of Goethe owned by his host’s wife, and afterwards dreams about meeting Goethe. In
another section of this novel, a man carrying a placard advertising “anarchist (*) evening
entertainment” gives a brochure to the protagonist, the text of which interrupts the novel and purports to
be a treatise on the title figure. With the help of the jazz saxophonist Pablo, this novel’s protagonist is able
to enter a place marked “for madmen only.” The protagonist fulfills a prophecy given by Hermine when
he stabs her to death inside the magic theater. For 10 points, name this novel in which the aging loner
Harry Haller identifies himself with the title creature, a work of Herman Hesse.
ANSWER: Der Steppenwolf
14. ASIDs are used in virtual ones of these in order to make for easier context-switching,
while in multi-processor systems, snarfing can be used to efficiently manage this entity. A
dirty bit is used in the write-back approach to implementing these entities, while Norman
Jouppi introduced the “victim” type of them. MMUs use a specific type of these called a
Translation (*) Lookaside Buffer to map virtual to physical memory addresses. When these entities are
“cold”, they are subject to compulsory misses. Line matching and word selection are more complicated in
the “set-associative” than the “direct-mapped” types of these entities, while programs can be made more
efficient by exploiting the spatial and temporal locality in them. For 10 points, name this smaller, faster
section a larger memory pool, used to access commonly-used data.
ANSWER: CPU Cache [or Data Cache]
15. One of this author’s works begins “I yearn for my mother’s bread/and my mother’s
coffee” and asks his mother to bring him back to childhood. One of this man’s works takes
place on Hiroshima Day, and sees the protagonist wander the streets as fighter planes
screech overhead. One of his works sees a figure’s “coat-buttons flash” as he performs the
title action, after earlier slinging “his rifle over my Grandfather’s chair”. That poem, “As
he walks away”, is found in this man’s Adam of Two Edens. This author of Memory for
Forgetfulness also wrote a poem which states “Leave our land/…/our salt, our wound”,
entitled (*) “Passers Between the Passing Words.” One of his works, found in the volume Leaves of
Olives, contains the line “What is there to be angry about?” and states “Put on the record/I am an Arab”.
For 10 points, name this poet of “Identity Card”, a Palestinian.
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
16. One section of this work decries revolts among North American colonists and advocates
the unification of the executive and legislative powers to make them "equal in force". This
work argues that the "divine hand" of liberty should only be stopped when it becomes
license to harm. The second article of this work claims that politics must preserve the
rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. This work supports the
adoption of poor children by the rich in a postscript that outlines rules for an institution
this piece dubs a "tomb of love and trust". In addition to containing a marriage contract,
this work upholds the use of “nature and reason" to overturn the (*) "perpetual male tyranny"
that has prevented the "harmonious togetherness" of men and women before the law and was written in
response to a document that the Marquis de Lafayette compiled for the National Assembly. For 10 points,
name this work that that argues for the freedom of the female citizens of France, a response to the
Declaration of the Rights of Man that was written by Olympe de Gouges.
ANSWER: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen [or Declaration des
droits de la femme et de la citoyenne]
17. A Whitehall Review article denouncing the public feeding of reptiles featured a
headline comparing it to this conflict. Martin Farquhar Tupper wrote violent poems on his
recommendations for this conflict. One notorious incident in this conflict saw William
Hodson strip three captives naked, shoot them dead at Bloody Gate, and dump their bodies
at a police station. One precipitating cause for it was the implementation of the “doctrine
of lapse” devised by (*) Lord Dalhousie. It was kicked off by the attempted assassinations of Mangal
Pandey. Other actions during this conflict include a massacre of women and children after the Siege of
Cawnpore, as well as Colin Campbell’s defense of Lucknow. Set off in part because new rifle cartridges
were thought to be soaked in beef or pork fat, this conflict resulted in the dissolution of a certain company
and the formation of the British Raj. For 10 points, name this 1857 rebellion in India initiated by the
namesake group of native soldiers.
ANSWER: Sepoy Rebellion or Mutiny [accept Indian Rebellion of 1857 until the final line, accept
India’s First War of Independence and equivalents, prompt on Indian Revolt or Rebellion]
18. This figure was mentioned as one of the three most powerful swineherds of Britain for
guarding the magical swine of Annwfn. Along with his stepfather, this figure was among
seven survivors of Bran's failed attack on Matholwch. That same stepfather and this
figure’s wife helped to free this figure from a spell by capturing a mouse, who was actually
the wife of Llywd. This figure had fallen under that spell when he touched a golden bowl
after following a boar into a cave. This man, who was married to (*) Cigfa, was originally
named Gwri by his foster father, Teirnon, because of his golden hair. Teirnon found this figure after he
had been abandoned by Gnawl, who had stolen him while this figure’s mother’s attendant slept. To recuse
themselves, those attendant’s smeared dog’s blood all of over his mother’s face and claimed that she had
eaten the baby. For ten points, name this son of Rhiannon and Pwyll, who ruled over Dyfed.
ANSWER: Pryderi fab Pwyll [accept Gwri until mentioned]
19. This work describes how “the snares of death compassed me round about, and the
pains of hell got hold upon me” in its section on “Thanksgiving after Child Birth”. One of
its most controversial sections involves instructions for kneeling and is known as the Black
Rubric. This work’s preface declares that the common interest of the church it is used in
has been to “keep the mean between the two extremes”. One revision of this document
took place at the Savoy Conference, while an earlier editing removed the Sarum Rite from
it. Its “Litany” section repeatedly asks, (*) Good lord, deliver us ... from all the deceits of the world,
the flesh, and the devil” and is the origin of the phrase “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust”. The most significant
revision of this work in 1662 removed the anti-Protestant compromises of Mary I’s Catholic reign. For 10
points, name this first English translation and modification of the Roman Missal, the central religious text
of the Anglican Church.
ANSWER: The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and
Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or
Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making,
ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons. [or the 1662 Book of Common Prayer or
the Prayer Book]
20. The activity of compounds that modulate this process can be observed in chick
chorioallantoic membranes and in a process in which an inducer of this process is placed
in a pocket in the cornea. eNOS promotes this process via protein kinase G signaling, and
notch signaling also plays an important role in regulating this process. Signaling involved
in this process activates the breakdown of the extracellular matrix by MMPs and (*) FGFs
play a role in stimulating cell proliferation for this process. Avastin inhibits the activity of an important
molecule in this process called VEGF, and tumors use this process to increase blood supply and promote
growth. For 10 points, identify this process by which the body produces new blood vessels.
ANSWER: angiogenesis
TIEBREAKER
One of this author’s poems reminisces about a man who, “in his prime / Ere the pruningknife of Time / cut him down”, exhibited a “Roman nose” and a cheek “like a rose / in the
snow”. That poem ends with the speaker wishing that if he were the title object “on a tree /
in the spring”, that people should smile “at the old forsaken bough / where I cling”. This
author of “The Last Leaf” wrote a poem about a figure who “left the past year’s dwelling for
the new”, after which he “stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more”. His
(*) “medicated novels” include one in which Bernard Langdon moves to Rockland to work in the
Apollinean Female Institute, where he meets the titular girl, who is eventually revealed to be half-snake.
This author of Elsie Venner wrote a poem about a “ship of pearl” which sails “the unshadowed main”. For
10 points, identify this author who wrote “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul” in his poem “The
Chambered Nautilus”.
ANSWER: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Minnesota Open 2010: Brought to You by the Citizens and Officials of Rutland, Vermont
Questions by The Four Historians of the Snowpocalypse (Bruce Arthur, Mike Bentley,
Trevor Davis, Doug Yetman) and Penn (Dominic Machado, Eric Mukherjee)
Edited by Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Gautam Kandlikar, and Bernadette Spencer
Bonuses
1. Sometimes, Muslims live on islands. Answer the following about that phenomenon, for 10 points each:
[10] This empire was established on Java in the 1500’s, and was the foremost power in Indonesia until the
arrival of the Dutch. Leaders included Sultans Agung and Amangkurat.
ANSWER: Mataram Sultanate
[10] Sultan Agung unsuccessfully led sieges on this Dutch colonial city on Java. Taking its name from
ancient Germanic history, it was founded by Jan Pieterszoon Coen and is now known as Jakarta.
ANSWER: Batavia
[10] Another example of Muslims being on islands was seen on this island, once ruled by Sultan Bargash.
It merged with another nation in 1964 and fought a war against Great Britain that lasted for less than
forty minutes.
ANSWER: Zanzibar
2. The sobs of the protagonist at the beginning of this story are belied her repetition of the words
“Free...free...free...” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this short story in which Louise Mallard is relieved to hear of her husband Brentley’s death,
only to die of grief when he turns up alive.
ANSWER: “The Story of an Hour” [or “The Dream of an Hour”]
[10] “Emancipation” was written by this American author, better known for a short novel where New
Orleans resident Edna Pontellier drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico.
ANSWER: Kate Chopin [or Katherine O’Flaherty]
[10] Followed by a sequel titled “The Storm”, this Chopin short story begins by declaring that its
protagonist, Bobinot, “had no intention of going to the [titular event], even though he knew Calixta would
be there”.
ANSWER: “At the ‘Cadian Ball”
3. This husband and wife pair of scientists showed that mutations are random occurrences. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name these scientists, who did that by first growing E. coli in a dish and then plating colonies onto
two plates with the same antibacterial agent. The second plates showed bacterial growth in the same
locations.
ANSWER: Joshua and Esther Lederberg [or The Lederbergs]
[10] This doubly eponymous experiment showed that mutations occur spontaneously, not as a response to
the environment. In it, the experimenters introduced E. coli bacteria to T-1 phages.
ANSWER: Luria-Delbruck experiment
[10] This type of mutation is a point substitution that results in the change of a single amino acid of a
polypeptide.
ANSWER: missense mutation
4. This composition was the subject of a delightful cartoon in which its exasperated composer laments
“My God, I've forgotten the motor-horn! Now I shall have to write another symphony.” For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this A-minor symphony, which originally featured three “hammer blows of fate” before its
composer removed the third one.
ANSWER: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 [accept equivalents and prompt on partial answers; accept
“the Tragic Symphony” or “die Tragische Sinfonie”, neither of which answers require “Mahler”]
[10] Mahler also composed this numberless symphonic work, whose final movement, “The Farewell”,
ends with the line “Endless... endless...”. It sets a variety of Chinese poems translated by Hans Bethge.
ANSWER: The Song of the Earth: A Symphony for Tenor and Alto (or Baritone) Voice and Orchestra
(after Hans Bethge's “The Chinese Flute”) [or Das Lied von der Erde: Eine Symphonie für eine Tenorund eine Alt- (oder Bariton-) Stimme und Orchester (nach Hans Bethges “Die chinesische Flöte”)]
[10] The final movement of this popular Mahler composition, the last of his symphonies to set texts from
Des Knaben Wunderhorn, features a soprano singing the song “Das himmlische Leben”.
ANSWER: Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 [accept equivalents]
5. Identify some James Joyce characters, for 10 points each.
[10] After abandoning a novel about this character as a “hero”, Joyce reworked that manuscript into A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which stars this character. He also represents Telemachus in
Ulysses.
ANSWER: Stephen Dedalus [accept either]
[10] This protagonist of Finnegans Wake, the father of Shem, Shaun, and Issy, is often considered a
personification of Dublin, while his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle is considered a personification of the river
Liffey.
ANSWER: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker [accept any underlined portion; accept HCE; accept
Here Comes Everybody; accept Haveth Childer Everywhere; accept Harold; accept
Haromphreyld]
[10] This character becomes extremely jealous of his globetrotting-journalist friend Ignatius Gallaher,
after which he reads Byron at his baby until the latter cries, in the story “A Little Cloud” from Dubliners.
ANSWER: Thomas Chandler [accept either; accept “Little Chandler”]
6. The sinking of landmasses due to deposition of eroded material from mountain ranges is an example of
this phenomenon. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this model which explains the buoyancy of the asthenosphere supporting the earth’s crust.
ANSWER: isostasy [or isostatic equilibrium]
[10] This model suggests that under mountains, the earth’s crust is thicker than it is elsewhere. Unlike the
Pratt model, it assumes constant densities for the mountains and the crust.
ANSWER: Airy model
[10] This quantity, which proportional to the density and the relative height of large rock mass, corrects
for the contribution of elevation to the gravitational acceleration at the measurement level. It is named for
a Frenchman.
ANSWER: Bouguer correction
7. These objects were used by a certain entrepreneur to advertise such services as “a swift kick in the butt”
for a dollar and “a frank appraisal of your looks” for fifty cents. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these objects, also used by that comic strip character as a transmogrifier, a duplicator, and a
time machine.
ANSWER: corrugated cardboard boxes
[10] The aforementioned character is this six-year-old foe of Susie Derkins, who co-founds the Get Rid of
Slimy Girls club with his tiger friend Hobbes.
ANSWER: Calvin
[10] In one strip, Calvin presents an “artist’s statement” explaining that his work is “utterly
incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance”, prompting Hobbes to note that he has
misspelled this philosophical term.
ANSWER: Weltanschauung [velt-an-schow-ung]
8. Notable members of this school of thought include Thomas Risse and Peter Katzenstein. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this newest school of International Relations theory, prominent in Minnesota, that claims that
many aspects of international politics are determined by ideas or social forces, rather than by human
nature or rationality.
ANSWER: social constructivism
[10] The origins of social constructivism can be traced to the 1992 article “Anarchy is What States Make of
It” by this Chicago professor, the author of Social Theory of International Politics.
ANSWER: Alexander Wendt
[10] Social Constructivists disparagingly refer to rationalist theories of international relations as the “neoneo synthesis”, a grouping together of Neo-Liberalism and this other school of IR theory. This school
believes that nations are forced to compete for power and includes people like Kenneth Waltz and John
Mearsheimer.
ANSWER: Neo-Realism [or Realpolitik]
9. This man wrote the 1940 book The Case Against the New Deal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man mocked as the “little man on the wedding cake,” a mustachioed New York District
Attorney and later Governor, who lost back to back presidential elections in the 1940’s.
ANSWER: Thomas Edmund Dewey
[10] As a D.A., Dewey achieved fame by taking down this notorious Sicilian, whose crime family later
evolved into the Genovese family. He was paroled after providing Mafia assistance to the U.S. during
World War II.
ANSWER: Charles “Lucky” Luciano [accept Salvatore Lucania]
[10] At the 1952 Republican convention, Dewey was jeered by this Illinois Senator, who warned about
going down the “road to defeat” again. He served as Senate Minority leader for almost all of the 1960’s.
ANSWER: Everett McKinley Dirksen
10. In a delightful callback to last year’s Minnesota-themed fine arts, identify the following about the
architectural firm of Herzog and de Meuron, for 10 points each.
[10] The firm laid down the design for the conversion of the Bankside Power Station into this London
modern art museum, which is part of an eponymous group of British art museums.
ANSWER: the Tate Modern
[10] Herzog and de Meuron also designed a museum in Colmar, France whose name is similar to that of
this famed arboreal boulevard in Berlin, which runs from the Brandenburg Gate to the Spree river.
ANSWER: Unter den Linden [accept “Under the linden trees”, though why anyone would answer
that is beyond me; prompt on “the Unterlinden Museum” or “Musee d’Unterlinden”]
[10] The firm also designed the Plaza de España in the capital city of this island. That city on this island is
also home to an auditorium designed by Santiago Calatrava that features a huge wave-shaped structure
arcing over a dome, as well asthe Torres de Santa Cruz.
ANSWER: Tenerife [prompt on the Canary Islands, I guess]
11. The BBFH theory was superceded by this hypothesis, and it predicts a 25% concentration of Helium-4
in the universe. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this process that occurred during the first five minutes of the existence of the universe, and
produced heavier atoms such as Helium-4.
ANSWER: big bang nucleosynthesis [prompt on “nucleosynthesis” but don’t prompt on “big bang;”
accept nucleogenesis instead of synthesis; accept BBN]
[10] BBN was proposed by Roger Alpher and this other scientist. His namesake “peak” is the product of
the tunneling probability and the Maxwell-Boltzmann maximum, and describes the probability of
tunneling through a Coulomb barrier.
ANSWER: George Gamow
[10] One of the unrestricted quantities in the BBN model is the ratio of baryons to these particles. These
particles are the gauge Bosons of electromagnetism and you may know them better as the quanta of light.
ANSWER: photons
12. Monks in this group do not use bowls when they seek alms, and they also do not recognize the texts of
the agama tradition. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this group whose two main communities are the Mula Sangha and Kastha Sangha. Their
name refers the fact that they wear the akasha.
ANSWER: Digambara [accept sky clad Jains]
[10] The Digambaras and their counterparts, the Swetambaras, do not disagree on several doctrines,
including this one which requires Jains to avoid violence of any kind.
ANSWER: ahimsa
[10] The schism between the Swetambaras and the Digambaras is thought to have been fully underway by
a mid-5th century council held in this modern day Gujarati city. The Encyclopedia Britannica claims that
some Chinese visitors to this place describe it as rivaling Nalanda
ANSWER: Valabhi
13. This book was assembled from a series of lectures originally entitled “Problems in Philosophy”, and it
argues against A.J. Ayer’s “The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work that refutes the claim that material objects can only be understood as bits of sense
data.
ANSWER: Sense and Sensibilia
[10] Sense and Sensibilia was written by this English philosopher who described performative and
constative utterances, as well as illocutionary and perlocutionary acts, in How to Do Things with Words.
ANSWER: J.L. Austin [or John Langshaw Austin]
[10] Along with H.L.A Hart, Austin was a member of this philosophical school that opposed the “ideal
language” theory of analytic philosophy and studied the everyday use of words in order to solve
philosophical problems.
ANSWER: ordinary language philosophy
14. This bonus is about Benjamin Disraeli fan fiction. For 10 points each:
[10] Fan fiction writers enjoy commenting on the underlying sexual chemistry between Disraeli and this
man, his Liberal arch-nemesis who served as Prime Minister four times and was known as the Grand Old
Man.
ANSWER: William Ewart Gladstone
[10] Disraeli/Gladstone slash fiction usually eroticizes this series of 1880 speeches given by Gladstone
against Disraeli, which resulted in an election ousting Disraeli’s Conservatives. The speeches denounced
the Bulgarian Horrors perpetuated by the Ottoman allies of Disraeli.
ANSWER: Midlothian Campaign
[10] While not as popular, another strain of Disraeli slash fiction takes up his relationship with this man,
the overall leader of the Conservatives and a three time Prime Minister to boot. His 1852 ministry was
known as the “Who? Who?” ministry because the Duke of Wellington had no idea who this man’s Cabinet
members were.
ANSWER: Lord Derby [or Edward George Geoffrey-Smith Stanley, or Lord Stanley]
15. Its central figure is flanked by St. Francis, who wears a monk’s robe, and St. Nicasius, who wears a suit
of armor bearing the coat of arms of its commissioner, Tuzio Costanzo. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 1503 painting in which the central pair of figures sit atop a white throne which itself is
perched upon a red wall, which divides the checkered floor in front from the background landscape.
ANSWER: the Castelfranco Madonna [prompt on Madonna and Child Between St. Francis
and St. Nicasius, since you already said most of those things]
[10] The Castelfranco Madonna was painted by this Venetian artist of The Tempest and The Test of Fire
of Moses who placed a goddess’s hand intriguingly close to her groin in his Sleeping Venus.
ANSWER: Giorgione [or Giorgione Barbarelli da Castelfranco]
[10] One of the title figures in this Giorgione painting holds a sheet of paper containing a crescent moon
and other astrological symbols, and stands next to a turbaned man wearing a red and gray outfit. X-Rays
have shown that one of the title figures originally wore a crown.
ANSWER: The Three Philosophers
16. An author supposedly known as this country’s Sylvia Plath wrote such collections as Smoke and Ochre
and Toppling Sun, while another author from here wrote A Bad Path and five novels about Zulu kings.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this country, home to Ingrid Jonker and R.R.R. Dhlomo, as well as the latter’s brother H.I.E.
Dhlomo. The Dhlomos, like other Zulu authors, suffered under apartheid here.
ANSWER: Republic of South Africa [or Republiek van Suid-Afrika; or iRiphabliki yeSewula Afrika;
or iRiphabliki yomZantsi Afrika; or iRiphabhuliki yaseNingizimu Afrika; or iRiphabhulikhi
yeNingizimu Afrika; or Repabliki ya Afrika-Borwa; or Rephaboliki ya Afrika Borwa; or
Rephaboliki ya Aforika Borwa; or Riphabliki ra Afrika Dzonga; or Riphabuḽiki ya Afurika
Tshipembe]
[10] This early feminist targeted Cecil Rhodes with her satire Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, but
is more famous for her semi-autobiographical The Story of an African Farm.
ANSWER: Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
[10] The Sestigers, a South African literary movement, was co-founded by André Brink and this
repetitively-named Afrikaans author who wrote Memory of Snow and Dust and The True Confessions of
an Albino Terrorist.
ANSWER: Breyten Breytenbach
17. Identify the following about emanations and emanationism in mythology, for 10 points each.
[10] These six “divine sparks” are the emanations of the uncreated Creator in the Zoroastrian mythos.
Examples of them include Asha, or “truth”, and Vohu Manah, or “good purpose”.
ANSWER: Amesha Spentas [or the Bounteous Immortals; accept Ameshāspand, Mahrāspand,
or Amahrāspand]
[10] The Kabbalistic mythos includes these ten emanations of Ein Sof, or God, which are generally
understood as revelations of ratzon, the Creator’s will. The highest of them is Keter, and they also include
Chokhmah, Malkuth, and Tiferet.
ANSWER: the ten Sephirot [or Sefirot or Sefiroth or Sephiroth; also accept Sefirah, the singular]
[10] The wiki page on “Emanationism” came through with a third part for this bonus, listing as an
example this concept from Aboriginal myth. It is the period prior to the current time when various spirits
and beings created the physical world.
ANSWER: the Dreamtime [or the Dreaming]
18. When both the variables of this model, the reaction velocity and the substrate concentration, are
plotted as their inverses, one gets the Lineweaver-Burke plot. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this popular model of enzyme kinetics.
ANSWER: Michaelis-Menten equation [or kinetics]
[10] This equation, which was proposed to model the kinetics of oxygen binding of hemoglobin , does
account for allosteric binding. Its namesake coefficient is describes the cooperative nature of binding.
ANSWER: Hill equation
[10] This multi-substrate reaction mechanism sees the transfer of a moiety to the enzyme and release of a
product in one reaction, after which a second substrate binds to the modified enzyme and the reaction is
completed. It is contrasted with a sequential reaction.
ANSWER: ping pong
19. Answer the following about the War of the Eight Saints, for 10 points each:
[10] In the war, a coalition organized by this Italian city-state fought the forces of Pope Gregory XI. The
name of the war may refer to a wartime commission formed in this city, which was later controlled by the
Medicis.
ANSWER: Florence
[10] Immediately after the 1378 conclusion of the war, Florence was rocked by this rebellion of the
namesake wool carders. One of the leaders of this revolt was Michele di Lando, who was appointed
gonfaloniere of justice.
ANSWER: Revolt of the Ciompi
[10] After the Ciompi revolt, Florence was ruled by this family, rivals of both the Medicis and Albertis.
One member of this family, Rinaldo, exiled Cosimo de Medici, who swiftly returned and booted out
Rinaldo.
ANSWER: Albizzi
20. One character in a play by this author compares battle to a monkey’s ass after the war gates are closed,
and the title declaration of that play eventually proves false after Hector kills Demokes for calling him a
coward. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this French author of The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, whose other works include
Ondine, Amphitryon 38, and The Madwoman of Chaillot.
ANSWER: Jean Giraudoux [or Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux]
[10] The Trojan War Will Not Take Place was translated into English by Christopher Fry, whose own best
known work is this play in which Thomas Mendip falls in love with Jennet Jourdemayne, an alleged witch.
ANSWER: The Lady’s Not for Burning
[10] Another of Giraudoux’s more highly-regarded plays is one starring and titled for this character, who
plots revenge with her brother Orestes against her mother and stepfather, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
ANSWER: Electra [or Électre]
TIEBREAKER
Answer some questions about medieval historian dudes for 10 points each:
[10] This British historian claimed the Middle Ages began when the title action took place in his magnum
opus, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
ANSWER: Edward Gibbon
[10] This Belgian writer disagreed with Gibbon, instead arguing that the Middle Ages began in the seventh
and eighth centuries as a result of Arab invasions. That argument, known as this man’s namesake thesis,
is presented in his Medieval Cities and Mohammed and Charlemagne.
ANSWER: Henri Pirenne
[10] Another historian of the Middle Ages was Charles Homer Haskins, whose work on the Renaissance
expanded on this Swiss historian’s magnum opus The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. This man
also studied Greek history and is considered one of the earliest cultural historians.
ANSWER: Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt