THUNDER Round 13
Questions by Trygve Meade, Eric Mukherjee, and George Stevens
Tossups
1. The "reduction of dimensionality" model attempts to explain the selectivity of these structures.
The assembly of these structures was first studied with the use of the chelator BAPTA and lectin
WGA, and one model for their function involves the binding of the successive FG residues that line
these complexes. These structures contain a molecule called the "center plug" and one end of these
structures have a basket like shape. Hydrolysis of Ran-GTP to Ran-GDP and dissociation of Ran-GDP
with the help of Ran-GEF helps these structures perform their characteristic activity; that activity is
performed with the aid of karyopherins called importins and exportins. For 10 points, identify these
structures which are embedded in the envelope of a namesake organelle and which facilitate the transport
of molecules between that DNA containing organelle and the cytosol.
ANSWER: nuclear pores [or nuclear pore complexes; prompt on Nups or nucleoporins]
2. Along with Mark Costello, this man wrote a structuralist critique of urban music in his
work Signifying Rap:Rap and Race in the Urban Present. Under the pseudonym Elizabeth Klemm,
this man published a short story entitled "Mister Squishy," which would later reappear along with
"The Suffering Channel" in his collection Oblivion: Stories. He wrote a novel in which the
protagonist's pet cockatiel becomes extraordinarily vocal, leading to her existential crisis. That novel,
written about Lenore Breadsman, is called The Broom of the System. He may be more famous for writing a
long novel in which Orin is the punter for the Arizona Cardinals and is the older brother of the protagonist,
Hal Incandenza. The author of the essay collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, for 10 points,
identify this prolific postmodern American novelist best known for writing Infinite Jest.
ANSWER: David Foster Wallace
3. During tsar Alexei’s reign, an uprising occurred in Moscow over Boris Morozov’s imposition of a
tax on this commodity, and the French gabelle was also an unpopular tax on it. The towns which
produced this commodity in England were appended with the suffix “wich” and were concentrated
in Cheshire and Worcestershire. The Azalai is a route for caravans that carried this commodity
across the Sahara, after which it was traded for gold, and the origins of the Hanseatic League lie in the
trading of this commodity, which was used to preserve fish. For 10 points, name this commodity, the
subject of British taxation which sparked a march by Gandhi.
ANSWER: Salt
4. Some of the ideas of this school of thought have been attacked in the work Never At War, which
analyzed the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm II as its case in point. A notable member of this school of
thought combined Steven Walt's Theory of Balance of Threat with another theorist's to create his
own Balance of Interests Thoery; that man is Randall Schweller. Another theorist to write in this
school of thought did so in his work on nuclear weapons and international security in the work The
Tragedy of Great Power Politics, while another outlined this school in Theory of International Politics.
Those men are John Mearsheimer and one who believes that the international system functions only as a
check on behavior, Kenneth Waltz. For ten points, identify this school of international relations theory
which sought to improve the model of Morgenthau and Niebuhr and which is opposed to Neo-Liberalism.
ANSWER: Neo-Realism [also accept Structural Realism; do not accept or prompt on Realism]
5. A nude woman seated at a café table in the bottom left and bizarre objects dominating the top
right confront the title figure of this artist’s The Tribulations of St. Anthony. Masked figures also
appear in his work showing figures arranged like the apostles in The Last Supper who eat a meager
meal. In addition to painting The Banquet of the Starved and he also painted Skeletons Fighting for the
Body of a Hanged Man. His most famous work shows a banner reading “Vive la sociale” as a large and
confused mob pays no attention to the Messiah’s arrival in the background. For 10 points, identify this
member of Les XX, who painted Christ’s Entry into Brussels.
ANSWER: Baron James Sidney Ensor
6. Ea was identified with one of these creatures on Kassite tablets. Nu Gua uses the legs of one of
these figures to hold up the sky, and the guardian of the north, Genbu, takes this shape. The
Minogame is one of these creatures with a feathery tail. A figure who refused to attend Hera and
Zeus’ wedding was turned into one of these and was named Chelone, and Sciron pushed travellers off
a cliff that contained a giant one of these creatures at the bottom. The I Ching was composed from trigrams
printed on one of these creatures, Kurma and Akupara are examples of them in Hinduism, the latter of
which carries the world on its back. For 10 points, name these creatures, one of whose shells was used to
create the first lyre by Hermes.
ANSWER: Turtle or Tortoise
7. One important constant describing these materials is proportional to the square of the Lande gfactor and the Bohr magneton times J times J plus 1. Molecular orbital theory is required to show
that diatomic oxygen is one of these materials, and one law describing these materials contain an
additional theta term describing exchange interactions. The Neel-Arrhenius law describes the
“super” version of this property, which occurs in ferrofluids, and these materials obey the Curie-Weiss
law. For 10 points, name these materials characterized by a magnetic susceptibility greater than 1, which
become magnetised only in response to an external field.
ANSWER: Paramagnetism
8. This entity negotiated the Treaty of Dumplin Creek with Alexander Outlaw, which set its southern
border as the Little River. Governor Esteban Miro sent gold to entice this entity, and James White
attempted to place it under Spanish rule. This entity’s first proposed constitution prohibited doctors,
lawyers and priests from election to its legislature, and the economic system of this entity was
bartering. William Cocke defended this entity from a force sent by Governor Richard Caswell, and
John Tipton defeated the militia of its Governor John Sevier. Native American raids finally ended this
entity, and it then returned to North Carolina, although it later became part of Tennessee. For 10 points,
name this attempted US state named for a Founding Father from Pennsylvania.
ANSWER: State of Franklin [or Frankland]
9. Daan and Melton fight on their way to a resort where Daan works as a gardener and encounter the
snake-charmer PAulus in one play by this author, entitled Marigolds in August. In another play
written by this author, Robert shows up at the photography studio of Styles, entitled Sizwe Banzi is
Dead. One character in another of this man's plays was evicted from his tenant farm; that man is
Boseman, who is walking to another town with Lena. In a better-known play, Sam and Willie are practicing
their dancing in preparation for a competition, before Hally returns him from school, and in another work,
Morris is the fair-skinned brother of the extremely dark Zachariah. For 10 points, name this man who wrote
Blood Knot and MASTER HAROLD…And the Boys, a South African playwright.
ANSWER: Harold Flannigan Athol Fugard
10. A ribbed one of these structures is found near Lake Rogen, where that subtype gets its name.
Veiki ones form irregular plateaued landscapes and are a subtype of Hummocky ones, and ribbon
lakes can be created when they trap water, as occurred at Lake Zurich. The Giant’s Wall in Norway
is another example of these, and is of a subtype that marks the advancement of the structures
responsible for creating them, known as terminal ones. Frost shattering can create lateral ones, while
rolling hears can create ground ones, which can be formed into drumlins. For 10 points, name these
physical features which are created by debris from glaciers as they advance.
ANSWER: Moraine
11. The second movement scherzo in this piece is in B-flat major and minor, is mostly in ¾ except for
a surprising stretch of 32 bars in 2/4, and is the shortest movement in the piece. The opening
movement, an Allegro in B-flat, has a second subject in the submediant, G major, and the
development contains a fugato treatment of the main theme. The finale consists of a Largo
introduction and a lengthy Allegro Risoluto, which after three long trills turns into a massive three-
voice fugue in ¾ whose theme begins with a jump of a tenth, and which ends with 124 bars of music
marked fortissimo. If the composer’s tempo indications were followed, this piece was the longest written
for solo piano up to that date, and its third movement Adagio e Sostenuto is the longest slow movement in
the composer’s piano oeuvre. For 10 points, what fourth-to-last piano sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven
that takes its name from a German word for the piano.
ANSWER: “Hammerklavier” Sonata or Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106
12. On the last day of this engagement, reinforcements under Sedullos and Vercassivellaunos arrived,
and the focuse of this battle was the capital of the Mandubii. Prior to this battle, Ambiorix led the
Eburones in revolt, which resulted in a meeting at Bibracte that elected a ruler of the Arverni to lead
a new rebellion. During this battle, Commius arrived with reinforcements that unsuccessfully
attacked the Romans, who were fortified between a contravallation wall and the namesake city. Fought
shortly after the Battle of Gergovia, for 10 points, name this 52 BC victory for Julius Caesar over
Vercingetorix, which resulted in Roman control over Gaul.
ANSWER: Battle of Alesia [or Siege of Alesia]
13. One of this poet's works addresses the title character by saying "My tongue had taught thee
comfort, touch had quenched thy tears;" that character, a sick child, would eventually be "powerful
amidst peers" at the "random grim forge." That poem, "Felix Randal," appeared in the same
collection as one that calls the title month "Mary's Month," entitled "May Magnificat." Also the
author of "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," another poem asks why the title concept would "lay a lionlimb
against me?" and or scan "With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones?" The title concept of a further
poem "over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."The author of "Carrion
Comfort" and "God's Grandeur," for 10 points, identify this poet who wrote about a "dapple dawn-drawn
falcon" in his work "The Windhover,"
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
14. This figure’s father Torbert was a factory worker who abused him, and this figure almost
married Mary Alice Anders but his mother didn’t approve of her. During Dark Reign, this figure
used his technology to completely take over New York City’s utilities, and after his death in the
Clone Saga his assistant Carolyn Trainer temporarily took over for him. He once attempted to spike
a newspaper’s ink with DMSO, and this man almost beat Felicia Hardy to death immediately before
diffusing a nuclear reactor. He once broke out of prison by remotely controlling his weapons, created the
original Sinister Six, and almost married his adversary’s Aunt May. For 10 points, name this scientist who
during a test became fused to his four-metal-armed harness, an enemy of Spider-Man named for a
cephalopod.
ANSWER: Doctor Octopus or Doctor Otto Octavius or Doc Ock
15. Scott Soames argued that this work depends on the idea that all a priori truths are also
analytically true, while Strawson and Grice also notably critiqued this work. Midway through the
first edition of this essay, the author notes that "But now we have abandoned the thought of any
special realm of entities called meanings."This work borrows from Frege's example of a Morning
and Evening star, and Russell's example of "Sir Walter Scott" and "The Author of Waverly" to
explain the meaning of analytic naming and identity. One of the titular ideas of this work is the idea that
each meaningful statement gets its meaning from some logical construction of terms that refers exclusively
to immediate experience, or reductionism, and the other is the analytic-synthetic distinction.For ten points,
identify this attack on logical positivism by W. V. O. Quine.
ANSWER: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
16. One important value given by this technique is derived by considering the linear relationship
between the log of t sub r and the number of carbon atoms, known as the Kovats retention index, and
this technique commonly uses an autosampler and an injector in order to pass the sample through either
a capillary column or a packed column. thermal conductivity detectors or flame ionization detectors are
commonly used in this technique, which is often used immediately before a mass spectrometry experiment
to separate a heterogenous sample. For 10 points, name this type of chromatography in which both phases
are vaporized.
ANSWER: Gas chromatography
17. Utilizing the theories of Durkheim this movement rejects the classical view of God and instead
espouses a religious naturalism, a view critiqued as “conversion by definition” by the Masorti author
of We Have Reason to Believe, Louis Jacobs. One important slogan for this movement referring to
traditional practices is “the past has a vote, not a veto,” and its principle architect reworded key prayers to
eliminate the concepts of reward, chosenness and punishment in the Sabbath Prayer Book. Understanding
its people as an “evolving religious civilization” which must constantly be renewed, it exists almost
exclusively in the United States. Originating in the ideas put forth in Judaism as a Civilization, for 10
points, name this liberal denomination of Judaism founded by Mordecai Kaplan.
ANSWER: Reconstructionist Judaism [accept word variants]
18. This state’s Thousand Lake Mountain is located in Fishlake National Forest, and it was the site of
the Tintic and Walkara wars, but more significantly a conflict led by Antonga Black Hawk. This
state’s Uinta Mountains contain Dinosaur National Monument, and its Promontory Summit was the
location of the driving in of the Golden Spike which connected the First Transcontinental Railroad. This
state was part of the short-lived State of Deseret, and it was the site of the 1857 slaughter of the BakerFancher party known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. This state shares Lake Powell with Arizona, and
it is home to the Bonneville Salt Flats as well as Arches National Park. For 10 points, name this US state
whose city of Provo is home to Brigham Young University.
ANSWER: State of Utah
19. This writer collected several of his shorter pieces into the work Fables and Epigrams. In one of
this man’s works, King Arideus visits the titular prince after he’s taken prisoner in his first battle.
Hettore Gonzaga gives his chamberlain Marinelli carte blanche to get him a lover affair with the
titular character of another of this man’s works, Emma Galotti. In one of this man’s critical works, he
argued against Horace’s as painting so poetry stricture; that work is entitled Laocoon: An Essay on the
Limits of Painting and Poetry. The parable of the Ring appears in this man’s best known work, a play about
religious tolerance featuring characters like Saladin and the titular philosopher modeled after Moses
Mendelson. For 10 points, name this author of Nathan the Wise.
ANSWER: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
20. William Edgett Smith wrote a biography of this man titled We Must Run While They Walk. This
man was opposed by his advisor Oscar Kambona on some of his policies, and he formed Chama Cha
Mapinduzi, also known as the Party of the Revolution, which he continued to lead for five years after
stepping down as president. This man appointed Ali Hassan Mwinyi as his successor, and he later
backed Benjamin Mkapa as president over Jakaya Kikwete. This man was instrumental in the coup
which brought France-Albert Rene to power in Seychelles, and also in installing Yusuf Lule as
president of a bordering nation. The concept of ujamaa formed the basis of this man’s socialist ideas,
which were laid out in the Arusha Declaration, and his forces toppled the regime of Idi Amin in Uganda.
For 10 points, name this African leader, the first President of Tanzania.
ANSWER: Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Bonuses
1. Identify these American dramatists, for 10 points each.
[10] This man created Blanche and Stella in his classic A Streetcar Named Desire, and wrote about a
widow who attempts to withdraw from the world, taking her daughter with her, in The Rose Tatoo.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams
[10] Anna Maurrant is attracted to her Jewish neighbor Sam Kaplan in this man’s play Street Scene. He
also wrote about the accountant Mister Zero in The Adding Machine.
ANSWER: Elmer Rice
[10] This extremely early American dramatist wrote The Algerine Captive, but may be better known for
writing about Charlotte, Letitia, and Mister Billy Dimple in his comedy of manners The Contrast.
ANSWER: Royall Tyler
2. Identify these things about variable stars, FTPE:
[10] Variable stars usually populate this region of the H-R diagram, which points diagonally upwards and
intersects the tracks for the main sequence and most classes of giants.
ANSWER: Instability strip
[10] Variable stars pulsate due to the generation of a doubly ionized form of this element, which is also
responsible for a namesake flash from the core of a star under 2.25 solar masses.
ANSWER: Helium
[10] This most well-known type of variable star are used as standard candles in the extragalactic distance
scale and were discovered by Henrietta Leavitt.
ANSWER: Cephied variables
3. In this event, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry were sent to discuss one
nation’s reaction to the Jay Treaty, but were rebuffed. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1797 event in which three French diplomats demanded a bribe from the American
diplomats present so that they could speak to Talleyrand.
ANSWER: XYZ Affair
[10] The XYZ Affair resulted in this undeclared war between France and the United States which was
mostly fought at sea.
ANSWER: Quasi-War [or Half-War]
[10] This treaty was signed at the Convention of 1800, which brought an end to the Quasi-War.
ANSWER: Treaty of Mortefontaine
4. One work named after these entities contains the "iron law of oligarchy," which states that power in a
democracy inevitably concentrates in the hands of a few. For ten points each:
[10] Name these entities famously examined in a work by Robert Michels.
ANSWER: Political Parties
[10] Poltiical Parties are notoriously affected by this theorem, which states that a collection of individual
transitive preferences cannot be fairly amalgamated into a list of preferences for a group.
ANSWER: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
[10] Arrow's Impossibility Theorem first appeared in this work by Kenneth Arrow, which won him the
1972 Nobel Prize for economics.
ANSWER: Social Choice and Individual Values
5. It is made up of the notes F, B, D-sharp, and G-sharp, for 10 points each:
[10] What is this chord known for its functional ambiguity, the first chord in the Prelude of a certain opera
by Richard Wagner?
ANSWER: the Tristan chord
[10] The Tristan chord is most often classified as this type of chord that comes in Italian, French, and
German varieties, due to the presence of the namesake interval between the F and the D-sharp.
ANSWER: Augmented sixth chord
[10] Simultaneous triads played a tritone apart, originally C major and F-sharp major, form the namesake
chord of this Stravinsky ballet about a puppet that comes to life.
ANSWER: Petrushka
6. Name these geographical features in and around the Arabian Peninsula, for 10 points each:
[10] The Omani exclave of Musandam lies on this body of water which separates the Persian Gulf from the
rest of the Indian Ocean.
ANSWER: Strait of Hormuz
[10] Iram of the Pillars, a lost city, is said to be buried under this desert, and the Ghawar, the world’s
largest oil field, stretches into its northern section. Encompassing parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE and
Yemen, this desert has a name meaning Empty Quarter.
ANSWER: Rub’ al Khali
[10] Osama Bin Laden’s half-brother plans to build the eighteen mile long Bridge of the Horns across this
body of water, which would link Djibouti and Yemen. This strait at the southern tip of the Arabian
Peninsula separates the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea.
ANSWER: Bab-el-Mandeb
7. The victorious army in this engagement later won the Battle of Tondibi, in which the Songhai Empire
was destroyed, for 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1578 battle in which Abu Abdallah Mohammed II sought to regain the Moroccan throne
from his uncle Abd al-Malik with Portuguese help.
ANSWER: Battle of Three Kings [or Battle of Alcacer Quibir; or Battle of Ksar el Kebir; or Battle of
Oued El Makhazeen]
[10] At the Battle of Three Kings, all three monarchs died, including this twenty-four year old Portuguese
king who was the dedicatee of The Lusiads.
ANSWER: Sebastian of Portugal
[10] The death of Sebastian resulted in a succession crisis as the House of Aviz imploded, opening the door
for this Spanish king to take the Portuguese throne. His mixed reputation as a naval power included his
nation’s victory at the Battle of Lepanto but also the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
ANSWER: Philip II of Spain [or Philip I of Portugal]
8. The title character of this story convinces himself that he’s the victor of a fight simply because he
slapped himself. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel about the delusional title character who is ignorant of his impending execution
because he’s too busy drawing a perfectly round circle to comprehend the situation.
ANSWER: True Story of Ah Q
[10] Name the Chinese author of The True Story of Ah Q.
ANSWER: Lu Xun
[10] Lu Xun wrote a novel by this name. Another work by this name is a short story by Gogol which
focuses on the love of Poprishchin for the daughter of a politician.
ANSWER: Diary of a Madman
9. The Eisenberg consensus scale is one method of calculating this property, while Kyte and Doolittle
developed an index of this property used to figure out which parts of a protein are transmembrane. FTPE:
[10] Name this value, a measure of how much a molecule attracts or repels water.
ANSWER: Hydropathy
[10] The most hydrophilic amino acid is this one, which is positively charged and contains a guanidino
group in its side chain.
ANSWER: Arginine
[10] Arginine is an intermediate in the cycle that creates this excretory product, which is created when
arginine is cleaved into ornithine and this.
ANSWER: Urea
10. In Twelver Shi’a Islam, there exist minor and major versions of this event. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these events, wherein an infallible descendent of Muhammad has gone into hiding for some
period of time.
ANSWER: The Occultation
[10] This is the savior figure whose name means “the guided one” and who has gone into Occultation. Near
the Day of Judgment, according to both Sunni and Shi’a traditions, he and Jesus will kick ass and take
names.
ANSWER: al-Mahdi
[10] This is the name of the Twelfth and final Imam. According to some Shi’a traditions he went into
Occultation in 873.
ANSWER: Muhammad ibn Hasan ibn Ali [or Abu al-Qasim; prompt on “Muhammad al-Mahdi”]
11. This artist depicted prostitutes in his series Street, Berlin, and he portrayed a nude girl with ribbon in
her hair in Marzella. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this German artist who committed suicide after his art was labeled degenerate by the Nazis.
ANSWER: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
[10] Kirchner was a founding member of this German Expressionist movement which began in Dresden in
1905. Its other members included Fritz Bleyl and Emil Nolde.
ANSWER: Die Brucke [or The Bridge]
[10] Another founder of Die Brucke was this man, who showed the group’s interest in African sculpture in
the woodcut Sleeping Negress, and also painted the triptych Convalescent Woman.
ANSWER: Erich Heckel
12. This man forced Puyi to abdicate and declared himself emperor following the Xinhai Revolution, for 10
points each:
[10] Name this leader of the New Army, a powerful warlord who was appointed the first President of the
Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen following the Wuchang Uprising.
ANSWER: Yuan Shikai [or Weiting; or Rong’an; or Yuan Xiangcheng; or Hongxian Emperor]
[10] Yuan Shikai’s acceptance of some of the Twenty One Demands in addition to discontent over the
Treaty of Versailles led to this movement which protested imperialism by demonstrating in Tiananmen
Square in 1919.
ANSWER: May Fourth Movement [or wu si yun dong]
[10] This Kuomintang leader who fought with Mao Zedong until his defeat and subsequent retreat to
Taiwan opposed the May Fourth Movement.
ANSWER: Chiang Kai-shek [or Jiang Jieshi]
13. One school that attempts to explain this idea is emergentism, which states that it occurs as a result of
the physical condition of the brain. For ten points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon which can perceive qualia and has been discussed by John Searle, Franz
Brentano, and Gerald Edelman.
ANSWER: the human mind
[10] These philosophical constructs are precisely identical to humans except in that they cannot perceive
qualia; thus, they may or may not truly have minds.
ANSWER: philosophical zombies
[10] This philosopher discussed philosophical zombies in his work Consciousness Explained. Other works
by this man include The Mind's I and Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
ANSWER: Daniel Dennett
14. Answer some questions about collision and scattering theory, FTPE:
[10] This is a type of collision in which the bodies stick together after they collide. The system preseves
momentum but not kinetic energy.
ANSWER: Perfectly inelastic (Prompt on parital)
[10] This coefficient gives the ratio of velocities before and after a collision. When it is 0, the collision is
completely inelastic.
ANSWER: Coefficient of restitution
[10] Collision theory can be used to find this value for a hard-sphere scattering interaction. In general, this
value is the area around the target particles that incident particles interact with, and is measured in barns.
ANSWER: Cross-section
15. This poem claims that "he was my north, my south, my east, my west, my working week, and my
Sunday rest." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem which instructs you to "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" and "pour out the
ocean and sweep up the wood: for nothing now can come to any good."
ANSWER: "Funeral Blues"
[10] "Funeral Blues" is a work by this man who collaborated on The Ascent of F6 with Christopher
Isherwood. He also wrote "New Year Letter" and "The Fall of Rome."
ANSWER Wystan Hugh Auden
[10] W. H. Auden may be best known for writing this poem, which describes Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus and begins by noting that the old masters were never wrong.
ANSWER: Musee de Beaux Arts
16. Identify these figures who aided Rama in his trans-oceanic ass-kicking journey, FTPE:
[10] Rama’s most famous aid came from this monkey and son of Vayu, who leapt across the ocean to see
how Sita was faring and once carried an entire mountain for one herb that grew on it.
ANSWER: Hanuman
[10] This king of the vultures and younger brother of Sampati tried to save Sita from Ravana during the
fateful kidnapping, but Ravana cut off one of his wings and he fell to the ground.
ANSWER: Jatayu
[10] Rama party performed a nine-fold devotion to this female ascetic, who tells him and his group to go
and find Sugriva and Hanuman.
ANSWER: Shabari
17. This battle occurred a few months after the Battle of Eylau, and it was fought near Konigsberg. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this 1807 victory for Napoleon over the Russian forces of Count von Bennigsen.
ANSWER: Battle of Friedland
[10] Following the French victory at the Battle of Friedland, this peace treaty was signed by Napoleon and
Alexander I on a raft in the Neman River. This treaty allowed Napoleon to setup the Duchy of Warsaw and
it ended the War of the Fourth Coalition.
ANSWER: Treaty of Tilsit
[10] After the Treaty of Tilsit, this vassal state was set up in Germany with its capital at Kassel by
Napoleon under the rule of his youngest brother, Jerome Bonaparte.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Westphalia
18. This hormone binds to either TBG or TBPA in the bloodstream, and it is converted from its active
form by a 5’-iodinase. FTPE:
[10] Name this hormone secreted from a gland in the neck, one of the few compounds in the body to
contain iodine.
ANSWER: Thyroid hormone or T4 or T3 or Thyroxine
[10] This autoimmune disease is caused by antibodies stimulating the thyroid gland to secrete excess T4. A
classic symptom is bulging eyes.
ANSWER: Graves disease
[10] This fluid buildup in the dermal and cutaneous tissue is caused by hypothyroidism.
ANSWER: Myxedema
19. Stevens is the butler who narrates this novel, which has flashbacks that show the ultimate futility of
diplomacy directly after World War I. For ten points each:
[10] Name this Kazuo Ishiguro novel which sees Stevens take a driving trip across England, where he
eventually meets up with Miss Kenton again. She breaks his heart.
ANSWER: The Remains of the Day
[10] Karen H. is a nurse who cares for cloned organ doners in this Ishiguro novel. The title comes from a
tape that she liked to listen to over and over again in her school days at Halisham, where she met Ruth and
Tommy.
ANSWER: Never Let Me Go
[10] The concert pianist Ryder goes to an unnamed central European city to peform, but loses his memory
in this Ishiguro work.
ANSWER: The Unconsoled
20. Identify the following about non-traditional art, FTPE:
[10] This creator of Amarillo Ramp and the no-longer existant Partially-Buried Woodshed is most famous
for a work located on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty.
ANSWER: Robert Smithson
[10] This work by Judy Chicago is a triangular structure with places for Ishtar, Hatsepshut, and Artemisia
Gentileschi, among several others.
ANSWER: The Dinner Party
[10] This Young British Artist created a self portraits entitled The Last Thing I Said to You Is Don’t Leave
Me Here. She’s probably more famous for the tent-shaped Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, 1963-1995.
ANSWER: Tracy Emin