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1.
This man had the Russian soldier John Basil Turchin court-martialed for the looting of Athens, Alabama. This man was court-martialed partially for his inaction to save
Munfordville and for his failure to reinforce McCook’s division after a surprise attack on this man’s troops. This man was eventually replaced by William (*) Rosecrans for his failure to chase the enemy after that battle, Perryville. For 10 points, name this man whose reinforcing of Grant turned the tide at the Battle of Shiloh.
ANSWER: Don Carlos Buell
2.
This man’s first assistant coaching jobs came at Hawai’i and then during the first years of Jim Boeheim’s job at Syracuse. This man led Boston University to their first tourney appearance in 24 years before working under Hubie Brown for a team he would later coach, the Knicks. This man took (*) Providence to the Final Four and he is the only man to coach three different teams to the Final Four. For 10 points, name this failed NBA coach and current Louisville head coach.
ANSWER: Rick Pitino
3.
Hans Sebald Beham depicted one of these objects between Adam and Eve in one engraving and Jose Guadalupe Posada often displayed them in his artwork. Vincent Van
Gogh portrayed one smoking a cigarette. One of these opens a curtain in the painting I’m
Glad I Came Back by George (*) Grosz, and a self portrait by Munch gives him this type of arm. For 10 points, name these objects, one of which plays a violin in an Arnold Böcklin self portrait and which often personify death in art.
ANSWER: skeleton s
4.
One character’s grave gets marked with a stone bearing the word “Resurgem” in this work, and another character tries to elope with Lord Edwin Vere but fails. The title character dreams at one point for seven consecutive nights about babies shortly before receiving word that her cousin has committed suicide. A wedding is ruined by Mr. (*)
Briggs revealing the job of Grace Pool. For 10 points, name this work in which the death of

Bertha Mason allows Mr. Rochester to marry the title character.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre : An Autobiography
5. These compounds were first isolated from electrolysis reactions in E. coli where they exhibited bacteriocidal activity in specific geometric isomers of their plus 2 and plus 4 oxidation states. They can inhibit enzymatic activity in the proximal tubule leading to nephrotoxicity, but their principle mode of action is to produce 1,2-intrastrand (*) crosslinking of DNA which leads to apoptosis. Increasing doses can trigger resistance to these complexes in tumor cells. For 10 points, name these platinum based cancer drugs possessing chlorine and ammonia ligands in a specific orientation.
ANSWER: cisplatin (or cisplatinum , or cis -diamminedichlorido(II)platinum )
6/ One of this theory’s properties is characterized by the area law of the Wilson loop and the zero average of the Polyakov line. Another property associated with the decrease of the effecting coupling constant at shorting distances is known as (*) asymptotic freedom. This theory is based on the SU(3) gauge group and employs the Yang-Mills field theory. It deals with particles that carry a form of charge called color, such as mesons, quarks, and protons. For 10 points, name this theory based on force carrying particles called gluons, which describes the behavior of the strong force.
ANSWER: QCD (or quantum chromodynamics )
7.
One inspiration for this work came from a seminar given by Arnold Plant, and this work at one point quotes a Dennis Robertson simile about “lumps of butter coagulating in a pail of buttermilk.” Three reasons are given for the growth of the (*) titular entity, and this essay posits that in perfect competition the upward slope of a cost curve need not limit growth.
For 10 points, name this work that created the idea of transaction costs in certain businesses, an essay by Ronald Coase.
ANSWER: “The Nature of the Firm ”
8.
This man’s Pediatric Fellowship Program supports Kinderspital Zurich by providing specialists, and his HERO house program helped earn him an “Excellence in
Leadership” award from the IAE[10] His “Superstars” consisted of (*) West Indian cricket players, but more recently the SEC has revealed that this man’s business was hit by Bernie
Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. For 10 points, name this Texas businessman and Antiguan and
Barbudan knight recently embroiled in scandal.
ANSWER: Sir Robert Allen Stanford
9. The anticoagulant Coumadin is a derivative of this molecule and polymers of this compound form the side chains of ubiquinone and vitamin K. Plants can emit a blanket of this molecule to alter their lipid bilayers, increasing leaf thermal tolerance. When eight of these molecules are linked together they can form (*) carotenoid pigments such as the vitamin
A precursor beta-carotene and lycopene. Natural rubber is a linear head to tail polymer of subunits of this molecule. It is also the building block of lipids. For 10 points, name this methylated butadiene that polymerized to form terpenes.
ANSWER: isoprene (prompt on terpenes )

10.
One character in this work takes the name John Hobbs after cudgeling a man who read stories to one of the main characters, Father Andrews. One character dreams of a dwarf showing him where to dig for 12 pennies before giving a hereditary position to (*)
Humphrey Marlow. One title character is almost killed by a hermit before returning to London with Miles Hendon. For 10 points, name this work in which a poor boy and royalty exchange positions for a time, written by Mark Twain.
ANSWER: The Prince and the Pauper
11.
A 1982 fire in a tunnel in this range’s Salang Pass may have killed over 200. Other major passes through it include the Khawak and the Unai, which connects Bamiyan to another major city in this range. Tirich Mir, this range’s highest peak, is located in the
Chitral district, part of the (*) Northwest Frontier Province of a country that contains much of this range, a province that contains Peshawar. For 10 points, name this extension of the Pamirs, found in Afghanistan and Pakistan and home to the Khyber Pass.
ANSWER: Hindu Kush
12.
One work of this group concerns the Florida hotel owner Mr. Hammer desperate for money and the love between Bob Adams and Polly Potter. Another work of this group sees a painting stolen from a party held after the return of Captain Spaulding. In addition to (*) Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers , this group had George Kaufman write the script of a work which has Rosa Castaldi played by Kitty Carlisle, A Night at the Opera . For 10 points, name this group of brothers who included Harpo and Groucho.
ANSWER: Marx brothers
13. This man kills Lausulus and Picus in one blow. Earlier, this “Captain of the Gate” requests permission from the Consul for his most famous task, during which he is initially accompanied by (*) Lartius and Herminius. Later awarded as much land as he could plough around in one land and a statue in the likeness of Vulcan, he swims back unscathed after his army's destruction of the Pons Sublicius. For 10 points, name this hero who defends the sole bridge leading to Rome from some angry Etruscans. answer: Horatius Cocles [accept Horatius the one-eyed]
14.
The derivation of this word’s Indo-European root is unique: reduplicating a zerograde thematic noun; derivatives include the Tocharian for “army”. That this root was inherited in many daughter languages, along with the spread of the word for (*) “horse”, lends credence over the Anatolian Hypothesis to the Kurgan Hypothesis, since the latter civilization had this technology. For 10 points, name this object represented by the Hindu chakra , the Latin rota , and the Greek kyklos .
ANSWER: the wheel (accept obvious equivalents; accept *kwe-kwl-o )
15.
This man was wounded by a sniper while serving with the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment near Meteren during First Ypres. This man claimed he was not bothered “a bit by how many houses were burnt” during his time in charge of a regiment in Ireland after the First World War. Later, this man would fail in his attempt in (*) Arnhem to create a path through Holland to Germany in Operation Market Garden. For 10 points, name this victorious general over Rommel at the Battle of El Alamein.

ANSWER: Bernard Law Montgomery
16.
One work by this author describes the marriage of Katrina Taylor and Edward
Dougherty along with the “Love Nest Killings of 1908”, while another has the title character chasing Veronica Fitzgibbon after giving up politics under Patsy McCall. In addition to (*) The Flaming Corsage and Roscoe , this man wrote about Bailey organizing a newspaper strike in The Ink Truck . For 10 points, name this American author of works often set in Albany, New York, such as Legs and Ironweed .
ANSWER: William Joseph Kennedy
17.
One leader of this polity listened to a plea from Syckanamo by having Martin
Cregier cease hostilities in the Second Esopus War. This polity saw the New Love built as the first three-masted ship in America, and Deborah Moody successfully got land for religious purposes from one leader of this settlement, William (*) Kieft. Another leader supposedly spent 60 guilders for land for this settlement. For 10 points, name this settlement led at times by Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant.
ANSWER: New Amsterdam
18.
One story told on board it concerns the insulting and throwing of tar onto a man by the Irishman nicknamed Belfast. One character located here claims he earlier lost goods due to Yankee oppression before assaulting the Finn Warimbo. Around the Cape of Good
Hope, Singleton believes this (*) object’s troubles are due to Captain Allistoun’s ignoring nature, and at one point this vessel gets turned on its side. For 10 points, name this ship on which
James Wait eventually dies in a Joseph Conrad novel.
ANSWER: the “ Narcissus ”
19.
The first of these was ended by an agreement to pay 600 ounces of gold negotiated by George Maclean. The second began over control of the port city of Elmina, and ended with Garnet Wolseley burning down the enemy’s capital before the Treaty of (*) Fomena was signed. The third consisted mostly of deaths from disease, while the fourth was sparked over
Frederic Hodgson’s desire to sit on the Golden Stool. For 10 points, name these wars between the British and a West African empire.
ANSWER: AngloAshanti Wars
20. In conductors, the application of this quantity gives rise to heat flow in the opposite direction according to an analog of the Hall effect named after Righi and Ledu[10] When it is applied perpendicular to a magnetic field, a mutually perpendicular transverse electric field is generated by the (*) Nernst effect. It is related to the reversible change in heat content by the Thomson coefficient. When it exists between the junctions of two dissimilar conductors a current is generated by the Seebeck effect. For 10 points, name this quantity that gives the direction and rate of temperature change.
ANSWER: temperature gradient
21.
This work claims that any state that uses the Bible as part of its foundation is based on “human rubbish”, and at one point this work uses ‘Freistaat’ as a play on words. This essay claims that political emancipation from religion does not destroy religion but destroys

the (*) privileges of religion. According to this work, haggling and money make up the worldy religion of the title group. For 10 points, name this essay critiquing a Bruno Bauer work, an essay by Marx about a titular query.
ANSWER: “ On The Jewish Question ” (or “ Zur Judenfrage” )
22.
In one work in this series, the turning of Jerry Evans, Walker Watson, and Mack
McConnel from their original ideas leads to the disillusionment of the main character.
Another work in this series has a character work for the campaign funds of Norman
Stauch before taking the fall for (*) Chuck Crawford. The first work satirizes communism from the viewpoint of Glenn Spotswood. For 10 points, name this trilogy of The Great Design ,
Number One , and Adventures of a Young Man by John Dos Passos.
ANSWER: District of Columbia Trilogy
23. The product of this reaction can also be formed in the reaction of Eschenmoser salts with enolates. Copper-bis-oxazolines and proline are enantioselective catalysts for this reaction. This reaction occurs between an enolizable carbonyl containing compound and an iminium ion and produces aminomethylated products, this reaction’s namesake (*) bases. It can be employed in the biomimetic synthesis of nitrogen containing alkaloid derivatives such as tropinone and pheromones. For 10 points, name this organic condensation reaction used to alkylate aldehydes and ketones.
ANSWER: Mannich reaction
24.
He made an opera about Henry VIII, and an early film score for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise . One of his violin concertos uses Cuban rhythms, the Havanaise , and his symphonies include one nicknamed for an instrument in two of its sections, the (*) pipe organ. One of his works uses a poem by Henri Cazalis beginning “Zig, zig, zig”, while another contains the movements “Royal March of the Lion” and “The Swan”. For 10 points, name this composer of Danse Macabre and The Carnival of the Animals .
ANSWER: Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
25.
This entity undertook the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and one member wrote a controversial postcard in Nigeria, Marjorie Michelmore. Former leaders include Loret
Miller Ruppe, who founded its (*) Competitive Enterprise Development program, and Elaine
Chao. Inspired by a talk at the University of Michigan, its first director was Sargent Shriver, after being established by an executive order of John F. Kennedy. For 10 points, name this group of
American volunteers who help developing countries.
ANSWER: Peace Corps
26.
One bishop of this city who was converted from Protestantism was Melchior Klesl.
Napoleon’s troops under Jean Lannes and Joachim Murat took this city by convincing its defender, Prince Auersperg, that there was an armistice. (*) This city was defended from the
Ottomans for a second time in 1683 by Jan Sobieski. Home to a meeting attended by Alexander
I, Viscount Castlereagh, and Klemens von Metternich, for 10 points, name this capital of Austria.
ANSWER: Vienna (or Wien )

1. For 10 points each, answer the following questions related to a certain type of spectroscopy.
[10] In this type of spectroscopy, the components of a sample are converted to atoms and elementary ions followed by subsequent excitation and relaxation to yield line spectra for chemical analysis. answer: atomic emission spectroscopy
[10] In this form of atomic emission spectroscopy, a high energy gaseous mixture of argon and sample is generated through the use of a radio-frequency induction coil. answer: ICP (or inductively coupled plasma )
[10] In an ICP source, the initial spark need to ionize the argon gas is provided by this device. It consists of an induction coil connected to a spark gap used to step up a low voltage source and is named after a Croatian. answer: Tesla coil
2. For 10 points each, answer the following questions dealing with spectral lines.
[10] Identify this splitting of spectral lines as a result energy changes arising from electron spinorbit coupling. It should not be confuse with a similar line splitting that arises due to the spin of the atomic nucleus. answer: fine structure
[10] Line splitting can also arise due to this other effect, which often accompanies hyperfine structure. It arises to due to mass differences of the nuclei of an element. answer: isotope shift (or isotope structure ; do not accept “isotope effect;” prompt on isotope )
[10] The fine structure, hyperfine structure, and this other effect together explain the anomalous energy level separation and splitting seen in the 2s and 2p energy states in hydrogen answer: Lamb shift
3.
This man meets the spiritualist Agliè while traveling in Brazil. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this character whose knowledge of the Knights Templar gets him called in as a consultant on a book by Colonel Ardenti.
ANSWER: Casaubon
[10] Casaubon appears along with Jacopo Belbo and Diotavelli in this work by author Umberto
Eco.
ANSWER: Foucault’s Pendulum
[10] This is the company that employs Belbo and Diotavelli, and its owner hires Casaubon to

find illustrations for this company’s The History of Metals .
ANSWER: Garamond Press
4.
This man created a sculpture for Madame de Pompadour with a winged boy reaching for an arrow while touching a finger to his lips. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this sculptor of The Seated Cupid .
ANSWER: Étienne-Maurice Falconet
[10] This Falconet sculpture has Cupid chewing on one figure’s hand while one title character kneels before his creation.
ANSWER: Pygmalion et Galatea (or Pygmalion and Galatea )
[10] This Falconet work sits upon Thunder Rock and shows a snake being squashed as a man points westward.
ANSWER: The Bronze Horseman
5.
This battle saw John Majoribanks resecure a position lost earlier in the day by the British.
For 10 points each ,
[10] Name this Revolutionary War battle near the Santee River started by a strategy created by
Francis Marion.
ANSWER: Battle of Eutaw Springs
[10] This man led American forces during Eutaw Springs, and his work helped kick the British out of the South.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Greene
[10] This man led the British, and his timely use of reserves caused a brief American retreat during Eutaw Springs.
ANSWER: Alexander Stewart
6.
It describes the concepts of “habitus” and “figuration.” For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this two volume work by German sociologist Norbert Elias.
ANSWER: The Civilizing Process (or Über den Prozess der Zivilisation )
[10] The first part of The Civilizing Process is titled The History of [these], which Elias believed changed medieval violence to modern peace.
ANSWER: manners
[10] This other sociologist described human culture as being both natural and man made in his
The Raw and the Cooked .
ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss
7. Four birds constantly fly above this figure's head. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this god of love, youth, and poetry who possessed the Great Fury, was born of the
Dagda and Boann, and married Caer Ibormeith after a yearlong search. answer: Aengus Óg [or Mac ind Óg]
[10] Aengus was a member of this race that conquered the Fir Bolg and had four treasures and divinity. They include Nuada and Lugh. answer: Tuatha Dé Danann
[10] Aengus's sword is given to him by this sea god who chastises Cormac and acts as psychopomp and trickster. answer: Manannán mac Lir

8.
This work claims that God, not cotton, is the cause of a burning fire. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this work which follows a similarly titled Intentions and claims that God cannot be explained through logic.
ANSWER: The Incoherence of the Philosophers (or Tahafut al-Falasifah )
[10] This man wrote both The Intentions of the Philosophers and The Incoherence of the
Philosophers .
ANSWER: Abu Hamid Muhammed ibn Muhammed al-Tusi al-Shaf’i al-Ghazali
[10] This man defended Aristotle from al-Ghazali’s work in his The Incoherence of the
Incoherence .
ANSWER: Averroes (or Abu’l Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd )
9.
For 10 points each , answer the following regarding the Soviet Union and Russia.
[10] This Prime Minister from 1964 to 1980 attempted to ease the Soviet economic system, but failed to make changes due to fear that political change would follow economic change.
ANSWER: Alexey Nikolayevich Kosygin
[10] This man served for 15 years in the KGB before replacing Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, a job he would only hold for 15 months.
ANSWER: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
[10] This close friend of Boris Yeltsin served as his Prime Minister for most of Yeltsin’s time as
President.
ANSWER: Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin
10.
This work claims that the Protestant Ethic has been replace with a new “Social Ethic.”
For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this study of American business life during the 1950s that suggested “the wellrounded man” was the man who was normal.
ANSWER: The Organization Man
[10] This editor of Fortune magazine wrote The Organization Man as well as The City .
ANSWER: William Hollingsworth Whyte
[10] Whyte has worked a couple of times on the renovations done to this Manhattan park, which is on 34 th Street near the New York Public Library.
ANSWER: Bryant Park
11.
This battle saw the English under Major Mackintosh drive the Spanish from a bridge. For
10 points each
,
[10] Name this battle that saw the viceroy Sarnano defeated by the army of Simón Bolívar, leading to the independence of Colombia.
ANSWER: Battle of Boyacá
[10] This man helped liberate Peru by his victory at Ayacucho, and he served under Bolívar.
ANSWER: Antonio José de Sucre
[10] This victory for Sucre resulted in independence for Quito.
ANSWER: Battle of Pichincha (or Pinchincha )
12.
Chaerea rapes the slave Pamphila while acting as the title character before marrying her when it is found she is a free citizen. For 10 points each
,

[10] Name this play in which Phaedria vies for the courtesan Thais against the soldier Thraso.
ANSWER: The Eunuch (or Eunuchus )
[10] This man wrote the plays Phormio and Adelphoe in addition to The Eunuch .
ANSWER: Terence (or Publius Terentius Afer)
[10] In this Terence play, Antiphila is left to die by her mother Sostrata, but survives and eventually marries the son of Menedemus, Clinia.
ANSWER: The Self-Tormentor (or Heautontimorumenos )
13.
The title character moves to Chicago to study piano under Paul Auerbach, and eventually accompanies Clement Sebastian. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this work in which Sebastian drowns and the actions of Harry Gordon cause the title character to fall through thin ice.
ANSWER: Lucy Gayheart
[10] This work concerns a Boston engineer who gets a job in Moorlock, Canada, but grows restless enough to have an affair with the actress Hilda Borgoyne.
ANSWER: Alexander’s Bridge
[10] This work ends with Carl Lindstrom and Alexandra Bergson finally seeing marriage as possible.
ANSWER: O Pioneers!
14.
For 10 points each
, answer the following questions about a certain kind of marriage.
[10] This type of marriage occurs when a member of a royal house marries somebody of lesser rank on condition that progeny will not inherit lands or titles. The Battenberg or Mountbatten line descends from Alexander of Hesse's marriage of this type to a Polish countess.
ANSWER: morganatic marriage
[10] Perhaps the most famous morganatic marriage was this man's marriage to Sophie, the
Countess von Chotek. She and he would later die together at the Latin Bridge over the Mljacka
(mull-yacht-ska) River.
ANSWER: Francis Ferdinand , Archduke of Austria-East (or Franz Ferdinand )
[10] This state passed to Adolphe of Nassau after the 1890 accession of Wilhemina to the Dutch throne made dynastic union with the Netherlands untenable by the Salic Law. The morganatic
Count of Merenberg became first in line of succession in 1905, but was legally blocked in 1907.
ANSWER: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
15.
This work sees the Princess de Eboli go to the king’s confessor Domingo with valuable information. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this work in which the Marquis de Posa gets killed by an assassin and which ends with the title character given up to the Inquisition for trying to sleep with the queen.
ANSWER: Don Carlos , Infante of Spain (or Don Carlos , Infant von Spanien )
[10] This author of works on Wallenstein and William Tell wrote Don Carlos .
ANSWER: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
[10] This drama returned to classical methods, such as using a chorus, and it concerns the two sons of Donna Isabella fighting unwittingly for the love of their sister Beatrice.
ANSWER: The Bride of Messina (or Die Braut von Messina )
16.
For 10 points each
, answer these questions about an African nation.

[10] This country's name during French colonial times translated to "on the belly of Dan," a reference to a kingdom in this area. Notable cities include Ouidah and Porto-Novo.
ANSWER: Republic of Benin
[10] Rivers that flow into this body of water include the Casamance, Volta, and Niger rivers.
Benin's only coastline, as well as other West African cities like Lagos and Abidjan are located on it.
ANSWER: Gulf of Guinea
[10] This city is Benin's largest city and de facto capital. The president and many government ministers reside here.
ANSWER: Cotonou
17. For 10 points each, answer some questions related to Jeremy Eaton’s attempt to displace Rob
Carson as chief dinosaur enthusiast.
[10] Like the little kid from Jurassic park 3, Jeremy can easily identify this theropod dinosaur of the Cretaceous period that is believed to be the largest carnivorous dinosaur and possess long extensions from its vertebrae. answer: Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
[10] During an especially exciting scene in the movie, Jeremy loses his head and mistakenly believes this toothless flying dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period to be a Pterodactyl of the
Jurassic period. answer: Pteranodon
[10] Like all dinosaur enthusiast, Jeremy knows all about the Bone Wars, which were triggered when Othniel Marsh pointed out that Edward Drinker Cope had incorrectly assembled this dinosaur’s fossil. answer: Elasmosaurus
18.
For 10 points each
, answer these questions about the Slam Dunk Contest at the 2007
NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas.
[10] This current Mavericks forward had his best season in 2006-2007, averaging 10.4 points per game for the Celtics. He also won the Slam Dunk Competition, besting Nate Robinson. He was part of the Kevin Garnett trade.
ANSWER: Gerald Green , Jr.
[10] Green got a perfect score, or this number, by a windmill dunk over a table in the finals of the Slam Dunk Contest.
ANSWER: 50
[10] During the 2007 competition, this player posted a sticker on the backboard while making a dunk. He would win the next year's competition due to his performance in a cape.
ANSWER: Dwight David Howard
19. For 10 points each, answer some questions related to a certain principle in biology.
[10] Name this principle that holds for a large, randomly mating population and states that the distribution of dominant and recessive genes in the population remains constant over successive generations. answer: Hardy-Weinberg principle
[10] These parameters govern the extent of genetic differentiation within subpopulations. The most commonly used one gives the correlation between gametes drawn at random from different

sub populations. answer: F-statistic s
[10] According to this effect, genetic structure within a population leads to a general deficiency in the frequency of heretozygotes predicted by the Hardy-Weinberg principle. answer: Wahlund effect
20.
For 10 points each
, answer these questions about medieval Hungary.
[10] This ruler of Hungary fought the emperor Frederick III of Austria and for a time occupied
Vienna. He also started a war with the Jagiellons that failed, causing Vladyslav II to become king of Bohemia.
ANSWER: Matthias Corvinus or Matyash Corvin or Matyash Hunyadi
[10] Among the people this man assassinated were Vladislav II, apparently a video game character in Legendary Warriors according to Wikipedia. He spent some time in captivity at the hands of Matthias Corvinus, during which Radu was prince of Wallachia.
ANSWER: Vlad Tepes or Vlad III the Impaler or Vlad Draculea (pronounced like Dracula, more or less)
[10] Known as the fekete sereg in Hungarian, this was Matthias Corvinus' army, mostly consisting of mercenaries. According to the Hungarian national anthem Vienna's "proud fort" whimpered before them.
ANSWER: Black Army or Legion
21.
Its central character's arguments are rebuffed by a widow at its end. For 10 points each
,
[10] This satire of the English Civil War opens with some failed bear-baiter punishment and a later visit to the astrologer Sidrophe
ANSWER: Hudibras
[10] Hudibras was written by this Englishman who shared his name with the author of Erewhon and The Way of all Flesh .
ANSWER: Samuel Butler
[10] This is Hudibras's squire who relates to the widow that Sidrophel was murdered.
Flagellation ensues.
ANSWER: Ralpho
22.
This document denies local nobility to right to tax the people, claiming that there should be only one master. For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this document based on Confucian ideals that sought to set morals for its society.
ANSWER: 17 Article Constitution (or KenpouJunanajo )
[10] This man created the 17 Article Constitution in 604, and he came from the Yamato family and sent many men to study in China.
ANSWER: Prince Shôtoku taishi
[10] Prince Shôtoku ruled during this period of Japanese history, which saw Buddhism grow in prominence.
ANSWER: Asuka Period
23. For 10 points each, answer the following questions related to mathematical conjectures.
[10] This conjecture states that all the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function lie on the critical line. answer: Riemann hypothesis

[10] In set theory, this conjecture put forward by Cantor states that the cardinality of the set of real numbers is the smallest uncountable cardinal number. answer: continuum hypothesis
[10] This other conjecture states that, for projective algebraic varieties, the namesake cycles are rational linear combinations of algebraic cycles. answer: Hodge conjecture
24.
For 10 points each
, answer the following about everyone’s favorite figure from Maricopa
County.
[10] “America’s Toughest Sheriff” is this man, who notably feeds inmates two 15 cent meals a day and uses pink under shorts and handcuffs for inmates.
ANSWER: Joseph M. Arpaio
[10] Arpaio created this settlement in 1993 which houses 2,000 inmates in its namesake habitat.
ANSWER: Tent City
[10] The supreme court of this country refused to extradite Connie and Donald Hanes to Arpaio, claiming the Maricopa jails don’t meet proper standards.
ANSWER: Republic of Iceland
25.
This composer wrote a concert overture titled “In Autumn.” For 10 points each
,
[10] Name this composer of a piano concerto in A minor and a sixty-six piece collection containing “Erotikon” and “Watchman's Song.”
ANSWER: Edvard Grieg
[10] Grieg composed incidental music to this play, which included the popular “Morning Mood” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”
ANSWER: Peer Gynt
[10] A flute and piano play in this song in the Peer Gynt suite corresponding to the failed seduction of an Arabian princess.
ANSWER: “ Anitra's Dance ”
26.
They arose over the uncertainty of land claimed by Tamaulipas. For 10 points each ,
[10] Name these motions in the House of Representatives to reconsider where blood had been shed in a fight at the beginning of the Mexican War.
ANSWER: Spot Resolutions
[10] This Representative wrote the Spot Resolutions during his first term in office as a Whig from Illinois.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10] This river was the cause of the controversy, as the Mexicans claimed it as the border while the U.S. preferred the Rio Grande further south.
ANSWER: Neuces River