Sun ‘n’ Fun 2009: A Decade Under the Influence
Editors #4 by Ahmad Ragab with appreciated help from Anurag Kashyap, Susan Ferrari, Auroni Gupta,
Sandy Huang, Jeff Amoros, Chris Kennedy and Rob Fernandez
Tossups
1. This author notes that, “Bad verse is like measles. Better to get it over in infancy,” in the essay, “The
Story of a Dedication.” The lines, “I want it all: with a Gypsy soul/To go toward robbery with a song,”
appear in “Prayer,” and “Tirelessly bending over our childhood dreams/(You and the moon the only
watchers)” are from “To Mama,” both of which appear in this author’s first collection. That collection
split is into the sections, “Childhood,” “Love,” and “Just the Shadows,” the last of which contains poems
about historical figures including Napoleon, a figure this author would become obsessed with after
reading Rostand’s The Eagle. Innovations such as logaoedic lines and inter-stanzaic enjambments would
characterize much of this poet’s work first developed in the collection The Magic Lantern. “Night.
North-Eastern wind. Roar of soldiers. Roar of waves,” is one poem from a collection that documents the
events of the February and October Revolutions titled The Swans’ Demesne. A lyrical satire based on the
legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin constitutes this author’s The Ratcatcher and the poems “The Train
of Life” and “The Floorcleaners’ Song” are well-regarded poems from her collection After Russia. For 10
points, name this Russian poet of Evening Album and Mileposts.
ANSWER: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
2. This year the National Trust for Historic Places' list of 11 most endangered U.S. structures included
this man's Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to highlight the plight of modernist buildings. His first
important project, the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project in St. Louis, was plagued with crime and fell into
disrepair. It was demolished less than 20 years after completion, an event which the postmodern
architect Charles Jencks called "the day Modern architecture died". A practitioner of "Romanticized
Modernism", another of his projects, intended as a "monument to peace", befell a similar fate due to
what reports have attributed to the weakening of the floor joists or the failure of the perimeter columns
and not any deficiency in this man's design. Daniel Libeskind's Memory Foundations is planned for
construction on the site of this man's tube-frame design 110-foot towers in Lower Manhattan. For 10
points, name this Japanese-American architect who designed the World Trade Center.
ANSWER: Minoru Yamasaki
3. Eight floating piers containing four thousand tins of fresh water were built, but later lost at sea, by
Joly de Lotbiniere for this operation. After William Throsby Bridges was killed during this operation, he
was replaced by fellow countryman William Birdwood. Aylmer Hunter-Weston lost all three separate
Battles of Krithia and Frederick Stopford was defeated at the Battle of Suvla Bay by Otto Liman von
Sander. Sir Charles Monro replaced the chief commander and Lord Fisher resigned after the failure of
this operation. The replacement occurred after the Battle of Sari Bair, where Ian Hamilton was severely
outmatched by Ataturk. For 10 points, name this operation planned by Kitchener and Churchill intended
to occupy Constantinople during World War I.
ANSWER: Gallipoli Campaign [or Dardanelles Campaign]
4. One of this author’s essays critiques the tact that a First Lady adopted in response to the Monica
Lewinsky scandal in “Hillary Clinton’s Muddled Legacy.” Also in the theme of American politics, one play
describes the nomination of Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes to Surgeon General who withdraws after it is
revealed she failed to serve jury duty. In this author’s venture into postmodernism, historical
playwrights offer suggestions for what to print on the title object in To T or Not to T. In another work,
Pfeni and Gorgeous are attending the birthday party of their twice-divorced sister, Sara and in a one-act
play the author rises up out of Radio City Music Hall on a half-shell with a blonde-wig in Bette and Me. In
addition to, Uncommon Women and Others, some of this author’s early plays while at Yale Drama
School include Happy Birthday, Montpelier Piz-zazz and a play co-written with Christopher Durang which
critiques the beauty pageant ethos in When Dinah Shore Ruled the Earth. In addition to a collection of
essays subtitled “Or How I spent my Forties,” called Shiksa Goddess, for 10 points, name this playwright
best known for her works The Sisters Rosensweig and The Heidi Chronicles.
ANSWER: Wendy Wasserstein
5. Derrida showed that in a row of jumping black and white particles consisting of n cells that evolves as
a Markov chain called a TASEP, the probability of having no black particles approaches one over one of
these numbers. The even moments of the distribution arising from the eigenvalues of random
symmetric matrices are proportional to these; that distribution is the Cato-Tate or Wigner semicircle
distribution. The number of linear extensions of the poset 2 cross n, Murasaki diagrams with n lines, the
number of n by n Young tableaux, Dyck paths that do not cross the x-axis, paths from (0, 0) to (n, n) that
do not cross the main diagonal, and triangulations of n-gons are all examples of these entities, of which
Richard Stanley compiled 66 representations in Enumerative Combinatorics. For 10 points, identify these
numbers, which can be defined as 1 over n+1 times 2n choose n, named after a Belgian mathematician.
ANSWER: Catalan numbers (prompt on Cn)
6. Peter Berger in, A Rumor of Angels, suggests that within the context of faith, every ordering gesture is
a signal of transcendence according to this thinker’s concept of “nomizations.” In one of this
intellectual’s novels, a French engineer named Alain, heads off into India and falls in love with a former
student of Tagore named Maitreyi .He claims that transcendental religions, during the development of
Karl Jasper’s Axial Age, linearized history, and that in the case of Christianity, Jesus stands as “transhistorical” fact, a fact that allows individuals to cope with the “terror of history.” He had encountered
criticism for his association with an ultra-rightwing anti-Semitic group, the Legion of the Archangel
Michael. In addition to writing The Myth of the Eternal Return, he described his approach to religion as
“phenomenological,” and his theories attracted the likes of Joachim Wach. Articulating a theory of
“heriophany,” which represents an “irruption” of the sacred, for 10 points, name this Romanian-born
“Chicago School” professor of religious studies author of The Sacred and Profane.
ANSWER: Mircea Eliade
7.A stratigraphy of marking at the eastern cistern of this site has lent credence to the “mud fighting”
hypothesis, though such marking is not reported in the western cistern. The absence of Campanian black
glazed wares and the findings in the so-called “Chariot Room,” represent evidence for Augustan date for
the earliest levels of the main site. In approximately 119 AD, historical documents report that Quintus
Servilius Candidus brought water for the Hadrian Baths complex located in this city. The remains of mudbrick structures support the notion that this city was founded by Phoenicians in 10th century BC, and this
city was abandoned after it was sacked by a Berber tribe in 523 AD. Also known as Lpqy and the
birthplace and childhood home of Septimus Severus, for 10 points, name this World Heritage site
currently located near Al-Khums Libya, a significant outpost and well-preserved city of the Roman
Empire.
ANSWER: Leptis Magna [accept Lepcis Magna, Lectis Magna, or Neapolis also accept Lpqy until
mentioned]
8. One method of approximation for this measure called the Z-gradient rule, utilizes quintile data rather
than applying the trapezoidal rule to the Deninger and Squire/World Bank data set, which it outperformed. The Theil-index, part of a class of measures referred to as the General Entropy class, while
lacking the graphical elegance of this measure has the advantage of being additive across different
subgroups or regions of a population sample. In 2007, this measure was proposed as way of quantifying
selectivity of Kinase Inhibitors against a Family of Kinases. First discussed in its namesake’s 1912 paper,
“Variability and Mutability;” its most common application is on a scale from a zero to a 100, with the
United States having a value of 46 and the EU at about 31. For 10 points, name this measure of
statistical dispersion, which can be computed by comparing the areas under the Lorentz Curve and some
proportional line, often used to judge income inequality levels developed by an Italian mathematician.
ANSWER: Gini coefficient
9 .One commander at this battle was forced to assume a role of leadership lest he lose his governorship
of the city of Ray, and that commander convinced Shamir to spare the life of a man after one leader’s
sister threw herself on that man’s body. That sister, Zaynab, and other relatives of the loser of this
battle were later imprisoned in Damascus. This event is commemorated by the performance of tazi’yas,
or “passion plays,” that reenact the event on the tenth day of the first Islamic month, Muharram, also
known as the Day of Ashura. Umar ibn Sa’ad commanded one side at this battle, which occurred when
Ali ibn’ Abi Talib invited one leader of this battle to the city of Kufa to protest the rule of Yazid I. A battle
that saw the grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali, Husayn, killed near the Euphrates River, for 10
points, name this October 680 battle, revered by Shia Muslims, and that solidified the rule of the
Umayyad Caliphate.
ANSWER: Battle of Karbala
10. At this year's Venice Biennial, filmmaker Peter Greenaway projected this work onto the space where
it originally hung in the monastery on San Giorgio Maggiore until it was looted by Napoleon, cut in half
for transport and sewed back together and hung in the Grande Galerie of the Lourve where it is now
across from the Mona Lisa. The majestic classical architecture depicted, including columns on either
side surrounding a tiled courtyard below a long porch, is a contrast to the humble setting in the story
upon which this work is based. In the foreground are a group of musicians, including two thought to be
portraits of the artist and his contemporary Titian. Next to the central figure, Mary appears to be
holding an empty wineglass, while in the foreground men are pouring wine out of jugs that once
contained water. For 10 points, name this canvas by the mannerist Veronese depicting this miracle at
the namesake event from the Gosepl of John.
ANSWER: Wedding at Cana (or Marriage at Cana or Wedding Feast at Cana)
11. The majority opinion in this case cites Blockburger v US in concluding that the failure to incorporate
the relevant separate offenses into one Act of Congress does not invalidate them as separate offenses.
Frankfurter’s concurring opinion rejected the Constitution as an “instrument for dialectical subtleties”
with regard to legitimacy of the issued instructions as “reasonably expedient military precautions.”
Jackson’s dissent highlights the sharp controversy in accepting the unsworn report of General DeWitt. A
1982 Congressional Report, Personal Justice Denied, concluded that the decision had been “overruled in
the court of history,” and the appellate party in this case submitted an amicus brief in the 2004 case
Rasul v. Bush. The Supreme Court in a controversial 6-3 decision, with Hugo Black writing the majority
opinion upheld the government’s position, notably using for the first time the standard of strict scrutiny,
and Justice Murphy’s dissenting opinion called the government’s action “obvious racial discrimination.”
For 10 points, name this landmark 1944 Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of Executive
Order 9066 issued by FDR that led to the internment of Japanese in the United States.
ANSWER: Korematsu vs. US
12. This author recalls one story of his appearing in a publication that paid Steinbeck six months of rides
on a saddle horse for “The Snake,” and laments the fact that The Monterey Beacon offered him no rides
for his story “Saskatchewan Idyll.” His first published short story collection, which includes the works
“Beyond the Glass Mountain,” and “The Sweetness of Twisted Apples,” the titular story describes the
scene that Mr. Palmer sees outside his window while writing an account of his years in the Galapagos in
The Women on the Wall. In addition to Remembering Laughter, one of this author’s novels is partially
set during the 1918 flu epidemic, the patriarch of the Mason family attempts to make a fortune
bootlegging whiskey to Canada. In another of this author’s novels the wheelchair-confined narrator, a
retired history professor, assisted by Shelly Rasmussen reconstructs his grandparents’ biographies from
his grandmother-Susan Ward’s letters, a character based on an actual writer and illustrator Mary Hallock
Foote. At the end of the novel Lyman Ward wonders if he can forgive his wife Ellen. Author of Where the
Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, for 10 points, name this “Dean of Western Writers,” best known
for his novels like Big Rock Candy Mountain and The Angel of Repose.
ANSWER: Wallace Stegner
13. Apollodorus of Cyzius and Phanosthenes of Andros are cited as counterexamples in this work, for the
supposed non-existence of foreign generals. A passage in which Nestor warns Antilochus to be careful
when rounding a turn at horse-race in honor of Patroclus is recited by one character in order to show
that there are different types of knowledge, but that to judge them appropriately one would require the
knowledge of one type or another. When the title character’s interlocutor questions his sanity, for
being able to weep having lost nothing or being able to recoil in fear from nothing, the main character
claims that is the promise of compensation that prompts his deliberate disconnection from the reality of
the stage. The title character has just returned from festival of Ascelpius in Epidarus having recently won
an actor’s competition. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates presses the title
character on what the rhapsode, or performer of the poetry, can attribute his performance, rhetorical
skill and knowledge or virtue of divine possession.
ANSWER: Ion
14. This kind of compound binds strongly to uranium in uranyl-salophen compounds, and one of these
can be trapped by Nam’s naphthalene urea derivative that also serves as a chemosensor for these.
Benzaldehyde and chromium two react with one of these in the Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction. One of
these is the first intermediate produced from the starting material in the Monsanto process, and they
can be interconverted via the Finkelstein reaction, while the Kumada and Negishi reactions combine one
of these with an organometallic compound and a palladium catalyst. They are reactively very similar to
tosylates and triflates, and adding copper chloride to a diazonium salt produces an aryl one in the
Sandmeyer reaction. For 10 points, name these compounds that react with magnesium to form Grignard
reagents, whose alkyl versions are formed in accord with Markovnikov’s rule.
ANSWER: halides (accept specific types: aryl, alkyl, or vinyl fluorides, chlorides, bromides, or iodides)
15 During a side war of one of these conflicts, one ruler led a garrison from Harran to a location where
he built a dam and then accidentally broke it, destroying a key fortress. The first of these conflicts was
fueled by the Treaty of Triparadisus, and these conflicts were preceded by the Lamian War. In one of
these conflicts, Eurydice and her husband defected and were shortly killed and avenged while the
battles of Paraitacene and Gabiene were won by Eumenes. A prominent figure in these conflicts brought
an end to the Argead line by killing Roxane, and the fourth and final one of these conflicts included
another Battle of Salamis and the Siege of Rhodes, which led up to the epic Battle of Ipsus. Cassander,
Demetrius, and the one-eyed Antigonus were involved in, for 10 points, what set of wars fought by
Alexander the Great’s successors?
ANSWER: Wars of the Diadochi
16. One character in this work is a composite figure, whose name derives from a Western Roman
Emperor who was killed by Constantine at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, but whose story is that of the
Spaniard, who according Geoffrey of Monmouth is invited by Octavius to marry his daughter and rule
the island of Britain. Yet in “The Dream of Maxen,” the title character attempts to recapture Rome, with
the aid of Kynan and Avaon. A number of Chrétien de Troyes' poems are based on stories from this
collection, and another character is hypothesized to be a folk memory of the Gallic god Belenus or the
Celtic god Bile, and two of the sons of Beli Mawr title another story in this work. This work’s primary
collector and translator added a 12th story from the 17th century about the legend of Taliesin. Including
stories from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, the four major branches of this
work all connected by the son of the Prince of Dyfed, Pryderi. For 10 points, name this collection of
stories first translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest, our primary source of Welsh Mythology.
ANSWER: The Mabinogion
17. This work was adapted into a two-act play by Joan Holden in 2002. The author of this work describes
being asked by a computer, “How many dollars worth of stolen goods have I purchased in the past
year?” In another section, the author suggests that while it might be more efficient to use a mop and
bucket, the requisite posture of submission is ultimately about “anal accessibility” and that seems to
gratify the consumers of maid services. This work cites Mary Romero’s research into the
underestimation of “private household workers” and notes that the subjects of sitcoms and dramas
allow particular individuals to think of themselves as an anomaly, all to conclude as a result the poor
have disappeared from the culture, and political rhetoric. Written by the author of Bait and Switch, this
work is split into three sections titled “Serving in Florida,” “Scrubbing in Maine,” and “Selling in
Minnesota,” which refers to the three jobs the author of this work took up in order to understand how
the working poor live. For 10 points, name this work subtitled “On (Not) Getting by in America,” by
Barbara Ehrenreich.
ANSWER: Nickel and Dimed
18. This equation’s accuracy can be improved if used in conjunction with Lorentz-Hudson-McCoubrey
combining rules for modeling interactions between unlike molecules. The trace of fluid-solid coexistence
curves can be performed by utilizing Kofke’s method for this equation’s associated integration. This
relation can serve as a test for consistency for the Hubbard approximation if the external magnetic field
and chemical potential are chosen as its two intensive parameters. The Lewis-Randall rule relates this
equation to Henry’s Law, and the Clausius-Claperyon equation can be derived from this relation
assuming the two phases are in equilibrium. For 10 points, name this doubly eponymous equation that
determines the relationship between changes in chemical potential for components in a system, named
after a French energeticist and a Yale physicist.
ANSWER: Gibbs-Duhem Equation or Relation [accept GDE]
19. One essay in this collection claims that the relationship between Freud and literature is reciprocal
and attempts to locate the origins of Freud via the insights of the Romantic tradition, beginning with
Diderot’ Rameau’s Nephew. In the subsequent essay, this critic performs a kind of psychoanalytic
treatment of a novel published in the same year as The Bostonians, and suggests that Hyacinth Robinson
is the personal fantasy of Henry James in The Princess Casamassima. In the first essay, “Reality in
America” he suggests that the economic and social determinism evident in V. L. Parrington’s analysis of
literature is indicative of those who hold the titular ideological leaning, and thus believe that there is
path to health and happiness, when indeed literature teaches us quite the opposite. Dedicated to
Jacques Barzun, many of the essays in this collection appeared in the Partisan Review to which the
author of this work was a significant contributor. Written by the author of The Opposing Self and
Sincerity and Authenticity, for 10 points, name this 1950 collection of essays by the critic Lionel Trilling.
ANSWER: The Liberal Imagination
20. Mutations implicated in this condition often alter one of the six invariant cysteines, or the calciumbinding consensus sequence, of one of the 43 cbEGF domains found in its related protein. Its severe
neonatal form is associated with early-exon mutations, and mutations in exons 59-65 are inversely
associated with a common symptom, ectopia lentis. In an animal model of this disorder, angiotensin
receptor blockers, by lowering levels of TGF-beta, have been shown to reduce symptoms like pulmonary
blebs and myxomatous mitral valve leaflets. Complications of this disease may be treated with
Svensson's modification of the Bentall technique, and it may be distinguished from a similar disorder,
Loeys-Dietz syndrome, using the Ghent critera. Hollister and Dietz established the role of a gene on
chromosome 15, fibrillin, in this disease. For 10 points, name this disorder, whose sufferers are prone to
aortic dissection and are unusually tall in stature.
ANSWER: Marfan’s Syndrome
TB1. This theologian rejected Baeck’s essentialist position and adopted a historicist account centered on
the concept of Erfahrung. This thinker in a 1936 essay, “Redemption Through Sin,” posited that there
exists two kinds of messianism, restorative and utopian-catastrophic. He described his long
acquaintance with a figure who sometimes signed his correspondences “Mr. Nebbish” in Walter
Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship. He would further explicate the central tension between messianism
and tradition in his study of a controversial sect whose members included Abraham Cardozo and Nathan
of Gaza, Sabbatai Zevi: Mystical Messiah. For 10 points, name this 20th century Jewish scholar a
foundational figure in the academic study of Jewish mysticism in such works as Kabbalah and CounterHistory and Kabbalah and its Symbolism.
ANSWER: Gershom Scholem
TB2. One of the fictional creations of a character in this movie, a woman named Cassie says, “We're all
one thing, Lieutenant. That's what I've come to realize. Like cells in a body.” Cassie is a character in a
script for a movie called The 3 and Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Caroline Cunningham, the girlfriend of the
main character’s brother in this film, who is a make-up artist for Catherine Keener. In one scene, the
creator of STORY, a screenwriting guru played by Brian Cox named Robert McKee announces, “God help
you if you use voice over in your work.” John Larouche, played by Chris Cooper, claims to be the
smartest person he knows and runs a successful porn site before being killed by an alligator in a Florida
swamp. Based on a novel by a journalist for the New Yorker, Susan Orlean titled The Orchid Thief, for 10
points, name this Spike Jonze directed movie starring Meryl Streep, as the journalist-author, and
Nicholas Cage as Charlie and Donald Kaufmann.
ANSWER: Adaptation
TB3. It was created by a committee that included Emile Franqui, Jean Parmentier and Josiah Stamp,
among others, and its leader had earlier served as the chief of supply procurement for the American
Expeditionary Force. It sought to help combat inflation in the nation it affected, which introduced a new
currency at a value ratio of 1:1,000,000,000,0000 against the old currency. This proposal relied in part
on American loans to the affected nation that would help stabilize that nation’s economy while allowing
it to resume payments to other nations it had defaulted on due to inflation. Under this plan, those
payments would be drawn from sources such as transportation, excise and custom taxes, and the plan
dictated a the reorganization of the Reichsbank. Including a call for the evacuation of the Ruhr area by
Allied troops, For 10 points, name this plan named for an American politician that sought a solution for
German reparation payments after World War I, which was later replaced.
ANWER: Dawes Plan
Bonuses
It’s scheduled for production release in 2010, for 10 points:
[10]Name this soon-to-be no longer concept 4-door liftback, where the internal combustion engine is
not directly connected to the wheels, and the lithium-ion battery and a 53kw generator instead serve as
part of the drive train thus allowing commuters who drive less than 40 miles a day to expend no gasoline
or release emissions.
ANSWER: Chevrolet Volt
[10]The Chevy Volt is expected to make an appearance in this sequel as the unsurprisingly named Jolt.
ANSWER: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [prompt on "Transformers II" or "Transformers sequel"]
[10]Another concept car that will make its appearance in Revenge of the Fallen, is this other Chevy
vehicle, slated to be Sideswipe, who in the original animated series was a Lamborghini.
ANSWER: Centennial Concept Corvette [accept Stingray Concept prompt on “Corvette”]
Oh, man…this guy, for 10 points:
[10]Name this current political head of state, who among other problems is about to start divorce
proceedings with his wife Veronica Lario as well as fighting off allegations that the acquired the services
of prostitutes
ANSWER: Silvio Berlusconi
[10]Berlusconi’s wife is filing for divorce for many reasons no doubt, but she cites his possible
relationship with this now 18 year-old young woman as a central concern. Reports claim that Berlusconi
attended her birthday party and gave her a diamond necklace.
ANSWER: Noemi Letizia
[10]When he’s not trying to bang out minors or purchase hookers, Berlusconi is the nominal head of this
Liberal-conservative Christian-democratic political party, which formed out of the ashes of Forza Italia.
ANSWER: The People’s Freedom [or il Popolo della Liberta]
Some of the rules for his namesake tournaments are “be nice,” and “don’t be too clever,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this University of Michigan political scientist who is known for utilizing game theory and the
biology of selfishness in his analysis of moral and political decisions
ANSWER: Robert Axelrod
[10]Robert Axelrod describes the possibility that the title concept is evolutionarily advantageous and
may not require the presence of a central authority in this work, in which he discusses the results of his
namesake tournaments as well as a chapter devoted to the “Robustness of Reciprocity.”
ANSWER: The Evolution of Cooperation
[10]Axelrod’s tournaments attempt to find the best strategies to “win” at an iterated version of this
game. Rapaport’s TIT-FOR-TAT strategy, despite its simplicity, has seemed to produce the most
favorable results: never defecting on the first iteration and then copying the moves of the opponent in
future moves.
ANSWER: Prisoner’s Dilemma
This postmodernist author’s works include the novels The Dead Father and Snow White, for 10 points:
[10]Name this American author of the children’s book The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering
Thithering Djinn, who also wrote the short stories “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” and “The
Indian Uprising.”
ANSWER: Donald Barthelme
[10]This numerically titled collection of short-stories, a companion volume to Forty Stories of Donald
Barthelme’s includes the aforementioned ones as well as the wicked awesome “Kierkegaard Unfair to
Schlegel,” and the previously uncollected “Aria” and “How I Write My Songs.”
ANSWER: Sixty Stories
[10]This first collection of short stories includes “Me and Miss Mandible,” as well as the title story which
references a title character from a 1920s German Expressionist silent film, about a deranged scientist
with a notable cabinet.
ANSWER: Come Back, Dr. Caligari
The magnitude of this effect is proportional to the angular velocity and magnetic susceptibility, for 10
points:
[10]Name this effect in which the magnetization of an uncharged body can occur when it is spun on its
axis
ANSWER: Barnett Effect
[10]The Barnett effect is inversely proportional to this value, often symbolized gamma; it is the ratio of a
particle or system’s magnetic dipole moment to its angular momentum.
ANSWER: gyromagnetic ratio
[10]Also known as the Richardson effect, it is something like the inverse of the Barnett effect in that a
mechanical rotation can be induced in a suspended ferromagnet within a coil, by driving an electric
current through that coil. It is named after a German and a Dutch physicist.
ANSWER: Einstein-de Haas effect
During this event Jacques Laffitte supported the efforts of Adolphe Thiers in his opposition to the
government, for 10 points:
[10]Name this event in 1830 that resulted the ascent of the House of Orleans under Louie-Phillipe and
the abdication of Charles X from the throne of France.
ANSWER: July Revolution
[10]In the immediate aftermath of the Ordinances of Saint-Cloud, which restricted the Freedom of the
Press, this titular period of time during the July Revolution, saw many of the newspapers that had been
banned by the ordinances incite protestation and rioting in the streets.
ANSWER: The Three Glorious Days
[10]This group known as the Ultra-royalists during the Bourbon Restoration had been nostalgic for the
days of the ancien regime and encouraged Charles X to enact the July Ordinances, they believed that the
King of France ought to be the absolute monarch chosen via direct application of Salic Law
ANSWER: Legitimists
He composed Three Dances for Piano for 4 Hands, for 10 points:
[10]Name this French composer, deservedly recognized for his Op. 9 Requiem, which has an
orchestration for organ only. His Requiem is somewhat unique for excluding the Dies Irae, but includes a
separate movement for the Pie Jesu motet.
ANSWER: Maurice Durufle
[10]Durufle performed the premier of this composer’s Organ Concerto, unfortunately during the
performance the pipes developed a faulty wind supply and could not be heard particularly well. This
“half bad-boy, half monk” and member of Les Six composed the operas The Dialogues of the Carmelites
and The Breasts of Tiresias
ANSWER: Francis Poulenc
[10]Durufle’s Requiem and this man’s Requiem in D minor show similarities, and the critic Bernard
Gavoty called Durufle “[this composer] of the organ.” This composer is better known for his opera
Penelope, his orchestral suite Masques et Bergamasques, and the Canticle of Jean Racine.
ANSWER: Gabriel Faure
It is the largest city in the West Bank, and is located 30km south of Jerusalem for 10 points:
[10]Name this site, the second holiest for Jews but holy to all three Abrahamic traditions, which was
conquered by Simon Bar Gioria during the first war with the Romans, before it was burnt down by
Vespasian’s men.
ANSWER: Hebron
[10]Hebron is the home of this site, the burial place of at least Four Biblical couples, Herod the Great
erected a large enclosure over the site for protection
ANSWER: Cave of the Patriarchs [accept Cave of Machpelah]
[10]One couple supposedly buried at the Cave of the Patriarchs, is this man, the son of Abraham and
Sarah, and his wife, the sister of Laban, chosen for him by Eliezer
ANSWER: Isaac and Rebekah
In one of this science fiction author’s novels, Desiderio is sent to kill a mad professor who has created
reality distorting machines.
[10]Name this female British author of The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmann, Nights at the
Circus and The Magic Toyshop
ANSWER: Angela Carter
[10]This novel by Angela Carter begins on the 75th birthdays of twin sisters Nora and Dora Chance, who
are estranged from the father Melchior Hazard; the family has a particular ken for Shakespeare and his
works.
ANSWER: Wise Children
[10]This collection of short-stories by Carter are based on fairy-tales, the title story is based on Charles
Perault’s Bluebeard and is its title refers to the torture anteroom in the castle.
ANSWER: The Bloody Chamber
After his most important victory, this general wrote to President Juarez, “The national arms have been
covered with glory,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this Mexican general who encountered Maxmillian’s Army at Acultzingo in late April of 1862,
before being forced to withdraw.
ANSWER: Ignacio Zaragoza
[10]Igancio Zaragoza’s victory at this battle has been forever commemorated by many alcohol induced
comas at Mexican themed restaurants and bars in collegetowns all across the United States on Cinco de
Mayo.
ANSWER: Battle of Puebla
[10]Igancio Zaragoza, during the political unrest of the 1850’s supported this plan to remove Santa Anna
as dictator of Mexico and set up a liberal government under Juarez.
ANSWER: Plan de Ayutla
2-quinuclidonium tetrafluoroborate has been cited as a compound that breaks this rule, for 10 points:
[10]Name this rule which stipulates that if a double bond must be formed on the cyclohexene ring, it will
not do so at the bridgehead position because of the added strain.
ANSWER: Bredt’s rule
[10]Bredt’s rule can be useful for determining which isomer will form as a result of this general class of
reaction, of which Cope, Hofmann, and Grieco are notable types.
ANSWER: elimination reactions
[10]Julius Bredt formulated his rule while working on with these compounds trying to determine the
structure of camphor, a derivative of these compounds often found in pine resins and natural rubbers.
ANSWER: terpenes [accept terpenoids]
Answer the following about the paintings of Andrea Del Sarto, for 10 points each:
[10]In this work, perhaps his masterpiece, the Virgin and Child are flanked by John the Evangelist and St.
Francis while standing atop a polygonal pedestal, which is decorated by titular creatures.
ANSWER: Madonna of the Harpies
[10]In this painting by Del Sarto, four saints and two figures kneeling at their side seem to be engaged in
conversation, while in the dark cloudy upper background an image of the crucifixion is superimposed on
top of a figure in red.
ANSWER: Disputation Over the Trinity
[10]Ferdinando de Medici acquired the Madonna of the Harpies for the collection housed in this palace
located in Florence near the river Arno. It is named after a local banker for whom it was originally
constructed. The Boboli Gardens are located behind the palace.
ANSWER: Palazzo Pitti [or Pitti Palace]
This conjecture draws the opposite conclusion of the Pacman conjecture, for 10 points:
[10]Name this conjecture concerning durable goods monopolists, which holds that such monopolists
have no market power as they are essentially in price competition with themselves among sets of
consumers with different individual valuations.
ANSWER: Coase conjecture
[10]Ronald Coase is perhaps better known for his theorem regarding these entities; the negative kinds
of which classically include air pollution
ANSWER: externalities
[10]Along with the “The Problem of Social Cost,” this other highly influential paper by Coase analyzes
the conditions under which the title organization will emerge.
ANSWER: “The Nature of the Firm”
This mythological city is mentioned is mentioned in the 89th surah of the Quran, for 10 points:
[10]Name this lost city of the ‘Ad people in the Arabian Peninsula known for having a thousand colossal
pillars.
ANSWER: Iram of the Pillars [accept Ubar]
[10]The tribe of ‘Ad are said to have to been the direct descendents of this Arc building dude.
ANSWER: Noah
[10]This legendary king of Iram, whose story is told in the Arabian Nights, defied God when he rejected
the message of the Prophet Hud, God got pissed sent the Angel of Death over and then buried the city
beneath the sand.
ANSWER: King Shaddad
This American critic’s major works include Verbal Icon and Hateful Contraries, for 10 points:
[10]Name this man who collaborated on a number of influential essays with Monroe Beardsley.
ANSWER: W. K. Wimsatt
[10]Perhaps this most influential of these essays, by Wimsatt and Beardsley, deals with the role of the
author’s biography in the analysis of a work of literature
ANSWER: “The Intentional Fallacy”
[10]W.K. Wimsatt co-authored Literary Criticism: A Short History with this fellow critic, well known in his
own right for his analysis of the Keats’ poem about an “unravished bride of quietness” in the WellWrought Urn
ANSWER: Cleanth Brooks
This man’s younger brother was the victor at Dan-no-ura, for 10 points:
[10]Name this founder of the Kamakura Shogunate
ANSWER: Minamoto Yoritomo
[10]This 1156 rebellion, prior to Yoritomo’s coming to power, involved forces loyal to Emperor GoShirakawa, including Yoritomo’s father, against those loyal to retired Emperor Sutoku. Go-Shirawaka’s
side won.
ANSWER: Hogen Rebellion or War or Disturbance
[10]One consequence of the Hogen rebellion was the establishment of the rivalry of the Minamoto and
this clan, who were eventually destroyed at Dan-no-ura.
ANSWER: Taira Clan
This structure is sometime named after Constanzo Varolio, for 10 points:
[10]Name this structure located on the brain stem which relays sensory information between the
cerebellum and cerebrum. It is cranial to the medulla and is partially responsible for the control of
respiration
ANSWER: pons varolli
[10]The pons like much of the rest of the brain is supplied blood via this collection of arteries named
after an English physician
ANSWER: Circle of Willis
[10]Within the upper pons lies this set of neurons, which antagonizes the apneustic center and switches
off inspiration
ANSWER: pneumotaxic center [accept PRG]
In 1989 his exhibition, The Perfect Moment, was the subject of controversy when it was refused to be
shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., for 10 points:
[10]Name this photographer, whose 1977 photo “Jim and Tom, Sausalito” was at the heart of a 1998
University of Central England scandal, known for displaying nude black men in erotically suggestive
positions.
ANSWER: Robert Mapplethorpe
[10]In the short, Robert Having his Nipple Pierced, Mapplethorpe is being subjected to the title action
while this singer, best known for her songs “Because the Night,” and “Dancing Barefoot” provides the
voiceover. Mapplethorpe also financed the release of this performer’s first single “Hey Joe” and “Piss
Factory.”
ANSWER: Patti Smith
[10]In one of his more explicit self-portraits from the X Portfolio, Mapplethorpe has this object inserted
into his anus.
ANSWER: bullwhip
Name these philosophers of history, for 10 points each:
[10]This British intellectual, also known for his work in aesthetics, claims counter-intuitively that history
is the study mind, and is not a descriptive science of the past, but a normative science of thought in his
important, The Idea of History
ANSWER: Robin G. Collingwood
[10]This American philosopher rejected Collingwood’s notion of causality in history, and offered that
history is essentially a narrative endeavor, while laying out four theatrical archetypes for how is history
is presented in Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
ANSWER: Hayden White
[10]Collingwood translated this Italian’s work on the thought of Giambattista Vico. This Italian idealist
philosopher who wrote the political pamphlet “Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectual” was a
prominent influence on Gramsci. He suggested that there is no science of history or dialectic in
operation in his aptly titled On History.
ANSWER: Benedetto Croce
He won the Darwin medal in 1946, for 10 points:
[10]Name this Scottish mathematical biologist, whose best known work studied the allometry of various
organisms and attempted apply mechanical and mathematical analysis to the evolution of species.
ANSWER: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
[10]This is D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s principle achievement, where in one particularly famous
section shows that two different genus of fish are related by a relatively simple mathematical
transformation.
ANSWER: On Growth and Form
[10]In On Growth and Form, Thompson describes the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence and
this concept from botany, which characterizes leaf arrangement of plant stems.
ANSWER: phyllotaxis