2011 WILD MAN TOURNAMENT
Round 3
Questions by Joe Nutter
***IN THE ACE WILD MAN TOURNAMENT, CAMPERS COMPETE AS INDIVIDUALS. ONLY TOSSUPS ARE
PLAYED IN EACH ROUND; THERE ARE NO BONUSES.
1. One character in this opera declares that “I have attended many feasts.” That character previously entered after a
rendition of The Eight Points of Attention. This work’s characters attend a performance of The Red Detachment of
Women, during which Pat angers Jiang Qing after an evil landlord is made to be similar to Henry Kissinger. For 10 points,
name this opera about the visit of a President to Mao Zedong’s country by John Adams.
ANSWER: Nixon in China
2. During this man’s country’s civil war, this man wrote a play about Dr. Bero, Madmen and Specialists. This author
wrote of Eman’s murder in The Strong Breed, and about Lakunle and Baroka’s desire to marry Sidi in The Lion and the
Jewel. In his most famous work, Mr. Pilkings stops Elesin from performing the title action, which is instead done by his
son, Olunde. For 10 points, name this Yoruba Nigerian playwright, the author of Death and the King’s Horseman.
ANSWER: (Akinwande Olu)Wole Soyinka
3. One person who had these was a Dominican saint, Catherine of Sienna. Pio of Pietrelcina had these for most of his
life, although they never got infected. An angel with six wings gave these to a man experiencing a vision of the Feast of
the Cross, St. Francis of Assisi. For 10 points, name these markings on the hands or wrists, feet, or side, said to resemble
the wounds given to Jesus on the cross.
ANSWER: Stigmata (accept Stigmatism, accept Wounds like the ones Jesus had or clear knowledge equivalents
before mentioned)
4. Attempts to improve this process are based on speleothems. Harry Godwin proposed to continue to use 5,568 years
as a baseline in this technique, which returns dates “Before Present” and can be augmented using a uranium-thorium
technique. For 10 points, name this technique for finding the ages of organic things based on the decay rate of a certain
isotope.
ANSWER: Radiocarbon dating (accept Carbon-14 dating or other clear knowledge equivalents)
5. This island contains the Isua greenstone belt. Its northernmost point is Cape Morris Jessup, which is near Ellesmere
Island. The largest town on it is Nuuk, which is also known as Godthab. For 10 points, name this arctic island, located
across the Denmark Strait from Iceland, an autonomous region of Denmark and the largest island in the world.
ANSWER: Greenland
6. This man wrote a book about Samuel Ferguson and Richard Kennedy travelling without the need to drop
ballast. This author of Five Weeks in a Balloon also included a work in which Captain Nicholl and Barbicane travel in the
Columbiad in his collection Extraordinary Voyages, along with a work in which Aouda is rescued from suttee by Phileas
Fogg and Passepartout. For 10 points, name this French science-fiction author of From the Earth to the Moon and Around
the World in Eighty Days.
ANSWER: Jules (Gabriel) Verne
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7. This man used the Hooker telescope to see Cepheid variables in Andromeda galaxy, proving that the universe
goes beyond the Milky Way. For his most famous discovery, he analyzed data from Vesto Slipher to find that the
redshift increases the father away from Earth a galaxy is, resulting in the formulation of his namesake law. The inverse of
his namesake constant is the age of the universe. For 10 points, name this astronomer who proved the expansion of the
universe and for whom a big telescope in orbit is named.
ANSWER: Edwin (Powell) Hubble
8. This river’s source is near Le Poudre Pass, near Lake Granby. The Grand Ditch diverts water from it, and an
overflow from it re-formed the Salton Sea. The All-American Canal diverts water from it to Imperial Valley, causing it to
end in the Sonoran Desert, not in the Gulf of California as it used to. For 10 points, name this river which is blocked by
the Hoover Dam and forms Lake Meade, and carved out the Grand Canyon.
ANSWER: Colorado River (accept Río Colorado or Aha Kwahwat, do not accept or prompt on Red River)
9. During this battle forces under the command of Ysembart attacked their opponents’ baggage train; that
opponent thought he was being attacked from the rear and killed all his prisoners. Edward, Duke of York was killed
in this battle, along with the Constable of France, Charles d’Albret. For 10 points, name this battle of the Hundred Years’
War where, on St. Crispin’s Day, English longbowmen under Henry V defeated the French.
ANSWER: Battle of Agincourt
10. This anthropologist co-authored, with James Baldwin, A Rap on Race. This anthropologist also wrote a book
asserting that females were dominant in the Tchambuli society, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. In
another work, this anthropologist wrote about the taupou system, which was largely disregarded in favor of open sexual
encounters by teenagers on the title island. For 10 points, name this author of Coming of Age in Samoa.
ANSWER: Margaret Mead
11. These structures release chemokines when they are deployed to the site of an injury. Their eponymous growth
factor controls the growth of existing blood vessels. Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia involves low levels of them. For
10 points, name these structures in the blood produced by megakaryocytes that are primarily responsible for blood
clotting.
ANSWER: Platelets or thrombocytes
12. This man painted a woman naked from the waist up, excluding chains, in Andromeda Chained to the Rock. He
also painted several images of a certain woman, first being watched while outdoors and later at Her Bath, Bathsheba. In
one of his pictures, a man puts his hand on the title sculpture, while in another Frans Cocq’s soldiers depart. For 10 points,
name this Dutch painter of Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer and The Night Watch.
ANSWER Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (accept either underlined part)
13. This man wrote a novel about Ixca Cienfuegos and Gladys Garcia, Where the Air is Clear. In another work by
this man, the Miranda estate is captured by General Arroyo and the title character, who is Ambrose Bierce. In one work, a
Mexican Revolution veteran and business tycoon awaits the title event. For 10 points, name this author of The Old Gringo
and The Death of Artemio Cruz.
ANSWER: Carlos Fuentes (Macías)
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14. In one early battle in this war, forces under the command of Vicente Barrios attacked the Nova Coimbra fort.
The Duke of Caxias commanded one side’s forces, which ended up participating in a guerrilla war against Francisco
Solano Lopez that resulted in the death of well over half his country’s population. For 10 points, name this South
American war in which Paraguay was rather badly beaten by the namesake group of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.
ANSWER: War of the Triple Alliance (accept War Against the Triple Alliance or Guerra de la Triple Alianza or
Guerra contra la Triple Alianza, accept Paraguayan War or Guerra do Paraguay before mentioned, prompt on Great
War or Guerra Grande)
15. In one work by this man, Isabella is hit upon by Friedrich, a Regent for a king of Sicily. That operetta is The Ban
on Love. In another work, one of the title characters, King Marke’s daughter, complains when a sailor sings West-wärts
schweift der Blick, and is angry at Kurnwenal, the friend of her lover, the other title character, while another work
includes The Ride of the Valkyries. For 10 points, name this German composer of Tristan and Isolde and The Ring Cycle.
ANSWER: (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner
16. In one scene in this work, the characters meet Chester and Lucille McKee at a party. Dan Cody brought this
work’s main character wealth, although it is unclear whether or not that character actually attended Oxford. This work’s
title character dies at his West Egg home after his former girlfriend runs over Myrtle Wilson. For 10 points, name this
work narrated by Nick Carraway by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
ANSWER: The Great Gatsby
17. Roy Cohn and this man were blamed for the suicide of a Voice of America engineer. The Watkins committee
investigated this man’s actions. After he insulted Fred Fisher, Joseph Welch asked this man if he had “no sense of
decency” during hearings between the Army and this man, who gave a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, claiming that
he had a list of 205 Communists in the State Department. For 10 points, name this anti-Communist Wisconsin Republican
Senator.
ANSWER: Joseph (Raymond) McCarthy
18. A March, 2011 IUPAC report by E. Arunan proposed a redefinition of these. This phenomenon in DNA is
responsible for its helical structure. It is responsible for the high boiling point of a compound that has bond angles of
109.5. For 10 points, name this phenomenon that occurs in water and creates weaker links between polar molecules and
its namesake lightest element.
ANSWER: Hydrogen bonds (accept word forms, prompt on Hydrogen)
19. One character in this work drowns in the street after falling off a sidewalk, while another character is eaten by
rats while locked in a factory overnight. Madame Haupt is unable to save this works’ protagonist’s wife, who dies
giving birth to Phil Connor’s baby. For 10 points, name this muckraking work about Lithuanian immigrant and Chicago
stockyard worker Jurgis Rudkus by Upton Sinclair.
ANSWER: The Jungle
20. In one work by this artist, a cat walks in front of a pond in the foreground, while the background contains a
church and a building behind a blue roof. This painter of Daubigny’s Garden painted a picture with orchids blooming
in his adopted hometown, Arles, one of a black shape in front of swirling stars, and one where the title ugly characters sit
under a small lamp while one woman pours coffee. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist of Starry Night and The Potato
Eaters.
ANSWER: Vincent Van Gogh
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21. He defeated the Romans under Arneglisculus at the Battle of the Utus. This man initially co-ruled with his brother
Bleda. He allied with Valentinian III and Flavius Aetius, but later declared war on them over his proposal to Honoria,
where, after overrunning most of Gaul, he was defeated at the Battle of Chalons. For 10 points, name this emperor of the
Huns.
ANSWER: Attila the Hun
22. This phenomenon can be used in photogrammetry to calculate the height of buildings based on their apparent
bend. Through the moving cluster method, this can be found with relation to the Hyades cluster. For 10 points, name this
phenomenon which has a limiting baseline of 2 Astronomical Units and can be used to calculate distances to far away
objects based on changes in their apparent position.
ANSWER: Parallax
23. In his elder form, he was the first patron god of Nekhen and husband of Hathor, while in his younger form he
wore the crown of a united Upper and Lower Egypt. This father of the Amenti controlled the Canopic Jars. His eye
was known as the Wedjat. For 10 points, name this Falcon-headed Egyptian God who avenged the murder of his father
Osiris by his uncle Set.
ANSWER: Horus
24. One character in this work impersonates a riverboat worker, Joseph Wranka. This work’s narrator is sentenced
to an insane asylum after he finds the finger of his love interest, Sister Dorothea. The title object was given to that
narrator, who can shatter glass with his voice, for his third birthday, upon which he chose to stop growing. For 10 points,
name this first book in the Danzig Trilogy, a work about Oskar Matzerath by Gunter Grass.
ANSWER: The Tin Drum (accept Die Blechtrommel)
25. This man freed Abd al Qadir. This man allied with Sardinia and fought the Battle of Solferino. Despite defeat at the
Battle of Pueblo, he installed Maximilian I as emperor of Mexico. Baron Haussmann rebuilt Paris according to this man’s
plan, but that did not stop his overthrow by the Paris Commune. For 10 points, name this French emperor who was
overthrown after his defeat at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War.
ANSWER: Napoleon III or Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (don’t really prompt on Napoleon or Bonaparte)
26. They are almost always left-handed, while one theorized type would be right-handed and not interact with any
others. Bruno Pontecorvo proposed a phenomenon that is measured by the MiniBooNE experiment, flavor oscillations in
them. For 10 points, name these almost-massless leptons whose antiparticle is produced along with electrons in beta decay
that rarely interacts with matter except through the Weak force.
ANSWER: Neutrinos (neither accept nor prompt on antineutrinos, prompt on electron, muon, or tau)
27. In one story, this man claimed that his nose was more beautiful because its extreme size allowed it to smell
more. In a work by another man, he is shown characterizing another man’s philosophy as believing virtue is a gift from
the gods. That other man is Protagoras. In his namesake method of teaching, a problem is broken down into questions
which the learner can answer independently. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek philosopher and teacher of Plato who
was forced to drink hemlock.
ANSWER: Socrates
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28. This man attempted to pardon Lord Danby, who he appointed after a member of the Cabal, Thomas Clifford,
resigned. Clifford resigned rather than submit to the Test Act, which Parliament passed against this man’s wishes. This
man agreed to convert to Catholicism in the secret Treaty of Dover, but Titus Oates still warned of a “Popish Plot” against
him. For 10 points, name this British monarch during the Great Fire of London who ruled after the Interregnum.
ANSWER: Charles II Stuart
29. The Daniell version of this process can be used to supersede the Lebesgue version. The multiple type can be used
for non-regions, and, in the improper type, one of the limits is replaced with b and it is evaluated with the limit of b as it
approaches infinity. This process is used by the mean value theorem, and it is the limit as n goes to infinity of a Riemann
sum. For 10 points, name this mathematical process that, according to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, undoes a
derivative.
ANSWER: Integration (accept word forms)
30. After experiencing a “confrontation with the unconscious,” this man wrote a book which was not published
until 2009, his Red Book. The theory of socionics, as well as the Myers-Briggs Personality test, was developed from his
ideas. He also wrote about the anima and animus, female and male archetypes of personalities. For 10 points, name this
Swiss psychologist who developed the idea of the collective unconsciousness.
ANSWER: Carl (Gustav) Jung
31. This man wrote a work about ceasing “vain deluding joys.” This man named one work after a speech by Isocrates
and, in it, argued against the Licensing Order, while another work by this author of Il Penseroso begins “Of Man’s first
disobedience, and the fruit of/that forbidden tree.” For 10 points, name this author of Areopagitica and Paradise Lost.
ANSWER: John Milton
32. This man took over for Tou Samouth, which brought him to a position where he could fight Norodom
Sihanouk. He renamed his party the Communist Party of Kampuchea in 1966, and, when in power, his Year Zero plan
resulted in the deaths of intellectuals and minorities in the Killing Fields. For 10 points, name this Cambodian communist
leader of the Khmer Rouge.
ANSWER: Pol Pot or Saloth Sar
33. These features are the subject of Darwin’s Paradox, which says that nutrient inflow should not be able to
balance outflow. Pompano fish live in these structures, which also house wrinkled brains, cabbage, and table tops. For 10
points, name these biologic features found in oceans that make up atolls and barriers, like one found off the northeast
coast of Australia.
ANSWER: Coral Reefs (accept clear knowledge equivalents)
34. One character in this novel, William Collins, brags about his patronage by Catherine de Bourgh. The sister of
one character in this work, Georgiana, refuses to elope with George Wickham, who spirits off the protagonist’s sister,
Lydia, before she is saved by the protagonist’s eventual husband. For 10 points, name this work in which Fitzwilliam
Darcy proposes twice to Elizabeth Bennet, a work by Jane Austen.
ANSWER: Pride and Prejudice
35. In this man’s first political campaign he defeated incumbent Jerry Voorhis. In one speech, this man said that his
only personal benefit from his campaign was a dog, the “Checkers Speech.” While visiting Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev
and this man participated in the Kitchen debate, and he was defeated in the 1960 Presidential election following a debate
with JFK. For 10 points, name this American president who resigned after the Watergate break-in.
ANSWER: Richard (Milhous) Nixon
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