PACE NSC 2009: Edited by Andrew Hart, Chris Ray, Ted Gioia, and Mehdi Razvi
Round 10
Related Tossups and Bonuses Round
1. A plane in this novel spells the word “Toffee” in the sky. In it, a doctor with a personal creed
of “proportion” works with a man who has visions of his dead friend Evans. That character helps
his wife Rezia make a hat for Mrs. Peters before he jumps out the window because Dr. Holmes is
coming to take him to an asylum. The title character of this novel is delighted when her friend
Peter Walsh just returned from India is able to come to her party attended by the Prime Minister,
but she is shaken when she learns about the suicide of Septimus Smith. For 10 points, name this
novel about the titular hostess Clarissa, written by Virginia Woolf.
ANSWER: Mrs. Dalloway
<Gioia>
1. The speaker of this work addresses Poe in its sixth section, “The Tunnel” asking “That last
night on the ballot rounds, did you,/Shaking, deny the ticket, Poe?” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this long modernist poem, other sections of which include “Powhatan’s Daughter”,
“Cutty Sark”, and a certain “Proem” dedicated to the title object.
ANSWER: “The Bridge”
[10] “The Bridge” is a work of this American poet, whose collection White Buildings contains
“Chaplinesque” and “For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen.”
ANSWER: Harold Hart Crane
<Carson>
2. Pendry described this entity via the van der Waals force between two infinite slabs of
dielectric and linked it to quantum shearing in a vacuum. The rolling type of this, which like
other types is governed by Amontons’ laws, occurs due to deformation of objects, and Coulomb
developed a law for its dry kinetic type. According to those laws, this force only depends on the
strength of the applied load and is independent of sliding velocity and area of contact. For 10
points, name this force, whose magnitude equals its namesake coefficient times the normal force
and which itself resists movement along a surface.
ANSWER: friction
<Razvi>
2. Answer the following about molecular effects that relate to acidity for 10 points each.
[10] This phenomenon is related to the number of ways the same set of bonds can be rearranged
in a molecule to form equivalent structures. Conjugate bases exhibiting this are very stable.
ANSWER: resonance
[10] This is the general term for how the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule affects its
properties. For example, bulky atoms hinder the solvation of a molecule by excluding solvent
molecules from the space surrounding the central atom.
ANSWER: steric effects
<Razvi>
3. One of these people’s goddesses became pregnant after eating fruit containing sperm from
their moon god Coniraya, after which she and her son jumped into the sea and turned into rocks.
One god of these people was said to wear shining clothes and to carry the Milky Way in a jug,
from which he would dispense rain. Their god Supay was the king of a race of demons and the
ruler of the underworld, known to them as Uku Pacha. In addition to the weather god Ilyap’a,
their deities included the benevolent sun god Inti. For 10 points, name these people whose
creator god Viracocha was the grandfather of Manco Capac, the legendary first king of Cuzco.
ANSWER: Incans
<Carson>
3. The Slavic equivalents of these creatures were known as the Ljeschi. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these Greek mountain and forest deities, followers of Pan and Dionysus with the
horns, legs, and tails of goats.
ANSWER: satyrs
[10] This horse-tailed demigod, a teacher and companion of Dionysus, was almost always drunk,
and was often pictured being carried by satyrs or a donkey.
ANSWER: Silenus
<Carson>
4. This poem’s third stanza discusses how the “blue Mediterranean...saw in sleep old palaces and
towers” before the ocean was awakened from “his summer dreams,” while this poem’s first
stanza describes “winged seeds” that lie “like a corpse within its grave.” This poem’s speaker
begs to “drive my dead thoughts over the universe / Like withered leaves, to quicken a new
birth” after calling the title entity variously “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere,” the
“trumpet of prophecy,” and the “breath of Autumn’s being.” For 10 points, name this poem that
ends by asking, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” written by Percy Shelley.
ANSWER: “Ode to the West Wind”
<Gioia>
4. Identify the following about Robin Hood’s appearances in literature for 10 points each.
[10] Using the alias “Locksley”, Robin Hood wins an archery contest in this Walter Scott novel,
which sees the titular Saxon defeat the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert and marry Rowena.
ANSWER: Ivanhoe
[10] Robin Hood appears, rather anachronistically, as “Robin Wood” in The Sword in the Stone,
the first book in The Once and Future King, an Arthurian tetralogy by this British author.
ANSWER: Terence Hanbury White
<Carson>
5. Isadore From contributed to creation of a therapy of this type, which was expounded in a book
by Frederick Perls entitled Ego, Hunger, and Aggression. Christian von Ehrenfels wrote of its
“qualities,” while Kurt Koffka introduced it to the United States in the 1920s. Its central idea is
the law of pragnanz, which predicts that the mind tends to connect broken lines in images to
form shapes in its closure principle. For 10 points, identify this school of psychology founded by
Max Wertheimer, which emphasizes the whole as greater than its parts.
ANSWER: Gestalt psychology
<Razvi>
5. They come in put and call varieties, and in European, Bermudan, American, and Exotic styles.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of financial contract that gives the buyer the right to buy or sell the
underlying asset.
ANSWER: Option
[10] This model uses geometric Brownian motion to model options prices, but it suffers from the
volatility smile problem.
ANSWER: Black-Scholes model
<Mukherjee>
6. One member of this group, Gideon Welles, drove the creation of the modern Medal of Honor,
and another member of this group was replaced by a man prosecuted by Fitz John Porter, and
who faced a controversial succession by Lorenzo Booker after this group ceased to exist. The
subject of Doris Goodwin's Team of Rivals, this group included Free Soil champion Salmon P.
Chase, who became Chief Justice after serving in a major position in this group. For 10 points,
identify this group which also included Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and Secretary of State
William Seward, which advised the 16th president on issues like the Civil War.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet [prompt on Secretary of the Navy before “Fitz”]
<Ray>
6. A 1919 uprising led by this organization was crushed by Freikorps supporting the Centrist
policies of Friedrich Ebert. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Marxist organization which briefly became the Communist Party of Germany,
founded by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and named for an earlier revolutionary.
ANSWER: Spartacus League [or Spartakusbund; or the Spartacist League]
[10] The Spartacists sought to establish a Soviet-style state in the place of this post World War I
German government, which held power until the establishment of the Third Reich.
ANSWER: Weimar Republic
<Ray>
7. Christ in the House of Mary and Martha is thought to be the first work of this artist, who
painted a servant maid handing over the title note to a lute-playing woman in The Love Letter. A
1994 cleaning revealed gold trim on the title object of this artist’s Woman Holding a Balance,
while a representation of history poses in front of a map in his The Allegory of Painting. He may
be best remembered for depicting a female wearing a blue and yellow Turkish turban in one
work, while the Rotterdam Gate is visible in his depiction of his hometown. For 10 points, name
this Dutch painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft.
ANSWER: Jan Vermeer
<Jang>
7. John Ruskin got sued for claiming that this work was a "pot of paint flung in the public's
face." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this painting that shows "The Falling Rocket."
ANSWER: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
[10] This American artist painted a profile portrait of his mother as an "Arrangement in Gray and
Black" in addition to Nocturne in Black and Gold.
ANSWER: James Abbott McNeil Whistler
<Hart>
8. This man was credited with developing the “Single Bullet Theory” while working for the
Warren Commission. He joined fellow Republicans John Warner and John Chaffee in rejecting
the nomination of Robert Bork, but drew controversy over his confrontations with Anita Hill
during the confirmation of Clarence Thomas. Negative reaction to his vote on the Stimulus bill
and the growing momentum of challenger Pat Toomey prompted a surprise announcement by
this man, who serves with Bob Casey. For 10 points, name this Pennsylvanian Senator, who in
April 2009 defected from the Republican Party to join the Democrats.
ANSWER: Arlen Specter
<Ray>
8. This company is currently backing the construction of a namesake “city” that will become the
expansive Okhta center. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this company helmed by Viktor Zubkov Alexei Miller, lost over $1 billion in
revenue following a supply dispute in early 2009.
ANSWER: Gazprom
[10] Before Viktor Zubkov, Gazprom's chairman was this man, the handpicked successor of
Vladimir Putin as President of Russia.
ANSWER: Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
<Ray>
9. The protein ICP4 keeps type 1 of this class of biological entities in a dormant state, and it uses
glycoprotein C to bind to host membranes. Docosanol is an experimental compound that
prevents membrane fusion of this entity, which suppresses apoptosis using its LAT transcript. Its
thymidine kinase is the target of the drug acyclovir, and Burkitt’s Lymphoma one class of this
virus attacking B cells. In addition to the Epstein-Barr class, another class of this virus family is
varicella-zoster which leads to chicken pox. For 10 points, name this group of double-stranded
DNA viruses that also cause Kaposi’s sarcoma, shingles, and cold sores.
ANSWER: Herpesviruses [prompt on Epstein-Barr until mentioned]
<Mukherjee>
9. They are a subclass of neutron stars, and their characteristic property led to their discovery in
1968. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these rapidly rotating neutron stars, which are further subdivided into rotationpowered, accretion powered, and magnetar classes.
ANSWER: pulsars
[10] Old rotation-powered pulsars emit in this part of the spectrum, which is observed by the
Chandra observatory to detect the presence of black holes and other stellar masses.
ANSWER: x-rays
<Watkins>
10. One of the major results of this treaty was nullified by the Treaty of Meerssen, while the
main chronicle of the events leading up to it was created by Nithard, a cousin of the principal
parties. It was necessitated by a clash decided by the involvement of Guerin and Bernard of
Septimania, the Battle of Fontenay, and by a pledge notably made in vernacular rather than latin,
the Oath of Strasbourg. Concluded by the sons of Louis the Pious, For 10 points, identify this
treaty between Louis the German, Charles the Bald, and Lothair which divided the kingdom of
the grandfather, Charlemagne.
ANSWER: Treaty of Verdun
<Ray>
10. This group included David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, and Rennie Davis, and directed their
action at a speech given by Abraham Ribicoff at the Hilton Hotel. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this group whose number was altered when Bobby Seale's frequent outburts prevent
him from being tried with the others from action during the 1968 Democratic National
Convention. ANSWER: Chicago 8 (accept Chicago 7)
[10] This founder of the Young International Party, known as the Yippies, was perhaps the most
visible of the Chicago 7. This author of the iconic Steal this Book supposedly interrupted the
Who during Woodstock, prompting Pete Townshend to beat him off the stage with his guitar.
Answer: Abbie Hoffman
<Ray>
Category Quiz Tossups
11. One of his works uses a theme based on the town of Asch and includes depictions of his
characters from his Davidsbundler such as Florestan. That work, Carnaval, and his Etudes
Symphoniques, were based on one of his relationships. He wrote a one movement Fantasy in A
minor for piano and orchestra that he expanded 4 years later to become his piano concerto, and
Brahms derived a theme from his 3rd symphony from a motif in this man’s Rhenish Symphony.
For 10 points, name this German composer whose wife Clara performed his piano works, who
also wrote the Spring Symphony.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
<Dees>
12. In this work, Retty Priddle attempts to drown herself after the title character, who has
siblings named Abraham, Hope, and Modesty, is married at the farm of Richard Crick. Izz Huet
and Marian write an anonymous letter to a man who decides to start farming in Brazil, while
their father, the Reverend James, induces a temporary religious fervor in a character who lapses
into lust when he sees the title character. The protagonist's child Sorrow only lives a few days,
and she hopes that her sister Liza-Lu will marry her formerly betrothed Angel Clare. For 10
points, name this Thomas Hardy novel featuring Alec's rape of the title character.
ANSWER: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
<Gioia>
13. One type of this process which yields inverse Laplace transforms is named for Bromwich.
One method for performing it uses measure theory and is named for Lebesgue [luh-BAY], and a
numerical method for performing it was developed by Runge and Kutta. According to Fubini’s
theorem, the order of performing it doesn’t matter over rectangular regions, and when done for a
complicated product, it can be resolved using the ILATE or LIPET rule before doing it by parts.
Typically introduced using Riemann sums, for 10 points, identify this operation, which gives the
area under a curve and is the inverse of differentiation.
ANSWER: integration [accept equivalents like integral]
<Kandlikar>
14. The voice of a man nicknamed Roger the Hat can be heard on one song off this album, where
he says “if you give 'em a quick short, sharp shock, then they don't do it again.” The second song
on this album, an instrumental, is supposed to represent the pressures of traveling, and is called
“On the Run.” The hit single from this album is in 7/4 time during the verse and sax solo, but
switches to 4/4 for the guitar solo. Taking its title from lyrics in the song “Brain Damage,” for 10
points, name this influential 1973 Pink Floyd album featuring hits such as “Money” and “Time,”
which has a prism on its cover.
ANSWER: The Dark Side of the Moon
<Nagler>
15. The efforts of Zhang Qian and Faxian led to one of these in Korea known as the Kangnido,
while one of these prompted the Duke of Ferrara to dispatch a spy named Alberto Cantino to the
court of Manuel I. The Ottoman Piri Reis lends his name to a major example, and a Mathias
Ringmann publication helped popularize one of these named for Martin Waldseemuller. The “TO” variety traditionally centered on Jerusalem, while Ptolemy's Geographia compiled an early
one. With representation methods name for Gall-Peters and Mercator, for 10 points, identify
these cartographic entities which might show Paris, the Atlantic Ocean, and Asia.
ANSWER: [World] Maps
<Ray>
16. One important symbol of this religion is the nine-pointed star containing the “Greatest
Name.” Their calendar consists of nineteen months, each with nineteen days, with an extra four
to five so-called “Days of Ha.” This faith’s most prominent text is the Kitab-i-Aqdas, and Shoghi
Effendi was appointed successor to its line until the Universal House of Justice could be formed.
It was founded by a Persian nobleman who assumed a name from the Arabic for “door,” the
Baab. For 10 points, name this religion that praises one of its earliest adherents, the Baha’ullah.
ANSWER: Baha’i
<Razvi>
17. Mesengial cells in this structure couple it to the surrounding blood vessels. One section of
this structure is the macula densa, which secretes prostaglandins that trigger hormone release
from JG cells. One section of it is surrounded by the vasa recta, and another section of it
upregulates aquaporin-2 in response to vasopressin. The vascular pole is the site where the
glomerulus enters Bowman’s capsule in this structure. Consisting of both proximal and distal
convoluted tubules, the Loop of Henle, and the collecting duct, for 10 points, name this
functional unit of the kidney.
ANSWER: nephron [prompt on kidney before “macula densa”, do not accept afterwards]
<Mukherjee>
18. One man with this surname was the respondent in a case brought by Ishmael Jaffre that
banned “silent meditation” during school as state endorsement of prayer. One man with this
surname authored Our Debt and Duty to the Farmer, and fathered a man who enjoyed the
distressing support of the Communist Party during his thrashing on the Progressive ticket in
1948. That father and son both served as Secretary of Agriculture, though the latter went on to
succeed John Garner as Vice President. For 10 points, identify this name shared by FDR era
politician Henry and segregation enthusiast Alabama Governor George.
ANSWER: Wallace
<Ray>
Category Quiz Bonuses
Arts
On the right of this painting, a thresher persists through the precipitation, while an oar boat
paddles between the old-fashioned arch bridge to the left and the darker modern bridge that
makes up the center of this composition. For 15 points, name this J.M.W. Turner composition
that purports to show an onrushing locomotive of the "Great Western Railway."
ANSWER: Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway
<Hart>
Geography
This desert's namesake national park contains the Naukluft Zebra Reserve and the Sossusvlei
clay pan. Accessible from Walvis Bay, for 15 points, name this second-largest African desert,
found mostly within Angola and a namesake country with capital Windhoek.
ANSWER: Namib Desert [do not accept “Namibia Desert”]
<Hart>
History
Qui Pluribus was directed against this group, which published the Alta Vendita against the
Catholic Church. Also active in Portugal, they began as as a reaction to Joachim Murat in
Naples. For 15 points, identify this secret society dedicated to revolution in Italy, named for its
center around the coal trade and supplanted by Mazzini's Young Italy.
ANSWER: The Carbonari [or the Charcoal-Burners]
<Ray>
Literature
One character in this novel is sent to prison on charges of corrupting a minor named Gabriel,
while another was arrested after trying to help Dr. Americo escape from Argentina. Those two
men, Valentín and Molina, share a cell and eventually form a relationship. For 15 points, name
this Manuel Puig novel.
ANSWER: Kiss of the Spider Woman [or El beso de la mujer araña]
<Gupta>
Math Calculation
Kevin’s scores on his first five tests in a class are 80, 70, 62, 31, and 55, and there is one test
remaining. For 15 points, if Kevin wants to get exactly the passing average of 60 on his tests,
find the score he must receive on the last test.
ANSWER: 62
<Razvi>
Philosophy
This philosopher's The Poverty of Historicism attacked Alfred Adler and Karl Marx, and he
bashed "The Spell of Plato" in another work that also criticized Hegel for his blind "prophecies."
For 15 points, name this German philosopher who wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies and
expounded on his theory of scientific falsifiability in The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
ANSWER: Sir Karl Raimund Popper
<Hart>
Religion and Mythology
This character’s daughters received a box from Athena that contained the future king
Erichthonius, and he also judged the contest for Athens between Athena and Poseidon. For 15
points, identify this second king of Attica and founder of Athens, whose body was half man and
half serpent.
ANSWER: Cecrops I [accept Kekrops I]
<Carson>
Science
On the opposite side of the earth from this point, seismic shadowing occurs. For 15 points, give
the term for the origin of longitudinal P waves, as well as transverse S waves in a seismic event.
ANSWER: epicenter [do not accept hypocenter]
<Watkins>
Social Science
He believed that children form their views of the world through play, and proposed the idea of
symbolic interactionism. For 15 points, name this author of Mind, Self, and Society.
ANSWER: George Herbert Mead
<Mukherjee>
Trash
In the Super Smash Brothers series, this character’s fire-uppercut attack launches opponents off
of the stage. For 15 points, name this Nintendo character, who obtained the Poltergust 3000 from
Professor E. Gadd in a Gamecube title.
ANSWER: Luigi
<Silberman>
Stretch Round
19. This compound is industrially used to synthesize R22, a major intermediate in Teflon
production. This compound must be kept in dark bottles or amber because it forms phosgene in
the presence of oxygen and UV light. Nucleic acid extraction is commonly performed via
mixtures of phenol and this. It is the choice solvent for NMR spectroscopy when deuterium is
substituted for its lone hydrogen and can form dichlorocarbene for use in organic syntheses. For
10 points, name this compound which replaced ether as an anesthetic throughout the 19th and
early 20th centuries and which has formula CHCl3.
ANSWER: chloroform
<Razvi>
19. Identify the following Egyptian goddesses for 10 points each.
[10] The scorpion goddess Serket was eventually syncretized with this goddess, and she tricked
Ra into revealing his true name in order to resurrect her husband Osiris.
ANSWER: Isis [accept Aset]
[10] This goddess, also known as the “Mistress of the House” and the “Friend of the Dead,” was
said to be the mother of Anubis, but is better known for being Set’s wife and sister.
ANSWER: Nephthys [accept Nebet-het, Nebt-het, Neb-hut, or Nebthet]
[10] This goddess of night and the sky whose body was covered with stars was the daughter of
Shu and Tefnut and the husband of Geb.
ANSWER: Nut [accept Nuit, Newet, or Nuith]
<Carson>
20. Cultural life in this country’s capital centers on the Avenida Amazonas. Rural migrants who
come to cities in this country speak the pidgin language “Media Lengua.” A volcano in this
country temporarily dammed the Rio Chambo when it erupted, and lies just north of its city of
Riobamba. This country’s independence was won during a battle on the slopes of an active
volcano outside of its capital. In addition to Mount Pichincha, the mountains Chimborazo and
Cotopaxi are in this country. For 10 points, name this country that owns Isabela, San Cristobal,
and the rest of the Galapagos, whose largest city is Guayaquil, with a capital at Quito.
ANSWER: Republic of [or Republica de] Ecuador
<Hart>
20. This device utilizes a Townshend avalanche of charged particles, and its namesake and
Muller name the gas-filled tube that becomes conductive when it is active. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this device which measures ionizing radiation.
ANSWER: Geiger counter
[10] One type of particle detected by most Geiger counters is this one, which consists of a simple
helium nucleus and has low penetration compared to gamma rays.
ANSWER: alpha particle
[10] Sometimes named for Wilson, this other device contains thick, supercooled vapor, and when
radiation passes through it, the air ionizes leading to characteristic paths depending on the nature
of the radiating particle.
ANSWER: cloud chamber [prompt on Wilson chamber]
<Razvi>
21. One of this man’s brothers, Periclymenus, was killed after changing into an eagle and being
shot by Hercules, and a similar fate was shared by the rest of his family. In the Metamorphoses,
this man recounts the story of Caenis and the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs, while
in the Iliad, he advises Patroclus on the urgency of disguising as Achilles. One of this man’s
sons, Antilochus, finished second in the chariot race at the games for Patroclus, and another,
Peisistratus acted as charioteer for Telemachus after he visited their sandy shores in search of
Odysseus. For 10 points, name this king of Pylos, an old wise son of Neleus.
ANSWER: Nestor
<Razvi>
21. The referee in this work attempts to break up the two central characters. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this George Bellows canvas that shows two boxers engaged in an illegal bout.
ANSWER: Stag at Sharkey's
[10] Bellows was a member of this school of urban American painters, headed up by Robert
Henri. They are alternately known for the number of their most prominent members, and for the
dingy style of their paintings.
ANSWER: The Eight [or the Ashcan School]
[10] This student of Henri's was sometimes dubbed an Ashcan artist. His paintings include Early
Sunday Morning and Chop Suey, while another features an ad for some five-cent Phillies cigars;
Nighthawks.
ANSWER: Edward Hopper
<Hart>
22. The primary architect of this building was fond of calling its rooms “cells in a honeycomb.”
This building’s ornamentation is intended to make its supporting piers appear to be columns, and
it was groundbreaking because part of its framework is semi-visible from the exterior. It was
designed during its architect’s partnership with Dankmar Adler that also resulted in their codesign of the Chicago Stock Exchange building, and this ten-story building has a terra cotta
cornice and is constructed of red brick. For 10 points, name this early building in the Chicago
style, one of the first steel-framed skyscrapers, a Louis Sullivan designed St. Louis edifice.
ANSWER: the Wainwright Building
<Hart>
22. Answer the following about blood types for 10 points each.
[10] This blood type occurs in individuals with the recessive forms of both blood type alleles.
People that are this negative are universal donors.
ANSWER: O type
[10] The negative in O negative blood type refers to the absence of this factor, named after a
monkey. The associated antigen can lead to agglutination of cells in individuals without the
appropriate antibody.
ANSWER: Rhesus factor [accept Rh D]
[10] Individuals not producing the H antigen exhibit this rare phenotype, in which A and B
antigens cannot be synthesized, so even the presence of the A and B alleles yields type O.
ANSWER: Bombay phenotype
<Razvi>
23. A special case of this effect occurs in the presence of a periodic surface like a diffraction
grating, and is called the Smith-Purcell effect. The Super Kamiokande uses this effect to detect
neutrinos, and the amount of it emitted is given in terms of the permeability and index of
refraction of that medium in the Frank Tamm formula. Often considered the electromagnetic
equivalent of a sonic boom, it is emitted when charged particles move faster than the speed of
light in an insulator. For 10 points, identify this radiation that produces a characteristic blue
glow, named for a Russian physicist.
ANSWER: Cherenkov radiation
<Kandlikar>
23. Answer these questions about the geography of the Southwest U.S., for 10 points each:
[10] This major river of Arizona is fed by the Verde and Salt rivers before meeting the Colorado
near Yuma. It served as a southern border for the United States before the Gadsden purchase.
ANSWER: Gila River
[10] This seat of Maricopa County lies near the confluence of the Salt and Gila rivers. It is the
fifth most populous city in the United States and the capital of Arizona.
ANSWER: Phoenix
[10] This desert, sometimes named after the Gila River, covers parts of California and Arizona
and also dominates the Baja Peninsula. It is the namesake of a Mexican state that includes
Tiburon Island and Hermosillo.
ANSWER: Sonoran Desert [accept Low Desert]
<Ray>
24. This author called desire “Fond fancy's scum, and dregs of scattered thought” in a sonnet
beginning “Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare.” This poet wrote a double
sestina spoken by Strephon and Klaius, “Ye goat herd gods.” In another of this author's works,
Pamela and Philoclea are pursued by the princes Pyrocles and Musidorus. A sonnet sequence by
this author allegorizes Penelope Devereux as one of the title characters, and contains the poem
“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.” For 10 points, name this brother of the
Countess of Pembroke, the English author of Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella.
ANSWER: Sir Philip Sidney
<Magin>
24. Name some compositions by the composer of the “Raindrop Prelude,” Frederic Chopin, for
10 points each.
[10] Chopin is well-known for this waltz in D-flat, his opus 64, which is also dubbed the “dog
waltz” because it sounds like a dog chasing its tale. It is more commonly named for its brevity.
ANSWER: the Minute Waltz
[10] This work is Chopin’s opus 10, number one, and musically depicts the Russian capture of
Warsaw in 1831.
ANSWER: the Revolutionary Etude
[10] Chopin also composed over fifty of this type of composition, originating in Mazovia. The
Polish National Anthem is one of them.
ANSWER: mazurkas
<Hart>
25. A group overseen by this figure was provided with bad maps by Reuben Colburn. Powder
House Day commemorates an incident in which this man, allegedly backed by Jonathan
Edwards, threatened New Haven leadership into giving him access to the local magazine. His
greatest successes came at Valcour Island and Bemis Heights, where he won a showdown
against Daniel Morgan, though a leg wound led Horatio Gates to take credit for his actions. For
10 points, the capture of John Andre led to the revelation that what general, despite his heroism
with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga and at Saratoga, planned to surrender West Point to the British?
ANSWER: Benedict Arnold
<Ray>
25. The protagonist borrows money from Yusef to send his wife on a vacation to the Cape
Colony. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel that ends with the suicide of Major Scobie so that his wife can collect on
insurance.
ANSWER: The Heart of the Matter
[10] The Heart of the Matter was written by this British author of The Power and the Glory, The
Human Factor, and The Quiet American.
ANSWER: Graham Greene
[10] Greene also wrote this novel, in which Maurice Bendrix comes to believe in a God after
learning the role that Catholicism had with regards to his relationship with Sarah Miles.
ANSWER: The End of the Affair
<Jang>
26. A winter landscape sees the sinuous title creature devouring its prey in this painter's The Fox
in the Snow. A nude reclining woman crosses her right leg over her left to remove a stocking in
The White Legs, while he depicted figures like Proudhon and Baudelaire in another work. For 10
points, identify this artist who showed an admiring child and a nude model in the “Real
Allegory” entitled The Painter's Studio, and painted two nude women cuddling on a bed in Sleep
and a scandalous depiction of a woman's naked lower body in The Origin of the World, also
known for Burial at Ornans and Stone-Breakers.
ANSWER: Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet
<Watkins>
26. Identify these regions subject to military incursions by Roman forces, for 10 points each:
[10] Once led by the pirate queen Teuta, this region bordering the Adriatic was the subject of
wars in 229 and 219 BCE, the latter against Demetrius Pharos.
ANSWER: Illyria [accept Illyricum, the Roman province]
[10] Most of modern France was contained by this area, where men under Vercingetorix opposed
Julius Caesar at Avaricum, Gergovia, and Alesia, prompting the latter to author some
“Commentaries” on this area's namesake war.
ANSWER: Gaul [or Gallia]
[10] Decebalus's raids from this region prompted Domitian to launch the first of two namesake
wars, whose second incarnation saw Trajan subjugate this region bounded by the Danube and the
Carpathians. Its capital was at Sarmizegetusa.
ANSWER: Dacia
<Ray>
27. Before this author wrote a novel named after the year of the Vendee uprising, he used his
poetry collection Les Orientales and the preface to his play Cromwell to secure his reputation as
a leader of Romanticism. In another novel, Deruchette promises to marry Gilliat if he can
salvage a wrecked ship’s engine off the coast of Gurnsey. This author of Ninety-Three and The
Toilers of the Sea also wrote a novel in which the inn keepers the Thénardiers mistreat Cosette.
For 10 points name this French author who wrote about Inspector Javert, Archdeacon Frollo,
Esmeralda, Jean Valjean and Quasimodo in his novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of
Notre Dame.
ANSWER: Victor Hugo
<Adams>
27. The narrator of this poem wonders, “why was Burton built on Trent?” and notes that “malt
does more than Milton can/To justify God’s ways to man.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this poem that ends with the line “Mithridates, he died old” and sees the narrator
tell the title figure that “you eat your victuals fast enough.”
ANSWER: “Terence, this is stupid stuff”
[10] Along with “When I was one-and-twenty” and “Is my team ploughing?”, “Terence, this is
stupid stuff” can be found in the collection A Shropshire Lad, written by this English poet.
ANSWER: Alfred Edward Housman
[10] This other Housman poem is addressed to the titular “townsman of a stiller town”, who
before “slip[ping] betimes away” had won his town a race.
ANSWER: “To an Athlete Dying Young”
<Carson>
28. This monarch's worst moment may have been the Battle of Karensebes, where two portions
of his army massacred each other and he ended up nearly drowning in a creek. He targeted the
Barrier Treaty, although his efforts provoked the formation of the Furstenbund by Frederick II.
An equal, universal land tax, the dissolution of the guild system, and the abolition of serfdom
were among the reforms enacted by this son of Francis I, all of which met with disastrous
resistance. For 10 points, identify this Holy Roman Emperor and son of Maria Theresa, often
cited as the prototypical enlightened despot.
ANSWER: Joseph II of Austria
<Ray>
28. Identify the following about a country that no longer exists, for 10 points each.
[10] The Velvet Revolution freed this country from the Soviet bloc, and it later separated into
two nations in the bloodless Velvet Divorce.
ANSWER: Czechoslovakia [do not accept “Czech Republic”]
[10] He led the Pittsburgh Convention, which promised home rule for Slovaks, and he negotiated
for independence with Secretary of State Robert Lansing. Name this founder and first president
of Czechoslovakia.
ANSWER: Tomas Maseryk
[10] The author of the play The Garden Party and a leader of the Civic Forum, name this man
who was elected president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.
ANSWER: Vaclav Havel
<Douglass>
Tiebreaker Tossups
T1. This man defeated George Mahoney in a 1966 election in part due to Mahoney’s antiintegration views, and this man wrote the autobiographical book Go Quietly…Or Else in
reference to Alexander Haig’s attempt to oust this man., Known for insulting opponents by
calling them “hopeless, hysterical, hypocondrics of history” and “nattering nabobs of
negativism,” this man left his most famous post due to failing to report income he received while
serving as governor of Maryland. For 10 points, name this politician, who resigned under duress
in 1973 as Richard Nixon’s vice-president.
ANSWER: Spiro Agnew
<Douglass>
T2. The biosynthesis of ent-kaurene represents the first committed step in the production of this
compound, and the proteosome-linked destruction of DELLA proteins must occur before it
carries out its function. When it is introduced into “dwarf” beans, they grow into grapevine-like
“pole” beans. Its stimulation of starch hydrolysis serves to induce seed germination, and another
common function is the breaking of bud dormancy. First isolated from a Japanese fungus
responsible for the “foolish seedling” disease in rice, for 10 points, name this plant hormone
which stimulates stem elongation.
ANSWER: gibberellins [accept gibberellic acid]
<Razvi>
T3. Two workers' houses this architect designed featured an elaborate banner with phrases like
“There is nothing more immense than brotherhood” and served a textile cooperative. One work
by this architect features a sea-serpent-shaped bench, while another, also called The Quarry, has
stylized pastry-tube chimneys. His best-known work represents the twelve Apostles, the four
Evangelists, Mary, and Jesus with eighteen spindly towers. For 10 points, identify this creator of
Park Güell, the Casa Milà apartments, and a massive unfinished church, the Sagrada Familia, a
Catalan architect closely associated with Barcelona.
ANSWER: Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet [or Antonio Gaudí]
<Watkins>
T4. Treasury officials by this name ranked below the equites, and after 300 BCE, these officials
introduced legislation because their assembly was more efficient than the centuriate. Pompey
restored their powers in the first century BCE, and Sulla had previously curtailed their authority,
and they could exercise the intercessio, which negated the actions of consuls. Marc Antony's rise
in popularity relied on both his military victories and service in this office, for which he was
uniquely eligible. For 10 points, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus served as what type of officials in
ancient Rome that represented the plebians.
ANSWER: Tribunes
<Douglass>
T5. This character befriends the hobo December after he starts living in Sea Point near the end of
the novel in which he appears. After he is arrested by Captain Oosthuizen he is cared for by the
nurse Felicity in a section narrated by an unnamed Doctor. Before being held in the rehabilitation
center of Kenilworth, he works as a gardener until he begins a journey to bring his dying mother
Annie to her childhood home of Prince Albert. At one point he is impressed into a roadside work
gang, and this character faces various hardships due to a spreading civil war and his own cleft
lip. For 10 points name this character whose Life and Times were recorded by J. M. Coetzee.
ANSWER: [Life & Times of] Michael K [accept either]
<Adams>
T6. Functions that are of the μ form of this correspond to the functions that are computable by a
Turing Machine, while an example of a function that is not of the primitive form of this is the
Ackermann function. Instances where no deferred operations have to be done is known as the tail
form and is often optimized by compilers. Often used in divide and conquer algorithms like tree
traversal, a base case is used to create a point where the functions start returning thus ending an
infinite series of dependencies. For 10 points, identify this concept in mathematics and computer
science seen in the Fibonacci sequence in which a function is defined in terms of itself.
ANSWER: recursion [accept word forms like recursive]
<Butler>
Tiebreaker Bonuses
T-Bonus 1. Name these works of Thorton Wilder, for 10 points each.
[10] Emily Webb looks back on her twelfth birthday after died in childbirth, having given birth
to George Gibbs’s son in this play set in Grover’s Corners.
ANSWER: Our Town
[10] A wall of ice starts the story of the family of George Antrobus, who becomes President of
the Humans before a coming storm starts a great war, in which his son, Henry, fights and
becomes an enemy of the humans.
ANSWER: The Skin of Our Teeth
[10] Dolly Levi, the title character, agrees to marry Horace Vandergelder, and his daughter,
Ermengarde, marries the artist Ambrose Kemper at the end of this play.
ANSWER: The Matchmaker
<Jang>
T-Bonus 2. Identify the following about Germany following World War II, for 10 points each.
[10] This leader of the Christian Democrats was defeated by Gerhart Schroder in the 1998
elections. He had earlier led the unification of East and West Germany in 1989-1990.
ANSWER: Helmut Kohl
[10] This Social Democrat was chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974. He resigned
after it was revealed that his advisor Gunther Guillaume was an East German spy, and he had
earlier initiated the Ostpolitik foreign policy that sought reconciliation with the Eastern Bloc.
ANSWER: Willy Brandt [also accept Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm]
[10] Possessing possibly two million informants and the files of six million citizens, this secret
police and intelligence organization maintained absolute control over East Germany during the
communist era and supported terrorist groups such as the PLO and Red Army Faction.
ANSWER: Stasi [also accept Ministerium fur Staatsicherheit; or Ministry for State Security]
<Douglass>
T-Bonus 3. Their namesake theories often include a construct called a brane. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these one dimensional objects that several theories use in an attempt to create a
theory of quantum gravity.
ANSWER: strings
[10] String theory makes use of this idea that each boson has a corresponding fermion partner
and vice versa, giving rise to particles like sleptons and Higgsinos.
ANSWER: supersymmetry
[10] Supersymmetry modes often propose heavy particles like neutralinos to serve as WIMPs,
which are candidates for this hypothetical mass in the universe not associated with light.
ANSWER: dark matter [do not accept “dark energy”]
<Butler>