Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by Carleton: J.R. Smith's Suburban New Jersey Gangs of Deer (Carsten Gehring, Andreas Stoehr, Frank Firke,
Austin Bell) and the Editors
Tossups
1. Those who’d applauded the premiere of this work were condemned as being interested in “freaks of the mind” by
Robert Hirschfield, who dubbed its composer “the Meyerbeer of the Symphony”. Among the many motifs introduced by
the woodwinds at the beginning of this work’s final movement is one adapted from its composer’s Lob des Hohen
Verstandes. The first movement of this symphony, which transitions from C-sharp minor to D major, is marked “at a
measured pace” and, appropriately, opens with a repeated triplet-half note funeral march theme for solo trumpet. Its
composer called its third movement “chaos out of which a world keeps being born”; that movement, a D-major Scherzo, is
its composer’s longest. Its most famous section, premiered 36 years before the full work and played entirely on the strings
and harp, is the F-major Adagietto fourth movement. For 10 points, identify this symphony written after its composer
recovered from an intestinal hemorrhage, a work by Gustav Mahler that preceded his hammer-heavy Tragic Symphony.
ANSWER: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 [accept obvious equivalents; accept answers that include “in C-sharp minor” but
inform the answerer that Mahler disapproves; “Mahler” is not necessary after his name has been said]
2. The Hoodoo remnant of a this type of landform provides evidence for the “pumping” hypothesis of B.R. Edwards to
explain why rock samples in some of these landforms contain increased concentrations of rare earth elements. The
actions of many of these landforms created hyaloclastite ridges. The most typical landforms of this type are built up of
layers of hyaloclastite breccias atop horizontal layers of pillow basalt and capped by flow basalts. Remnants of them
often are found rising above wide plains, as in the characteristic example in British Columbia for which they are named.
The second stage in the formation of these landforms involves the transition to phreatomagmatic action. The action of
this type of landform caused a massive incident at Vatnajokull, Iceland, which led to the coining of the term jokulhlaup to
describe a type of outburst flood. For 10 points, name these landforms, butte-like buildups caused by subglacial volcanism.
ANSWER: tuyas [accept subglacial volcanooes before read; accept anything that indicates volcanoes under glaciers before
"subglacial;" prompt on volcanoes]
3. Antoninus Liberalis and Pseudo-Hyginus claimed that this was the name of the river home to the Mysian nymphs, who
were responsible for the drowning of Hylas. Some stories claim the original name of the more famous figure of this name
was Euryleon, while Strabo claims that he founded a kingdom at Scepsis with Scamandrius. This figure first spoke the
phrase now found on the top of the Great Seal of the United States, “annue coeptis”, while praying to Jupiter. After
shooting an arrow through Remulus’s head, he is visited by Apollo, who reminds him that his task is to promote peace.
When he notes that he and his companions are eating the wheat-cakes they use as tables, his father realizes that the
prophecy of the Harpy Celaeno has been fulfilled. He was succeeded by his son Silvius as the king of Alba Longa, which he
founded. He held tight to his father during the sack of Troy but was separated from his mother Creusa. For 10 points,
identify this figure, the son of Aeneas.
ANSWER: Ascanius [accept Iulus after the clues about the river]
4. One section of this work describes such methods as the “staring way” and the “exaggerating way” used by wives to
destroy the friendships of their husbands. In addition to “A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married People,” this
work contains a section where the narrator claims a dislike for music, remembering a time when attending an Italian
opera caused pain he retreated outdoors in “A Chapter on Ears.” One section of this work implores the reader only to
lend books to men like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after claiming borrowers are superior to lenders in “The Two Races of
Men.” In another section, the narrator tells stories to two kids before waking up to find that they were not real, and a
later section retells a story about the chance finding of a new way to prepare a certain dish in China by the swine-herd Bobo. For 10 points, name this collection containing writings such as “Dream-Children: A Reverie” and “A Dissertation upon
Roast Pig,” written under a pen name by Charles Lamb.
ANSWER: The Essays of Elia
5. Tension in the buildup to this even was caused by an exposé about “baby gangsters” authored by Clem Peoples. A trial
that helped to instigate this event saw the defendants represented by George Shibley. One of the causes of this event
was the stabbing of Joe Dacy Coleman, whose death inspired a wave of violence facilitated by a convoy of hired taxicabs.
Tensions before this event were high because of a murder case the year before in which six hundred youths were
arrested and twenty-two indicted; the seventeen convicted later had those convictions overturned in a retrial of the case
People v. Zammora, which was initially tried in the year before this event. Louie Encinas was probably the true
perpetrator of the Sleepy Lagoon murder, which preceded this event in which hundreds of Navy sailors and Marines
invaded a Los Angeles barrio looking for pachucos. For 10 points, name these riots of 1943 in which U.S. soldiers attacked
Mexican-Americans wearing the titular type of clothing.
ANSWER: the Zoot Suit Riots [accept Sailor Riots before “sailor”]
6. A song with this title was based on George Lucas’s THX 1138 and is hated by Steve Lukather, which is why Toto no
longer performs it despite riveting lyrics like “I can’t take it no more…Oh we were so sure…I love you.” This number is
the nearest integer to the titular quantity of a song that notes “her lovin’ Is the medicine that saved me.” In addition to
being the closest integer to the titular digits of the most famous song of Keith, this number features in the title of a song
that describes a figure who was “loud as a motorbike/but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight”. Another song with this
number in its title ends with the singer imagining “standing pretty / in the dust that was a city.” The intentions of this many
objects are misinterpreted “back at base” because of “bugs in the software” in that song, which opens with the purchase of
this number of the titular items “in a little toy shop.” This is the number of dilemmas faced in a song whose vocalist
describes being pulled over for "doin' fifty-five in a fifty-fo'". For 10 points, name this number, the quantity of Nena’s Red
Balloons and Jay-Z’s bitch-free problems, as well as the original number of bottles of beer on the wall.
ANSWER: 99 [accept neunundneunzig]
7. This author wondered “Beyond what range will gold eyes see/New ranges rise” in a poem about a hawk riding an
updraft called “Mortal Limit”. Sue has relationships with Slim Sarrett and Sweetwater in a novel by this man; that novel
is narrated by Jerry Calhoun and centers on Sue’s father Bogan Murdock and is called At Heaven’s Gate. A tramp who
mysteriously appeared from a swamp is tasked with burying baby chicks in a story by this man in which Seth visits Dellie
and Big Jebb during the titular cold snap. He also wrote a novel whose protagonist marries Rachel Jordan before a
slanderous handbill convinces him to murder Colonel Cassius Fort; that novel about Jeremiah Beaumont was based on the
Kentucky Tragedy. This author of “Blackberry Winter” contributed the essay “The Briar Patch” to I’ll Take My Stand. For 10
points, identify this American author of World Enough and Time who collaborated with Cleanth Brooks on Understanding
Poetry and who wrote a novel about Jack Burden and Willie Stark called All the King’s Men.
ANSWER: Robert Penn Warren
8. It is not serotonin, but the selective reuptake of this compound is inhibited by tiagabine, and it is converted to succinic
acid semi-aldehyde, which is subsequently oxidized to succinic acid in the shunt which produces this compound. One
receptor for it forms a heteropentameric complex and in immature neurons, this compound facilitates the outward flux
of chloride ions, which is why benzodiazepines are ineffective anticonvulsants in newborns. One receptor for it includes a
benzodiazepine binding site, and isoguvacine THIP, and muscimol serve as competitive agonists to this molecule.
Synthesized by the decarboxylation of glutamic acid, this neurotransmitter is best known for its role as the chief inhibitory
neurotransmitter. For 10 points, identify this neurotransmitter, which is often referred to by its four letter acronym.
ANSWER: GABA [or gamma-aminobutryic acid]
9. This man repeatedly tried to suppress the power of Frederick of Cilli after Frederick displaced the Talovac brothers, but
eventually granted Frederick the title Ban of Slavonia. This man signed the treaty of Kremnica with Jiskra, and he was
forced to sign a treaty with Brankovich after retreating from a battle in which a large Vlach contingent deserted him. In
his final battle, this man was aided by peasant soldiers led by the Franciscan Friar Giovanni di Capistrano, and that battle
saw a flotilla destroy his opponent's fleet, and along with his brother-in-law Michael Szilagyi, helped prevent the Ottoman
siege of Belgrade. This man's armies also dealt a huge blow to the armies of Murad II in a battle saw the death of Wladyslaw
III at Varna, and he was succeeded by his son, whose epithet derives from the raven on his coat of arms. For 10 points,
identify this father of Matthias Corvinus, who consistently warded off Ottoman forays into Eastern Europe, and who ruled
Hungary from 1446 to 1452.
ANSWER: Janos Hunyadi [or John Hunyadi]
10. This work accuses many thinkers of being too “intoxicated by their magnificent achievements in more abstract
realms” to realize that philosophy is “indissolubly intertwined” with politics. This work asserts that Spinoza, Hegel, and
Marx have all failed in their attempts to cure the “desire to dominate” through “rational methods” in one section
entitled “The Temple of Sarastro”. Another section of this work contends that to manipulate man through social reform
is to “deny their human existence” and that “paternalism is the greatest despotism imaginable”. This essay decries
ascetic self-denial as the “very antithesis of political freedom” in its third section “The Retreat to the Inner Citadel”. This
essay attacks one of its namesake ideas for its yearning towards a “single universal”, which creates “disciplined,
authoritarian structures”. That idea is rejected in favor of the other titular freedom of this work, which is declared a “truer,
more humane ideal” since it recognizes that “human goals are many” by promoting pluralism. For 10 points, name this
essay by Isaiah Berlin that argues for the negative variety over the positive variety of the two titular subjects.
ANSWER: “Two Concepts of Liberty”
11. These substances dramatically improve the efficiency of the Koch-Haaf reaction. Organic examples of these
substances were extensively characterized by M. E. Vol'pin. The solid type of these include metal oxides like silicon
dioxide and titanium dioxide mixed with antimony pentafluoride, the latter of which is an example of the "magic"
variant of these. That example, discovered by George Olah, got its name due to its ability to dissolve wax. Solid examples
such as the zeolite USY are used for catalytic cracking in the petroleum industry, and they also facilitate the protonation of
saturated hydrocarbons at low temperatures. These are rigorously defined as substances with a Hammett function less
than -12, and weaker Brønsted-types are exemplified by chlorosulfuric and perchloric ones. For 10 points, name these
chemicals, which are usually stronger than H2SO4.
ANSWER: superacids [accept magic acids until it is read; prompt on "super electrophiles;" prompt on “acids” until "-12;"
prompt on “Lewis acids” until magic; prompt on “strong acids;" do not, for any reason, accept "superbase"]
12. The death of one character in this opera prompts a barrage of questions, like whether the central character believes
in God and tells the truth, to which she always responds “I don’t know.” An ingenious musical feature of this opera
occurs when two minutes of notes are played first forward, then backward, in a jail scene that the composer instructs to
be set like a silent movie. The characters in this opera are introduced by an animal trainer as if in a menagerie. One
character in this opera infects herself with cholera in order to free the title character from prison; that title character
marries Dr. Goll and Dr. Schoen. Both the Countess Geschwitz and the title character are killed by a man claiming to seek a
prostitute in the final scene of this opera. For 10 points, name this unfinished opera based on two plays by Frank Wedekind
that sees the title character killed by Jack the Ripper, the second and final opera by Alban Berg.
ANSWER: Lulu
13. One man with this surname theorized that in “compliant behavior” situations, conformity follows his “J Curve
Hypothesis.” One work by a man with this surname also claims that pre-adolescents love their parents because of
“sensitive zone reactions,” couching the Oedipus complex in terms of habit formation. That work by a man with this
surname describes the processes of “social rivalry” and “social facilitation” by which group pressure causes work to get
done faster. That man with this surname criticized the “group mind” theory of Le Bon and McDougall in his seminal work
Social Psychology, and he is widely regarded as founding that discipline. Another social scientist with this surname
distinguished between motive and drive with his “functional autonomy” theory and created a theory of personality that
was based on cardinal, central, and secondary traits. That social scientist with this surname also created a scale that goes
from antilocution to extermination in his book The Nature of Prejudice. For 10 points, give this surname shared by sibling
social scientists Floyd and Gordon.
ANSWER: Allport [Floyd Henry and Gordon Willard]
14. A poem contained in one of this author’s plays tells of Reguilete, who is gored, causing the poem to conclude “here
the ballad ends as well / because his life ended as well.” In one play by this author, the title object is Chanfalla’s puppet
stage that allegedly displays a play that no one with Jewish or African blood can view. In another play by this author, the
River Duero appears as an old deity surrounded by other river gods, foretelling the downfall of the title city. This author
penned a work in which a jilted man allegedly hears and writes down the dialogue between Cipion and Berganza, the
“Dogs of the Hospital of the Resurrection.” In another work by this author, the two title rapscallions enroll in
Monipedio’s school after fleecing a mule driver using marked cards. This author collected some of his dramas, including
El Retablo de las maravillas, in the work Eight Comedies and Eight Interludes, Never Published. He also wrote a work that
contains the stories “The Illustrious Scullery Maid” and “Rinconte and Cortadillo,” in addition to a pastoral novel in which
Elicio and Erastro vie for the favor of the title character. For 10 points, name this author of Pedro de Urdemalas, The Siege
of Numantia, La Galatea, and Las novelas ejemplares, who also spun a tale about Sancho Panza and Dulcinea.
ANSWER: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
15. One emperor of this dynasty promulgated the Constitution of Melfi and also passed an edict which allowed the lands
of Konrad of Masovia to be passed to the Teutonic Knights led by Hermann von Salza. An early ruler of this dynasty allied
with Manuel Comnenus to fight against Roger II, and that man also fought the Battle of Weinsberg against a Duke of
Bavaria named Welf. Its rule was interrupted by a man who would lose to Phillip-Augustus at the Battle of Bouvines. The
decline of this dynasty was accompanied by the rise of the papacy-backed William of Holland, and saw the short rule of
Conrad IV and the young Conradin. A twenty year interregnum after its end saw the election of Rudolf of Hapsburg. For 10
points, identify this dynasty from Swabia which ruled the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries, whose rulers
notably included the red-bearded Frederick Barbarossa.
ANSWER: Hohenstaufen
16. In the left background of this work, a rider on horseback approaches a group of buildings overlooked by the tower of
a castle, while a pair of rabbits sit below on a hillside. This painting's right background shows a serene landscape which
includes two figures riding horses near a river and a shepherd tending his flock. A plant juts out at the bottom-center of
this painting, immediately below a bowl which is thought to depict a crest of the Bagarotto family. It is thought to have
been commissioned in honor of Niccolò Aurelio's marriage. The figure to the left rests her left arm on a casket as she
holds herbs in her right hand, while a figure on the right holds up a burning lamp in her left hand and is only partly covered
by a red sash. In the center of this work, which can currently be found in the gallery of the Villa Borghese, Cupid can be seen
playing with water stored in a sarcophagus. A naked and a clothed woman represent the titular concepts in, for 10 points,
which painting by Titian?
ANSWER: Sacred and Profane Love
17. Transition radiation emits power proportional to this, and has an angular distribution that peaks at a polar angle
proportional to one over this. The Lienard formula gives power proportional to this raised to the sixth power, while an
analogous formula for circular motion gives radiated power proportional to this raised to the fourth power. This can
alternatively be defined as the hyperbolic cosine of the rapidity, and in the transverse Doppler effect, the observed
frequency is equal to the source frequency divided by this. The kinetic energy of a particle is proportional to this minus one,
which yields the more familiar expression of ½ mv2 when this quantity is Taylor-expanded. Appearing in the formulas for
length-contraction and time dilation, for ten points, identify this quantity equal to one over the square root of one minus
v2/c2.
ANSWER: Lorentz factor [accept gamma]
18. This man described a country that has “made my Mesopotamia…a vast cemetery beneath the white sun” in his poem
“Prayer for Peace,” which appeared with his work “Despair of a Free Volunteer.” In one poem, this man wrote that “This
is the hour of the stars” and describes an evening “draped in its long gown of milk,” and another of his poems talks of a
city being “purified…with incorruptible cold, with white / death.” Those two works by this author, “Night of Sine” and
“Snow in Paris,” appear in a collection along with another work that describes the title character as “clothed with your
color which is life.” This poet of the collections Black Sacrifice and Shadow Songs, the latter of which contains “Black
Woman,” also edited an anthology that had an introduction written by Jean-Paul Sartre. For 10 points, name this editor of
Black Orpheus, a poet who, with Leon Damas and Aime Césaire, founded the negritude movement.
ANSWER: Léopold Sédar Senghor
19. One rebellion against this dynasty included a group entering a shrine claiming Dervish Reza would bring Mir Faghfur
back to life, while another revolt during this dynasty was led by the Nuqtavi Darvish Khusraw. Another Nuqtavi, the
Mulla Qasim, called for the abdication of one ruler of this dynasty. That ruler of this dynasty gave control of the royal
guard to the Shaykhavand cabal, and that ruler modernized his army with the aid of Robert Sherley. The second ruler of
this dynasty signed the Treaty of Amasya with an enemy which had earlier defeated that ruler’s father at the battle of
Chaldiran. This dynasty was founded by a group known for wearing red hats, the Qizilbash. For 10 points, name this dynasty
whose rulers included Tahmasp I, its founder Ismail I, and Abbas the Great.
ANSWER: Safavid Dynasty
20. The autobiographical Bachitar Natak was written by this man in the Braj language, and forms a part of a larger work
named for him. Sher Mohammad Khan intervened to prevent the execution of this man's two sons, who were captured
at Sirhind. The Nihangs began as the followers of this man's younger son, and this man authored a set of codes governing
the behavior of his followers called the rahit-namas. During his stay at Damdama near Bhatinda, this man also oversaw
the formal compilation of the Kartarpur pothi and other hymns, and in October 1708, while at Nanded, he performed his
most notable action while on his deathbed. He is better known for initiating several people into the Khalsa order and he
also designated the Adi Granth to be his successor. For 10 points, identify this tenth Sikh Guru.
ANSWER: Guru Gobind Singh
Tiebreaker. Josep Comas Solà made the first observations of one of this body's distinct characteristics, which for a long
time prevented an accurate determination of this place's diameter. One region on this body is a large reflective sheet
named Xanadu, and Ontario Lacus is in the far south of this body. The Cassini mission found sand dunes here, and this
body possesses orbital resonance with Hyperion. A probe recently confirmed that this body's atmosphere is somewhat
similar to the environs of the Miller-Urey Experiment, and it also contains hydrocarbon lakes and ice on its surface. A.D.
Fortes considered the spectroscopic analysis of this body's atmosphere in relation to its potential for microbiotic life. For 10
points, name this body that was visited by the Huygens probe, the second largest moon in the solar system which is noted
for its atmosphere and prebiotic characteristics.
ANSWER: Titan [accept Saturn VI]
Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by Carleton (Carsten Gehring, Andreas Stoehr, Frank Firke, Austin Bell) and the Editors
Tossups
1. In honor of Andrea Camilleri’s recent 79th birthday, identify the following about Sicilian literature for 10 points each.
[10] This Agrigento-born author turned his novella La Morte Adosso into the play The Man with the Flower in His Mouth. His
last novel was One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand, and his other works include a play about an actor who, after
falling off a horse, believes he’s the titular Holy Roman Emperor, Enrico IV.
ANSWER: Luigi Pirandello
[10] Tancredi, the prince of Falconeri, runs off to join Garibaldi’s army in this novel set during the Risorgimento, whose main
character is Don Fabrizio Corbera and which was written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
ANSWER: The Leopard [or Il Gattopardo]
[10] Ernest Hemingway wrote the introduction to the first U.S. edition of this man’s anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily.
His other, less famous works include The Red Carnation, Erica and her Brothers, and Men and Not Men.
ANSWER: Elio Vittorini
2. The lines on these diagrams represent the equilibria between the given oxidative states of an element. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify these representations which plot potential on the Y axis and the pH on the x axis. The region towards the origin
of these diagrams is called the "immunity" region since elements do not react at those conditions.
ANSWER: Pourbaix diagrams
[10] The Pourbaix diagram for water shows that water can exist as a stable compound in a region enclosed by two lines
which are 1.23 Volts apart. Those lines are derived using this equation, named for a German, which gives the electrode
potential for a half cell.
ANSWER: Nernst equation
[10] This process sees the conversion of a metal surface from one which is susceptible to corrosion to one which is stable,
and relatively simple examples include the formation of an oxide layer on aluminum. For some metals, it can be
accomplished by jacking up the potential in the "anodic" variety.
ANSWER: passivation
3. As a child, this character killed a white elephant and tamed his horse Rakhsh; later, in order to save Kay Kavous, he
completed seven tasks, including fighting a dragon, winning the service of Olad, and defeating the Div-e Sepid. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this hero whose father Zal called on the Simurgh to aid his mother Rudaba’s labor and who eventually
unwittingly killed his son in single combat.
ANSWER: Rostam [basically accept whatever vowels the answerer feels like using]
[10] Rostam and his son Sohrab appear in this pseudohistorical epic poem by Ferdowsi, which also contains such stories as
that of Zoroaster’s planting of the Cypress of Kashmar.
ANSWER: Shahnameh [also accept things that sound like “Shahnamah”]
[10] Sometimes known as “Apam Napat”, or “Son of the Waters”, this descendant of Jamshid imprisoned Zahhak, or Azi
Dahaka, in the Alborz Mountains. After his death his kingdom was divided between his sons Salm, Tur, and Iraj.
ANSWER: Fereydun [accept Faridun, Firedun, Fredon, or, from speakers of Avestan, Θraētaona]
4. In 1932, this country saw a coup led by Maximilian Hernandez Martinez, which was immediately followed by the
matanaza, a massacre of the native population. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this country, which saw an 1833 rebellion of the Nonualcos led by Anastasio Aquino, and, for a long time, was
dominated by an oligarchy called the "fourteen families."
ANSWER: Republica de El Salvador
[10] A massive outflow of El Salvadorians into Honduras led to a worsening of economic conditions in Honduras, and the
tensions were so high that Salvadorians were expelled, and Honduras was subsequently invaded. The conflict is often called
by this name as it was played out during certain world cup qualifiers.
ANSWER: Soccer War [or Football War; or La Guerra de futbol]
[10] A civil war was fought in El Salvador in the 1980s that ended with the 1992 Peace of Chapultepec, which recognized
this leftist organization, formed by the merger of the FPL, PCS, PRS, and RN organizations. This league is named for a
Communist who was killed during the Matanza.
ANSWER: FMLN [or Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional; or Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front]
5. The title figures sit on a bed against a grayish background as they hold their hands. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this painting which features blood trickling onto the figure seated on the left after a scissor cuts an artery. Yet
another artery joins the exposed hearts of the titular figures.
ANSWER: The Two Fridas [or Las dos Fridas]
[10] One of the last few paintings by Frida was this one, which shows several ripe and luscious watermelon rounds cut in
various configurations. The title of the paintings is cut into one of the watermelons.
ANSWER: Viva la Vida
[10] Kahlo’s self-portraits include one from 1938 with one of these animals peeking over her right shoulder. A leashed one
can also be found in Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
ANSWER: Monkey
6. In this play, the servant Jeremy tricks Miss Frail and Tattle into marrying one another, and Scandal tries to use Foresight’s
belief in astrology to bed Mrs. Foresight. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play in which Sampson Legend thinks he will marry his son Valentine’s love, until Angelica turns the tables
and saves Valentine from being disowned by Sampson.
ANSWER: Love for Love
[10] This playwright wrote the play Love for Love, as well as other comedies like The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and
The Way of the World.
ANSWER: William Congreve
[10] In this Congreve play, Alphonso is twice assumed dead by Almeria, and Zara kills herself after mistaking the king’s body
for Alphonso’s. It also features the line “Heav’n has no rage like love to hatred turn’d, / Nor hell a fury like a woman
scorn’d.”
ANSWER: The Mourning Bride
7. This work's ideas were further developed in The Science of Society and it contrasts the rigidity of mores with the looser
nature of the namesake concepts. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work that defines the namesake entities as "habits of the individual and customs of the society" and claims
that customs follow a pattern of Darwinian evolution.
ANSWER: Folkways
[10] Folkways was written by this horribly racist American sociologist who coined the term "ethnocentrism" and claimed
that nobody should help those damn poor people in What Social Classes Owe to Each Other.
ANSWER: William Graham Sumner
[10] Through his student Albert Galloway Keller, Sumner influenced the work of this founder of the journal Ethnology who
compiled the Outline of World Cultures and developed the standard cross-culture sample with Douglas White.
ANSWER: George Peter Murdock
8. In honor of a fruit much consumed by the Kandlikar household in India, identify the following things from biology, for 10
points each.
[10] Identify this cysteine protease found in a namesake tropical fruit, which can cause the cleavage of antibodies into two
Fab and one Fc domains.
ANSWER: papain
[10] This process, mediated by RS sequences and facilitated by RAG genes, is necessary to achieve the variety in
immunoglobulins and T-Cell receptors. It should not be confused with the antigen-dependent somatic hypermutation.
ANSWER: V(D)J recombination
[10] T-cells mature in this organ, located behind the sternum. Patients suffering from Myasthenia Gravis sometimes suffer
from tumors of this organ.
ANSWER: thymus
9. Help this tournament take back 9/11 by answering some bonuses about American history. For 10 points each:
[10] September 11 saw this American Revolution battle in which William Howe showed G.W. how it’s done outside of
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, leaving Philadelphia woefully unguarded.
ANSWER: Battle of Brandywine
[10] September 11 also saw the beginning of the Benedict Arnold expedition to Quebec. This other general led a concurrent
expedition, but died with John Cheesman while attacking Quebec during a snowstorm.
ANSWER: Richard Montgomery
[10] September 11 was also the day of the triumph of this one of “Preble’s Boys,” a Master Commandant who was
victorious over the British under George Prevost at the Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain.
ANSWER: Thomas MacDonough
10. This work contrasts the first level of consciousness, being, with nothingness and defines the second level of
consciousness, essence, as qualities that transcend being or non-being. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this philosophical work that defines the third level of consciousness as the properties of knowledge and labels it
the subjective variety of the titular subject.
ANSWER: The Science of Logic
[10] The Science of Logic was written by this philosopher who vainly claimed that Christian Germany first realized that "all
men are by nature free" in Lectures in the Philosophy of History and outlined the master-slave dialectic in Phenomenology
of Spirit.
ANSWER: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
[10] This Canadian philosopher authored the philosophical overview Hegel and posited a communitarian co-existence
between religions in A Secular Age. He argued against the "monological consciousness" and for a universal ethic of
benevolence in his best-known work, Sources of the Self.
ANSWER: Charles Taylor
11. Areas near the doors of this building are painted black to hide dirt; other areas of this building are painted or outlined in
the primary colors. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Utrecht landmark, the upper level of which was classified as an attic to satisfy the building code because
the only walls in it were portable partitions.
ANSWER: the Rietveld Schröder House [NOTE: do not say “Rietveld” even if the team answers incorrectly]
[10] The Schröder House was designed for the delightfully-named Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder by this architect, who also
designed the Red and Blue Chair and who was a founding member of De Stijl.
ANSWER: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
[10] This other De Stijl architect designed a house in Katwijk-aan-Zee for the Kamerlingh Onnes family and the Shell
headquarters in The Hague, and he also co-designed Amsterdam’s Dutch National War Monument.
ANSWER: Jacobus Johanned Pieter Oud
12. Name some famous people who have appeared on NBC's 30 Rock, for 10 points each.
[10] One can't imagine that this star of 30 Rock based anything on the show off of her actual career, which includes writing
Mean Girls and, almost as notably, being a Weekend Update co-anchor and the first female head writer for SNL.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Stamatina “Tina” Fey
[10] This Wu-Tang Clan member has cameoed twice, once advertising Jack's sparkling wine in a music video produced by
Ridikolous and once walking onstage while Jenna is singing “Muffin Top” in the episode “Jack-Tor.” In real life, he's released
such solo albums as Fishscale, The Pretty Toney Album, and Ironman.
ANSWER: Ghostface Killah [accept Tony Starks or Dennis Coles]
[10] This actress, who inexplicably married noted douche Bobby Flay, apparently appeared in the first season episode “Blind
Date” as “Gretchen Thomas”. She's more famous for her role as ADA Alexandra Cabot on Law & Order: SVU.
ANSWER: Stephanie Caroline March
13. Made into a 2005 movie starring Matt Dillon, it was its author’s second novel, published four years after 1971’s Post
Office. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this semi-autobiographical book which sees Henry Chinaski meet Jan in a bar and drunkenly drift from job to
job, a lifestyle which gives this work its title.
ANSWER: Factotum
[10] Factotum, like Post Office, was written by this so-called “Poet Laureate of Skid Row”. He also wrote Ham on Rye, short
story collections like South of No North, and poetry collections like what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
ANSWER: Henry Charles Bukowski
[10] Apparently, Bukowski’s influences include this American author and New Yorker contributor, whose own works include
the autobiography My Life and Hard Times and the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”.
ANSWER: James Grover Thurber
14. A diode contains one of these, while BPJ transistors contain two of these. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this useful electrical device consisting of two oppositely-doped semiconductors placed next to each other.
Electrons and holes diffuse from one side of it to the other.
ANSWER: PN junction
[10] When the electrons and holes diffuse across the boundary between the p-type and n-type semiconductors and
undergo recombination, this region develops in the middle of the PN junction. This region is characterized by an absence of
mobile charge carriers.
ANSWER: depletion region/zone/layer [accept also: space charge region]
[10] In semiconductor particle detectors, the number of electron-hole pairs produced by an ionizing particle has a much
smaller variance than expected for a Poisson process. The ratio between the observed variance and the variance for a
Poisson process is known as this eponymous factor.
ANSWER: Fano factor
15. You may be excited to know that the author of this work also published such novels such as one wherein a bank clerk is
obsessed with the titular guinea pigs he'd purchased. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this document which identifies the need for hiring skilled managers to work in factories and urges citizens to
produce "Action Programs" for every community. This manifesto, which was published in the Literarni Listy and written by
Ludvik Vaculik encouraged people to not take the summer of 1968 lightly.
ANSWER: the "Two Thousand Words"
[10] This man, who advocated "socialism with a human face" attempted to introduce reforms to the Czechoslovak
government during the Prague Spring. He ended up being replaced by Gustav Husak.
ANSWER: Alexander Dubcek
[10] This man, who was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia under Dubcek, had some liberal tendencies and
was much of the brainwork behind the Action Programme. His policies notably espoused the "Third Way" between free
markets and command economies.
ANSWER: Ota Sik
16. The title character of this work leaves his home after quitting from his position at the Rent Board, and fools around
town with the drunkards Martim and the black man Bangs. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these novel whose first event occurs when the title character is asleep with the prostitute Quiteria, and the
second when he is out partying on a boat with Captain Manuel.
ANSWER: The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell [or A Morte e a morte de Quincas Berro d'agua]
[10] The title character of this work runs a whore house and visits a small town with Leonora. Perpetua attempts to
convince the title character to adopt Ricardo, but the title character ends up seducing Ricardo and also helps ward off some
industrialists who want to setup a titanium plant.
ANSWER: Tieta the Goat Girl [or Tieta do Agreste; just slap anyone who tries to say: Tieta, the Goat Girl: Or, The Return of
the Prodigal Daughter, Melodramatic Serial Novel in Five Sensational Episodes, with a Touching Epilogue, Thrills and
Suspense!]
[10] The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell and Tieta the Goat Girl were written by this author of Dona Flor and Her Two
Husbands.
ANSWER: Jorge Amado
17. This man led a mob of people in razing the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and is one of the Orthodox Three Holy
Hierarchs along with Gregory Nazianzus and Basil the Great. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Church Doctor who wrote Against the Jews codified the Eastern Rite Liturgy in his namesake Divine Liturgy.
ANSWER: Saint John Chrysostomos [prompt on John or John of Antioch]
[10] This Spanish church doctor also railed against the Jews in On the Catholic Faith Against the Jews and maintained that
the Earth was round in an encyclopedia entitled Etymologiae or Origins.
ANSWER: Saint Isidore of Seville [or San Isidro or San Isidoro de Sevilla; do NOT accept "San Isidro Labrador"]
[10] This other doctor of the Church and patron Saint of Italy convinced Gregory XI to end the Papal Babylonian Captivity
through a series of letters, and she wrote a "mystical counterpart" to the Divine Comedy consisting of a dialogue between
the soul and God, Treatise on Divine Providence.
ANSWER: Saint Catherine of Siena
18. This composer’s most-performed symphony includes instrumentation for native Yaqui percussion. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composer of the Second Symphony, the ballet Caballos de vapor, and the Sinfonia india, which musically
depicted how great things were before that jackass Columbus destroyed it all.
ANSWER: Carlos Antonio de Padua Chavez y Ramirez
[10] Carlos Chavez is a composer from this country. Noted composer of Studies for Prepared Piano Conlon Nancarrow was
an American who moved here, and Copland composed a work about a salon in this country.
ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States]
[10] Another Mexican composer is this guy, who is most noted for his Danzones. The most famous of those, Danzon
Number Two, has prominent parts for woodblock, timpani, and brass.
ANSWER: Arturo Marquez
19. Answer some questions about eponymous stuff in fluid and continuum mechanics, for 10 points each.
[10] These types of fluids have non-linear relationships between sheer stress and strain rate, which makes them fun to play
with; water with a lot of starch in it is a common example.
ANSWER: non-Newtonian fluids
[10] These differential equations, which are doubly eponymous and thus as good to quizbowlers as they are to physicists,
describe the motion and flow of Newtonian fluids.
ANSWER: Navier-Stokes equations
[10] This dimensionless number, which is equal to the ratio of an object's mean free path length to its characteristic length,
helps determine whether statistical or continuum mechanics ought to be used. Its namesake also names a type of diffusion
that occurs in pores.
ANSWER: Knudsen number [accept equivalents like Knudsen factor; accept Martin Knudsen]
20. Rulers of this kingdom had female appointees such as the kpojito and the daklo. The kpojitos were first appointed under
a king who conquered the kingdoms of Weme and Allada, Agaja. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this kingdom that slowly fell apart after a French invasion led Behanzin to flee and Agoliagbo to accede to the
throne.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Dahomey
[10] Agaja also was forced to start an annual tribute to this neighboring empire which conquered Dahomey. This empire
had rulers called Alaafins and one story claims this empire was first ruled by Oranyan.
ANSWER: Oyo Empire
[10] The Oyo Empire was founded by this culture, whose myth states they were started by Oduduwa. This culture
prominent in Nigeria also worships orisha.
ANSWER: Yoruba
Tiebreaker. Its first book, “The Quarry”, opens by noting that “three thrones” have been set upon the sands of the ocean,
the first of which is Tyre, and its author aims to “trace the lines” of the image of the second throne “before it be for ever
lost”. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this work including the essay “The Nature of Gothic” and consisting of such volumes as “The Fall” and “The
Foundation”, an expansion of an earlier essay of its author that describes seven principles of a certain art form.
ANSWER: The Stones of Venice
[10] The Stones of Venice and the earlier Seven Lamps of Architecture were written by this author of Modern Painters, who
was a big fan of J.M.W. Turner and who wrote the “fantasy novelette” King of the Golden River.
ANSWER: John Ruskin
[10] Ruskin also wrote this series of “Letters to the Workmen and Laborers of Great Britain." Its title refers to the three
concepts which make up human destiny, and it contains his attack on Whistler’s Grosvenor Gallery exhibition.
ANSWER: Fors Clavigera