Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited and Written by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by A Slant of Penn On Dull Brown Walls (Eric Mukherjee, Guy Tabachnick, Jerry Vinokurov)
Tossups
1. The liner notes for this song include a translation of “illegitimati non carborundum” and a description of the
McLibel case and quote from Charles Baudelaire and “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” The rarely
played introduction to this song is a monologue from Brassed Off which declares that music does not matter,
“Not compared to how people matter.” A trumpet plays the Prince of Denmark’s March towards the end of this
song, which both begins and ends with the words “We’ll be singing / when we’re winning.” One character in this
song drunkenly sings “Don’t cry for me / next-door neighbour,” while this song's subject “sings the songs that
remind him of the good” and “better times” after taking drinks of whisky, vodka, lager, and cider while “pissing the
night away.” Its chorus proclaims “I get knocked down / But I get up again / You’re never going to keep me down.”
For 10 points, name this 1997 hit, the only song of any consequence by Chumbawamba.
ANSWER: "Tubthumping"
2. In T. Corraghessan Boyle's parody "The Overcoat II," Rodion Ivanovich Mishkin engages in this activity with
Akaky Akakeyevich Bashmachkin during lunch, and Siegfried Fischer is a character from Elias Canetti's Auto da
Fe who seeks to become the best in the world at this activity. In Vaclav Havel's The Garden Party, the main
character Hugo is seen engaging in this activity with himself, and this activity lends its name to a 1624 political
satire by Thomas Middleton whose generically-named characters represent contemporary figures like the Duke
of Buckingham. Failure in a competition against Turati causes Luzhin to abandon this game in one novel, while it
was used in title of the second section of a larger poem that begins “The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne”
and repeats the phrase “HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME.” For 10 points, identify this game central to Nabokov's The
Defense that also titles the second section of Eliot's The Wasteland and includes pieces such as kings, rooks, and
bishops.
ANSWER: chess [accept A Game at Chess or A Game of Chess]
3. The Berry and Reinhardt methods are two numerical approaches to solving the stochastic collection equation
which describes the formation of these entities. Two formulas by Long provide polynomial approximations to
the gravitational collection kernels of these objects. The Rayleigh limit places an upper bound on the maximum
charge of these structures, which can gain charge via the Wilson process of ion capture or through the
mechanism of drop breakup. Thermophoresis and diffusiophoresis are two methods by which these objects can
scavenge aerosols from their surroundings and Vonnegut pioneered the use of silver iodide to stimulate nucleation
in these structures, which typically form around condensation nuclei. For ten points, identify these agglomerations
of water vapor and ice which are sources of precipitation and which exist in varieties such as cumulus and cirrus.
ANSWER: clouds [prompt on "water droplets" or just "droplets" until "drop breakup"]
4. This man showed that smokers tend to physiologically, rather than psychologically, regulate their total
nicotine intake in one paper. He found that obese people are insensitive to physiological cues of food
deprivation in his paper “Obesity and Eating.” This man published a series of experiments about the “sources of
gregariousness” entitled The Psychology of Affiliation. One of this social scientist's theories was tested in an
experiment in which an attractive female experimenter asked a group of men to take a survey on a bridge,
which was conducted by Aron and Dutton. With Jerome Singer, this man formulated one of his theories in an
experiment in which he injected a group of college students with either saline or epinephrine. He collaborated
with Riecken and Festinger on a work about a doomsday-predicting UFO cult entitled When Prophecy Fails, and
another of his theories stated that physiological arousal and cognition are the components of the namesake
responses. For 10 points, name this American psychologist who formulated a two-factor theory of emotion.
ANSWER: Stanley Schachter
5. The losing side of this battle planned a sneak attack at dawn but was late, which exposed the chatas
employed in this battle to enemy fire. This battle's losing commander was Pedro Inacio Meza, and its victorious
commander, who stepped in for the absent Marquis of Tamandare was named Francisco Barroso. One side in
this battle had recently acquired the Anhambay from England, and set forth from the Fortress of Humaita before
this battle. One of the vessels employed in this battle was the previously captured Marquess of Olinda, whose
capture had helped to spark the conflict in which this battle took place. This battle occurred just 22 days after its
losing side had been crushed at Tuyuti, and it effectively crushed all hopes for the losing side to control the Parana
River. For 10 points, name this battle that turned the tide in favor of Brazil and its allies, a crushing naval defeat for
Paraguay in the War of the Triple Alliance.
ANSWER: Battle of Riachuelo
6. In one work by this artist, a naked woman emerges wrapped in fishnet from the bottom of a tube in the
background as another woman’s head pokes up from another tube in the foreground. In another of his works, a
woman reacts in wide-eyed, open-mouthed shock to a book she holds. A series of paintings by this man features
a couple posing with their heads draped in cloth and a woman posing with a disembodied male head. Those
paintings by this man are The Magician’s Accomplices, The Subjugated Reader, and the Lovers I-IV series.
Another of his works labels blobs of orange paint as “Mirror” and “Woman’s Body,” and other motifs he often
used include a burning baritone and a metallic surface studded with spherical bells. This artist of The Use of the
Word also painted a work featuring a clear daytime sky above a darkened landscape lit only by a streetlight and
two works featuring easels in front of windows displaying paintings of the landscapes outside the windows. For 10
points, identify this Surrealist painter of The Dominion of Light and The Human Condition who painted a train
emerging from a fireplace in his Time Transfixed.
ANSWER: René François Ghislain Magritte
7. In certain regions, one equivalent of this festival is celebrated by performing the thabal chongba dance; that
version of this festival is called Yaosang. One group celebrates this holiday with three days of displays of
physical strength and mock battles and a procession beginning and ending at the Takth Keshgarh Sahib. Pictures
of gods are swung around to the time of special song cycles in the Dol-yatra, which is a Bengali variation of this
festival, and other reasons to celebrate this festival include the death of the sister of Hiranyakashipu, who tried to
get her to help kill his son Prahlada. It takes place during the full moon in Phalguna, and it is best remembered for
its association with Krishna's love for Radha. For 10 points, name this holiday which sees people throw colored
powder at each other, a Hindu spring festival.
ANSWER: Holi [or Lathmaar Holi or Dulandi Holi or Rangpanchami or Shimgo or Basant Utsav or Dol Jatra or Dol
Purnima or Hola Mohalla or Kaman Pandigai or Kamavilas or Kama-Dahanam or Phagu Purnima]
8. The end of this work’s third section describes “bronze shadows heaped / On high horizons” and “mountainous
atmospheres,” while its first section contains the image of a “body wholly body, fluttering / Its empty sleeves.”
This poem’s last stanza mentions “Words of the fragrant portals, dimly starred / And of ourselves and our
origins,” while its third stanza sees the speaker and his companion ask “Whose spirit is this?” The title concept
of this poem is embodied in an image in its final stanza, which describes lights as they were “tilting in the air,”
fixed “emblazoned zones and fiery poles” which “mastered the night.” It notes that its central figure “was the
maker of the song she sang” and supposedly does not consciously reference the actual author of “I Came Near
Being a Fascist,” Ramon Fernandez. For 10 points, name this poem that opens with the line “She sang beyond the
genius of the sea,” a work of Wallace Stevens.
ANSWER: “The Idea of Order at Key West”
9. This structure is expanded by a protein complex containing Air2p and Mtr4 known as the TRAMP complex,
while the Ski complex removes it. In trypanosome mitochondria, both a stabilizing and destabilizing form of this
structure exist. The PARN protein is responsible for the removal of this structure. This structure is synthesized
immediately after a cleavage catalyzed by CstF and CPSF, followed by binding of PAB2. Its namesake binding
protein is responsible for the recruitment of eIF-4G and its addition requires both a GU-rich region and an
AAUAA signal. Molecules containing it are bound using an oligo-dT column, and it can be shortened or lengthened
to alter stability of the transcript. It is usually added after splicing, along with the 5-prime cap. For 10 points, name
this structure present on the 3-prime end of mature mRNA, which consists of a single nucleotide repeated.
ANSWER: Poly-A tail [Prompt on anything involving the words transcript or mRNA; prompt on 3’ end of mRNA or
3’ Untranslated region of mRNA or 3’ UTR of mRNA]
10. This ruler ordered his heirs to follow his “Rota” system of succession after his death in his “Testament,” and
he appointed the monk Illarion as metropolitan of his polity. This man gave Ladoga to the daughter of the king
of Sweden as a marriage gift. During a protracted struggle with his half-brother, Varangian assassins killed his
other brothers Boris and Gleb, who were later canonized. His daughters married Henry I of France, Harald III of
Norway, and Andrew I of Hungary, and this figure acquired the land of Mstislav of Tmutakaran after the latter’s
death. After this man defeated the Pechenegs he ordered the construction of the St. Sophia Cathedral, which
was completed under his son. He fought against Sviatopolk the Accused for control of his kingdom. This man
promulgated the first law code of his nation, the Russkaya Pravda, and also ordered the construction of the Golden
Gate of his city. For 10 points, name this son of Vladimir I, a figure who united Novgorod and Kiev while ruling at
the height of power of the Kievan Rus from 1019-1054.
ANSWER: Yaroslav I [or Yaroslav the Wise]
11. The liner notes for this work compare its recording to a type of “Japanese visual art” involving a special
brush on a thin stretched parchment. One track on this album features a continued four bar vamp between C
Major 7 and G9sus4 [gee-9-“suss”-4] written by the primary pianist on this album, while another track consists
of a 6/8 12-bar blues based entirely on seventh chords. Another song, written as 24-bar blues, contains a theme
loosely based on “Soft Winds” and a piano solo by Wynton Kelly. The first song on this album features a 4-note
stack of fourths with a major third on top, its namesake chord, and begins with an opening melody played by
bassist Paul Chambers. This album continued the experimentation with a style that its artist first used a year
earlier in “Milestones.” Both Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane performed on this album which includes the
tracks “All Blues,” and “Freddie Freeloader.” For 10 points, name this album that contains "Blue in Green"
"Flamenco Sketches,” and "So What,” the first significant modal jazz album by Miles Davis.
ANSWER: Kind of Blue
12. One scene in this work sees the entrance of the chancellor and four deans, one of whom claims that “all
other sciences” are the servants of philosophy. After a conversation with several coal heavers, two characters in
this work arrive in a location which one character tells the other is where “the King of Heaven listens to the
lamentations of mortals.” The statements “Human beings are to be pitied” and “love conquers over everything”
are repeated by the main character throughout this work, other notable characters in which include the Lawyer
and two lovers who come from Fairhaven to Foulstrand. At the start of this work, Agnes goes to a castle to
rescue an Officer held prisoner there, and this work opens with one character telling of how she "followed the
lightning's blazing trail," to earth. For 10 points, identify this dramatic work in which Indra's daughter descends to
Earth, written by August Strindberg.
ANSWER: A Dream Play [or Ett Drömspel]
13. This work cites Virgil’s passage “The final age that the oracle foretold has arrived; the great order of the
centuries is born again” as evidence of the change in thinking between modern times and the ancient past. This
text finds Polybius’s description of Rome’s mixture of aristocracy, monarchy, and democracy a useful analogue
for explaining the rise of the titular entity. This work notes that the titular entity rules via a “permanent state of
emergency” and an “appeal to essential values of justice.” This work claims that the titular polity must mold a
“people” from a mass that was first discussed in a work about Spinoza coauthored by the authors of this work,
The Savage Anomaly. Its coauthors also authored this work’s sequel, Multitude. For 10 points, name this work
advancing the idea that modern “biopower” takes the form of interlocking regulations that form a supranational
order that can be understood as the titular polity, by Marxists Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt.
ANSWER: Empire
14. Justice Daniel's opinion in the counterfeiting case Fox vs. Ohio referenced the interpretation laid down by
this case as “the only rational and intelligible” one. After the Slaughterhouse Cases, this was the first case cited
by Justice Waite's opinion in US v. Cruikshank, which extended the logic of this case to the right to assembly. The
opinion of this case mentions the prohibition on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws as examples of explicit
limitations, contrary to those argued by the plaintiffs. The most important implication of this case has been
reversed in a process called “incorporation”. Marshall's majority opinion held that the Fifth Amendment did not
force the defendant to award the plaintiff compensation for silting up his wharf during a construction project. The
farthest-reaching implication of this case was overruled in the Fourteenth Amendment case Gitlow v. New York.
For 10 points, name this Supreme Court that ensured that the Bill of Rights would not apply to the states, brought
against a city in Maryland.
ANSWER: Barron v. Mayor of Baltimore [accept Barron v. City [Council] of Baltimore; prompt on Baltimore]
15. This reaction, via triethylamine, is responsible for the rapid interconversion of product enantiomers in the
Shieh/Carlson synthesis of galanthamine, and the skin pigment Lawsone interacts with keratin via this reaction.
Jorgensen’s one-step Warfarin synthesis uses this reaction between 4-hydroxycumarin and benzylideneacetone.
One step of the catalytic cycle of the Stetter reaction consists of one of these, which is followed by a hydrogen
migration and expulsion of thiazolium, while enamines undergo a similar process named for Stork. Asymmetric
versions often use cinchona alkaloids as phase transfer catalysts, and another modification of it was used to link
two components of the C-ring in its namesake’s Taxol total synthesis and utilizes titanium tetrachloride and a
silyl enol ether, known as the Mukaiyama reaction. The donor in this reaction contains strong electronwithdrawing groups, and this reaction is followed by an aldol condensation in the Robinson annulation. For 10
points, name this reaction in which a nucleophile is added to an alpha-beta unsaturated carbonyl.
ANSWER: Michael Addition
16. One figure by this name was resurrected by Phorcys using flaming torches after being killed by Heracles.
Another figure with this name was drowned by a sea eagle that turned out to be the ghost of her dead father,
after which she turned into an egret. That figure fell in love with Minos and gave him the lock of hair that made
her father Nisus unstoppable. The more famous figure with this name was pursued by a god who grew a fish’s tail
after ingesting some herbs. This figure rejected a god who subsequently travelled to the island of Aeaea, leading to
Circe creating a potion to put in her bath, which transformed her into a monster with 12 feet and six dog heads
protruding from her torso. Responsible for the death of 6 of Odysseus’ men and loved by Glaucus, for 10 points,
name this creature who hangs out across a strait from the whirlpool Charybdis.
ANSWER: Scylla
17. The BRST formalism is the most popular way to compute these quantities through the use of its namesake
operator. One of these quantities named for Gervais and Neveu is used to cancel terms in the Yang-Mills selfinteraction, while in general relativity, the use of Riemann normal coordinates implies the application of the
radial one of these. The conservation of electrical charge is associated with invariance with respect to these
quantities according to Noether's theorem. Common ones used in classical electromagnetism include one that
sets the divergence of the vector potential to zero and another which sets that same divergence proportional to
the time derivative of the scalar electric potential. These are named after Coulomb and Lorentz respectively, while
another common quantity of this type is the lightcone one, which is used to eliminate non-physical degrees of
freedom. For 10 points, identify these quantities which do not affect physical observables and thus can be chosen
arbitrarily, and whose namesake theories give rise to their namesake bosons.
ANSWER: gauges
18. Johann Jakob Froberger's second attempt to visit this city resulted in getting robbed by pirates, which was
commemorated musically in Froberger's Complaint to [this city] for this melancholy. One loose group of
musicians that gathered in this city helped John Broadwood design a modern instrument, and included such
members as Jan Dusseck and Johann Bapist Cramer. In addition to this city's informal "pianoforte school" which
helped to usher in the modern piano, a symphony named for this city contains a spoken epilogue based on the
novel Tono-Bungay, and was dedicated to George Butterworth. In addition to naming Vaughan Williams's second
symphony, this city is home to an institution that was the subject of a musical piece including "Jig" and "Dargason"
movements, which was written by Gustav Holst. For 10 points, name this home city of the BBC Proms, which also
titles a group of symphonies that include the Surprise and Clock, by Joseph Haydn.
ANSWER: London
19. This man wrote a work whose addressee “carves” a “cross of needles” for a tame beast, and later sucks on
the “red wet wounds in his heart.” Another of his poems begins by asking, “Who hath known the ways of time/
Or trodden behind his feet?” In addition to Satia te Sanguine and A Lamentation, he wrote a poem that is
addressed to one “Wise among women, and wisest/ Our Lady of Pain” entitled Dolores. Yet another poem by
this author ends with the line “For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep” and has the
phrase “Vicisti Galilaee” as its epigraph. Another of his works recalls how Althaea rescued a burning brand from
a fire after the Fates visit her in a dream, and sees the title character join Toxeus and Plexippus to slay a boar sent
by Artemis. For 10 points, name this author of the collection Poems and Ballads, "Hymn to Proserpine"and
Atalanta in Calydon.
ANSWER: Algernon Charles Swinburne
20. Samuel Gummere was an important American diplomat in this country who helped negotiate a settlement
to an affair in which a Greek-American who often visited this country was kidnapped and help for the ransom of
$70,000 and two of this country's districts. That incident in this country prompted Teddy Roosevelt to say a
memorable paraphrase of “dead or alive” at the Republican National Convention, and occurred when a bandit
named Raisuli kidnapped Ion Perdicaris in this country. Another occurrence in this country led to the
contentious Mansion House speech in which Lloyd George claimed that England preferred honor to peace.
France's control of this country was achieved in exchange for the land that became Germany's colony of Kamerun.
One incident in this country occurred when the Panther sailed into one of its harbors, while another incident in this
country was sparked when Wilhelm II showed up here and called for its independence, which led to the Algeciras
Conference. For 10 points, name this country that was home to the Tangier and Agadir crises.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Morocco
Tiebreaker. At one point in this poem, its speaker describes how “the moss is grown, the different mosses / Too
deep to clear them away!” after earlier noting that “The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.” Its speaker
describes being hurt by the “paired butterflies,” which “are already yellow with August / Over the grass in the
West garden.” This poem’s addressee once “came by on […] stilts, playing horse,” and later walked around
“playing with blue plums.” Its speaker’s bashfulness is exemplified by an incident in which she was “Called to, a
thousand times” but “never looked back.” Its title character also describes a time when she “played about the
front gate” while her “hair was still cut straight across her forehead.” At the end of this work, the title character
promises to “come out to meet” the addressee “as far Cho-fu-Sa.” For 10 points, name this poem translated by
Ezra Pound, a loose adaptation of a work by Li Po.
ANSWER: “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited and Written by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by A Slant of Penn On Dull Brown Walls (Eric Mukherjee, Guy Tabachnick, Jerry Vinokurov)
Bonuses
1. This short story's climax occurs after the central character considers the “beautiful” line of poetry “Why must it
always be tomato soup?” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this story in which Bertha Young feels the titular emotion, which leads to experiencing sexual desire for
her husband, only to catch her husband arranging a tryst with Pearl Fulton after an evening soiree.
ANSWER: “Bliss”
[10] "Bliss" is by this author who also wrote “The Tiredness of Rosabel”, “Prelude”, and a collection of stories about
obnoxious Krauts, In A German Pension.
ANSWER: Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp [accept either underlined name]
[10] Mansfield's best known story is this one, in which the titular event at the Sheridans' takes place over Laura's
objections despite the death of Scott. After the title event, Laura delivers the leftover sandwiches to the dead
man's family.
ANSWER: “The Garden Party”
2. This man’s unique take on a prior philosopher led to his doctrine of “Coincidentia oppositorum.” For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this German philosopher who wrote De Docta Ignoratia, which advances the concept of “learned
ignorance,” his idea that the more you know, the dumber you are.
ANSWER: Nicholas of Cusa [accept Nicholas Cusanus; or Nicholas of Kues]
[10] Nicholas of Cusa was an idiosyncratic medieval revivalist of this school of philosophy, which was founded by
Plotinus and Porphyry in the third century.
ANSWER: Neoplatonism [accept word forms]
[10] This philosopher’s The Individual and Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy claims that Nicholas of Cusa is the
first modern man because he philosophized about “knowledge about God” instead of God himself. This
philosopher wrote Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and Kant’s Life and Thought.
ANSWER: Ernst Cassirer
3. Shortly before his 1949 death, this man published an account of the Yalta conference entitled Roosevelt and the
Russians. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man who chaired the National Defense Advisory Commission and the Office of Production
Management during the war, before becoming Secretary of State after Hull.
ANSWER: Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr.
[10] Stettinius was the first holder of this post, which has also been held by Bill Richardson, John Negroponte, and
currently, Susan Rice.
ANSWER: United States Ambassador to the United Nations [accept UN for “United Nations”; accept United States
Permanent Representative to the United Nations]
[10] This associate Justice of the Supreme Court would hold the Ambassadorship from 1965 until 1968, following
the tenure of Adlai Stevenson. He is best known today for authoring the majority opinion in Griswold v.
Connecticut.
ANSWER: Arthur Joseph Goldberg
4. Cooper pairs tunnel through barriers of this type of material in the Josephson Effect. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this class of materials characterized by a fully occupied valence band and an empty conduction band.
ANSWER: insulators
[10] These are a novel type of material which function as an insulator despite having an odd number of electrons
per unit cell. They are described by a model named after their namesake and Hubbard.
ANSWER: Mott insulators
[10] Together with Cutler, Neville Mott also gives his name to a formula to calculate the proportionality constant of
this effect, which results in the generation of an electromotive force from a temperature gradient.
ANSWER: Seebeck effect
5. NOTE TO MODERATOR: please don’t say “Nielsen” after either of the first two parts if they are answered
incorrectly.
Its first movement features dueling D minor and C major melodies which eventually transition into the “motto”
theme in E major, and it was written to be played without breaks between movements. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this work whose final movement features a kickass battle between two sets of timpani on opposite
sides of the orchestra, said by its composer to represent the “elemental will of life.”
ANSWER: Inextinguishable Symphony [accept Uudslukkelige Symphony or Carl Nielsen’s Symphony no. 4]
[10] This work, which transfers keys from G to B-flat, makes much use of the triangle and the glockenspiel. Its
second movement, “Humoreske,” features small groups of winds and percussion exchanging brief thematic
passages, while its final movement ends with a low B-flat “raspberry” played on the bassoon.
ANSWER: Sinfonia Semplice [accept Simple Symphony or Carl Nielsen Symphony no. 6]
[10] This Danish composer wrote both the Inextinguishable Symphony and the Sinfonia Semplice, as well as the
operas Saul og David and Maskarade.
ANSWER: Carl August Nielsen
6. Identify the following about the Franco-Prussian War, for 10 points each.
[10] The war ended with the signing of this treaty, which required France to pay an indemnity of five billion Francs,
and agreed to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.
ANSWER: Treaty of Frankfurt
[10] This engagement in northeast France saw the "death ride" led by General von Bredow, after General
Albensleven asked for help. This battle prevented Francois Bazaine’s forces from making it to Verdun.
ANSWER: Battle of Mars-La-Tour
[10] Immediately following Mars-La-Tour, this engagement saw Prussian forces use Krupp breach-loading all-steel
artillery, and saw von Moltke trap Bazaine in the city of Metz, where a siege followed this battle.
ANSWER: Battle of Gravelotte
7. This trilogy follows the namesake family, whose members include Corny and his son Mordaunt and is set against
the backdrop of the Anti-Rent War. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this series containing Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, and The Redskins.
ANSWER: The Littlepage Manuscripts [or the Littlepage Papers]
[10] This man wrote The Littlepage Manuscripts, as well as a bunch of books about Natty Bumppo like The Last of
the Mohicans.
ANSWER: James Fenimore Cooper
[10] In this entry in the Leatherstocking Tales, Ishmael Bush and his family of squatters arrive in the title region,
where they meet an old Natty Bumppo, who is then accused of killing Ishmael’s oldest son, Asa, before dying at the
end of the novel.
ANSWER: The Prairie
8. In one experiment, this man dropped stamped and sealed envelopes on the ground to see if people would mail
them more if they were addressed to favorable organizations. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this sociologist who created that “lost-letter technique.”
ANSWER: Stanley Milgram
[10] Milgram analyzed the makeup of social networks in the small-world experiment, which gave rise to the idea
that people are generally separated by this many degrees of separation.
ANSWER: six
[10] In a paper of the same name, Milgram introduced the idea of this person, frequent in cities, whom you see in
social situations repeatedly, but don’t interact with.
ANSWER: familiar stranger
9. It is the problem of finding the angles that will place an object made of linked units, such as an arm, into a given
position. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this common problem of 3D programming that needs to be solved to do things like move a character
model.
ANSWER: inverse kinematics
[10] Solving the inverse kinematics problem requires computing this matrix, which contains the first partials of a
vector function.
ANSWER: Jacobian
[10] Another approach to the inverse kinematics problem is to use a damped version of this technique. This
technique can be applied through the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm and involves minimizing the second power
of residuals.
ANSWER: least squares
10. The first advertisement for this publication featured Professor Flirk, who claimed that it was better than a
herring, and another ad for this publication noted that "you never know who will pop in, what will pop out, and it's
so good, you'll eat it all up!" For 10 points each:
[10] Name this publication, subscription to which was the subject of a long-running commercial in which children
would mow messages into the lawn and hide signs on springs in their parents' briefcases, imploring them to order
six issues of this publication for $9.97, "Please!"
ANSWER: Nickelodeon Magazine
[10] The long-running "Nickelodeon Magazine, Please!" commercial contained a screenshot of two doorknob
hangers, the first of which cryptically notes "I came, I snobbed, I conked out!" while the second reads "FLANNEL
UNDER PRESSURE" and warns against the exploding type of this clothing.
ANSWER: pajamas [no other answer acceptable]
[10] One of the cover stories of the issues shown in the commercial warns "Oh Golly, it's..." this person. You may
know her better for starring in Nickelodeon's Harriet the Spy, or for being an obese gun-hating lesbian who once
had a daytime NBC talk show.
ANSWER: Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell [accept either underlined part]
11. This figure’s brother Demophon was rubbed with ambrosia and held over a fire to burn away his mortality, but
their mother Metaneira interrupted that ritual, so this figure was taught the secrets of agriculture instead. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this son of king Celeus, a central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
ANSWER: Triptolemus [or Buzyges]
[10] This goddess disguised herself as the nurse Doso while mourning the abduction of her daughter Persephone
and served as the caretaker of Triptolemus and Demophon. She was an even more central figure of the Eleusinian
Mysteries.
ANSWER: Demeter [prompt if some nitwit answers Ceres]
[10] The Epidauria, a festival for this son of Apollo and Coronis, was held on the fourth day of the Greater
Eleusinian Mysteries. His five daughters were named Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, Aglaea, and Panacea.
ANSWER: Asclepius [accept Aesculapius since it’s basically the same thing]
12. This dynasty’s decline was contemporaneous with the rise of the Pandyas. It managed to conquer the Malay
Archipelago, and was ruled by figures including Rajaraja I and Karikala. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Tamil dynasty that reigned from 300 BC to 1279 AD.
ANSWER: Chola [accept weird pronunciations such as Cola]
[10] The Chola dynasty invaded Kalinga in the eleventh century, as did this great Maurya king. This man was
disgusted by the violence he saw at Kalinga and soon converted to Buddhism.
ANSWER: Ashoka I [or Asoka the great]
[10] This successor of Rajaraja I conquered the Srivijaya kingdom, the Pegu islands, and managed to extract credit
from Khmer.
ANSWER: Rajendra Chola I
13. It occurs via a dipole-dipole coupling mechanism, which is why its energy drops off as the sixth power of
distance. For 10 points each:
[10] CFP and YFP are commonly used in this laboratory technique used to determine protein-protein interactions,
in which a fluorescent donor and acceptor molecule glow only when close to each other.
ANSWER: FRET [accept Forster Resonance Energy Transfer or Flourescence Resonance Energy Transfer]
[10] The TaqMan assay, which is a form of FRET, is used in place of the real-time version of this ubiquitous
laboratory technique, in which primers are used to amplify a segment of DNA.
ANSWER: PCR [or Polymerase Chain Reaction]
[10] The 3 and 5 forms of this flourscent dye are commonly used in microarray experiments, specifically
comparative genome hybridization assays.
ANSWER: Cyanine
14. In an effort to preserve the interesting answer from what was once this bonus, please enjoy a long-ass bonus
with a hilariously tenuous link. For 10 points each:
[10] Jean Colombe and the “Master of the Shadows,” who was probably Barthélemy d'Eyck, finished the work left
undone by the three Limbourg brothers on this 15th-century illuminated manuscript, known for its intensely deep
blues and the incredibly detailed illustrations given to each of the months of its calendar.
ANSWER: the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry [or The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry]
[10] The Limbourg brothers were Dutch, as was the delightfully named artist of Woman with a Large Hat, Kees van
Dongen, who along with painters like Othon Friesz and Edouard Vuillard was a member of this group, to which
Louis Vauxcelles indirectly gave a name meaning “wild beasts.”
ANSWER: Fauvism [or “the Fauves” or other equivalents]
[10] Kees van Dongen was also briefly a member of Die Brucke, as was this German, who took a trip to New
Guinea, created the awesome woodcut The Prophet, and painted a 1909 version of The Last Supper as well as a
bunch of bright flowery landscapes.
ANSWER: Emil Nolde [accept Emil Hansen]
15. Name some African novels that aren't by South Africans, for 10 points each.
[10] This novel centers on the murder of District Officer John Robson, perpetrated by Kihika, who is betrayed by
Mugo. Like Petals of Blood, Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrote it.
ANSWER: A Grain of Wheat
[10] Perhaps the pinnacle of Senegalese novels is this work, in which Ibrahim Bakayoko leads a strike along the
Dakar-Niger railway. It was written by Sembene Ousmane.
ANSWER: God's Bits of Wood [or Les Bouts de bois de Dieu]
[10] The unnamed narrator of this novel nearly dies floating in the Nile before decided to throw off the malignant
influence of the British-educated Mustafa.
ANSWER: Season of Migration to the North [or Mawsim al Higra ila ash-Shamal, by noted Sudanese author AlTayib Salih]
16. Answer some questions about Romanesque churches. Since Guy Tabachnick doesn't know what a question is,
your moderator will read each of the following statements with a ridiculous upward inflection. For 10 points each:
[10] Charlemagne's construction of this chapel in Aachen ushered in the Romanesque period. This building itself
was the home of Holy Roman Emperor coronations for over six hundred years, and its sixteen-sided ambulatory
and octagonal dome were inspired by the foremost example of Byzantine architecture in Italy, the Basilica of San
Vitale in Ravenna.
ANSWER: Palatine Chapel in the Aachen Cathedral
[10] Sant’Ambrogio is similar in design to this Roman church, begun at the order of Constantine on the site of the
Circus of Nero. It was destroyed in the early 16th century in favor of a new church designed by Donato Bramante.
ANSWER: Old St. Peter’s Basilica [prompt on St. Peter’s]
[10] This "Cathedral of Commerce" in Lower Manhattan has a notable Romanesque lobby and was designed by
Cass Gilbert for a namesake department store.
ANSWER: Woolworth Building
17. He hailed the title king as "A hero and a man!" in his ode on Henry the Fowler, but is more famous for a work
influenced by his friendship with Jakob Bodmer. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this German poet whose “Resurrection Ode” was set to music by Gustav Mahler but who is best
known for his religious epic in many cantos, The Messiah.
ANSWER: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
[10] Another of Klopstock’s most famous odes is this one, written in eight Lieder and subtitled "the Temple of
Friendship." At one point in Sorrows of Young Werther, Lotte lays her hand on Werther’s and says “Klopstock!,”
apparently an allusion to this poem.
ANSWER: “Wingolf; or, the Temple of Friendship” [prompt on “An meine Freunde” or “To my Friends” for the
hard of hearing]
[10] Among the odes of Klopstock are ones dedicated to Frederick V, the king of this nation, whose literary titans
include Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan, and the author of Out of Africa, Karen Blixen.
ANSWER: Denmark
18. Knowns as "Chrobry," or "the Brave," this ruler's accomplishments include the acquisition of Lusatia as a fief in
the Treaty of Bautzen after a long feud with Holy Roman Emperor Henry II. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this ruler who was succeeded by Mieszko II.
ANSWER: Boleslav I
[10] Boleslav was one of the great rulers of this dynasty which was founded by Mieszko I and whose other notable
monarchs include Boleslav II and Casimir I.
ANSWER: Piast dynasty
[10] The Piast dynasty was the first to rule over a somewhat-unified version of this nation, which got partitioned
three times in the 18th century.
ANSWER: Poland [accept equivalents and ridiculous full names]
19. Identify some things pertaining to quantum chemistry, for 10 points each.
[10] This quantum system consists of a particle trapped in an infinite square well, which has a wavefunction with
amplitude square root of 2 divided by the length of the well.
ANSWER: Particle in a box
[10] The energy of a particle in a box is proportional to the square of this quantum number, which is symbolized n
and in the bohr model of the atom corresponds to the energy of the orbital.
ANSWER: Principal quantum number
[10] This quantum system, which consists of two point masses connected by a rod, is used to model energy levels
in rotational spectroscopy. Its energy levels are proportional to L times L plus 1.
ANSWER: Rigid rotor
20. This book contains a prologue by its Greek translator who claims that he wanted to share its contents so that
others may life in perfect accordance "with the law.” For 10 point each:
[10] Name this apocryphal book whose first half consists a collection of sayings that claim that to be wise is to fear
God and follow his orders. Its second half contains a description of God's wisdom in nature and a list of wise men.
ANSWER: Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach [or Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom of ben Sira]
[10] This other apocryphal book's title character goes blind after birds shit in his eyes; that title character's son
burns some fish entrails in order to fend off the husband-killing demon Asmodeus and eventually marries Sarah of
Ecbatana.
ANSWER: Book of Tobit [or the Book of Tobias]
[10] One of the pseudepigraphal books of the Apocrypha concerns the "Martyrdom" of this major prophet whose
namesake book promises that God will deliver the Jews from captivity in a section known as the "Book of
Comfort.”
ANSWER: Isaiah
Tiebreaker. Analysis of this phenomenon is often performed in terms of Schmidt functions, while the VineMatthews-Morley model predicts that traces of it should be observable in the crust. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this predominantly dipolar phenomenon which undergoes direction reversals about every 750,000
years.
ANSWER: Earth's magnetic field [accept any logical equivalents]
[10] The confirmation of the Vines-Matthews-Morley model provided evidence for this process, in which new
oceanic crust forms along mid-oceanic ridges and migrates laterally away from them.
ANSWER: seafloor spreading hypothesis
[10] The Sun's magnetic field produces this eponymous shape when it interacts with the solar wind via
magnetohydrodynamic processes.
ANSWER: Parker spiral