2009 Missouri Open: Stems from the declining Coconuts
Packet by Mike Bentley, Chris Grubb, and Sean from OU
Tossups
1. In the aftermath of this event, "Mr. Hitchcock" and "Mr. Sabin" were among men questioned by a
committee including Frederick Smyth, Peter Auchmuty, and Governor Joseph Wanton. It also resulted in a
court marshal on the Centaur, and the silence of the aggressors in this event helped elude watchman Bart
Chivers. Indirectly caused by orders given by John Montagu, it prompted a letter calling for punishments at
the "Execution Dock" by John Hutchinson. A song composed about this event noted that "King George has offered
very stout; / One thousand pounds to find one / That wounded William Dudington ", the officer in charge during this
event that resulted from the chasing of the Hannah. Arising from an attempt to enforce the 1764 Sugar Act, it was
led by a less famous John Brown and Abraham Whipple and took place in Narragansett Bay. For 10 points, name
this 1772 event which saw the burning of a British ship in Rhode Island.
ANSWER: Gaspee Incident [or Gaspee Affair]
2. In his essay "Blurred Genres", he sought to "say something ... reasonably coherent about the relation of
'The Humanities' and 'The Social Sciences'", an essay that appears with "Common Sense as a Cultural
System". Vincent Crapanzano, in his work Herme's Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire, connected the puns in one
of this man's most notable works to the popularity of Deep Throat and analyzed the police-raid nature of that
work's first section, "The Raid". This man, who described Levi-Strauss as "The Cerebral Savage",
compared ethnography to a reading a manuscript full of ellipses in an essay on a term he borrowed from
Gilbert Ryle , part of a collection that analyzed the "Internal Conversion" of a group also known for their
cockfights. A proponent of thick description and local knowledge who did research on the Balinese, for 10 points,
name this symbolic American anthropologist who analyzed "Deep Play" and wrote The Interpretation of Cultures.
ANSWER: Clifford James Geertz
3. One character feels responsible for producing a giant tomb in the basement of a supermarket near the end
of this work. A dog in this work causes a disturbance when it bites the neck of a hen in a garden in this work,
shortly before three women take a shower on a balcony in the rain. The first character introduced in this
novel gets his car stolen by a man who later gets stabbed in his knee and shot by soldiers, while another
woman fakes illness to join her husband in an ambulance. A young boy with a squint asks what a gas lamp is
and also gets fierce indigestion in this novel. A climatic scene occurs when a man with a gun receiving a
blowjob is stabbed in the neck with scissors by a woman who later burns down the abandoned mental institution
where that forced orgy was taking place. Containing otherwise unnamed characters like The Girl with Dark Glasses
and a wife of an ophthalmologist, for 10 points, name this novel by Jose Saramago where the “white sickness” takes
away everyone’s vision.
ANSWER: Blindness
4. One theorem partially named for this man is a weaker version of Picard's Great Theorem, which states
that a meromorphic function assumes every complex value, except at most one, in every deleted neighborhood
of an essential singularity. That theorem guarantees that the range of the function is dense in the complex
numbers and is named for this man and Casorati. That any algebra which separates points and does not
vanish is dense in the set of continuous functions is a theorem named for him and Stone, and this man also
developed his namesake function in order to exhibit a function that is everywhere continuous but nowhere
differentiable. A comparison condition for the uniform convergence of sequences of functions is given by his
namesake M-test. Because one corollary of a namesake theorem is that every closed and bounded subset of Rn is
sequentially compact, it is analogous to the Heine-Borel theorem. The usual formulation of that theorem is that
every bounded sequence in Rn has a convergent subsequence. For 10 points, name this man who developed a
rigorous definition of uniform convergence which allowed him to prove a theorem named for him and Bolzano.
ANSWER: Karl Weierstrass (accept Casorati or Casorati-Weierstrass early)
5. Before its UK release, many consumers imported the French version put out by Barclay Records which
included a last-minute track where the singer states he's found the secret Octopus Rock under the sea.
Suburban Press employee Jamie Reid designed the simple yellow and pink cover art for this album, and one
song on this album states "I know where you go go, everybody you know" and declares "You're in suspension,
you're a liar". Ali MacQueen praised Steve Jones' riff on "Pretty Vacant", and one of its most controversial tracks
ends stating there's "no future" for you and me, and notes "they made you a moron / potential H-Bomb", its 6th
track, "God Save the Queen". Including tracks like "Holiday in the Sun" and "Anarchy in the U.K.", for 10 points,
name this kind of eponymous only album by the Sex Pistols.
ANSWER: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
6. A scordatura g-sharp-D-A-E-flat violin section characterizes one of this man's works, which features the
movements "Relaxation" and "Recruiting Dance." One of this man's works has the violinist play on the G
and D strings to imitate the voice of a bear and opens with the movement "Bagpipers." Besides Contrasts and
Sonatina on Themes from Transylvania, he produced songs like "Red Apple" following an influential
performance by Lidi Dosa. His early performances of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben inspired the patriotic
symphonic poem, Kossuth, while with Zoltan Kodaly he put out an "appeal" to his people, resulting in collections
like For Children. Also known for ballets like The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin, for 10 points,
name this composer who collected many folk songs from his native Hungary, also known for the opera, Duke
Bluebeard's Castle.
ANSWER: Bela Bartok
7. This ruler sent Wang Xiaoje to attack Tufan and was influenced by a mystical hermit who claimed to be
456 years old, Wei Shifang. Power grabbing moves by this plotter against Lai Chi and Han Yuan saw the
exile of a rival to far-away Hanoi, Ch'u Sui-liang. Other notable events during this leader's reign included the
permanent establishment of the Eastern Capital at Lo-yang, perhaps due to fears about the murdered Hsiao
Shu-fei haunting this ruler. This Buddhist was responsible for replacing Li Xian with Li Dan, and was also
heavily influenced by the Zhang Brothers. The founder of a "second" dynasty taking its name from one that
devolved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou Dynasty, she ruled from 690 to 705 CE. For 10 points, name
this Chinese empress that interrupted the Tang dynasty.
ANSWER: Empress Consort Wu Zeitan (or Wu Zhao or Tian Hou or Wuhuo; prompt on "Sacred and Divine
Empress Regent")
8. One character in this work recalls his childhood by comparing it with “a pencil that squeaks on a slate,”
while a different character says “You may charge me with murder- or want of sense … But the slightest
approach to a false pretense was never among my crimes!” The title character of this work condemns a pig
for abandoning its sty, and causes one character to have a white waistcoat and a black face. A wide valley in
this work narrows so quickly that two men eventually are side by side each other. That aforementioned title
character can be charmed with smiles and soap, and was pursued with forks and hope. Ultimately, The Baker
that brings 42 boxes of luggage in the beginning vanishes in this work after the Barrister has a dream and the
Bellman delivers a speech. The Beaver and the Butcher hear the terrible cry of a jubjub bird, and this work that is
subtitled “An Agony in 8 Fits” has 10 characters named after the letter “B.” For ten points, name this poetic work
that shares some vocabulary with its author’s “Jabberwocky,” a poem of Lewis Carroll in which some characters do
some hunting.
ANSWER: “The Hunting of the Snark”
9. A form of this phenomenon involving the interaction of light and sound occurs in the Raman-Nath regime
for low acoustic frequencies and small acoustooptic interaction lengths. Theories seeking to explain this
phenomenon include the Stratton-Chu vector theory and the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld scalar theory. A clothoid
or Cornu spiral gives a graphical representation of two integrals that appear in the near-field theory of this
phenomenon. One piece of equipment that uses this phenomenon to focus light is a plate consisting of concentric
rings that are opaque and transparent in alternate Fresnel zones. The Fraunhofer form of this phenomenon features
outgoing plane waves far from an aperture or other source. For 10 points, name this phenomenon that combines
with constructive interference to produce the Airy disk and Poisson spot, the bending of waves around obstacles.
ANSWER: diffraction
10. This work asks "Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness?" and rejects one argument as
equivalent to saying "You surely know what 'It is 5 o'clock here' means; so you also know what 'It's 5 o'clock
on the sun' means." The author claims that "If I do speak of fiction, then it is of grammatical fiction" while
arguing he is not "a behaviorist in disguise" and presents the ambiguous indexical ""Philosophy is a battle
against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." This work contains a thought experiment
about giving a shopkeeper a slip "marked 'five red apples'" and begins with a quotation from Augustine's
Confessions about his elders naming an object. This work argues that one is only reporting their perceptions when
stating that they see a rabbit after looking at a duckrabbit. Asking the reader to come up with a definition of a game,
a discussion developed into the notion of language-games, it presents the concept of family resemblances. Often
considered to represent a break from the thought of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for 10 points, name this work
of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
ANSWER: Philosophical Investigations
11. One of his portraits shows a man sitting next to a helmet and mace and displaying a bronze medal marked
with the ciphers '7' and '2'. Besides that portrait of Gian Galeazzo Sanvitale, his three years in Bologna
produced the St. Roch and a Donor altarpiece. The infant Hercules offers a globe in his Allegorical Portrait of
Charles V, and a putto recoils in horror as a mythological figure takes a knife to some wood in his Cupid
Carving His Bow. One of his best known works, commissioned by Elena Tagliaferri, sees a tiny man holding out
a scroll in front of a giant column in the back right. He can be seen donning a fur coat and a pinky ring in a circular
work, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Well remembered for a painting where a mammoth baby Jesus appears to
be falling off his titular mother's lap, for 10 points, name this Italian Mannerist behind Madonna of the Long Neck.
ANSWER: Parmigianino (or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
12. An essay collection by this author discussed "My Love Affair with Vladimir Nabokov" and tackled the
relationship between test scores and the author's mother's limited English, "Mother Tongue". The demented
mother of one of this author's protagonists asserts she saw OJ kill his wife and also interprets the sand
writing of the protagonist as being from Precious Aunty. Another novel by this author of Mother and MidLife Confidential sees the narrator finally admit to her mother that she has MS after her mother relates the lengthy
story of her youth, including her spoiled young cousin Peanut and eventual second husband Jimmy Louie. Author
of The Bonesetter's Daughter, she wrote a novel that sees Betty St. Clair make up part of the titular Mahjong playing
organization. For 10 points, name this author of The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Joy
Luck Club, an Asian American female writer.
ANSWER: Amy Tan
13. One ruler of this nation helped Ordelafo Faliero and Baldwin I at the Siege of Sidon and was known as
the Crusader. This country's communist-friendly DNA Party was able to pass much legislation after allying
with its Agrarian Party in 1935. Duke Skule lost a battle in its modern capital in 1240, a capital also attacked
by Erik of Sodermanland in 1350. During World War II, its resistance movement helped sabotage its heavy
water facilities, while in the 19th century, the Storting Parliament held great influence in this country. A governor
and later king of this country helped draft the Constitution of May 17, 1814 in the city of Eidsvoll after control of
this country switched hands following the Treaty of Kiel. Oldenburg dynasty saw the rule of several monarchs
named Frederick and Christian and it was ruled during World War II by Vidkun Quisling. For 10 points, name this
country whose capital at Kristiania was renamed Oslo.
ANSWER: Norway
14. One type of this process is controlled in Arabidopsis by the gene ddm1 and can be used to induce
vernalization and can be directed by carm1. Nagy et. al. found that a trithorax complex is required for it to
occur in yeast, and it can be inhibited by SeqA binding. Colorectal neoplasia has been shown to result from
abnormal occurance of it in the vimentin gene, and this process can be detected by bisulfite screening.
Restriction enzymes in bacteria can be inhibited when it occurs on DCM or DAM. Its occurance on CpG islands
results in loss of estrogen receptors and is often seen in fragile X syndrome, and this process is also hyperactive in
Barr bodies. For 10 points, name this process that effects gene silencing and imprinting, in which a certain singlecarbon group is added to a structure.
ANSWER: methylation [accept histone methylation until the second sentence]
15. This text makes up the first nocturn delivered during the Catholic ritual of Tenebrae, part of Holy
Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday preparations. Its third chapter, considerably longer than the
other chapters, begins with the speaker stating "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His
wrath". One verse in this book sees the speaker stating "my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within
me", while its fourth chapter contains a verse stating "The Lord has accomplished his fury ... and hath
kindled a fire in Zion". Its authorship is usually attributed to a major prophet with another book who prophesied the
downfall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar and was ordered to "pray no more" for his fellow countrymen. Often read
by Jews on Tisha B'Av, it consists of five acrostic poems. For 10 points, name this book of the Old Testament, a
collection of poetry ostensibly written by Jeremiah.
ANSWER: Book of Lamentations of Jeremiah (or Book of Eikha)
16. The protagonist of this work spreads a thin green sheet of paper with the words "this has come from
across the fence" to accompany a green-wheat cake. The protagonist of this work takes an admonishing tone
after proclaiming that "a preacher ought to be good-looking" in one section of this work, and in another
notes that it is "unattractive" to "blow my trumpet like this." The protagonist of this work expresses distaste
for babies who cry at inopportune times and guests who blatantly overwelcome their stay, and it describes the
inside of a cat's ear and perpetually ill women as "squalid things." This work also notes several commonplace
words that look more impressive when written with Chinese characters, which include strawberries, which when
eaten by children also makes the protagonist's list of elegant things. The best known work of zuihitsu, for 10 points,
name this collection of musings of the reign of Empress Sadako written by Sei Shōnagon.
ANSWER: The Pillow Book [or Makura no Sōshi]
17. One man given this epithet had his arm shot off in 1512 leading to another nickname of "The Silver
Armed" and was eventually killed following the Siege of Tlemcen led by Charles V in 1518. That man's
brother, also born on Lesbos, assumed this epithet on his death, captured Tunis from Muley Hasan and
helped build and lead the fleets of Suleiman the Magnificent. Besides the pirate rulers of Algiers, Oruc and
Hayreddin, another man with this epithet held a notable Diet at Besancon partially to legitimize his second
marriage to Beatrice after his divorce from Adelheide. That same man with this epithet supported Paschal III,
made peace with Alexander III, and had to deal with the hostile Lombard League. For 10 points, give this epithet
which names the Nazi Operation to invade Russia, as well as a Holy Roman Emperor who died on the Third
Crusade, Frederick I.
ANSWER: Barbarossa [or Red Bearded]
18. One of this god's children had aspects such as Epadun and Hegal and was associated with irrigation, while
another of this god's sons was the father of Ningishzida and was married to Ninsutu. Those children were
conceived when this god disguised himself variously as a gatekeeper and a ferryman, and besides fathering
Ninazu and Enbilulu, another of this god's sons was possessed of a lapis lazuli beard, a winged bull, and is
married to Ningal. He fathered Nergal on Ereshkigal after being condemned to the underworld for raping the
woman who would give birth to the moon god Sin or Nanna. His chief temple was known as Ekur and was located
at Nippur, and he tried to kill the humans he created with a flood, though Ea protected them. For 10 points, name
this Sumerian god, the husband of Ninlil and Lord of the Wind.
ANSWER: Enlil
19. One of this type of process has a variant that uses a phosphite intermediate and incorporates a Staudinger
ligation and is named for Chen and Mapp. One example of this type of reaction follows the reaction of
phenylhydrazine and a ketone in the Fischer indole synthesis, while another reacts allylic selenoxides, amine
oxides, or sulfoxides and, in the last case, is the second-most-famous reaction named for Wittig. Another
variant of the first example of this class of reaction incorporates an orthoester in its first step and is also
named for Johnson. Another such process has an oxy-variant that gives delta-epsilon unsaturated aldehydes and
ketones from allylic alcohols, and these processes may be classified, for example, as [3,3] or [1,5], both of which are
predicted to proceed suprafacially. For 10 points, identify this class of reactions, examples of which include the
Claisen and Cope rearrangements, characterized by the simultaneous formation of one sigma bond and the
destruction of another.
ANSWER: sigmatropic reactions
20. While the characters in this play are dining on lobster, the patriarch relates the story how he saved "Red
Sisk" from drowning. One character in this play, Wint, reveals that he "ran into a couple of swift babies ...
this afternoon", which ultimately results in the Salesman getting an under-aged character thrown out of the
Pleasant Beach House bar. The patriarch in this play's empty threat to prohibit his son to go to Yale
backfires. The primary drama in this play results from a letter Mr. McComber makes his daughter write to
a character who constantly quotes Ibsen and Swinburne. Early in this play one character burns his hand on "one
of Tommy's damned firecrackers" during a Fourth of July celebration, and that alcoholic, Sid, constantly faces the
rebuffs of Lily. The prostitute Belle tries to make Richard "go upstairs" with him after he thinks Muriel has dumped
him in this play. For 10 points, name this comedy set in New England by Eugene O'Neil.
ANSWER: Ah, Wilderness!
Tiebreakers:
Its final section states “the night should be a time of peace and tranquility” before describing two lovers
sitting in silence on a park bench. One scene sees a man describe a woman “so modest she blindfolds herself
when taking a bath” before telling of her giving an address to other women in Kalamazoo, while a later song
repeats “do-re-me-fa-so”. A woman speaks softly in extended spoken word sections, such as “I Feel the Earth
Move”, while it opens with the chorus chanting various strings of numbers like “1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4-5-6”. In its first
“Trial” we hear the songs “All Men Are Equal” and “Mr. Bojangles,” , while interspersed throughout this opera are
“Knee Plays." Longer than the composer’s later Portrait Operas like Ahknaten and Satyagraha, for 10 points, name
this minimalist opera by Philip Glass about a certain German-American scientist.
ANSWER: Einstein on the Beach
One can find the namesake flying fox of this country in national parks like Bel Ombre, located in its south.
The Black River district contains its highest point of Mount Piton, and Cyclone Hollanda hit this island in
1994, causing the destruction of over half of the sugar plantations, its main economic base. Its most populous
cities include those of Quatre Bones, Vacoas and Curepipe. Napoleon's only naval victory over the British took
place at the Battle of Grand Port off this island, which was uninhabited until the Dutch named it after their
stadholder in 1598. Once the home of the Dodo bird, for 10 points, name this island country with its capital at Port
Louis, located some 500 miles east of Madagascar.
ANSWER: Mauritius
Bonuses
1. Name some of these prominent NFL linemen, for 10 points each.
[10] This former defensive end for the Giants now on the Fox NFL Sunday team is probably best known for the gap
in his teeth.
ANSWER: Michael Anthony Strahan
[10] This team has a decent tight end in Desmond Clark, while other members of their 2008 lines included center
Olin Kreutz, guard Roberto Garza and defensive end Alex Brown.
ANSWER: Chicago Bears
[10] This longtime Eagles offensive tackle, recently released by the team, started an insane 176 regular season
games in a row, 128 of them alongside fellow tackle Tra ["tray"] Thomas. He was apparently the person who
convinced Brian Westbrook to take a knee in a game against the Cowboys in 2007.
ANSWER: "Big Ol'" Jon Runyan
2. Identify the following about the cabinet of President Eisenhower, for 10 points each.
[10] This longstanding Secretary of State under Eisenhower helped set up SEATO, criticized the British and French
response in the Suez Crisis and generally advocated for massive retaliation as a defense policy.
ANSWER: John Foster Dulles
[10] Ezra Taft Benson and James P. Mitchell were two of Eisenhower's cabinet members that made up this secret
organization of citizens to take charge following a national disaster. Also in this group, named for the number of
people in it, was CBS president Theodore F. Koop, head of its Emergency Censorship Agency.
ANSWER: Eisenhower Ten (or E-Ten)
[10] Sinclair Weeks held this post for much of Eisenhower's presidency. Harry Hopkins served in this position for
the end of FDR's second term, while NAQT wants you to know Gary Locke holds this position in the Obama
cabinet.
ANSWER: Secretary of Commerce
3. It can be activated by MAP kinases, and it triggers apoptosis if a cell's DNA is irreperably damaged. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this tumor suppressor gene and "guardian angel" of the cell that regulates the cell cycle.
ANSWER: p53
[10] p53 upregulates expression of this apoptosis-promoting gene, which inserts into the mitochondrial membrane
during apoptosis to facilitate the release of cytochrome C.
ANSWER: Bax [or Bcl-2-associated X protein]
[10] In this type of controlled cell death, decreased FSH receptors in non-dominant ovarian follicles lead to their
destruction before their oocytes can mature.
ANSWER: atresia
4. Identify the following about some common works of an author, for 10 points each:
[10] A lawyer sits in an Amsterdam bar comparing the canals of that city with various circles of Hell and refers to
the red-light district as the last circle of Hell, which is where he is in this 1956 novel.
ANSWER: The Fall
[10] In this other Camus work, a doctor criticizes Father Paneloux for his sermon regarding a child's death as God's
vengeance for the sinful behavior of the citizens of Oran.
ANSWER: The Plague
[10] Peter, Virginsky, Liputin, and Shigalov brutally murder Shatov on the forest because of Peter's fears that their
revolutionary group will be betrayed in this Camus work.
ANSWER: The Possessed
5. According to its composer, a portion of the strings in this work represented the "silence of the Druids", and it was
originally subtitled "A Contemplation of a Serious Matter". For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1908 composition by the composer of the unfinished Universe Symphony, containing a wind section
known as the "fighting answerers".
ANSWER: The Unanswered Question: A Contemplation of a Serious Matter (or The Unanswered Perennial
Question)
[10] The Unanswered Question is a work by this American composer that was originally paired with his other
"Contemplation", Central Park in the Dark.
ANSWER: Charles Edward Ives
[10] Ives incorporated the lost "Memorial Slow March" in this work's finale, while its second movement quotes
from the musician's earlier Hawthorne movement from the "Concord Sonata".
ANSWER: Ives' Symphony No. 4
6. Answer some questions about creatures from Greek mythology, for 10 points each.
[10] By some accounts the daughter of King Nisus of Megara, she was once a beautiful maiden, but was turned into
a six-headed monster by Circe after Glaucus fell in love with her.
ANSWER: Scylla
[10] That crazy Cretan Minotaur had to be fed by Athenians every year because this father of Sthenelus was killed
by a jealous Aegeus.
ANSWER: Androgeus
[10] Resulting from the progeny of Medusa and Poseidon, this creature was famously captured while drinking from
the Pirene well by Bellerophon.
ANSWER: Pegasus
7. Identify the following about some Mexican states, for 10 points each.
[10] The Caste War was so close to succeeding that its governor, isolated at the capital of Merida, offered
sovereignty to the United States, Britain, and Spain if they were able to quell the revolt in this state. Chichen Itza
can be found in its namesake land feature.
ANSWER: Yucatan Peninsula
[10] Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo probably wants you to visit this state's capital of Hermosillo, and it happens
to be one of only two Mexican states to border Baja California.
ANSWER: Sonora
[10] This state's capital of Morelia is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the state is noted for its large monarch
butterfly population.
ANSWER: Michoacan
8. These agreements, never ratified by Newfoundland and Manitoba, were primarily an effort to get Quebec on
board with the Constitution Act of 1982. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this set of proposed Constitutional amendments, named for a body of water near the town of Chelsea in
Quebec.
ANSWER: Meech Lake Accord
[10] The Meech Lake Accord was proposed by this Progressive Conservative Canadian Prime Minister, who was
succeeded in office by Kim Campbell.
ANSWER: (Martin) Brian Mulroney
[10] A few years later in 1992, Canadian politicians unsuccessfully tried to pass this accord, which would have
given Quebec a 25% guarantee in the House of Commons and described the nature of Canadians in the "Canada
Clause".
ANSWER: Charlottetown Accord
9. He spelled out propositions like "a substance is prior in nature to its affections" and "every substance is
necessarily infinite" in his magnum opus, published posthumously in 1677. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Dutch philosopher, famous for his work The Ethics.
ANSWER: Baruch Spinoza (or Benedict de Spinoza)
[10] Like Hume, Spinoza included a section "On Miracles", which he termed "unusual works of Nature", in this
work. Elsewhere, he explored whether the gift of prophecy was "peculiar" to the Hebrews.
ANSWER: Theological-Political Treatise [or Tractatus Theologico-Politicus]
[10] This philosopher asserted that "there is with [Spinoza], as with Leibnitz, an exact parallelism between the
extended and the presented world" in his essay, "Doctrine of the Ideal and Real". He also addressed "Personality, or
What a Man Is" in his essay, "The Wisdom of Life".
ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer
10. They are useful for examining coordination compounds when drawing a molecular orbital diagram might take a
bit too much time. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these fractions of molecular orbital diagrams that are constructed just from symmetry information.
ANSWER: d-orbital splitting diagrams
[10] Splitting diagrams may be constructed by starting with a known splitting diagram, then removing ligands and
the repulsion terms.they contributed to each orbital.
ANSWER: descent in symmetry
[10] The most commonly examined d-orbital splitting diagram is that for this geometry, which depicts a t2g set, the
dxy, dxz, and dyz orbitals, a certain energy below an e2 set, consisting of the dz^2 and dx^2-y^2 orbitals.
ANSWER: octahedral
11. This author wrote of "Lost Letters" and "Litost" in his 1979 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
ANSWER: Milan Kundera
[10] One of Kundera's few stage works centered on this literary character "And His Master", whose tale Kundera
compared to Tristam Shandy. This Diderot character and his master frequently comment on plot "written on high".
ANSWER: Jacques the Fatalist
[10] Kundera ended up writing Jacques and His Master instead of an adaptation of this novel, whose minor
characters include the heavy-drinking General Ivolgin and the successful Prince S.
ANSWER: The Idiot
12. For ten points each, answer some questions about the start of the Peloponnesian War.
[10] The Great Peloponnesian war broke out when this city-state, now known as Corfu, appealed to Athens for
support against a city state it eventually fought at the Battle of Sybota.
ANSWER: Corcyra
[10] Corcyra petitioned for help against this city state, located on a namesake gulf. It also founded the colony of
Epidamnus, was ruled by ruled by the tyrant Periander, and was eventually destroyed by Lucius Mummius.
ANSWER: Corinth
[10] Athens was forced to sue for peace after her grounded navy was annihilated by Lysander in this last major
battle of the war.
ANSWER: Battle of Aegospotomi
13. It consists of photons that have traveled freely from the surface of last scattering. FTPE:
[10] Name this closest known approximation to perfect black body radiation, characterized by a temperature of
about 2.7 Kelvin.
ANSWER: the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMBR or the cosmic background radiation or CBR
[10] Name this brief time period occurring approximately 300,000 years after the Big Bang in which the universe
cooled enough for previously-free electrons and nuclei to form bound, neutral atoms.
ANSWER: recombination or matter-photon decoupling
[10] This process involves photons diffusing from density perturbations as the photon mean free path increased
during recombination. The diffusing photons dragged matter, producing this man’s namesake damping process that
affects small-scale oscillations in the CMB.
ANSWER: Joseph Silk
14. He described a creature as being a "wise emblem of our political world" in his poem, "The Snail", and he also
wrote poems on "The Falcon" and "The Toad and Spyder". For 10 points each:
[10] Name this British poet, who began a well known 1642 poem "When Love with unconfined wings / Hovers
within my gates".
ANSWER: Richard Lovelace
[10] The speaker of this Lovelace poem, not to be confused with "To Althea, From Prison" proclaims "a new
mistress now I chase", and it famously ends "I could not love thee dear, so much, / Loved I not honour more'.
ANSWER: "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
[10] Besides Lucasta and Althea, Lovelace also wrote several poems to this female figure, who in reality might be
Lady Olivia Porter. He described her glove as a "snowy farme with thy five tenements!"
ANSWER: Ellinda
15. Identify the following about an early American artist, for 10 points each.
[10] This ex-pat who produced Genius Calling Forth the Fine Arts to Adorn Manufactures and Commerce is
probably best known for his 1771 contemporary history piece, The Death of General Wolfe.
ANSWER: Benjamin West
[10] At the right of this Benjamin West work, a man on a steed prepares to shoot an arrow, while a ghastly crowned
figure wields a thunderbolt in its center. It shares its name with an Albert Pinkham Ryder painting which shows a
sword bearing skeleton and is alternatively called The Race Track.
ANSWER: Death on the Pale Horse (or Death on a Pale Horse)
[10] West is also known for depicting this title woman, who can be seen dressed in white and carrying an urn in a
1768 painting where she is "Landing at Brundisium" with the ashes of her dead husband.
ANSWER: Julia Vipsania Agrippina the Elder (or Agrippina Major)
16. Formulated independently by Joan Robinson and Edward Hastings Chamberlin, it arises from conditions where
many producers make products with distinct non-price differences. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of competition, exemplified by the cereal and shampoo markets.
ANSWER: Monopolistic Competition
[10] Britannica claims that Chamberlin was heavily influenced in his college days by this man, a critic of A. C.
Pigou and the author of Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. He is considered the founder of the Chicago School of
Economics with Jacob Viner.
ANSWER: Frank Hyneman Knight
[10] A much later member of the Chicago School was this man, whose writings include "Durability and Monopoly"
and "The Nature of the Firm".
ANSWER: Ronald Coase
17. Answer some questions about the indigenous people of South America, for 10 points each.
[10] The style of their textiles was probably influenced by the Paracas culture, although this civilization is probably
best known for the large lines it left behind in the dry regions of Peru.
ANSWER: Nazca (or Nasca)
[10] Sometimes identified as the Pre-Chimu civilization, these peoples of northern Peru had sites at El Brujo and
built the massive Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna near Cerro Blanco. One of their rulers was known as the
Lord of Sipan, and you may have seen their sexually explicit pottery.
ANSWER: Moche (or Mochica; prompt on "Proto-Chimu" or "Early Chimu")
[10] Besides warding off Inca advances into their territory at the Battle of the Maule River, these people under the
leadership of Toki Michimalongo attempted to resist the advances of Pedro de Valdivia into Chile.
ANSWER: Mapuche (or Araucanians)
18. The central conflict in this novel is sparked after Old Dan falls from a tree, a conflict whose side effects include
Al's Lunch Wagon getting burned. For 10 points each:
[10] First, name this 1936 novel about reds Jim and Mac, two members of "The Party", and an apple picking strike
in California they help start.
ANSWER: In Dubious Battle
[10] In Dubious Battle was an early work by this American author, whose other novels include To a God Unknown,
The Wayward Bus, and The Pearl.
ANSWER: John Ernst Steinbeck III
[10] Years before Steinbeck wrote In Dubious Battle, he published this first unsuccesful novel about the luring to
Panama by a beautiful woman of the 17th century buccaneer Henry Morgan.
ANSWER: Cup of Gold
19. This technique expresses the result of an incoming plane wave scattering off a localized potential as a series of
corrections to an undisturbed plane wave. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this expansion used to approximate quantum mechanical scattering effects which is valid in the limit of
large wavenumbers or weak potentials.
ANSWER: Born expansion or series (accept Born approximation, although this generally refers to just the first term
of the expansion)
[10] The first term in the Born expansion is proportional to the result of this operation on the scattering potential.
This operation transfers between time and frequency domain representations of a function, expressing the function
in terms of sinusoidal components.
ANSWER: Fourier transform
[10] This alternative to the Born expansion decomposes an incoming plane wave into a series of spherical waves,
then calculates the effect of a localized spherical potential as a phase shift of the outgoing namesake entities.
ANSWER: method of partial waves or partial wave expansion
20. Identify the following about weapons in world mythology, for 10 points each.
[10] The phallic nature of this object led it to be customarily placed in the lap of virgins before marriage, which let
its cross-dressing owner snatch this hammer back from Thrym and kill all the giants in his hall.
ANSWER: Mjollnir [or Mjolner]
[10] The demon Fulad-zereh is immune to all but this emerald studded blade of Amir Arsalan.
ANSWER: Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar
[10] Weapons used by this man included the newly collected swords Ridill and Hrotti to cut out the heart of a
defeated foe. He also sired a daughter, Aslaug.
ANSWER: Sigurd
Extras:
He was opposed by the Confederation of Tarnogrod and saw his country gain the region of Podolia in the Treaty of
Carlowitz. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this presumably muscular Elector of Saxony, who reigned as the King of Poland starting in 1697.
ANSWER: Augustus The Strong (or Augustus II or August II or August Wettin or August Mocny or August
Friedrich II or August der Starke or Frederick August I)
[10] Augustus the Strong's invasion of Livonia in 1700 helped kick off this broader conflict, which saw a big defeat
for Swedish forces at the Battle of Poltava. It was ended with the Treaty of Nystad in 1721.
ANSWER: Great Northern War (or Second Northern War)
[10] Augustus was forced to sign the first treaty of this name, which called for his abdication of the throne in favor
of Stanislaw Leszcynski . It was voided after the Battle of Poltava, and Joseph II signed the second treaty of this
name a few years later to keep the Swedes off his back.
ANSWER: Treaty of Altranstadt
An article on this structure in McCall's Magazine declared "a couple of hours ... in its Lisbon Lounge [and] London
Club" were practically better than a trip abroad, and its architect strove to make it present "the excitement of the
trip". For 10 points each:
[10] Name this modernist structure in New York City, designed by the man who designed the Tulip Chair and the
Kleinhaus Music Hall in Buffalo.
ANSWER: TWA Terminal at JFK Airport (or TWA Flight Center or Jet Blue Flight Center; prompt on
"Terminal 5")
[10] The TWA Terminal at JFK Airport was designing by this Finnish architect whose other airport related work
included designing the main terminal at Dulles International Airport. He also designed the Gateway Arch.
ANSWER: Eero Saarinen
[10] Saarinen also designed this concrete thin-shell building, whose one-eight dome design is contrasted with that of
stubby cylindrical chapel he also designed for MIT.
ANSWER: Kresge Auditorium