2009 Missouri Open: Stems from the declining Coconuts
Packet by Aaron Rosenberg, Chris Ray, Stevejohn Guth, and Jerry Vinokurov
Tossups
1. One sketch by this artist depicts the "Intersection of Roads" at the Belgian war zone of Neufchateau, while
another shows a boy carving wooden shoes in Brittany, entitled The Young Sabot Maker. He married the San
Francisco-based opera singer Jessie Olssen and, late in life, composed the autobiography The Story of an
Artist's Life. His patron Rodman Wanamaker financed his two trips to the Holy Land, which became a
prominent theme in his work, after viewing his painting The Resurrection of Lazarus. Two people sit at a
small table with their hands on their foreheads in prayer in The Thankful Poor, while his most famous work
shows a boy sitting on the lap of his grandfather with his hands around the namesake instrument, inspired by a work
of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. FTP, name this artist of The Banjo Lesson, a realist painter of the late 19th century and
an early African-American artist.
ANSWER: Henry Ossawa Tanner
2. The small intestine-ravaging celiac disease is usually characterized by the presence of one of this entity's
associated molecules, DQ alpha 1, whose organization is overseen by the CLIP protein. A 1995 study
indicated oral contraceptives may block one function of this entity, which accounted for the olfactory
preferences of a group of coeds according to Wedekind's “sweaty t-shirt experiment.” Molecules associated
with this entity are bound by calreticulin and tapasin and loaded with peptides in the endoplasmic reticulum, and
like V(D)J recombination, it is a defining characteristic of gnathostomata. One manifestation of it is bounded by
MOG and COL11A2, and is sometimes known as HLA. The third class of this highly polymorphic entity is
associated with the formation of factor B and other aspects of the complement system. The densest region of the
mammalian genome, it is found on chromosome 6 in humans. FTP, identify this genomic region found in most
vertebrates, whose name suggests its central importance in facilitating antigen presentation in the immune system.
ANSWER: MHC or Major Histocompatibility Complex
3. We learn that this novel’s protagonist drinks a glass of sherry every Sunday in the library at the same time
we learn he reads off the back of an eagle every Christmas and Harvest Thanksgiving. We also learn about
this novel’s Reverend Tendril complaining about how difficult it is to realize it is Christmas. The protagonist
is offered Princess Abdul Abzar by Polly Cockpurse, and refuses to get a divorce because of the sale of Hetton
Abbey after his son John Andrew is killed in a foxhunt. Three of this novel’s chapters are titled “English Gothic,”
while another makes reference to hard cheese. While traveling with Dr. Messinger in search of the Shining City in
the Amazon, the protagonist is cured by a man that forces him to read Charles Dickens, Mr. Todd. For ten points,
name this novel in which Jock Grant Menzies, and not John Beaver, marries Lady Brenda, the ex-hsuband of Tony
Last, an Evelyn Waugh noveld titled after a line from a T.S. Eliot poem.
ANSWER: A Handful of Dust
4. The song “To the fight, to the fight” commemorates the heroism of one figure from this country, who
exhausted Suleiman to death at Szigetvar. Anger over the Peace of Vasvar, which did not return some of this
country's territory, led its noble families to join Hungarian Ferenz Wesselenyi in a conspiracy against
Leopold I . Those families, the Frankopans and Zrinskis, attempted to justify the uprising under the Pacta
Conventa with Coloman the Book-Lover. This country's Peasant Party remained active through twisted
“plan of thirds” by Mile Budak for one ethnic group, and the conflict between ZAVNOH and Aimone of Avosta,
the puppet ruler Tomislav II. The murder of Milan Sufflay, the failed Lika Incident,and the assassination of King
Alexander in Marseille were perpetrated by “Headman” Ante Pavelic's Ustashe, which also oversaw this country's
Jasenovac concentration camp. The Vukovar massacre occurred during Franjo Tudman's struggle for independence
from Yugoslavia for, FTP, what European country that once had a personal union with Hungary, currently governed
from Zagreb?
ANSWER: Republic of Croatia (accept any form e.g. Independent State of Croatia or whatever)
5. Sarah Parvis discussed the "Lost Years" of this movement, and Gregory of Nyssa developed a parable in
which asking for a loaf of bread is compared to this movement. The Polish Bretheren are often labeled as
descendents of it, and Meletius was exiled three times because of his opposition to this movement, while one
branch of it became known as the (*) Eusibians. It was vociferously opposed by Athanasius of Alexandria, and the
councils of Rimini and Seleucia were convened to settle the debate over it. It grew out of the teachings of Origen,
and its views were repudiated with the codification of homoousin, or "same substance," a view which affirmed that
the Logos had no beginning. For ten points, identify this heresy which emphasizes the primacy of the father over
Jesus the son, declared heretical at the council of Nicea.
ANSWER: Arianism
6. The preface to this work asks whether anything "could be more necessary than cheerfulness?" and
suggests that the foregoing work might be a "ray of sunshine" or "a new war." This work claims that "one
cannot learn from the Greeks" in a section dedicated to "Things I Owe to the Ancients," while its concluding
section excerpts the parable of the diamond and the charcoal from the author's earlier work and entreats
readers to "Become hard." In a section on (*) "Skirmishes in a War with the Age," which contains commentary
on Sainte-Beuve, Imitation of Christ, and George Eliot, Emerson is favorably contrasted with Carlyle, while the
author claims that a certain people are "bored with intellect" in a section about "Things the Germans Lack." The first
section of this work is a collection of "Maxims and Missiles," and it's second calls a Greek philosopher "the mob"
and "the lowest of the low," and is entitled "The Problem of Socrates." Subtitled "How to Philosophize with the
Hammer," for ten points, identify this work by Friedrich Nietsczhe which bemoans the Christian chaining of the
"blonde beast" and takes its title by punning on a Wagner opera.
ANSWER: Twilight Of The Idols [or Gotzen-Dammerung]
7. According to a typology due to Huddleston, instances of this feature of a language may be isolated baced on
their NICE properties, or their capacity for negation, inversion, code, and emphasis. Givon divided instances
of this feature into deontic and epistemic subdomains, and Traugott traced the development of this aspect of
language in English through his Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change. In some Native American
languages this feature divides into realis and irrealis varieties. A classification by Sadock and Zwicky
categorizes this feature of a language according to clause types, which can be categorized on the basis of their
illocutionairy force into types such as interrogative and hypothetical. For ten points, identify this aspect of language
which is used to signify possibility or necessity, and examples of which include the optative, the imperative, the
indicative, and the subjunctive.
ANSWER: mood or modality
8. This musician was a roommate of David Lynch for a year in Boston, but was allegedly asked to move out
for being "too weird," while he was with his first band The Hallucinations. At the beginning of one song, he
yells "Open up the door bitch! This is the wooba gooba with the green teeth, let me in!" He talks about
"dancing in the dark to the radio of love" in the title track of his first solo album Lights Out, while a more
recent solo album includes "Five O'Clock Angel" and a duet with Mick Jagger, "Nothin' But the Wheel." That
album, 2002s Sleepless, is less famous than this man's time as the lead singer of a band responsible for albums like
Blow Your Face Out. Other members of that band were known as Dr. Funk and Magic Dick - their hit songs
included the previously-mentioned "Musta Got Lost" and radio classics like "Love Stinks" and "Freeze Frame."
FTP, name this lead singer of the J. Geils Band.
ANSWER: Peter Wolf
9. Considering the finite capacitance of the physical implementation needed to realize this effect leads to the
derivation of Swihart waves. Combining the non-stationary variety of this effect with an externally applied
field results in features called Shapira steps, which are discrete increments on a current vs. voltage plot. This
effect's namesake penetration depth is included in the Ferrell-Prange equation, and in the absence of an
external potential, this effect results in a current that varies as the sine of the phase difference. In the case of
an applied magnetic field, that current's frequency is quantized by the flux quantum, while in the widejunction case, this effect results in soliton solutions as well as Meissner-like behavior and in the presence of a
magnetic field it can be used for interferometry. The physical basis for superconducting quantum interference
devices, for ten points, identify this eponymous effect in which a current flows across an insulating barrier between
two superconductors.
ANSWER: Josephson effect
10. One play by this man sees two prisoners fight for the attention of the illiterate murderer Green-Eyes in
their prison cell, and his time in refugee camps led to the publication of Prisoner of Love. Besides Deathwatch,
this author wrote a novel in which the protagonist tricks Vic but wishes to make Gil Turko his accomplice in
murder and love and who sails on Le Vengeur. Besides Querelle of Brest and Funeral Rites, this author wrote
about the sameness of 1930s Europe in an autobiographical novel and made himself the narrator of a work which
sees Mimosa beat up the transvestite Divine, whose lover Darling soon moves in with the title character of that
work, Our Lady of the Flowers. Archibald Absalon Wellington reenacts the murder of a woman by the titular group
in another drama by this man, who wrote of the clients of the titular establishment filling their roles in Irma's mock
government in his The Balcony. His best-known work sees the two title characters perform a sadomasochistic
ceremony as they role-play their mistress. For ten points, name this French author of The Blacks and The Maids.
ANSWER: Jean Genet
11. This man angrily pursued a group of Jarivistes who absconded with one of his works and, taking the title
literally, shot it with a large caliber revolver, prompting him to remake one hundred copies. Readers of This
Quarter were encouraged to make their own copy of that work, Object to be Destroyed, a metronome with a
cut-out of Lee Miller's eye on the pendulum. This artist of The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse showed black
figures outlined in red and yellow intertwine in his (*) Dance in the Subway. One of his subjects sports a fur coat
and a checkered hat, while another rests her hand on her head and hides her body behind a large metal wheel. Those
depictions of “Rose Selavy” and nudes of Meret Oppenheim were often modified in his characteristic technique,
which also saw him apply f-holes to a woman's bare back in Le Violon d'Ingres. Tendrils emerge from a multilimbed feature above six colorful blocks in his The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows. Famously
capturing Marcel Duchamp in drag, FTP, name this artist best-remembered for his namesake camera-less
photograms and photographic contributions to Dada and Surrealism.
ANSWER: Man Ray or Emmanuel Radnitzky
12. This man fought with a certain group over a tax known as the "tenth penny," and he persecuted military
actions against Pope Paul IV and the duke of Guise, after which he helped negotiated the Treaty of CateauCambresis. His early career saw him lead an expedition to Tunis and win a victory over the Schmalkaldic
League at Muhlberg. Among the actions of this man was the institution of the so-called "Council of Troubles,"
which resulted in the formation of a force opposed to him known as the Beggars. Dispatched to his most famous
theater in 1567 after the Battle of Oosterweel, this man executed Counts Hoorne and Egmont, but after a second
uprising led by William of Orange, this man was replaced by Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga. Infamous for his
cruelty, for ten points, identify this Spanish general who in the service of Philip II suppressed the first Dutch Revolt.
ANSWER: 3rd Duke of Alba (or Alva) or Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo y Pimentel
13. In a story by this author, two convicts rifle through the pockets of a man who dies during a prison fire,
while in another, the main character is whipped after stealing the titular sum. In addition to the stories "To
What Red Hell," and "Mama's Missionary Money," this writer depicted his affair with Vandi Haygood in the
novel The Primitive, while another of his novels was criticized for its portrayal of union organizer Lee Gordon
and was titled Lonely Crusade. This author introduced his most famous characters in the story "The Fivecornered Square," published at the behest of Marcel Duhamel; those same characters appear in a novel which begins
with Jimmy witnessing the murders of two waiters, Run, Man, Run. This man is better known for writing about Bob
Jones, a black foreman who loses his job at the Atlas Shipyards due to racism, as well as for novels such as The Real
Cool Killers and The Big Gold Dream, which feature "Coffin" Ed Johnson and "Grave Digger" Jones. For ten
points, identify this African-American writer most famous for Cotton Comes to Harlem and If He Hollers Let Him
Go.
ANSWER: Chester Bomar Himes
14. A 2004 paper attempted to derive superconductivity in some materials from the interactions of “small
polarons” named for this effect arising from large electron-intermolecular vibration coupling in the presence
of an intramolecular vibration. Certain electronic transitions in some species are unexpectedly weakly
Laporte-allowed due to this effect, which also provides copper's place as highest on the high-spin IrvingWilliams series. This phenomenon predicts the insulating activity of certain metal-doped fullerene species. A
radical anion of cyclooctatetraene exhibits this effect. A weaker version of this effect occurs with species like
scandium (I), since the t2g set does not point at any ligands. This phenomenon occurs most strongly in high spin d4,
low spin d7, and d9 complexes. For 10 points, identify this phenomenon that occurs principally in octahedral
geometries to prevent asymmetrically occupied orbitals from having degenerate energy levels by stretching one
axis.
ANSWER: Jahn-Teller effect [or ~ distortion, or ~ theorem]
15. A bassoon passage in this composition condenses the opening motif into six measures, then inverts the
theme to produce a “mirror variation.” A notable cello cantilena appears in this piece’s seventh variation. In
the third, lento section of this work, the featured instruments are said to “have a gentle, plaintive quality, but
they can be forceful enough when the composer wants them to,” and in its first section another group of
instruments is called “superior versions of the penny-whistle.” The penultimate section of this composition
features such instruments as the castanets, tamtam, and whip. This piece ends with a fugue that each instrument
joins individually starting with the piccolo, and it is based on a rondeau from incidental music to a play by Aphra
Behn. Dedicated to “the children of John and Jean Maud,” for 10 points, this is what work consisting of variations
on a theme from Henry Purcell’s Abdelazar, a work by Benjamin Britten?
ANSWER: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
16. Virgil describes a priestess of this goddess named Chloreus who helped drive the Latins out of Rome, and
the reception of an image of this figure was celebrated at the Megalensian festival. Zeus could not rape this
figure directly and so let his semen fall on her while she was in the form of the Agdos rock. Marsyas was a
follower of this figure, whose most famous action was commemorated by the (*) Hilaria in Roman times. Her
cult was run by eunuch priests called Corybantes. Her son and consort castrated himself and died after provoking her
jealousy, but she resurrected him. According to one legend, this mother of Attis turned Hippomenes and Atalanta
into lions for making love in one of her temples. Later assimilated with Rhea, for ten points, name this Phrygian
Earth Mother goddess.
ANSWER: Cybele or Magner Mata
17. The final structure of this entity relied partially on extensive notes kept by Joseph Grew, while a famous
correspondence cited its inability to reestablish control of the Liancourt Rocks. Charles Willoughby
attempted to use Beate Sirota's Judaism to prevent her involvement with it, perhaps due to frightening
intolerance for “mutual consent” in marriages. While working with Milo Rowell at GHQ, one of the key
architects of this entity cited the Rescript on Education as more illustrative of the challenges it would need to
overcome than its own predecessor. Courtney White crafted provisions tying treaties to domestic law and
immunizing it from review, as well as measure suggested by a man who had lost political power following the
Mukden Incident, this entity's famous Article 9. Article 10 of the Potsdam resolution mandated it ensure human
rights and freedom of speech, though did not discuss the renunciation of war. FTP, identify this document whose
creation was overseen by SCAP Douglas MacArthur, which in 1947 replaced an earlier governing document named
for Emperor Meiji.
ANSWER: The Japanese Constitution [accept equivalents, but do NOT accept the Imperial/Meiji Constitution, or
the “Constitution of the Empire of Japan”]
18. The point of failure of an inequality which involves the function central to this statement is known as the
Skewes number. The function that is central to this statement can be approximated using the Gramm series,
or using a series developed by Ramanujan in terms of Bernoulli numbers, and this statement can also be
proven by applying the Mellon transform to the von Mangold function. This statement is sometimes written
with a number known as Legendre's constant in the denominator, and Gauss proposed using the logarithmic
integral to generalize this statement, of which an elementary proof was famously given by Paul Erdos. Proved
by Hadamard and de la Vallee Poussin by showing that the Riemann zeta function cannot have certain types of root,
for ten points, identify this mathematical theorem which states that n over the natural log of n is an asymptote to a
function that counts a certain kind of number.
ANSWER: prime number theorem
19. This poem describes a nursery "where queens are formed and future heroes bred," in addition to the
sound of "Echoes from Pissing-Alley." Twelve owls fly past one character in this poem, which the author
compares to Romulus watching the vultures. That character receives a copy of the play Love's Kingdom, and
the title character falls through a trap door at the end but his mantle is "borne upwards by a subterranean
wind." He also claims that Jonson does not dare appear at this poem's central event. The title character of this
poem picks the son who most resembles him as his successor even though that son is an idiot, and is also the reallife subject of ridicule in this poem though his name is mostly blotted out. For ten points, identify this poem which
opens "All human things are subject to decay," a jab at Thomas Shadwell written by John Dryden.
ANSWER: "Mac Flecknoe"
20. Joseph Chapman and Thomas Fisher, a pair of privateers, were the first American residents of this city,
while Jedediah Smith was the first American to arrive here via an overland route. This city was the site of the
execution of Chief Garra of the Cupeno Indians, and Dr. J. S. Griffin was able to purchase cheap land in the
eastern section of this city as reward for his services during an 1864 cholera outbreak here. Clarence Darrow
was set to defend the McNamara brothers before they confessed to engineering the bombing of a (*)
newspaper building owned by Harrison Gray Otis in this city, which ended the mayoral prospects of Socialist Job
Harriman. In 1847, Robert Stockton put down a rebellion in this city, which was originally founded by Gaspar de
Portola, while water to this city was supplied by an aqueduct constructed by William Mulholland to take water from
the Owens Valley River. For ten points, identify this city in the Western US which also saw the Zuit Suit Riots and
the Watts Riots.
ANSWER: Los Angeles
Bonuses
1. This ruler presided over the Four-Year Sejm, and upon his ascenscion to the throne he attempted to move his
country towards a constitutional monarchy. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this ruler of Poland from 1764 to 1795.
ANSWER: Stanislaw II Augustus Poniatowski
[10] Stanislaw's attempts to institute a new constitution on May 3, 1791, were thwarted by this conservative alliance,
which Catherine the Great later forced Stanislaw to join.
Answer: Confederation of Targowica
[10] Shortly after abdicating, Stanislaw was sent into "retirement" in St. Petersburg by this Russian tsar, who had
succeeded Catherine and ruled until 1801, when he was assassinated by his own generals after refusing to abdicate.
Answer: Paul I or Pavel I Petrovich
2. This algorithm accomplishes the same task as the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm but compares the hashed values
rather than the raw source values. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this doubly-eponymous string matching algorithm.
Answer: Rabin-Karp (accept any order)
[10] This other alternative to the Rabin-Kapr algorithm compares the characters from the end of the pattern to the
beginning of the search space. It has the property that it becomes more efficient with longer patterns since it does not
need to examine every character.
Answer: Boyer-Moore algorithm
[10] One can, of course, perform the search by checking every character in the pattern against every character in the
source. If you did this, you would be employing this kind of dumb algorithm in which typically every possibility is
examined until the right one is found.
Answer: brute force
3. It features "Oxford in the Vacation" and "The Two Races of Men." FTPE:
[10] Identify this essay collection which takes its title from the pseudonym used by the author when writing them.
ANSWER: Essays of Elia
[10] This British author who co-wrote Tales from Shakespeare with his sister Mary also wrote Essays of Elia, in
addition to Rosamund Gray.
ANSWER: Charles Lamb
[10] Wikipedia tells us that, like his contemporary Thomas de Quincey, Lamb was influenced by this much earlier
English author who drew upon his experiences with depression to write The Anatomy of Melancholy.
ANSWER: Robert Burton
4. This work's first section draws parallels between Darwin's work on evolution and Maxwell's application of
statistical mechanics to gases. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this essay, which casts science in opposition to authority, tenacity, and a priori methods and claims that
it alone can bring about the titular state.
Answer: The Fixation of Belief
[10] The Fixation of Belief is one of the best-known works of this American pragmatist, whose other essays include
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear."
ANSWER: Charles Sanders Pierce
[10] This idea of finding continuity between seemingly divergent paths of inquiry was conceived and championed
by Pierce in such essays as "The Law of the Mind." It partially titles an article written by Susan Haack, which
promotes this approach over "cynicism."
Answer: synechism
5. While at Sproxton, the title character witnesses a John-Johnson funded strategy of buying workers beer in
exchange for support for the title political party. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which the title character returns to Treby Magna and falls in love with Esther Lyon, but is
opposed by Harold Transome and relayed critical information by Maurice Christian.
ANSWER: Felix Holt, the Radical
[10] Felix Holt, the Radical was written by this author whose previously published historical novel about
Savonarola, Romola, was a flop. Her better enduring novels include one about Tom and Maggie Tulliver, The Mill
on the Floss.
ANSWER: George Eliot [or Mary Ann Evans]
[10] In this story from Eliot's collection Scenes of Clerical Life, the title character's infatuation with Caterina Sarti is
initially foiled by the flirtation of Anthony Wybrow, but is eventually reciprocated shortly before Tina's death.
ANSWER: "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story"
6. They serve as an intermediate in the Amadori rearrangement, and an ether analogue of this functional group,
given a trichloromethyl unit, is present during the Overman rearrangement. For 10 points each:
[10] This functionality is characterized by a carbon-nitrogen double bond. When the nitrogen is connected to an aryl
or alkyl group that helps keep it stable, it is called a Schiff base.
ANSWER: imine
[10] An imine or iminium intermediate is employed in this reaction, closely related to the aldol condensation, which
takes an amine and formaldehyde and reacts the adduct with a ketone or aldehyde and base.
ANSWER: Mannich reaction
[10] Imines react in the aza modification of this popular reaction from enolate chemistry. Its vanilla version,
catalyzed by DABCO, sees an aldehyde react with an alpha-beta unsaturated ketone to give an allylic alcohol.
ANSWER: Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction [or MBH reaction]
7. This man's troops proclaimed him Emperor after Gallus was murdered by his bodyguard, and he took power after
Aemilianus's troops fell over themselves to murder him and defect to this ruler. FTPE:
[10] Identify this Roman Emperor, one of the few nobles to rule during the Crisis of the Third Century, whose
Christian purges took the lives of St. Lawrence, Cyprian of Carthage, and Pope Sixtus II. Lactantius perhaps
vengefully reported that he spent his later years as a Sassanid footstool after being defeated at the Battle of Edessa.
ANSWER: Publius Licinius Valerianus (or Valerian I)
[10] Valerian lost at Edessa to the first Sassanid ruler of this name, the son of founder Ardeshir I, who prompted
Gordian's murder by Philip the Arab after winning the Battle of Misiche but saw his harem raided by Balista. The
second ruler of this name fought Pap and Arshak II of Armenia and killed Julian the Apostate outside Ctesiphon.
ANSWER: Shapur
[10] Centuries later, the crusader state of Edessa was captured following the battles of Harran and Araz and the
failure of Joscelin II, prompting Eugene III to issue Quantum praedecessores and call for this campaign, which saw
Eleanor of Aquitaine and others disastrously attack the Holy Land as well as the Wendish Crusade and the conquest
of Lisbon.
ANSWER: Second Crusade
8. This character rescues Zany after he breaks his leg. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this government adviser who is ordered by his superior to force General Canales out of the country.
That superior is the namesake of the book in which this character appears.
ANSWER: Miguel Angel Face
[10] Angel Face is the protagonist of this Guatemalan author's El Seňor Presidente. He also wrote Mulata de tal and
the Banana trilogy.
ANSWER: Miguel Angel Asturias
[10] In this work by Asturias, Gaspar Ilom launches a rebellion against invading businessmen to protect his native
community, while the postman Nicho is turned into a coyote.
ANSWER: Men of Maize
9. He had to deal with revolts in Dalarna and one led by Nils Dacke, and at the Diet of Västerås, he confiscated the
property of Sweden's Catholic Church. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this founder of the Vasa dynasty who signed the Treaty of Malmo with Christian II, thus relieving
Sweden of Denmark's rule in the Kalmar Union.
ANSWER: Gustav I Vasa
[10] Gustav I was a follower of the party of this man, who initiated a coup against Eric Trolle, and died after his loss
to Christian II at Bogesund. His body was famously desecrated by Christian during the Stockholm Bloodbath.
ANSWER: Sten Sture the Younger
[10] Gustav I was grandfather to this husband of Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg who was known as "The Lion of
the North" and died at the Battle of Lutzen.
ANSWER: Gustavus Adolphus or Gustav II Adolfus or Gustavus the Great
10. This is a bonus about mythological African frogs. Deal with it, FTPE:
[10] Numerous West African myths describe Frog's responsibility – through ineptitude or scheming – for this
condition's presence in society. Hercules sought it after he was tricked into putting on a tunic laced with the burning
blood of the centaur Nessus, and it was experienced somewhat less voluntarily by Patroclus, Agamemnon, and
Laius.
ANSWER: Death (accept equivalents)
[10] The male members of this group, Nu, Hauhet, Kuk, and Amun, were symbolized by the frog. It's holy site was
at Hermopolis, and its creation myths were variously subsumed by gods like Hathor and Ra.
ANSWER: The Ogdoad or Eight-Fold
[10] This mythology features a “Just Frog” who will eat the pesky Abatwa, violent tiny people who ride around on
ants. It is promulgated by Credo Mutwa, who claims to have raised the Tikoloshe water zombie, and features a
group of deities led by Umvelinqangi that come from the primordial reed swamp Uhlanga.
ANSWER: amaZulu
11. The Near Earth Neutral Line model and the Current Sheet Disruption model both seek to explain the substorms
found in this region. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this region surrounding the earth which contains the plasmasphere and whose aforementioned
substorms result from interactions with the solar wind.
Answer: magnetosphere
[10] The magnetosphere exhibits these propagating waves, which arise from slow ion oscillations in the direction of
the field. They are named for the Swedish scientist who first postulated their existence.
Answer: Alfven waves
[10] Alfven's namesake layer separates the plasma sheet from this phenomenon, a westward drift of positive ions
that induces southward perturbations in the magnetosphere. Its existence was established through the work of
Sydney Chapmna, Alfven, Kristian Birkeland, and others.
Answer: ring current
12. A Marquise perishes in a fire on the same spot from which he had commanded the title woman to move in this
man's story, "The Beggarwoman of Locarno." For ten points each:
[10] Identify this author who also wrote of the love between Gustav and Toni, who works for Kongo Hoango, in
"The Engagement in Santo Domingo."
Answer: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
[10] After being raped while unconscious by a count who saves her from some Russian soldiers, the title character
of this Kleist short story, Giuliette, places an advertisement in the paper for the father of her child, only to have the
same count turn up and win her over in the end.
Answer: The Marquise of O or Die Marquise von O
[10] The accident at the center of this Kleist story occurs when Ruprecht finds Judge Adam trying to seduce Eve,
leading him to smash the titular object and beat the judge.
Answer: The Broken Jug or Der zerbrochene
13. In this case, the Supreme Court invalidated a law which had allowed Virginians who owed debts to Britain to
absolve themselves of these debts by paying them to the state. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this 1796 case, in which the Supreme Court held that federal laws supercede state laws. Ironically, it
was the only case ever argued before the Court by John Marshall.
Answer: Ware v. Hylton (accept either name)
[10] The major opinion in Ware v. Hylton was written by this Justice, who claimed that sate laws in conflict with
federal treaties were "prostate" before them. He remains the only Supreme Court justice to ever be impeached.
Answer: Samuel Chase
[10] In this earlier 1793 case involving the rights of sovereign states, the court ruled that under the Constitution,
states could be sued by individuals. The decision of this case led directly to the passage of the 11th Amendment.
Answer: Chisholm v. Georgia
14. He sent Khali ibn Walid to invade the Sassanids. FTPE:
[10] Name this first rightly-guided caliph, the predecessor of Umar.
ANSWER: Abu Bakr
[10] After Muhammad's death, some of the Arab tribes revolted under false prophets like Musaylimah and refused to
pay Zakat, leading to this series of conflicts which ended in victory for Abu Bakr and the establishment of Medina
as a cultural and political center.
ANSWER: Ridda Wars
[10] Abu Bakr was one of these close companions of Muhammad during his time on Earth.
ANSWER: Sahaba
15. It shares its name with a much more colorful Benjamin West canvas painted over a century earlier. FTPE:
[10] Identify this painting in which the two title figures proceed around a fence as a snake moves through the grass
at the bottom.
ANSWER: Death on a Pale Horse or The Racetrack
[10] This gloomy American artist of Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens and The Flying Dutchman painted Death on a
Pale Horse.
ANSWER: Albert Pinkham Ryder
[10] Ryder's interest in stormy seas also led him to depict this character. He is watched by God, who is surrounded
by clouds in the shape of wings and holds an orb in his hands.
ANSWER: Jonah
16. Examples of this class of molecule as a pesticide include 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid, and in plants its most
important example is indole-3-acetic acid. For 10 points each:
[10] First, name this class of plant hormones responsible for apical dominance.
ANSWER: Auxins
[10] This classic model of the role of auxins in plant growth predicts that auxins cause the cell wall to be loosened
by pumping ions against the the electrochemical gradient.
ANSWER: Acid Growth Hypothesis
[10] This aptly named class of proteins cause growth by loosening hydrogen bonding between polysaccharides in
the cell wall.
ANSWER: Expansins
17. Uncharacteristically for its time, this work opens with three orchestral chords, each followed by a cadenza for
the solo instrument, and its last movement contains a brief duet for the solo instrument and timpani. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this work premiered by Friedrich Schneider that followed another of its type in G major.
ANSWER: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, “Emperor”
[10] This other Beethoven work in the same key contains a notable trio involving English horns in the third
movement and a double fugue in its final movement.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica”
[10] That segment of the last movement of Eroica is a theme and variations on one movement from this Beethoven
ballet in which the title character teaches statues about the arts.
ANSWER: The Creatures of Prometheus
18. The speaker of this poem feels "the always coming on/ the always rising of the night." For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this poem which, though it never mentions the title figure, clearly alludes to him as it depicts night
settling over the world while the speaker lies "face down beneath the sun."
ANSWER: "You, Andrew Marvell"
[10] This American poet penned "You, Andrew Marvell" in addition to the drama J.B. and the epic Conquistador
and a work taking its title from Horace about how a poem should not mean, but be, "Ars Poetica."
ANSWER: Archibald MacLeish
[10] This MacLeish poem begins "Who is the voyager in these leaves?" Its speaker states that "we do not want
Truth... Tongues... Justice" from the founding fathers but instead "we want answers" and urges men to unite.
ANSWER: "America Was Promises"
19. This polity produced antipope Benedict XIII, who was backed its King Alfonso V the Magnanimous against
Pope Martin V and the Sforzas. FTPE:
[10] Identify this kingdom which under Alfonso incorporated Naples and Valencia, whose most revered King may
have been John the Great, who faced a civil war following the birth of his son Charles of Viana that eventually
forced him to relinquish Rousillon to Louis XI, and who would later become the grandfather of Joana the Mad.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Aragon
[10] John the Great married Blanche I of this kingdom, whose power amassed under rulers like Sancho the Wise
was squandered by the disastrous Charles II, aptly nicknamed “the Bad.” Its King Henry III became Henry IV of
France after defeating Henry of Guise and Henry III of France and founding the Bourbon Dynasty.
ANSWER: Kingdom of Navarre
[10] Alfonso bowed to pressure from the Generalitat, siding with the nobles in the first phase of this Catalonian
peasant uprising, whose name derived from the serfs' desire to redeem themselves from servitude. Its second
incarnation finally relented after Ferdinand II slightly limited the degree to which nobles could maim their serfs.
ANSWER: War/Uprising of the Remences or Remenca
20. Identify these people and things related to the psychology of prejudice, for ten points each.
[10] Though he may be better known for his monumental work on categorizing traits entitled Personality: A
Psychological Interpretation, this American psychologist also studied prejudice extensively in his The Nature of
Prejudice.
Answer: Gordon Willard Allport
[10] This work concluded that shockingly, people who were prejudiced against one race were probably going to be
prejudiced against other races as well. Written by a team that included Theodor Adorno, it aimed at a definitive
study of the kind of person succeptible to persuasion by Fascism.
Answer: The Authoritarian Personality
[10] This psychologist was the first black graduate of Columbia's doctoral psychology program; his work was cited
by the Supreme Court in 1954's Brown decision, and he would later explore the problems of racial dynamics in Dark
Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power.
Answer: Kenneth Bancroft Clark