2009 Missouri Open: Stems from the declining Coconuts
Packet by Charlie Loelius, Chris Horng, and Jeremy Hixson
Tossups
1. This city’s namesake liturgy is credited with the development of the long prayer the sedro, and was based
on the anaphora of St. James. The appointment in this city of Cyril VI in 1724 resulted in the creation of the
Catholic Melkite Church and another Catholic church was created with the failed election of Michael Jarweh
here in 1783. Other controversial bishops here included Paul of Samosata, who was deposed in two synods
held here, and Meletius, the namesake of a schism in this city because of his position between Nicene and
Arianism. The Three Chapters condemned two men associated with the catechetical school in this city, Theodoret of
Cyrrhus and Theodore of Mospuestia, and that school, which espoused the so-called “Logos-Anthropos” model and
whose students included John Chrysostom and Nestorius, was opposed by the Alexandrian Christology. For 10
points, name this Syrian city on the Orontes, now in Turkey, part of the patriarchical pentarchy with Rome,
Alexandria, Constantinople, and Jerusalem.
ANSWER: Antioch [or Antiokheia or Antakaya; accept adjectival forms]
2. During this battle, the size of one side’s forces prompted Tsutsui Junkei to stay at Horagotoge Pass out of
the initial fighting, before electing to betray his lord and join that larger force. Many legends surround the
losers of this battle, including one that says Mitsutoshi committed seppuku, writing a poem with his own
blood as he died, and one that says Mitsuchika arose from a pile of corpses to slay the victorious general, who
had come to inspect the field. Immediately preceding this battle, one side’s forces had taken Azuchi Castle,
while the other side was forced to conduct a hurried peace with the Mori. More famously, the victor of this
battle, who was avenging a surprise attack on his lord at Honnoji, ordered Tai-an to be constructed at Myokian by Sen-no-Rikyu in order to conduct tea ceremonies there after this battle fought to avenge the death of Oda
Nobunaga. For 10 points, name this 1582 battle which brought to an end the brief shogunate of Akechi Mitsuhide by
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
ANSWER: Battle of Yamazaki [or Battle of Tennozan]
3. In one poem of this name, the speaker “was in the prison/ of being in a crowd, alone” before meeting the
title figure at a powwow. In addition to that work by Mary Ann Gerard, another poem by this name
concludes “what, anyway,/ was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?”,
after the speaker experiences the last days of the title figure, which he murdered with a sharpened bone. That
poem, appearing in the collection Body Rags, is by Galway Kinnell, while another work of this name
compares man to the title creature, who looks “baggy” and “equally pathetic/ whether sedentary or peripatetic”,
while vacillating between the theories of one “Greek” or another. In addition to that Robert Frost poem, Another
work of this name sees Lion trained to kill the title creature, after Boon Hogganbeck and Sam Fathers bring Ike
McCaslin into the wilderness for an annual hunt for the title creature. For 10 points, give this name, shared most
famously with a William Faulkner short story about Old Ben, the titular animal.
ANSWER: The Bear
4. The ten identified factors that are used to trigger them consist of oligosaccarides of NAG where their
expression could be inhibited by genistein and induced by luteolin. The main activity of these structures is
inactiviated by oxygen, so an oxygen buffer that cycles between oxidized and reduced forms of iron in
leghemoglobin would bind up free oxygen. Their formation begins when the rhicadhesin on the cell surface
causes attachment, followed by an infection thread inducing cell division to occur. Making a product that is usually
converted into glutamine from ammonia, for 10 points, name these tumor-like growths on a plant’s root that is
caused by a symbiotic infection of legumes by bacteria for nitrogen fixation.
ANSWER: root nodules
5. The shamanic tradition of this people holds that Yawm Saub, this ethnic group’s creator god, chooses a
figure who then takes up the practices first taught by Yee Shee, which include entering a trance to ride a
winged horse across the twelve mountain ranges separating this world with that of the divine. This people is
divided into groups which include the Der, or White, and the Leng, or Blue, who are so named for traditional
clothing colors, and the language of this people is often written in the Romanized Phonetic Alphabet
developed for it in the mid-20th Century. A dispute with medical authorities in Merced over Lia Lee, a
member of this ethnic group was related by Anne Fadiman in a work which takes its name from this people’s term
for epilepsy, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Racial tensions involving this ethnic group and whites in
the Upper Midwest have spilled over into murders, especially among hunters, such as the case of Chai Soua Vang.
Recently featured in the film Gran Torino, this is, for 10 points, what ethnic group, of Southeast Asia, which
immigrated to the US following war in Laos and which makes up the Miao minority in southeast China.
ANSWER: Hmong [accept Hmong Der or Mong Leng; accept Miao before it is said]
6. One of this school’s football coaches claims that he took the job only after he was given permission to
recruit this school’s first black player, Jerry Levias, and that coach, Hayden Fry, was fired, in part, due to
rumors that he recruited an all-black team. In addition, other noteworthy players at this school include a
quarterback who lead the nation in passing as a sophomore in 1968, Chuck Hixson, a pair of running backs
who lead this team to great heights in the 1980s, Craig James and Eric Dickerson, and this school’s only Heismanwinner, who simultaneously brought this school and the Cotton Bowl to prominence in 1947 and 1948, Doak
Walker. Though attempting to claw back to respectability with recent hires, such as former UNC men’s basketball
coach, Matt Doherty, and former Hawaii football coach, June Jones, this Conference USA school is best
remembered for a scandal involving players such as Sean Stopperich and David Stanley, who brought an extensive
pay-for-play scandal before the NCAA. For 10 points each, name this school, best known as the only school to
undergo the so-called “death penalty”.
ANSWER: Southern Methodist University Mustangs [or SMU; prompt on “Mustangs”]
7. This event inspired N.A. Salvandy to switch political allegiance and to publish in its wake the pamphlet
Twenty Months, while a series of essays by Archibald Alison compared this event to Parliamentary reform
and saw him declare that “the experience of the past is totally lost both upon individuals and nations”. The
political center of this event was taken by the National Guard, the Hotel de Ville, where the newly empowered
Municipal Commission first met and outside of which, according to Marx, this event made autocrats of the
financial bourgeoisie, in part due to a statement that the “bankers will rule”, attributed to one leader of this event,
Jacques Laffitte. More famously, following the “Three Glorious Days”, which were sparked by de Polignac’s
pronouncement in Saint-Cloud of this event’s namesake ordinances, which included a curtailing of freedom of the
press and the dissolving of parliament, this event ended the Bourbon Restoration. For 10 points, name this French
revolt of 1830, which removed Charles X and which concluded with a namesake monarchy under Louis-Philippe in
the namesake month.
ANSWER: July Revolution [or July Days or Revolution de Juillet; accept Three Glorious Days or Les Trois
Journees en Juillet before it is mentioned; prompt on “July Monarchy” or “Revolution of 1830” before either is
mentioned]
8. Shioiri and Arai describe the application of this technique to a Darzens reaction, and Corey has reported
that a glycine Schiff base undergoes an asymmetric Michael addition using this technique under the catalysis
of an O-allylated cinchonidine derivative, while Nagase reports unnatural amino acid products using a set of
compounds created for this procedure by Maruoka. This area of research is attractive to green chemists for
its potential to use little or no organic solvents, and early examples of the compounds relevant to this area of
research include crown ethers, chosen for their ability to trap metal ions. In common use today to accomplish this
technique are structures based on quaternary ammonium salts. For 10 points, identify this popular mode of synthesis
that employs a catalyst to bind species and move them between organic and aqueous layers.
ANSWER: phase-transfer catalysis
9. This author wrote a four-book essay collection about human progress since the Renaissance which includes
the work "The Abstract Universe," in which he describes the elevation of reason to god status. He wrote the
collection Heterodoxy and praised art as "the only means to reintegrate man's divided self" in his important
essay "The Writer and his Phantoms." In one work that includes a “movement” called The Dragon and the
Princess, Fernando’s “Report on the Blind” is discovered after he is shot by his daughter who has an affair
with Martin, Alejandra Vidal Olmos. In the best known work written by his author of On Heroes and Tombs,
a blind man named Allende is married to a possible whore María Iribarne, which leads the deranged artist Juan
Pablo Castel to kill her. For 10 points, this modern Argentinean author who penned The Tunnel.
ANSWER: Ernesto Sabato
10. One score of this work draws the ending from Hyginus’s Astronomia and involved a cloud machine, while
"Rosa del ciel" and "Vi ricorda, o boschi ombrosi" are arias sung during the title character's period of bliss
in the early acts. A sinfonia is played twice in Act 3 to punctuate the title character singing "Rendetemi il
mio ben" after he escapes on a boat and the title character's aria "Possente spirto" opens that act. In the
second act of this work, the chorus mourns in duet refrains punctuated by the phrase "Ahi, casa
acerbo"which singles Sylvia's arrival . The prologue opens with La Musica, accompanied by a recurring
ritornello, and the title character praises his lyre in "‘Qual honor di te fia degno" after one character sings about how
she found love only because she was stolen away and taken to the underworld. The title character is told to "abandon
all hope" as he arrives in the underworld with Speranza to get his wife back and it features a short love duet
between Proserpina and Plutone. For 10 points, name this work in which the title character fails to get Eurydice
back, an opera by Claudio Monterverdi.
ANSWER: L'Orfeo
11. In soft formations, fluid-filled boreholes exhibit only the Stoneley mode and this mode. So-called
beachball diagrams consist of stereographic projections of the radiation pattern of this mode, and give
graphical representations of the associated focal mechanisms. The horizontal slowness or ray parameter is
given by the sine of the angle between an axis and the associated wavevector divided by the speed of this
mode. Differences in the north-south and east-west propagation speeds of this mode prompted a model of a
cylindrically anisotropic inner core, and paired arrivals of this longitudinally-polarized mode led to the discovery of
the Moho discontinuity. For 10 points, name these seismic body waves that are the first to arrive from an
earthquake, traveling faster than S waves.
ANSWER: p wave
12. In one poem by this writer, Adam declares “He was the grandest of them all”, speaking of Cain, and
mourning Abel’s death, while another concludes “the singing will never be done”, after opening “Everyone
suddenly burst out singing”. Both “Ancient History” and “Everyone Sang” are found in his collection PictureShow, and among this writer’s early works are several one-act verse dramas, such as Orpheus in Diloeryum,
and a parody of John Masefield’s “The Everlasting Mercy”, “The Daffodil Murderer”. Later in life, this author
turned to novels, penning three autobiographical works about George Sherston, including Memoir of a Fox-Hunting
Man. Another of his poem’s concludes with the narrator begging, “O Jesu, make it stop” about the titular event,
which he describes as occurring while “time ticks blank and busy on their wrists”, and in another poem, the narrator
welcomes “the jolly rain”, before concluding that the titular event had failed. For 10 points, name this poet behind
such works as “Attack” and “Counter-Attack”, who in 1920 published a collection of poetry by his friend, Wilfred
Owen.
ANSWER: Siegfried Sassoon
13. To appease one leader of this group and win pardon, the jailed Dracontius wrote the poem Satisfactio and
the poet Corippus memorialized the rule of this people as a golden age for Byzacena. Fulgentius of Ruspe
wrote a defense of the Augustinian trinity after he was exiled by another ruler of this group, Gunthamund,
and another of this people’s kings, Huneric, oversaw a church council under the Arian “Patriarch” Cyril of
Carthage, which resulted in further persecution of Catholics by this people. Another ruler of this people lost
successive battles, once because he lost the initiative, having stopped to bury his brother Ammatus, who had
died in an earlier assault, and again after the Tzazo’s death resulted in the collapse of his center, both of which
Procopius records. In addition to the loser of Ad Decimum and Tricameron, Gelimer, whose defeat by Belisarius,
this people was ruled by a man who captured the empress Licinia Eudoxia in this people’s most famous military
engagement, Gaiseric. For 10 points, name this Germanic tribe who sacked Rome in 455, forever linking their name
to wanton destruction.
ANSWER: Vandals
14. One legend says that the first church at this site was founded where Helena buried three martyrs, Saints
Malosius, Cassius, and Florentius. In 1969, this city absorbed Beuel and Bad Godesberg, the latter famed as a
spa town, and the extinct volcano of Rodderberg is found in this city, which is also near Drachenfels, where
Siegfried slew Fafnir. This city’s namesake university is home to the Arithmeum, a museum exploring the
relationship of art and science, and Helmut Jahn designed one of this city’s tallest buildings, the Post Tower.
The Palais Fuerstenburg sits behind a memorial to this city’s most famous resident, funds for which were raised
largely through concerts given by Franz Liszt. Found on the west bank of the Rhine, this city’s main church, the
Minster of St. Martin, once served as the seat for the Archbishop of the nearby city of Cologne, and another
prominent site in this city is the home of Beethoven. For 10 points, name this city, which from 1949 to 1990 was the
capital of West Germany.
ANSWER: Bonn
15. A young blonde woman bears two huge blue and yellow blossoms in this man's Flower Girl, while
he showed three dark figures in pink and blue with gold necklaces about their necks in his Finding of
Moses. A shrunken head of a Yoruna Indian and a piece inspired by Solomon Islands canoe prow are
among his Masks, while another shows dark clouds about to converge with a dark green sea. This
painter of Marsh Landscape showed four men and women painted in ochre and orange moving
frenziedly in one work, while he often painted red and purple dahlias as well as placing his
sunflowers with dark mauve zinnias. Besides The Dance Around the Golden Calf, in the right panel of
one work, a lion approaches an old man and a prostrate nude woman, while in the central panel that woman
raises her arm to the sky across the center of the piece, which shows her in a shrine of soft yellow praying as a
young child is lead out of the room at right. Besides those two panels of his St. Maria Aegyptica triptych, he did
an eight part polyptych on The Life of Christ and one of his woodcuts shows a deeply bearded and slightly
downcast. For 10 points, name this creator of The Prophet, a major figure in Die Brucke alongside Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner.
ANSWER: Emil Nolde
16. The work of this type and number by Howard Hanson was inspired by Swedish colonistshymnic, idée fixe,
and features a six note, while the one by William Schuman opens with a Passacaglia and fugue and was his
first work in the genre that was not withdrawn. The second movement of one of these by Carl Nielsen has
wordless vocal solos for soprano and baritone, while one by Philip Glass was composed for 19 strings, and one
by Ives for a chamber ensemble is subtitled “The Camp Meeting.” One work of this type by Tchaikovsky is in D
Major, features an alla tedesca movement and is called "Polish", while another by Bernstein features a choir, soloists
and Narrator and is subtitled Kaddish. One work of this type by Copland features a quotation from his Fanfare for
the Common Man. For 10 points identify this type and number of work, the most famous of which is Beethoven’s
Eroica.
Answer: Third Symphonies or Symphony No. 3
17. In one Hellenized myth, this “virgin” and two sisters, Rhea and Dione, were sent by Ouranos to defeat
Kronos by ruse, though all three are taken as wives by the latter god, to whom this deity was said to have
bore the Titanids and others, before becoming one of the chief deities in Byblos. In a tale reported by
Plutarch, one of the children of this goddess, or of Saosis or Nemenous, was nearly made immortal by Isis,
while the latter was seeking Osiris’s sarcophagus. Another tale relates how this figure was nearly taken as the
wife of the sea when she was sent with offerings to him, prompting Set to battle, and Set was awarded this
goddess and Anat, two foreign goddesses, as wives when Horus was awarded the kingship. In many myths, this
deity or Anat aids her chief consort, such as warning him about the impending revenge of Elkurnirsa and Ashertu, or
rescuing him from Mot. Associated by the Greeks with Aphrodite, this war and fertility goddess, or the similarly
named Asherah, may have been the target of Jeremiah’s condemnation in the Hebrew Bible. For 10 points, name
this Northwest Semitic goddess, better known as a cognate of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
ANSWER: Astarte [or Athtart or Astartu or Ashtart or Ashtoreth; prompt on “Ishtar” or “Innana” before the
former is mentioned; accept Aphrodite before “Saosis”]
18. The protagonist compares the legs of Agrippa with those of Raphael’s Alcibiades when he is urged to
serve as the model for a painting of Agrippa in a five-part Berenice series by Hans. Later, another artistic
judgment comes when a person despises the “amateur too fond of Meyerbeer” at a party in the drawing
rooms of Park Lane where the main character’s wife is recommended to sing the aria “O patria mia” by Herr
Klesmer. Also at the party is Henleigh Grandcourt, who later drowns before reaching a rope thrown by his wife,
Gwendolyn Harleth. Feeling guilty, she seeks the counsel of this noble character, who befriends his wife Mirah’s
brother Mordecai. For 10 points, the titular character discovers his Jewish roots in the final novel of George Eliot.
ANSWER: Daniel Deronda (prompt on partial answer)
19. At the Battle of Vodena, this figure led a relief force to aid George Akropolites, which slew Theodore
Doukas, and earlier, according to Gregoras, this figure spent two years as an exile in the court of Izz al-Din
Kaykaus II in Ikonion leading “Roman” troops against the Mongols. The monk Joseph restored this man,
after Germanos III and Arsenios, who had excommunicated him, were forced out as Patriarch of
Constantinople, and this figure further alienated the Church by agreeing to accept Papal authority at the
Second Council of Lyon. This ruler first came to power with the murder of George Mouzalon in a church,
becoming regent for John IV Laskaris, whom this man had blinded shortly after his general Alexios Stratogopoulos
retook a city from Baldwin II of the Latin Empire, allowing this man to move his capital from Nikaia. This figure’s
diplomatic acumen and willingness to bankrupt his treasury helped Pedro III of Aragon, overthrowing Charles of
Anjou in the Sicilian Vespers. For 10 points, name this Byzantine emperor, reconqueror of Constantinople and
founder of the Palaiologos dynasty.
ANSWER: Michael VIII Palaiologos [prompt on “Michael Palaiologos”]
20. The second time derivative of this quantity appears in the tensor virial equation. In starquake models
sudden decreases in this quantity produce pulsar glitches, and its trace-free part’s third time derivative
appears in the formula for gravitational radiation luminosity. The stretch rule describes transformations that
leave it unchanged when it reduces to a scalar, in which case it can sometimes be calculated using Steiner’s
theorem. Its eigenvalues are proportional to the inverse squares of the lengths of the axes of Poinsot’s
ellipsoid. This tensor quantity’s middle eigenvalue is associated with unstable motion, and it diagonalizes in a
coordinate system defined by the principal axes. The perpendicular axis theorem can sometimes be used to find, for
10 points, what rotational analog of mass which multiplies angular velocity to give angular momentum?
ANSWER: moment of inertia
Tiebreakers:
In 1951, this thinker contributed a work to Furioso entitled “It Tastes Like Chicken”. A later work of his has
its 13th section changed to “Ontology defused” in a revision two years after its original publication. That
work expounds the parallel between the indeterminacy of translation and the empirical underdetermination of
global science. Along with Pursuit of Truth, he was influenced by Dreben to not publish a project intended as a
sequel to Methods of Logic. For 10 points, this philosopher of Word and Object argued with Carnap over the
distinction between analytic and synthetic truth in the paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism.
ANSWER: Willard Van Orman Quine
Bonuses
1. This author wrote about Mor Lame in his work The Bone. For ten points each,
[10] Name this author of Against the Grain and The Splintered Pen, who wrote many tales of Amadou Koumba,
who is the author of the poem Breaths.
ANSWER: Birago Diop
[10] This poet asked “Who else will teach rhythm to the world / deadened by machines and cannons?” in his “Prayer
to the Masks,” and subjunctively wished “Let us dance to the refrain of agony, may the night of sex / rise above our
ignorance, above our innocence,” in his “Elegy of the Circumcised.”
ANSWER: Léopold Sédar Senghor
[10] Both Birago Diop and Leopold Senghor hailed from Senegal and were active participants in this literary
movement which Sartre analyzed in "Black Orpheus" and was also led by Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas.
ANSWER: Négritude
2. Answer the following about sites subject to desertification, for 10 points each.
[10] The increased aridity of this northwest Indian state in the last 30 years has been tied to mass deforestation in
neighboring areas, such as Gujarat, increasing the size of its Thar Desert and prompting construction of a namesake
irrigation canal here.
ANSWER: Rajasthan
[10] The Jornada Basin in this state is a major site for desertification and arid landscape studies, after that area was
denuded by mass cattle ranching at the turn of the 20th Century. Desertification is also a concern in the Navajo
reservation that this state shares with Arizona.
ANSWER: New Mexico
[10] Tavy, a slash-and-burn farming practiced in this large island nation, is responsible for desertification and the
formation of lanakas, especially in the central Hauts Plateaux. Ivakoany Massif and Mahafaly Plateau are other
affected areas in the west.
ANSWER: Madagascar
3. Answer the following about religious executions under the Tudors, for 10 points each.
[10] As Bishop of Rochester under Edward VI, this man lead the fight in favor of the Zwinglian Spiritual Presence
in the Eucharist and removed the altar at St. Paul’s as Bishop of London. After being condemned at a disputation in
1554, this man was executed, alongside Hugh Latimer, in Oxford.
ANSWER: Nicolas Ridley
[10] Like Ridley and Latimer, this figure was condemned at the 1554 disputation and was executed in Oxford. He is
better known as the author of two editions of the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles.
ANSWER: Thomas Cranmer
[10] Maurice Chauncy published the first work detailing this group of martyrs, named for their membership to a
monastic order based at the London Charterhouse and founded by St. Bruno. Their prior, John Houghton was the
first executed in 1535.
ANSWER: Carthusian Martyrs [or Carthusian Order; do not accept Order of St. Bruno]
4. An example of one of these points that has infinite order and breaks no symmetries occurs in the XY model and is
named for Kosterlitz and Thouless. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these transformations of systems whose first-order variety is characterized by a latent heat.
ANSWER: phase transition
[10] This man’s phenomenological theory of second-order phase transitions expresses the free energy as an
expansion in the order parameter. His phase transition theory provided the basis for a theory of superconductivity
partly named for him.
ANSWER: Lev Davidovich Landau
[10] Renormalization group theory explains this observed phenomenon, that the critical exponents that characterize
continuous phase transitions in a wide variety of systems fall into a small number of namesake classes.
ANSWER: universality
5. Answer the following about slave narratives, for 10 points each.
[10] Beginning with the author’s birth on a Franklin County, Virginia, plantation, this work continues through to his
work at Tuskegee. As the name implies, this account emphasizes Booker T. Washington’s belief that blacks rise
above the past.
ANSWER: Up from Slavery
[10] This figure produced two narratives detailing his escape to the North by shipping himself to the office of a
Philadelphia abolitionist in a crate, a fact reflected in his nickname.
ANSWER: Henry “Box” Brown
[10] Authored by William Craft, this work tells how Craft escaped from slavery by pretending to be the loyal
chauffer to his wife, another slave who feigned being Craft’s ailing white owner.
ANSWER: Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom
6. A man in the back looks worriedly at a pointing skeleton and a dog licks a kidney in the foreground, while the
boiling of bones and a knife shoved in the eye-socket are examples of the title notion. For 10 points each:
[10] Depicting Tom Nero being dismembered by a group of overenthusiastic dissectors, this is the final scene from a
William Hogarth series, which shows the “Four Stages” of the titular behavior.
ANSWER: The Reward of Cruelty
[10] On the left, several birds are depicted spitting blood along with a barrel of frogs, one of which a skeleton is
buying, in this James Ensor painting, which sees a crowd focusing on the disemboweling of a monkey by a doctor
and a butcher.
ANSWER: The Vile Vivisectors
[10] Seven onlookers watch as the eponymous surgeon displays a muscle in the forearm in this most famous
depiction of dissection by Rembrandt.
ANSWER: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp [or De Anatomische Les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp]
7. The Maxwell distribution is a special case of it when the square root of chi-square has three degrees of freedom,
for 10 points each:
[10] Name this class of distributions that includes those like Pearson’s and likelihood ratio.
ANSWER: chi-squared distribution
[10] This is a special case of the chi-square distribution that is also the limiting distribution function of peak values
for another random signal, and it is the derived from the square root of chi-square with 2 degrees of freedom.
ANSWER: Rayleigh distribution
[10] This term refers to the degree of a distribution’s peakedness and is defined as a normalized form of the fourth
central moment.
ANSWER: kurtosis
8. Answer the following about a war to decide the succession in Poland, for 10 points each.
[10] This Romanian-born figure oversaw the rise of Warsaw as the unofficial capital of Poland, but he is better
known as the successor to Henry of Valois. His reign saw constant meddling in Transylvania, after he first won the
Polish throne from a rival claimant, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1575.
ANSWER: Stephen Báthory [or Istvan Bathory or Steponas Batoras or Stephen I or Istvan I or Steponas I]
[10] Following Bathory’s death, a minority of Polish nobles declared for this Habsburg, a claim which he pressed by
force. His army was defeated by Jan Zamoyski at Byczyna, where he was captured, in 1588, and he was held for two
years, before eventually becoming Archduke of Further Austria.
ANSWER: Maximilian III
[10] Báthory personally led an army to the gates of Pskov during the Livonian War that he fought against this man,
who is also known for his oprichniki, expulsion of the boyars, capturing Kazan and Astrakhan, and for being the
father of Feodor I.
ANSWER: Ivan IV Vasilyevich [or Ivan the Terrible]
9. Answer the following religiously sanctioned suicide in Hinduism, for 10 points each.
[10] According to the Skanda Purana suicide in this city on the Ganges, one of the most holy in India, would bring
moksha. A small temple to Shiva claims this was often achieved here with a karnat found on its floor, which was
sanctified by Krishna.
ANSWER: Varanasi [or Benares or Kashi]
[10] Suicide was frequently committed in Allahabad by leaping from one of these trees found at the confluence of
the Yamuna and Ganges. Today, a trunk of that sacred tree is kept in the Patalapuri Temple, though in reality, this
tree is an epiphytic fig.
ANSWER: Banyan
[10] The chunari mahotsav, or offering of wedding veils, is thought to grant blessings from women who have
committed this type of suicide, self-immolation on their husbands’ funeral pyres. Promotion of this practice is now a
crime in India.
ANSWER: Sati
10. A more recent project by this figure is FrameNet, which seeks to distinguish different English verbs based on
their semantic frames and the case roles of their arguments. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this UC-Berkeley linguist, whose other work includes authoring “The Case for Case”, which introduced
his idea of case frames as a universal feature, and who proposed Case Grammar as a development within
Transformational Grammar.
ANSWER: Charles J. Fillmore
[10] This MIT linguist developed Transformational Grammar, which was introduced in his 1957 work Syntactic
Structures.
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky
[10] Chomsky adapted much of Fillmore’s work into this successor to TG, including the θ-criterion, which holds
that only one thematic role may exist for an argument in a clause. This syntactic theory was first introduced in a
series of namesake “Lectures” delivered in Pisa and has since been adapted into Minimalism.
ANSWER: Government-and-Binding/Minimalist Theory [or Government-Binding/Minimalist Theory or
GB/Minimalist Theory or Principles-and-Parameters Approach]
11. One of this woman’s ex-lovers is in love with Cecil de Volanges, and that man convinces Danceny to reveal his
correspondence with this woman. For ten points each,
[10] Name this woman who destroys the relationship between Valmont and Madame de Chevalier, while trying to
get the Comte de Gercourt away from Cecile de Volanges.
ANSWER: Marquise de Mertueil
[10] Marquise de Merteuil is a pretty evil woman, who appears in this novel framed as letters written by Pierre
Choderos de Laclos.
ANSWER: Dangerous Liasons (or Les Liaisons dangereuses)
[10] Another French woman who gets involved in a sexual scandal, is this one, that is on the receiving end, whose
father was killed by Monseiur Norseuil. Created by Sade, this character is killed by a thunderbolt after Lorsagne
helps her out.
ANSWER: Justine
12. For 10 points each, answer the following related to crucifixes and crosses in art.
[10] This artist executed crucifixes, featuring John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary on panels extending from the
patibulum, for Santa Croce in Florence and San Domenico in Arezzo.
ANSWER: Cenni di Pepo Giovanni Cimabue [or Bencivieni di Pepo or Benvenuto di Giuseppe]
[10] This Old English poem, which describes the death of Christ as an Anglo-Saxon hero, is found in part on the
Northumbrian Ruthwell Cross, among other images. This dream-vision is told from the perspective of the namesake,
bejeweled object.
ANSWER: The Dream of the Rood
[10] Barbara Hepworth sculpted a cross-like piece, found at Winchester Cathedral and the University of Michigan,
and entitled Construction (Crucifix) after the style of this painter, himself better known for such works as Broadway
Boogie Woogie.
ANSWER: Piet Mondrian
13. Reactions involving amino acids, for 10 points each:
[10] This synthesis reacts hydrogen cyanide and aldehydes in the presence of ammonia to form amino acids.
ANSWER: Strecker synthesis
[10] In this bromination named for three scientists, amino acids are produced after it is followed by an amination.
This reaction, which includes steps of alkanoyl bromide formation and enolization, usually uses trace PBr3 some
trace elemental phosphorous to begin.
ANSWER: Hell-Vollard-Zelinsky bromination
[10] The winner of the Nobel Prize in 1984 developed this method of anchoring a peptide chain where the amino
terminus of an amino acid attached to a polystyrene chain is deprotected and then coupled to a protected amino acid
in cycles to construct a polypeptide chain.
ANSWER: Merrifield solid-phase peptide synthesis
14. Identify each of the following, all of which were tools in the arsenal of the Afrikaaner National Party to maintain
apartheid, for 10 points each.
[10] This law, which defined the title ideology in extremely broad terms, allowed the justice minister to “ban” any
person, putting them under house arrest and preventing visitation and publication.
ANSWER: Suppression of Communism Act
[10] The Verwoerd government created these “national homelands” for blacks, several of which were granted
independence, including Transkei, Ciskei, Bophuthatswana, and Venda.
ANSWER: Bantustans
[10] Force, sometimes deadly force, was also a tactic, as seen on March 30, 1960, when 67 people were killed at a
police station in the namesake town, while peacefully protesting the pass laws.
ANSWER: Sharpeville Massacre
15. John Cage produced a two-piano arrangement of this work which was commissioned by Princesse Edmond de
Polignac. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “symphonic drama” by Erik Satie, based on the translations of certain texts by Victor Cousins, and
culminating in the death of the title figure.
ANSWER: Socrate
[10] Socrates lends his name to the fifth movement of this Bernstein concerto, which sees two fortissimo chords
followed by a wild, jazz-inspired rondo represent Alcibiades’s interruption of Socrates speech in this piece, inspired
by the Symposium.
ANSWER: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
[10] Socrates and Alcibiades also name the third movement of this composer’s Sechs-Holderlin Fragmente, which
mirrors the question-and-answer of Plato’s dialogues, but this composer is better known for A Young Person’s Guide
to the Orchestra.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten
16. Answer the following about some works of literature with something in common, for 10 points each.
[10] Works by this author include translations of several dialogues of Lucian of Samosata and History of King
Richard III, but he is better known for one in which Hythloday tells of a wondrous island in the New World, Utopia.
ANSWER: Sir Saint Thomas More
[10] The gradual freezing of the titular utopic world, is the subject of The Making of the Representative of Planet 8,
while a marriage links the utopic Zone Three with the militaristic Zone Four in The Marriages Between Zones
Three, Four, and Five, two novels in this science fiction series by Doris Lessing.
ANSWER: Canopus in Argos: Archives
[10] The titular Irish abbot visits several utopic islands, before eventually reaching his destination, the so-called
Island of the Blessed. Many have posited that this work proves that the title figure visited the New World before the
Vikings.
ANSWER: The Voyage of St. Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land [or Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis]
17. It fails for a diamond, for 10 points each:
[10] This law developed in 1818 by two scientists posited that the specific heat capacity multiplied by a metal’s
atomic mass equals a constant around 24.9 joules/mole/degree.
ANSWER: Dulong-Petit law
[10] The Dulong-Petit law can be recovered when the temperature greatly exceeds this temperature of a crystal’s
highest normal mode of vibration; it is named for a Dutch-American physicist.
ANSWER: Debye temperature
[10] This law states that the ratio of a metal’s thermal conductivity to its electrical conductivity is a constant
multiplied by the absolute temperature.
ANSWER: Wiedemann-Franz law [or Lorentz relation]
18. This novel ends with Peter Sherringham returning from South America to marry Biddy Dormer, the sister of his
cousin Nick Dormer. For ten points each,
[10] Name this novel in which Miriam Rooth is the title character, an aspiring actress who plays Juliet pretty well.
ANSWER: The Tragic Muse
[10] The Tragic Muse was written by this author of The Awkward Age, The Reverberator, The Princess
Cassamassima and The Golden Bowl.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10] In this novel, the unnamed narrator attends a party and theorizes on people like Gilbert Long and Briss and
whom they might be having affairs with. Ford Orbert paints a picture of a man with a mask in this work, whose
theories about motives influence the narrator’s actions.
ANSWER: The Sacred Fount
19. Some traditions state that, after being sent off in a reed basket, this figure lives with the dragon-king of the sea,
and becomes Ebisu, the god of luck and fisherman. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this limbless, boneless figure, whose name may reflect an early solar deity or a creature which resembles
a leech.
ANSWER: Hiruko
[10] Hiruko is the first child of this goddess, who is born deformed because this goddess spoke first during her
wedding ritual with Izanagi. She is better known for cursing her husband after he looks upon her decaying corpse in
the underworld.
ANSWER: Izanami-no-Mikoto
[10] According to one tradition, the tempestuousness of this god prompted Izanami to give birth to several more
kami to please him, including Mizuhame, the water kami. However, a more popular tradition says that this fire
kami’s birth killed his mother.
ANSWER: Kagutsuchi-no-kami
20. The seizure of this location in 1973 was born out of a meeting between leaders of the American Indian
Movement and the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this symbolic site on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, which was occupied by Native
Americans led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means for 71 days, in part because of opposition to the government of
BIA-backed Dick Wilson.
ANSWER: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
[10] Wounded Knee is more famous as the site of a massacre associated with practitioners of this millenarian
religious movement in 1890. Many of those killed at Wounded Knee had believed their namesake “Shirts” could
stop bullets.
ANSWER: Ghost Dance
[10] A shootout at the Jumping Bull Ranch also on the Pine Ridge Reservation resulted in the arrest of this man for
the murder of two FBI agents. While in prison in 2004, he was nominated for President by the Peace and Freedom
Party, in large part due to concerns about the fairness of his trial and legality of his extradition from Canada.
ANSWER: Leonard Peltier
Extras:
It ends with Susan Bradley marrying Ned Trent, the latter played by John Hodiak, after Em, played by Angela
Lansbury leaves town. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1946 musical film, ostensibly about “the women who civilized the west” from their namesake
restaurant chain, popular in its own day for the song “On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe”.
ANSWER: The Harvey Girls
[10] This actress, star of Summer Stock, A Star Is Born, and Meet Me In St. Louis, played Susan Bradley in The
Harvey Girls.
ANSWER: Judy Garland [or Frances Emma Gumm]
[10] This actor, best known for playing The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, teamed up with Garland again as Chris
Maule in The Harvey Girls.
ANSWER: Ray Bolger
Answer the following about primary sources from the exploration and settlement of Canada, for 10 points each.
[10] This work, attributed to the missionary Louis Nicolas and dated to around 1700, details the native peoples,
flora, and fauna of New France and includes sketches of Native Americans based on engravings from a 1666 work
by Francois du Creux. It is housed in Gilcrease Museum.
ANSWER: Codex Canadiensis
[10] Accounts from the expeditions of John Davis, Humphrey Gilbert, and Martin Frobisher, among others, were
included in this anthologist’s The Principall Navigations Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation.
ANSWER: Richard Hakluyt
[10] Voyages de la Nouvelle-France, dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu, details the explorations and encounters,
among other things, of this French explorer, founder of Quebec, and namesake of a major lake in upstate New York.
ANSWER: Samuel de Champlain
He was attached in Des vraies et des fausses idées by Antoine Arnauld, for 10 points each:
[10] Name this French philosopher who wrote Treatise on Nature and Grace and earlier wrote Christian
Conversations based on Augustine’s ideas in 1677.
ANSWER: Nicolas Malebranche
[10] Malebranche advocated this concept, which centers on the idea that God creates motion in human bodies and
He is the true cause and source.
ANSWER: occasionalism
[10] Occasionalism appeared in the 15th of 16 Eclaircissements that were appended to this two-volume work to
answer his critics; it refers to errors from the senses and pure understanding.
ANSWER: Search After Truth or De la recherche de la vérité