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Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, and Gautam Kandlikar
Tossups
1. This group believes that the Lataif-as-Sitta, or Six Subtleties, relate to extra-sensory perception and must be
present in order to be a full human. Members of this group advocate total adherence to God, tawakkul, and
aspire to reach the state of self-annihilation and union with God, fana and baqa. A branch of this sect practices
qawwali, the reaching God through music, and another branch practices a variation with motion, the whirling
dervishes. Named for their traditional rough, woolen robes and concentrating on discovering the ultimate love of
god through personal experience, for 10 points, identify this mystical branch of Islam.
ANSWER: Sufism [or Tasawwuf]
2. In one text, this author described green as the symbol for the universe’s primal matter, and wrote poems
including one that claims of the human body “This is proportion!” This author of “The Poem of the Right Angle”
designed the Curutchet House in Argentina. His buildings in the United States include Harvard University’s
Carpenter Center, and a building he co-designed with Oscar Niemeyer, the UN Headquarters. He described a
house as “a machine for living,” helped plan the city of Chandrigarh, and wrote Towards a New Architecture. For 10
points, name this designer of the Villa Savoye and Notre Dame du Haut, a prominent Swiss-French architect.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris]
3. One man to hold this position stated “what was good for the country was good for General Motors,” while
another man to hold this position was later entangled in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International
scandal. Besides Charles Wilson and Clark Clifford, the first man to hold this position killed himself by jumping
out of a window, while another once served as the president of Ford Motors. The first man to hold this position
was James Forrestal, and it was held by Les Aspin and William Cohen during the Clinton years. For 10 points, name
this cabinet position held by such men as Robert McNamara and Dick Cheney, currently held by Robert Gates.
ANSWER: Secretary of Defense [accept Assistant Secretary of War before Neil McElroy; prompt on partial]
4. This god's wife turned Leuce into a white poplar tree and Minthe into the mint plant. One of his more famous
possessions was crafted out of dogskin and sported a pair of wings, modeled after the helmet of Hermes, known
for its ability to make its wearer invisible, and was awarded to him for his role in fighting the Titans and installing
his brother as king of the gods. He was also noted for hosting Theseus and Pirothous, who were attempting to
steal his wife, and then binding them to their chairs with snakes. For 10 points, name this god who captured
Persephone and made her his wife, who was the god of wealth and the underworld.
ANSWER: Hades
5. The third movement of this work contains sequences of triplets and tonal fourths that develops into a march
led by clarinets backed in the strings. Its first movement sees the trombones quote a line from the Orthodox
Requiem and contains a bassoon solo marked with six ps and and a drum part marked fff following a
recapitulation of the first movement's theme. The basses play a pizzicato part pianiss-iss-iss-iss-issimo in this
work's final movement, an Adagio lamentoso, and its second movement contains a limping waltz in 5/4 time.
Originally titled Program Symphony, for 10 points, identify this symphony in B minor, the last of Tschaikovsky.
ANSWER: Symphony Pathétique [or Symphony No. 6 in B minor; or Pateticeskaya or Op. 74]
6. This man met Max Wertheimer and Ruth Benedict and took extensive notes on their behavior, and also
worked with Harry Harlow on studying primate sexuality. This man’s best-known theory arose out of a study of
such people as Benedict Spinoza and Aldous Huxley, whom this man concluded had an unhostile sense of humor
and were reality-centered. Besides deducing that these people were more likely to have peak experiences, this
man also believed that they had obtained required levels of love, belonging, and esteem. For 10 points, name this
American psychologist who theorized that people achieved self-actualization by satisfying the hierarchy of needs.
ANSWER: Abraham Maslow
7. A one act play by Jonathan Reynolds sees Rupert Murdoch’s inability to recite this work launch his career in
newspapers. The speaker compares his childhood adventures to a “man flying from something that he dreads,”
and imagines a hermit "in the houseless woods." The poet recollects the scenery in “'mid the din of towns and
cities” and the “heavy burthen” of the “unintelligible world” is lightened at the title locale, whose “green pastoral
landscape” has grown “more dear” to the speaker. The speaker recalls a gap of five years after a visit to the title
location with sister Dorothy in, for 10 points, what poem about a trip to the River Wye, by William Wordsworth.
ANSWER: "Tintern Abbey" [or "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the
River Wye;" accept "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Part II" until "this work."]
8. A disproportionation reaction using this type of compounds in the presence of alcoxides to yield esters is
named for Tischenko, while another type can be formed by reacting a secondary amine with a pyridinium salt. In
the presence of a strong base, two equivalents of these yield an alcohol and a carboxylic acid in the Cannizzaro
reaction. They can be reduced to primary alcohols, and they react with a set of alkyl ammonium compounds to
form a silver mirror in the Tollens test. For 10 points, identify these compounds which feature a carbon double
bonded to an oxygen and single bonded to an alkyl group and a hydrogen, exemplified by etha-nal and propa-nal.
ANSWER: aldehyde
9. Magnetohydrodynamic effects on the sun’s magnetic field create this type of structure named for Parker.
Horizontal wind sets the surface layer into motion, causing one of these structures to form in the ocean, in a
form of them named for Ekman. A diagram of the parametric point of the Fresnel functions takes the form of
this structure; that diagram is named for Cornu. The Tully-Fisher relation is the relationship between the stellar
mass and intrinsic luminosity of galaxies that take this shape. For 10 points, name these structures, exemplified by
galaxies like Andromeda that aren’t elliptical but can be barred.
ANSWER: spirals
10. One king of this name and number married Joan of Navarre and fended off the "Epiphany Uprising." Another
king by this name and number had Maximilian de Bethune, Duke de Sully negotiate the Peace of Savoy, but was
assassinated by Francois Ravalliac. Yet another ruler of this name and number dealt with the rise of anti-king
Rudolf of Swabia, and had installed Clement III as pope, though he had earlier traveled to Canossa to reconcile
with Pope Gregory VII. For 10 points, identify this name and number shared by the Holy Roman Emperor involved
in the Investiture controversy as well as the Bourbon king of Navarre who declared that "Paris is worth a Mass."
ANSWER: Henry IV
11. This thinker expanded upon Avicenna to craft his namesake methods of induction in one work, and he
labeled capital as the "accumulated stock of the produce of nature" in another work. In addition to A System of
Logic and Principles of Political Economy, this man claimed that the individual is sovereign over his “body and
mind” in another work. This man argued that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness”
in a work titled after Jeremy Bentham's school of philosophy. For 10 points, identify this English philosopher, who
outlined the "harm principle" in On Liberty, the author of The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism.
ANSWER: John Stuart Mill
12. The first album following this band's creation cites a need for "an easy friend with an ear to lend" in "About
A Girl", which appeared on the studio album Bleach. This band also expresses the wish "to eat your cancer
when you turn bad" in a song that appears on In Utero. Yet another song by this group states that "it's okay to
eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings" in "Something in the Way", and in another song, the singer says you
can "take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, don't be late" in "Come As You Are". For 10 points, name this
grunge band of Nevermind whose lead singer fired a shotgun into the back of his mouth, Kurt Cobain.
ANSWER: Nirvana
13. This man described a character who has an epitelioma near his mustache, and the Agazzi family watch the
conflict between Signora Frolla and Signor Ponza over Signora Ponza's identity in another work. In addition to
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth and Right you are! (If you think you are), he wrote about a guy who goes
to Monte Carlo and is mistaken for being dead, The Late Mattea Pascal, and a work in which a man who falls off of
a horse believes he is the title Holy Roman Emperor. Better known for a work featuring a Boy, Girl, Mother, Father,
Stepdaughter, and Son, for 10 points, name this author of Enrico IV and Six Characters in Search of An Author.
ANSWER: Luigi Pirandello
14. It can be decoupled by compounds such as 2,4-di-nitro-phenol and FCCP or the protein thermogenin,
whereas Rotenon and Antimycin inhibit it. Diseases such as Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy and MERRF
occur due to mutations in genes which control this process. The Krebs cycle uses a same enzyme as one used in
it, succinate dehydrogenase, and it sees coenzyme Q and cytochrome C mediate its namesake particle transfer.
Resulting in the formation of a proton gradient, for 10 points, name this respiratory process which uses the
gradient to power the addition of a phosphate group to ADP by ATP synthase and also sees the formation of water.
ANSWER: oxidative phosphorylation [or electron transport chain; or ETC]
15. The losing army in this battle was hampered by an inability to rendezvous with Colonel Barry St. Leger’s
force of mostly Iroquois Indians. The retreating army at this battle paused to bury one of their generals, Simon
Fraser, who had been killed the previous day. The losing commander, fresh off a retaking of Fort Ticonderoga,
never received aid from Henry Clinton and was defeated when enemy reinforcements under Benedict Arnold
arrived. For 10 points, name this battle which took place in September and October 1777, in which American
forces under Horatio Gates defeated John Burgoyne’s British forces, fought at Bemis Heights and Freeman’s Farm.
ANSWER: Battle of Saratoga [accept Bemis Heights or Freeman’s Farm before mentioned]
16. The narrator of one poem by this author dismisses a “red sword of virtue,” while the speaker of another of
his poems from the same collection encounters a “creature, naked, bestial” who “held his heart in his
hands/and ate of it.” Other works by this author of the collection The Black Riders include a short story in which
Johnny accuses the Swede of cheating at a card game, and another based on his own experiences after the sinking
of the Commodore. This author of “The Blue Hotel” and “The Open Boat” also wrote novels starring a “girl of the
streets” and Private Henry Fleming. For 10 points, identify this author of Maggie and The Red Badge of Courage.
ANSWER: Stephen Crane
17. One character with this occupation incinerates several men dressed as orangutans and lights them on fire in
a Poe story. A stage character with this occupation is noted for singing the songs “Come Away, Death” and “The
Rain it Raineth Every Day.” Another character with this occupation concludes a play by laying out the degrees of
the lie and marrying Audrey. An unnamed character with this job claims that “truth’s a dog must to kennel” and
addresses his boss as “nuncle.” Trinculo in The Tempest and Feste in Twelfth Night have this occupation, as does
Touchstone in As You Like It. For 10 points, name this occupation held by a character serving King Lear.
ANSWER: Jester [or Fool or Clown or equivalents; prompt on “servant”]
18. One of his paintings shows the titular daughter of Oceanus crowning a winged horse, and Vasari notes that
he painted seven frescos at the San Giovanni Evangelista church. This artist of Saturn and Philyra also painted
the Saint Margaret and Saint Jerome altarpieces, and his Vision of St. Jerome features a seated Madonna and
Child. One of work depicts a figure wearing a fur coat with a ring on the little finger as he gazes into the titular orb
and in another, the title character rests her foot on a green pillow as a gigantic baby Jesus sits on her lap. For 10
points, identify this artist who painted Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Madonna With the Long Neck.
ANSWER: Parmigiano [or Parmigianino; or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola]
19. In one work of this author, a professor dying of cancer dictates part of a letter to Mr. Vercueil. Another of his
works culminates in a plane dropping “words in Spanish” on the main character. In another work, one character
denounces the “smelly underwear” of realism, and Elizabeth Costello gives two lectures on animal rights rather
than literature. Susan Barton is thrown from a boat on route to Lisbon in his retelling of Robinson Crusoe titled
Foe, and the professor David Lurie seduces one of his students in Disgrace. For 10 points, name this author who
wrote of a gardener’s trek through Apartheid era South Africa in his Life & Times of Michael K.
ANSWER: John Maxwell Coetzee
20. The Ornstein theorem states that Bernoulli schemes which have equivalent values for this are isomorphic,
while another type of this is given by the logarithm of the covering number, and is named for Kolmogorov. One
form of this quantity useful in information theory is named for Claude Shannon, and for an ideal monoatomic gas
it is given by the Sackur-Tetrode equation. For an irreversible process, this quantity is always greater for the
system and its surroundings according to the second law of thermodynamics. For 10 points, identify this quantity
which describes the degree of disorder of a system, usually represented by the letter S.
ANSWER: entropy
TB. One ruler of this country gained power through the revolt of sargents by overthrowing a leader who had
organized a secret police called the Porra. This country saw rebellions led by free black men such as Nicholas
Morales and Jose Antonio Aponte in 1795 and 1812 respectively. This country also saw Carlos Manuel de
Cespedes issue the Grito de Yara which led to the Ten Years War. The United States Congress also declared it did
not wish to occupy this country through the Teller Amendment. For 10 points, identify this country in which
Fulgencio Batista was overthrown in 1959 by Fidel Castro.
ANSWER: Republic of Cuba
Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament II: This Tournament Was Written for Amateur Trash Players
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Bonuses
1. Members of this group assembled in huts called "baraccas" and its flag featured stripes of blue, red, and black.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these people who rose in prominence during the rule of Joachim Murat, and whose main goal was
freedom from foreign rule in Naples.
ANSWER: Carbonari [accept "charcoal-burner" or any reasonable alternatives]
[10] This term identifies the period between early to mid-nineteenth century Italy, and ended with the unification
of various polities into the Kingdom of Italy. It literally translates to "rising again."
ANSWER: il risorgimento
[10] One member of the Carbonari was this fellow, who commanded the Red Shirts in their conquest of Sicily, and
is also known for his exploits in Uruguay.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Garibaldi
2. One condition imposed by it requires the molecules in question to be planar. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this statement, which requires for 4n + 2 pi electrons delocalized in a ring in order for a molecule to
possess a certain property.
ANSWER: Huckel's rule
[10] If a molecule satisfies Huckel's rule, it usually has this property, wherein delocalization of electrons gives the
molecule greater stability. It is possessed by compounds such as benzene.
ANSWER: aromaticity [accept equivalents]
[10] This cyclic ether is another notable compound which possesses aromaticity. Its reduced "tetra hydro" form is
commonly used as a solvent for hydroboration reactions.
ANSWER: furan
3. Some of this man’s stories deal with titular questions, including one called “Three Questions,” in which an
emperor consults a hermit to solve the riddles of life. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this author, who is better known for novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
ANSWER: Leo Tolstoy
[10] This other Tolstoy story ends by answering the titular question with “six feet,” a reference to the fact the story
concludes with the death of the greedy protagonist Pahom.
ANSWER: “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
[10] This Tolstoy novella sees the title character fall while hanging drapes; the title character is a judge who is at
first frightened and angry at his impending demise, but ultimately accepts it with great joy.
ANSWER: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
4. This opera tells the heartwarming story of a curse inflicted on an obnoxious jester which ultimately culminates
when the jester’s daughter is stabbed and stuffed into a sack. For 10 points each:
[10] First, identify this classic opera, whose titular character is a hunchback in the service of the amorous Duke of
Mantua. Its most famous aria is probably the Duke’s musing on the unreliability of women, “La Donna é Mobile.”
ANSWER: Rigoletto
[10] Rigoletto was written by this Italian composer, whose other works include Aida.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Verdi
[10] This work of Verdi features the titular character of Manrico, who angers the Count Di Luna and is executed,
although he turns out to be the count’s brother. This work features the noted “Anvil Chorus.”
ANSWER: Il Trovatore [accept The Troubadour]
5. In our current times of economic stress, perhaps we can gain some wisdom by looking to the examples of past
economic disasters in our nation’s history. For 10 points each, answer the following about the Panic of 1837.
[10] Contributing to the Panic was this order issued by Andrew Jackson the previous year, which required that all
payment for government land be in hard currency. It proceeded to devalue paper money, which wasn’t good.
ANSWER: Specie Circular [accept Coinage Act]
[10] Attempting to respond to the Panic, this Secretary of the Treasury, a holdover from the Jackson
administration, came up with the idea of the independent treasury system in which the government would have
more direct management of its funds.
ANSWER: Levi Woodbury
[10] The Panic certainly put a damper on Martin Van Buren’s presidency, causing him to lose the election of 1840
to this Whig candidate, who ran the “log cabin and apple cider” campaign that mocked Van Buren as an aristocrat.
ANSWER: William Henry Harrison
6. This poet wrote such ambiguous treacle as “if ever two were one, then surely we,” the opening to her poem “To
My Dear and Loving Husband.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this early American poetess, who also wrote works like “The Author to Her Book” and “Before the
Birth of One of Her Children” after coming to New England in 1603.
ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet
[10] Bradstreet’s works were collected in this volume that was eventually published in 1650 without her
permission. The title of the work implicitly adds Bradstreet to a group of famous women from Greek mythology.
ANSWER: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
[10] Bradstreet wrote the lines “There’s wealth enough; I need to more. Farewell, my pelf; farewell, my store. The
world no longer let me love; my hope and Treasure lies above” after this event that occurred on July 18th, 1666.
ANSWER: the burning of our house [accept all equivalents involving a flaming abode]
7. This process can be mapped via bisulfite sequencing. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this process, which notably occurs at CpG islands of promoters to silence genes, and which involves
the addition of a certain organic group.
ANSWER: methylation
[10] Methylation can occur on carbon #5 of this nucleotide, which is a pyrimidine like thymine. It forms 3 H-bonds
with guanine and is represented by the letter C.
ANSWER: cytosine
[10] These entities are octameric proteins around which DNA can be wound to form a nucleosome. They can also
be modified by methylation, and they come in H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 types.
ANSWER: histones
8. A section which features a march from Shostakovitch's Leningrad Symphony and a movement called "Game of
the Pairs" are found in his Concerto for Orchestra. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this composer who wrote Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, the ballet The Wooden Prince,
and the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
ANSWER: Bela Viktor Janos Bartok [accept in either order; crazy Hungarians]
[10] "Dragon's Dance", "From the Island of Bali", and "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" are some of the 153 piano
pieces arranged in ascending order of difficulty in this Bartok work.
ANSWER: Mikrokosmos
[10] This other Hungarian composer worked with Bartok to compile folk songs. His own compositions include the
Dances of Galanta, the Peacock Variations, and a work which opens with a "musical sneeze", the Hary Janos Suite.
ANSWER: Zoltan Kodaly [accept in either order]
9. Identify the following about rather violent events from Greco-Roman mythology for 10 points each.
[10] After beating Marsyas in a flute contest, this god flayed him and nailed his skin to a pine tree. He may be more
famous for murdering the children of Niobe with the aid of his sister, Artemis.
ANSWER: Apollo
[10] This king of Pisa threw his erstwhile ally Myrtilus off a cliff after the latter tried to rape his wife Hippodamia.
Earlier, he had been hacked up and served to the gods by his father Tantalus.
ANSWER: Pelops
[10] Tereus raped this woman in a cabin and cut out her tongue to prevent her telling. However, she sewed an
accusation into a tapestry, and in revenge, this woman's sister Procne killed Tereus's son Itys and baked him into a
pie, which Tereus ate.
ANSWER: Philomela
10. The CIA’s factbook states that this country is “slightly smaller than Wisconsin,” and cites its primary resource as
“hydropower.” For 10 points each:
[10] First, identify this landlocked Central Asian nation, a former Soviet state with a capital previously known as
Stalinabad but now called Dushanbe.
ANSWER: Tajikistan
[10] Tajikistan’s tallest peak is Ismoil Somoni Peak. When Tajikistan was part of the Soviet Union, the peak was the
highest in the USSR and went by this much catchier and shorter name.
ANSWER: Communism Peak [accept Stalin Peak; and Mount Communism]
[10] The former Communism Peak is located in this mountain range in Tajikistan’s southeastern region, which also
spill over into Afghanistan and China. The Northern Silk Road ran through this range, which also contains the
former Lenin Peak.
ANSWER: the Pamirs Range
11. This dynasty had planned the building of a palace in Mshatta, and it was founded by the son of Abu Sufyan,
Mu'Awiya. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this first Islamic dynasty, whose capital was located at Damascus.
ANSWER: Umayyad dynasty [or caliphate]
[10] The Umayyads wanted to silence this first Imam of Shia Islam and grandson of Mohammed, who criticized the
debauchery of Yazid, among other things.
ANSWER: Imam Hussain
[10] Mu'Awiya's son Yazid ordered his soldiers to sieze Imam Hussain, which resulted in this seventh century battle
on the Ashuraa.
ANSWER: Battle of Karbala
12. Towards the end of this work, the speaker tells “the tale [he] heard told” that a king who was poisoned with
strychnine named Mithridates “died old.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this poem whose subject writes verses which “gives a chap the belly ache” and is also told to “eat your
victuals fast enough.”
ANSWER: “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”
[10] “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff” is from this collection by A. E. Housman, which also contains a poem
commemorating the 50th year of Queen Victoria’s rule, “1887,” as well as “To an Athlete Dying Young.”
ANSWER: A Shropshire Lad
[10] A. E. Housman is the subject of this author’s play The Invention of Love. He also wrote The Real Inspector
Hound and Arcadia.
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard
13. This branch of mathematics is useful in solving the brachistochrone problem. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this branch of mathematics, which helps in obtaining functions which the extrema of a functional. The
Beltrami Identity is important in this field.
ANSWER: calculus of variations [or variational calculus]
[10] An equation central to the calculus of variations is named after Euler and this man, who also names an
optimization method give geometric constraints using some namesake multipliers
ANSWER: Joseph Louis Lagrange
[10] The basic solution to both the brachistochrone and the tautochrone problem is this curve, which is traced out
by a fixed point on a rolling wheel.
ANSWER: cycloid
14. This man survived at least four previous assassination attempts before finally dying when a member of the
group People’s Will threw a bomb into his carriage in 1881. For 10 points each:
[10] First, identify this Russian czar, who abolished serfdom in 1861 and made great strides to initiate judicial and
educational reforms.
ANSWER: Alexander II
[10] Alexander ascended to the throne in 1856 while Russia was in the midst of the Crimean War. Under
Alexander’s rule, the empire signed this peace treaty the same year ending the war. It forbade Russian naval
presence on the Black Sea.
ANSWER: Treaty of Paris of 1856
[10] A statue of Alexander can be seen in the capital of this northern European country. Acquired by Russia in
1809, this country reveres Alexander for re-convening its national diet in 1863, which gave it greater autonomy.
ANSWER: Finland
15. It attacks previous philosophers for their unquestioning acceptance of Christianity and the prevailing world
order and claims that "when you look long into the abyss, the abyss looks into you" in "Epigrams and Interludes."
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this philosophical work that compares truth to a woman and outlines the distinction between master
morality and slave morality.
ANSWER: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to the Philosophy of the Future [or Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel
einer Philosophie der Zukunft]
[10] In addition to discussing his own cleverness and wisdom in Ecce Homo and proclaiming that "God Is Dead" in
The Gay Science, this philosopher also wrote Beyond Good and Evil.
ANSWER: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
[10] This other work by Nietzsche attempts to connect music "as the world will" to Greek tragedy and distinguishes
between the Apollonian and Dionysian world views.
ANSWER: The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music [or Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik]
16. Gordon Brown surpassed this man's 7 year term to become UK's longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this man known for introducing the "peoples' budget" to Britain, and, as Prime Minister, was Britain's
representative at the Versailles negotiations.
ANSWER: David Lloyd-George
[10] Lloyd George succeed this liberal who led Britain into World War I. The Parliament Act was also passed during
his tenure, which significantly reduced the power of the House of Lords.
ANSWER: Herbert Henry Asquith
[10] Asquith was appointed Home Secretary by this Liberal PM, who wrote several pamphlets criticizing the Papacy
and successfully launched the Midlothian campaign, criticizing British Foreign policy in the Balkans.
ANSWER: William Gladstone
17. They were created on a building called Quinta del Sordo. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this set of paintings that includes Men Reading, Leocadia, Fight With the Cudgels, and Saturn Devouring
His Children.
ANSWER: The Black Paintings [or Las pinturas negras]
[10] This man was the artist of The Black Paintings. His other known works include The Sleep of Reason Produces
Monsters as part of Los Caprichos, and a work that depicts an execution, The Third of May, 1808.
ANSWER: Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
[10] Goya also depicted this woman both “Nude” and “Clothed.” It is unknown whether the woman depicted in
this set of paintings is the Duchess of Alba.
ANSWER: Maja
18. This novel features Dowie Steed, and sees a half Aborigine, half white man kills a bunch of white people. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this novel, based on the real-life murderer James Governor.
ANSWER: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
[10] In addition to The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, this man wrote about his home country in A Commonwealth of
Thieves, and about the Holocaust in Schindler’s Ark.
ANSWER: Thomas Keneally
[10] Keneally is from this country. Other people associated with this country include the author of Voss and The
Vivisector, Patrick White, as well as Morris West, David Malouf, and Peter Carey.
ANSWER: Australia
19. It incorporated transubstantiation into official Catholic doctrine and it was convened by Pope Paul III. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this ecumenical council that asserted that the Vulgate was the only true Bible and defended the
practice of selling indulgences.
ANSWER: Council of Trent
[10] The Council of Trent was a reaction to the Protestant Reformation set off by Martin Luther's nailing of this list
of complaints against the Catholic Church on the Wittenberg Cathedral.
ANSWER: 95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
[10] Pope Leo X issued this Papal Bull in response to Luther's 95 Theses demanding that he rescind 41 "faults" from
his writings. Luther burned it and thus instigated the Diet of Worms.
ANSWER: Exsurge Domine or Arise, O Lord
20. Make like you are Jack McCoy and identify these legal terms, for 10 points each.
[10] You don’t have unlimited time to accumulate evidence while your would-be defendant is sitting in a jail cell
because he’ll probably file a petition for a writ of this, which will require him to be brought before the court to
hear charges. In Latin, it means “you have the body.”
ANSWER: Habeas Corpus
[10] While prosecuting your case, you have to have at least this amount of evidence to avoid having your case
dismissed. This standard takes its name from the Latin for “at first glance” and holds even if the defense presents
no evidence.
ANSWER: Prima Facie
[10] Before you get to the prosecution, you better do a good job picking jurors in this process, in which prosecutors
and defense attorneys question and occasionally blackball jurors with suspected biases.
ANSWER: Voir Dire