2011 NIGHTLY TOURNAMENT
Round 2
Questions by Joe Nutter
***IN THE THREE ACE NIGHTLY TOURNAMENTS, CAMPERS COMPETE ON TEAMS OF FOUR OR FIVE
PLAYERS. EACH GAME FEATURES 20 TOSSUPS AND 20 3-PART BONUSES.
Toss-Ups:
1. This politician was criticized for reducing free milk distribution for children while Education
Secretary. This politician became party leader following two electoral defeats for Edward Heath, but did not
take power until James Callaghan’s Labour government was defeated. As Prime Minister, she was criticized for
her poll tax, but popularly denationalized industry and won the Falklands War. For 10 points, name this
Conservative Party “Iron Lady,” the first female British Prime Minister.
ANSWER: Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher (accept The Baroness Thatcher or Lady Thatcher)
2. Object 1996 PW may indicate the presence of rocky bodies in this region. This region, one part of which
is named for Hills, contains various “detached objects,” like Sedna, and has been theorized to contain a brown
dwarf companion star to the sun. If real, Nemesis would be responsible for ejecting the long-period comets that
emanate from this region to the inner solar system. For 10 points, name this cloud that lies at the extreme edge
of the sun’s gravitational influence, beyond the Kuiper belt.
ANSWER: Oort Cloud (accept Opik-Oort cloud)
3. This man left a book unfinished, Reveries of a Solitary Walker. Marie Antoinette dressed up like a
milkmaid in response to one of this man’s novels. This man wrote that culture was bad and that, ever since
people stopped being cavemen, society had degenerated. This author of two discourses, one on Arts and
Sciences and one on the Origin of Inequality Among Men also wrote a novel on education, Émile. For 10 points,
name this French philosopher who wrote about the General Will in The Social Contract.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
4. The molecular structure of this substance includes a chlorin ring with a magnesium ion at its center.
The GeoEye OrbView-2 satellite measures oceanic surface levels of this. The Eastern Emerald Elysia is the
only animal known to use this substance. Plants use this substance to produce Adenosine triphosphate. For 10
points, name this green pigment found in the chloroplast.
ANSWER: Chlorophyll
5. The protagonist of this work is not recognized by his Brother-in-law, because of his illness. This work’s
protagonist is ill because of a diseased caecum or floating Kidney. Peter Ivanovich announces the title event in
Shebek’s room. During his illness, he asks for his legs to be held up by Gerasim. For 10 points, name this short
story in which a judge perishes from wounds incurred while hanging curtains, by Leo Tolstoy.
ANSWER: The Death of Ivan Ilych (also accept Smert Ivana Ilycha)
6. This man painted The Allegory of Faith. This man painted a man holding a pair of dividers bending over a
map, and the same man sitting at a desk that a shaft of light is falling on while looking at a globe. In addition to
The Geographer and The Astronomer, this man painted a woman emptying a jug in The Milkmaid. For 10
points, name this Dutch painter of middle-class life and creator of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
ANSWER: Johannes, Jan, Joannis, or Johan Vermeer
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7. Response reactions occur where this state is occurring more than once simultaneously in the same
solution. The law of mass action is applicable to this state, and le Chatlier’s principle deals with changes in this
state. For 10 points, name this chemical state with a namesake constant that can vary according to the van’t
Hoff equation and in which forward and reverse reactions occur at the same rate.
ANSWER: Chemical equilibrium
8. When one side’s right wing began to separate from its main force, Uluj Ali attacked it. In this battle,
galleasses surprised the losing side, and when the losers attempted to close within bow range, they took heavy
casualties from the canon. Ali Pasha commanded the losing side, while Don John of Austria, Philip II’s brother,
commanded the victors. For 10 points, name this decisive naval battle in the Gulf of Corinth where the Holy
League defeated the Ottomans.
ANSWER: Battle of Lepanto
9. In one of this man’s works, Dr. Trescott assists Henry Johnson. This author of The Monster also wrote
about beings that “come from the sea” in The Black Riders and Other Lines. This man wrote about Jimmie,
Pete, and the title character living in the Bowery, and about the Cook, Captain, Correspondent, and Billy in
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and The Open Boat. For 10 points, name this creator of Henry Fleming in The Red
Badge of Courage.
ANSWER: Stephen Crane
10. Mammals that live in this area include the Hyrax and the Addax. Mountain ranges in this area include
the Jebel Uewinat, the Ahaggar, and the Tibesti. The Occidental and Oriental Grand Ergs are in the west of this
feature, which includes places like Wadi Igharghar and Wadi Sasi. The Great Sand Sea is in the east of one
subregion of this, the Libyan desert. For 10 points, name this very large desert in northern Africa.
ANSWER: Sahara desert (prompt on Africa before “feature,” I guess)
11. This man wrote The Advancement of Learning. This man wrote of a utopian society based on scientific
progress in New Atlantis. This man’s three part work, two of which he completed, advocates a restart of
civilization and is titled Instauratio Magna. For 10 points, name this empiricist British philosopher who
advocated the scientific method and inductive reasoning in Novum Organum.
ANSWER: Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans (prompt on Bacon, accept Francis Bacon or St. Albans)
12. This man issued the Code Noir, which allowed possession of slaves by Catholics only. This man did not
receive a dowry from Spain with the Treaty of the Pyrenees, which gave him an excuse to launch the War of
Devolution. Cardinal Mazarin held power during his minority but was opposed by the Fronde; after Mazarin’s
death this man made Colbert his finance minister. For 10 points, name this French monarch who built Versailles
and was known as the “Sun King.”
ANSWER: Louis XIV (accept Louis Quatorze, prompt on Louis or le Roi Soleil)
13. Tritium is frequently used to generate electricity from this process. The double type of this process
occurs very rarely in nature. In one form of this, an orbital electron falls into the nucleus. As well as electron
capture, one type of this emits a positron and a neutrino. For 10 points, name this type of radioactive decay
which normally emits an antineutrino and an electron while increasing the atomic number by one and leaving
the atomic mass unchanged.
ANSWER: Beta decay (accept beta minus before positron, beta plus before antineutrino, and neither following
antineutrino)
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14. One of this man’s operas is entitled Lotario. This man’s opera Serse contains the aria Ombra mai fu. This
man wrote a piece to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and another played for George I on
his barge. For 10 points, name this creator of Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, who also wrote
an oratorio that includes the Hallelujah chorus, Messiah.
ANSWER: George Frideric Handel
15. One character in this play sends Voltemand and Cornelius as ambassadors. This play’s title character
escapes from a voyage to England through an attack by pirates, but he had already caused the death of
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The reader learns of their deaths in a scene with Fortinbras, who becomes king
after the poisoning of Gertrude, Laertes, and Claudius. For 10 points, name this William Shakespeare play about
a Prince of Denmark seeking revenge.
ANSWER: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
16. This man discussed why he did not support the Labour Party in a speech “Am I a Liberal”? This man
died shortly after negotiating the Anglo-American Loan. In How to Pay for the War, this man argued against
deficit spending to avoid inflation. This man opposed the Treaty of Versailles in The Economic Consequences
of the Peace, but is most famous for blaming recessions on deficiencies in aggregate demand. For 10 points,
name this author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes
17. This law was originally proposed by Harry Colmery. This law created a program providing $20 per week
for a year, but that was rarely used as most potential beneficiaries quickly found a job or enrolled in college.
This law helped create Levittowns by providing low interest loans to start a business, buy a house, or go to
college. For 10 points, name this law intended to help World War II veterans return to civilian life.
ANSWER: GI Bill or Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944.
18. This man made his most famous discoveries at the same time as Julius von Mayer. This man’s second
law discusses the internal energy of ideal gases, while his first law is the equation for heat generated by a
current flowing through a resistive conductor. For 10 points, name this British scientist who discovered the
mechanical equivalent of heat and for whom the SI unit of work and energy is named.
ANSWER: James Prescott Joule
19. This man designed the American embassies in the United Kingdom and Norway. This man designed
the womb chair, as well as the chair that was used on Star Trek, the Tulip chair. He designed the TWA Terminal
at JFK airport, as well as Dulles International Airport and several buildings on the MIT campus, including
Kresge Auditorium. For 10 points, name this Finnish-American architect who designed the Gateway Arch in St.
Louis.
ANSWER: Eero Saarinen (prompt on Saarinen or E Saarinen, do not accept or prompt on Eliel Saarinen)
20. One character in this work is reported dead in Singapore, but returns to live with the protagonists. In
this novel, Melquiades writes some papers which are not translated until near the end, while Pilar Ternera
survives its entire length. By the end of this novel, the inhabitants of Macondo give birth to a child with a pig’s
tale. For 10 points name this novel about seven generations of the Buendia family by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude (or Cien años de soledad, accept A Hundred Years of Solitude
with a warning that most packets don’t take it)
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Moderator note: Do not read this Tossup unless the game is tied or one tossup was thrown out.
21. The p-n junction diode does not obey this law. This law can also be expressed in a continuum form,
where it is written as E equals rho times J or as J equals sigma times E. This law is invalid for circuits
containing capacitors or inductors. This law states that the potential difference between two points is the
product of the resistance and the current flowing between them. For 10 points, name this law of electric
currents, written as V=IR.
ANSWER: Ohm’s Law
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Bonuses:
1. During this man’s Rose Period, he painted generally cheerful subjects. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this founder of Cubism and painter of Guernica.
ANSWER: Pablo (Ruiz) Picasso
[10] During this time, from around 1901-1904, Picasso painted mostly gloomy works almost entirely in its
namesake color.
ANSWER: Blue Period (accept Periodo Azul)
[10] This painting, from Picasso’s African period, depicts five young disreputable females from Barcelona,
instead of the location in the title.
ANSWER: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (grudgingly accept the Young Ladies of Avignon, prompt on The
Brothel of Avignon)
2. Name some volcanoes, for 10 points each:
[10] This volcano, located in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, exploded in 1883, making an extremely loud sound and
killing thousands of people. It has since been sporadically active.
ANSWER: Krakatoa (accept Krakatau)
[10] This Japanese volcano is located on Honshu west of Tokyo. It is located near Aokigahara Forest and Lake
Kawaguchi.
ANSWER: Mount Fuji (accept Fujiyama)
[10] This volcano is located in northeast Sicily. It is the largest volcano in Italy and the largest active volcano in
Europe. In Greek mythology, Typhon was imprisoned underneath it by Zeus.
ANSWER: Mount Etna (prompt on Mongibello or Muncibeddu)
3. This poem describes the author’s feelings about the title revolt. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem about a failed Irish anti-British uprising during World War I, which describes it as “A
terrible beauty is born.”
ANSWER: Easter, 1916
[10] This author of poems including Easter, 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, and The Second Coming explained his
rather unusual view of history in A Vision.
ANSWER: William (Butler) Yeats
[10] This Dublin theatre was founded by Yeats and other people including John Millington
Synge; it housed many Irish Literary Revival plays including the premier of Synge’s The Playboy of the
Western World, which caused riots outside of it.
ANSWER: Abbey Theatre (or Amharclann na Mainistreach, also accept National Theatre of Ireland or
Amharclann Náisiúnta na hÉireann)
4. The dragon Nidhogg chews at its roots. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Ash, the world tree in Norse mythology. Odin hung himself from it for nine days to discover
runes used in writing.
ANSWER: Yggdrasil (prompt on Ygg’s horse or Odin’s horse)
[10] These three women, named Urd, Verdande, and Skuld, live at the base of Yggdrasil and care for it by
sprinkling water from a magic well over it. They spin the threads of life for all humans.
ANSWER: Norns
[10] This squirrel runs up and down Yggdrasil. He spreads gossip and relays insults between the Eagle that lives
on top and Nidhogg.
ANSWER: Ratatosk
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5. Some elements are radioactive. Name some, for 10 points each:
[10] This element’s isotope 238 has an extremely long half-life, but its 235 isotope is highly radioactive. It was
discovered in pitchblende.
ANSWER: Uranium (prompt on U)
[10] This artificial element 94 is often used with Uranium in nuclear weapons. It was discovered in 1940 and
used in the Trinity and Fat Man bombs.
ANSWER: Plutonium (prompt on Pu)
[10] This element, number 90, is the product of alpha decay by Uranium, and is therefore found with Uranium
in nature. It has been proposed as a fuel for Liquid Fluoride nuclear reactors.
ANSWER: Thorium (prompt on Th)
6. His claim to the English throne derived from a promise he claimed Edward the Confessor had given him in
1052. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this first Norman king of England who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
ANSWER: William the Conqueror (or William I of England, or William the Bastard, or William II of
Normandy, prompt on “William” or “William of Normandy,” do not accept William Rufus)
[10] William defeated this man whose army was tired after fighting Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge and
marching across England, he supposedly was shot by an arrow in the eye.
ANSWER: Harold II or Harold Godwinson (prompt on Harold)
[10] After consolidating power William I commissioned this book, divided into “Great” and “Little” parts that
consist of a census of most English land and possessions conducted in 1086.
ANSWER: Domesday Book or Doomsday Book
7. For 10 points each, name some 20th century American composers:
[10] This composer of several symphonies, a controversial reworking of Mass, and the score for On the
Waterfront also wrote the music for West Side Story.
ANSWER: Leonard Bernstein
[10] This genre-hopping composer wrote works like Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and worked with
his brother Ida on an opera set on Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess.
ANSWER: George Gershwin
[10] This avant-guard composer invented and wrote for the prepared piano. His work 4’33’’ is intended, not as
silence, but as an opportunity for listeners to hear the sounds of their environment.
ANSWER: John (Milton) Cage (Jr.)
8. Pencil and paper ready. Given a square root, express it in simplest form, for 10 points each:
[10] Square root of eight.
ANSWER: 2 times the square root of 2 or 2 root 2 or 2 radical 2
[10] Square root of 112.
ANSWER: 4 times the square root of 7 or 4 root 7 or 4 radical 7
[10] Square root of 720.
ANSWER: 12 times the square root of 5 or 12 root 5 or 12 radical 5
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9. For 10 points each, name these plays by Arthur Miller:
[10] In this play, Willy Loman kills himself in order to receive life insurance money for his sons, Biff and
Happy.
ANSWER: Death of a Salesman
[10] This Miller play, written in response to anti-Communist sentiment in the Red Scare, sees a historically
inaccurate relationship between Abigail Williams and John Proctor, who is later accused of witchcraft.
ANSWER: The Crucible
[10] Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, this play focuses on the Keller family, whose patriarch, Joe, kills himself over
guilt for shipping defective airplane parts during World War II.
ANSWER: All my Sons
10. Name some things found in space, for 10 points each:
[10] These large objects contain stars, nebulae, and black holes. They may be shaped irregularly or, like
Andromeda, spirally.
ANSWER: Galaxy or Galaxies
[10] These rapidly-spinning neutron stars emit powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation. These beams are
visible from earth at short, precise intervals.
ANSWER: Pulsars
[10] These active galactic nuclei are extremely distant, and therefore extremely old. They are generally believed
to be accretion disks around supermassive black holes.
ANSWER: Quasar (or quasi-stellar radio source)
11. Name some leaders of the Soviet Union, for 10 points each:
[10] This Soviet leader consolidated power following Lenin’s death, instituted a highly centralized economy,
and fought the “Great Patriotic War” against Nazi Germany.
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin (or Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili or Iosif Dzhugashvili, accept any combination
of one of the listed first and last names)
[10] This last leader of the Soviet Union attempted to reform the economy and political system through
Perestroika and Glasnost, but ended up transferring power to Boris Yeltsin.
ANSWER: Mikhail (or Michael) Gorbachev
[10] This Soviet leader and former KGB head cracked down on dissent in the USSR and in other communist
countries; during his short time in office relations with the United States deteriorated.
ANSWER: Yuri (Vladimirovich) Andropov
12. Pencil and paper ready. In a sandwich shop, one can buy a sandwich with wheat, rye, or white bread, Swiss,
American, or mozzarella cheese, and ham, turkey, or pork. For 10 points each:
[10] Determine how many unique types of sandwiches can be created.
ANSWER: twenty seven
[10] If a customer is allergic to mozzeralla cheese and is Muslim, and therefore does not eat pork, determine
how many types of sandwiches are available for him to order.
ANSWER: twelve
[10] Once a different customer has chosen wheat bread, determine the probability that that customer will end up
with a wheat, mozzarella, and turkey sandwich.
ANSWER: One ninth or one over nine or point one repeating
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13. Name some Jewish holidays, for 10 points each:
[10] This Jewish Day of Atonement is observed by fasting and prayer on the 10th of Tisheri.
ANSWER: Yom Kippur
[10] This Jewish holiday, generally celebrated on the 14th of Adar, commemorates Esther’s foiling of a plot by
Haman to kill all the Jews.
ANSWER: Purim (prompt on lots)
[10] This Jewish holiday, celebrated on the 15th of Tisheri, was originally intended to celebrate the harvest, and
is observed by building a structure of plants and living in it during the holiday.
ANSWER: Sukkot (prompt on Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles)
14. Its first emperor was Babur. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Muslim Empire in India that held power from 1526 to 1858; its other emperors included
Humayun, Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal, and Aurangzeb.
ANSWER: Mughal or Mogul or Moghul Empire or Dynasty
[10] The Mughal Empire came to power following this 1526 battle, in which Babur’s forces defeated Ibrahim
Lodi and took over his Delhi Sultanate.
ANSWER: First Battle of Panipat
[10] This Mughal Emperor greatly expanded the Empire. He was religiously tolerant, abolishing the jizya tax on
non-Muslims and encouraging religious debate.
ANSWER: (Jalaluddin Muhammad) Akbar or Akbar the Great
15. Okun’s law relates this quantity to a nation’s GDP. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon, which occurs when a person does not have a job and is actively searching for one.
The cyclical type is caused by economic downturns.
ANSWER: Unemployment (accept frictional, structural, or cyclical unemployment)
[10] This curve shows the inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation. In the short run it is
downward-sloping; in the long-run it is a vertical line at full employment.
ANSWER: Phillips curve
[10] This type of unemployment is caused by differences between the skills and locations of the unemployed
and potential employers. It may be caused, for example, by outsourcing of a factory.
ANSWER: Structural unemployment
16. This Romantic poet fathered Ada Lovelace, spent a summer at Lake Geneva with Percy and Mary Shelly,
and died of fever in Greece while fighting the Ottomans. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author of The Prisoner of Chillon and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
ANSWER: George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron (accept any underlined part or Lord Byron)
[10] This Byron epic poem portrays the title character as an innocent victim of women’s seductions instead of
the seducer shown by Straus and Gluck.
ANSWER: Don Juan
[10] This Byron poem describes a title woman who ambles “like the night,” and has “a mind at peace with all
below/A heart whose love is innocent.”
ANSWER: She Walks in Beauty
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17. He was born in Vitebsk, Belarus. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this modernist Jewish artist of paintings like Bella with White Collar and the stained glass windows
of the Hadassah Medical Center’s synagogue.
ANSWER: Marc Chagall
[10] This Chagall painting depicts Vitebsk, where a goat is being milked inside a sheep’s head and a man is
walking down the street carrying a scythe.
ANSWER: I and the Village
[10] In this work, Lithuanians, Nazis, and Communists are conducting a pogrom in the background. A man in
green runs to the right below the focus, who is nailed to a cross.
ANSWER: White Crucifixion
18. This work’s characters find their gun stolen after a wild village party. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work in which the Smales family flee an anti-Apartheid uprising with the title character.
ANSWER: July’s People
[10] July’s People is set in this nation, the formerly racist home of English-language authors that
include its author and Athol Fugard.
ANSWER: Republic of South Africa
[10] This author of July’s People, also wrote a book about Rosa, Burger’s Daughter, and one about Julie and
her mechanic Abdu, The Pickup.
ANSWER: Nadine Gordimer
19. This quantity is directly related to an object’s mass. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this property of all objects, the tendency of them to resist changes in their state of motion.
ANSWER: Inertia
[10] Inertia was defined in this law, one of a set that describes mechanics proposed by the author of Principia
Mathematica.
ANSWER: Newton’s first law of motion (prompt on first law, laws of motion, or Newton’s laws)
[10] Newton’s second law of motion was originally defined in terms of this quantity, the change in an object’s
linear momentum equivalent to force times time.
ANSWER: Impulse
20. For 10 points each, name some vice presidents of the United States of America:
[10] This South Carolinian who described slavery as a “positive good” resigned as vice president under Andrew
Jackson to run for the senate, where he worked on the nullification compromise.
ANSWER: John C(aldwell) Calhoun
[10] This banker and vice president under Calvin Coolidge developed a plan to ensure German payment of
World War I reparations, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
ANSWER: Charles G(ates) Dawes
[10] This man wrote as Cato for the Anti-Federalist Papers and, after serving as governor of New York,
replaced Aaron Burr as vice president under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
ANSWER: George Clinton (prompt on Clinton, do not accept D, W, or B Clinton).
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Extra Bonus:
21. Name some Revolutions against Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, for 10 points each:
[10] Imre Nagy was a leader of this country, which revolted against its Soviet-backed government in 1956.
Soviet military forces put down the uprising.
ANSWER: People’s Republic of Hungary
[10] In Czechoslovakia during this period, Alexander Dubcek instituted liberalizing policies that allowed
dissent and decentralized politics. Warsaw Pact forces invaded and stopped it.
ANSWER: Prague Spring
[10] Czechoslovakia finally ceased to be a Communist Party-State because of this 1989 Revolution, in which
Dubcek reentered politics and Vaclav Havel was elected president.
ANSWER: Velvet Revolution (accept Gentle Revolution)
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