ACF Winter 2009: The Last Stand of Eponym Eponymovich
Packet by Dennis Jang
1. In the cartoon “A Hard Summer for the Soft Rag Baby,” this man holds a fan over baby, which has passed out
after drinking high bock beer, symbolizing confusion of his policies. This man also defended Azariah Flagg, who
was required to show why he, moreso than the mechanic Giles, deserved the position of city comptroller. This
member of the Barnburners cracked down on the Canal Ring as governor of New York, the position in which he
brought down the Tweed Ring as well. His presidential bid, with Thomas Hendricks as his vice president, ended
with the removal of federal troops from the South to resolve a dispute over the Electoral Commission. FTP, name
this American politician who lost to Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1876 presidential election.
ANSWER: Samuel Tilden
2. This philosopher attempted to explicate complex ideas to the public in his work A Crystal Clear Report to the
General Public Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy. He emphasized the importance of
academia in his work On the Nature of the Scholar and Its Manifestations, while he also wrote The Way Towards
the Blessed Life. Some of his other moral views were expounded upon in The Vocation of Man, and this philosopher
strongly advocated government policy that stimulated moral and intellectual development in his work, which he
believed to be necessary to grant his people their rightful place in the world. Along with Addresses to the German
Nation, in this philosopher’s most famous work, he argued that the sense of duty is the real supernatural
phenomenon in human life in an attempt to interpret religion through a Kantian moral frame. For ten points, identify
this philosopher who wrote An Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation, a German.
ANSWER: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
3. This author is convinced by another to publish his work in The Hydra in Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration. In real
life, this author claimed that “Neither should I go fooling over clouds / Following gleams unsafe, untrue” in one
work, while the line “Whatever shares / The eternal reciprocity of tears” ends another of his works. This author of
“Six o’clock in Princes Street” and “Insensibility” also wrote a work in which a ram is “caught in the thicket by its
horns” as it describes the near-sacrifice of Isaac. This author of “Futility” and “Strange Meeting” also wrote a work
which opens with “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” and was named by Siegfried Sassoon, as well as
another which ends by describing “the old Lie” as told by Horace. FTP, name this English poet of “The Parable of
the Old Man and the Young,” “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” and “Dulce et Decorum Est.”
ANSWER: Wilfred Owen
4. Ellman’s reagent can be used to measure the amount of this functional group in substances, while the Saville
reaction uses mercury to replace a nitrosyl from them. Reducing the product of treating a carbonyl compound with
Lawesson’s reagent results in the creation in one of these functional groups, the free form of which may be
necessary for infection by the cytomegalovirus. This functional group, which can be alkylated by bromobimane, can
only be found on one amino acid, cysteine. Capable of being formed via heating a halogenoalkane in a sodium
hydrosulfide solution, these are, FTP, which functional group, previously known as mercaptains, which is composed
of a hydrogen atom bonded to a sulfur atom?
ANSWER: thiols [accept mercaptan before mention, prompt on “sulfhydryl”]
5. This ideology led to the development of venalon, which was related to the development of the Taean work
system, which this ideology also promoted. Under this system , the year 1 is set at 1912 CE. This ideology was first
promulgated in a speech given to leadership which emphasized dispensing with “Dogmatism and Formalism,” and
this ideology gave rise to the industrial Chollima movement, in which workers were so motivated that they increased
production dramatically. This ideology advocates personal chajusong, or absolute independence, and absolute
submission to the needs of the party. For ten points, identify this official state religion of North Korea, which
preaches ultimate self-reliance and veneration of Kim Il Sung and his son.
ANSWER: Juche or chuche [accept Kimilsungism before mention of “Kim Il Sung”]
6. In the left background of this painting, two men in breeches contrast with another man wearing Quaker dress,
while wispy clouds are seen in the sky over a clump of willow trees. Its artist’s familiarity in painting the Biglen
brothers and work with Jean-Leon Gerome may have assisted in this painting, which sees the mansion Sweetbriar
serves as a contrast with the eighteenth century building at the right center. The Girard Avenue Bridge and the
Connecting Railroad Bridge can both be seen in the background, while the title character sits in the Josie while three
parallel wakes trail behind him. While the artist himself can be seen resting on his oars, the title character is in the
foreground of, FTP, which Thomas Eakins painting set on the Schuylkill River?
ANSWER: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
7. Marshall Hall’s theory of the reflex action was first put forth in a paper about the reflex function of this area.
Smooth, oval structures that lie on the ventrolateral surface of this area are known as olivary bodies, while the
portion of it between the anterior median fissure and the antero-lateral sulcus is known as the “pyramid”. The
foramen magnum is where it enters and exits the skull, while messages between it and the remainder of the midbrain
are transmitted by the pons, which is connected to this area. Continuous with the spinal cord, this is, FTP, which
hindmost part of the brain stem responsible for such autonomic functions as regulating blood pressure and
breathing?
ANSWER: medulla oblongata [prompt on partial answer]
8. The secret Vehmic trials during the late Middle Ages are the subject of this composer’s unfinished opera The Free
Judges. Among the unstaged dramatic works of this composer are The Childhood of Christ and a work which ends
with Marguerite being brought up to heaven in its epilogue, The Damnation of Faust. Dido and Aeneas the subjects
of his opera Les Troyens, while he placed four brass choirs in different places in his Requiem. It was intended for
Paganini to play the viola solo, which represents the title character, in this composer’s symphony Harold in Italy.
FTP, name this composer of a work whose sections include “Dreams – Passions,” “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,”
and “March to the Scaffold,” Symphonie Fantastique.
ANSWER: Hector Berlioz
9. After one character in this film tries to steal food while being held upside down outside a train, he believes that he
has arrived at a hotel, where he poses as a tour guide and claims that its construction was inspired by the ruler's
wife's death in a traffic accident on the way to a hospital. Later on, the protagonist learns of the dancer Cherry's
existence after confirming Benjamin Franklin's appearance on the one hundred dollar bill, after which Maman is
killed by a Colt .45. At this film's end, Salim murders the crime lord Javed as the protagonist correctly identifies
Aramis as the third musketeer after reuniting with Latika thanks to his Phone-A-Friend lifeline. FTP, name this 2008
Danny Boyle-directed film detailing Jamal Malik's rise to game show winner from the streets of Mumbai.
ANSWER: Slumdog Millionaire
10. One character in this work notes that, “A life without revelation is no life at all,” after helping another character
get off three times with a philosophy major that recommends Hegel. He later appears as a cat and instructs that
character to liquidate another “with extreme prejudice” after the death of his companion, who had been able to speak
to cats prior to a meeting with Johnnie Walker. That character died after arriving at a library and talking with the
singer of the title song, who had previously slept with the protagonist, probably her son. After taking on a fake name
which, in an Eastern European language, means “crow,” the protagonist had gotten off with Sakura, as well as Miss
Saeki, prior to finding himself in Shikoku. The intertwined stories of Nakata and Tamura in post-World War II
Japan are told in, FTP, which novel by Haruki Murakami?
ANSWER: Kafka on the Shore
11. In 1987, the monthly adjustment of prices and wages according to changes in expected inflation drew
controversy during the first months of implementation of this nation’s Pacto, which has gone through fifteen
renegotiations. Rudiger Dornbusch recommended that this nation devalue its currency by 30 percent during a time
when twenty billion dollars in currency swaps were provided by an Exchange Stabilization Fund; this occurred after
Bill Clinton failed to pass a Stabilization Act through Congress to aid this nation, which also received aid through
Brady bonds. This currency crisis was also known as the December mistake, and during it cetes were exchanged for
dollar-denominated tesobonos. That disaster under Ernesto Zedillo’s leadership, also known as the Tequila crisis,
forced the signing of NAFTA by, FTP, which country whose currency is the peso?
ANSWER: Mexico
12. Sapiro, Zhang, and Raithel used a one-dimensional optical lattice to demonstrate the transition of this substance
from a superfluid to a Mott-insulator. Ramsey fringes appear in these substances when one applies a series of pulses
from the excitation field. When confined to one dimension, the equivalent of this substance is called a TonksGirardeau gas, while Ketterle was able to create it in dilute gases. Modelled by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, this
substance is typically created by cooling rubidium atoms, after which they collapse into the same quantum state as
discovered by Cornell and Weimann. FTP, name this state of matter in which bosons are brought near absolute zero,
named after two scientists.
ANSWER: Bose-Einstein Condensate
13. This man’s younger brother was made Abbot of Glastonbury and Bishop of Winchester, becoming the wealthiest
churchman in the country, while this man himself encountered trouble during the first years of his rule in a period
known as the Anarchy. Having been imprisoned for some time in Bristol for rashly accepting battle at Lincoln, he
was exchanged for Robert of Gloucester, who had been captured after this man’s wife, Matilda of Boulogne,
advanced toward London. However, Matilda’s son would later return to England, and, following a military draw at
Wallingford, the Treaty of Westminster gave this man’s second son all of his baronial lands, while recognizing that
ruler of Aquitaine as his heir. Succeeding Henry I, this is, FTP, which English monarch, the last of the House of
Normandy?
ANSWER: Stephen of Blois
14. One character in this opera sings “Oh! Che volo d’augelli” before her ballatella “Stridono lassu” while Beppe
has taken another character to the village. The aria “Si Puo? Signore, Signori” is sung near its opening, as is “Un tal
gioco, credetermi” by a character who boxes the ears of Tonio; later on, it is Tonio who goes to the tavern and alerts
that character, who then sings “Vesti la giubba.” Taking place in Calabria during the celebration of the Feast of the
Assumption, it ends with Silvio’s death while the title character attempts to kill Harlequin during a play. This is due
to Nedda’s real-life betrayal of Canio in, FTP, which opera about a troupe of actors, written by Ruggiero
Leoncavallo?
ANSWER: I Pagliacci or The Clowns [accept loose English equivalents such as The Strolling Players]
15. One character in this work has a dream that a wind-up penguin waddles around the house, except no one had
wound it up. This occurs after the passing of an ad that says, “See Rock City” soon before another character recalls a
conversation with one who calls herself a “faithless slut.” Later on, the line “There is no God, and we are his
prophets” is spoken by a man who claims his name is Ely, and he is eventually left behind prior to the discovery of a
broken down train. In the aftermath of the 1:17 AM catastrophe prior to the novel’s opening, the main characters
eventually reach the shore, and, three days after the father dies, his son is found by “one of the good guys” and his
family. The pair had walked along the title path in post-apocalyptic nuclear winter in, FTP, which 2007 novel by
Cormac McCarthy?
ANSWER: The Road
16. Sophie Kowalevski completed a theorem involving local existence and uniqueness of analytical partial
differential equations initially proven in a special case by this man, whose name, along with that of Binet, is also
appended to a formula generalizing the multiplicativity of the determinants of two matrices. If the partial sums of an
infinite series become arbitrarily close to each other, said infinite series converges under a test named after this man,
who is also the namesake of a set of differential equations for finding holomorphic functions in the complex plane
with Riemann, as well as a theorem stating that the closed line integral of holomorphic functions in simply
connected subsets of the complex plane is equal to zero. A theorem stating that the product of the length of two
vectors is greater than their inner product is named after, FTP, which German mathematician, along with Hermann
Schwarz?
ANSWER: Augustin Louis Cauchy
17. Due to swampy terrain and the constricted bridgehead, General O’Reilly’s men waited until mid-morning before
attacking the opposing infantry along Fontanone Creek in this battle. One side fended off cavalry charges until the
arrival of the Consular Guard, yet an attack on Castel Ceriolo failed just as Victor’s men could hold on no longer,
after which General Zach took over for his wounded leader. However, Desaix’s announcement that Boudet’s men
were on their way led the eventual victors from their position at San Giuliano, thanks to the efforts of Kellermann,
and they sent Michael von Melas’s forces into retreat. Taking place during the War of the Second Coalition, this is,
FTP, which 1800 victory for Napoleon, who drove the Austrians out of northern Italy?
ANSWER: Battle of Marengo
18. This man sent Idris Bitlisi to gain the allegiance of Kurdish chiefs, after which Muhammad Han Ustaclu
withdrew his army after that man’s arrival at Amid. The Dulkadir principality of Elbistan was subdued by this man,
who had earlier subdued the Kizilbash in Anatolia. He earned victories at the Battles of Marj Dabiq and Ridaneh,
which took place after he defeated his brother Ahmed to take power. He defeated Shah Ismail I and the Safavids at
the Battle of Chaldiran, after which he defeated the Mamluks and took Syria and Egypt. Succeeded his father
Bayezid I, this is, FTP, which Ottoman emperor who was succeeded by his son Suleiman I and whose nickname
came from his cruel nature?
ANSWER: Selim the Grim
19. This god was sometimes required to appear in Duat, where he achieved his most important task. Some myths
attribute the birth of Khepri to this god, who was believed to intervene on both sides of mortal battle so that neither
side could attain true victory. He sometimes attained the aspect of A’an, which required him to don a baboon’s head,
and this god is responsible for mediating the conflict between Heru-Bektet and Set, as well as between Ra and Apep.
The masculine counterpart to Seshat, this god notably bet with Khonsu and won part of the moon’s light, and during
the process of judging for the afterlife, this god weighed the hearts of mortals against the feather of truth, or Ma’at.
For ten points, identify this Egyptian god, who invented writing and had the head of an ibis.
ANSWER: Thoth [accept Djehuty]
20. Vivian Bearing, the protagonist of Margaret Edson’s play W;t [wit], is a scholar of this set of works and has
published a work on criticism titled after its fifth member. Its author asks the Jews to “spit in my face” in one part,
while other parts ask “if lecherous goats… cannot be damned, alas! Why should I?” and instruct angels to blow their
trumpets “at the round earth’s corners.” The line “I am a little world made cunningly” opens one part of this work,
whose fourteenth part asks a “three-person’d God” to “batter my heart.” The main entity is described as the “slave to
Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men” in its most famous section, the tenth. FTP, name this sequence of nineteen
poems, the most famous of which begins with, “Death, be not proud,” written by John Donne.
ANSWER: Holy Sonnets [accept “Death, be not proud” before “set”]
21. The protagonist of this novel recalls how earlier that morning, she had confused Francesco Francia with Piero
della Francesca, while seeing a copy of Under a Loggia. Written under the name of “Joseph Emery Prank” by Mrs.
Lavish, it was being read by one character in the garden of Windy Corner as he watched Freddy and others play
tennis. However, it is later in that day that one character, inspired by a previous encounter in the Fiesole hills, kisses
her once again, and later that character breaks off her engagement with Cecil Vyse. Despite her distress that Mr.
Emerson knows about her love for his son, Lucy Honeychurch marries George Emerson, whom she had met earlier
in Florence, at the end of, FTP, which novel by E. M. Forster?
ANSWER: A Room with a View
ACF Winter 2009: The Last Stand of Eponym Eponymovich
Packet by Dennis Jang
1. Along with Max Ernst, this artist pioneered the technique of scraping paint off of a canvas, known as grattage.
FTPE:
[10] Name this Spanish painter and sculptor whose works include Woman and Bird, Wall of the Moon, Wall of the
Sun, Portrait of Mrs Mills in 1750 (after Constable), and Ciphers and Constellations.
ANSWER: Joan Miró
[10] Joan Miró may be best known for this painting, whose title colorful animal engages in the title action. The left
side features a ladder reaching up toward the other title colorful entity.
ANSWER: Dog Barking at the Moon [accept close equivalents, such as Dog Howling at the Moon]
[10] Miró is often considered a member of this 20th century art movement, whose members included Enrico Donati,
Méret Oppenheim, and founder André Breton. Oh, that Salvador Dali guy was a member, too.
ANSWER: surrealism
2. Complementing the life-cycle hypothesis of Modigliani, this notion also builds on Fisher’s beliefs concerning the
relationship between consumption and current earnings. FTPE:
[10] Name this hypothesis that suggests that transitory changes in wealth are predicted by most consumers, so
consumption does not vary based on total wealth.
ANSWER: permanent-income hypothesis
[10] The permanent-income hypothesis was developed by this American economist, noted for his work Capitalism
and Freedom. Oh, yeah, he’s a monetarist who studied at the University of Chicago.
ANSWER: Milton Friedman
[10] The main conclusion from the permanent-income hypothesis is that over a long period of time, there average
propensity to consume should remain constant, as found in studies by this man, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for
work with economic growth.
ANSWER: Simon Kuznets
3. Identify the following concerning the Free Soil Party, FTPE:
[10] The first presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party was this former president. This former Secretary of State
for Andrew Jackson attempted to deal with the Panic of 1837 and the Aroostook War as the eighth president.
ANSWER: Martin van Buren
[10] This Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party. He would also go on
to serve as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the decisions Texas v. White and Hepburn v. Griswold.
ANSWER: Salmon Portland Chase
[10] Among the parties preceding the Free Soil Party was this short-lived group focusing largely on abolitionist
goals. Breaking away from the American Anti-Slavery Society, its presidential nominee in 1840 and 1844 was
James Gillespie Birney.
ANSWER: Liberty party
4. Identify the following concerning linear algebra, FTPE:
[10] Linear algebra is primarily concerned with the study of these mathematical objects, which are described as
having both magnitude and direction.
ANSWER: vectors
[10] This technique of linear algebra is useful for solving matrix equations of the form A times x equals b. It
involves reducing a matrix to row echelon form, and its namesake is also the namesake of an algorithm for
producing reduced row echelon form, along with Wilhelm Jordan.
ANSWER: Gaussian elimination [prompt on partial answer]
[10] This theorem of linear algebra states that all square matrices A satisfy their own characteristic polynomials,
which are given by calculating the determinant of “lamda-I minus A”.
ANSWER: Cayley-Hamilton theorem
5. Poems of this author are collected in A Reed in the Tide and America, Their America, while he also wrote the
plays Ozidi, The Boat, and The Masquerade. FTPE:
[10] Name this author who wrote about Tonya’s seduction of the wife of his brother, Zifa, in his play Song of a
Goat.
ANSWER: John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo
[10] John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo hails from this country, which was home to Onitsha Market Literature. Authors
from said country have produced such works as Sozaboy, The Great Pond, and The Interpreters.
ANSWER: Nigeria
[10] This other Nigerian author has written about Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, in Arrow of God, and he created
Umuofia in his novels No Longer at Ease and Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Chinua Achebe
6. Answer the following about an event that began with an expedition from William McDougall and saw its leader
flee with the approach of the Wolseley expedition--the Red River Rebellion, FTPE:
[10] The Red River Rebellion was led by this leader of the Metis people. He insisted that Thomas Scott be shot and
would later return to lead the North-West Rebellion with Gabriel Dumont.
ANSWER: Louis Riel
[10] The Red River Rebellion began as a result of the Canadian government purchasing Rupert’s land from this
entity, which once controlled North American fur trade and is the oldest commercial corporation in North America.
ANSWER: Hudson’s Bay Company
[10] As a result of the Red River Rebellion, this act was passed in 1870, creating the namesake province. Riel’s
additional demands of protecting the educational rights of Protestants and Roman Catholics were also met.
ANSWER: Manitoba Act
7. Let’s rail against the use of batting average and runs batted in as a useful metric of evaluating baseball players and
discuss sabermetrics, which is the study of baseball by use of statistics, FTPE:
[10] Sabermetrics was a term coined by this baseball writer, who works for the Red Sox. Among his inventions are
Win Shares and the Pythagorean Won-Loss Theorem, which projects a team’s winning percentage based on its runs
scored and allowed.
ANSWER: Bill James
[10] As much as it pains the question writer to say, zone ratings, relative range factor, or basically any method
reveals that this Yankee captain and Gold Glove shortstop is actually a really crappy fielder.
ANSWER: Derek Jeter
[10] This statistic measures the value of a baseball player at the margin, comparing the number of runs the player
contributes beyond a replacement-level, not average, player at the same position. It was invented by Keith Woolner.
ANSWER: value over replacement player
8. The title character burns a letter from her mother, as well as all the other she has been sent, shortly after sleeping
with a camera salesman and watching Mariah kick Lewis out of their house. FTPE:
[10] Name this novel in which the title character returns from her Caribbean homeland to America upon the death of
her father, watching Mariah distance herself and Peggy and Paul develop a secret relationship.
ANSWER: Lucy
[10] “A Walk in the Jetty” is the last chapter of this novel, in which the title character recalls her former friendships
with Gwen and the Red Girl and the split with her mother, detailed in “Figures at a Distance” and “The Circling
Hand.”
ANSWER: Annie John
[10] Lucy and Annie John are among the works of this Antiguan-born author of the short fiction collection At the
Bottom of the River and The Autobiography of My Mother.
ANSWER: Jamaica Kincaid
9. Faith, hope, and charity are among the themes depicted on the portals of its Façade of the Nativity, which was the
first of its three facades to be completed. FTPE:
[10] Name this unfinished Roman Catholic church whose construction began in 1882 and will hopefully have
eighteen spires by its completion.
ANSWER: Sagrada Familia
[10] The Sagrada Familia is among the original designs of this Catalan architect of the Art Nouveau movement. He
also did a lot of work for Eusebi Guell, as well as the Casa Mila.
ANSWER: Antoni Gaudi
[10] This first major work of Gaudi’s exhibits clear Moorish influences. Also found in Barcelona, it was built using
the yellow, zinnia-flowered ceramic tiles produced by its owner.
ANSWER: Casa Vicens
10. Snell’s law uses them to relate the angles of incidence and refraction. FTPE:
[10] Name this measure indicating the reduction of the speed of light in a given medium.
ANSWER: index of refraction
[10] This effect is the change in the index of refraction due to the imposition of an electric field. It is named after a
Scottish physicist.
ANSWER: Kerr effect
[10] This equation empirically relates the index of refraction on the wavelength for a given medium. It was a
development on a similar idea for modeling dispersion proposed by a French mathematician.
ANSWER: Sellmeier equation
11. This book was derisively cited in the Supreme Court Case Lochner v. New York. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this work in which the author argues that adaptation makes equilibrium from society possible, and
which derides poor laws in one of its chapters.
ANSWER: Social Statics
[10] Social Statics exhibits the Social Darwinian thought of this British thinker, whose other achievements include
coining the phrase “survival of the fittest” and writing The Man Versus the State.
ANSWER: Herbert Spencer
[10] Herbert Spencer also wrote this work, in which he attempted to gather together lots of different previous ideas,
like the continuity of motion and the indestructibility of matter, and combine them with his own ethical thought.
ANSWER: A System of Synthetic Philosophy
12. One character in this work complains about his treatment from Gracie and Ruthie for taking a slice of toast from
the former’s breakfast plate prior to getting involved in a plan hatched in Don’s Resale Shop. FTPE:
[10] Name this play, the end of which reveals that Fletcher has indeed been mugged, thus forcing Don and Teach to
abandon the planned robbery.
ANSWER: American Buffalo
[10] James Lingk’s decision to not purchase the title property prevents Ricky Roma from winning the sales contest
in this play, which sees Shelley Levene get arrested for stealing leads from his Chicago real estate office.
ANSWER: Glengarry Glen Ross
[10] Both American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross were written by this American playwright, whose other plays
include Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Speed-the-Plow.
ANSWER: David Mamet
13. For 10 points each, answer the following questions about the problem of evil:
[10] Name this branch of theology, which deals with how evil could exist in a world created by God.
ANSWER: theodicy [thee-ODD-uh-see]
[10] In his 1710 essay on the theodicy, this German philosopher argued that God chose the best of all possible
worlds. He may be more famous for being lampooned as Dr. Pangloss in Candide or for writing Monadologie.
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
[10] The Free Will Defense is this contemporary theologian's response to the problem of evil. Some of his works
include a couple about Warrant and The Nature of Necessity.
ANSWER: Alvin Plantinga
14. Johannes Matthiae served as her tutor while Axel Oxenxtierna headed the five regents who led the country.
FTPE:
[10] Name this ruler of Sweden, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, who
converted to Catholicism before abdicating her throne.
ANSWER: Queen Christina
[10] Christina was the final member of this royal house, which was founded by Gustav I in 1523. Other rulers
include Eric XIV, who also ruled Estonia, and John III.
ANSWER: House of Vasa
[10] This other ruler of the House of Vasa was this dude, who united the Vasa dynasty with the Jagiello dynasty. His
1598 defeat at Stangebro essentially ended the personal union between Sweden and Poland, which he had also ruled.
ANSWER: Sigismund I Vasa [accept Sigismund III Vasa of Poland]
15. The spitzenkörper is an organelle found in the apex of these structures. FTPE:
[10] Name this filaments of a fungus that are collectively known as the mycelium.
ANSWER: hypha
[10] Hypha are usually separated by walls that form internal compartments known as these. The general term also
describes the partition separating the two sides of a human heart.
ANSWER: septa
[10] Hypha can also be found in this species of gram-positive bacteria, examples of which include Gardnerella and
Streptomyces. They’re important for the decomposition of organic matter.
ANSWER: actinobacteria
16. Those Argonauts sure had a crazy journey home after stealing the Golden Fleece. Answer some questions
concerning their trip, FTPE:
[10] As they were fleeing Colchis, this brother of Medea followed them, only to either be stabbed by Medea, or to
have left with her on the Argo, only to be cut to pieces and cast into the sea.
ANSWER: Apsyrtus
[10] At the bidding of Hera, Thetis helped the Argonauts go unharmed past Scylla and this whirlpool, which nearly
took Odysseus, who saved his life by hanging onto a fig tree.
ANSWER: Charybdis
[10] Medea saves the Argo from this Cretan being, a bronze man, by praying, so it grazed itself on its ankle when
trying to throw a rock at the Argo.
ANSWER: Talos
17. Identify the following James Joyce stories, FTPE:
[10] The protagonist, a young boy, goes to the title bazaar to purchase a gift for the sister of one of the boys he plays
with, but he gets there just as the bazaar is closing and ends up not buying anything.
ANSWER: “Araby”
[10] The death of Father Flynn, who had suffered a mental breakdown following the accidental breaking of a
chalice, is the subject of this Dubliners story.
ANSWER: “The Sisters”
[10] The law clerk Thomas Chandler meets with his old friend, the journalist Ignatius Gallaher, in this story, but
resentment of his own life and alcohol cause him to go home and yell at his child.
ANSWER: “A Little Cloud”
18. It was successful at the Battle of Legnano, leading to the Peace of Venice, but it met defeat at the Battle of
Cortenuova nearly 60 years later. FTPE:
[10] Name this alliance, supported by Pope Alexander III, which hoped to stop the spreading of German Imperial
influence in 1167.
ANSWER: Lombard League
[10] The Lombard League had been created to prevent this Holy Roman Emperor from asserting his Imperial
authority over Italy. He later embarked on the Third Crusade with Philip Augustus and Richard the Lionheart.
ANSWER: Frederick I
[10] Frederick had attempted to announce the rights he intended to enforce at this 1158 meeting near Piacenza. He
also hoped to restore the earlier suzerainty via the appointment of imperial officials.
ANSWER: Diet of Roncaglia
19. It takes place during the 1524-1525 Peasant’s War, and the symphony accompanying it ends with the movement
titled “The Temptation of Saint Anthony.” FTPE:
[10] Name this opera about the life of the artist of the Isenheim Altarpiece.
ANSWER: Mathis der Mahler
[10] This piano work opens with a Praeludium, which is followed by twelve three-voice Fugues with an Interlude
between each one. Its name translates as “Game of the Notes.”
ANSWER: Ludus Tonalis
[10] Both Mathis der Mahler and Ludus Tonalis were composed by this German composer When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom’d and the viola concerto Der Schwanendreher, or The Swan-Turner.
ANSWER: Paul Hindemith
20. They were laid down for naming enantiomers in the Buergenstock Declaration. FTPE:
[10] Name this triply-eponymous set of rules used to name the stereoisomers of a molecule, which includes
determining whether its double bond is E or Z.
ANSWER: Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules
[10] This naming problem exists due to the existence, or lack thereof, of this property, which states that a molecule
cannot be superimposed over its mirror image.
ANSWER: chiral
[10] These type of compounds have multiple chiral centers, but they have an internal symmetry that produces no net
chirality.
ANSWER: meso compounds