PACE NSC 2009: Edited by Andrew Hart, Chris Ray, Ted Gioia, and Mehdi Razvi
Round 11
Related Tossups and Bonuses Round
1. This poet writes that he is “sick of being a man” in a poem in which the speaker wanders in a
rage, “Walking Around.” In one section of a long poem by this author, he wrote “Nobody knows
where the assassins / buried these bodies.” In addition to writing the section “The Sands
Betrayed,” this author asks the addressee of another poem to “Rise up and be born with me,” and
another of his poems claims “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” This poet included poems
dedicated to salt and a fresh tuna in the market in his Elemental Odes. For 10 points, name this
author who wrote Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, a Chilean poet.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Neftali Ricardo Reyes y Basoalto]
<Hart>
1. He described how a certain “conscientious object-or” was “more brave than me:more blond
than you” in “i sing of Olaf glad and big”. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this author of the play Santa Claus: A Morality and the semiautobiographical novel
The Enormous Room, an American poet who often eschewed capital letters and punctuation.
ANSWER: edward estlin cummings
[10] Cummings describes how the title character of this poem “sang his didn’t” and “danced his
did” in this poem, which repeats permutations of the lines “summer autumn winter spring” and
“sun moon stars rain” and contains the parenthetical “(with up so floating many bells down)”.
ANSWER: “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
<Carson>
2. In one tradition, a chair is left empty for this figure at circumcision rituals. He revived the
dead child of the widow who was caring for him, and he later embarrassed King Ahab and the
prophets of Baal when the fires of Yahweh set alight an offering he had ordered to be doused
with water. After this confrontation, he left his mantle with his successor Elisha and was borne
into the heavens by a chariot of fire. For 10 points, identify this biblical prophet who will portend
the coming of the messiah and for whom Jews pour an extra cup of wine on Passover.
ANSWER: Elijah the Tishbite [accept Eliyahu]
<Silberman>
2. Identify the following gods of wintertime feasts in Roman religion, for 10 points each.
[10] A market called the sigillaria was held during the celebrations of the late December feast
dedicated to this god. This husband of Ops, the father of Ceres and Jupiter, ruled during the
Golden Age and is often identified with the Greek Cronus.
ANSWER: Saturn
[10] Elagabalus introduced another December festival centering on the worship of this figure, a
syncretization of a traditional Roman sun god and a Syrian sun god, the official state sun god of
later Rome.
ANSWER: Deus Sol Invictus [prompt on partial answer or on Unconquered Sun God]
<Carson>
3. The Sif-Gula region of Venus forms complexes of these structures, where these objects do not
observe the linear patterning they do on Earth. The lava that forms them tends to form rocks
without gas bubbles, and when they erupt, frequently a fissure along their sides will form,
creating spatter ramparts in a phenomenon called a curtain of fire, though on the whole their
eruptions are characterized as relatively calm. For 10 points, identify these volcanoes formed by
low-viscosity basaltic lava, exemplified by Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, best known for their
broad, shallow sides.
ANSWER: shield volcano [prompt on volcano]
<Watkins>
3. Members of this classification can typically be differentiated from their counterparts based on
cephalization, and its name means “having joints”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this subphylum of Chordata that includes animals with a backbone or spinal chord.
ANSWER: Vertebrata [accept Vertebrates]
[10] Members of this superclass of jawless fish belonging to Vertebrata possess seven pairs of
gills and a pineal eye. Examples include lampreys and hagfish.
ANSWER: Agnatha
<Razvi>
4. One of this author’s poems speaks of “the difference between despair/ And fear.” This author
spoke of how “we placed the hair/ And drew the head erect” in a poem about “the last night that
she lived.” One of this writer’s poems claims “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” and another
poem discusses “Heavenly hurt it gives us/ We can find no scars” and compares “the weight of
cathedral tunes.” She also wrote of feeling “Zero at the Bone” in response to seeing a snake as
well as a poem claiming “inebriate of air I am.” For 10 points, name this poet of “There’s a
certain slant of light,” “A Narrow fellow in the grass,” and “I taste a liquour never brewed.”
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson
<Carson>
4. One character sells diamonds sewn into a coat in order to get to Paris. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which Fabrizio del Dongo tries to sign up with Napoleon’s army and
fathers a son with Clelia.
ANSWER: The Charterhouse of Parma [or La chartreuse de Parme]
[10] In this other Stendhal novel, Julien knocks up the daughter of the Marquis de la Mole and
eventually is stripped of his wealth after his affair with the mayor’s wife comes to light.
ANSWER: The Red and the Black [or Le rouge et le noir]
<Kirsch>
5. This man wrote a work that referred to belief systems as “collective representations” and was
based on fieldwork done in Australia by Spencer and Gillen. His On the Normality of Crime was
published two years before a work about mechanical and organic solidarity. He applied scientific
methodology to his field in his Rules of Sociological Method, and in addition to the
aforementioned Division of Labor in Society, he is probably more famous for a work which
divides the title concept into fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic, and anomistic. For 10 points, name this
sociologist and author of Suicide.
ANSWER: Emile Durkheim
<Mukherjee>
5. This man talked about a theatre state in his Negara, and advocated the concept of “local
knowledge” in another work. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this anthropologist, who said cultures are suspended in “webs of significance” in his
Interpretation of Cultures, which included an essay on the Balinese Cockfight.
ANSWER: Clifford Geertz
[10] Geertz contrasts the social roles of the title religion in Indonesia and Morocco in this work
ANSWER: Islam Observed
<Mukherjee>
6. One phase of this period was the Seikanron, a clash in which its first great general demanded
the right to provoke his own murder in Korea, leading to the exile of Saigo Takamori and
eventually the Saga and Satsuma rebellions, which this government crushed. Established in the
wake of the Boshin War by the five-article Charter Oath, it abolished the feudal han system and
saw a massive industrialization campaign that led to military triumphs over China and Russia.
For 10 points, identify this period of “Enlightened Wisdom” in which the namesake Japanese
Emperor was returned to the throne following the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
ANSWER: Meiji Restoration/Period
<Ray>
6. This man’s court presided over Prigg v. Pennsylvania. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Chief Justice appointed by Andrew Jackson, whose court presided over Swift v.
Tyson and Dred Scott v. Sandford.
ANSWER: Roger Brooke Taney
[10] This case was ordered re-argued after Taney's appointment. The court ruled the
Massachusetts state legislature did not violate the Contract Clause, arguing that contracts should
be interpreted narrowly when ambiguity affects the public good.
ANSWER: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge [either name; either order]
<Ray>
7. These compounds can be synthesized by the Huffman-Kratschmer process. They were isolated
when high-density helium was passed over rotating graphite disk, and the resulting ionized
material passed through an integration cup; that experiment was performed by Kroto, Smalley,
and Kurl. They can be used to form endohedral inclusion compounds, and a flat version is called
graphene, while the cylindrical ones are termed nanotubes. For 10 points, identify this class of
carbon allotropes, whose most common example is a ball composed of 60 carbons.
ANSWER: buckministerfullerenes or fullerene
<Kandlikar>
7. Name these compounds containing carbon and nitrogen for 10 points each.
[10] When this ion, with formula CN-, appears in a compound with hydrogen, it has been
historically used as a suicide poison to get out of tight situations.
ANSWER: cyanide
[10] The aceto variety of this organic functional group is commonly used as a hydrophobic
solvent. It consists of a carbon atom triple bonded to a nitrogen atom.
ANSWER: nitrile [prompt on cyano]
<Razvi>
8. Henry Fuseli claimed that the paintings of this man made him call for “my great coat and
umbrella.” He depicted Hadleigh Castle in one of his full-size sketches, and he would later create
numerous cloud sketches and depict the chain pier at Brighton Beach. Among his paintings of
the area near his home is Dedham Vale, but this painter of Salisbury Cathedral remains best
remembered for a work which features Willy Lott’s cottage on its left. For 10 points, name this
British landscape painter of a scene near Flatford Mill on Suffolk’s River Stour in The Hay
Wain.
ANSWER: John Constable
<Jang>
8. The second act of this opera includes the ballet “The Frolic of the Bears” and it ends with the
dance “A Real Slow Drag.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this opera, whose title character helps some superstitious villagers from being
duped by Zodzetrick and other conjurers who attempt to sell “a bag of luck.”
ANSWER: Treemonisha
[10] Treemonisha was composed by this American best known for his ragtime hit “Maple Leaf
Rag.”
ANSWER: Scott Joplin
<Kandlikar>
9. In 1804, the “Four Mile Purchase” helped Nathan Smith found this state’s Franklin County,
aided by Colonel William Wofford. To fulfill the Compact of 1802, it held five land lotteries
between 1805 and 1827 to distribute territory won from the Creeks, while its 1829 Gold Rush
prompted three more on land taken, despite Worcester’s successful Supreme Court suit. Also the
site of a famous land fraud scheme around the Yazoo River, for 10 points, identify this state from
whom the Cherokee were expelled in the “Trail of Tears,” a Southern state founded by James
Oglethorpe whose capital is Atlanta.
ANSWER: The State of Georgia
<Letzler>
9. Identify these uppity groups from Russian history, for 10 points each:
[10] A disagreement between Lenin and Martov led the Mensheviks to break from this group at
the Second Party Congress, and later withstood Alexander Bogdanov's recallist movement.
ANSWER: Bolsheviks
[10] Beginning as the political wing of the Land and Liberty movement, this group agitated for
sweeping reforms, most of which Alexander II was pursuing when they bombed him to death,
leading them to be harshly targeted in incidents like the Trial of Fourteen under Alexander III.
ANSWER: People's Will [or Narodnaya Volya]
<Ray>
10. The Social Democratic Alliance forged a coalition with the Left-Green Movement under a
politician in this country who popularized the phrase “my time will come” while becoming the
first openly gay head of state. Britain's Alistair Darling responded to a dispute over an online
savings organization by freezing assets in this country, which despite its position atop the UN
Human Development Index became the first Western country to borrow from the IMF in 30
years after the failure of its three major banks. Johanna Sigurdardottir presides over the Althing
of, for 10 points, what island nation whose capital is Reykjavik?
ANSWER: Republic of Iceland
<Ray>
10. In 2009, this former Finance Minister under William Tolbert published the autobiographical
This Child Will Be Great. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this African leader who, years after being exiled by Samuel Doe, led the Unity
Party to victory in the 2005 Presidential Election against George Weah.
ANSWER: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
[10] Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first woman elected as a head of state in Africa after
ascending to the Presidency of this country, once led by the disastrously corrupt Charles Taylor.
ANSWER: Liberia
<Ray>
Category Quiz Tossups
11. A woman who put a video of herself crying while watching the trailer for this film on
YouTube received an invitation to the production wrap party in Emeryville, California. The end
credits to this film show the fates of the main characters in styles ranging from eight-bit video
game graphics to cave paintings. One major plot point is rescuing a plant that will be returned to
Earth for its recolonization by humans. Though originally befriending a cockroach on Earth, the
title character follows EVE onto the Axiom space cruiser and falls in love in, for 10 points, what
2008 Pixar film about a trash-compacting robot.
ANSWER: WALL-E
<Silberman>
12. This object’s namesake loop, also known as the Veil nebula, is a 5,000 year old supernova
remnant, and other nebulae in it include the Pelican and North American, which are separated
from the Butterfly nebula by the Northern Coal Sack. Notable stellar objects in this constellation
include its beta star Albireo and a namesake x-ray source designated X-1, believed to be caused
by a black hole. For 10 points, name this constellation, sometimes called the Northern Cross,
whose brightest star is Deneb and which is associated with a swan.
ANSWER: Cygnus [prompt on Northern Cross before mentioned]
<Butler>
13. The second section of one of this author’s works features the exclamation “Ah! Corydon,
Corydon, what hath crazed your wit?” The tenth part of that work depicts Gallus dying of love.
In another one of this author’s works, a spear-riddled corpse turns into a bleeding bush, and one
character engages in single combat after accidentally allowing his son Lausus to be killed in his
place. This author created that character, Mezentius, who is the ally of the king of the Rutuli,
Turnus. For 10 points, identify this Latin poet who considered four topics from farming in the
Georgics and wrote about a character who leaves Dido on his way to Italy in the Aeneid.
ANSWER: Publius Vergilius Maro
<Watkins>
14. One architect from this country designed a the top-heavy Velasca Tower. In addition to
Ernesto Rogers, another architect from this country is constructing the Arizona town of
Arcosanti based on his town-planning concept of arcologies. Another architect from this country
designed Tokyo's Kansai International Airport as well as a collaboration with Richard and Sue
Rogers, Edmund Happold, and Peter Rice that features an external tubular walkway. For 10
points, name this home country of Paolo Soleri, and the co-architect of the Pompidou Center,
Renzo Piano.
ANSWER: Italy
<Hart>
15. This man was aided by intelligence chief Charles Willoughby, though he expressed horror at
Willighby's eagerness to secure the research data of Unit 731. Despite this man's protestations,
Ned King surrendered to opposing forces, prompting the Bataan Death march, though did not
receive as much ire as another of this man's successors, Matthew Ridgway. He quoted “old
soldiers never die; they just fade away” in a farewell address after insubordination led Truman to
recall him from duty. For 10 points, identify this American general who landed at Inchon in
Korea after earlier commanding in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
ANSWER: Douglas MacArthur
<Ray>
16. One method of reducing these compounds enantioselectively is known as the Corey-BakshiShibata reaction, and in aqueous solutions, they usually exist in equilibrium with enols. Applying
the Jones oxidizing agent to secondary alcohols is a more common way of creating these
compounds. The simplest example of one is often used in cleanup following organic experiments
due to its rapid evaporation, and these compounds are distinguished from a similar type of
compound by the presence of two alkyl groups bonded to the central carbon. For 10 points, name
this type of carbonyl compound, the simplest type of which is acetone.
ANSWER: ketones
<Mukherjee>
17. This figure successfully negotiated the surrender of Galehaut and fought the Copper Knight
at the castle of Dolorous Guard, after which he found his true name under a metal slab and
renamed the castle Joyous Guard. He crossed the Sword Bridge on his way to defeat Meleagant,
an adventure on which he gained the appellation “Knight of the Cart.” He is the son of King Ban
and Elaine of Benoic, and with Elaine of Carbonek, the daughter of the Fisher King, he fathers
Galahad. For 10 points, identify this greatest Knight of the Round Table, who lost King Arthur’s
trust by having an affair with his wife Guinevere.
ANSWER: Sir Lancelot du Lac [accept Launcelot]
<Carson>
18. The height of this ruler's success came with the aid of Timagenes and Zabdas, and saw
Tenagino Probus overthrown in Egypt. This ruler claimed a tie to Carthage through Juba II of
Numidia and was brought to power through the actions of Maeonius, which also claimed the life
of Hairan. This regent for Vaballathus relied on the advice of Cassius Longinus and expanded
control over Antioch and Emesa, but was captured by forces under Aurelian seven years after the
death of Odaenathus. For 10 points, identify this Syrian queen who lived out her life in Rome
after losing control of Palmyra.
ANSWER: Julia Aurelia [or Septimia] Zenobia [or al-Zabba]
<Ray>
Category Quiz Bonuses
Arts
This composer's ballets include Sylvia and La Source, while his most famous opera contains a
barcarolle that begins "Under the thick dome / where the white jasmine / With the rose gathers."
For 15 points, name this composer of the “Flower Duet,” which can be found in his opera Lakme.
ANSWER: Clement Philibert Leo Delibes
<Hart>
Geography
The Mississippi Embayment's loose sediments make seismic events along this fault line
particularly dangerous. Centering around the Missouri boot-heel, for 15 points, name this seismic
zone that was responsible for a large 1812 earthquake.
ANSWER: New Madrid Seismic Zone [or New Madrid Fault Line; also accept Reelfoot Rift]
<Hart>
History
The Jementah Civil War occurred in this country, whose Islamic period began with the Kedah
Sultanate. The Larut and Klang Wars led Britain to sign the Pangkor Treaty with this
country,which experience unrest in the Bukit Kepong incident and May 13 race riots. For 15
points, identify this country which formed in 1963 from a union of states including Sabah and
Sarawak.
ANSWER: Malaysia
<Ray>
Literature
He put a fantastic spin on scientific theories in Cosmicomics, while in his most famous novel
every other chapter is from a different book. For 15 points, identify this Italian author, wrote
Invisible Cities and If on a winter’s night a traveler.
ANSWER: Italo Calvino
<Kirsch>
Math Calculation
For 15 points, if you drive 10 miles north, 10 miles east, 46 miles south, and 5 miles east before
your car breaks down, find the shortest distance in miles you have to travel to return to your
starting point.
ANSWER: 39 miles
<Razvi>
Philosophy
This man's "negative philosophy" held that God could only be referred to in statements about
what God is not. His most oft-cited philosophical work denies the corporeality of God and
outlines concepts also found in his Mishneh Torah commentary. For 15 points, name this Jewish
philosopher of the Guide for the Perplexed.
ANSWER: Moses Maimonides [or Moshe ben Maimon; or Rambam]
<Hart>
Religion and Mythology
Her consort Attis castrated himself and turned into a pine tree, and the Romans referred to this
figure as Magna Mater. For 15 points, identify this Phrygian and Anatolian earth mother
goddess, often identified with Rhea.
ANSWER: Cybele [accept Kybele]
<Carson>
Science
This man’s namesake turbine is sometimes known as the boundary layer turbine because it uses
centrifugal flow rather than fluid on the blades. For 15 points, name this scientist who
extensively studied AC current, which he used to produce high voltages in his namesake coil.
ANSWER: Nikola Tesla
<Razvi>
Social Science
He stated that humans move from savagery to barbarism to civilization in his Ancient Society,
and Marx and Engels used his work to trace the origins of capitalist societies. For 15 points,
name this American anthropologist, who wrote Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity.
ANSWER: Lewis Henry Morgan
<Mukherjee>
Trash
At the top of the mountain, the player has a choice of Slalom, Tree Slalom, and Freestyle
courses, though they will almost inevitably be eaten by an abominable snow monster at the base.
For 15 points, identify this computer game released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack.
ANSWER: SkiFree
<Silberman>
Stretch Round
19. This composer included his Tierkreis in a children's theatre piece called Music in the Belly
and used it for the basis for his Sirius. He introduced the concept of “intuitive music” with a
collection of fifteen compositions he called From the Seven Days. His best known work has parts
such as “Michael's Ride Round the World” and “Kathinka's Chant as Lucifer's Requiem,” not to
mention the Helicopter String Quartet and was originally titled Hikari and consists of seven
parts, one for each day of the week. For 10 points, identify this composer of Klavierstucke,
Kontra-Punkte, and the opera cycle Licht, a German proponent of electronic music and serialism.
ANSWER: Karlheinz Stockhausen
<Watkins>
19. This phylum contains animals whose embryos are bilaterally symmetric, although the adults
are often radially symmetric. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phylum that includes sand dollars, sea urchins, and starfish.
ANSWER: echinodermata
[10] Respiration and movement in echinodermata occurs through this system. The namesake
substance enters a series of canals through an opening called the madreporite.
ANSWER: water vascular System
[10] During embryonic development in starfish, the blastophore becomes the anus; thus, starfish
are classified in this superphylum, which are distinct from protostomes.
ANSWER: deuterostomes [accept deutorostomata]
<Mukherjee>
20. The entrance of the central character of this opera sees her sing “There reigned in silence,”
much to the consternation of the maid Alisa. The sextet “Who restrains me” is sung in this opera
after a wedding contract is signed. The title character of this opera imagines herself married to
Edgardo in the climactic scene. The title character commits murder and sings “Il dolce suono,”
and this opera’s “mad scene” occurs when the title character kills her husband, Arturo. For 10
points, name this opera centering on the feud between the Ashtons and Ravenswoods, an opera
by Gaetano Donizetti based on a Walter Scott novel about a “Bride” of the title locale.
ANSWER: Lucia di Lammermoor [or Lucia of Lammermoor; do not accept “The Bride of
Lammermoor”]
<Hart>
20. All of the unmarried title characters stand in front of a depiction of Leutze’s Washington
Crossing the Delaware. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this painting which features three elderly women as the title patriotic figures.
ANSWER: Daughters of Revolution
[10] Daughters of Revolution is the only satire of this American regionalist, who painted Return
from Bohemia along with the painting Arbor Day, the basis for the Iowa state quarter.
ANSWER: Grant Wood
[10] Wood painted this 1930 work which features a pitchfork-wielding farmer standing alongside
another woman, who were modeled after dentist Byron McKeeby and Wood’s sister, Nan.
ANSWER: American Gothic
<Jang>
21. An equation named for this man and Nernst describes the flux of ions in the presence of both
concentration and electric potential gradients. An equation sometimes named for Kolmogorov
that describes the time evolution of the probability distribution of particle position, is sometimes
named for this man and Fokker. With Kelvin, he names a formulation of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics, while his namesake law relates the energy density of black body radiation to
the inverse of wavelength to the fifth power. For 10 points, identify this physicist who suggested
the quantization of energy in terms of his namesake constant, symbolized h.
ANSWER: Max Planck
<Watkins>
21. Answer these questions about pivotal ships from world history, for 10 points each.
[10] This ship participated in most major engagements in Peruvian history during the latter half
of the nineteenth century. It was named for the brother of Incan ruler Atahualpa.
ANSWER: Huascar
[10] The German gunboat Panther sailed into Agadir in response to a rebellion against Sultan
Abdelhafid, sparking the second “Crisis” of this country. The first prompted the Algeciras
Conference after Wilhelm II visited Tangier.
ANSWER: Morocco
[10] The Mikasa served as the flagship of this admiral, who oversaw Japan's great naval victories
at Port Arthur and Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese war.
ANSWER: Togo Heihachiro
<Ray>
22. Skipper Clement led a peasant revolt in this country during the Count’s Feud. A trial ensued
here after a nobleman supposedly fed poisoned cherries to the “Little Pigeon,” a mistress of a
member of the House of Oldenburg. This country gained power under Waldemar II in the
fourteenth century, and under his descendant Margaret I it became the center of the Kalmar
Union. Its territories were greatly lessened when two wars with Prussia caused it lose SchleswigHolstein, and the Treaty of Kiel forced it to cede Norway to Sweden. For 10 points, name this
country led by many kings named Christian, which has its capital at Copenhagen.
ANSWER: The Kingdom of Denmark
<Letzler>
22. This opera’s antagonist is Gessler. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this opera with a famous overture, in which the title Swiss patriot must shoot an apple
off of his son’s head.
ANSWER: William Tell [or Guglielmo Tell]
[10] This composer of William Tell also told of Ninetta’s absolution after the titular filching
avian is revealed to have stolen a silver spoon in his The Thieving Magpie.
ANSWER: Gioachino Rossini
[10] Rossini composed an opera in which Selim is the title Turk in this country, as well as
another opera in which Isabella is a girl from this country “in Algiers.”
ANSWER: Italy [or Italia]
<Hart>
23. A character named Peter Shirley is given a job as a gatekeeper near the end of this play. A
bully named Bill Walker in this play finds Jenny Hill and pulls her hair because of her role in the
loss of his girlfriend. A well timed donation by Lord Saxmundham is appreciated in this play,
although it turns out to be from Horace Bodger, a whiskey tycoon. In this play’s final act, the
revelation that the Greek scholar Adolphus Cusins is an orphan makes him eligible to inherit the
factory of the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. For 10 points, identify this play by George
Bernard Shaw about the titular officer in the Salvation Army.
ANSWER: Major Barbara
<Meade>
23. Identify these African cities, home to major centers of scholarship, for 10 points each.
[10] Al-Karaouine University, generally recognized as the oldest surviving degree-granting
institution in the world, is found in this Moroccan city, found near the Boulemane region to the
East of Rabat.
ANSWER: Fes [or Fez]
[10] Al-Azhar, the major center of Sunni scholarship, is located in this city, also home to Ain
Shams University. This city built on the site of Fustat currently serves as the capital of Egypt.
ANSWER: Cairo
[10] Sankore University is the seat of scholarship in this city on the Niger River, which used the
trade of resources form cities like Teghaza to rise as the capital and center of the Mali Empire.
ANSWER: Timbuktu
<Ray>
24. One member of this group ordered his son to kill any single dissenter from a six-man counsel
on his succession, which chose non-muhajirun. A dissent over the Battle of Siffin during the
First Fitna prompted the Kharijites to murder one of them, whose son's death at Karbala is
venerated during Ashura. The first of them waged the Ridda Wars using the great general Khalid
and fathered Aisha, whose husband's death necessitated the rise of this group. For 10 points,
identify this group composed of Uthman, Umar, Ali, and Abu Bakr, who upon the death of
Muhammad became the first four men to take a title denoting leadership of the Islamic state.
ANSWER: The Rightly Guided Caliphs [or al-Khulafa ar-Rashidun; or the Righteous Caliphs]
<Ray>
24. Identify some things about modern offshoots of a major religion, for 10 points each.
[10] This religion’s founder, the Noble Drew Ali, believed that Chicago would eventually
become a second Mecca. Its scriptures are found in the Circle Seven Koran, and Antwaan Randle
El was notably raised in this religion.
ANSWER: Moorish Science Temple of America
[10] After Drew Ali’s death, Wallace Fard claimed to be his reincarnation; after the rejection of
those claims, Fard founded this church, which believes that the scientist Yakub created white
people on the island of Patmos.
ANSWER: Nation of Islam
[10] This former calypso singer joined the Nation of Islam after seeing a Saviour’s Day speech
by Elijah Muhammad, and is its current Supreme Minister.
ANSWER: Louis Farrakhan [accept Louis Eugene Walcott]
<Carson>
25. In one section of this work, “Icicles filled the long window with barbaric glass.” In another
section of this poem, the narrator is torn between the “beauty of inflections” and the “beauty of
innuendoes” represented by a whistle and the time just after. This poem asks “the thin men of
Haddam,” “Why do you imagine golden birds?” when the title creature “walks around the feet
Of the women about you.” It opens by saying that the title animal is the “only moving thing”
among “twenty snowy mountains.” For 10 points, name this Wallace Stevens poem which gives
a certain number of viewpoints for examining the title bird.
ANSWER: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
<Adams>
25. Answer these questions about banking in Europe, for 10 points each.
[10] This German banking family outcompeted the Welsers and Hochstetters and reached its
apex when Jakob bought the position of Holy Roman Emperor for Charles V.
ANSWER: Fuggers
[10] Mayer Amschel dispatched sons to London, Vienna, Naples, and Paris to establish this
Jewish banking family's network. Its most famous branch dominated English finance in the
nineteenth century, overseeing Wellington's monetary shipments during the Napoleonic Wars.
ANSWER: Rothschilds
[10] Lionel de Rothschild provided a massive loan to Benjamin Disraeli, enabling him to ignore
the advice of the entire government and purchase from Isma'il Pasha a vast amount of shares in a
company overseeing the operation of this artificial waterway in Egypt.
ANSWER: Suez Canal
<Ray>
26. Their spectra can show the Gunn-Peterson trough if the light passed through interstellar
hydrogen and the existence of one of these appearing as two separate objects around a galaxy
gives evidence of gravitational lensing. They are similar to Seyfert galaxies and BL Lacertae
Objects, the latter of which along with the OVV type of these make up the blazars. Their output
is across a wide range of the spectrum and they show variation over time in brightness. For 10
points, identify these distant radiative objects that are believed to be powered by supermassive
black holes.
ANSWER: quasar [accept quasistellar radio sources]
<Butler>
26. The narrator of one of his novels, Bardamu, ends up as a doctor in the poor suburb of La
Garenne-Rancy and keeps on running into Léon Robinson. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author of Journey to the End of the Night.
ANSWER: Louis-Ferdinand Céline [or Louis-Ferdinand Destouche]
[10] Céline wrote a novel about this coming “on the Installment Plan.” This comes “for the
Archbishop” in a novel by Willa Cather.
ANSWER: death
[10] Céline wrote a novel called “this to this.” The protagonist of another novel titled for this
structure has assistants named Arthur and Jeremiah and looks futilely for Klamm.
ANSWER: castle
<Watkins>
27. Caroni Swamp is the home of the national bird of this country, the scarlet ibis. One of this
country’s islands is also called Bird of Paradise Island, and it is home to the mud volcano system
known as the Devil’s Woodyard. This country contains the asphalt deposit of Pitch Lake, and the
major island of this nation is separated from the South American coast by the Gulf of Patria. This
country celebrates Arrival Day for its substantial Indian minority. For 10 points, identify this
nation named for its two major islands which lies northeast of Venezuela in the Caribbean and
has its capital at Port of Spain.
ANSWER: Trinidad and Tobago [prompt on Trinidad]
<Douglass>
27. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is committed to measuring this phenomenon in astronomical
objects and Slipher first observed this for galaxies in 1912. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this general increase in an object’s wavelength between the source and observer,
which is associated with the Doppler effect.
ANSWER: redshift
[10] General relativity says that when light must climb out of a potential well, effectively moving
to a field where this force is higher, such as towards the surface of the earth, redshift occurs.
ANSWER: gravity [accept gravitational force]
[10] Gravitational redshift was used to verify general relativity in this doubly eponymous
experiment, which measured the ground frequency of a gamma emitter on the roof of a building.
ANSWER: Pound-Rebka experiment
<Razvi>
28. Late in life, this figure refuses to save the life of Diarmuid with the healing powers possessed
by water drunk from his hands, still miffed over not getting with Gráinne. the Earlier he used his
own spear-point to keep himself awake despite the magic of the fairy Aillen, whom he killed to
Originally given the name Deimne, he got his better-known name when his hair turned white,
and his son, Ossian, was the greatest poet in Ireland. For 10 points, identify this Irish hero whose
father was killed by Goll Mac Morna and who once burned his thumb while cooking the Salmon
of Knowledge, the leader of the Fianna.
ANSWER: Finn MacCool [or Fionn MacCumhaill]
<Watkins>
28. The title object of this short story is lowered by the Buddha Shakyamuni. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this short story in which the criminal Kandata ruins his chance at escaping from
Hell by claiming that the title object, on which he is climbing, is his and his alone.
ANSWER: “The Spider’s Thread” (accept Kumo no Ito)
[10] “The Spider’s Thread” was written by this Japanese short story master, the namesake of a
literary prize. His other works include “Hell Screen”, “Kappa”, “Yam Gruel”, and “Rashomon”.
ANSWER: Ryunosuke Akutagawa (accept names in either order)
[10] The Kurosawa movie Rashomon actually took its plot from this other Akutagawa short
story, which contains seven different versions of the story behind the murder of a samurai, whose
body was found in the title location.
ANSWER: “In A Grove” (accept “In A Bamboo Grove” or “Yabu no Naka”)
<Carson>
Tiebreaker Tossups
T1. This novel's central character wants his kids to be taught to dance and possesses champagne.
That character also helps a man alter his aunt's will, leading to his arrest by Lyenitzyn. The
protagonist of this novel is accused of being Captain Kopeikin, even though Kopeikin lost an
arm and a leg in the war, or perhaps of being Napoleon in disguise, by townspeople affronted by
his plan to elope with the Governor's daughter. For 10 points, identify this novel whose central
scheme is made possible by the relative infrequency of the census, leading to the title fictitious
serfs which the protagonist attempts to buy cheaply, a novel about Pavel Chichikov by Gogol.
ANSWER: Dead Souls [accept Mertvye dushi]
<Watkins>
T2. This work's third section features dog-sized ants that dig up gold and describes cannibalistic
Indian practices, while its second describes the courtesan Rhodopis and the blind monarch
Anysis, among other tales of Egypt. Broken into nine parts, each named for a muse, it begins
with a prophecy of destruction wrongly interpreted by Croesus of Lydia, and later observes the
suicide of King Cleomenes, which aids the taking of Eretria by Darius. It climaxes with his
son’s defeat at Salamis and Thermopylae. For 10 points, name this work recording the GrecoPersian wars which established a namesake discipline, written by Herodotus.
ANSWER: The Histories of Herodotus (accept the History of Herodotus)
<Letzler>
T3. One of these entities associated with tryptophan synthesis is altered in the presence of
allolactose, and attenuator sequences can slow down RNA polymerase as secondary feedback. A
more common example is involved in beta-galactosidase and permease production. The absence
of cyclic AMP decreases expression of that example’s genes, as does the presence of glucose
because the enzyme products end up producing glucose anyway. For 10 points, identify this part
of the genome regulating transcription of a gene, which contains a promoter region, the most
common example of which regulates the metabolism of lactose, the lac one.
ANSWER: operon
<Razvi>
T4. Pre-existing towns that became part of this colony included those founded by Roger Conant
and John White. Its “Body of Liberties” was written by Nathaniel Ward, while its other major
citizens included preacher John Cotton and magistrate Thomas Dudley. It benefitted from the
Great Migration, led by the ship Arbella, whose passengers heard the “City Upon a Hill” speech
of John Winthrop, who later exiled Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams during his term as its
governor. For 10 points, name this settlement that merged with Plymouth and other colonies in
1692 to form the province that became a namesake state in New England.
ANSWER: The Massachusetts Bay Colony [prompt on Massachusetts]
<Letzler>
T5. When change in permittivity divided by “one plus i times frequency times relaxation time” is
added to infinite-frequency permittivity, the result is this man’s relaxation. The Dulong-Petit law
is accurate when temperature is higher than his namesake temperature for a solid, while his
namesake shielding of plasma fully occurs at his namesake length for the plasma. He may be
more famous for an equation used to calculate activity of an ion from its concentration in
solution, which he names with Huckel. For 10 points, identify this Dutch-American physicist,
who names the units for measuring dipole moments.
ANSWER: Peter Debye
<Razvi>
T6. In one of his plays, the title character pretends to return another's love in order to become
king, and the latter is killed by Orcan, the sultan's servant. In that play, the grand vizier Acomat
attempts to encourage a Janissary revolt and Atalide tries to convince the title character to marry
Roxane, all to dethrone Amurad. The author of Bajazet, he created the princess Aricie, as well as
Theramenes, who hears a declaration of love from a character who dies when his horses are
startled by a monster from the sea. For 10 points, name this playwright who depicted the death of
Hippolytus, who is loved by his title stepmother, in Phèdre.
ANSWER: Jean Racine
<Watkins>
Tiebreaker Bonuses
T-Bonus 1. Much of the impetus for these actions was concern about the violent activities of
various followers of Luigi Galleani. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these actions, overseen by J. Edgar Hoover and named for the sitting Attorney
General, which targeted leading anarchists who were thought to actively promote sedition.
ANSWER: Palmer Raids
[10] The Palmer Raids were conducted during the administration of this U.S. President, the
successor to William Howard Taft, who was preoccupied with the aftermath of World War I.
ANSWER: Woodrow Wilson
[10] This anarchist, the wife of Alexander Berkman and publisher of Mother Earth, was one of
over two hundred US citizens deported on the Buford to the USSR following the Palmer Raids.
ANSWER: Emma Goldman
<Ray>
T-Bonus 2. Answer some questions about the Diels-Alder reaction, for 10 points each:
[10] These reactions are driven by the sharing of electrons between two compounds by the
overlap of these dumbbell-shaped spatial orbitals.
ANSWER: p [or pi orbital]
[10] The Diels-Alder reaction can be sped up in a solvent that contains aluminum trichloride.
AlCl3 is this type of compound, which can accept electron pairs.
ANSWER: Lewis acid [or electrophile]
[10] The product of the standard Diels-Alder reaction is always a derivative of this compound,
which contains six carbon atoms arranged in a ring, with one double bond.
ANSWER: cyclohexene [do not accept “cyclohexane”]
<Mukherjee>
T-Bonus 3. At the beginning of the novel, Clamence orders a drink for a stranger since the
bartender will only converse in Dutch. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which Clamence does not save a woman plummeting from the Pont des
Arts.
ANSWER: The Fall [or La Chute]
[10] This work by Albert Camus sees the narrator shoot an Arab on a beach and opens with the
words “Maman died today.”
ANSWER: The Stranger [or L’etranger]
[10] In this play, the titular Roman emperor arranges his own assassination after he is
disillusioned by Drusilla’s death.
ANSWER: Caligula
<Kirsch>