1. The movement which was targeted by these events quixotically made its cannons out of cherrywood.
The chief outside chronicler of these events was the American ambassador Eugene Schuyler, but public
opinion about these events was inflamed by the letters of Januarius MacGahan, who claimed that “When
a Mohammedan has killed a certain number of infidels he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins may
be.” These events were triggered by the Stara Zagora revolt and Antim I's election as exarch, and one of
their most notable victims was the poet Hristo Botev. Perpetrated by the bashi-bazouks, who were tasked
with suppressing the April Uprising, these events were used in a namesake pamphlet attacking the British
Cabinet’s alliance with the Ottoman Empire during the Midlothian Campaign. For 10 points, identify this
series of massacres which William Gladstone denounced in order to defeat build up an anti-Disraeli base
in the late 1870s, events which involved Turkish atrocities in a country that became independent after the
Treaty of San Stefano.
ANSWER: the Bulgarian Horrors
2. In a 1986 paper Richard Dawkins’ ex-wife argued that all three criteria in the definition of this concept
are misleading, and in a 1968 paper George Barlow proposed replacing part of its name with “modal.”
The earliest model of this concept is sometimes referred to as the “flush toilet” model and involves the
buildup of action-specific energy released in the presence of a sign stimulus. The classic example of this
concept is a gray goose continuing to roll a stray egg back toward the nest even after the egg is removed.
For 10 points, give this three-word term coined by Lorenz and Tinbergen to refer to any highly
stereotyped innate behavior that is carried out to completion even after the removal of the triggering
stimulus.
ANSWER: fixed action patterns [or FAPs]
3. Among the contrasting duos present in this novel are the protagonist’s sisters Margaret and Janet, the
teenage Farival twins, the protagonist’s adolescent children, and the two unnamed lovers who always
appear with the lady in black early on in the novel. Another pair is that of the piano teacher
Mademoiselle Reisz, who encourages the protagonist’s independence, and the protagonist’s best friend
Adele, who encourages her to conform to societal roles. Finally there are the protagonist’s somewhat
unfeeling husband Leonce and the sensitive young Robert Lebrun. This novel begins in Grand Isle,
Louisiana and ends there with the protagonist’s suicide by drowning. FTP, name this proto-feminist
novel about Edna Pontellier, a work by Kate Chopin.
Answer: The Awakening
4. Choral pieces by this composer include O, My Garden of Lavender and Dark Evening Is Falling. The
song People, My People is the basis of the first movement of his Harpsichord Concerto, and his own
Lieder include Broad Waters and a song based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem “Malagueña.” A series
of recitatives and ariostos make up his Lerchenmusik, and scandal surrounded the premiere of this
composer’s appropriately-titled Collisions for orchestra. Other well-known works include the Genesis
cycle and the choral work Refren, but he is best-known for a work whose third movement notably
references one of Chopin’s Mazurkas and the first movement of Eroica. A note scribbled on the wall of a
Gestapo cell provides the text for the second movement of that work, which was popularized by a
recording featuring vocals by Dawn Upshaw. Best-known for his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, this is,
for ten points, what composer from Poland?
ANSWER: Henryk Gorecki
5. This thinker posited that American relationships are becoming democratically negotiated and are no
longer “oppressively” close in his work The Transformation of Intimacy. This writer's catchphrases
include "the democratization of democracy" and the emergence of "life politics" over "emancipatory
politics," which he discussed in a 1998 book on “the renewal of social democracy,” The Third Way. He
attempts to explain culturally determined behavior as the product of rules and resources unique to each
social system in his structuration theory, which is explained in his work The Constitution of Society. He
sasys that agency and dulaity must be considered and a "double hermeneutic" practiced in a book which
attacks both traditional micro and macro approaches and is titled after a work by Emile Durkheim. For 10
points, name this British author of New Rules of Sociological Method.
ANSWER: Anthony Giddens
6. At one point in his life, this figure fled to the Greek tyrant Aristodemus of Cumae, and a text of a treaty
between this man and the city of Gabii was preserved in the Temple of Semo Sancus. This man killed a
man who was credited with the Servian Constitution, and the forces of this man were defeated at the
Battle of Silva Arsia. He got his son-in-law Octavius Mamilius to fight in the battle of Lake Regillus, and
Dionysius of Halicarnassus wrote that this figure purchased a collection of prophecies from the Cumaean
sibyl. The murderer of Servius Tullius, this man was overthrown by Lucius Junius Brutus after his son
Sextus raped Lucretia. For 10 points name this figure who was supposedly the last king of Rome.
ANSWER: Lucius Taruinius Superbus [or Tarquin the Proud; prompt on partial answer]
7. An important derivation of these formulations is given as the square root of the quantity m-c-squared
over four-pi-n-sub-s-e-squared, and that derived quantity is labeled lambda-sub-L. Though these
formulations are typically written as a pair of equations, they can be combined into a single equation that
relates j-sub-s to the vector potential A. These equations name a distance at which a magnetic field is not
expelled due to the Meissner effect, their namesakes’ “penetration depth.” For 10 points, name these
equations that relate the electromagnetic field to the current in and near a superconductor, named for
brothers Heinz and Fritz, the latter of whom names some intramolecular “dispersion forces.”
ANSWER: London equations
8. In one of this author’s novels, the cattle baron Don Molomo declares himself to be the lord of the
underworld and the Hindu mystic Sello is revealed to be a sadistic magician who sends demons after the
protagonist. This author’s later works deal with the theme of outsiders, such as the Marsawa class in her
novel Maru , or those in mental institutions, where she found herself after accusing President Seretse
Khama of practicing cannibalism and incest. In addition to chronicling that experience in A Question of
Power, this author wrote a novel that ends with Paulina’s marriage to Makhaya and the realization that
men and women will eventually live equally, making the matriarchal commune Golema Mmidi
unnecessary. For 10 points, name this Botswanan author of When Rain Clouds Gather.
ANSWER: Bessie Head [or Bessie Emery]
9. The “Little” version of this painting was painted the same year and unlike the original is not currently
in Vienna, where approximately 1/3 of the artist’s extant works are housed. The various small huts seen
throughout are representative of the numerous guilds present in the artist’s home city. Among the
elevating devices seen on the right side is a black crane, believed to be the earliest artistic depiction of
such an apparatus. Of the several thousand people seen, the most clearly identifiable are in the front left
foreground, which shows an architect kneeling before a group led by King Nimrod. However, the focus
is on the immense, crumbling titular central structure. Believed to be representative of the building boom
and cosmopolitan nature of the artist’s native mid-16th century Antwerp, FTP, name this painting by
Pieter Bruegel depicting a biblical structure that reached for heaven.
Answer: The Tower of Babel
10. Two principal characters from a play by Adam Oehlenschlager are the representatives of light and
darkness in this text. One section this work claims that in the external world the “genie of ring” obeys
whoever possesses it, whether it be Noureddin or Aladdin, but in the world of spirit it does not rain on the
just and unjust equally. In that section, Preliminary “Expectoration” or “Outpouring of the Heart” the
author suggests that a candid discussion of the central action might lead confused individuals to repeat it.
This work elucidates one figure’s “strength of the absurd,” which allows one to give everything up and to
paradoxically expect to receive it all back and compares that figure to the “knight of infinite resignation.”
Often paired with Constantin Constantius’ Reptition, it asks whether there can be a teleological
suspension of the ethical and was pseudonymously written by Johannes de Silentio. For 10 points, name
this work of philosophy which examines Abraham’s binding of Isaac by Soren Kierkegaard.
ANSWER: Fear and Trembling
11. A mixture of this compound’s main components was found to be effective in situ when reacting with
butylcyclohexanone. One synthesis of this product uses a compound named for Petasis. For it to be
activated it must reacted with a base, typically pyridine, to generate a compound that contains a double
bonded methylene known as a Schrock carbene. It then undergoes a [2+2] and a retro [2+2] cycloaddition
reaction with the compound it modifies. It consists of a central methylene bonded to two metals, one of
which is bonded to two cyclopentadienyl groups while the other one is bonded to two methyl groups. For
10 points, identify this reagent that methylenates carbonyl groups and contains both aluminum and
titanium.
ANSWER: Tebbe’s reagent
12. Scene 2 of Act III of this play begins with two girls working on some red wool before a beggarwoman
informs them of the central tragedy. That tragedy is set in motion after two figures are discovered
missing during the plans to start a “round dance.” The resultant planned chase ends Act II, which is
followed by a scene in which three woodcutters discuss the preceding events among themselves before
being interrupted by the play’s ostensible villains, Death and the Moon. Death and the Moon discuss
their plan to incite an violent act, which happens off stage and results in the death of two men, Leonardo
and another man who had planned to partake in the title event. FTP, name this work considered the first
of the so-called “rural trilogy” in which it is followed by Yerma, a tragedy by Federico Garcia Lorca.
Answer: Blood Wedding (or Bodas de Sangre)
13. The first act of this opera sees the central character complain about starlings who nest over her home.
She is later mistaken by another character for his old gypsy girlfriend. At the end of the opera, the male
lead muses on how life never provides an ending and soon finds a frog in his hand. At the end of the first
act, the title character plays dead before killing a flock of chickens and then escaping. The first act opens
with a dance by a blue dragonfly, and in a later scene Haraštra comes across a dead hare before tripping
over a rock, leading him to shoot the central character, Bystrouška, whose wedding is presided over by a
woodpecker and who makes her living hunting other forest animals. Based on a comic strip by
Tešnohlídek, FTP, identify this opera centering on a forester’s attempts to catch a wily fox, by Leos
Janacek.
ANSWER: The Cunning Little Vixen or Příhody Lišky Bystroušky
14. One of them claims that the ascent to the summit of consciousness is not for the timid – “sharp like a
razor’s edge . . . is the path to Reality, difficult to traverse.” Another describes fourth stage of being that
lies beyond waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep and which is known as turiya. Another tells of
Nachiketa who receives three boons from the god of Death. The most famous piece of philosophy from
them might be the declaration “tat tvam asi” [tutt twam uh-see] or simply “you are that,” in clarifying an
individual’s identity. In addition to those described – the Isha, Katha, and Chandogya – there are at least
105 more, though eleven principal ones are said to exist. Chiefly concerned with the distinctions between
individual and collective souls or Atman and Brahman, FTP, name this group of sacred Hindu texts also
known as the Vedantas due to their commentary and closure to the Vedas.
ANSWER: Upanishads [ooh-pah-nee-shaads] (accept early buzz of Vedantas)
15. The barber and pamphleteer Richard Lichfield satirized this man in a work titled for his “trimming.”
This man promised that if a certain dog were to bark again, he would "hold him tug for two or three
courses...for I have not half embowelled my register" in his tract An Almond for a Parrot. This author
targeted Gabriel Harvey by writing Have with You to Saffron-Walden, Strange News of the Intercepting of
Certain Letters, and Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem. He wrote those tracts using the pseudonym Pasquil as
part of the anti-Puritan side of the Marprelate controversy. This author of Summer’s Last Will and
Testament also collaborated with Christopher Marlowe on Dido, Queen of Carthage and was sentenced to
prison for libeling the queen after working with Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogs. However, he may be
best known for discussing a fall into the cellar of an ornery Jew, the death from plague of Johannes de
Imola, and a narrow escape from being vivisected by the Pope’s physician. For 10 points, name this
author who discussed the Earl of Surrey’s page during a trip through France and England in his early
English picaresque novel about Jack Wilton , The Unfortunate Traveller.
ANSWER: Thomas Nashe
16. One of the principals involved in their story reappeared by the name of Katherine Queen Victory
Street as a 66-year-old to sue NBC for a TV movie depicting the ordeal. Their story was first written
about in the Jackson County Sentinel and resultant tensions prompted a swift response from Governor
Benjamin Miller. Their cause was taken up by Samuel Leibovitz at the behest of the ILD, and it was
Leibovitz who did much to bring in to question the credibility of Victoria Price who, unlike Ruby Bates,
had not recanted her testimony. The most famous legal implication of their case would be the Supreme
Court’s Powell decision, which held that this group had been denied due process. In 1989 the last
surviving member, Clarence Norris, passed away. FTP, name this group of black teenagers who, in 1931
in Alabama, were accused of raping two white women.
ANSWER: the Scottsboro Boys or Scottsboro Nine
17. Myringitis bullosa is a disease characterized by formation of blebs on this structure. It is divided into
two parts, one of which is also known as Shrapnel’s part, which lies next to the notch of Rivinus. Its
medial surface is innervated by Jacobson’s nerve, which is a branch of the ninth cranial nerve. Of the two
subdivisions – the pars flaccida and the pars tensa – the latter is characterized by a cone of light in its
anteroinferior quadrant. It can be ruptured by fracture of the temporal bone or by fluid column pressure
and is semi-transparent allowing such things as the long process of the incus to be seen through it. For 10
points, name this membrane that divides the external acoustic canal from the middle ear, and which is
commonly known as the ear drum.
ANSWER: tympanic membrane [accept ear drum before it is mentioned]
18. One character in this novel points out that European cathedrals, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids, and
Great Zimbabwe were all built by slave labor, before meeting an American reporter named Cranford who
is clapping her hands to dispose of salted peanut dust. Another character in this novel has a secondary
name that means “a female is also something,” and ends the book by praying “may this child be the
daughter of all of us” and bestowing the name “may the path never close” on the newborn daughter of
Elewa. The first chapters of this novel focus on a metaphor about the robes worn by truth delivered by a
resident of Abazon who has journeyed to Bassa to ask for drought relief. Soon after, the obseqious
Professor Okong advises a figure who was trained at Sandhurst and has recently lost a plebiscite. This
novel sees all of its major characters die except for Beatrice; newspaper editor Ikem Osodi is killed after
challenging Sam, while Chris Oriko, the Minister of Information, dies in the resulting chaos. For 10
points, name this work, its author’s first novel in a twenty-one-year gap following A Man of the People,
which is set in the state of Kangan shortly after a coup and was written by Chinua Achebe.
ANSWER: Anthills of the Savannah
19. The second English translation of it kept many of the multilingual words from the original as in the
frequent use of gnosis for knowledge and sans for without as well as outdated words like myrmidon and
collyrium. The first apocryphal version of it was attributed to Banno, who was to have it bound but
added some unapproved text. The original version contained the epilogue, “three things are there in this
vessel; Truth, contentment, and intellect” and all versions begin by affirming “one universal creator god”
and referencing that Hukam, or the will of god, should be obeyed. The majority of it consists of various
ragas and raginis, some of which are followed by hymns of various saints who lived between the 12th and
16th centuries CE. Initially compiled by Arjan, its final version would include additions from Gobind,
who consecrated this text as his final successor. FTP, name this holy text of Sikhism.
Answer: Adi Granth (or Guru Graanth Sahib; prompt on “first book,” which is the literal translation)
20. In one of this man’s films, Valerie falls in love with the one-legged Captain Jack, leading her sister
Harriet to attempt to drown herself in the Ganges. That film helped launch the career of Satyajit Ray, and
in addition to The River, another work sees the title character , who dreams of writing Westerns, shoots
Batala and flees away with Valentine, while yet another film sees Sam Tucker attempt to start his own
cotton crop. Besides The Southerner and The Crime of Monsieur Lange, he also directed a film in which
two French aviators are shot down by Von Rauffenstein and one of them escapes with Rosenthal. That
work is The Grand Illusion, and in another of his films, an adaptation of Musset’s Les Caprices de
Marianne, André is reunited with his old love Christine but is shot after being mistaken for Octave. For
ten points, name this French director of Rules of the Game and son of the painter of Luncheon of the
Boating Party.
ANSWER: Jean Renoir
21. Cull and Gerety showed that a subset of this problem called the Listing Problem was "easy" as part of
a debate over whether this was a "trivial" problem, while Stockmeyer proposed a "Star" variant of a
harder version of this problem. That harder version of this problem can be solved with the potentially
optimal Frame-Stewart Algorithm and is sometimes called the Reve's Problem. The traditional form of
this problem can be solved using binary Gray Codes and ways to solve it can be represented on a
Hamilton Path. First proposed by Edouard Lucas, the classic solution to this problem uses a four
parameter recursive solution to determine the order of movement. For 10 points, identify this problem
from Computer Science involving moving discs from one rod to another, named for a structure in
Vietnam.
ANSWER: Towers of Hanoi Problem [or Towers of Brahma Problem; prompt on Reve's Problem
before mentioned
The daughter of the giant Gymer, this figure met her eventual husband in the grove of Barre. For 10
points each:
[10] This figure was tempted with the ring Draupnir and golden apples to marry her eventual husband, but
only agreed to marry after she was threatened with Rimgimner, the frost giant aspect of Mimir.
ANSWER: Gerd
[10] The wooing of Gerd is described in the lay of this god, the messenger of Gerd's eventual husband.
This god also asked dwarves to create Gleipnir in order to restrain Fenrir.
ANSWER: Skirnir
[10] Gerd's husband and Skirnir's master was this god, the rider of the shining boar Gullinbursti and the
owner of the folding ship Skidbladnir.
ANSWER: Freyr
In this novel, Paul Watkins grows up to join the Communist Party after his family is cheated of a farm by
J. Arnold “Dad” Ross. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1927 novel narrated by Bunny, which critiques Aimee Semple McPherson’s church as
well as the men who extract and sell the title substance.
ANSWER: Oil!
[10] This author of The Jungle and Another Pamela: Or Virtue Still Rewarded wrote Oil!
ANSWER: Upton Sinclair
[10] Lanny Budd attempts to aid his Jewish brother-in-law Freddi Robbin while living in Hitler's
Germany in this Pulitzer-winning Sinclair novel.
ANSWER: Dragon's Teeth
His wife’s sister married the uncle of Henry Eyring, the only other man to whom the title of Greatest
Mormon Scientist Ever could possibly belong. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “Father of Stereophonic Sound,” who allegedly developed the first hearing aid for Thomas
Edison and served as the first president of the Acoustical Society of America.
ANSWER: Harvey Fletcher
[10] As a graduate student, Fletcher came up with the idea to use the namesake substance instead of water
in this experiment that determined the charge on an electron.
ANSWER: Millikan oil drop experiment [accept either]
[10] According to Fletcher, he had merely replicated this scientist’s experiment with a different liquid.
He may be better known for his studies of cosmic rays and, along with his son Victor, was the first to
directly measure ultraviolet absorption in the stratosphere.
ANSWER: Erich Rudolf Alexander Regener
This movement was ended at Dussindale after refusing an offer of amnesty from its stronghold at
Mousehold Heath. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1549 rebellion which began as a scuffle between the citizens of Wymondham and a man
named Flowerdew, and involved an army of sixteen thousand setting up an independent government over
Norwich.
ANSWER: Kett's Rebellion [or the Norfolk Rising]
[10] Many of the participants in the Kett Rebellion were protesting this practice of privatizing and
subdividing formerly common fields.
ANSWER: enclosure
[10] The victor at Dussindale was the son of this man, who outmaneuvered the Duke of Somerset to
control the regency council for Edward VI and married his son to Jane Grey. His attempts to continue
controlling the crown were thwarted after Edward’s death by the supporters of Mary Tudor.
ANSWER: John Dudley [or the Duke of Northumberland]
Answer some things about a waltz which supposedly evokes heurigen, FTPE:
[10] Name this waltz, which opens with horns reminiscent of forest bird calls before the entrance of a solo
zither.
ANSWER: Tales from the Vienna Woods or Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
[10] This Viennese “Waltz King” wrote Tales from the Vienna Woods.
ANSWER: Johann Strauss II
[10] Johann Strauss also composed this operetta in which Dr. Falke orchestrates a ball at Orlovsky’s in
hopes of getting revenge on Gabriel von Eisenstein for leaving him drunk and wandering around town the
previous year.
ANSWER: Die Fledermaus or The Bat
Name these things about the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, FTP each:
[10] By the terms of the Jones Act, this nation was made a U.S. territory and all males over the age of
twenty-one were granted voting rights, provided they could read and write.
Answer: the Philippines
[10] When this man’s regime illegally arrested American sailors in 1914, Wilson ordered the navy to
seize Vera Cruz. The resultant turmoil led to this man’s resignation as Mexican president later that year.
Answer: Victoriano Huerta
[10] In 1915 this man’s Seaman’s Act was passed granting sailor’s greater rights and offering more wage
protection. This four term senator ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924, one year
before his death.
Answer: Robert (Bob) Marion La Follette
Some might know him as the first husband of Angelina Jolie, whereas others might know him for his
recent TV work. FTP each—
[10] Jonny Lee Miller plays the titular lawyer who suffers from a brain aneurysm and may be receiving
visions from god in this cancelled ABC drama that also starred Natasha Henstridge and Loretta Divine.
Answer: Eli Stone
[10] Miller met Jolie when they worked together on this 1995 film in which Miller plays a teen computer
whiz who stumbles onto a corporate fraud being perpetrated by Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens.
Answer: Hackers.
[10] Miller played two different roles in two adaptations of this 19th century novel. – once in a mini-series
in the minor role of Charles Price and later in a film in the major role of conscientious and clergy-bound
Edmund Bertram.
Answer: Mansfield Park
It opens by discussing the "conceptual auto disaster," in which subjects are asked to place the title figure's
head atop photographs of fatal crashes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this satirical pamphlet, later collected in The Atrocity Exhibition, which also connects a certain
politican's hairstyle to 65% of male pubic hair in order to analyze his rise to the California governship.
ANSWER: “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan”
[10] This author of “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan” mixed literary and science fiction elements in
such novels as Crash and The Crystal World.
ANSWER: James Graham Ballard
[10] Later followed by the sequel The Kindness of Women, this semi-autobiographical Ballard novel
follows young Jim’s experiences as an expatriate in Shangai who becomes a Japanese prisoner. It was
filmed in 1987 by Stephen Spielberg with Christian Bale in the starring role.
ANSWER: Empire of the Sun
Name these philosophers of law, for 10 points each.
[10] This author, who defended the Spanish Fascists in Theory of the Partisan, outlined his theories about
why a right-wing German dictator would be a fine idea in On Dictatorship, Political Theology, and The
Concept of the Political, though he was purged from the Nazi government in 1937.
ANSWER: Carl Schmitt
[10] This Seventh Circuit justice has written important works on the intersection of law and economics,
such as Economic Analysis of Law, as well as The Essential Holmes and Sex and Reason.
ANSWER: Richard Posner
[10] This philosopher advocated a kooky system of international relations which depends on “decency” in
his late work The Law of Peoples, but may be better known for advocating the “original position” and
“veil of ignorance” in his A Theory of Justice.
ANSWER: John Rawls
In the last step in this cycle, isocitrate lyase converts D-threo-isocitrate into succinate and its namesake
sugar. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “shunt” found in some bacteria and sometimes used during seed germination, which takes
place in a peroxisome-like organelle.
ANSWER: glyoxylate shunt/bypass/cycle
[10] Like in the Krebs cycle, the input to the glyoxylate cycle is this steroid precursor that consists of a
two carbon compound linked via a thioester to a certain coenzyme.
ANSWER: acetyl coenzyme A
[10] Because it regenerates succinate and malate, the glyoxylate cycle can be described using this term,
which refers to any pathway that replenishes intermediates for cyclic reactions in general and the Krebs
cycle in particular.
ANSWER: anaplerotic pathway
Name these artists who worked on Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 24-year-long project to fabricate the northern doors
of the Baptistery of the Duomo, or Florentine Cathedral, FTP each.
[10] This painter had been apprenticed to Ghiberti as a ten-year-old and later executed numerous
commissions within the Duomo, but is best known for his studies in perspective in three paintings
depicting the battle of San Romano.
Answer: Paolo Uccello (or Paolo di Dono)
[10] This man is best known for his series of frescoes in Florence’s Medici-Riccardi Palace. Chief among
those frescoes was his Procession of the Magi.
Answer: Benozzo Gozzoli
[10] He apprenticed with Ghiberti for three years, and among this sculptor’s earliest works in Florence
were his statue of St. Mark for the Or San Michele and his depiction of Habakuk, which became known
as Zuccone, or “pumpkin.”
Answer: Donatello (or Donato di Nicollo di Betto Bardi)
This quantity was first introduced in the paper “The osmotic pressure of concentrated solutions, and the
laws of the perfect solution”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this “corrected pressure” which is equivalent to pressure for an ideal gas.
ANSWER: Fugacity
[10] This rule states the fugacity of a component in an ideal mixture is equal to its fugacity as a pure
component multiplied by its mole fraction.
ANSWER: Lewis-Randall rule
[10] While the Lewis-Randall rule is useful at high concentrations, this other law is typically used to find
the fugacity at low concentrations.
ANSWER: Henry’s law
He was born Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi and took a title meaning “the Gate” as he began preaching a
new religion after his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1844. FTP each—
[10] Name this man who is venerated in the Baha’i faith and whose disciple Baha’u’llah founded Baha’i.
Answer: the Bab
[10] The Bab named this group as his first eighteen and greatest disciples. Tahirih is the only woman
among them and their greatest member was considered to be Quddus [kou-DOOS].
Answer: Letters of the Living
[10] This institution, founded in 1963, is the supreme governing institution of Baha’i. Its seat is in Haifa,
Israel.
Answer: Universal House of Justice
Alexander Aduev emerges from the farm for an education in St. Petersburg life at the hands of his uncle
Peter in this novel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1847 novel, the debut work from the author of The Precipice and “Ivan Savich
Pdzhabrin.”
ANSWER: A Common Story [or Obyknovennaya istoriya]
[10] This author of A Common Story also wrote the travelogue The Voyage of the Frigate Pallada and a
novel in which Olga marries Andrey Stoltz.
ANSWER: Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
[10] This Goncharov novel, featuring Olga and Andrey, shows Tarantyev scamming money out of the
titular bed-dwelling character and his equally lazy valet Zahar.
ANSWER: Oblomov
Events of this period included the first printing of a complete edition of the Confucian classics, the
formation of a Khitan alliance with Gaozu to end the Hou Tang, and Zhu Wen’s ooverthrow by his son.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Chinese era which began on the fall of the Tang in 907 and continues until 960.
ANSWER: Era of the Five Dynasties [or Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms; or Wudai; or Shiguo]
[10] The Five Dynasties era came to an end with the establishment of this dynasty, which survived until
1127 as its Nan or Southern version until overrun by the Mongols.
ANSWER: Song
[10] This general, who was allegedly made emperor without his knowledge while sleeping off a bender,
founded the Song Dynasty and began the reunification of China which his brother Taizong completed.
ANSWER: Taizu [or Zhao Kuangyin]
Chepa's failed attempt to rehabilitate the murderer Maya is the focus of his novel This Sunday, while left
and right wing gangs rumble at the funeral of a poet’s widow in his Curfew. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author, whose book Sacred Families is composed of the interconnected novellas
"Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "Green Atom Number Five," and "Gaspard de la Nuit."
ANSWER: José Donoso
[10] Andres goes crazy after losing Estela, and the servants Lourdes and Rosario are the only attendees at
Miss Elisia’s saint's day party, in this Donoso novel.
ANSWER: Coronation
[10] An incubus which ocasionally narrates and a yellow dog possessed by a witch reoccur in this Donoso
novel about the inhabitants of the House of Spiritual Exercises and La Rinconada, where Jerónimo's son
Boy is raised surrounded by other deformed children.
ANSWER: The Obscene Bird of Night [or El obsceno pájaro de la noche]
One met with Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold and the other met with Henry 16 days later at
Gravelines. For the state points:
[5/5] For 5 points each, name these two European kings, who waged a bitter 23-year war with each other.
Answer: Francis I [of France] and Charles V (or Charles I of Spain)
[10] For 10 points, after being routed, wounded, and captured at this battle in 1525, Francis was forced to
settle the Treaty of Madrid the following year, thereby renouncing all French claims to Italy.
Answer: Battle of Pavia
[10] For 10 points, also known as the Peace of the Ladies as it was negotiated between Francis’ mother
and Charles’ aunt, the terms of this 1529 treaty saw Francis once again relinquish claims to Italy as well
as to Flanders and Artois.
Answer: Peace of Cambrai [Louise of Savoy = mother; Margaret of Austria = aunt]
The author of this work argues that pathological anatomy was late in coming due to the moral and
religious opposition to “opening up a few corpses,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this work which begins by defining the human body as “the space of origin and of distribution
of disease.”
ANSWER: Birth of the Clinic
[10]The Birth of the Clinic was written by this French sociologist and philosopher of The Archaeology of
Knowledge.
ANSWER: Michel Foucault
[10]In The Birth of the Clinic, Focault coins this term which refers to a tripartite perceptual configuration
which separates the patient’s body from the patient’s identity, dehumanizing and objectifying the patient.
ANSWER: medical gaze
The score for this piece, numbered 23 in the Craggs catalog, requires a "double mixed chorus," "semichorus," baritone soloist, two harps, and slapsticks. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this oratorio with libretto by Oswald Sitwell, which adds excerpts from two psalms to its main
scene out of the Book of Daniel.
ANSWER: Belshazzar's Feast
[10] This British composer of The Bear, the Liverpool Symphony, and a viola concerto premiered by Paul
Hindemith wrote Belshazzar’s Feast.
ANSWER: William Walton
[10] This early Walton overture is named for a center of the spice and prostitution trades in southern
England and was dedicated to Siegfried Sassoon.
ANSWER: Portsmouth Point
On July 9, 2009, NOAA announced that this weather phenomenon is back. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon in which, every few years, the water temperature on the Pacific coast of
North and South America abnormally increases, often due to weakening of trade winds. It often begins
around Christmas.
ANSWER: El Niño [prompt on Southern Oscillation]
[10] The warm current brought over by El Niño displaces this cold-water current that runs up from
Antarctica along the western coast of South America.
ANSWER: Humboldt Current [or Peru Current]
[10] Also known as 30-60 day oscillations, these oscillations are primarily responsible for altering
seasonal weather patterns in the tropics and the position of the intertropical convergence zone. They can
accelerate or cause an El Niño event if they hit the western Pacific at just the wrong time.
ANSWER: Madden-Julian oscillations [or MJOs]