Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by Chicago 120 Days of Gautam (Seth Teitler, Michael Arnold, Shantanu Jha, David Seal) and the Editors
Tossups
1. A hormone which has a high sequence homology with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and comes in 38-residue and
27-reside forms was first identified as a pituitary hormone which increase the activity of this enzyme. The purine-based
"P-site" inhibitors are potent inhibitors of this enzyme. This protein contains two transmembrane domains that each
have six trans-membrane sections, and much like DNA polymerase, it requires two metal ions for its catalytic step which
is performed by a the dimer of its C1 and C2 domains. Another activator of this protein is the diterpenoid forskolin. The
constitutive activation of the alpha subunit of the Gs protein results in the permanent activation of this protein, a fact which
is used by the cholera enterotoxin. The product formed by the action of these enzymes is degraded by phosphodiesterases.
For 10 points, identify these enzymes which convert ATP into cyclic AMP.
ANSWER: adenylyl cyclase [or adenylate cyclase; accept AC; accept "Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide" or
"PACAP" until "this enzyme"]
2. This man can be seen working in his chalet at Rossinière in a Damian Pettigrew documentary about him “through the
looking glass.” He designed the sets for Artaud’s adaptation of The Cenci as well as Camus’ The State of Siege, while his
study of Piero della Francesca’s Discovery of the True Cross led to a series of frescoes in Beatenberg. His self-portrait
shows him eating some fish as the “Kings of Cats,” and he depicted a woman in red lying on the earth next to a woman
stretching her arms in a surrealistic valley landscape in The Mountain. One of his paintings depicts a girl in a tawny-gold
dress reclining on a green sedan with her legs slightly open, while in another work, this man painted a man in white
holding a plank and crossing the rue Bourbon-le-Château. Besides Golden Days and The Street, he painted a work that
shows an old woman pulling back curtains as light flows onto a nude girl and one showing an older woman putting her
hands between a young girl’s legs. For 10 points, name this Polish painter of La Chambre and The Guitar Lesson.
ANSWER: Balthus [or Balthasar Klossowski de Rol]
3. At one point in this work, the author calls for the construction of a complement to the Statue of Liberty in the form of
a “Statue of Responsibility” situated on the West Coast. That call comes after defending psychology from the charge of
“pan-sexualism” and instead indicting “pan-determinism” as more problematic. A post-script attached to the 1984
edition of this work argues the “Case for Tragic Optimism,” while in another section, “Life’s Transitoriness” is considered
no obstacle to the titular goal. Anecdotes from this work’s first part describe the importance of hope to the physical
body, and the attempts of the author to save a manuscript from initial inspection, and that first section details a process
that begins with shock, proceeds to apathy, and ends with depersonalization and moral deformity upon liberation. The
second part of this work is called “Logotherapy in a Nutshell.” Half psychological exegesis and half description of
concentration camp experiences, for 10 points, identify this most famous work of Viktor Frankl.
ANSWER: Man’s Search for Meaning [accept …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen or translational equivalents, like Nevertheless
Say Yes to Life]
4. This work’s introduction mentions the work of Lewistam and of Professor de Ruiz in connection with the solar theory
of mythical interpretations of this work’s title figure. That interpretation is echoed in this work by a derivation of the
title figure’s name from a term indicating a confused chattering such as birds give forth at sunrise, a derivation given by
the Master Philologist. The second edition of this sixth entry in The Biography of the Life of Manuel adds an episode in
which the title character is accused of indecency by a dung beetle, mirroring this novel’s obscenity trial. In the end the
title character rejects Guenevere, the Lady of the Lake, and Helen in succession as they are offered to him by Koshchei,
instead choosing to resume his old life with his wife Dame Lisa. The titular "monstrous clever fellow" undertakes many
fantastic journeys, including stops in heaven and in hell, where he seduces the Devil's wife. For 10 points, name this
"Comedy of Justice" focusing on the titular pawnbroker from Poictesme [“pwah-tem”], written by James Branch Cabell.
ANSWER: Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
5. One leader of this organization died in a plane crash with city planner and architect Oscar Stonorov, with whom he
was working on the Model City Program. This organization was involved in the Battle of the Overpass, an event in which
Richard Frankensteen got his ass kicked. It was once divided between the Unity caucus, led by the communist Wyndham
Mortimer, and the Progressive Caucus, led by Homer Martin. Governor Frank Murphy had to negotiate an end to a 1936-7
sit down strike held by this organization. One leader of this organization came up with the "500 Planes a Day Plan" during
World War II, and that man, Walter Reuther, was the leader of this union when it negotiated the "Treaty of Detroit." For 10
points, name this union that negotiates with companies such as Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.
ANSWER: United Auto Workers [accept UAW]
6. In the Lokasenna, this figure fills a crystal cup for Loki before claiming to be the only blameless one among the gods.
Some sources claim that this goddess gave birth to a son named Lorride, while other sources claim the name Lorride
simply refers to the terrestrial aspect of her husband. Her other children include a son who resides in Ydalir and is
credited with the invention of snowshoes, and a daughter whose suitors included the dwarf Alvis. In addition to being the
mother of Ullr and Thrud, she was the step-mother of the two sons of Jarnsaxa. One night while she slept in the hall
Bilskirnir, she fell victim to a prank whose perpetrator commissioned the sons of Ivaldi to replace her loss. For 10 points,
name this step-mother of Modi and Magni, a goddess of the Aesir with living gold for hair, who was married to Thor.
ANSWER: Sif
7. In one of this author’s books, Beautiful Joe and the second title character try to rob the titular master of Laxlinden
Hall. Another of this author’s works features the title character, George McCaffery, who earns his titular appellation by
studying with John Rozanov. In another work by this author, tragedy ensues from the consumption of an LSD-laced
sandwich. In one book by this author, the main character steals his friend Peregrine’s wife Rosina and ultimately
becomes obsessed with his first love Mary Hartley Fitch. Besides that work about the egomaniacal playwright Charles
Arrowby, another book by this author of Henry and Cato and The Philosopher’s Pupil describes romantic entanglements
between a movie producer and pyrotechnician named Hugo Belfounder with Sadie, Madge, and the main character. That
character created by this author translates the novels of Breteuil, wrote The Silencer, and is named Jake Donaghue. For 10
points, identify this author of The Good Apprentice, The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net.
ANSWER: Dame Iris Murdoch
8. One object named for this man equals the density times the average of the tensor product of fluctuating velocity
components. One theorem named for this man can be derived by transforming between integrals over current and
reference configurations and is used in finding conservation relations in continuum mechanics. This man also lends his
name to a quantity which at low values is inversely proportional to the friction factor, a result that shows up as a line in
log-log plots known as Moody diagrams. In addition to his stress tensor and his transport theorem, he is the namesake of a
quantity that is defined to reach a value of 1 for Kolmogorov eddies, marking the start of the dissipation subrange. For 10
points, name this man whose number has a critical value of a few thousand for circular pipe flow, marking the transition
from laminar to turbulent flow, and which equals the ratio of inertial to viscous forces.
ANSWER: Osborne Reynolds
9. In one section of this work, Kant’s relation between “taste” and “genius” is explored in light of Rousseau’s
contribution to the notion of “Erlebnis.” Its epigraph advises “catch only what you’ve thrown yourself” and comes from
Rilke, and a key chapter in this work is the discussion of the “Entanglement in Historicism” of a certain thinker, in
showing that thinker's relationship to the methodological critiques of Ranke and Droysen and summarizing his thought
as “from relativity to totality.” That thinker, Wilhelm Dilthey, is praised for resuscitating a technique used by
Schliermacher, and frequently described as a series of concentric circles meant to reveal a subject from all viewpoints. It
was completed under the guidance of the author’s instructor Martin Heidegger, and it is considered a foundational text of
the hermeneutic technique. For 10 points, identify this magnum opus of Hans Georg Gadamer.
ANSWER: Truth and Method [or Warheit und Methode]
10. Some cities located in this polity include Lambaesis and Theveste, and a tribe which ruled this Kingdom established
its capital at Siga. One ruler of this kingdom had allied with Pompey but committed suicide after Julius Caesar defeated
him at Thapsus, and another chieftain from this kingdom, who aided Hamilcar during the Mercenary war, was promised
the hand of Salammbo in marriage. Another ruler of this polity killed the troops of Adherbal at Cirta, which led to a 7 year
war, and that man had once been betrayed by his father-in-law Bocchus. This polity was once ruled by Juba I and Naravas,
and it entered into a war with Rome upon the death of Micipsa. It had earlier allied with Rome during the reign of Micipsa's
father, and aided Rome during the battle of Zama. For 10 points, name this ancient kingdom located in Northern Africa,
which was ruled by such men as Massinissa and Jugurtha.
ANSWER: Numidia
11. The premiere of this work was marred by its composer's inability to correctly fasten his suspenders. A scherzo
removed from this work most likely found its way into its composer's later four-movement Piano concerto in B-flat. This
work was originally planned in four movements, though the middle two were condensed into a longer adagio section,
and it is one of the last of its type to include an improvised cadenza. It was criticized for pitting its solo instrument
"against" the orchestra, and it uncharacteristically opens with an oboe melody. The middle section of this work is in Fmajor, though it contains a lengthy F-sharp minor section that launches into the gypsy-like Rondo of the third section.
That third movement of this piece immediately presents its double-stop flavored, Hungarian-inspired melody. For 10 points,
name this work that was dedicated to its original virtuoso, the composer's best friend Joseph Joachim, a work for orchestra
and a solo stringed instrument by the composer of the Hungarian Dances and A German Requiem.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D-Major, opus 77 [prompt on partial answer; prompt on opus 77]
12. One artist on this track urges treating “dimes fair” after warning that “we don’t play / mess around be D.O.A.” Sick
flow in this track is exemplified by the description of a drug operation including the lines “my team supreme, stay clean /
triple beam lyrical dream.” This song’s central artist questions “Where the true players at?” before claiming that he
lyrically “be flossin’ jig on the cover of Fortune Five Double Oh,” and that he “Got the flow down pizzat, platinum
plus…on trizzack, leave your ass blizzack.” The first featured artist on this song claims to be the “same old pimp” and
that “ain’t nuttin change but my limp” before asserting that he “Can’t stop till I see my name on a blimp.” The title phrase
summarizes the Kelly Price-sung refrain, which follows a sampling of Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out.” This song features
Mase and Puff Daddy, and charted number one after the death of its artist. For 10 points, name this Notorious B.I.G. track
whose refrain states “I don’t know what they want from me / It’s like the more [of the first title concept] we come across, /
the more [of the second title concept] we see.”
ANSWER: “Mo Money Mo Problems”
13. Under certain conditions, if one of these objects has two boundary components whose inclusions are homotopy
equivalences then the object is diffeomorphic to the product of either component times a closed interval. That result,
known as Smale’s h-cobordism theorem, can be proved using certain techniques available in the study of these objects,
such as the Whitney trick and surgery theory, which arise from the proof of the Whitney embedding theorem. These
objects can be described using a collection of consistent coordinate charts known as an atlas. Like surfaces, their
topological invariants include genus and orientability. For 10 points, name these locally Euclidean topological spaces whose
only example in 3D that is closed and simply-connected is the 3-sphere up to homeomorphism, according to the Poincaré
conjecture.
ANSWER: simply-connected compact manifolds
14. Bechtel sued this nation in 2002 after anti-privatization protests forced them to remove a utilities company that ran
this nation's water system. In the 1950's and 60's, the MNR party instituted land reform in this nation. The 18th century
saw Tupac Katari lead a rebellion of the indigenous peoples of this nation. Recent presidents of this country that have
opposed its drug trade include Hugo Banzer and Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. One notable military commander that served
this nation was the German Hans Kundt. This nation is the location of the famed silver mines of Potosi, and it lost its access
to the Pacific ocean in a late 19th century war with Chile. For 10 points, name this South American country that lost the
Chaco War to Paraguay.
ANSWER: Plurinational State of Bolivia [or that, in Spanish]
15. Repeated images in this collection include the poet’s “sad nets” and the addressee’s “oceanic eyes” in the poem
“Leaning into the Afternoons.” The speaker of another poem in this collection boldly tells the addressee, “I want / to do
with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” In addition to “Every Day You Play,” this collection includes the line
“On all sides I see your waist of fog,” as given in W. S. Merwin’s translation of “Ah Vastness of Pines.” Its first poem
describes its addressee as “a world, lying in surrender” after mentioning her “white hills, white thighs,” and is titled “Body
of a Woman.” The final poem of this collection claims that it is the "hour of departure" after lamenting that "in you,
everything sank." Its penultimate poem gives “The night is shattered / and the blue stars shiver in the distance” as an
example of the “saddest lines” the speaker is now able to produce. For 10 points, name this collection that includes
“Tonight I Can Write” and closes with a “Song of Despair,” written by Pablo Neruda.
ANSWER: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair [or Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperad]
16. An oracle instructed the inhabitants of this city to hold an annual swinging festival to stop an outbreak of girls
hanging themselves in imitation of Erigone. That outbreak occurred after a group of shepherds from this city mistook
wine for poison and killed Icarius during the reign of king Pandion. Another king of this city had daughters named
Aglauros, Pandrosos and Herse, who were told never to look inside a willow basket containing a child born when
Hephaestus’s semen impregnated Gaia. That child became the second autochthonous king of this city, and he was half
snake like this city’s founder Cecrops, who ruled in favor of an olive tree over a spring in a contest between Poseidon and
this city’s patron goddess. For 10 points, name this city whose kings included Aegeus and Theseus, named for the Greek
goddess of wisdom.
ANSWER: Athens [or Athina; accept "the athenosphere"]
17. One of the earliest posts this man served in was head of the Kufnstein Dragoons, and his political career saw him
represented by the Marquis de Prie. In the war of the Polish Succession, this man was responsible for relieving
Phillippsburg. This man was victorious at Peterwardein, which lead to the capture of Belgrade, and he once captured
Vauban's fortress of Lille. He fought several battles in Italy, including the Battle of Chiari and his assault on the fortress of
Cremona. This man fought for Italy during the War of the Grand Alliance, and he was the victor at the battle that lead to
the the Treaty of Karlowitz, and he fought with the Duke of Marlborough at victories such as Blenheim. For 10 points, name
this leader of the Habsburg military in wars such as the Great Turkish War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
ANSWER: Prince Eugene of Savoy [prompt on partial answer]
18. In one of this author's plays, the story of a bullet being thrown at a skirt helps attempt to determine the gender of
the title character. That play by this author was originally an interlude to another play that also features the character
Galy Gay, who transforms to the soldier Jeraiah Jip. This author of The Elephant Calf and A Man’s A Man wrote another
work in which a character describes his ability to draw a mark on a dissident while pretending to clap him on the back.
Another scene from that play by this author sees a judge rule based on which verdict will save his job, and it also describes
two physicists who feign hatred of Albert Einstein. Other plays by this author include one in which Fatty the Bookkeeper
and Trinity Moses brace for a hurricane, and another in which Shen Teh pretends to be her own male cousin. For 10 points,
name this playwright, author of The Good Woman of Szechuan and Mother Courage and Her Children.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht
19. This building’s rear uses two layers of milky, etched glass with electric lights between them to create a “light wall,”
and its designer stated that its dimensions were based on a massive block of golden onyx used for one of the interior
partitions. This building rests on a plinth of travertine and features two U-shaped enclosures, the latter of which forms
the smaller of its two stone-bottomed reflecting pools, which contains George Kolbe’s sculpture Der Morgen. Its “floating
roof” consists of a thin slab supported by eight cruciform columns clad in chrome. This building was commissioned by
Georg von Schnitzler after its designer’s work on the Werkbund exhibition, and its most famous piece of furniture is a
namesake armless leather chair and footstool designed to host the King and Queen of Spain. For 10 points, name this
building designed for the 1929 International Exposition, a work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
ANSWER: Barcelona Pavilion [or German pavilion]
20. Performing a Wick rotatition of the time coordinate reduces the Feynman kernel to a functional which is similar to
this quantity. The symmetry number is an overcounting correction factor that appears along with some power of the
rotation temperature in the denominator for ones representing rotational energies. Its value for a system composed of
several subsystems equals the product of its values for the subsystems, which implies that the Helmholtz free energy is
additive over subsystems since the Helmholtz free energy is proportional to its logarithm. This quantity can also be thought
of as a normalization constant since it is simply the integral over all states of the degeneracy factor times e to the negative
beta times the energy of that microstate. For 10 points, name this quantity whose "canonical" form simply equals the sum
over states of Boltzmann factors, and describes the macroscopic properties of a thermodynamic system.
ANSWER: partition function
Tiebreaker. The convention that nominated this president was presided over by an aged Romulus Saunders, and this
president appointed Benjamin Hallett to the position of U.S. Attorney as a reward for convention favors. Other political
appointments of this man include Joseph Campbell as Postmaster General and John Archibald Campbell for the Supreme
Court, this president’s only court appointment. His Secretary of State selection appeased the Albany Regency; he chose
William Marcy, who helped negotiate the Gadsden Purchase with the approval of this president. He governed without a
vice-president after the death of William R. King. During his term, the Ostend Manifesto was drafted and the KansasNebraska Act passed. For 10 points, name this fourteenth president elected in 1852 between Millard Fillmore and James
Buchanan.
ANSWER: Franklin Pierce
Tiebreaker. Atoms of this element are used to create artificial “guide stars” in the upper mesosphere through resonant
backscattering of light from dye lasers tuned to 589 nanometers in certain adaptive optics systems. Such lasers interact
with atoms of this element to excite one spectral line in a doublet whose broadening upon application of a magnetic
field was the first known example of the Zeeman effect. That doublet corresponds with the Fraunhofer D lines and its
strength is exploited in the design of low-pressure vapor lamps. Aldosterone promotes kidney reabsorption of ions of this
element, which is actively transported out across plasma membranes in a mechanism used in establishing resting
potentials. FTP name this element whose ions are moved by a pump that also acts on potassium and whose strong doublet
produces a yellow light in flame tests.
ANSWER: sodium or Na
Tiebreaker. Inez Tennenbaum lost a Senate race in this state but has subsequently joined the Obama administration,
while a major Ron Paul supporter ran for Senate as a Democrat here in 2008. Besides Bob Conley, lawmakers currently
representing this state include state speaker Bobby Harrell and speaker pro tem Harry Cato, who have led the calls for a
large ethics probe investigating chartered flights between Aiken and Greer against this state’s most embattled figure. A
recently retired Marine from this state, Rob Miller, had a windfall of donations after a now infamous challenge to a claim
about health care and immigrants, though this state’s largest political scandal has seen “hiking the Appalachian Trial” used
as an excuse to hide an affair by this state’s governor. For 10 points, identify this state home to classless Republicans like
the loudmouth Rep. Joe Wilson and the philandering Mark Sanford.
ANSWER: South Carolina
Minnesota Open 2009: Suck it, Everyone Else!
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar, Brian Lindquist, and Bernadette Spencer
Packet by Chicago 120 Days of Gautam (Seth Teitler, Michael Arnold, Shantanu Jha, David Seal) and the Editors
Bonuses
1. Before undertaking this expedition, its leader sent Matthew Paris in a failed attempt to drum up support from Haakon IV
of Norway. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Crusade which, like the earlier Fifth Crusade, saw the capture of Damietta. This Crusade was the first led
by King Louis IX of France, and it saw the crusaders pay a 50,000-bezant ransom for his return after he got his dumb ass
captured.
ANSWER: Seventh Crusade
[10] Louis IX's aforementioned dumb ass was captured at this 1250 battle, in which the crusaders were defeated by the
forces of Fakhr-al-Din and Baibars. Much of the fighting in this battle took place on the banks of the river Bahr-as-Saghir,
and it also saw the death of Louis’s brother, Robert of Artois.
ANSWER: Battle of Al Mansurah
[10] In 1238, Louis IX sent this Dominican missionary to pick up the Crown of Thorns from the Latin King Baldwin II. Later,
after Louis had received the Mongol envoys David and Marc, he sent an embassy under this man to Guyuk Khan in 1249.
ANSWER: Andrew of Longjumeau [or André de Longjumeau]
2. According to the Internet, this figure was able to “eat a person’s heart without that person even realizing it”. For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this Aztec figure whose name means “grass flower” and who was the mother of Copil, a goddess of insects,
scorpions, witchcraft and the desert.
ANSWER: Malinalxochitl [mah-lee-nal-SHO-ch(-itl); be lenient]
[10] Malinalxochitl was the sister of this Aztec god of war, who led his followers from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan. This so-called
“Hummingbird on the Left” was the son of Coatlicue and a ball of feathers.
ANSWER: Huitzilopochtli [(h)weets-lo-PO-ktli; be lenient]
[10] This half-sister of Huitzilopochtli led the Centzon Huitznahuas, the 400 star gods, in an attack on the pregnant
Coatlicue, only to be thwarted when Huitzilopochtli leapt from the womb fully armed, chopped off this goddess’s head, and
threw it into the sky.
ANSWER: Coyolxauhqui [coh-yol-SHAU-qui; be lenient]
3. This poem describes how the “Power in likeness of the Arve comes down/From the ice-gulfs that gird his secret
throne/Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame/Of lightning through the tempest”. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this poem, written as a response to Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”, whose title geographical feature “gleams
on high” and “appears—still, snowy and serene”, surrounded by piles of “ice and rock”.
ANSWER: “Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni”
[10] This long poem was given its title by Thomas Love Peacock. It describes a poet who “has visited/The awful ruins of the
days of old” who has a vision of a “veiled maid”. In trying to recapture the vision, the poet rides a boat into an
“immeasurable void”, where he achieves transcendence.
ANSWER: Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude [accept either underlined portion]
[10] “Mont Blanc” and Alastor were written by this author of “The Masque of Anarchy” and “To a Skylark”. Look on his
Gothic novels Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne, ye Mighty, and despair!
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Name the following regarding Spanish installation sculpture, for 10 points each.
[10] The foremost installation sculptor of this city is undoubtedly former Real Sociedad goalkeeper Eduardo Chillida. This
city is also home to Jeff Koons' Puppy and a sailboat-shaped museum designed by Frank Gehry.
ANSWER: Bilbao
[10] A 2007 Spanish film about an alcoholic installation sculptor who comes to grips with killing a man while driving drunk is
titled for being "Under" these objects. Van Gogh painted a "Road with Cypress" and one of these objects.
ANSWER: stars [or estrellas]
[10] The urban sculpture The Sun, The Moon, and One Star is known as this Spaniard's Chicago, and is found across from
Picasso's Chicago in that city.
ANSWER: Joan Miro i Ferra
5. This man’s scientific legacy includes using the term “ylem” to describe the primordial material. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man whose peak, used in simple modeling of stellar fusion, is the region around the maximum of the
product of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and the probability of tunneling through nuclear Coulomb barrier.
ANSWER: George Antonovich Gamow
[10] Gamow also coined the term “Urca process” to refer to an important mode of cooling in these objects that are more
compact than white dwarfs, and are made up of a certain subatomic particle discovered by Chadwick.
ANSWER: neutron stars
[10] Gamow wrote a paper with Alpher predicting the cosmic microwave background years before this man and Peebles
made their independent prediction. This man worked with Carl Brans on a scalar-tensor theory that is an alternative to
general relativity.
ANSWER: Robert Henry Dicke
6. One act by this movement was an attack on Rawfords Mill. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this movement in early nineteenth century Britain that was known for its radical anti-technology views, named
for a certain Ned who broke stocking frames.
ANSWER: Luddites
[10] Some of the Luddite violence occurred during the 1809-1812 rule of this Prime Minister. This man was shot by John
Bellingham and is the only Prime Minister to be assassinated.
ANSWER: Spencer Perceval
[10] The agricultural parallel to the Luddite movement were these 1830 riots in the rural southeast. While the Luddites
were led by General Ludd, these rioters only had an anonymous Captain to carry their banner.
ANSWER: Swing Riots
7. Members of the Eumetazoa clade develop this structure, whose open end is known as the blastopore. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this primitive gut that forms during gastrulation. In deuterostomes, the coelom forms from mesodermal
outpocketings of this structure.
ANSWER: archenteron
[10] Animals of this phylum, formerly grouped in the clade Parazoa, do not develop an archenteron. They feed by filtering
food from circulating water through the use of flagellated collar cells known as choanocytes, and in some cases they
produce a skeleton consisting of spicules.
ANSWER: porifera [or sponges]
[10] This excretory structure in sponges consists of a large opening out of which water flows after passing through the
spongocoel.
ANSWER: oscula [or osculum]
8. This work contrasts directly and indirectly self-defeating principles, considering Self-Interest theory and
Consequentialism. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 1986 philosophical work that also considers the ethics of population growth in considering “The
Repugnant Conclusion” and “The Absurd Conclusion.”
ANSWER: Reasons and Persons
[10] This British ethical philosopher's most recent work On What Matters is inspired by Sidgwick and Kant is available for
review on the internet. He also wrote Reasons and Persons.
ANSWER: Derek Parfit
[10] A somewhat amusing appendix to Reasons and Persons discusses an argument by this philosopher that “what he is,
essentially is his brain.” Important works by this thinker include The View From Nowhere, Mortal Questions, and an essay
about the subjective character of consciousness, “What is it Like to Be a Bat?”
ANSWER: Thomas Nagel
9. One amusing section of this work sees the female protagonist attempt to beat up her brother with a rolling pin after he
steals corn "mealies" from her garden. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1989 novel about the cousins Nyasha, who grew up in England, and Tambu, who was raised on a farm in
Rhodesia.
ANSWER: Nervous Conditions
[10] Nervous Conditions is a semi-autobiographical work by this Zimbabwean author. She also wrote the plays She No
Longer Weeps and The Lost of the Soil in addition to directing films such as Everyone's Child.
ANSWER: Tsitsi Dangarembga
[10] The title of Nervous Conditions comes from the author's forward to Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. This author
penned Anti-Semite and Jew along with a work about Garcin, Estelle, and Inez.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre
10. Her self-portrait shows her painting a boy playing the violin. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this artist of works like Serenade and Two Children with a Cat, as well as The Proposition.
ANSWER: Judith Leyster
[10] Leyster’s paintings strongly resemble those of this man, who did various depictions of Yonker Ramp as well as The
Laughing Cavalier.
ANSWER: Frans Hals
[10] Leyster’s work also bears similarity to the Utrecht Carraviggisti, such as Hendrick ter Brugghen and this painter of works
such as The Matchmaker. He also painted portraits of the Duke of Buckingham and depictions of religious scenes at
nighttime.
ANSWER: Gerard van Honthorst [accept Gerrit van Honthorst or Gherardo delle Notti]
11. This religion has prohibited proselytization since the mid-11th century, and does not allow converts. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this religion which was founded by al-Hakim and whose followers are divided into the Juhhal and Uqqal. Its
followers are allowed to conceal their faith if they deem it necessary.
ANSWER: Druze [prompt on Al-Tawhid; or Al-Muwahiddun; or Unitarians or Monotheists]
[10] This term denotes the Druze practice, adopted from Shia Islam, of concealing one’s faith among non-believers if
needed.
ANSWER: taqqiya
[10] Soon after its founding the Druze camp split into two factions. One group was led by Hamza, whereas the other was
lead by this Persian who tried to usurp Hamza's position. He was denounced as a heretic and his name is used to describe
heretics.
ANSWER: Muhammad bin Ismail ad-Darazi
12. A reaction developed by this man incorrectly claimed by two different research groups to be a new method to
synthesize annulenes over a hundred years after that reaction's discovery. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this student of Kekule and advisor of Otto Hahn. He names a nitration reaction as well as a reaction in which a
para-cresol, in the presence of carbon tetrachloride, is converted into a dienone.
ANSWER: Theodor Zincke
[10] Zincke aldehydes are formed from the reaction of secondary amines with a salt of a member of this class of organic
compounds. This group of organic compounds consists of a benzene ring in which one of the C-H groups is replaced with a
nitrogen. Its namesake member forms an oxidative reagent with chromium oxide and a chloride anion.
ANSWER: pyridines
[10] The aforementioned Zincke-Suhl reaction utilizes a Lewis acid such as aluminum trichloride, much like this other class
of reactions which come in acylation and alkylation varieties.
ANSWER: Friedel-Crafts reactions
13. Some lunatics claim that Nostradamus predicted this event, citing as evidence the fact that French priests helped
foment it, and it saw Nicolaes Couckebacker ineffectively bombard its participants from the ship De Rijp. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 1637 uprising which saw Amakusa Shiro and some Japanese Catholics take over Hara Castle and quickly fall
under siege.
ANSWER: Shimabara Rebellion [accept Shimabara no ran or really anything that mentions Shimabara]
[10] It seems doubtful that Nostradamus predicted this much later, anti-foreigner rebellion dedicated to the “sonno joi”
principle. It is alternately known by a name which one book translates as “uprising of the party of the mountain goblins”.
ANSWER: Mito Rebellion [accept Tengu Rebellion, tengu to no ran, Mito no ran, or Kanto insurrection]
[10] Both the Shimabara Rebellion and Mito Rebellion were ultimately put down by this shogunate, founded in 1600 after
its namesake family, led by Ieyasu, defeated Mitsunari Ishida’s forces at the Battle of Sekigahara.
ANSWER: Tokugawa Shogunate
14. The first of these begins “Without thee, what life or being!”, while Margot Seidel has claimed both that they were not
intended to form a concrete cycle and that their original title was apparently Xstiliche Leider. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this cycle of poems, perhaps cobbled together by editors after the death of their author in 1801.
ANSWER: Spiritual Songs [or Geistliche Lieder]
[10] Spiritual Songs is a poetic cycle by this man, usually known by his single pen-name, an author of the unfinished novel
about the Blue Flower-loving title character Heinrich von Ofterdingen.
ANSWER: Novalis [or Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenburg]
[10] Frequently published with Spiritual Songs, this best-known Novalis poetic work is dedicated to Sophie von Kuhn and
features six sections, the last of which is titled “Longing for Death”.
ANSWER: Hymns to the Night [accept Hymnen an die Nacht]
15. Answer the following about bands that make an appearance on the last.fm of user “AndyChrz, for 10 points each.
[10] Despite his love for metal, CHRZ’s most played artist is this mellow, numerically named Omaha band, whose best
known singles include “Down”, “Amber”, “All Mixed Up”, and “Come Original”.
ANSWER: 311
[10] This Michigan metal band is CHRZ’s #62 most listened to. Their albums include the recently-released Deflorate and
albums like Miasma and Nocturnal, and they take their name from an unsolved case involving Elizabeth Short.
ANWER: The Black Dahlia Murder [accept BDM]
[10] This metalcore group, which someone thought was worthy of an entire bonus at Rob Pilatus, is the #8 band on CHRZ's
list. They released As Daylight Dies in 2006, but may be more famous for the title track of their 2004 album The End of
Heartache.
ANSWER: Killswitch Engage
16. This man was removed from his highest office after he came into conflict with Commodore Vanderbilt and his Accessory
Transit Company, leading to this man's surrender to Charles Henry Davis. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this filibuster from the nineteenth century who became the president of Nicaragua before being executed in
Honduras in 1860.
ANSWER: William Walker
[10] Another filibuster was this Venezuelan-born dude who attempted to annex Cuba in the 1850s.
ANSWER: Narciso Lopez
[10] One of Lopez's most influential backers was this Mississippi governor who is perhaps most famous for leading the
southern assault on Chapultapec in the Mexican-American War.
ANSWER: John Anthony Quitman
17. This work is dedicated to Chopin and subtitled Eight fantasies for piano. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this set of works, the first two of which are titled “extremely moving” and “very inwardly and not too quickly,”
named for a moody E.T.A Hoffman character.
ANSWER: Kriesleriana
[10] This sixteen-song cycle by the composer of Kriesleriana is based on Heinrich Heine's Lyrisches Intermezzo. The final
song in this cycle calls for the construction of a gigantic coffin to bury all of the bad songs and broken dreams.
ANSWER: Dichterliebe [accept The Poet's Love]
[10] Kriesleriana and Dictherliebe are works by this composer of the Rhenish symphony.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
18. The maid Coralee humors the delusions of the religion-obsessed Lavinia, while Oscar’s lust for Laurette Sincee is
ultimately overcome by his greed. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this play where Ben and Oscar plot to steal their father Marcus’s money and the land of the neighboring Bagtry
family.
ANSWER: Another Part of the Forest
[10] Another Part of the Forest is a prequel to this play by Lillian Hellman, in which Oscar marries Birdie, and the Hubbard
family turns their greedy sights on Union Pacific Bonds belonging to Horace.
ANSWER: The Little Foxes
[10] This Hellman work sees Fanny Farrelly host her daughter Sara and her exiled husband Kurt in a Washington D.C.
abode. Kurt kills a Romanian named Teck over his political ideals.
ANSWER: Watch on the Rhine
19. Rogue or freak waves are usually defined as surface waves with more than twice the significant wave height that appear
without warning, posing a threat to ships of all sizes. For 10 points each:
[10] One mechanism for rogue wave formation is the Benjamin-Feir instability, which is commonly modeled using a
nonlinear form of this equation from quantum mechanics. It gives the time evolution of a wavefunction in terms of the
Hamiltonian.
ANSWER: Schrödinger equation
[10] Simple, exact solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two dimensions include the so-called breathers and
the deep-water envelope variety of these stable, localized, travelling wave packets.
ANSWER: solitons
[10] Rogue waves may form by spatial focusing via refraction near caustics, which gives wave forms described by these
special functions. They solve the Schrödinger equation for a particle in a triangular potential well, which leads to their
appearance in the connection formulae for the WKB method.
ANSWER: Airy functions
20. Maybe his most awesome achievement, at least according to Wikipedia, was getting busy with Edward Sapir’s daughter,
but perhaps you know him for books like Methods in Structural Linguistics. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this long-time UPenn professor also known for A Grammar of English on Mathematical Principles.
ANSWER: Zellig Sabbattai Harris
[10] Zellig Harris taught this MIT linguist who wrote Syntactic Structures.
ANSWER: Avram Noam Chomsky
[10] Harris and Chomsky had differing opinions regarding this seminal Leonard Bloomfield textbook, which contains a useful
chapter on the "Comparative Method" and is a key work of the descriptivist school
ANSWER: Language
Tiebreaker. Everyone knows that real geography is cartography, and that cartography is real math. For 10 points each:
[10] The product of K-sub-1 and K-sub-2 is the Gaussian type of this concept; surfaces that measure zero for the Gaussian
type of this measure, like cylinders and cones, can be flattened onto a plane with no distortion by, say, a cartographer,
which will surely come in handy when astronomers discover a belt of cone planets in need of mapping.
ANSWER: Gaussian curvature
[10] A surface with zero Gaussian curvature is called this type of surface; the fact that Earth is not this type of surface
necessitates map projections.
ANSWER: developable surface
[10] A gnomonic projection is created by rendering all of the arcs traced by these figures as straight. The shortest path
between two points on a sphere is always an arc traced by one of these figures.
ANSWER: a great circle [accept Riemannian circle; do not prompt on partial answers]