2009 Terrapin Invitational Tournament XXIII
Strip Russian Roulette – the Naked or the Dead
Packet by Ike Jose (IKE JOSE CANNOT BE SUBDIVIDED)
Edited by Chris Ray, Jeremy Eaton, and Jeff Amoros
1. One scholarly work by this man outlines installing mandatory psychiatric care, scouting of more smaller colleges,
and a full-time nutrition shake mixer, but was derided due to this man's current position as defensive coordinator for
the Piedmont Highlanders Freshman team. Mark Brunell completed a memorable pass to Willie Jackson after
embarrassing this man with a head fake in 1997 playoff game. He nut-balled Bryan Cox, kicked Larry Centers in the
head, broke Kerry Collins's jaw, and ended (*) Marcus Williams career after punching in his eye socket, but still
expressed surprise when Josh McDaniels was chosen despite this man’s 30-page power point on why he should succeed
Mike Shanahan. This founder of Nutrition 53 became involved in the BALCO scandal, which he justified with racial slurs
and references to Caucasian athletic inferiority. FTP, identify this pill-popping, black-hating, roid-raging former Denver
Broncos linebacker with a notably Polish name.
ANSWER: William Thomas “Bill” Romanowski (accept “Romo” and award bonus points for the unrelated answer of
“Tony Romo Sucks”
2. This author wrote about the shoemaker Ben Dosa and Rudy the Red King in a novel in which Cybula becomes the
God of death in his The King of the Fields. Besides having his conversations with Anthony Burgess transcribed in
Rencontre au Sommet, he wrote of Rechele, who is visited by demons when she marries Reb Gedalia in 1666 in the
titular (*) town. He wrote of the titular figure becoming "the penitent," after robbing Kazmierz and Magda Zabarski’s
suicide in a novel about Yasha Mazur. This author of Satan in Goray and The Magician of Lublin collected his stories in A
Friend of Kafka and wrote about a man who is persuaded by the Spirit of Evil to urinate in some bread after marrying the
prostitute Elka, who has six children with other men during their marriage. FTP, name this author of Gimpel the Fool, the
best-known American Yiddish author.
ANSWER: Isaac Beshevis Singer
3. A Swedish scientist named Sixten Bock discovered a primitive member of this phylum, though that organism was
later reclassified as a deuterostome. This phylum is home to a subclass that produces redia, cercaria and sporocysts,
Miracidia, and one member has a body part called a haptor and is part of genus Gyrodactylus, which has
oncomiracidia larvae. Some members of this phylum contain an upper body part called a strobila, and more
generally those members have proglottids. It contains the classes (*) cestoda, monogenea, and turbellaria, as well as the
agent that causes schistosomiasis. FTP, identify this phylum which contains trematoda, or fluke, a group of organisms which
lack a ceolom and are more commonly known as flatworms.
ANSWER: Platyhelminthes (accept Flatworms before mentioned)
4. Several massive public elevators are located in this city’s Seven Streets area, which comprise its Old City, and it
earned the unfortunate nickname of “the hole” due to its position between Pagasarri and Artxanda Peaks. Home to
the Rekalde and Abando districts, this city's Erandio and Sestao districts sit on its namesake estuary that also houses
the Joaquin Rucoba-designed city hall. It is home to the Teatro Arriaga and the Moyua Square, which itself contains
Chevarri Palace and Duesta University. Santiago Cathedral and the Basilica of (*) Begona are found in this city,
whose Zubizuri bridge spans the Nervion River. A gigantic dog made of flowers guards the best-known structure in this city,
located on the Bay of Biscay. FTP, identify this Spanish city, the largest in Basque country and home to a Frank Gehrydesigned, very fish-like branch of the Guggenheim.
ANSWER: Bilbao
5. This author of the terrible poem “Cape Cod” wrote about his admiration for the materialism of Lucretius in one
work, and discussed the formation of primal wills by equating them with Newton 's Laws of Motion in a work that
discusses the origin of liberty, Dominations and Powers. He examined the formalization of Calvinism in The Genteel
Tradition at Bay and depicted the Stranger and Socrates discussing democratic governments in another work. He
discussed the consequences of giving up (*) "passive intuition" and obtaining essence from experience in another major
tract, while another text by this author of Dialogues of Limbo identifies spirit, truth, matter, and essence as the titular Realms
of Being. FTP, identify this author of The Last Puritan and Skepticism and Animal Faith, who in The Life of Reason warned
that those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.
ANSWER: George Santayana
6. This figure was the subject of a murder plot by Giampolo Baglioni, whom he deposed along with Giovanni
Bentivoglio. In his early career he was outmaneuvered by Ascanio Sforza and another man, prompting this figure to
retaliate by convincing Charles VIII to invade Naples. He called on Duke Federigo to help subjugate Citta di
Castello, while one effort to limit the power of this man saw a Synod at (*) Tours dictate that this ruler had no right to
launch wars against foreign princes. Convening the Fifth Lateran Council, his best-known achievements occurred after
negotiations with Louis XI and Maximillian, leading this successor of Pius III to acquire the territories of Rimini and
Faenza from the Republic of Venice after forming the Holy League in the War of the League of Cambrai. FTP, identify this
opponent of Alexander VI, the “warrior pope” whose patronage of Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo saw the creation
of works like the Sistine ceiling.
ANSWER: Julius II or Giuliano Della Rovere
7. One character in this work sings "What all the world thinks impossible can be achieved by love" in the aria "Ich
baue ganz auf deine Stärke." Gluck had to step in when this work wasn't finished in time for its commission, and it
includes an unusual basset horn accompanying a real downer aria in the wake of an attempted rape. One character
in this work drugs some people after they accuse him of being too happy, while another lies by saying that he is
Lostados, but that backfires since the (*) owner of the titular structure was injured by his father. That ruler then decides to
let Blonde and Pedrillo go free, angering Osmin, who had purchased them as slaves from pirates. FTP, identify this opera
that ends with janissaries praising the Pasha Selim after Belmont 's ludicrous attempts to rescue Konstanze from the titular
harem, written by Wolfgang Mozart.
ANSWER: The Abduction from the Seraglio or Die Entführung aus dem Serail
8. The word “wondr'ing” was replaced by “eagle” in the final draft of this work. One title figure is described as
“deep brow,” while the other title figure had earlier told of Cleanthes’s ascension to the Egyptian throne in The Blind
Beggar of Alexandria and Quicksilver's theft from Golding in (*) Eastward Ho. Its author speaks of a “pure serene” and
an objecting “swim[ing] into his ken,” a reference to Uranus, and was composed following a visit by Charles Cowden
Clarke. Men “[Look] at each other with a wild surmise” from a position on Darien in this poem, which notes the “ Western
islands ” and “goodly states and kingdoms” encountered when the author “travell'd in the realms of gold.” FTP, identify this
poem documenting the wonder of reading a translation of the author of The Odyssey, written by John Keats.
ANSWER: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
9. A festival held on the Aventine hill's open plain known as the Armilustrium honored this deity by sacrificing
animals sacred to him. Another festival that honored this deity took place in the Hall of the Shoemakers and was
called the Tubilustrium. During that day, the jumping priests of this deity would leap all day long. Another festival
that honored him saw the sacrifice of a pig, a sheep, and a bull, and was called the (*) Suovretalia. He was
accompanied by Fuga and Timor, and some sources list this god as one who had eloped with Rhea Silvia to father Romulus
and Remus. Two festivals that saw the Roman army cleaning their equipment also honor this god, as does the name of the
site where the Roman Army trains. FTP, identify this Roman god of war, the counterpart to Ares.
ANSWER: Mars (prompt on “Ares,” but feel free to give just a little bit of a scowl)
10. This man's early adventures in being horrible included extorting property away from the widow of a veteran of
the Lincoln County Wars, while he later worked with Marcus Smith and Henry Ashurst to limit the right to expand
Indian Reservations to Congress. This protege of Thomas Catron was accused of illegal campaigning by Summers
Brukhart years after he successfully defended Jim Gilliland and Oliver Lee on charges of murdering Albert (*)
Fountain. Investigations by Gerald Nye and later led by Thomas Walsh uncovered this man's deal with Edward Denby to
pass some land to Edward Doheny and Henry Sinclair, including land in the Elk Hills Reserves and in Wyoming. FTP,
identify this Secretary of the Interior during the Harding administration who masterminded the Teapot Dome Scandal.
ANSWER: Albert Bacon Fall
11. According to a scholarly work published by Clemson University's Turfgrass Sciences department, this element
has been shown to inhibit the ability of copper to itself inhibit root growth. M class stars over level 5 are
characterized by a strong presence of Vanadium and this material's oxide, while this element's dioxide is produced in
a reaction that involves the precursor being aerated with ammonium chloride by removing the iron oxides. Produced
via the Hunter and (*) Kroll processes, it can be extracted from ilemite and rutile and its primary uses are as lightweight
alloys or in medical prosthetics due to its low reactivity, and in golf clubs. FTP, identify this element with atomic number
22, named for its durability and symbolized Ti.
ANSWER: Titanium (accept Ti before mentioned)
12. Only a palimpsest remains of his The Wallet, which resembles another work named for a wooden sword. Tranio
attempts to convince his master that the titular being haunts their house in The Ghost, while Daemones has a dream
about fighting angry monkeys before his daughter escapes her pirate kidnappers in The Rope. Cleostrata works to
undermine several creeps who plot to corrupt Casina in another play, while the titular (*) slave of Strabax attempts to
negotiate with one of this author’s favorite subjects, whores, in Truculentus. The title character of one work claims to have
punched an elephant to death and killed 7,000 men in a day, though the lessons learned by Pyrgopolynices cannot be seen in
an unfinished work about Euclio, who finds the titular wealth in the ground. FTP, identify this author of Something Funny
Happened on the Way to the Wedding, Miles Gloriosus, and Pot of Gold, a Roman comedian famous for stock characters.
ANSWER: Titus Maccius Plautus
13. In the Septuagint, this book contains the apocryphal Book of Baruch which holds both a paean of wisdom and a
prayer of mercy. One prophecy found in this book concerns punishment on nearby nations in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim and is believed to correspond with the Battle of Carchemish. Another prophecy found in this book is a
vision of two baskets of figs while another discusses the utterances of King (*) Zedekiah. After a failed reinstitution of
Deuteronomic law, the titular prophet famously compares the inability for an evil human to attempt to do good to the
inability of an Ethiopian to change his skin and a leopard his spots. FTP, identify this Old Testament book from a major
prophet that chronicles the time period in which Judah fell after the Babylonians were the first to destroy Solomon’s
Temple.
ANSWER: Book of Jeremiah
14. Herbert Stanley and Cecil Rodwell spent time in charge of this polity, with the latter making several memorably
horrible comments in the presence of a future president. John Pestell attempted to arrest Clifford Dupont in this
polity on the order of Humphrey Gibbs, while other prominent politicians included Winston Field and Edgar
Whitehead. Two political parties of this polity, which signed the Lancaster House Agreement, were founded by (*)
Ndabaninigi Sithole and Joshua Nkomo, the latter of which fought against Enos Nakala and Herbert Chitepo during its
namesake “Bush” war, also called the second Chimurenga. Canaan Banana led this state's successor, currently led by the
terminally incompetent Robert Mugabe. FTP, identify this Ian Smith-controlled colony in southern Africa which became
Zimbabwe, named for British diamond magnate and scholarship enthusiast Cecil.
ANSWER: Southern Rhodesia (prompt on Zimbabwe)
15. The Cassini probe documented a region between the A and F rings of Saturn that bear this man's name, while
another entity with this name is defined by the length of a semi-major axis multiplied by the cube root of the ratio of
a satellite's mass to three times the orbited body's mass, and is sometimes named for (*) Hill. This man also names a
region defined by two equipotentials or the Lagrangian point 1, wherein stellar matter will pinch off to form another star if
exceeded. Multiplying the radius times the cube root of twice the ratio of a primary's density to a satellite's density will
calculate another value named for this scientist. FTP, name this Frenchman who gives his name to a lobe, as well as to a
limit denoting the distance at which tidal forces will shred an orbiting satellite.
ANSWER: Edouard Roche (prompt on William Hill mentioned)
16. One man associated with this religious order discussed "A Simple Formula for Religious Life" in his Clock of
Wisdom; that man, Henry Suso, joined with John Tauler to form the core of the “Friends of God.” Other figures
include the author of The Sphere, Leonardo Dati, and Jordan of Saxony. Its namesake inducted William of
Montferrat into it and traveled with the Bishop of Osma to obtain a suitable wife for Ferdinand. Founded on the
recommendation of (*) Innocent III, Honorius III formalized this institution, named for the patron saint of astronomy.
FTP, name this monastic group that included Savonarola, Thomas Aquinas, and Torquemada, also called Black Friars.
ANSWER: Dominicans (accept Black Friars before mentioned)
17. A distressed youth grabs a lifeless master in this artist's Giclee depiction of the death of Leonardo, and he showed
a nude girl sensuously pouring the contents of a vase in The Source. A red and white towel is wrapped around the
hair of a nude figure in one work, while a nymph plays with the beard of a deity in another. This artist of The Bather
of Valpincon and (*) Jupiter and Thetis showed a hunched man talking to a winged beast in his Oedipus and the Sphinx and
the titular woman chained to a rock in his Roger Rescuing Angelica. Naked women abound in his Turkish Bath while one
figure plays an instrument and the other is just very nude in Odalisque and Slave. Also depicting angels crowning the titular
Greek poet, FTP, identify this French painter of The Apotheosis of Homer who added too many vertebrae to the reclining
nude in La Grande Odalisque.
ANSWER: Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres
18. One work by this author is told from the perspective of the mother of Barry, Sallie, Laurie, and Jannie, and
relates a series of vignettes about family life. This author of Raising Demons wrote about the wake of Lionel
Halloran’s funeral in The Sundial, which features a structure similar to the one burned down by Constance and
Merricat in another novel. After Life Among the Savages, this author wrote of Charles’s (*) demonic possession in We
Have Always Lived in the Castle and about Luke Sanderson, Theodora, and Dr. Montague, who discover that the titular
locale seems to be targeting Eleanor Vance. In the best-known work by this author of The Haunting of Hill House, Mr.
Summers and Mr. Graves participate in the titular 10 o'clock event in which little Dickie Delacroix helps stone Tessie
Hutchinson to death. FTP, identify this woman who wrote “The Lottery.”
ANSWER: Shirley Jackson
19. If one half plus micron plus mu is an integer, then the Gegenbauer differential equation will have a solution
involving the ultraspherical form of these objects. The ones named for Schur are a special variety of the ones named
for Jack, and those named for Stirling and Friedrich Bessel form the Sheffer Sequence. Murphy's formula can be
used to represent ones generated from Gram-Schmit orthonormalization and named for (*) Legendre. An infinite
sequence of these entities bears the label of orthogonal, while Abel's Impossibility theorem involves the severing of these
that have an order higher than five. FTP, name these mathematical expressions that do not contain numerical exponents or
division by a variable and comprise more than one term, such as x squared plus two x plus three.
ANSWER: polynomials (accept orthogonal polynomials until “Schur”)
20, This politician sought to end the torture implemented by Jacque Soustelle and as head of his party he succeeded
the namesake of a plan to create a massive all-European army, Rene Pleven. This figurehead of the 110 Propositions
had earlier severed as Interior Minister under Mendes-France. He granted Joan Alanis's request for a constitution
and had a highly publicized (*) affair with Anna Pingeot, producing his daughter Mazarine. This man spared Antoine
Guadino and Alain Mayot during the Urba Affair and dissolved the Cour-de-surete and removed the death penalty via the
Badinter Act. FTP, identify this habitual parliament-dissolver, the longest-serving President of France's Fifth Republic and a
notable socialist.
ANSWER: Francois Mitterand
TB 1. This composition's end was reworked into a fortissimo movement. The second part of the first movement of
this piece is called "blasphemous and sardonic," and depicts the story of Francesca and Paola. After moving from
Lento to Allegro frenetico, this work evokes a theme that is meant to represent the descent. Like the (*) Unfinished
Symphony, it lacks a third movement, because Wagner told its composer that no mortal could represent Paradise in music,
so instead he opted for a woman's chorus of Magnificat to end the piece. For ten points name this Franz Liszt Symphony
that sought to capture the essence of The Divine Comedy, named for that work's Italian author.
ANSWER: Dante Symphony
TB 2. One of the circumstances surrounding this man's death may have been linked to the winner at the battle at
Ambato, Juan Jose Flores. This man sought asylum in the West Indies after Miranda surrendered at San Mateo and,
earlier he had been in charge of the engineers of Margarita Island. This figure, who assisted Santiago Marino in an
invasion, and who was wounded at Chiquisaca, warned General Paez that he was wrong in supporting this figure's
biographer as President. This man evacuated a capital city and occupied Callao in preparation for General Canterac's
attack, which led to the Marquis of Torre Tagle to be president of Peru. This loser at the battle of Huachi was most likely
killed by Jose Maria Obando after winning the battles of liberated much of South America after winning Ayacucho. FTP,
name this namesake of a capital of Bolivia.
ANSWER: Jose Antonion de Sucre
TB 3. Randjabar-Daemi found third and fifth inverse powers in the objects associated with this phenomenon when
examining it in a six dimensional vortex. Julian Schwinger used the difference of the sums of bulk energy for the
medium of a material and a vacuum to calculate a dynamic form of this phenomenon. The formula for this
phenomenon includes a term for the product of 240 and the distance raised to the fourth power. The namesake force
in this effect is sometimes named for Polder. Calculated by Steven Lamoreaux, and also calculated by analyzing the zeropoint energy between the boundaries, for ten points, name this effect that shows the existence of a quantum vacuum by
allowing only waves with half-integer wavelengths to appear between two plates, causing a net pressure to force them
together, named for a Dutch scientist.
ANSWER: Casimir Effect
1. This term denotes the temperature in which the specific heat capacity of helium I approaches infinity. FTPE:
[10] Identify this temperature, 2.19 kelvins, named for a Greek letter.
ANSWER: Lambda Point
[10] Below the lambda point, helium exhibits this condition, wherein atoms move in a synchronized way and display some
interesting properties, most notably losing all viscosity.
ANSWER: Superfluidity (accept word forms)
[10] Lev Landau proposed these analogues of phonons to explain the properties of superfluids. According to Landau, their
energy is a function of their momentum squared, divided by twice their mass.
ANSWER: rotons
2. Name these composers of Requiems, FTPE.
[10] This man's German Requiem compares all flesh to grass, and derives its text from Luther's vernacular version of the
bible. He also composed the Academic Festival Overture.
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
[10] Lyrics like “And the highways of earth are full of cries" appear in this man's atheistic requiem. This composer of Brigg
Fair and A Song of Summer is best known for an opera about Venzen and Sali.
ANSWER: Frederick Delius
[10] This composer of Cunning and Chance and The Spiegel von Arkadian is best-known for finishing the requiem started
by Mozart.
ANSWER: Franz Xaver Sussmayr
3. Claude Levi-Strauss examined the title entity of this work as a precursor to symbol exchange, while Jacques Derrida
discussed it in Given Time. FTPE,
[10] Identify this anthropological text that describes the "total presentation" of power involved in the central concept,
observed in a Kula ring.
ANSWER: An Essay on The Gift or Essai sur le Don
[10] This co-author of Henri Hubert's Outline on a General Theory of Magi wrote Sociology: Object and Method as well as
"The Gift."
ANSWER: Marcel Mauss
[10] Marcel Mauss's uncle was this famous French sociologist, who wrote The Division of Labour in Society and outlined
anomistic and fatalistic forms of the titular concept in Suicide.
ANSWER: Emile Durkheim
4. This battle was partially set at Kettle Hill and saw an assault led by Jacob Kent. FTPE:
[10] Name this battle that saw forces under Samuel Sumner pitted against those under Arsenio Linares, which also saw hot
air balloon scouting and action at “Hell's Pocket.”
ANSWER: San Juan Hill
[10] The Battle of San Juan Hill occurred during this conflict, which also saw Winfield Scott Schley screw up during a
Naval clash at Santiago. Its primary theaters were the Philippines and Cuba, where the explosion of the USS Maine
triggered this “splendid little war.”
ANSWER: Spanish-American War
[10] Everyone knows that John Hay loved the war, but one guy who really didn't was this future mentor of Theodore
Roosevelt, a Republican from Maine derided by Hay as “Czar” for his anti-war efforts. He had earlier served on the Potter
Commission and pioneered the “disappearing quorum” as Speaker of the House.
ANSWER: Thomas Brackett Reed
5. Identify the following about molecular interactions, FTPE:
[10] This type of bonding occurs between a metallic donor and nonmetallic or polyatomic acceptor molecule. The lattice
energy of structures formed by this type of bonding can be calculated using the Borne-Lande equation.
ANSWER: ionic bonds
[10] One of the weakest intermolecular interactions, these temporary induced dipole-induced dipole forces can be modeled
using the Lennard-Jones potential which involves an inverse twelfth power law.
Answer: London dispersion forces [prompt on Van der Waals force/interactions]
[10] This widely used third degree model, like the Van der Waals equation, corrects for the intermolecular forces that cause
the gases to deviate from ideal behavior. It has two free parameters and can be used to estimate the compressibility factor of
gases, Z.
ANSWER: Redlich-Kwong equation of state
6. At one point in this novel, Anthony Beavis seduces Joan Thursley, and causes Bryan to commit suicide. FTPE:
[10] Identify this five-section work whose other characters include Mary Amberly.
ANSWER: Eyeless in Gaza
[10] The title of Eyeless in Gaza comes from this Milton work, whose discarded titles mentioned the title character as “the
firebrand,” “the violent,” and as performing “unholy rites.” It discusses how the title figure felled “a thousand foreskins”
with an donkey jaw.
ANSWER: Samson Agonistes
[10] This author of Point Counter Point, Antic Hay, and Island wrote Eyeless in Gaza. He also told of Mustapha Mond and
John the Savage in Brave New World.
ANSWER: Aldous Leonard Huxley
7. One section is dedicated to the son of Matthew Arnold, and one, titled “Nimrod,” for Augustus Jaeger. FTPE:
[10] Name this work, in which the main theme consists of two contrasting melodic fragments, which is then repeated
fourteen times, with changes coming in the form of the theme’s melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements.
ANSWER: Enigma Variations
[10] The Enigma Variations, as well as Pomp and Circumstance Marches, are both works of this English composer.
ANSWER: Edward Elgar
[10] This Elgar choral work, set to text from a Cardinal Newman poem, describes the titular man’s soul’s journey from
death to Purgatory.
ANSWER: The Dream of Gerontius
8. It criticizes the assumption that trends chartered as part of the titular practice can qualify as laws, and posits piecemeal
social engineering as an alternative. FTPE:
[10] Identify this text that attacks anti-naturalistic and pro-naturalistic views of the titular practice, which spent twenty years
as a private paper before being published prior to its author's Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific
Knowledge.
ANSWER: The Poverty of Historicism
[10] Part two of this book is dubbed "The High Tide of Prophecy," and analyzes rational social engineering. It also
advocates policies that minimize suffering rather than those that maximize happiness, attacking the “Spell of Plato.”
ANSWER: The Open Society and its Enemies
[10] This author of The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies also wrote The Logic of Scientific
Discovery, and was once threatened with a fireplace poker by Wittgenstein.
ANSWER: Karl Popper
9. Name some linear data structures, FTPE.
[10] In simple terms, this is just any structure whose elements are accessed by indexing. Multi-dimensional ones use more
than one index, dynamic ones can be resized, and a fast, sparse version of their associative form is named “Judy.”
ANSWER: Arrays
[10] These data structures can store multiple components in each cell, and feature a pointer to the next cell, except in the
case of the last one, wherein the pointer is null.
ANSWER: unrolled linked list (prompt on partials)
[10] These structures work by taking a key and matching it with a certain value using their namesake function, used in
arrays to locate the bucket.
ANSWER: hash tables
10. Name some things about literature and angels, FTPE.
[10] Shigekuni Honda ages and perpetuates stereotypes by developing a creepy old guy obsession with teenager Toru
Yasunaga in this author's Decay of the Angel, the last work in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
ANSWER: Mishima Yukio (You can feel free to accept either name as its an occasionally mistranslated pseudonym) or
Kimitake Hiraoka
[10] This protagonist of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel nearly gets killed by a horse when he is two years old.
This son of the hard-drinking Oliver is teased at school when his mother refuses to cut his hair. Bummer.
ANSWER: Eugene Gant
[10] This author described a narrator who needs the "Angel of the Bridge" to cross the George Washington Bridge, but is
better known for a novel about Leander and his sons Moses and Coverly in The Wapshot Chronicle.
ANSWER: John Cheever (the novel is The Wapshot Chronicle)
11. It was precipitated by a succession dispute between Sutoku and Go-Shirakawa, the sons of the late Emperor Toba.
FTPE:
[10] Identify this civil upheaval in twelfth century Japan which precedented the Heiji War and marked the ascendancy of
samurai clans as the dominant faction in Japanese politics.
ANSWER: Hogen Rebellion or Hogen no Ran
[10] The Hogen Rebellion occurred during this period which followed the Nara and had earlier seen an illustrious and
cultured court centered around Kyoto. It also saw the Gosannen and Zenkunnen wars.
ANSWER: Heian Period
[10] During the Heian Period, this clan founded by Nakatomi rose above the Taira, Minamoto, and Tachibana, eventually
establishing a namesake Regency through figures like Michinaga which controlled most of Heian life. Their power was
mostly broken following the Hogen and Heiji disturbances.
ANSWER: Fujiwara Clan
12. They undertake the path of tariqa, which along with sharia, haqiqa, and marifa constitute the four stations this faith's
practitioners follow. FTPE:
[10] Identify this form of Islamic mysticism, whose branches include Shadhili and Darqawi and whose members have often
been referred to as dervishes.
ANSWER: Sufism
[10] Sufi religious law focuses on the achievement of ideal tawhid, linking its base concepts with this Islamic madhab or
school of jurisprudence, centered in North and West Africa. Along with the Hanafi, it is one of the oldest schools.
ANSWER: Maliki
[10] This scholar authored major works of Sufist thought such as The Alchemy of Happiness, The Jerusalem Tract, and The
Revival of Religious Sciences. He's better-known for drawing the ire of Averroes by writing The Incoherence of the
Philosophers.
ANSWER: Abū Hāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī
13. This effect occurs when an electrical field causes a spectral line to split, and its dynamic form is known as the AutlerTownes effect. FTPE,
[10] Identify this phenomenon named after a German physicist which can be used to measure the pressure of a star.
ANSWER: Stark Effect
[10] The magnetic analogue of the Stark Effect is this symmetric one, wherein instead of interacting with an electrical field,
the particle interacts with a magnetic field. It was discovered by Lorenz and its namesake German Nobel laureate.
ANSWER: Zeeman Effect
[10] This effect results when the magnetic field of the Zeeman effect is much larger, and thereby causes a different pattern
that can be interpreted via Stokes profiles.
ANSWER: Paschen-Bach Effect
14. Identify the following about Ancient Tunisia, for ten points each:
[10] This city in Tunisia functioned as the Roman Capital of the province of Africa after surrendering early in the Third
Punic War. It would later see the suicides of Cato the Younger after the remnants of the senatorial faction lost the Battle of
Thapsus, yielding victory to Caesar in the Roman Civil War.
ANSWER: Utica
[10] Tunisia was the site of this city, whose legend identifies its founder as Dido. It was famously controlled by the Mago
and Barca families, and waged some Punic wars against Rome under guys like Hannibal.
ANSWER: Carthage or Carthago
[10] This Carthaginian conflict saw Hanno the Great attack Mathos in an attempt to suppress the namesake peoples, who
had earlier negotiated with Gesco in the wake of the First Punic War. Figures like Autaritus and the aptly-named Spendius
ran amok through the Carthaginian countryside until Hamilcar took care of business.
ANSWER: Mercenary War or Libyan War or Truceless War
15. His wife was changed into a nut before Thiassi stole some apples from her. FTPE:
[10] Identify this husband if Idun, who wondered why Eric Bloodaxe had to die and had runes branded onto his tongue,
which later had shavings extracted.
ANSWER: Bragi
[10] The owner of the Hofvarpnir, Gna, is one of the attendants of this possible mother of Bragi, who is also served by
Fulla. In some account she sits at Hlidskjalf with her husband.
ANSWER: Frigg
[10] Frigg's husband is thus this chief of the Aesir, who rides around on Sleipnir and fathered Baldur but is fated to be eaten
by Fenrir at Ragnarok.
ANSWER: Odin or Wotan or Wodinaz
16. It was followed up by In the Mecca, a long poem in which a mother searches for a lost child. FTPE:
[10] Identify this collection which built on the author's earlier Bronzeville Boys and Girls, whose title poem tells of an “old
yellow pair” who are “mostly good,” although their “dinner is a casual affair.” It may be better-known for another work,
which discusses those who “sing sin” and “strike straight.”
ANSWER: The Bean Eaters
[10] The title figures of this poem from The Bean Eaters also “left school,” “jazz june,” and “die soon.” This poem reveals
little else about them, except that they are seven pool players at the Golden Shovel, as it is only eight lines long.
ANSWER: We Real Cool
[10] In Montgomery was the last work by this author of Annie Allen and Maud Martha, who wrote "We Real Cool” and was
the first African-American to win a Pulitzer.
ANSWER: Gwendolyn Brooks
17. Works in this artistic movement include a depiction of the workings of a white ship, Upper Deck by Charles Sheeler, and
a painting of a black car next to an orange gas pump, Stuart Davis's Garage No. 1. FTPE:
[10] Identify this artistic movement which also included Paul Strand and the painter of the not-at-all homoerotic Turkish
Bath with Self-Portrait.
ANSWER: Precisionism
[10] This aforementioned Turkish bath nudity enthusiast is probably the best-known figure of Precisionism, thanks in large
part to the William Carlos Williams-inspired I Saw the Figure Five in Gold.
ANSWER: Charles Demuth
[10] This wife of Alfred Steiglitz was associated in her early career with the Precisionist movement, but is better known for
her later works inspired by New Mexico, most of which show some combination of animal heads and flowers.
ANSWER: Georgia O'Keefe
18. This edict called for seven electors to choose the King of the Romans and was issued in 1356. FTPE:
[10] Name this decree issued by Charles the IV of the Holy Roman Empire which shafted the pope's power by not allowing
him to approve the election.
ANSWER: Golden Bull
[10] This electorate that was given power by the Golden Bull was ruled by the Wittelsbachs until Charles IV put forth
Wenceslaus under the throne. The outstandingly named Albert the Bear and Frederick the Iron Toothed also controlled this
entity, which later became a famous part of Prussia.
ANSWER: Brandenburg
[10] This last Emperor of the House of Luxembourg gave Brandenburg to the Hohenzollerns and called the Council of
Constance. He dedicated much of his life to fighting the Hussite Wars, but was prevented by the aristocracy from
participating in the Battle of Grunwald.
ANSWER: Sigismund
19. The protagonist of this work is a bear that likes to dance, make some speeches with Marxist rhetoric, and lead revolts
against humans. FTPE:
[10] Identify this mock-heroic epic by the author of Germany: A Winter's Tale, whose final lines refer to itself as the final
"Woods-song of Romanticism."
ANSWER: Atta Troll
[10] This German poet, a continuous sources of inspiration for composers, wrote Atta Troll. He also wrote of the titular
river-dwelling mermaid in Die Lorelei.
ANSWER: Heinrich Heine
[10] Heine's poetic work Der Doktor Faust is actually quoted by Serenus Zeitblom, who relates the story of Adrian
Leverkuhn in this author's Doktor Faustus. This Nobel Laureate also wrote Buddenbrooks and Death and Venice.
ANSWER: Thomas Mann
20. He directed a film about Michelluzzi brothers capturing the moon with farming equipment in The Voice of the Moon.
FTPE:
[10] Name this film director who portrayed the swindler Augusto in Il Bidone and described moving from Remini to Rome
in his Roma, as well as directing the masterpiece La Dolce Vita.
ANSWER: Federico Fellini
[10] The director Guido cannot seem to find solitude or new material in this Fellini film, until flashbacks and dream like
sequences merged with reality reveal it to him.
ANSWER: 8 and a half
[10] This film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on Fellini's experiences in Remini. It depicts
Volpina the prostitute and other members of the Biondi family.
ANSWER: Amarcord
21. Protists! FTPE:
[10] These ciliophorans attach themselves with their base and have a bell like shape emerging from their stalk. They are
composed of myoneme.
ANSWER: vorticella
[10] This apicomplexan begins its most famous action by attacking hepatocytes in the liver, and is famously carried by the
culex and aedes genuses of a certain organism. It includes the vivax and falciparum species.
ANSWER: Plasmodium
[10] Plasmodium is best-known as the causative agent of this disease, which causes tons of problems for people in tropical
countries. Sickle Cell Anemia provides resistance for the effects of this disease.
ANSWER: Malaria