Sun ‘n’ Fun XI: Ars Longa, Tossups Brevis
Packet by Ahmad Ragab (Editors 3)
Tossups
1. In this battle’s run-up, the eventual loser attempted to anticipate the opposition’s advance to the capitol but they were beaten by an all-night march through a shortcut near Tunja. General Anzoátegui’s move to split the
Spanish rearguard and vanguard near Casa de Piedra proved decisive during this conflict. Along with General
Santander, and arriving from Papia after a narrow victory at the Battle of Vargas Swamp, Bolivar was able to flank General Barerio’s rearguard. After the Spanish forces fled, Coronel Juan Taira was left alone on a bridge, which now commemorates the victory. Beginning a series of victories for the Independentist armies culminating in
Ayacucho, for 10 points, name this August 1819 battle fought in what was then New Grenada near Bogota,
Columbia.
ANSWER: Battle of Boyaca
2. It is possible that it was painted as a sign for a café operated by Belloni. A statue with very narrow eyes and large ears stands concealed by trees on the right side of this painting. Just beside that statue is a man in a white flame-like pointed hat and a man with noticeable red clothing that surround a woman wearing white. Those
characters in this painting used as a signboard for the Théâtre de la Foire are known as Léandre, Isabel, and the
Captain. The Doctor sits low to the left of the titular figure who stands predominantly in the foreground of this painting. His large white shoes have pink laces and he is dressed in all white, baggy clothing. A portrait of a Pierrot during intermission, for 10 points, identify this work about the titular clown painted by Jean-Antoine Watteau.
ANSWER: Gilles [accept Pierrot before mentioned; do not accept “Gilles and his family”]
3. This type of surface has a finite number of triangles in its triangulation, examples of which include a torus. A
Hausdorff space is termed “para” this when each open cover possesses a finite open refinement. On a continuous set of functions, this property is possessed by a subset which is uniformly closed, equicontinuous,
and pointwise bounded as a result of the Arzela-Ascoli Theorem. Further, it is possessed by any set for which there exists a finite subcover for every open cover or, in the real number case, when every sequence has a convergent subsequence according to the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem. For 10 points, name this property which, according to the Heine-Borel theorem, is possesses by any nice set that is closed and bounded.
ANSWER: compact [accept word forms]
4. In Joan Didion’s The White Album, her essay “In the Islands” relates the unavailability of this work at a local bookstore to the central character’s existential situation. This book takes its title from Rudyard Kipling’s poem
“Gentleman Rankers.” At the Hickam Field Stockade, Angelo Maggio is beaten, and the main character kills the
sadistic “Fatso” Judson with a knife. Earlier in this work, Captain Holmes is upset that the main character refuses to join the boxing squad, and most of the events in this novel take place shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The first novel in a loosely connected trilogy ending with the posthumously published Whistle and including The
Thin Red Line, for 10 points, name this 1952 American novel by James Ramon Jones, also turned into a 1953 Award winning film starring Montgomery Clift as Private Prewitt.
ANSWER: From Here to Eternity
5. Hiwen Thsang in the 5 th century found an abandoned city near this city’s location, which was then called
Kusumapura. Diodoros claims that this city was founded by a Herakles-like figure, Bala-Rama, a brother of
Krishna, though native sources attribute its founding to Raja Udayaswa or Ajata Satru. Pliny mentions that it
may have been sacked by the Graeco-Bactrians, but this is disputed. During the Mahajanapada period, it was the capital of the Magadha kingdom. It was strategically placed on the south bank of the Ganges River, so the later
Indian empires that used it as a capital and cultural center were able to effectively administer northern India. This was particularly useful for the Nanda, Mauryan and Gupta dynasties, which all used it as a capital. For 10 points, identify this Indian city, currently the capital of the state of Bihar.
ANSWER: Pataliputra or Patna

6. One movement in this work is in E flat and is compiled of folk overtones. Another movement in this composition is in C minor and is about a girl trying to find her missing lover. A third movement represents a victory in battle and opens in B flat. This work also sees the eyelids of the dead being kissed, and its third and
fifth movements are in Latin. The longest movement in this work starts peacefully but ends in an awful sound to represent a certain battle fought on Lake Pepius. Containing movements such as “The Field of the Dead, for 10 points, name this cantata containing “The Battle of the Ice,” about the Teutonic Knights and the title character, written by Sergei Prokofiev.
ANSWER: Alexander Nevsky cantata [accept Op. 78 or Sergei Prokofiev’s Op. 78 before Sergei Prokofiev is said]
7. The daughter of this god was to be married off by her brother to a foreign king, Mallolwch. However, the brother had to intervene when one of the sons of this deity's wife by Euroswydd, named Evnissyen, severely
injured Mallolwch's horses. This god's epithet meant "half-tongue" or "foreign accent," Llediaith. This god's brood was a foil to the Children of Don, a rival deity who represented light. The husband to Penarddun and the father of Manawydan, Bran, and Branwen, for 10 points, name this Celtic deity of the sea and darkness and whose mythology is probably not related to a mythical king of the Britons, with three daughters.
ANSWER: Llyr [Note: King Lear of Shakespeare fame is derived from Leir of Britian, whose name is apparently not etymologically related to this deity]
8. In Drosophila, one molecular basis for this characteristic is the production of Sxl protein, which allows for production of the Tra molecule that blocks an intron in the DSX gene, yielding a truncated Dsx protein. In cucumbers, one can make this determination by the presence of higher levels of ethylene promoted by the F/f
gene. In humans, those with this characteristic produce a large silencing Xist RNA early in development to carry out the lyonization process. That process serves to inactivate about 85% of a certain chromosome in individuals with this determination, whose phenotypic qualities are seen in individuals with Klinefelter’s syndrome. For 10 points, name this characteristic possessed by humans with two X chromosomes.
ANSWER: femaleness [prompt on “sex determination”, “gender determination”, or the like accept things that suggest that thing we are talking about is female]
9. This author attempted a definition of “genius” in his essay about street performers, “The Indian Jugglers.” His work subtitled “The New Pygmalion,” a thinly veiled description of his attempts to seduce Sarah Walker, provoked much outrage. That book, Liber Amoris, preceded another scandalous work, an essay in first person
depicting this author’s visit to an illegal bare-knuckles boxing match titled “The Fight.” That essay was collected with other pieces, including the essay in which he describes reading Lyrical Ballads in manuscript, “My First
Acquaintance with the Poets,” and his “On the Pleasure of Hating,” in the collection Table Talk. Known for his personal and casual style, in contrast to his friend Charles Lamb, for 10 points who was this Romantic-era author of
The Spirit of the Age?
ANSWER: William Hazlitt
10. A speech given by Omer Talon presaged the first phase of this event. The title of a tract by Pierre Scarron attacking the title figure lends its name to the torrent of abusive publications accompanying this event, sometimes considered the first mass use of the printing press for propaganda. The agreement to nullify the
king’s letters of cachet as well as the July and October declarations of parliament ended the first phase in the
Peace of Rueil. That first phase began in earnest with the arrest of Pierre Broussel for leading anti-tax legislation, leading to the second Day of the Barricades in Paris. Followed by a second phase involving intrigues against the regency of the young king, for 10 points what is this uprising against the policies of Cardinal Mazarin from 1648-
53?
ANSWER: Fronde
11. One of this author’s poems notes, “Necessity makes people err, And hunger drives the wolf from the woods.” Two lines from one of this man’s poems were adapted in a Berthold Brecht poem set to music by Hans
Eisler and Kurt Weil for the work, The Roundheads and the Pointedheads. In that poem, “Nannas Lied” Brecht
kept this author’s interrogative but changed the time frame. The lines by this author written while he awaited his execution, “Brothers, men who live after us, Let not your hearts be hardened against us,” are used to open Truman

Capote’s In Cold Blood. Author of “Ballad of the Hanged Men,” for 10 points, name this medieval French poet who wonders, “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” in “Ballad of the Dead Ladies,” and wrote The Great Testament.
ANSWER: François Villon
12. The cinnamyl-specific variety of this enzyme catalyzes the final step in the synthesis of lignin monomers.
First isolated in yeast and later horse liver, this enzyme has an active site containing His-51 and Ser-48 residues that participate in key deprotonation steps. The active site is similar to carbonic anhydrase in that four cysteines
form a tetrahedron around a zinc atom that coordinates to this enzyme’s main substrate. It functions by transferring protons from that namesake substrate to NAD + or NADP + to generate an alkoxide, which then yields a carbonyl product. For 10 points, name this enzyme responsible for oxidizing alcohols to aldehydes and ketones, thereby serving a role in ethanol metabolism in those who drink the hooch and an oft cited cause of hangovers.
ANSWER: alcohol dehydrogenase [prompt on “ADH”]
13. The author of this work is sensitive to a piece of terminology that invites the spurious problem of
“transworld identification,” and thus to avoid Weltangst the author suggests one can replace “possible worlds” with modal talk. This work uses the phrase “The table is made of wood” and the statement of Goldbach’s
conjecture as examples of non-contingent a posteriori statements to clear up a confusion between a priori vs. necessary statements. Fundamentally, this works draws an explicit distinction between “giving the meaning” and
“fixing the referent,” which is essentially a critique of Frege’s use of sense, in order to establish a theory of nonrigid and rigid designators. For 10 points, name this work, originally a set of three lectures, which attempts to rehabilitate a Millian theory of names by Saul Kripke.
ANSWER: Naming and Necessity
14. In anticipation of this man’s advancement, Col. John Coming Ball dispatched a sentinel, who heard this leader’s horses crossing the Willtown Bridge. This leader nevertheless ordered Maj. Hugh Horrey to attack the
Tory flank, while this figure headed east of Dollard’s Tavern, during the Battle of Mingo Creek. This man’s
nemesis conducted the Waxhaw Massacre, helped General Cornwalis to victory at Camden, and attempted to set a trap for this leader at Jack’s Ferry. After this man’s heroics at Parker's Ferry in August, 1781, this figure was appointed brigadier general, and after the war served in the South Carolina senate. For 10 points, name this
Revolutionary War hero, who earned his evasive nickname from Banastre Tarleton, the "Swamp Fox."
ANSWER: Francis Marion [prompt on “Swamp Fox” before mentioned]
15. In one section of this novel, “His Life until the Age of 12” relates the wrongful arrest of his father for the theft of Murray’s heifer and an odd accusation of tranvestism made against the central character. Though fictional, the author of this work attempted to mimic the writing style of its central character as evinced by
Jerilderie Letter, and thus outside the frame narrative “S.C,” the novel proper contains no commas. Consisting of
13 sections, each ostensibly written by the central character, after that character and his love Mary Hearn rob two banks successfully, she emigrates to San Francisco, while he and the title group are betrayed by Thomas Curnow and are cornered in Glenrowan located in Victoria. For 10 points, name this Booker-prize winning historical novel about an Australian bushranger and outlaw, written by Peter Carey.
ANSWER: True History of the Kelly Gang [accept any leading article like “A” or “The]
16. The prelude to this battle saw an aiding army make significant progress, outmaneuvering Publius Scipio in
Hispania, and arriving in Gaul later that year. Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius were sent to engage the armies later that spring. Initially cautious, the interception and foiling of the plot to merge the armies together set the
stage for the main conflict. Realizing that the two consuls had merged themselves, Hasdrubal had prepared to retreat, yet his guides betrayed him and he was left to search futilely along the banks of the namesake river for an exit. Forced to face the consuls in battle, Hasdrubal held ground until Marcus Livius crashed and broke the Iberian flank. For 10 points, name this 207 BC battle a decisive Roman victory in the Second Punic War, in which Hasdrubal
Barca met his inglorious and headless end.
ANSWER: Battle of the Metaurus River

17. In one of these paintings, an open book can be seen on top of a fallen chair, and a dog puts his front legs on a foot stool. Another of these paintings shows playing cards by a man’s feet, and a man on the left is playing the flute. A third painting shows a man staring out a window watching children run around, while at the bottom left, two dogs are linked together by the same collar. The last painting shows a starving dog trying to eat, while a woman is holding a child who is kissing the title figure. The first painting shows many portraits on the wall and shows a man with a bandaged foot. Containing paintings like The Marriage Settlement and The Lady’s Death, for 10 points, name this series by William Hogarth.
ANSWER: Marriage à-la-mode
18. This author’s latest work examines such sermons as John Cotton’s “God’s Promise to his Plantation” as well as John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity” to seek out the source of American exceptionalism. On the
Board of Directors for 826NYC, this author, in addition to writing The Wordy Shipmates, describes an obsession
with Frank Sinatra’s death in “Ixnay on My Way,” found in this author’s essay collection, Take the Cannoli. An entire 1998 episode of This American Life follows this journalist and her twin sister’s journey along the Trail of
Tears. The twin sister of Amy, in one work, she describes her ambivalent relationship to American history and citizenship in The Partly-Cloudy Patriot. One of the original contributors to McSweeny’s, for 10 points, name this social observer and author of Assassination Vacation.
ANSWER: Sarah Vowell
19. In 1980, Steiner et al showed that E. coli mutants could convert this compound into quinolinic acid, a precursor to NAD. Biosynthesis of pyrimidines begins with carbamoylation of this amino acid, two molecules of which are contained in the catalytic site of pepsin. Interconversion between it and oxaloacetate provides the antiporter activity necessary for malate transport into mitochondrial matrix. The fibronectin motif for integrin
binding consists of arginine, glycine, and this amino acid, whose side chain with pKa 3.9 makes it useful in the catalytic triad of proteases along with serine and histidine. Its N-methyl D version stimulates namesake receptors implicated in epilepsy. Possessing one less carbon than the similarly structured glutamate, for 10 points, name this amino acid symbolized D or Asp.
ANSWER: aspartate or aspartic acid [accept D or Asp before mentioned]
20. After obtaining his first major commission, this architect brought along Rafael Guastavino, who introduced the “Catalan vault” to American architecture. After building the Beaux-Arts inspired, Minnesota State Capitol, this architect aesthetically broke with his influences to construct the red brick, Italian Gothic Realty Company
Warehouse. He utilized the Spanish Renaissance style for Battle and Sutton Halls on UT-Austin’s campus. Much of his lasting contribution can be seen in such works as the West Street and New York Life Buildings, where he used neo-gothic ornamentation to stylize a rectilinear skyline. For 10 points, name this turn of the 20 th century American architect and pioneer of the skyscraper, designer of the U.S Supreme Court and Woolworth buildings.
ANSWER: Cass Gilbert
Bonus
1. Its associated flux is equal to volumetric flow per unit area, for 10 points:
[10]Name this foundational equation of hydrogeology that is the generalized relationship for flow in porous media, and has been shown to hold for any Newtonian fluid.
ANSWER: Darcy’s Law
[10]While Darcy’s Law generally holds for viscous flow, tests have shown that for flow regimes with this value of up to 10 may still be Darcian. This dimensionless parameter is equal to the density of the fluid times specific discharge times the representative grain diameter divided by the dynamic viscosity of the fluid.
ANSWER: Reynolds Number
[10]Along with the Reynolds number, this number is also useful in determining whether types of flow are specifically Darcian, this ratio equals the pressure drop caused by liquid-solid interactions divided by viscous resistance. Non-Darcian effects occur at about .11 for this number.
ANSWER: Forcheimer number
2. The Inverted Spectrum argument deals with these philosophical entities, for 10 points:

[10]Give this term which marks the phenomenal character of an experience of things like a specific color, and are sometimes argued to be co-eval with sense-data.
ANSWER: qualia or quale
[10]This thought experiment first described in Frank Jackson’s article “Epiphenomenal Qualia,” describes the namesake super-scientist’s first encounter with ripe tomatoes, skies and other things that have color after previously investigating the world in a black-and-white environment.
ANSWER: Mary’s Room
[10]This author of Consciousness Explained and Breaking the Spell suggests a trivial negative result to the Mary’s
Room thought experiment, since there would be no way to describe what would count as comprehensive knowledge of color and thus no way to determine if Mary learns anything upon being released from her room.
ANSWER: Daniel Dennett
3. Written by Jello Biafra and John Greenway, this song was the first single off the album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting
Vegetables, for 10 points:
[10]Name this song which excoriates the then governor Jerry Brown of the titular state, “Carter Power will soon go away/I will be Fuhrer one day/I will command all of you/Your kids will meditate in school.”
ANSWER: "California uber Alles"
[10]This San Francisco punk band of the 70’s and 80’s, known for such songs as ”Holiday in Cambodia,” “Kill the
Poor,” and “Nazi Punks Fuck Off,” also sang “California Uber Alles.”
ANSWER: The Dead Kennedys
[10]The Dead Kennedys engendered serious controversy and were embroiled in an obscenity trial when they inserted a poster of H.R. Giger’s Penis Landscape, as a part of this 1985 album release. Songs on this album include
“Goons of Hazard,” “MTV-Get off the Air,” and “The Stars and Stripes of Corruption.”
ANSWER: Frankenchrist
4. American Poets and Ludwig Van, together again. Name these authors who waxed poetic about Beethoven, for
10 points each:
[10]This 19 th -century Georgia-born poet wrote the lines: “Thy music sets my world at ease/And melts my passion's mortal cry/In satisfying symphonies,” in the poem “To Beethoven.” He used the rare logaoedic dactylic meter in such poems as “A Ballad of the Trees and the Master…,” “Sunrise,” and “The Marshes of Glynn.”
ANSWER: Sidney Lanier
[10]This currently living African-American poet imagines the composer’s contemplation of his deafness in “Ludwig
Von Beethoven’s Return to Vienna,” which appears in her collection Sonata Mulatica. This former poet Laureate’s other works include the collection, Thomas and Belulah, for which she won the 1987 Pulitzer.
ANSWER: Rita Dove
[10]”A man in terror of impotence or infertility not knowing the difference,” begins this poet’s “The Ninth
Symphony of Beethoven Understood At Last As a Sexual Message,” she may be better known for “Diving Into the
Wreck.”
ANSWER: Adrienne Rich
5. Answer the following about pieces of music inspired by Spain for 10 points each.
[10] This Russian composer’s Spanish-themed pieces include Jota Aragonesa and Summer Night in Madrid. He also composed A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Ludmilla.
ANSWER: Mikhail Glinka
[10] This Ravel piece includes a fandango and an habanera; he later wrote an opera with a similar theme.
ANSWER: Rapsodie Espagnole
[10] This student of Isaac Albeniz’ works include Sonata Espanola and La procesion del rocio.
ANSWER: Joaquin Turina
6. For 10 points each, identify the following about the Minnesota Twins.
[10] The Twins recently signed this starting catcher and 2009 AL MVP to an 8-year, $184 million contract extension.
ANSWER: Joe Mauer

[10] This Twins closer will miss the entire 2010 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in the offseason. Jon
Rauch replaced him in the closer’s role.
ANSWER: Joe Nathan
[10] The Twins traded for Washington Nationals closer Matt Capps, giving up this top catching prospect whose future in Minnesota was questioned due to the presence of Joe Mauer.
ANSWER: Wilson Ramos
7. It is often described as the “guardian of the genome,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this tumor suppressor protein whose gene is located on chromosome 17 and abnormal forms of which are implicated in about half of all cancers.
ANSWER: p53
[10]The ubiquitination target of this regulator is p53. It represses its transcriptional activity by binding to the Nterminal activation domain of p53, and can tag it for degradation by a proteasome. This also acts an E3 ubiquitin ligase.
ANSWER: Mdm2
[10]This region of p53 allows it to form tetrameters with itself, making it more effective; however, when this region is mutated in p53 it does not produce any significant effect on the transcriptional activity of p53
ANSWER: c-terminal [accept carboxyl-terminus or COOH-terminus]
8. With Festinger and Riecken, he co-authored the influential When Prophecy Fails, for 10 points:
[10]Name this Yale educated psychologist who also did important work in the nature and cause of overeating and
Obesity.
ANSWER: Stanley Schachter
[10]Stanley Schachter along with Jerome Singer performed a study in which they injected college students with epinephrine, and developed this theory of emotion that suggests that “cognitions are used to interpret the meaning of physiological reactions to outside events.”
ANSWER: two factor theory of emotion
[10]Schachter did research with this German psychologist at the MIT Center for Group Dynamics. This psychologist’s eponymous equation holds that behavior is a function of the person and environment.
ANSWER: Kurt Lewin
9. Some of its founders include John Trimble and William Saunders, for 10 points:
[10]Name this oldest agricultural organization, the P and H in their logo refers to their roots in a fraternal order.
ANSWER: The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
[10]The “Father” of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry was this Massachusetts-born Minnesota farmer and employee of the US Department of Agriculture.
ANSWER: Oliver Hudson Kelley
[10]The majority opinion in the Grange case, Munn vs. Illinois, was given by this Chief Justice, who presided over the court from 1874 to 1888. He noted that when private property or business was “affected with a public interest” it was subject to governmental regulation. He also presided over the important Cruikshank case.
ANSWER: Morrison Remick Waite
10. Requirements including intended means, proportionality, and cause are examined in this sub-branch of philosophical and political thought. For 10 points each:
[10] What name is given to the examination of the bases for righteous military action, first discussed by the likes of
Cicero and St. Augustine?
ANSWER: just war theory
[10] This Dutch theorist’s contribution to just war theory was 1625’s “On the Law of War and Peace,” which argued that just cause included self-defense, restitution, and positive retribution.
ANSWER: Hugo Grotius or Hugo de Groot
[10] This leading contemporary American just war theorist and author of Just and Unjust Wars recently reiterated his opposition to absolutism, arguing that in cases of “supreme emergency” no action could be said to never be morally permissible.

ANSWER: Michael Walzer
11. Name these Silver Age writers of Ancient Rome, for 10 points each:
[10]Possibly two different women writers or perhaps a pseudonym, six poems attributed via the Corpus
Tibullianum to this figure, nominally the niece of Valerius Messalla Corvinus, include one which begins, “Birthday's here and I hate it--of all the days to be spent in gloom.”
ANSWER: Sulpicia
[10]This Roman courtier during the reign of Nero is best known for a Menippean Satire about some dude named
Encolpius, who has got a boy lover named Giton, gets invited to Trimalchio’s ball and then wants to chop off his organ for its failure to perform but then prays to Priapus for a solution.
ANSWER: Gaius Petronius Arbiter
[10]This Roman rhetorician outlines a practical guide to rhetoric and his tripartite theory of development of the rhetorical voice involving theoretical, the educational, and the practical in his twelve-volume Institutio Oratoria
ANSWER: Quintilian [accept Quintillianus or Quinctilian]
12. His namesake eta function is defined on the upper half-plane of the complex numbers, for 10 points:
[10]Name this German mathematician, who attempted to lay out some set-theoretic assumptions for number theory in his paper “What are the numbers and what are they for?” A set of axioms for the natural numbers are often named after this figure and Peano.
ANSWER: Richard Dedekind
[10]Dedekind sums are sums of products for these piecewise linear functions which model non-sinusoidal waveforms.
ANSWER: sawtooth functions
[10]First explored in his Lectures on Number Theory, this concept is a useful way to define finite subsets of particular sets which reveal particular characteristics of the set in general. More formally, the subset of a commutative ring with unit is said to be this, if it is closed under addition and multiplication by the other elements in the ring.
ANSWER: ideals
13. Its author proposes a parallelism to the abortion controversy suggesting one who advocates for decreased legal restrictions on the procedure is not pro-abortion in the sense that one thinks “it’s a wonderful thing,” for 10 points:
[10] Name this article first delivered as lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, whose author sets out to
“destroy a fear,” from the title concept, which is assumed to be the source of nihilism, incoherence, ethical idiocy and subjectivism.
ANSWER: “Anti Anti-Relativism”
[10]”Anti Anti-Relativism,” was written by this cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures and some notes on a Balinese Cockfight.
ANSWER: Clifford Geertz
[10]This collection essays by Geertz, subtitled “Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics,” includes the aforementioned “Anti Anti-Relativism” as well as chapters on Charles Taylor, the philosopher, and Thomas Kuhn.
ANSWER: Available Light
14. This American short-story writer’s collections include At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom and Reasons to Live, for 10 points:
[10]Name this currently living female journalist and short-story writer whose minimalist style is exemplified in stories like, “Harvest.”
ANSWER: Amy Hempel
[10]Amy Hempel cites Mary Robinson and this writer as explicit influences on her work, this minimalist and dirty realist American author’s short-story collections include: Cathedral, Elephant, and What We Talk About When We
Talk About Love.
ANSWER: Raymond Carver
[10]One of Amy Hempel’s most anthologized short-stories ostensibly describes the cemetery where this

Lithuanian-American Jewish singer is buried, he is perhaps best remembered for his leading role in the talkie The
Jazz Singer.
ANSWER: Al Jolson
15. This structure has a rise per residue of 1.5 angstroms and becomes extremely destabilized with the presence of multiple proline residues. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this coiled secondary structure of amino acids.
ANSWER: alpha helix
[10] Alpha helices cannot incorporate multiple prolines because that would severely reduce the possible combinations of these two dihedral angles, which measure the degrees of rotation about a peptide bond.
ANSWER: phi and psi angles [accept either order]
[10] This technique utilizing differential absorption by circularly polarized light is often used to measure the alpha helical nature of a compound. Alpha helices exhibit strong negative ellipticities at 222nm in this technique.
ANSWER: circular dichroism spectroscopy
16. This poem’s conclusion notes that, “They were, those people, a kind of solution,” for 10 points:
[10]Name this poem, which initially wonders why people are gathered in the forum and realizes once the title group arrives, “they’ll do the legislating.”
ANSWER: “Waiting for the Barbarians”
[10]This Greek poet of Ithaka, divided his poetry to Historical, Sensual and Philosophical categories, and was the author of “Waiting for the Barbarians.”
ANSWER: Constantin P. Cavafy
[10]In this poem by Constantin Cavafy, which became the basis for the song “Alexandra Leaving” by Leonard
Cohen, the speaker advises the titular character that, “the plans of your life/that have all turned out to be illusions, do not mourn in vain…bid her farewell, the Alexandria that is leaving.”
ANSWER: “The God Abandons Anthony”
17. According to Wikipedia, the second of these conflicts was short and not so bitter, for 10 points:
[10]Name this set of conflicts the first of which began in 595 BC and resulted in the destruction of Kirrha, and the second of which was a minor tiff between Athens and Sparta over the Oracle at Delphi.
ANSWER: Sacred Wars
[10]This League during the Third Sacred War, which consisted of Thebes, Boetia, Thessaly, and Lorcis were set up to protect the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and required to act when the Phocians seized the land surrounding the temple.
ANSWER: Great or Delphic Amphicytonic League [Note: While there are other Amphicytonic Leagues, when mentioned they usually mean this one]
[10]This brother of Philomenus, a general of the Phocians, took over after Philomenus’ defeat. He was crushed by
Phillip II of Macedon at the Battle of Crocus Field.
ANSWER: Onomarchus
18. It is divided into 72 sections known as the Ha-iti or Ha, for 10 points:
[10]Name this primary liturgical collection found in the Avestas, which is recited as a part of the daily worship ceremonies, central portion of which is known as the Gathas.
ANSWER: Yasnas
[10]The Yasna is recited during this culminating central ritual of Zoroastrianism, in which a libation is made to water, the atas type of the ritual is made with fire.
ANSWER: Ab-Zohr
[10]This section of the Avesta which follows the Yasna, and precedes the Yashts, consists of a series of 22 fargards, which are arranged as discussions between Ahura Mazda and Zoroaster; it represents a moral code rather than a liturgical one. It also includes an enumeration of demons and ways to defeat, confuse, and avoid them.
ANSWER: Vendidad
19. A half-size replica of this statue stands in the garden of noted Valencia CC booster, Lois McNamara, for 10

points:
[10]Name this statue one of which famously appears in a Savannah cemetery that features a figure holding a shallow bowl in each hand with her head slightly tilted to one side.
ANSWER: Savannah Bird Girl Statue
[10]The Bird Girl Statue was made by this Quaker sculptor, author of the The Quiet Eye, and she won the Logan
Prize for her Little Gardener.
ANSWER: Slyvia Shaw Judson
[10]Slyvia Judson’s Bird Girl achieved prominence when it appeared on the cover of this John Berendt novel, which was turned into a movie starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusak about a murder in Savannah.
ANSWER: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
20. MMP-7 derived from these cells has been shown to contribute to the remodeling seen in some tumor microenvironments, leading to osteolysis. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of cell responsible for breaking down bone matrix.
ANSWER: osteoclasts
[10] Digestion of underlying bone leads to the formation of these cavities which are lined by osteoclasts.
ANSWER: Howship's lacunae
[10] Cathepsin, a cysteine protease found in osteoclasts, breaks down elastin, gelatin, and this triple helical protein found in bone matrix and connective tissue.
ANSWER: collagen