Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament 2010 / ABC Spring 2010
Written by: Georgetown Day School, Brown University, and Vanderbilt University
Edited by: Matt Jackson, with assistance from Ian Eppler and Daichi Ueda
Packet 7
Tossups
1. This author discussed the dirtiness of snow in one column of his series for the Tribune, entitled “As I
Please.” This man also wrote a two-part work split between a sociological study of Northern England and an
autobiography, called The Road to Wigan Pier. A later book opens with U Po Kyin’s plot to taint the standing
of Dr. [*] Veraswami, and is called Burmese Days. He detailed his time in the Spanish Civil War in Homage to
Catalonia, and his most famous work involves a protagonist who works at Minitru, Winston Smith. For 10 points,
name this British author of Animal Farm, who described Big Brother in his 1984.
ANSWER: George Orwell [accept Eric Blair] [JaC]
2. One character in this film says “I wish they were rabbits” as another character personifies two dollar bills
as “Mama” and “Papa”. It’s not Sesame Street, but two characters in this film are named Ernie and Bert, and
in an early scene, a gymnasium floor retracts to reveal a pool. [*] The protagonist saves his brother, Harry, from
a sled accident, and later sees a vision of Harry’s grave and a row of conformist houses financed by Mr. Potter. For
10 points, name this 1946 film where the angel Clarence convinces George Bailey that his existence has been
beneficial, which is notable for being broadcast every Christmas.
ANSWER: It’s a Wonderful Life [MJ]
3. This author’s first novella, “Fast and Loose,” is often published with this author’s unfinished novel about
Nan and Virginia St. George, The Buccaneers. In one of her novels, Ralph Marvel kills himself after being
blackmailed by his Midwestern wife Undine Spragg, and in another, [*]Countess Ellen Olenska is the secret
love of Newland Archer, who marries May Welland. In addition to The Custom of the Country and The Age of
Innocence, in another of her novels, Mattie Silvers and the title man from Starkfield attempt suicide by crashing a
bobsled into an elm tree. For 10 points, name this author of Ethan Frome.
ANSWER: Edith Wharton [DB-N]
4. One of these from Magyar myth received sacrifices of white stallions; in addition to Hadúr, another of
these had jumping priests known as Salii, and in Irish mythology, a tripartite crow flying above this is known
as the Morrígan. It's not the sun, but the [*] Aztec one of these was fathered by a ball of feathers and was
notably left-handed. The Egyptian one, Sekhmet, is depicted as a lioness, and in Greek mythology, the god of this
type was imprisoned for a year in a bronze urn, and had the children Phobos and Deimos. For 10 points, name this
type of deity, examples of which include Huitzilopochtli and Ares.
ANSWER: god[s] of war [accept logical equivalents; accept forge gods or other equivalents before the words
“jumping priests” are read, since Hadúr is also a forge god, but not after] [JoC]
5. One step in a synthesis of this class of compounds involves the creation of indolepyruvic acid from
tryptophan, and this class of compounds is transported in the parenchyma tissue. They play a key role in the
acid growth hypothesis by activating [*] proton pumps. This class of compounds, discovered by Fritz Went, is
often synthesized in the apical meristem, and they are responsible for differentiation of xylem and phloem and
delays in the ripening of fruit. For 10 points, identify this class of plant hormones, responsible for stimulating stem
elongation.
ANSWER: auxins [prompt "plant hormones" before read] [IE]
6. This nation once contained a black secret society called the Abakuá. Indigenous people from this nation
included the Ciboneys, and this nation sent troops to support the MPLA during the Angolan Civil War. A
document [*] detailing attempts on this island which vilified Franklin Pierce’s administration was called the Ostend
Manifesto, and the the Rough Riders fought here after the USS Maine exploded. For 10 points, name this island
nation whose current government withstood the Bay of Pigs invasion after a 1959 revolution by Raúl and Fidel
Castro.
ANSWER: Cuba [MJ]
7. Mathematical models for this phenomenon use the Fokker-Planck equation or the Langevin equation. Jean
Perrin used it to obtain Avogadro’s number, and Richard Feynman described a “ratchet” that uses it. This
phenomenon is the physical version of the Weiner process, and is also [*] a stochastic process. The kinetic
theory of gases was used in Einstein’s 1905 explanation of it, and its namesake, a Scottish botanist, observed it in
pollen grains in water. For 10 points, name this seemingly random motion of particles suspended in a fluid.
ANSWER: Brownian motion [MJ]
8. In this painting, two silhouettes stand in a vestibule at center-right behind the central action, and three
rows of occupied seats are barely visible in the background. A table in the bottom-left holds a rag and several
metal items, and the podium [*] on the left holds papers on which the clerk is taking notes. The lone woman in this
picture covers her eyes with her left arm in horror as the central gray-haired figure holds his glasses and looks away.
For 10 points, name this 1875 painting depicting four men performing femur surgery at Jefferson Medical College,
by Thomas Eakins.
ANSWER: The Gross Clinic [MJ]
9. This man tracked his country’s populace by establishing the first Parish registrations. The Truce of
Altmark ended this ruler’s war with Poland, and gave his country Livonia; that war was against the king his
father deposed, King Sigismund III. This ruler’s [*] chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna, continued to fight the war in
which this ruler died while fighting Wallenstein at the Battle of Lützen. In that same war, this king had defeated
Catholic forces under Tilly at the Battle of Breitenfield. For 10 points, name this Swedish king, who aided the
Protestants in the Thirty Years’ War.
ANSWER: Gustavus II Adolphus [do not accept “Gustav[us] I”] [JaC]
10. On of his discoveries states that if atmospheric carbonic acid increases geomtrically, then the temperature
will increase at a nearly arithmetic rate. In addition to his Greenhouse Law, he is the namesake of an
equation that can be graphed yielding a straight line for 1 over Time versus the natural log of [*] a constant k;
it includes a pre-exponential factor and relates that constant k, the rate constant of a reaction, to temperature and
activation energy. For 10 points, name this chemist who has a namesake acid-base theory and hails from Sweden.
ANSWER: Svante Arrhenius [OH]
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11. Before 1869, it was named Yezo, and William Clark led a 19th-century Christian movement in this
location. Mount Meakan is a volcano in this island's Akan National Park, and cities on this island include
Nemuro and [*] Hakodate. The Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater tunnel, connects this island to the
rest of its country. The Ainu is a major ethnic group on this island, with capital at Sapporo. For 10 points, name this
northernmost island of Japan.
ANSWER: Hokkaido [do not prompt “Japan” at any point] [IE]
12. In one of this author’s novels, a woman throws a purse containing several years’ worth of money, earned
as an older man’s lover, at Gimpei. Besides The Lake, he wrote of a dying patriarch named Shingo who hears
a windy noise in his sleep, and about Mrs. Ota’s lover, the orphan [*] Kikuji Mitani, in The Sound of the
Mountain and The Thousand Cranes. In another work, he wrote of the affair between Shimamura and the hot spring
geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this first Japanese Nobel laureate, the author of Snow Country.
ANSWER: Yasunari Kawabata [accept Kawabata Yasunari] [DB-N]
13. Complex ones of these can be Hermitian. These objects can be factored into three through Singular Value
Decomposition, of which the first and third are unitary, and QR-decomposition forms orthogonal and right
triangular ones. They have specific numbers symbolized lambda, eigenvalues, and corresponding [*]
eigenvectors. Reduced to row-echelon form by Gaussian elimination, in computer science, these non-commutative
objects are represented as double arrays. For ten points, name these mathematical objects with determinants, rows,
columns, and numbers as entries.
ANSWER: matrix or matrices [AJ]
14. Occidental College professor Roger Boesche claimed this work was moderate compared to the Arthashastra, a text from faraway India. It discusses three kinds of intellegence, including an understanding of
what others can understand. This work also warns against flatterers, saying that all [*] advisers ought to speak
truly. In its seventeenth chapter, this work holds that, if a ruler must pick only one, it is better to be feared than
loved. Inspired by Cesare Borgia, for 10 points, name this political treatise, written for Lorenzo di Medici by
Niccolo Machiavelli.
ANSWER: The Prince [accept Il Principe] [DB-N]
15. A modification of its initial plan violated the Boland Amendment; this change was stalled because of
Manucher Ghorbanifar’s insistence on a 41% markup. Reverend Benjamin Wier was among those
exchanged during this, and this arrangement was exposed by the [*] Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa. The Tower
Commission stated the President did not have control of the National Security Council while Oliver North
orchestrated it. For 10 points, in what Reagan-era scandal were anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua funded by
proceeds from hostage-arms deals with a certain Islamic Republic?
ANSWER: Iran-Contra affair / scandal / deal [OH]
16. This property was described in a “triarchic” theory by Sternberg, and a pamphlet called “Natural Science
and [this]” rejected Hernstein and Murray’s arguments about it in The Bell Curve. Spearman described a
generalized g-factor for this, and the increase of measurements of this over time is called the [*] Flynn effect.
Howard Gardner included “naturalist”, “intrapersonal,” and “spatial” in his eight, or “multiple,” types, and it was
tested in French youth by Alfred Binet. For 10 points, name this trait whose namesake “quotient” is measured by
100 times mental age over real age, a measure of mental aptitude.
ANSWER: intelligence [prompt on “IQ” before “quotient” is read, I guess] [MJ]
17. In one of his plays, Lizzie curses a snake-shaped bracelet while hiding a black man from police; besides
The Respectful Prostitute, an unnamed man faces a fascist firing squad in his short story “The Wall”. One of
his plays features a cave from which the dead reappear in [*] Argos for the day. In his main novel, the historian
Antoine finds that inanimate objects limit his ability to define himself, causing a sweetish sickness, and in another
play Estelle tries to stab Inez, leading Garcin to declare that “hell is other people” in a Second Empire room. For 10
points, name this French existentialist author of The Flies, Nausea, and No Exit.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre [MJ]
18. Before this figure was born, his mother dreamt that a six-tusked white elephant was piercing her right
side, and a meal served by the blacksmith Kunda once made this figure very ill. This figure’s son was named
Rahula, and his birthday is sometimes [*] celebrated by the holiday Vesak. One day, this figure was shocked to
see an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a monk, despite being raised to avoid all suffering as a prince; after this,
under the bodhi tree, the Four Noble Truths came to him. For 10 points, name this first figure to achieve nirvana.
ANSWER: Siddhartha Gautama [accept The Buddha or Gautama Buddha] [MJ]
19. In this opera, a tenor character finds a woman’s key before touching her cold hand in the aria “Che
Gelida Manina”, and another character smashes a plate, complaining about café service to Alcindoro before
singing the seductive “Quando me n’vo”. At the start of this opera, two characters burn a five-act manuscript
to keep warm before [*] Schaunard and Colline arrive. Its main characters are the painter Marcello, who reunites
with Musetta, and the playwright Rodolfo, whose love Mimi dies in his arms of tuberculosis. For 10 points, name
this Puccini opera about starving Parisian artists, an inspiration for the musical RENT.
ANSWER: La Boheme [MJ]
20. This leader captured and hanged Arnold of Brescia by allying with Adrian IV, who crowned him. He
started collecting a tax called the fodrum after declaring his rights at the Diet of Roncaglia. This man was
forced to sign the Treaty of Venice following his defeat at the Battle of [*] Legnano by the Lombard League. His
grandson regained access to Jerusalem for the West in the Sixth Crusade, while he himself was the son of Conrad
III, who founded the Hohenstaufen Dynasty. Known for drowning while in heavy armor, for 10 points, name this
Holy Roman Emperor during the Third Crusade, known for his red beard.
ANSWER: Frederick I [or Frederick Barbarossa] [DU]
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earlier in the round.]
21. One engagement in this conflict saw the Prince of Conti lead forces into the Battle of Casteldelfino; a
another saw a reigning monarch lead troops for the last time at the Battle of Dettingen; that monarch names
the American part of this conflict, [*] King George’s War, and the British had previously fought Spain in the War
of Jenkins’ Ear. It began when Silesia was annexed by King Frederick II of Prussia, was ended by the treaty of Aixla-Chapelle, and was about the Pragmatic Sanction of 1710. For 10 points, name this European conflict from 1740 to
48, regarding Maria Theresa’s ascension to a certain country’s throne.
ANSWER: War of the Austrian Succession [accept King George’s War before mentioned] [MJ]
Bonuses
1. Name these types of star remnants, for 10 points each:
[10] This type of stellar remnant occurs after the supernova of a star whose mass is between the Chandrasekhar and
Tollman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limits. Due to the Pauli Exclusion Principle, a star of this type stays intact.
ANSWER: neutron star
[10] This type of neutron star is highly magnetized and rotating. They emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation that
rotates with the star, causing the “lighthouse effect” that gives these stars their name.
ANSWER: pulsars
[10] This incredibly dense type of neutron star has a namesake extremely strong field. As that field decays, the star
emits lots of high-energy X-rays and gamma rays. They become inactive after about 10,000 years.
ANSWER: magnetars [JoC]
2. For 10 points each, answer some questions about Australian geography.
[10] Supplying the only reliable source of freshwater for a large portion of inland Australia, this basin covers most
of Queensland and is the largest basin of its type in the world.
ANSWER: Great Artesian Basin
[10] The Great Artesian Basin has four sub-components, one of which is named after this largest lake in Australia.
ANSWER: Lake Eyre
[10] Another large Australian basin, mostly in New South Wales, is named for the Darling River and this longest
river in Australia, which empties into the sea in the city of Adelaide.
ANSWER: Murray River [SR]
3. It compared the display of 19th-century housewives to the ownership of women by barbarians. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this book which discussed how people try to gain status with “pecuniary emulation” and
“conspicuous consumption”.
ANSWER: The Theory of the Leisure Class
[10] This Norwegian-American economist, whose namesake “goods” have high demand due to their price, wrote
The Theory of Business Enterprise and The Theory of the Leisure Class.
ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen
[10] These goods, a subtype of inferior goods, differ from Veblen goods in that people have to buy more of them as
the price increases, since there is no substitute good to replace them.
ANSWER: Giffen goods [MJ]
4. They require a two-thirds majority to conclude, and the last one of these events took place in 2005 to choose a
successor to John Paul II. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this term for the papal election that shares its name with the closed room in which the election occurs.
ANSWER: conclave
[10] Before conclave can begin, this Vatican administrator must validate the death of the previous pope, traditionally
by hitting his head – lightly – with a silver hammer three times.
ANSWER: Cardinal Chamberlain [accept Camerlengo]
[10] The conclave originated from the Second Council of Lyons of 1274 over which this pope presided.
ANSWER: Gregory X [prompt “Gregory”] [GG]
5. This composer sympathized with a Serbian war against Turkey with his epic “March Slav”. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this composer who distanced himself from the Five, and whose symphonies include the
“Pathétique” and the “Little Russian”.
ANSWER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[10] Tchaikovsky is also famous for this ballet in which Clara travels to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the
title gift of Count Drosselmeyer.
ANSWER: The Nutcracker [accept Shchelkunchik]
[10] A Tchaikovsky opera by this name, based on a Puskhin story, follows the gambling soldier Herman, who
commits suicide after seeing the Countess’s ghost in the title object.
ANSWER: The Queen of Spades [accept Pikovaya dama] [MJ]
6. One of these was the French Jacquerie,and another was brought on by the levying of a third poll tax by John of
Gaunt. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this type of armed conflict exemplified by a 1381 English uprising against Richard II, led by Wat
Tyler and Jack Straw.
ANSWER: peasant’s revolt / uprising / war
[10] This priest and leading figure in that Peasant’s Revolt gave a sermon at Blackheath, asking: “When Adam
delved and Eve span, who was then a gentle-man?”
ANSWER: John Ball
[10] John Ball was a preacher in this reformist English sect led by John Wycliffe. They translated their own Bibles.
ANSWER: Lollards [MJ]
7. This man’s play Fuente Ovejuna depicts Fernan Gomez’s conquest of the titular village, which is foiled by a
peasant revolt. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Spanish Golden Age playwright who claimed to write entire plays in one day. His other works
include The Sheep Well and The Dog in the Manger.
ANSWER: Lope Félix De Vega Carpio
[10] This 20th-century Spanish playwright included a work about an all-female household led by the titular widow,
The House of Bernarda Alba, in his Rural Trilogy, which also includes Blood Wedding and Yerma.
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca
[10] This Spanish playwright described the imprisonment and release of Segismundo, the son of the king of Poland,
in his Life is a Dream.
ANSWER: Pedro Calderón de la Barca [IE]
8. Answer some serious biology questions about insects, for10 points each.
[10] Insects, along with crustaceans and arachnids, belong to this most numerous animal phylum whose members
have jointed, paired appendages and segmented bodies.
ANSWER: arthropoda [or arthropods]
[10] Many insects, including bees, wasps, and drones, belong to this order of insects with membranous wings.
ANSWER: hymenoptera
[10] Most insects and arachnids use this series of tubes to draw waste matter out of the blood in a role similar to that
of the kidney.
ANSWER: Malpighian tubules [MJ]
9. Conducted by Harvey Fletcher and the namesake at the University of Chicago, it used X-rays and a potentiometer
to cancel out terminal velocity. For 10 points each:
[10] What experiment contradicted the theory of Felix Ehrenhaft regarding the quantization of a certain constant?
ANSWER: Robert Millikan’s Oil-drop experiment [accept either underlined part]
[10] Millikan sought to measure this constant, whose product with the Avogadro’s number is the Faraday constant.
ANSWER: elementary charge [accept charge of an electron]
[10] Robert Millikan also used this effect, the emission of electrons from a metal excited by radiation, to determine
Planck’s constant. It was earlier studied by Einstein and Hertz, for whom the effect is sometimes named.
ANSWER: photoelectric effect [DU]
10. Answer some questions about Celtic mythology from Ireland, for 10 points each.
[10] Tutored by Finegas, this Irish hero and leader of the Fianna bodyguards gained wisdom by burning this thumb
while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge.
ANSWER: Finn MacCool [or Fionn mac Cumhail]
[10] Formerly called Setanta, this wielder of the seven-pointed spear Gae Bulg and hero of Ulster died heroically
while fighting off Queen Maeve.
ANSWER: Cu Chulainn
[10] Cu Chulainn was the son of this ‘long-armed’ god associated with light and the sun. He led the Tuatha de
Danaan in defeating a race of sea demons led by Balor, the Fomorii.
ANSWER: Lugh or Lú [MJ]
11. Wolff and Kishner, two organic chemists, want to make their own reduction reaction, but they’re down on their
luck. For 10 points each:
[10] The duo can start with these organic compounds, with a carbonyl functional group bonded to two groups
labeled “R”, of which neither is a hydrogen. The simplest one is used in nail polish remover.
ANSWER: ketones [The simplest one is acetone.]
[10] They try to reduce ketones to this class of organic compounds, whose simplest member is methane, consisting
of hydrogens and carbons connected only by single bonds.
ANSWER: alkanes [accept paraffins]
[10] One day, Wolff and Kishner find that this inorganic compound drives their reaction. Great success! Often found
in rocket fuels, it is made by the Olin Raschig process and has chemical formula N 2H4.
ANSWER: hydrazine [MJ]
12. Name some things about a certain conflict, for 10 points each:
[10] Sparked by a conflict over the Spanish throne, this 19th-century conflict saw the siege of Paris, and its end result
was the unification of Germany.
ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War [accept Franco-German War; accept 1870 War]
[10] At the start of the Franco-Prussian War, France was ruled by this founder of the Second Empire. His attempt to
make a French-backed monarchy in Mexico failed.
ANSWER: Napoleon III or Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte [Prompt on just “Napoleon”]
[10] This Prussian general helped engineer a Prussian victory at the Battle of Sedan, bringing an end to the Second
French Empire. His nephew tried to execute the Schlieffen Plan at the start of World War I.
ANSWER: Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke “the Elder” [prompt on just “Moltke”] [JoC]
13. His philosophical works include Poetics, Metaphysics, and Nikomachean Ethics. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this ancient Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great.
ANSWER: Aristotle
[10] Aristotle described virtue using this concept, the balance between two extremes. For example, courage is
virtuous, but an an excess yields recklessness while a deficit yields cowardice.
ANSWER: golden mean
[10] According to Aristotle, this cause, the second of four, is the sum total of an entity’s defining characteristics. For
a statue, this cause is exemplified by an artist’s mental image of the body to be depicted.
ANSWER: formal cause [DB-N]
14. This series includes “South Wind, Clear Sky”, which depicts the title object as red. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this series, a specific number of ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting a Japanese landmark.
ANSWER: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji [prompt “Forty-Six Views of Mount Fuji”]
[10] This Japanese woodblock artist later added ten extra prints to his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, making 46 in
total. His namesake sketches are collected in 15 volumes.
ANSWER: Katsushika Hokusai
[10] One of Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji features a “great” one of these objects “off Kanagawa” on the left
side of the print, with three capsizing boats on the right and Fuji itself far in the background.
ANSWER: a wave [accept The Great Wave off Kanagawa] [MJ]
15. It argues that it is absurd for an island to rule a continent, and proposed a Continental Charter under which “The
Law is King”. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this pamphlet published anonymously in 1776, which argued for American independence from Britain.
ANSWER: Common Sense
[10] Common Sense was written by this Founding Father who said, “These are the times that try men’s souls” in The
American Crisis.
ANSWER: Thomas Paine [accept T-Paine and reward with a cookie]
[10] Paine also authored this best-selling pamphlet, which criticizes institutional Christianity and advocates deism.
ANSWER: The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology [JoC]
16. It calls the title entity “slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men.” For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this poem asking the title entity not to express emotion, for “though some have called [it] / Mighty
and dreadful, [it is] not so”. It concludes that the title phenomenon “shalt die”.
ANSWER: Death, be not proud [accept Holy Sonnet X]
[10] “Death, be not proud” was the tenth Holy Sonnet of this metaphysical poet, who also wrote “A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning” and “No man is an island”.
ANSWER: John Donne
[10] In this poem, Donne asks his lover not to kill the title creature, comparing it to a “marriage-bed” and saying that
“It suck’d me first, and now sucks thee”.
ANSWER: The Flea [MJ]
17. Jamie Foxx’s vocals on his song “Blame It” were processed using this system, and a popular YouTube series
uses this system on clips from cable news. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this vocal processing system popular among hip-hop artists, famously used on every T-Pain song ever.
ANSWER: Auto-Tune
[10]Kanye West attempted to sing on this 2008 album, using a great deal of Auto-Tune. Its singles include “Love
Lockdown” and “Heartless,” the latter of which doesn’t refer to Kanye’s decision to foist this album upon the
listening public.
ANSWER: 808s and Heartbreak
[10]This rapper and husband of Beyonce Knowles included a song entitled “Death of Auto-Tune” on his 2009
album The Blueprint III. Earlier songs by this artist include “Big Pimpin’” and “99 Problems.”
ANSWER: Jay-Z [accept Shawn Carter] [IE]
18. Octavio Paz wrote a play based on this story, in which Professor Baglioni warns Giovanni to avoid the title
character. For 10 points each:
[10]Name this story, whose title character Beatrice dies from plant toxins after getting an antidote by Giovanni.
ANSWER: Rappaccini’s Daughter
[10]This author included “Rappaccini’s Daughter” in Mosses from an Old Manse. He’s also known for a novel
based on his time at Brook Farm, The Blithedale Romance, along with The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
[10]In this other Hawthorne story, the title character invites four of his friends to consume water from the Fountain
of Youth.
ANSWER: Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment [IE]
19. A militant organization that operated in this present-day nation was Irgun, which bombed King David Hotel to
oppose the British mandate government. For 10 points each:
[10] What nation, proposed by UN General Resolution 181, was attacked by the Arab League twelve minutes after
its independence on May 14, 1948?
ANSWER: State of Israel [accept Medinat Yisro’el; prompt “The Zionist entity”]
[10] Inspired by the Dreyfus affair, this Hungarian-born founder of Zionism spread his beliefs in the publication Die
Welt and convened the First Zionist Congress in Basel.
ANSWER: Theodor Herzl
[10] Before Palestine became feasible as a Jewish homeland, one far-fetched offer at Basel, from Josiah
Chamberlain, suggested this then-British African colony.
ANSWER: British Uganda Programme [DU]
20. This novel’s protagonist, a consumptive Buddhist monk’s son, lives with his uncle in Shiraku. For 10 points
each,
[10] First, name this historical fiction novel in which Mizoguchi uses three bales of straw to burn down the title
structure.
ANSWER: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [accept Kinkaku-ji]
[10] The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was written by this Japanese author who also penned Sun and Steel and
Kyoko’s House. He committed seppuku on national TV.
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima
[10] Mishima also wrote this tetralogy about Shigekuni Honda, a law student-turned-rich judge who attempts to save
four incarnations of his friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It includes Spring Snow and The Decay of the Angel.
ANSWER: The Sea of Fertility [accept Hōjō no Umi] [DB-N]
21. Four ships appear in the upper background, while a standing black man in the central crowded boat reaches out
and a man wearing a dark jacket plunges a spear. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this 1778 painting where a floating figure in Havana harbor faces attack from an emerging creature.
ANSWER: Watson and the Shark
[10] This 18th century American painter knew Brook Watson personally. He painted “The Return of Neptune” and
“Boy with a Squirrel” in addition to “Watson and the Shark”.
ANSWER: John Singleton Copley
[10] This other 18th century painter, a Briton in America, painted “Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the
Sky”. Gloomy clouds appear above a watching native and a fallen musket in his “Death of General Wolfe”.
ANSWER: Benjamin West [MJ]