THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Packet 12
Tossups by Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Jonathan Magin, Chris
Chiego
1. This author bafflingly placed Romola in Class II and Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the superior Class III in a
collection of essays including “A Plea for Romantic Fiction” and “Salt and Sincerity.” This author of The
Responsibilities of the Novelist wrote a story about the detective Cyrus Ryder, who helps fuel the rivalry
between Mr. Truslow and Mr. Hornung, causing the suffering of Sam and Emma Lewiston. In one of this
author’s novels, the widower of Angele composes “The Toilers” while seeking “The Answer” during a
standoff between S. Behrman’s lackeys and those of Harran and (*) Lyman, the sons of Magnus Derrick. He
wrote about a dentist handcuffed to a dead man in a desert in another novel. For 10 points, name this author of “A
Deal in Wheat” and McTeague, who dramatized the conflict between farmers and railroaders in The Octopus.
ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
2. With the help of the economist Evsei Liberman, this polity adopted an economic reform that moved
decision making authority to the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises and was known as the New
Economic System. One of this polity’s leaders adopted a program that championed “consumer socialism,” the
Main Task. The Treaty of Moscow and the Treaty of Warsaw established diplomatic relations between this
polity and its neighbor and the “2+4” Talks ultimately dissolved this state. The SED dominated the early politics of
this state and its first General Secretary was a staunch supporter of collectivization and put up an edifice that
Mikhail Gorbachev would later “tear down.” Governed by Erich Honecker and Walter Ulbricht, for ten points, name
this socialist state in the Soviet zone of Germany.
ANSWER: East Germany
3. Sculptural depictions of this scene by Kneulman can be found above an old entrance to the police
headquarters in the Hague and in the sculpture garden of the Hague Museum. Gustave Moreau’s version of
this scene shows one figure with a round hat on his back and another figure with their hand behind their
head, and takes place in front of a tree. Eugene Delacroix’s version shows a sword on the ground underneath
the title figures, who are to the left of a spear and a full quiver of arrows on the ground. That depiction is in
the Saint Sulpice Church in Paris. Another depiction of this scene is bisected by a tree diagonally, with a group of
women wearing white bonnets praying on the left and looking at the two title figures in the right background. For 10
points, name this scene shown on the side of Paul Gaughin’s Vision After the Sermon, which shows one figure with
yellow wings grappling with a biblical figure.
ANSWER: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (accept any equivalents with Jacob and Angel)
4. These entities are modeled three-dimensionally by a process that divides them into a series of boxes,
providing plentiful boundary conditions to simulate mixing layers. That model is known as the MOM project.
One relationship for the magnitude of these entities is proportional to the curl of the wind stress vector and is
named for Sverdrup. When the direction of one of these entities is balanced against a pressure gradient by
the Coriolis force,it is described as geostrophic. Another of these entities is driven by variations in solute
concentration and surfaceheat and that ‘thermohaline’ variety is the cause of massive convection circuits through
upwelling and downwelling.A subsurface variety of these entities occurs when sediment buildup causes an increase
in density and is named forits ‘turbidity’. FTP, identify these continuous fluid flows found in the Earth’s largest
bodies of water.
ANSWER: oceanic currents or oceanic circulations [do not accept “The Oceanic Feeling”]
5. In this thinker’s most notable work, it is argued that subletting an apartment is the cruelest form of usury,
leading children to commit crime, because it is “the poor knowing how to practice upon the poor.” That work
also outlines a regiment completely spice-free food for children, but full of Mellin’s food. As part of a
paradigm associated with this thinker, children are grouped in age groups separated by three years.
Influenced by the author of The Moral Treatment, Edouard Seguin, a man that worked with the feral child
Victor and other mentally handicapped people, this thinker developed the (*) “Children’s House.” This
pedagogist developed a namesake method that involves putting a child into an environment with a teacher as a
“director.” For 10 points, name this Italian female doctor who developed an educatioinal approach to learning.
ANSWER: Maria Montessori
6. As young man, this man promised the mother of Glonda that he would avenge the death of her son. In
doing so, he killed Liath Luachra and obtained the crane bag. In another story about this man, he and eight
other men defeated the dog-headed and cat-headed armies of the King of Ruadledth. By sticking a spear into
his head to stay awake, this grandfather of Oscar was able to defeat the evil fairy Aileen of Tara. Fear Donrich
turned one of this man’s consorts, Sadhbh, into a deer and this man’s two hounds were called Bran and Sceolan.
With the help of Aengus, Diarmuid eloped with a woman, who was supposed to marry this figure, Grainne. This
man gained the gift of prophecy when the he sucked the thumb that he had burned while cooking the Salmon of
Knowledge for Finnegas. For ten points, name this legendary Irish warrior, the son of Cumhall and father of Oisin,
the leader of the Fianna.
ANSWER: Finn MacCool or Deinme or Fionn mac Cumhaill
7. In this novel, radio and television broadcasts titled “The Norwegian Captain and the Tailor’s Daughter”
and “How Buckley Shot the Russian General” represent the protagonists. One couple in this novel briefly
pause their lovemaking session to attend to their frightened child Jerry, after which they resume until the
rooster crows. The fourth book of this novel consists of only one short chapter, in which the primary female
character attempts to wake her husband, delivers her monologue, then disappears; to that end, the last
sentence of this novel loops around the first. Shem, Shaun, and Issy are the children of the primary
characters in this novel, a representation of (*) Vico’s New Science, which opens with the sentence “riverrun,
Past Eve’s and Adam’s.” Focusing on Anna Livia Plurabelle and her husband Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, for
10 points, identify this experimental novel by James Joyce.
ANSWER: Finnegans Wake
8. Timoclea, a woman from this city, earned the respect of Alexander the Great after she killed a Thracian
soldier. This state waged a 10-year war with Phocis and earlier Pagondas, a general from this polity, led the
forces that defeated Hippocrates at the Battle of Delium. This victor of the Battle of Haliartus provided aid to
Xerxes at the Battle of Plataea and in 431 BC, they failed yet again in their attempt to besiege that same town.
This city-state won the Battle of Tegyra under Pelopidas and thirteen years later it would earn another victory at
Mantinea, but would lose its greatest commander. Nine years earlier that commander had deepened his left wing in
order to take advantage of Cleombrotus’ weak right wing at the earlier Battle of Leuctra. Epaminondas was the
greatest general of, for ten points, what city-state, which famously employed the Sacred Band.
ANSWER: Thebes
9. The Miller process of gold purification involves blowing this substance into the impure mixture, and a
radioactive isotope of this element can be generated by muon capture in calcium-40. In mass spectrometry of
compounds containing this element, an M plus 2 compound peak of one-half the intensity of the M peak is
obtained. The Deacon oxidation process is one method of producing this element, which is produced on a
large scale by performing electrolysis on brine, which also produces caustic soda and hydrogen gas. This element
is incorporated into organic compounds by a reagent which contains five atoms of it bonded to a single phosphorous
atom, and mixing acids and bleach can release the gaseous form of this compound, which was the first chemical
weapon used. For 10 points, name this element with atomic mass 35.45, atomic number 17, and symbol Cl.
ANSWER: Chlorine (Accept Cl2 or chlorine gas at any time)
10. Under the supervision of his elder cousin Alexander Siloti, a bright 17-year old Rachmaninoff arranged
this ballet into a piano duet. During one scene in this ballet, the hunting companions of a central character
fail to cheer him up with a game of blind man’s bluff. The wig of a master of ceremonies named Catallabutte
is ripped off early in this ballet. Dances for Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood appear at the end of
this ballet, whose first act is set when the title character is (*) sixteen and involves the arrest of some knitting
women as a necessary precaution. The Lilac Fairy correctly declares that the title character will sleep for 100 years
before being awoken by the kiss of Florimund, thwarting the plans of the evil fairy Carabosse. For 10 points,
identify this ballet by Petipa and Tchaikovsky, taken from a fairy tale originating in Charles Perrault’s Tales of
Mother Goose.
ANSWER: The Sleeping Beauty [or Spyashchaya Krasavitsa]
11. One part of this work is a critique of Tristes Tropiques that discusses the placing of the “Cerebral Savage”
on the throne in the guise of “King Reason” and attacks Levi-Strauss’s notion that humanity has spoiled the
world and left behind only “remnants of the Garden of Eden.” Another part of this book describes that to
under social anthropology, it is necessary to not only understand “what ethnography is,” but rather “what
doing ethnography is.” That part of this work asks “what is le penseur doing” and borrows a critical concept
from Gilbert (*) Ryle in order to analyze a wink. The last essay of this book contains a list of facts that describe the
“dramatization of status concerns” infused in the titular activity on the island of Bali. For 10 points, name this
collection that contains the essay “Deep Play,” which also puts forth the concept of thick description, written by
Clifford Geertz.
ANSWER: The Interpretation of Cultures
12. In one non-canonical book of this name, all of the paper in a certain country is depleted, leading its ruler
sentencing Jews to be crushed to death by elephant, all 500 of which end up getting drunk. The hero of
another book of this name witnesses the dead bodies of several figures bearing amulets as idols of Jamnia and
prays for them such that they might be free of sin. Eleazar and a woman with seven sons are martyrs present
in that book of this name, which follows one which describes the foreskin (*) restoration of Jews subject to
Hellenization by Antiochus IV. The hero of these Deuterocanonical books founded the Hasmonean Dynasty and
commemorated an eight-day long flame by celebrating Hanukkah. For 10 points, identify these two books about a
Judas who led a revolt against the Seleucids.
ANSWER: Maccabees
13. Dysphagia lusoria occurs when this artery is aberrant. In proximal stenosis of this artery, blood flows
backwards through the vertebral artery after going through the circle of Willis, known as this artery’s
namesake “steal” syndrome. The thyrocervical trunk and costocervical trunk are branches off of this artery,
and the right recurrent laryngeal nerve hooks around the right version of this artery. One the left side, this
artery is the third branch off of the aortic arch, while on the right it is part of the brachiocephalic trunk. It also
gives off the dorsal scapular artery and is the main blood supply to the arm. For 10 points, name this artery in the
shoulder that gets its name from the fact that it lies right underneath the clavicle.
ANSWER: Subclavian artery
14. This battle is commemorated with one of the largest Doric columns in the world, a “Victory and
International Peace Memorial.” After the war was over, the losing commander at this battle, Robert Heriot
Barclay, was court-martialed. The winning commander of this battle utilized equipment built by merchant
Daniel Dobbins and had earlier provided artillery support to William Eaton at the Battle of Derne. The
winning commander’s battle flag honored the last words of his friend James (*) Lawrence. This battle occurred
shortly after successful blockades at Amherstburg and Presque Isle. After this battle, the victorious commander
wrote to William Henry Harrison, saying “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” This battle saw the ships
Lawrence and Niagara engage the Queen Charlotte. Also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, for 10 points, name
this naval victory for Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812 fought in a Great Lake.
ANSWER: Battle of Lake Erie [accept Battle of Put-in-Bay until mentioned]
15. At the close of Book 3, the speakers of this text conclude that sufficiency is power, since something that is
sufficient would want nothing. Another section of this work puts forth the idea that arithmetic, music,
astronomy and geometry, which this text dubs the quadrivium, is inherently superior to the trivium. This work
closes by espousing prayer as the only way to communicate with God due to our “temporal nature,” and it
begins with the author discussing a mystical vision of a (*) woman with the letters “pi” and “theta” embroidered
on her figure. It was written while its author was awaiting execution in the kingdom of Theoderic the Great and
imagines the title figure to be represented as a Lady who speaks of the wheel of fortune. For 10 points, identify this
philosophic work by Boethius.
ANSWER: The Consolation of Philosophy or Consolatio Philosophiae
16. The title character of this play props himself up against a tree, proclaims that his feet have turned to stone
and his “hands are gloved with lead” as he imagines a conversation with Death. A woman states “I hoped for
cream, - you give me gruel,” to which her suitor seductively says “Your throat I’d kiss it,” driving her away.
That suitor is the supposed author of a letter whose contents are recited to the primary female character in
the dark, proving to her that the friend of (*) Ligniere is not the true author. The title character recites the last
word of a poem just as he stabs a man and later boastfully claims that he can deal with one hundred such men
waiting in ambush. This play opens at the Hotel de Bourgogne and contains a balcony scene, where Christian’s lines
are spoken by his gigantic-nosed friend. For 10 points, identify this play about a lover of Roxane, a historical drama
by Edmond Rostand.
ANSWER: Cyrano de Bergerac
17. This husband of Asarpay engaged in a war with one of his rival’s after that rival sent this man’s captains
back to him dressed as women. This man centered his efforts for that war at the city of Tumebamba. After
one of this man’s victories in that war, he used the skull of an opposing general to make a golden cup and the
skin from his feet to make drums. That gruesome torture of Atoc and Hango, the generals of that
aforementioned rival, occurred after his victory at the battle of Mount Chimborazo, which helped him to wrest
control of his empire from his brother. However, this son of Huayna Capac would not be as fortunate in another war,
which forced him to fill an entire room with gold. For ten points, name this man, who was baptized by Juan Santos,
the brother of Huascar and the last Sapa Inca, who was killed by Francisco Pizarro.
ANSWER: Atahualpa
18. The AMPTE experiment used lithium clouds to study the impact of this phenomenon. Biermann and
Ahnert both used the example of Whipple-Fedke to predict this phenomenon. IBEX has detected an unusual
“ribbon” involving this phenomenon thought to be interacting with the “Local Fluff”. It uses the Lorenz
Force to help produce ring and Birkeland currents. Yokoh discovered that x-ray “holes” were a major source
of this phenomenon, which notably affects the structure of Parker Spirals. M-dot and terminal velocity are two
parameters derived to help measure this phenomenon, which dies out when it reaches the heliosheath. The Mass
Loss Rate for the closest example of this phenomenon is 10 to the negative 14 per year. For 10 points, identify this
phenomenon which interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field to create auroras, caused by the emittal of charged
particles from the sun.
ANSWER: Solar Wind [Or Interstellar Wind]
19. The first wife of one protagonist created by this novelist leaves him for a taxi driver after four years of
marriage, but dies in childbirth. Though not Thomas Pynchon, this author created a character named V, who
is so disgusted with Mr. Goodman’s biography of his half-brother that he writes one himself. This author
described the conspiracy between Axel Rex and his lover Margot Peters to use and ruin the wealthy Albert
Albinus. This author of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Laughter in the Dark wrote about Victor Wind,
the son of the title character, who is fired by Dr. Hagen from the faculty of (*) Waindell College. He wrote
about a production of The Enchanted Hunters put on by headmistress Miss Pratt in a novel whose central character
murders Clare Quilty and lusts after nymphets like Dolores Haze. For 10 points, identify this author of Pnin and a
novel about Humbert Humbert, Lolita.
ANSWER: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
20. The seventeenth song in one of this composer’s song cycles constantly shifts from the key of B major to B
minor and back, and describes how the singer despises the color green. That song cycle by this composer also
describes that singer’s bitterness at a hunter for attracting his beloved, and ends with a song depicting “The
Brook’s Lullaby.” This composer set poems by Wilhelm Müller in his song cycle Die (*) schöne Müllerin, and
wrote a song accompanied by continuous rapid octave triplets in the piano, which begins with the line “Who rides so
late in the dark and the wind.” That song by this composer includes the fearful refrain “My father, my father,” and
describes the death of a child attacked by a supernatural being. For 10 points, name this German composer of songs
such as “The Erl-King,” as well as the Unfinished Symphony.
ANSWER: Franz Schubert
21. This material can be used industrially to purify water because of its ability to bond with both organic
PCBs and heavy metals often found in waste water. This material consists of repeated N-acetyl-glucosamine
residues linked together by beta-1-4 glycosidic bonds, although those bonds can be hydrolyzed by lysozyme,
which protects mammals from infection. Although in its natural state this material is soft and leathery, when it
mixes with sclerotin, it becomes encrusted with calcium carbonate. It is believed to have made up the bodies of
trilobites as early as the Pre-Cambrian Era. 10 points, name this hard protein that makes up the cell wall of fungi and
the exoskeleton of insects and arachnids.
ANSWER: chitin
THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Bonuses by Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Evan Adams, Chris Chiego
1. It was created by the Dwarves Dvalin and Durin, and it later is inherited by Hervor, who marries Hofund and has
two children. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this sword which was cursed to perform 3 evil deeds every time it was drawn. It was originally wielded
by Svafrlami, who was then killed by the berserker Angrim.
ANSWER: Tyrfing
[10] Svafrlami was a grandson of this supreme Norse deity, whose other children included Vali, Vidarr, and Balder.
ANSWER: Odin
[10] This other sword was used by Sigurd to kill the dragon Fafnir. Sigurd’s father Sigmund pulled it out of the tree
Barnstokk.
ANSWER: Gram
2. The works in one exhibition organized by this man were compiled into a book by Carl Sandburg, whose cover
showed a photograph of a boy playing the flute. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American photographer, some of whose other exhibits showed the Pacific Fleet in World War II. He
also did a famous picture of the flatiron building.
ANSWER: Edward Steichen
[10] This photo exhibition organized by Steichen was shown at the MoMA in 1955. It contained 503 works, several
by unknown artists.
ANSWER: Family of Man
[10] The Family of Man exhibit is probably most famous for showing a photograph of Florence Owens Thompson
entitled Migrant Mother, which was taken by this artist.
ANSWER: Dorothea Lange
3. This process begins with the creation of a primitive streak, a process which is dependent upon BMP4 and nodal
signaling. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this process in which an early embryo which results in the creation of an archenteron and three separate
germ layers.
ANSWER: Gastrulation
[10] This middle germ layer, which is sandwiched in between the ectoderm and the endoderm, will develop into the
nervous system.
ANSWER: Mesoderm
[10] This group of cells, which originate from the border between the neural plate and the non-neural ectoderm,
pinch off during the formation of the neural tube. They go on to create melanocytes, cartilage, and several
components of the enteric nervous system.
ANSWER: Neural crest
4. This man was known as “Old Silver Leg” after losing a limb at a battle on Saint Martin. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this director of the New Netherlands, who signed a 1664 treaty turning over the colony to the British. He
ordered the protective fortification on Wall Street built and was noted as an authoritative hardass.
ANSWER: Peter Stuyvesant
[10] Stuyvesant’s ban on Quaker worship resulted in a 1657 remonstrance to Stuyvesant written by Edward Hart,
which urged for religious tolerance. It took its name from this neighborhood, which is now part of Queens and was
the home of the 1939-1940 World’s Fair.
ANSWER: Flushing [accept anything with Flushing in it]
[10] Dutch claims to the New York region came as a result of this man’s voyages to the region for the Dutch East
India Company. His most famous ship was the Half Moon and he disappeared when his crew mutinied against him
in 1611.
ANSWER: Henry Hudson
5. One part of this work describes a component of a technique that relies on "humorous exaggeration" of what
obsessions a patient may have in order to reduce the symptoms of the agent. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this work that introduces a therapeutic method, part of its formulator's existential therapy program, that
relies on paradoxical intention and dereflexion called logotherapy.
ANSWER: Man’s Search for Meaning
[10] Logotherapy is a technique devised by this psychologist whose other works in a similar vein include his The
Will To Meaning and Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning in addition to his Man's Search for Meaning.
ANSWER: Viktor Frankl
[10] Viktor Frankl spent some time in one of these institutions of Nazi Germany. Noted anthropology major Josef
Mengele worked on prisoners at these locations.
ANSWER: concentration camps
6. In one story written by this author, Rice attends a play about a character named John Howell, and in another, a
terrible traffic jam hits the road between Paris and Fontainebleau. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this author of collections such as Todos los fuegos el fuego and Bestiario, who is best known for
writing a novel that comes with several expendable chapters and table of instructions for reading it, titled Hopscotch.
ANSWER: Julio Florencio Cortázar
[10] Cortázar wrote this novel about Ludmilla, who sleeps with Andres and lives with the title character, two
members of a revolutionary group called “The Screwery” that subverts the dictatorial Argentine regime.
ANSWER: A Manual for Manuel [or Libro de Manuel]
[10] Cortázar wrote a soon-to-be-tossed-up work whose title inverts the words in the title of this Jules Verne book
about Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout fulfilling the terms of a bet made at the Reform Club.
ANSWER: Around the World in Eighty Days [or Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours]
7. This composer dedicated his solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies to Hans von Bulow, and finally
settled on the title Concerto pathetique for a two-piano piece. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Hungarian composer of the Mephisto Waltzes and the Transcendental Etudes.
ANSWER: Franz Liszt
[10] Liszt also used the etude form for his Variation on a Waltz by this composer. Ludwig Beethoven did a series of
thirty three variations on the work of this man.
ANSWER: Anton Diabelli
[10] Johannes Brahms allegedly fell asleep during the performance of this Liszt piece, which is usually thought to
broadly follow the traditional four movements despite being played without pauses.
ANSWER: Piano Sonata in B minor
8. This religion’s members Edred Thorsson and James Chisholm founded “The Troth.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this relatively recent religion which is associated with Odinism, as it venerates ancient Scandinavian
culture and loves texts such as the Voluspa and the Havamal. White supremacists have an unfortunate affinity to this
religion, however.
ANSWER: Ásatrú [accept Theodism; accept Forn Sidr; prompt on “Germanic neopaganism”]
[10] Ásatrú can be classified as a neo- this type of religion, which in antiquity referred to any non-Christian or nonAbrahamic religion, but possessed a more positive connotation than the word “heathen.”
ANSWER: pagan
[10] The term “Odinism” was itself coined by the ever-lovable Orestes Bronson, who himself was a member of this
group of related Protestant churches that originated from Scotland.
ANSWER: Presbyterianism
9. This author created the roles of Colonel Janik and Gelda, the daughter of Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg, in his
play The Dark is Light Enough. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 20th century English playwright who wrote about the fatalistic Thomas Mendip and the rich witch
Jennet Jourdemayne in his play The Lady’s Not for Burning.
ANSWER: Christopher Fry
[10] The Lady’s Not for Burning is set at the beginning of this month, thought to be responsible for the madness of
some of the characters. TS Eliot’s The Waste Land proclaims this month to be “the cruelest month.”
ANSWER: April
[10] Christopher Fry also worked on the screenplay for a film adaptation about this John Gay drama about Captain
Macheath and Polly Peachum.
ANSWER: The Beggar’s Opera
10. Mount Ranier created a large wall of mud 5,600 years ago via one of these events and others were caused after
debris from the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo mixed with water in nearby rivers, FTPE.
[10] First, identify these fast-moving mudslides composed of water, volcanic ash and other pyroclastic debris.
ANSWER: lahar
[10] Called pyroclasts while still in the air, this is the general term for solid material ejected from a volcanic
eruption. Ash is the smallest class for this classification of objects, while the medial and largest types are known as
lapilli and volcanic bombs respectively.
ANSWER: tephra
[10] This type of eruption is classified by its explosive ejection of tephra. The Mexican Paricutin exhibits this form
of eruption along with a namesake Italian volcano.
ANSWER: Strombolian eruption
11. The frontispiece of his most famous work shows a Bible Verse from Job, Chapter 41 Verse 24. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this English philosopher who claimed humanity is part of a “war of all against all” in his Leviathan.
ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes
[10] An essay about Thomas Hobbes can be found in the works of this German, based out of the University of Lund.
He expanded upon Hugo Grotius’s ideas in his On the Duty of Man and Citizen.
ANSWER: Samuel von Pufendorf
[10] Pufendorf’s religious writings have expanded upon the ecclesiastical form of this concept. The natural form of
this concept is often distinguished from its positive form, which are the subject of Edward Coke’s Institutes of the
ones of England.
ANSWER: law
12. It was preceded by the Law of the Free Womb and the Sexagenarian Law, and this law was authored by Rodrigo
da Silva. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1871 law passed by Princess Isabel, who was given the Golden Rose by Pope Leo XIII after its
passage. This law banished slavery in the country in which it was passed.
ANSWER: Golden Law or Lei Aurea
[10] Princess Isabel was the daughter of this Emperor, a member of the House of Braganza who was ousted by a
Positivist faction of the army in 1889.
ANSWER: Pedro II
[10] Pedro II was the Emperor of this South American nation, which would later be ruled by the Estado Novo of
Getulio Vargas.
ANSWER: Brazil
13. For a small spherical object, the magnitude of this force is equal to six pi times the viscosity times R times the
velocity, according to Stokes law. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this force, which for an airplane opposes the thrust. It’s the frictional force on an object moving through
a fluid.
ANSWER: Drag
[10] This quantity, whose integral is the circulation, is usually defined as the curl of the velocity field. Eddies in
turbulent flows have non-zero values for it.
ANSWER: Vorticity
[10] The Kolmogorov scales for turbulent flows are defined in terms of the kinematic viscosity and the rate of this
process, which is symbolized epsilon.
ANSWER: Energy dissipation
14. The matriarch in this family fractures her collarbone when she gets hit by a car. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this novel which opens with a drunk Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawwad returning home to his wife
Amina and his children Fahmy, Kamal, Yasin, Khadija, and Aisha. It is the first novel in the Cairo Trilogy.
ANSWER: Palace Walk [or Bayn al-qasrayn; or Between the Two Palaces]
[10] Palace Walk was written by this Egyptian Nobel Laureate, who described a man who kills a public official in
“The Day the Leader Was Killed.”
ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz
[10] Mahfouz wrote this novel about a guest house in Alexandria with Greek mistress Mariana, whose four male
inhabitants each describe their quest for the affection of the peasant girl Zohra.
ANSWER: Miramar
15. This navy warred with Venice for the first time between 1423-1430, which featured the siege of Thessalonica
and conquest of Sinop and Izmir. For ten points each:
[10] Name this naval force that fought seven wars with Venice and suffered a major defeat at the hands of Edward
Codrington at the Battle of Navarino.
ANSWER: Ottoman Navy
[10] Perhaps the most famous of the Ottoman-Venetian war was the fourth, which saw this battle where the forces of
the Holy League under Don Juan defeated Ali Pasha’s navy in 1571.
ANSWER: Battle of Lepanto
[10] This 1560 battle off the coast of Tunisia saw Piyale Pasha’s Ottoman forces crush the allied Christian force
assembled by Philip II and led by Andrea Doria.
ANSWER: Battle of Djerba
16. This element’s pentacarbonyl has rapid interchange of its three equatorial and two axial ligands, resulting in a
single peak on NMR. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this metallic element, which is sandwiched between two cyclopentadiene molecules in the first
synthesized metallocene. In some molecules, it’s coordinated to porphyrin.
ANSWER: Iron
[10] Iron and cobalt impurities are removed during the Mond process, which generates a carbonyl derivative of this
element. This metal is also present in the active site of urease.
ANSWER: Nickel
[10] Speaking of metallocenes, a common one of these molecules contains ferroenes on their termini. These
approximately spherical molecules, which include arborol, are promising candidates for drug delivery and contain a
core attached to several rapidly branching chains.
ANSWER: Dendrimers
17. This man’s power was strengthened by Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution, which included the awesomely named
Yogurt Revolution. For ten points each:
[10] Name this man, who was taken down in the Bulldozer Revolution in 2000, when he refused to admit that his
opponent had won the majority of votes.
ANSWER: Slobodan Milosevic
[10] Milosevic played a major role in this conflict, which saw Milosevic-supported forces invade a newly formed
state consisting of two former Yugoslavian republics. It also saw the massacre of Muslims at the Srebenica
genocide.
ANSWER: Bosnian War (accept anything like Serbian invasion of Bosnia-Herzegovina)
[10] The Bosnian War was settled by this 1995 peace agreement, which settled the political divisions of Bosnia and
Herzegovina and created its new government.
ANSWER: Dayton Accords
18. In the volume "The Wheels of Commerce," this thinker claimed to have borrowed from his colleague Marc
Bloch the idea of longue duree in an attempt to outline a "general economic history." For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this historian of the Annales School that authored Civilization and Capitalism who also planned a
general course in history for the French peoples called A History of Civilizations.
ANSWER: Fernand Braudel
[10] Fernand Braudel's works, including his three volume of analysis of Philip II of Macedon all argue for the
extreme importance of this geographic feature, which Braudel calls "the cradle of the stock Market." Cities nearby it
include Genoa and Florence.
ANSWER: The Mediterranean Sea
[10] A chapter attacking Fernand Braudel can be found in this writer's Unthinking Social Science. He may be better
known for a Marxist interpretation of geographical politics which is now dubbed world systems theory.
ANSWER: Immanuel Wallerstein
19. A group of his paintings depicting Jacob’s sons can be found in Auckland Castle, and he painted an Apotheosis
of St Thomas Aquinas for an altarpiece in Seville. For 10 points:
[10] Name this Spanish artist, who died in Madrid after leaving the court of Phillip IV. The Mercedian order
commissioned his The Martyrdom of St Serapion.
ANSWER: Francisco de Zurbaran
[10] Zurbaran’s use of chiaroscuro elicits comparisons to this Italian artist, whose works include Boy Bitten by a
Lizard and Amor Vincent Omnia. A light source off-canvas on the right illuminates his Calling of St Matthew.
ANSWER: Michelangelo de Caravaggio
[10] This other Caravaggio work shows Luke and Cleophas sitting on either side of Jesus, who extends his arm as he
looks down at a chicken and a bowl of fruit.
ANSWER: Supper at Emmaus
20. This author connected his personal tragedy to the teachings of Epictetus in his work “To Philosophize is to Learn
to Die.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this French author whose magnum opus praises the value of “continual cheerfulness” in “Of the
Education of Children” and asks “What do I know?” in “Apology for Raimond Sebond.”
ANSWER: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
[10] Montaigne’s magnum opus was named for and helped to popularize this kind of nonfiction work, which usually
contains a thesis whose components are analyzed and supported over the following paragraphs.
ANSWER: essay
[10] Montaigne’s essays influenced the critical essays of this Englishman, which were about Shakesperean
characters, English poets, and English comic writers. This contemporary of Coleridge also wrote Liber Amoris.
ANSWER: William Hazlitt
21. After seeing her lover in bed with Dr. Frank-N-Furter, one character in this show seduces the Creature and sings
“Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this show which ends when Dr. Frank-N-Furter is killed by other transvestites from the planet
Transylvania. It begins when Brad sings “Dammit, Janet” to his fiancée after a wedding.
ANSWER: The Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Rocky Horror Show
[10] In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the brain donor biker Eddie asks “whatever happened” to this time of the
week, which, in an Elton John song, is “alright for fighting.”
ANSWER: Saturday Night
[10] The transvestite from Transylvania who kills Dr. Frank-N-Furter is this Igor-like butler, who surprises Janet
and Brad when he begins singing “The Time Warp” with Magenta and Columbia upon their arrival at the mansion.
ANSWER: Riff Raff
[Moderator’s note: The first part is left purposefully ambiguous between the movie version and the original stage
show, so either answer is appropriate.]