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 11
Tossup
1. This leader, who placed János Szapolyai as his puppet king, was also served by the architect Sinan. Like his
father, he developed secular laws known as the Kanuns. He conquered Rhodes from the Knights Hospitalers,
though Niklas Graf Salm successfully defended [*] Vienna from his army. His Janissaries also killed Louis II at
the Battle of Mohacs. This leader ruled from the Topkapi palace after his father, Selim the Grim, and adopted Sunni
Islam as his state religion. For 10 points, what longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is known as “the
Lawgiver” and “the Magnificent”?
ANSWER: Suleiman I [accept Suleiman the Magnificent] [DU]
2. Comedian Carol Burnett sued this show claiming that they had infringed on her trademarked Charwoman
character. They were also sued for changing the lyrics of “When You Wish Upon a Star” in an episode
featuring Weinstein. Andrea [*] Freidman defended her role as Ellen on this show, while South Park parodied this
show by claiming that all of its cutaway gags are made by manatees combining random word balls. The brainchild
of Seth MacFarlane, for 10 points, name this Fox animated sitcom which centers on the family of Peter Griffin.
ANSWER: Family Guy
3. In graph theory, the “chromatic” one of these objects determines how many colors a vertex graph can
have, and the “Legendre” type are orthogonal in the integral inner product space from -1 to 1. Though they
aren’t series, the Taylor [*] type of these can be used in approximations. According to the Abel-Ruffini theorem,
there is no general solution to these of degree 5 or higher. Synthetic division can factor, for 10 points, what
mathematical objects with positive integer exponents, exemplified by ‘x to the fifth plus two’ and ‘x cubed plus x’?
ANSWER: Polynomials
4. One character in this novel serves seedcake to the protagonist and a friend who later dies during a typhus
outbreak, Helen Burns. That character, Miss Temple, works with the sadistic Miss Scatcherd at an institution
that the protagonist attends and later teaches at, [*] Lowood School. The protagonist later becomes a private
tutor for Adele Varens, but bizarre events attributed to Grace Poole eventually lead to the blinding of her lover and
the burning of Thornfield. For 10 points, name this novel, in which the insane Bertha Mason is kept in an attic by
Mr. Rochester, written by Charlotte Bronte.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre [IE]
5. A discredited theory of this man, the first to discuss Olbers’ paradox, used nested platonic solids. One
principle named for him contains the proportionality constant 4 pi squared over G M, and relates the square
of a [*] period to the cube of a semi-major axis. Another law of his describes a line between two bodies that sweeps
out equal areas in equal time, and his first law states that the sun is a focus of the elliptical orbit of any planet. For 10
points, name this German mathematician and astronomer whose laws of planetary motion came from inspecting
Tycho Brahe’s work.
ANSWER: Johannes Kepler [AJ/MJ]
6. This man sculpted an egg on its side called The Beginning of the World. A forerunner to one of his series of
works was the Maiastra. The park he designed in his hometown includes the cylindrical Table of Silence and
a tall stack of roughly hexagonal shapes. His sculptures of women include a curved, featureless [*] phallic
form and a sideways bronze head with a sharp brow. Besides the Endless Column, Princess X, and Sleeping Muse,
he attempted to capture the essence of flight with a long, curved, slender form in one series. For 10 points, name this
Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space.
ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuşi [GT]
7. This man described a middle-class girl’s wish to marry a prince as unlikely in one work critical of religion;
in another, he claims the title figure was a murdered relative of Akhenaten. In addition to The Future of an
Illusion and Moses and Monotheism, he and Joseph Breuer described Bertha Pappenheim, who he called [*]
Anna O, in “Studies on Hysteria,” and in another work he described manifest and latent content within the title
occurrences and introduced the Oedipus complex. For 10 points, name this man who wrote The Interpretation of
Dreams and divided the psyche into the Id, Ego, and Superego.
ANSWER: Sigmund Freud [DB-N]
8. One thinker of this school viewed philosophy as a clash between the tough-minded and the tender-minded
and sought to answer “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy.” Another founder described the method of
tenacity, the method of authority, and the a-priori method to reduce the irritation of doubt in his essay “The
[*] Fixation of Belief.” An American who applied this philosophy to education was John Dewey, this school
included C. S. Peirce [PURSE]. For 10 points, “A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking” is the name William
James gave to what philosophy, which evaluates ideas based on their practical consequences?
ANSWER: pragmatism [DU]
9. One of his biographical works describes 24 historical figures starting with Romulus and another 12
religious figures from Adam to Heracles. In addition to On Illustrious Men, his “familiar letters” describe
climbing Mont Ventoux on a whim, and he left unfinished an epic poem about the [*] victory at Zama by
Scipio, entitled Africa. His Canzoniere contain another form that uses the volta as a bridge between an octave and a
sestet. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance humanist who expressed his love for the unreachable Laura in
many sonnets.
ANSWER: Francisco Petrarca [accept Petrarch] [MJ]
10. Its followers set aside four or five Ayyam-i-Ha, or Intercalary Days, before observing a nineteen-day fast.
One leaderr of this religion translated Epistle to the Son of the Wolf into English; that leader was Guardian
Shoghi Effendi, and its Houses of Worship include the New Delhi [*] Lotus Temple. In favor of abolishing the
extremes of wealth and poverty, its Book of Certitude emphasizes the unity between God, religions, and humanity.
Currently centered at the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, for 10 points, name this religion, founded in 1844 by
the Báb and popularized by Baha’ullah.
ANSWER: Bahá’í [JoC]
[HALF-TIME / SCORE CHECK]
[If a team’s roster has more than four players, that team may substitute players in or out at this point.]
11. This composer’s namesake “snap” occurs in the fourth movement of his String Quartet No. 4, which is
entirely pizzicato, and he wrote an instructional set of 153 increasingly difficult piano pieces called
Mikrokosmos. This composer of Music for [*] Strings, Percussion, and Celesta depicted a “concrete jungle” and
three “seduction games” in his ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, and in his most famous opera, the title character’s
wife, Judith, coerces him to unlock seven disturbing rooms. For 10 points, name this 20th-century composer of Duke
Bluebeard’s Castle, a folk tune-collecting Hungarian.
ANSWER: Béla Viktor János Bartók
12. The first battle in this conflict took place at Kraaipan, and the Fawcett Commission investigated
conditions at this conflict’s “concentration camps”. A later event in this conflict pitted forces under George
White against those of Louis Botha. That event, the siege of Ladysmith, [*] occurred at the same time as an
event involving Robert Baden Powell, the Siege of Mafeking. Preceded by the Jameson Raid, this conflict was
ended by the Treaty of Vereenging. For 10 points, identify this 1899 to 1902 conflict, which involved Great Britain
and the namesake group of Dutch South Africans.
ANSWER: Second Boer War [do not accept “First Boer War”] [IE]
13. The TIM/TOM complex moves material in and out of them, and disorders caused by defects in these
include Kearn-Sayle syndrome and Leber’s optic neuropathy. Substances found within them include
ubiquinone, or coenzyme Q, and release of cytochrome-c [*] from these organelles helps trigger apoptosis. Their
internal fluid is known as matrix, and the inner folds of their bilayer membrane are called cristae. Their maternallyinherited DNA is a subject of the endosymbiotic theory. For 10 points, name this organelle in which electron
transport occurs and in which ATP is produced, known as the “powerhouse” of a cell.
ANSWER: mitochondria [MJ]
14. In one of this author’s short stories, Elisenda charges a fee for people to see the title figure, and in one of
his novels, five perspectives describe the Vicario brothers’ revenge. Besides “A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings” and Chronicle of a [*] Death Foretold, this author of Leaf Storm wrote a novel in which Urbino’s death
leads Florentino Ariza to consummate his love for Fermina Daza on a quarantine flag-flying ship, and another where
a massacre by the banana company is provoked by José Arcadio Segundo of the Buendía clan. For 10 points, name
this Colombian magic realist author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: Gabriel García Marquez [Prompt on just Marquez] [MJ]
15. He received a diplomatic and military education from Epaminondas while held hostage in Thebes. He
made an alliance with the city of Olynthus, which was later broken when Olynthus sided with a long-time
enemy. That enemy, who turned on this ruler after he refused to lease them the promised city of Amphipolis,
was [*] Athens. He defeated the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea; later, his bodyguards assassinated him as he
began to plan an invasion of Persia. Demosthenes wrote namesake speeches opposing, for 10 points, what
Macedonian king, the father of Alexander the Great?
ANSWER: Phillip II [of Macedon] [JoC]
16. This man vetoed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill; like Franklin Roosevelt, his Secretary of
Agriculture was named Henry Wallace. As Governor, he supported Edwin Upton Curtis and Mayor Andrew
Peters by sending the state militia and denouncing the [*] Boston Police Strike. His Vice President won the
Nobel Peace Prize for a post-World War I restructuring plan. The Vice President during the Teapot Dome Scandal,
he was sworn in by his father when Warren Harding died. For 10 points, name the thirtieth US President known as
“Silent”, succeeded by Herbert Hoover.
ANSWER: Calvin Coolidge [DU]
17. One novel by this author depicts the artist Thomas Hudson in its chapter “Bimini,” and a short story by
this author features the wounded gambler Cayetano. In addition to writing Islands in the Stream and “The
Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”, this author wrote a number of short stories centered on Nick [*] Adams.
In one novel by this author, Robert Cohn and Brett Ashley travel to San Sebastián, much to the dismay of Jake
Barnes, and in another, Joe DiMaggio is idolized by the Cuban Santiago. For 10 points, name this author of The Sun
Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway [IE]
18. Achaemenides hitched a ride with this figure, who carries with him household deities called the Penates;
this man’s enemies included Mezentius and Amata. His mother saves him from Diomedes, but he is wounded
in the process, and then saved by Apollo. His [*] father, made lame as a punishment for fathering him, is
Anchises. After being visited in a dream by his friend Hector, he flees Troy, and this son of Venus later sails from
Carthage despite the appeals of Dido. For 10 points, name this man whose descendant Romulus founded Rome, the
title character of an epic poem by Virgil.
ANSWER: Aeneas [AJ]
19. It’s not Palm Beach or Kirkcudbright, but the St. Ignatius Cathedral in this city was designed by William
Doyle. The art deco Sassoon house in this city is now the Peace Hotel. Other notable buildings, such as the
Development Tower and the Oriental Pearl Tower, lie on the western bank of the [*] Huangpu River. This
city’s main airport, served by the world’s first commercial Maglev train system, is called Pudong International
Airport. Including neighborhoods like the Bund, for 10 points, name this city that lies between Hangzhou Bay and
the Yangtze River Delta, China’s most populous urban area.
ANSWER: Shanghai [JaC]
20. The Dirac equation produced a model of this particle consistent with relativity theory. It shares a charge
and spin with two other particles, the muon and the tau. Beta decay can involve the emission of either this
non-neutrino [*] fermion or its antiparticle, and it can be found in locations labeled s, p, d, and f. Its name comes
from the Greek word for amber, and a beam of these particles is shot through a thin specimen in one type of
microscopy. For 10 points, name this antiparticle of the positron, a low-mass, negatively-charged subatomic particle.
ANSWER: electron [accept elementary fermions or spin-one-half particles before “muon” is read] [AJ]
[STOP HERE]
[You have reached the end of the round. Do not continue reading unless the game is tied or a tossup was thrown out
earlier in the round.]
21. One leader of this polity, who created a virtually valueless currency called redbacks, was Mirabeau
Lamar. The climactic battle for the independence of this polity occurred after the Runaway Scrape and saw
Deaf Smith burn Vince’s Bridge. Its resistance began after the abolishment of the Constitution of 1824, [*]
and its first engagement was the Battle of Gonzales. After its recognition in the Treaties of Velasco, it was admitted
to the union under Polk. Santa Anna ceded its territory after his loss at the Battle of San Jacinto to Sam Houston. For
10 points, “Remember the Alamo” was a rallying cry for what polity, known as the Lone Star Republic?
ANSWER: Republic of Texas [accept Lone Star Republic before mentioned] [ DU]
Bonuses
1. Less common types of these include the comb, insertion, shell, game, and tournament. For ten points each:
[10] Name this algorithm that arranges elements in a list in a strictly non-decreasing order. A simple variety is the
“bubble” one.
ANSWER: sorting algorithm
[10] Optimally, a sort algorithm should break the n log n barrier, calculated in terms of this notation. It describes the
limiting behavior of a function, and is often used to calculate computational complexity.
ANSWER: Big O notation [also accept: Landau notation, Bachmann-Landau notation, asymptotic notation]
[10] This Millennium problem questions the relationship between two complexity classes. It essentially asks, “If
‘yes’ answers to a yes-no question can be verified quickly in polynomial time, can they be computed quickly?”
ANSWER: P versus NP problem [or does P equal NP problem; accept reasonable equivalents involving P and NP]
[AJ]
2. This opera was supposedly inspired by the composer’s viewing of Bosch’s Adoration of the Magi, and characters
in this opera include the kings Kaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. For 10 points each:
[10]Identify this 1951 opera commissioned by Peter Adler, the first intended for television.
ANSWER: Amahl and the Night Visitors
[10]Amahl and the Night Visitors was created by this man, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his The Consul and
founded the Spoleto arts festival.
ANSWER: Gian Carlo Menotti
[10]Menotti wrote the libretto for this man’s opera Vanessa. This American composer is also known for his solemn
Adagio for Strings.
ANSWER: Samuel Barber [IE]
3. Answer some questions about quizbowl’s favorite architectural shape, the pyramid, for 10 points each:
[10] What third-largest city in present day Egypt and suburb of Cairo is the home of the three Great Pyramids and
the Great Sphinx?
ANSWER: Giza
[10] Which father of Khafre was the Old Kingdom Pharaoh for whom the largest of the Great Pyramids was built?
ANSWER: Khufu [accept Cheops]
[10] The architect Imhotep designed an earlier Step Pyramid at Saqqara for this Old Kingdom pharaoh.
ANSWER: Djoser [be lenient with pronunciation; accept Horus-Netjerikhet] [JH]
4. This empire used multicolored strings of knots known as quipu to send long-distance messages. For 10 points
each,
[10] First, name this empire in modern-day Peru, whose capital of Cuzco was sacked by the Spanish under Pizarro.
ANSWER: Incan empire
[10] This emperor of the Incas was captured by Pizarro at the siege of Cajamarca in 1532, and executed about a year
afterwards.
ANSWER: Atahualpa
[10] Atahualpa had just defeated this man, his older half-brother, in a bloody war of succession after their father’s
death. Chile commandeered an armored ship named for him during the 19 th-century War of the Pacific.
ANSWER: Huáscar [MJ]
5. For 10 points each, answer these questions about trickster gods.
[10] This trickster god of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest is known for stealing the sun, the moon, stars,
and fire from his fellow creature Grey Eagle.
ANSWER: Raven
[10] This West African trickster god handed four captives to his father Nyame to get all the stories in the world and
store them in a calabash. He is often represented as a spider.
ANSWER: Anansi
[10] Veles is the trickster of this mythology, whose other figures include the thunder god Perun, the forge god
Svarog, water nymphs called rusalki, and a hag whose hut stands on chicken legs.
ANSWER: Slavic mythology [accept Serbian mythology, Russian mythology, or other close geographical
equivalents] [DB-N]
6. One line states that the artist is “gonna fly [the title object] to the moon somehow,” since “like Kevin Garnett,
anything is possible.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this The Lonely Island single, during which one singer rides a dolphin and another experiences the title
phenomenon “like Leo.”
ANSWER: I’m on a Boat
[10] “I’m on a Boat” features this dreadlocked rapper and R&B singer. His single “Buy U a Drank (Shawty
Snappin’)” reached number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 2007.
ANSWER: T-Pain [or Faheem Rasheed Najm]
[10] In addition to partnering up with T-Pain in “I’m on a Boat,” this The Lonely Island member performed with
Justin Timberlake, putting certain parts of his anatomy “in a box”. He also starred in the film Hot Rod.
ANSWER: Andy Samberg [JoC]
7. Name these works by Dostoevsky that aren’t Crime and Punishment, for 10 points each.
[10] This novel follows Rogozhin and an epileptic whose love for Nastasya is not returned, Prince Mishkin.
ANSWER: The Idiot
[10] This novella’s first section is essentially a long pre-existentialist rant about the tendency of intellectuals to
remain inert. In its second section, which almost has a plot, the nameless narrator meets the prostitute Liza.
ANSWER: Notes from [the] Underground [or Letters from the Underworld , or Zapíski iz podpól'ja]
[10] Govorov narrates this Dostoevsky novel about leftist intellectuals at the Verkhonevsky estate. After Nikolai
Stavrogin kills himself out of grief, most of them get arrested.
ANSWER: The Possessed [accept Demons or The Devils; or Besy][MJ]
8. Answer some questons about elemetary quantum mechanics, for 10 points each:
[10] This principle states that no two electrons can have the same four quantum numbers n, l, m-sub-l, and m-sub-s.
ANSWER: Pauli Exclusion Principle
[10] This other principle dictates that it is impossible to simulatneously know the position and velocity of a
individual particle. It is attributed to a German physicist.
ANSWER: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
[10] These rules describe the order in which electrons fill an atom’s suborbital shells. They are based on the Aufbau
principle that electrons are added to the lowest avaliable energy shell of an atom.
ANSWER: Hund’s rules [OH]
9. This work shows a middle-aged woman in a chair, facing the left side of the painting where a dark curtain hangs.
For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this picture, informally known for being a portrait of the painter’s mommy.
ANSWER: Arrangement in Grey and Black: the Artist’s Mother [accept Whistler’s Mother]
[10] In addition to painting his mom, Whistler also painted several of these heavily-criticized works, including one
in “blue and gold” depicting Old Battersea Bridge, and one in “black and gold,” The Falling Rocket.
ANSWER: Nocturnes
[10] Whistler also composed this painting which depicts his Irish mistress wearing the titular kind of clothing and
standing on a wolf skin rug.
ANSWER: Symphony in White no. 1 [accept The White Girl] [DB-N]
10. It is often depicted as a pyramid, with “Physiological” and “Safety” being the bottom two levels. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this theory of motivation which places “Self-Actualization” at the top of its title structure.
ANSWER: Hierarchy of Needs
[10] The Hierarchy of Needs was conceived of by this humanistic psychologist, who also studied “exemplary
people” such as Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglass.
ANSWER: Abraham Maslow
[10] Another humanistic psychologist was this man, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, developed client-centered
therapy, and coined the term “unconditional positive regard.”
ANSWER: Carl Rogers [JoC]
11. Examples of these for phosphorous include the “red” and “white” varieties. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this property whereby one element has multiple bond structures, such as carbon taking the forms of
graphite, fullerenes, and diamonds.
ANSWER: allotropy or allotropic [accept word forms]
[10] Similarly, this property occurs in compounds with the same molecular formula but different molecular
structure. Examples include the “stereo” and “structural” types.
ANSWER: isomers
[10] Enantiomers, a specific type of isomer, differ in their values for this property, a measure of a molecule’s spatial
orientation or “handedness” in which two isomers are non-superimposable mirror images.
ANSWER: chirality [MJ]
12. In this play, Colonel Pickering makes a bet with a phonetics professor. For 10 points each:
[10]First, name this play in which Henry Higgins attempts to make a lady of the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle.
ANSWER: Pygmalion [do not accept “My Fair Lady”, the musical based on Pygmalion]
[10] Pygmalion is a work of this Irish playwright of Arms and the Man, who depicted a disillusioned Salvation
Army official in Major Barbara.
ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw
[10] Another Shaw work is this play, in which Vivie discovers that her mother is the proprietor of a brothel.
ANSWER: Mrs. Warren’s Profession [DB-N]
13. Name these philosophers associated with Judaism, for 10 points each.
[10] This author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus was kicked out of Dutch Judaism for his belief that God was
included within all things. He explains his worldview in his geometrically-arranged work Ethics.
ANSWER: Baruch [or Benedict] Spinoza
[10] Like Averroes, this 12th-century Spanish rabbi-philosopher wrote commentaries on Aristotle. He resolved
Jewish religious questions with 13 principles of faith and wrote Guide for the Perplexed.
ANSWER: Moshe ben Maimon [or Maimonides; accept Rambam]
[10] This German Jewish author fled Europe in 1941, analyzing Nazi Germany and the USSR in The Origins of
Totalitarianism. She used the term “banality of evil” to describe Adolf Eichmann.
ANSWER: Hannah Arendt [MJ]
14. The Supreme Court affirmed a lower court order for it to break up in 1911. For 10 points each –
[10] First, name this monopolistic petroleum trust founded by Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller.
ANSWER: Standard Oil Company [of New Jersey]
[10] Inspired by the bankruptcy of her father’s competing business, this muckraking journalist inspired public outcry
with her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company.
ANSWER: Ida M. Tarbell
[10] This chief litigant against Standard Oil in its Supreme Court case went on to become Coolidge’s second
Secretary of State. In part, he names a failed 1928 pact declaring “the renunciation of war”.
ANSWER: Frank Billings Kellogg [MJ]
15. Name these related organelles, for 10 points each:
[10] The location of RNA translation, this organelle is an important player in protein synthesis. It can be found
either attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum or free in the cytoplasm.
ANSWER: Ribosome
[10] Ribosomes are produced in this organelle, which forms around NORs.
ANSWER: Nucleolus [do not accept or prompt “nucleus”]
[10] After proteins are synthesized, they are often packaged by this organelle. It was also recently discovered that
this organelle contains proteins that prevent apoptosis.
ANSWER: Golgi apparatus [or Golgi Body] [JoC]
16. This prince of Ayodhya was aided greatly by Hanuman in his journey to Lanka. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man who rescues Sita from the demon Ravana in a namesake epic composed by Valmiki.
ANSWER: Rama [or Ram or Ramachandra]
[10] Preceded by Parashurama, Rama is considered the seventh of these figures, incarnations of the preserver deity
of the Hindu trimurti. Others include Buddha and Kalki, who is yet to come.
ANSWER: avatars of Vishnu
[10] The first avatar of Vishnu, Katsyu, appears as this type of creature to warn Manu, the first man, of a great flood.
ANSWER: fish [specifically, a carp] [MJ]
17. This river both drains and supplies Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, and cities along this river include Thailand’s Nong
Khai. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Southeast Asian river, rising in China’s Qinghai Province and emptying into the South China Sea.
ANSWER: Mekong River
[10]The Mekong River forms the border between Thailand’s Issan region and this country. Its capital of Vientiane is
connected to Thailand via the Friendship Bridge, which spans the Mekong.
ANSWER: Laos [accept Lao People’s Democratic Republic]
[10]This city is located near the Mekong delta. Landmarks in this city, the largest in Vietnam, include Reunification
Palace, and its “fall” marked the end of the Vietnam War.
ANSWER: Ho Chi Minh City [accept Saigon] [IE]
18. In this play Abigal Williams accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this play set in Salem Massachusetts, which concludes with the hanging of Elizabeth’s husband John.
ANSWER: The Crucible
[10] This author, who wrote about the airplane manufacturer Joe Keller in All My Sons, wrote The Crucible. He also
wrote about Biff and his adulterous father Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.
ANSWER: Arthur Miller
[10] In this Miller work, Eddie Carbone prevents Catherine’s marriage to Rodolpho by informing immigration that
Rodolpho and his cousin Marco are in the country illegally.
ANSWER: A View From the Bridge [DB-N]
19. Known as the Warrior Pope, this man organized the League of Cambrai to weaken Venice. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Pope, a great of patron of the arts who commissioned Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante, and
who began the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica.
ANSWER: Julius II
[10] Julius II convoked the fifth ecumenical council in this place. The fourth was organized by Innocent III in
response to the failure of Third and Fourth Crusades, and the first confirmed the 1122 Concordat of Worms.
ANSWER: Lateran Councils [or Councils of the Lateran]
[10] Julius II succeeded the third pope of this name. The ninth fled Italy during the Italian Reunification and issued a
“Syllabus of Errors” regarding 19th century science, and the twelfth was Pope during the Holocaust.
ANSWER: Pius [DU]
20. The Odyssey is a big literary influence. For 10 points each, name these authors who ripped off more of it than
most:
[10] This author of Dubliners introduced Stephen Dedalus in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and used him as a
Telemachus figure alongside Leopold Bloom in his Ulysses.
ANSWER: James Joyce
[10] Odysseus keeps wandering, meets Jesus and Buddha, travels to Antarctica, and gets killed by a glacier in this
man’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. He also wrote Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ.
ANSWER: Nicos Kazantzakis
[10] This Caribbean author of “Tiepolo’s Hound” and “A Far Cry from Africa” retold the Iliad and the Odyssey on
the island of St. Lucia in his epic poem Omeros.
ANSWER: Derek Walcott [MJ]
21. Its varieties include amethyst, citrine, and agate. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this class of silica minerals with a hardness rating of seven or lower.
ANSWER: Quartz
[10] Quartz is one of few materials exhibiting this phenomenon, in which an applied stress or strain can cause an
electric field. This property is commonly applied in cigarette lighters and push-start barbecues.
ANSWER: Piezoelectricity [accept word forms; accept piezoelectric effect]
[10] Piezoelectricity is commonly used in the ASDIC variety of this navigation technique often employed by boats
to detect objects underwater via echolocation.
ANSWER: Sonar [or Sound Navigation and Ranging] [DB-N]