ANGST 2010
Edited by Kurtis Droge, Sinan Ulusoy, Hannah Kirsch, and Mike Bentley, with help from Matt Bollinger, Trygve
Meade, Andy Watkins, and Daniel Pareja
Packet by Lisgar (Patrick)
TOSSUPS
1. They were handed out to those who took part in the so-called “Prussian voyages” as well as to those who
fought the Cathars in South-western France. As an incentive, they were given out to participants in any
approved passagium generale, and they were a natural extension of taking up the (*) cross. They were first
granted en-masse during the Council of Clermont for those soldiers who set out to the Levant. The morality of their
granting declined after the Crusades, and "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs"
was claimed by a Dominican named Johann Tetzel, who was selling these when he entered Wittenberg, heavily
upsetting Martin Luther. For 10 points, name this Church practice of forgiving sins after atonement which were
often sold before the Reformation.
ANSWER: indulgences
2. One work of his ends with the Lauranian navy demanding the surrender of the titular rebel leader
Savrola. In one book, he told the story of the uprising of the Mahdi in the Sudan, while in another work he
recounted his experiences as part of a relief force that was dispatched to help William Meiklejohn endure the
siege of Saidullah following an uprising caused by the Durand Line. This author of The River War and (*)
The Story of the Malakand Field Force also wrote a biography of the Duke of Marlborough and While England
Sleeps, which was critical of appeasement. He gave an account of his homeland from the time of Caesar's invasion
through World War One in his A History of the English-speaking Peoples. For 10 points, name this British recipient
of the 1953 Noble Prize for Literature who wrote The Second World War and who served as prime minister during
that conflict.
ANSWER: Winston Spencer Churchill
3. This quantity was shown to lack conservation in a 1956 experiment by Wu in which cobalt-60 was found to
emit decay particles preferentially rather than uniformly, though conservation still holds for strong nuclear
and electromagnetic interactions. That experiment was performed after Yang and Lee hypothesized its
violation in weak interactions. The Laporte selection rule is derived from another rule that states this value is
changed during an electron (*) transition, and for composite systems its value is the product of its value for the
individual subsystems. The implications of this quantity being conserved are that all observable particles have
mirror images that could also exist, and would obey the same physical laws. For 10 points, name this quantity which
all systems possess, which has a value of either positive or negative one.
ANSWER: parity
4. This piece's original orchestration called for a now-obsolete F sopranino saxophone, as well as an oboe
d'amore. Bronislava Nijinksa first choreographed this piece, whose composition may have been prompted by
its composer's frontotemporal dementia. The final repetition of this piece sees an abrupt (*) key change from
C major to E minor, and repeated cymbal clashes and trombone glissandi occur shortly before the orchestra plays a
rapid descent to a C major chord to finish the piece. Snare drums play a triplet ostinato throughout, for 10 points,
what one-movement ballet composition commissioned by Ida Rubenstein and written by Maurice Ravel?
ANSWER: Ravel’s Boléro
5. A corpse washer known as Blind Sayyid is seemingly the only person to not be invited by a mysterious
woman to her hotel room in this author's short story "Room No. 12," while a detective looks for a suspect
with blond hair who is behind such crimes as sending bags of money to the poor and massive poisonings and
fires in "The Disturbing Occurences;" both of those tales appeared in his final collection, The Seventh
Heaven. A beautiful servant named Zohra is the main character of his novel in which Mariana manages a
boarding house known as (*) Miramar, while Said Mahran attempts to get back at the people who put him in jail in
The Thief and the Dogs. The al-Jawad family appears in his best known series of works that includes Sugar Street
and Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this author of the Cairo Trilogy.
ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz (accept "Room No. 12" before "this author")
6. One mutation affecting these organelles can cause a disorder characterized by loss of motor control and
lactic acidosis, Leigh's disease, and salt and pepper retina pigmentation is a characteristic of another disease
related to malfunction of these organelles. Impermeability of part of this structure to NADH leads to the use
of the (*) malate-aspartate shuttle to translocate electrons in these organelles, and translocation of proteins into them
is mediated by the TIM/TOM complex. They are the site of a process that sees the irreversible dehydrogenation of
alpha-ketoglutarate into succinyl-coA. These structures contain cytochrome c, which is released from this
organelle's inner membrane as part of apoptosis; that inner membrane has folds in it called cristae. For 10 points,
name this organelle that has its own matrilineal DNA and is the site of most of the production of ATP in a cell.
ANSWER: mitochondria
7. One character in this novel bribes a driver with two cigarettes to bring him to a house where he finds two
geese, which he kills, eats, and uses as pillow fluff. In one scene from this novel, one character attempts to
cure the bedwetting of Tjaden by making him share a bed with Kindervater, who is also a bedwetter. The
main character feels uncomfortable during a pub conversation with his father and knifes a typesetter, Gérard
Duval, after which he slowly watches him die. One boy in this novel gives his prized foresting boots to his
friends when they visit him in his hospital room. Characters in this novel include a (*) training officer named
Corporal Himmelstoss and the protagonist's best friend, who is nicknamed Kat. The title of the work is the only
phrase given by the German army report for the otherwise unremarkable date when Paul Bäumer dies. For 10
points, name this 1929 novel set during World War One by Erich Maria Remarque.
ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western Front or Im Wes nichts Neues
8. One section of this work outlines feasting, idleness, and extravagance as injurious forms of enjoyment
while claiming that music, friendship, and extolling the virtues of others are advantageous forms of
enjoyment; that same section asks whether one would blame a rhinoceros that has escaped from a cage if it
trampled a tortoise to illustrate the importance of the responsibility of a rulers' advisors. Another section of
this work gives a detailed description of the central figure's diet, including how "he did not partake of wine
and dried meat bought in the market," and tells of how to properly hold a ruler's scepter. That book, the (*)
tenth, is notable for the portrayal of its main figure as an ordinary man. Probably compiled by students of Zengzi,
for 10 points, name this central text of Confucianism.
ANSWER: The Analects
9. He fought a battle of where he was able to deploy his troops from the march and turn away an attack on
his flank by Gibamund. After killing Ammatas, the brother of King Gelimer, he was able to rout the enemy
at Ad Decimum, and he killed another brother of Gelimer, Tzazon, in a victory shortly thereafter. His
bucellari cavalry units won him a victory at Dara over the Sassanids, and would later deceive Witigies by a
ruse and take (*) Ravenna. He lost at Callinicum, forcing his nation to sign an “Endless Peace.” His forces entered
the Hippodrome and helped put down the Nika revolt, but upon his replacement by his rival Narses, a court eunuch,
legend has it that he was blinded and forced to beg in Rome. For 10 points, name this general who reconquered
large parts of the former Western Roman Empire for the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
ANSWER: Flavius Belisarius
10. The words “Excelsis” and “Hosanna” are written on some of the pinnacles of this building, while pelicans
and angels holding chalices rest below the letter Tau in the Tree of Life contained in it. Scenes like Peter’s
Denial and Christ Before Pilate are part of a sculpture series within this building created by Josep Subirachs,
and the architect’s characteristic (*) parabolic arches can be seen in the Passion Façade in this building. The
helmets on sculpted soldiers within this building are a direct reference to the architect’s La Pedrera chimney pots.
Construction on this Gothic Revival building resumed in the 1950s. For 10 points, name this unfinished Barcelona
church designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi.
ANSWER: Church of La Sagrada Familia [or Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia or Expiatory Church of
the Holy Family before mentioned]
11. Created in 1994, updates to this server-side scripting language's fourth release include the addition of
superglobals as well as the introduction of CLI to supplement the CGI. Facebook recently released its
implementation of this language, called HipHop, which converts the language into C++ prior to compilation.
This language, based on the (*) C programming language, was originally created as a form interpreter, hence its
temporary /FI [slash F I] postfix during version 2. The de facto implementation of this language is the Zend Engine,
and variables in this language are prefixed by a dollar sign and their scopes are only defined by functions.
Developed by Rasmus Lerdorf, FTP, name this language whose name is a recursive acronym which appears as the
extension of the many Web pages that use it.
ANSWER: PHP: Hypertext Preprocesser (accept PHP4 or PHP5, prompt on PHTML)
12. Her wedding ceremony involved having her and her husband walk around a column on opposite sides,
but when they met on the far side she was the first one to speak, cursing them to an unhappy and barren
marraige; they later repeated their ceremony successfully, leaving this woman able to give birth to many
people and geographical features, but she (*) died while giving birth to a fire god. Her husband was so
distraught that he went to Yomi, the land of the underworld, to retrieve her, but before they reached the land of the
living, he turned around and saw her decaying corpse, still breathing, surrounded by eight thunder deities. She was
awoken by his fright, causing a rift between them because she had told him to wait for her. For 10 points, name
this queen of the underworld in Japanese mythology, the sister and wife of Izanagi.
ANSWER: Izanami-no-Mikoto (or Izanami-no-kami)
13. He commanded the Army of the Vosges for the Third French Republic during the Franco-Prussian War,
and earlier, during the War of the Tatters, he had supported Brazilian Gauchos. He sacked Gualeguaychu
while supporting the Colorados against the Blancos, who were backed by Manuel Oribe and Juan Manuel de
Rosas, in the (*) Uruguayan Civil War. In a different country, he organized a unit called the “Hunters of the Alps,”
but was disappointed when his hometown of Nice was handed to the French. He proceeded to win victories at
Calatafimi and Volturno as the leader of the Expedition of a Thousand, after which he gave over his conquests to the
new nation of Italy despite his contempt for Cavour. For 10 points, name figure from the Italian Risorgimento
movement, the leader of the Redshirts.
ANSWER: Giuseppe Garibaldi
14. The one Eschate or “the furthest” is now Khujand, Tajikistan. One was located on the confluence of the
Kokcha River and a river now known as the Amu Darya but then known as the Oxus. The second and third
largest cities in Afghanistan are both modern locations of two of these sites. The best-known one began as a
small fishing village called (*) Rhacotis. The one in Aria is now Herat, and the one in Arachosia is now Kandahar,
a corruption of its original name. Two were on the Hydaspes River, one of which was partially named for a horse.
The most notable one featured three harbours- the Western, Lake, and Great Harbours; it also contained the Pharos
and Great Library. For 10 points, the western end of the Nile River delta had the most famous of which cities
founded by and named after the son of King Phillip II, a noted Macedonian conqueror.
ANSWER: Alexandria(s) [accept settlements founded by Alexander the Great or reasonable alternatives]
15. This poem's author claimed that "I am almost sorry I ever wrote that poem... if I'd written a whole
volume of [them] I'd deserve to be spanked and sent to bed with the world's compliments," probably in
reference to its conventional style. It invokes the image of a “swaying mass, their eager faces turning” that
populate the crowded shores, and, earlier in that stanza, it beckons the main figure to (*) "rise up and hear the
bells" because it is for him that "the flag is flung" and "the bugle trills." In its third stanza, that man is described as
having "no pulse or will" and "his lips are pale and still," because, even though "our fearful trip is done" and "the
prize we sought is won," he has "fallen cold and dead." For 10 points, name this poem about the death of Abraham
Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
ANSWER: "O Captain! My Captain!"
16. Abandoned sectors in its largest city include the Factory District and the Works. It was heavily
terraformed during the Yuuzhan Vong war, and its CoCo Town has Dex’s Diner where a Kaminoan
saberdart was identified. A homage to Asimov’s Trantor, this location borders the Perlemian Trade Route
connecting it to Ossus, and the Corellian Run. The Luskanya, an Executor-class Super (*) Star Destroyer was
once buried beneath its surface. It was the main planet in Sector Zero, and had the coordinates Triple Zero, fitting
since this planet was called Imperial Centre during the Galactic Empire. Dooku and Grievous led a CIS fleet over its
surface after kidnapping Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith. For 10 points, the Jedi Temple and Galactic Senate are on
which city-planet and galactic capital of the Star Wars universe?
ANSWER: Coruscant city [or Yuuzhant’tar; accept Imperial Centre before read; prompt on “Galactic City”,
“Imperial City”, “Capital City”, “New Republic City”, “City of the Spires”, “Notron”, “Queen of the Core” or
“Necropolis”; prompt on “(0,0,0)”, “Sector Zero” or “Triple Zero” before read]
17. He was a strong advocate of the now-abandoned Sun Language theory, which claimed that all languages
had a common ancestor, and he set up a series of Peoples' Houses to promote the arts in his home nation. He
successfully defended Tobruk when he resisted the Italian invasion of Libya, and he ended up replacing von
Sanders as the commander of the Thunder Group in Palestine at the end of WWI. He captured Muş while
defeating (*) Russian forces in the Caucasus, and this leader won the battle of Sakarya over the Greeks, earning the
Treaty of Lausanne, which annulled the earlier and harsher Treaty of Sèvres. İsmet İnönü succeeded him and
continued his Six Arrows policy of democracy and secularism. Having earlier fought at Gallipoli, for 10 points,
name this first president of the Republic of Turkey.
ANSWER: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (accept either underlined potion)
18. At the time of his death, he was planning to write a review of the seven sciences from a moralistic point of
view, but he only completed the volume on mathematics. This author of The Subjective Synthesis
distinguished between the spiritual and the temporal in his work "Considerations of the Spritual Power," and
his other early essays include "A General Distinction Between Opinions and Desires." The coiner of the term
(*) "altruism," he developed a tripartite law which stated that civilization was to go from animism to polytheism to
monotheism during its theological stage before moving onto the pseudo-scientific metaphysical stage and then
finally reaching the final stage, where all is based on science and empirical observation. For 10 points, name this
French founder of positivism.
ANSWER: Auguste Comte
19. One compound with this molecular geometry is attacked by ammonia to become methenamine. That
same compound with this molecular geometry is used as a reducing agent in the crossed Cannizarro reaction.
Another compound with this molecular geometry was used as a chemical weapon in the first World War, and
is called phosgene. In addition to (*) formaldehyde, elements with this molecular geometry tend to make good
Lewis acids, such as reacting with an activated benzene ring in Friedel-Crafts acylation or hydrating an alkene in
hydroboration-oxidation. Aluminum trichloride and boron trifluoride share this molecular geometry, making them
good electrophiles due to their empty p orbitals and s-p-2 hybridization. FTP, name this flat molecular geometry
with 120 degree angles from VSEPR (VES-per) theory where three substituents surround a central atom.
ANSWER: trigonal planar (accept: sp2 hybridized before it is mentioned, prompt on formaldehyde before
"chemical weapon"
20. One member of this family is a nearsighted shopkeeper who gives money to her customer Ned Higgins;
she also cares for her brother, who spent thirty years in jail for murdering his uncle. A member of this family
falls in love with an early pioneer of photography named Holgrave, while another member's harpsichord is
still said to be audible despite the fact that her life was ruined after she was hypnotized by one of several
characters named (*) Matthew Maule. As well as such members as Hepzibah, Clifford, Pheobe, and Alice, it also
includes a Judge named Jaffrey and their ancestor, a puritan Colonel whose portrait looms over the occupants of the
titular residence in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. For 10 points, name this family that inhabits The House of the
Seven Gables and shares its name with the author of Inherent Vice and Gravity's Rainbow.
ANSWER: Pyncheon Family (prompt on The House of the Seven Gables before mentioned)
BONUSES
1. The protagonist of this work is married to Natalia, but carries on an affair with Aksinia Astakhov, Stephan’s
wife. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this work, the first section of a larger work, in which the Cossack Gregor Melekhov must decide whether
to join the Bolshevik revolution or fight against it.
ANSWER: And Quiet Flows the Don (do not accept or prompt on The Quiet Don)
[10] This Russian's most acclaimed work, And Quiet Flows the Don, an example of Socialist realism, netted him a
Stalin Prize in 1941 and the Nobel in 1965.
ANSWER: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
[10] This man’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was mentioned in the presentation speech of his 1970 Noble
Prize; he also wrote The Gulag Archipelago.
ANSWER: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2. Adherents to this religion believe that one must go through spiritual development through a process known as
auditing and that different levels of progress are shown on the Bridge to Total Freedom. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this religion that emphasizes survival as a goal. Graphics associated with it include the ARC and KRC
triangles and the tone scale.
ANSWER: Church of Scientology
[10] This founder of the Church of Scientology once claimed that the best way to make money was to found a
religion. I bet that he founded the Church of Scientology for strictly spiritual reasons, though.
ANSWER: L. Ron Hubbard
[10] This figure, whose story, known as the "Wall of Fire," is only accessible in OT III, paralyzed a bunch of people
in a combination of alcohol and glycol to deal with overpopulation, and then sent them to a planet known as
Teegeeack. Once there, he placed them near volcanoes into which he put hydrogen bombs, and then collected their
souls to indoctrinate them with the other world religions.
ANSWER: Xenu
3. NATO stay-behind Operation Gladio and the P2 Masonic Lodge are thought to have stirred up unrest here postWWII. For 10 points each,
[10] After the “historic compromise” between the Christian Democracy and Communist Party, this country suffered
a series of bomb attacks in locales like Bologna; during World War II, it had seen battles at Anzio and Taranto.
ANSWER: Italy (or Italia; accept Italian Republic; or Repubblica italiana)
[10] This name, because of the number of bullets fired, was given to the period of unrest from the late 1960s to the
early 1980s culminating in the assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
ANSWER: The Years of Lead (or Anni di Piombo)
[10] This Marxist-Leninist communist terrorist group was responsible for the death of Moro as well as several other
bombings and assassinations during the Years of Lead.
ANSWER: Red Brigades (or Brigate Rosse)
4. Cubes and squares have figured in the works of many important artists of the early twentieth century. For 10
points each:
[10] Perhaps the most famous painter of the Cubist era, this Spaniard was one of the founders of Cubism, and some
of his most famous works include Guernica and Les Desmoiselles d’avignon.
ANSWER: Pablo (Ruiz) Picasso
[10] This other Cubist’s paintings include Violin and Candlestick and Woman with a Guitar.
ANSWER: Georges Braque
[10] This man painted an Homage to Picasso during his early days as a Cubist. He’s also known for painting giant
still-lifes like Violin with Playing Cards and joining the Puteaux Group.
ANSWER: Juan Gris [or Jose Victoriano Gonzalez-Perez]
5. The Taurus constellation is known for other things besides being a zodiac constellation. For 10 points each:
[10] This perceived eye of the bull is this Alpha star of the constellation.
ANSWER: Aldebaran [prompt on “Alpha Tau” or “Alpha Tauri”]
[10] This nebula was first observed in Taurus in the year 1054, and was the first to be recognized as a supernova
remnant object.
ANSWER: Crab Nebula (accept Messier 1 or NGC 1952)
[10] This star cluster in the constellation Taurus contains stars named after the daughters of Atlas and is the closest
open cluster to the sun, at a distance of 151 light years.
ANSWER: Hyades star cluster
6. The title character of this work wonders, “Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?” before resolving to “scare that infant
thunderer, rebel Jove.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem that ends mid-line with “At length/Apollo shrieked, and from his limbs/celestial…” as
Mnemosyne gives him the power to take the title figure’s place.
ANSWER: Hyperion: A Fragment (Do not accept the Fall of Hyperion)
[10] Hyperion and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" were written by this English Romantic Poet who also wrote odes to
melancholy, impudence, and a nightingale.
ANSWER: John Keats
[10] In this Keats poem, Porphryo is aided by Angela in sneaking into the room of Madeline, leading to their
elopement.
ANSWER: "The Eve of St. Agnes"
7. It is officially defined by some as two quarters of negative economic growth. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this economic term which more generally refers to a prolonged period of economic stagnation and
decline.
ANSWER: recession
[10] The value of all transactions divided by the total amount of money in circulation is one way to calculate this
statistic that measures how often money is spent during a given timeframe.
ANSWER: velocity of money
[10] This economic effect theorizes that initial amounts of spending result in a greater national income than before
through increased consumption spending partially because of the velocity of money; it is often used to justify deficit
spending during recessions.
ANSWER: fiscal multiplier effect (accept the spending multiplier effect or money multiplier or similar answers)
8. It states that for every continuous symmetry in a physical system, there exists a conservation law, FTPE:
[10] Name this theorem, named for a female physicist, which under time invariance can be used to restate the
conservation of energy.
ANSWER: Noether's Theorem
[10] Noether's Theorem necessitates the existence of this conservation law under translational invariance. More
familiar applications of this law include particle decay and inelastic collisions.
ANSWER: conservation of linear momentum (do not accept anything that includes the word "angular")
[10] Energy conservation emerges if a system's Lagrangian does not explicitly include this variable.
ANSWER: time
9. He gained his powers when he touched the gem of Cyttorak while serving overseas in Korea. For 10 points each:
[10] Name that mutant supervillain of the Marvel Universe and antagonist of the X-Men, who did a lot of running
through people and walls in X-Men: The Last Stand.
ANSWER: Juggernaut [or Cain Marko]
[10] Juggernaut’s stepbrother is this bald, wheelchair bound psychic, the founder of the X-Men who frequently tries
to reform him.
ANSWER: Professor Charles Francis Xavier [or Professor X]
[10] Juggernaut is frequently seen partnered with Black Tom, a cousin of this mutant. An enemy of Omega Red,
this former NYPD officer didn't deal well with the death of his lover, Moria.
ANSWER: Banshee [or Sean Cassidy accept any underlined answer]
10. The Koreans used ones known as kobukson, or the turtle type of them, to defeat a Japanese invasion. For 10
points each,
[10] Name this type of military vessel also exemplified by galleys, triremes, and caravels.
ANSWER: ships (accept boats or similar answers)
[10] The turtle ships were used by this final Korean dynasty in its conflicts with Japan; it succeeded the Goryeo
Dynasty and collapsed after Japan's annexation of Korea in the 20th Century.
ANSWER: Choson Dynasty (accept Joseon Dynasty)
[10] This admiral led the Korean fleet at the battles of Sacheon, Myeongnyang, and Hansan Island, defeating larger
Japanese fleets each time. He also fought at Noryang Point with an allied Ming squadron, where he was killed by a
stray bullet.
ANSWER: Admiral Yi Sun-sin (accept Sun-sin Yi)
11. For 10 points each, name these psychologists.
[10] He has been recognised as a pioneer in teaching communication skills and conflict resolution; he has also
written books on "Effectiveness Training" for teachers, leaders and parents.
ANSWER: Thomas Gordon
[10] This behavioural psychologist taught at Harvard, but still found time to work on inventions such as the air crib,
the pigeon-guided missile, and the operant conditioning chamber.
ANSWER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
[10] His studies of aggression included the bobo doll experiment, while his studies of self-efficacy included trying to
get people to overcome their own phobias.
ANSWER: Albert Bandura
12. This battle saw the death of Joseph Mansfield, who was in charge of the XII Corps that were ordered to attack a
sunken turnpike that was a focal point for fighting. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this Civil War Battle that was preceded by Stonewall Jackson's capture of Harpers' Ferry and the Battle
of South Mountain, which allowed Lee enough time to assemble his forces.
ANSWER: Battle of Antietam (or Battle of Sharpsburg)
[10] The Union Army was aided by the discovery of this special order of Robert E. Lee which detailed the
Confederate attack strategy including information on commanders’ locations, roads to be taken, and their objectives.
ANSWER: Special Order 191
[10] This Union General led the northern army, but was replaced by his subordinate Ambrose Burnside after the
battle. He had earlier led the Peninsular Campaign, and he later ran against Lincoln in the 1864 presidential
campaign.
ANSWER: George Brinton McClellan
13. She’s a stock answer for the Canadian high school bad quizbowl program called Reach for the Top. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this prominent Canadian female author of The Blind Assassin and The Robber Bride.
ANSWER: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
[10] Atwood’s first novel, it sees Ainsley have sex with Len so that she can become a single mother and Marian
McAlpin bake a strangely shaped cake for her boyfriend Peter that she ends up consuming herself.
ANSWER: The Edible Woman
[10] This other work of Atwood’s is set in the futuristic-dystopian society of the Republic Gilead, where women are
second-class citizens and the titular character is only identified as Offred, signifying her owner.
ANSWER: The Handmaid’s Tale
14. Many sculptures of the Ancient Greeks have been left for us to marvel at, albeit less intact than they should be.
For 10 points each:
[10] This sculpture, discovered in 1863, lacks arms and a head, but the detailed work of the flowing robe and the
large wings still awe tourists from around the world as they ascend the Daru Staircase in the Louvre. Don't confuse
it with the Venus de Milo.
ANSWER: Winged Victory of Samothrace [or Winged Nike of Samothrace]
[10] Most of the right arm is lost on a Praxitiles sculpture of this god, who is holding his robe and a small child in
his still extant left arm.
ANSWER: Hermes [or Mercury]
[10] Although they're actually fake, five of these types of structural supports in the form of carvings of young
women from the Erechtheion are now in the newly opened Acropolis Museum.
ANSWER: Caryatids
15. It has the highest melting point of any metal, as well as the highest tensile strength. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this element that is derived from the ore wolframite, with atomic number 74.
ANSWER: Tungsten
[10] Name this Swedish scientist involved in the discovery of Tungsten,, for whom an ore of that element is named.
He also discovered oxygen before Priestley, but was beaten to publishing his works.
ANSWER: Carl Wilhelm Scheele
[10] Tungsten is also significant because it has the lowest value of this property amongst all metals. This value must
equal the atmospheric pressure for a compound to boil.
ANSWER: vapor pressure
16. The death of the writer’s friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, prompted the writing of this monumental work of 133
cantos. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem, written over 17 years, which contains the phrases “nature red in tooth and claw” and “‘Tis
better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.”
ANSWER: "In Memoriam A.H.H."
[10] This former poet laureate of the United Kingdom wrote "In Memoriam," as well as works like "The Lady of
Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson [accept 1st Baron Tennyson]
[10] This other Tennyson poem is about a man who returns from being lost at sea for ten years to find his wife
Annie married to his childhood friend Philip; tragically, he chooses not to reveal to her that he is still alive, and he
dies.
ANSWER: "Enoch Arden"
17. Three trombones appear in the fourth movement of this work, supposedly depicting a ceremony in which the
Archbishop of Cologne was made a cardinal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this five-movement work nicknamed for a river.
ANSWER: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Rhenish"
[10] This composer of the Rhenish Symphony is also known for composing the Spring Symphony and being married
to the also musically adept Clara Wieck.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
[10] This other Schumann composition is an eight-movement work for piano depicting a recurring character in the
works of E.T. Hoffmann, and it shares its name with one of the works in which that character appears. Schumann
dedicated this piece to Chopin.
ANSWER: Kreisleriana
18. Two of Heracles’ labours were disqualified because he had help with them, stretching his ten labours out to
twelve. For 10 points each,
[10] Heracles was originally assigned his ten labours because he killed the children he had with this woman, his
first wife, who, by some accounts, was also slain herself.
ANSWER: Megara
[10] One of the tasks that was disqualified was the cleaning of these dirty animal housings. The disqualification
was because Heracles was supposedly helped by a river.
ANSWER: Augean Stables
[10] While he was fighting the Hydra, Hercules was helped by this man, his nephew, who was said to have
founded a mythic line of Corinthian kings through his daughter.
ANSWER: Iolaus
19. This variant of allopatric speciation may cause populations exhibiting it to also exhibit the founder effect or
signs of genetic drift. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this form of speciation in which small populations form adjacent to the range of a larger population of
organisms.
ANSWER: peripatric speciation
[10] This evolutionary biologist came up with peripatric speciation as part of his championing allopatric speciation
and the biological species concept in general. He was an outspoken critic of molecular and mathematical theories of
evolutionary biology.
ANSWER: Ernst Mayr
[10] Speciation that occurs in the absence of a geographical barrier is called sympatric speciation, which in plants
often results from this genetic phenomenon, the presence of more than two homologous sets of chromosomes.
ANSWER: polyploidy
20. Eleven Israeli athletes, five terrorists, and one West German police officer were killed during a massacre in this
city. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this German city that hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics. It saw a hostage situation in the Athlete’s
Village and a two-hour firefight between terrorists and police on an airport tarmac.
ANSWER: Munich
[10] This terrorist group carried out the attack at the Munich games. They were also responsible for the death of Ami
Shachori in a series of letter bomb attacks and for the assassination of Wasfi Tel.
ANSWER: Black September
[10] In the wake of the incidents at Munich, Mossad was granted permission to carry out this extrajudicial operation
to hunt down and kill those who had facilitated the massacre. It included the assassination of Ali Hassan Salameh.
ANSWER: Operation Wrath of God (accept Mivtza Za'am Ha'El or Operation Bayonet or Operation Kidon; do
not accept Operation Spring of Youth)