THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Jonathan Magin, Chris
Chiego
Packet 11
Tossups
1. One character in one of this author’s novels gets a late night job at a variety store but falls asleep each
night. Another character in that novel has both of his feet hoisted up by a rope in a cold shack, requiring
amputation. In another of her novels, an soldier attempts to seduce a “Jasmine” whom he had met in the Blue
Moon Cafe. In a short story, she described a boxing match between Marvin Macy and his ex-wife, who, seven
years after meeting (*) Cousin Lymon Willis, boards up the title establishment. The black cook Berenice takes care
of Frankie Addams, who wishes to join her brother and his fiancee in one of her novels. She wrote about Miss
Amelia Evans in one story and about Biff Brannon and Mick Kelly, attendees of the funeral of the mute Mr. Singer,
in another. For 10 points, identify this author of The Member of the Wedding, “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,” and The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
ANSWER: Carson McCullers
2. Experiments involving reverberating isentropic shock to compress this liquid up to 330 gigapacals provide
evidence for a related compound’s fusion to form the metallic core of Jupiter and Saturn. Its oxide is used to
enhance boron neutron capture theory because it slows incoming neutrons without interacting with them.
That oxide is also typically used as a solvent in IR of proteins. This chemical combines with hydrogen in the
second step of the proton-proton chain to yield a helium atom. Along with its elemental counterpart, this isotope
is typically used in measuring the kinetic isotope effect, and it replaces a lighter atom in chloroform in a common
solvent for NMR spec. Urey’s observation of three faint spectral lines in the Balmer series served as initial evidence
for this isotope’s existence. For 10 points, name this isotope consisting of a proton, a neutron, and an electron, also
called heavy hydrogen.
ANSWER: deuterium [accept deuteron or 2H but not “H2”; do not accept “hydrogen”]
3. This man was known as a “leaf doctor” and a veterinarian while working at a farm called Breda. He stated
“I have undertaken vengeance” in his “Proclamation of Camp Turel,” and signed a secret treaty with
Thomas Maitland to keep his country’s ports open to the British. His nickname may allude to a cannon ball
knocking out his front teeth. This man acquired American naval support during his successful siege of
Jacmel. That battle came during this man’s waging of the “War of the Knives” against rivals Alexandre Petion
and Andre Rigaud. He was ultimately defeated when he was captured by Napoleon’s brother-in-law Charles Leclerc,
coming shortly after his betrayal by Jean-Jacques Dessalines. For 10 points, name this man who became governorgeneral of Hispaniola in 1801 after successfully leading the Haitian Revolution.
ANSWER: Francois-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture [accept either, accept Toussaint Breda, either part, until
Breda is mentioned]
4. A painting attributed to Hans Eworth depicts Elizabeth I in a version of this scene. Charles Bell’s
photorealistic version of it shows some of the figures in translucent clothing wearing sashes and holding a key
and a rose. Another version has the central figure in medieval armor sitting a against a tree in the center,
while a red-winged figure emerges out of a dark cloud holding a bow. That depiction is by Cranach the Elder,
and many depictions of this scene show a peacock standing behind one of the subjects. Another version has
Alecto in a cloud clutching her head above the scene while a man with a winged hat hides behind a tree on the
right, and depicts the figures on the left in various states of undress, the central one wrapping a red cloth around her
backside. One of those nude figures is believed to be Helene Fourment, who looks at a golden apple held by the
central male. For 10 points, name this scene depicted twice by Rubens, in which a Trojan decides which of three
goddesses is the most attractive.
ANSWER: Judgement of Paris (equivalents, they’re ok)
5. In statistical mechanics, these objects can be modeled as a self-avoiding random walk. The end-to-end
vector of one of these objects has a Gaussian distribution, which shows that the most common value of that
vector is zero. One model describing them is derived by considering a lattice in which either one of their
substituents or a solution molecule occupies each cell. The correlation function for one of these exponentially
decays, with an exponent equal to negative s divided by the persistence length. The freely-jointed rod and the
worm-like chain can be used to model them, and solutions of them are modeled by the Flory-Huggins theory. Chaingrowth and step-growth mechanisms are used to synthesize them, and tacticity describes the orientation of their
substituents. Ziegler-Natta catalysts can create, for 10 points, these compounds like neoprene, nylon, and rubber,
which consist of repeating monomer units.
ANSWER: Polymers (accept chain before mention)
6. In one work, he chastises Lloyd for starting the so-called false theory of the “key of the country,” which is a
location which “without possession, no one would dare venture into.” That treatise by this man elucidates a
tirpartite relationship between “primordial violence,” “the play of chance,” and the titular event’s “element
of subordination to rational policy,” which is now known as this thinker’s namesake trinity. In that work’s
first section, “On the nature of” the title action, this author discusses the (*) genius that arises in men because it
leads to a “harmonious association of powers, in which one or other may predominate.” While fighting on the
battlefield, he praised the example of General Scharnhorst, who made hiss ideas clear through his Military
handbook. For 10 points, name this Prussian soldier who wrote On War.
ANSWER: Karl von Klausewitz
7. One skeleton found at this place was that of a soldier who had every bone in his body fractured but his
inner ear. Karl Weber excavated a house at this archaeological site, finding a bronze replica of Polykleitos’s
Doryphoros, a library, and a small scale replica of Athena Promachos on a tablinium. Also where the so-called
“ring lady” was found, modern excavation of this cite began when a scholar was sponsored by the Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies to do so. That man, Rocque Joaquin, did the necessary work for future scholars to find the
House of the Genius and the House of (*) Aristides. The largest private residence at this site contained frescoes of
this city’s namesake figure, was owned by Lucius Calpurnius Piso and was called the Villa of the Papyri. For 10
points, identify this place destroyed alongside Pompei and Stabiae when Vesuvius went boom, named for a
mythological hero.
ANSWER: Herculaneum
8. One character in this play justifies a love affair by reminding the audience that in his youth, he was
preoccupied by making a name for himself rather than finding love. The lover of that character hands him a
medallion with the line “if you ever need my life, come take it” from his book Days and Nights. One character
compares his mother’s relationship with her lover to Gertrude’s with Claudius; for that insolence, he gets run
off stage when two red eyes and the smoke of sulphur are released during a performance. The sound of that
character’s suicide is compared to the pop of a cork by the (*) doctor Dorn, who is attracted to Paulina. In this
play, Medvedenko finally gets to marry Masha, who is still deeply in love with a successful writer who kills the title
animal for Nina. When he realizes that Nina still loves Trigorin, Konstantin Treplev commits suicide. For 10 points,
identify this play by Anton Chekov.
ANSWER: The Seagull [or Chayka]
9. This man was given the Mendi Bible as a gift for his services. In one speech, he proclaimed that the United
States does not go abroad “in search of monsters to destroy.” While serving as a Harvard professor, this man
collected his Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory. He died shortly after calling out “No!” to a House proposal of
honoring Mexican War veterans. In one election, this man was accused of working as a pimp for Czar
Alexander I while serving as the first official Minister to Russia. This man was the defense lawyer for men
like Joseph Cinque during the Amistad trial. He co-names a treaty which settled a boundary dispute along the Sabine
River and obtained Florida from Spain. This man achieved prominence as James Monroe’s Secretary of State and he
became president in the wake of his so-called “Corrupt Bargain” with Henry Clay. For 10 points, name this sixth
president, the son of the second president.
ANSWER: John Quincy Adams
10. Francois Couperin included an allemande and eight of these pieces to explain correct fingering in his book
The Art of Playing the Harpsichord. Out of homage to that composer, the first movement of Le Tombeau de
Couperin is one of these pieces. When prefaced by the word “chorale,” this is the name of the forty-six pieces
in J.S. Bach’s Little Organ Book. Rachmaninoff used one of these pieces nicknamed “chord” as the theme for
his Variations on a Theme of (*) Chopin. The Opus 28 of Chopin consists of twenty-four of these piano pieces,
including one nicknamed “Raindrop.” The Well-Tempered Clavier begins with one of these pieces in C major, and
pairs them with fugues. For 10 points, identify these short pieces named because they originally served as
introductions to longer works.
ANSWER: preludes
11. The recessive form of polycystic kidney disease is caused by mutations in proteins that localize to these
structures, and their ultrastructure is disrupted in DNAI1 and DNAI5 mutants. In the nose, these structures
are covered with G-protein coupled olfactory receptors, and modified ones make up the dendritic knob of
olfactory neurons. A series of BBS proteins localize to these structure, whose mutations cause Bardet-Biedl
syndrome. Defects in them also cause situs inversus in Kartagenar’s syndrome, which occurs because they are
needed for propelling morphogens around during development. The presence of these organelles in Fallopian tubes
propels the egg towards the uterus, and they’re also found on the surface epithelium of the respiratory tract, where
their beating helps clear mucous and debris. For 10 points, name these small hairlike projections on the surface of
some cells.
ANSWER: Cilia (do not accept Flagella, accept basal body due to ambiguities)
12. One of this author’s protagonists prostitutes herself in Nordstjärnan to dehumanize herself, such that she
can exact revenge on her father’s murderer Loewenthal. Besides writing “Emma Zunz,” he examined the
possibility that any object “can contain the seed of a possible Hell” in “Deutsches Requiem” and in a story
about a coin minted in 1929 with letters N T etched on it, which the narrator uses to pay for a drink at a bar.
This author describes a stone pillar in a Cairo mosque with the same properties as the demolished house of
the second place winner of a literary prize. Other stories by this author of “The (*) Zahir” include one about a
boy who falls from his horse and recites specific passages from Pliny and one about a point that contains all other
points, found in Carlos Daneri’s basement. For 10 points, identify this author of “Funes the Memorious” and “The
Aleph,” a blind Argentinian.
ANSWER: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
13. This group was forced to relocate their capital to Venice after Al-Ashraf Khalil’s successful siege of their
original stronghold. These people engaged in a conflict known as the Hunger War because of the devastating
scorched earth policies enacted by both combatants. Eight years after this conclusion of that war, they signed
the Treaty of Melno ending a territorial dispute over Samogitia. One of their early leaders gained controlled
of Burzaland and fought the Cumanes alongside Andrew II. Duke Konrad signed the Treaty of Kruswica
with these people, ceding them control of the Kulmerland, which reinforced the promises made by Frederick II
in his earlier Golden Bull of Rimini. A notable battle featuring them saw their forces under the leadership of Ulrich
von Juningen defeat the Polish-Lithuanian army of Wladislaw Jagiello and Vytautas the Great. Defeated at
Tannenberg in 1410, for ten points, name this crusading order of Germans.
ANSWER: The Teutonic Knights or Order of Brothers of the German House Saint Mary in Jerusalem or
Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem or Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ
Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum
14. In one section of this author’s best known work, the eight-year old Jon lives an idyllic life with all his
wishes gratified; we learn that both Jon and his mother survive despite the father being told he could save
only one of them. Another of this author’s characters absconds with his wife’s pearls and runs off to South
America with a dancer, but returns to that wife, Winifred. He included two interludes titled “Awakening”
and “Indian Summer” in his magnum opus, in which Michael Mont is invited to see a picture gallery. This
author described the wedding ceremony of (*) June and the architect Phillip Bosinney, who dies after learning
that his mistress Irene had been raped by her own husband, Soames. Old and Young Jolyon are major characters in
this author’s trilogy consisting of The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let. For 10 points, identify this British
author of The Forsyte Saga.
ANSWER: John Galsworthy
15. One master of this movement established the Hua Si in Linxia and created the menhuan, known for its
worship at domed graves of members of this order, known as Dongbei. Ma Laichi was a member of this
order, one suborder of which taught obedience to pir and included among its ranks a prominent figure
interred at a tomb in Ajmer. One practice unique to this order involves attuning one’s heartbeats to the
names of God. The (*) Chisti order performs a ceremony that is seen as Bid’ah by opponents, the sama’ which is
performed as dhikr. Adherants to this order often visit religious sites and tombs, such as those of Hafiz and Rumi,
but only the Mevlevi order practices the characteristic whirling. Dervishes are part of, for 10 points, what order that
represents the mystical aspect of Islam?
ANSWER: Sūfīsm [or taṣawwuf]
16. One supporter of this event was Bishop Martin Sasse and it may have been concocted to detract attention
from one man’s illicit affair with Lida Baarova. In the aftermath of this event, William Cooper, an aboriginal
Australian, led a delegation to Melbourne to protest this event. This event was coordinated by Reinhard
Heydrich and many of the assailants in this event dressed in civilian garb to feign civilian approval for this
event. This event was catalyzed by Hershel Grynszpan’s assassination of Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath. In the
aftermath of this event, the targeted group had a 1 Billion reichmark fine levied against them although 1600
synagogues were destroyed. Orchestrated by Goebbels, for ten points, name this November 1938 pogrom that led to
the deportation of over 30,000 Jews to concentration camps.
ANSWER: Kristallnacht or Night of the Broken Glass
17. During this period, Europe was covered by the inland, hypersaline Zechstein Sea and later stages of this
period saw the rifting of the Cimmerian subcontinent northward, an event that formed the Neotethys Sea.
This period saw the evolution of the fusulinids, an early variety of foraminiferous protozoa as well as the
evolution of the first coelacanths. Another event during the middle years of this time is known as Olson’s
extinction after which saw the rise of therapsids such as Gorgonops. Dominant animal species during this period
include pelycosaurs like the sail-backed Dimetrodon and the cynodonts, the clade that includes modern mammals.
Following after the Carboniferous Period, FTP, identify this last geological period of the Paleozoic era whose
boundary with the Triassic is marked by natural history’s largest mass extinction.
ANSWER: Permian period
18. A pair of wolves were thrown to the ground by a group of four warriors during this event. One figure
arrived at this event riding a chariot pulled by animals bound with reins made of vipers. This event occurred
immediately after the son of Rind was born, grew in a day, and killed a particular god. The dwarf Litr was
killed after being kicked during this event, which also saw the ship Ringhorn being pushed out to sea by
Hyrrokin. A horse and the ring Draupnir were placed on the central edifice of this event, and Nanna committed
suicide by jumping on the pyre. For 10 points, name this event from Norse mythology, a ceremony honoring the
death of Odin and Frigg’s son.
ANSWER: Baldr’s funeral or Mourning for Baldr (equivalents, they’re ok)
19. One skeleton found at this place was that of a soldier who had every bone in his body fractured but his
inner ear. Karl Weber excavated a house at this archaeological site, finding a bronze replica of Polykleitos’s
Doryphoros, a library, and a small scale replica of Athena Promachos on a tablinium. Also where the so-called
“ring lady” was found, modern excavation of this cite began when a scholar was sponsored by the Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies to do so. That man, Rocque Joaquin, did the necessary work for future scholars to find the
House of the Genius and the House of (*) Aristides. The largest private residence at this site contained frescoes of
this city’s namesake figure, was owned by Lucius Calpurnius Piso and was called the Villa of the Papyri. For 10
points, identify this place destroyed alongside Pompei and Stabiae when Vesuvius went boom, named for a
mythological hero.
ANSWER: Herculaneum
20. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco contains a copy of this work, which has twenty-four depictions of
prophets and sybils bracketing its main sections. One section of this work shows a group of angels in a
semicircle underneath a heavenly figure, while a nude man is helped up by a man in a robe on the lower left.
Another of its sections depicts the life of Joseph, and another one shows Moses receiving the laws. The work
contains depictions of the creation of Adam, Cain and Abel, and several others, with 10 panels in all. They were
completed with the help of Benozzo Gozzoli and Michelozzo over a period of 27 years. Their creator had earlier
received a commission from the Cloth Importers Guild after winning a contest against Brunelleschi. For 10 points,
name this gilded set of doors on the east of the Florence Baptistry, designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti.
ANSWER: Gates of Paradise or East Doors of the Florence Baptistry
21. One unexpected consequence of this program is the 4-2-1 Problem, in which elderly people are unable to
support themselves. Though it was preceded by the arguably more effective “late, long, few” policy, recently,
this policy was extended until at least 2018 without alteration. Products of a violation of this policy are known
as (*) heihazi and are unable to register for social services, in addition to being at greater risk of being subjected to
child prostitution. For 10 points, name this governmental agenda which led to widespread abandonment of baby
girls in favor of sons as Chinese couples were permitted to reproduce only once.
ANSWER: One-Child Policy [also accept jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; also accept policy of birth planning, which is
the literal translation; accept clear knowledge equivalents]
THUNDER 2010: Lightning Bolt Action
Bonuses by Eric Mukherjee, Auroni Gupta, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dominic Machado, Evan Adams, Chris Chiego
Bonuses
1. An epic poem states that he had a dream in which the moon rose out of Edebali’s bosom, and later saw the rise of
a huge, beautiful city. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this sultan, the husband of Mal Hatun, who began founded an empire after defeating the Byzantines at
the 1302 Battle of Bapheus. He was supported by Ghazi warriors, and founded a capital at Bursa before his death.
ANSWER: Osman I
[10] Osman I was the first sultan of this empire, which conquered Constantinople in 1453. Its other rulers include
Selim the Grim and his Vienna-sieging son, Suleiman the Magnificent.
ANSWER: Ottoman Empire
[10] Osman I broke off from the sultanate of Rum, which by ruled by these people. Their empire was founded by
Tugrul Beg, and their sultan Alp Arslan captured Romanes IV Diogenes in a battle near lake Van
ANSWER: Seljuks
2. This longest work of its composer was dubbed a “choreographic symphony.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this ballet by Maurice Ravel taken from a romance written by the Greek writer Longus, who described
how Lycaenion teaches one title character lovemaking while Dorcon and Lampis court the other title character.
ANSWER: Daphnis and Chloe [or Daphnis et Chloe]
[10] An operetta titled Daphnis et Chloe was written by this French composer, whose other operatic works include
La belle Hélène, Orpheus in the Underworld, and The Tales of Hoffmann.
ANSWER: Jacques Offenbach [or Jacob Offenbach]
[10] Ravel also composed this work for piano and violin, with optional luthéal accompaniment to optimally evoke
the gypsy exoticism suggested by the title, which is another word for “gypsy.”
ANSWER: Tzigane
3. The expatriate general, Xanthippus, helped this city defeat an invasion at the battle of Adys. For ten points each:
[10] Name this city that was ruled by the Barcid dynasty and waged three wars with Rome. Some of its notable
rulers include Hamilcar and Hannibal and Cato the Elder famously said that this city must be destroyed.
ANSWER: Carthage
[10] In 439, Carthage was conquered by this Germanic tribe. This tribe, which was made up of the Silingi and
Hasdangi, sacked Rome in 455.
ANSWER: Vandals
[10] This man was the King of the Vandals when they sacked Carthage. This successor to Gunderic also defeated
the Roman governor, Bonifacius, several times and besieged Augustine’s hometown of Hippo Regius.
ANSWER: Geiseric or Genseric
4. One character in this memoir, No Name Woman, represents a disgraced aunt of its author who committed suicide
from the shame of bearing the child of a man other than her husband. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this work about Moon Orchid and Fa Mu Lan, who liberates her people from tyranny. It is subtitled
“Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.”
ANSWER: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
[10] The Woman Warrior was written by this Chinese-American author who also wrote Tripmaster Monkey: His
Fake Book.
ANSWER: Maxine Hong Kingston
[10] A Gayle Yamada documentary analyzes the works of Kingston along with those of this playwright, who
dramatized Kawabata’s House of the Sleeping Beauties in addition to penning F.O.B. and M. Butterfly.
ANSWER: David Henry Hwang
5. This equation states that the time derivative of u minus alpha times the gradient of u, where alpha is the thermal
diffusivity. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this partial differential equation, which can be derived from Fourier’s law. The Diffusion equation is a
more generalized version.
ANSWER: Heat Equation
[10] Solving partial differential equations relies on placing these constraints, some of which are named for von
Neumann and Dirichlet. They set the values of the functions at the ends of the intervals upon which they are defined.
ANSWER: Boundary Conditions
[10] This dimensionless number is the product of the Prandtl and Grashof numbers and tells whether the transfer
process is conduction or convection. Its namesake also discovered the type of scattering that turns the sky blue.
ANSWER: Rayleigh number
6. The opening words of the major text of this tradition reads “The reason that can be reasoned is not the ever-one
Reason.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this tradition, whose major text attempted to subvert Confucianism with those opening words. Its main
figures included the butterfly-dreaming Zhuangzhi and Laozi.
ANSWER: Daoism [accept Taoism, but Wade-Giles sucks]
[10] Though the literal meaning of this Daoist term is “without action,” this doctrine evokes an understanding of
when and when not to naturally act.
ANSWER: wu wei
[10] This collection of 1400 texts is split into Three Grottoes, evoking the Buddhist Tripitaka. This collection is
divided into the sandong and the Four Supplements.
ANSWER: Daozang [or Treasury of Dao; or Daoist Canon; accept Tao for Dao in all answers, but Wade-Giles
sucks]
7. The creator of this work slammed a would-be patron of it in his Letter to Chesterfield. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this 1755 work that frequently quoted Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden in providing definition such
as: “Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.”
ANSWER: A Dictionary of the English Language [or Johnson’s Dictionary; accept any other phrases that suggest
Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary of some kind, but don’t reveal any alternate answers if this part is missed]
[10] A Dictionary of the English Language was written by this English author, whose biography was written by a
Scotsman, James Boswell. Some of his other works include The Vanity of Human Wishes and Rasselas.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson
[10] Johnson wrote about “injured Thales” bidding this city “farewell” in a Juvenalian poem written about it.
Wordsworth wrote “Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour” in a poem titled after this city “, 1802.”
ANSWER: London
8. Answer some questions about the formation of chemical elements during various stages of the life of the universe.
For 10 points each:
[10] R-process and P-process nucleosynthesis occurs during these events, in which a massive star explodes. They
come in Type IA, IB, IC, and Type II varieties, and the shock wave from one creates a namesake remnant
ANSWER: Supernova
[10] The nucleosynthesis that occurred during the Big Bang postulated to occur by atoms progressively taking up
more and more neutrons. That theory was postulated in a paper named after three people; name all three.
ANSWER: Roger Alpher, Hans Bethe, George Gamow (accept Alpha-beta-gamma or ABC)
[10] scientist postulated a set of three conditions, including CP violation, baryon number violation, and nonequilibrium interactions, that any baryogenesis process would necessarily follow.
ANSWER: Andrei Sakharov
9. In a letter to Joseph Stalin, this man's parents claimed that they were going to develop some technology to make
fertilizer out of beets. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this author of The Science of Biology Today, whose work was brought to National attention by Isaak
Prezent after he developed methods of tripling crop yield. His name is attached to a theory that posits the genetic
make up of an organism is a function of the environment in which they were born.
ANSWER: Trofim Lysenko
[10] Lysenko's method of tripling crop yield involved this method, which sees seedlings soaked in water for a time
then subjected to near 0 degree Celsius temperatures. Afterwards, they are dried and planted.
ANSWER: vernalization
[10] Lysenko's work was not suppressed in part due to his science advocating Hegelian dialectical materialism; this
earlier Soviet thinker also advocated the same views in his April Theses. He also wrote What is to be Done? as part
of leading the October Revolution.
ANSWER: Vladimir Lenin
10. This deity was once revived by the hermaphroditic creature Asu-shu-namir, and she dug seven pits for one of her
lovers according to one text. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this lover of Tammuz, a Babylonian god who personified the planet Venus. She had many lovers and was
known as a real ho.
ANSWER: Ishtar or Innana or Astarte
[10] This sister of Ishtar and ruler of the underworld ordered Ishtar to remove an article of clothing at each gate to
her lair, and after capturing Ishtar unleashed sixty diseases upon her.
ANSWER: Ereshkigal
[10] This servant of Ereshkigal actually does the imprisoning and disease-releasing. He also functions as the
messenger of Nergal.
ANSWER: Namtar
11. In the political cartoon, “General Jackson Slaying the Many-Headed Monster,” this man can be seen wearing a
top hat. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Pennsylvania politician and financier best known for serving as the director of the Second Bank of
the United States, a post which caused him to battle President Andrew Jackson.
ANSWER: Nicholas Biddle
[10] Jackson’s preferred economic policies were reflected in this 1836 order, which required payment for
government land to only be in gold or silver. It may have helped raise prices, resulting in the Panic of 1837.
ANSWER: Specie Circular
[10] This twentieth century historian chronicled Jackson’s political battles in his The Age of Jackson. He also wrote
about the Kennedy administration in A Thousand Days, the Nixon administration in The Imperial Presidency, and
slammed multiculturalism in his The Disuniting of America.
ANSWER: Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
12. Answer the following about archaeological expeditions of a particular pre-Colombian Mexican group of peoples,
for 10 points each.
[10] Scholars of these peoples include Jean-Frederic Waldeck and John Lloyd Stephens, who described their Temple
of the Inscriptions in their city of Palenque. They also have numerous temples at Tikal.
ANSWER: Mayans
[10] This Mayan archaeological site is where you may find El Castillo, or The Temple, which contains Kukulcan's
Throne of the Jaguars.
ANSWER: Chichen Itza
[10] Most scientific information on the Mayans is found in these four documents, named after Dresden, Madrid,
Paris and Grolier. They were recorded in part with Mayan Blue ink, and they describe various disciplines, from
astrology to the weather.
ANSWER: Codexes or codices
13. Dutch art, for 10 points each:
[10] This painting, which has some pointillist elements, is a cityscape of Jan Vermeer’s hometown.
ANSWER: View of Delft
[10] This other Vermeer work shows the muse Clio holding a book and wearing a wreath on her head, while a man
in black sits at an easel and paints her. A map can be seen on the back wall.
ANSWER: Allegory of Painting [or Painter in his Studio or Art of Painting]
[10] In lieu of asking you for another Vermeer, name this Dutch landscape painter whose works include The Maas
at Dordrecht and The Negro Page. He mainly depicted the countryside, and his father Jacob was a portraitist.
ANSWER: Aelbert Cuyp
14. Mrs. Shortley, Mrs. McIntyre, and Mr. Guizac exemplify the archetype of the character with no place to go in
this author’s story “The Displaced Person.” For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Southern author who wrote about gorilla suit-toting “Church Without Christ” advisor Enoch
Emery in Wise Blood. She wrote about a family that runs into The Misfit during a road trip in “A Good Man is Hard
to Find.”
ANSWER: Mary Flannery O’Connor
[10] In this O’Connor story, Manley Pointer seduces the philosophy PhD Hulga Hopewell in order to obtain her peg
leg, proving that he isn’t the title kind of individual, exemplified by the Freemans who help run the Hopewell farm.
ANSWER: “Good Country People”
[10] O’Connor ended this novel with Francis Marion Tarwater burning the woods in which he had been drugged and
raped by a passing man.
ANSWER: The Violent Bear it Away
15. GEM Anscombe has given an example of a man with a shopping a list, and a harmless detective who is
following that man around to show the difference between these entities “world to mind” and “mind to world”
direction of fit. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these constructs that are used by sentient beings that are divided into perlocutionary types and
illocutionary types.
ANSWER: speech acts
[10] Speech acts are often discussed in the philosophy of these entities. The beetle in the box thought experiment is
used to illustrate the principles of a private one, and the work Philosophical Investigations proposes some games
associated with them.
ANSWER: Languages
[10] This philosopher wrote Philosophical Investigations and also claimed “What we cannot speak of we must pass
over in silence” in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein
16. Part of this novel focuses on Rehnjhelm, who travels to X-Koping, falls in love with a sixteen-year old, realizes
that she has long been the mistress of the aged actor Falander, despairs, and returns to Stockholm. For 10 points
each:
[10] Identify this novel about a cafe where the painter Sellen, the suicidal sculptor Olle Montanus, and the
protagonist Arvid Falk congregate to drink tea in the proper bohemian way.
ANSWER: The Red Room [or Roda Rummet]
[10] The Red Room was written by this author, who wrote a play about the brutal slaughter of a finch at the hands of
the valet Jean, who attempts to open a hotel with his mistress. He also wrote The Ghost Sonata.
ANSWER: Johan August Strindberg
[10] Strindberg wrote about a Parisian alchemist in an autobiographical work with this title. The portion of The
Divine Comedy with this title begins “nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita” and sends Dante through the Nine
Circles of Hell.
ANSWER: Inferno
17. This structure, along with the alveolus, is attacked in Goodpasture’s syndrome by antibodies to collagen IV, and
its ability to filter is also lost in Alport syndrome. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this ball of capillaries found at the beginning of a nephron, which filter the blood into the proximal
convoluted tubule. An apparatus found near it secretes rennin.
ANSWER: Glomerulus
[10] The Glomerulus is surrounded by this capsule, which is responsible for picking up the glomerular filtrate and
transferring it to the proximal convoluted tubule.
ANSWER: Bowman's Capsule
[10] These cells, which are present in the space within Bowman’s capsule, express netrin which helps keep the
glomerular filtration barrier intact. They get their name from their long foot processes.
ANSWER: Podocytes
18. After the death of Stalin, this man formed the troika with Malenkov and Molotov. For ten points each:
[10] Name this man, who was killed in a plot masterminded by Khrushchev and Zhukov. This man, who expanded
the network of gulags, was one of Stalin’s secret police chiefs and was the deputy head of the NKVD.
ANSWER: Lavrentiy Beria
[10] Beria’s NKVD was the predecessor to this other Soviet national security agency, which was instrumental in
curtailing the Prague Spring. Dmitri Medvedev’s successor, Vladimir Putin, was a noted member of this group.
ANSWER: KGB or Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti
[10] Beria is from this modern day country, which attempted an unsuccessful rebellion against the Soviet Union in
1924. In response to that rebellion, known as the August Uprising, Stalin and Sergo Orjonikidize enacted stricter
laws and executed thousands of people.
ANSWER: Georgia or Georgian Soviet Republic
19. This man wrote a “triptych” called the Trionfi that includes the Catulli Carmina, a cantata setting the poems of
the Roman poet Catullus. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Nazi friendly German composer who included a setting of the poem “O Fortuna” in his Carmina
Burana.
ANSWER: Carl Orff
[10] Orff developed a method of musical education for children, much like this Hungarian composer of the opera
Hary Janos and a choral work called the Psalmus Hungaricus.
ANSWER: Zoltan Kodaly
[10] Orff’s last work De Temporum Fine Comoedia was premiered by this legendary Austrian conductor and fellow
Nazi who chaired the Berlin Philharmonic for thirty-five years.
ANSWER: Herbert von Karajan
20. One of these molecules found in insects is called trehalose, which has the same components as maltose but with
different connectivity. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these sugars like lactose and sucrose, which consist of two monosaccharide units joined by a glycosidic
bond. All of them are reducing sugars.
ANSWER: Disaccharides
[10] Monosaccharides can be easily viewed in an open-chain confirmation in these diagrams, in which each crossed
line represents a sterocenter.
ANSWER: Fischer projection
[10] This chemical is used to detect reducing sugars like disaccharides by having the analyte catalyse the reduction
of copper(II) to copper(I), generating a red or yellow precipitate.
ANSWER: Benedict’s Reagent
21. Perhaps the most well-known poetic appreciator of tea is this man, who wrote about it in a poem entitled, “Tea”
in his collection Harmonium. For 10 points each:
[10] Name the poet who also wrote “The Emperor of Ice Cream” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
[10] Wallace Stevens may be presumed to have enjoyed this common Chinese variety, whose oxidation is about
halfway between green and black. Its Chinese name means “Black Dragon Tea.”
ANSWER: oolong
[10] Given his Orientalist fetish, Wallace Stevens may also have appreciated this traditional Japanese tea ceremony,
in which powdered green macha tea is presented. It may either be ochakai or chaji.
ANSWER: chado or chanoyu or sado or “the Way of Tea”