KABO Packet 10 (Written by Kurtis Droge, Ashvin Srivatsa, and Will Nediger)
TOSSUPS
1. She wrote about an artist who proclaims herself a guerrilla and a gorilla girl before having a sexual
encounter with Lorenzo in her “Short, Short Story” “Kiss.” One of this author’s characters experiences
a declining marriage with Josh Ace, is told “above all, never be ordinary” by her mother, Jude, and
receives the advice “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about
it. It really is worth fighting for.” The editor of the collection (*) Sugar in My Bowl, this author’s
Parachutes and Kisses continues the story of a woman who embarks across Europe with Adrian
Goodlove, leaving her husband Bennett at a psychology congress while on a quest for the “Zipless
Fuck.” For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Isadora Wing in Fear of Flying.
ANSWER: Erica Jong
2. The story of this man appears in Lucian’s “On the Syrian Goddess,” a text that claims that he built a
temple to Atargatis possibly found at Hierapolis. This man’s children include Hellen and
Protogenea. This man’s most notable action was precipitated by Lycaon’s sacrifice of a young boy and
by Lycaon’s sons serving the organs of their murdered brother Nyctimus in a stew. He received an
instruction to cast the (*) bones of his mother behind his shoulder, correctly interpreting that
instruction to create a group of people by throwing some rocks. Sharing his name with a king of Crete
who fathered Idomeneus, this son of Prometheus refused to allow animals into a chest that he
crafted. For 10 points, name this figure from Greek mythology who survived a flood alongside his wife,
Pyrrha.
ANSWER: Deucalion
3. In the high-osmolarity glycerol pathway, one of these proline-directed molecules lies immediately
downstream from the scaffold Psb2. Proteins in this group are differentiated from one another near
residue 180, at the phosphorylation lip, Persistent activation of one of these proteins is implicated in
late-phase long-term potentiation. Ras exhibits its oncogenic effects via a pathway named for this
enzyme. These proteins are activated at threonine and tyrosine residues by dual-specificity kinases,
such as (*) MEK1, which phosphorylates ERK, a member of this group. The JNK and p38 members of this
group of enzymes relay signals from cytokines and other stressors. For 10 points, name this class of
serine/threonine kinases that participates in namesake cascades.
ANSWER: MAP kinases [or mitogen-activated protein kinases; do not accept “MAP kinase kinase” or
“MAP kinase kinase kinase” or “MAP kinase kinase kinase kinase”]
4. In one study using data from these entities by Ronald Burt, the type of network that people built
was found not to be correlated with their achievement. Jakobsson and Taylor told the story of Phrank
to illustrate how the value of cheating can sometimes outweigh the downside of ostracism from the
community in a paper that compares one of these to The Sopranos. The archetypes of the killer,
achiever, socializer, and explorer are identified in the (*) Bartle Test for people who interact with these
entities. Edward Castronova attempted to create one called Arden: The World of Shakespeare to
further his studies of their economies. For 10 points, name these entities used by sociologists because
of ease of access to data about networks, battles, and level ups, an example of which is EverQuest.
ANSWER: massive multiplayer online games [prompt on partial answer; prompt on “video games;”
accept MMORPGs; accept EverQuest since that’s what most of the studies used]
5. This leader proposed a program by which every citizen of his country would obtain ten thousand
dollars in a type of voucher privatization scheme. His reelection campaign was hurt by allegations
that he had not paid taxes on money given to him by Warner Brothers for the film rights to his life
story and by his refusal to shake his opponent’s hand. As president, he dismissed the government of
Hanna Suchocka, accused Jozéf (*) Oleksy of collaborating with foreign intelligence, and ruled by the
terms of the Small Constitution. His party ruled with a thick line policy of forgiving members of the
previous government. He participated in the Round Table Talks with the government of Wojciech
Jaruzelski. For 10 points, name this first leader of Poland following the fall of communism who also led
the Solidarity movement.
ANSWER: Lech Walesa
6. This artist included a blue floor and a window that looks out onto a scene dominated by a blue sea
and sky in the middle of a painting inspired by a T.S. Eliot work, while another of his paintings shows a
hybrid between a bird and a chimpanzee in some grass and features a prominent row of teeth. This
painter of Sweeney Agonistes showed a man bent over a toilet bowl in a work painted in reaction to
the suicide of his lover, George (*) Dyer. He was inspired by a scene from Battleship Potemkin to create
a work in x-ray like fashion that shows a subject of a Velasquez painting screaming, and his best known
work draws from the legend of the furies to show a triad of tormented figures against an orange
backdrop. For 10 points, name this artist of Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
ANSWER: Francis Bacon
7. The caste system of this polity consisted of sdech, or royalty, neamoeun montrey, or nobility, and
reastr, or peasants. One of the most prominent primary sources about this polity notes how the
women conducted all the affairs in their markets and that they had no chairs or tables in their homes;
that text was written by Zhou (*) Daguan. Much of this polity’s early religious fervor centered on the
cult of Devaraja. One of this polity’s rulers destroyed many statues of Buddha and worshipped Shiva,
though his successor promulgated Theravada Buddhism. This polity emerged from the Chenla kingdom,
and it fought against the neighboring Champa kingdom. Its leaders included eight men named
Jayavarman. For 10 points, name this Cambodian empire that constructed the temple complexes at
Angkor.
ANSWER: Khmer Empire
8. A mythologically-named form of this process is ineffective below the recoil limit, and is dominated
by the dipole force, which does not saturate. Some forms of this technique are ineffective when a
certain value is less than “pi times h-bar times the natural linewidth divided by Boltzmann’s
constant”. One form of this technique operates in the presence of three mutually-orthogonal
polarization gradients and produces a velocity-dependent force with a damping coefficient
proportional to the partial of the scattering force with respect to angular frequency. The most
common form of it, discovered around the same time as chirping, widens an atomic transition over
the length of a solenoid via the (*) Zeeman effect to facilitate the scattering of Doppler-shifted photons.
For 10 points, name this process, another example of which is “optical molasses”, in which a certain
light-amplifying device is used to decelerate particles.
ANSWER: laser cooling [prompt on “cooling”; prompt on “optical trapping”]
9. He wrote about three brothers who fall in love with the same woman, who marries the man that
their sister tried to seduce using magical rituals, in his book The Return of the Spirit, in which he
represented himself as the character Mushin. In a play by this man, a condemned man trying to delay
his execution reveals that the title ruler is technically a slave. This author of a play in which Priska
spends three hundred years asleep only to find himself attracted to a descendant of the girl he loved
created a drama in which a group of individualistic (*) creatures in the household of Adil and Samia are
contrasted with the more socially dependent ants. For 10 points, name this author of The People of the
Cave and The Fate of a Cockroach who hails from Egypt.
ANSWER: Tawfiq al-Hakim
10. In Thailand, the Ubon Ratchathani festival traditionally involves the parading of these objects,
that, according to a Buddhist saying, illustrate the principle that happiness never decreases by being
shared. Two of these objects are used to represent the concepts of “keep” and “remember” during
ceremonies for the Jewish Shabatt, while one of these objects is displayed for twenty four hours
during the (*) Yahrzeit. Proverbs 20:27 compares the soul of man to one of these objects of God. The
Paschal one of these objects is a very large and ornate one used during Easter ceremonies, and, in
Christianity, groups of these objects are traditionally placed as offerings. A Menorah is designed to hold
nine of these objects during Hanukkah. For 10 points, name these wax objects that maintain a flame.
ANSWER: candles [prompt on “flames” or “lights”]
11. The product of the elementary divisors of one of these mathematical objects is equal to its
minimal polynomial if it is nonderogatory. The multiset of elementary divisors is invariant for similar
ones, where similarity is defined as an equivalence class under conjugation by an automorphism in GL.
When the codomain is a field, these functions are one-forms. A subspace is cyclic if it is generated by
the action of exactly one of these functions an element of the subspace. These maps are the (*)
endomorphisms of vector spaces since they distribute over addition and scalar multiplication. The set of
all vectors that one of these maps to zero is the nullspace. For 10 points, identify these maps which, in
the case of a finite-dimensional domain and codomain, can be represented by matrix multiplication.
ANSWER: linear mappings [or linear operators; or linear transformations; accept linear functions;
accept just linear after “functions” is read; prompt on “matrices” before “matrix” is read]
12. Benjamin Kaplan delivered a series of lectures on this topic which were published as “An
Unhurried View of” this concept. Michele Boldrin and David Levine discuss the 9/11 commission
report in a book chapter arguing against this specific concept. This concept and a similar one are
subject to the first-sale doctrine. The scope of this legal concept was the subject of (*) Baker v. Selden,
which dealt with the idea-expression dichotomy. The rule of the shorter term is a clause in many
agreements governing this concept, including the Berne Convention. This concept is the subject of the
film RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, which interviewed Lawrence Lessig. An exception to this concept is the
idea of “fair use.” For 10 points, name this legal concept which gives authors exclusive control over their
creations.
ANSWER: copyright [prompt on intellectual property]
13. In one novel set in this city, the protagonist helps a prostitute known as “The Singer” with the aid
of Walter Murph before returning to his homeland to become Grand Duke of Gerolstein. Part of Book
Four of Simplicius Simplicissimus is set in this city, where the main character becomes renowned for
his skills with a lute but contracts syphilis after he goes on a week long sex binge. In a different novel,
the protagonist experiences (*) love at first sight with the wife of an art dealer while on a boat
departing from this city. Eugene Sue wrote about “The Mysteries of” this city, where Marius falls in love
with Cosette in the Luxembourg Gardens before being saved by Jean Valjean at a barricade. For 10
points, name this city, the setting for most of Sentimental Education and Les Misérables.
ANSWER: Paris
14. The parents of the protagonist of this book are perpetually angry at the protagonist’s wife
because she has formed a bond of friendship akin to a sisterhood with a prostitute. The protagonist
becomes indebted to a neighbor after becoming a guarantor to a loan for fifty pieces of silver. In this
book, the protagonist’s wife dies of worsening tuberculosis after attempting to weave depictions of
the Heart Sutra. This work’s first section describes “The Joys of the (*) Wedding Chamber,” while its
third section describes “The sorrows of Misfortune.” Much of this work describes the relationship
between the author and his wife, Yun. For 10 points, name this autobiographical account of life under
the Ch’ing Dynasty written by Shen Fu that was originally planned to have six parts.
ANSWER: Six Records of a Floating Life [or Fú Shēng Liù Jì]
15. The pen name Paul Thompson was used to author a timeline of the lead-up to this event, and that
timeline was used as the basis for a movie about it subtitled “Press for Truth.” The so-called Jersey
Girls, comprised of women who lost their husbands during this event, criticized Philip Zelikow’s
appointment as executive director of the commission that investigated it. That commission was led
by Lee (*) Hamilton and Thomas Kean. This event led to a sixteen dollar spike in gold prices, and its
aftermath saw the largest single day point drop for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Leonie Brinkema
presided over the trial of a man who may have intended to be the twentieth agitator in this event,
Zacarias Moussaoui. For 10 points, name this terrorist attack that brought down the Twin Towers.
ANSWER: 9/11 Attacks [or September Eleventh Attacks; accept equivalents or more specific answers,
but do not accept anything referring to the first World Trade Center bombing]
16. One of these works of art depicts several hands emerging like branches from a tree, while another
uses a converging spiral to represent the tail of a monkey. One of them depicts a long, pointed beak
of a condor, and such a long, narrow shape is used again to represent the back end of a hummingbird
and the tail of a dog in other installments. Perhaps the most famous of these works of art shows a (*)
spider’s eight legs in four groupings of two, using a circle to represent the back portion of its body. Jim
Woodman postulated that their creators used hot air balloons in ceremonies involving them, while Joe
Nickell recreated their construction, which involves removing red rocks to expose the white rock
underneath. For 10 points, name this ancient series of giant drawings found in Peru.
ANSWER: Nazca Lines
17. One character in this novel remembers how he got his first job when his application letter was
chosen randomly from a sack full of applications. Another character in this novel is pestered by her
father to donate her inheritance towards establishing a journal with Mr. Quarmby. This novel’s
protagonist helps find work for his sisters Dora and Maud after they move to London from the
country. One plotline in this novel tells of the financial woes of a couple after the husband is not able
to live up to the success of his short story “On Neutral Ground.” In this book, Marian (*) Yule is
spurned by Jasper Milvain in favor of Amy, the widow of Edwin Reardon, because of Amy’s sizable
fortune. For 10 points, name this novel that tells about various types of writers in Victorian England,
written by George Gissing.
ANSWER: New Grub Street
18. In one reaction with this type of catalysis, a gamma-hydrogen is abstracted from a ketone,
producing a 1,4-diradical that may cyclize to form a cyclobutane. In that reaction of this type, the
Norrish reaction, the stereochemistry of the product is determined by the degree of intersystem
crossing. Porter et al. won the 1967 Nobel Prize for developing a technique employing this type of
reaction that was the first to provide sub-millisecond spectroscopic resolution. The reactivity of
activated complexes in these reactions can be quantified by the Stern-Volmer relation. The transition
states of these reactions are called exciplexes. These reactions are often conducted in media like
penta-1,3-diene, which is a (*) triplet quencher. The synthesis of xenon fluorides and the formation of
halogen radicals from atmospheric CFCs both occur via one of these reactions. For 10 points, identify
these reactions, in which electron excitation provides the activation energy.
ANSWER: light-catalyzed reactions [or photon-catalyzed reactions; or photochemical reactions; or
obvious equivalents that mention “light” or “photons”]
19. The Bodley 277 Woodcut displays this king and eight sick people, an allusion to his healing
powers. Those powers were championed by his cult, which inspired a shrine around St. George’s
Chapel in Windsor Castle after a book about his life was compiled by John Blacman. This monarch’s
youth was dominated by a power struggle between his two advisors, Humphrey, the Duke of
Gloucester, and Henry Beaufort, the Bishop of Winchester. A rebellion against him originated in (*)
Kent, culminated in a battle on London Bridge, and was led by Jack Cade. The founder of King’s College
in Cambridge, he was reinstated with the help of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, and his wife,
Margaret of Anjou. For 10 points, name this final Lancaster monarch who died during the Wars of the
Roses.
ANSWER: Henry VI [prompt on partial answer]
20. This thinker attempted to tackle the problem of miracles by comparing religion to science, stating
that an observation that goes against the laws of nature might occur because we do not fully
comprehend those laws. This thinker distinguished between the destruction of the self by external
factors, which prevents the destruction of the self from within through belief in God, in a work that
was edited by Gustave Thibon, (*) Gravity and Grace. This thinker discussed the use of force in the Iliad
in one essay, and she outlined how people became disconnected from their communities and their
environment, which she dubbed uprootedness, in her book The Need for Roots. For 10 points, name
this woman who died during World War Two after refusing to eat more than a soldier’s rations, a French
mystic.
ANSWER: Simone Weil
21. This composer included “Kopsin Jonas” and “Pirun Polska” in a piano suite based on a collection
of folk tunes by Samuel Rinda-Nicola, The Fiddlers. He included a trombone solo in the first
movement of a piece scored for thirteen brass instruments, a timpani, and a percussion section, his A
Requiem in Our Time. David Pickett conducted the premiere of this composer’s seventh symphony
with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra; that symphony contains a final movement marked
pesante and is called (*) Angel of Light. A solo for two flutes opens a piece he wrote with movements
“The Marsh,” “Melancholy,” and “Swans Migrating.” For 10 points, name this composer who used
birdsong in his Cantus Arcticus, most notable for hailing from Finland.
ANSWER: Einojuhani Rautavaara
BONUSES
1. One of these works shows the subject in an oval frame wearing a black hat and with grey hair that
matches the color of his suit. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these artistic depictions, another of which shows the subject seated next to an antique bust,
and a third of which sees the subject seated on a large red chair that appears to the left of the canvas.
ANSWER: Self-Portraits of Benjamin West [prompt on partial answer]
[10] Benjamin West may be best known for this painting that shows the demise of a British commander
at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
ANSWER: The Death of General Wolfe
[10] Another of West’s paintings shows this man signing a treaty with the Indians. It depicts white men
on its left and Indians on its right, while a house under construction appears in the background.
ANSWER: William Penn
2. This city was built by the Minyans, who built a canal to drain the Plain of Kopais, and they were
amongst the first in Greece to issue currency. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this city, later the site at which Sulla defeated Archelaus during the Second Mithradatic War.
ANSWER: Orchomenos [or Orchomenus]
[10] Orchomenus was a neighbor of this city, which, for a time, was the chief member of the Boeotian
League. Epaminondas was a general who fought for this city.
ANSWER: Thebes
[10] Some of the finding at Orchomenos include this type of burial site, built of masonry and with a
domed shaped, that are characteristic of the Mycenaean civilization.
ANSWER: tholos tomb [or beehive tomb]
3. This poet stated that it did not matter whether “on a throne or on bare earth we die” in a poem that
begins with the line “The world, my brother! Will abide with none.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poet who wrote that “It is the Invisible that sustains you every moment” in his poem
“How could I ever thank my Friend?” He wrote the collection Bostan, translated as The Orchard.
ANSWER: Saadi Shirazi
[10] Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an introduction to this Saadi work, a collection of stories and poems
often containing a moral. In one part, the author is told by a piece of clay that it smells sweet only
because it has been in the company of a flower.
ANSWER: Gulistan [or The Rose Garden]
[10] Another Persian poet was this man who penned the line “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, /
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou” in his collection of quatrains, the Rubaiyat.
ANSWER: Omar Khayyam
4. Project STORMFURY sought to reduce the intensity of these systems by seeding their eyewalls with
silver iodide. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these violent weather systems that rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
One of these may have formed over Lake Huron in 1996.
ANSWER: hurricanes [or typhoons; or tropical cyclones; prompt on “cyclones”]
[10] The bed of Lake Huron, like that of all the Great Lakes, has been increasing in elevation since about
ten thousand years ago because of this process, in which the crust slowly returns to gravitational
equilibrium.
ANSWER: isostatic rebound [or post-glacial rebound; or continental rebound; accept “adjustment” in
place of “rebound”; prompt on “isostasy”]
[10] The rate of isostatic rebound provides a measure of this property of the mantle, which increases
tenfold at the 670-km discontinuity. This quantity can be determined by solving the geoid inversion
problem.
ANSWER: viscosity of the mantle
5. This scenario is exemplified by an experiment where everyone is asked to guess what 2/3 of the
average of all guesses will be when people are limited to guessing integers between zero and 100, in
which the Nash equilibrium is strangely for everyone to guess zero. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this game whose title derives from its original application, in which participants were asked
to evaluate a series of photos and choose which women society would find most attractive.
ANSWER: beauty contest game [or Keynesian beauty contest, but DO NOT mention Keynes unless that
answer is given by a team]
[10] The original formulation of the beauty contest game was given by this economist in his General
Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, and he names a major school of macroeconomics.
ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes
[10] Some players of the beauty contest game will guess randomly or guess two thirds of the average of
all possible guesses, displaying this type of behavior. Explored by Herbert Simon, in this type of decision
making, agents do not have the mental faculty, time, or information to reach the optimal outcome.
ANSWER: bounded rationality [prompt on “satisficing”]
6. The sister of Kastril, this character is tricked using a horoscope into believing that she will marry a
man dressed as a Spanish nobleman, though she remarks that she dislikes the Spanish because they
were once an enemy of the English. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this widow who eventually marries Lovewit after being pursued by Face and Subtle.
ANSWER: Dame Pliant
[10] Dame Pliant, as well as Face and Subtle, were created by this author in his play The Alchemist. He
also wrote Bartholomew Fair, Volpone, and some poetry about a woman named Celia.
ANSWER: Ben Jonson
[10] This play, a collaboration between Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe named after a region in London,
was suppressed after its 1597 premiere by the Privy Council, and its manuscript is now lost.
ANSWER: The Isle of Dogs
7. This thinker saw a divide between the moderation of ancient philosophers and the more
authoritative stances of modern philosophers. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this thinker known for studying the connections between politics and religion. His books
include Persecution and the Art of Writing and Natural Right and History.
ANSWER: Leo Strauss
[10] Strauss’s early work Philosophy and Law was written as the attack of the epistemologically centered
views of this thinker, Strauss’s teacher, who wrote The Philosophy of Judaism.
ANSWER: Julius Guttman
[10] Strauss’s views are sometimes dubiously cited as a precursor for this intellectual and political
movement associated with Paul Wolfowitz that stresses the necessity of exporting democracy.
ANSWER: neoconservatism
8. In most UNIX shells, the object created by this operation is overlaid with new binary code via an exec
call. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this operation, in which a process is duplicated.
ANSWER: fork
[10] Forking is particularly useful on processors that can run multiple of these constructs at once. These
constructs are the smallest separable unit of executable code, and can be run simultaneously via rapid
context switching or in true parallel on a multi-core system.
ANSWER: threads
[10] These objects can be used to prevent more than one thread at a time from accessing a critical
section of code. These objects are a special case of a semaphore, and can only be released by the thread
that created them.
ANSWER: mutexes [or mutual exclusions; prompt on “locks”]
9. A split arose between this movement and preservationism, which did not advocate the use of
national lands for industry as well as for setting them aside for their natural beauty. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this movement, one of whose members was George Perkins Marsh, a precursor of
environmentalism that saw success with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park.
ANSWER: conservation movement [accept word forms]
[10] This preservationist was instrumental in the founding of the Sierra Club and the establishment of
Yosemite National Park. He recounted a walking trip from Indiana to Florida is his book A ThousandMile Walk to the Gulf.
ANSWER: John Muir
[10] This writer and lecturer lived for a time amongst the Ojibwe in Canada. Though people thought he
was a Native American, he gained fame when he toured across Britain, where he was really from.
ANSWER: Grey Owl [or Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin; or Archibald Belaney]
10. For 10 points each, name some stuff related to Native American methods of agriculture:
[10] The three crops known as the “Three Sisters” were corn, beans, and this one, which would spread
along the ground to block weed growth. Varieties of this plant include Hubbard and butternut.
ANSWER: squash
[10] The Nahuatl for “to the field” names this system of agriculture, prevalent in the Yucatan Peninsula,
in which fields are harvested for two years and then left fallow for eight years.
ANSWER: milpa
[10] These beds were created by the Aztecs in lakes by raising up fenced-in areas with soil and
vegetation. They were then used for agriculture or gardening, and were known for their high yields.
ANSWER: chinampas
11. For 10 points each, name some groups of people whom Peter the Great interacted with:
[10] After visiting the West, Peter imposed a beard tax on this group of nobles as part of his effort to
modernize and civilize their habits.
ANSWER: Boyars
[10] In 1698, a portion of these troops rebelled, hoping to gain the support of Sophia Alekseyevna. This
led Peter to gradually wane their influence.
ANSWER: Streltsy
[10] Peter organized this force in his youth, allegedly to practice war games. Later, they became
imperial guards and may have split into the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments.
ANSWER: Toy Army
12. Practitioners of this religion sometimes write prayers on wooden boards called emas, and an
important aspect of this religion is purification, known as harae. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Japanese religion that worships deities called kamis.
ANSWER: Shintoism
[10] The Eight Hand Mirror, or Yata no Kagami, is found in this Shinto shrine that is rebuilt every twenty
years and is comprised of the Naikū and Gekū, its inner and outer portions.
ANSWER: Ise Grand Shrine [or Jingū]
[10] The holiest part of a Shinto shrine, this portion usually contains a statue or a mirror and is closed off
from the public by means of a tamagaki fence.
ANSWER: honden
13. This transformation converts momentum-space wavefunctions into position-space wavefunctions,
and vice versa. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this transformation which converts between the time-domain and frequency-domain
representations of a function.
ANSWER: Fourier transform
[10] The Fourier transform of the power spectrum of an electromagnetic wave yields this function of the
wave, according to the Wiener-Khinchin theorem. Convoluting a function with a time-lagged version of
itself also yields this function.
ANSWER: autocorrelation function [or self-coherence function]
[10] This function is the autocorrelation function for white noise. It is the continuous analog of a similar
function named for Kronecker.
ANSWER: Dirac delta function [prompt on partial answer]
14. Its composer’s wife, Victoria, claimed that it was inspired by their honeymoon followed by a sudden
miscarriage. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this piece of music most notable for its second movement adagio, which includes the main
melody played by an english horn. Scored for an orchestra and a solo guitar, it is named after the site of
a royal palace.
ANSWER: Concierto de Aranjuez
[10] Joaquín Rodrigo, the composer of the Concierto de Aranjuez, also wrote this piece that includes
“Hatchet Dance,” “Canario,” and several melodies drawn from the guitarist Gaspar Sanz.
ANSWER: Fantasía Para un Gentilhombre [or Fantasia for a Gentleman]
[10] This musician included a version of the melody from the second part of the Concierto de Aranjuez in
his album Sketches of Spain. A frequent collaborator of Gil Evans, he also recorded Kind of Blue.
ANSWER: Miles Davis
15. One of the pieces of literature associated with this group are the Historic Eight Documents, which
were written by Charu Majumdar. For 10 points each:
[10] Give the term for violent communist insurgencies in India. A leader of part of this movement,
Kishenji, was killed in 2011, and they carried out a series of attacks in Chhattisgarh in 2010.
ANSWER: Naxalites [or Naksalvadi]
[10] Much Naxalite ideology is derived from the writings and actions of this communist leader of China,
whose works also seem to have inspired the Shining Path in Peru.
ANSWER: Mao Zedong [accept either name]
[10] The Indian Peace Keeping Force was dispatched to deal with this other militant group whose attack
on the Four Four Bravo group of soldiers led to the Black July Riots.
ANSWER: Tamil Tigers [or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]
16. Among the domains of this goddess were childbirth, fertility, and crafts associated with women such
as sewing. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Aztec deity who was forced away from her first husband after being kidnapped by
Tezcatlipoca. Sacred marigolds were associated with her.
ANSWER: Xochiquetzal
[10] Xochiquetzal’s first husband was this rain deity, a frequent recipient of human sacrifices who was
later married to Chalchiuhtlicue.
ANSWER: Tlaloc
[10] Bernardino de Sahagún compiled this account of Aztec myths, society, and history in twelve
books. Written in Nahuatl, it is usually named for the Italian city where it was kept.
ANSWER: Florentine Codex [or General History of the Things of New Spain]
17. For 10 points each, name these psychologists who studied conformity:
[10] This dude asked people to verbally identify the motion of a light source that was actually due to the
autokinetic effect and observed how people internalized the averages of their groups’ estimates.
ANSWER: Muzafer Sherif
[10] Perhaps the most famous experiment about conformity was conducted by this psychologist. In it,
people were liable to incorrectly identify which of three lines was shortest when their peers made the
same error.
ANSWER: Solomon Asch
[10] This man, who has worked to bridge the gap between Israeli and Palestinian thinkers, devised
compliance, internalization, and identification as three times of attitude changes that lead to
conformity.
ANSWER: Herbert Kelman
18. For 10 points each, name some authors who have influenced movies:
[10] This man wrote screenplays for the Hollywood adaptations of Gunga Din and To Have and Have
Not. The movie The Story of Temple Drake was based on one of his novels.
ANSWER: William Faulkner
[10] Marlon Brando played the lead in both the theatrical production and the movie version of one of
this man’s plays in which in the role of Blanche DuBois was played by Vivian Leigh on screen. Gore Vidal
worked on the screenplay for a movie based on his play Suddenly, Last Summer.
ANSWER: Tennessee Williams
[10] This author of the screenplays for Milk and J. Edgar wrote about the trial at which the California law
banning same sex marriages was overturned using court transcripts in his play 8.
ANSWER: Dustin Lance Black
19. The ABC model of flower development was developed based on observations of mutations in this
model organism. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this plant, a relative of the mustard, and the first plant to have its genome sequenced.
ANSWER: Arabidopsis thaliana [or A. thaliana; or thale cress]
[10] The aforementioned mutations in Arabidopsis were in this type of gene. These genes determine
where particular body parts develop, and in animals, control body segmentation.
ANSWER: homeotic genes [prompt on “Hox” or “homeobox”]
[10] First discovered in Arabidopsis, these compounds respond to blue light and mediate phototropism
in plants. Radical dimers of these compounds in the eyes of birds may allow them to perceive magnetic
fields.
ANSWER: cryptochromes
20. For 10 points each, name some photographers who displayed social injustices of their day:
[10] This photographer was invited by Ralph Merritt to take such photographs as Tom Kobayashi,
Landscape, South Fields and Pleasure Park to showcase conditions in Manzanar, which he turned into
the book Born Free and Equal.
ANSWER: Ansel Adams
[10] She highlighted the effects of the Great Depression on the poor in such photographs as Waiting for
Relief Checks, taken in Calipatria, and Migrant Mother.
ANSWER: Dorothea Lange
[10] This man is best known for his Pulitzer-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio screaming out at
the shooting of Jeffrey Miller, taken while he was a student at Kent State.
ANSWER: John Filo
21. This book relates the story of Pandora and Prometheus to show why mankind must endure hardship
and toil, and it also relates the Five Ages of Man. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this book, purportedly an agricultural manual written to instruct the author’s brother Perses.
ANSWER: Works and Days [or Erga kai Hēmerai]
[10] The Works and Days was written by this ancient Greek author and poet who described the origins
of the world and of the deities in his Theogony.
ANSWER: Hesiod [or Hēsíodos]
[10] This work, usually attributed to Hesiod, contains a description of the titular object taken from the
Iliad. It tells of a fight between a hero and Cycnus.
ANSWER: The Shield of Heracles