KABO Packet 7 (Written by Kurtis Droge, Ashvin Srivatsa, and Will Nediger)
TOSSUPS
1. One device that measures this phenomenon uses a perfluorohexane radiator and measures uses an
image of a 2-dimensional ring produced by it to measure the angle at which it occurs. Water-medium
devices that measure this phenomenon may employ a fluorophore like carbostyril as a wavelength
shifter to improve detection efficiency. (*) Cosmic-ray detectors that use an air medium must
reconstruct the cosmic ray from this phenomenon as produced by the ray’s secondaries; such detectors
are used in CRID and VERITAS. The energy emitted in this process per unit length and angular frequency
is proportional to one, minus one over the square of “beta times the index of refraction”, according to
the Frank-Tamm formula. For 10 points, name this often-blue radiation emitted by charged particles
traveling faster than the speed of light in their medium.
ANSWER: Cherenkov radiation
2. One of these works by this composer has an opening Sinfonia section that encompasses its first
three movements and was responsible for the F Major setting of “Now Thank We All Our God.” The
first of these works is in C Minor and is best known for its 6/4 Menuetto section, while the final one of
these works has a third andante movement that showcases the strings and incorporates (*) hymns
such as the “Dresden Amen” and “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” The fourth of these works begins in A
Major but ends in A Minor after a section inspired by a Saltanello dance, while the third of these was
written on the same trip that inspired its composer’s Hebrides Overture. For 10 points, name these
works including Song of Praise, Reformation, Italian, and Scottish.
ANSWER: Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn
3. The seventh day of this holiday is set aside for farmers to display their produce, and they
traditionally make a drink out of seven different types of vegetables; that day is held to be when
humans were created. In some regions, it is customary for the married to give monetary gifts to the
unmarried in special envelopes on this holiday. The second day of this holiday is said to be the
birthday of all (*) dogs. It is customary to execute a thorough cleaning during the lead-up to this
holiday, the night before which sees a Reunion Dinner. One story about the origin of this holiday
concerns a beast named Nian who was afraid of the color red. Its fifteenth, final day is a Lantern
Festival. For 10 points, name this holiday associated with dragons and fireworks that begins the
calendar for many Asians.
ANSWER: Chinese New Year [or Lunar New Year; or Spring Festival; or Chunjié]
4. One princess from this house was slated to marry Victor Amadeus II of Savoy after a string of failed
matches, leading her to be known as “The Perpetually Engaged.” One monarch from this house built a
palace at Mafra for his wife, Maria Anna of Austria, while another member of this house ordered
missionaries to stop kidnapping Hindu orphans in India. This house came to power in a war that
included the Battle of Ameixial, and its first monarch was known as “The (*) Restorer.” Maria the
Pious hailed from this house, as did the wife of George II of England, Catherine. The Tavora Affair
occurred during the tenure of this house. For 10 points, name this house that ruled Brazil through
emperor Pedro I, a Portuguese line that followed the House of Aviz.
ANSWER: House of Braganza
5. The main character of this novel tells a group of children that they cannot grow feathers, and his
earliest memory is of a giant bonfire of various farm animals. That character ponders the meaning of
words such as “Mesozoic” and looks at his watch at both this novel’s beginning and end, causing him
to think of the absence of time in his world. This novel’s main story is told as the memories of a man
who travels to Paradice while seeking medicine to treat a wound to his foot. In this book, most of
mankind is (*) killed by a virus hidden in BlyssPluss pills, and the two central characters play a trivia
game called Extinctathon. Its sequel, about the God’s Gardeners, is called The Year of the Flood. For 10
points, name this novel in which Snowman lives in a post-apocalyptic world, written by Margaret
Atwood.
ANSWER: Oryx and Crake
6. Gary Becker claimed rising divorce rates were partially caused by the lack of advantage provided by
this concept with respect to men and women. George Stigler analyzed this concept using the example
of Birmingham’s gun manufacturing industry in the 19th Century in a paper titled from an Adam Smith
maxim that this concept “is Limited by the Extent of the Market.” One book about this concept states
that primitive societies feature a “collective conscience” and contrasts (*) “mechanical solidarity” with
“organic solidarity.” A cause of alienation according to Karl Marx, Adam Smith illustrated this concept
with the example of a pin factory, wherein the production rate is increased because each worker is very
specialized. For 10 points, name this concept considered by Emile Durkheim “in Society.”
ANSWER: division of labor [or “Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor;” or “The
Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of the Market;” or The Division of Labor in Society; prompt on
“specialization” before mentioned]
7. These organisms are divided into brooders and broadcasters, based on how they spawn planulae.
Some of these organisms that produce gorgonin are being researched for use as bone implants, in part
due to their trabecular structure. In recent years, frequent Acanthaster outbreaks have caused sharp
declines in their populations. These organisms form symbiotic associations with zooxanthellae. When
they are stressed, they eject those (*) algae, leading to bleaching. Growth rings in the aragonite
skeletons of Scleractinia, one order of these animals, provided the first examples of the biological effects
of ocean acidification. They are classified based on whether their symmetry is 6-fold or 8-fold, and they
lack a medusa stage. For 10 points, name these cnidarians that build reefs.
ANSWER: corals [prompt on “Anthozoa” or “sea anemones” because sea anemones aren’t welldistinguished from corals; prompt on “Cnidaria”]
8. This poet compared the labor of his memory lifting “the hidden ore” “from the deep / Gold-mines
of thought” to the process of remembering a dream in a poem that describes figures such as Margaret
Roper and the “light of ancient France,” Joan of Arc. Another poem by this author calls “the days that
are no more” “So sad, so strange” and opens by invoking the image of “Tears, Idle Tears.” This author
of “A Dream of Fair Women” wrote about a (*) fisherman missing for ten years who doesn’t reveal that
he has returned to his remarried wife Annie in his poem “Enoch Arden.” He exhorted “May there be no
sadness of farewell, / When I embark” in a poem where he hopes to “see my Pilot face to face.” For 10
points, name this poet of “Crossing the Bar” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
9. A usage-based theory of this process was developed by Michael Tomasello. One problem in the
study of this process is the superset problem, which arises because a hypothesis which generates a
superset of the target can only be falsified by negative evidence. A 1965 book outlines three levels of
theoretical adequacy and characterizes explanatory adequacy as the ability to explain this
process. Stages in this process include the holophrastic stage and the (*) telegraphic stage. It is often
thought that this process can only take place during the critical period, perhaps because people do not
have full access to the Universal Grammar after puberty, which is why a related process does not result
in native-like fluency. For 10 points, name this process in which children learn their mother tongue.
ANSWER: first language acquisition [accept equivalents like learning a first language; do not accept
“second language acquisition”]
10. The Vietnamese Huang Zuo is primarily associated with this occupation. Japanese figures
associated with this occupation include Hayashi Doshun and Kitabatake Chikafusa. One person
associated with this occupation exiled his uncle Baqan and was assassinated by Hama after stepping
down in the face of the Red Turban Rebellion. Toqto’a, also known as Toutou, was associated with
this profession, practitioners of which sometimes produced works called (*) “Mirrors.” One person
associated with this occupation was castrated at the orders of the Wudi Emperor after speaking out in
defence of Li Ling. Yao Silian was associated with this occupation, as was Sima Qian, who produced
some “Records of a Grand” one. For 10 points, name this occupation of scholars who recorded the past.
ANSWER: historians [accept chroniclers; prompt on “scholars,” “scribes,” or similar answers]
11. Many of this man’s ideas were popularized in America through the writings of Chauncey Wright,
who linked them with the principles of utilitarianism. A theory originally formulated by this man is
the subject of an equation by R.A. Fisher that links a rate of change of a certain property to its
variance at that point in time; that theory is also the subject of Price’s Equation. He split one of his
ideas into unconscious and methodical types depending on whether it was purposeful. One book
about this man argues that his opponents tried to refute him with (*) skyhooks and that his theories
were so revolutionary that they acted as a universal acid. He concluded that members of different races
were all human in The Descent of Man. For 10 points, name this formulator of the “dangerous idea” of
natural selection.
ANSWER: Charles Darwin [accept natural selection during the first few sentences]
12. The temperatures of certain loops in these regions are given by an empirically-fit power law in the
product of base pressure and length. The magnetic carpet may be one contributor to its temperature.
It is distinguished by the presence of forbidden lines such as the 6374-angstrom iron-10 line. This
region lies above the transition region, which generates the Lyman continuum that populates the “K”
part of this region. Holes in this layer contain outwards-pointing open (*) magnetic field lines; the
reconnection of those lines may be responsible for the otherwise-inexplicable heat of this region.
Masses of ionized particles ejected from this region are responsible for strong geomagnetic storms. For
10 points, name this thin outermost layer of the sun.
ANSWER: corona
13. In one painting by this artist, two women in a boat, one wearing a brown hat with a white flower
on it, look over the edge towards a black duck while a white duck appears in the background. A
different painting set on a boat by this artist shows a man in black with his back towards the viewer
rowing while a woman and a child sit opposite him. This painter showed a man whose face is
shadowy and dark talking to a woman in a flower print dress with a fan in her hand in a painting that
shows a different woman in red staring down towards the street. This painter of (*) Summertime and
On the Balcony used an overhead perspective in a painting inspired by woodblock art whose main
subject has her feet in a wash basin. For 10 points, name this female impressionist who painted The
Child’s Bath.
ANSWER: Mary Cassatt
14. Roger Gould looked at the actions of the social elite during this insurrection in an article about
“Patron-Client Ties, State Centralization,” and it. The force sent to put down this insurrection was
dubbed the Watermelon Army, and they were met with so-called Liberty Poles upon arriving in
Carlisle. David Bradford took over the nominal leadership of this insurrection after the death of James
(*) MacFarlane at Bower Hill in a skirmish fought at the house of John Neville. The Mingo Creek
Association advocated for violence during it, and it saw a meeting at Braddock’s Field. It was put down
by a federal militia led by Light-Horse Harry Lee. For 10 points, name this insurrection in Western
Pennsylvania sparked by a tax on the namesake alcoholic beverage.
ANSWER: Whiskey Rebellion
15. In one essay, this author compared “The Eternal Tradition” to the invisible depths of the sea,
wherein normal history only accounts for the activities of the water’s surface. He described an
“opening inwards” that could be achieved through seclusion and introspection, as seen in his chess
playing protagonist who spends several months in an isolated seaside town in Don Sandalio. In one of
his novels, Lazarus, the brother of Angela, discovers that the local (*) priest actually has no faith in
Christ, while in another of his novels, Eugenia’s rejection of Augusto leads Augusto to attempt suicide,
though Augusto is warned by the author that he is a fictional character and has no control over his
life. For 10 points, name this author of Mist and Abel Sánchez, a member of the Generation of ‘98.
ANSWER: Miguel de Unamuno
16. One ruler of this location was helped by a group of fish that rose up from the sea to carry her
expedition of boats to invade a neighboring region. Another ruler of this location came to power by
killing a usurper of his elder brother’s throne. The father of the first ruler of this location was born in
a hut that was thatched with cormorant feathers, and amongst the ancestors of that first ruler of this
place were (*) Heaven’s-Sun-Height and Luxuriant-Jewel-Princess. The first ruler of this location was
advised by a three-legged crow, and he conquered it by realizing that he had to attack from the
east. Mythological rulers of this place, including Suizei and Jimmu, are documented in the Nihongi and
the Kojiki. For 10 points, name this place created as the children of Izanami and Izanagi, an Asian
archipelago.
ANSWER: Japan
17. In one story by this author, one character recounts that her husband used to always ask her what
she was thinking when they were first married, but he never does anymore; in that story, Jim Moore
shoots the cousin of his wife, Jelka Sepic, after finding the two in bed together. In another of his
stories, Pepe is proclaimed a man by his mother when he kills someone during an altercation,
culminating in Pepe’s death on the run. He created a woman who asks her husband if they can have
wine at their dinner after she is visited by a (*) traveling fixer of housewares. This author of “The
Murder” and “The Flight” wrote a story in which Elisa Allen’s underappreciated talents are put to use
gardening the titular flowers. For 10 points, name this author of “The Chrysanthemums,” which he set
in his native Salinas Valley.
ANSWER: John Steinbeck
18. Aza versions of this moiety are produced from aldimines via deprotonation, and thos aza versions
are the conjugate bases of hydrazones. A ruthenium imidazole alkylidene reagent catalyzes a ringclosing reaction involving olefins and this type of ether, as reported by Rainier. They can be
synthesized by the addition of a Gilman reagent to an alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone. The attack of a
Grignard reagent upon the beta carbon of an unsaturated ketone producs this moiety as a (*) 1,4adduct. One of these reacts with a carbonyl to form a beta-hydroxyketone in the aldol reaction. Under
standard conditions, this group is present in much lower concentrations than its tautomer, a carbonyl
group. For 10 points, name this functional group that consists of a carbon-carbon double bond with a
hydroxyl group on one of the carbons.
ANSWER: enol [accept enolate or alkenol]
19. The case of Winters v. U.S. dealt with this resource’s acquisition with regards to Native American
reservations. A 2000 declaration in the Hague outlined several steps to promoting security with
regards to this resource that is at the center of the Helsinki and Berlin Rules. Edith Brown claimed
that the phrase “a common concern of humankind” should be applied to the coming (*) crisis
surrounding this resource, while the 29th Section of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government uses the
example of this resource to show that the act of labor can imply possession. A 1972 Act used the phrase
“significant nexus” to describe access to this resource in an attempt to preserve many of its “navigable”
areas as clean. For 10 points, name this resource paired with diamonds in an Adam Smith paradox.
ANSWER: water [accept similar answers]
20. One monarch of this name may have had a son named Albion who founded the Monastery of
Sainte Foi at Conques in Aquitaine. That monarch ordered the death of Alfred Aetheling, and his rise
to power was aided by his mother, Aelfgifu of Northampton, as well as the switching allegiances of
Godwin, the Earl of Essex. A different monarch of this name married (*) Edith, the widow of a man he
defeated, Gruffudd ap Llewellyn, though his preferred consort was known as Edith Swanneck or Edith
the Fair for her beauty. One king of this name was nicknamed “Harefoot,” while another followed a
defeat at Fulford by leading his troops against his brother Tostig’s invasion at the Battle of Stamford
Bridge. For 10 points, give this name of the loser of the Battle of Hastings, known as “Godwinson.”
ANSWER: Harold [accept more specific answers]
21. One work in this medium shows a pair of green hands with the names of famous authors reaching
out towards three stars and was designed for the Irish Repertory Theater by Peadar Lamb. John
LaFarge’s Angel of Help and Figure of Wisdom were both executed in this medium. Frank Lloyd
Wright showed blue, yellow, red, and green circles of different sizes in the upper portion of a work he
did in this medium for the Coonley Playhouse. Joan Vila-Grau has contrasted this medium with
concrete in his work on the (*) church of the Sagrada Familia. A set of twelve works on biblical topics
featuring many birds was designed by Marc Chagall in this medium for a medical center in
Jerusalem. For 10 points, name this artistic medium exemplified by the windows of Chartres Cathedral.
ANSWER: stained glass [prompt on partial answer; prompt on “windows”]
BONUSES
1. The protagonist of this work devises a system of fleet management that earns him a promotion
during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this autobiographical work, written during the 1600s, that is known for its descriptions of
events such as the Great Fire of London and an outbreak of plague.
ANSWER: Diary of Samuel Pepys [accept equivalents]
[10] Perhaps Pepys’s most notable extramarital affair was conducted with this maid, whom Pepys
supported despite having to formally renounce her in writing after he was caught in the act with her by
his wife, Elizabeth.
ANSWER: Deborah Willet [accept either underlined portion]
[10] Another of Pepys’s efforts was a collection of these works, which he compiled partially from the
research of John Selden. Consisting of poetry set to music, one collection of these works by Kipling
contained “Danny Deever” and “Gunga Din.”
ANSWER: ballads [accept Barrack-Room Ballads]
2. This book documents the actions of the king Yeongjo, who orders the death of the prince Sado. For
10 points each:
[10] Name this book written by Sado’s wife that documents her marriage into the imperial family of
Korea and her subsequent familial trials.
ANSWER: The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong [or Hanjungnok; or Records in Silence; or Remarks Made in
Misery; or Record of Sorrowful Days]
[10] The Hanjungnok was written during the rule of this final Korean dynasty whose early period saw the
Strife of Princes and that was founded by Yi Seong-gye, who took the name Taejo.
ANSWER: Choson Dynasty [or Joseon Dynasty]
[10] Barbara Halliwell reads the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong in the novel The Red Queen, which was
written by this author of a novel in which Rosamund Stacey ends up pregnant after having sex with
George Matthews, The Millstone.
ANSWER: Margaret Drabble
3. This case stemmed from the confiscation of Loyalist lands in Virginia, and it arose because the
Virginia Supreme Court ruled that there was no federal jurisdiction over the issue. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1816 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that it did have jurisdiction to rule on cases
that originated in state courts.
ANSWER: Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee [prompt on partial answer]
[10] The opinion in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee was written by this man who deilvered the opinion in the
Amistad case and wrote some Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
ANSWER: Joseph Story
[10] The Martin case was one of few in which this chief justice did not write an opinion, because he had
recused himself. His ruling in Marbury v. Madison established the principle of judicial review.
ANSWER: John Marshall
4. These quantities are typically indicated by a lowercase delta, and can sometimes be converted to
total differentials by multiplying by an integrating factor. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these thermodynamic quantities that represent path functions. In the general case, heat is
one example.
ANSWER: inexact differentials
[10] The exact differential of this quantity equals the inexact differential of heat divided by the absolute
temperature. It also equals Boltzmann’s constant times the log of the number of microstates available to
a system.
ANSWER: entropy
[10] Von Neumann defined entropy as equal to the negative trace of this matrix times its logarithm. This
matrix is analogous to an identically-named quantity that is conserved in phase space according to
Liouville’s theorem.
ANSWER: density matrix [accept phase space density; accept probability density]
5. The frieze on top of this building has a foliage theme and features small, circular windows. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this building in St. Louis, one of the first skyscrapers. It was designed by Louis Sullivan with
an exterior of red brick.
ANSWER: Wainwright Building
[10] This partner of Sullivan aided him in such projects as the Wainwright Building, the Guaranty
Building, and both the Pilgrim Baptist Church and the Auditorium Building in Chicago.
ANSWER: Dankmar Adler
[10] The Wainwright Building is an example of this style of architecture, a type of Renaissance revival
that focused on square shapes, rows of windows, and similar appearances on all sides. Edmund Blacket
worked in this style named after a type of building popular in Venice and Florence.
ANSWER: palazzo style [prompt on “palace”]
6. For 10 points each, name these short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
[10] The title character of this story becomes disenchanted with humanity, especially his wife, Faith,
after meeting up with a stranger who has a staff in the shape of a snake in the woods.
ANSWER: “Young Goodman Brown”
[10] In this story, a man decides to live for twenty years apart from his wife, warning that one may
become an “Outcast of the Universe” if one loses one’s place in the world.
ANSWER: “Wakefield”
[10] Two lovers seek to build a temple in this story, in which Walter Gascoigne prevents them from
doing so until one of them has died, forging their happiness in eternity instead of in this world.
ANSWER: “The Lily’s Quest”
7. This anthropologist lost her job at Columbia University for alleged subversive beliefs during the Red
Scare. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this woman who described the Morning Star sacrifice ritual of the Pawnee Native Americans
in her book The Lost Universe. She also wrote The Origins of Art.
ANSWER: Gene Weltfish
[10] This other female anthropologist studied Native Americans such as the Pueblo and Sunni,
contrasting Apollonian and Dionysian ways of thinking, in her book Patterns of Culture.
ANSWER: Ruth Benedict
[10] Benedict and Weltfish collaborated on this pamphlet designed to be circulated in the army in which
the authors claimed that intelligence was not dependent on ethnic background.
ANSWER: “The Races of Mankind”
8. Sometimes depicted as a goose, this deity was the father of all snakes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Egyptian deity, the husband of Nut and the father of Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, and Set.
ANSWER: Geb
[10] Geb was a member of the Ennead, a group of this many deities that were worshipped at
Heliopolis. In Greek myth, there were this many muses.
ANSWER: nine
[10] A sacred symbol of Nut, called Maqet, consisted of one of these objects. In a common motif from
Native American myth, one of these objects is formed from a chain of arrows shot into each other.
ANSWER: ladder
9. One solution to this problem is the Newton form, in which the solution function is created by a
process in which a term proportional to the divided difference is added at each step. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this problem, another solution to which is to solve a system of equations with the
Vandermonde matrix. Splines can be used if a piecewise solution is sought.
ANSWER: polynomial interpolation [or anything that mentions creating a polynomial that passes
through a set of points; prompt on “interpolation”]
[10] This mathematician showed that the interpolation error for the function “one over one plus x
squared” diverges. He is alphabetically the second co-namer of a popular fourth-order method for
solving differential equations.
ANSWER: Carl David Tolmé Runge
[10] If a differential equation is equivalent to a simple integral, the Runge-Kutta methods are equivalent
to this method of numerical integration, in which a function is approximated by parabolas.
ANSWER: Simpson’s rule
10. For 10 points each, name some stuff about the history of diseases in England:
[10] This epidemic struck England in 1348. Much like the rest of Europe, the death toll is estimated to
be over a third of the population, though the level of religious extremism it inspired was lower.
ANSWER: Black Death [or Black Plague; or Bubonic Plague]
[10] By constructing a map and representing outbreaks as dots, this epidemiologist was able to correctly
identify the source of an 1854 cholera epidemic as the Broad Street pump.
ANSWER: John Snow
[10] Known as the British Hippocrates, this doctor wrote numerous treatises on treating diseases and
pioneered the uses of such medications as laudanum and quinine. He lends his name to an ailment also
known as Saint Vitus Dance.
ANSWER: Thomas Sydenham
11. Michael Harrington’s book The Other America purported to be a study of this “in the United States,”
and Lyndon Johnson launched a war against it as part of the Great Society. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this state that around fifteen percent of Americans were in according to 2011 data. Those
Americans fell below this concept’s namesake line.
ANSWER: poverty
[10] This woman, the coiner of the term “collective joy,” wrote about her experiences doing menial jobs
and attacked many of the practices of employers of low wage positions in her book Nickel and Dimed.
ANSWER: Barbara Ehrenreich
[10] Known for his studies of slum dwellers in Mexico and Puerto Rico, this thinker described the value
system that becomes ingrained in those without money, dubbing it a “culture of poverty.”
ANSWER: Oscar Lewis
12. Compiled by Yuanwu Keqin, this text consists of one hundred koans. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this text that contains “Joshu’s Supreme Way” and “Haryo and the Sharpest Sword.” It is
often studied alongside The Gateless Gate.
ANSWER: Blue Cliff Record [or Bìyán Lù; or Hekiganroku; or Byeokamrok]
[10] The first koan in the Blue Cliff Record proclaims that even all the people in the land could not make
this man return. He is credited with bringing Chán Buddhism to China.
ANSWER: Bodhidharma
[10] This founder of the Sōtō School of Zen Buddhism supposedly handwrote a copy of the Blue Cliff
Record in a single night. His other writings are grouped under the title Shōbōgenzō.
ANSWER: Dōgen Zenji [or Dōgen Kigen; or Eihei Dōgen]
13. These works were based on a conflict that their creator witnessed in his youth, and most of them
contrast circular shapes with column-like shapes. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this series of paintings that contrast black and white colorations, the most of famous of
which are the 34th, 108th, and 110th.
ANSWER: Elegies to the Spanish Republic [or Elegy to the Spanish Republic]
[10] The Elegies to the Spanish Republic were created by this member of the New York School, an artist
who also rendered an abstract depiction of Mallarme’s Swan.
ANSWER: Robert Motherwell
[10] Motherwell was encouraged in his artistic pursuits by this critic, a Marxist who placed emphasis on
historical context and style and wrote “From Mozarabic to Romanesque in Silos.”
ANSWER: Meyer Schapiro
14. Juan Fernandez’s claims that he had found this land caused it to appear on many Spanish maps, and
its existence was championed by Alexander Dalrymple. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this hypothetical southern continent that was rumored to contain a vast civilization. It faded
in popularity, and an altered version of its name was applied to a less impressive continent.
ANSWER: Terra Australis [do not accept or prompt on “Australia”]
[10] Dalrymple’s obsession with Terra Australis led him to finance this explorer’s trip aboard the
Endeavor, wherein he charted much of the coastline of Australia.
ANSWER: James Cook
[10] This man became the first to circumnavigate Australia aboard his ship, the Investigator. He wrote A
Voyage to Terra Australis about his trip.
ANSWER: Matthew Flinders
15. For 10 points each, name these Latin American poets:
[10] In one poem, this man called the U.S. “the future invader / of the naive America.” He compared the
climbing sun to an invalid’s steps in a poem that twice repeats the image of “The siesta of the tropics,”
“Symphony in Grey Major.”
ANSWER: Ruben Dario
[10] This poet contrasted two opposing desires, those of life and death, in his poem “Weary Rings.” His
collections include Los Heraldos Negros and Trilce, while his Poemas Humanos were published
posthumously.
ANSWER: César Vallejo
[10] He claimed that it was “the hour of departure” and that “You swallowed everything, like distance”
in his poem “A Song of Despair,” which is sometimes grouped with twenty of his love poems.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda
16. This property of a nucleus measures its deviation from sphericality. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this quantity, which is classically computed as “the integral of charge density, times three z
squared minus r squared”, where z is the axis of interest. The radiation emitted due to oscillations in this
quantity go as the sixth power of the oscillation frequency.
ANSWER: electric quadrupole moment [prompt on partial answer]
[10] The electric quadrupole moment of a nucleus is closest to zero when the number of nucleons is one
of these numbers, which correspond to the most stable nuclei in the nuclear shell model.
ANSWER: magic numbers
[10] A simple derivation of the nuclear shell model treats the nuclei as being in one of these parabolic
potentials, in which energy levels have a constant spacing.
ANSWER: (3-dimensional quantum) simple harmonic oscillator [accept SHO or QHO]
17. This man claimed that the purpose of art was to make things unfamiliar, highlighting his concept of
estrangement. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Russian literary theorist who claimed that art exists “to make the stone stony” in his
essay “Art as Technique,” which is found in his collection Theory of Prose.
ANSWER: Viktor Shklovsky
[10] Shklovsky’s “Art as Technique” quotes a passage from this author’s diary about dusting a divan to
show that unconscious actions may as well not have happened. His nonviolent views, drawn from the
Sermon on the Mount, were expressed in his “Letter to a Hindu.”
ANSWER: Leo Tolstoy
[10] Tolstoy laid out his nonviolent Christian views in this tome, that was initially banned in Russia
possibly for such views as holding the modern incarnation of the church to be heretical.
ANSWER: The Kingdom of God is Within You
18. In this novel, Petronius constantly sucks up to the emperor, using flattery and wit to remain in his
good graces. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which Marcus Vinicius enlists the help of Chilon Chilonides to track down Ligia, a
captured Christian slave, after he falls in love with her.
ANSWER: Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
[10] Quo Vadis was written by this Polish author who wrote a trilogy based on the history of his home
country consisting of With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Fire in the Steppe.
ANSWER: Henryk Sienkiewicz
[10] With Fire and Sword centers on the love between Jan Skrzetuski and woman with this first name. In
a different play, a character with this name renounces the philosophy of the League of Humanity and
marries Domin.
ANSWER: Helena [or Helena Kurcewiczówna]
19. This work was adapted from its composer’s Music for Press Ceremony, which was intended to be
part of a fundraising effort to support an underground newspaper. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this tone poem, part of which was meant to evoke the “powers of darkness” and the most
notable part of which is a hymn named after it.
ANSWER: Finlandia
[10] Finlandia was composed by this man whose other works include the Karelia and Lemminkäinen
Suites as well as seven symphonies.
ANSWER: Jean Sibelius
[10] This piece of music was composed as incidental music for the scene from the play Death in which
Paavani’s mother dances with death, believing death to be her late husband.
ANSWER: Valse Triste
20. One side in this battle was led by Arbogast, who had shunned his allegiance to Valentinian II and
proclaimed Eugenius as the emperor of the Western Roman Empire. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this victory for the forces of Theodosius I that helped to solidify the presence of Christianity
in the Roman Empire.
ANSWER: Battle of the Frigidus River
[10] This man was one of Theodosius’s generals at the Battle of the Frigidus. He would go on to serve as
a military commander under Honorius, defeating Alaric at the Battle of Pollentia.
ANSWER: Stilicho
[10] Stilicho’s heritage was partially from these peoples who migrated to Africa under the leadership of
Genseric. Their leader Gelimer got smashed by Belisarius at Tricamarum and Ad Decimum.
ANSWER: Vandals
21. Prior to being ligated to a lysine in a Psi-KxE sequence on their targets by E3, these proteins are
conjugated to E2 enzymes like Ubc9. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these small post-translationally-added proteins that are implicated in transcriptional
regulation when tagged to PML bodies. They also inhibit the Ub-proteasome pathway.
ANSWER: SUMO proteins [or small ubiquitin-like modifiers; do not prompt on “ubiquitin”]
[10] Prolyl isomerase performs this post-translational modification on peptide bonds involving proline.
This type of isomerization occurs in retinal when it absorbs a photon.
ANSWER: cis-trans isomerization [or word forms; accept E/Z isomerization or converting trans to cis or
converting E to Z or vice versa; prompt on “(geometric) isomerization” or “configurational
isomerization”; prompt generously on any partial answer]
[10] In post-transcriptional modification of mRNA, a long sequence of this nucleoside is added to the
end of the transcript. This nucleoside’s triphosphate is the end product of oxidative phosphorylation.
ANSWER: adenosine [accept adenylyl; prompt on “A”; do not accept “adenine”]