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 The 2019 Scottie Round TwelveWritten and edited by current and former players and coaches including Todd Garrison, Tyler Reid, Olivia Kiser, Rajeev Nair, Garrison Page, Caleb Tamminga, Parker Bannister, Hunter Lindsey, Mason Reid, and Anish Patel (with a special assist by Ramapriya Rangaraju)TOSSUPS1. An engraving by William Hogarth that depicts this action includes a copy of The Analysis of Beauty in the foreground, and a self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi is partially titled after this action. A woman representing the muse Clio stands in front of a map of the Netherlands in a work depicting this action by (*) Vermeer. In another work, Charles Baudelaire looks on as Gustave Courbet performs this action while seated at a canvas. For 10 points, name this action undertaken to create works like The Artist’s Studio.ANSWER: painting [prompt on “drawing”; prompt on “creating art” or similar answers] [the works mentioned are respectively: Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, and The Art of Painting] <TR>2. In this author’s third novel, an outsider from Sevier County, Tennessee sinks into depravity after the family home is auctioned. Cities of the Plain and The Crossing make up part of a trilogy written by this author, the first novel of which includes a character who has an affair with Alejandra while working on a ranch. This creator of John (*) Grady Cole also wrote novels featuring the hairless albino Judge Holden and the coin-flipping assassin Anton Chigurh. For 10 points, name this author of All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men.ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy <TG/TR>3. In one story, this deity wept after several creatures took residence in a huluppu tree that she intended to carve into a throne. A pair of sexless creatures were created to revive this deity, who had been killed while visiting the realm of her sister. During that visit to the underworld, this goddess was required to remove an article of clothing at each of seven gates. This goddess, whose principal consort was (*) Tammuz, demanded that her father Anu give her the Bull of Heaven after she failed to seduce Gilgamesh. For 10 points, name this Mesopotamian goddess of love and war.ANSWER: Ishtar [or Inanna] <TR>4. The discovery of this compound is attributed to either Herman Boerhaave and Hilaire Rouelle via recrystallization. This compound can be synthesized by heating a solution of silver cyanate and aluminum chloride, where it is then precipitated with an oxalate. That synthesis, which laid to rest the theory of (*) vitalism, inspired a letter to John Jakob Berzelius that this compound that could “no longer be held back” and was discovered by Frederick Wohler. For 10 points, name this organic compound originally isolated from urine, the primary nitrogen-excreting substance in the body. ANSWER: urea <RR>5. Elizabeth Throckmorton and this man were banished to the Tower of London in 1592 after it was found that they had married without royal permission. This man wrote The Discovery of Guiana about his time searching for El Dorado in present day Venezuela, and this favorite of (*) Elizabeth I was imprisoned again for allegedly plotting against James I. He is credited with making tobacco popular in England, and an outdoor drama called The Lost Colony about this man’s doomed settlement in America has run for over 80 years. For 10 points, identify this English explorer, the namesake of the capital of North Carolina.ANSWER: Sir Walter Raleigh <TG>6. On the last day of this celebration, it is tradition to ask oneself introspective questions such as “am I all I ought to be.” Cooperative economics and self-determination are two of seven principles known as Nguzo Saba that are celebrated during this period, during which three green, three red, and one (*) black candle are lit. The name for this holiday was taken from the Swahili for “first fruits of the harvest.” For 10 points, name this holiday celebrated from December 26th through January 1st that honors African heritage in African-American culture.ANSWER: Kwanzaa <TG>7. When informed of this character’s trickery, Madame Pernelle ironically states, “My dear, appearances are oft deceiving.” This title character steals incriminating letters written by Argas and uses them to threaten his host. He says that “secret sinning is no sin at all” while trying to seduce (*) Elmire, who had convinced her husband to hide under a table so that he could witness this man’s hypocrisy. For 10 points, King Louis XIV saves Orgon from losing his estate to this parasitical conman who titles a play by Moliere.ANSWER: Tartuffe [or The Imposter; or The Hypocrite before “hypocrisy” is read] 8. Forces in this modern day nation lost the Battle of Mohi to Batu Khan, leading its king Bela IV to flee. Its king Louis II was killed during this nation’s defeat at the 1526 Battle of Mohacs. Under Matthias Corvinus, forces from this nation were able to capture (*) Bohemia and Vienna. Almos used the blood oath to unify seven Magyar tribes and create this nation’s Arpad dynasty . For 10 points, name this modern day country, which was part of a dual monarchy with Austria until 1918.ANSWER: Hungary <AP>9. This process was used to discover potassium, sodium and calcium by Sir Humphrey Davy. The Hall-Heroult process performs this process on molten cryolite to generate aluminum. In an experiment purported to show cold fusion, Fleischmann and Pons performed this process on (*) heavy water using a palladium electrode, claiming that extra energy was released, and the altered masses of participants in this process can be modeled by Faraday’s law. For 10 points, name this process that uses and electric charge to separate water into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen.ANSWER: electrolysis <RR>10. This man was known for using the method of Elenchus to make arguments, and one of his paradoxes states that no person ever knowingly commits a wrong. A statement made by the Oracle at Delphi led this philosopher to compare himself to a (*) gadfly, and he concluded that the wisest man is aware of his ignorance. Meletus accused this man of corrupting the youth of Athens, for which he was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. For 10 points, name this Greek philosopher, the primary speaker in many works by Plato.ANSWER: Socrates <TR>11. Early in this work, Ottavio pledges with his fiance to avenge the death of her father. After being recognized as the killer from his voice, this opera’s title character sings the aria “fin ch’han dal vino” before throwing a wedding party. A servant sings “Madamina, il catalogo e questo,” (*) to Elvira in this work, cataloguing the number of “beauties” his “master has loved.” A statue of the Commendatore drags the title character to hell in the final scene of this opera. For 10 points, name this opera about a seducer by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ANSWER: Don Giovanni [or Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni; accept The Rake Punished or The Libertine Punished] <TG>12. This civilization’s language is the oldest known Indo-European language to be historically attested. Under Tudhaliya I this empire defeated the Hurrian states of Aleppo and Mitanni, while after his death the capital was razed by the Assyrians and Hurrians in retaliation. This civilization was involved in a chariot battle near the (*) Orontes River, the largest in ancient history. They signed the world’s oldest known peace treaty after Muwatalli III was defeated at that battle, which took place at Kadesh. For 10 points, name this ancient civilization that ruled most of modern day Turkey.ANSWER: Hittite Empire <AP>13. In a complex harmonic swinging system made of two of these objects, the system is nonsingular if these objects are not touched. In the differential version of these objects, the mechanical advantage is calculated by dividing the load force by the force in the Z-direction. The moment of inertia for these objects is equal to one-half times mass times radius-squared, and an (*) Atwood machine consists of two masses suspended from one of these objects. For 10 points, name these simple machines that consist of a wheel and axle combined with a rope.ANSWER: pulley <GP>14. In Pindar’s 4th Pythian Ode, Aphrodite created the bird Iynx [eye-inks] for the purpose of seducing this character. In a play by Seneca the Younger, this protagonist tells her nurse that any evil that she has done was done for her husband. A Euripides play named after this character begins with this (*) sorceress’ banishment from Corinth by King Creon, after which she uses a poisoned robe to kill Glauce [glaw-see]. For 10 points, name this woman who aided Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece before becoming his first wife.ANSWER: Medea <TG>15. This man did not walk until he was 5 years old due to his contraction of polio, and he served as a deputy assistant attorney general under Gerald Ford. Recently, this legislator suggested that President Obama’s election may have paid for the sin of slavery in the U.S. This man defeated Walter Dee Huddleston in 1984 to win his first term in the Senate, and he later married (*) Elaine Chou, who became Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush. For 10 points, name this Senate majority leader from Kentucky who calls himself the “Grim Reaper” of Democratic policies.ANSWER: Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr. <TG>16. This man’s design for the Keep Memory Alive Event Center has eighteen-thousand stainless steel shingles and 199 windows, no two of which are the same. He designed a hat for a performance by Lady Gaga at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and “Fred and Ginger” is a nickname for a collaboration of his in Prague titled (*) Dancing House. This 1989 Pritzker Prize-winning architect designed the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago. For 10 points, name this architect, whose designs include the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.ANSWER: Frank Owen Gehry <TG>17. John Singer Sargent depicted this activity in several works, including Dolce Far Niente, while Thomas Eakins painted his father watching two friends enjoying one of these contests in a parlour. The documentary Brooklyn Castle focuses on I.S. 318, the first middle school to win the high school national championship in this activity. A movie based on a (*) child prodigy at this game named Joshua Waitzkin was named Searching for Bobby Fischer. For 10 points, name this strategy board game, in which the Persian “shah mat” is the origin of the phrase check-mate.ANSWER: chess <TG>18. One candidate in this election was criticized for accepting the endorsement of Bob Jones University due to its ban on interracial dating. A third party candidate in this election called the two major party candidates Tweedledum and Tweedledee. One of those candidates pledged to put Medicare in a (*) “lockbox” in this election, in which “hanging chads” and “butterfly ballots” may have resulted in Pat Buchanan getting extra votes. Joe Lieberman became the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket in this election. For 10 points, name this election in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore.ANSWER: United States Presidential Election of 2000 <RN/TG>19. One character in this play is assumed to be “all of humanity” after he responds to the names “Abel” and “Cain” with cries for help after falling. Another character in this play turns down a radish because he only likes pink ones, and says “nothing to be done” after failing to remove his boots. A slave named (*) Lucky kicks one character in the shins in its first act and later guides Pozzo after he becomes blind. For 10 points, name this Samuel Beckett play in which Vladimir and Estragon endure the title action.ANSWER: Waiting for Godot <GP>20. The interaction between this satellite and its planet creates an electric current of 400,000 volts that inflates the size of the planet’s magnetosphere. Located in a namesake plasma torus, this moon is the densest in the solar system. This moon is the most geologically active body in the solar system, with more than 400 active (*) volcanoes, and its Bousaule Montes is the tallest non-volcanic mountain in the solar system. For 10 points, Simon Marius claims that he, and not Galileo, discovered this fourth largest and innermost moon of Jupiter.ANSWER: Io <TG>BONUSES:1. In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. For 10 points each:[10] Soyinka is from this country, whose other authors include Ngose Adichie and Chinua Achebe.ANSWER: Federal Republic of Nigeria[10] One of Soyinka’s first notable works was this play in which Baroka, the namesake animal, wishes to mary Sidi, the titular gemstone, but is opposed by Lakunle.ANSWER: The Lion and the Jewel[10] Soyinka’s Opera Wonyosi is an Africanization of The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay and this other adaptation of The Beggar’s Opera by Bertolt Brecht.ANSWER: The Threepenny Opera <TG>2. Answer some questions about an important concept in economics, for 10 points each.[10] When an economic quantity is described by this adjective, it describes the effects of adding a single unit to what already exists. This type of cost refers to the cost of producing one more unit than you currently are.ANSWER: marginal[10] The marginal variety of this economic quantity diminishes according to a namesake law attributed to Gossen. This quantity describes the benefit gained from consuming or producing a good or service.ANSWER: utility[10] These governmental charges are usually marginal when applied to income, as their rates vary at different income brackets.ANSWER: taxes <TR>3. Musicologist Leo Schrade believed this composer to be the “creator of modern music.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this composer of The Coronation of Poppaea. His name is Italian for “green mountain.”ANSWER: Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi[10] Monteverdi’s Nymph’s Lament is a piece in his “Eighth Book” of these compositions. Monteverdi was known for these vocal compositions, which, unlike the motet, were secular.ANSWER: madrigal[10] This famous work by Monteverdi may not be the first opera, but it can be argued that all modern opera has descended from it.ANSWER: L’Orfeo [ or La Favola d’Orfeo] <TG>4. At four kilometers in length, these devices built by LIGO [lie-go] are the largest ever constructed and are able to measure a distance of one ten-thousandth of a proton. For 10 points each:[10] Name these investigative tools that merge two or more sources of light to create an interference pattern.ANSWER: interferometer[10] Both the interferometer belonging to LIGO and the one used in this failed experiment are L-shaped. This doubly-eponymous experiment provided the first evidence that the luminiferous aether wasn’t a real thing.ANSWER: Michelson-Morley experiment[10] Michelson and Morley were professors at two adjacent institutions that merged in 1967 to form this private research university. Seventeen nobel laureates have been affiliated with this prestigious “reserve” university in Cleveland, Ohio.ANSWER: Case Western Reserve University <TG>5. Answer the following about the battle to end apartheid, for 10 points each.[10] In the 1950s, this country’s ANC began to organize protests against “pass laws,” an identification system intended to help segregate the country.ANSWER: Republic of South Africa[10] On March 21, 1960, sixty-nine were killed and nearly 200 wounded when police shot into a crowd protesting pass laws in this township in South Africa.ANSWER: Sharpeville [accept Sharpeville Massacre][10] Other protesters were killed in the Soweto uprising, which took place due to a decree that black schools would be taught using only English and this other language.ANSWER: Afrikaans <TG>6. One of this playwright’s works led to a feud with the Academie Francaise as it broke too many unities. For 10 points each:[10] Name this French dramatist, who followed his most famous work with classical plays such as Cinna and Polyeucte.ANSWER: Pierre Corneille[10] Corneille’s most famous play is this one, which is based on the real-life figure Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar and takes place during the Reconquista. ANSWER: Le Cid[10] Le Cid belongs to this dramatic genre, which is a mixture of the two most common genres. ANSWER: tragicomedy <OK>7. This disease was first studied by Jean-Martin Charcot, who described a “triad” of symptoms that included slurred speech, nystagmus, and intention tremor. For 10 points each:[10] Name this autoimmune disease whose name refers to the many scars that form on the white matter of the central nervous system.ANSWER: Multiple Sclerosis [or MS][10] This fatty insulation that surrounds the axon of neurons is damaged in patients of MS, resulting in a range of symptoms from blurred vision to paralysis.ANSWER: myelin sheath[10] These support cells are responsible for the maintenance and production of the myelin sheath and include oligodendrocytes and schwann cells. ANSWER: glial cells [or neuroglia; or glia] <CT>8. Answer some questions about a Great Lake, for 10 points each.[10] This Great Lake is the only one located entirely within the United States. This lake’s major port cities include Chicago.ANSWER: Lake Michigan[10] Lake Michigan is joined with Lake Huron via these straits, which share a name with the bridge connecting Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas as well as an Island where motor vehicles are banned.ANSWER: Mackinac [mack-in-awe][10] The second-largest city lying on Lake Michigan is this one. This largest city in Wisconsin is also noted for its beer brewing industry.ANSWER: Milwaukee <TR>9. Antifa is not the first group in the U.S. willing to take physical action in the name of anti-fascism. For 10 points each:[10] A self proclaimed anti-fascist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army dominated headlines in 1974 when they kidnapped and “brainwashed” this grandaughter of a famous newspaper mogul. ANSWER: Patty Hearst [or Patricia Campbell Hearst][10] The SLA assassinated Marcus Foster, the first African American Superintendent of Schools in Oakland, California, alienating this Oakland based revolutionary group that called for African Americans to arm themselves.ANSWER: The Black Panther Party[10] After having her sentence commuted by President Carter in 1979, Hearst received a full pardon from this President on his last day in office in 2001.ANSWER: William Jefferson Clinton [or Bill Clinton] <TG>10. This actor played Rio the Kid in the only movie he ever directed, One-Eyed Jacks. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man, whose breakout role came when he played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.ANSWER: Marlon Brando[10] Brando starred as Colonel Kurtz, who goes rogue in the Vietnam War, in this film that reimagined Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.ANSWER: Apocalypse Now[10] Brando won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Terry Malloy in this movie. Malloy is a former boxer who gets involved in mob violence in this movie.ANSWER: On the Waterfront <TG>11. This story’s main character was forbidden by her father to marry, and after her father’s death refused to give up his corpse. For 10 points each:[10] Name this short story, in which the corpse of Homer Barron is found in the title character’s bed after her death. ANSWER: “A Rose for Emily”[10] “A Rose For Emily” is a work by this Southern author, whose other short fiction includes the stories “Go Down, Moses” and “Barn Burning.”ANSWER: William Faulkner[10] “A Rose for Emily” is set, like much of Faulkner’s work, in this state. Other literature set here includes John Grisham’s A Time to Kill. ANSWER: Mississippi <OK>12. This compound is used for culinary purposes as the propellant in whipped cream canisters. For 10 points each:[10] Name this gas, which when used in a medical context is often known as “laughing gas.” It has the chemical formula N2O.ANSWER: nitrous oxide[10] This compound with chemical formula CHCl3 [C-H-C-L-3] was also commonly used as a painkiller, such as during the birth of Queen Victoria’s last two children. It fell out of popularity after a number of deaths associated with its use.ANSWER: chloroform[10] Both nitrous oxide and chloroform belong to this class of drugs, which induce a temporary loss of sensation. They can be classified as either general or local. ANSWER: anesthetic <OK>13. Different Native American tribes joined with two sides in this North American war, which precipitated the Seven Years’ War in Europe. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 1754 to 1758 war which was ended by the Treaty of Paris.ANSWER: French and Indian War[10] The British earned a major victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place outside of this city. As a result of the battle, this city was taken from forces led by General Montcalm.ANSWER: Quebec City[10] This British major general died after being shot three times during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. This “Hero of Quebec” was memorialized in a painting by Benjamin West.ANSWER: James Wolfe <TG>14. This Titan swallowed his children to avoid a prophecy that he would be overthrown by his own child. For 10 points:[10] Rhea tricked this Titan into swallowing a stone instead of Zeus, who grew up and fulfilled the prophecy.ANSWER: Cronos[10] Cronos was the son of Gaea and this god of heaven that names our seventh planet.ANSWER: Uranus[10] In Greco-Roman mythology, these goddesses of vengeance sprang from the blood of Uranus after he was castrated by Cronos. ANSWER: Furies [ or Erinyes; accept Eumenides] <TG>15. For 10 points each, answer the following about the foremost list of popular books in the U.S.[10] A namesake “Book Review” is a supplement to this list generated weekly by a New York newspaper.ANSWER: New York Times Best Seller List[10] This memoir by former first lady Michelle Obama has spent 43 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List.ANSWER: Becoming [10] Another way to become a popular book is to be mentioned during this segment of a popular talk show hosted by an Academy award winning actress who co-produced Selma. ANSWER: Oprah’s Book Club [prompt on “Oprah Winfrey;” prompt on “book club”] <TG> 16. A drawing by this artist was erased by Robert Rauschenberg and presented as a new piece of art. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Dutch-American painter whose depictions of grotesque and exaggerated female nudes can be seen in his Woman series.ANSWER: Willem De Kooning[10] De Kooning is most associated with this art movement centered in New York City whose founding members were known as “action painters.”ANSWER: abstract expressionism[10] This style of painting was emblematic of the later generation of Abstract Expressionists. Mark Rothko is a well known painter of this style, whose works were typically flat blocks of one or two hues on canvas.ANSWER: color field <CT>17. These features of a parallelogram bisect each other. For 10 points each:[10] Name these segments that join opposite corners of any straight-sided shape.ANSWER: diagonals[10] This author of The Almagest, an early astronomy text, names a theorem that relates the product of the diagonals in an inscribed quadrilateral to the sum of the product of the two pairs of opposite sides.ANSWER: Claudius Ptolemy[10] In a polyhedron, this kind of diagonal connects two vertices that are not on the same face.ANSWER: space diagonals <TG>18. This short-lived organization’s logo included two five-pointed stars in a blue pentagon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this group that came into being at the end of World War 1 with the goal of preventing future wars.ANSWER: the League of Nations[10] The League of Nations was doomed from the beginning after the United States refused to join, even though it was the brainchild of this U.S. president.ANSWER: Woodrow Wilson[10] This Senate Republican was a leader in blocking U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Versailles due to his opposition to the League of Nations.ANSWER: Henry Cabot Lodge <TG>19. This five day festival of lights is celebrated each year across India. For 10 points each.[10] Name this Hindu holiday that celebrates the victory of light over darkness.ANSWER: Diwali [or Divali; or Deepavali; or Dipavali][10] Jains celebrate Diwali to mark the anniversary of the release of the soul of this 24th and last teacher of the dharma.ANSWER: Mahavira [or Vardhamana][10] One neighborhood in Delhi had over 30 times the recommended amount of pollutants in the air during a recent Diwali season. This is due to the $1 billion worth of these small explosives that are also popular in the U.S. on the 4th of July.ANSWER: fireworks [accept reasonable equivalents like “firecrackers”] <TG>20. This author’s play Under Milk Wood focuses on the lives of the inhabitants of a small Welsh town. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author, who is better known for his poems such as “And death shall have no dominion.”ANSWER: Dylan Thomas[10] This other Thomas poem proclaims that “Old age should burn and rage at close of day,” and urges the listener to “rage, rage against the dying of the light.”ANSWER: “Do not go gentle into that good night”[10] This book of Thomas short stories contains autobiographical accounts of his early life. Thomas later claimed that its title was not influenced by a James Joyce work. ANSWER: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog <OK> ................
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