High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



Darien High School’s DEFT: 2017-2018-952490Written by Skyler Bennett, Brendan Berrigan, Michael Borecki, Thomas Brown, Grace Hand, Maya Nalawade, Sharath Narayan (James Clemens), John Phipps, Riya Krishnan, Sohum Shenoy (Wilmington Charter), Evan Tong, and Julia TongEdited by Michael Borecki and Julia TongSpecial thanks to Harris Bunker (Michigan State)Packet 12Tossups1. The dog Pompey allegedly stopped the attempted assassination of a leader of this country, whose Sea Beggars seized the port of Brielle. The iconoclast Beeldenstorm [BE-ELD-EN-STORM] took place in this country where the Bourse (*) stock exchange was established for the United East India Company. A tulip bubble occurred in this country led by the stadtholder [STAT-HOLDER] William of Orange in the Eighty Years’ War. Dikes allowed polders to be reclaimed from the sea in this Low Country. For 10 points, name this country with capital Amsterdam.ANSWER: Netherlands (prompt on “Holland”)<Borecki>2. The speaker of this collection describes the “Master-knot of Human Fate” as still unravelled, and compares humanity to a "moving row / Of Magic Shadow-Shapes which come and go." A clay pot wonders “Who is the Potter...and who the Pot?” in this poetry collection, which also describes “Tears” as being unable to “wash out a Word” after (*) “the Moving Finger writes; and, having writ / Moves on.” One poem in this collection includes the narrator wishing for “a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou.” For 10 points, name this series of quatrains by Omar Khayyam.ANSWER: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam<J. Tong>3. The Larmor formula calculates this quantity for a moving charge. The Poynting vector shows the amount of this quantity per unit area, and can be used to calculate its “radiant” form. In angular systems, this quantity is equal to the product of torque and angular (*) frequency. A modification to Ohm’s Law states that this quantity is equal to the product of current and voltage. One form of this quantity, the change in energy over time, is used to rank the output of engines. For 10 points, name this quantity measured in watts.ANSWER: power<Shenoy>4. Frank Gehry designed Beekman tower at 8 Spruce Street in this city. One building in this city has two lion statues named Patience and Fortitude and is in Bryant Park. An art-deco style building in this city has ornamentation resembling radiator (*) caps and is the tallest brick building in the world. The Metropolitan Opera is at Lincoln Center is in this city where the Fearless Girl statue faces Charging Bull. The Chrysler Building and Wall Street are in, for 10 points, what city?ANSWER: New York City (or New York, New York)<Hand/Borecki>5. One composer with this surname quoted the folk song Titel Lied [TITEL LEED] in the trio of his Radetzky March. Another composer with this last name wrote an opera in which Rosalinde sings “Klange der Helmut,” Die Fledermaus. The notes C, G, and C open a work by a composer with this surname used in (*) 2001: A Space Odyssey. Another composer with this last name named a piece in 3/4 [3-4] time after a river that runs through Vienna, The Blue Danube. For 10 points, name this last name of Richard [REE-KARD] and a father and son named Johann.ANSWER: Strauss (accept Johann Strauss Sr., Johann Strauss Jr., or Richard Strauss)<J. Tong>6. In one definition, this concept is split into ghatiya and aghatiya types, depending on whether it harms the soul or body. Cetanā, or intention, is cited by Buddhists as the most important mental faculty in vipāka, or the ripening of this concept. Le?yā is the colouring of the soul by this concept, which is represented as (*) cosmic dust in Jainism. This concept affects the cycle of rebirth known as sa?sāra, and good deeds lead to the improvement of it, allowing for moksha, or liberation. For 10 points, name this concept that states one’s past actions will influence their future lives.ANSWER: karma (or kamma)<Nalawade/Narayan>7. After his mother died, one ruler of this kingdom barred the planting of crops and was subsequently assassinated by his brothers. A group of British soldiers under John Chard successfully defended a mission station against this kingdom, though it defeated Lord Chelmsford the day before. Though it lost the Battle of Rorke’s (*) Drift, this group’s impi used the buffalo horns formation and the iklwa spear to win the Battle of Isandlwana. For 10 points, name this South African ethnic group led by Cetshwayo and Shaka.ANSWER: Zulu Kingdom (or Zulu Empire; or Zululand; do not accept “KwaZulu-Natal”)<Borecki>8. The head coach of this team once wrote “I resign as hc of the NYJ” on a napkin. This team has not lost a game with Dion Lewis on its active roster, while its other halfbacks include Rex Burkhead and James White. This team’s Rodney Harrison was unable to dislodge a catch secured against David Tyree’s (*) helmet in Super Bowl XLII [42]. Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson at the goal line to clinch this team’s Super Bowl XLIX [49] victory over the Seattle Seahawks. For 10 points, name this team that has won 5 Super Bowls with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.ANSWER: New England Patriots (accept either)<Hand/Borecki>9. This man’s namesake algorithm can be extended to consider the solutions to Bezout’s identity, but is usually applied to find the greatest common factor between two numbers. One of his works compares the side lengths of the five Platonic Solids to the radius of a sphere. He postulated that only one line can be (*) parallel to another, which may be violated in certain reference frames. In his namesake geometry, triangles can only have a sum of 180 degrees for internal angles. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek mathematician and author of Elements.ANSWER: Euclid<Shenoy>10. One character in this novel sprains his ankle after his horse slips on ice and decides not to marry Blanche Ingram. The protagonist of this novel is saved by Diana and Mary Rivers, who are revealed to be her cousins, but refuses the missionary St. John Rivers’s marriage proposal. Mr. (*) Brocklehurst’s stinginess is exposed and Helen dies during a typhoid epidemic at the Lowood school in this novel, during which a house fire kills the insane Bertha Mason. For 10 points, the title governess marries Mr. Rochester in what Charlotte Bronte novel?ANSWER: Jane Eyre<J. Tong>HALFTIME11. Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living features one of these animals preserved in formaldehyde. A man stabs a spear at one of these creatures near Morro Castle as two men attempt to (*) rescue the title individual of one painting. Another work depicts a black man alone on a fishing boat surrounded by these creatures. Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream depicts, for 10 points, what aquatic predators, one of which attacks Brook Watson in a John Singleton Copley painting?ANSWER: sharks (accept tiger shark; generously prompt on “fish”)<Borecki>12. These compounds and aminoglycosides produce a synergistic effect in streptococcal infections. John Sheehan was the first to chemically synthesize one of these compounds, which consist of a thiazolidine ring fused to a Beta Lactam Ring. These compounds inhibit peptidoglycan (*) cross-links in bacterial cell walls and have been effective against diseases such as syphilis and staphylococci infections. For 10 points, name these antibiotics discovered by Alexander Fleming which inhibit cell wall synthesis and are derived from a mold. ANSWER: penicillins<Krishnan>13. The OMB estimates the opportunity cost of these constructs to be 25 cents per dollar. Vertical and horizontal fairness are considered when establishing these policies. The Pigouvian [PIG-O-VIAN] type of these constructs shifts the private marginal cost curve to the level of the social marginal cost curve to correct negative externalities, while the ad valorem type of these is based on transaction (*) values. The Laffer curve argues that increasing these may decrease government revenue. For 10 points, name these payments to the government with payroll, property, and income forms.ANSWER: Taxes<Borecki>14. This leader has a halo, crown, and purple robe in a namesake “mosaic” in Ravenna’s Church of San Vitale. One of this leader’s generals defeated the Vandals at Ad Decimum and Tricamarum and fought Khosrau I of the Sassanid Empire. The blues and the greens fought over a chariot (*) race during this emperor’s reign, which saw the creation of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Belisarius captured Rome and put down the Nika riots for this husband of Theodora, who ordered the construction of the Hagia Sophia. For 10 points, name this “great” Byzantine emperor.ANSWER: Justinian I (or Justinian the Great; prompt on “Justinian”)<Borecki>15. Two pi over lambda represents one quantity denoted by this letter, the angular wavenumber. A theory of trait selection where populations live in stable environments near the carrying capacity is named for this letter, which also names a vitamin commonly found in (*) leafy vegetables and whose production is blocked by blood thinners such as Warfarin. A reaction’s equilibrium constant is represented by, for 10 points, what letter, which is also the unit of the Kelvin temperature scale?ANSWER: k<Narayan>16. This god tied himself to a goat in order to make the giantess Skadi laugh after his theft and retrieval of Idun lead to the death of her father Thiazi. This god disrupted the Sons of Ivaldi, resulting in Mjolnir’s [MEOL-NEAR’S] short handle. He prevented the finishing of Asgard’s walls by mating with (*) Svadilfari and giving birth to Sleipnir. After this god caused Baldr’s death by giving the blind Hodur a piece of mistletoe, he was tied to a rock and with snake venom dripping onto his eyes. The father of Fenrir and Hel is, for 10 points, what Norse trickster god?ANSWER: Loki17. This author’s novel about Laura Hawkins coined the term “the Gilded Age.” This author wrote about a lawyer who uses fingerprints to prove that Tom Driscoll had been switched at birth with Valet de Chambers. This author of Pudd’nhead Wilson created a character who tricks his friends into (*) whitewashing a fence, and gets lost in McDougal’s Cave with Becky Thatcher. Another of his protagonists floats down the Mississippi with the escaped slave Jim. For 10 points, name this author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and a sequel about Huckleberry Finn. ANSWER: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)<J. Tong>18. As its electrons transition to the principal quantum number of this value, hydrogen emits spectral lines in a Balmer series. The central carbon atoms in ethylene have a bond order of this number. This is the number of nitrogen atoms in hydrazine and the number of valence electrons in (*) alkaline earth metals. The element with this atomic number has a nucleus equivalent to an alpha particle and is the lightest noble gas. The atomic number of helium is, for 10 points, what number, which is also the number of atoms in a diatomic molecule like nitrogen gas?ANSWER: two [or 2]<Narayan>19. Twenty-one soldiers crossed the Canadian border and robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont during this war. This conflict’s western theater ended after the Battle of Glorieta Pass. Great Britain paid damages to the victor of this war in the (*) Alabama claims. One side of this war reduced the other’s cotton exports by following Winfield Scott’s Anaconda plan, which was completed after a naval battle that allegedly saw the line “damn the torpedoes.” David Farragut won the battle of Mobile Bay in, for 10 points, what war against the Confederacy?ANSWER: U.S. Civil War (or American Civil War)<Borecki>20. This character becomes disillusioned after meeting a businessman who counts the stars only to own them. This character, who has three volcanoes at his home, correctly identifies a drawing as a snake swallowing an elephant. After this character becomes downcast after discovering a series of (*) rosebushes, a fox who wants to be tamed explains why a talking rose this character fell in love with is special. This character allows himself to be bitten by a snake in order to return home to Asteroid 325. For 10 points, name this character created by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.ANSWER: The Little Prince<J. Tong>TIEBREAK: ONLY PROCEED IF THE GAME IS TIED21. This kingdom was first unified after the Battle of Kawela and a battle atop Pali Lookout, which were won by a ruler of this country who built the “Brick Palace” in Lahaina [La-hane-uh]. William Hooper established the first sugar plantation in this country, the site of the 1888 Wilcox Rebellion. Lorrin Thurston wrote this country’s (*) Bayonet Constitution before overthrowing its government and establishing Sanford Dole as president. Kamehameha [Ka-may-ha-may-ha] and Lili’uokalani [lee-lee-oo-kuh-lawn-ee] led, for 10 points, what kingdom ruled from Iolani Palace in Honolulu?ANSWER: Kingdom of Hawaii (or Republic of Hawaii; do not accept or prompt on “United States of America”)<Phipps/Borecki>ANSWER: HawaiiBonuses1. This character falls in love with Estella while visiting a woman who constantly wears her old wedding dress, Mrs. Havisham. For 10 points each--A. Name this protagonist of Great Expectations. After becoming a blacksmith’s apprentice, this character learns he has an anonymous benefactor from the lawyer Jaggers.ANSWER: Pip (accept Philip Pirrip)B. Pip was created by this English author, who also wrote a novel in which Sydney Carton replaces Charles Darnay at the guillotine, A Tale of Two Cities.ANSWER: Charles Dickens C. In this other Dickens novel, the title character marries Agnes Wickfield after Dora Spenlow’s death. Micawber exposes Uriah Heep’s blackmail of Mr. Wickfield in this novel.ANSWER: David Copperfield<J. Tong>2. Donald Trump said that he would repeal this act on “day one” of his presidency, but only did so in September. For 10 points each--A. Name this policy of the Obama administration that allowed undocumented minors to apply for a work permit and delayed the deportation of illegal immigrants without giving legal status.ANSWER: DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)B. This proposed act would grant permanent resident status to all undocumented minors, but it has never been passed.ANSWER: DREAM Act (or Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act)C. DACA has been the subject of many lawsuits, including one filed by this sheriff who was pardoned by President Trump after a conviction for contempt of court.ANSWER: Joseph Michael Arpaio (or Joe Arpaio)<Phipps>3. This German scientist’s namesake constant appears in the formulation for the energy of a photon, where it is multiplied by frequency. For 10 points each--A. Identify this namesake of a constant symbolized h and equal to about 6.62-34 [6.62 to the power of negative 34]. He won the 1918 Nobel prize for his discovery of energy quanta. ANSWER: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PlanckB. The energy of a photon is equal to Planck’s constant divided by the wavelength, all multiplied by this constant symbolized c and equal to about 300 million meters per second.ANSWER: Wien’s displacement law C. Planck’s constant originated from his work with these theoretical objects, which are said to absorb all incident radiation.ANSWER: blackbody (or blackbodies)<Shenoy>4. Any member of this political body would immediate dissolve it with the words “I do not allow,” the Liberum veto. For 10 points each--A. Name this parliamentary body of an eastern European “commonwealth.”ANSWER: Sejm (pronounced “same”)B. The Sejm is the parliamentary body of this modern-day country east of Germany with capital Warsaw, which formed a commonwealth with Lithuania in the Union of Lublin.ANSWER: Republic of Poland (accept Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)C. The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth disappeared after the three partitions of Poland, all three of which took place during the reign of this Russian ruler.ANSWER: Catherine the Great (or Catherine II)<Borecki>5. In one story told by this character, the greedy Cassim is killed by thieves after he is trapped in a cave. For 10 points each--A. Name this character who, assisted by her sister Dunyazad, begins to tell a tale but leaves it off halfway every night in order to delay her execution by King Shahryar.ANSWER: Scheherezade (pronounced “Sher-her-a-zahd,” but be lenient)B. Scheherezade is the narrator of this collection of Middle Eastern tales, which includes stories such as “Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.”ANSWER: One Thousand and One Nights (accept Arabian Nights)C. In the Arabian Nights, this character is trapped by the Old Man of the Sea and collects a large amount of diamonds from a valley populated by rocs.ANSWER: Sinbad the Sailor (do not accept or prompt on “Sinbad the Porter”)<J. Tong>6. This hero kills his rival Turnus after seeing him wearing Pallas’s belt as a trophy, and is forced to abandon a lover who later stabs and burns herself on a funeral pyre. For 10 points each--A. Name this lover of Dido and eventual husband of Lavinia.ANSWER: AeneasB. This Latin poet wrote The Aeneid.ANSWER: Virgil (accept Publius Vergilius Maro)C. In The Aeneid, Aeneas is instructed by the Cumaean Sibyl to retrieve this object in order to visit his father Anchises in the Underworld. James George Frazer wrote a book named after this object.ANSWER: a golden bough (accept The Golden Bough)<J. Tong>7. For 10 points each, name these fictional archers:A. This leader of the Merry Men and lover of Maid Marian legendarily split an arrow during an archery competition depicted in Ivanhoe.ANSWER: Robin Hood (accept Robin of Locksley)B. This Avenger's wide variety of trick arrows includes everything from explosive arrows to an arrow carrying Ant-Man. He is revealed to have a secret family in Age of Ultron.ANSWER: Hawkeye (accept Clint Barton)C. This resident of Lake-Town kills Smaug by shooting him in his weak spot and is given the Arkenstone by Bilbo in The Hobbit. ANSWER: Bard the Bowman<J. Tong>8. Vaslav Nijinsky choreographed this ballet, which is split into two sections called “The Adoration of the Earth” and “The Sacrifice.” For 10 points each-A. Name this ballet which depicts a girl being forced to dance herself to death, and provoked riots during its premiere in Paris.ANSWER: The Rite of SpringB. This composer of The Rite of Spring also wrote a ballet in which Prince Ivan defeats Koschei [KOSH-AY] with the help of The Firebird.ANSWER: Igor StravinskyC. In this other Stravinsky ballet, the title puppet loves a ballerina but is killed by the Moor. A dissonant chord named after this ballet features simultaneous C major and F-sharp major triads.ANSWER: Petrushka (accept Petrushka chord)<J. Tong>9. Coloring in the odd numbers of this arrangement yields a Sierpinski Gasket. For 10 points each--A. Name this arrangement. Every number in this arrangement is the sum of the two numbers above it.ANSWER: Pascal’s Triangle (both parts required; prompt on partial answer; also accept Yang Hui’s Triangle or Khayyam’s Triangle)B. The numbers of Pascal’s Triangle are also these numbers, the number of ways to choose k from n.ANSWER: binomial coefficientsC. Pascal is the namesake of the units for this quantity, a force over an area, with atmospheric and water types.ANSWER: pressure<J. Tong>10. This man ruled that “the power to tax is the power to destroy” in a case involving the Second Bank of the United States. For 10 points each--A. Name this Chief Justice who ruled that Congress can regulate interstate commerce in a case dealing with two steamship owners, Gibbons v. Ogden.ANSWER: John MarshallB. Marshall established the principle of Judicial Review during this case, which denied a “midnight judge” a commission signed by John Adams.ANSWER: Marbury v. MadisonC. In the case of this college “v. Woodward” Marshall upheld this college’s original charter, establishing the sanctity of private contracts.ANSWER: Dartmouth College<J. Tong>11. The protagonist of this novel beats up the cruel Colonel Himmelstoss, and regrets killing the painter Gerard Duval in a shell hole. For 10 points each--A. Name this novel, in which Paul Baumer is killed after being encouraged to enlist in the army by his teacher Kantorek.ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western FrontB. All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as its sequel, The Road Back, are novels by this German author.ANSWER: Erich Maria RemarqueC. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul is given these objects after the death of the bookish Muller, who in turn was given these objects from a character who loses a watch before dying.ANSWER: Kemmerich’s boots<J. Tong>12. The beginning of this war in 1979 led US president Jimmy Carter to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. For 10 points each--A. Identify this conflict between a communist power and a central Asian nation. The C.I.A. supplied the mujahedeen during this conflict.ANSWER: Soviet-Afghan War (accept equivalents)B. This U.S president authorized the CIA to arm the mujahideen with Stinger antiaircraft missiles and was later in office during the Iran-Contra scandal.ANSWER: Ronald ReaganC. The Soviet-Afghan war led to the end of this policy of reducing Cold War tensions. This policy previously produced the SALT treaties.ANSWER: Detente13. For 10 points each, name these neurodegenerative disorders:A. This disease, which targets motor neurons, causes muscles to atrophy. People with this disease often die from respiratory failure as their muscles weaken.ANSWER: ALS (also accept amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)B. This disease is characterized by memory loss, disorientation, and mood swings, and is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly.ANSWER: Alzheimer’s diseaseC. This disease causes memory deficits and jerky movements called chorea. It is caused by the development of a polyQ tract due to excessive repeats of CAG [pronounce separately: C A G] on chromosome 4. ANSWER: Huntington's disease<Nalawade/Tong>14. Notable psychologists that belong to this school include Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka. For 10 points each--A. Name this school of psychology which emphasizes that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Its name derives from the German word for “form.”ANSWER: Gestalt psychologyB. This other school of psychology focuses on an individual’s observable actions. Members of this school included John Watson, who conducted the Little Albert experiments, and BF Skinner.ANSWER: BehaviorismC. Notable behaviorist Ivan Pavlov developed a theory of classical conditioning by conditioning these animals so that when a bell was rung, they would salivate, even if no meat was given to them.ANSWER: dogs<J. Tong>15. This artist depicted three women next to his most famous painting in The Models. For 10 points each-A. Name this artist who depicted a yellow-shirted woman balancing on a horse in The Circus.ANSWER: Georges Pierre SeuratB. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac both used this artistic style exemplified by small dots that are put together to form an image.ANSWER: PointilismC. This extremely large Seurat painting depicts a woman walking a monkey and a man smoking a pipe as four men row in the background.ANSWER: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte (or Un dimanche après-midi à l'?le de la Grande Jatte)<Borecki>16. One character in this film is revealed to be named “Clarence” and attended Cranbrook, a private school. For 10 points each—A. Name this film about Jimmy “Rabbit” Smith, who battles Papa Doc, a member of the group “Leaders of the Free World.”ANSWER: 8 MileB. This lead single from the soundtrack of 8 Mile asks “if you had / one shot / or one opportunity / to seize everything you ever wanted / in one moment / would you capture it / or just let it slip?”ANSWER: Lose YourselfC. This rap artist of “Stan” and “The Real Slim Shady” wrote and performed “Lose Yourself” and also starred as “Rabbit” in 8 Mile.ANSWER: Eminem (or Marshall Bruce Mathers III)<Borecki>17. The U.S. invaded this country in 1989’s Operation Just Cause. For 10 points each--A. Name this country where control of a U.S.-occupied “zone” was returned in the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.ANSWER: Republic of PanamaB. Operation Just Cause deposed this Panamanian general and dictator, who was captured and tried for drug trafficking and money laundering.ANSWER: Miguel NoriegaC. After Noriega hid in the Vatican embassy, American forces performed this action non-stop outside the building. The New York Times described this action as a “boom-box bombardment” of heavy metal.ANSWER: Playing Extremely Loud Rock Music (accept equivalents)<Borecki>18. The narrator of a poem featuring this object wonders whether it will “stink like rotten meat” or “explode,” before concluding that “maybe it just sags / Like a heavy load.” For 10 points each--A. Name this object, which is described as “dry” like “a raisin in the sun” in a poem featuring it.ANSWER: A dream deferred (prompt on partial answer)B. This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote about a dream deferred in his poem “Harlem,” and also featured a man playing a “drowsy syncopated tune” in “The Weary Blues.”ANSWER: Langston HughesC. Hughes also wrote a poem featuring these entities, which are described as “ancient as the world.” The narrator of that poem concludes that “my soul has grown deep like” these entities.ANSWER: a river<J. Tong>19. Osmosis involves water undergoing this process through a semipermeable membrane. For 10 points each--A. Name this net movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. ANSWER: diffusionB. The first of this German scientist’s laws of diffusion states that the diffusive flux is proportional to the steepness of the concentration gradient.ANSWER: Adolf FickC. Graham’s law states that the rate of diffusion for a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of this value for the gas, which is often measured in units of grams per mole.ANSWER: molar mass (accept molecular mass or molecular weight)<Narayan>20. For 10 points each, answer the following about indigenous peoples of South America:A. The Quechua group, who share their name with the language of the Inca Empire, live in and around this mountain range in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.ANSWER: Andes MountainsB. The Guarani live in the Misiones province of Argentina as well as in this landlocked country with capital Asuncion.ANSWER: ParaguayC. This ethnic group in southern Chile and Argentina resisted the conquest of the Inca and remained independent of those two nations until the late 19th century.ANSWER: Mapuche people (or Araucanians or Araucanos)<Phipps> ................
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