High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



2010 Fall Novice Tournament

Edited by Stephen Eltinge, Douglas Graebner, and Matt Jackson

Packet 10

1.One of his compositions features a theme on a witches’ sabbath, and he completed one opera in which Dmitriy acts as the Pretender of a dead tsarevich and haunts the title character. A piano suite created by this man in memory of Viktor Hartmann includes movements such as “The Hut on Fowl’s Legs”, and “The Great Gate of Kiev”. In addition to Boris Godunov and Night on Bald Mountain, for 10 points, what Russian composer created Pictures at an Exhibition?

ANSWER: Modest Mussorgsky

2.This author’s A History of New York is narrated by Diedrich Knickerbocker, and under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, this author wrote a story in which the title character pledged allegiance to George III after waking up twenty years into the future. In another of his works, Brom Bones marries Katrina Van Tassel after the disappearance of Ichabod Crane. For 10 points, name this author of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

ANSWER: Washington Irving

3.The last age in this period was known as the Tithonian, and Pangaea became divided into Laurasia and Gondwana during this period. It was marked by the rise of plants such as conifers and cycads as well as herbivorous sauropods. Other dinosaurs from this period included Allosaurus and Stegosaurus. For 10 points, name this second geological period of the Mesozoic era, which occurred between the Triassic and Cretaceous.

ANSWER: Jurassic period

4.The area central to this agreement had been ceded three years earlier in treaty of San Ildefonso, and one party was motivated by Charles Leclerc’s failures in Saint-Domingue. Negotiated by Robert Livingston and James Monroe, despite opposition from Talleyrand, it involved payment of 15 million dollars, and Zebulon Pike as well as Lewis and Clark later explored its namesake territory. For 10 points, name this huge land sale signed by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803.

ANSWER: The Louisiana Purchase [accept Sale of Louisiana or Vente de Louisiane]

5.When using this technique, the substance with the highest volatility will be extracted first. One kind of it is used to separate hydrocarbons of different lengths, but it cannot separate azeotropes, which are mixtures of liquids with the same boiling point. That is the “fractional” type of this process. For 10 points, name this laboratory technique used to purify substances like bottled water, in which a mixture is separated by boiling off and condensing one component.

ANSWER: distillation

6.This idea’s name was coined in France by Chateaubriand. Irving Kristol helped found a type of this political idea which espouses foreign military intervention, the “neo-” version, and Barry Goldwater wrote about the “Conscience” of one. First described in modern form in Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke, and naming a British party sometimes called the Tories, for 10 points, name this right-wing political philosophy often contrasted with liberalism.

ANSWER: Conservatism [accept Conservative or other word forms]

7.This group includes Bors, one of two who met the injured Fisher King, and its members honor an empty seat, the Siege Perilous. Another member gets a girdle from Lady Bertilak before going to the Green Chapel to face an enemy of that color. Their monarch loses the Battle of Camlann to Mordred, and their champion has an affair with Guinevere. For 10 points, name this Grail-seeking group including Percival, Gawain, and Lancelot, that dines with King Arthur at Camelot.

ANSWER: Knights of the Round Table [accept Knights of Camelot or Knights of King Arthur before those words are read; prompt “knights”, “English knights,” etc throughout]

8.This process creates a carbon atom in the triple alpha process. Inertial or magnetic confinement of deuterium and tritium could be used to accomplish this on Earth, and the CNO cycle and proton-proton chain perform this in stars by converting hydrogen into helium. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which energy is released when multiple atomic nuclei join together to form a single nucleus, often contrasted with fission.

ANSWER: nuclear fusion

9.This philosopher recounts his attempt to restructure the court of Dionysius II in his Seventh Letter, and he wrote of a slave who was taught geometry to prove ideas are innate in Meno. His work Timaeus describes Atlantis; another work of this founder of the Academy uses an allegorical cave to describe his theory of forms, while other dialogues featuring his teacher include Phaedo, Apology, and Crito. For 10 points, name this author of The Republic and pupil of Socrates.

ANSWER: Platon [do not accept or prompt “Socrates” at any point]

10.One character in this play is called “a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy” while the protagonist talks to a gravedigger. The protagonist of this play tells another character to “get thee to a nunnery,” Ophelia. The protagonist of this play meets his father’s ghost and seeks to avenge that father’s his murder by Claudius and his most famous scene contains the line “To be or not to be”. For 10 points, identify this play about a Prince of Denmark, a tragedy by Shakespeare.

ANSWER: Hamlet

11.This city’s Blue and Green factions started the Nika riots. Enrico Dandalo supported the sack of this city during the Fourth Crusade, and its second revival peaked under Suleiman the Magnificent, seven decades after Mehmet II conquered it in 1453. Containing the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia cathedral, and spanning two continents, for 10 points, name this city originally named Byzantium, which served as the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

ANSWER: Constantinople or Istanbul [prompt on “Byzantium”]

12.The sky in this work is said to be inspired by the eruption of Krakatoa. This painting was adapted into a lithograph in 1895 and was part of the artist’s The Frieze of Life. Two people can be seen walking in the background on a bridge, and the subject of this painting is standing in the center of the bridge, clutching its round head, and performing the title action. For 10 points, identify this painting by Edvard Munch featuring the title existentialist shriek.

ANSWER: The Scream or Skrik

13.The Eleven Years’ War was part of this nation’s Confederate Wars, and it was oppressed by police called the Black and Tans. One leader of its home rule movement, forced to resign after his affair with Kitty O’Shea, was Charles Parnell, and this site of the Easter Rising was once led by Michael Collins of the Sinn Féin party. Split from its Protestant northern section, for 10 points, name this Catholic island nation home to a potato famine in the 1840s, with capital Dublin.

Answer: Ireland [accept Eire]

14.This singer sings that “I'm all strung out, my heart is fried” in a song that begins “Maybe I need some rehab, or maybe just need some sleep.” This singer of “Your Love Is My Drug” says that her “first kiss went a little like this” in a song featuring 3OH!3, while in another song she kicks guys to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger and wakes up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy. For 10 points, identify this Auto-Tuned singer of “Blah Blah Blah” and “TiK ToK.”

ANSWER: Ke$ha [accept Kesha Rose Sebert]

15.One book from this country makes lists of “Vexatious things” and “Amusing things” and an author from this country wrote about the murder of a woodcutter from multiple perspectives. In addition to The Pillow Book and In A Grove, another work from this country told of a legendary seducer described as “shining” whose conquests include Lady Fujitsubo. For 10 points, name this country, home to Sei Shonagon and the author of The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu.

ANSWER: Japan

16.These people, chronicled by Priscus, were led after Rugila’s death by Bleda and his brother in the Dual Kingship. The Gupta empire fell to a group sometimes called “White” ones of these. Defeated by Flavius Aetius and the Visigoth Theodoric I at Chalons, sometimes called the Catalaunian Plains, this group crossed the Volga in 370 CE into Europe. For 10 points, name this violent nomadic tribe led by Attila during the collapse of the Roman Empire.

ANSWER: Huns

17.One player of this instrument recorded with Tommy Flanagan and Max Roach on an album named after this instrument’s Colossus. Another player of this instrument is noted for his rendition of Gilberto and Jobim’s bossa nova songs, including Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema. A third player recorded such pieces as Yardbird Suite and was nicknamed “Bird.” For 10 points, identify this jazz instrument played by Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, and Charlie Parker, which can come in tenor and alto varieties.

ANSWER: saxophone

18.It runs parallel to the Boyd-Roosevelt Highway from Colón to Balboa, and parts of it depend on the drainage of Lake Miraflores and Lake Gatún, fed by the Chagres River. This structure crossed by the Centennial Bridge includes the Gaillard Cut. Using locks to aid movement between Limon Bay and the Pacific, it allows ships to avoid rounding Cape Horn. For 10 points, name this artificial waterway that runs through a namesake Central American country.

ANSWER: Panama Canal

19.This process is initiated by the activation of MPF at the G sub 2 checkpoint, while a cell with multiple nuclei is created when it occurs without cytokinesis. During one stage in this process, spindle fibers cause sister chromatids to line up at a plate, and it results in two cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell. For 10 points, name this process with five phases including metaphase, the method of cell division that occurs in non-reproductive cells.

ANSWER: mitosis [accept prophase before “multiple nuclei”]

20.This novel’s protagonist sees a camp of Russian prisoners of war and spends his last night on leave with his mother. In this novel, Muller inherits Kemmerich’s boots and Albert Kropp decides not to commit suicide in the hospital. One character in this novel makes beef-and-bean stew and is killed by a splinter as the protagonist carries him back. For 10 points, name this German novel in which Kat mentors Paul Baumer, written by Erich Maria Remarque.

ANSWER: All Quiet on the Western Front

21.SRPs move signal-sequence-bearing polypeptides from the cytosol to this structure, and a special form of it stores and releases calcium ions in muscle cells. One type of this organelle synthesizes steroids in adrenal cells and metabolizes glycogen in the liver, while another synthesizes proteins from structures on its surface. For 10 points, name this cellular organelle with "smooth" and ribosome-rich “rough” varieties that aids in the transport of cellular materials.

ANSWER: endoplasmic reticulum [or ER; prompt on sarcoplasmic reticulum or SR before “steroids”]

1.W.H. Auden described this painting in “Musee Des Beaux-Arts.” For 10 points each:

[10] Name this landscape in which the title event has occurred in the background as a plowman continues his work indifferently in the foreground.

ANSWER: Landscape With The Fall of Icarus

[10] Landscape With The Fall of Icarus was formerly attributed to this artist of The Hunters in The Snow and Peasant Wedding, but is now considered a copy of a lost work by this artist. ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder [or Peasant Bruegel]

[10] This creator of the Haywain Triptych is better known for a work depicting numerous animals circling a central pool, The Garden of Earthly Delights.

ANSWER: Hieronymus Bosch [or Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken]

2.A monosomy of this chromosome causes Turner syndrome, while males with two copies of it exhibit Klinefelter’s syndrome. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this chromosome of which males have only one copy, while females have two. It is larger than its counterpart, the Y chromosome.

ANSWER: X chromosome

[10] Genetic disorders caused by genes located on the X and Y chromosomes, such as color-blindness and hemophilia, are described by this adjective.

ANSWER: sex-linked [accept sex linkage or equivalents; prompt on linked or linkage]

[10] Males with Klinefelter’s commonly have one of these objects formed from a deactivated X chromosome. Normal males lack them, while females have one.

ANSWER: Barr bodies

3.Founded by a railroad magnate who nailed the Golden Spike in the Transcontinental Railroad, it was the site of Albert Bandura’s bobo doll experiment. For 10 points each,

[10] Name this university of psychologist Philip Zimbardo, located in Palo Alto, California.

ANSWER: Leland Stanford Junior University

[10] At Stanford, Zimbardo studied social roles by faking this institution. That experiment was called off in six days when randomly-assigned guards became too sadistic.

ANSWER: Stanford prison experiment [prompt “jail”]

[10] This group’s ethics guidelines attempt to stop abuses such as those in the Stanford prison experiment. In their form of citation, preferred by scientists, date precedes title.

ANSWER: American Psychological Association [accept APA]

4.Those that are one less than a power of two may be named for Mersenne, while other types include those named for Fermat and Germaine. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify these numbers, each of which is only divisible by itself and one, contrasted with composite numbers.

ANSWER: prime numbers

[10] This man proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers, in addition to proposing such axioms as the parallel postulate.

ANSWER: Euclid

[10] This man developed a namesake sieve to find prime numbers by eliminating multiples of previously found primes.

ANSWER: Eratosthenes

5.This man lost presidential elections in 1824, 1832, and 1844. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Kentucky Senator known as the “Great Compromiser,” who devised the Compromise of 1850 after the Mexican War.

ANSWER: Henry Clay

[10] Henry Clay also negotiated this 1820 compromise which let Maine into the Union as a free state, formed a namesake slave state, and drew a line above which all new states would be free.

ANSWER: Missouri Compromise

[10] One part of the Compromise of 1850 was this Southern bill, which strengthened Article 4 of the Constitution and added penalties for withholding the namesake runaways.

ANSWER: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 [accept Fugitive Slave Law]

6.It assumes that electrons move as far apart from each other as possible. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this theory which facilitates the construction of three dimensional molecular models, the calculation of bond angles, and the classification of molecules as “linear” or “bent.”

ANSWER: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion theory [or VSEPR, frequently pronounced “vesper”]

[10] One of the assumptions of VSEPR theory is that these groups of unbonded electrons repel more strongly than bonds. There are two of them in square planar molecules.

ANSWER: lone pairs [prompt on electron pairs]

[10] This variant of the tetrahedral molecular shape is the result of four areas of electron density, one of which is a lone pair. Common examples include the chlorate ion and ammonia.

ANSWER: trigonal pyramidal [prompt on a partial answer]

7.Its chief planner was Pierre Laval, and it adopted the slogan “work, family, fatherland.” For ten points each:

[10] Name this puppet state of Nazi Germany in the unoccupied southern section of France.

ANSWER: Vichy France [prompt on “French State” or ‘État Francais”]

[10] This head of state in the Vichy regime was a national hero for France during World War I.

ANSWER: Marshal Philippe Petain

[10] This general, the leader of the French government-in-exile during World War II, later served as President of the French Fifth Republic.

ANSWER: Charles Andre Jospeh Marie de Gaulle

8.This religion’s central beliefs include giving at least 2.5 percent of one’s income to charity, or Zakat. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this religion whose Five Pillars include making hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, once in one’s lifetime.

ANSWER: Islam

[10] This sect of Islam, the dominant sect in Iran, considers Ali to be the first caliph, disputing Abu Bakr’s claim.

ANSWER: Shi’ite Islam [accept Shi’i or Shi’ah or Shi’ism]

[10] Ali was married to this daughter of Muhammad, who opposed Abu Bakr and Umar and was the namesake of an Egyptian Shi’a dynasty lasting from 909 to 1171 CE.

ANSWER: Fatimah

9.His death and that of his wife Sophie prompted the July Crisis. For ten points each:

[10] Name this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip helped lead to the outbreak of World War I.

ANSWER: Archduke Franz Ferdinand

[10] Gavrilo Princip belonged to this nationalist organization. Led by Colonel Apis, its official name was Union or Death.

ANSWER: Black Hand [accept Crna Ruka]

[10] The Black Hand was founded in this Balkan country, invaded by Bulgaria during World War I after several Austro-Hungarian attempts failed.

ANSWER: Kingdom of Serbia [accept Kraljevina Srbija; do not accept “Yugoslavia”]

10.He was killed and chopped into pieces by his brother Set before being put back together by his wife Isis. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this white-robed god of the underworld.

ANSWER: Osiris [accept Asar or Usire]

[10] Osiris appears in this myth system, whose Book of the Dead includes the jackal-headed god Anubis embalming and weighing a heart.

ANSWER: Ancient Egyptian [accept word forms]

[10] This falcon-headed son of Osiris has eyes representing the sun and the moon. A patron of Lower Egypt, he avenged his father’s death and had an eye symbol called the wadjet.

ANSWER: Horus [accept Haru-Ur or Haru-si-Ise; accept Neferhor; prompt “Nekheny,” prompt “Mekheny-er-irty” or “Kheny-er-irty”]

11.This poem discusses Sophocles, who heard “the eternal note of sadness...long ago on the Aegean.” For 10 points each:

[10] Name this poem, which begins, “The sea is calm to-night” and which describes “a darkling plain ... where ignorant armies clash by night” at the end.

ANSWER: “Dover Beach”

[10] This Victorian poet of “Thyrsis” and “Stanzas From the Grande Chartreuse” wrote “Dover Beach”.

ANSWER: Matthew Arnold

[10] Arnold wrote a long poem about a “Scholar” one of these people. Other literary examples include Melquiades from One Hundred Years of Solitude and Esmeralda.

ANSWER: gypsy [accept gypsies; do not accept synonyms]

12.This musical work includes sections such as “Morning Mood,” “Anitra’s Dance,” and “Solveig’s Song.” For 10 points each,

[10] What orchestral suite also includes an escape from trolls in the section titled “In the Hall of the Mountain King”?

ANSWER: Peer Gynt Suite

[10] This man composed 66 Lyric Pieces for solo piano and the Holberg Suite in addition to his Peer Gynt Suite.

ANSWER: Edvard Grieg

[10] Edvard Grieg hailed from this country, also the home of composer and music critic Hjalmar Borgstrøm.

ANSWER: Norway

13.Answer some questions about developments in global warming policy for 10 points each.

[10] This nation saw the hottest summer in its history result in over 15,000 deaths in 2010. Its President, Dmitri Medvedev, no longer believes climate change is a hoax.

ANSWER: Russian Federation [do not accept USSR or equivalents]

[10] The United Nations Climate Change Conference met in this Danish city in 2009. Some nations pledged to pass reforms, but no means of enforcement was created.

ANSWER: Copenhagen [accept København]

[10] This island nation became the first to pledge carbon neutrality. Its cabinet once met underwater in 2009 to highlight the fact that global warming could sink the entire nation.

ANSWER: Republic of Maldives [accept Maldive Islands]

14.This nation’s former capital, Almaty, is its most populous city and a large commercial center. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this largest landlocked nation in the world, a Central Asian country south of Russia with capital at Astana.

ANSWER: Republic of Kazakhstan

[10] Much of southwestern Kazakhstan borders this body of water, which despite its name, is called the world’s largest lake. The Volga and Ural Rivers flow into it.

ANSWER: Caspian Sea

[10] Kazakhstan is home to a Uighur [WEE-ger] minority descended from this nation. Its Xinjiang [shin-JANG] province is designated as an “autonomous region” for Uighurs.

ANSWER: People’s Republic of China

15.She is known as the woman with the “face that launched a thousand ships” in a Marlowe play. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this woman, who sparked the Trojan War when she eloped with Paris.

ANSWER: Helen

[10] Helen’s escape from Egypt with Menelaus is the focus of one of this writer’s plays. He also authored Trojan Women and The Bacchae.

ANSWER: Euripides

[10] This other Greek tragedian wrote Seven Against Thebes and a play in which Clytemnestra murders her husband Agamemnon, which is the first part of his Oresteia trilogy.

ANSWER: Aeschylus

16.This experiment involves a Geiger counter, which opens a vial of poison if it detects radiation. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this thought experiment, whose namesake animal is both alive and dead until the box is opened.

ANSWER: Schrödinger’s cat

[10] Schrödinger’s cat becomes either alive or dead due to the “collapse” of this mathematical entity. Its squared value is the probability of finding a particle at a given location and time.

ANSWER: wavefunction

[10] This other important statement from quantum physics states that it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of a particle infinitely precisely.

ANSWER: Heisenberg uncertainty principle

17.This ruler defeated Guy of Lusignan at the 1187 battle of Hattin. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this figure who fought Richard the Lionhearted, a chivalrous Muslim leader.

ANSWER: Salah al-din or Saladin

[10] Saladin fought Richard the Lionheart in the third of these conflicts, which involved religious control of the Holy Land and included one fought by children.

ANSWER: Crusades

[10] Saladin was a sultan of this Ayyubid country, whose later rulers included the Mamluk sultanate and was home to the Wafd Party.

ANSWER: Egypt [accept Misr or Masr]

18.Answer these questions about Native American myths, for 10 points each.

[10] Released from the ark by Noah before the dove, this creature in many Pacific stories is a trickster god who pulled mankind out of a clam shell and/or stole the sun.

ANSWER: raven [prompt “crow” or “blackbird”]

[10] The Southwestern trickster Kokopelli plays this instrument. An instrument of this type, consisting of several tied reeds, belongs to the Greek god Pan.

ANSWER: flute [prompt “pipe”]

[10] This bird, central to Great Plains myths, forms clouds with its wingbeats. In some cultures, it’s a messenger for the Great Spirit, and others tell how it defeated Whale.

ANSWER: Thunderbird or animikii or Waki´ya

19.The speaker of this poem, “knowing how way leads on to way,” doubts that he should ever return to a certain place. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this poem in which the speaker notices “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” and chooses to take “the one less traveled”.

ANSWER: “The Road Not Taken”

[10] “The Road Not Taken” is a poem by this four-time Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner who had “miles to go before I sleep” in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

ANSWER: Robert Frost

[10] In this other Robert Frost poem, the speaker says that he is “all apple orchard,” to which his neighbor who “is all pine” responds, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

ANSWER: “Mending Wall”

20.He wrote about Old Man and Old Woman preparing for guests in one of his plays. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Romanian playwright who wrote The Chairs and a play in which Berenger doesn’t turn into the title animal, Rhinoceros.

ANSWER: Eugene Ionesco

[10] In this play by Ionesco, the Smiths and the Martins have dinner together and eventually have their conversation devolve into non-sequiturs after the Fire Chief leaves.

ANSWER: The Bald Soprano

[10] Ionesco wrote another play featuring Berenger in which he holds this position and gets used to dying. Other notable literary holders of this noble title include Shakespeare’s Lear.

ANSWER: kings

21.This novel ends after the death of Gertrude, whose son William had died during its first section. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this novel in which Miriam and Clara Dawes have relationships with Paul Morel.

ANSWER: Sons and Lovers

[10] This English author who wrote about the Brangwens in The Rainbow and the relationship between Ursula Brangwen and Rupert Birkin in Women in Love wrote Sons and Lovers.

ANSWER: David Herbert Lawrence

[10] The title female is married to a paralyzed upper-class man but has an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in this other D. H. Lawrence novel. It was banned in Britain until 1960.

ANSWER: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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