High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 Richard Montgomery Blair Academic Tournament 2019Head Edited by Emmett LaurieEdited by Abhinav Karthikeyan, Adam Howlett, Anson Berns, Alex Hu, Jakob Boeye, Katherine Lei, Naveen Raman, Olivia Chen, and Vishwa ShanmugamWritten by the members of the Richard Montgomery and Montgomery Blair Quizbowl teams: Alex Constantino, Aries Wang, Chris Tong, Christine Zhu, Derek Chu, Danesh Sivakumar, Daniel Yang, Daniel Zhu, Grant Yang, Jaewoo Chung, Justin Posner, Kevin Lu, Matthew Shu, Michael Xie, Sophia Weng, Shawn Zhao, and Tejas Nazare Tossups1. A poem by this author states “of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again” and observes a tree “wearing white for Eastertide.” Another of his poems ends “I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.” This author of “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” wrote a poem criticizing some verse that “gives a chap the belly -ache”; that poem begins (*) “you eat your victuals fast enough.” This poet states “silence sounds no worse than cheers / After earth has stopped the ears” in a poem that recalls “the time you won your town the race.” For 10 points, name this poet of A Shropshire Lad, which contains “Terence, this is stupid stuff” and “To an Athlete Dying Young.”ANSWER: Alfred Edward Housman <Non-epic Poetry EL> <ed. OC>2. Suburbs of this country’s capital include Almada and Setúbal. A 2016 American-based survey concluded that the world’s best place to retire was this country’s southern region, the Algarve. The two autonomous regions of this country include a group of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean ruled from Ponta Delgada and the (*) Madeira archipelago. Wine is exported from this country’s second-largest city of Porto. The Azores are part of this European country that has its capital city located at the mouth of the Tagus River. For 10 points, name this Iberian country with capital at Lisbon.ANSWER: Portugal <Geography, AK><ed. KLu and AK>3. Important molecular markers linked to this condition include NFAT1 and NFAT5, transcription factors that increase motility in the body. Inactivating ER-alpha overexpression with tamoxifen can effectively treat the Luminal A and Luminal B subtypes of this condition. The presence of Reed-Sternberg cells differentiates two forms of a type of this condition. Those cells, combined with a mutation of the (*) “guardian angel of the genome,” the p53 gene, can cause the Hodgkin’s subtype of this condition. For 10 points, name this condition characterized by tumors that is often treated with combinations of surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy.ANSWER: cancer [accept breast cancer; accept (Hodgkin's or Non-Hodgkin's) lymphoma after "crippled"] <Biology, KLiao><ed. VS>4. Historian James Belich suggested that a war involving these people be named the “Potato Wars” due to the potato’s impact on the economy of these people. One leader of these people cut down a flagstaff that he gifted to James Busby, the first British Resident of these people’s country. (*) Hone Heke was one leader of these people who fought a series of intertribal wars named for the firearms they obtained through Sydney-based merchants. James Hobson forced these participants in the Musket Wars to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on North Island. For 10 points, name these native people of New Zealand.ANSWER: Maori <World History, AK><ed. JB>5. This author wrote about a character whose bandaged head is often compared to that of Apollinaire. In that novel, the protagonist humiliates himself in front of a gang of boys in dragon jackets and vomits while teaching at a cram school. This author wrote about fifteen boys abandoned in a plague-ridden village in the novel (*) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. Another of this man’s novels centers around Mitsusaburo and his brother Takashi, who attempts an uprising against the Korean “Emperor.” At the end of another novel by this author, Bird decides to raise his disabled son instead of escaping to Africa. For 10 points, name this novelist of The Silent Cry and A Personal Matter.ANSWER: Kenzaburo Oe <Long Fiction, DY><ed. OC>6. This artist painted the overflow of his hometown pond in a work where water runs by a white farmhouse at sunset. That painting, Evening at Kuerners, was created in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, which is now home to the Brandywine Collection which houses much of his artwork. He notoriously painted many nudes of the Kuerners’ caretaker without their knowledge in the (*) Helga Pictures, but his best known work features a grey barn in the distance of a treeless landscape. That work features a woman with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease in a pink dress crawling toward the Olson House. For 10 points, name this regionalist painter of Christina’s World.ANSWER: Andrew Wyeth [prompt on Wyeth; do not accept or prompt on “N.C. Wyeth” <Visual Arts, GY><ed. AH>7. The fourteenth chapter of this work features a speaker’s explanation of the Three Material Modes of Nature, while in its second chapter that speaker consoles the protagonist by describing the separateness of the soul from the material world of the body. This work, which is narrated by Sanjaya on the prompting of (*) Dhritarashtra, fortels the death of Drona and Bhishma in its 11th chapter, where Krishna reveals his universal form to Arjuna. For 10 points, name this Hindu philosophical text that appears directly before the account of the Kurukshetra war in the Mahabharata. ANSWER: Bhagavad-Gita [prompt on Mahabharata before mentioned] <Religion, AH><ed. JB>8. Abel’s identity expresses an example of this operation used to prove linear independence, called the Wronskian. The characteristic polynomial is found using this operation after subtracting lambda times I, so its roots are eigenvalues. If this operation returns zero, the reduced row echelon form will always have fewer pivots than rows. The (*) transpose does not change this operation’s value. Multiplying the values of minors by cofactors and summing over a row calculates this operation. If this operation yields zero, the corresponding singular matrix cannot be inverted. For 10 points, name this operation calculated as ad-bc [[“a-d minus b-c”]] for a 2x2 matrix.ANSWER: determinant <Other Science, VS><ed. AB>9. This thinker joined the pro-Keynesian “cafeteria group” alongside his friends Piero Sraffa and Frank Ramsay. In one of his imagined scenarios, a shopkeeper has to look up the word “red” in order to procure five apples. This man’s Philosophical (*) Investigations studied series of words connected by a “family resemblance,” and another of his thought experiments involves a lion speaking English who cannot be understood. This thinker used the “beetle in a box” thought experiment to refute the theory of Private Languages. For 10 points name this Austrian thinker who wrote the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein <Social Science, JB><ed. AH>10. Although he swore never to recognize Pope Alexander III at the Diet of Wurzburg in response to the machinations of Henry II, he eventually stopped his support of antipope Paschal III and gave in. This man participated in the Diet of Roncaglia after conquering Milan which reaffirmed his privileges over subject cities, although the Lombard (*) League refused to accept the terms and eventually secured their independence at the Battle of Legnano. This man died while crossing a river on the way to the Third Crusade which led to the total withdrawal of German forces. For 10 points, name this Holy Roman Emperor known for his red beard.ANSWER: Frederick Barbarossa [accept Frederick I; prompt on Frederick] <European History, JP><ed. AH>11. A former airline with this name was the first to fly commercially between the US and Japan, and was acquired by Delta Airlines. An institution with this word in its name is the only private Big 10 university and is also the only to be located on the shore of a Great Lake. In a 1959 film named after this (*) direction, the protagonist is interrogated at the home of UN diplomat Lester Townsend; that movie ends with a chase down the side of Mount Rushmore. For 10 points, name this intercardinal direction that names a university in Evanston, Illinois, and a Cary Grant thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, titled North by [this direction].ANSWER: northwest [accept Northwest Airlines, Northwestern University, and North by Northwest] <Pop Culture/Mixed Academic, AK><ed. KLu>12. In this work, Lady Bellaston conspires to have Lord Fellamar rape a character so she can have that woman’s love interest to herself. This work’s protagonist befriends the gamekeeper Black George and has a relationship with his daughter Molly Seagrim. In this novel, Mr. Fitzpatrick walks in on a character having an affair with Mrs. Waters, who is actually (*) Jenny Jones and is suspected to be his mother. In this work, Reverend Thwackum assists Master Bilfil in his rivalry with the protagonist. The title character marries Sophia Western after discovering that he is Squire Allworthy’s nephew in, for 10 points, what picaresque novel by Henry Fielding?ANSWER: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling <Long Fiction, OC><ed. OC>13. A major expansion of this institution occurred in 2017 with the opening of a Jean Nouvel-designed facility in Abu Dhabi, although an earlier satellite facility had been already founded in the French town of Lens. The Daru staircase lies between this institution’s Sully and Denon wings, which flank a controversial outdoor structure commissioned by (*) Fran?ois Mitterrand in 1984. That structure is mirrored by an inverted pyramid in an adjacent mall, and was designed by I.M. Pei. For 10 points, name this Parisian palace that now serves as the world’s largest art museum, its collection featuring iconic pieces like the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa.ANSWER: Louvre Museum <Other Fine Arts, AH><ed. AH>14. The Kolmogorov length scale is proportional to the one-fourth power of this quantity cubed over epsilon. An equation setting shear stress equal to this quantity times the shear rate does not hold for materials such as dilatants and Bingham Plastics. One equation sets a force equal to 6 pi times big-R times v times this quantity. Because the Reynolds number is inversely proportional to this quantity, (*) turbulence tends to occur when it is low. Besides radius and velocity, Stokes’ law shows drag is proportional to this quantity. Dividing by the density yields the kinematic form of this quantity from its dynamic form. For 10 points, name this measure of a fluid’s resistance to flow.ANSWER: viscosity [accept kinematic, dynamic, or shear viscosity; prompt on eta or mu or nu] <Physics, VS><ed. VS>15. A king of this name demanded that anyone who he looked at in court immediately bow to their knees. That ruler of this name executed several of the Lords Appellant and was murdered after his supporters launched the failed Epiphany Rebellion. Another king of this name was killed at a battle he lost a battle after the defection of the (*) Stanleys. That king’s skeleton was recently discovered under a parking lot. A ruler with this name was held prisoner in Vienna after returning from a military campaign where he fought Saladin and captured Jerusalem. For 10 points give this name shared by three kings of England, the first of which was known as “the Lionheart." ANSWER: Richard [accept Richard I, II, or III, accept Richard the Lionheart before mention] <Other History, JB><ed. AH>16. Because of a foreboding prophecy, Croesus refuses to send his son Atys to capture one of these animals. One of these animals that carries a comb and scissors between its ears is called Twrch Trwyth, and was hunted by Culhwch. A giant one of these animals called Saehrimnir is cooked and eaten in (*) Valhalla every night, and a golden one of these animals called Gullinbursti pulled Frey’s chariot. For his fourth labor, Heracles captured the Erymanthian one of these animals. Atalanta was the first to wound the Calydonian one of these which was eventually slain by Meleager. For 10 points, name this tusked, wild pig-like animal. ANSWER: boar [prompt on similar answers like pigs and hogs] <Mythology, DY><ed. JB>17. This organization lost much of its public support after three of its members executed 19-year-old Alex Rackley in New Haven. The murder of one of this group’s members by the Chicago Police and the FBI led to the Weather Underground's declaration of war on the US government. That man, fred Hampton, was a leader of this group which (*) demanded decent housing and an end to Police Brutality in its Ten-Point Program. This organization was founded in Oakland by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale who advocated for armed citizens’ patrols to monitor police behavior. For 10 points name this militant black nationalist group.ANSWER: Black Panther Party for Self Defense [accept BPP] <American History, JB><ed. AH>18. One piece by this composer contains a thrice-repeated theme inspired by a distant voice the composer heard in Wales. In addition to Introduction and Allegro for Strings, this composer wrote a work depicting a man known as “the Soul” being judged and sent to Purgatory. That oratorio was based on a poem by (*) Cardinal Newman, The Dream of Gerontius. This composer depicted a stutter in the “Dorabella” section of a piece that represents his “friends pictured within” in movements including “Nimrod.” The Enigma Variations, for 10 points, were composed by what English composer of Pomp and Circumstance?ANSWER: Edward Elgar <Auditory Art, DY><ed. IR>19. This man tells the story of Dave Singleman, a colleague who died in his green velvet slippers. In that scene, this character exclaims “you can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away” to a man who plays a recording of his son reciting state capitals. This character tries to plant carrots in the dark after he is abandoned by his sons at Frank’s Chop House. This man repeatedly (*) hallucinates about his rich brother Ben and he gifts a pair of nylon stockings to his mistress. This man kills himself to leave an insurance policy shortly before his wife finishes making the last payment on their house. For 10 points name this protagonist of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.ANSWER: Willy Loman [prompt on Loman, prompt on the salesman] <Drama, JB><ed. OC>20. This quantity is equal to the negative partial derivative with respect to volume of the Helmholtz free energy. The log of one form of this quantity is related to constants A, B, C, and temperature in the Antoine equation. Gas solubility is directly proportional to a type of this quantity. High values of one form of this quantity are found in (*) volatile substances; that property is calculated for a solution using Raoult’s Law. This quantity is held constant in any isobaric process, and this quantity times V equals nrt [[“n-r-t”]] by the ideal gas law. For 10 points, name this quantity, measured in Pascals and defined as force per unit area.ANSWER: pressure [accept partial pressure or vapor pressure, prompt on P] <Chemistry, CT><ed. KLei>Bonuses1. You are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi and traveling around Egypt. For 10 points each:[10] The greatest wonders you beheld were the three pyramids of this city, the largest of which was built by the great pharaoh Khufu.ANSWER: Giza[10] At Giza, you also beheld many of these flat-roofed, rectangular tombs. My companions tell me that many Old Kingdom rulers and lesser nobles lay in eternal repose within these structures.ANSWER: Mastaba [10] Observing famine victims you disprove this Greek physician’s theory about the formation of the jaw. This physician popularized the theory of the humors and built upon Hippocrates’ work.ANSWER: Galen <Other History, AH><ed. JB>2. Many religious systems are built around apocalyptic eschatologies. For 10 points each, answer these questions about the the ends of time.[10] In this final book of the New Testament, John of Patmos recorded that the end of the world will culminate in the coming of the New Jerusalem and a final triumph over Satan. ANSWER: Revelation [do not accept “Revelations”][10] Unfortunately for followers of this religious denomination, the world did not actually end in 1843 or 1844, leading to an experience termed “the great disappointment.”ANSWER: Seventh Day Adventists (prompt on “Millerites”)[10] According to followers of this religion, an antichrist figure named ad-Dajjal will wreak havoc upon the Earth before the Day of Judgement. The mischievous nations of Yajuj and Majuj will also be unleashed.ANSWER: Islam <Religion, AH><ed. JB>3. Answer the following about the history of silent films, for 10 points each:[10] One of the first silent films to achieve widespread success has a title translated as A Trip to [this location]. In this film, directed by George Méliès [[“may-lee-EZ”]], a group of travelers shoot a capsule into the face of this location.ANSWER: The Moon [accept La Lune][10] Alongside Charlie Chaplin, this man was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. A famous scene from Steamboat Bill, Jr. starring this deadpan actor shows the front of a house falling down on him.ANSWER: Buster Keaton[10] The silent film era began to draw to a close with the release of this film, considered the first “talkie.” In it, the main character, an aspiring entertainer, says “wait a minute, you ain’t seen nothing yet” as his first spoken line.ANSWER: The Jazz Singer <Other Fine Arts, KLu><ed. AB>4. Lysozyme exhibits less structural fluctuation than hemoglobin during breathing. For 10 points each:[10] Protein breathing involves movements of domains and this level of protein structure. This level of protein structure is mediated by hydrogen bonds and includes the alpha-helix and beta-sheet motifs.ANSWER: secondary structure[10] While secondary structure is three-dimensional, primary structure is comprised of the linear sequence of these monomers. They have a carboxyl and a namesake -NH2 [["N-H-2”]] group.ANSWER: amino acids[10] Proteins with multiple of these structures barely exhibit increases in breathing in dilute solutions because these structures may brace or stiffen tertiary structure. They are formed from two cysteine [["sis-teen”]] residues.ANSWER: disulfide bridges [accept disulfide bonds, prompt on disulfide, persulfide, or SS-bond] <Biology, KLei><ed. KLei>5. This composer wrote a ballet set in Lesbos, whose two title characters mime the story of Pan and the nymph Syrinx. For 10 points each:[10] This French composer of Daphnis et Chloé also wrote a work portraying a dancing infanta in the style of a Velazquez painting, Pavane for a Dead Princess.ANSWER: Maurice Ravel[10] Ravel famously got into a heated argument with conductor Arturo Toscanini about the tempo of this piece, his most famous composition. This piece features a repetitive snare drum ostinato. ANSWER: Boléro[10] This is the name of the third and final movement of Ravel’s piano composition Gaspard de la Nuit. He intended for this movement to be more difficult than Balakirev’s Islamey.ANSWER: Scarbo <Auditory Art, CT><ed. OC>6. Physical features in this town include Wiley’s Swamp and Andre’s Tree. For 10 points each:[10] Name this town in the Catskill Mountains. One of its inhabitants, Doffue Martling, claims to have single- handedly destroyed a British ship during the Revolutionary War.ANSWER: Sleepy Hollow [accept “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”][10] The “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” appears in this author’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. He wrote about Mateo Ximenes in Tales of the Alhambra.ANSWER: Washington Irving[10] Another Irving work is about this title character, who wakes up from a twenty-year sleep to learn of the death of his wife and the occurrence of the American Revolution.ANSWER: Rip Van Winkle [accept either underlined portion] <Short Fiction/Other, AK><ed. OC>7. Plato is considered one of the greatest stylists of all time for his application of this literary form to philosophical analysis. For 10 points each:[10] The Euthyphro, Meno, Apology, and Crito are all works that are written in this literary form, whose name derives from the central action between Socrates and his interlocutors.ANSWER: dialogue[10] The Euthyphro concerns itself with the discovery of this concept, which Socrates remarks is either loved by the gods because it causes the gods to love it, or loved by the gods because the gods love it.ANSWER: piety (accept holiness)[10] Socrates is sentenced to this punishment during his trial in the Apology, after not explicitly denying the charge that he corrupted the youth of Athens.ANSWER: death [accept poisoning; accept drinking hemlock] <Philosophy, AH><ed. JB>8. A character in this play lectures for the Wannafeller Moral Reform World League. For 10 points each:[10] Name this play, where Henry Higgins attempts to reform Eliza Doolittle by ridding her of her Cockney accent.ANSWER: Pygmalion[10] Pygmalion is a work by this Irish playwright, who also wrote about the title character quitting the Salvation Army in Major Barbara.ANSWER: George Bernard Shaw[10] In Act III, after finding out about her son’s insensitive behavior with Eliza, Miss Higgins shouts this word three times repeatedly.ANSWER: men [accept “Men, men, men!”] <Drama, AK and MX><ed. OC>9. This artist created an anatomically inaccurate woodcut depicting an Indian rhinoceros with armor. For 10 points each:[10] Name this German painter and printmaker who engraved a truncated rhombohedron and a magic square behind a winged figure in his Melencolia I.ANSWER: Albrecht Dürer[10] This other engraver etched a tall tree in the foreground of his The Large Spruce. He also painted a tablet suspended in the sky over embattled troops in The Battle of Alexander at Issus.ANSWER: Albrecht Altdorfer[10] Dürer and Altdorfer were both part of the German branch of this movement. This movement saw a “rebirth” in art and science following the Middle Ages.ANSWER: Renaissance <Visual Arts, GY><ed. OC>10. Anaplerotic reactions generate intermediates for this process. For 10 points each:[10] Name this process which begins with the oxidation of acetyl-coA [["uh-seat-ill Co-A”]]. It follows glycolysis in aerobic respiration.ANSWER: Krebs cycle [accept citric acid cycle, TCA cycle, or tricarboxylic acid cycle][10] In the first step of the Krebs Cycle, acetyl-coA combines with this molecule to form citrate.ANSWER: oxaloacetate [accept oxaloacetic acid or OAA][10] While glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm, the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain occur in the matrix of this organelle, which generates most of a cell’s ATP.ANSWER: mitochondrion [or mitochondria] <Other Science, KLei and VS><ed. VS>11. The protagonist of this work meets his future wife Laura Trevelyan at Mr. Bonner’s party. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel that ends with the unveiling of a statue made in the image of the title German explorer.ANSWER: Voss[10] Voss is a novel by Patrick White, who often utilized this narrative mode that interweaves the narrator’s thoughts and feelings with the actual events of the novel.ANSWER: stream of consciousness[10] The aforementioned Voss tried to cross the dry Outback region of this country, White’s country of origin. The author of Schindler's Ark, Thomas Kearney, also originated from this country.ANSWER: Australia <Long Fiction, AK><ed. OC>12. After returning to Britain, this man served as an ambassador to the court of Frederick the Great and a Governor-General of India. For 10 points each:[10] Name this general who led Britain through the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War, leading to victories at Camden and Guilford Courthouse. ANSWER: Charles Cornwallis [accept 1st Marquess Cornwallis][10] Cornwallis is most famous for losing this battle where defensive points were held at Redoubts Nine and Ten. French forces under the Comte de Rochambeau and the Marquis de Lafayette assisted the winning side in this battle.ANSWER: Battle of Yorktown[10] George Washington denied the British traditional honors after Yorktown due to the British denial of American honors at this battle, which saw the first combat by Comte D’Estaing’s Haitian expeditionary force.ANSWER: Siege of Charleston <American History, AK and JP><ed. JB>13. The liquid drop model and collective model describe these structures. For 10 points each:[10] Name these structures, which are stable at certain magic numbers. Their namesake binding energy arises from the mass defect they possess.ANSWER: nucleus[10] This force is what holds the nucleus together. It is named for being the most powerful of the fundamental forces at close distances.ANSWER: strong nuclear force [10] The liquid drop model was proposed by this scientist, who theorized that alpha decay was caused by particles quantum tunneling out of the nucleus. Alpher, Bethe, and this man wrote a paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis.ANSWER: George Gamow [[“gam-off”]] <Physics, VS><ed. VS>14. In 2017, the California state senate introduced SB 562, a $400 billion plan to implement this type of system. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this system, where the government collects taxes to pay and cover medical expenses for all of its residents. This alleviates the need for individuals to obtain private insurance.ANSWER: universal single-payer healthcare [prompt on healthcare, universal healthcare, or national healthcare][10] This longest serving African-American congressman from Michigan introduced a national single-payer system bill every year since 2003. He resigned in December 2017 after allegations of sexual harassment.ANSWER: John James Conyers Jr.[10] A type of single-payer healthcare system is this national health insurance program, which Conyers sought to expand. It provides health insurance for Americans 65 and older.ANSWER: Medicare [do not accept “Medicaid”] <Current Events, AK><ed. KLu and AK>15. Answer the following questions about elements of Korean pop culture that have recently found success in America. For 10 points each:[10] In June 2018, this group’s album Love Yourself: Tear became the first KPop album to hit number one on the Billboard 200. This boy band’s name has a name that translates from Korean as “bulletproof boy scouts.”ANSWER: BTS [accept Bangtan Sonyeondan][10] The fictional KPop group K/DA released the song “POP/STARS” at the World Championships of this online game in South Korea. This online battle arena game was developed by Riot Games.ANSWER: League of Legends [prompt on League][10] In 2015, a Korean movie about a zombie outbreak was titled [this object] to Busan. Another Korean-produced movie, Snowpiercer, is set on one of these objects and ends with its destruction.ANSWER: train [accept Train to Busan] <Pop Culture/Mixed Academic, KLu><ed. KLu and AK>16. These people’s history is the primary concern of Kano Chronicle, named for one of these peoples’ largest medieval Kingdoms. For 10 points each:[10] Name this ethnic group, whose Kingdoms were targeted by the Fulani Jihad, a conquest detailed in Muhammad Bello’s The Wages of The Fortunate. The Sokoto Caliphate supplanted many of these peoples’ Kingdoms.ANSWER: Hausa[10] The Hausa live primarily in this modern day nation, whose other large ethnic groups include the Yoruba and Igbo [[ee-bo]].ANSWER: Nigeria[10] The Sokoto Caliphate practiced this branch of Islam. Usman dan Fodio, Sokoto’s founder, was a leader of this branch of Islam, which makes up 90% of the world’s Muslims.ANSWER: Sunni Islam <World History, EL><ed. EL>17. In a poem partially titled for this city, the speaker describes “trouble with a gold-flecked beautiful banner.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this city. A poem that describes an “old yellow pair” who “eat beans mostly” appears in a poetry collection that illustrates a fictional portrayal of this city, A Street in Bronzeville.ANSWER: Chicago[10] The author of A Street in Bronzeville, Gwendolyn Brooks, became the first African American to win this prize for poetry in 1950. In 2018, Kendrick Lamar won this prize for music for his album DAMN.ANSWER: Pulitzer Prize[10] This other poet described Chicago as a “Hog Butcher for the World” and a “Stacker of Wheat.” He also declared “Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo” in his poem “Grass.”ANSWER: Carl Sandburg <Non-epic Poetry, EL><ed. OC>18. One type of this organic compound is useful in phase-transfer catalysis due to their ability to form salts soluble in nonpolar solvents. For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of organic compound. Members of this family of organic compounds are characterized by the formula R-O-R’ [["R-Oh-R prime”]].ANSWER: ethers[10] This general type of reaction forms ethers from an alcohol and an organic halide. It sometimes involves catalysis by salts such as silver oxide.ANSWER: Williamson ether synthesis[10] The crown ether 18-crown-6 is used as a catalyst in Williamson ether synthesis due to its ability to sequester ions of this metal. This metal lies below sodium on the periodic table, and a good source of it is bananas.ANSWER: potassium [accept K] <Chemistry, CT><ed. KLei>19. For 10 points each, answer the following about the origin of the Golden Fleece:[10] The Golden Fleece came from the ram which carried Helle and this other son of Athamas and Nephele over the Black Sea. While Helle fell off and died, this youth was able to arrive safely at Colchis.ANSWER: Phrixus[10] Phrixus was forced to leave Boeotia due to the machinations of Ino, the daughter of this founder of Thebes who sowed dragon’s teeth to create the Spartoi.ANSWER: Cadmus[10] After arriving at Colchis, Phrixus sacrificed the ram and gave the Fleece to King Ae?tes, who hung it in a holy grove of this Greek god of war. ANSWER: Ares <Mythology, DY><ed. AH and OC>20. Fighting in this region saw the use of “republican marriages,” a form of execution in which two people are tied together and thrown into a river. For 10 points each:[10] Name this region where royalist forces led by generals like Henri de la Rochejaquelein [[“roash-ja-kuh-lan”]] staged a bloody uprising against the newly instituted government in 1793. ANSWER: Vendée [accept War in the Vendée][10] The War in the Vendée took place during this larger conflict that saw the toppling of Louis XVI and the Ancien [[ahn-see-EN]] Régime.ANSWER: French Revolution [accept Révolution Fran?aise][10] Much of the War in the Vendée was centered on this city on the banks of the Loire. A law named for this city gave religious protection to Huguenots and was revoked by the Edict of Fontainebleau.ANSWER: Nantes [accept Edict of Nantes] <European History, EL><ed. OC> ................
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