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Aztlán Cup Packet 11: Maryland (A. Fine, D. Greenstein, G. Jordan)

Tossups:

1. An unnamed woman who has just undergone the title ceremony leaves a festive reception to have an affair with Leonardo, an old suitor. A beggar leads her new husband to the site of her tryst with Leonardo, and after discovering the couple, the husband and the suitor kill one another, leaving the woman to bewail both of their deaths. For ten points, name this three-act folk tragedy produced in 1933 by Federico Garcia Lorca.

ANSWER: Blood Wedding (or Bodas de Sangre)

2. Its concepts were first applied in Simula 67, developed in Oslo. Many other language developers followed suit, until by the 1980's, it had become the dominant paradigm. Calling for abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance, it stresses that the programmer should view software in terms of the things it manipulates, not the actions it performs. FTP, name this programming paradigm based on classes, whose most famous member is Java.

ANSWER: object-oriented programming

3. In the 2004 sequel to the movie in which she is introduced, her parents, King Harold and Queen Lillian, invite her and her new husband to their home, with comedic consequences. Her parents placed her in a tower protected by a moat of fire and a she-dragon when she was a child, awaiting a knight who would implant on her “true love’s first kiss,” at which time she would permanently assume love’s true form that she assumes at night, an ogre. For ten points, name this beautiful woman with red hair and a green dress who is rescued from the tower by Donkey and her eventual mate, Shrek.

ANSWER: Princess Fiona

4. A long march of sorts led to the defeat of the Americans at this site, as illness reduced their fighting force from 4100 to 3000. British General Cornwallis, who brought 2200 soldiers, launched a bayonet attack that confused the American militia and led to the death of Baron de Kalb. FTP, identify the August 16, 1780 battle in South Carolina that effectively ended Horatio Gates’ military career.

ANSWER: Battle of Camden

5. Major sub-ranges of it include the Maligne Mountains and the Livingston and Goat Ranges. Separating the Pacific and Arctic Ocean watersheds, its major cuts are Kicking Horse, Crowsnest and Yellowhead Passes, while its highest peaks include Mount Forbes, Mount Columbia and Mount Robson. For ten points, name this mountain range that is partially contained within the Kooteney, Yoho, Jasper and Banff National Parks and also divides Alberta and British Columbia.

ANSWER: Canadian Rockies

6. A sequel to this opera, entitled Polly, debuted one year later. Lincoln’s Inn Fields was the site for its 1728 premiere; the opera itself lampooned Robert Walpole’s Whig administration, with characters such as the loquatious Mrs. Trapes, the fence Jeremy Peachum and the infamous highwayman Captain Macheath. For ten points, what opera was scored by John Pepusch and written by John Gay, and was the inspiration for Kurt Weill’s (VILES) Threepenny Opera?

ANSWER: The Beggar’s Opera

7. A practical application of it can be seen in mass flow meter. It causes uneven wear on railroad tracks and uneven river beds, and its effects have been observed in the flight paths of projectiles and the rotation of sunspots. Described by the equation F= 2m(v x W) [F equals two m times the cross product of v and omega], this force is proportional to the velocity of a certain object and rotation of its coordinate system. For ten points, name this inertial force that causes low-pressure systems to rotate counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.

ANSWER: Coriolis effect or force

8. He gave the funeral oration for the artist Thomas Cole, with whom he is depicted in the painting Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand. During his later life he was preoccupied with his blank verse translation of the Iliad, which he published in 1870, in his ongoing role as part owner and editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post. His most famous poem, published when he was only 17, tells of “The innumerable caravan which moves / To that mysterious realm, where each shall take / His chamber in the silent halls of death.” For ten points, name this man best known for poems such as “The Death of the Flowers” and “Thanatopsis.”

ANSWER: William Cullen Bryant

9. Built on the site of a store known as “The Pillars of Hercules”, the sculptor Picot (pee-KOH) created a bas-relief for the façade of this theater during the art deco era. Paul Derval directed its programs from 1919 to 1966; entertainers who starred here included Maurice Chevalier (sheh-VAHL-yay) and Josephine Baker. For ten points, identify this theater that opened in Paris in 1869, known best for its nude revues and as the subject of a famous 1882 painting by Edouard Manet (man-AY).

ANSWER: Folies-Bergere (foh-LEE bair-ZHAIR)

10. They did score at least one military victory: at Prestonpans over John Cope. Yet they are known more for resounding defeats; Viscount (VY-count) Dundee kicked their butts at Killiecrankie, while they fell at Preston in Lancashire in their first serious attempt to seize power. FTP, what group of Scottish and Irishmen also lost the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and Culloden Moor in 1746, and were led respectively by James II’s son and grandson?

ANSWER: Jacobites

11. This phrase has been attributed to Walter Rodger and British Conservative minister Nicholas Ridley. It is a reaction to potential externalities, examples of which are socio-economic, when a poor family wants to move into a rich neighborhood, or environmental, when officials propose to build a superhighway, transmission lines, or a power plant close to a residential area. For ten points, name this phrase or its five-letter acronym, often shouted by people who do not want undesirable projects undertaken anywhere close to them.

ANSWER: not in my backyard or NIMBY

12. It ends with Chapter 16, an introduction for the deaconess Phoebe of Cenchrea that may have originally been a second letter. The first four chapters discuss justification by faith, while in Chapters 9-11 Paul emphasizes the role Jews played in preparing for Christ. Referred to by its author as a “word in season”, for ten points, identify this first and longest epistle of the New Testament, written to a major Italian community.

ANSWER: Epistle to the Romans

13. This country had tsars centuries before the Russians; Boris I converted many of its inhabitants to Orthodox Christianity, while his son Simeon increased the nation’s territory. Byzantine emperor Basil II defeated it in battle, ordering the blinding of 14,000 of its soldiers, and earning the title of [blank]slayer. Ruled by Turkey for almost 500 years, for ten points, what nation lost the Second Balkan War in 1913, and was led by Todor Zhivkov from 1954 to 1989?

ANSWER: Bulgaria (or Bulgars)

14. It was written as a response to Lewis Theobold’s criticism of the author’s recently published edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Theobold was satirized as Tibbald, the son of the Goddess of Dullness, for his insistent pedantry. Though originally published in 1728, its creator did not acknowledge authorship of the work until 1735. For ten points, name this work that also attacked poet laureate Colley Cibber (SIB-ur), a mock epic by Alexander Pope.

ANSWER: The Dunciad

15. In early 2002, she was given the opportunity to star in an eponymous sitcom, but she declined. She once owned a car with the license plate “Queen C.” which is fitting, as the Pyleans made her their Princess. Given the power to have visions by Allen Francis Doyle in 1999, she died in early 2004 after a lengthy coma. FTP, identify this TV character, played for seven years by Charisma Carpenter, best known for her time in Sunnydale as a stuck-up rich girl.

ANSWER: Cordelia Chase

16. In 1890, this man did something that Adam Fine could not do: earn a Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins. In 1910, he moved to Harvard after teaching for 21 years at Wisconsin, and he won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his book on sectionalism in American history. For ten points, name this historian who noted that the “national psychology” had changed in his paper “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.”

ANSWER: Frederick Jackson Turner

17. Disproved by computer simulations of the collapse of a disk of dust, this hypothesis was proposed in 1969. It does not hold in situations such as spherical symmetry because an event horizon would not form that would obstruct the observation of the collapse of an object to infinite density, also known as a naked singularity; it’s disproval caused Kip Thorne to win a famous bet against Stephen Hawking. For ten points, name this hypothesis proposed by Roger Penrose that suggests singularities in space-time are surrounded by event horizons that prevent them from being observed and influenced from the outside.

ANSWER: cosmic censorship

18. A student of the painter and art historian Karl Van Mander, he became deacon of the Guild of Saint Luke in Haarlem in 1644. Most of his three hundred or so surviving works are portraits and group portraits, such as the 1616 The Banquet of the Officers of the Civic Guard of Saint Andrew. For ten points, name this Dutch artist who is better known for painting the tavern owner Malle Babbe and the Laughing Cavalier.

ANSWER: Frans Hals

19. He was born to a minor noble family in Owari province, but rose to control the region by age 26. Disliking Buddhism and fascinated by the West, he allowed Jesuit missionaries into the country and embraced the use of firearms. He then set his sights on Kyoto, burning a Buddhist monastery at Hieizan, and deposing Ashikaga shogun Yoshiaka in 1573. For ten points, what ambitious leader built the castle of Azuchi and began the unification of Japan, but was murdered by an aide in 1582, leaving Totoyomi Hideyoshi to finish the job?

ANSWER: Oda Nobunaga

20. Kind of like Lot, this man’s first wife was never named, and was known simply as Nwoye’s mother. He takes a boy under his roof for three years and treats him like a son, but then participates in the boy’s sacrifice, apparently made to prevent a war. Also married to Ekwefi and Ojiugo, for ten points, identify this Ibo man who struggles to adjust to the new ways of British colonists, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

ANSWER: Okonkwo

21. Deposited in slow moving water or tidal areas, it is brittle, easily cleaves, and often splinters into thin laminar sheets. The two most common varieties, mudstones and siltstones, consist of particles less than 16 micrometers in diameter, while heat and pressure transforms it into slate. For ten points, name this type of sedimentary rock known for both preserving fossils and trapping petroleum.

ANSWER: shale

22. Their later productions ran in New York City in conjunction with the Greenwich Village Theatre under the auspices of Robert Edmond Jones and Kenneth Macgowan. Earlier, they staged their plays in the homes of members such as Hutchins Hapgood and Wilbur Steele. For ten points, identify this theatre group, whose members included Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, and in 1915 produced Eugene O’Neil’s Bound East for Cardiff at the Wharf Theatre in the title location on the tip of Cape Cod.

ANSWER: Provincetown Players

23. In 1967 a new island formed by the volcanic eruption off the coast of Iceland was named after this god. After he did his damage at Ragnarok, the earth would sink into the sea before rising again healthy and green. For ten points, what giant resident of Muspellheim with a flaming blade led his forces against the gods at Ragnarok, setting the nine Norse worlds on fire?

ANSWER: Surt (or Surtr)

Aztlán Cup Packet 11: Maryland (A. Fine, D. Greenstein, G. Jordan)

Bonuses:

1. For the stated number of points, answer these related literary questions.

A. For ten, in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Antigonus is eaten by one of these creatures.

ANSWER: bear

B. For fifteen, in Faulkner’s short story “The Bear,” this is the name of the quarry pursued by Ike McCaslin.

ANSWER: Old Ben

C. For a final five, in Kipling’s The Jungle Book, this is the name of the good-natured bear that befriends Mowgli.

ANSWER: Baloo

2. Name these things that might make you sick for ten points each.

A. This is the name of the order of bacteria that lives in the intestinal tracts of other, larger organisms. They include the family shigella that lives in human feces.

ANSWER: Enterobacteria

B. Though essential to human digestion, this species of enterobacteria discovered and named by Theodor Escherich can cause urinary tract infections and peritonitis.

ANSWER: E(csherichia) Coli

C. Discovered in 1894, this species of enterobacteria is responsible for bubonic plague.

ANSWER: Yersinia Pestis

3. 30-20-10 identify the region:

A. 30) Under the Carolingian empire, two states, called Transjurane and Cisjurane, emerged here. A cadet branch of the Capetians ruled a duchy in the region until 1361.

B. 20) During the French Revolution, it was divided into the modern-day departments of Cote-d’Or, Nievre, Saone-et-Loire, and Yonne. Louis XI annexed it after Duke Charles fell at Nancy in 1477.

C. Its golden age began when John II gave the territory to his son Philip the Bold. John the Fearless, Philip the Good, and Charles the Bold subsequently ruled as its dukes.

ANSWER: Burgundy

4. Visual bonus: given a letter from a corporate name or logo, name the company for five points each. You have 20 seconds. Give answers as a list beginning with A and ending with F.

ANSWERS: A. Krispy Kreme B. Home Depot C. Exxon

D. Safeway E. General Mills F. Zenith

5. Name these economics concepts for ten points each.

A. In perfect competition, the price demand variety of this quantity is greater than one when marginal revenue is greater than zero. Other varieties include income demand, price supply and cross-price demand.

ANSWER: elasticity

B. For a production function f(k,l), where k is capital and l is labor, a firm or industry is said to be exhibiting this phenomenon when both of its inputs doubled and the resulting output is less than twice the original output.

ANSWER: decreasing returns to scale or diseconomies of scale

C. This specific type of price discrimination is in effect by a monopoly if the firm enacts prices based on quantity sold to each consumer. An example is a six-pack of soda costing less than six single units.

ANSWER: second degree price discrimination

6. Identify the following Romantic composers who all loved a female composer named Clara, for ten points each.

A. From 1840 until his death in 1856, Clara was married to this man, the composer of Carnaval and the Spring Symphony.

ANSWER: Robert Schumann

B. Robert Schumann met his wife Clara because she was the daughter of this teacher of the both of them.

ANSWER: Friedrich Wieck (VIKE)

C. Even before Robert Schumann’s death, this younger composer of A German Requiem expressed his love for Clara.

ANSWER: Johannes Brahms

7. Jean-Bertrand Aristide finds himself in trouble again (scratch that; he’s in exile now), but for the stated number of points, identify these earlier Haitian leaders.

A. F5P, Aristide referenced him in his first speech given while in exile in the Central African Republic. This former slave liberated Haiti in 1791.

ANSWER: Francois Toussaint L’Overture

B. F15P, Haiti earned its formal independence when Jean-Jacques Dessalines and what other man who ruled Haiti from the north but committed suicide in 1820?

ANSWER: Henri Christophe

C. F10P, a 1957 constitution installed which brutal dictator as the president of Haiti?

ANSWER: Francois Duvalier (or “Papa Doc” Duvalier) (prompt on Duvalier)

8. Identify these items related to an 1874 adventure novel for ten points each.

A. Originally published in French, it details the adventures of five people and a dog in the title location, and how they were saved by Captain Nemo, who leaves them medicine after their fierce battle with a group of local pirates.

ANSWER: The Mysterious Island

B. Name the author of The Mysterious Island.

ANSWER: Jules Verne

C. The castaways travel from Richmond, Virginia to the mysterious island via this mode of transportation, which also helps a debtor escape to the moon in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Unparalleled Adventures of Hans Pfall.

ANSWER: hot air balloon

9. For ten points each, name these satellites of Uranus.

A. The outermost of Uranus’ major satellites, this moon is heavily cratered in a way similar to Umbriel, despite being 35% larger than Umbriel.

ANSWER: Oberon

B. The most massive of Uranus’ satellites, it was discovered by Herschel in 1787. It features a series of interconnected valleys similar to Ariel.

ANSWER: Titania

C. Voyager 2 came closer to this moon than to any other near Uranus. This innermost of the major moons contains features described as chevrons, race tracks, and layer cakes.

ANSWER: Miranda

10. Given a pair of works, name the Australian author who wrote them for ten points each.

A. Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda

ANSWER: Peter Carey

B. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Schindler’s Ark

ANSWER: Thomas Keneally

C. Happy Valley, Riders in the Chariot

ANSWER: Patrick White

11. Identify the following Alfred Hitchcock films from a pair of characters for ten points, or from the actors who played those characters for five.

A. 10) Lisa Fremont, Jeff Jeffries

Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart

ANSWER: “Rear Window”

B. 10) Eve Kendall, Roger Thornhill

5) Eva-Marie Saint, Cary Grant

ANSWER: “North by Northwest”

C. 10) Mitch Brenner, Melanie Daniels

5) Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren

ANSWER: “The Birds”

12. Name the authors of the following philosophical works, for five points each and a five-point bonus for all correct.

A. Critique of Pure Reason

ANSWER: Immanuel Kant

B. The Dawn

ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche (NEET-shuh)

C. Novum Organum

ANSWER: Francis Bacon

D. Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonus

ANSWER: George Berkeley (BARK-lee)

E. Reflections on the Revolution in France

ANSWER: Edmund Burke

13. Name these layers of the earth for ten points each.

A. Located 45-155 miles beneath the earth’s surface, it is characterized by low-density, semi-plastic rock material. Its upper part serves as the surface on which the tectonic plates move.

ANSWER: asthenosphere (prompt on mantle)

B. This layer of the atmosphere between 30 and 50 miles above the surface features the coldest temperatures of the atmosphere, plunging from 20 degrees Fahrenheit to –166 in the middle.

ANSWER: mesosphere

C. This division of the ocean lies where water meets crust. It is divided into the littoral and sublittoral zones on the continental shelf and the bathyal, abyssal and hadal zones at greater depths.

ANSWER: benthic zone

14. Answer the following about an event from recent American history for the stated number of points.

A. For ten points, in 1995, three men conspired to blow up which federal building in Oklahoma City?

ANSWER: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

B. Five points for one, fifteen for two, name the two main conspirators of the Oklahoma City bombing, who were given the death penalty and life imprisonment respectively.

ANSWERS: Timothy McVeigh; Terry Nichols

C. F5P, for a final five, McVeigh claimed that he blew up the Murrah Building as a response to the government raid of which religious cult’s Waco compound in 1993?

ANSWER: Branch Davidian

15. The shofar is an instrument blown by Jewish religious leaders during the High Holidays.

A. Five points, all or nothing, name the two holidays that feature the blowing of the shofar.

ANSWER: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

B. For ten points if exact or for five if within 10%, how many times is the shofar blown on Rosh Hashanah?

ANSWER: 100 (five points for 90-110)

C. For five points each, give the Hebrew names for the three types of note called out by rabbis before the shofar is blown – they are a long note, a series of three medium notes, and a series of nine very short notes respectively.

ANSWERS: tekiy’ah, shevarim, teru’ah

16. Identify the controlled substance from the chemical formula FTPE. You get five points if you can guess it from a slang term.

A. 10) C17H25N

5) Aurora Borealis

ANSWER: PCP (or phencycladine or phenyl cyclohexyl piperdine)

B. 10) C14H19NO2

5) Vitamin R

ANSWER: Ritalin (or Methylphenidate)

C. 10) C11H14NO2

5) Green Triangles

ANSWER: Ecstasy (or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)

17. Name these private museums and art collections from the following descriptions for fifteen points each.

A. Located in London and displayed at Hertford House, it claims to be “the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family,” and includes Jean-Honore Fragonard’s The Swing.

ANSWER: The Wallace Collection

B. This is the most well endowed museum in the United States, and it houses James Ensor’s Entry of Christ Into Brussels and Titian’s Portrait of Alfonso d’Avalos.

ANSWER: The Getty Center

18. Timesaver list bonus: five points each and a five-point bonus for all correct, name the emperors who ruled Rome in 1, 101, 201, and 301 CE. You have 10 seconds. NOTE: for 301, name the two senior emperors only.

ANSWERS: Augustus, Trajan, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, Maximian

19. Dan has gotten tossups on a certain psychologist at both ACF Regionals and the NAQT SCT. For ten points each:

A. Name this psychologist who, with his followers, broke with Sigmund Freud’s discussion group in 1911 and formed the Society for Individual Psychology. He is most famous for his concept of the “inferiority complex.”

ANSWER: Alfred Adler

B. Dan buzzed in both times upon mention of this 1912 work, in which Adler outlines his system of individual psychology.

ANSWER: The Neurotic Constitution or The Neurotic Character or Uber Den Nervosen Charakter

C. In this 1927 work, Adler expounds on his view that human beings are decision-making beings responsible for their own behavior. He explores the human personality, how character develops, and how we see the world.

ANSWER: Understanding Human Nature

20. Answer the following questions about Archibald MacLeish for ten points each.

A. MacLeish is known for this Pulitzer Prize-winning epic poem based on Bernal Diaz de Castillo’s account of the conquest of Mexico.

ANSWER: “Conquistador”

B. In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt appointed MacLeish to this position, later held by such people as Daniel Boorstin and James Billington.

ANSWER: Librarian of Congress

C. This 1958 verse drama based on the book of Job gave MacLeish his third Pulitzer Prize.

ANSWER: J.B.

21. Name these body parts Dan learned about on the second day of his Human Sexuality class, 5-10-20-30.

A. This part of the female reproductive system at the entrance to the vagina, once used to check the virginity of a woman, often breaks off due to athletic activity.

ANSWER: hymen

B. Eggs enter this passageway at the fimbriae and pass through the infundibulum, ampulla and isthmus sections before reaching the uterus.

ANSWER: fallopian tube

C. The small opening in this part of the female reproductive system that allows menses to enter the vagina is known as the os [OHS]. The human papilloma virus is a major cause of cancer in this organ.

ANSWER: cervix

D. After it ruptures and releases the egg from the ovary, the Graafian follicle becomes this structure, which produces large amounts of estrogen and progesterone to support a zygote.

ANSWER: corpus luteum

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