High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 PRISON BOWL XQuestions head edited by Luke Tierney, vice head edited by Chloe Levine, and section edited by Luke Tierney, Chloe Levine, Mr. Christopher Chilton, Gilad Avrahami, Sam Brochin, Abishrant Panday, Joshua Kwan, and Daniel Ma. Questions written by Hunter College High School (Luke Tierney, Chloe Levine, Mr. Christopher Chilton, Gilad Avrahami, Sam Brochin, Abishrant Panday, Daniel Ma, David Godovich, Brian Lu, Rachel Yang, Alice Lin, Brian Huang, Jeremy Kim, Cerulean Ozarow, Philip Belin, Pedro Juan Orduz, Ben Chapman, Ada-Marie Gutierrez, and Asher Jaffe).Round 13Tossups1. One scandal during this man’s tenure was related to a junior civil servant named John Vassall who helped transmit important naval technology to the Soviet Union. Another scandal involving this man’s Secretary of War and a 19-year-old model named Christine Keeler called the Profumo affair helped lead to this man’s 1963 resignation. In 1960, this leader gave the (*) “Winds of Change” speech at the Parliament of South Africa in which he criticized Apartheid. One of this man’s major foreign policy initiatives was addressing the aftermath of the Suez Crisis. For 10 points, name this Conservative British Prime Minister who succeeded Anthony Eden. ANSWER: Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton [accept either underlined portion; prompt on Supermac] <LT>2. One test to detect the presence of these compounds makes use of solutions of copper(II) (“copper two”) sulfate and potassium sodium tartrate called Fehling's solution. Partial oxidation of ethanol in the liver by alcohol dehydrogenase forms one product from this functional group. Under aqueous conditions, this functional group can be oxidized to form (*) carboxylic acids and the central carbon atom for this functional group is sp? hybridized. Another reagent that determines the presence of these compounds is Tollen’s reagent, which produces a silver mirror. For 10 points, name this organic functional group with a carbonyl bonded to a hydrogen and an R group. ANSWER: aldehyde [accept specific aldehydes before “ethanol”; accept acetaldehyde before “functional group”; accept -CHO before “carbonyl”] <AP>3. A special forces officer named Alexander Prokhorenko became a hero during this conflict when he called an airstrike onto his own position. That action took place during the liberation of a city in which the Moscow Symphony Orchestra staged a performance in an ancient Roman theater. That city, (*) Palmyra (“pal-MYE-rah”), contained Roman monuments later destroyed during this conflict by forces who pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Factions in this conflict include the SDF, the FSA, the Islamic State, and government forces under President Bashar al-Assad. For 10 points, name this conflict that has engulfed a country with a capital at Damascus. ANSWER: Syrian Civil War [prompt on anything involving conflict in Syria or ISIS in the Middle East] <LT>4. One poem by this author ends, “[S]he’s dead; when thou know’st this, / Thou know’st how lame a cripple this world is.” This writer of “An Anatomy of the World” wrote a work which describes what happens “As virtuous men pass mildly away” and is addressed to someone who “makes [him] end where [he] begun.” Yet another describes an (*) insect which “sucked me first, and now sucks thee.” Those poems are “The Flea” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” Another work by this author ends by informing a character that “thou shalt die” because it is “slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.” For 10 points, identify this poet who included “Death, be not proud” in his Holy Sonnets.ANSWER: John Donne <CL>5. The Palace of Facets is located in one complex at this location. The Manege Square is located on the opposite side of the State Historical Museum in this location, which is separated from Kitay-Gorod by the Resurrection Gates. A GUM department store is situated next to the (*) Kazan Cathedral at this location. A glass viewing window protects the embalmed body of one leader in a building at this location known as his “Mausoleum.” One building at this location possesses several vividly colored dome and is known as the St. Basil’s Cathedral. For 10 points, name this site where the Kremlin is located, a city plaza located in Moscow.ANSWER: Moscow Red Square [prompt on Moscow until mentioned] <GA>6. This mathematician found the only cannonball number, or a number which is both a square-pyramid number and a square number, namely 4,900. He also developed a primality test for Mersenne numbers and holds the record for largest (*) prime number found by hand, which is 2127-1. His work Récréations Mathématiques references the Analytical Engine and the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, which he invented and marketed under the name N. Claus de Siam, an anagram of a form of his own name. For 10 points, name this 19th-century French mathematician who lends his name to a series of numbers which are similar to the Fibonacci numbers, but begin with 1 and 3 instead of 1 and 1.ANSWER: ?douard Lucas [accept Lucas d’Amiens] <PB>7. Apart from the introduction, Michael Haydn was the true composer of a piece erroneously labeled as one of these works. The Mannheim rocket begins the final section of one of these works, whose first movement contains a sixteenth-sixteenth-eighth note motif. The last of these pieces contains a (*) five-voice fugato in its finale and received its mythological nickname from Johann Peter Salomon. The “Great G minor,” the 40th of these works, is one of the only two in a minor key. For 10 points, name these orchestral works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that include the “Jupiter.”ANSWER: symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [prompt on symphonies until “Wolfgang” is read, then accept afterwards] <DM>8. In one play by this author, the illiterate child Amal dreams of getting a letter from the king. This author described a revolt against a mining company in Yakshapuri in one work named for a type of vibrant flower, and also wrote a novel about the love triangle between Nikhil, Sandip, and Bimala. This author of The Post Office, Red Oleanders, and The (*) Home and the World also wrote the poem “The Golden Boat” and was the first Nobel laureate from his continent. Two national anthems are by this author, including Jana Gana Mana, and he wrote a collection of poetry with a title translated as Song Offerings. For 10 points, name this “Bard of Bengal” who wrote Gitanjali. ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore [accept Rabindranatha Thakura; accept Gurudev] <AL/CL>9. Forces loyal to this nation conducted a daring cross-border raid in Operation Eland. This country’s only leader was severely wounded in an aircraft accident while piloting his Hurricane fighter during the Second World War. That man led this country’s namesake Front party for over twenty years. The (*) Lancaster House agreement ultimately led to this country’s demise. This nation’s president, Ian Smith, issued its Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. This country was engaged in a 15 year namesake Bush War against ZIPRA and ZANU terrorists led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe respectively. For 10 points, name this historical white-ruled nation in modern-day Zimbabwe. ANSWER: Republic of Rhodesia [anti-prompt on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; do not accept or prompt on just “Zimbabwe”] <LT> 10. Members of a religious movement within the Church of England that took its name from this city eventually became associated with Anglo-Catholicism. One of those men, beatified by Benedict XVI in 2010, was John Henry Newman. The St. Scholastica Day Riots occurred in this city. (*) A 1261 papal bull overturned provisions named for this city that Henry III had agreed to at the urging of Simon de Montfort. Before he was dismissed for his radical ideas, religious reformer John Wycliffe was a master at this city’s university’s Balliol College. For 10 points, name this British city, probably most famous for having the oldest university in Britain. ANSWER: Oxford <LT>11. The Monroe-Pinkney Treaty, which was negotiated with the Ministry of All the Talents, was an attempt to renew this treaty. The namesake of this treaty was quoted as saying that he could navigate across the country by the light of burning effigies. The two parties in this agreement conferred most favored nation status upon each other. This treaty was a (*) Federalist-supported attempt to re-establish trade relations between the United States and Great Britain, and to resolve boundary disputes left over from the 1783 Treaty of Paris. For 10 points, name this agreement that is named after a New York founding father who served as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. ANSWER: Jay’s Treaty [accept Jay Treaty; accept Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America] <LT>12. This author preceded The Future is in Eggs with a work about Roberta II’s marriage to Jack. In another of his works, a man drowns people after offering to show them “a picture of the colonel,” and in yet another, Jean declares, “Humanism is dead.” A character in that play refuses to “capitulate” and also appears in this author’s Exit the King and The (*) Killer. This creator of Berenger wrote The Chairs and a work about a husband and wife both named Bobby Watson, which describes the Smiths and Martins. In another of his plays, Daisy is the last person to turn into one of the title animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian-French absurdist playwright of Rhinoceros and The Bald Soprano.ANSWER: Eugène Ionesco [accept Eugen Ionescu] <CL>13. This thinker decried what he saw as a corruption of classical liberalism in a book that contains chapters such as “The New Toryism” and “The Great Political Superstition.” That work by this man is his 1884 libertarian tract The Man Versus the State. This man’s best known quote is drawn from his 1864 book (*) Principles of Biology, which was partially inspired by a book that describes natural selection in galapagos finches. This man tried to apply concepts from On the Origin of Species to human society. For 10 points, name this prominent English Social Darwinist who coined the term “survival of the fittest.”ANSWER: Herbert Spencer <LT> 14. Integral membrane proteins in the PIN family transport the anionic form of these compounds across membranes in what is known as polar transport. When used as rooting powder, these molecules cause roots to develop quickly in a plant cutting. This group of molecules stimulates (*) stem elongation by activating elastins to loosen cell walls in a process called the acid growth hypothesis. 2, 4-D (“two four D”), a synthetic form of this molecule, is used as a herbicide and was employed in Agent Orange. The principle type of these hormones is indole-3-acetic acid, which regulates apical dominance. For 10 points, name this class of plant hormones whose unequal distribution is responsible for phototropism. ANSWER: auxins <AP>15. This city’s Shilshole Marina lies of the coast of the Ballard neighborhood. The artificial Harbor Island sits at the point where this city’s Duwamish Waterway empties into Elliott Bay. It’s not Rome, but the Queen Anne neighborhood is located on one of this city’s “seven hills.” Next to the Frank Gehry-designed building formerly known as the (*) EMP Museum, the newly-installed Skybeam shines from an observation tower in this city that features an iconic hovering disc. For 10 points, the Space Needle stands in what city on Puget Sound, the largest city in the state of Washington?ANSWER: Seattle <GA>16. Wilhelm Lenz invented a statistical mechanical model of this phenomenon whose two-dimensional form was solved by Lars Onsager. The double-exchange mechanism results in this property of Heusler alloys. The exchange interactions between (*) electrons is responsible for this phenomenon, which is exhibited by alloys of rare-earth elements. This property, which disappears completely above the Curie temperature, arises from the alignment of electrons in neighbouring atoms. For 10 points, name this type of permanent magnetism exhibited by nickel, cobalt, and iron. ANSWER: ferromagnetism <AP>17. This entity first seized power by winning the Battle of Dan-no-ura as part of the Genpei War against the rival Taira Clan. This government lost power in the Genko War against forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo. During much of this period, political control rested with the shikken or regent, an office which was held hereditarily by the (*) Hojo Family. A 1281 attempt to invade this government by Kublai Khan was thwarted by the kamikaze or divine wind. For 10 points, name this first major shogunate in Japan that lasted from 1185 to 1333, which preceded the Ashikaga and followed the Heian period. ANSWER: Kamakura Shogunate [prompt on Japan until read] <LT>18. In one parody of this artwork, the central scene is replaced with a cascade of commuters in the subway during rush hour. The magazine American Art News offered a ten-dollar prize for anyone who could find the subject of this work, and this work was inspired by the work of Eadweard Muybridge (“edward MY-bridge”) on stop-motion photography. The New York Times art critic Julian Street likened this painting to an (*) “explosion in a shingle factory.” In this painting, an assortment of conical and cylindrical shapes depicts the motion of a naked woman performing the title action. For 10 points, name this painting by a French Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp.ANSWER: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 [or Nu descendant un escalier, No. 2] <GA>19. Prior to this event, Zeus asked Selene and Helios not to drive their chariots across the sky, in order to prevent a goddess from finding a plant which would protect its users. A piece of an island broken off by a trident was flung at one figure in this event, and another had to be dragged out of his native land in order to be killed. The Aloadae trapped Ares inside a bronze urn during this conflict. One side of this conflict created a stack of mountains in order to reach (*) Mount Olympus, and Zeus made Porphyrion (“por-PHEE-ree-awn”) lust after Hera, starting this event. For 10 points, name this mythological war that saw figures like Alcyoneus on one side and Apollo on the other.ANSWER: The Gigantomachy [accept word forms like “war between the giants and Greek gods”, “the war with the giants”. etc.] <RY>20. In one work, this poet asks, “Does not your soul possess the sacred flame?” In addition to “To M?cenas,” (“may-see-ness”) this poet penned a work which wonders, “If there’s no heav’n . . . whither wilt thou go / Make thy Ilysium in the shades below?” This author of “An Address to the Atheist” proclaimed, “Behold the prophet in his tow’ring flight!” in a poem about the death of George (*) Whitefield. This author of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral claims, “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land” in another of her works. For 10 points, name this writer of “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” an African-American poet of the colonial period.ANSWER: Phillis Wheatley <CL>TB. This man acquired the nickname “landslide” following an 87 vote victory in a highly-contested 1948 Senate primary. This man became the most junior senator to ever become party leader in 1952, which he did by gaining the support of the “conservative coalition.” This man ran for the presidency in (*) 1960, but was selected as the nominee’s running-mate in that year. This man declined to run for his party’s nomination for a second full term, after being heavily maligned for his role in the Vietnam War. For 10 points, name this man, who passed Great Society and civil rights legislation after succeeding John F. Kennedy as President. ANSWER: Lyndon Baines Johnson [accept LBJ: prompt on just Johnson] <PO>Bonuses1. This author wrote a famous memoir, Surprised by Joy. For 10 points each:[10] Name this British philosophical writer who wrote frequently about his religious faith in books such as Mere Christianity. He is better known for writing the popular children’s fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. ANSWER: Clive Staples Lewis[10] This is the specific term used to describe the genre in which Lewis worked when he wrote books such as Mere Christianity. This term broadly describes attempts to defend Christianity using evidence-based reasoning, and it takes is name from a Greek word meaning “a speech in defense”. ANSWER: Christian apologetics [accept apologia] [10] This man was often called the “prince of paradox”, and was perhaps the most notable Catholic apologist of the 20th century. Like Lewis, he is perhaps better known for his fiction, which often featured the priest-detective Father Brown. ANSWER: Gilbert Keith Chesterton <LT> 2. The perpetrators of this event accidently shot down their own MiG-19 when one of the fourteen S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missiles they fired went off target. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1960 incident in which the Soviet Union shot down an intelligence-gathering aircraft piloted by Francis Gary Powers.ANSWER: 1960 U-2 incident [accept anything with U-2][10] Powers’ flight began at this country’s Peshawar Airport. This nation contains the eastern portion of the Khyber Pass.ANSWER: Pakistan[10] This successor of Harry Truman was the United States President at the time of the U-2 incident. He is more famous for criticizing the military-industrial complex in his farewell address and for beginning construction of the Interstate Highway System. ANSWER: Dwight David Eisenhower <LT>3. This poet relays the advice, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away” in “When I Was One-and-Twenty.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this poet who also included “The Lent Lily” and “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” in his collection A Shropshire Lad.ANSWER: A(lfred) E(dward) Housman[10] This poem featured in A Shropshire Lad recalls, “The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place,” before lamenting, “[R]ound that early-laurelled head / Will flock to see the strengthless dead.”ANSWER: “To an Athlete Dying Young”[10] Another Housman poem, “Terence, this is stupid stuff,” follows the first line, which makes up the title, by saying that “you eat” this thing “fast enough.” The next lines mention “the rate you drink your beer.”ANSWER: your victuals (“VITT-ulls”) [accept his victuals or Terence’s victuals] <CL>4. The two theories of relativity sure have a lot of applications in physics. For 10 points each: [10] This phenomenon, predicted by the general theory of relativity, occurs when a large distribution of matter between an observer and a light source bends the light as it travels. ANSWER: gravitational lensing [prompt on lensing][10] This other phenomenon, also called a length contraction, causes a decrease in length of an object as measured by an observer and occurs in a direction parallel to the observer’s velocity. ANSWER: Lorentz contraction [10] The nontrivial solution of the Einstein field equations were published by this man, who also names a radius that acts as the event horizon of a black hole. ANSWER: Karl Schwarzschild <AP>5. This ruler was married to Matilda of Flanders. For 10 points each:[10] Name this victor at the Battle of Hastings and first Norman King of England. Some versions of his name make reference to the fact that he was born out of wedlock.ANSWER: William the Conqueror [accept William I; accept William the Bastard; prompt on William][10] This 1086 book resulted from a great survey that William ordered for tax purposes. Its creation is considered one of William’s major achievements, and it is an important historical resource. ANSWER: Domesday Book (“DOOMS-day”) [accept Book of Winchester][10] In addition to commissioning the Domesday Book, William the Conqueror also worked hard to give this eldest son of his as little as possible in inheritance. William opted to give this man the Duchy of Normandy while his younger brother William received the Kingdom of England.ANSWER: Robert Curthose [accept either underlined portion] <LT>6. For 10 points each, name some works by Nikolai Gogol.[10] In this Gogol short story, Akaky goes to a “Person of Consequence” to recover the title article of clothing, which was made by Petrovich. Marten fur was too expensive, so the title article of clothing in this story has a cat fur collar.ANSWER: “The Overcoat” [accept “Shinel”; accept “The Cloak”; do not accept or prompt on “The Coat”][10] This Gogol novel follows Chichikov’s schemes to buy the title things, which are serfs that only exist on paper, against whom he plans to take out a huge loan. Later in this novel, he tries to forge the will of Khlobuyev’s aunt.ANSWER: Dead Souls [accept The Wanderings of Chichikov; accept The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. Poema; accept Myórtvyjye dúshi][10] A short story collection by Gogol which was heavily influenced by Ukrainian culture is titled for Evenings on a Farm Near this place. The beekeeper Rudy Panko appears in that collection’s preface.ANSWER: Dikanka [accept Dikanki; accept Dynkanka; accept Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka; accept Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki] <CL>7. Money doesn't grow on trees, but other things do! For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of fruit, examples of which include cherries, peaches, and apricots. The seed is enclosed in a central, hard pit that is created from the ovary wall.ANSWER: drupe [or stone fruit][10] Fan-shaped leaves and smelly nuts distinguish this type of tree. They're not cycads, but this gymnosperm is often called a “living fossil,” and it is the only extant member in its division.ANSWER: Ginkgo biloba[10] Only in angiosperms will trees periodically grow these structures. They release and receive pollen and often bloom in spring.ANSWER: flowers <DM>8. The Five Star movement in this country was founded by a popular comedian named Beppe Grillo. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Southern European country whose former Primer Minister Matteo Renzi resigned after losing a 2016 constitutional referendum.ANSWER: Italy[10] Perhaps more important to Europe than the Italian Prime Minister is this man, who heads the European Central Bank and formerly headed the Bank of Italy. He has stated he will do “whatever it takes” to preserve the Euro and spread the discussion of potential so-called “helicopter money” ANSWER: Mario Draghi[10] The current vice president of the European Central Bank, Vitor Constancio, hails from this nation. The current Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, is also from here. ANSWER: Portugal [accept Portuguese Republic] <BL>9. “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” is a popular tune, but how much do you really know about it? For 10 points each:[10] Mozart’s variations on “Twinkle Twinkle” repeats the theme of the A section and is thus a perfect example of this type of binary form. The middle, contrasting section is a digression, a central component of this form.ANSWER: rounded binary form[10] In all works in rounded binary form, the digression ends in a half cadence built on this scale degree, which precedes the submediant. When “Twinkle, Twinkle” is played in C major, the note with this scale degree is G.ANSWER: dominant [prompt on five or fifth][10] “Twinkle, Twinkle” is generally written in one of two time signatures, both of which count the quarter note as one beat. Name either.ANSWER: 2/4 or 4/4 <DM>10. This field was pioneered by Edward Burnett Tylor and Franz Boas. For 10 points each:[10] Name this field similar to cultural anthropology, the study of the customs of people and cultures from an insider’s point of view. Examples include Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific and the 1922 film Nanook of the North. ANSWER: ethnography[10] This notable ethnographer is known for studying the Yanomami people and violence among them, and wrote about them in the 1968 book The Fierce People. The New York Times Magazine called him the “most controversial anthropologist” in the United States.ANSWER: Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon[10] The Yanomami, a polygamous hunter-gatherer group which also grows bananas, live in this region, which shares its name with the longest river in South America. Other people-groups of this region include the Xingu and the Pirah?.ANSWER: Amazon rainforest <CO>11. For 10 points each, name some things about doors and gates in mythology.[10] This hall in Asgard has 540 doors, each of which 800 men can go through at once, allowing its inhabitants to all exit from this place immediately to fight.ANSWER: Valhalla[10] This Roman god of gates and doorways has two faces, one that looks to the future and one to the past. A temple to this god in the Forum had its doors closed in times of peace and open during wartime.ANSWER: Janus [accept Yanus][10] In Greek mythology, dreams are said to come through either of two doors, with one meaning that the dream is false, and the other that the dream will come true. Name either of the two materials the doors are made of.ANSWER: ivory and horn [accept either underlined portion] <RY>12. Sunlight undergoes this effect in the atmosphere, causing the blue hue of the sky. For 10 points each:[10] Name this effect where electromagnetic radiation is elastically scattered by particles much smaller than their wavelengths. ANSWER: Rayleigh scattering[10] This other form of scattering results in an increase in the wavelength of a photon and occurs when a photon is inelastically scattered by a charged particle.ANSWER: Compton scattering [10] This effect, named after an Indian physicist, describes the scattering of a photon by molecules that are excited to higher vibrational energy levels. ANSWER: Raman scattering <AP>13. The location for this artwork was chosen because it faced southeast, allowing for maximum exposure to the sun. For 10 points each:[10] Name this massive granite sculpture located in the Black Hills in South Dakota, featuring the faces of four American presidents.ANSWER: Mount Rushmore National Memorial[10] The Mount Rushmore National Memorial was sculpted by this man, whose son Lincoln finished the project after his 1941 death. His sculpture The Aviator was created as a memorial for fallen World War I pilot James McConnell.ANSWER: (John) Gutzon (de la Mothe) Borglum[10] Borglum’s work on this monument led to his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. The world’s largest bas-relief, this sculpture depicts three Confederate heroes on horseback on the north face of the equivalently-named Georgia mountain.ANSWER: Stone Mountain <GA>14. This culture was for a long time thought to be the first people in the Americas. For 10 points each:[10] Name this culture that was named after a New Mexico archaeological site. They were thought to be big-game hunters whose population exploded following their arrival in the Americas, leading to the extinction of all large animals on the continent.ANSWER: Clovis culture[10] The first inhabitants of America supposedly crossed this land bridge between Alaska and Russia. However, more recent studies have determined that they likely arrived by boat.ANSWER: Beringia (“be-RIN-jee-a”)[10] Beringia formed during this last glacial period. During it, glaciers and ice sheets spread across North America as far south as New York City.ANSWER: the ice age [or Wisconsinan glaciation] <DM>15. The author of “I Have a White Rose to Tend” is from this country. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this country which is home to that poet, who wrote the lyrics for “Guantanamera” in the collection Versos Sencillos. That poet from this country is José Martí.ANSWER: Republic of Cuba [accept República de Cuba][10] In 1889, Martí wrote about El centenario of this man. This man helped write his own farewell address in 1796 and was also the first President of the United States.ANSWER: George Washington[10] This other author was born in Europe but brought up in Cuba. He wrote The War of Time as well as The Kingdom of This World.ANSWER: Alejo Carpentier (y Valmont) [prompt on Valmont] <CL>16. Answer some questions about German-American architect Dankmar Adler. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 19th-century American architect who worked closely with Adler for fourteen years. This proponent of “form follows function” co-designed the Auditorium Building with Adler in the 1880s.ANSWER: Louis Sullivan[10] Perhaps the most well-known building by Adler and Sullivan is the Wainwright Building in this city. Just five blocks east is another famous structure in the shape of an inverted catenary, the Gateway Arch.ANSWER: St. Louis[10] Adler and Sullivan also designed this 13-story skyscraper located in Buffalo, New York. In true “form follows function” fashion, the architects divided this building into four zones which are still visible from outside.ANSWER: Guaranty Building [accept Prudential Building] <GA>17. Its second edition was published with the addition of a poem from its author to the volume itself. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this collection which includes “The Four Monarchies” in addition to shorter works like “The Four Seasons” and “The Four Ages of Man.” This collection also contains an elegy to Sir Philip Sidney.ANSWER: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America [accept The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman in those parts; if people are ridiculous, accept The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, or Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, Wherein especially is Contained a Complete Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year, together with an exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies, viz., The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman, Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems, By a Gentlewoman in those parts; prompt on partial][10] Some editions of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America include a poem addressed to this person. That poem addressed to this person opens with the line, “If ever two were one, then surely we.”ANSWER: her husband [accept her Dear and Loving Husband; accept To My Dear and Loving Husband; accept but otherwise do not reveal Simon Bradstreet; accept clear knowledge equivalents; prompt on but otherwise do not reveal Mr. Bradstreet][10] The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is by this American poet of the colonial period who also penned “Verses upon the Burning of our House.”ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet [accept Anne Dudley] <CL>18. This uprising began with the seizure of the General Post Office and the broadcast of a message proclaiming a republic over telegraph. For ten points each:[10] Name this 1916 uprising in which supporters of Home Rule attempted to seize a castle. It was led by men such as Patrick Pearse and James Connolly. ANSWER: Easter Rising [10] This diplomat authored a namesake report detailing the horrible state of affairs in the Congo Free State. He was later executed for attempting to organize German support for an anti-British rebellion in his home country during WWI in a trial which featured the revelation that he was a homosexual. ANSWER: Roger David Casement [10] This nation was Roger Casement’s place of birth and the site of the Easter Rising. ANSWER: Ireland <LT>19. Let's talk about weather! For 10 points each:[10] This type of front is denoted on maps by a line with alternating semicircles and triangles on it. It occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front.ANSWER: occluded front[10] The areas in front of and behind cold fronts generally have this pressure relationship with standard atmospheric pressure. Both answers required.ANSWER: higher pressure behind, lower pressure in front [accept clear equivalents][10] An area of high pressure can alternatively be created from this weather phenomenon, in which air moves outward in a spiral pattern and is replaced by colder, drier air falling from a higher altitude. They go clockwise in the northern hemisphere.ANSWER: anticyclone [do not accept "cyclone"] <DM>20. This country contains many ancient Sumerian cities such as Ur. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Middle Eastern country that encompases much of ancient Mesopotamia. Its capital is Baghdad. ANSWER: Iraq [10] This ethno-religious group in northern Mesopotamia follows a syncretic religion described by the sacred texts Book of Revelation and Black Book. They hold the Sinjar mountains sacred, and were abducted en masse by ISIS, often to serve as sex slaves. ANSWER: Yazidi [accept Yezidi][10] This alleged primary figure of worship in Yazidi religious practice is said to be the greatest of seven Holy entities to whom God has given authority over the world. Yazidi worship of this figure has caused many Muslims to accuse Yazidis of devil worship.ANSWER: Melek Taus [accept Malik Tous; Peacock Angel; prompt on Angel] <LT>TB. Although this set has a lot about contagious diseases, many diseases are heritable. For 10 points each:[10] The familial type of this disease is caused by mutations in the gene PNRP. This disease is sometimes incorrectly called the human form of mad cow disease. ANSWER: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease[10] This disease, which causes a namesake chorea, is due to an overabundance of “CAG” repeats in a namesake gene on the short arm of chromosome 4. This non-ALS disease has often been likened to Parkinson’s disease, and leads to declines in coordination and ultimately dementia. ANSWER: Huntington’s disease[10] Sufferers of this disease have a decreased ability to break down phenylalanine. Untreated, it can result in a musty odor of the skin.ANSWER: phenylketonuria [or PKU] <DM> ................
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