High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 2017 Maryland FallPacket 9Edited by Jordan Brownstein, Weijia Cheng, and Sam RombroQuestions by Alex Echikson, Jack Nolan, Weijia Cheng, Sarang Yeola, Justin Hawkins, Ani Perumalla, Yu Lu, Siri Neerchal, Jordan Brownstein, Naveed Chowdhury, Graham Reid, Rohan Laljani, and Nathan FredmanTossups1. This deity’s Roman equivalent gave birth to a son with no father after Flora impregnated this goddess with a flower. After Teiresias claimed that women got more pleasure from copulation, he was blinded by this goddess. This goddess forbade Ledo to give birth on any land, leading to the creation of the island of Delos. Most of the centaurs were created when (*) Ixion had sex with a cloud in the shape of this goddess. Hermes killed this god’s servant Argus, after which she put his eyes on the feather of her sacred bird, the peacock. For 10 points, name this Greek goddess of marriage and families, the wife of Zeus.ANSWER: Hera [accept Juno]<AE, Myth>2. This thinker first distinguished between “tendentious” and “non-tendentious” jokes in The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious. This thinker analyzed the Signorelli parapraxis, in which he confused Signorelli with Botticelli and Boltraffio, in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. This psychologist described an “oceanic feeling” of oneness with the universe in (*) Civilization and Its Discontents. This psychologist claimed that children will desire sexual involvement with their opposite-sex parent as part of the Oedipus complex. For 10 points, name this Austrian psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams.ANSWER: Sigmund Freud<WC, Social Science>3. Oleg was the founder of a state based in this city according to the Primary Chronicle, a history traditionally attributed to the monk Nestor. In 1240, many people died in this city when its Church of the Tithes collapsed during a siege of this city by Batu Khan. A ruler of this city militarily supported the Byzantine emperor Basil II, which resulted in the formation of the Varangian Guard, in exchange for marrying Basil II’s sister Anna. That ruler of this city, (*) Vladimir, was responsible for converting a state based in this city to Christianity. For 10 points, name this city that was once the capital of a namesake Rus’, and is now the capital of Ukraine.ANSWER: Kiev [or Kyiv; accept Kievan Rus’]<AE, European Hist>4. A passage by this thinker warns that “there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.” This thinker acknowledged Schopenhauer’s influence in an essay in his Untimely Meditations. This thinker criticized “English psychologists” and rejected Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism in a book that criticizes “slave morality.” The (*) Dionysian and Apollonian types of art are discussed in this thinker’s The Birth of Tragedy. This thinker introduced the concept of the übermensch in Also Sprach Zarathustra. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote “God is dead” in The Gay Science.ANSWER: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche<SN, Philosophy>5. After an object used by this person melts away, he carries away a part engraved with images of giants being killed by a flood. This man is accused of once losing a seven-day swimming race by a man who presents him with a sword to make amends. This character gives Wiglaf a golden collar just before dying from his (*) wounds. This character spends a day swimming to the bottom of a lake to kill a descendant of Cain. This character kills a dragon years after saving the mead-hall Heorot from destruction, thus repaying his father’s debt to the Danish king Hrothgar. For 10 points, name this Geatish hero who slays Grendel in a namesake Anglo-Saxon epic poem.ANSWER: Beowulf<AE, British Lit>6. Crystals of this mineral can be classified as triclinic or monoclinic, and this mineral fractures conchoidally. Anorthite is one variety of this mineral heavily prevalent in moon rocks. Calcium-rich examples of this mineral, such as labradorite, lie at the top right of the continuous section of (*) Bowen’s reaction series, while sodium-rich examples of this mineral lie at the junction between the continuous and non-continuous phases. These minerals can be classified as orthoclase or plagioclase, and have a hardness of 6 on the Mohs hardness scale. For 10 points, name these aluminum silicate minerals, the most abundant material in the Earth’s crust.ANSWER: feldspars<AE, Other Sci>7. This politician’s government was opposed by the Bihar movement, which was founded by Jayaprakash Narayan, an advocate of “Total Revolution.” This politician was the first one to use the campaign slogan of “garibi hatao,” which called for the elimination of poverty. This politician’s government carried out forced sterilizations during a period of restricted civil liberties called the Emergency. This politician approved the (*) Smiling Buddha nuclear test, and ordered Operation Blue Star, a raid on the Golden Temple at Amritsar. For 10 points, what politician, assassinated by Sikh bodyguards in 1984, was the first female prime minister of India?ANSWER: Indira Gandhi [prompt on Gandhi]<AE, World Hist>8. In a novel set during one of these events, a perfectionist clerk attempts to write a fantastic novel, but can only write and refine its first sentence about a horse galloping in a park. The journalist Raymond tries to work with Spanish smugglers to escape one of these events during which Cottard sells cigarettes and alcohol. (*) Bernard Rieux’s efforts during one of these events are depicted in an Albert Camus novel. In another book, a group including Dioneo and Fiammetta hide out from one of these events in a villa outside of Florence. For 10 points, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is set during an event of what type known as the “Black Death”?ANSWER: plagues [or the Black Death until read; accept the black or bubonic plague; or (cholera) epidemics; or La Peste]<AP, European Lit>9. Trace amounts of water in a sample are measured using a version of this technique named for Karl Fischer. Chelating (“KEE-late-ing”) agents like EDTA are used in the complexometric type of this technique. The end point of this technique is estimated using a Gran plot. The (*) halfway point in this process occurs when the pKa is equal to the pH. In graphs that map the results of this technique, concavity changes at the equivalence point. Solution is dripped from a buret until an indicator like phenolphthalein changes color. For 10 points, name this technique that is used to determine an unknown concentration of a solute.ANSWER: titration<SY, Chemistry>10. This leader controversially spent 615 million dollars on building a “White Palace” in a protected forest. This leader was allegedly targeted by a planned coup called “Operation Sledgehammer.” A failed coup against this leader was followed by purges of Hizmet members. This leader broke with the cleric Fethullah Gülen after members of his Justice and (*) Development Party were investigated for corruption in 2013. In 2017, this leader was given additional presidential powers through a referendum after a failed July 2016 coup. This leader first gained prominence as an Islamist mayor of Istanbul. For 10 points, name this current President of Turkey.ANSWER: Recep Tayyip Erdo?an (“AIR-doe-won”)<AE, Geo/CE>11. In this painting, a young man with long blonde hair, a gold helmet, and blue armor pivots to look at an old man as they stand behind an androgynous figure in white who may be modeled on the Duke of Urbino or Hypatia. This painting is located across from its artist’s Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Contrasting (*) ideas about the physical world are represented in this painting by the gestures of two men at its center, one of whom turns his hand to the ground and holds the Nicomachean Ethics. For 10 points, Plato, Aristotle, and many other philosophers are depicted in what fresco painted by Raphael?ANSWER: The School of Athens [or Scuola di Atene]<WC, Visual Arts>12. Messages decoded prior to this battle referred to its location as “AF.” Prior to this battle, a psoriasis flare led to William Halsey being replaced by Raymond Spruance. Prior to this battle, Joseph Rochefort, who was in charge of Station HYPO, helped forecast an invasion by breaking the JN-25 code. During this battle, planes from the Hornet and the Enterprise sunk the cruiser (*) Mikuma. The Japanese navy also lost the aircraft carrier Hiryu during this battle, which was a defeat for Isoroku Yamamoto. For 10 points, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk during which June 1942 battle, considered to be the turning point of World War II’s Pacific Theater?ANSWER: Battle of Midway<AE, American Hist>13. The first time a character in this novel speaks is to say “thank you” for a pack of gum. A character in this novel drowns in a possible suicide after getting his fingers stuck in a pool drain. That character, Cheswick, is a member of the Acutes along with a man who believes that the antagonist can control fog. After losing his virginity to a prostitute who had accompanied the characters on a fishing trip, (*) Billy commits suicide when Nurse Ratched threatens to tell his mother. Chief Bromden smothers the lobotomized Randall McMurphy in, for 10 points, what Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital in Oregon?ANSWER: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<AE, American Lit>14. In an extended metaphor, this biblical person compares mining to searching for wisdom and declares, “It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir.” In two speeches given to this man, God commands, “Gird up your loins like a man,” while answering him out of a whirlwind. This man is condemned by the young man Elihu, who kept silent during speeches given by this man’s three (*) friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Those three friends wrongly accuse this man of wrongdoing after his children die when a house collapses and he is struck with sores. For 10 points, name this man, the namesake of a biblical book, whose piety is tested by Satan with suffering.ANSWER: Job [or Iyov]<WC, Religion>15. This scientist’s H-theorem attempted to prove the second law of thermodynamics, although its reliance on “molecular chaos” doomed it to failure. This scientist expressed entropy as proportional to the natural log of the number of microstates, and the proportionality factor in that equation is this scientist’s namesake (*) constant. That constant is equal to the gas constant R over Avogadro’s number. With Joseph Stefan, this scientist names a law that states that the radiant emittance of a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of temperature. For 10 points, name this scientist who, with Maxwell, names the statistical distribution underlying the kinetic theory of gases.ANSWER: Ludwig Boltzmann<JN, Physics>16. After being appointed a viceroy, this man ordered the arrest of his predecessor Duarte de Menezes, though he died shortly afterwards. The eyewitness Thomé Lopes described how this man captured the Meri, a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims, and burnt its passengers alive. Returning from his first voyage, this man erected a padr?o, or pillar, at Malindi, where he ordered the burning of his ship the (*) S?o Rafael. During this man’s second voyage, this man bombarded Calicut, whose Zamorin had rebuked him for his cheap gifts during his first voyage. For 10 points, name this Portuguese explorer, the first European to sail around Africa to reach India.ANSWER: Vasco da Gama<AE, European Hist>17. In 2017, this man’s younger brother led Howard University to a 43–40 upset win over UNLV. This player left the University of Florida after facing criminal charges for stealing a student’s laptop. This player’s father later demanded over 100,000 dollars from colleges in exchange for his son’s services. While playing for Gene Chizik, this football player won the (*) Heisman Trophy and the BCS National Championship. This man’s touchdown celebration of pretending to rip open his shirt earned him the nickname “Superman.” In the 2015 season, this Auburn alumnus won the NFL MVP award but lost to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50. For 10 points, name this quarterback of the Carolina Panthers.ANSWER: Cameron (Cam) Jerrell Newton<SN, Trash>18. Gabriel Fauré’s work of this type contains the text “Pie Jesu” (“PEE-ay YAY-zoo”) for solo soprano and ends with the movement “In Paradisum.” Verdi’s piece of this type was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni and features the alto, tenor, and bass singing the “Lux aeterna.” One work of this type commissioned by Count von Walsegg features a double fugue in its (*) “Kyrie Eleison” section. The “Agnus Dei,” “Confutatis,” and “Lacrimosa” sections of that work of this type were completed by Franz Sussmayr. For 10 points, name this “mass for the dead,” a famous example of which was left unfinished by Mozart.ANSWER: requiem mass [prompt on mass or anything mentioning a mass for dead people]<AE, Auditory Arts>19. A story by this author consists of a quote by “Suarez Miranda” about a group of cartographers who create a map of their empire that is an exact, to-scale replica of it. This author of “On Exactitude in Science” wrote a short story in which the terrible poet Carlos Daneri tries to prevent the destruction of his cellar to save a spot that contains (*) all other places in the universe. In another short story by this author, Stephen Albert is killed by a descendant of Ts’ui Pen, a Chinese magistrate who worked on a novel that doubles as an infinite labyrinth. For 10 points, “The Aleph” and “The Garden of Forking Paths” were written by what blind Argentinian author?ANSWER: Jorge Luis Borges<AE, World/Other Lit>20. This technique is used to measure nuchal transparency, which may be linked to dilated lymphatic channels. This technique can be combined with endoscopy to identify abnormalities in the upper GI tract. This technique can be transesophageal or transthoracic, and when used in cardiology this technique is called echocardiography. A water based propylene glycol gel is applied to a (*) transducer to provide better contact to the skin when performing this technique. This technique is usually performed in addition to CVS and amniocentesis. For 10 points, name this technology that uses sound waves for medical imaging, the most common method of imaging a fetus in the womb.ANSWER: ultrasound [or sonography; accept echocardiography until read]<SY, Biology>Bonuses1. In the 19th century, scientists believed that this entity was transmitted by an all-encompassing substance known as the aether. For 10 points each:[10] Name this entity composed of electromagnetic waves. Its speed in vacuum is symbolized c.ANSWER: light[10] This vector quantity represents the increasing energy in any electromagnetic system, which means that it aligns with the direction of light propagation.ANSWER: Poynting vector [prompt on S][10] One expression for the Poynting vector is inversely proportional to this constant. This constant is defined to be four pi times ten-to-the-negative-seventh henries per meter, and it is symbolized mu-naught.ANSWER: permeability of vacuum [prompt on partial answer; accept permeability of free space, or magnetic constant]<JN, Physics>2. Answer the following about buildings that were symbolically significant during the French Revolution, for 10 points each.[10] The storming of this prison, which was overseen by the Marquis de Launay, is often considered a symbolic beginning of the French Revolution. This prison’s storming is celebrated on namesake holiday on July 14.ANSWER: Bastille Saint-Antoine[10] At the beginning of the French Revolution, Louis XVI and his family lived in this palace built by Louis XIV until a “woman’s march” forced him to relocate to Paris.ANSWER: Palace of Versailles [or Ch?teau de Versailles][10] Following the march on Versailles, Louis XVI was forced to live in this palace in France, originally commissioned by Catherine de’ Medici. This palace later served as Napoleon’s imperial palace.ANSWER: Tuileries Palace [or Palais des Tuileries]<AE, European Hist>3. In a book titled for this object, Bernadette Murphy argued that the “Rachel” whom its owner gifted it to was actually a maid named Gabrielle Berlatier. For 10 points each:[10] Name this object that an artist used a razor to cut off in a fit of insanity in 1888, leading him to be relocated from the Yellow House to the hospital in Arles.ANSWER: Vincent Van Gogh’s left ear[10] After cutting off his ear, Van Gogh executed several paintings in this genre in which he wears a white bandage and a fur hat. In this kind of painting, the artist depicts him or herself.ANSWER: self-portrait[10] This artist visited Van Gogh in the hospital and reported that he had only cut off the lobe of his ear. This artist developed pointillism with Georges Seurat and used a swirling, abstract background for his Portrait of Félix Fénéon.ANSWER: Paul Signac<JB, Visual Arts>4. This character agrees to defend Zeebo’s son in court to prevent the NAACP from taking the case. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character who is revealed to be racist when Jean Louise sees him at the Maycomb County Citizens Council meeting in Go Set a Watchman.ANSWER: Atticus Finch [prompt on Finch][10] Before becoming the segregationist depicted in Go Set a Watchman, Atticus defends Tom Robinson against charges of rapes from the Ewell family in this earlier novel by Harper Lee.ANSWER: To Kill a Mockingbird[10] Zeebo is the son of this woman, who had served as the cook and maid for the Finch family in To Kill a Mockingbird.ANSWER: Calpurnia<AE, American Lit>[MODERATOR NOTE: Read the answerlines for the first two parts to yourself before reading this question.]5. The festival of Vaisakhi celebrates the creation of this religious community, whose first five members, the Panj Pyare, volunteered to give up their heads when called by Guru Gobind Singh. For 10 points each:[10] Name this religious community whose members are initiated through the ritual of Amrit Sanchar, during which their hair and eyes are sprinkled with amrit, or sugar water.ANSWER: Khalsa [prompt on but do not reveal Sikhism][10] The Khalsa is the body of this religion’s initiates, who are expected to wear the five Ks, which include kesh, or uncut hair covered by a turban. This religion was founded in Punjab by Guru Nanak.ANSWER: Sikhism[10] Another of the five Ks is the kirpan, which is one of these objects. The Sikh symbol called the Khanda, which is named after one of these things, depicts three of these things along with a circular chakkar.ANSWER: sword [or knife; or dagger]<WC, Religion>6. In 1861, this man pretended to be a Southern stockbroker named John H. Hutchinson to help foil the Baltimore Plot, a conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man, a Scottish immigrant, who founded a namesake private detective agency with the slogan “We Never Sleep.” His organization helped put down an Irish secret society called the Molly Maguires.ANSWER: Allan Pinkerton [accept Pinkerton National Detective Agency][10] During the Homestead Strike, this industrialist hired Pinkerton agents to violently occupy the Homestead Steel Works. Following the Homestead Strike, Alexander Berkman attempted to assassinate this industrialist.ANSWER: Henry Clay Frick[10] The Homestead Steel Works were owned by this industrialist’s company. This Scottish-born industrialist advocated the “Gospel of Wealth” and built a namesake New York City concert hall as part of his philanthropy.ANSWER: Andrew Carnegie<AE, American Hist>7. These entities are generally defined as n-tuples of real numbers. For 10 points each:[10] Identify these mathematical objects that, unlike scalars, have both magnitude and direction.ANSWER: vectors[10] If two vectors are orthogonal, then their dot product has this value.ANSWER: zero [or 0][10] The cross product of two vectors is nonzero only for vectors with this property. A set of vectors is said to have this property if no one of them can be written as a linear combination of the others.ANSWER: linear independence [or linearly independent; do not accept or prompt on “linear dependence”]<SN, Other Sci>8. Answer the following about Christopher Nolan films, for 10 points each.[10] This 2017 film about the evacuation of the title French town uses a nonlinear narrative including three different perspectives from the land, sea, and air.ANSWER: Dunkirk[10] This man has appeared in 7 Nolan films, and Nolan reportedly considers him his good-luck charm. This man played Professor Brand in Interstellar and Professor Miles in Inception.ANSWER: Michael Caine[10] Adapted from a 1995 novel by Christopher Priest, this film features Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival magicians and David Bowie as a fictionalized Nikola Tesla.ANSWER: The Prestige<SN, Trash>9. While conducting the premiere of Turandot, this man stopped in the middle of Act 3, noting that “Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this Italian conductor who served as the music director at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.ANSWER: Arturo Toscanini[10] The NBC Symphony Orchestra was retired in 1963 after performing Amahl and the Night Visitors, an opera that takes place during this holiday. Common songs sung on this holiday include “Silent Night” and “Hark! The Harold Angels Sing!”ANSWER: Christmas[10] Amahl and the Night Visitors was written by Gian Carlo Menotti, the life partner of this American composer. He wrote Adagio for Strings, which was also debuted under the direction of Toscanini.ANSWER: Samuel Barber<AE, Auditory Arts>10. Answer the following about some advisors of Henry VIII with a common first name, for 10 points each.[10] This cardinal, who served as Lord Chancellor, established the Court of Requests to deal with petitions from the poor. He fell out of favor after failing to secure an annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage with Catherine of Aragon.ANSWER: Thomas Wolsey[10] Thomas Cromwell, a protégé of Thomas Wolsey, initiated the dissolution of these institutions, which provoked an uprising led by Robert Aske called the Pilgrimage of Grace.ANSWER: monasteries [or monastery; prompt on churches][10] Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury, oversaw the creation of the Book of Common Prayer, the prayer book for this denomination that separated from the Catholic Church through the Act of Supremacy.ANSWER: Anglican Communion [or Anglican Church or Anglicanism or Church of England; prompt on Protestant]<AE, European Hist>11. Eliza recalls how her dead brother, a priest, was once found laughing in his confessional at the end of this author’s story “The Sisters.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this Irish author of Ulysses who included priests as characters in many of the stories in his book Dubliners.ANSWER: James Joyce[10] As a schoolboy, Stephen Dedalus is beaten on the hands by Father Dolan for not having his glasses in this Joyce novel, which also features a fiery sermon delivered by Father Arnall.ANSWER: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[10] The child narrator of this story from Dubliners remembers his family’s former tenant, a priest who “died in the back drawing-room.” In this story, that boy goes to the title bazaar to buy Mangan’s sister a gift.ANSWER: “Araby”<JH, British Lit>12. The aleurone is proteinaceous layer of cells on the outside of these structures that contains the embryo for a plant. For 10 points each:[10] Name these coated structures from which plants germinate.ANSWER: seeds[10] The aleurone responds to gibberellin by secreting this enzyme after contact with water. In humans, a type of this enzyme hydrolyzes starches into smaller polysaccharides.ANSWER: alpha-amylase[10] After imbibing water, the seed will begin germination by growing out this embryonic root stored in the seed.ANSWER: radicle<SY, Biology>13. The standardized version of the text that recounts the deeds of this man was discovered in the library of Ashurbanipal. For 10 points each:[10] Name this King of Uruk who is told to abandon his quest for immortality by the flood survivor Utnapishtim in his namesake epic.ANSWER: Gilgamesh[10] Gilgamesh leaves on his quest for immortality after he mourns the death of his friend, this man, who helped Gilgamesh defeat the guardian of the Cedar Forest, Humbaba.ANSWER: Enkidu[10] Enkidu also helped Gilgamesh kill the Bull of Heaven, which had been sent by this deity after Gilgamesh had refused her advances.ANSWER: Ishtar<AE, Myth>14. In an address to the Indian Parliament in 2010, Barack Obama quoted from this poet’s work “Where the Mind is Without Fear.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this Bengali poet who wrote the line “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure” as part of his collection Gitanjali.ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore[10] Tagore wrote “Jana Gana Mana,” a song of this sort made official by the Indian government in 1950. A song of this type in the US takes its lyrics from a poem that Francis Scott Key wrote during the War of 1812.ANSWER: national anthems [or state anthem; or national hymn; or national song; prompt on official anthem or hymn][10] Tagore lamented “No room, no room, the boat is too small” in a poem titled for this sort of boat. The people of Yakshapuri are forced to gather this stuff for their king in Tagore’s play The Red Oleanders.ANSWER: gold [or “The Golden Boat”]<JH, World/Other Lit>15. This ruler’s namesake cylinder, which describes how Marduk chose him to defeat the Babylonian king Nabonidus, is sometimes considered the first charter of human rights. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Persian ruler who founded the Achaemenid empire after defeating Astyages, the last king of the Medes, in a revolt. In the Bible, the Book of Ezra claims that he freed the Jewish captives in Babylonia.ANSWER: Cyrus the Great [or Cyrus II; prompt on Cyrus][10] After Cyrus the Great’s death, he was succeeded by this son of his. The usurper Bardiya seized power after this king’s death according to his successor Darius I, who may himself have had him assassinated.ANSWER: Cambyses II [prompt on Cambyses][10 Cambyses II conquered this empire after defeating its ruler Psamtik III at the Battle of Pelusium, and also attacked this empire’s southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Kush.ANSWER: Egypt<AE, World Hist>16. Electrical neutrality is maintained in these devices by allowing anions to flow across a salt bridge. For 10 points each:[10] Name these devices that create electrical energy through the spontaneous redox reactions that take place in them.ANSWER: galvanic cell [or voltaic cell][10] The total electrochemical potential for a galvanic cell is calculated by summing the the electrode potential from these equations that represent the reduction and oxidation components of the redox reaction.ANSWER: half-reactions[10] Galvanic cells can lose energy due to this phenomenon, in which the electrode potential at which a half-reaction takes place is different from the thermodynamically determined potential.ANSWER: overpotential<SY, Chemistry>17. The sculptor Josep Subirachs designed a magic square that sums to 33 beside his statue of Judas kissing Christ in this city. For 10 points each:[10] Name this city home to the largest stadium in Europe by capacity, Camp Nou. This city is home to an unfinished basilica with eighteen spires that symbolize various aspects of Christ and his teachings.ANSWER: Barcelona[10] The Sagrada Família, in addition to other structures like the Casa Batlló (“ball-YO”) and the Palau Güell (“gway”), were designed by this Catalan architect.ANSWER: Antoni Gaudí[10] When the wife of this building’s commissioner complained that there was no room for her piano, Gaudí told her to play the violin instead. This apartment complex is often called “La Pedrera” by locals since it resembles a quarry.ANSWER: Casa Milà<AP, Any Art>18. The endangered Chinese alligator is native to this river’s delta. For 10 points each:[10] Name this longest river in China that flows into the East China Sea just north of Shanghai.ANSWER: Yangtze River [or Chang Jiang][10] This massive dam on the Yangtze is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station. This dam, which controversially displaced over one million people, became operational in 2012.ANSWER: Three Gorges Dam[10] The Grand Canal, which links the Yellow River to the Yangtze, begins near Beijing and ends near this Chinese city. This city, which once served as the capital of Song dynasty, contains the freshwater West Lake.ANSWER: Hangzhou (“hong-joe”)<AE, Geo/CE>19. This mythological figure was trapped in Marya Morevna’s dungeon, although he returned to health after being given several buckets of water. For 10 points each:[10] Name this villainous wizard who, despite his epithet, was killed by Ivan Tsarevich riding a magic horse.ANSWER: Koschei (“kuh-SHAY”) the Deathless[10] Koschei’s soul was hidden in one of these objects inside an egg inside a duck. In the Gospels, Jesus stated that “it is easier for a camel to pass through” one of these objects than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.ANSWER: needles [accept eye of a needle][10] This Russian composer wrote an opera titled after Koschei, though he’s better known for the suite Scheherazade and the interlude Flight of the Bumblebee.ANSWER: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov<JN, Other>20. One of this man’s most famous couplets begins with the phrase “I hate and I love.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this Silver Age Latin poet of many love poems addressed to the mysterious “Lesbia.”ANSWER: Catullus[10] Some scholars have postulated that Lesbia’s name was chosen by Catullus in honor of this female Greek poet from the island of Lesbos also wrote many love poems. She was given the sobriquet “The Tenth Muse.”ANSWER: Sappho[10] Catullus’s 101st poem, which is addressed to his dead brother, ends with the Latin phrase “ave atque vale,” which is usually translated into English as this phrase.ANSWER: “Hail and farewell”<AE, European Lit> ................
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