Maryland Fall Classic High School Tournament



Maryland Fall Classic High School Tournament

Playoff Round 3

Questions By Jonathan Magin

Letter Round

The Letter “R”

All answers in this round will contain a word that begins with the letter “R.” Plus or minus 10, no bouncebacks.

1) Preceded by the crowing of Gullinkambi, this event takes place on the plain of Vigrid, and features the deaths of Tyr, Heimdall, and Loki.

ANSWER: Ragnarok

2) He implemented the Square Deal program, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth. Name this man who became president upon the death of McKinley.

ANSWER: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (prompt on just "Roosevelt")

3) Quasars have the largest known values of this property of objects moving away from Earth, in which wavelengths of light appear a certain color.

ANSWER: redshift

4) Despite a threat from Karl Lindner, Travis, Ruth, Walter Lee, Benethea and Lena move into a white neighborhood in this play about the Younger family by Lorraine Hansberry.

ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun

5) This author wrote about the Abbey of Thélème and the Oracle of the Holy Bottle in his five-part work about two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

ANSWER: Francois Rabelais

6) This artist of Girl With a Watering Can and The Luncheon of the Boating Party was one of the foremost French Impressionist painters.

ANSWER: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

7) Composed of 50S and 30S subunits and assembled in the nucleolus, these organelles translate RNA into proteins.

ANSWER: ribosomes

8) Winning his current position when Jerry Hairston Jr. was traded for Sammy Sosa, this switch hitter currently leads off and plays second base for the Orioles.

ANSWER: Brian Roberts

9) The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa was the turning point of this Christian campaign to recapture the Iberian Peninsula.

ANSWER: Reconquista (also accept Reconquest)

10) This British economist, author of On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, developed the ideas of comparative advantage and the iron law of wages.

ANSWER: David Ricardo

Team Round 1A

The team on my left will have a chance to answer these seven questions. Then, the team on my right will have a chance to answer their own set of seven questions. +20 for a correct answer, no penalty for an incorrect answer. +25 for getting them all correct.

1) This leader of the Roundheads became Lord Protector of England after winning the English Civil War.

ANSWER: Oliver Cromwell

2) The unnamed narrator wins a scholarship to a Southern university after a brutal “battle royale” in this novel about a man living underground by Ralph Ellison.

ANSWER: Invisible Man

3) This group of elements contains outer shells with seven valence electrons, and includes Bromine and Flourine.

ANSWER: Halogens

4) Hercules’ fifth labor was to clean up this filthy location, which he accomplished by diverting rivers through it.

ANSWER: Augean stables

5) The title revolutionary is pictured dead in a tub after being stabbed by Charlotte Corday in this painting by Jacques-Louis David.

ANSWER: The Death of Marat (also accept La Mort de Marat)

6) The discovery of seafloor spreading and Mid-Atlantic ridges provided support for this geologic theory, which holds that rigid pieces of the lithosphere float and move on the asthenosphere.

ANSWER: plate tectonics

7) Rising in the San Juan Mountains, this North American river forms the border between Texas and Mexico.

ANSWER: Rio Grande (also accept Rio Bravo del Norte)

Team Round 1B

1) This war between England and France included the battles of Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, and lasted from 1337 to 1453.

ANSWER: the Hundred Years’ War

2) Esther Greenwood is committed to an insane asylum after attempting to kill herself in this novel by Sylvia Plath.

ANSWER: The Bell Jar

3) This group of elements is the lightest to contain electrons in the 4f orbital, and is alternately known as the rare earth elements.

ANSWER: Lanthanides

4) The first labor of Hercules was to kill this invulnerable creature; he choked it to death and subsequently wore its skin.

ANSWER: Nemean lion

5) A pyramid of human bodies leads the eye to a man waving a shirt to a distant ship in this painting about the survivors of a shipwreck by Theodore Gericault.

ANSWER: The Raft of the Medusa

6) The Moho discontinuity appears above this layer of the Earth which lies below the crust.

ANSWER: mantle

7) Forming part of the border between New York and Canada, this North American river connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.

ANSWER: St. Lawrence River

Category Round

Novels.

All of the answers in this round relate to things found in novels. Plus or minus 10, no bouncebacks.

1) In A Clockwork Orange, Alex is forced to watch brutal videos while listening to the final symphony of this composer of the Waldstein, Pathetique, and Moonlight sonatas.

ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven

2) Miguel Asturias’ novel Men of Maize takes its title from the creation story of this civilization, which believes in an underworld called Xibalba and whose pyramid-filled settlements included Palenque and Tikal.

ANSWER: Mayans

3) In The Crying of Lot 49, John Nefastis claims to own a black box containing one of these creatures, which theoretically sorts fast-moving from slow-moving particles, violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

ANSWER: Maxwell's demon

4) In Animal Farm, Old Major represents this author of The Poverty of Philosophy and Critique of the Gotha Programme who wrote about surplus value in his magnum opus Das Kapital.

ANSWER: Karl Marx

5) The protagonist of William Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland, is based on this French post-impressionist who painted Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? after sailing to Tahiti.

ANSWER: Paul Gauguin

6) Arabella Wilmot marries George and Olivia is saved from the deceitful Squire Thornhill in this novel about the good-natured Dr. Primrose by Oliver Goldsmith.

ANSWER: The Vicar of Wakefield

7) The Bundle of His and the superior and inferior vena cava are located in this organ, which appears in the title of a book about Kurtz by Joseph Conrad.

ANSWER: heart

8) In The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer participates in a protest march against this building, which was hit by American Airlines flight 77 on September 11th and is the headquarters of the Department of Defense.

ANSWER: Pentagon

9) This author of A Cool Million and Miss Lonelyhearts wrote about Homer Simpson, who pursues the actress Faye Greener, in his novel about Tod Hackett, The Day of the Locust.

ANSWER: Nathaniel West (also accept Nathan Weinstein)

10) Novelists from this country include Machado de Assis and Jorge (ZHOR-zhee) Amado, while it also includes the Rio Negro and the cities of Belem, Recife, and Sao Paolo.

ANSWER: Brazil

Team Round 2A

The team on my right will have a chance to answer these seven questions. Then, the team on my left will have a chance to answer their own set of seven questions. +20 for a correct answer, no penalty for an incorrect answer. +25 for getting them all correct.

1) Partially spurred by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, this 1906 act mandated federal inspection of meat, and prohibited the sale or transportation of unsafe products.

ANSWER: Pure Food and Drug Act

2) This author of Never Let Me Go and An Artist of the Floating World won the 1989 Booker Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day.

ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro

3) This composer of the opera Rusalka and a series of Slavonic Dances wrote his American string quartet after visiting Spillville, Iowa.

ANSWER: Anton Dvorak

4) The city of Taungoo was the seat of the government in this country from 1531 to 1752. Recently, its military junta government put down protests led in large part by monks.

ANSWER: Union of Myanmar (also accept Burma)

5) The Seven Valleys and the Kitaq-i-Aqdas are important texts in this religion founded by Baha'u'llah that preaches the unity of religious beliefs.

ANSWER: Baha'i

6) Resulting in perfect diamagnetism, this effect named for a German physicist is defined as the exclusion of a magnetic fields from a superconductor.

ANSWER: Meissner Effect

7) Adrian Peterson played for this Big 12 college football team coached by Bob Stoops, who lost to Boise State in last year’s Fiesta Bowl.

ANSWER: University of Oklahoma (also accept Sooners)

Team Round 2B

1) Symbolized by a blue eagle, this New Deal program established “fair trade codes” for businesses, and was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935.

ANSWER: National Recovery Administration

2) The founder of the Shield Society, this author of The Sea of Fertility and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion committed seppuku in 1970.

ANSWER: Yukio Mishima

3) Glenn Gould was renowned for his performances of the works of this composer of the Mass in B Minor and The Art of the Fugue.

ANSWER: Johann Sebastian Bach

4) Ruled by Alfredo Stroessner until his exile in 1989, this nation lost at least half of its population during the War of the Triple Alliance, fought against neighbors Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

ANSWER: Paraguay

5) This religion's holiest site is the Haramandar Sahib or Golden Temple in Amritsar, and its notable leaders include Gurus Gobind Singh and Nanak.

ANSWER: Sikhism

6) Named for a Dutch physicist, this effect is defined as the splitting of spectral lines in a magnetic field.

ANSWER: Zeeman Effect

7) Desmond Howard and Tom Brady both played college football at this Big Ten school currently coached by Lloyd Carr, which shockingly lost its first game this season to Appalachian State.

ANSWER: University of Michigan (also accept accept Wolverines)

(Tiebreaker for the Grab Bag Round):

TB) In one scene in this movie, the protagonist is given a Bible by Samuel Norton, who tells him “Salvation lies within.” After giving tax advice to Hadley, the protagonist works in a library with Brooks, who commits suicide upon his release from the title location. Based on a novella by Stephen King, name this 1994 movie in which Andy Dufresne uses a rock-hammer to escape from the title prison, starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

ANSWER: The Shawshank Redemption

Grab-Bag Round

Plus or minus 20, no bouncebacks.

1) This author wrote about the experiences of Fuseli, Chrisfield, and Andrews during World War I in his early novel Three Soldiers. Another of his novels centers on the journalist Jimmy Herf and is named for a subway station, while his best-known work includes sections called “Newsreels” and “The Camera Eye” and consists of the novels The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money. Name this author of Manhattan Transfer and the USA trilogy.

ANSWER: John Dos Passos

2) This war began with the Battle of Wissembourg. In its aftermath, Adolph Thiers was elected as head of the French government, leading to the Paris Commune. This war was instigated by the Ems Dispatch, and ended with the Treaty of Frankfurt, which gave the victors Alsace-Lorraine. Napoleon III was captured at this war’s decisive conflict, the Battle of Sedan. Name this 1870-1871 war between two European powers.

ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War

3) The Mahuika crater is located in this country, whose World Heritage Sites include Tongarira National Park. Its largest lake is Lake Taupo, which is drained by the Waikato River. Its populous cities include Dunedin and Christchurch, and its highest peak is Mount Cook, which is alternatively known as Aoraki in Maori. Name this island nation whose capital is Wellington, located next to Australia.

ANSWER: New Zealand

4) Cannizzaro used this law to determine atomic weights. One method of deriving this relation is fixing the variables P and T in the ideal gas law and rearranging the resulting expression. Stating that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules, identify this chemical law named for an Italian chemist.

ANSWER: Avogadro’s Law

5) Manu built one of these after being advised by the first avatar of Vishnu. Freyr possessed a magical one called Skidbladnir, and the Aesir turned one named Ringhorn into the funeral pyre of Balder. Another one of these contained a beam cut from the tree of Dodona, and passed through the Clashing Rocks after being built by Argus. Name these mythological objects exemplified by the Flying Dutchman and the Argo.

ANSWER: ships (also accept boats or vessels, and other clear equivalents)

6) This psychologist pioneered the “lost letter” technique, and performed the “small-world” experiment, which led him to conclude that most people are connected by “six degrees of separation.” In another of his experiments, subjects read a list of vocabulary words to a “learner” and were ordered to administer electric shocks after receiving incorrect responses. Name this psychologist who performed a notable experiment about obedience to authority.

ANSWER: Stanley Milgram

7) Jack Bowler and George Smith assisted the leader of one of these events, which took place in Richmond in 1800. Another of these events was led by a man originally named Telemanque, and occurred in Charleston in June 1822. In addition to ones led by Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey, another of these events took place in Southampton County in 1831 and began with the murder of the Travis family. Name these events most famously led by Nat Turner.

ANSWER: slave rebellions (accept clear-knowledge equivalents)

8) One author from this country wrote short stories like “End of the Game” and “Las Babas del Diablo,” as well as a novel about La Maga and Horacio Oliviera called Hopscotch. Another author from this country wrote about a French author who recreates a work of Cervantes in his short story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” as well as “The Library of Babel” and “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Name this country, home to authors Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges.

ANSWER: Argentina

9) This process is driven by Elongation Factor G, and is initiated by the recognition of a codon adjacent to the Shine-Delgarno element. Throughout it, tRNA binds to the A and P sites before exiting through the E site. Name this genetic process in which the ribosome synthesizes mRNA into proteins, that occurs after transcription.

ANSWER: translation

10) This work begins with the eccentric Drosselmeyer doling out gifts. Its Divertissement features a series of dances like the Arab Dance and Chinese Dance, and it begins with a “Miniature Overture” and ends with the “Waltz of the Flowers.” Also including a notable piece for celesta, the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” name this ballet by Tchaikovsky about Clara, who receives the title toy for Christmas.

ANSWER: The Nutcracker

11) This dynasty declined after it lost the Battle of Tondibi to the eunuch Pasha Judar. Its leader Askia Daoud carried out a successful campaign against the Mossi, and this dynasty reached its apex under Askia Muhammad. Annexing Djenne and Timbuktu in the late 15th century, and centered at the city of Gao, name this Islamic African empire that rose to prominence under Sonni Ali.

ANSWER: Songhai Empire

12) Its dedication calls the “hypocrite reader” the author’s double and brother. This collection includes a poem inspired by a painting of Watteau, “A Voyage to Cythera,” as well as a section of poems dedicated to Victor Hugo, “Parisian Landscapes,” and four poems called “Spleen.” Also including sections called “Wine,” “Revolt,” and “Death,” name this poetry collection first published in 1857, the masterpiece of Charles Baudelaire.

ANSWER: Le Fleurs du Mal (also accept The Flowers of Evil)

13) The region where a planet’s gravity is strong enough to keep a satellite in orbit is this scientist’s namesake sphere. The volume inside which matter is bound to binary stars is known as his namesake lobe. Another threshold named for this scientist is the distance at which a satellite will be torn apart by tidal forces. Name this French astronomer known for his namesake limit.

ANSWER: Edouard Roche (accept Hill before “lobes,” as a Roche sphere is also known as a Hill sphere)

14) He discussed “How two minds can know one thing” in Essays in Radical Empiricism. This philosopher analyzed “The Sick Soul” and “Mysticism” in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and coined the expression “stream of consciousness” in The Principles of Psychology. Name this American philosopher who spearheaded pragmatism, whose brother wrote The Ambassadors and The Turn of the Screw.

ANSWER: William James

15) According to Erwin Panofsky, this painting served as a certificate of the title event. The shoes of the main figures are strewn on the floor, while the background features a mirror containing the stations of the cross and a chandelier with one lit candle. A red bed appears on the right, and a dog representing fidelity appears beneath the title merchant, who holds hands with his wife. Name this painting by Jan van Eyck.

ANSWER: The Arnolfini Wedding (also accept The Arnolfini Marriage or The Arnolfini Portrait or really anything with Arnolfini and something related to marriage)

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