High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



Richard Montgomery-Beavercreek Collaborative TournamentQuestions written by Richard Montgomery (MD) and Beavercreek (OH)Edited by Joe Czupryn and Ellen SpencePacket 12 – Tossups1. This party lost one election because of the publication of the Zinoviev Letter. James Callaghan was a prime minister from this party that was in power during the “Winter of Discontent.” One prime minister of this party took power directly after (*) World War II and was most notable for his creation of the National Health Service. This party’s most recent prime minister was Gordon Brown, who lost the 2010 election to David Cameron. For 10 points, name this party which opposes the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.ANSWER: Labour Party of the United Kingdom 2. A poem by this author addresses his son Hartley by saying “Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side” and hopes that “all seasons shall be sweet to thee,” including during the “secret ministry of frost.” In another of this author’s poems, “the lovely lady” walks into the (*) woods at midnight to meet a woman who claims she had been carried away by five warriors. The completion of this author’s fifty-four line poem was interrupted by a person from Porlock and discusses Xanadu. For 10 points, name the author who penned the lines, “Water, water everywhere!” in his famous poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3. A five movement C minor piece of this genre was written alongside the film score “Five Days - Five Nights,” and commemorates the bombing of Dresden. Three Beethoven works in this genre each contain a Russian Theme, and are named after their commissioner, Count (*) Razumovsky. Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” is written in this form, as are chamber works titled “Emperor” and “Sunrise.” This ensemble was developed into its modern form by Joseph Haydn. For 10 points, name this musical ensemble that includes two violins, a viola, and a cello.ANSWER: String quartet [prompt on partial answer] 4. Arnold van Gennep criticized this man’s views of primitive societies as “entirely erroneous.” This man described communities coming together and sharing thoughts and actions as “collective effervescence.” This man referred to a state in which rules have lost authority as (*) anomie. Egoistic and fatalistic are two types of the title concept in a book by this man; that book also observed that the title concept is extremely prevalent among Scandinavians. For 10 points, name this man who pioneered sociology and wrote The Division of Labor in Society and Suicide. ANSWER: David Emile Durkheim 5. This phenomenon was used by Jean Perrin to calculate Avogadro’s number. This phenomenon seems to allow a violation of the second law of thermodynamics, the Feynman ratchet, to produce workable energy from random motion. This phenomenon can be described as gas particles taking (*) random walks. This phenomenon was first observed by the man for which it is named while observing pollen in water. That observation was explained by Albert Einstein in a 1905 paper. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which small particles move about randomly because of the motion of gas or liquid particles surrounding them.ANSWER: Brownian motion 6. In this work, after witnessing a man close a dog’s mouth using arrows, a teacher commands him to cut off his right thumb. One attempt to kill the protagonists in this story occurs when a wax palace is set on fire. One character in this story is given robes that extend infinitely when her suitors try to disrobe her; that occurs after another character loses a game of dice to (*) Duryodhana and has his kingdom taken away. This story was recited by Vyasa to Ganesha, who wrote it down. For 10 points, name this Indian epic which contains the Bhagavad Gita.ANSWER: The Mahabharata 7. This group’s eschatology holds that an apocalyptic struggle on the plains of Dabiq will usher the coming of the antichrist. A 2015 article by Graeme Wood attempts to answer the question “Where did it come from, and what are its intentions?” This group perpetrated the Sinjar massacre against (*) Yazidis in 2014 but lost its prized city of Fallujah in 2016. Boko Haram has pledged allegiance to this self-proclaimed caliphate, formerly led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who many still believe to be alive. For 10 points, name this genocidal group in Iraq and Syria that shook the world with its beheadings.ANSWER: Islamic State [accept ISIS or ISIL or Daesh] 8. This man described the Arab League as “subservience to Zionism and Imperialism.” Lester Pearson helped resolve a crisis involving this non-European leader. He was part of the Free Officers Movement, along with Mohammed Naguib, whom he later overthrew to become president. Creation of (*) Helwan City and the Aswan Dam, along with the nationalization of the Suez Canal, were major projects under the rule of this man. For 10 points, name this second president of Egypt, who was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. ANSWER: Gamal Abdel Nasser 9. In one work by this author, a character’s death takes place in a hot air balloon, after which his body is never recovered. That character assumes the title guise by climbing a tree after refusing to eat a dinner of snails prepared by his sister. Another story of this author of (*) The Baron in the Trees includes a fraudulent translator named Ermes Marana, who causes books such as the one the protagonist is reading to be published unfinished. That story ends with one character marrying Ludmilla, and that character is You. For 10 points, name this author of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.ANSWER: Italo Calvino 10. In one form of this phenomenon, air is forced via a gas compressor, and engines that run on that are contrasted with naturally aspirated engines. Symmetry associated with this phenomenon led Albert Einstein to develop the theory of special relativity. Unwanted entities in these phenomena are known as eddies, and this phenomenon scales linearly with the (*) number of coils. Faraday’s Law describes this phenomenon as the change in magnetic flux, and Lenz’s Law gives the direction of the resulting electric current. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a changing magnetic field creates an electric current. ANSWER: Induction 11. According to the Res Gestae, two kings of this region, Dubnovellaunus and Tincomarus, fled to Rome to seek Augustus’s assistance. After winning the Battle of Mons Graupius, Agricola successfully conquered this region for Rome. Caligula aborted an invasion of this region, instead telling his soldiers to collect seashells. The Battle of (*) Watling Street took place in this region against the rebellious queen of the Iceni, Boudicca, and a structure built in this region was made to protect its citizens from the invasions of the Picts. For 10 points, name this island that contains Hadrian’s Wall.ANSWER: Great Britain [accept Britannia] 12. One episode from the history of this faith sees five loyal adherents offering to the call: “I need one head.” Those five would be the first to be blessed by the double-edged khanda and would be known as the panj pyare, the five beloved ones who were the first to join the (*) khalsa. That ceremony to create a brotherhood of saint-soldiers was conducted after decades of persecution at the hands of the Mughals, starting with the martyrdom of guru Arjan. For 10 points, name this monotheistic faith created by Guru Nanak whose adherents practice the 5 K’s and study the Adi Granth. ANSWER: Sikhism 13. One method to check whether a sequence has this property is to determine, through induction, if “a sub n plus one” is greater than “a sub n.” Specifically, that test is for the “monotonic” type of this property. The function f of x equals x squared only has this property on the interval from zero to positive infinity. (*) Functions like “y equals x” and “y equals x cubed” have this property for all real numbers, since these functions’ derivatives will always be positive. For 10 points, identify this property which, when applied to a function, means that as the x values increases, the y values do as well. ANSWER: Increasing [accept word forms] 14. One of this man’s songs was inspired by street performers telling him “This rhythm is to us, what the blues is to you.” A work by this man mixed Biblical scripture with Martin Luther King's sayings. A 7/4 time signature is featured in one song by this man, and another song by him was inspired by Turkish musicians. Those two songs were “Unsquare Dance” and (*) “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” respectively. Paul Desmond played along with this man in his namesake quartet, and that group released the album “Time Out.” For 10 points, name this jazz pianist who wrote “Take Five.” ANSWER: Dave Brubeck [accept The Dave Brubeck Quartet] 15. One story by this author sees a group of travelers driven to suicide by the sound of the rain; that story appears in a collection titled The Illustrated Man. This man quoted a Clara Teasdale poem in “There Will Come Soft Rains,” about a computer-controlled house after a nuclear war. A novel by this man, which has sections including (*) “The Sieve and the Sand” and “The Hearth and the Salamander,” sees the protagonist destroying the Mechanical Hound with a flamethrower. For 10 points, name this author of The Martian Chronicles who wrote about the fireman Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451.ANSWER: Ray Bradbury 16. This man founded the Church Peace Union, which advocated against massive military spending. This man offered the U.S. Government twenty million dollars in order to back out from the Philippines; when they refused to do so, he became vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League. Charles M. Schwab negotiated the buyout of this man’s (*) company by J.P. Morgan. In his Gospel of Wealth, this man called on rich men to donate money back to society. Henry Clay Frick worked for this man and put down the Homestead Strike against his company. For 10 points, name this “robber-baron” who founded a namesake steel company.ANSWER: Andrew Carnegie 17. The remains of the SS Yongala are located near this landmark. This landmark, which is south of the Torres Strait, is near Hamilton Island. Visitors to this feature often travel through Cairns. The first European contact with this landmark occurred when James (*) Cook’s ship was damaged by it. This formation, the largest structure in the world made by organisms, has recently experienced significant problems with bleaching. Ten percent of the world’s fish species are estimated to live in this feature. For 10 points, name this coral system located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the largest in the world. ANSWER: Great Barrier Reef [prompt on partial answer] 18. Clio holds a trumpet in front of a map while a man paints on a canvas in one of this artist’s works. A woman holds a lute and a letter handed to her by her maid in another one of this artist’s paintings. This artist of The Allegory of Painting painted a work in which all of the buildings on the right side have (*) blue roofs, while all of the buildings on the left side have red roofs. That painting is of his home town, Delft. In his most famous painting, this artist showed a girl wearing a blue turban along with the title piece of jewelry. For 10 points, name this artist of Girl with a Pearl Earring.ANSWER: Johannes Vermeer 19. The sonic hedgehog gene is possessed by animals in this phylum, and that gene is secreted in the zone of polarizing activity. One branch of this phylum is split into agantha, which are organisms lacking a jaw. Hagfishes are an example of this phylum’s gnathosoma subphylum. In this phylum, (*) pharyngeal slits serve as a location for the exchange of air and water. Organisms in this phylum have a post anal tail and a notochord. One subphylum of this phylum is Mammalia. For 10 points, name this phylum containing all vertebrates, including humans. ANSWER: Chordata [accept Chordates] 20. The narrator of this novel is an engineer who was brought to its setting because of a carpenter’s strike. One character in this novel is utterly distraught after another character breaks a pickle dish, which can be understood symbolically as the breaking of (*) Zeena’s marriage with the title character. That title character is first seen by the narrator limping around in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The narrator later finds out that the limp was from a sledding “accident.” For 10 points, identify this Edith Wharton novel about the title man who cheated on his wife with Mattie Silver. ANSWER: Ethan Frome Tiebreaker21. Venetian surgeon Niccolo Barbaro wrote an eyewitness account of this event. The leader of this event declared himself Kayser-i-rum, or “Caesar of the Romans” after its success. Giovanni Giustiniani ordered his ships to defend the Golden Horn during this event, which also saw which saw one side utilize Orban’s “Basilica” cannons. (*) Constantine XI Paleologos surrendered during this event, after which the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque. For 10 points, name this event which saw Mehmet the Conqueror destroy the Byzantine Empire in 1453.ANSWER: Fall of Constantinople [accept equivalents for Fall such as Sack/Siege/Battle]Packet 12 – Bonuses1. This governmental agency manages superfund sites. For 10 points each:[10] Name this government agency that manages the habitat and well-being of the USA’s citizens. The current director of this agency is Scott Pruitt.ANSWER: Environmental Protection Agency[10] The EPA helped clean up this superfund site near Niagara Falls. They found that the toxic waste caused an increase in white blood cell count and leukemia in affected citizens.ANSWER: Love Canal[10] This book, written by Fish and Wildlife Services employee Rachel Carson, exposed the harmful effects of DDT and probably inspired the creation of the EPA.ANSWER: Silent Spring 2. This architect designed a chapel for the Pazzi family whose interior is entirely made from pietra serena, or “serene stone.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this architect who had earlier lost a contest to Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery. He demonstrated his design for a dome by balancing a cracked egg.ANSWER: Filippo Brunelleschi[10] Brunelleschi later beat Ghiberti in a competition to design the dome of this largest cathedral of Florence. Giotto built a bell tower adjacent to this building in the 1300s.ANSWER: Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore [accept Il Duomo][10] A work by Paolo Uccello in the Duomo that is dedicated to condottiero John Hawkwood shows him riding this animal. In a portrait by Titian, Charles V rides one of these animals to the Battle of Muhlberg.ANSWER: Horses 3. For 10 points each, answer these questions about the stages of the cell cycle.[10] This stage of the cell cycle is the longest phase and includes the stages G1, S, and G2, where the cell grows and prepares itself for cell division.ANSWER: Interphase[10] The buildup of cyclin-dependent kinases during interphase allows for this next phase of the cell cycle to occur. This phase results in two daughter cells that are identical to the parent cell.ANSWER: Mitosis[10] When a cell exits the cell cycle after the G1 phase, it has entered this stage, where cell growth has finished and cell division will not occur. This is the phase that many irreplaceable cells, such as nerve cells, exist in.ANSWER: G0 [accept Resting] 4. This author wrote about the McCaslin family in Go Down, Moses. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this American author who also wrote As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.ANSWER: William Faulkner[10] As I Lay Dying focuses on this family that includes Dewey Dell, who attempts to terminate her unwanted pregnancy. Other members of this family include Cash, Darl, Jewel, Vardaman, and Addie.ANSWER: Bundren family[10] Caddy is disowned by this family after giving birth to Miss Quentin. This central family of The Sound and the Fury consists of Jason, Benjy, Carol, and Quentin.ANSWER: Compson family 5. “I’ve been the game for years, it made me an animal.” More specifically, I’m talking about the rap game. For 10 points each, answer these songs about rappers from different periods. [10] The lyrics referenced at the beginning of this bonus are from this rapper’s “10 Crack Commandments.” He was shot to death as a result of his rivalry with Tupac. ANSWER: Biggie Smalls [accept The Notorious B.I.G. or Christopher George Latore Wallace][10] This other rapper collaborated with Biggie in the song “Dead Wrong.” In that song, he references his name, “Marshall Mathers.” He also played the central role in the movie 8 Mile, where he sings the song “Lose Yourself.”ANSWER: Eminem [accept Slim Shady][10] Eminem once tested this other rapper to see if he had a ghostwriter. This rapper is well-known for the albums good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly. Barack Obama once said that this rapper was better than Drake. ANSWER: Kendrick Lamar [accept Kendrick Duckworth; prompt on “K-Dot”] 6. These men are stuck in a perpetual state of taciturn, brooding gloom, but we love them anyway. For 10 points each, name these “bad boy” Byronic heroes of literature.[10] This rather exciting title character of Alexandre Dumas’ novel is determined to use his newfound wealth to destroy his enemies, including Villefort and Mondego, for wrongfully imprisoning him.ANSWER: Edmond Dantes [accept either underlined portion; accept the Count of Monte Cristo][10] This recurring Jules Verne character is an Indian prince who is driven by hatred for the British Empire in The Mysterious Island and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. ANSWER: Captain Nemo [accept Prince Dakkar][10] He may be hiding an insane wife in his attic, and he may cross-dress as a fortune-teller to see if his ward’s governess loves him, but this Byronic hero of Jane Eyre still makes readers swoon with lines like “My very soul demands you.”ANSWER: Edward Rochester [accept either underlined portion] 7. Lord Elphinstone’s army was massacred by Wazir Khan during a retreat from this country’s capital. For 10 points each:[10] Name this country where the Durrani family ruled from a palace in Kabul. The CIA supported the Mujahideen during a Soviet invasion of this country in 1979.ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan[10] These two countries vied for control over Afghanistan in the Great Game. One of these two countries accidentally destroyed the other’s fishing fleet in the Dogger Bank incident.ANSWER: Russia and Great Britain [accept United Kingdom or England in place of Britain][10] This first Mughal emperor lived in Kabul before he defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat. His grandson was Akbar.ANSWER: Babur [accept ?ahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad] 8. This artist was a pioneer of the Dada movement. For 10 points each:[10] Name this French-American artist whose works include The Large Glass and Fountain. This artist also was associated with Cubism in works such as Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.ANSWER: Marcel Duchamp[10] This other Dada artist and friend of Duchamp was known for his sculptures such as Gift and photographs such as Ingres’s Violin. He was also famous for his photograms, where he put items on photosensitive paper to produce images.ANSWER: Man Ray [or Emmanuel Radnitzky][10] Both Gift and Fountain are examples of these kinds of sculptures developed during the Dada movement. These are often common, mass-produced items that the artist labels as “art.”ANSWER: Readymade 9. For 10 points each, answer these questions about the laws of thermodynamics.[10] This law states that if two systems are at thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.ANSWER: Zeroth law of thermodynamics[10] This thought experiment hypothetically violates the second law of thermodynamics. In it, a small door allows fast molecules to move between gas chambers.ANSWER: Maxwell’s demon [prompt on partial answer][10] According to the third law of thermodynamics, when a system is near absolute zero, the entropy is also close to zero, except in these materials.ANSWER: Non-crystalline solids [accept Glass; prompt on partial answer] 10. For 10 points each, answer the following about some fishers of men.[10] This apostle, the first Pope, denied knowing Christ three times after his arrest. He was crucified upside-down by the Emperor Nero, and he was a retired fisherman who briefly walked on water.ANSWER: Saint Simon-Peter [accept Simeon][10] This Roman official wrote the letters recorded in the New Testament to churches in Corinth, Rome, and Thessalonica after a bout of blindness brought on by a vision of Christ.ANSWER: Saint Paul [accept Saul of Tarsus][10] This apostle was not one of the original twelve, but instead was chosen by lot to fill the space left behind by Judas’s betrayal. His selection is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.ANSWER: Saint Matthias 11. This city contains the Transamerica Pyramid designed by William Pereira. For 10 points each:[10] Name this city whose Haight-Ashbury Street was the epicenter of the hippie movement in the 1960s. This city’s Chinatown was destroyed during a deadly 1906 earthquake.ANSWER: San Francisco[10] This island prison in San Francisco housed notorious criminals such as Al Capone and Mickey Cohen. Native Americans occupied this building and demanded reparations from the government.ANSWER: Alcatraz Island[10] This “most crooked street in the world” in San Francisco features eight sharp turns running down Russian Hill, connecting the Presidio and the Embarcadero neighborhoods. It forms part of Route 101.ANSWER: Lombard Street 12. One of the first novels to employ this narrative form, Pamela by Samuel Richardson, was parodied by Henry Fielding in Shamela. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this narrative format in which a book is written through a series of letters by characters within the novel. Novels which employ this narrative format include The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.ANSWER: Epistolary novels[10] One of the most famous examples of an epistolary novel is this work by Irish author Bram Stoker. Letters in this novel are written by, among others, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, and Doctor Seward, as they attempt to hunt the title character.ANSWER: Dracula[10] In this epistolary novel, the title character offers advice to his nephew Wormwood on how to guide the Patient away from God, the Enemy. At the end of this C.S. Lewis novel, the Patient ascends into heaven, and Wormwood is condemned to be eaten.ANSWER: The Screwtape Letters 13. Robinson annulation can be used to create these compounds. For 10 points each: [10] Name these compounds that are connected in a loop. Examples of this type of compound include cyclohexane. ANSWER: Cyclic [accept Ring][10] This six carbon compound is both cyclic and aromatic. It has chemical formula C6H6 and can be found in crude oil.ANSWER: Benzene[10] This rule can be used to determine when a planar compound will be aromatic. It states that aromatic compounds tend to have four n plus two pi electrons, where n is a non-negative integer.ANSWER: Huckel’s Rule 14. This man gave the title “Empress of India” to Queen Victoria. For 10 points each: [10] Name this conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He had a rivalry with William Gladstone, and he is the only Jewish Prime Minister in history. ANSWER: Benjamin Disraeli[10] Disraeli opposed the reintroduction of these laws, which placed tariffs on the namesake crop. Their repeal was prompted by famines in Ireland. ANSWER: Corn Laws[10] Before becoming Prime Minister, Disraeli served under Lord Derby in this position, which is the highest within the Treasury of the United Kingdom. ANSWER: Chancellor of the Exchequer [prompt on partial answer] 15. The social sciences are continuously being revised in light of progressive politics. For 10 points each:[10] Many notable schools of academic criticism stem from this political movement that has advocated for the rights of women. The third wave of this movement began in the 1990s after the so-called sex wars.ANSWER: Feminism [accept word forms][10] Central to feminist criticism is this conception of society where men hold institutional power over women. Contrary to popular belief, feminists believe that it oppresses both men and women.ANSWER: Patriarchy[10] Third-wave feminist criticism is notably fixated on this idea that personal identity is composed of overlapping categories of social identity that amplify the effects of systems of social discrimination.ANSWER: Intersectionality 16. The Roman war machine was a marvel of the ancient world. For 10 points each:[10] Roman infantry were typically organized into these basic military units of five thousand men made up of fifty cohorts of one hundred. These units were predominantly political in structure, even after the Marian reforms.ANSWER: Legion[10] When a Roman legion forms up for battle, it typically organizes into this many lines with newest and worst-equipped units in the front and seasoned veterans in the back.ANSWER: Three[10] The Roman legions could create wall-like formations by virtue of the scutum, which is this type of handheld equipment used to deflect blows and projectiles.ANSWER: Shield 17. At one point in this play, one character is jokingly made to kiss another character’s foot. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this play in which the valet Jean manipulates the love of the title character. At the conclusion of this play, Jean convinces the title character to commit suicide with a razor.ANSWER: Miss Julie [accept Fr?ken Julie][10] Miss Julie was written by this naturalistic author. This playwright also wrote about Agnes, the daughter of a Vedic god, coming to Earth to understand the problems facing humans in A Dream Play.ANSWER: Johan August Strindberg[10] Strindberg hailed from this European country, which was also the home of Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi Longstocking.ANSWER: Sweden 18. The flood myth is a motif found in many cultures throughout the world. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this country in which a flood supposedly lasted two generations. The flood was ended with the help of a channel-digging dragon, a mud-hauling turtle, and Hebo, the god of the Yellow River.ANSWER: China[10] After Zeus became enraged with Lycaon’s attempt to offer the gods his own son for dinner, he ended the Bronze Age with a cataclysmic flood named after this son of Prometheus, who alongside his wife Pyrrha were the only survivors.ANSWER: Deucalion[10] The story of Deucalion shares many parallels with the Sumerian hero Utnapishtim, a tale related in the Sumerian Epic of this man.ANSWER: Gilgamesh 19. For 10 points each, answer these questions about music inspired by literature.[10] This final symphony by Beethoven includes the phrases “Daughters from Elysium” and “Joy, beautiful spark of divinity,” both of which are quotes from Friedrich Schiller's “Ode to Joy.” ANSWER: “Choral” or Symphony No. 9 [10] This composer wrote a piece called Death and Transfiguration based on one of his friend’s poems. This composer also wrote a tone poem titled Also Sprach Zarathustra that was influenced by a Friedrich Nietzsche work of the same name.ANSWER: Richard Strauss [prompt on “Strauss”][10] This English composer wrote a piece based on a poem by John Henry Newman called The Dream of Gerontius. This composer also composed the Enigma Variations. ANSWER: Edward Elgar 20. For 10 points each, answer these questions about networking. [10] Methods that devices can use to communicate with others devices on a network include Unicast, Multicast, and this third protocol, which sends a message to all networked devices.ANSWER: Broadcast[10] This type of network address is used in conjunction with a MAC address. This type of address can also be subnetted in order to optimize the distribution of these addresses by a router. ANSWER: Internet Protocol Address [accept IP address][10] The two primarily-used versions of Internet Protocol are IPv4 and IPv6. Although Ipv4 uses four sets of eight binary digits, IPv6 uses eight sets of digits from this number system in order to drastically increase the number of assignable addresses. In this number system, the highest value digit is F, with a value of 15. ANSWER: Hexadecimal [accept Base 16] ................
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