Given a quotation, identify the English Romantic poem FTPE:



|Team A____________________ |

|Team B____________________ |

|Almost Dewey State Invitational |

|Saturday, March 01, 2008 |

|HS Varsity - Packet 1 |

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|This match will feature 20 tossups with a bonus going to the team that correctly answers the tossup. Buzz in and answer correctly early to receive |

|power (15 points) for your response. However, avoid incorrectly interrupting the moderator as this will cost you 5 points. |

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|1. [ktb] |

|In one of his works, the dishonest farmer Strepsiades convinces his son Phidippides to enroll in Socrates' school, The Thinkery, in order to learn how |

|to help his father cheat his creditors. In another of his works, Dionysus (die-oh-nice-us) goes to Hades (hay-deez) to bring back Euripedes * but |

|instead brings back Aeschylus (esk-uh-luss). Name this Greek comedic playwright of Thesmophoriazusai, The Birds, The Clouds, and The Frogs. |

|Aristophanes |

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|Bonus: [SE] |

|For ten points each, name these important organic molecules. |

|1. Named for its acid derivative found in ants and used as a presevative, this is the simplest carbonyl compound; its formula is CH2O. |

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|formaldehyde |

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|2. The simplest ketone, it is the most common organic solvent and is found in daily use items such as finger nail polish remover; its formula is |

|CH3HOCH3. |

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|acetone (accept 2-propanone) |

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|3. The trinitro derivative is highly explosive in TNT, but the simple version is used in feedstock and as a common solvent. It's chemical formula is |

|C7H8. |

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|toluene (accept methylbenzene or benzylmethane) |

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|2. [SE] |

|Chappell and White's "Alphabet Soup" classification of this divides this into I, S, M, and A types while the Stokes Diapir and Fracture Propagation |

|hypotheses were put forth to explain how large deposits of this form, often in the form of laccoliths, batholiths, or other plutons. Consisting largely|

|of silicon dioxide, FTP name this felsic igneous rock which makes up most of Georgia's Stone Mountain and many tabletops. |

|granite |

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|Bonus: [ktb] |

|Answer the following about "il prete rosso," FTPE: |

|1. This Italian composer, also known as "il prete rosso," composed "The Trial of Harmony and Invention" concerto along with a set of four violin |

|concertos that remains his most famous work. |

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|Antonio Vivaldi |

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|2. The birds greet "with their joyful song" this season of his The Four Seasons, as described by the poem preceding this section. |

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|La Primavera or Spring |

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|3. An Amswerdam publisher named Etienne Roger published this set of twelve concertos for one or more violins with orchestra in 1711. It illustrates his|

|contributions to the concerto genre as a whole, despite being overshadowed by The Four Seasons. |

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|L'estro armonico or Harmonic Fancy (accept Harmonic Inspiration) |

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|3. [aap] |

|An Etruscan symbol of power, it consisted of a cluster of rods tied around an ax to symbolize unity and the power of the government respectively.* The |

|Romans adopted it and it later became a symbol for a type of totalitarian government. FTP, identify this object with a name derived from the Latin for |

|bundle that is associated with the political ideology of Benito Mussolini. |

|Fasces |

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The above tossup is not verified!

 

|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Answer the following about cell organelles, FTPE: |

|1. Not to be confused with its smooth version, this organelle is the membrane producer of the cell, adding membrane proteins and phospholipids to its |

|own membrane. |

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|Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (prompt on just endoplasmic reticulum) |

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|2. This organelle is responsible for the modification, storage, and shipping out of products of the cell with the assistance of vesicles created on its|

|trans face. |

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|Golgi Apparatus (or Body, or Factory, or whatever... some kind of noun and some prepositions should work) |

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|3. In the liver, this organelle is responsible for the transfer of hydrogen from alcohol to oxygen and the breaking down of the newly formed toxic |

|chemical to water. |

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|Peroxisomes |

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|4. [NM] |

|This artist produced a series of portraits of famous people during time he spent in Rome, including one of Castiglione and his Pope Leo X with Two |

|Cardinals. His early works like The Coronation of the Virgin and Madonna and the Child Enthroned, with Saints were inspired by the time he spent as an |

|apprentice to Pietro Perugino. FTP, name the artist of the High Renaissance who painted the Sistine Madonna and whose most famous work is The School of|

|Athens. |

|Raphael (or Raffaello Sanzio) |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Britain has been involved in a lot of armed conflicts, some better known that others. See how many you know, FTPE. |

|1. This 1899 to 1901 conflict started as a result of resentment of foreign influence in China and was stopped by a coalition of nearly 20,000 troops, |

|some of which were provided by Britain. |

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|Boxer Rebellion or Movement |

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|2. This 1853 to 1856 war is sometimes called the first “modern” war and featured a coalition of France, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire against Russia.|

|Most of the fighting took place on the namesake peninsula. |

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|Crimean War |

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|3. This 1739 to 1748 conflict between Spain and the United Kingdom took place mostly in the Caribbean. It started largely because of anger that the |

|namesake body part had been removed from the namesake man. |

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|the War of Jenkins' Ear |

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|5. [PB] |

|Written in five books and published during the American Revolution, this work is often considered the founding work of economics. On of the main aims |

|of its author's theory revolves around arguing that free trade benefits an economy more than the stock-piling of gold and resources. However, the most |

|well known theory of this work is its conjecture that self-interest is beneficial for an economy. FTP, name this work by Adam Smith that proposed the |

|idea of the “invisible hand” in directing the economy. |

|An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|Signed in March of 1918, it contributed to the independence of several nations. FTPE: |

|1. Identify this peacetreaty between Russia and the Central Powers which was promptly ignored. |

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|Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |

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|2. After the Treaty of Versailles made its statehood official, this nation to which the Brest-Litovsk Treaty supposedly granted independence, sought to|

|reclaim territories lost during one of its partitions, leading to a war from 1919-1921 with the USSR. |

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|Poland |

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|3. Frustrated by the conditions of treaty, this Russian foreign minister resigned and declared his position of “no war – no peace”. He would be |

|murdered by an ice pick. |

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|Leon Trotsky (accept Lev Davidovich Bronstein or Lev Davidovich Trotsky) |

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|6. [ktb] |

|In its second phase, a pair of electrons from NADPH reduces 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate.* Utilizing quite possibly the most |

|abundant protein on Earth in its first step, rubisco, its production of one G3P molecule costs nine molecules of ATP and six molecules of NADPH. Using |

|carbon dioxide molecules to eventually produce sugar, FTP, name this cycle taking place in the stroma of chloroplasts that consists of a series of dark|

|reactions. |

|Calvin Cycle |

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|Bonus: [NM] |

|Identify the following about a school of architecture, FTPE. |

|1. This school that was developed in Germany in the 1920s took its name from an expression meaning “house for building” and it was later dubbed as the |

|“International Style” when it became influential in the United States. |

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|Bauhaus |

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|2. This designer of the Harvard Graduate Center and the Fagus Works was the founder of the Bauhaus school. |

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|Walter Gropius |

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|3. Wassily Kandinsky and this Swiss-born German artist were two of the most prominent teachers at the Bauhaus school. He is most famous for his |

|Twittering Machine. |

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|Paul Klee |

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|7. [JIT] |

|He was a member of the Holy Club at Oxford, a group whose nickname designates a much larger group this man founded. His views on salvation were |

|strongly influenced by Arminianism, saying that it was only possible through the grace of God. Initially an Anglican theologian, this man spent several|

|years preaching in Savannah, Georgia, before returning to London in 1738. By 1740, this man was actively spreading his theology throughout England, |

|preaching in the open air if necessary. For ten points, name this man, the founder of Methodism. |

|John Wesley |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|Answer the following about cross-dressing women, FTPE: |

|1. This protagonist of Twelfth Night and sister of Sebastian disguises herself as the youth Cesario and falls in love with the Duke Orsino. |

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|Viola |

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|2. This most verbose of all Shakespeare heroines dresses up as a boy called Ganymede in As You Like It. |

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|Rosalind |

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|3. This heiress of Belmont disguises herself as a judge to save her husband’s friend, Antonio, in The Merchant of Venice. |

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|Portia |

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|8. [tmk] |

|Early in his political career, he was vital in convincing his conservative home state of Iowa to support the New Deal. He was rewarded by being made |

|Secretary of Agriculture, and later served as Secretary of Commerce under President Truman before breaking with the Democratic Party over foreign |

|policy and running for president as the candidate of his own Progressive Party in 1948. FTP, name this second vice president of FDR, who served in that|

|office from 1941 to 1945. |

|Henry Wallace |

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|Bonus: [tmk] |

|FTPE, answer these questions about a school of philosophical thought. |

|1. Name this philosophy, which advocates making moral decisions on the basis of what will create the most good for the greatest number of people. |

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|Utilitarianism |

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|2. Name the English utilitarian philosopher who wrote a defense of the concept as well as Principles of Political Economy. |

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|John Stuart Mill |

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|3. This Mill work, which deals with the limits of the state’s power of the state to interfere with human freedom, is considered a foundational text of |

|classical liberalism. |

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|On Liberty |

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|9. [ktb] |

|This novel ends with the thought that friendship between the two races was not possible, "no, not yet... no, not there." While one character had avowed|

|hatred for all Englishmen after assuming his former friend had married the woman that betrayed him by claiming rape in the Marabar caves, Dr. Fielding |

|has* really married Stella Moore. The elderly Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela Questad are want to witness life and interactions in the namesake British |

|colony. FTP, name this novel featuring Dr. Aziz by E.M. Forster. |

|A Passage to India |

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|Bonus: [HK] |

|Answer these awesome questions about optics, FTPE. |

|1. This is the change in direction of light as it passes through different media. |

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|Refraction |

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|2. This is the largest angle that will allow for refraction; angles greater than this will cause waves to undergo total internal reflection. |

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|Critical Angle |

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|3. When light passes through two different media, such as air and glass, this equation is used to find the angles of incidence or refraction in the new|

|media. |

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|Snell’s Law |

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|10. [NM] |

|At one point in this opera a mother tries to restrain her children from a toy vendor named Parpignol. In Act Four one character has an aria titled |

|“Vecchia zimarra.” That aria is sung after Musetta pawns her jewelry and Colline pawns his overcoat. In Leoncavallo’s version of this opera, the |

|character Schaunard appears in every scene. The opera ends with Rudolfo crying out Mimi’s name in anguish. FTP, name the Giacomo Puccini opera that |

|centers on a community of artists in Paris. |

|La Boheme |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Answer these questions related to a well-known tree from Norse mythology, FTPPA. |

|1. Name the tree that holds the nine worlds from Norse mythology in its branches and roots. |

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|_Yggdrasil_ (YIHG – drah – sill) |

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|2. Name EITHER the eagle that sits on the topmost branch of Yggdrasil OR the dragon that gnaws on its roots. |

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|_Vidolfnir_ (VIH – dolf – neer) or _Nidhogg_ (NEED – hog) or _Verfoldnir_ (Verr – FOLD – neer) |

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|3. Name the squirrel that runs up and down the trunks of Yggdrasil relaying insults between Vidolfnir and Nidhogg. |

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|_Ratatosk_ or _Ratatosker_ |

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|11. [ktb] |

|He was killed in 530 BC while on a campaign against the Sakas in Central Asia and his son Cambyses took power. In 547 he had repelled King Croesus |

|(Creesus) of Lydia* from Media before crushing the Lydian empire during a winter siege. His crowning accomplishment came when he pretended to be a |

|servant of the god Marduk to gain the peoples' support during his conquest of Babylon. Name this Persian ruler who amassed the largest empire yet seen |

|in the world from around 559-530 BC. |

|Cyrus the Great or Cyrus II (prompt on Cyrus) |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|He founded Radical Behaviorism and invented the operant conditioning chamber, FTPE: |

|1. Identify this 20th century American psychologist. |

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|Burrhus Frederic Skinner |

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|2. In addition to “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”, Skinner is known for writing this work which describes a utopian society achieved through scientific |

|social planning and the use of operant conditioning in child rearing. |

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|Walden Two |

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|3. One of his more controversial inventions was this temperature and humidity-controlled nearly soundproof environment marketed to mothers in Ladies |

|Home Journal as a “baby in a box”. |

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|air crib |

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|12. [ktb] |

|His contributions to the musical criticism include What to Listen for in Music, Our New Music, and Music and the Imagination but he is better known for|

|his compositions such as the biblical works 4 Motets and In the Beginning. One orchestral work is entitled "An Outdoor Overture" while he won an |

|Academy Award* for the score of the movie, The Heiress. FTP, name this composer of the ballets "Billy the Kid," "Rodeo," and "Appalachain Spring" |

|Aaron Copland |

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|Bonus (Calculation): [NM] |

|For ten points each, how many different ways can the letters in the following words be arranged? |

|1. CAR |

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|6 |

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|2. SEASON |

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|360 |

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|3. DADDY |

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|20 |

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|13. [NM] |

|Calculation: |

|The Georgia Bulldogs have second down and a yard to go on their own 45 yard line. Matthew Stafford is pressured, and he rolls out to his right. He |

|releases the ball 9 yards behind the line of scrimmage, and 2 yards from the right sideline. Recalling that a football field is 50 yards wide, if |

|Mohamed Massaquoi catches the pass at the left pylon for a touchdown, how far did Matt’s pass travel in the air? |

|80 yards (accept 240 feet) |

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|Bonus: [rts] |

|FTPE identify the following about a work in which a depressed young man is inexplicably transformed into a giant insect. |

|1. This young salesman wakes up one morning and finds himself transformed into a giant vermin. |

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|Gregor Samsa |

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|2. Gregor is the protagonist of The Metamorphosis, a short story written by this Czech author of The Castle and The Trial. |

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|Franz Kafka |

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|3. This is Gregor's loving sister who cares for him any way she can. She desperately wants to get accepted into the Music Conservatory. |

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|Grete |

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|14. [cbs] |

|Although the plan for this operation was formulated by Admiral Ramsey, it was executed largely by Lord John Gort, the man in charge of those rescued by|

|the so-called Operation Dynamo. Even though shallow shores only allowed so-called “little ships” close enough to board, over 300,000 troops were saved.|

|FTP, name this May 1940 operation that took place after Hitler had overrun France, where the British Expeditionary Force made it back to Britain |

|largely intact. |

|(Battle or Evacuation of) Dunkirk (also: Dunkerque) (accept Operation Dynamo early) |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|From the description, name the classic Nickelodeon cartoon. |

|1. This show first appeared as a short before Harriet the Spy and chronicles the life of a boy with a cranium roughly identifiable as a prolate |

|spheroid, living with his grandparents in a boarding house. |

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|Hey Arnold! |

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|2. Two irate brothers of the family Castoridae move away from their parents to live in the forest. The show was cancelled after a series of |

|controversies involving language like “shut up.” The writers should have stuck with “spoot.” |

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|Angry Beavers |

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|3. The theme song for this cartoon was performed by the B-52’s after season 2. The show itself follows the life of a macropod who works in a comic shop|

|and is friends with a cow raised by wolves. |

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|Rocko's Modern Life |

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|15. [SE] |

|It has an analog for hydraulics that uses water pressure, water flow rate and flow restrictors in place of the electrical properties more commonly |

|used. Effects on this law by temperature can be found by taking into account the length of the conductor, its cross-sectional area and its resistivity.|

|Devices like lamp filaments and diodes do not follow this law, since it does not apply to conductors whose resistance is independent of the voltage. |

|For ten points, name this law, often described by the equation V=IR. |

|Ohm's Law |

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|Bonus: [tmk] |

|FTPE, name these failed presidential nominees. |

|1. As the first Roman Catholic nominated to the presidency by a major party, his loss was partly due to anti-Catholic sentiment, but was also a result |

|of the popularity of the Republicans in the prosperous 1920s. |

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|Alfred "Al" Smith |

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|2. Despite Democratic wins in the four previous elections, this intellectual Illinois governor lost twice to Dwight Eisenhower, in 1952 and 1956. |

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|Adlai Stevenson |

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|3. This Republican resigned from the Supreme Court to run for president, but was later reappointed, this time as Chief Justice, after narrowly losing |

|to Woodrow Wilson in 1916. |

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|Charles Evans Hughes |

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|16. [cbs] |

|Since 1995, it has been ruled by Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who seized control from his vacationing father. Ranking as the ninth richest country |

|in the world per capita, its capital is also home to Al Jazeera and it touches only Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. FTP, name this country with its |

|capital and largest city at Doha. |

|Qatar |

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|Bonus: [SE] |

|FTPE, identify the following about an alternative to Microsoft Windows. |

|1. This operating system kernel was created by Linus Torvalds as a free alternative to UNIX; today, it's sold under brand names like RedHat and Debian.|

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|GNU/LINUX |

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|2. The name of this distribution of Linux, an African word connoting unity among human beings, has also been used as the Boston Celtics team motto for |

|the 2007-08 season. |

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|Ubuntu |

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|3. gOS (G-O-S), a modified version of Ubuntu, is sold with inexpensive computers at Wal-Mart and features web applications, like Spreadsheets and |

|Calendar, created by this market-leading search engine. |

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|Google, Inc. |

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|17. [SE] |

|The Karl Fischer test is an example of them used to find water content. In the complexometric type, EDTA is commonly used to perform its namesake |

|action on metal ions in solution. Other types of these reactions, which typically involve phenolpthalein indicators, also include precipitation, |

|compleximetric, acid/base, and oxidation-reduction. A solution of known concentration is used to determine the concentration of an unknown solution in,|

|for ten points, what common laboratory method in which a sharp color change indicates that you have reached the endpoint of the reaction? |

|Titration |

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|Bonus: [rts] |

|FTPE identify the following about the political and revolutionary career of Fidel Castro. |

|1. Castro was a major figure in the revolution that overthrew this man, who served as Cuba's nationalistic dictator from 1933 until 1959. |

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|Fulgencio Batista |

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|2. This man, who would serve as President of the National Bank of Cuba and as Minister of Industries, disappeared from Cuba in 1965 to lead guerilla |

|efforts in the Congo and eventually Bolivia, where he was captured and killed. |

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|Ernesto "Che" Guevara |

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|3. This man's health initiative, "Mission Miracle," provides eye care for the underprivileged of Latin America and his oil money has greatly helped |

|keep Cuba afloat since taking over as President of Venezuela in 1999. |

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|Hugo Chavez |

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|18. [rts] |

|His surname comes from the Spanish for "belly", an apt description considering he is quite stout. He rides the donkey Dapple, and displays practical |

|common sense in contrast to the foolish idealism of his master. He offers a running commentary throughout the work, usually in the form of earthy humor|

|and ironic Spanish proverbs, called "sanchismos". FTP name this character, the precursor to the sidekick who acts as squire and everyman for Don |

|Quixote, from Cervantes' novel of the same name. |

|Sancho Panza (either name OK) |

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|Bonus: [AMW] |

|Given a brief description of a work of ancient Chinese prose, name it FTPE: |

|1. The protagonist, Paoyu, is born as a reincarnation of an ancient magical stone, and although his timeless love is also reborn as his cousin Lin |

|Daiyu, Paoyu is forced to marry his cousin Baochai, bringing about an impoverishing love triangle. |

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|The Dream of the Red Chamber (accept The Story of the Stone or A Dream of Red Mansions) |

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|2. Containing one of the most endearing comic characters in Chinese literature, the monkey Sun Wukong, this work tells of Xuanzang’s pilgrimage to |

|India in order to try and obtain the Buddhist Sutras. |

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|Journey to the West accept Monkey |

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|3. This work is partly based on the real life bandit Song Jiang, and tells of the adventures of one hundred and eight criminals who may or may not have|

|existed during the Song Dynasty. |

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|Water Margin (accept Outlaws Of The Marsh or All Men Are Brothers or The Marshes Of Mount Liang) |

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|19. [ktb] |

|One of the characters in this novel states, "I make many mistakes. But one thing I keep always pure: the religion of a scientist." The main character |

|spends his free time as a young man reading Gray's Anatomy at Doc Vickerson's office, while he is disheartened by the medical field's avaricious nature|

|at the Rouncefield Clinic in Chicago. He does research at the McGurk Institute* that leads to further studies on the island of St. Huburt. Name this |

|novel which features the scientist Max Gottlieb; Leora, who ironically dies of the plague; and the title doctor, Martin; a work by Sinclair Lewis. |

|Arrowsmith |

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|Bonus: [ktb] |

|Answer the following about the French Impressionist movement. |

|1. This one time resident of New Orleans painted a brutally honest depiction of a bar scene in "Glass of Absinthe" and a dancer in "Prima Ballerina." |

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|Edgar Degas |

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|2. Claude Monet lived at this place, forty miles from Paris, while he painted its gardens and ponds in such works as "Water Lillies." |

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|Giverney |

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|3. As the only painter to exhibit in all eight Impressionist shows, this student of Corot and teacher of Cezanne served as a father figure and |

|peacemaker within the group. |

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|Camille Pissarro |

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|20. [rts] |

|The Euthyphro ponders the definition of piety, eventually asking whether the gods "love the pious man because he is pious, or is he pious because the |

|gods love him." Crito investigates the nature of justice, while the Timaeus investigates the nature of the natural world. The most famous one contains |

|the Allegory of the Cave and ponders the nature of government. FTP name these series of arguments and debates often narrated by Socrates and attributed|

|to his student, the most famous of which is the Republic. |

|Platonic dialogues (ACCEPT Dialogues of Plato or reasonable equivalents) |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|For ten points each, identify these Johns, no, not famous toilets. |

|1. This author won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay after he wrote the script for The Cider House Rules. |

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|John Irving |

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|2. This writer will always be associated with a very special rabbit, Harry Angstrom. |

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|John Updike |

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|3. He wrote that rather disturbing book about the Devon School and created the character Finny in A Separate Peace. |

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|John Knowles |

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|End of Game. Verify Scores. Captains sign score sheets. |

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