High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



Round 8Buzzer Question: “What’s your favorite band/genre of music?”Tossups:Standard state fugacity is attained by the product of this quantity, the Poynting correction, and a fugacity coefficient. The Hagen-Poiseuille equation describes a drop in this quantity and compressibility relates the partial derivative of volume with the partial derivative of this quantity. Pascal’s principle states that any change in this quantity is equal everywhere in a confined fluid and in a gas the work done equals the integral of this quantity times the change in volume. This quantity increases with depth in water. For ten points, name this quantity equal to the force applied over a certain area, measured in torrs or atmospheres.Answer: pressure [accept specific forms of pressure such as “vapor pressure” until “confined fluid”]One work that supports the “free spirit” argues that that this concept was transformed from the state of nature by the weak who resented the strong. St. Irenaeus claimed that this concept is necessary for humans to fully develop into the likeness of God, while St. Augustine asserted in his Theodicy that this concept was not created by God but was a result of free will. Leibniz believed that the existence of this concept was proof against the omnipotence, benevolence, or existence of God. For ten points, name this paradigmatic concept, often used in the context of religion to mean something that is opposed to “good.”Answer: evilThis site was discussed in an account by the Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, who reported a local legend that it had been constructed in one night by a prophetic artist. This site’s design is meant to reflect the peaks of Mount Meru. It was originally believed to have been conceived by the god Indra for his son, but most historians agree that construction was initiated by Suryavarman II. It would later become a popular pilgrimage destination for Japanese Buddhists despite originally being built to honor the god Vishnu. For ten points, name this temple complex built by the Khmer, the largest religious building in the world.Answer: Angkor WatIn a tie-in book published after this series’ conclusion, the protagonist’s given name was revealed to be Mason. The director David Lynch was originally approached to portray the main villain of this show, but declined. That character’s design is based on the Eye of Providence. This show’s creator pitched the series as a family-friendly mix of The Simpsons, The X-Files, and Twin Peaks. For ten points, name this Disney Channel animated series, which follows twins Dipper and Mabel Pines and their summertime adventures in the titular Oregon town. Answer: Gravity FallsIn a novel by this author, the central characters live in the Palace Flophouse and Grill and that character thanks Doc for helping them cure their sick puppy by throwing him a party. In another novel by this man, Coyotito is stung by a scorpion and is later killed by a tracker’s bullet. In another novel by this American author, a murderous prostitute tries to abort her twin children, Aron and Cal. Another of his works focuses on Tom and Casy as they lead their family along Route 66. Aside from that novel about Joad family another of this author’s works sees George shoot Lennie. For ten points, name this author of East of Eden and Of Mice and Men.Answer: John SteinbeckIn metals, this property is described by Sieverts’ Law and one parameter dictating this property is named for Charles Hansen. The Flory-Huggins model explains this property in certain polymers and miscibility occurs when several substances with a “perfect” form of this property interact. It can be measured according to the partition coefficient and for a gas, this property is directly proportional to partial pressure according to Henry’s Law. One property states that as concentration of a dissociated ion increases this property decreases. Governed by the common ion effect this is, for ten pints, what property that dictates how easily one substance may dissolve another. Answer: solubilityThe quartet of this composition borrows heavily from the song “Scarlet Tanager,” and it invokes Beethoven’s Choral symphony in the descending fourths of its scherzo movement. The piece’s second movement was meant to reflect a work by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and it also features an English horn solo inspired by the song “Goin’ Home.” Inspired by the melodies and themes of other spiritual works such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” this composition was originally created after its composer returned to his native Bohemia. For ten points, name this final symphony by Antonin Dvorak, a work meant to reflect the culture of the United States.Answer: Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor [From the New World or New World Symphony]Many languages within this group, such as Amharic, are spoken in Ethiopia. Words from languages in this group are formed when the root is modified in a process known as nonconcatenative morphology. One language in this group uses the niqqud in place of vowels and much of its verbs are derived from three consonant roots. Other members of this group of languages include the language of Tigre and Maltese. Aramaic, the native language of Jesus, belongs to this language group. For ten points, name this language group which includes languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Answer:Semitic languages [prompt on “Afro-Asiatic”]This individual was the director of the Alien Enemy Bureau during World War I, and the Apalachin [A-PA-LAY-KIN] meeting challenged a later organization led by this man. Anthony Summers claimed that this man was a crossdresser, and others claim his lover was Clyde Tolson. This man submitted a plan to Harry S Truman to suspend Habeas Corpus during the Korean War, and cooperated with the British in the Venona Project against Soviet spies. During this man’s tenure, his agency sent Martin Luther King a letter telling him to kill himself. For ten points, name this Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972.Answer: J(ohn) Edgar HooverIt is said that Francis Drake spotted this geographic feature whilst searching for El Dorado, making him the first European to sight it. Mirador Laime [LIE-MEH] is a common location for taking pictures of this geographic feature. This geographic feature is in the Canaima National Park, and drapes over Auyan-tepui. Reaching this feature requires a flight from Ciudad Bolivar or from Puerto Ordaz. This geographic feature is known as Kerepakupai Vena in the indigenous Pemon language, and its current name derives from the name of the American aviator who landed on top of it in 1937. For ten points, name this highest waterfall in the world, located in Venezuela.Answer: Angel Falls In this poem the narrator feels as though he had ingested hemlock or opium and longs “for a beaker full of the warm South.” In this poem the narrator wishes “That I might drink, and leave the world unseen” and “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.” The narrator says that “I have been half in love with easeful Death” in this poem which ends with tell the addressee that “thou wast not born for death.” This ode addresses the titular animal as the “light-winged Dryad of the trees” that “Singest of summer in full throated ease.” The narrator of this poem concludes by asking “do I wake or sleep?” For ten points, name this John Keats ode addressed to a bird.Answer: “Ode to a Nightingale”The earliest event given this name occured during a march in London against British oppression of Ireland. An event with this name in Bydgoszcz [BID-goshch] was used to drum up support for the German invasion of Poland. The first day of the Battle of Paardeberg during the Second Boer War was given this name, as was the beating of protesters by police during the Selma to Montgomery March. This name was given to a massacre in St. Petersburg that kicked off the Russian Revolution of 1905. For ten points, give this name applied to the Bogside Massacre of civilians in Derry by the British Army in 1972, which occured on the so-called “day of rest.”Answer: Bloody SundayAdherence to this holiday’s traditions is meant to generate a “fear of God” or taqwa, and in some countries practitioners prepare for this holiday by bathing in a ritual known as Padusan. The “night of power” is a particularly sacred event during this time and one of its primary activities is preceded by suhur and ended by iftar. The primary action performed during this time is referred to as “sawm.” It begins with Hilal and ends with the festival of Eid-al-Fitr. Traditionally, followers consume dates in the evenings of this holiday, whose primary action is not required of those who are pregnant, elderly, sick, or travelling. For ten points, name this month of the Islamic calendar that is often accompanied with daily fasting.Answer: Ramadan In this novel, a poet disguised as a eunuch marries 12 prostitutes while hiding at a brothel called The Curtain. One character owns a nightclub that features wax sculptures of marginalized dark-skinned figures in history. The mountain climber Alleluia Cone gets killed before she can commit suicide, and the waters in the Arabian Sea fail to part as Ayesha had prophesized. The characters in this novel spend 111 days on an airstrip in Jalilia when their plane from India is hijacked. Two characters in this work take on the roles of the Devil and the Archangel Gabriel. For ten points, name this novel that earned its author Salman Rushdie a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini. Answer: The Satanic VersesThis artist mimicked the style of Paul Klee in his Self-Portrait With Skeleton Arm and he depicted a pale, bare-chested woman in a series of works he simply called Madonna. A red-haired woman huddles over a collapsed man in a painting known to critics as The Vampire, which was included in a series that also contained Ashes, The Bridge, and The Sick Child. His most famous painting includes two dark figures on a bridge in the background while a gaunt man presides in the center beneath a wavy red sky. For ten points, name this Norwegian artist who created The Frieze of Life and The Scream.Answer: Edvard MunchThese structures contain a specialized class of carbohydrate cleaving enzymes known as cathepsins. The Golgi Apparatus binds Mannose-6-phosphate tags to proteins bound for this organelle. A deadly neurodegenerative disorder prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews is caused by a flaw in this organelle and is known as Tay-Sachs disease. They typically join with late endosomes in one process and they contain numerous hydrolases and proteases. Their membranes contains special proton pumps that maintain their highly acidic interior. For ten points, name this organelles that use enzymes to digest old cellular material and biomolecules.Answer: lysosome In this book the author finds fault with functionalism and criticizes the anthropological approach used by Margaret Mead. In this book the author criticizes Freud’s belief that women are childlike and later utilizes Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to argue that women would benefit from careers. It’s author claimed that over-educated women failed to compensate for the misguided male workforce that returned after the second world war and another chapter argues that women seek to find fulfillment in affairs when they cannot find it in their domestic life. The author of this book interviewed graduates of Smith College, and argued “A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society.” For ten points, name this book about “the problem that has no name” a work by Betty Friedan. Answer: The Feminine Mystique One of this agreement’s provisions was reviewed by the “Committee of Thirteen” and one of its other tenets was opposed by the “Higher Law” speech. This legislation blocked the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso and it likewise saw the dismantling of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Texas agreed to place its northern border at 36o30’ and relinquished its claims to New Mexico. California was brought into the Union as a free state, but a stricter Fugitive Slave Law was also enacted. For ten points, name this agreement brokered by Stephen Douglas and Henry Clay that sought to ease the tensions between the Northern and Southern states in the years leading up to the Civil War.Answer: Compromise of 1850The epsilon conjecture, or Ribet’s theorem, showed that this theorem could be demonstrated as a non-modular elliptic curve. It holds true for all numbers divisible by regular primes according to Kummer. This led to Gerhard Frey proposing that the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil conjecture indicated a solution to this problem. Andrew Wiles eventually provided a proof to this problem in 1994. N equals 2 is the largest value for non-zero solutions to, for ten points, what problem in which a to the n, plus b to the n, equals c to the n, named after a French mathematician?Answer: Fermat’s Last TheoremThe Irish born poet Alexandre O’Neill was a notable writer that operated in this country. This country’s national epic was recounted by the author Luis Camoes [cam-o-ays] and another novel written in this country centers on a fictional nation whose citizens become immortal. Other than Death with Interruptions and The Lusiads, this country is home to an author who wrote about an affliction that suddenly strikes the doctor, the car thief, and the dog of tears. This country breaks off from the rest of Europe in The Stone Raft. For 10 points, name this home country of Jose Saramago, with a capital at Lisbon. Answer: Portugal One database that tracks these people categorizes them as “missionaries” or “bluebeards,” among others. Former FBI agent Robert Ressler is credited with coining the term referring to these people. These people are ten times more likely to be male than female, although female ones like Aileen Wuornos do exist. It is estimated that there could be anywhere from 25-50 of these people active in the United States at any given time. Some famous examples of these people are Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, and the Zodiac. For ten points, name this type of criminal, who commits three or more murders with a cooling-off period between each one.Answer: serial killerBonuses: They were believed to have originally symbolized the sun god Ra and one stands in the center of St. Peter’s Square. For ten points each:[10] Name this four-sided, tapering columns with a pyramidion tip.Answer: obelisk[10] Cleopatra’s needle is an obelisk found in Central Park, which was designed by this American architect and Calvert Vaux.Answer: Frederick Law Olmsted[10] Cleopatra’s needle is based on a red granite obelisk in this Egyptian site, the site of the city of Thebes.Answer: LuxorAnswer the following about the War of 1812. For ten points each:[10] The United States declared war on Britain partly because of this action, in which the Royal Navy would conscript American sailors into service.Answer: impressment[10] The War of 1812 was ended by this treaty conducted in its namesake Belgian city.Answer: Treaty of Ghent (or Gand)[10] During the war the British were repelled from the Chesapeake Bay after this battle, during which the bombardment of Fort McHenry inspired The Star-Spangled Banner.Answer: Battle of BaltimoreName some logical fallacies, for ten points each:[10] As opposed to arguments whose holes lie in the structure of the argument, these types of fallacies are valid but are unsound due to the falsity of one of their premises.Answer: informal fallacy or soundness fallacy or conceptual fallacy[10] This is one example of an informal fallacy, in which the premises are presupposed by their conclusions. An example is: “Violent video games make people violent, because violent people tend to play violent video games.”Answer: circular reasoning[10] Although a cornerstone of logic that allows things to be true, this term can also refer to a statement that utilizes circular reasoning where the conclusion is a repeat or slight change from its own premise. An example is: “He is the King of France because he is the King of France”Answer: tautologyA divided bar apparatus is used to measure this property in rock samples. For ten points each:[10] Denoted kappa or lambda, name this property of matter, the ability of a material to transfer heat.Answer: thermal conductivity[10] This man proposed a law which relates heat conduction to the gradient in temperature and to the area in which the heat flows. He also names a transform in which a function is expressed as a series of that functions frequencies. Answer: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier[10] This law states that if two systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then the first two are in equilibrium with each other.Answer: 0th law of thermodynamicsHave you ever seen someone who looked like they needed help but decided not to help them, and figured someone else would? For 10 points, answer some questions about this “diffusion of responsibility”:[10] This social phenomenon posits that people in large groups are less likely to help those in distress.Answer: bystander effect[10] Psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane came up with the bystander effect after the New York Times published an article claiming 38 people witnessed this woman’s murder, but did nothing to stop it.Answer: Kitty Genovese[10] In 1913, 55 years before Darley and Latane came up with the bystander effect, psychologist Max Ringelmann came up with a similar idea called social loafing after noticing people in groups exerted less effort when manipulating one of these objects in tandem with others. Answer: rope [accept obvious equivalents]This play starts with a teacher giving his student a phony definition of the word “carnal embrace.” For ten points each:[10] Name this play in which Septimus Hodge tutors Thomasina Coverly and is later revealed to be the hermit of Sidley Park. Answer: Arcadia[10] This playwright of Arcadia also wrote a play about two characters from Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.Answer: Tom Stoppard[10] In the opening scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the titular characters do this ninety-nine times.Answer: flipping a coin and getting heads [accept obvious equivalents]The Hermitage Museum is in this European city. For ten points each:[10] Name this Baltic city, the second most populous in Russia and home to the Peter and Paul Fortress.Answer: St. Petersburg[10] To the east of St. Petersburg is this largest lake in Europe, which is connected to Lake Onega by the White Sea Canal.Answer: Lake Ladoga[10] This river connects St. Petersburg to Lake Ladoga and flows into the Gulf of Finland. A noted Prince of Novgorod named Alexander took his surname from this river.Answer: Neva RiverAnswer some questions related to population ecology, for ten points each:[10] Name this quantity, the maximum population of a species that the environment can support indefinitely with its available resources.Answer: carrying capacity[10] This type of selection is associated with species living close to carrying capacity; they are density dependent and produce lower numbers of offspring.Answer: K selection[10] This is when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment and can lead to collapse or decline of the population density.Answer: overshoot One side launched the Mato Grosso Campaign, starting this war. For ten points each: [10] Name this conflict in which Argentina and Uruguay joined forces with Brazil against Paraguay. Answer: War of the Triple Alliance; Guerra de la Tripla Allianza[10] One view holds that it was this man’s ambitions to control the Rio de la Plata basin that started the war. This president of Paraguay was killed by the Brazilian army in the Battle of Cerro Corá.Answer: Francisco Solano López[10] Lopez had previously allied himself with this Uruguayan political party; it fought a war against an alliance of Brazil and the Colorado Party. It made up the conservative wing of Uruguyan politics. Answer: Blancos or White Party or National PartyThis author wrote a poem revolving around an equestrian statue in St. Petersburg. For ten points each:[10] Name this author of The Bronze Horseman, often called the “Father of Russian Literature.”Answer: Alexander Pushkin [10] Pushkin’s most famous work is this novel told in verse, in which the titular character duels with the poet Vladimir Lensky after being invited to raucous country dance. Answer: Eugene Onegin[10] This other work by Pushkin recounts the heroic quest of a bogatyr to rescue a princess that was abducted by the magician Chernomor. Answer: Ruslan and LudmilaThe negative form of these concepts often include pollution, systemic risks, and other environmental costs. For ten points each:[10] Name this economic concept that refers to costs and benefits that are not internalized by the producer or consumer of a good, but are felt by other parties.Answer: externality[10] This theorem states that in a situation involving an externality with clearly defined property rights and low bargaining costs, a socially optimal outcome can be achieved through negotiation.Answer: Coase’s Theorem[10] Another way to resolve an externality is through the government imposing a cost on every unit of an externality produced through the Pigouvian form of this mandatory government financial charge. Answer: taxFor ten points, answer some questions about holidays on the Christian liturgical calendar:[10] 46 days before Easter lies this holiday that initiates the Lenten season, where Christians receive a cross on their foreheads with the titular substance.Answer: Ash Wednesday[10] The ashes for Ash Wednesday are traditionally made from the titular objects used in this Christian holiday, the last Sunday before Easter.Answer: Palm Sunday[10] 49 days after Easter, Christians celebrate this holiday that represents the birth of the Church through the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. Answer: PentecostMany city-states in Italy grew very rich and prosperous after the 4th Crusade. For ten points each: [10] This city-state became an autonomous Duchy after the 1183 CE Peace of Constance. Today, this city is the capital of Lombardy and is the 2nd most populous Italian city. Answer: Milan[10] The Peace of Constance confirmed the 1117 AD treaty named for this city, settling a dispute about the legitimate pope. This city-state’s aristocracy elected doges (dough-jez) as their main magistrates, forming one of the first Middle Age republics.Answer: Venice[10] This family ruled Milan for much of the Renaissance. They gained control of the city after its patriarch Francesco superseded the Visconti family. Francesco’s son Ludovico was the patron of Leonardo da Vinci. Answer: SforzaFor ten points each, name these fruits in poetry:[10] Robert Frost wrote a poem where he says “The woodchuck could say whether it's like his/ Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,/ or just some human sleep” and talks about picking this fruit.Answer: apples[10] The titular figure of this poem is given a cherry bough by “some officious fool.” This poem describes a portrait created by Fra Pandolf. Answer: “My Last Duchess”Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about picking this other fruit, where he talks about how “the fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour” and that “Each year [he] hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.”Answer: blackberriesChuck Palahniuk is an American author. Some of his novels include Invisible Monsters and Choke. For ten points each: [10] Name his most famous novel, where Tyler Durden makes soap with human fat and forms the title group, where men relieve their stress by beating each other to a pulp. Answer: Fight Club[10] Fight Club was made into a film in 1999, which starred Brad Pitt as Tyler and Edward Norton as the narrator. Name the director of the movie, who also directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network. Answer: David Fincher[10] Most recently, Fincher directed four episodes of this Netflix crime drama that premiered in October 2017, which dramatizes the early days of criminal profiling at the FBI. Answer: MindhunterThis musical work was inspired by and helped spark protests against Tsarist Russia’s control of the title country. For ten points each:[10] Name this nationalist symphonic poem, which includes the tableau “The Song of Vainamoinen.”Answer: Finlandia[10] This composer of Finlandia wrote a failed opera title The Building of the Boat, and has a music notation software named for him. Answer: Jean Sibelius[10] Name this other work by Sibelius, whose second part features an English horn representing a swan swimming around an island of dead people. It takes its name from a hero from the Kalevala. Answer: Lemminkainen SuiteThese elements can be found along the so-called “periodic staircase.” For ten points each:[10] Name this class of elements often used in glass, alloys, and electronics. They include arsenic, boron, and germanium.Answer: metalloids or semimetals[10] Many of the metalloids, particularly silicon, can serves as these electrical intermediates often used in transistors and diodes. These can be adjusted to allow current to flow in only one direction. Answer: semiconductors[10] This heavy metalloid is often alloyed with lead in solder, batteries, or bullets. It has atomic number 51 and alon with fluorine it forms the strongest superacid known to science.Answer: antimony or SbThis poem states that if “her horny feet protrude, they come/ To show how cold she is.” For ten points each:[10] Name this poem that begins with the line, “Call the roller of big cigars.”Answer: “The Emperor of Ice Cream”[10] The author of “The Emperor of Ice Cream” also wrote this poem in which the speaker says “among twenty snow mountains/ the only moving thing” was the eye of the titular animal.Answer: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”[10] This author of “The Emperor of Ice Cream” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” wrote a poem called “The Snow Man.”Answer: Wallace Stevens This ideology’s main holiday takes place on the anniversary of the Haymarket Massacre. For ten points each:[10] Name this ideology that advocates public ownership of the means of production. Communism is often viewed as a variant of this ideology.Answer: socialism[10] This socialist presidential candidate ran for president five times and ran in 1920 from a prison cell. He helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World with Bill Haywood. Answer: Eugene Victor Debs[10] Debs was involved in this event, in which railroad workers went on strike throughout the nation after the namesake company cut wages while keeping rents high in its purpose-built Chicago neighborhood.Answer: Pullman StrikeFor a tetrahedron, this value is given by the formula the square root of 3 multiplied by “a” squared. For ten points each:[10] Name this quantity, equal to six times the edge length squared for a cube and four times pi times the radius squared for a sphere.Answer: surface area[10] First studied by the mathematician Evangelista Torricelli, this figure has a finite volume but an infinite surface area.Answer: Gabriel’s Horn [do not accept Torricelli’s trumpet since it is in the question][10] Along with Jakob Steiner, this man names a formula that defines surface area as being the derivative of an enclosed volume. He is more famous for coming up with this eponymous four-dimensional “space-time”. Answer: Hermann MinkowskiName some Irish bands for ten points each: [10] This band released their first album, Boy, in 1980, but became more famous for songs off of their album The Joshua Tree, such as “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”Answer: U2[10] Formed in Dublin by Danny O’Donoghue, this band included songs such as “We Cry” and “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved” on their self-titled debut album. Answer: The Script[10] Releasing hit songs such as “Dreams” and “Zombie”, this band cancelled their 2017 tour just before the death of singer Dolores O’Riordan in 2018. Answer: The Cranberries ................
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