2008 No Name Tournament: The DACQ Young Writer's Program



2008 No Name Tournament

Questions by Bruce Arthur, George Berry, Bryce Durgin, Ian Eppler, Carsten Gehring, Auroni Gupta,  Matt Jackson, Shantanu Jha, Anurag Kashyap, Hannah Kirsch, George Stevens, Andy Watkins, Zhao Zhang

Packet 7-Tossups

1. In Romanian folklore, Ileana has garments made of these objects, and in Chinese Buddhism, souls appear before the boddhisattva Dha-shi-zhi in the shape of them in heavenly paradise. The daughter of Oho-Yama and wife of Ninigi, Ko-no-Hana, is a princess of them, while Xochipilli is the prince of these objects in Aztec myth. Kama fletched his arrows with them, while in Greek myth, they are ruled by the wife of Zephyrus, Chloris. For 10 points, name these objects, one of which Narcissus turned into after his death.

ANSWER: Flowers

2. Doris G. Bargen wrote a work analyzing the significance of the possessing spirits of this work. Characters are often addressed by their post or the colors of their clothing. Its 42nd chapter, entitled "Vanished into the Clouds," is left blank, implying the title character's death. The protagonist of this novel gains favor with the emperor after reciting some of his poetry and performing the “Wave of the Blue Sea” dance. The title character fools around with Utsuemi and Yugao much to the dismay of his wife, Princess Aoi. Centering on the love affairs of a Japanese prince, for 10 points, identify this eleventh century novel by Murasaki Shikibu.

ANSWER: Tale of Genji (accept Genji monogatari)

3. This man spent almost year transporting himself in a train car called the "Red Special". He wrote the book Walls and Bars as a critique of the prison system after being in it for violating the Espionage Act. With Big Bill Haywood, this man founded the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World. The Supreme Court’s decision In re this man ruled that the federal government could issue injunctions against union leaders, and he was jailed after Clarence Darrow defended his leadership of the American Railway Union during the Pullman strike. For 10 points, name this US presidential candidate in 1900, ‘04, ‘08, ‘12, and ‘20 for the Socialist Party.

ANSWER: Eugene V. Debs

4. This work’s number 1898 says that “every human community needs an authority to govern it” as part of an article on “Participation in Social Life”. The title of the work is explained in the second part of the prologue, and is defined as an “education in the faith. The fourth part concerns prayer, and includes an article titled “At the Wellsprings of Prayer” and in 1997 changes were made to its English text to make it closer to the Latin text. For 10 points, name this work that includes Sections on the Apostles Creed, the Our Father, and the Seven Sacraments, a presentation of Catholic doctrine.

ANSWER: Catechism of the Catholic Church

5. This quantity’s namesake quantum mechanical operator is equal to negative I times Dirac’s constant times the gradient operator. Taking the Fourier transform of that operator yields the conjugate position operator, and it is equal to Planck’s constant over the wavelength. The Noether charge of translational invariance, its derivative is equal to mass times acceleration, or force. Always conserved in a closed system, for 10 points, name this quantity, usually defined as equal to mass times velocity.

ANSWER: Momentum

6. Glaciers in this mountain range include Skillet Glacier, which is found on Mount Moran. Jenny Lake is located at the base of this range, and the 1925 Gros Venture landslide occured in this range. The first recorded observation of these mountains was made by John Colter. The highest mountains in this region are found in the Cathedral Group, which includes the Schoolroom Glacier, Mount Owen, and the namesake of the national park that contains much of this range. For 10 points, name this Wyoming mountain range, which contains the city of Jackson.

ANSWER: Teton range

7. Lon Nol led a 1970 military coup in this country, which began a five year civil war. This country's Prince Sihanouk attempted to control a Communist movement that involved Son Sen and Ieng Sary. After the fall of Lon Nol, the new Communist government attempted to establish an egalitarian agricultural society and ordered the killing of thousands of "new people." For 10 points, name this country whose current prime minister is Hun Sen, site of a genocide under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.

ANSWER: Cambodia

8. This author's only poetry collection includes the poems "J.F.B." and "Nanine," and in one of this author's short stories, the title character is killed by a chess-playing robot. In addition to A Vision of Doom and "Moxon's Master," this author wrote stories about Herman Brayle's death and a six-year-old who encounters defeated Confederate soldiers, "Killed at Reseca" and "Chickamauga." However, he may be best-known for a story about the hanging of Peyton Farquhar and a satire originally published as the Cynic's Word Book. For 10 points, name this author of "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" and the Devil's Dictionary.

ANSWER: Ambrose Bierce

9. Defects in the member of this family of proteins denoted 17 are associated with steatocystoma multiplex. The Weber-Cockayne and Dowling-Meara subtypes of EBS result from mutations in genes encoding for members of this family, which are attached to cadherin proteins by desmosomes. Silk fibroins are considered members of this family, and it can form hard plugs when it entraps hair follicles, causing acne vulgaris. Aloing with elastin and collagen, it give skin its strength. For 10 points, name these proteins, the alpha variety of which can be found in the hair and horns of animals.

ANSWER: Keratin

10. In this book, a house is introduced with a glass wall that can be covered in case of emergency; that house's inhabitants only play baseball while a thunderstorm is overhead. A boy seeks a master cylinder for his custom-built car, and he tells the protagonist about the Quileute tribe’s struggle against the “cold ones”. One character goes impossibly fast to stop a truck from hitting the one person whose thoughts he cannot hear. In order to avoid glowing in the sun, Carlisle’s family lives in the rainy town of Forks, Washington. For 10 points, name this trashy teen romance book featuring vampire Edward Cullen and high-schooler Bella Swan, the first in a series by Stephanie Meyer.

ANSWER: Twlight

11. In one corner of this work, a man offers up an apple to a bird he is balancing on his feet, while in another corner, a woman can be seen holding what looks like an oversized pear. This work also depicts a pair of ears placed together near a fire, and a man is held fast to an overturned table by a dagger pierced through his hand. In another part of this work, an enormous bird feeds a group of humans standing under a branch, and nearby a man is carrying a large mussel shell containing another man. More notably, a man with tree-like arms has a round disk on his head that carries a group of creatures, and Jesus holds the hand of Eve in the Garden of Eden. For 10 points, name this triptych that depicts scenes from Eden and Hell on the side panels, a creation of Hieronymus Bosch.

ANSWER: The Garden of Earthly Delights

12. In the early 20th century, this country fought the Rif Wars, and this country was defeated at the Battle of Aljubaratta. In the 19th century, this country was home to the Carlist Wars, and this country took over one of its neighbors after the death of the last king from the Aviz Dynasty. During the Thirty Years War this country was led by the Duke of Olivares. Despite the leadership of generals like the Alexander Farnese and the Duke of Alba, this country lost the Eighty Years War to the Netherlands, and fire ships were used by Sir Francis Drake to defeat this country’s armada. For 10 points, name this European country with capital at Madrid.

ANSWER: Spain

13. One variety of this process helps to determine the optimum dose to induce flocculation, and besides the zeta potential and Fischer kinds of this process, eriochrome black T is often used with calcium or magnesium ions in the complexometric version. An inflection point on this technique's namesake curve denotes the equivalence point, and this process often requires indicators such as phenolphtalein. For 10 points, name this technique, which uses a calibrated burette is added to an analyte and is used to determine unknown concentrations of a reactant in solution.

ANSWER: Titration

14. One of these works contains a notorious first-horn solo and opens with two E-flat major chords. The second relies heavily on folk music and was mostly written at Heiligenstadt. Another in D minor is most famous for its final movement, which uses libretto by Friedrich Schiller. The fifth is best known for its opening four notes, while the sixth is known as the "Pastoral," and the third is dedicated "to the memory of a great man" and called "Eroica." For 10 points, identify this category of composition, a certain type of work by the composer of the Fidelio overture and Emperor piano concerto.

ANSWER: symphonies by Beethoven (accept equivalents)

15. It was paired with institutions and justice in a work by James Wood Bailey, while the forms and limits of this concept were detailed by David Lyons. Advocated in The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick, it was given an evolutionary basis in The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology by Peter Singer. A method for utilizing this idea was developed in its formulator’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation based on factors like “duration” or “certainty” known as the felicific calculus. Founded by Jeremy Bentham, for 10 points, name this idea in which the greatest happiness for the greatest number is promoted, also the namesake of a famous J.S. Mill treatise.

ANSWER: utilitarianism

16. This was called a “sin against nature” and was said to “rusteth the chisel” in Ezra Pound’s Canto XLV [45]. Martin Luther wrote a Long Sermon on this, and Aristotle condemned it as unnatural in his Politics. As an attack on Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham wrote a "Defense of" it. Pound’s Canto XLVI [46] attacks the Bank of England for this, and in The Divine Comedy, people who practiced this profession were committed to the seventh circle of hell. For 10 points, name this profession of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, the making of money by charging interest on loans.

ANSWER: Usury (Accept word forms; Accept Usura before Martin; prompt on Moneylender and word forms)

17. This author dramatized the assassinations of the Duke of Guise and Henry III in his incomplete work, The Massacre at Paris. In one of his better known works, a man has a notable encounter with the ghost of Helen of Troy after making a deal with Mephistopheles. The title character of another of his works dies after Ferenze causes him to fall into a boiling cauldron. He wrote the lines “Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove” in the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” For 10 points, name this English author who was killed in a drunken brawl, but not before writing The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta.

ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe

18. The song “My lord Marquis” is occasionally referred to as one character's “Laughing Song,” and in “Dove that has escaped” one character's former suitor, Alfred, serenades her. Inspiration for part of its plot comes from a French play with a midnight dinner party; that unique custom was translated into the Viennese ball hosted by Prince Orlofsky. Largely based on a play by Julius Benedix entitled The Prison, For 10 points, identify this operetta in which the Marquis Renard serves as an alias for Baron von Eisenstein, by Johann Strauss about a titular bat.

ANSWER: Der Fledermaus [or La Chauve-souris; accept The Bat before mention]

19. The Rees-Sciama effect describes how this occurs as a result of retention of energy from superclusters. The Sachs-Wolfe effect because of an example of this phenomenon observed in cosmic microwave background radiation, and it can be measured on earth via the Mossbauer effect, a technique first used in the Pound-Rebka experiment. Quasars have notably high values of it and it can be caused by the Doppler effect. For 10 points, name this increase in the wave length of electromagnetic radiation, named for the color at the low energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

ANSWER: Redshift (accept gravitational redshift)

20. This battle is the subject of the poem “Casabianca” by Felicia Hemans and afterward, the Leander was captured. One wounded commander was tended by Stephen Comyn and only the Genereux and William Tell escaped the enemy. The attack was led by Thomas Foley on the Goliath, but the Timoleon and Culloden ran aground while the flagships were the Vanguard and L’Orient. Resulting in the death of Francois-Paul Brueys D’Aigalliers, for 10 points, name this 1798 naval victory for Horatio Nelson in Abu Qir Bay near the namesake Egyptian river.

ANSWER: Battle of the Nile

2008 No Name Tournament

Questions by Bruce Arthur, George Berry, Bryce Durgin, Ian Eppler, Carsten Gehring, Auroni Gupta,  Matt Jackson, Shantanu Jha, Anurag Kashyap, Hannah Kirsch, George Stevens, Andy Watkins, Zhao Zhang

Packet 7-Bonuses

1. Name these capital cities of Australian states, for 10 points each.

[10]This capital of New South Wales is Australia's largest. It is home to a notable opera house.

ANSWER: Sydney

[10]This capital of Western Australia, located on the Swan River, is closer to Jakarta than Sydney.

ANSWER: Perth

[10]This city, located at the foot of Mount Wellington, is the capital of Tasmania.

ANSWER: Hobart

2. Name these Pop artists, for 10 points each.

[10]He produced the film Chelsea Girls, but he is better-known for running The Factory and painting a bunch of Campbell's soup cans.

ANSWER: Andy Warhol

[10]His works such as Drowning Girl and Whaam were heavily inspired by comic-book art.

ANSWER: Roy Liechtenstein

[10] Inspired by his mentor Allan Kaprow to create theatrical pieces of art called "happenings," this man famously sculpted a gigantic Clothespin as well as the controversial Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks.

ANSWER: Claes Oldenburg

3. The Debye-Sears effect occurs when an electric signal is applied to a transducer with this property, for 10 points each:

[10] Name this property displayed by ceramics such as barium titanate, as well as quartz. It is the generation of an electrical potential in response to mechanical stress.

ANSWER: Piezoelectricity

[10] Piezoelectricity was originally discovered in Rochelle salts by Pierre and Jacques of this family; the former won the Nobel Prize with his wife Marie and Henri Becquerel.

ANSWER: Curie

[10] Piezoelectric transducers are also used in the scanning tunneling variety of these objects, which broadly come in optical theory, electron, and scanning probe varieties.

ANSWER: Microscopes

4. His final performance was of Nessun dorma at the 2006 Winter Olympics, For 10 points each:

[10] Name this member of the Three Tenors who died in 2007 of pancreatic cancer.

ANSWER: Luciano Pavarotti

[10] Pavarotti gained fame as the "king of the high Cs" for nailing the high Cs of Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête! as Tonio in this Donizetti opera.

ANSWER: La Fille du Regiment or The Daughter of the Regiment

[10] Pavarotti may have been most notable for Nessun dorma and Ah! mes amis, but he made his debut as Rodolfo in this Puccini opera in which Rodolfo's beloved dies of TB.

ANSWER: La Bohème

5. According to the Wikipedia article on this man, his nickname was "filthy," which may be a result of anti-monarchical writings such as Eikonoklastes. For 10 points each:

[10]Name this English author of Samson Agonistes, Lycidas, and Comus.

ANSWER: John Milton

[10]In this essay, which takes its title from an Athenian hill, Milton argues against censorship legislation passed by the Long Parliament.

ANSWER: Areopagitica

[10]Milton's most famous work is this epic, which includes characters such as Moloch, Beelezbub, and the angel formerly known as Lucifer.

ANSWER: Paradise Lost

6. Name these villains from the Batman comic series for 10 points each:

[10] He gained his distinguishing appearance when he attempted to rob a factory, only to have Batman push him in a vat of chemicals. His namesake venom induces fits of laughter in his victims before killing them.

ANSWER: The Joker [prompt on “Jack” which many comics indicate was his first name]

[10] Her attempts to cure the Joker’s psychoses at Arkham Asylum backfired when she fell in love with him. Wearing half-red and half-black, her consumption of Poison Ivy’s potions gives her immunity to Joker Venom.

ANSWER: Harley Quinn [accept Dr. Harleen Quinzel]

[10] In Detective Comics #817-820, this man murders many of the Penguin’s employees and frames Harvey Dent for the crimes. Nicknamed the “fish” while at Arkham Asylum, Killer Croc carved a set of gills into his neck.

ANSWER: Great White Shark [accept Great White or Warren White]

7. For 10 points each, name these people who wanted Italian unification.

[10]This warrior captured the Two Sicilies, but surrendered his democratic-republican ideals to salute Victor Emmanuel II as King of Italy. He also led some guys in red.

ANSWER: Giuseppe Garibaldi

[10]This man influenced a young Garibaldi by founding the Young Italy movement that revolted in 1830, but was quickly crushed.

ANSWER: Giuseppe Mazzini

[10]This society of coal-burners sought a unified Italy free of foreign interests, but they had their dreams stomped on by Metternich.

ANSWER: Carbonari

8. For 10 points each, name these related things from Eastern religious philosophy.

[10] This phrase represents contrasting elements, and the circles on opposite sides of its design show that neither side is wholly absent in any state of being.

ANSWER: Yin yang

[10] This eight-part device is often symbolized as a central yin-yang with eight trigrams surrounding in an octagonal pattern. It has a variety of uses in Taoism.

ANSWER: ba gua or pa kua

[10] The ba gua is central to the use of this book, which can also be used in a process of flipping three coins for divination purposes.

ANSWER: I Ching (or Yi Jing, or Book of Changes)

9. It saw American invasions of Canada and the burning of Washington, DC. For 10 points each,

[10] First, name this conflict with the British that lasted longer than its namesake time period.

ANSWER: War of 1812

[10] This treaty ended the war upon its signing in 1814.

ANSWER: Treaty of Ghent

[10] Even so, this engagement occurred in January 1815 after the treaty was signed; the Americans under Andrew Jackson killed over 2000 British.

ANSWER: Battle of New Orleans

10. GABAergic to them is provided by stellate and basket cells, for 10 points each:

[10] Name these cells which share their namesake with fibers in the heart.

ANSWER: Purkinje cells

[10] Purkinje cells are found in this part of the brain, associated with Marr-Albus theory and which has a Latin name meaning little brain.

ANSWER: Cerebellum

[10] The cerebellum is inferior to this lobe, which contains most of the visual cortex and is in the rearmost part of the skull.

ANSWER: Occipital lobe

11. The title character’s unrequited love for Charlotte, the fiancé of Albert, leads him to shoot himself in the head. For 10 points each,

[10] First name this novel which may have inspired a wave of copycat suicides in Germany.

ANSWER: The Sorrows of Young Werther (accept Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers)

[10] This author of a two-part Faust wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther.

ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[10] The Sorrows of Young Werther belongs to this German movement, focusing on emotional turbulence and individualism.

ANSWER: Sturm und Drang (or Storm and Stress)

12. He wrote a cantata called "Truth is Fallen," honoring victims of the Kent State and Jackson State shootings. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this jazz pianist, whose namesake quartet performed songs like "Blue Rondo a la Turk" in unusual time signatures.

ANSWER: Dave Brubeck

[10] This notable Brubeck piece, from the album "Time Out", is named for its quintuple time signature.

ANSWER: “Take Five"

[10] This Brubeck composition in 7/4 time quotes “Turkey in the Straw” at the end, despite the fact that the song is based on a blues form and there is no caller.

ANSWER: "Unsquare Dance"

13. Its state of Tacna makes up its border with Chile, and Loreto and Piura its border with Ecuador. for 10 points each:

[10] Identify this South American nation with capital at Lima.

ANSWER: Republic of Peru

[10] The principle mountain range of Peru is this longest mountain range in the world, including such peaks as Aconcagua.

ANSWER: Andes

[10] This highest mountain of Peru is fourth-highest in South America. It names a national park, and part of it crushed the town of Yungay after the Ancash earthquake.

ANSWER: Nevado Huascarán

14. Photonic glasses can be grown because unstable ones form flocs, for 10 points each:

[10] Name these mixtures in which an internal phase is evenly dispersed in a continuous phase. Examples include emulsions, foams, and aerosols.

ANSWER: Colloids

[10] Translucence occurs in some colloids because of this effect explained by Mie theory, similar to Raman scattering but occuring in particles in suspension.

ANSWER: Tyndall effect

[10] This theory modeling colloids includes terms for the Yukawa repulsion, Bjerrum length, and repulsion due to the double layer of counterions.

ANSWER: DLVO theory (accept Derjaugin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek, I guess)

15. His book The Innocents Abroad was followed by A Tramp Abroad, and he documented travel in another location in Life on the Mississippi. for 10 points each:

[10] Identify this American author of a book about identical twins who switch places, The Prince and the Pauper.

ANSWER: Mark Twain (accept Samuel Clemens)

[10] In this Twain work, two men, Thomas a Becket Driscoll and Valet de Chambre, were switched at birth. The title character is an attorney defending Luigi and Angelo Capello from a murder charge.

ANSWER: The Tragedy of Puddin'head Wilson

[10] In this essay, Twain blasted the author of the Leatherstocking Tales, including The Last of the Mohicans, for everything from a poor grasp of language to a poor grasp of reality.

ANSWER: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

16. For 10 points each, name these guys who are eternally suffering in the Greek Underworld.

[10]This king stole ambrosia from the gods and cut up his son for sacrifice, and as punishment cannot bend down to drink water or reach up to grab fruit from a tree.

ANSWER: Tantalus

[10]This king of Ephyra tried to cheat death and was sentenced to eternally rolling a boulder up a hill.

Answer: Sisyphus

[10]This man fathered the Centaurs while attempting to impregnate Hera, and was punished for his attempt by being chained to a fiery wheel.

Answer: Ixion

17. Its current president is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and the GAM supports independence for its region of Aceh. For 10 points each,

[10]Name this country, which includes the islands of Sulawesi and Flores.

ANSWER: Indonesia

[10]This man led the Indonesian National Revival and was Indonesia's first president. His daughter Megawati later became president of Indonesia.

ANSWER: Sukarno

[10]This general took power after the failure of the 30 September Movement and ruled Indonesia for 32 years. He imposed restrictions on Indonesians of Chinese descent due to fears of Communism.

ANSWER: Suharto

18. It modified a secret family pact made 10 years earlier in 1703, and its formulator spent years gaining its acceptance by foreign powers. for 10 points each:

[10] Name this decree issued by Charles VI that quickly lost foreign acceptance after his death, and which led to the War of the Austrian Succession.

ANSWER: Pragmatic Sanction of 1713

[10] This woman became the heir apparent under the Pragmatic Sanction in 1716, and was able to keep her throne after the War of the Austrian Succession through the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

ANSWER: Maria Theresia or Maria Theresa

[10] In order to keep her throne through the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, Maria Theresa had to give up this region to Frederick the Great of Prussia. It was the namesake of three wars between Austria and Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War.

ANSWER: Silesia

19. The Lense-Thirring and de Sitter types are corrections in general relativity, for 10 points each:

[10] Name this phenomonen, a change in the direction of an object's rotational axis.

ANSWER: Precession

[10] The Earth's 26,000 year precession cycle is subsumed under this phenemonen, named for a Serbian engineer and scientist.

ANSWER: Milankovitch cycles

[10] This is a slight motion in the axis of rotation and causes small oscillations around the precession path.

ANSWER: Nutation

20. Meade's defeat of Lee at this battle was aided by the futile charge of General George Pickett. for 10 points each:

[10] Identify this July 1863 battle, which occurred while Ulysses S. Grant was laying siege to Vicksburg and which was commemorated by a certain speech by Abraham Lincoln.

ANSWER: Battle of Gettysburg

[10] This Confederate general was ordered to supervise Pickett's charge, though he told Lee he doubted it would work. He often served under Lee with JEB Stuart and Stonewall Jackson.

ANSWER: Lieutenant General James Longstreet

[10] Pickett's charge was an assault on Union artillery positions here, a location sometimes called the “high water mark of the Confederacy.”

ANSWER: Cemetery Ridge

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