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Packet ITossupsThe Chukchi people are indigenous to the east of this country, while in its west, the Kola Peninsula juts into the White Sea, the location of the port of Archangel. The source of this country’s Neva River is its Lake Ladoga, while its Sakhalin Island and (*) Kamchatka [KAAM-“chat”-kuh] Peninsula are bordered by the Sea of Okhotsk [“oak”-HOT-sk]. The Amur River, Don River, and Ob River all flow within this country, whose Angara River is the only outlet of the deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal. The longest River in Europe, the Volga, is in, for 10 points, what country whose cities include Vladivostok [VLAD-e-VUSS-tuk] and Moscow?ANSWER: Russian Federation <AK, World Geography>A census in this city was blocked on the orders of the “Council of Sixteen” and the Spanish ambassador Bernardino of Mendoza in the Day of the Barricades. Earlier violence in this city took place after the marriage of Margaret of Valois, resulted in the death of Gaspard de Coligny, and was likely ordered by (*) Catherine de Medici. After unsuccessfully sieging this city, one king converted to Catholicism and commented that this city was “worth a mass.” The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre took place in this city captured by Henry IV in 1594 as part of the Wars of Religion. For 10 points, name this capital of France.ANSWER: Paris <MB, European History>Flux pinning occurs when these materials are placed over a magnet due to the creation of eddy currents. These materials can be described by their coherence length and London penetration depth. Based on the strength of their critical fields, these materials can come in (*) Type I or II varieties. One example of these materials that can exist at relatively high temperatures is called YBCO, and the BCS theory describes electrons in these materials as Cooper pairs. The magnetic field in these materials is equal to zero due to the Meissner effect. For 10 points, name these objects that exhibit zero resistance.ANSWER: superconductors <MY, Physics>Many stanzas of this poem ends with the mysterious three letters “AOI,” and this poem’s final line cites its authorship to Turoldus. In this poem, thirty kinsmen of the protagonist’s stepfather are hanged after a trial by combat ends with Thierry killing Pinabel -- eventually leading to the drawing and quartering of the main antagonist. In this poem, (*) Ganelon informs the Saracens of a secret path through the Pyrenees mountains. The title character of this chanson de geste dies after blowing his “oliphant” horn at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. For 10 points, name this Old French epic poem about the title paladin of Charlemagne.ANSWER: The Song of Roland [or La Chanson de Roland] <JM, European Literature>This complexes’s Salon of Hercules includes Paolo Veronese’s Feast in the House of Simon. Richard Mique designed a Temple of Love in a hamlet near the Petit Trianon for one resident at this place. The unfinished Canal de l’Eure was constructed to provide water to this location’s many fountains. Andre Le Notre designed fourteen geometric groves, or (*) bosquets, within the gardens for this location during its conversion from a hunting lodge. The King Governing Alone was painted by Charles Le Brun on the ceiling of this location’s Hall of Mirrors. Louis Le Vau designed, for 10 points, what palace of Louis XIV just outside of Paris?ANSWER: Ch?teau de Versailles [or the Palace of Versailles] <DA, Other Fine Arts>Men like George Cassiday, “the man in the green hat,” were opposed to this policy. Cities such as Govenlock and Galveston experienced economic booms due to this policy. Frances Willard headed an organization which supported this policy, the (*) WCTU. Eliot Ness led a group known as the Untouchables to police this policy, which was locally implemented 70 years earlier by the Maine Law. The Volstead Act was passed to enforce this policy, which was dodged by speakeasies and ended by the 21st Amendment. For 10 points, the Anti-Saloon League promoted and the 18th amendment set what policy that banned production and sale of alcohol?ANSWER: Prohibition [accept Temperance] <FW, American History>In one story by this author, Colonel Barclay dies after confronting a crippled man who always walks around with his mongoose Teddy. In another story by this author, one character receives a well-paying job copying the Encyclop?dia Britannica after responding to a newspaper ad searching for (*) red-haired men. One story by this author ends after the narrator discovers the remains of a struggle atop Reichenbach Falls. This author of the “Red-Headed League” and “The Final Problem” created the villainous Moriarty, who constantly clashes with the companion of Dr. Watson. For 10 points, name this creator of Sherlock Holmes.ANSWER: Sir Arthur Conan (Ignatius) Doyle [the first clue refers to “The Adventure of the Crooked Man”] <JF/MM, Non-American Anglophone Literature>This man, who worked with Humphry Davy, is credited with discovering the compound benzene. Lenz’s Law explains the presence of the negative sign in front of the time derivative of the magnetic field in this scientist’s namesake law. This scientist’s namesake constant is approximately equal to (*) 96,485 coulombs [KOO-lums] per mole, and he names the SI unit for capacitance. This person also created a device that blocks electromagnetic fields, which is known as his namesake “cage.” For 10 points, name this scientist, who is known for discovering electromagnetic induction.ANSWER: Michael Faraday <MY, Miscellaneous Science>This god trapped Ganga in his hair to prevent her from destroying the Earth. One of this god’s children won a race around the world by circling his parents, reasoning that his parents are the world to him. This god is often referred to as “Neelkanth” due to the fact that he swallowed the Halahala poison during the churning of the ocean of milk, turning his throat (*) blue. This god cut off the head of one son of his, and gave that son an elephant’s head. This father of Ganesha is usually depicted with a third eye and worshipped in the aniconic form of the Lingam. For 10 points, name this member of the Trimurthi alongside Brahma and Vishnu, the Hindu Destroyer god. ANSWER: Shiva <KP, Mythology>Composer and genre required. The second movement of one of these pieces opens with the violins playing [read slowly] “C-C-E-E-G-G-E”, and the entire orchestra plays a fortissimo G chord during that movement’s sixteenth measure. A “ticking” rhythm in the Andante second movement gave it the nickname “clock,” and is part of a series of twelve of these pieces their composer wrote in (*) London. Six of these pieces are referred to as the “Paris” ones, and one of these pieces ends with the players consecutively blowing out candles and leaving the stage until only two violins remain. For 10 points, name this set of 106 orchestral pieces written by a German Classical composer, which include pieces like “Farewell” and “Surprise.”ANSWER: symphonies by Franz Josef Haydn <DA, Auditory Fine Arts>The most recently discovered example of these elements is named after the nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian. In molecular orbital theory, a bond between two of these elements cannot occur because their highest-energy antibonding sigma orbitals are filled. A square planar compound containing four fluorine atoms was the first (*) stable compound involving one of these elements to be synthesized. Electron configurations typically have these elements in brackets, as they have full valence shells that satisfy the octet rule. For 10 points, name this group of unreactive elements in the right-most column of the periodic table, which includes xenon [ZEE-non], argon, and helium.ANSWER: noble gases [accept Group 18] <MY, Chemistry>The “fifth character” in this play only appears as a “larger-than life-size photograph over the mantel” and is “a telephone man who fell in love with long distances.” In this play’s opening monologue, one character states, “in memory everything seems to happen to music” after he claims to be the “opposite of a stage magician.” Another character in this play was called (*) “Blue Roses” by her high school crush, who appears in the second act as a “gentleman caller.” At the end of this play, Jim O’Connor breaks the horn of a unicorn, causing it to look “just like all the other horses” in the title collection. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play about the Wingfield family.ANSWER: The Glass Menagerie <JF, American Literature>One scandal in this country attempted to build a narrow minority government of left-wing and ultra-religious parties and was known as the “Dirty Trick.” It’s not the United States, but a large number of immigrants were airlifted from Yemen to this country under Operation Magic Carpet. This country's early “Austerity” period led it to sign a reparations agreement with West Germany under its first leader David (*) Ben-Gurion. Along with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, this country’s Menachim Begin signed the Camp David Accords after the Yom Kippur War. For 10 points, name this country led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Jerusalem.ANSWER: State of Israel <FW, World History>One woman who led this company was involved in a political scandal after covertly giving money to Nicholas Sarkozy. Liliane Bettencourt ran this company, which offers products in Infallible Pro-Matte and Colour Riche varieties. Some of this company’s goods are grouped together as its Luxe line of products, while its subsidiaries include Carol’s Daughter, Lanc?me, (*) Garnier, NYX Cosmetics, and Maybelline. This company’s Paris brand is named for its registered office there. For 10 points, name this French cosmetics company that specializes in skin care, perfume, and make-up products like lipstick.ANSWER: L’Oreal <AK, Trash>One work written by this thinker features an “Eleatic Stranger” who works with the mathematician Theodorus to differentiate its title figure from the “sophist” and the “philosopher.” A “dilemma” in one of the works of this thinker asks whether something is loved by the gods because it is holy, or if something is holy because it is loved by the gods. This thinker, who wrote (*) Statesman and Euthyphro, also wrote a work that describes an ideal ruler called the philosopher-king. In one of this thinker’s works, a group of students offer to pay a fine in order to spare the life of their mentor, Socrates. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek philosopher and author of The Apology and The Republic. ANSWER: Platon <DA, Philosophy>The speaker of one poem by this author states, “the rivers sing and my soul flees in them as you desire” after exclaiming, “Ah vastness of pines.” The speaker of another poem by this author tells the addressee, “To survive I forged you like a weapon” after describing her body as “white (*) hills, white thighs.” One poem by this author opens, “The memory of you emerges from the night around me” before the speaker declares “in you everything sank!” That poem by this author ends a collection after following a poem that begins, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto] <JF, World Literature>In one of this artist’s works, a man with two faces sits near a scene where a parachutist is falling near the Eiffel Tower. This artist was hired to replace Jules Eugene Lenepveu’s design of the ceiling of the Opera Garnier. Another of this artist’s works depicts its title figure in a prayer shawl and a head cloth to the left of a burning synagogue. This artist of (*) Paris Through the Window is best known for a painting in which an upside-down woman plays a violin in the middle of a scene reminiscent of his hometown of Vitebsk. For 10 points, name this Belorussian-French artist who painted White Crucifixion and I and the Village.ANSWER: Marc Chagall <DA, Visual Fine Arts>One temple of this religion in New Delhi is composed of 27 free-standing marble-clad "petals” and is nicknamed for its flowerlike structure. This faith was founded after its first leader gave a speech in the Garden of Ridvan, in which he claimed to be the fulfillment of a prophecy given by a previous figure who took a title meaning “the gate.” This religion’s primary holy text is the Book of Certitude, which was compiled by one of its later leaders, (*) Shoghi Effendi. Adherents of this religion believe in the unity of all faiths, and its Manifestations of God include Zoroaster, Krishna, Christ, Mohammad, and the Bab. For 10 points, name this Persian religion founded by Baha’ullah.ANSWER: Baha’i <WY, Religion>Along with oxygen, this molecule acts as a cofactor in the synthesis of norepinephrine [NOR-e-PIH-neh-FER-in] from dopamine by the chromaffin [CHRO-ma-fin] cells of the adrenal glands in humans, who, like all primates, are unable to synthesize this molecule because they possess a non-functional copy of the GULO [GOO-loe] gene. This molecule acts as a cofactor for hydroxylase enzymes that synthesize (*) collagen in the human body. Linus Pauling advocated taking large doses of this vitamin to prevent the common cold. A deficiency of this vitamin causes brown spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from mucous membranes, a condition known as scurvy. For 10 points, name this vitamin, also known as ascorbic acid, an essential nutrient found in citrus fruits.ANSWER: Vitamin C [accept ascorbic acid until mentioned] <WY, Biology>This person was a prominent early member of the “Vermin Club,” a grassroots organization founded in opposition to Aneurin Bevan. This leader rose to their highest position following their predecessor’s failure to deal with the Winter of Discontent. This leader frequently feuded with Arthur Scargill during their country’s (*) coal miner’s strike. The leader was forced to resign from their highest position over their support for a controversial poll tax, the Community Charge. This politician gained popularity after the Conqueror sank the General Belgrano during the Falklands War. For 10 points, name this “Iron Lady” who was Britain’s first female Prime Minister.ANSWER: Margaret Thatcher <DA, Other History>TB.A coefficient describing this process is given in terms of temperature and Boltzmann’s constant in the Einstein-Smoluchowski relation. The “pressure” of one form of this process equals the van’t Hoff factor times concentration times RT while this process’s flux equals negative one times the product of this process’ coefficient and the concentration gradient according to (*) Fick’s first law of this process. One form of this process occurs when solvent molecules move from hypertonic to hypotonic solutions. Osmosis is a form of, for 10 points, what process in which particles move from areas of high to low concentration?ANSWER: diffusion [accept osmosis until mention; prompt on Brownian motion] <SLD, Chemistry>BonusesFor 10 points each, answer the following about explorers who weren’t from Europe:[10] Zheng He led expeditions of “treasure fleets” for this Chinese dynasty, under which he served the Yongle Emperor. This dynasty, known in Europe for its pottery, was established after the success of the Red Turban Rebellion.ANSWER: Ming Dynasty[10] The ancient Egyptian explorer Neshi was commissioned by this female pharaoh to lead her expedition to Punt. This woman ruled as regent for her son Thutmose III, which stirred his resentment to the point where he tried to erase her from the historical record.ANSWER: Hatshepsut[10] This Moroccan explorer visited much of the Muslim world in the 14th century and described his experinces in the book A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling.ANSWER: Ibn Battuta <DA, World History>Jun'ichirō Tanizaki translated this work into modern Japanese but removed any mention that Emperor Reizei was the illegitimate son of the title character. For 10 points each:[10] Name this work by Lady Murasaki Shikibu that is often considered to be the world’s first novel. ANSWER: The Tale of Genji [or Genji Monogatari][10] The Tale of Genji was written during this period of Japanese history, which was also the time when Sei Shōnagon wrote The Pillow Book.ANSWER: Heian period [or Heian jidai][10] The Heian era poem Iroha is often used as a labeling tool because it contains each Japanese syllabary character exactly once. One such use is to label empty spaces in this board game, which Yasunari Kawabata described in a novel titled for The Master of [this game].ANSWER: Go <JF, World Literature>A bill whose name contains an acronym for this company’s CEO was introduced by Bernie Sanders in 2018 and sought to tax large companies that paid employees low wages. For 10 points each:[10] Name this company whose subsidiaries include Whole Foods and Twitch. Over 200 North American cities offered tax breaks and other incentives to this company after it announced plans to build a second corporate headquarters in September 2017.ANSWER: , Inc. [note: the bill was called Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or Stop BEZOS][10] Amazon originally selected both Arlington, Virginia and this New York City borough’s Long Island City neighborhood as locations for its HQ2, but withdrew from this borough after widespread criticism. This borough’s LaGuardia Airport is currently undergoing a large renovation.ANSWER: Queens County[10] Although Amazon is one of the largest internet companies worldwide, this Chinese company has surpassed it in sales since 2015. This company founded by Jack Ma and Peng Lei owns the websites Taobao and Tmall.ANSWER: Alibaba Group Limited Holding <SR, Current Events>Let p be a prime. For 10 points each:[10] If p is one less than a power of 2, it is this type of prime named after a French monk. The GIMPS project, which discovered the largest known prime number to date, searches for these specific types of primes.ANSWER: Mersenne primes[10] Raising an integer a to the power of p is congruent to a mod p. This is a result of the “Little Theorem” by this mathematician, who stated that no integer n greater than two can satisfy an + bn = cn [a to the n plus b to the n equals c to the n] in a theorem first proved by Andrew Wiles in 1995.ANSWER: Pierre de Fermat[10] Besides p itself, this is the only other positive factor of p, since prime numbers cannot be factorized.ANSWER: 1 <HH, Math>Despite being played by a vegetarian, the main character of this film consumes a live octopus after meeting a rare woman whose hands are cold enough to make sushi. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 2003 Korean action film in which Oh Dae-Su is hypnotized into falling in love with that woman, who he later discovers is his daughter.ANSWER: Oldboy[10] Oldboy won the Grand Prix award at the 2004 rendition of this French film festival, losing its top prize, the Palme d’Or, to Fahrenheit 9/11.ANSWER: Cannes Film Festival[10] The strange yoga poses of Lee Woo-Jin in the film were designed by director Park Chan-Wook to “convey the image of Apollo,” a reference to this Greek tragedy on which Oldboy is loosely based. In that tragedy, the title figure blinds himself after discovering he had inadvertently fulfilled one of Apollo’s prophecies.ANSWER: Oedipus Rex [or Oedipus Tyrranus or Oedipus the King] <JF, Other Fine Arts>This figure was sent on his most famous quest after being falsely accused of raping Anteia. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Greek hero and grandson of Sisyphus that killed the Chimera. This figure was eventually blinded by a thorn bush and spent the last years of his life wandering on the Plains of Aleion.ANSWER: Bellerophontes[10] Bellerophon used the help of this winged horse in order to kill the Chimera. Along with Chrysaor, this creature was born from the decapitation of Medusa.ANSWER: Pegasus[10] While attempting to fly to Mount Olympus, Pegasus was repeatedly stung by one of these insects sent by Zeus, causing Bellerophon to fall and be permanently blinded. In another myth, Io was punished by being turned into a cow that was tormented by one of these insects.ANSWER: gadfly [prompt on fly or bot fly or horse-fly] <SR, Mythology>Following a loss in this battle, Japan called off Operation Mo. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 1942 battle, the first major Allied victory in the Pacific, that prevented a Japanese invasion of Port Moresby in New Guinea. It was the first naval battle in which its combatants never made visual contact.ANSWER: Battle of the Coral Sea[10] Following victories at Coral Sea and Midway, the Allies launched this campaign, their first major Pacific offensive of the war. This Solomon Islands campaign saw frequent fighting over control of Henderson Field on its namesake island.ANSWER: Guadalcanal Campaign [accept Operation Watchtower][10] Atolls used as airfields in island-hopping were nicknamed “unsinkable” versions of these flight-deck equipped ships. One of these ships named Yorktown fought at both the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway.ANSWER: Aircraft Carriers <SR, American History>This author wrote a short story in which the last paragraph acrostically reveals that the narrator is being haunted by two sisters. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author of “The Vane Sisters.” A novel by this author centers around John Shade’s 999-line poem “Pale Fire.”ANSWER: Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov[10] Nabokov also wrote this novel about Humbert Humbert’s obsession with the title “nymphet.”ANSWER: Lolita[10] This is the first name of Humbert’s aunt with “pink-rimmed azure eyes” in Lolita, and also the first name of Cynthia Vane’s younger sister in “The Vane Sisters.” Nabokov must have an affinity for this first name, because he also used it for the wife of John Shade in Pale Fire.ANSWER: Sybil <JF, American Literature> In this painting, a girl with a chicken hanging from her belt stands amid 20 armed men, one of whom waves a blue and yellow banner. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Rembrandt painting, which depicts the militia company of Captain Franz Banning Cocq. The removal of the dark varnish that coated this painting for much of its existence revealed that it actually depicts a daytime scene.ANSWER: The Night Watch [accept Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq; or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch][10] Rembrandt also created this painting, which depicts a story from the Book of Daniel in which the title son of Nebuchadnezzar looks over his left shoulder to look at mystical Hebrew writing that blazes on the wall.ANSWER: Belshazzar’s Feast[10] Rembrandt’s only seascape, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, was stolen along with 12 other works from this museum in 1990. Its empty frame still hangs in this museum, which also houses one of his many self-portraits.ANSWER: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum <WY, Visual Fine Arts>Integral proteins notably span across this structure, while peripheral proteins remain adjacent to it. For 10 points each:[10] Name this structure, which separates the cytoplasm interior of a cell from the outside environment.ANSWER: cell membrane [accept plasma membrane; do not accept or prompt on “cell wall”] [10] The cell membrane consists of a bilayer mostly composed of these molecules, which possess a hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic “fatty acid” tails.ANSWER: phospholipids [prompt on lipids][10] This model, which was proposed by Singer and Nicolson, describes the cell membrane as a flowing, semipermeable lipid bilayer with other macromolecules embedded inside.ANSWER: fluid mosaic model <MY, Biology>In this film, two characters dance to Francoise Hardy's “Le temps de l'amour” on a beach. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 2012 film about the Khaki Scout Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop, who run away on a New England island right before the arrival of a hurricane. In it, Bruce Willis plays a sad police captain and Edward Norton leads the troop of Khaki Scouts.ANSWER: Moonrise Kingdom[10] Moonrise Kingdom is a film by this director of The Grand Budapest Hotel and Fantastic Mr. Fox. His movies are known for their heavy use of symmetry and overhead shots, and for his frequent collaboration with actors such as Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzmann, or Willem Dafoe.ANSWER: Wes Anderson [accept Wesley Wales Anderson][10] Wes Anderson recently made an animated movie about an Isle of [these animals], who are confined to Trash Island by the Japanese government due to an outbreak of influenza. One of these animals is central to the plot of Marley and Me.ANWER: dogs [anti-prompt on specific breeds of dogs such as labrador retriever, etc.] <JS, Trash>This man wrote a prose-epic about the life of Frederick the Great. For 10 points each:[10] Name this fictional author who has many creepy encounters with red-haired men. After witnessing a friendly wrestling match turn into a fight, this character dies while sitting in his chair on the beach.ANSWER: Gustav von Aschenbach [accept either underlined portion][10] Gustav von Aschenbach catches cholera after eating some overripe strawberries in this novella that centers on his creepy infatuation with the young Polish boy Tadzio.ANSWER: Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig][10] Death in Venice was written by this German author of The Magic Mountain.ANSWER: (Paul) Thomas Mann <KR/MM, European Literature>In this theory, the parallel overlap of p-orbitals allows atoms to form double and triple bonds. For 10 points each:[10] Name this theory formulated by Gilbert Lewis which is often contrasted with molecular orbital theory and describes a covalent bond as a localized region of electron density.ANSWER: valence bond theory[10] Bonds between orbitals designated by this letter always form sigma bonds in valence bond theory. Orbitals designated by this letter are spherical in shape, and this letter is sulfur’s atomic symbol.ANSWER: s [accept s-orbitals][10] One component of valence bond theory involves atomic orbitals undergoing this phenomenon, where orbitals are “mixed” to have proper character. The carbon orbitals in methane exist in the “sp3” form of this phenomenon.ANSWER: orbital hybridization [accept more specific forms of hybridization] <MY/IC, Chemistry>The members of the First Triumvirate all had interesting deaths. For 10 points each:[10] This man was stabbed on the floor of the Roman Senate by a team of rebellious senators. Following his victory in a civil war, this man convinced the Senate to declare him dictator for life, one month before his assassination.ANSWER: Gaius Julius Caesar[10] After losing a civil war to Julius Caesar, Pompey fled to this country ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty, where he was assassinated by a former Roman soldier.ANSWER: Egypt[10] Marcus Licinius Crassus was killed at the Battle of Carrhae during a military campaign against this empire that first came to prominence under Mithridates I.ANSWER: Parthian Empire [prompt on Arsacid Empire or Arsacid Dynasty] <SR, Other History>Adherents of this religion believe that Jah is present in every human being. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Afrocentric Abrahamic religion and social movement. Members of this movement belong to different denominations known as “mansions,” including one named for the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and often refer to Africa as “Zion.”ANSWER: Rastafarianism[10] While most Rastas follow the dietary laws outlined in Leviticus, some go further and adhere to this practice, abstaining from meat altogether.ANSWER: vegetarianism [or equivalents; do not accept or prompt on “veganism”][10] Many Rastas also refer to Western society with this term, since it oppresses them and caused the African diaspora. This term references a “captivity” in Judaism.ANSWER: Babylon [accept Babylonian Captivity] <SLD, Religion>This system was abolished by the New Laws in 1542. For 10 points each:[10] Name this feudal system, which allotted Spanish conquerors a certain number of native laborers as a reward for their service.ANSWER: Encomienda System[10] This Spaniard campaigned against the encomienda system. He was named the first “Protector of the Indians” by Charles V, and he debated Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda about the encomienda system during the Valladolid Debates.ANSWER: Bartolomé de las Casas[10] The encomienda system was ultimately replaced with this practice where captives in Africa were transported to Spanish colonies to perform forced labor.ANSWER: African Slavery [or Chattel Slavery] <SR, European History>The Rossby number is defined as the ratio of fluid velocity to this quantity times the characteristic length scale of the system. For 10 points each:[10] Name this fictitious force, which explains why the direction of rotation of cyclones and hurricanes depends on the hemisphere in which the system is rotating.ANSWER: Coriolis force [accept Coriolis effect][10] This other fictitious force pushes objects in rotating reference frames outward from the axis of rotation, unlike the inward-facing centripetal force.ANSWER: centrifugal force [do not accept or prompt on “centripetal force”][10] The Coriolis force is equal to two times the mass times this operation between an object’s linear velocity and the reference frame’s angular velocity. The torque on an electric dipole is equal to this operation between the dipole moment and the electric field.ANSWER: cross product [prompt on vector product] <MY, Physics>Similar to oligopolies, this market structure is characterized by high barriers to entry and price discrimination. For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of economic market structure where there is a single producer of a good or service.ANSWER: monopoly [do not accept or prompt on “monopsony”][10] Natural monopolies typically exist due to this process, where one producer of a good can produce more efficiently than two separate producers. This process typically occurs with highly specialized industries.ANSWER: economies of scale [do not accept or prompt on “economies of scope”][10] Markets that contain a monopoly have a value of ten-thousand on Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, which is a measure of this quantity. This quantity measures the percentage of an industry controlled by a corporation.ANSWER: market share [do not accept or prompt on “market power”] <MY, Social Science>In the scene in which these characters appear, one of them notes the difference between man going to the water and drowning himself and “the water [coming] to him and [drowning] him.” For 10 points each: [10] Identify these characters who debate the reasons a drowned woman should get a Christian burial. Later in the scene in which these characters appear, they find a skull which apparently belonged to a former jester.ANSWER: the gravediggers [accept the clowns] [10] The first gravedigger reveals that the skull in the ground is Yorick’s, whom the protagonist deems to be a fellow of [this phrase]. This two-word phrase also titles a long David Foster Wallace novel about the Incandenza family.ANSWER: “infinite jest” [10] The gravediggers appear in the first scene of the fifth act of this Shakespeare tragedy about the title prince of Denmark.ANSWER: Hamlet <JL, Non-American Anglophone Literature> A recording of one of this composer’s pieces by Jean-Fran?ois Palliard’s chamber orchestra lead to its rediscovery. For 10 points each:[10] Name this German Baroque organist who composed the Canon in D.ANSWER: Johann Pachelbel[10] Pachelbel’s Canon in D is written for three violins and this form of accompaniment popular in the Baroque Era. The harpsichord often played this role in which accompanists play semi-improvised harmonies over an explicitly written bass line.ANSWER: basso continuo [accept thoroughbass; accept figured bass][10] Along with his Canon in D, Pachelbel wrote twenty extant works in this genre whose name comes from the Italian word for “to touch.” Bach paired one of these pieces with a fugue in an ominous D minor organ work.ANSWER: toccatas [accept toccatinas] <DA, Auditory Fine Arts> ................
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