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Packet XTossupsOne origin story for the Japanese god of this domain is his washing out of the right eye of Izanagi-no-Mikoto while he cleansed himself of his sins. Huitzilopochtli's decapitation of another deity directly led to the creation of this location. One woman became a goddess of this location after drinking a potion of immortality while her husband Hou Yi was out hunting. That goddess, (*) Chang'e, presides over this domain with a Jade Rabbit. A deity that represents this object will be devoured along with his sister Sol at Ragnarok. For 10 points,name this cosmic body represented by the Roman goddess Luna.ANSWER: the Moon [accept Moon Gods or Lunar Gods] <FW, Mythology>One character in this opera poses the question “How much of what we did was good?” in its final aria, “I am old and cannot sleep.” “The Three Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention” is sung during this opera, and in a different scene one character stops a performance of (*) The Red Detachment of Women to help a peasant girl she believes is being whipped to death. At the opening of this opera, a plane called the Spirit of ’76 descends, while Act III of this opera features two characters performing a foxtrot in “The Chairman Dances.” For 10 points, name this John Adams opera about the title president’s visit to a country led by Mao Zedong.ANSWER: Nixon in China <DA, Other Fine Arts>This quantity is related to the entropy of vaporization and boiling point by Trouton’s rule, and the Born-Haber cycle can be used to calculate this quantity for the separation of an ionic solid. This quantity is defined as the internal energy of the system plus the product of pressure and volume, while the change in this quantity can be described by (*) Hess’s Law, as this quantity is a state function. Reactions are classified as exothermic or endothermic depending on whether this quantity is positive or negative. For 10 points, name this thermodynamic quantity, the total heat content within a system, which is symbolized H.ANSWER: enthalpy [prompt on H before mention; accept enthalpy of vaporization or lattice enthalpy; prompt on lattice energy; do not accept or prompt on “energy” alone] <MY, Chemistry>In one story from this collection, a woman drinks poison from a gold chalice while repeatedly kissing her lover’s severed heart. Gotthold Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise centers on a parable from this collection in which three identical rings are compared to the Abrahamic religions. In a story from this collection, a woman comes to bargain for a (*) falcon unaware that Federigo has just cooked it for her. This collection featuring Patient Griselda is made up of stories told by narrators such as Fiametta, Pampinea, and Dioneo as they escape the Black Death. For 10 points, name this collection of tales written by Giovanni Boccaccio.ANSWER: The Decameron <KR, European Literature>This leader once offered future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion a Jewish home in exile in this leader’s native country. This leader wrote his "Poems from Prison Diary" while imprisoned in China for espionage, and earlier in his life tried to deliver an eight-point petition to Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace Conference. After the signing of the Geneva Accords, this man governed a country (*) north of the 17th parallel. A network of roads used by guerilla troops were named after this man in a war where he fought against a southern neighbor led by Ngo Dinh Diem [NOO-dinh-dyem]. For 10 points, name this communist leader during the Vietnam War, the namesake of Vietnam's most populous city.ANSWER: Ho Chi Minh [accept Nguyen Sinh Cung or Nguyen Ai Quoc] <FW, World History>The breakdown of this tissue can cause renal failure in a deadly condition called rhabdomyolysis. Another form of this tissue is divided into the “fast twitch” and “slow twitch” subtypes. Cells in one form of this tissue are connected by intercalated discs, and anaerobic conditions lead to the formation of (*) lactic acid in this tissue following glycolysis. This tissue is activated by acetylcholine, and myosin and actin make up this tissue’s basic unit, the sarcomere. For 10 points, name this body tissue, categorized into smooth, cardiac, and skeletal varieties, whose contraction allow you to move.ANSWER: muscle <SS/IC, Biology>Along with Jerusalem, this republic signed the Pactum Warmundi after the First Crusade. In order to curb the influence of this state, Pope Julius II allied with France, Aragon, and the Holy Roman Empire to form the League of Cambrai. This republic’s leaders participated in the annual (*) “Marriage of the Sea” ceremony using the ceremonial raft Bucentaur. This republic sponsored the sacking of Zara and Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, when it was led by Doge Enrico Dandolo. For 10 points, name this “most serene republic” on the Adriatic, a city-state in northeast Italy.ANSWER: Most Serene Republic of Venice [or Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia; accept La Serenissima or Venetian Republic] <SR, European History>One character in this novel throws the body of a helmsman overboard so he can take the wheel from a guy wearing pink pajamas. Prior to the action in this novel, the Danish man Fresleven is killed over a dispute regarding two black hens which leads the protagonist to take his job. The protagonist of this novel relates his journey to the (*) Inner Station with other passengers aboard the Nellie. While meeting with the “Intended,” the protagonist of this novel lies about the last words the ivory trader Kurtz, which were “The horror! The horror!” For 10 points, Marlow travels up the Congo River in what novel by Joseph Conrad?ANSWER: Heart of Darkness <DA, Non-American Anglophone Literature>In one work, this thinker argued that “freedom realizes itself only by engaging itself in the world.” This thinker described “The Antinomies of Action” in the third part of that work, which begins with a quote from Montaigne that “the continuous work of our life is to build death.” In the “Facts and Myths” section of one of this thinker’s works, the two genders are defined as the “default” and the (*) “other.” This thinker’s best-known work opens with the declaration that “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” For 10 points, name this second-wave feminist and existensialist who wrote The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Second Sex.ANSWER: Simone de Beauvoir <DA, Philosophy>This country was accused of attacking the Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous in June of 2019. This country’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with the P5+1 countries. Under that agreement, this country agreed to not build any heavy-water facilities and limit (*) uranium enrichment to one facility. Dmitry Medvedev referred to this country’s rivalry with Saudi Arabia as the “New Cold War.” For 10 points, name this country led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani from its capital of Tehran.ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Iran [prompt on Persia] <SR, World Current Events>This author diverged with Benjamin Franklin in arguing for the importance of relationships for success in his lecture “Self-Made Men.” In one work, this man described how a man named Bill refused to get involved in a fight between this man and Mr. Covey. One speech by this man describes how a certain day reveals “gross injustice and cruelty” in (*) “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” This man fell out with William Lloyd Garrison, and used the basement of the AME Church in Rochester to publish his newspaper The North Star. For 10 points, name this escaped slave who wrote My Bondage and My Freedom and an autobiography about his Life and Times.ANSWER: Frederick Douglass <DA, American History>Z-pinch devices use these substances to make x-rays, while the time evolution of these materials is described by the Vlasov Equation. The fact that the corona is hotter than the photosphere was explained by the observance of Alfven waves in these substances. (*) Tokamaks confine these substances using a magnetic field in the shape of a torus in order to perform nuclear fusion. The solar wind is primarily made up of this type of substance, as are stars and the Aurora Borealis. For 10 points, name these substances made by ionizing gases, the so-called 4th state of matter.ANSWER: plasmas <SLD, Physics>In one play written in this language, a man is acquitted of strangling a woman and leaving her in a bush after she shows up at his execution. That play is The Little Clay Cart. In another play written in this language, a fisherman discovers a ring in the belly of a fish which allows a king to recognize the title character as his queen. In a poem written in this language, (*) monkeys build a large bridge to the villain’s home country of Lanka. In that epic written in this language, the monkey god Hanuman helps the title character save his wife Sita. For 10 points, name this language of classical Indian literature like the Ramayana.ANSWER: sanskrit [or sa?sk?tam] <JM, Classical Literature>This civilization built roads called sacbeob, one of which connects its largest city to the Sacred Cenote. This civilization’s Cocom dynasty was founded by Hunac Ceel, who ruled from his capital at Mayapam. The Temple of the Cross was built by this civilization in its city of (*) Palenque. A mysterious leader named Spearthrower Owl conquered territory from this civilization for Teotihuacan [tay-OH-tee-hui-CAN], including its city of Tikal. This civilization used a shell to represent zero in its base-20 numeral system. For 10 points, name this civilization based in the Yucatan Peninsula, including the city of Chichen Itza.ANSWER: Mayan civilization <DA, Other History>This artist once made a painting by urinating on a canvas of copper paint, then allowing the result to oxidize. Another set of works by this artist depicts overlapping versions of an actor in a cowboy costume and pointing a gun at the viewer. This artist included several depictions of a destroyed automobile in his (*) Silver Car Crash, part of a series including depictions of poisoned tuna cans and electric chairs titled Death and Disaster. At his “Factory,” this artist used color silkscreens to print portraits of Elvis, Mao, and Marilyn Monroe. For 10 points, name this American pop artist best known for his paintings of Campbell soup cans.ANSWER: Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola] <FW, Visual Fine Arts>The Rig Veda opens with a hymn invoking a god of this domain who is later described as a “minister of sacrifice.” The plate circled around a murthi or person during Aarthi has one of these things on it. The yajna is a type of ritual where ghee and various foods are offered to one of these things, and in the Saptapadi ritual performed during Hindu (*) marriages, a couple circles 7 times around one of these things. Zoroastrian temples are named after this substance personified as Agni in Hinduism. For 10 points, name this substance that killed women performing Sati on their husband’s funeral pyres.ANSWER: Fire [or direct equivalents] <KP, Religion>One scene in this film has a man come up with a sticker slogan after stepping in a pile of dog poop. A character in this film invests in Apple after surviving Hurricane Carmen, while another character drinks 15 free Dr Peppers at an event. The primary love interest in this film dreams of becoming (*) “a singer like Joan Baez,” and becomes a hippie before eventually returning to Greenbow, Alabama. The main character in this film starts a shrimp company partly named for his friend Bubba with Lieutenant Dan. Jenny Curran dies of AIDS in, for 10 points, what film where the titular Tom Hanks character tells a woman how life is “like a box of chocolates?”ANSWER: Forrest Gump <FW, Trash>The trade union Solidarity commissioned Krzysztof Penderecki to compose one work in this genre dedicated to Polish heroes. Trumpets surround the stage in the Tuba mirum section of an Alessandro Manzoni-inspired work of this type composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Another piece of this type was commissioned to celebrate the reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral and sets poems by Wilfred (*) Owen to music. Benjamin Britten wrote a “War” piece in this genre while Brahms used a Lutheran Bible rather than a Latin Bible to compose his “German” piece in this genre. A D minor example of these works was completed by Franz Sussmayr after Mozart died while composing the Lacrimosa section. For 10 points, name these choral Catholic ‘masses for the dead.’ANSWER: requiem mass <DA, Auditory Fine Arts>This poet claimed spring “has no weights” in a poem in which the word “kiss” is interspersed between many words of the last stanza. This poet created the words “septembering” and “octobering” in the poem “my father moved through dooms of love.” This poet created a speaker who wishes to see “Christ (of His mercy infinite)” and a man who is (*) “more brave than me:more blond than you.” One poem by this author ends with the question, “how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death?” For 10 points, name this poet of “i sing of Olaf glad and big” and “Buffalo Bill's” who unconventionally used punctuation and capitalization.ANSWER: e e cummings [or Edward Estlin Cummings] <JF, american literature>Sanic [sah-nik] is an asynchronous alternative to the Flask and Django [jango] web frameworks for this language. Matplotlib is a library used for plotting data in this language. This language’s syntax includes triple-quoted multiline strings, and this language’s (*) “range” function is commonly used in for-loops. A data structure consisting of key-value pairs in this language is called a “dictionary” and indents are used to delimit code blocks in this language. For 10 points, name this programming languages whose files end in “.py” [pie], and whose name surprisingly does not refer to a snake.ANSWER: Python <SLD, Computer Science>TB.A modern form of sacrifice in this faith involves burning Hell Bank Notes, while its most venerated deities are known as the Three Pure Ones. This religion’s practitioners may practice internal alchemy, or “neidan,” in order to attain this religion’s Three Treasures of jing, qi, and shen. This belief system’s foundational texts include one named after its author, the scholar (*) Zhuangzi, and the I Ching. One of this religion’s main tenets is the principle of “action through inaction,” or “wu-wei.” For 10 points, name this Chinese belief system founded by Lao Tzu, which concerns itself with “the way.”ANSWER: Daoism [or Taoism; accept “the way” until read] <WY, Other Religion>BonusesFor 10 points each, answer the following about the decolonization of the British Empire:[10] This “crown jewel” of the British colonies was given its independence following a protracted campaign of resistance led by men like Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi.ANSWER: British India[10] This country was Britain’s first African colony to gain independence, doing so in 1957. Its last governor, Charles Arden-Clarke, was succeeded by Kwame Nkrumah in this country’s shift to independence.ANSWER: Republic of Ghana [Prompt on Gold Coast][10] This Prime Minister’s “Winds of Change” speech was a critical point in British decolonization. This man’s Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, was forced to resign after having an affair with Christine Keeler.ANSWER: Harold Macmillan <DA, Other History>In a poem from the perspective of this character, he describes “fifty-two miserable, small volcanoes I could climb,” one of which he names Mount Despair. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character who is “in England” in an Elizabeth Bishop poem. This character created by Daniel Defoe converts the cannibal Friday to Christianity after he reaches the “Island of Despair.”ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe [accept either name][10] This poet described “Children picking up our bones” at the beginning of “A Postcard from the Volcano,” a poem collected in the “Ideas of Order” section of his collection Harmonium.ANSWER: Wallace Stevens[10] This poet referred to Mount Rainier as “the white volcano with no weather side” in the poem “An Octopus.” The speaker of a different poem by this author hopes the “autocrats among us can be ‘literalists of the imagination’” and present “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”ANSWER: Marianne (Craig) Moore (the poem is “Poetry”) <JF, American Literature>This architect, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour contrasted “ducks” with “decorated sheds” while analyzing the Strip in Learning from Las Vegas. For 10 points each:[10] Name this architect who criticized the “Yale Box” in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.ANSWER: Robert Venturi[10] Venturi advocated for architecture to become “post-” this movement that emphasized basic geometric forms, lack of ornamentation, and newer construction materials. Walter Gropius’s PanAm Building belongs to this movement.ANSWER: Modernism [or Modern Architecture; prompt on “International Style”][10] Venturi used the phrase “less is a bore” to contrast with this modernist’s saying “less is more.” This final director of the Bauhaus designed the Tugendhat House, the Barcelona Pavilion, and the Seagram Building.ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe <MB, Other Fine Arts>For 10 points each, answer the following about a mass on a string, also called a pendulum:[10] Pendulums exhibit this kind of sinusoidal motion, where the restoring force is directly proportional to the displacement. A mass on a spring also has this type of motion.ANSWER: simple harmonic motion [accept simple harmonic oscillation; prompt on harmonic motion][10] If a pendulum is subject to external forces such as friction, it can undergo this process where the amplitude of its motion decreases. This process comes in “under”, “over”, and “critical” forms.ANSWER: damping [accept under damped or over damped or critically damped][10] Attaching another mass on a string to the first creates a double pendulum, which exhibits this type of motion. This behavior is characterized by extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and is notably responsible for the “butterfly effect.”ANSWER: chaotic motion [accept chaos] <MY, Physics>This action is performed facing the Qibla, which is currently the Kaaba in Mecca. For 10 points each:[10] Name this action performed five times a day by observant Muslims in order to fulfill Salat, one of the five pillars of Islam.ANSWER: praying [or prayer; accept other word forms][10] Salat requires Muslims to assume types of this posture called ruku and sujud on prayer rugs in addition to sitting and standing.ANSWER: bowing [accept equivalents like prostration][10] Unlike Salat, which is an individual responsibility, the Salat-al-Janazah is a mandatory prayer that the entire community must do after one of these events. ANSWER: a funeral [accept a death] <KP, Religion>For 10 points each, answer the following about senators featured in John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage:[10] This Massachusetts senator’s decision to speak in favor of the Compromise of 1850 was the subject of the book’s second chapter. This man formed the “Great Triumvirate” with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.ANSWER: Daniel Webster[10] The book’s fifth chapter discusses Edmund Ross’s deciding vote during this event, whose target was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing Edwin Stanton.ANSWER: Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson [prompt on partial answers][10] The book praises Mississippi senator Lucius Lamar for eulogizing this other senator, who gave the inflammatory “The Crime Against Kansas” speech.ANSWER: Charles Sumner <DA, American History>Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, was formed by the construction of this dam. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this dam, named for a depression-era American President, on the Black Canyon of the Colorado River near Las Vegas. ANSWER: Hoover Dam[10] This lake on the Nile River was created as a result of the Aswan High Dam. The Abu Simbel temples were moved prior to the formation of this lake named for an Egyptian President.ANSWER: Lake Nasser[10] This dam on the Paraná River is known for a famous nighttime light show as well as supplying power to Brazil and Paraguay. It’s name comes from the local Guarani word for “the sounding stone.”ANSWER: Itaipu [E-tie-pu] Dam [or Represa de Itaipú or Barragem de Itaipu] <AK, Geography>A tortoise appears in every scene of this play -- first appearing as a paperweight for the tutor Septimus Hodge. For 10 points each:[10] Name this play that switches between the early 1800’s and modern times to show the lives of Thomasina Coverly and Hannah Jarvis in Sidley Park.ANSWER: Arcadia[10] This British playwright of Arcadia wrote about two minor characters from Hamlet in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.ANSWER: Sir Tom Stoppard [or Tomá? Straussler][10] Tom Stoppard’s play The Invention of Love centers on this real life author’s affection for his Oxford roommate Moses Jackson. The longest poem in this author’s major collection opens with a drunkard saying, “Terence, this is stupid stuff.”ANSWER: A.E. Housman [accept Alfred Edward Housman] <KR, Non-American Anglophone Literature>For 10 points each, answer the following about connections between the Four Seasons restaurant and art:[10] The restaurant hosted a curtain designed by this man for the premiere of Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat. This artist produced The Old Guitarist during his Blue Period.ANSWER: Pablo Picasso[10] This artist was commissioned to paint a series of murals for the Four Seasons, but refused to finish them after experiencing the restaurant’s pretentious atmosphere. Fourteen of this artist’s works are on display in a chapel in Houston.ANSWER: Mark Rothko[10] While Rothko worked on his murals, the restaurant rented this artist’s painting Blue Poles from art collector Ben Heller. The name of this abstract expressionist’s Full Fathom Five was inspired by a song from a Shakespeare play.ANSWER: Jackson Pollock <DA, Visual Fine Arts>A “chirp” in these phenomena is characteristic of the end of mergers. For 10 points each:[10] Name these ripples in spacetime discovered by the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Kip Thorne. These phenomena were first observed by LIGO due to the merging of two black holes.ANSWER: gravitational waves [do not accept or prompt on “gravity waves”][10] Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein in this 1915 theory. In this theory, large masses change the curvature of spacetime and this theory is governed by Einstein’s namesake field equations.ANSWER: general relativity [prompt on relativity][10] The LIGO project used this technique to detect gravitational waves. This technique can be used to measure distances extremely precisely and was used in the Michelson-Morley experiment to disprove the existence of the luminiferous aether.ANSWER: interferometry [accept Michelson interferometry] <SR, Astronomy>Furious 7, 21 Jump Street, and Silicon Valley had their premieres in the film portion of this festival. For 10 points each:[10] Name this large film and music festival founded in Texas in 1987 and whose name is a variant on an Alfred Hitchcock film. In that film, a businessman is mistaken for a government agent and pursued by a spy.ANSWER: South by Southwest [or SXSW] [10] South by Southwest takes place every March in this city. A slogan to promote independent business in this capital of Texas urges to “Keep [this city] Weird.”ANSWER: Austin, Texas[10] A mural in Austin that features this four-word greeting is often cited as an example of weirdness in Austin. A drawing of a frog captioned with this greeting was famously worn on a shirt by Kurt Cobain to promote an album by David Johnston.ANSWER: “Hi, How Are You” <SR, Trash>The RAFT reaction is used to form these molecules, which involve initiation, propagation, and termination steps. For 10 points each:[10] Name these molecules, which are made of repeating subunits called monomers.ANSWER: polymers[10] This element typically comprises the backbone of polymers. This element typically forms tetravalent organic compounds, and is found with hydrogen in alkanes.ANSWER: carbon [or C][10] These catalysts can be used to facilitate polymer synthesis from alkenes. The German and Italian namesakes of these doubly-eponymous catalysts won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work with these organoaluminum-containing catalysts.ANSWER: Ziegler-Natta catalysts <MY, Chemistry>For 10 points each, answer some questions about Honoré de Balzac’s large collection The Human Comedy:[10] The title The Human Comedy likely alludes to this Italian author’s Divine Comedy, which contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.ANSWER: Dante Alighieri [or Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; accept any underlined name][10] One of the frequently recurring characters in The Human Comedy is this socially-climbing law student. In Balzac’s novel Père Goriot, the criminal Vautrin offers to help this character marry a rich woman named Victorine by having her brother killed.ANSWER: Eugène de Rastignac [accept either underlined portion][10] Père Goriot ends after one of these events during which Rastignac shouts toward the city of Paris, “It’s between the two of us now!” Emily Dickinson wrote that she felt one of these events “in my brain” in a poem whose speaker notes that “a Plank in Reason” broke before she “dropped down,” “hit a World,” and “Finished knowing.”ANSWER: a funeral [accept Pere Goriot’s funeral or “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”] <KR/MM, European Literature>This country was invaded during Operation Margarethe after it attempted to withdraw from the Axis Powers. For 10 points each:[10] Name this country, the subject of the Treaty of Trianon following World War I. This country was led during World War II by Miklós Horthy.ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország][10] Following Operation Panzerfaust in 1944, this pro-German political party ruled Hungary. This party’s name and symbol came from ancient Magyar tribes and was meant to suggest the racial purity of Hungarians.ANSWER: Arrow Cross Party [or Nyilaskeresztes Párt][10] The Arrow Cross Party most closely identified with an offshoot of this political ideology known as Hungarism. Benito Mussolini founded this far-right ideology in Italy during World War I.ANSWER: Fascism [accept word forms] <SR, European History>A literary prize awarded to novels written by authors from this country is named for Miles Franklin. For 10 points each:[10] Name this country. Patrick White, a novelist from this country, won the first Miles Franklin Award for his novel Voss.ANSWER: Commonwealth of Australia[10] Thomas Keneally, another Australian author, won the Man Booker Prize for a novel titled for this man’s Ark. This real-life man is credited with saving around 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, and a movie adaptation of that Keneally novel directed by Steven Spielberg is titled after his List.ANSWER: Oskar Schindler [accept Schindler’s Ark or Schindler’s List; prompt on just Oscar because fictionalizations of him are being clued][10] Katherine Mansfield, an author from the nearby New Zealand, is perhaps best known for writing this short story in which Laura Sheridan wishes to call off the title event after hearing about the death of her neighbor Mr. Scott.ANSWER: “The Garden Party” <KR, World Literature>This object legendarily appeared in a snowy churchyard in London during a Christmas service, and was placed there by the wizard Merlin to help settle a succession dispute after the death of Uther Pendragon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this legendary object. According to the inscription that accompanied it, whoever could free it from its place was the true-born king of all Britain. In some myths, this sword was shattered and replaced with Excalibur.ANSWER: The Sword in the Stone [prompt on partial answer][10] The Sword in the Stone was drawn from its place by this legendary British monarch.ANSWER: King Arthur [or Arthur Pendragon; do not accept or prompt on “Uther Pendragon”][10] According to legend, a young Arthur retrieved the Sword in the Stone for use in a tournament by this uncouth knight, Arthur’s older stepbrother and the son of Sir Ector. Arthur later made this man the seneschal of his court at Camelot.ANSWER: Sir Kay <WY, Mythology>These cells are covered with myelin sheaths, which allows electrical impulses to be transmitted faster. For 10 points each:[10] Name these basic nerve cells that contain dendrites and axons.ANSWER: neurons[10] Neurons function through these quick changes in electrical potential across the membrane. These impulses are separated into depolarization, repolarization, and hyperpolarization stages.ANSWER: action potentials[10] Action potentials in neurons are stimulated through the opening and closing of these transmembrane proteins, which transport two namesake cations against a concentration gradient.ANSWER: sodium-potassium pumps <MY, Biology>The accession of the Eighteenth Dynasty began this period of Egyptian history. For 10 points each:[10] Name this period that saw the peak of Egyptian power, including the reigns of Akhenaten and Rameses II.ANSWER: New Kingdom [prompt on Egyptian Empire][10] This Eighteenth Dynasty figure discontinued the monotheistic policies of her husband Akhenaten following his death. A famous bust of her is housed in Berlin’s Neues [noy-ess] Museum.ANSWER: Neferneferuaten Nefertiti [accept either underlined portion; prompt on Smenkhkare][10] The tomb of this “boy pharaoh” and son of Akenaten was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon in 1922.ANSWER: King Tutankhamun <SR, World History>Answer the following about symphonic usages of the Dies Irae theme in a certain composer’s compositions. For 10 points each:[10] The final dance in this Russian composer’s Symphonic Dances is a conflict between the Dies Irae theme and a theme from his a capella piece All-Night Vigil. This composer also based his choral symphony The Bells on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff[10] In a Rachmaninoff piece partially titled for this virtuosic Italian composer, the piano plays the Dies Irae while the orchestra plays a theme based on the last of this composer’s 24th caprice for solo violin. ANSWER: Niccolo Paganini [accept Variations on a Theme of Paganini][10] This other Rachmaninoff piece, inspired by an Arnold Bocklin painting, uses a recurring figure in 5/8 time to depict the rowing of an oarsman and quotes the Dies Irae as an allusion to death.ANSWER: Isle of the Dead <KP, Auditory Fine Arts>This concept was criticized as a “cliché” by historian Michael Burleigh in Moral Combat, mostly due to the many acts of cruelty committed by those behind the Holocaust. For 10 points each:[10] Name this concept developed to explain the motive behind the crimes of Adolf Eichmann. Its developer stated that this concept caused Eichmann to “merely… never [realize] what he was doing” due to his “curious, quite authentic inability to think.”ANSWER: the banality of evil[10] The banality of evil was developed by this political theorist in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem.ANSWER: Hannah Arendt [or Johanna Cohn Arendt or Hannah Arendt Blücher][10] Arendt’s first major book explored the origins of this general political ideology, examples of which included Nazism and Stalinism. Arendt claimed that this ideology differed from “despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” because of its practitioners’ attempts to terrorize and subjugate mass populations rather than just political opponents.ANSWER: totalitarianism [prompt on synonyms such as authoritarianism; accept The Origins of Totalitarianism] <SR, Social Science> ................
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