High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 2017 Maryland FallPacket 4Edited by Jordan Brownstein, Weijia Cheng, and Sam RombroQuestions by Alex Echikson, Jack Nolan, Weijia Cheng, Sarang Yeola, Justin Hawkins, Ani Perumalla, Yu Lu, Siri Neerchal, Jordan Brownstein, Naveed Chowdhury, Graham Reid, Rohan Laljani, and Nathan FredmanTossups1. A fibrous streamer forms after apoptosis of epithelial cells during the catagen phase of the growth cycle for these structures. A method of transplanting these structures that results in pit scarring is known as FUE. A type of these structures present in anorexics and newborns is called lanugo. The loss of these structures can occur in a (*) “pattern” variety and is known as alopecia. A waxy and oily substance produced by the sebaceous gland is used to lubricate and waterproof these structures and the skin. For 10 points, name these protein filaments that grow out of follicles composed of keratin.ANSWER: hair [or hair follicles; prompt on follicles until read]<SY, Biology>2. An immigrant from this country developed a variety of soft processed cheese called Catupiry popular in Brazil. This country’s language influenced the lunfardo dialect of Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires. For his role in the Uruguayan Civil War, a military leader from this country became known as the “Hero of Two Worlds.” Two (*) anarchists from this country were executed in 1927 after they were controversially convicted of murdering two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. The largest ethnic group in New Jersey originates from this country. For 10 points, immigrants from what European country introduced pizza to the US?ANSWER: Italy<AE, Other>3. This poem is its author’s most famous treatment of a theme that titles his poem that begins “We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon.” This poem includes the alliterative pairs of adjectives “boundless and bare” and “loan and level.” This poem ambiguously references “The hand that mocked them, and the (*) heart that fed,” which may belong to an artist who read the “wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command” of his subject. Most of this poem is spoken by a “traveler from an antique land” who describes a pedestal reading “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” For 10 points, name this sonnet about the statue of an Egyptian king by Percy Bysshe Shelley.ANSWER: “Ozymandias”<JB, World/Other Lit>4. With its northeast neighbor, this state shares Ashley National Forest, which contains Kings Peak and Flaming Gorge. Several sedimentary rock layers can be seen in the Grand Staircase formation in this state. The US?Ski Team is headquartered in Park City in this state. Kolob Arch can be found in a national park in this state. Natural features like the Balanced Rock and Delicate Arch are located in this state’s (*) Arches National Park. National parks in this state include Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, and Temple Square lies at the center of this state’s capital. For 10 points, name this western state that contains the Great Salt Lake.ANSWER: Utah<AE, Geo/CE>5. A character in this novel is stopped from committing suicide by the sudden appearance of the Pharaon. In this novel, the Baron d’Epinay brawls with bandits in Rome after meeting a character using the alias “Sinbad the Sailor.” At the end of this novel, the protagonist reveals that he used a death-simulating drug to save Valentine’s life, then departs with Ali Pasha’s daughter. After he meets the (*) Abbe Faria, the title character of this novel devises a plan to escape the Chateau d’If, where he was imprisoned after being framed by Danglars and Villefort as a Bonapartist. For 10 points, name Alexandre Dumas novel about the revenge of Edmond Dantès.ANSWER: The Count of Monte Cristo [or Le Comte de Monte-Cristo]<AE, European Lit>6. In 1977, The Economist coined a term named after this country to describe the negative economic effects of the discovery of large natural gas reserves in 1959. Operations Manna and Chowhound sought to relieve a famine in this country called the Hunger Winter. This country was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Canadian First Army. In 1992, the treaty that created the European Union, the (*) Maastricht Treaty, was signed in this country. The Rome Statute established the seat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a city in this country. For 10 points, name this European country whose monarchs are from the House of Orange.ANSWER: Netherlands [or Nederland; accept Holland; accept Dutch disease]<AE, European Hist>7. This musician wrote the standard “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” to depict his time in rehab at Camarillo State Hospital. He was inspired by a drug dealer to write “Moose the Mooche.” This musician performed “Billie’s Bounce” in the first of his Savoy and Dial sessions. In recording a song based on Ray Noble’s “Cherokee,” titled “Ko-Ko,” this musician (*) introduced a new jazz style called bebop. This musician used the chord progression of Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” in several songs, including “Scrapple from the Apple.” For 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist and composer of “Ornithology” and the “Yardbird Suite.”ANSWER: Charlie Parker [accept “Bird” or “Yardbird” until it is read]<JN, Any Art>8. This chemical can be decomposed by a heterogeneous manganese oxide catalyst, and it reacts with potassium permanganate to form water, oxygen, manganese oxides, and potassium hydroxide. A mixture of sulfuric acid and this molecule comprises piranha solution. This molecule, which can be used as a rocket propellant, has a (*) twisted geometry that includes two single-bonded oxygen atoms, and is a reactive oxygen species. The enzyme catalase speeds the degradation of this inorganic molecule. For 10 points, name this compound that can be used as a bleach or disinfectant whose chemical formula is H2O2.ANSWER: hydrogen peroxide [accept H2O2 until it is read]<GR, Chemistry>9. A poem by this author declares that the reader should “Go send your sons to exile / To serve your captives’ need.” A hymn-like poem by this author uses the refrain “Lest we forget—lest we forget!” In another poem, this author warns that the “female of the species is more deadly than the male.” This author of “Recessional” and “The Female of the Species” wrote a poem whose speaker mourns a dead (*) water-carrier, exclaiming “Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, / By the livin’ Gawd that made you, / You’re a better man than I am.” For 10 points, name this British author of “The White Man’s Burden” and “Gunga Din,” as well as The Jungle Book.ANSWER: Joseph Rudyard Kipling<AE, British Lit>10. This god lost a contest of dominance after he ate lettuce that his rival had covered in semen. This lord of the “red land” was also the god of foreigners and foreign lands. This god was defeated in a race after his opponent used a wooden boat that had been painted so that it would appear to be made from (*) stone. Along with Sekhmet, this god battled the serpent Apep in the underworld to ensure the safety of Ra. This husband of Nephthys usurped the throne after murdering his brother Osiris and scattering his body parts across Egypt. For 10 points, name this Egyptian god of disorder and rival of Horus.ANSWER: Set [or Seth]<AE, Myth>11. This monarch’s general Aleksandr Menshikov gained prominence after joining the “toy army” that this monarch had organized during his youth. This monarch replaced the head of his country’s church with the Holy Synod, and codified the status of his country’s nobility through the Table of Ranks. This monarch’s half-sister Sophia was forced to become a nun after the (*) streltsy, whom this monarch disbanded, revolted on her behalf. This monarch crushed the Swedish forces of Charles XII at the battle of Poltava during the Great Northern War. For 10 points, name this modernizing Russian emperor who established the city of St. Petersburg.ANSWER: Peter the Great [or Peter I; or Pyotr I; prompt on Peter or Pyotr alone]<AE, European Hist>12. These objects can be constructed as real polynomials in x modulo x-squared plus 1. The Cauchy–Goursat theorem deals with analysis over these objects, and everywhere-differentiable functions over these objects are called holomorphic. The absolute value of one of these objects is defined as the square root of the product of it and its (*) conjugate. The fundamental theorem of algebra states that every polynomial defined over these objects has a zero in these objects. If a quadratic equation has a negative discriminant, then its roots are always these objects. For 10 points, name these quantities that can be expressed in the form a plus i b.ANSWER: complex numbers [be generous and anti-prompt on imaginary numbers]<JN, Other Sci>13. A sculpture of this person includes a helmet on the ground decorated with triumphant cupids. Placement of an object between the legs of this figure or off to the side is a point of contention in the display of a sculpture of him by Verrocchio. In another sculpture, a feather wraps around the left leg of this figure, who wears a laurel hat and boots. That sculpture is the first (*) freestanding male nude sculpture since antiquity and was cast by Donatello. In a sculpture originally located at the Palazzo della Signoria, this figure looks towards Rome and holds a sling on his right shoulder. For 10 points, Michelangelo created a sculpture of what slayer of Goliath?ANSWER: David<SY, Visual Arts>14. This president’s Secretary of the Navy, George Bancroft, was responsible for founding the Naval Academy. During the negotiation of a peace treaty, Nicholas Trist ignored this president’s attempt to recall him. This president lowered import duties with the Walker Tariff. This president defeated Henry Clay using the slogan “Fifty-four forty or fight!”, but he abandoned that position with the (*) Oregon Treaty. This president sent John Slidell to purchase territory that was ultimately acquired by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. For 10 points, name this Democratic president whose term saw the expansion of the United States through the Mexican-American War.ANSWER: James Knox Polk<AE, American Hist>15. This play’s protagonist calls another character “disgusting” after commenting “A man who can’t handle tools is not a man.” A character in this play declares that “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!” after Howard denies him a desk job. Flute music heralds scenes of this play’s protagonist imagining his brother (*) Ben, who owned diamond mines in Africa. During a flashback in this play, a high school football star discovers that his father, the title character, is cheating with “The Woman”; that character, Biff, is Happy’s brother. For 10 points, Willy Loman commits suicide in what play by Arthur Miller?ANSWER: Death of a Salesman<WC, American Lit>16. When these equations are written in Lorentz–Heaviside units, the only fundamental constant to appear in them is the speed of light. These equations may be incomplete due to certain particles predicted by superstring theory. Two of these equations specify the (*) divergence of fields, while two of them specify the curl of those fields. The namesake of these equations added a term to one of them to account for the displacement current. For 10 points, name these four differential equations that include two induction laws and two laws named after Gauss, which were compiled by a Scottish physicist.ANSWER: Maxwell’s equations [do not accept or prompt on “Maxwell relations”]<JN, Physics>17. A group of bards in this film sing a song about how one character is cowardly after he runs from a three-headed giant who was debating whether to eat that character or not. Another character in this film cries “It’s only a flesh wound” after his arm is chopped off, and refuses to surrender after all of his limbs have been hacked away. This film, which opens with an (*) argument about the ability of swallows to carry coconuts, features John Cleese playing characters such as “witch-hunting villagery” and the Black Knight. For 10 points, name this satire of Arthurian legends that stars the British comedy troupe it is partly named for.ANSWER: Monty Python and the Holy Grail<AE, Trash>18. This leader gave a state funeral to the exiled first president of his country, the kabaka Mutesa II. A military operation in this leader’s country led to the deaths of Wilfried B?se and Brigitte Kuhlmann, two West German members of the Revolutionary Cells. This leader was deposed after his forces failed to take the Kagera region from (*) Tanzania. This self-proclaimed “Conqueror of the British Empire” ordered the expulsion of all Asians from his country. This African leader, who overthrew Milton Obote, allowed a hijacked Air France airliner to land in his country, leading to the Entebbe raid. For 10 points, during the 1970s, what African leader was dictator of Uganda?ANSWER: Idi Amin Dada<AE, World Hist>19. When this prophet was born, people insisted on naming him after his father until his father wrote this prophet’s name on a tablet. Earlier, Gabriel struck this prophet’s father Zechariah mute for doubting that he would have a son. Upon seeing Jesus, this prophet exclaimed, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” This prophet identified himself as the (*) “voice in the wilderness” described in the Book of Isaiah. This prophet was executed after a daughter of Herodias, often identified with Salome, danced before Herod and asked for his head on a platter. For 10 points, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by what prophet?ANSWER: John the Baptist [prompt on John]<WC, Religion>20. This man reworked the theme from his composition Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline for a chorus in his work Israel in Egypt. This composer wrote a piece with movements “La Paix” (“peh”) and “La Réjouissance” (“rage-wee-SAWNS”) to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. A piece by this composer has served as the coronation anthem for every British monarch since its composition. This composer of (*) Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks is best known for a piece that contains a “pastoral symphony” and the Hallelujah chorus. For 10 points, name this Baroque composer of the oratorio Messiah.ANSWER: George Frideric Handel<AE, Auditory Arts>Bonuses1. You’ve decided to visit your local Hindu temple. Answer the following about your visit, for 10 points each.[10] When you arrive, you realize that you happened to visit on this Hindu festival of lights when you see people lighting lamps called diyas, shooting fireworks, and creating arrays of sweets to offer.ANSWER: Diwāli [or Deepāvali][10] The next time you come to the temple, you see people performing aarti, which involves waving a lamp before the image of a deity, as part of this ritual to host, honor, and worship a deity.ANSWER: pūjā[10] You also notice people performing a yajna (“yug-nya”) ritual, placing offerings inside a fire for this Vedic fire god.ANSWER: Agni<AP, Religion>2. In a story, this character fails to prevent the death of John Openshaw at the hands of the KKK. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character, the subject of stories such as “The Five Orange Pips” and “A Scandal in Bohemia.”ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [accept either underlined answer][10] Sherlock Holmes was created by this British author, who featured him in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.ANSWER: Arthur Conan Doyle [or Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle][10] “The Five Orange” is one of two Sherlock Holmes stories in which Holmes’s client dies after seeking his help. The other is “The Adventure of the Dancing Men,” in which the title “dancing men” are one of these things used by Elsie Cubitt and her former fiancé.ANSWER: ciphers [or substitution ciphers; or secret codes; prompt on secret languages or messages]<AE, British Lit>3. A piano concerto for this technique was written concurrently by its composer with another piano concerto, in G, that opens with a whip crack. For 10 points each:[10] Name this unusual musical technique for which Paul Wittgenstein commissioned many pieces after he suffered an injury during World War I.ANSWER: playing with only the left hand [prompt on playing with only one hand][10] The two aforementioned piano concertos, the Piano Concerto in G and the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, were composed by this French composer of Boléro.ANSWER: Maurice Ravel[10] This synesthetic Russian composer wrote a Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand after he injured his right hand from excessive piano practice. He used his mystic chord extensively in his Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin<YL, Auditory Arts>4. This ruler established the city of Dadu, near modern-day Beijing, to serve as his capital. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Mongol ruler whose forces defeated Song dynasty loyalists at the Battle of Yamen after he officially proclaimed the Yuan dynasty in 1271.ANSWER: Kublai Khan [or Shizu; do not prompt on “Khan”][10] This Venetian traveler claimed to have served as governor of Yangzhou for Kublai Khan in his book Il Milione, which is ostensibly an account of his visit to China.ANSWER: Marco Polo[10] An influential member of Kublai Khan’s court was ’Phags-pa (“POGS-pah”), the inventor of the Mongol alphabet, who was one of these religious figures. Nearly 200 years later, Altan Khan created a title for one of these religious figures.ANSWER: lamas [accept Dalai Lama; prompt on Tibetan Buddhists, monks, or similar answers]<AE, World Hist>5. This value for a molecule of uranium-238 is approximately 4.5 billion years. For 10 points each:[10] Name this quantity, the time it takes for half of a radioactive element to decay.ANSWER: half-life[10] While uranium–lead dating can be useful to determine the age of very old objects, this isotope, with a half-life of 5730 years, is ideal for dating more recent material.ANSWER: carbon-14 [prompt on carbon; do not accept or prompt on “carbon-12”][10] Uranium’s decay into this other element can also be used for radiometric dating purposes, especially for materials containing calcium carbonate. This element itself decays via a long chain, ending in lead-208.ANSWER: thorium [or Th; accept thorium-234 or thorium-230]<AE, Chemistry>6. This novel ends with the protagonist attempting to dissuade his sons from selling his land. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel about the life of the Chinese farmer Wang Lung, who becomes wealthy after he marries the slave O-lan from the House of Hwang.ANSWER: The Good Earth[10] The Good Earth is a novel by this daughter of American missionaries and winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature, who set many of her novels in China.ANSWER: Pearl S. Buck [or Pearl Sydenstricker Buck][10] In The Good Earth, Wang Lung falls in love with this prostitute with a floral name who becomes his concubine. Wang Lung builds an inner court in his home to house this woman and her assistant Cuckoo.ANSWER: Lotus Flower<AE, World/Other Lit>7. Name some European aristocrats who fought for American independence during the American Revolution, for 10 points each.[10] This Frenchman, known as the “Hero of Two Worlds,” served under George Washington during the American Revolution and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen during the French Revolution.ANSWER: Marquis de Lafayette [or Gilbert du Motier][10] This Prussian drillmaster was responsible for training the American army during the winter at Valley Forge. He wrote a guide for the military called the “Blue Book” that was used until 1812.ANSWER: Baron von Steuben (“shtoy-ben”) [or Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben][10] During the revolt of the Bar Confederation, this general was accused of attempting to kidnap Stanis?aw (“stah-nee-swaff”) II Augustus. This general helped reorganize the American cavalry and died following the Siege of Savannah.ANSWER: Casimir Pulaski [or Kazimierz Pu?aski]<AE, American Hist>8. Answer the following about areas nicknamed the “Golden Triangle,” for 10 points each.[10] The “Golden Triangle” of Southeast Asia is known for the large amounts of this drug produced in the area. This drug, which is extracted from poppy seeds, is chemically processed to produce heroin.ANSWER: opium[10] The Indian “Golden Triangle” of tourism consists of Jaipur, Delhi, and this other city, which contains tourist attractions like a namesake fort and the Taj Mahal.ANSWER: Agra[10] In 1997, part of this city’s central business district branded itself the “Golden Triangle” with the approval of then-mayor Marion Barry.ANSWER: Washington, D.C. [accept either underlined answer; accept District of Columbia]<AE, Geo/CE>9. The missing mass problem concerns the abnormally low mass of these objects given the strength of their gravitational effects. For 10 points each:[10] Name these large collections of stars that can be classified as irregular, elliptical, or spiral.ANSWER: galaxies[10] One solution to the missing mass problem proposes the existence of this type of object, so named because it does not interact with electromagnetism or the strong force. Proposed objects of this type include WIMPs and MACHOs.ANSWER: dark matter[10] Another solution to the missing mass problem is given by this theory proposed by Mordehai Milgrom, which suggests that the laws of classical mechanics break down at small accelerations.ANSWER: modified Newtonian dynamics [or MOND]<JN, Other Sci>10. This author described the philosophical transition that occurs upon realizing that a mannequin is not another human being. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Jean-Paul Sartre book that describes a waiter play-acting at being a waiter to illustrate its concept of “bad faith.” The first of this book’s two title concepts is also the first in the title of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus.ANSWER: Being and Nothingness[10] Being and Nothingness exemplifies the French development of this philosophy, which broadly holds that humans are responsible for making their own meaning in an absurd universe.ANSWER: existentialism [accept word forms][10] Being and Nothingness examines how people objectify themselves in accordance with the “look” of this figure. Writers like Lacan and Beauvoir used this term to denote an individual outside of the Self.ANSWER: the other [or l’autre; or the constitutive other]<JN, Philosophy>11. The speaker of a poem hears his “ill-spirit sob in each blood cell” as he observes these animals “[marching] on their soles up Main Street.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this animal, one of which “drops her ostrich tail” and “will not scare” while raiding a garbage pail in a poem set in a town that is home to “Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress.”ANSWER: skunks [or “Skunk Hour”][10] The author of “Skunk Hour,” Robert Lowell, was distantly related to poet Amy Lowell, who split with this poet over the direction of the Imagist movement. This fascist wrote part of his Cantos while imprisoned in Pisa.ANSWER: Ezra Pound [or Ezra Weston Loomis Pound][10] Both Lowells were also related to James Russell Lowell, a Fireside Poet and critic who famously described this poet of “The Raven” as “three-fifths… genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.”ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe<YL, American Lit>12. In an essay titled “On Strategy,” this commander coined an oft-cited quote often paraphrased as “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this commander, who, as the chief of the Prussian General Staff, led Prussian forces to victory over Austria and its allies during the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866.ANSWER: Helmuth von Moltke the Elder [do not accept “Helmuth von Moltke the Younger”][10] Four years after his victory in the Seven Weeks’ War, Moltke defeated the army of this monarch at the Battle of Sedan, where this monarch surrendered and was captured.ANSWER: Napoleon III [or Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte; prompt on Napoleon; do not accept “Napoleon Bonaparte”][10] The Seven Weeks’ War and Franco-Prussian War were overseen by this statesman, who delivered the “Blood and Iron” speech and became the first chancellor of the German Empire upon its unification.ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck<AE, European Hist>13. This location marked the “navel of the world” since two eagles met here when flying around the world, and thus held the Omphalos stone. For 10 points each:[10] Name this city, where Apollo founded an oracle that became the most important in ancient Greece.ANSWER: Delphi[10] Apollo founded the oracle at Delphi after defeating and slaying this dragon on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.ANSWER: Python[10] The second-most important oracle in ancient Greece was located at Dodona and served as an oracle for this god. In Ptolemaic Egypt, this god was syncretized with Amon.ANSWER: Zeus<AE, Myth>14. These devices come in fixed, movable, and compound varieties, and form a block and tackle when combined with a rope. For 10 points each:[10] Name these simple machines, rotating wheels on which wires can move.ANSWER: pulleys[10] This device consists of a pulley supporting masses on both sides. The acceleration experienced by the masses is proportional to the mass difference divided by the mass sum.ANSWER: Atwood’s machine[10] When an Atwood’s machine is undergoing this phenomenon, its behavior is often chaotic. During this phenomenon, the masses of the machine are bounded by conic sections.ANSWER: swinging<JN, Physics>15. This general was ostracized after he failed to prevent the capture of Amphipolis by the Spartan general Brasidas during a surprise attack. For 10 points each:[10] Name this general who chronicled much of the Peloponnesian War in his History of the Peloponnesian War.ANSWER: Thucydides[10] Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War records the Funeral Oration of Pericles, a statesman from this Greek city that was ultimately defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.ANSWER: Athens[10] The last seven years of the Peloponnesian War are chronicled in this other Greek historian’s Hellenica. This historian also described how the Ten Thousand fought on behalf of Cyrus the Younger in his Anabasis.ANSWER: Xenophon<AE, European Hist>16. In a 1954 novel, a Greek village attempts to put on a Passion Play about this religious figure’s life. For 10 points each:[10] Name this religious figure who struggles to cope with his destiny of crucifixion in a controversial novel titled after his “Last Temptation.”ANSWER: Jesus Christ of Nazareth [accept either underlined answer][10] Christ Recrucified and The Last Temptation of Christ were both written by this author whose other novels include Captain Michalis.ANSWER: Nikos Kazantzakis[10] Another controversial portrayal of a doubting Jesus features in this author’s novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. This Portuguese Nobel Laureate wrote the novel Blindness.ANSWER: José Saramago<AE, European Lit>17. An artist from this movement filmed Robert Indiana eating for 45 minutes at his headquarters, a few years before he was shot there by University of Maryland alumnus Valerie Solanas. For 10 points each:[10] Name this art movement pioneered by that artist, Andy Warhol. Its subjects often included images of mass culture and advertising.ANSWER: Pop Art[10] Warhol churned out silkscreen paintings and films such as Couch and Eat at this studio of his in New York City.ANSWER: The Factory[10] As part of his Death and Disaster series, Warhol used photographs from Newsweek to create “Orange,” “Silver,” and “Green” silkscreen paintings of tragic events of this type.ANSWER: car crashes [or car accidents; or burning cars; or equivalents]<JH, Visual Arts>18. After showing up late for work one day, this character flees after being told that “there has been a murder and he is a suspect.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this character whose actor of the same name was a member of the band The Grass Roots and who has his employees create an acronym for “BOBODDY.”ANSWER: Creed Bratton [accept either underlined answer][10] Creed Bratton appears on this NBC sitcom, a mockumentary following the employees of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Pennsylvania.ANSWER: The Office[10] The Office is set in this Pennsylvania city, which has no other distinguishing characteristics.ANSWER: Scranton, Pennsylvania<JH, Trash>19. In the book Patterns of Culture, this anthropologist argued that culture could be described as “personality writ large.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this anthropologist who categorized cultures into guilt cultures and shame cultures in her book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.ANSWER: Ruth Fulton Benedict[10] The Chrysanthemum and the Sword was an analysis of this country’s culture. This country’s anthropologist Takei Doi analyzed its culture’s concept of amae, a feeling of dependency, in The Anatomy of Dependency.ANSWER: Japan [or Nippon][10] Ruth Benedict studied at Columbia University under this other anthropologist, who challenged doctrines of white supremacy in his book The Mind of Primitive Man.ANSWER: Franz Boas<WC, Social Science>20. Competence is the ability of a cell to undergo this process. For 10 points each:[10] Name this process of horizontal gene transfer by which an external plasmid is inserted into the DNA of the cell, contrasted with transduction and conjugation.ANSWER: transformation[10] This genus of bacteria that uses transformation to induced tumors in plants is used as an tool in genetic engineering.ANSWER: Agrobacterium[10] Frederick Griffith discovered the effects of transformation mice injected with a nonpathogenic strain of this bacterium along with a heat-killed pathogenic strain displayed symptoms of disease. The pyogenes species of this bacterium is a common cause of pharyngitis.ANSWER: Streptococcus [prompt on strep]<SY, Biology> ................
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