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 The 2019 Scottie Round NineWritten and edited by current and former players and coaches including Todd Garrison, Tyler Reid, Olivia Kiser, Rajeev Nair, Garrison Page, Caleb Tamminga, Parker Bannister, Hunter Lindsey, Mason Reid, and Anish Patel (with a special assist by Ramapriya Rangaraju)TOSSUPS1. At the end of the movie this FX series is based on, the protagonist reassures her husband that having his mallard chosen for the 3-cent stamp instead of the first-class stamp isn’t so bad. In an episode of the 2nd season of this series, hitman Mike Milligan recites the entirety of “Jabberwocky.” A villain, Lorne Malvo, is played by (*) Billy Bob Thornton in season one of this Coen Brothers franchise. For 10 points, name this series based on a movie that featured Sheriff Marge Gunderson solving murders near the namesake North Dakota town.ANSWER: Fargo <TG>2. Operation Motorman was carried out in this polity in 1972 in an effort to gain control of no-go areas, and Ian Paisley founded the Democratic Unionist Party in this country. Bobby Sands died during a hunger strike protesting the removal of “Special Category Status” from prisoners convicted of (*) “Trouble”-related offences in this country. The Good Friday Agreement ended a running conflict between Catholics and Protestants in this country, which saw 28 civilians killed on Bloody Sunday. For 10 points, name this constituent country of the United Kingdom with capital at BelfastANSWER: Northern Ireland [do NOT accept or prompt on “Ireland” only] <RN>3. This author’s 1927 Pulitzer-winning novel opens with the “precipitating” of “five travelers into the gulf below.” In this writer’s second Pulitzer for Drama, the maid Sabina describes the travails of the Antrobus family as they narrowly escape disaster after disaster by the play’s namesake idiom. This author of The (*) Skin of Our Teeth recounts the deaths of Simon Stimson, Mrs. Soames, and Emily Gibbs in another work narrated by the Stage Manager. For 10 points, name this author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town.ANSWER: Thornton Niven Wilder <TG>4. The objects used in one of this artist’s still lifes, Pyramid of Skulls, remain in his hometown studio today. His innovations regarding shapes and perspective earned him praise as “the father of us all” by Picasso and Matisse. One of his works depicts a bottle of wine between two men sitting at an (*) orange table, and he also created a series of paintings depicting a mountain near Aix-en-Provence [ex-on-pro-vawnce]. For 10 points, name this French Post-Impressionist painter of The Card Players and several landscapes depicting Mont Sainte-Victoire.ANSWER: Paul Cezanne <TR>5. In 2014, Harvard researchers developed a method to produce a biodegradable plastic from this material, which is also thought to be the causative agent of dust mite allergies. This material undergoes an analogue of tanning called sclerotization, which increases its rigidity, and is also often compounded with calcium carbonate to increase its (*) strength. Albert Hoffman determined that this material was made of linked monomers of N-Acetyl-gluco-samine, and it composes the radulas of mollusks and the beaks of cephalopods. For 10 points, name this polysaccharide found in arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of fungi.ANSWER: chitin <RR>6. This deity won a challenge with another god by creating three goddesses by chewing up a sword and spitting it out, after which her opponent went on a rampage. This goddess was born when her father washed his left eye, and she hid from the world after her brother threw a (*) flayed horse at her. This goddess saw her reflection in a mirror after being enticed from a cave by laughter. For 10 points, name this kami, the goddess of the sun in Shintoism.ANSWER: Amaterasu-omikame [or ?hirume-no-muchi-no-kami] <TG>7. The aria “Tu? Tu? Piccolo iddio!” is sung by one character in this work as she blindfolds her son, and the “Humming Chorus” is performed off-stage at the end of its second act. The Bonze shouts curses at one character in this opera after realizing she has converted to Christianity. This work’s namesake imagines the return of her lover in the aria (*) “Un bel di, Vedremo" prior to learning from Sharpless that he has married Kate. “The Star Spangled Banner” introduces Lieutenant Pinkerton in this opera, which ends with Cio-Cio San’s suicide. For 10 points, name this Giacomo Puccini opera set in Japan.ANSWER: Madame Butterfly <RN>8. One of these conflicts saw a swing in momentum when General Joseph Joffre swung his forces around and attacked an exposed flank, creating a 30-mile gap between the German First and Second Armies. Erich Ludendorff followed the Spring Offensive with what became the final German offensive in the second of these (*) World War One battles, which resulted in a successful counterattack by Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The arrival of reinforcements in taxicabs from Paris led to the defeat of the Schlieffen Plan in one of these battles. For 10 points, name this set of two battles fought near a namesake river.ANSWER: Battle(s) of the Marne [accept First or Second Battle(s) of the Marne]9. The Sackur-Tetrode equation measures one property of these materials, while their counterparts are described using an equation with “a” and “b” parameters, the Van der Waals equation. The deviation of these substances from their namesake property is measured by the (*) compressibility factor, Their namesake constant is equal to 0.082 liter atmospheres per kelvin mole, and they consist of massless point particles undergoing perfectly elastic collisions. For 10 points, name these hypothetical substances that are modeled by the formula PV equals nRT.ANSWER: ideal gas [prompt on “gas”] <RR>10. Roudaki was the first poet of note to write in this language, and Bertrand Russell described one writer in this language as the only man he knew who was both a poet and a mathematician. A translation of that poet’s works to English from this language led to the quoting of such phrases as (*) “a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.” Ferdowsi took thirty-five years to complete Shahnameh, a work in this language. For 10 points, Rumi and Omar Khayyam wrote in this language that is still spoken by a namesake ethnic group in Iran.ANSWER: Persian [accept Farsi] <TG>11. While patents for these devices may have existed as far back as the 1930s, a Chinese inventor named Hon Lik is credited as the first to successfully market these after receiving a patent in 2003. A competitive activity using these things is called “cloud chasing,” with competitors performing tricks like the (*) French Inhale. President Trump recently announced an upcoming ban on most of the flavored varieties of these nicotine delivery systems. For 10 points, name these tobacco alternatives, in which users use a battery-powered device to inhale an aerosol.ANSWER: e-cigarettes [or e-cigs; accept vapes; accept answers indicating electronic substitutes to smoking] <TG>12. Operation Yellowbird was an attempt to help participants of this event escape, and the April 26 Editorial claimed that participants in this event aimed to “plunge the whole country into chaos.” This event, also known as the June 4th Incident, was sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang and suppressed by (*) Deng Xiaoping [dang SHAO-ping]. The famous “Tank Man” photograph taken by Jeff Widener during this event is still censored by the Chinese government. For 10 points, name this 1989 protest that took place in a namesake Beijing square.ANSWER: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [accept June 4 Incident before read] <RN>13. For one version of these objects, the Hurst exponent is always between zero and one, and is subtracted from two to find these objects’ namesake dimension. The Richardson Effect results from the notion that coastlines represent these objects, and they are sometimes a result in the (*) Julia set. Gopher island is a famous example of these objects, as are the Menger Sponge and Sierpinski’s triangle. For 10 points, name these objects that exhibit self-similar patterns on every scale, which are exemplified in Koch’s snowflake and the Mandelbrot set.ANSWER: fractals <GP>14. A large bronze sculpture of one of these animals stands opposite a sculpture of a young girl in New York’s Bowling Green park. These animals are depicted in a “Great Hall” in a French cave, while a Minoan fresco shows people (*) leaping over them. After visiting Spain, Manet created several works depicting people preparing to fight these animals, one of which gores a horse in Guernica. For 10 points, identify these animals featured in works like The Hallucinogenic Toreador.ANSWER: bulls [prompt on “cattle” or “cows”] <TR>15. Vladimir Nabokov’s The Gift follows an emigre whose family came to this city while fleeing the Russian Revolution. Ian McEwan’s The Innocent is set here, while Mr. Norris Changes Trains is a novella in Christopher Isherwood’s collection of stories titled after this city. John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is primarily set in this city during the (*) Cold War, as is Rober Harris’ Fatherland, a work of alternate fiction that has Hitler winning World War 2. For 10 points, The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider is about this once divided capital city of Germany.ANSWER: Berlin <TG>16. In one series of lectures, this man discussed the importance of where production takes place within countries, leading to the development of New Economic Geography. He argued that Japan’s “lost decade” and the Great Recession were both products of liquidity traps. His contributions to New (*) Trade Theory earned him the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, while he discussed his political ideology in The Conscience of a Liberal. For 10 points, name this economist and outspoken op-ed columnist for the New York Times.ANSWER: Paul Robin Krugman <TR>17. This man’s daughter disappeared and was never seen again while travelling aboard the ship Patriot. This man was arrested for, but not convicted of, treason after he was involved in a plot to create another country in the American West. That plot was revealed to the president by James (*) Wilkinson. This man engaged in his most famous action in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1804. For 10 points, name this Vice President to Thomas Jefferson and killer of Alexander Hamilton.ANSWER: Aaron Burr <PB>18. These systems can be approximated by using a Slater determinant in the Hartree-Fock method, and linear combinations of them can produce their higher-order analogues. Ligand field theory concerns the t2g and eg variety of these structures. These structures mix in (*) hybridization, and they are filled in an order related by Aufbau’s principle. When these structures differ in azimuthal quantum numbers, they are divided into s, p, d, and f varieties. For 10 points, name these structures, which roughly correspond to the “location” of the electrons around an atom.ANSWER: atomic orbitals [accept “molecular” orbitals until “linear combination”] <RR>19. One author with this last name wrote a poem that was read at Emily Dickinson’s funeral. In addition to “No coward soul is mine,” that author wrote a novel in which Frances dies giving birth to Hareton, leading to her husband’s alcohol addiction. Another author with this last name wrote (*) Agnes Grey under the pen name Acton Bell, while a third wrote a novel in which the titular governess marries Edward Rochester. For 10 points, give the surname of the trio of sisters whose most famous works are Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.ANSWER: Bronte [prompt on “Bell” before mention] <TR>20. In 2 Kings 14:25, it is noted that this person prophesied Jeroboam's extension of the borders of Israel. This person is described as the “son of Amittai,” and a king wore sackcloth and sat in ashes after hearing this man’s prophecy. A worm devoured a gourd that had provided shade (*) for this prophet, who fled to Tarshish on a boat before being thrown overboard during a storm. Nineveh was the city this prophet went to after praying in the “belly of Sheol.” For 10 points, name this Abrahamic prophet who spent three days inside of a great fish.ANSWER: Jonah <GP>BONUSES:1. A synodic month, also known as a lunation, measures the time between two iterations of this phase. For 10 points each:[10] Name this first phase of Earth’s moon during which the lunar disk is not visible to the naked eye. Solar eclipses occur when the moon is in this phase.ANSWER: new moon[10] This term describes the phase of the moon between a quarter phase and a full moon. This term comes from the Latin word meaning “hunched.” ANSWER: waning gibbous [or waxing gibbous][10] This other term refers to an extra full moon within a given subdivision of time, like two full moons in one month. Its rarity has lead to a popular phrase meaning “very seldom.”ANSWER: blue moon2. One poem by this author, “Sleepwalking Romance,” tells of a woman with “green skin, green hair, with eyes of cold silver.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this author, who is more famous for his plays, including one about the family of Bernarda Alba. ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca[10] This Garcia Lorca play is a part of his “rural trilogy,” along with The House of Bernarda Alba and Yerma. It ends with the Bride leaving a forest after her intended husband and her lover have killed each other. ANSWER: Blood Wedding[10] Garcia Lorca was killed by Nationalist Forces at the beginning of this conflict. Ernest Hemingway worked as a journalist in this conflict. ANSWER: Spanish Civil War <OK>3. It’s not Costa Rica, but this Central American nation has no standing army. For 10 points each:[10] This nation’s namesake canal connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It gained control of the canal from the US in 1999.ANSWER: The Republic of Panama[10] This military dictator ruled Panama during the 1980s. This CIA informer was known for engaging in drug trafficking and money laundering.ANSWER: Manuel Noriega[10] Noriega was overthrown during this US operation ordered by George H.W. Bush. It was triggered by the killing of a US Marine.ANSWER: Operation Just Cause <AP> 4. The inspiration for many operas has been taken from fairy tales. For 10 points each:[10] This opera adds the Sandman and the Dew Fairy to the characters from its source story. Name this opera in which the title siblings are lured to a gingerbread house by a witch.ANSWER: Hansel and Gretel[10] This man composed Hansel and Gretel after his sister asked him to write a set of songs based on the fairy tale for her children.ANSWER: Engelbert Humperdinck[10] Due to a cancellation, the first performance of Hansel and Gretel was conducted by this composer of Salome and Der Rosenkavalier.ANSWER: Richard Georg Strauss [prompt on “Strauss”] <TG>5. Taiwo was the first-born twin, but Kehinde is considered the eldest twin in Yoruba mythology. For 10 points each:[10] In a similar biblical story, this twin son of Isaac was born second while holding onto Esau’s heel, foreshadowing a dispute over birthright.ANSWER: Jacob [accept Israel][10] One story says that these twin sons, collectively known as the Dioscuri, were the result of Leda’s seduction by Zeus while he was in the form of a swan.ANSWER: Castor and Pollux [either order acceptable][10] Zeus and Leto also had this other set of twins. One was the god of archery, and the other the goddess of the hunt.ANSWER: Apollo and Artemis [either order acceptable] <TG>6. This philosophical school influenced a number of Roman poets, including Horace, Virgil, and Lucretius. For 10 points each:[10] Name this philosophical school opposed by the stoics. It is often incorrectly associated with modern hedonism.ANSWER: Epicureanism[10] Like hedonism, Epicureanism holds that this feeling is the greatest good. Epicureans defined this mental state as being free from physical and mental pain.ANSWER: pleasure[10] Epicurean physics was based around these tiny units of matter. Epicureans disagreed with Democritus by stating that these things naturally move downward.ANSWER: atoms <TR>7. This quantity for a spring is equal to negative one half times the spring constant times the displacement squared. For 10 points each:[10] Name this scalar quantity that is equal to force times distance. This quantity measures the transfer of energy.ANSWER: work[10] This other quantity measures the amount of work done per unit of time. The electrical form of this quantity is found by multiplying the potential difference by the current.ANSWER: power[10] Power and work are both found using this operation on force. For power, this operation is used between force and velocity.ANSWER: dot product [accept multiplication; DO NOT accept or prompt an “cross product”] <GP?>8. This author believed that his greatest work was the novel Sometimes a Great Notion, which is about an Oregon logging family. For 10 points each: [10] Name this American author, who spent much of the 1960s travelling with the Merry Pranksters and holding “Acid Tests.”ANSWER: Ken Kesey[10] Kesey based much of this book on his real-life experiences as a worker at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital. ANSWER: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest[10] This character is the main antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She drives Billy Bibbit to suicide. ANSWER: Nurse Ratched <OK>9. In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union held multiple discussions regarding the manufacture of missiles that were capable of carrying nuclear weapons. For 10 points each:[10] Name the second of these agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union. This agreement was reached in 1979.ANSWER: Strategic Arms Limitations Talks II [or SALT II][10] SALT II was signed while this President was in office. This President also helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.ANSWER: James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. [10] These agreements were signed between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Similar to the SALT agreements of the 1970s, these agreements also sought to control strategic arms capabilities. ANSWER: Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty [accept START] <PB>10. One of this artist’s works inspired a W. H. Auden poem, and he had two sons who were also prominent painters. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Flemish Renaissance painter of Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and The Hunters in the Snow.ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder[10] Bruegel painted a “wedding” titled after this group of people, who were the focus of many of his works. These non-nobles were also the subject of a series of “character studies” by van Gogh that included The Potato Eaters.ANSWER: peasants[10] Bruegel made several versions of this work, which was also copied many times by his son. This painting provides literal illustrations of more than a hundred idioms.ANSWER: Netherlandish Proverbs [or Dutch Proverbs; or Flemish Proverbs; or The Blue Cloak; or The Folly of the World; or The Topsy-Turvy World] <TR>11. In 2018, Venezuela held a presidential election that was boycotted by multiple political parties. For 10 points each:[10] This man won reelection in Venezuela with 67 percent of the vote for a second six-year term.ANSWER: Nicolás Maduro Moros[10] This current claimant of Maduro’s office is a member of the Democratic Unity Roundtable, which boycotted the election.ANSWER: Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez[10] Venezuela is currently the Chair of this Cold War-era organization comprised of nations that are not officially friendly with or tied to any major power blocs.ANSWER: Non-Aligned Movement <HL>12. This man underwent surgery for bladder stones in 1658, which left him in pain for the rest of his life. For 10 points each:[10] Name this man, who recorded both his numerous extramarital affairs and a firsthand account of the Great Fire of London.ANSWER: Samuel Pepys [peeps][10] Pepys recorded his observations in this type of book. Another famous example of this type of book was written by Anne Frank. ANSWER: diary[10] Pepys’ account of the Great Plague of London is often compared to the fictional account in this 1722 book. Author Daniel Defoe may have based this book on the journals of his uncle. ANSWER: A Journal of the Plague Year <OK>13. The premise of this theory is explained by the Pauli exclusion principle. For 10 points each:[10] Name this theory used to predict the geometry of molecules based on its steric number.ANSWER: Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion [or VSEPR [vespur] theory][10] According to VSEPR theory, formaldehyde, which has equation CH2O, will have this molecular geometry. However, due to the double bond between Carbon and Oxygen, it does not have the ideal bond angle of 120 degrees.ANSWER: trigonal planar[10] This three letter method can be used to help determine molecular geometry by taking into account the central atom, the ligands attached, and lone pairs.ANSWER: AXE method <CT>14. This series of video games was created by Hidetaki Miyazaki and includes a complex lore based on various mythologies. For 10 points each:[10] Name this series of games by FromSoftware. This series is known for its difficulty and has inspired a genre of games known as this series “like.”ANSWER: Dark Souls [or Demon’s Souls][10] One recent souls-like game is this one from Gunfire Games. This game’s innovations to the genre include the use of procedurally generated levels.ANSWER: Remnant: From the Ashes[10] Remnant is also notable among souls-like games for being a part of this other genre. This genre features over-the-shoulder gunplay, as seen in franchises like Gears of War.ANSWER: third-person shooter [accept TPS; prompt on just “shooter;” do NOT accept or prompt on “first-person shooter” or “FPS”] <TR>15. For 10 points each, answer some questions about British rule in India. [10] The “Crown Rule in India” was known by this name, which is Hindi for “to rule” or “kingdom.”ANSWER: British Raj[10] The second of these peace conferences during the Raj led to the Government of India Act of 1935. Despite their names, King Arthur was not in attendance.ANSWER: Round Table Conferences[10] The Raj ended after India and Pakistan became independent nations under the transfer of power from this last Viceroy of India.ANSWER: Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten [accept Viceroy Mountbatten; accept 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; accept Prince Louis of Battenberg] <TG>16. Answer some questions about buildings used for religious purposes, for 10 points each.[10] This UNESCO world heritage site is made entirely of stone, and its design was inspired by Mount Meru. This temple complex was built by the Khmer Empire and features The Churning of the Ocean of Milk. ANSWER: Angkor Wat[10] These tall structures are symbolic for Muslim communities and are used as vantage points for which the adhan is spoken. These towers typically accompany mosques, and their name is arabic for “beacon”.ANSWER: minaret[10] Inside this place of worship you will find a langar hall, in which a free meal is provided by volunteers. These Sikh Temples are open to all people regardless of faith.ANSWER: gurdwara <CT>17. This author used a coin to narrate part of a novel focused on the investigation of a murdered miniaturist by a man named “Black.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this author of the aforementioned novel My Name is Red. He also wrote The Black Book and won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.ANSWER: Orhan Pamuk [10] Pamuk is from this country, where most of his literature is set. His novel The White Castle focuses on an Italian scholar captured by the Ottoman Empire, which was based in this modern day country. ANSWER: Republic of Turkey[10] This Pamuk novel follows the journalist Ka who covers a story about a recent ban on headscarves. The title substance keeps Ka in the city of Kars for three days during the novel. ANSWER: Snow18. In its namesake type of plant, this tissue transports water and nutrients. For 10 points each:[10] Xylem and phloem are the main components of this tissue, which uses capillary action to move molecules throughout the plant.ANSWER: vascular[10] In plants with alternating generations, vascular tissue can only be found during this dominant stage.ANSWER: sporophyte[10] The somatic cells of a sporophyte are this type of cell equipped with two sets of chromosomes.ANSWER: diploid [prompt on “2N”] <SK>19. Zvi Aharoni was put in charge of the Mossad Team tasked with tracking down this man. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Nazi Doctor nicknamed the “Angel of Death.” He conducted deadly experiments on Jews at Auschwitz.ANSWER: Josef Mengele[10] Mengele was one of the SS doctors responsible for supervising the administration of this Cyanide-based pesticide used for mass killings.ANSWER: Zyklon B [10] In 1949, Mengele fled to this South American nation under the alias Helmut Gregor. Adolf Eichmann was captured in this nation 11 years later.ANSWER: Argentina <RN>20. This art gallery was designed by Vasari, and houses many of the world’s great masterpieces. For 10 points each:[10] Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck is one of many important works housed in this gallery in Florence.ANSWER: the Uffizi gallery[10] The Uffizi houses one of the largest collections of art from this period. This period opened with an “Italian” phase in the late 13th century before expanding to more of Europe in its “Northern” phase.ANSWER: Renaissance[10] Bandinelli’s version of this figure and his sons is on display at the Uffizi. This Trojan priest of Poseidon and his sons are shown being attacked by two serpents.ANSWER: Laocoon <TG> ................
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