High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



TOSSUPS1. A character created by this writer entertains around the campfire with the Iliad, though he pronounces Achilles as “Ash-heels.” This author wrote about a Euchre game that exposes the hypocrisy of Nye, as he accuses a Chinese immigrant of cheating while being a cheater himself. In a work by this author, a man accuses an orphan of “rastling with his finger” as residents drop gifts in a top hat. That character, (*) Kentuck, later dies with Stumpy in a flash flood. In another work by this author, Mother Shipton starves herself to save a child, and John Oakhurst commits suicide. For 10 points, name this author of “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat.” ANSWER: Bret Harte <Kodama>2. This country was the site of a royal uprising called the Boworadet Rebellion. A fascist leader of this country known as Phibun adopted the Roman salute, issued twelve “cultural mandates,” and allied with Japan during World War II. In this nation in 1932, the Khana Ratsadon, or People’s Party, overthrew the absolutist rule of the now ceremonial (*) Chakri dynasty. At the time of his death in 2016, Rama IX, the king of this country, was the world’s longest-reigning head of state. This country’s prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was overthrown in May 2014 in a military coup, and it is currently led by Prayut Chan-o-cha. This nation was the only country in Indochina that was not a European colony in the 20th century. For 10 points, name this country ruled from Bangkok.ANSWER: Thailand <Sivakumar> 3. In a work titled for “(this thinker) and the Sea Battle”, G.E.M. Anscombe describes the necessity of negation for universals that are universally quantified. Plotinus’ Theology of (this thinker) was recovered from Arabic interpretations and is the basis of much Islamic philosophy based on this thinker. Avicenna stated that he read one of this man’s works 40 times before al-Farabi’s commentary allowed him to understand it. William of Ockham stated that 7 of this thinker’s 10 (*) categories were unnecessary and that this man’s first cause argument has been interpreted as an argument for the existence of God. This thinker posited that eudaimonia was the peak of human experience in his Nicomachean Ethics. For ten points name this ancient Greek philosopher and student of Plato, who also wrote the Organon and taught Alexander the Great.ANSWER: Aristotle <McLain>4. An angle-preserving transform named after a scientist from this country sets z equal to zeta plus one over zeta and is used in designing airfoils. The fact that liquid helium-3 will cool if compressed below 0.3 Kelvin is a type of cooling named after another physicist from this country. A law named after a physicist from this country concerns the evolution of the distribution function of (*) plasmas, and another law named after a physicist from this country explains the negative sign in Faraday’s Law. A device that confines plasma within a magnetic field in the shape of a torus, called tokamaks, were first invented this this country. One physicist from this country found that a blue glow was emitted when particles traveled faster than the speed of light in a medium. For 10 points, name this country, home to scientists such as Lenz, Pomeranchuk, Vlasov, and Cherenkov.ANSWER: Russia or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (accept either) <Hao>5. In this novel, a man who loses an election for chaplaincy is forced to support his friend, despite the two sharing a love interest. That man, Camden Farebrother, believes himself to be a poor clergyman, while another character is mocked for his beliefs about Parliamentary reform. A character in this novel gives her sister all but two pieces in her mother’s jewelry collection while another, Mr. (*) Featherstone, attempts to get Mary to alter his will. She refuses, leading Fred Vincy to approach her brother for money. The protagonist’s husband suffers a heart attack after their honeymoon in Rome and posthumously declares that if she marries his cousin, Will Ladislaw, her inheritance will be taken away. Reverend Causabon and Dorothea Brooke appear in, for 10 points, which novel about life in a small English town by George Eliot?ANSWER: Middlemarch: A Story of Provincial Life <Sharma>6. One method of calculating this quantity sets it proportional to the natural logarithm of B sub i. This quantity is not electronegativity, but it is can be approximated by the negative of the first ionization energy plus electron affinity all over two. This quantity can also be calculated by an insertion method named for Widom. Temperature, volume, and this quantity are held constant in the (*) grand canonical ensemble. Negative S dT plus V dP equals the sum of mole number times this quantity over all components of a system; that relation is the Gibbs-Duhem equation. It's not concentration, but diffusion can occur when particles move down a gradient of this quantity, which is also equal to the partial derivative of free energy with respect to particle number. For 10 points, name this quantity, which represents the change in energy when a particle is added to a system.ANSWER: chemical potential <Hao>7. The final leader of this empire was exiled to Myanmar by the British. This empire fought against the Maratha Empire in the War of Twenty-Seven Years. Farrukhsiyar, a figurehead of this empire, was put in power by the Sayyid brothers, and Nader (*) Shah routed this empire in the Battle of Karnal. For a short period of time, this empire was interrupted by the rule of Sher Shah Suri. One ruler of this empire created a religion known as Din-e-ilahi. The defeat of Ibrahim Lodi at the First Battle of Panipat resulted in this empire’s creation. The Peacock Throne and the Red Fort were two architectural works of this empire. For ten points, name this empire whose rulers included Shah Jahan and Akbar. ANSWER: Mughal Empire <Tummarakota>8. If these structures form parallel to the cuticle, then the pileipellis is classified as a cutis. These structures can be described as gloeoplerous if they have a high refractive index and seem to contain a granular substance under a microscope. These structures are flattened to create infectious cells called appressorium, and they are tightly intertwined in an ascocarp. Haustoria may be found at the tip of these structures in parasites, and microbodies which plug holes between cells in these structures are called (*) Woronin bodies. To help these structures grow, Spitzenk?rper are found at their tips. Cells in these structures are divided by septa, and in a symbiotic relationship, these structures may form Hartig nets with the roots of the host plant. For 10 points, name these small threads that collectively make up the mycelium in fungi.ANSWER: hyphae <Hao>9. One short story by this author describes a friendship with Miriam Saiyetovitz; the sad life of Miriam’s parents gives the story its name “The Defeated.” This author of Occasion for Loving and Town and Country Lovers wrote a novel in which the Indian shopkeeper Bismillah lives near a 400-acre farm that is run by the chief herdsman Jacobus; that novel’s title refers to the industrial executive (*) Mehring. In another of this author’s works, the boy Victor is initially suspected of stealing a gun, but the actual thief was Daniel, who runs off to join Black revolutionaries fighting elsewhere in South Africa. That work ends as Maureen Smales runs towards a helicopter and is set primarily in the home village of her servant July. For 10 points, name this author of July’s People who won a Booker Prize for The Conservationist.ANSWER: Nadine Gordimer <Loo>10. Chinese archaeologists gave really nonscientific names such as Chaoyangsaurus and Chungkingosaurus to dinosaurs that lived during the Oxfordian age of this period. Tanzania’s Tendaguru Formation is home to rare fossils of dinosaurs that lived during this period, such as Kentrosaurus. An orogeny that started in this period created the Klamath and Sierra Nevada ranges, and the only anoxic event that took place during this period is the Toarcian turnover. Both the Sundance Sea and (*) Tethys Sea disappeared during this period. Perhaps the earliest bird, Archaeopteryx, lived during this period, and the Morrison Formation contains many important fossil records form this period. Allosaurus dinosaurs frequently attacked Stegosaurus during this period, and Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus are examples of the sauropods that dominated this period. For 10 points, name this period of the Mesozoic era that took place after the Triassic.ANSWER: Jurassic period <Hao>11. The name for this plan came from a 1914 book by Fabian Society member Graham Wallas. The majority of this plan was passed in two sessions of the 89th Congress, and one aspect of it was designed by Francis Keppel. This plan was outlined by its originator in a speech at the University of Michigan, and it created the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. This plan included laws such as Head (*) Start and Medicare, as well as two Civil Rights Acts. This initiative included the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act as part of its War on Poverty. For 10 points, name this group of social reforms that included Medicare and Medicaid, passed under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.ANSWER: Great Society <Sivakumar> 12. Two artworks included in this series are subtitled “harmony in green” and “harmony in red”. 15 of these paintings were destroyed by their artist just before their exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery. In 1999, 60 works on the same subject as these paintings were exhibited at the Musee de l’Orangerie, in which eight of these paintings are housed. The artist of these paintings said their aim was to give “the illusion of an endless whole, of (*) water without horizon or bank.” Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas is one painting in this series, another of which shows a Japanese footbridge arcing over a pond. For 10 points, name this series of paintings depicting certain flowers in Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny.ANSWER: Water Lilies <Sivakumar>13. A band known as this man’s “boys” released several albums for Brunswick Records, including “Room 1411,” which he co-wrote with Glenn Miller. In the early 1940s, this man frequently collaborated with Charlie Christian on recordings like Rose Room. This musician premiered several works for his instrument by classical composers, including Bela Bartok’s (*) Contrasts and a sonata by Francis Poulenc. He first achieved fame after playing on the NBC show Let’s Dance. This man’s namesake quartet, one of the first racially integrated jazz groups, included Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson. This clarinetist and his orchestra performed in a 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall which ended with Louis Prima’s “Sing, Sing, Sing.” For 10 points, name this jazz musician known as the “King of Swing.”ANSWER: Benny Goodman <Sivakumar>14. In this play, a young woman finds a “vile” pale blue envelope on a mahogany table in a dress shop. That woman’s family comes into trouble after her step-father sends away his wife with his secretary. The Mother in this play is named Amalia. In this play, the dress shop owner is summoned by hanging up coats and hats, and her name is Madame Pace (“pah-chay”). The (*) Father in this play tries to seduce a prostitute, The Step-Daughter, and she tells The Mother to “Scream, as you screamed then!” At the end of this play, after a little girl is found dead in a fountain, a revolver gunshot is heard off-stage and there is a debate over whether The Boy’s death is “reality” or “pretence.” For ten points, name this play about in which the title figures interrupt The Manager’s production of Mixing It Up, written by Luigi Pirandello. ANSWER: Six Characters in Search of an Author or Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore <Mathew>15. This musician describes his grandmother as “handmade, pan-fried, sun-dried, Southside, and beat the devil by a landslide” in his single “Sunday Candy”. That solo preceded a studio album he recorded with Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment called Surf. In one of his music videos, this musician soars over a city skyline and rides on top of a metro. This musician sings “This is my part, nobody else speak” in a (*) collaboration with Kanye West, “Ultralight Beam.” This musician’s first album was a project he worked on and named for a duration of time he was suspended from high school, Ten Day. This musician collaborated with Childish Gambino on “Favorite Song”, which, along with “Cocoa Butter Kisses”, is part of his second official mixtape. For ten points, name this rapper of the mixtapes Coloring Book and Acid Rap who famously wears a hat with the number 3.ANSWER: Chance the Rapper (Accept Chancelor Jonathan Bennett) <Lee>16. This object disrupted service in a location later renamed “Stadium of World Youth”. One part of this object was located next to the Lenne Triangle. It was guarded by the military groups NVA and KdA. To avoid this entity, a series of trains known as “Sputniks” were built. Allan Lightner’s attempt to see an opera sparked a controversy surrounding this object. The construction of this object created “ghost (*) stations” in which subways on certain lines would not stop. An attempt to cross this structure led to the death of Peter Fechter. This structure, which was often bypassed by Checkpoint Charlie, effectively fell on November 9, 1989. Ronald Reagan famously told Gorbachev to “tear down,” for 10 points, what structure that once divided the capital of Germany?ANSWER: Berlin Wall <Sivakumar>17. This composer died before finishing his orchestral cantata Atlantida, which was completed by his student Ernesto Halffter. This man wrote a harpsichord part into his puppet opera Master Peter’s Puppet Show for Wanda Landowska, who also commissioned this man’s harpsichord concerto. This composer included sections like “Distant Dance” and “In the Generalife” in a group of “symphonic impressions” dedicated to Ricardo Vi?es. The “Dance of the Will-O’-the-Wisp” and (*) “Ritual Fire Dance” appear in one ballet by this composer which concerns Carmelo’s love for Candelas. In this composer’s best known ballet, a magistrate is offered grapes by a miller’s wife. For 10 points, name this Spanish composer of Nights in the Gardens of Spain, El Amor Brujo, and The Three-Cornered Hat.ANSWER: Manuel de Falla <Sivakumar>18. Members of this community follow Rahit, a set of guidelines that includes not smoking tobacco. After joining this community, men take on a name meaning “lion” and women take on a name meaning “princess.” Those names are Singh and Kaur, respectively. The first five members of this community were the Panj Pyare, and the sixth member was the man who founded it, Guru Gobind Singh. (*) Members may join this community after undergoing a ceremony that includes the Mool Mantra, which is part of the Guru Granth Sahib. Unlike the Sahajdari, members of this community following the rules include having uncut hair and carrying a long dagger, the five K’s. For 10 points, name this community of fully initiated Sikhs. ANSWER: Khalsa [prompt on Sikhs or word forms until mentioned, description acceptable until “name this community”] <Mathew>19. One member of this group forbade the constellation Ursa Major from “touching Ocean’s deep” or in other words, setting below the horizon. Another member of this group was known as a pillar of the west and has three brothers. Another one of these tasked Campe with guarding the Hecatoncheires. This group was imprisoned by a bronze fence after losing a great (*) battle, during which the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes joined forces with two defectors of this group, Themis and Prometheus, to help defeat them. As punishment for losing that battle, a leader of this group, Atlas, was cursed to hold the sky for eternity. For ten points, name this group of powerful entities, who were led by Zeus’s father, Cronus, and overthrown by the Olympians.ANSWER: Titans <Orlov>20. In a work by Jeffrey Masson, this man was accused of denying sexual abuse of infants. That work is The Assault on Truth. One work by this man criticized a hypothetical therapist who posits a forgetting preference for proper names and focused on the deviations from everyday stereotypes. In addition to The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, this thinker wrote a work where he claimed that technology causes people to become (*) “unhappy gods with prosthetic limbs.” That work is Civilization and Its Discontents. Another work by this thinker focuses on examples of the title phenomena such as “Irma’s injection” and one about chopping down a tree that may represent your father. For ten points, name this psychologist who posited the id, ego, and superego, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.ANSWER: Sigmund Freud <McLain>BONUSES1. Von Lindemann first proved that pi is this type of number, and Charles Hermite showed that e is also this type of number. For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of number, which cannot be the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients.ANSWER: transcendental number[10] This French mathematician gave the first example of a transcendental number, which was 0.110001…, where a digit in the nth place after the decimal point was one if it was a factorial of another integer, and zero otherwise. He also names a theory with Sturm about second-order linear differential equations.ANSWER: Joseph Liouville[10] The fixed point of this function, which is also known as the Dottie point, is a transcendental number. In Euler’s formula, this function describes the real part of “e to the i x power.”ANSWER: cosine <Hao>2. In this painting, a trolley heads toward Vesey Street while a street vendor hawks goods from a pushcart. For 10 points each:[10] Name this George Bellows painting depicting a poor neighborhood in a certain city’s Lower East Side.ANSWER: Cliff Dwellers[10] George Bellows, the painter of Cliff Dwellers, was part of this early 1900s artistic movement founded by Robert Henri which sought to portray realistic city life.ANSWER: Ashcan School (or The Eight)[10] This city was the subject of most works by the Ashcan School, such as Cliff Dwellers and Henri’s painting Cumulus Clouds, East River.ANSWER: New York City <Sivakumar> 3. This man introduced a “revisionary” approach to literary criticism in The Anxiety of Influence. For 10 points each:[10] Name this American critic who focused on 26 major literary works in his The Western Canon.ANSWER: Harold Bloom[10] Bloom wrote that “no twentieth-century novelist can match” this man’s “roster of vivid personalities.” He left the novel Jean Santeuil unfinished at his death, while Vinteuil and Odette de Crecy appear in his most famous work.ANSWER: Marcel Proust[10] Bloom’s only attempt at a novel is titled “The Flight From” this figure. He rules Hell in Dante’s Inferno.ANSWER: Lucifer <Sivakumar> 4. This man developed a safety lamp which used an iron mesh to prevent explosions in mines. He also hired Michael Faraday as an assistant after a lab accident. For 10 points each:[10] Name this English scientist who discovered many alkali and alkaline earth metals by using electrolysis.ANSWER: Humphry Davy[10] Davy also disproved this man's theory that all acids contained oxygen. This man also published the first modern chemistry textbook, Elementary Treatise on Chemistry.ANSWER: Antoine Lavoisier[10] Lavoisier worked with Laplace to write this memoir, in which he detailed their finding that respiration was in fact an extremely slow combustion.ANSWER: On Heat <Hao>5. Several German military actions were named after Tannenberg. For 10 points each: [10] At the Battle of Grunwald, also called the First Battle of Tannenberg, a Polish-Lithuanian alliance defeated and killed this Teutonic Grand Master. ANSWER: Ulrich von Jungingen [10] The 1914 Battle of Tannenberg saw Germany defeat Russia under the command of this general. From 1916 to the end of World War I, he effectively shared power with Erich Ludendorff. ANSWER: Paul von Hindenburg [10] Operation Tannenberg was a genocide carried out by this government, which held millions of people in concentration camps like Auschwitz. ANSWER: Nazi Germany (prompt on “Germany” ; accept any ANSWERs relating to Nazis) <Sivakumar>6. The title character of this novel was modeled on Paul Gauguin. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel in which the English stockbroker Charles Strickland abandons his wife and children to paint in Tahiti.ANSWER: The Moon and Sixpence[10] The Moon and Sixpence was written by this author, who wrote about the clubfooted orphan Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage.ANSWER: William Somerset Maugham[10] Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge centers on Larry Darrell, an American pilot who fights in this war. Other works set during this war include Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.ANSWER: World War I <Sivakumar>7. Among this man’s lesser known works are the operas Merlin and Henry Clifford. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Catalan composer of the piano suite Iberia.ANSWER: Isaac Albeniz[10] Albeniz is from this nation, whose regions he depicted in his Suite Espa?ola. ANSWER: Spain[10] Albeniz’s work Asturias (Leyenda) was transcribed for this instrument by Francisco Tarrega. Famous players of it include Julian Bream and Andres Segovia.ANSWER: guitar <Sivakumar>8. This work’s protagonist, a subject of Kubera, is exiled for a year from the city of Alaka. For 10 points each:[10] Name this long poem depicting the journey of a titular object in the sky.ANSWER: The Cloud Messenger (or Meghaduta)[10] The Cloud Messenger was written by this man, whose other works include the play The Recognition of Shakuntala.ANSWER: Kalidasa[10] Kalidasa wrote in this ancient Indian language, also used to write the Ramayana.ANSWER: Sanskrit <Sivakumar>9. During this war, one side’s advance was stopped at the Battle of Ituzaingo. For 10 points each:[10] Name this conflict over the Banda Oriental region between Argentina and Brazil.ANSWER: Cisplatine War[10] This man, the first head of state of an independent Brazil, led his country during the Cisplatine War.ANSWER: Dom Pedro I (prompt on “Pedro”)[10] The war led to the creation of this country, whose capital since independence has been Montevideo.ANSWER: Uruguay <Sivakumar> 10. This man was assassinated by two women with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. For 10 points each:[10] Name this half-brother of Kim Jong-Un who defected in 2012.ANSWER: Kim Jong-nam[10] Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong-Un, ruled this East Asian country from Pyongyang.ANSWER: North Korea[10] Kim Jong-nam fell out of favor after being arrested at Narita International Airport while trying to visit this attraction in Tokyo.ANSWER: Disneyland <Sivakumar>11. Bai Juyi's Chang Hen Ge, or Song of Everlasting Sorrow, retells the death of this person. For 10 points each:[10] Name this person, strangled to death by Gao Lishi after her cousin, Guozhong, was accused of treason. This member of the Four Beauties of ancient China was Emperor Xuanzong's favorite consort.ANSWER: Yang Guifei[10] Yang was unfortunately caught up in the turmoil around this Sogdian general’s rebellion, which established an extremely short-lived Yan Dynasty.ANSWER: An Lushan[10] The An Lushan rebellion severely weakened this Chinese dynasty, which ruled from 618 to 907. It was preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the “Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” period.ANSWER: Tang Dynasty <Hao>12. These hormones trigger the degradation of DELLA proteins, and ent-kaurene is a precursor to this class of proteins. For 10 points each:[10] Name this class of proteins, which stimulates stem elongation in plants.ANSWER: gibberellins[10] Eiichi Kurosawa first researched gibberellins in the fungus Gibberella fujikoroi, which caused this “foolish seedling” disease in rice crops in Asia.ANSWER: Bakanae[10] All known gibberellins can be classified as diterpenoid types of these chemical compounds. In the Lewis definition of these compounds, they accept electron pairs.ANSWER: acid <Hao>13. For 10 points each, name the following related to a certain holiday in India.[10] Hindus commemorate Rama’s defeat of Ravana and return to Ayodhya on this festival of lights. ANSWER: Diwali or Deepavali[10] The Sikh holiday of Bandi Chhor Divas coincides with Diwali. On this day, Sikhs celebrate Guru Hargobind-ji’s exit from this place. ANSWER: prison or jail or Gwalior Fort (accept either part)[10] On Diwali, Jains celebrate the anniversary of when this person achieved nirvana. This person is the last of the tirthankaras. ANSWER: Mahavira [or Vardhamana] <Mathew>14. This conflict began following the XYZ affair. For 10 points each:[10] Name this undeclared war between the U.S. and France. ANSWER: Quasi-War[10] The Quasi-War occurred during the presidency of this man, who succeeded George Washington. ANSWER: John Adams (prompt on “Adams”) [10] During the Quasi-War, this ship captured the French ships L’Insurgente and La Vengeance. Following the war, this ship’s captain Thomas Truxton earned two gold medals. ANSWER: USS Constellation <Sivakumar>15. The OGLE experiment uses a “micro” version of this effect to discover extrasolar planets. For 10 points each:[10] Name this effect, which was first found in the QSO 0957+561 double quasar.ANSWER: gravitational lensing[10] Gravitational lensing results in the creation of a ring named for this person, who wrote four papers in his Annus Mirabilis year of 1905.ANSWER: Albert Einstein[10] In gravitational lensing, the angle of deflection is equal to this number times mass times big G divided by the quantity distance times the speed of light. There are also this many gauge bosons, and Lorentz transformations apply to vectors with this many dimensions.ANSWER: four <Hao>16. In one work, this thinker argued for the abolishment of standing armies, while in another he compared the sublime and the beautiful. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author of Perpetual Peace and Critique of Judgement.ANSWER: Immanuel Kant[10] In another work, Kant proposed this ethics rule, which argues that you should not act in any way that you could not wish to be a universal standard.ANSWER: categorical imperative[10] The categorical imperative was first laid out in this work of ethics by Kant, which also argued that a good thing is only a good thing if it is done with good intentions.ANSWER: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (accept: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; accept Grounding of, Grounding for, or Foundations of in place of Groundwork of) <McLain>17. In this novel, the protagonist falls in love with the schizophrenic Genevieve Terhoven. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel about the tombstone company manager Ludwig, set in Germany during the 1920s.ANSWER: The Black Obelisk[10] The Black Obelisk was written by this man, better known for All Quiet on the Western Front.ANSWER: Erich Maria Remarque[10] This 19-year-old character dies after a leg amputation in All Quiet on the Western Front. His watch is stolen in the hospital, and Friedrich Muller strongly desires his boots.ANSWER: Franz Kemmerich <Sivakumar>18. Answer some questions about conflicts involving Set. For 10 points each:[10] Set repeatedly gets into contests with this figure, which Set always loses. This falcon-headed figure is also the god of the sky.ANSWER: Horus[10] In order to win the throne of Egypt from Set, Horus built a stone one of these objects, allowing him to win a race.ANSWER: boats[10] In another conflict, Set is tricked into eating lettuce covered in the semen of Horus as revenge for raping him. This results in Set becoming pregnant with this item, which Thoth sometimes wears on his head.ANSWER: Golden Disk <Orlov>19. The principal actor in The Gods Must Be Crazy was from this country, which also controls the Caprivi Strip. For 10 points each:[10] Name this African country, which shares the Kalahari Desert with South Africa and Botswana.ANSWER: Namibia[10] N!xau ?Toma (pronounced “Gcao Coma”), the aforementioned actor, was a member of these people whose territory spans much of southern Africa. These people are alternatively known as bushmen.ANSWER: San People[10] N!xau (again, pronounced “Gcao”) spoke Jul'hoan, a language characterized by usage of these sounds. In writing, these sounds are often represented by an exclamation mark.ANSWER: clicks <Hao>20. This contemporary of Barbara Hepworth created six casts of his Draped Seated Woman. For 10 points each:[10] Name this British sculptor who created a series of Reclining Figures.ANSWER: Henry Moore[10] Moore’s Reclining Figures were influenced by Chac Mool sculptures from this empire’s capital of Chichen Itza.ANSWER: Mayan Empire[10] Moore created sculptures like the sundial-shaped Man Enters the Cosmos and Nuclear Energy for this US city.ANSWER: Chicago <Sivakumar> ................
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