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Aztlán Cup Packet 16: UCLA/Swarthmore (C. Meigs, S. Kaplan, D. Wynne, P. Lujan, et al)

Tossups:

1. In its second act, Bobby, pretending to be Bela Zangler, sings a duet of “What Causes That” with the real Bela, each of them lamenting their unrequited love for different women. Premiering on Broadway in 1992, its plot was adapted from the 1930’s Girl Crazy. Bobby Child, a New York banker, must go to Deadrock Nevada to foreclose on a theater, but he falls in love with Polly, the daughter of the theater owner, and convinces her to put together a show to save the theater. The townsfolk have all got rhythm, but more mayhem ensues before the inevitable happy ending. FTP, name this musical written around the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

ANSWER: Crazy for You

2. The main character’s sister, Esta, runs off with an actor and gets pregnant. He then gets into a car accident that kills a child and forces him to flee Kansas City. When he meets his uncle in Chicago, that uncle offers him a job at a collar factory in Lycurgus. At that factory he meets Roberta Alden who he seduces and gets pregnant. When Roberta demands that the two get married Clyde plots to drown her in a lake. FTP, name this novel about Clyde Griffiths, a 1925 work by Theodore Dreiser.

ANSWER: An American Tragedy (charitably prompt on Clyde Griffiths on early buzz)

3. In the Polish phase of this war, the Swedes won victories at Riga and Duenamunde, occupying Warsaw and forcing the accession of Stanislaw Leszczynski. (LESH-CHEEN-SKEE) After numerous Swedish defeats, the Danes joined into the fray, and it was in Danish Norway that the king who started this war was finally shot, at Frederiksten, after a sojourn in Bessarabia having been stranded there. Most famous is however the phase which saw the battle of Hangoe and Abo, and more famously Narva and the Swedish defeat at Poltava. FTP, name this war lasting from 1700-1721, caused mainly due to the imperialist machinations of Sweden’s King Charles XII.

ANSWER: Great Northern War

4. It was either Abu Barakaat Yusuf al-Barbary or Sheikh Yusuf Shamahuddin who was responsible for the conversion of this island group, and the likely first settlers were migrating Buddhist or Hindu settlers. Kudahuvadhoo was the site of exploration by Thor Heyerdahl, and François Pyrard, the European discover of these islands, was wrecked at the Baa Atoll. Perhaps its greatest fame came from its export of cowrie shells, that were a standard currency in the Middle East. FTP, name this island chain off the western coast of India, with capital at Male (MAH-LAY).

ANSWER: The Maldives

5. He was nicknamed “The Indomitable Rhinoceros”, and his school for rhetoric, logic, dialectic, and theology drew scholars from all over France, where he taught such students as John of Salisbury and Peter Lombard. A brilliant instructor, he was a controversial figure during his time, probably due to his habit of visiting other schools and arguing with the instructors. Oh, and he also caused quite a stir by having an affair with one of his students. FTP, identify this scholastic, author of Sic et Non, who was castrated after his affair with Heloise.

ANSWER: Peter Abelard

6. Born in 1955 in Jakarta to Dutch parents, this man’s last name is Ockerse. He released only three albums: a “Best of” compilation in 1991, 1984’s “Let’s Face the Music” and 1981’s “After Eight,” featuring the title track. He is only well-known for another song on that album, featuring lyrics such as “million-dollar trooper,” “Rockefellers,” “Park Avenue,” “Gary Cooper,” and “super-duper.” FTP, name this one-hit wonder from the 80’s, who sang the classic anthem of New York ostentation, “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

ANSWER: Taco Ockerse

7. One variety of it involves an evanescent wave extending across a separating medium and the flow of energy through that medium. It only occurs when the incident light is in the medium with the higher index of refraction, and it can be used to losslessly redirect a beam in the direction of its source using a specifically shaped prism. The guiding principle behind fiber optics, FTP, name this phenomenon in which the incident angle is so high that refraction does not occur.

ANSWER: Total Internal Reflection

8. He worked as a claims inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance and was never a professional in the field for which he is famous. His claims fell out of favor after Eleanor Rosch Heider’s color experiments, but in recent years, his theories have regained some popularity, particularly at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The hypothesis that bears his name should also be attributed to Edward Sapir , who in turn was influenced by Franz Boas. He is best known for his work with the Hopi language, particularly his paper “Language, thought, and reality.” FTP, name this amateur linguist who famously claimed that the language you speak influences the way you think.

ANSWER: Benjamin Lee Whorf

9. Formerly nicknamed the “Canyon Meadows Kid,” he was born in Freiburg, Germany, he played only two years at Wisconsin before jumping to the NHL after being drafted second. He scored 67 points in his rookie season on the way to the Calder Trophy, and had 89 during his second season, though his most notable accomplishment was in one game where he scored four goals in the 2003 NHL All-Star Game. He has only scored 16 points this season due to his involvement in a car crash that killed Dan Snyder. FTP, name this star right wing for the Atlanta Thrashers.

ANSWER: Dany Heatley

10. Among his notable speeches were an “Olynthiac,” coaxing his people to go to war to protect the Chalcidice from foreign aggression. This advice was followed, albeit haphazardly, by his pacifist rival Eubulus, who thought it wiser to give war money to the Theoric Fund. He was angered by the actions of Phrynon and Philocrates in securing peace, and directed a series of speeches against the man they made peace with, saying that the other party was insincere and accusing the Athenian embassy of bribes. FTP, name this noted politician and orator of the 4th century BC, best known for his Philippics.

ANSWER: Demosthenes son of Demosthenes

11. Born in Cornwall in 1911, he was brought up to be a scientist, but refused to follow the career path suggested by his parents. During his early years, he was involved in such diverse occupations as schoolteacher, musician, actor, and as a sailor, he was present at the sinking of the Bismarck during WWII. Eventually, he decided to make a career of writing, publishing such works as The Inheritors, The Spire, and Darkness Visible. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 1980 for Rites of Passage, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. FTP, name this British author of Lord of the Flies.

ANSWER: William Golding

12. His father had engaged the Urgriu before his birth and he is sent into the woods to live with Liath Luachra and Bodhmal the Druidess. He is unable to reveal his name lest clan Morna find out, though his original name is Demne. Much of his story involves his sixteen-year chase after the woman who runs away because she doesn’t love him, Grainne (grahn-ya), whom he obtains by saving King Cormac mac Airt’s life. A notable event in his life happens when the druid Finegas gives him the Salmon of Knowledge and he gains the ability of prophecy. FTP, name this Irish hero who created Lough Neagh (LOKH-NAY) and the Giant’s Causeway.

ANSWER: Finn mac Cool or Fionn mac Cumhail (still pronounced “COOL”)

13. Its name comes from the Potowatomi word for “wild onions” or “skunk.” The birthplace of Gillian Anderson, Donald Rumsfeld, and Walt Disney, it was the site of the Lager Beer Riot of 1855, the Eastland disaster, and was home to the first Ferris wheel. It has not had a Republican mayor since 1927, and hosted the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Its nickname is derived from its politicians’ speeches, not its weather. FTP, identify this city which mostly burned to the ground in the Great Fire of 1871.

ANSWER: Chicago

14. Modern man-made varieties of these include the Langstroth and top-bar types, which both make use of removable frames. These replaced older designs such as skeps, which have the disadvantage that humans had to kill the inhabitants before harvesting the contents. In all of these, the internal substructure is composed of hexagonal cells made of wax built by the inhabitants, containing honey or pollen. For ten points, what are these structures which you would find in an apiary?

ANSWER: beehives

15. He held the rank of Sergeant in the French army during the battle of Waterloo. He didn’t win any particular honor there, but he did make a profit by robbing the dead, including the father of his future daughter’s love interest. After the Napoleonic wars ended, he married, moved to Montfermeil, and opened an inn, which cheated its customers outrageously. Once this business failed, he moved to Paris, where he continued his villainous ways by operating a street gang and pimping out his daughter. FTP, identify this villain from Hugo’s Les Miserables.

ANSWER: Monsieur Thénardier

16. One of the main scenes in this novel is a skimmington ride which incites the death of one of the main characters. It is a furmity seller who sets most of the action into motion, though it is the gossip of ignoble townspeople such as Mother Cuxsom and the carelessness of Jopp that causes the skimmy ride that causes the apoplexy of the woman who had arrived earlier from Jersey, Lucetta LeSueur. The fate of the title character is sealed when a sailor arrives after a long absence, ruining everything that the title character had had with his supposed daughter, Elizabeth Jane. FTP, name this novel about the downfall of a public official in Wessex, a novel by Thomas Hardy.

ANSWER: The Mayor of Casterbridge

17. Some of his later work included portraits of Edith Mahon and his own wife, and his own self-portrait shows himself with a resigned face, in a warm light, dressed in a coat and tie. Unlike other American portraitists, he refused to flatter his clients in order to gain financial compensation, and for this he received meager funds in his lifetime. His most famous painting was sold for two hundred dollars to its namesake institution, after critics deemed as “unsightly” a bloodied hand of a surgeon. FTP, name this Pennsylvania born artist, most famous for “The Gross Clinic.”

ANSWER: Thomas Eakins

18. Common types of this procedure include saddle, side, and whip. The shoot is sometimes known as the scion, and it can only be done between two closely related species, although sometimes even species within the same genus, such as the Norway and Sugar maple, will not unite through this process. Fruit tree propagation is carried out asexually by performing this procedure on rootstock, but this procedure may be better known in its surgical application. FTP, identify this botanical term for affixing together the tissues of two woody plants, not to be confused with the transplantation of skin to repair burn damage.

ANSWER: Grafting

19. Stars of this type are denoted by a Roman numeral V following the spectral class. Typically, stars leave this area after approximately 10 percent of their hydrogen has been exhausted, which takes 1 million years for an O-type star but 200 billion years for an M-type one, which has much lower luminosity. When plotted on an H-R diagram, this class of stars runs from the upper-left corner to the lower-right corner. For ten points, what is this class of stars containing the vast majority of stars in our universe, including our Sun?

ANSWER: main sequence stars

20. He was named after an intestinal beetle that caused his mother’s menstruation to be screwed up and his difficult birth and loss of his father Senzangakona caused him to be an unparalleled mama’s boy. His death was no less inglorious, as he was tossed into a grain pot. In between, an Mtetwa chieftain named Dingiswayo saw potential in this man, and he rose to be chief among the Mtetwa. Among the first groups he went after were his own eLangeni clain, who had insulted him during childhood. He eventually came to occupy all of the Natal region, and is famed for unifying his tribe. FTP, name this man, the most famous chieftain of the Zulu people.

ANSWER: Shaka Zulu

21. Recently, the veracity of John Z. Howell’s personal account of this event has come under severe questioning, as it was calculated that his numbers were so exaggerated that it was physically impossible for what he claimed to have happened to actually have occurred. In addition, most historians now believe that the Nawab of Bengal had nothing to do with the event, if said event even actually occurred. Regardless, it served as justification for British Imperialism for centuries. FTP, identify this event that supposedly took place in 1756, in which 146 English soldiers were locked in an 18’ by 15’ room for an entire night.

ANSWER: The Black Hole of Calcutta

22. Serge has just spent 200,000 francs on a painting which, to Marc’s disgust, is nothing but white lines on a white background. Serge defends his purchase, and Marc brings in Yvan to take his side, but Yvan waffles, wanting to please them both. In the end, Serge magnaminously allows Marc to draw on the painting with a felt tip marker, knowing the ink will be easily removable. As they wash away the little skier that Marc drew, Marc declares that the painting “represents a man who moves across a space, and disappears.” FTP, name this play by Yasmina Reza.

ANSWER: Art

23. He was known as the “Ginger Kid,” a nickname given to him by a Chicago reporter in 1912. He played for the White Sox for his entire career, and Ty Cobb once commented that he would never bunt when this man was playing third base. John Cusack played him in the film “Eight Men Out,” and in the early 1990s, Fay Vincent denied a petition to have him posthumously reinstated to professional baseball. FTP, name this player who was banished as part of the Black Sox scandal, despite the fact that he wasn’t involved in his teammates’ plan to throw the game.

ANSWER: George Daniel “Buck” Weaver

Aztlán Cup Packet 16: UCLA/Swarthmore (C. Meigs, S. Kaplan, D. Wynne, P. Lujan, et al)

Bonuses:

1. Identify these authors of works named after cities F10PE.

A. Paterson

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams

B. Winesburg, Ohio

ANSWER: Sherwood Anderson

C. Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War; two possible answers either acceptable

ANSWER: Newt(on) Leroy Gingrich and William Forstchen (either one)

2. Identify these things emitted from a volcano FTPE.

A. This is molten rock ejected during an eruption which soon solidifies into solid rock.

ANSWER: lava

B. This fast-moving flow, composed of liquified ash, rock, and hot gas, flows along the ground at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, making it exceedingly dangerous.

ANSWER: pyroclastic flow (accept also nuée ardente)

C. This concrete-like mixture of rock, mud, and water flowing down from a volcano can bury large areas. ANSWER: lahar

3. Answer these questions that are hereby classified as music FTSNOP.

A. F10P, This composer’s Opus 67 is the story of a boy that gets into trouble by not heeding his grandfather’s warning to stay out of a meadow where animals lurk.

ANSWER: Sergei Prokofiev

Now for five points each, given an instrument tell what animal it represents in that work.

B. Oboe

ANSWER: Duck (not Bird)

C. French Horn

ANSWER: Wolf

D. Clarinet

ANSWER: Cat

E. Flute

ANSWER: Bird (not Duck)

4. Identify these famous problems in physics FTPE.

A. The ultraviolet catastrophe; that is, the prediction that blackbody radiation increases indefinitely with frequency, was resolved by this theory.

ANSWER: Planck’s radiation law (prompt on quantum theory or similar)

B. The precession of the perihelion of Mercury, which could not be explained by Newtonian mechanics, required this theory to explain.

ANSWER: general relativity or GR

C. Special relativity is required to explain this effect, which is not predicted classically, where the frequency of light appears shifted to an observer perpendicular to the direction of the light.

ANSWER: tranverse Doppler effect

5. Given the member of the 2003-2004 Los Angeles Lakers, name the college he attended 5-10-20-30.

A. Shaquille O’Neal

ANSWER: Louisiana State University or LSU

B. Luke Walton

ANSWER: University of Arizona

C. Gary Payton

ANSWER: Oregon State University

D. Derek Fisher

ANSWER: University of Arkansas at Little Rock or UALR

6. Other people like The Name of the Rose. Particularly, they like all the allusions in the plot that make us feel clever. Identify these shout-outs to other books in The Name of the Rose FTPE.

A. This librarian of the monastery, who presides over an area rife with hidden and confusing rooms, is named for another man, who wrote quite a bit about an infinite library.

ANSWER: Jorge de Burgos [Note: do not accept Borges]

B. De Burgos is protecting a lost volume of this Aristotle work. The missing volume would have been on comedy.

ANSWER: Poetics

C. This author of Foucault’s Pendulum wrote The Name of the Rose.

ANSWER: Umberto Eco

7. Answer these questions about a recent Internet video controversy, FTPE.

A. This hotel heiress star of the Simple Life and assistant coach of the Buffalo Braves at the 2004 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game has gotten press for a recent sex tape released involving her.

ANSWER: Paris Hilton

B. This man, her co-star in that film, has claimed the copyright to that video and is selling it over the internet for $55.00 a copy. He was once married to Shannen Doherty.

ANSWER: Rick Solomon

C. Supposedly, there is another sex tape rumored involving Paris Hilton and a Playboy Playmate, being filmed by an ex porn-star who played George in Scary Movie 3 and was a star of the TV show “What I Like about You.” Name either FTP.

ANSWER: Nicole Lenz or Simon Rex

8. Given clues, name the obscure mythology, FTPE.

A. This country’s mythology includes Velu mate, the goddess of the death, Perkons, the thunder god, and Laima the god of fate, among others.

ANSWER: Latvian

B. Cautha was a sun god, Februus was the god of the underworld, Menrva was a warrior goddess, and Nethuns was the god of water, who later amalgamized with Poseidon to form Neptune.

ANSWER: Etruscan

C. Ignirtoq was a lightning goddess, Negafok was a cold weather spirit, Nootaikok was the god of icebergs, and Nanuq was the bear god.

ANSWER: Inuit or Eskimo

9. Given a feat, name the last major league baseball player to accomplishment that feat, 10 each.

A. A batting average above .380 in a full season not shortened by strike.

ANSWER: Rod(ney) Cline Carew (1977)

B. 75 or more stolen bases in a season.

ANSWER: Kenneth “Kenny” Lofton (1996)

C. 30 wins by a pitcher in a season.

ANSWER: Dennis Dale “Denny” McLain (1968)

10. Name these painters of the Renaissance in the Low Countries, FTPE.

A. He used the mode of relief and created such works as “Annunciation”, but he may be best known for his painting “Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife”

ANSWER: Jan van Eyck (IKE) (prompt on van Eyck)

B. Trained at Tournai, he had a comparatively flat and linear style to Van Eyck, and painted a “Descent from the Cross,” “Portrait of a Lady” and did the Bladelin altar in 1452.

ANSWER: Rogier van der Weyden

C. Van der Weyden’s most famous pupil was this man from Bruges, best known for painting “Madonna and Child with Angels” and “The Merchant of Venice.”

ANSWER: Hans Memling

11. Identify these acids FTSNOP.

A. F5P, this strong acid is produced by the Ostwald process.

Answer: nitric acid

B. F5P, this diprotic strong acid is produced by the contact process with a platinum or vanadium catalyst.

Answer: sulfuric acid

C. F10P, this simplest carboxylic acid has formula HCOOH.

Answer: formic or methanoic acid

D. F10P, this acid which is also an alcohol accumulates in muscles when anaerobic glycolysis occurs due to lack of oxygen.

Answer: lactic acid

12. Identify these parts of a comet FTSNOP.

A. F10P, this innermost part of the comet is the actual solid part.

Answer: nucleus

B. F10P, this head composed of the gas released from the nucleus can often be as large as 1 million kilometers in diameter.

Answer: coma

C. F5PE, comets typically have two distinct tails: one is composed of ionized particles and points directly away from the sun, while the other interacts less strongly with the solar wind and is a wider curve. Name them for five points each.

Answer: ion or plasma tail and dust tail1

13. Hurrah for the workers of the world – everyone loves early American labor activists! Name a progressive given a description FTPE:

A. A central figure in the Pullman strikes, when he ran for President in 1920 he was the only American ever to do so from prison.

ANSWER: Eugene V. Debs

B. This co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World was known as the “Miner’s Angel” for her tireless support of striking miners, even into her advanced age.

ANSWER: Mother Jones (accept Mary Harris Jones) (prompt on Jones)

C. An icon for both feminists and anarchists, she was called by J. Edgar Hoover “the most dangerous woman in America” prior to her deportation to Russia in 1919.

ANSWER: Emma Goldman

14. Identify the novel from a description of some characters 30-20-10.

A. 30) Sugar-Boy O’Sheean is the first character encountered; he drives fast and eats sugar cubes. Sadie Burke is a seemingly no-nonsense secretary.

B. 20) Judge Irwin is actually the protagonist’s father. Cass Mastern is an ancestor of the protagonist who fought as a Confederate soldier.

C. 10) Jack Burden is the narrator and protagonist. Willie Stark is a politician modeled on Huey Long.

ANSWER: All the King’s Men

15. Identify these books you may have read in high school from some main characters FTPE.

A. Jordan Baker, George Wilson

ANSWER: The Great Gatsby

B. Benjamin; Moses; Boxer

ANSWER: Animal Farm

C. Clarisse McClellan; Mildred Montag

ANSWER: Fahrenheit 451

16. FTPE, given a list of national parks, name the Canadian province in which they can be found.

A. Kootenay, Yoho, Mount Revelstoke, and Gwaii Haanas

ANSWER: British Columbia

B. Mingan Archipelago, Forillon, and La Mauricie

ANSWER: Québec

C. Grasslands, Prince Albert

ANSWER: Saskatchewan

17. Apparently the Professional Football Hall of Fame isn’t the only Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Name these inductees into the Christian Hall of Fame, FTPE.

A. The second earliest Christian Hall of Famer, he was a second century Bishop of Smyrna who was persecuted by the Roman Empire and eventually burned alive.

ANSWER: Polycarp of Smyrna

B. This man’s views differed from Luther’s most notably on the doctrine of consubstantiation, and he was the leader of the Swiss reformation.

ANSWER: Ulrich or Huldreich Zwingli

C. This Christian Hall of Famer was an Irishman from Donegal who set up a monastic center at Iona, from which he led the conversion of Scotland to Christianity.

ANSWER: Saint Columba

18. Identify these 1964 Supreme Court cases that are frequently confused with other decisions F15PE.

A. The defendant in this criminal case asked to see his lawyer while he was being interrogated by the police, but was refused. Justice Goldberg said his subsequent confession was not admissible.

ANSWER: Escobedo v. Illinois

B. After previously ruling that legislative apportionment could be challenged in court, the Supreme Court used this 1964 case to declare the principle of “one person, one vote” in choosing state legislatures.

ANSWER: Reynolds v. Sims

19. 30-20-10, name this military officer from clues.

A. 30) He was the first Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at the ROTC unit in UC-Berkeley.

B. 20) He is the author of the essay, “Who Commands Sea – Commands Trade”, which he delivered on the day of his departure from the position of Chief Naval Officer in 1948.

C. 10) He succeeded Kimmel as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet in December of 1941.

ANSWER: Admiral Chester Nimitz

20. FTSNOP, identify these people, all of which have something in common.

A. F5P, he was Federal Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998, before being succeeded by Gerhard Schröeder.

ANSWER: Helmut Kohl

B. F10P, Kohl’s predecessor, he acted as Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, before being ousted by a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

ANSWER: Helmut Schmidt

C. F15P, This German-born photographer died in a car crash earlier this year. He was known for his provocative black and white photos of nude women.

ANSWER: Helmut Newton

21. Answer the following related questions about fifth-century BC Greece, FTPE.

A. This Egyptian led an uprising against Persia during the 450’s, soliciting Athenian help, but after initial successes, the combined forces were crushed by Megabyzus, dealing a great blow to the confidence of Athens. This man was later crucified by Persia.

ANSWER: Inaros

B. In the early years after the Persian Wars, this Spartan commanded the Hellenic fleet in sieges of Cyprus and Byzantium, was accused of medism and recalled to Sparta, and retook Byzantium, only to be starved out in a temple of Athena.

ANSWER: Pausanias

C. A leading figure in the earlier Delian League, he oversaw many successful campaigns, including the retrieval of Theseus’ bones from Sciros. A leader of the pro-Spartan faction in Athens, he is compared to Lucullus in Plutarch’s Lives.

ANSWER: Cimon (II), son of Miltiades

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