Given a quotation, identify the English Romantic poem FTPE:



|Team A____________________ |

|Team B____________________ |

|Almost Dewey State Invitational |

|Saturday, March 01, 2008 |

|HS Varsity - Packet 9 |

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|This match will feature 20 tossups with a bonus going to the team that correctly answers the tossup. Buzz in and answer correctly early to receive |

|power (15 points) for your response. However, avoid incorrectly interrupting the moderator as this will cost you 5 points. |

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|1. [HK] |

|This structure is a 27 km ring made up of 1232 dipole magnets and 392 quadropole magnets which are kept at minus-271 degrees Celsius by liquid helium. |

|While it has prompted concerns that it will create black holes or other destructive phenomena, its operator has refuted those claims. The purpose of |

|the structure is to try and generate the Higgs boson particle. FTP, name this structure that is currently under construction beneath the borders of |

|France and Switzerland located in the CERN complex. |

|Large Hadron Collider or LHC |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Scholars in this field include John Baugh, George Lakoff, and Deborah Tannen. FTP, name: |

|1. This academic discipline, concerned largely with the scientific study of language. |

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|linguistics |

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|2. Name this prominent linguist, a Professor Emeritus at MIT who is often noted for being the best cited scholar of the 20th century. |

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|Noam Chomsky |

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|3. Chomsky famously postulated the existence of a universal type of this. Other types include transformational, descriptive, and prescriptive. It |

|describes the rules that govern language use. |

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|grammar(s) |

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|2. [CTar] |

|Founded in 19th century Persia, this faith recognizes a line of prophets including Buddha, Muhammad, Abraham and others. More recently, a man calling |

|himself The Bab became recognized as a spiritual leader, and his tomb in Haifa, the same city as the headquarters of this faith, remains a pilgrimmage |

|destination. His follower Bahá'u'lláh went on to found, FTP, what religion that emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind. |

|Baha'i' Faith |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Answer the following about a general who served under Alexander the Great FTPE: |

|1. This general under Alexander seized Alexander’s body after his death and stored it temporarily in Memphis; he founded an Egyptian dynasty that |

|lasted almost three hundred years |

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|Ptolemy I Soter |

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|2. Ptolemy allegedly sponsored the studies of geometry by this man, who compiled his learning in The Elements, which Ptolemy himself couldn’t |

|understand |

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|Euclid |

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|3. Ptolemy’s dynasty lasted until the death of this final queen of Egypt who carried on with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar |

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|Cleopatra VII |

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|3. [ktb] |

|The author of this play found its title scrawled on a bathroom mirror in soap. The characters of this play engage in games such as “Humiliate the Host”|

|and “Get the Guests” among others. In 1966 it was adapted into a film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the main roles. For ten points what |

|Albee play features Martha, George, Honey, and Nick? |

|Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? |

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|Bonus: [tmk] |

|FTPE, name these prominent men of the Protestant Reformation. |

|1. This German is famous for having nailed 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg. |

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|Martin Luther |

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|2. This Frenchman led the Reformed church in Geneva. |

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|John Calvin |

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|3. This father of Presbyterianism wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. |

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|John Knox |

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|4. [CMT] |

|Seventeen hundred people were killed in 1986, when it was emitted in large quantities from Lake Nyos. It has no liquid state below five atmospheres, |

|but its solid state can be reached at one atmosphere and a temperature of negative seventy-eight degrees Celsius. Plants remove it from the atmosphere,|

|where it is the third most common gas, but -- FTP -- humans release this greenhouse gas both by driving and by breathing. |

|Carbon Dioxide (also accept CO2) |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Identify the following ships from American history, FTPE: |

|1. Abraham Whipple led a group of Rhode Island colonists that boarded and burned this tax revenue enforcer when it ran aground in 1772. |

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|HMS Gaspee |

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|2. Attacked first in 1807 by the HMS Leopard, it was also defeated by the HMS Shannon during the war of 1812 prompting Captain James Lawrence to order |

|“Don’t Give up the Ship!” |

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|USS Chesapeake |

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|3. This frigate was one of the few bright spots during the war of 1812 defeating the HMS Guerriere and Java en route to earning its famous nickname of |

|“Old Ironsides.” |

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|USS Constitution |

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|5. [PB] |

|Its name comes from the Choctaw language and means ‘Red People.’ Its highest point is Black Mesa, and the lowest is at the Little River. Some mountain |

|ranges within this state include the Arbuckle Range, Wichita Range, and part of the western Ozarks. FTP, name this state lying west of Arkansas whose |

|capital city was the site of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building. |

|Oklahoma |

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|Bonus: [HK] |

|Answer these questions about a painter, FTPE. |

|1. In this painting, the artist put her head on the body of a deer which has been shot full of arrows. |

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|El Venadito or the little deer |

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|2. El Venadito was painted by this painter whose other works include "La Columna Rota" and "El ambrazo amoroso del universo." |

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|Frida Kahlo |

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|3. Kahlo married this communist who painted Vladimir Lenin on the inside of Rockafellar Center. |

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|Diego Rivera |

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The above bonus is not verified!

 

|6. [ktb] |

|The play opens with a woman complaining about her sister-in-law’s brood of “No-necked monsters” while her husband visits and revisits his liquor |

|cabinet, which he has affectionately named “Echo Springs”. While the family is heard playing croquet, the woman chastises her husband for drinking and |

|not sleeping with her, and informs us that if she doesn’t have children, her husband’s brother Gooper and his “monster of fertility” for a wife will |

|inherit the plantation when Big Daddy dies of cancer. Big Daddy and his son Brick have a long talk about the “mendacity” of the family and why Brick |

|won’t sleep with Maggie. FTP, what is this play about the Pollitt family by Tennessee Williams? |

|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |

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|Bonus: [HK] |

|Here are some more questions relating to particle physics. Answer them FTPE. |

|1. This principle says that electrons are emitted form a piece of metal when light is shined on it, as long as the light has a sufficiently high |

|frequency. |

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|Photoelectric effect |

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|2. This principle says that you can either know where a particle has been and where it is going, or you can know where the particle is at a given time,|

|but not both at the same time. |

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|Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |

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|3. In regard to wave-particle duality, this is the name of the wavelength given to a particle. It is calculated by dividing Planck’s constant by |

|momentum of the particle. |

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|de Broglie wavelength |

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|7. [Chi] |

|This event was set into motion when Mary of Modena’s birth of a potential male heir caused a number of prominent politicians and generals to welcome a |

|landing at Tornay. The unfortunate victim of this revolution fled down the Thames (TIMZ) and was captured by fishermen, though he later fled to France |

|and then Ireland. FTP name this 1688 event in English history that resulted in James II being deposed in a bloodless coup by William of Orange. |

|The Glorious Revolution (Prompt on Revolution of 1688 before mention) |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Geographical biology questions, FTPE: |

|1. Name the Scottish geologist who wrote Principles of Geology, a book that would later influence Charles Darwin in his theory of natural selection. |

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|Charles Lyell |

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|2. Lyell was the main proponent of this- the idea that the same geologic processes are occurring now, and at the same rate, as those of the distant |

|past. |

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|Uniformitarianism |

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|3. Uniformitarianism contrasted this theory, which states that each boundary in geologic strata was created by large scale disaster. |

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|Catastrophism |

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|8. [HK] |

|This was extant during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. Following the breakup of Pangea and the closing of the Tethys basin it formed the Pacific |

|Ocean. Most of its crust has been subducted by the Nazca, Corcos,Gorda, and Juan de Fuca plates. FTP, name this super-ocean, with a whose Greek name |

|means "all seas." |

|Panthalassa |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Given information about a particular river, you name the river, FTPPA. |

|1. This river is vitally important to French culture and runs from Dijon in the south to the English Channel in the north. It is the second-longest |

|river in France. |

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|_Seine_ (pron. “sane”) |

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|2. This river flows into the Black Sea and parts of it were designated as the German-Polish border after World War II. |

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|_Oder_ |

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|3. This river, the 10th longest in the world, and its delta came into prominence during the Vietnam War as tensions among China, Thailand, and Cambodia|

|arose over its use. |

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|_Mekong_ |

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|9. [Chi] |

|One of them at Fraser Canyon led to the official founding of British Columbia, “Three Lucky Swedes” sparked another one at Anvil Creek, and one at |

|Central Otago resulted in the growth of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. The aftermath of an 1854 one of these sparked the Eureka Stockade rebellion |

|in Australia and they were also partially responsible for the invasion of the Black Hills by Custer. FTP, name these events which also include one at |

|Nome in 1899, Dahlonega in 1828, and California in 1848. |

|gold rushes (accept equivalents like strikes, finds, etc. DO NOT accept any other minerals except gold). |

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|Bonus: [rts] |

|It begins on Good Friday of the year 1300 "In the middle of our life's journey", and ends on Easter Sunday under a star-studded sky. FTPE: |

|1. Name this Italian epic poem where the poet Dante is guided through the titular realm by the Roman poet Virgil. |

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|The Inferno |

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|2. Virgil hails from this first circle of Hell, home of the Unbaptized and the virtuous pagans. Here Dante meets Homer, Socrates, and interestingly, |

|Saladin. |

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|Limbo |

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|3. After leaving Limbo, Dante and Virgil meet this gatekeeper, who assigns incoming sinners their respective punishments. In Greek mythology he was the|

|legendary King of Crete. |

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|Minos |

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|10. [NM] |

|This composer saw failure with his one act opera Djamileh. He composed the comic opera Don Procopio during the time he lived in Rome. He received good |

|press with his opera The Fair Maid of Perth but it was only performed 18 times. His most famous opera, which was based on a novel by Prosper Merimee, |

|was a success. FTP, name the French composer who is best known for the operas The Pearl Fishers and Carmen. |

|Georges Bizet |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Answer the following relating to a 19th Century Violinist, FTPE: |

|1. Regarded in legend as the greatest virtuoso violinist ever, he published such works as Cantabile in D Major and 24 Caprices for solo violin, the |

|last of which has become more famous than the original. |

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|Niccolo Paganini |

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|2. The most famous variation of Paganini's last caprice is this man's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. |

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|Sergey Rachmaninov |

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|3. Paganini was one of the first proponents of this man's music, commissioning but never performing Harold in Italy. He is best known for composing |

|Symphony Fantastique. |

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|Hector Berlioz |

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|11. [ktb] |

|The daughter of the title character assumes the name Fidele and disguises herself as a page while attempting to find her husband, Posthumus Leonatus, |

|who was banished to Rome. Iachino betrays Fidele, whose real name is Imogen*, causing Posthumus to order Pisanio to kill her. All is reconciled when |

|Iachimo is outed as a villain and all return to live with the title British king in what Shakespearean work, which features the line "Hark! Hark! The |

|Lark!" |

|Cymbelline |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|Given a very short, very formulaic play in which two characters talk for a really long time until one kills the other, identify the author, FTPE: |

|1. This author of The Zoo Story, in which Jerry and Peter talk for a really long time on a bench, is also famous for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. |

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|Edward Albee |

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|2. Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, sit around a tree doing very little throughout the majority of this man’s “Waiting For Godot”. |

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|Samuel Beckett |

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|3. This radical African-American author who wrote Dutchman, in which Clay and Lulu talk for a really long time in a subway car, also wrote the book |

|Blues People: Negro Music in White America and the controversial poem “Somebody Blew Up America” about 9/11. |

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|Amiri Baraka (or Everett LeRoi Jones) |

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|12. [NM] |

|Many of this artist’s early works were watercolors that included S. Giorgio Maggiore: Early Morning and Colour Beginning. One of his first oil |

|paintings was Fisherman at Sea, and it was hung at the Royal Academy when he was 21. Other oil paintings by this artist include Dido Building Carthage |

|and The Fighting Tameraire. FTP, name the English landscape artist whose most famous paintings include The Slave Ship and Rain, Steam, and Speed. |

|J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Turner |

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|Bonus: [AMW] |

|Canterbury tales, know you love ‘em, here goes, ten points each. |

|1. Which tale tells of Arcite and Palamon who both vie for Emily? Arcite wins but dies before he can claim her, so she weds Palamon. |

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|The Knight's Tale |

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|2. This one is all about the experiences the teller has had within five marriages, and how old and rich are the best partners. |

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|The Wife Of Bath’s Tale |

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|3. If you’ve seen that Disney movie Rock-A-Doodle, then you remember this tale about Chanticlere the rooster who escapes from a fox. |

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|The Nun's Priest's Tales |

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|13. [tmk] |

|It brought together fiscal conservatives and southern states’ rights supporters under a platform of national development. Though it was prominent for |

|nearly two decades, it began to dissolve in the 1850’s into pro- and anti-slavery factions. Though the presidents elected from it are today known |

|mainly for their obscurity, its prominent members included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. FTP, name this American political party that formed in the |

|1830’s in opposition to the policies of Andrew Jackson. |

|Whig Party |

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|Bonus: [rts] |

|FTPE identify the following about a theologian and early Church Father. |

|1. This man was the son of St. Monica and later held the position of Bishop of Hippo. |

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|St. Augustine of Hippo (accept "Aurelius Augustinus" or "Blessed Augustine") |

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|2. This autobiographical work contained in thirteen books written by Augustine described his sinful youth and his later, dramatic conversion to |

|Christianity. |

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|(The) Confessions (of St. Augustine) |

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|3. Augustine defined this title location as being in conflict with the City of Man, and spends much of the twenty-two volume work discussing the nature|

|of God, martyrdom, and Christianity. |

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|The City of God (ACCEPT "De Civitate Dei") |

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|14. [NM] |

|Calculation: |

|Chiego is at it again. Now he wants to visit the seven wonders of the ancient world, only on this trip, he will double his stay at each new |

|destination, starting with a one-day trip to the Colossus of Rhodes. For 10 points, how long is Chiego's trip this time? |

|127 days (which, not coincidentally, is 27-1, a Mersenne prime) |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Identify the following about a certain Roman Emperor, for ten points each. |

|1. He succeeded Claudius as emperor and is probably most famous for the myth that he fiddled while Rome burned. |

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|Nero |

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|2. This mother of Nero acted as regent at the beginning of his reign, but he eventually had her assassinated. |

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|Agrippina |

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|3. Galba, the successor of Nero, was the first of what would be four emperors during which year? |

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|69 AD (or CE) |

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|15. [cbs] |

|Alexander von Humboldt explored its basin in 1800. Its major tributaries include the Meta, Apure, and the Caroni which arises near its source in the |

|Guiana Highlands. It flows through the Llanos of Columbia and into the Gulf of Paria. FTP, name this river, with over 75% of its volume in Venezuela, |

|that is home to one of the rarest crocodile species in the world, named after the river itself. |

|_Orinoco_ River |

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|Bonus: [HK] |

|Answer these questions about acids, FTPE. |

|1. This is the class of acid designated as a electron pair acceptor. |

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|Lewis Acid |

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|2. This equation is used when calculating the pH of buffer solutions. |

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|Henderson-Hassalbalch equation |

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|3. These functional groups consist of a carbon double bonded to an oxygen, a hydroxide group, and an R group. Common examples are formic acid and |

|acetic acid. |

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|Carboxylic acid |

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The above bonus is not verified!

 

|16. [ktb] |

|His works typically involve an older man and a young women who seems to be unattainable for either social or political reasons, and this type of |

|relationship can be found as early as his first widely acclaimed short story “The Dancing Girl of Izu”. Hideo and Chieko exemplify it in this author’s |

|“The Old Capital”, as do Shimamura and Komako in “Snow Country”. FTP, name this Nobel-Prize winning author of “The House Of The Sleeping Beauties”, |

|“The Sound Of The Mountain”, and “The Master Of Go”. |

|Yasunari Kawabata |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|FTPE, identify these components of the limbic system. |

|1. It’s the almond-shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe that is involved in emotional responses notably in fear and anger |

|responses. |

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|Amygdala or Amygdalae |

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|2. Also located within the temporal lobe, this seahorse-shaped structure is involved in memory development, especially in the formation of long-term |

|declarative memories. |

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|Hippocampus |

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|3. This structure links the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland and regulates body temperature, hunger, thirst, and |

|circadian rhythms. |

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|Hypothalamus |

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|17. [PB] |

|He is president of the National Association of W Lovers, and wears saddle shoes. Although it has not been proven, he has allegedly been photographed |

|with Osama bin Laden, and what is believed to have been his clone or ancestor is alleged to have been one of Hitler’s favorite generals. FTP, name this|

|bottle-cap-collecting yellow Muppet, owner of a pet pigeon named Bernice and a foil to his roommate, Ernie. |

|Bert |

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|Bonus: [PB] |

|Cleveland Rocks! FTPE, answer these questions about the song, “Cleveland Rocks.” |

|1. For what TV show set in Cleveland was this the theme song from 1997 until 2004? |

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|The Drew Carey Show |

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|2. What American band from Seattle also known for the singles “Lump” and “Peaches” performed the version heard on The Drew Carey Show and released it |

|on their album Pure Frosting? |

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|The Presidents of the United States of America |

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|3. Who originally wrote “Cleveland Rocks” and released it as “England Rocks” in 1977? |

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|Ian Hunter |

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|18. [aap] |

|Rediscovered in the late 1600s, it was seized by Napoleon in 1803 and taken to Paris to be used as an inspiration for his planned attack on England. |

|Modern sources speculate that it was probably commissioned by Bishop Odo, the half brother of the English king, but tradition states that it was the |

|work of Queen Matilda. Measuring* 20 inches by 230 feet, its detailed scenes begin with Edward the Confessor appearing to send Harold Godwinson to |

|Normandy and ends with a depiction of Harold's death, though the primary focus is William the Conqueror. FTP, identify this work of embroidery that |

|portrays the events of the Norman conquest and the Battle of Hastings. |

|Bayeux Tapestry |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Identify the following ancient Greek sculptors, FTPE. |

|1. He sculpted the Athena in Plataiai but is best known for his Statue of Zeus. |

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|Phidias |

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|2. One work attributed to him is Anadumenus, but his most famous work is the Discobolos. |

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|Myron |

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|3. Works by this sculptor of the 4th century B.C. include Apollo Sauroktonos and Aphrodite of Knidos as well as one of Hermes. |

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|Praxiteles |

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The above bonus is not verified!

 

|19. [ktb] |

|His orchestral tone poem, The Golden Spinning Wheel, takes its subject from the poetry of Karel Jaromir Erben. Other tone poems include, "The Noon |

|Witch" and "The Water Goblin," but he is better known for a series of three rhapsodies, the third of which opens with a harp solo whose substance is |

|immediately taken up by the woodwinds. Brahms helped him publish his* "Moravian Duets" and his greatest opera is a Bohemian "Little Mermaid" called |

|Rusalka. FTP, name this Czech composer of the "Slavonic Rhapsodies" and a symphony composed in Spillville, Iowa, called "From the New World." |

|Antonin Dvorak |

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|Bonus: [rts] |

|FTPE, moons of the solar system! |

|1. Ganymede may be the largest moon in the system, but this moon of Neptune comes in seventh. It is also the only large moon with a retrograde orbit. |

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|Triton |

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|2. This moon is Saturn's second-largest moon. Its name comes from the mother of Chronus in Greek mythology. |

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|Rhea |

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|3. While some moons like Ganymede and Titan are larger than the planet Mercury, this moon is one of the smallest. It is the smaller moon, or for that |

|matter, rock of Mars. |

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|Deimos |

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|20. [CMT] |

|Between 1910 and 1940, it was the home of the controversial Eugenics Records office. Barbara McLintock discovered transposons here in 1944 which earned|

|her a Nobel Prize. In its illustrious history six others have received Nobel Prizes, including James Watson, who served as its director and president |

|for thirty five years until October 2007, when controversial remarks forced him to resign. For ten points, name this preeminent genetics laboratory on |

|Long Island, New York. |

|Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |

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|Bonus: [tmk] |

|FTPE, name these Emily Dickinson poems from quotes. |

|1. "I willed my Keepsakes--Signed away / What portion of me be / Assignable--and then it was / There interposed a Fly--" |

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|I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died |

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|2. "As Lightning to the Children eased / With explanation kind / The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind" |

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|Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant |

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|3. "We passed the School, where Children strove / At Recess--in the Ring-- / We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain-- / We passed the Setting Sun--" |

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|Because I Could Not Stop for Death |

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|End of Game. Verify Scores. Captains sign score sheets. |

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