High School Quizbowl Packet Archive



TOSSUPS1. [Note: composer and type of work needed] A famous study of these works was published by Cuthbert Girdlestone, while Arthur Hutchings created a “companion to” them. The final one of these works includes an E-flat major larghetto second movement, and several of them were written for the composer’s student Barbara Ployer. An F-sharp minor slow movement, which is part of the 23rd of these pieces, is the only time their composer used that key. The penultimate one of these works has large parts of the (*) left hand missing and is known as “Coronation”. Some of these pieces are nicknamed “Lützow,” “Jeunehomme,” and “Elvira Madigan.” For 10 points, name these works for a keyboard instrument and orchestra by the composer of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.ANSWER: piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart <Sivakumar>2. This battle’s winning side won again nine years later at the Battle of Oldendorf. The build-up to this battle included a skirmish at the Rippach stream. During this engagement, the preacher Jakob Fabricius famously sang a psalm and Dodo von Knyphausen held one side’s position for over two hours. Both sides in this battle were slow to mobilize due to its namesake heavy fog. At the start of this battle, Count Gottfried zu (*) Pappenheim died after being wounded by a cannonball. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar assumed command of one side after its leader died in this battle, while the losing side was commanded by Albrecht von Wallenstein. Gustavus Adolphus was killed in, for 10 points, 1632 Protestant victory in the Thirty Years War?ANSWER: Battle of Lutzen <Sivakumar>3. Fang and Chen used St?rmer's theorem on Pell’s equation to negatively answer Sierpiński’s problem asking if 4 of these numbers could form a geometric sequence. An integer n is this type of number if and only if 8 n plus 1 is a perfect square. Ramanujan-Nagell numbers are simultaneously Mersenne primes and these numbers, and setting p equals 1 in Faulbaher’s formula gives these numbers. Gauss’s “Eureka theorem” states that every positive integer can be expressed as the sum of (*) 3 of these numbers, and the nth one of these numbers is equal to the number of edges in the graph K sub n. Subtracting two consecutive ones yields a trapezoidal number, while summing two consecutive ones yields a perfect square. In an n-team round robin, the “n-1”th number of this type will be the number of rounds, and the nth one of these numbers equals n times the quantity n+1 over 2. For 10 points, name these numbers that include 1, 3, 6, and 10, and are named after the simplest polygon.ANSWER: triangular numbers <Hao>4. One country contributed 4500 members of its military to this conflict in Operation FRICTION. This conflict’s final battle was the Battle of Norfolk, the second-largest tank battle in U.S. history. This war included the Battle of Khafji, and one side’s army during it was commanded by Khalid bin Sultan. During this conflict, Republican Guard’s 1st Armored Division was massacred on Highway 8, which became known as the Highway of (*) Death. In an effort to distract enemies, the losing side in this conflict launched Scud missiles at a non-participant. After losing a ground campaign, the military of one country in this war set fire to about 700 oil wells. This conflict’s main offensive was codenamed Operation Desert Storm. For 10 points, name this war fought by a US-led coalition in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.ANSWER: Persian Gulf War (or First Gulf War; prompt on Operation Desert Storm before mention) <Sivakumar>5. The artist of this painting series advertised it with lines from Canto IV of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. One artwork in this series shows two children dressed in red and green fighting at the lower right, while another shows a headless statue based on the Borghese Gladiator overlooking an unstable bridge. In the first of these paintings, a (*) hunter pursues a deer in the wilderness and canoes paddle up a river, while the final work in this series shows a moonrise with birds resting on an isolated pillar. This series includes paintings titled The Savage State, Destruction, and Desolation. For 10 points, name this set of paintings by Thomas Cole about the rise and decline of a civilization.ANSWER: The Course of Empire <Sivakumar>6. WARNING: AUTHOR AND TYPE OF WORK REQUIRED. A character in one of these works by this author saves a grasshopper covered in ash before using many others as bait for fishing. In another of these works by this man, a father convinces his son to accompany him while he delivers a child, whose father subsequently commits suicide with a razor. A waitress behind a beaded curtain carries Anis del Toro in another work by this author of (*) “Big Two-Hearted River”; in that work, The American attempts to talk Jig into getting an abortion without ever using the word. For 10 points, name these works by this author that include “Indian Camp” and “Hills Like White Elephants” and often star Nick Adams. ANSWER: Short stories by Ernest Hemingway (prompt on partial answer) <Sharma>7. Signal pathways which primarily use this compound, salicylic acid, and jasmonate provide disease resistance in Arabidopsis. In the last step of the biosynthesis of this compound, hydrogen cyanide, carbon dioxide, and water are generated as waste products from an oxidation, while in the first step, a molecule of ATP must be input to synthesize S-A-M (read letters individually), or AdoMet, from methionine. SAM is then converted to ACC in the next step of the (*) Yang Cycle. The hypocotyl is thickened and shortened in the “triple response” to this compound, and Neljubow found that this compound from gas lamps caused plants to grow horizontally. Because bananas are picked when green, this compound might be applied to them in the supermarket to make them turn yellow. For 10 points, name this plant hormone that regulates abscission and ripening, with formula C2H4.ANSWER: ethylene or ethene <Hao>8. This man’s former sports and recreation minister was arrested in late December 2017 after failing to account for 10 tons of beans on his farm. After this man left office, his second vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko was named acting president. In October 2017, this man was named a goodwill ambassador by the World Health Organization before being withdrawn a day later. Constantino (*) Chiwenga released a statement condemning this leader’s purges of senior officials a day before he was forced to resign. This man’s wife became known as “Gucci Grace” because of her expensive shopping trips, and fears over her succeeding to the presidency led to this man’s overthrow. Emerson Mnangagwa took office after this man was toppled in a military coup. For 10 points, name this 93-year-old former president of Zimbabwe.ANSWER: Robert Mugabe <Sivakumar>9. This religion’s founder was healed by Phineas Quimby, and later wrote The Manual of the Mother Church. Branch churches in this religion do not use an article in their name so as to not be confused with the Mother Church in Boston. There are 26 topics for this religion’s Lesson-Sermons, but sometimes “Christ, Jesus” gets read three times in a year. (*) Adherents meet on Sundays in Reading Rooms, mostly in the United States but around the world. This religion publishes a newsletter focused on domestic and international current events, titled The Monitor. Its female founder wrote its primary text in 1875, Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures. For 10 points, name this religion founded by Mary Eddy Baker which, like Pentecostalism, does not condone the use of medicine because of the belief that disease comes from fear. ANSWER: Christian Science or Church of Christ, Scientist <Mathew>10. As a result of this conflict, an Obotrite leader named Niklot was forced to pay tribute and destroyed his own castle at Dobin. During this war, Count Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona led the Siege of Tortosa and Raymond of Poitiers was suspected of having an affair with his own niece. One offshoot of this war saw Henry the Lion ravage Mecklenburg and Pomerania in a campaign against a group of Slavs called the (*) Wends. This conflict was launched by the papal bull Quantum praedecessores, and its cause was preached by the French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux. This war, which was begun after Edessa fell to Imad ad-Din Zengi, was led by Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany. For 10 points, name this crusade which included a disastrous siege of Damascus, the first which failed to take the Holy Land.ANSWER: Second Crusade (accept Wendish Crusade before “Raymond”) 11. A squire of this character named Gurth manages to escape from his former master and joins the jester Wamba in the forest. Before the events of the novel in which he appears, this character is disinherited by his father for joining the Crusades, and he is rescued from Torquilstone Castle by Robert Locksley’s band of outlaws. This character duels his rival (*) Brian de Bois-Guilbert at a tournament while disguised as the “Disinherited Knight.” Cedric of Rotherwood eventually allows this character to marry his daughter Lady Rowena, despite the fact that this character supported the Norman king Richard. For 10 points, name this title character of a novel by Sir Walter Scott. ANSWER: Wilfred of Ivanhoe (accept either underlined name) <Kodama>12. This state is home to the indigenous Noongar people in its southwestern corner, and its northernmost region is known as Kimberley. This state’s Porongurup and Stirling ranges are both designated as national parks, and it is the second-largest producer of iron ore in the world. The Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts are located almost entirely in this state. A port city of this state’s capital experiences a sea (*) breeze known as its namesake “Doctor”, and that capital is located on the Swan River. Like an eastern neighbor, this state contains part of the Nullarbor Plain. It is bordered to the west by South Australia and the Northern Territory and to the east by the Southern Ocean. For 10 points, name this largest state of Australia with capital at Perth.ANSWER: Western Australia <Sivakumar>13. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope appears to use only one of this type of shot, but actually contains several of these with cuts in between. Similarly, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki used several of these shots to make Birdman seem like it was shot in one take. It’s not a tracking shot, but Park Chan-wook used this technique on a hallway fight scene in (*) Oldboy for nearly three minutes. Until digital cameras came about, directors were often forced to use this technique so that the film didn’t run out. Lubezki again used this type of take for a seventeen minute long establishing shot at the opening of Gravity. For ten points, name this camera technique in which a shot lasts uninterrupted for an above-normal duration. ANSWER: long take [accept one take until mentioned, accept sequence shot or sequence take, accept clear-knowledge equivalents until “For ten points,” do not accept “long shot”]14. This was the first compound to be found in interstellar medium using only radio interferometers; that discovery was made by David Mehringer. Ketene reacts with water to form this compound, and carbon disulfide was chlorinated in the first inorganic synthesis of this molecule, which was discovered by Hermann Kolbe. Four groups of this compound are found in a chelating agent called (*) EDTA. Solid-phase peptide synthesis often uses a trifluorinated version of this compound, and one process for producing this compound uses an iridium di-iodide dicarbonyl catalyst. That process, which proceeds by the carbonylation of methanol, is named for Cativa and replaced the earlier Monsanto process. At 16.6 degrees Celsius, the anhydrous “glacial” version of this compound begins to form. This compound is the second simplest carboxylic acid after formic acid. For 10 points, name this weak acid, which is found in vinegar.ANSWER: acetic acid or ethanoic acid or CH3COOH or HC2H3O2 <Hao>15. While in prison with the Yaqui Indian Tobias and this character, a lawyer condemned to die by firing squad says “A revolution starts in the battlefields, but once it gets corrupted, even though military battles are still won, it's lost.” That doomed lawyer, Gonzalo Bernal, was the brother of this character’s wife. This title character’s only childhood friend Lunero was the servant of the character’s uncle; after accidentally shooting that uncle, this character fled to (*) Veracruz. As this character lies in bed, his daughter Teresa and wife Catalina wait to hear him disclose where he has placed his will. For 10 points, name this title character of a novel about the demise of a Mexican tycoon, created by Carlos Fuentes.ANSWER: Artemio Cruz (accept either part, also accept The Death of Artemio Cruz or La Muerte de Artemio Cruz)16. In an x-ray tube, the intensity of this phenomenon can be calculated with Kramer’s Law. The power produced by this phenomenon is proportional to the second power of charge and the fourth power of the Lorentz factor, and when this phenomenon is emitted from plasma, it is sometimes called free/free (“free slash free”) radiation. When this phenomenon is non-relativistic, the (*) Larmor formula can be used. The Gaunt factor can be used in calculations for the thermal type of this phenomenon, and this phenomenon causes power loss during nuclear fusion. During this process, a photon is typically emitted. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a decelerating charged particle, usually an electron, emits radiation, which is German for “braking radiation.”ANSWER: bremsstrahlung <Hao>17. During his rise to power, this man exiled Umar Makram, who had earlier helped him replace Hurshid Ahmad Pasha in his most famous post. This figure abolished the iltizam system of tax farms and created a new tax on waqf charitable endowments. Under his rule, the French doctor Antoine Clot established a school of medicine for women. This man established his power after his son defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Nezib. After inviting (*) Mamluk leaders to a feast in 1811, this man massacred them in his capital’s citadel. Greek independence resulted from the defeat of this man’s son at the Battle of Navarino, and he gained power over a region nominally ruled by Selim III. This man’s namesake dynasty ruled until a 1952 revolution carried out by the Free Officers Movement. For 10 points, name this self-proclaimed khedive of Egypt.ANSWER: Muhammad Ali Pasha <Sivakumar> 18. Philosopher Theodor Adorno claimed that nothing concerning this concept is self-evident while Benedetto Croce distinguished between the representative and expressive functions of this concept. R.G. Collingwood distinguished between the amusement and magic types of this concept in his work on The Principles of (this concept). Friedrich Nietzsche stated that this concept existed to stop us from dying to truth and Arthur Schopenhauer placed (*) music at the top of his hierarchy of this concept. Leo Tolstoy stated that this concept allowed for the intercourse of feelings and David Hume said that we should avoid confusing what we like about and what is good about, for ten points, what concept, which is represented by works of creative expression like painting and sculpture?ANSWER: art <McLain>19. One son of this deity was the god of wisdom and rode the dragon Sirrush and was depicted with wings and holding a scroll. In one account, this deity demonstrated his power by making either a cloth or a constellation disappear. This deity owned four poisonous horses with names like “the destroyer” and “the merciless.” This husband of Sarpanit and father of Numa has his most famous act depicted in the (*) Enuma Elish. This god defeated Kingu to inherit the tablets of destiny and slew the primordial sea monster Tiamat after his father Enki killed her husband Apsu. For ten points name this chief Babylonian god.ANSWER: Marduk <McLain>20. In this book, Melchizedek describes three identical rings in order to evade Saladin’s question about which religion is the truest. Another story in this collection sees Lorenzo get killed by three brothers of Isabel, and she buries his head in a pot of basil. In the last story in this collection, the Marquis of Saluzzo pretends to marry a twelve-year-old and kill his children in order to test (*) Griselda’s loyalty. That story is told by Dioneo, part of this book’s brigata of main characters, which also includes Filostrato, Fiammetta, and Pampinea. This book’s stories are told by ten Florentines who stay in a countryside villa to flee the Black Death. For ten points, name this Italian collection of a hundred stories, written by Giovanni Boccaccio.ANSWER: The Decameron or Il Decameron <Mathew>BONUSES1. Many celebrities have trouble staying out of the spotlight, but sometimes it’s for lack of trying. For 10 points each:[10] This reality show chronicles the lives of several celebrities such as Paul DelVecchio and professional wrestler Nicole Polizzi. It is named after the location where it was set every other season.ANSWER: Jersey Shore[10] This other show has a long list of 13 seasons and mainly follows three sisters whose names all start with K, along with their extensive and dramatic family.ANSWER: Keeping Up with the Kardashians[10] One of Kim Kardashian’s most famously publicized events was when this happened to her during Paris Fashion Week of 2016. As a result of it, production of Keeping Up with the Kardashians was postponed for three weeks.ANSWER: hotel room robbery (description acceptable) <Orlov>2. Compass and straightedge ready. Pierre Wantzel proved that this construction is impossible since it involves solving an irreducible cubic equation. For 10 points each:[10] Name this classic impossible construction from the ancient Greeks that involved dividing an angle into a namesake number of parts.ANSWER: trisecting the angle[10] Angle trisection can be done using a trisectrix named for this Scottish mathematician. He also names a special case of a Taylor series centered at x=0.ANSWER: Colin MacLaurin[10] Another example of a trisectrix is the Tschirnhausen cubic, which was studied by its namesake, L'H?pital, and this man. This man's namesake numbers are described by the formula “one over the quantity n plus one close quantity times the quantity two n choose n” and begin 1, 1, 2, 5, 14.ANSWER: Eugène Catalan <Hao>3. Answer some questions about the legendary fifth king of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus. For 10 points each:[10] Priscus was the first king of Rome from this civilization. These inhabitants of Tuscany referred to themselves as Rasenna.ANSWER: Etruscans[10] When Priscus first entered Rome, his wife Tanaquil prophesied his greatness after one of these animals removed his cap and put it back on his head.ANSWER: an eagle[10] Priscus was succeeded as king by this man, who conducted the first Roman census. He was murdered on the orders of Tarquinius Superbus, after which his daughter intentionally drove over his dead body.ANSWER: Servius Tullius <Sivakumar>4. Prior to this story’s action, one character had been charged by a wounded lion, while another slept with Robert Wilson. For 10 points each:[10] Name this short story whose titular subject is killed by his wife Margot.ANSWER: “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”[10] The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber was written by this author, better known for novels like For Whom the Bell Tolls.ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway[10] Margot accidentally shoots Francis when he is about to be gored by one of these animals. A David Mamet play is titled for an “American” one of them.ANSWER: buffalo <Sivakumar>5. This man’s 1936 speech to the League of Nations condemned the use of chemical weapons against his country. For 10 points each:[10] Name this emperor of Ethiopia, worshipped as a messiah in Rastafarianism.ANSWER: Haile Selassie I[10] The aforementioned chemical weapons were used by this country, which conquered Ethiopia in 1935. It was led at the time by Benito Mussolini. ANSWER: Italy[10] This longest-serving head of the Derg led Ethiopia during the Ogaden War and the 1983-85 famine. He was forced out of power shortly before Eritrean independence.ANSWER: Mengistu Haile Mariam <Sivakumar>6. Viscose can be created from this compound, which can then be later turned into rayon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this most abundant organic compound on Earth, which makes up most of a plant's cell wall.ANSWER: cellulose[10] This other compound makes up most of bacterial cell walls. Penicillin inhibits the formation of this compound, thereby acting as an antibiotic.ANSWER: peptidoglycan or murein[10] This antimicrobial enzyme, which is naturally found in human tears and sweat, catalyzes the cleavage of bonds within peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls, thus weakening them.ANSWER: lysozyme <Hao>7. In one work, this thinker compared the rule of bureaucracy to the “rule of nobody.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this German-born American philosopher who compared the roots of Stalinism and Nazism in The Origins of Totalitarianism.ANSWER: Hannah Arendt[10] In this work by Arendt, the central figure is said to have relied on made up cliches and stock phrases and claimed that the central figure had to rely on family connections to get a job with a vacuum cleaner company.ANSWER: Eichmann in Jerusalem[10] In Eichmann In Jerusalem, Arendt claimed that Eichmann had exhibited the banal form of this concept, which she contrasted with the radical kind. ANSWER: Evil (prompt on equivalents) <McLain>8. Answer some questions about European rulers with mental disabilities. For 10 points each:[10] In this country, the death of Fyodor I, who reportedly suffered from mental retardation, resulted in the Time of Troubles.ANSWER: Russia[10] This king was insane for the last eight years of his life, during which Spencer Perceval was assassinated and the British helped win the Napoleonic Wars.ANSWER: George III[10] Antoine de Lalaing chronicled this ruler’s journey from Burgundy to be recognized as heiress of Castile. She was later declared mentally unfit to rule by her father Ferdinand II.ANSWER: Joanna the Mad (or Joanna of Castile; or Joanna of Aragon) <Sivakumar>9. Five third-order types of this phenomenon can be described by Seidel coefficients. For 10 points each:[10] Name this phenomenon caused by imperfect lenses, where optical images are distorted. One type of this phenomenon is called “chromatic.”ANSWER: aberration[10] This type of aberration occurs when light at the edge of a lens refracts more strongly than light near the center. This adjective also describes a type of three-dimensional coordinate system using rho, phi, and theta.ANSWER: spherical aberration[10] Aberrations can be described by these polynomials that are orthogonal on the unit circle. These polynomials can be applied in ENZ theory.ANSWER: Zernike polynomials <Hao>10. This poem’s narrator observes “a clean rasping sound / When the spade sinks into gravelly ground”. For 10 points each:[10] Name this poem which describes the narrator’s father “Stooping in rhythm through potato drills” while performing the titular action.ANSWER: “Digging”[10] “Digging” was written by this Irish poet who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. A young boy loses his fascination for frogs in this man’s “Death of a Naturalist.”ANSWER: Seamus Heaney[10] Like Heaney, this British author created a notable translation of Beowulf. He also wrote The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series.ANSWER: J. R. R. Tolkien <Sivakumar>11. Answer some questions about South American composers. For 10 points each:[10] This composer left the symphonic poem Popol Vuh unfinished at his death. He celebrated his native country in his Danzas Argentinas but is better known for the ballet Estancia.ANSWER: Alberto Ginastera[10] Ginastera wrote twelve “American” pieces of this type for solo piano. J.S. Bach composed 48 fugues and 48 of these pieces for The Well-Tempered Clavier.ANSWER: preludes[10] This Brazilian composer was inspired by his country’s street music to write 14 “Choros,” but is better known for his Bachianas Brasileiras.ANSWER: Heitor Villa-Lobos <Sivakumar>12. This prophet was able to translate Reformed Egyptian that he saw on golden plates. For 10 points each,[10] Name this founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.ANSWER: Joseph Smith[10] This Mormon scripture includes sections on Moses and Abraham, a part of the Bible according to Joseph Smith, and “The Articles of Faith.”ANSWER: the Pearl of Great Price[10] This group of people, one of the Mormon nations, destroyed the Nephites in America. They descend from Lehi and have dark skin. ANSWER: Lamanites [or descendants of Laman, or clear knowledge equivalents] <Mathew>13. This man was the only US president to also serve on the Supreme Court. For 10 points each:[10] Name this notoriously heavy president who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt.ANSWER: William Howard Taft[10] Taft described this alliterative diplomatic policy as substituting the titular objects for bullets. It aimed to increase US influence in several countries by establishing loan systems. ANSWER: Dollar diplomacy[10] Early in his administration, Taft passed this tariff named for two Republican senators. It split Republicans into Progressive and Old Guard factions, leading to their loss in the elections of 1810. ANSWER: Payne-Aldrich Tariff <Sivakumar>14. Several non-English painters spent part of their careers in England. For 10 points each:[10] This Italian artist moved to London after her father Orazio became a court painter of Charles I. She is best known for her painting Judith Beheading Holofernes.ANSWER: Artemisia Gentileschi[10] While in England, this man painted the ceiling of Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House at Whitehall. This artist depicted himself and his first wife under a honeysuckle bower and also painted The Three Graces.ANSWER: Peter Paul Rubens[10] This painter’s portrait of Philip II helped Philip win the hand of Mary I. A brown dog and a servant rummaging through a chest appear in the background of his Venus of Urbino.ANSWER: Titian (or Tiziano Vecelli) <Sivakumar>15. This man wrote the Latin epic Africa, and he collected some of his poetry in the Trionfi. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Renaissance humanist known for his collection Il Canzoniere.ANSWER: Francesco Petrarch (or Petrarca)[10] Petrarch is most famous for introducing a namesake type of this poetic form. He dedicated several of these works to a woman called Laura.ANSWER: sonnets[10] This poet of “Whoso List to Hunt” and “They Flee from Me” was responsible for popularizing the sonnet in England.ANSWER: Sir Thomas Wyatt <Sivakumar>16. Seelig's ribozymes can catalyze this reaction, and one version of this reaction uses 1,1 diarylethylene and is named for Wagner and Juaregg. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 4+2 cycloaddition of a diene and a dienophile.ANSWER: Diels-Alder reaction[10] The Diels-Alder reaction forms a cyclic version of this molecule, with formula C6H10.ANSWER: cyclohexene (do not accept hexane or hexyne)[10] Cyclohexene can be cleaved to form adipic acid using hydrogen peroxide and this element as a catalyst. This metal is found along with oxygen and calcium in scheelite.ANSWER: tungsten <Hao>17. For 10 points each, answer some questions about chimeras:[10] The mate of Typhon, this half-woman and half-snake creature is known as the mother of all monsters. Her most famous offspring include Cerberus and the Nemean Lion.ANSWER: Echidna[10] This creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion asks Oedipus a famous riddle outside of Thebes. A statue of this creature also exists near the Great Pyramids of Giza.ANSWER: Sphinx[10] Images of these creatures, which have the head of a human, the body of a bull or a lion, and the wings of a bird were often engraved in clay tablets and buried under the threshold of doors to protect homes in Assyrian culture. They are associated with the gods Papsukkal and I?um.ANSWER: Lamassu or Shebu <Orlov>18. The titular entities in this field are divided into categories such as perfect information, zero sum, and cooperative. For 10 points each:[10] Name this field of economics that focuses on conflict and cooperation. It is often represented by the prisoner’s dilemma.ANSWER: game theory[10] In the prisoner’s dilemma, there is only one of these points, which is reached when both prisoners defect. These points are reached when neither player can improve their position with unilateral changes to strategy.ANSWER: Nash equilibrium [10] Game theory is often applied to these markets that often have kinked demand curves. These market’s durability was demonstrated by Hotelling’s linear city model.ANSWER: oligopoly (prompt on duopoly) <McLain>19. Answer some questions about Sergei Diaghilev. For 10 points each:[10] Diaghilev’s most controversial ballet was this work, which depicts a young girl dancing herself to death. It caused riots at its 1913 premiere.ANSWER: The Rite of Spring[10] Diaghilev frequently worked with this choreographer of Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. In one of his ballets, he notoriously mimed an obscene gesture with the scarf of a nymph.ANSWER: Vaslav Nijinsky[10] This artist designed the set of Le Boutique Fantastique for a performance by Diaghilev. Like Monet, this artist painted a view of Charing Cross Bridge.ANSWER: André Derain <Sivakumar>20. Iris Chase and her sister Laura are the subject of this writer’s novel The Blind Assassin. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author, who wrote about the painter Elaine Risley in Cat’s Eye.ANSWER: Margaret Atwood[10] In Atwood’s 2005 novella The Penelopiad, the title character reflects on events from this Homer play which followed the Iliad.ANSWER: The Odyssey[10] This other Canadian female author is known for short stories like “Dance of the Happy Shades” and “The Moons of Jupiter”.ANSWER: Alice Munro <Sivakumar> ................
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