Given a quotation, identify the English Romantic poem FTPE:
|Team A____________________ |
|Team B____________________ |
|Almost Dewey State Invitational |
|Saturday, March 01, 2008 |
|HS Varsity - Packet 8 |
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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. [ktb] |
|John Berryman wrote an homage to her sexual tenderness set against Puritan New England in a 1956 poem, while her own poems include "The Author to her |
|Book," a memorial to her deceased granddaughter.* Her most important work features the meditative and descriptive poem "Contemplations" and also |
|contains "Four Constitutions and "Four Monarchies," while a posthumous collection included "To My Dear and Loving Husband." FTP, name this seventeenth |
|century poet of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. |
|Anne Bradstreet |
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|Bonus: [ktb] |
|Answer the following about a pair of Scandanavian composers, FTPE: |
|1. This composer, who retired for thirty years to a quiet life after composing incidental music for The Tempest, is most famous for the tone poem |
|Finlandia. |
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|Jean Sibelius |
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|2. Norweigian composer Edvard Grieg is best known for composing incidental music for this Henrik Ibsen play which features "Solveig's Song," "Anitra's |
|Dance," and the title character's eventual "Shipwreck." |
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|Peer Gynt |
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|3. This final piece of the Peer Gynt Suite sees the bargain for his life after the assembled trolls call for his blood and escape from his captors |
|after a rapturous timpani rolls and cymbals crash upon his flight. |
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|In the Hall of the Mountain King |
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|2. [aap] |
|The 1529 Treaty of Zaragoza caused it to encompass the entire world by extending it through both poles. It was originally drawn by Pope Alexander VI |
|after* Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas. A year later, the Treaty of Tordesillas shifted it westward, giving Brazil to the |
|Portuguese. FTP, identify this imaginary line of longitude that divided the land in the New World between Portugal and Spain. |
|Line of Demarcation |
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|Bonus: [SE] |
|Identify the following constants from physics, FTPE. |
|1. Denoted by h, it equals approximately 6.626 × 10-34 Joules. This constant is named after one of the founders of quantum theory. |
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|Planck's constant |
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|2. Denoted by kB , it equals approximately 1.381×10-23 Joules per Kelvin; this constant is named after an Austrian physicist who contributed to the |
|theory of statistical mechanics. |
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|Boltzmann's constant |
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|3. Denoted by F, it equals approximately 9.648×104 degrees Celsius per mole; this constant is named after a British scientist prominent in the fields |
|of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. |
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|Faraday's constant |
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|3. [SE] |
|The title of this influential book was inspired\by John Keats' poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Facilitating the ban of DDT in 1972 by the United |
|States, it discusses the effects of pesticides on the environment, especially birds. Its author, who is personally afflicted with cancer, argues that |
|the uncontrolled pesticide use after World War II is causing both animal and human deaths. FTP, name this book by Rachel Carson that spawned the |
|environmentalist movement in the West. |
|Silent Spring |
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|Bonus: [PB] |
|Answer these questions about 18th Century economic policy, FTPE: |
|1. This economist held the position of financial minister during the reign of Louis the 14th from 1665 to 1683. |
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|Jean Baptiste Colbert |
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|2. Colbert advocated this policy, which centers around the hoarding of gold and favoring the balance of trade. |
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|Mercantilism |
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|3. Many economists eventually moved away from Mercantilism and advocated this policy of economic freedom, named by a French phrase meaning “let do”. |
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|Laissez-Faire (lessay-fair) |
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|4. [ktb] |
|He wrote of his continent, "there are in our countries rivers which have no names, trees which nobody knows, and birds which nobody has described. It |
|is easier for us to be surrealistic because everything we know is new" in his "The Heights of Machhu Picchu" from the collection Canto general. A close|
|friend of Socialist President Salvador Allende, he died of heart failure twelve days after the coup d'etat of Augusto* Pinochet in 1973, the same year |
|that two other famous figures sharing his first name died, Casals and Picasso. FTP, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. |
|Pablo Neruda or Neftali Ricardo Reyes |
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|Bonus: [ktb] |
|Answer the following questions about an Eighteenth Century Art Movement. |
|1. This graceful, ornamental style comes from a French motif of shellwork and pebbles and was associated with Boucher, Fragonard, and Watteau. |
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|Rococo |
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|2. Name Watteau's ambiguously titled painting featuring couples frolicking on the island of love where Aphrodite first set foot after her birth from |
|sea foam. You have two options. |
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|The Embarkation from Cythera or The Pilgrimage to Cythera |
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|3. This masterpiece of Fragonard features a girl on the titular object losing her slipper midair while a pervert peeks up her lacy petticoats. |
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|The Swing |
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|5. [PB] |
|It was first studied in 1944 for the paper “’Autistic Psychopathy’ in Childhood,” though its current name was not widely used until 1981. Children |
|participating in the experiment were called ‘Little Professors’ by the namesake of the disorder, as they would often use a pedantic choice of words |
|when speaking. FTP, name this autism spectrum disorder, often blurred with high-functioning autism, which is characterized by a lack of emotional |
|development and social interaction while there is usually no significant delay in language skills or other cognitive function. |
|Asperger's Syndrome (prompt on High-Functioning Autism before it is mentioned) |
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|Bonus: [rts] |
|Answer the following questions relating to Nora Helmer, FTPE: |
|1. Nora is the protagonist of this play, considered to be one of the first feminist works, despite denial of this matter by its author, Henrik Ibsen. |
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|A Doll's House |
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|2. Although supposedly enamoured with his wife, this recently promoted banker and husband of Nora emotionally suffocates her. |
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|Torvald |
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|3. This widowed friend of Nora comes to Nora at the beginning of the play to ask for money. |
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|Kristine Linde |
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|6. [ktb] |
|He was born in St. Louis, MO but grew up splitting time between the US and the home of his father, Mor Thiam, in Senegal. He recently lost all |
|sponsorship* from Verizon Wireless for dancing inappropriately with a 15-year old concert goer in Trinidad. FTP, name this rapper who was nominated for|
|a Grammy for the song "Smack That" from his album, Konvicted. |
|Akon |
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|Bonus: [tmk] |
|FTPE, answer these questions about everyone’s favorite 116-year conflict, the Hundred Years War. |
|1. This 1356 battle was a massive victory for England that resulted in the capture of French king John II as a prisoner held for ransom. |
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|Battle of Poitiers |
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|2. Key to the victory at Poitiers was this English commander, the oldest son of King Edward III, who predeceased his father by a year and thus never |
|became king himself. |
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|Edward, the Black Prince (prompt on just "Edward"; accept "Edward of Woodstock") |
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|3. This massive English victory on St. Crispin’s Day, 1415, eventually resulted in what seemed to be near-total domination of France by the English. It|
|was immortalized in Shakespeare’s Henry V, a play about the king who led the fighting for the English. |
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|Battle of Agincourt |
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|7. [PB] |
|It was discovered by University of Texas student Gregory Watson in a paper for which he received a C, because he wasn't convincing that the matter was |
|still pending two centuries after its origination. The case Schaffer v. Clinton failed to overturn cost of living adjustments in spite of this law. For|
|ten points, identify this 1992 amendment which limits when Congress may raise its own pay, the most recent to be ratified. |
|27th Amendment to the United States Constitution |
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|Bonus: [tmk] |
|Portugal is more than just a strip of land. It has a rich history. Prove that you know some by answering the following FTPE. |
|1. This Portuguese prince was known as "the Navigator." |
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|Henry |
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|2. This island in the Atlantic was discovered by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century and is famous for its wine. |
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|Madeira |
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|3. This dictator ruled Portugal from 1932 to 1968, keeping the country neutral in World War II and fiercely defending Portuguese colonialism. |
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|António de Oliveira Salazar |
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The above bonus is not verified!
|8. [ktb] |
|The basic material for the story comes from the Scandinavian Volsunga Saga and a German epic poem. Its first opera begins with the three maidens, |
|Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshilde playing in the waters of the Rhine. The title creature of the series is exemplified by the dwarf Alberich, who |
|steals The Rhinegold and the second opera, Die Walkure*, gives us the "Ride of the Valkyries." FTP, the dwarf Mime raises the hero to take back the |
|title object from the giant Fafner in what what group of Wagner works, featuring the hero's beloved Brunhilde and the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, |
|the hero Siegfried. |
|The Ring Cycle or Der Ring Des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelungen |
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|Bonus: [SE] |
|Given a description, name the subatomic particle FTPE: |
|1. These fundamental particles come in Flavor, Spin, and Color varieties, commonly binding in groups of three to create composite particles called |
|nucleons |
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|quarks |
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|2. This nucleon has a spin of negative one-half and is composed of two up quarks and one down quark, held together by the strong force. |
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|proton |
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|3. The strong force is mediated by this subatomic particle. An elementary particle, it is a gauge boson with a spin of one. It also holds the property |
|of being able to hold color change. |
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|gluon |
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|9. [rts] |
|Founded by the prominent Li family in the 6oo's, it was interrupted for a brief time by the political disorder of the An Shi Rebellion. Nevertheless, |
|it was seen as the high point of Chinese civilization, especially in literature through the works of Du Fu and Li Bai. FTP name this Chinese dynasty |
|which followed the Sui dynasty and lasted from 618 CE to 907 CE. |
|Tang dynasty |
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|Bonus: [ktb] |
|Answer the following about an Austrian composer, FTPE: |
|1. This composer of Variations on "La follia di spagna" also taught such students as Wolfgang A. Mozart Jr., suggesting that a famous feud may have |
|been a myth. |
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|Antonio Salieri |
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|2. Salieri was allowed to compose for the Versailles and Paris operas due to Joseph II's influence on his sister, this queen of France. |
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|Marie Antoinette |
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|3. This 1771 Salieri opera, his first serious attempt, introduced such elements as the tragedie lyrique as a dramatic role for chorus. It was based on |
|an epic poem by Tasso and featured the characters Ismene, Rinaldo, Ubaldo and the title character. |
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|Armida |
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|10. [cbs] |
|She came from the left eye of Izanagi (eez – ah – nah – ghee), who with his wife gave birth to many of the islands in their country. When she saw the |
|power of her brother, * Susano’o (suze – ah – noo – oh), she hid in a cave, plunging the world into darkness. She was eventually convinced to live in |
|the heavenly plains again, and later became the direct ancestor of the emperors of Japan. FTP, identify this Shinto sun goddess. |
|_Amaterasu_ or _Amaterasu-ōmikami_ or _Ōhiru-menomuchi-no-kami_ |
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|Bonus: [SE] |
|The United States has some pretty extreme weather. For ten points each, name these weather phenomena found in the US. |
|1. Though the most intense ones occur on Mars and can last for years with wind speeds reaching a hundred miles an hour, the deadliest occurred in Los |
|Angeles in 1991 when more than a hundred cars got caught in one. |
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|sandstorm |
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|2. This phenomenon can be blamed for Tug Hill Plateau, just north of Syracuse, New York, being the snowiest place in the United States averaging |
|twenty-five feet a year. |
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|lake effect snow |
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|3. These are strong offshore winds which sweep through Southern California every year in the fall; they can be hot or cold, but most Californians only |
|mention the hot ones. |
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|Santa Ana winds or Santana winds |
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|11. [ktb] |
|Photographer David Hockney argues that many seventeenth century Dutch artists used this technique for painting, taking advantage of the Dutch craft of |
|lensmaking. Used to paint Jan Vermeer's Lady and Gentleman at the Virginals, this technique, in effect, uses optic principles to project* an image onto|
|a wall so the artist can obtain a better perspective. Name this technique, a very rudimentary predecessor of a product that now comes in digital and |
|Polaroid forms. |
|Camera Obscura |
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|Bonus: [Chi] |
|For 10 points each answer these questions about important foreign policy documents from the Cold War. |
|1. The Long Telegram, written by George Kennan, advocated this policy towards the USSR and formed the basis of United States policy for the next |
|quarter century. |
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|containment |
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|2. This document built off of the Long Telegram, recommended significant peacetime military spending and massive arms build up of both conventional and|
|nuclear weapons. |
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|NSC 68 or National Security Council Paper #68 |
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|3. The 1054 page White Paper on this nation, released in August 1949, concluded that the United States could not have prevented its internal takeover |
|by a communist regime. |
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|Republic of China (do not accept People's Republic of China, as it did not exist at the time) |
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|12. [SE] |
|This metabolic pathway contains the substrates: oxalosuccinate, alpha-ketoglutarate, succinate, and L-malate among others. Most of the energy gained |
|through this process occurs when NADH is produced from NAD+. QH2 and GTP are also produced. For ten points, name this series of enzyme-catalyzed |
|reactions occurring in the matrix of the mitochondrion that uses oxygen as a part of cellular respiration. |
|Citric acid cycle (also accept Krebs cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle, TCA cycle, or Szent-Gyorgyi-Krebs cycle) |
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|Bonus: [NM] |
|Identify the following from fictionalized accounts of golf history for ten points each. |
|1. This Georgian, a lifelong amateur who retired before age 30 after completing the only single-year Grand Slam, was portrayed by Jim Caviezel in a |
|2004 film. |
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|Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones, Jr. (accept Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius; do NOT accept "Robert Trent Jones") |
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|2. Jones and Walter Hagen, along with fictional Rannulph Junuh (JOO-nuh), compete in this 2000 film, which starred Will Smith and Matt Damon. |
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|The Legend of Bagger Vance |
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|3. This man's 1913 US Open win, as a 20-year-old amateur, is the subject of The Greatest Game Ever Played. |
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|Francis DeSales Ouimet |
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|13. [cbs] |
|He was born around 1028 as the son of Duke Robert I. He eventually claimed the English throne as well, saying that Edward the Confessor had promised it|
|to him. FTP, name this Norman King of England who was crowned on Christmas Day in 1066, most famous for his victory at the battle of Hastings. |
|William the (First of England, Conqueror, Bastard, Second—any one of those works, but not just William alone. Prompt on ‘William’; prompt again if they|
|say ‘William the First’) |
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The above tossup is not verified!
|Bonus: [AMW] |
|30-20-10 given a quote by a famous author regarding a certain poem, name it -- the poem, that is. |
|1. 30 - John Dryden wrote that this work propelled its creator past Virgil and Homer, as nature “joynd the former two” poets to create this poem’s |
|author. |
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|(see last part but don't read until end) |
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|2. 20 - William Blake, who illustrated this poem, wrote that the creator of this work “was a true poet, and of the devil’s party without knowing it. |
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|(ditto) |
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|3. 10 - John Milton's purpose in writing this poem, as stated in its first book, was “to justify the ways of God to men.” |
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|Paradise Lost |
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|14. [SE] |
|The MESSENGER spacecraft is projected to reach this astronomical body in 2011 and BEPICOLOMBO will soon after. Its surface contains the Caloris basin |
|and it is thought to have an iron core that makes up 42% of its volume. It experiences the largest temperature fluctuation in the solar system and |
|after the demotion of Pluto has the highest eccentricity of any planet. Orbiting the sun in only 88 days. FTP, identify this innermost planet, also a |
|liquid metal and a Roman god. |
|Mercury |
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|Bonus: [Chi] |
|Answer the following about societies of Mesoamerica FTPE: |
|1. This first major Mesoamerican culture was influential from 1500 to 100 BCE and was headquarted at San Lorenzo and La Venta; it is famous for its |
|large stone heads |
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|Olmecs |
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|2. This culture with a capital at Tula was destroyed by the Chichimecs around 1200 CE. |
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|Toltecs |
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|3. Sometime in the thirteenth century CE these people stopped their migration from Aztlan when they saw an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake; they|
|later fell to Cortez and the conquistadors |
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|Aztecs or Mexica (mek-shee-kuh; note no final N) |
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|15. [ktb] |
|He wrote that "Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair" to reflect his views on conventional |
|composition in his Essays before a Sonata of 1920. Becoming somewhat similar to Jean Sibelius in that he had mostly stopped composing music by the time|
|he was 41, in 1915, he was 71 before hearing any of his works performed by a full orchestra. These works include the symphony, Holidays, which was |
|all-American* in scope and his unfinished Universe Symphony. Composing such works as his second piano sonata, also known as Concord Mass., 1840-1860, |
|and The Unanswered Question, FTP name this former insurance salesman and composer of Three Places in New England. |
|Charles Ives |
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|Bonus: [NM] |
|Identify the following Mozart operas FTPE. |
|1. Based on a Beaumarchais play, Act One of this opera sees Count Almaviva interrupting the planning of the title action for Susanna. |
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|The Marriage of Figaro (or Le Nozze di Figaro) |
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|2. The Don Juan legends form the basis of this opera in which the title character and Leoporello invite a talking statue to have supper with them and |
|Elvira, and the title character ends up being cast into Hell. |
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|Don Giovanni |
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|3. In this comic opera, Don Alfonso bets Ferrando and Guglielmo that their fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, can’t be faithful to them. |
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|Cosi Fan Tutte |
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|16. [ktb] |
|Born in the town of Sulmo, he was described by Pliny the Elder as leaning toward the “emotional extreme” of rhetoric. A master of the elegiac couplet, |
|his incomplete work the Fasti discussing the Roman calendar, and his epistolary poem the Heroides is written from the point of view of various heroines|
|to their lovers. More famous are his love poems, which include the Remedia Amoris, Ars Armatoria, and the Amores. FTP, identify this Roman poet, |
|banished in 8 AD for a “song and an error”, who authored the Metamorphoses. |
|Publius Ovidius Nasso or Ovid |
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|Bonus: [cbs] |
|Answer these questions about a country FTPE. |
|1. This landlocked southern African country is the only country in the world to have the entirety of its land lie above 1000 meters. |
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|(Kingdom of) Lesotho |
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|2. This is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It lies on the Mohokare River. |
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|Maseru |
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|3. Lesotho is land-locked by this nation which completely surrounds it. It was formerly led by Nelson Mandela. |
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|Republic of South Africa |
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|17. [Chi] |
|Jason Parmenter was to be hanged for his part in this event but was reprieved at the gallows while after a defeat at Petersham its leader fled to a |
|neighboring state, where he was eventually pardoned. James Bowdoin funded an army in response to it and troops commanded by Benjamin Lincoln were sent |
|to stop rebels marching on the arsenal at Springfield. FTP, what 1786 rebellion was led by a group of farmers angry about debt and taxes in Western |
|Massachusetts? |
|Shays' Rebellion (accept "Shays's Rebellion", since the man's last name was Shays) |
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|Bonus: [CMT] |
|For ten points each, name these concepts related to galvanic cells. |
|1. This is similar to a galvanic cell, but was created earlier by its namesake Italian physicist. |
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|Voltaic (pile or cell) |
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|2. This must connect the cathode and the anode in galvanic cells and voltaic piles and comes in two types, glass and filter paper. |
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|Salt Bridge |
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|3. This is a type of Galvanic cell named for a British physicist, which utilizes zinc in the cathode and copper in the anode. |
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|Daniell Cell (also accept gravity cell or crowfoot cell) |
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|18. [ktb] |
|The scandal of Raffles' death marks one of the main characters as an accomplice to murder. When the same character loses his money, his social-climbing|
|wife, Rosamond, loses interest in him. One subplot of this novel involves an affair between Rosamond's brother Fred Vincy and Mary Garth. Wanting to |
|reform medical practices, Dr. Lydgate* is aided monetarily by a woman who becomes disillusioned by her own marriage to Reverend Casaubon. Upon |
|Casaubon's death, Dorothea Brooke forfeits her estate and marries Will Ladislaw in what novel by George Eliot, subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life?" |
|Middlemarch |
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|Bonus: [rts] |
|FTPE identify the following about an American philosophical system founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
|1. This philosophical system espoused radical empiricism, a high regard for science, and instrumentalism. It is often associated with the works of |
|William James. |
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|pragmatism |
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|2. Pragmatism is thought to have originated with this man, the first to state the "pragmatic maxim" which served as a rebuttal to metaphysical |
|theories. |
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|Charles Sanders Peirce |
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|3. Along with James and Peirce, this man is considered the other founder of pragmatism. He is also known for his founding of functional psychology and |
|his efforts in progressive education. |
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|John Dewey |
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|19. [NM] |
|Calculation: |
|Chris is on a cross-country mission. He wants to visit every state in the union, in the order that they ratified the Constitution. He plans to visit |
|Delaware, the first state, for one day, and then extend his stay by a day in each state, until he spends a nice relaxing 50 days in lovely Hawaii. For |
|10 points, how many days will his epic trip take? |
|1275 days |
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|Bonus: [SE] |
|For ten points each, name these proteins essential to muscle function. |
|1. Also forming most of the cytoskeleton, this protein forms the “thin” filaments of the sarcomere. |
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|actin |
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|2. This “thick” protein filament overlaps the thin filaments and forms the A band. |
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|myosin |
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|3. These long proteins spiral around the thin filament and bind troponin molecules in order to form cross linkages with the thick filament. |
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|tropomyosin |
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|20. [SE] |
|This unit of measure is named for one of the first discoverers of electromagnetism, a man whose namesake force law notes the repulsion or attraction of|
|two current-carrying wires. It measures the amount of electrical charge per second. FTP, name this unit of measure that represents the rate of 1 |
|coulomb per second and has the abbreviation A. |
|Ampere |
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|Bonus: [AMW] |
|On February 11th, 1963, a woman put her children to sleep, sealed herself in the kitchen using wet clothes and towels, turned on the oven, and stuck |
|her head inside, and died. FTPE: |
|1. Name this poet, novelist, and short story writer who was married to Ted Hughes, and had tried to commit suicide earlier in her life by crawling |
|under her house and taking sleeping pills. |
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|Sylvia Plath |
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|2. Esther Greenwood attempts suicide in this semi-autobiographical novel in the same way, crawling under the house and all. |
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|The Bell Jar |
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|3. Plath lost her father at a young age, prompting her to write this poem in which she tells the title figure “you do not do, you do not do anymore”. |
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|Daddy |
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|End of Game. Verify Scores. Captains sign score sheets. |
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