Given a quotation, identify the English Romantic poem FTPE:



|Team A____________________ |

|Team B____________________ |

|Almost Dewey State Invitational |

|Saturday, March 01, 2008 |

|HS Varsity - Packet 10 |

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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. [cbs] |

|Its name has lent itself to a term for a claim that some outside factor such as nicotine or sugar diminished a criminal’s responsibility for their |

|crime. Peter Griffin states that only two things can survive a nuclear holocaust: cockroaches and these. This food, which was first created in 1933 by |

|baker James Dewar and comes in the flavors vanilla, banana, and fried, is -- FTP -- what cream-filled sponge cake pastry? |

|Twinkie |

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|Bonus: [AMW] |

|This group of poets was originally signified by its support of King Charles I during the English Civil War: |

|1. FTP, name this group of poets that included Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Ben Johnson. |

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|Cavalier Poets |

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|2. This Cavalier poet wrote the lines “Stone walls do not a prison make / Nor iron bars a cage” in his “To Althea, From Prison” |

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|Richard Lovelace |

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|3. This cavalier poet wrote “Hisperides”, and the lines “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting / The sooner will his race be |

|run, And nearer he's to setting” in a more famous poem. |

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|Robert Herrick |

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|2. [NM] |

|Calculation: |

|Alex is two grades ahead of Steven. When Steven was in kindergarten, he weighed 40 pounds, while at the same time Alex weighed 100 pounds. If they each|

|gained 10 pounds per year, what grade was Alex in when he weighed twice as much as Steven? |

|Fourth grade |

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|Bonus: [NM] |

|Name the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera from a brief description, FTPE. |

|1. This opera that is set in the town of Titipu centers around Ko-Ko and his amorous fancies involving his ward, Yum-Yum, and the elderly Katisha, whom|

|he ends up marrying. |

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|The Mikado |

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|2. The libretto for this opera whose title ridicules the Royal Navy draws from Gilbert’s Bab Ballad poems and ends in a case of mistaken identity that |

|allows Little Buttercup to marry Captain Ralph Rackstraw. |

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|HMS Pinafore |

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|3. Alternately titled The Merryman and his Maid, this work ends on a not-so-happy note when Jack Point loses his beloved, Elsie, to Fairfax, and falls |

|to the stage floor as the curtain closes. |

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|The Yeomen Of The Guard |

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|3. [tmk] |

|She was associated with the branch of Quakers known as the “Hicksites,” with a strong belief in social action. Her younger sister, Martha Coffin |

|Wright, was a close associate in her endeavors, but her friendship with her most famous collaborator began through their dual involvement in the |

|American Anti-Slavery Society. FTP, name this early women’s rights campaigner who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was instrumental in planning and |

|conducting the pivotal 1848 Seneca Falls convention and the women’s rights movement in the United States. |

|Lucretia Coffin Mott |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Answer the following about the 1279 BCE Battle of Kadesh, FTPE: |

|1. Ramses led the Egyptians against Muwatalli II, the ruler of this kingdom centered in modern-day Turkey and known for metalworking |

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|Hittites |

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|2. Almost twenty years after the Battle occurred, Ramses and Muwatalli's son produced the earliest recorded one of these, formally agreeing to end the |

|fighting |

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|peace treaty (prompt on treaty) |

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|3. Kadesh may have been the largest battle in ancient times involving two armies fielding these two-wheeled, horse-drawn conveyances |

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|Chariots |

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|4. [ktb] |

|After taking over 16 of 18 provinces, it was finally squelched upon the destruction of its ideals by corruption and the suicide of its leader in 1864. |

|Beginning in the Kwangsi province, where it found fertile ground among the Hakka minority*, it was based on primitive communism and evangelical |

|Christianity. Founded in 1850 by a failed scholar, FTP, name this Chinese rebellion which led to clashes between the imperial authorities and the |

|followers of the new "Heavenly King" of the new "Kingdom of Heavenly Peace," Hung Hsiu-Ch'uan. |

|Taiping Rebellion |

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|Bonus (Calculation): [NM] |

|A Georgia State Trooper sees Alex drive past him on I-75 at 11:35 PM. Another trooper spots him at 11:37 PM at a spot 3 miles down the road. Despite |

|the fact that the troopers are without radar in this particular county, the second trooper pulls Alex over and gives him a ticket. FTPE: |

|1. What was Alex’s average speed between the two cops? |

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|90 miles per hour (or MPH) |

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|2. What theorem of calculus justifies the second cop giving Alex a ticket for going 90 miles per hour? |

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|Mean Value Theorem |

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|3. If the stop takes 3 minutes, and then Alex graciously slows to 80 miles per hour for the remainder of his 43 mile trip, at what time will he arrive |

|at his destination? |

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|12:10 AM |

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|5. [HK] |

|The molecular orbital diagram of compounds displaying this property have unpaired electrons. If the electons had been paired, the compound would have |

|been diamagnetic. The atoms do not have permanent dipole moments, but the moments come about in the presence of strong magnets. FTP, name this property|

|that causes liquid oxygen to be caught between two electromagnetic poles. |

|Paramagnetism |

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|Bonus: [ktb] |

|Answer the following questions about modern and contemporary architects FTPE: |

|1. This architect of Carson-Pirie-Scott department store and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis advocated "form follows function." |

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|Louis Sullivan |

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|2. He uses industrial materials such as plywood and cinder blocks in many of his projects for his "porr clients" while he is better known for designing|

|Loyola Law school in LA and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. |

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|Frank O. Gehry |

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|3. His motto "less is more" is evident in his 1956-58 project with Philip Johnson, The Seagram Building in New York City. |

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|Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |

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|6. [ktb] |

|The title of this poem was originally used by Alain Chartier, a fifteenth century French poet, and refers to a lady met “in the meads”. In the fifth |

|stanza this titular woman “makes sweet moan” after being set upon the knight’s “pacing steed”, and sings “a faery’s song.” After taking the knight to |

|her elfin grot, he is warned that she “hath thee in thrall” by men with “starved lips in the gloam, with horrid warning gaping wide,” and awakens on a |

|cold hillside. FTP, name this poem about a woman with long hair, light feet, and wild eyes, who bewitches a knight and forces him to roam “alone and |

|palely loitering” where “no birds sing”, a work by John Keats. |

|La Belle Dame Sans Merci (accept The Beautiful Lady Without Pity) |

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|Bonus: [NM] |

|Identify the following about a famous painter, FTPE. |

|1. This French artist’s paintings include a self portrait of him holding a cello and another one titled The Wounded Man, but he is probably most famous|

|for The Stone Breakers. |

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|Gustave Courbet |

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|2. This Gustave Courbet painting that was presented at the Paris Salon in 1851 depicts citizens of his home province at a graveside and shows Jesus |

|after he was crucified in the background. |

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|A Burial at Ornans |

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|3. Subtitled “A Real Allegory,” George Sand and Charles Baudelaire are depicted on the right of this Courbet painting that shows him surrounded by |

|ordinary models and some people he knew. |

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|The Painter’s Studio (or The Artist’s Studio) |

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|7. [aap] |

|This man’s father believed that he had incurred wrath for cursing God as a child and potentially impregnating a his second wife before marriage. As a |

|result, that father was convinced that none of his children would live past the age reached by Jesus. This man, however, lived to be 42 and authored |

|many works dealing with his problems with religious institutions, ethics, and the emotions felt by people during important life choices. One such work |

|centers on the emotions potentially experienced by Abraham as he prepared to sacrifice his son, Isaac. FTP, identify this man, often considered to be |

|the first existentialist philosopher, who wrote Either/Or. |

|Soren Kierkegaard |

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|Bonus: [SE] |

|For ten points each, name these types of metamorphic rock. |

|1. Made up of magnesium silicate, soapstone has a high percentage of this rock, and commercially it is used in baby powder. |

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|Talc (accept "talc powder" or similar) |

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|2. The many different colors of this rock popular for sculpture are due to various impurities, and white types are formed from very pure limestones. |

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|Marble |

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|3. This rock, produced from shale, has a characteristic cleavage pattern that is long, flat and regular, making it useful in billiard tables, |

|shingling, tiling, and the manufacture of blackboards. |

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|slate |

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|8. [CMT] |

|His father played an important role in the French aluminum industry and inspired him to train as an engineer. He decided to teach chemistry instead of |

|going into industry, and in 1884 he published a paper on equilibrium that established a namesake principle. For ten points, name this chemist who |

|postulated that equilibrium will counter any changes in concentration, pressure, and temperature. |

|Henry Louis Le Chatelier |

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|Bonus: [SE] |

|Name the following elements from a brief description: |

|1. With the atomic number 99, which element is named after the formulator of the theory of general relativity? |

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|Einsteinium |

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|2. Five for one or ten for both-Which two adjacent metals, 29 and 30, make up the alloy brass? |

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|copper and zinc |

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|3. Name the noble gas commonly associated with honky-tonk lights, with the atomic weight 20 amu. |

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|neon |

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|9. [rts] |

|The last chapter is a call to action for rulers to take back the Italian peninsula from foreign rule. Chapters 1 through 11 discuss various forms of |

|government while chapters 12, 13, and 14 offer instructions on properly managing a military. It is in chapter 17 that the author claims that it is much|

|better to be feared than loved, and how to manage this without being hated by the populace. FTP name this classic work on political philosophy, |

|considered a guidebook for tyranny, written by Niccolo Machiavelli. |

|The Prince |

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|Bonus: [NM] |

|FTPE, answer the following about a pro sports scandal. |

|1. In 2004, this then-Indiana Pacer charged into the stands to attack a fan who threw a cup at him, sparking widespread outcry. |

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|Ron Artest |

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|2. The melee happened at the Palace of Auburn Hills, the home arena for this NBA team. |

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|Detroit Pistons (accept either) |

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|3. Artest losing his mind also lost him 86 games, with this NBA commissioner handing down the longest suspension ever that didn't involve drugs or |

|gambling. |

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|David Stern |

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|10. [cbs] |

|He is said to have incited fear in the Persians during the Battle of Marathon and also had many dealings with nymphs. One nymph turned into a pine tree|

|to escape him, while another became a reed. In honor of the second nymph, Syrinx, this god made a flute of reeds named for her. FTP, name this god of |

|rustic music, often portrayed as half-goat, half-man. |

|_Pan_ |

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|Bonus: [tmk] |

|FTPE, name the pope! |

|1. This pope called for the First Crusade at Clermont in 1095. |

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|Urban II |

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|2. This pope from the Medici family issued the papal bull condemning Martin Luther. |

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|Leo X |

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|3. This pope summoned the Second Vatican Council. |

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|John XXIII |

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The above bonus is not verified!

 

|11. [Chi] |

|During his regime he supported the liberal economic policies of the Chicago Boys and ended state welfare institutions, such as the pension, and |

|reprivatized businesses with the notable exception of Codelco. In 1998 while in Britain for medical treatment he was charged with murder, torture, and |

|illegal disappearances by a Spanish judge. For 10 points, name this Chilean dictator who came to power on September 11, 1973 following the overthrow of|

|Allende. |

|Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|Answer the following questions about embryology, FTPE: |

|1. Give the name of the hollow ball of cells that marks the end of cleavage in embryonic development. It follows the morula stage and precedes the |

|gastrula. |

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|Blastula or blastosphere |

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|2. This structure of embryonic development forms during gastrulation, and eventually forms the digestive tracts of animals. Its opening is called the |

|blastopore and it results from invagination of the gastrula's endoderm. |

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|Archenteron |

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|3. This thin pair of membranes houses and protects the developing embryo until shortly before birth when it breaks and begins the process of delivery. |

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|Amnion or Amniotic sac |

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|12. [ktb] |

|Like many of the poet’s works, this poem is not explicitly titled, and thus is commonly referred to by its first line. Repeated phrases containing the |

|words “sun moon stars rain” and “spring summer autumn winter” in different orders are used by the author to show the passage of time, and throughout |

|the poem, the title character is loved either by nobody, or by “noone”, a difference left intentionally ambiguous. FTP, name this poem about a man who |

|“sang his didn’t danced his did”, a work by e.e. Cummings. |

|anyone lived in a pretty how town |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Answer these questions regarding Second Wave Feminism FTPE: |

|1. The Kennedy Administration created the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women and appointed this feminist as its chair. |

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|Eleanor Roosevelt |

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|2. This book was published in 1963 and based on a 1942 Smith College questionnaire that indicated most woman felt uneasy with their lives. |

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|The Feminine Mystique |

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|3. She was the author of The Feminine Mystique and is credited with stimulating the Second Wave movement |

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|Betty Friedan |

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|13. [HK] |

|One of these could be responsible for a mass extinction on Earth. If one occured 100 light years away, it would melt the surface of the Earth. They |

|occur at random places and at random times, so they could crop up anywhere. FTP, what are these bursts of high-energy waves that may result from the |

|collapsing of a star into a black hole, that occur in both short and and jet-like forms. |

|Gamma Ray Burst |

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|Bonus: [Chi] |

|Answer the following questions about some unfortunate monarchs Scottish history, FTPE: |

|1. One Scottish king by this name was blown up by a cannon at Roxbury, another was killed at Flodden, and the first was murdered in a sewer; the sixth |

|managed to become king of England. |

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|James |

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|2. When James the fifth died he left behind a six-day old daughter who would later become this queen; she was eventually murdered on orders of her |

|cousin, Elizabeth. |

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|Mary, Queen of Scots (prompt on Mary; accept Mary Stuart; do NOT accept Bloody Mary) |

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|3. Mary and all the Kings James were members of this royal family of Scotland that briefly reigned over England as well. |

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|Stuart |

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|14. [ktb] |

|Invited to teach at the New York Art school in 1902 by fellow artist William Merritt Chase, this original member of the "Charcoal Club" and the |

|"Philadelphia Four" clashed with Chase's idea of portraying rural beauty*, opting instead to realistically portray American urban life in poor |

|neighbourhoods. He taught his ideas to students such as George Bellows and Edward Hopper but is most noted for organizing an exhibition at the MacBeth |

|Gallery in New York featuring works of a group known as "The Eight." FTP, name this founder of the Ashcan School. |

|(Robert) Henri |

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|Bonus: [CTar] |

|Name the following books of the Old Testament. |

|1. Chapter two of this book begins, "I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." It is typically read on the Sabbath that follow the |

|intermediate days of Passover in Ashkenazi tradition and |

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|Song of Songs or Song of Solomon or Canticles |

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|2. The sixth chapter gives an account of the vow of a Nazirite. The period covered beings two years and two months after the Exodus story and tells of |

|the transactions on the plains of Moab before crossing the Jordan River. |

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|Numbers |

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|3. The first book of the Minor Prophets, it tells the story of a prophet who was ordered to marry a prostitute, Gormer. It represents the "adulterous" |

|relationship the Israelites had with polytheistic gods. |

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|Hosea |

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|15. [ktb] |

|"Robot apartments! Invisible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! Blind capitals! Demonic industries!" These images are all found in the second section of |

|this work, which also talks much of an ancient god worshipped with human sacrifices called Moloch. The first section begins by saying, "I saw the best |

|minds of my* generation destroyed by madness" before continuing in a long line style similar to Whitman and with verses that were considered obscene |

|upon its first publication in 1956. The third section begins "Carl Solomon! I'm with you in Rockland" in, FTP, what master work of Allen Ginsberg and |

|poetic manifesto of the Beat movement. |

|Howl |

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|Bonus: [AMW] |

|Set in and around New Orleans, it chronicles the emotional initiation and sexual emancipation of its protagonist. FTPE, |

|1. Name this novel, written in 1899 by Kate Chopin. |

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|The Awakening |

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|2. Name the protagonist of The Awakening, who leaves her husband while he is away on business, and begins a series of love affairs. |

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|Edna Pontellier (accept either) |

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|3. Which man, one of Edna’s lovers, attends the dog races with her, and cares very little about love or marriage, a trait that Edna finds particularly |

|attractive? |

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|Alcee Arobin (accept either) |

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|16. [ktb] |

|Its first movement is opened by a rumbling theme-fragment which is used as a constant structural building piece, while the second, slower movement is |

|embellished by strings throughout. The minuet third movement is built on a falling melodic line that gets subtley transformed into an oboe-violin tune.|

|The finale in the fourth movement uses counterpoint heavily to create a harmonious whole and uses all five of the movement's themes at the same time to|

|create a sense of grandeur. Composed in 1788 and the last and longest of its composer's symphonies, name the common subtitle of K. 551, Mozart's |

|Symphony no. 41*, named for the supreme Roman deity and the fifth planet from the sun. |

|Jupiter symphony (accept Symphony no. 41 or K. 551 before they are mentioned) |

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|Bonus: [CTar] |

|Identify these Norse goddesses FTP. |

|1. This goddess of love and fertility acquired a beautiful necklace by sleeping with four dwarves in succession. |

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|Freya (accept equivalents, such as Freyja, Freja) |

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|2. The wife of Bragi who kept charge of the golden apples that provided eternal youth. |

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|Idun |

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|3. This sea goddess, the mother of nine daughters and wife of Aegir, was infamous for a drowning net that captured sailors and brought them to her |

|watery realm. |

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|Ran |

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|17. [rts] |

|Their origins are shrouded in mystery, with the most popular theory claiming that they were originally Varangians called down from Scandinavia to |

|govern the city of Kiev. From Kiev they expanded their power even during the Mongol conquest, eventually culminating in the rivals of Novgorod and |

|Moscow. The dynasty officially cmae to an end with the death of Fyodor I in 1598 and the Time of Troubles. FTP name this dynasty which ruled much of |

|what became Russia prior to being replaced by the Romanovs. |

|Rurik OR Rurikid dynasty |

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|Bonus: [cbs] |

|This man’s Antony and Cleopatra was commissioned to open the Metropolitan Opera House in 1966. FTP: |

|1. What American composer is responsible for such works as Dover Beach, the overture for School for Scandal, and Vanessa? |

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|Samuel Barber |

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|2. This 1938 orchestral work by Barber was voted the #1 by the BBC program Today, and has been used in films such as Lorenzo’s Oil and Platoon |

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|Adagio for Strings |

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|3. Barber composed a tone poem called Music for a Scene from this author, after reading his “Prometheus Unbound.” |

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|Percy Bysshe Shelley |

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|18. [ktb] |

|This class's ammonites are actually related more to their more mobile relatives than the chamber-shelled relative* they most resemble. A mantle houses |

|their visceral mass and they use jet propulsion from a foot siphon to move. Architeuthis dux, the second largest known member of this class was first |

|photographed alive in 2004 by Japanese whale watchers while another member has a parrot-like beak. FTP, name this class of sea creatures of the phylum |

|mollusca whose members include the chambered nautilus, the giant squid and octopi and whose name comes from the Greek for "head-foot." |

|Cephalopod |

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|Bonus: [AMW] |

|Some stuff about drama for ten points each. |

|1. The main character of this play, Gregers Werle, cannot help but inform the Erkdal family that they are living a life of lies, leading Hedvig to |

|shoot herself after attempting to kill the titular animal. |

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|The Wild Duck |

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|2. Name the Norwegian playwright of The Wild Duck who also wrote A Doll’s House? |

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|Henrik Ibsen |

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|3. The titular character of this Ibsen play commits suicide rather than be mistress to the judge who knows that she encouraged her husband’s rival to |

|kill himself. |

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|Hedda Gabler |

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|19. [cbs] |

|With a population around 40 million, this nation is one of Africa’s largest. It has been led by its president Omar * al-Bashir (all – bah – SHEER) for |

|nearly two decades, although most of that time has been filled with a number of wars and political unrest. Sitting at the confluence of the Blue and |

|White Nile rivers, the nation’s capital can be found at Khartoum. FTP, name this African nation that has been in the media recently for the ongoing |

|conflict in its Darfur region. |

|_Sudan_ |

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|Bonus: [HK] |

|Answer these questions from physics FTPE |

|1. This is the energy that an object, with mass m, has relative to its position, h, above the surface of the Earth’s surface at an arbitrary height. |

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|Gravitational Potential energy |

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|2. Gravitational potential energy is measured with this SI unit. It is equal to 1 kilogram multiplied by meter squared over second squared. |

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|Joule |

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|3. This principle is illustrated when the sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of a system in its initial form equal the sum of the |

|kinetic and potential energies of the system in its final state. |

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|Principle of Conservation of Mechanical energy |

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|20. [ktb] |

|This novel is one of the first to employ the concept of involuntary memory in literature, the most famous example of which is known as the “Episode of |

|the Madeleine”. Minor characters in this work include the violinist Paul Morel, a protege of the perverted Baron de Charlus and Albertine, who is a |

|lesbian attracted to Marcel. FTP, name this exceedingly long novel that involves both the Guermantes and Swann family, a work by Marcel Proust. |

|In Search of Lost TIme or Remembrance of Thigns Past or À la recherche du temps perdu |

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|Bonus: [aap] |

|For ten points each, identify these Pulitzer Prize winning authors by their other works. |

|1. Lie Down In Darkness, Set This House On Fire, Darkness Visible, Sophie’s Choice |

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|(William) Styron |

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|2. The Plot Against America, I Married A Communist, Portnoy’s Complaint, Goodbye Columbus |

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|(Philip) Roth |

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|3. All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Orchard Keeper, The Crossing |

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|(Cormac) McCarthy |

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

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