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Minnesota Chitin Classic: Round 7

Packet by Minnesota (Andrew Hart)

Tossups

1. One author from this country wrote about the artist Hurtle Duffield Courtney, while the Newby family is killed by a half-native of this country in another work. In addition to The Vivisector and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, another novel in this country is written in the style of the Jerilderie Letter, and another tells the story of a German explorer named Voss. Its only Nobel Laureate is Patrick White, while other authors from this country include Nevil Shute Norway, Thomas Keneally, and Peter Carey. For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Oscar and Lucinda, in the outback.

ANSWER: Commonwealth of Australia

2. While fighting in the Siege of Veracruz, he met his future commander and earned two brevet promotions. His most notable accomplishments came after a defeat at Kernstown, which would be his only defeat in this campaign. He defeated Nathaniel Banks at Front Royal and John C. Fremont at Cross Keys, and harassed McDowell in the Valley Campaign. For 10 points, name the general who was killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville and who, at the Battle of First Bull Run, received his memorable nickname.

ANSWER: Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

3. This painter depicted a mustachioed man behind two white-clad women holding closed-up umbrellas in one work, and the green shoes of a trapeze artist in the upper-left in another. In one of his works, a reclining nude accepts a bunch of flowers from a black servant, while three figures lounge near a blue tablecloth and some food while a nude woman bathes herself in a creek in the background in another. For 10 points, name this painter of The Balcony, A Bar at the Foiles-Bergeres, Olympia, and Luncheon on the Grass.

ANSWER: Edouard Manet

4. Hotelling’s law describes one beneficial outcome of this situation. William Baumol described a “Revolution” in the theory of this type of market, which claims that low entry cost markets are unfavorable to this situation. In this situation, profit maximization occurs when setting marginal cost equal to marginal revenue, which will result in a lower quantity sold at a higher price and thus deadweight loss. For 10 points, name this market structure in which there is one producer.

ANSWER: monopolies

5. This infectious agent’s env protein exhibits variability that leads to three groups of its “one” variety, M, N, and O. This virus’s outer lipid membrane is punctured by gp41 proteins, which are bound to another protein that binds to the CD4 receptors on cells it attacks; that is a glycoprotein known as gp120. Its capsid contains two strands of RNA, each of which is paired with a reverse transcriptase enzyme. For 10 points, name this virus that attacks Helper T cells, and eventually causes AIDS.

ANSWER: HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus [prompt on “AIDS Virus”; do not prompt on “AIDS”]

6. In one section of this work, Walter Ewell’s horn signals the arrival of a massive buck, which two hunters dub “grandfather” and do not shoot. Another section features a poker game between Uncle Buck and Hubert, in which Buck wins Sophonisba in marriage and the slave Tennie. In addition to “The Old People” and “Was,” this work tells of the interracial relationship between a “Negress” and Roth Edmonds, while another story in this work tells of Ike McCaslin and Boon Hogganbeck’s hunt for Old Ben. For 10 points, name this short story collection that features “Delta Autumn” and “The Bear,” with a Biblical name by William Faulkner.

ANSWER: Go Down, Moses

7. This man ascended to the throne after another heir was viewed as illegitimate due to his father’s never-annulled marriage to Lady Eleanor Butler. One of this man’s brothers was said to have been executed by being drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine; that execution was presaged by this man’s quarrel with his brothers George, Duke of Clarence, and Edward IV, over the Neville Sisters. He was crowned in 1483 after allegedly killing Edward V and his brother, the “Princes in the Tower.” For 10 points, name this loser at Bosworth whose horse cost him his kingdom, according to Shakespeare.

ANSWER: King Richard III York [prompt on “Richard”]

8. One aria in this opera begins with the speaker claiming that she can give a man some toast, and goes on to claim that “love awaits” the title character. Another aria from this opera ends “if I love you, you’d best beware!” The peasant girl Micaela informs the male lead that his mother is dying, while Lieutenant Zuniga attempts to interrogate the female lead when she is brought in for knife-fighting with another woman. Containing the “Toreador Song” and “Habanera,” for 10 points, name this opera about Don Jose, the bullfighter Escamillo, and the titular gypsy, by Georges Bizet.

ANSWER: Carmen

9. A man named Juan Santos who claimed to be a descendent of this man took this man’s name and led a rebellion in Tarma and Jauja in the 1740s. He was captured at Chillopampa but escaped and defeated his enemies at Chimborazo. This man sparred with his half-brother Huascar in a civil war after the death of his father Huayna Capac, and he was captured at the Battle of Cajamarca and ransomed for tons of gold and silver, but eventually suffocated and replaced by his brother, Tupac Huallpa. For 10 points, name this man overthrown by Francisco Pizarro, an Incan emperor.

ANSWER: Atahualpa [or Atabalipa]

10. The Madelung rule can generally describe the same behavior that this predicts. A version of it can be used to predict the configuration of protons and neutrons in various atomic nuclei. The periodicity of ionization energy in relation to atomic number is a result of shielding from previously filled orbitals and a consequence of it. It is the result of the combination of Hund’s Rules and the Pauli Exclusion Principle, and it is used to determine electron configurations. For 10 points, name this principle that governs orbital designations which is German for “to build up.”

ANSWER: Aufbau principle

11. The artist Axel and his feminist-artist wife Bertha live together as compatriots and not lovers in this author’s Comrades. Another Axel, this one a librarian, first desires the Baroness then longs for his friend Gustav’s wife Marie in this author’s Confessions of a Fool. A group of intellectuals, including Olle Montanus, Sellen, and Lundell, gather to talk in the titular location in his The Red Room, while Bocklin’s Isle of the Dead appears after Jacob Hummel and the Student, Arkenholz, find a parrot-talking mummy in a closet in this author’s Ghost Sonata. For 10 points, name this author of A Dream Play who wrote about a suicidal woman and her love Jean in Miss Julie.

ANSWER: Johan August Strindberg

12. DJ Cobra in San Diego’s Bar West is featured in a YouTube video that shows Amare Stoudemire making a pathetic attempt to perform this action after claiming he wants to hear “A little ‘Pac.” This action documented a namesake Fat Joe song that claims “Yeah I’m in this business of terror,” and an Usher song about this action claims that “We keep that carpet green in the city.” It was notably performed by “Richard Rich,” Nelly, and Pacman Jones with a garbage bag containing over $80,000 in ones. For 10 points, name this action that involves going to a club and throwing lots of money in the air.

ANSWER: making it rain [accept word forms]

13. This author used a line from Keats to title his short story about a London Jewish author named Ferdy Rabenstein, whose nephew George Bland commits suicide. In addition to “The Alien Corn,” this author wrote a play in which Porteous and Kitty are complicit in Elizabeth and Teddie’s affair, The Circle. Mrs. Blakeston fights the title character for having an affair with her husband Jim in one of this man’s works, while another fictionalizes Paul Gauguin as Charles Strickland. In addition to Liza of Lambeth and The Moon and Sixpence, this author wrote novels about Larry Darrell and Philip Carey. For 10 points, name this author of The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.

ANSWER: William Somerset Maugham

14. One work about these institutions are characterized by an “unequal gaze” between two groups within them; that work also claims that they “cannot fail to produce delinquents,” and that they create “disciplinary careers.” A circular one in which observers can watch any of the inhabitants at any time without the inhabitants’ knowledge was devised by Jeremy Bentham and dubbed the Panopticon. For 10 points, name these institutions whose “Birth” is chronicled in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish.

ANSWER: prisons [accept equivalents like jail, etc.]

15. The 1777 exchange of the island of Fernando Poo and some of the coast of what’s now Niger for land in what’s now western Brazil was the last official invocation of this document. The bull Inter Caetera, promulgated by Calixtus VI, was used as precedent for the claims of one monarch, while provisions of the later bull Aeterni Regis and a second Inter Caetera were championed by the other signatory. That latter Caetera, written by Pope Alexander IV, was furthered by Dudum Siquedem, which extended Spanish jurisdiction to India. For 10 points, name this 1494 treaty that separated the spheres of influence of Spain and Portugal.

ANSWER: Treaty of Tordesillas or Tratado de Tordesilhas

16. Deriving this value from the second law of thermodynamics yields the value d-E over d-S, where E is energy and S is entropy. According to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, the value for this property in an ideal gas equals two-thirds the average kinetic energy of the gas over k, the number of moles times the ideal gas constant. The zeroeth law of thermodynamics involves three reservoirs with the same value for this property, and it appears along with number of moles and the gas constant on one side of the ideal gas equation. For 10 points, name this property measured on the Rankine, Fahrenheit, and Celsius scales.

ANSWER: temperature

17. In one text, this man is described as an exile from Troy, leading to Thor Heyerdahl’s work “The Search for” this man. In Saxo Grammaticus’s Gautrek’s Saga, King Vikar draws the short straw and is sacrificed to this god for favorable winds. He can see all from his thrown of Hlidskjald, and two of his palaces are Gladsheim and Valaskjalf. Along with his brother Vili and Vi, he slaughtered Ymir and fashioned his body into the earth. For 10 points, name this “all father,” the husband of Frigg and master of the ravens Hugin and Munin, the head of the Norse pantheon.

ANSWER: Odin or Woden

18. When three of these combine, one of them usually forms an Aulacogen. These features display on the earth’s surface as a series of alternating uplifted areas called horsts, and sunken areas called grabens. Three of these often form a “triple junction” which, when passed over a hotspot, can lead to sea-floor spreading. Distinct from divergent boundaries and mid-ocean ridges, for 10 points, name these regions where the crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart, exemplified by a Great Valley of this type in Africa that contains Lake Tanganyika.

ANSWER: rifts [accept rift valleys]

19. This country’s only hot desert is the Nk’mip, located near the town of Osoyoos in the southwest. This country disputes Hans Island with its eastern neighbor, and its political subdivisions come together in a “Four Corners” near Kasba Lake. The Okanagan Valley in this country contains a trail used by gold-rushers to reach Fraser Canyon. Garibaldi Mountain may be an active volcano in this country, whose northeast contains a gigantic region of bedrock known as the Laurentian Shield. For 10 points, name this North American country often known as “America’s Hat.”

ANSWER: Canada

20. A comic strip-like work about the “Dream and Lie” of this man depicts a dead horse, a hairy heart, and lots of screaming women. This man’s rise to power culminated after the assassination of Jose Calvo Sotelo, and he was preceded as ruler by Jose Primo de Rivera, the founder of his “Falange” (Fal-ON-hay) party. He sent the Blue Division to help Hitler during World War II, and Hitler sent the Condor Legion to help this man rise to power, leading to the bombing of the village of Guernica. For 10 points, name this fascist Spanish dictator.

ANSWER: Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teodulo Franco y Bahamonde

TB. One of this author’s protagonists enjoys cricket, riding on horseback, and baseball; a word that this author used in print before any other. That protagonist befriends Isabella Thorpe and is fascinated by the tales of Henry Tilney. Another of this author’s works largely takes place at Thomas Bertram’s estate and sees the protagonist marry her cousin Edmund. Colonel Brandon marries the protagonist of another work despite her once-passionate relationship with John Willoughby in one of her works, while another of her works features the Bennet sisters. For 10 points, name this author of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.

ANSWER: Jane Austen

Minnesota Chitin Classic: Round 7

Packet by Minnesota (Andrew Hart)

Bonuses

1. This work questions whether spunk-water or dead cats are better cures for warts. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this work that features Muff Potter, who is falsely blamed for Injun Joe’s murder of Doc Robinson.

ANSWER: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[10] The American author of Huck Finn and The Mysterious Stranger wrote Tom Sawyer.

ANSWER: Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemens

[10] This other Twain work involves a large sack of gold dropped off at the Richards’ house in a ploy to spoil the title town’s unbesmirched reputation.

ANSWER: “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” [don’t accept “The Man who…”]

2. This voivod rose to power after his father was assassinated, supposedly by boyars under John Hunyadi. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this cruel ruler of Wallachia who inspired a Bram Stoker novel.

ANSWER: Vladislaw III [or Vladislaw the Impaler or Tepes, or Vladislaw Dracula]

[10] Vlad was a puppet ruler of Wallachia under this conquesting Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople and a bunch of other territory.

ANSWER: Mehmed II [Mehmed the Conqueror; or Mehmed -i sani; or Mehmed el Fatih; accept Mehmet instead of “Mehmed” in all cases.

[10] Wallachia is a modern-day region of this country that contains the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania.

ANSWER: Romania

3. Left-handed metamaterials sometimes have a negative value for this measure. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this measure of the speed of light within a medium.

ANSWER: Index of Refraction [or Refractive Index]

[10] This law relates the sines of the angles of incidence and the ratio of velocities of light in two media, and can be used to find the index of refraction.

ANSWER: Snell’s Law [or Descartes’ Law; prompt on “law of refraction”]

[10] These equations describe how light will react when passing between two media with different index of refraction. These equations include the Transmission Coefficient and Reflection Coefficient.

ANSWER Fresnel (FRAY-nell) equations

4. This poem claims that a “Lonely impulse of delight” led the title figure to seek “this tumult in the clouds.” For 10 points each:

[10] Name this poem in which a World War I plane pilot realizes that he will perish fighting to “guard [those] I do not love.”

ANSWER: “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”

[10] This Irish poet of “Lapis Lazuli,” “The Second Coming,” and “The Wild Swans at Coole” wrote “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.”

ANSWER: William Butler Yeats

[10] This Yeats poem begins “That is no country for old men,” and describes a voyage by boat to Constantinople.

ANSWER: “Sailing to Byzantium”

5. Name these American mountains, for 10 points each.

[10] This highest point in North America sits in Denali National Park in Alaska.

ANSWER: Mount McKinley [prompt on “Denali”]

[10] This active stratovolcano, the neighbor of St. Helens in the Cascade Range, overlooks Seattle.

ANSWER: Mount Rainier

[10] This California peak is the highest in the contiguous U.S. Under 100 miles west of Death Valley, part of this mountain is within Sequoia National Park.

ANSWER: Mount Whitney

6. Name these Platonic dialogues, for 10 points each.

[10] In this dialogue, Plato relates Socrates’ speech defending himself against charges of corrupting the youth, leveled by Anytus and Meletus.

ANSWER: The Apology or Apologia

[10] This dialogue sees Socrates teach a slave a geometry lesson in order to prove that all learning is mere recollection of actions in a past life.

ANSWER: The Meno

[10] Named after a pre-Socratic and disciple of Zeno of Elea, this dialogue sees Plato harshly criticize his own Theory of Forms via the Third Man argument.

ANSWER: The Parmenides

7. Name these oft-injured ligaments and tendons, for 10 points each.

[10] The Clippers’ Elton Brand is just returning from an injury to this tendon, which attaches the gastrocnemius to and soleus to the calcaneus, and is found in the heel.

ANSWER: Achilles tendon [prompt on “calcaneal” or “tendocalcaneal”]

[10] Brandon Rush didn’t abandon Kansas for the NBA because his draft stock was hurt by injury to this ligament, which is especially susceptible to damage in females because of their intercondylar notch at the end of the femur.

ANSWER: ACL or anterior cruciate ligament

[10] This other ligament in the elbow was the source of Francisco Liriano’s injury and led to his Tommy John surgery.

ANSWER: UCL or ulnar collateral ligament

8. This novel sees Nwoye, the protagonist’s son, convert to Christianity. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this work set in Umuofia that sees Okonkwo commit suicide.

ANSWER: Things Fall Apart

[10] This Nigerian writer wrote Anthills of the Savannah and Arrow of God in addition to Things Fall Apart.

ANSWER: Chinua Achebe [or Albert Chinualumogu Achebe]

[10] This sequel to Things Fall Apart features Okonkwo’s son, Obi Okonkwo, who arranges for Clara’s abortion and gets busted for accepting a bribe.

ANSWER: No Longer at Ease

9. This 1928 work posited that the looser sexual mores of the title locale led to a closer-knit community with more emotionally secure individuals. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this anthropological work criticized by Derek Freeman that caused outrage upon publication in the U.S.

ANSWER: Coming of Age in Samoa

[10] This American anthropologist who studied a supposedly female-dominant culture in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies wrote Coming of Age in Samoa.

ANSWER: Margaret Mead

[10] Mead also wrote of “Growing up” in this locale from her studies on Manus Island; in the work she details how the children of Manus focus on the realistic while their parents focus on the supernatural.

ANSWER: Papua New Guinea [accept Growing Up in New Guinea]

10. During this uprising, the Metis leader Louis Riel established a provisional government. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this rebellion against the Canadian government that took place near a namesake body of water.

ANSWER: Red River Rebellion [or Resistance]

[10] This Cold War with the United States saw Canadians burn the Caroline, and was resolved by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.

ANSWER: Aroostook War

[10] This later Canadian fiasco occurred when the FLQ kidnapped some government officials in an attempt to liberate Quebec, leading Pierre Trudeau to invoke the War Measures Act.

ANSWER: October Crisis

11. Name these delicious breakfast cereals, for 10 points each:

[10] Futurama claimed that the cape-wearing mascot of this cereal had been promoted to Archduke. This delicious Halloween-themed cereal features chocolatey corn bits and ghastly marshmallows.

ANSWER: Count Chocula

[10] This other haunted-themed cereal is the third in the line of Count Chocula and Franken Berry. It features blue fruity cereal bits and marshmallows, and its mascot is a nonplussed-looking blue ghost with a lame yellow hat.

ANSWER: Boo Berry

[10] This Quaker brand cereal was a supposedly accidental special edition of the fruity version of Cap’n Crunch, which featured none of the yellow corn squares and 100% of those yummy strawberry-flavored round pieces.

ANSWER: Crunch Berries: “Oops! All Berries” [prompt on “Crunch Berries”]

12. Her self-portraits include one with a monkey, and another which shows two of her sitting on a bench. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this unibrowed Mexican painter.

ANSWER: Frida Kahlo

[10] Kahlo was a longtime lover of this corpulent Mexican muralist of Detroit Industry and Rockefeller Center’s Man at the Crossroads.

ANSWER: Diego Rivera [accept Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez]

[10] This other Mexican muralist of Juarez Reborn and The People and Its Leaders painted The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth.

ANSWER: Jose Clemente Orozco

13. This religion’s priests are dubbed Houngan. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this religion that believes in spirits called Loa and the supreme god Bondye, practiced predominantly in Haiti.

ANSWER: Voodoo or Vodun

[10] This similar religion, also known as the Rule of Lukumi, once won in the U.S. Supreme Court the right to sacrifice animals in Hialeah County. It worships African-style spirits under the guise of Catholicism.

ANSWER: Santeria

[10] Both Voodoo and Santeria draw heavily from this African, which, like Santeria, believes in spirits called Orisha. Its traditions were described in Amos Tutola’s books My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and The Palm-Wine Drinkard.

ANSWER: Yoruban [prompt on “Orisha”]

14. This play contains a plot to defect to Jerry Graff and a rant against people named Patel. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this play about four Chicago real estate agents including Dave Moss and Shelly Levene.

ANSWER: Glengarry Glen Ross

[10] This American playwright of Speed-the-Plow and Sexual Perversity in Chicago wrote Glengarry Glen Ross.

ANSWER: David Alan Mamet

[10] This Mamet work focuses on the junkshop owner Don Dubrow, his gofer Bob, and his friend Teach, who plot a robbery of a man who bought the titular nickel.

ANSWER: American Buffalo

15. Name these galaxies, for 10 points each.

[10] This is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, known as M31 in the Messier catalogue. It’s the largest galaxy in the Local Group.

ANSWER: Andromeda

[10] The irregular dwarf galaxy that is probably the closest to the Milky Way is located in this constellation, whose brightest star, Sirius, is known as the Dog Star.

ANSWER: Canis Major [prompt on “Big Woof Woof” or equivalents]

[10] These two irregular galaxies, the “Large” and “Small” versions, can be seen in the southern hemisphere. They were named in honor of a circumnavigating explorer, the first westerner to notice them.

ANSWER: The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

16. He resigned as Secretary of State in the midst of the Lusitania crisis. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this American politician who gave the “Cross of Gold” speech.

ANSWER: William Jennings Bryan

[10] In 1896, Bryan was nominated by both the Democratic party and this other party, but this party nominated Thomas E. Watson instead of Arthur Sewall as Bryan’s runningmate.

ANSWER: Populist Party [or People’s Party]

[10] Bryan fought against the nomination of this Democrat in 1924, instead favoring a ticket of John W. Davis and his own brother Charles. This Catholic would get the nomination in ’28.

ANSWER: Al Smith [or Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr.]

17. Its first movement is an Allegro con brio in sonata form that uses a theme based on Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon, but eventually dedicated to “the memory of a great man.”

ANSWER: Eroica [moderator: accept but do not read alternate answers!] or Beethoven’s Third or Opus 55

[10] This Classical German composer of the Choral symphony, which features the “Ode to Joy,” composed Eroica.

ANSWER: Ludwig von Beethoven

[10] This opera, the only one Beethoven ever composed, tells of Leonore’s cross-dressing exploits as the title prison guard to save her husband Florestan from death as a political prisoner.

ANSWER: Fidelio [or Opus 72]

18. Characters in this work include Topsy and Eliza. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this work that features Eva St. Clare and the diabolical Simon Legree.

ANSWER: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

[10] This author wrote works like Oldtown Folks and The Minister’s Wooing in addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: Harriet Beecher Stowe

[10] This young man, whose father sells Uncle Tom in the first place, frees all his slaves upon his father’s death in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

ANSWER: George Shelby [accept either]

19. This state was the home of Edwin Drake, who drilled the first commercially successful oil well. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this state, the home of the Titusville oil field.

ANSWER: Pennsylvania

[10] The Lucas gusher at this oil field nearly tripled U.S. oil production. This field is located near Beaumont, Texas.

ANSWER: Spindletop

[10] This John D. Rockefeller founded company, whose practices were exposed by muckraker Ida Tarbell, was one of the largest corporations in the United States.

ANSWER: Standard Oil Company

20. This functional group can be created by reacting a primary alcohol with an oxidizing agent. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this functional group with a terminal carbonyl group, the “form” version of which is a biological preservative.

ANSWER: aldehydes

[10] Aldehydes are very similar to this class of organic compounds which features a central carbonyl group attached to two carbon atoms.

ANSWER: ketones

[10] Cyclic ketones can be formed via the acylation form of this reaction, which involves electrophilic aromatic substitution.

ANSWER: Friedel-Crafts acylation or reaction

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