High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 13 – Tossups1. A character learns about this place from a classmate asking him if he will go there as she “turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist.” A character’s aunt worries that this place might be “some Freemason affair,” and that character notices “the words Caf Chantant written in coloured lamps” at this location. In a conversation overheard at this location, two people argue over whether someone said some unspecified thing. At this location, one character sees himself “as a creature driven and derided by vanity” and his “eyes burned with anguish and anger.” After arriving at this place, the narrator hears only “the fall of the coins” as “all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness.” For 10 points, name this Eastern-themed marketplace, the title location of a story from Dubliners by James Joyce.ANSWER: Araby [or the bazaar in the story “Araby”]<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by John Marvin>2. The book that coined the term “meritocracy” imagines a sociologist in 2034 studying this country’s education system. Peter Willmott and Michael Young studied “Family and Kinship” in a major city in this country. This country has undergone “massification” according to Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy. Alan Ross developed a class-based distinction between U and non-U sociolects of this country’s language. E.?P.?Thompson wrote about the making of this country’s working class, whose mortality rates from diseases such as smallpox was studied by a German theorist, who linked industrialization in this country to “social murder.” George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier is set in, for 10 points, what country where Friedrich Engels studied laborers in Manchester?ANSWER: England [or Great Britain; or UK; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]<The above question is for the category Social Science Sociology and was written by Shan Kothari>3. Gaussian plume models are often used to study the dispersion of this general phenomenon across space. Douglas Dockery and C.?Arden Pope led the Harvard Six Cities Study on the effects of this general phenomenon across cities. One form of this phenomenon is divided into two classes based on diameter: below 2.5?micrometers, and between 2.5 and 10?micrometers. Thermal inversions often increase exposure to this phenomenon, as in a 1952 event that killed thousands of Londoners. Wet and dry scrubbers can be installed in exhaust streams to reduce its severity. The terms NOx (nox) and SOx (sox) refer to the nitrogen and sulfur oxides that most often contribute to this phenomenon, along with particulate matter. For 10 points, name this kind of anthropogenic atmospheric phenomenon harmful to human health.ANSWER: air pollution [or smog; prompt on pollution; prompt on air quality; prompt on answers like atmospheric chemicals or particulates or particulate matter or PM; prompt on aerosols]<The above question is for the category Science Earth Science and was written by Shan Kothari>4. A J.?B.?Lenoir song about an event in this state asks “Mr. President I wonder what are you gonna do now?” This state is where “the sweating of their souls can’t wash the blood from off their hands” and is told to “find yourself another country to be part of” in a song by Phil Ochs. Another song with this state in the title mentions “Hound dogs on my trail, schoolchildren sitting in jail.” An event in this state is described in the lyric “Two eyes took the aim, behind a main’s brain, but he can’t be blamed.” In a line that follows the couplet “Alabama’s gotten me so upset, Tennessee made me lost my rest,” the singer says that “everybody knows about” this state in a Nina Simone song. For 10 points, name this state discussed in Bob Dylan’s songs “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” which is about Medgar Evers, and “The Death of Emmett Till.”ANSWER: Mississippi<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Penelope Ashe>5. A dissident reputation caused the suburb of Rennie’s Mill to be cleared in the build-up to this event. The Lobo Motion meant that proposals for this event were discussed in a particular Legislative Assembly. The Aberdeen Centre was built in Richmond, Vancouver, in anticipation of this event. The Basic Law ensured that socialism would not be implemented for fifty years after this event. The last foreign mission of the royal yacht Britannia was to convey Governor Chris Patten and Prince Charles back from this event, which was marked by a speech given by Jiang Zemin championing the “one country, two systems” policy. For 10 points, identify this event of July 1, 1997, by which Britain reverted control of a colonial possession to the People’s Republic of China.ANSWER: transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong [accept anything which mentions control of Hong Kong shifting from the UK to China]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Daoud Jackson>6. Unlike Julius Guttmann, Leo Strauss argued in Philosophy and Law that this philosopher saw prophecy in political terms. Strauss also described this philosopher’s writing as “exoteric” in an essay from Persecution and the Art of Writing on the “literary character” of a letter by this man to his student Joseph. This philosopher disputed the seven arguments for creation ex nihilo used by the Kalam school in a book that outlined an exegesis (ex-uh-JEE-siss) of Ezekiel’s vision of the chariot as a parable for the metaphysical structure of the universe. He wrote that God’s essence can only be described in terms of what it is not, and explained the 613 mitzvot (meets-VOTE) in his Mishneh Torah. For 10 points, name this rabbi who wrote The Guide for the Perplexed.ANSWER: Moses Maimonides [or Moses ben Maimon; or the Rambam]<The above question is for the category RMP Philosophy and was written by Shan Kothari>7. During his tenure as Secretary of Energy, a future governor of this state wrongly blamed Wen Ho Lee as a suspect in the theft of classified nuclear warhead designs. An act that prohibits federal employees from political campaigning is named for a former Senator from this state, Carl Hatch. This state, which elected Octaviano Larrazolo as the first Latino Senator in 1928, elected the first Latina governor in 2010. Before Bill Richardson, this state was governed by a man who made an inquiry about Aleppo during his 2016 presidential run on the Libertarian ticket, Gary Johnson. For 10 points, name this Southwestern state where Susana Martinez currently occupies the Governor’s Mansion in Santa Fe.ANSWER: New Mexico<The above question is for the category History American (1945-present) and was written by Nitin Rao>8. Bailey and Crandall showed that Stoneham numbers and Champernowne’s constant have a property described by this word. Matrices that commute with their conjugate transpose are described by this term. For a certain object, this property is equivalent to stating that it is preserved by inner automorphisms, that it is a kernel of some automorphism, and that it is a union of conjugacy classes. A subgroup of a group is said to have this property if its left cosets are the same as its right cosets. The equation described by this word solves the least squares approximation problem. A vector described by this term is the cross product of one described by this term prefixed with “bi-” and the tangent vector. For 10 points, identify this word that describes a vector perpendicular to a surface.ANSWER: normal [accept binormal]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Conor Thompson>9. A man who held this office was turned into an eagle and his wife was turned into a vulture, after Apollo begged for mercy when Zeus planned to punish that man for accepting divine honors. This office was held by Menestheus, who is said in the Iliad to be the best designer of battle orders in the Greek army. Another holder of this office, Demophon, died after looking into a horrible casket given to him by Phyllis. A person who held this title was born after Hephaestus’s attempted rape caused the earth to be impregnated, and another holder of this title was a half-man, half-snake named Cecrops. A holder of this title killed himself when his son forgot to change out his black sails upon returning from Crete. For 10 points, Aegeus and Theseus mythically held what office, which ruled a Greek cultural center in pre-democratic times?ANSWER: king of Athens [or king of Attica; prompt on king]<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>10. Vladimir Horowitz recorded the Humoresque and Barcarolle from this composer’s Opus 10 “salon pieces.” His Opus 21 collection of 12 Romances includes “Lilacs.” This composer wrote the chant-like opening theme (read slowly, pausing at commas) D,?F?E?D,?C-sharp?D?E,?D for a concerto that ends with his four-note “signature” rhythm: quarter, eighth, eighth, quarter. Cesar Cui (say-ZAR KYOO-ee) compared this man’s First Symphony to “a conservatory in Hell, and one of its students were to compose based on the story of the Ten Plagues of Egypt,” leading the derisive charge against it. That negative reaction drove this composer into a four-year depression, which he escaped by writing his Piano Concerto No.?2. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of four piano concerti and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff [Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff]<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by John Marvin>11. While staying near Milan, a character in this book goes on a barefoot journey across a stretch of frozen soil. A new translation of this text by Sarah Ruden renders an important word as “master.” This book’s protagonist is shocked to find one of his mentors reading silently. The protagonist rebukes his friend Alypius for his love of gladiator fights, and later moves with Alypius and Nebridius to Italy. This book’s protagonist asks, “grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,” and recalls the pleasure he took in the sin of stealing pears from an orchard. After losing faith in Manichaeism, that protagonist hears sermons by St. Ambrose and becomes a Christian like his mother Monica. For 10 points, name this autobiography describing the spiritual journey of a bishop from Hippo.ANSWER: Confessions of St. Augustine [or Confessiones; or Confessions in Thirteen Books]<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Shan Kothari>12. The square root of this quantity times density times characteristic length scale is the denominator of the Ohnesorge number. A constant in an equation used to calculate this quantity is equal to 2.1?times 10-to-the-negative-7th joules?per?kelvin?mole. That constant times the difference between two temperatures equals this quantity times volume to the two-thirds. The reciprocals of two principal radii are added together and multiplied by this value to give pressure change in the Young–Laplace equation. Differences in this quantity explain an effect named for Marangoni that causes the formation of “tears” on a wine glass. For 10 points, name this quantity lowered by surfactants, the ratio of force to length at the boundary of a liquid.ANSWER: surface tension<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Tim Morrison>13. A group of seventh-century stelae in China assert that Xuanzang (shwen-TZONG) was commanded by Emperor Tang Taizong to translate this text. A character in this text reveals a mantra that begins “gate gate paragate” (guh-TAY guh-TAY PAH-ruh-guh-TAY), and says of all things that “they have no increase, they have no decrease.” Before this text’s main discourse, a character realizes that the five aggregates have no inherent nature. This short text is set at Vulture Peak, where Sariputra (shuh-ree-poo-truh) asks Avalokite?vara (uh-vuh-loh-kee-TESH-vuh-ruh) how he should train and practice, and the latter asserts that “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” For 10 points, name this Buddhist scripture which, as it is a condensation of the Perfection of Wisdom teachings, is named for a central circulatory organ.ANSWER: Heart Sutra [or Praj?āpāramitāh?daya Sutra; or Xīnjīng; or the “Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom” until “Perfection of Wisdom” is read]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>14. Monotherapy with one of these compounds is first-line treatment for neutropenic fever. The inducible ampC gene breaks down these compounds, which are also broken down by organisms called ESBLs. A “height-of-pyramid” parameter named for Woodward and a lowercase?C parameter named for Cohen are used to characterize these compounds. One subset of these compounds comes in five generations with increasing gram-negative coverage, and these compounds are sometimes given with cilastatin, sulbactam, or tazobactam to inhibit namesake enzymes that break them down. These drugs work by inhibiting DD-transpeptidases that create peptidoglycan in the bacterial cell wall. For 10 points, name this class of antibiotics that includes cephalosporins and penicillins.ANSWER: beta-lactam antibiotics [or penicillins; or cephalosoporins until read; prompt on antibiotics]<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Eric Mukherjee>15. A site called the “Cave of the Hands” is an example of pre-historic art in this region. For much of its history, a narrow-gauge train called La Trochita was the only rapid transport through this region. A camelid creature called the Guanaco is sometimes eaten as a controversial delicacy in this region. This region’s name originated when Magellan’s expedition thought the natives of this region were giants. The towns of Gaiman and Trelew in this region were founded along the Chubut River valley by Welsh settlers. The northern border of this region is commonly marked with the Colorado and Barracas rivers. For 10 points, name this sparsely populated southern region of mainland South America, for which an American clothing company is named.ANSWER: Patagonia<The above question is for the category Geography World and was written by John Marvin>16. A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti named for this body part shows a distorted head hanging in the frame of a rectangular prism. A public artwork in London installed thirty-five of these body parts on random buildings and is now called the “Seven” of them “of Soho.” It’s not the whole face, but Amadeo Modigliani’s sculpture, Tête (tet), features a highly elongated vertical example of this body part. Cycladic-era Greek sculpture generally depicted only these body parts on heads. A missing example of one of these body parts was probably destroyed by an iconoclastic Sufi saint when he saw locals offering food to a certain statue, though popular belief attributes this missing body part to Napoleon’s soldiers shooting it off. For 10 points, name this body part missing from the Great Sphinx of Giza.ANSWER: noses<The above question is for the category Arts Sculpture and was written by John Marvin>17. This man’s book White Nights reflects on his experiences in a Soviet gulag during World War II. A shipload carrying weapons from France to this man’s organization was fired on by his compatriots in the Altalena Affair. This leader authorized Operation Opera to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. The Kahan commission found this politician’s government to be indirectly responsible for the Sabra and Shatila Massacre, which occurred after he ordered the invasion of Lebanon in response to the attempted assassination of Ambassador Shlomo Argov (SHLOW-mo ar-GOHV). This follower of the Revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky (zeh-EV jah-bo-TIN-skee) founded the Likud party and commanded the Irgun (eer-GOON) in the Mandate of Palestine. For 10 points, name this prime minister of Israel who negotiated the Camp David Accords with Anwar Sadat.ANSWER: Menachem Begin (meh-NAH-khem BAY-gin)<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Nitin Rao>18. An artwork within this painting shows a man falling off a horse, which has been read as a depiction of St. Paul’s conversion; that artwork within this painting also shows a woman and a man standing beside a tall columnar object, which may be a depiction of Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Knowledge. Two rabbits on a hilltop in front of a distant castle on the left side of this painting have been interpreted as representing fidelity. Water flows out of a spout from a sarcophagus-like object at the center of this painting, which bears its commissioner’s coat of arms and has a flower and a bowl of jewels atop it. At the center of this painting, a putto reaches his hand into the water between a clothed woman and a near-nude one who looks at her. For 10 points, name this wedding commission by Titian.ANSWER: Sacred and Profane Love [or Amor Sacro e Amor Profano]<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>19. Michael Jackson dedicated his album Invincible to a half-Ghanaian boy who was killed in this city by neo-Nazis, Benjamin Hermansen. An agreement reached in this city was extended by the Wye River Accords. Uri Savir and Ahmed Qurei signed a secret agreement in this city, where talks were facilitated by Jan Egeland. Although it was signed in Taba in Egypt, a negotiating process named for this city created the Palestinian Authority and was ended by the Second Intifada. The PLO recognised the state of Israel as part of a series of accords named for this city. In 2011, a car-bomb which killed eight people was set off in this city by a criminal who killed members of the Worker’s Youth League on Ut?ya Island, Anders Behring Breivik. For 10 points, name this capital of Norway.ANSWER: Oslo, Norway<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Daoud Jackson>20. A writer from this country was saved from a scheduled lobotomy when her collection The Lagoon and Other Stories won the Hubert Church Award a few days before the surgery. That writer’s autobiography was adapted into the film An Angel at My Table. Janet Frame was from this country, where the prospector Walter Moody runs into a council of twelve men with different zodiac signs in the Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries. Jane Campion and Eleanor Catton are from this country. In a story from this country, Godber’s man brings news that a carter named Scott has been killed after being thrown from his horse, causing Laura Sheridan to want to cancel the title celebration. “Bliss” and “The Garden Party” are from, for 10 points, what home of Katherine Mansfield?ANSWER: New Zealand<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Shan Kothari>Extra. This soldier recruited John Colter and George Shannon, two of the “Nine Young Men from Kentucky.” After its leg was bitten by a beaver, the dog Seaman was surgically operated on by this man, its owner. After mistaking this man for an elk, Pierre Cruzatte shot him in the thigh. This administrator’s reputation was sabotaged by his subordinate and rival, Frederick Bates. While traveling to Washington to seek a reimbursement from the War Department, this subject of Stephen Ambrose’s biography Undaunted Courage mysteriously died at Grinder’s Stand in a reported suicide. This politician replaced the treasonous James Wilkinson as governor of the Louisiana Territory and earlier served as personal secretary to Thomas Jefferson. For 10 points, name this explorer who led the Corps of Discovery with William Clark. ANSWER: Meriwether Lewis<The above question is for the category History American (pre-1865) and was written by Nitin Rao>2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 13 – Bonuses1. Film composer Ennio Morricone (mo-ree-KOH-nay) rose to prominence for his soundtracks for films in this genre. For 10 points each:[10] Name this film subgenre that, although set in the deserts of the American West, were produced by filmmakers in Italy.ANSWER: Spaghetti Western [or western all’italiana][10] This seminal Spaghetti Western director is best known for his legendary films starring Clint Eastwood, including A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.ANSWER: Sergio Leone (lee-OH-nay)[10] This Leone film jarringly cast Henry Fonda as its villain, Frank. Charles Bronson plays its nameless harmonica-playing protagonist, bent on revenge for the death of his brother.ANSWER: Once Upon a Time in the West [or C’era una volta il West]<The above question is for the category Arts Film and was written by John Marvin>2. A classic devotional novella called The Way of a Pilgrim narrates how a mendicant interprets Paul’s injunction to “pray without ceasing” literally, and says this prayer thousands of times per day. For 10 points each:[10] Name this short prayer central to Eastern Orthodox spirituality. It can be said with a prayer rope to count repetitions, and is central to the tradition of hesychasm (HESS-ih-KAZ-um).ANSWER: the Jesus Prayer [or the Prayer of the Heart][10] The Hesychast (HESS-ih-cast) controversy broke out when Barlaam argued that the notion that contemplative practice could lead to union with God is heretical. This thinker solved the dispute by making the essence-energies distinction, which is that one can unite with God’s energies but never with God’s essence.ANSWER: Saint Gregory Palamas [or Agios Grigorios Palamas][10] The Hesychast controversy erupted in this modern-day country, home to Mt.?Athos, the location of many of the most ancient Eastern Orthodox monasteries.ANSWER: Greece [or Ellada; or the Hellenic Republic; or Ellinikí Dimokratía]<The above question is for the category RMP Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>3. Answer the following about fields of mathematics, for 10 points each.[10] This field is concerned with continuous functions with continuous inverses, such as one that could transform a donut into a coffee cup and vice versa.ANSWER: general topology [prompt on homeomorphisms][10] In 2014, this person became the first Iranian and first woman to win the Fields Medal.ANSWER: Maryam Mirzakhani (mar-YAHM meer-zah-KAH-nee)[10] In abstract algebra, a field is said to have this property if every non-constant polynomial whose coefficients come from the field (pause) has a root in the field.ANSWER: algebraic closure [or algebraically closed field]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Jonah Greenthal>4. This psychiatrist identified a “triad” in patients of negative thoughts about themselves, the world, and the future and advocated reflecting on negative thoughts in order to dispel their validity. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Penn-based psychiatrist whose daughter Judith has continued to apply his therapeutic techniques.ANSWER: Aaron Beck [Aaron Temkin Beck][10] Beck designed a 21-question “inventory” test to quantify the severity of this mental disorder, which is pharmaceutically treated with SSRIs such as Zoloft.ANSWER: depression [or major depressive disorder][10] The identification, interrogation, and rational response to “automatic thoughts” is the fundamental process in this form of therapy developed by Beck. This approach was merged with Albert Ellis’s behavioral techniques to form a major paradigm in contemporary psychological treatment.ANSWER: cognitive therapy<The above question is for the category Social Science Psychology and was written by Penelope Ashe>5. According to Plutarch, members of this conspiracy took an oath involving human sacrifice and cannibalism. For 10 points each:[10] Name this conspiracy in the first year of the Roman Republic to restore the monarchy. Lucius Junius Brutus had his sons executed for their involvement in this conspiracy.ANSWER: Tarquinian Conspiracy [or Tarquin the Proud’s conspiracy][10] This conspiracy to overthrow Nero resulted in the forced suicide of Seneca the Younger and his nephew Lucan.ANSWER: Pisonian Conspiracy [or Piso’s conspiracy][10] Sallust wrote a history of this conspiracy to overthrow the republic by a disgruntled aristocrat who had lost three consular elections. Cicero exposed this conspiracy during his tenure as consul. ANSWER: Catiline Conspiracy [accept Second Catilinarian Conspiracy; do not accept “First Catilinarian Conspiracy”]<The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Nitin Rao>6. This character is called “mapface” and “piece of the moon” because of a birthmark he has. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character with telepathic abilities and a gigantic, always-dripping nose.ANSWER: Saleem Sinai [prompt on Sinai][10] Saleem Sinai is a primary character from this Salman Rushdie novel, whose title refers to a group of extraordinary kids born at the time of India’s independence.ANSWER: Midnight’s Children[10] Saleem’s tomboyish sister, who is at first referred to as “the monkey,” later becomes a famous member of this profession and changes her surname to match.ANSWER: singer [or word forms such as singing; or synonyms such as vocalist; prompt on musician; prompt on entertainer]<The above question is for the category Literature World and was written by John Marvin>7. This beast was sent to punish Oeneus (EE-nee-us) for an incomplete sacrifice. For 10 points each:[10] Name this possible offspring of the Crommyonian Sow, which was slain in a large hunt in Aetolia.ANSWER: Calydonian boar[10] This female hero, who lost a footrace for her hand in marriage when she stopped to pick up golden apples, was the first to strike the Calydonian boar.ANSWER: Atalanta[10] Meleager slew the sons of Thestius in a dispute over awarding this prize to Atalanta following the hunt.ANSWER: the skin of the Calydonian boar [or hide]<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>8. This woman becomes agitated when she sees a bedroom lit only by a bare lightbulb. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character who mispronounces a French phrase for “beautiful riverbank” into a mangled version of the phrase for “beautiful dream” while explaining how she lost her ancestral estate to creditors.ANSWER: Blanche DuBois [prompt on DuBois][10] Blanche DuBois appears in this Tennessee Williams play, where she moves in with her sister Stella in New Orleans.ANSWER: A Streetcar Named Desire[10] In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is raped by this character while her sister goes into labor. He later makes Stella commit her to a mental institution after she has a breakdown from the abuse.ANSWER: Stanley Kowalski [or Kowalski]<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by John Marvin>9. This Pope imprisoned his abdicated predecessor, Celestine V, because he feared that he would be installed as an Antipope. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Pope who issued the Unam sanctam bull, declaring “every human creature” to be subject to the Pope’s authority. In response, King Philip IV of France had this Pope arrested and beaten, leading to his death one month later. ANSWER: Boniface VIII [or Benedetto Caetani; prompt on Boniface][10] Shortly after Boniface VIII’s death, Clement V, an ally of King Philip, was elected Pope and moved the court from Rome to this French city. ANSWER: Avignon[10] Because of his debts to this group, Philip had Pope Clement summon the Council of Vienne to convict its members of heresy. Despite an acquittal, Pope Clement disbanded this order anyway and had its Grandmaster Jacques de Molay burned at the stake.ANSWER: Knights Templar [or the Templars; or the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon; or the Order of Solomon’s Temple] <The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Nitin Rao>10. This equation can be used predict the number of defects in a crystal. For 10 points each:[10] Name this empirical equation used to calculate the rate constant for a reaction. The Eyring (EYE-ring) equation is a version of this equation consistent with transition state theory. ANSWER: Arrhenius equation [10] According to the Arrhenius equation, raising the temperature of the reaction by 10 degrees Celsius will result in the reaction rate increasing by this factor at room temperature. Please approximate this factor to the nearest integer.ANSWER: two [or 2; or double][10] While the pre-exponential factor of the Eyring equation is linear with respect to T, collision theory predicts that the pre-exponential factor of the Arrhenius equation should be proportional to this function of T.ANSWER: square root [or 1/2 power]<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Paul Lee>11. In Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerrilla, a series of minimalist motifs gradually coalesce into this hymn, which Eastman appropriates as a call for gay liberation. For 10 points each:[10] Name this hymn by Martin Luther that, more conventionally, was used as the theme for the final movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony.ANSWER: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” [“Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”][10] Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony has this number. Beethoven’s symphony of this number begins with the notes “G?G?G?E-flat,” which Anton Schindler described as fate knocking at the door.ANSWER: five [accept Symphony No. 5][10] This instrument plays the first two bars of “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” alone in the finale of the Reformation Symphony. Two of them introduce the saltarello theme in the Italian Symphony and the main theme of the scherzo in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.ANSWER: flutes<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Shan Kothari>12. Ezra Pound’s translation of this poem opens “May I for my own self song’s truth reckon, / Journey’s jargon.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this poem that survives only in the Exeter Book. The title man describes his isolation and “cold-wetness” while journeying in an elegiac style, before concluding with the single word “Amen.” ANSWER: The Seafarer[10] As with all the other texts in the Exeter Book, The Seafarer is written in this language, which was used by Caedmon and by the author of Beowulf.ANSWER: Old English [prompt on English][10] Among the components of the Exeter Book are ninety of these obtuse descriptions of various objects and concepts, which are extensively used in Old English literature. Those in the Exeter Book often incorporate double entendres, as shown by one concerning an “erect” and “hairy” onion.ANSWER: riddles<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Joseph Krol>13. Replacing all the atoms of this crystal structure with carbon yields the diamond cubic structure. For 10 points each:[10] Name this cubic form of zinc sulfide with tetrahedral coordination. Examples of compounds with its namesake structure include lead(II) (lead-two) nitrate and gallium arsenide.ANSWER: zincblende [or sphalerite][10] Zincblende structure is an example of this type of cubic crystal structure. Similar to hexagonal close-packed, it is the closest packed cubic crystal structure.ANSWER: face-centered cubic [or fcc][10] This is the coordination number of both the hexagonal close-packed and face-centered cubic structures.ANSWER: twelve [or 12]<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Paul Lee>14. A detailed report on the defenses of this fortress was obtained by the Germans after the sinking of the SS Automedon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this city on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula that was captured by the Japanese in early 1942. This city’s future Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew narrowly escaped the Sook Ching massacre during its occupation.ANSWER: Singapore[10] This British general surrendered Singapore to Yamashita Tomoyuki in the city’s Ford Motor Factory. With Jonathan Wainwright, this general stood immediately behind Douglas MacArthur as he signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. ANSWER: Arthur Ernest Percival[10] This British admiral led Operation Tiderace, the plan to liberate Singapore following the Japanese surrender. This aristocrat was killed in 1979 when the IRA planted a bomb on his fishing boat.ANSWER: Louis Mountbatten [or Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; prompt on Prince Louis of Battenberg]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Nitin Rao>15. This man deconstructed the title objects in Violin and Candlestick, and did the same to many coffee cups and café tables. For 10 points each:[10] Name this artist who created a painting of a violin with the words “Mozart Kubelick” over a purple patch in the top right corner.ANSWER: Georges Braque (BROCK)[10] Braque created those paintings in this early Cubist style, which toyed with spacial relations to unrecognizable levels and preferred busy, plural angles to flat and simplified shapes, employing subdued neutral colors instead of bright ones.ANSWER: analytic cubism[10] Braque collaborated with this other artist to found Cubism in the early twentieth century. This artist went through a “Crystal” period while working in analytic and synthetic Cubism with Braque, and later went through his own Blue and Rose periods.ANSWER: Pablo Picasso [Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso]<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>16. This character appears briefly as a prisoner in the Gesta Danorum, in which the smell of one hair from his beard is so awful that it causes men to die. For 10 points each:[10] Name this frost giant who uses the name “Skr?mir” (SCREE-meer) when he causes earthquakes with his snoring, which leads Thor and his companions to hide inside his glove.ANSWER: Utgard-Loki [or ?tgar?a-Loki; do not accept or prompt on “Loki”][10] At Utgard-Loki’s castle, Thor is unable to defeat the nurse Elli in a fight; Elli is later revealed to be this phenomenon.ANSWER: old age[10] Also at the castle, this servant of Thor loses a race to Hugi, who is actually thought itself.ANSWER: Thjalfi (tyee-AHL-fee or thee-AHL-fee) [or ?jálfi]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>17. Answer the following about Minkowski space, for 10 points each.[10] The path of a single point in spacetime can be traced by these entities that can be represented as curves in a Minkowski diagram. Tangent vectors to these curves represent the four-velocity.ANSWER: world lines [prompt on lines; prompt on geodesics][10] The time units of Minkowski diagrams are chosen so that the worldline of an object moving at this speed has an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the vertical axis.ANSWER: speed of light [or c][10] There are two popular conventions for the metric signature of Minkowski space, both of which yield the exact same result, regardless of what the particle physicists tell you. Name either metric signature.ANSWER: plus, minus, minus, minus OR minus, plus, plus, plus [or +,??,??,??; or ?,?+,?+,?+; or 1,??1,??1,??1; or ?1,?1,?1,?1]<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Paul Lee>18. This sloop was laid down along the Mersey River in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. For 10 points each:[10] Name this ship that was sunk by the USS Kearsarge at the Battle of Cherbourg (SHARE-boorg). This commerce raider was the focus of a diplomatic complaint involving reparations from Britain for damages incurred during the Civil War.ANSWER: CSS Alabama[10] This Secretary of State to President Grant settled the Alabama Claims through international arbitration. This diplomat also helped calm down a war scare with Spain after the Virginius affair.ANSWER: Hamilton Fish[10] This Senator wanted to settle the Alabama Claims by having Britain cede Canada to the US. This politician is more famous for being beaten nearly to death on the Senate floor by Preston Brooks.ANSWER: Charles Sumner<The above question is for the category History American (1865-1945) and was written by Nitin Rao>19. Characters in this novel briefly reside in the house of a famous Nazi sculptor, and it begins with their studies under Horowitz at the Mozarteum where the narrator strives for “suicide calculated well in advance.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel about a piano virtuoso who plays The Goldberg Variations, and his envious colleagues, that takes the form of an extended interior monologue.ANSWER: The Loser[10] The Loser was written by Thomas Bernhard, a novelist from this country whose other prominent authors include Robert Musil, who wrote about the lead-up to World War I in The Man Without Qualities.ANSWER: Austria [Republic of Austria; or Republik ?sterreich][10] Like many Austrian authors, Bernhard was influenced by this author who wrote about the arrest of Josef K. in The Trial.ANSWER: Franz Kafka<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Jack Mehr>20. This man came to power after the convictions in his country’s so-called “Gurtel case.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this politician who was appointed the Prime Minister of Spain in June 2018.ANSWER: Pedro Sánchez [Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón][10] Sánchez is a member of this left-wing Spanish political party, which last had a Prime Minister in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (zah-pah-TAY-roh).ANSWER: Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party [or Partido Socialista Obrero Espa?ol; or PSOE][10] Sánchez was able to become prime minister after a vote of no confidence resulted in the removal of this party’s government, which was led by Mariano Rajoy (rah-HOY).ANSWER: People’s Party [or Partido Popular; or PP]<The above question is for the category Current Events Non-US and was written by Fred Morlan>Extra. Answer the following about literature concerning Asian immigrants to America, for 10 points each.[10] Elaine Castillo’s book America Is Not the Heart is titled after America Is in the Heart, a semi-autobiographical novel about Filipino-American migrant laborers by this writer, who first gained fame for an essay accompanying Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want.ANSWER: Carlos Sampayan Bulosan[10] Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is about a communist from the north part of this present-day country who moves to Los Angeles, becomes a Hollywood film consultant, and ends up imprisoned again in this country. Nguyen is also an immigrant from this country.ANSWER: Vietnam [or North Vietnam][10] Ruth becomes concerned about her mother Lu Ling’s memory loss in The Bonesetter’s Daughter by this Chinese-American novelist.ANSWER: Amy Tan<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Shan Kothari> ................
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