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Finals 2

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1. This geographic feature lies immediately west of Alice Town and Barley Town, and located within it are the Blake Plateau, Cape Lookout Slide, and Pourtalès Terrace. To the south of this geographic feature lies the Worthington gyre. Its namesake rings are classified into warm-core and cold-core, which form isotherm domes. The North Atlantic Drift forms one end of it, while the [*] Sargasso Sea lies east of it. Beginning with the Strait of Florida, this feature leaves the continental shelf off Cape Hatteras on its way to Europe. For 10 points, name this warm boundary current that flows north from the Caribbean along the United States’ east coast.

ANSWER: Gulf Stream current [prompt on “North Atlantic Ocean” until “Worthington”]

2. This shape’s universal constant is root two plus the natural log of quantity one plus root two, and it has only one associated Dandelin sphere. When one of these curves is rolled along its mirror image, the cissoid of Diocles is formed, and if the focus of one of them is rolled along a straight line, a catenary results. As one focus of an ellipse moves to infinity with the other fixed, this curve is the [*] limit. A plane intersecting a cone parallel to its slant height forms this section. This curve is the locus of all points equidistant from the focus and the directrix. With an eccentricity of one, for 10 points, name this conic section, the graph of a quadratic function.

ANSWER: parabola

3. This character and his brother Rinaldo compete for the love of a princess who runs off with Medero. This lover of the Cathayan Angelica throws Rodomonte into a river. This character is “innamorato” in a work by Boiardo, and in one work named for this character, the hippogriff-riding Astolfo travels to the moon to get this character’s wits back. That work is entitled [this character] [*] Furioso and is by Ludovico Aristo. Ambushed by Saracens at Roncevaux Pass, this character wields Durendal and dies when his brain explodes from blowing his horn Oliphant too hard. For 10 points, name this paladin of Charlemagne, the subject of a medieval French epic.

ANSWER: Roland [accept Orlando]

4. With Miles Davis, this man composed “Donna Lee,” and this man created a composition based on Morgan Lewis’s “How High the Moon.” This man was part of Jay McShann’s band before playing with Earl Hines, and this man was often accompanied by the drummer Max Roach. During the “Savoy Sessions,” this man recorded a song based on Ray Noble’s “Cherokee,” entitled [*] “Ko-ko,” in addition to “Billie’s Bounce” and “Now’s the Time.” With Dizzy Gillespie, this man helped develop bebop. The performer behind “Yardbird Suite” and “Ornithology,” for 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist often known as “Bird.”

ANSWER: Charles “Charlie” “Bird” Parker, Jr.

5. This period saw the crushing of the breakaway Republic of Ezo in the Battle of Hakodate. In this period, Dutch Learning came into prominence with land reform and industrialization, including the building of the clock-watches, or the wadokei. During this period, the disaffected Saigo Takamori gathered his fellow samurai into the [*] Satsuma Rebellion, which was crushed. Edo was renamed Tokyo during this period, whose causes include the diplomatic visit of Commodore Matthew Perry. For 10 points, name this period of Japanese history in which Japan became westernized and the Emperor regained real power.

ANSWER: Meiji Restoration [accept Meiji Ishin]

6. This thinker compares the activity of the retina with Yin and Yang, in that it is composed of two separate parts that seek to reunite. One of this man’s works supports works of Monism, such as the Upanishads, and this philosopher described three forms of freedom in his On the Freedom of the Will. This philosopher deduced that people perceive their bodies through [*] two concepts that differ due to alternate human perspectives and described aesthetics as appealing because it involves images occupying our mind, which in his doctrine, he defined as evil. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote On Vision and Colors and The World as Will and Representation.

ANSWER: Arthur Schopenhauer

7. One side in this war won the battles of Kesselsdorf and Hohenfriedberg to ensure a peace at Dresden. The British-Spanish phase of this war concerned the asiento and featured the display of a captain’s severed body part, and that phase was called the War of [*] Jenkins’ Ear. During this war, Maurice de Saxe’s victory at Fontenoy inspired the second Jacobite uprising in Britain. After this war, Frederick the Great’s Prussia gained Silesia through the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. For 10 points, name this war that started when Charles VI’s Pragmatic Sanction failed to let Maria Theresa incontestably ascend the Viennese throne.

ANSWER: War of the Austrian Succession [prompt on “War of Jenkins’ Ear” before mentioned]

8. This man wrote a collection that includes short stories like “Defender of the Faith” and “Eli the Fanatic.” This author of Goodbye, Columbus wrote a novel in which Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States. This writer of The Plot Against America wrote a novel in which Coleman Silk turns out to be [*] black, not white, and another novel in which the title character calls women names like “The Pilgrim” and “The Monkey.” For 10 points, name this Jewish-American creator of Nathan Zuckerman and author of The Human Stain and Portnoy’s Complaint.

ANSWER: Philip Milton Roth

9. In this painting, a black and white bird sits on a shelf, and many of the central figures’ tongues have been replaced by daggers. On the left of this painting, a woman grieves over the dead child in her arms, and another woman peers at the scene from a window while her elongated arm holds a [*] candle. A dead man in this work bears the stigmata and his severed arm sprouts a flower and is holding a sword. A bull emits smoke as its tail in this work that also shows a horse pierced by a spear beneath a light bulb. Inspired by the Condor Legion’s bombing of the titular Basque town, for 10 points, name this mural by Pablo Picasso.

ANSWER: Guernica

10. Because this process uses VKORC to recycle components, it can be inhibited by a coumarin derivative called warfarin. Tissue factor initiates the extrinsic pathway of this process, and when endothelial cells are damaged, its von Willebrand factor bonds to collagen. This process is inhibited by Bernard-Souleir syndrome and by another disorder caused by a lack of [*] factor VIII, disrupting this process’s namesake cascade. In this process, thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin strands that assist the platelet plug in closing the wound. Disrupted in hemophiliacs, for 10 points, name this process by which blood clots.

ANSWER: coagulation [or thrombosis; accept blood clotting and word forms before mentioned]

11. He’s not William the Conqueror, but this man compiled his law code in a “Doom Book.” This king was attacked at Chippenham by an enemy who later became his godson. According to Bishop Asser, his biographer, after this king defeated Guthram at Eddington, he and Guthram signed the Treaty of Wedmore, and the latter confined his Vikings beyond Watling Street, in the Danelaw. This king supposedly [*] translated many theological works, such as St. Augustine’s Soliloquies, into Anglo-Saxon. For 10 points, name this king of Wessex and first king of a united England, the only one known as “the Great.”

ANSWER: Alfred the Great [or Alfred I]

12. This composer’s “Knecht Ruprecht” is part of his larger work Album for the Young. This composer wrote a piece in which a series of dances describes masked balls, and another work by him uses musical cryptograms to spell out A-S-C-H. This composer of Papillons and Carnaval created Scenes from Childhood and four symphonies, the third of which was inspired by the [*] elevation of a cardinal in the Cologne Cathedral and is named after a German river, and the first of which is based on poems by Adolf Boetgerr and is named after a season. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Rhenish and Spring symphonies.

ANSWER: Robert Schumann

13. This novel’s protagonist befriends a woman at a mosque after assuming she was wearing shoes, and that woman later dies on a ship while the protagonist is on trial. During the Krishna Festival, the protagonist meets Stella, and this novel is divided into sections including “Mosque” and “Temple.” This novel takes place in [*] Chandrapore, where Ronny Heaslop, Mrs. Moore’s son, rejects Cyril Fielding’s advice and decides not to marry Adela Quested when she withdraws charges against the protagonist. For 10 points, name this novel in which Dr. Aziz is accused of raping a woman at the Marabar Caves, written by E. M. Forster.

ANSWER: A Passage to India

14. In this study, Dorothy and Sheila Ross were collaborating investigators, and a secondary hypothesis tested whether the behavior and learning processes in question were affected by the gender of the actor present. The first phase of this experiment involved one of the actors playing with Tinker toys while sitting across the room from the participant. Other objects in this experiment included [*] innocuous toys like trucks and tea sets, but some subjects chose to use aggressive objects such as dart guns and mallets, emulating the behavior of the adult models. For 10 points, name this experiment on observational learning by Albert Bandura, named for a toy that refuses to fall down.

ANSWER: Bobo doll experiment

15. This object’s action was compared to a photon moving through a semiconductor by Yochiro Nambu. This particle can be formed by the annihilation of a top-antitop quark pair. Technicolor theories exclude the action of this particle. Spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking leads to a non-zero vacuum expectation value in this particle’s mechanism. This particle is [*] thought to have a mass around 140 GeV and spin 0. This particle explains why W and Z bosons have mass, but photons do not. Sought by the Large Hadron Collider, for 10 points, name this so-called “God particle,” an undiscovered boson of the Standard Model thought to provide mass to other particles.

ANSWER: Higgs boson

16. One member of this party founded the Massachusetts Board of Education before attempting to ban corporal punishment in school, while another spoke for two hours before Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Horace Mann’s “Conscience” faction of this party was opposed by Edward Everett’s “Cotton” faction, and this party’s founder designed the American [*] System. This party was succeeded by the Free Soil and Republican parties. For 10 points, name this American political party which ran war heroes for president, including Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and William Henry Harrison, and which formed thanks to Henry Clay’s opposition to Jacksonian Democracy.

ANSWER: Whig Party [or Whigs]

17. This entity is said to end in Himinbjorg, and it is also called Asbru and in Gylfaginning, High notes that this entity is not used by Thor, who instead uses Kormt and Ormt. This entity parallels another called Gjallarbru, and according to Grimnismal, this entity is always on fire. Some accounts believe it to be the [*] Milky Way, and it consists of only three colors. When the sons of Muspell ride over this structure, it will break and the Gjallarhorn will be blown by its guardian, who can hear grass growing on the other side of the world. For 10 points, name this rainbow bridge of Norse mythology, guarded by Heimdall.

ANSWER: Bifrost [accept Asbru before mentioned]

18. Two characters on this show are introduced to laser tag by a man who calls himself “hunter,” and one of them later tries to dance to the Pussycat Dolls. Jerry identifies a brick as intended for him on this show, and claims that the company is the right size. Another character on this show lies to his parents that he won a vacation to Hawaii after failing to live up to his brother’s success in Kansas City. The employees of [*] Mid-American Novelties become outraged in one episode of this show when Todd denies a five-day holiday for Diwali. Rajiv, Manmeet, Gupta, and Asha are call center operators in, for 10 points, which NBC comedy set in Mumbai?

ANSWER: Outsourced

19. One man from this country described the Newbys' attempts to dissolve the title character's marriage with a white woman leading to his pursuit by police in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Another author described a bet about the transportation of a glass cathedral up this country’s coast in Oscar and Lucinda. Laura Trevelyan and the titular German explorer travel across this country in [*] Voss, and another work from this country centers on a Nazi who protects Polish Jews from the Holocaust. For 10 points, name this nation home to Peter Carey, Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, the author of Schindler's Ark.

ANSWER: Australia

20. This law can be used to calculate the acidity of the hydrohelium ion. This law can be used to find lattice energy in a process involving the formation of an ionic solid from a metal and a non-metal, called the Born-Haber Cycle. Since the quantity it concerns is a state function, this law is also equal to the differences in the [*] enthalpies of the products and the reactants. Also called the “law of constant heat summation,” this law states that the enthalpy of a reaction is equal to the sum of the enthalpies of the individual steps of the reaction. For 10 points, name this law in thermochemistry named for a Swiss-born Russian chemist.

ANSWER: Hess’s Law

STOP – THAT IS THE END OF THE GAME

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21. One of this man’s buildings has Dutch blue tile panels in honor of the commissioner’s heritage. This man’s Van Allen building is located in the same city as his People’s Savings Bank. One of this man’s buildings, now called the Prudential Building, is located in Buffalo, New York, and is considered to be the twin of his most famous work. That work, a collaboration with [*] Dankmar Adler, was one of the first skyscrapers and followed this architect's creed “Form follows function.” For 10 points, name this architect who tutored Frank Lloyd Wright and designed the Wainwright Building.

ANSWER: Louis Henri Sullivan

Bonuses

1. One poem in this collection includes a request to be allowed to sit beneath the knowledge-tree. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this collection of Symbolist poetry including “The Litanies of Satan,” “The Albatross,” and section titles like “Revolt” and “Spleen and Ideal.”

ANSWER: The Flowers of Evil [or Les Fleurs du Mal]

[10] This French Symbolist wrote The Flowers of Evil, which he dedicated to his friend Théophile Gautier. Other works of his include The Wrecks and Artificial Paradises, in addition to many translations of Edgar Allen Poe.

ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire

[10] This other French Symbolist alluded to his relationship with Paul Verlaine in A Season in Hell and also penned The Drunken Boat.

ANSWER: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud

2. Answer the following about bovines in mythology. For 10 points each:

[10] This man followed a cow until it sat down, and planted the teeth of a dragon that he slayed earlier in order to found the city of Thebes.

ANSWER: Cadmus

[10] Zeus came in the figure of a white bull and kidnapped this woman, a Phoenician princess, who was raped and, in some stories, gave birth to the Cretan Bull.

ANSWER: Europa

[10] This Egyptian deity, often depicted as a cow, wears a sun disk upon her head. Her purview is fertility and dance.

ANSWER: Hathor

3. Name some things about canals, for 10 points each:

[10] Name this Egyptian waterway that runs through Lake Timsah and the Great Bitter Lake, flowing from Port Said past Ismaïlia, and which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

ANSWER: Suez Canal [or Qanat al-Suways]

[10] Connected by a canal to the Don River, and hence to the Black Sea, this Russian river flows past Kazan and a city once called Stalingrad. It empties into the Caspian Sea and is the longest river in Europe.

ANSWER: Volga River [or Ryeka Volga]

[10] A canal named after this capital of Schleswig-Holstein begins here and ends at Brunsbüttel, connecting this German city on the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.

ANSWER: Kiel

4. Answer the following about a type of star, for 10 points each:

[10] Name these types of star which exhibit a changing apparent magnitude. They are classified as either extrinsic or intrinsic and examples of them include the RR Lyrae and Mira stars.

ANSWER: variable stars

[10] This type of variable star has a period lasting from 1 to 50 days. They come in Classical, Type II, Anomalous, and Dwarf types and are used as standard candles.

ANSWER: Cepheid variables

[10] Cepheid variables are part of the instability strip of this diagram, which plots a star’s classification, color, and luminosity. Main sequence stars occupy a large diagonal line on this doubly-eponymous chart.

ANSWER: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram [or HR diagram; or HRD]

5. He was the first civilian in space, and he likely flubbed his most famous line. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this man, who meant to say “one small step for a man,” and who was the commander of both Gemini 8 and Apollo 11. By stepping off the lunar module Eagle, he became the first person to set foot on the moon.

ANSWER: Neil Alden Armstrong

[10] This commander of Apollo 14, the oldest man to go to the moon, famously hit two golf balls there. Earlier, in the Project Mercury capsule Freedom 7, he became the first American in space.

ANSWER: Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.

[10] This first American to go twice into space was the commander of Gemini 3 and almost drowned after splashdown in Liberty Bell 7. Along with Ed White and Roger Chaffee, he died in the Apollo 1 disaster.

ANSWER: Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom

6. In this novel, Ashoke’s son is named after his favorite Russian author. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Pulitzer winning novel in which Nikhil comes to terms with clashing Indian and American cultures. Nikhil meets Maxine and also changes his name.

ANSWER: The Namesake

[10] The Namesake is by this Bengali author. Her newest collection of short stories details three generations of an Indian family in Seattle and is entitled Unaccustomed Earth.

ANSWER Jhumpa Lahiri

[10] This collection of stories by Lahiri includes one in which an immigrant employee of MIT meets Mrs. Croft and is entitled “The Third and Final Continent”. Other stories include “Mrs. Sen’s” and “A Temporary Matter.”

ANSWER: Interpreter of Maladies

7. Answer the following about ancient Greek sculptors, for 10 points each.

[10] This Greek sculptor was said to have utilized the Golden Ratio in his works, which include the statues of Athena in the Acropolis and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

ANSWER: Phidias [or Pheidias]

[10] This other Greek sculptor depicted a nude holding a robe over an urn with her left hand in Aphrodite of Cnidus. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus is also attributed to him, as well as Apollo Sauroctonos.

ANSWER: Praxiteles

[10] This work attributed to Agesander, Athenedoros, and Polydorus shows the title Trojan and his two sons getting strangled by sea serpents.

ANSWER: Laocoon and His Sons [or The Laocoon Group]

8. Name some things about dissolving stuff, for 10 points each.

[10] Sedimentation is a natural example of this process, which can isolate products to form pigments. Nucleation starts this process that can form pure crystals. This process is the formation of a solid in a chemical solution.

ANSWER: precipitation

[10] The inability for precipitates to be dissolved relates to this equilibrium constant, written as Ksp. It is equal to the product of the concentrations of the ions involved, each raised to the power of its coefficient.

ANSWER: solubility product

[10] Cloud chambers contain liquids in this state, disturbance of which would cause water droplets to form. A lack of nucleation sites sustains this state, in which a solution contains more dissolved material than it can hold normally.

ANSWER: supersaturation

9. He established the psychological school of behaviorism after doing research on animals. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this psychologist who performed stimulus-response experiments and posited that he could train babies to excel in any profession as adults in his “Twelve Infants Theory.”

ANSWER: John Watson

[10] This experiment by John Watson involved making loud sounds to create a Pavlovian response in an infant child, who soon developed a fear of white rats.

ANSWER: Little Albert experiment

[10] This experiment by Watson demonstrated the ability to turn voluntary motor responses into conditioned responses and involved rats that made the titular noise when they slammed into the walls of a shortened maze.

ANSWER: Kerplunk experiment

10. Name these chancellors of Germany, for 10 points each.

[10] This Minister of Propaganda for Hitler was chancellor for two days following Hitler’s death before he also killed himself. This man orchestrated Kristallnacht.

ANSWER: Joseph Goebbels

[10] This chancellor finished the unification of Germany and was nicknamed the “Iron Chancellor” because of his Realpolitik. He was removed from power by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

ANSWER: Otto von Bismark

[10] This man was elected chancellor of West Germany following World War II. He founded the Christian Democratic Union.

ANSWER: Konrad Adenauer

11. Billions of these particles are emitted by the sun and pass through the Earth with nearly no interaction. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these nearly massless, chargeless particles which are used to explain conservation of momentum in beta decay.

ANSWER: neutrinos

[10] Neutrinos undergo an oscillation of this property, a quantum number that determines what type of neutrino it is. For neutrinos, the different examples of this property are the tau, muon, and electron.

ANSWER: flavor

[10] This other fundamental particle has six flavors, which include up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Three of them make up a baryon.

ANSWER: quark

12. A number of engraved soapstone seals were unearthed here. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this archeological site in Punjab, which houses the remains of a well-planned Bronze Age city, whose script remains undecipherable.

ANSWER: Harappa

[10] Harappa was part of this ancient civilization, named for the river valley it inhabits . Its language has been proposed to be proto-Dravidian, and their predecessors were found in Mehrgarh.

ANSWER: Indus Valley Civilization [or IVC]

[10] The “dancing girl” statue was found at this “mound of the dead,” another city of the Indus Valley Civilization. This grid-planned city in the Sindh province was excavated by R.D. Banarjee and John Hubert Marshall.

ANSWER: Mohenjo-Daro

13. One movement in this composition dedicated to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this musical piece, the second movement of which concerns Putnam's Camp in Redding, Connecticut; the third is about the Housatonic at Stockbridge.

ANSWER: Three Places in New England

[10] This composer of Three Places in New England wrote The Unanswered Question and the Concord Sonata.

ANSWER: Charles Edward Ives

[10] In Ives’s piece The Unanswered Question this instrument answers the question asked by the solo trumpet. This instrument is played by James Galway, and a “magic” one titles a Mozart opera.

ANSWER: flute

14. This thinker devised a teapot that orbits between Earth and Mars. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this philosopher whose paradox concerns the set of all sets which are not members of themselves.

ANSWER: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell

[10] Russell wrote this work with Alfred North Whitehead, in which they tried to ground mathematics in logic through use of the axioms of infinity, choice, and reducibility. It called a proof of 1+ 1 = 2 “occasionally useful.”

ANSWER: Principia Mathematica [do not accept “Principles of Mathematics”]

[10] In this essay, Russell argues against the “argument from design” with an ad absurdum and attacks the teleological argument, natural-law argument, and moral arguments in explaining his disavowal of religion.

ANSWER: Why I Am Not a Christian

15. This work was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Wordbook. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this lexicon that defines birth as “the first and direst of all disasters” and a conservative as “a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”

ANSWER: The Devil’s Dictionary

[10] This creator of The Devil’s Dictionary also wrote “Chickamauga” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

ANSWER: Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce

[10] This protagonist of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” sees his life flash before his eyes and imagines escaping from a hanging before the rope snaps his neck.

ANSWER: Peyton Farquhar [accept either]

16. Answer these questions about a First World War army group, for 10 points each.

[10] Give this name for the section of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Group which was composed of troops from two Oceanic nations. These troops are celebrated in their countries of origin on April 25th.

ANSWER: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

[10] April 25th, 1915, was the first day of this battle in World War I, which saw the ANZACs decimated while trying to assist the Allies’ seizure of the Dardanelles in order to establish a trade route with Russia.

ANSWER: Battle of Gallipoli

[10] This Ottoman commander at Gallipoli gained the title “Father of the Turks” after serving as Turkey’s first President. He instated an alternative to the Arabic alphabet as part of his modernization efforts.

ANSWER: Mustafa Kemal Pasha Ataturk [accept either]

17. Name these heroes of the Marvel Universe. For 10 points each:

[10] This hero led the resistance to the Superhero Registration Act until finally captured by Iron Man. He fights in red, white, and blue with his almost impenetrable shield, which is found on Stephen Colbert’s set.

ANSWER: Captain America [or Steven “Steve” Rogers]

[10] Joining with Captain America during “Civil War”, this superhero recently made a deal with Mephistopheles to save his grandmother and fights villains like Venom, Carnage, and the Green Goblin. He can also shoot webs.

ANSWER: The Amazing Spider-Man [or Peter Parker]

[10] This anti-hero joined the Weapon-X Project to cure his cancer; however his healing factor didn’t function perfectly, leaving him scarred. He was portrayed by Ryan Reynolds and Scott Adkins in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

ANSWER: Deadpool [or Wade Winston Wilson; accept WWW]

18. Animals do the darndest things. For 10 points each.

[10] Konrad Lorenz got a bunch of baby geese to follow him around due to this type of learning, which takes place during the critical period, early in an animal’s life.

ANSWER: imprinting

[10] This ethologist and author of Animal Intelligence formulated the “law of effect” based on his work with cats and puzzle boxes.

ANSWER: Edward Lee Thornedike

[10] Red-bellied sticklebacks exhibit this type of action during mating season. It is produced by an innate releasing mechanism in response to a sign stimulus and must be followed to completion.

ANSWER: fixed action pattern

19. For 10 points each, identify the following about Jewish holidays.

[10] This holiday occurs on the first day of Tishrei. It is the first day of the Jewish New Year.

ANSWER: Rosh Hashanah

[10] Services at both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur involve the sounding of this ram’s-horn instrument.

ANSWER: shofar

[10] This holiday commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is known as the saddest day in Judaism and followers fast for approximately 25 hours beginning on this day.

ANSWER: Tisha B’Av

20. In this poem, a dying soldier plunges “guttering, choking, drowning” from a gas attack. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this poem describing soldiers “bent double, like old beggars under sacks.” Its speaker claims we should not tell children “ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie” that it is sweet and fitting to die for your country.

ANSWER: “Dulce et Decorum Est”

[10] This poet of “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Strange Meeting” died one week before the end of World War One. He wrote “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and some of his poems are included in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

ANSWER: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

[10] This other poet of the Great War was a great influence on Owen and a mentor to him. He wrote The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, The Old Hunstman and “Counter-Attack.”

ANSWER: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

21. A church designed by this man has an upturned brown roof and irregularly-placed windows. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Swiss-French architect of the Notre Dame du Haut who helped design the UN Headquarters.

ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris]

[10] This house designed by Le Corbusier epitomized his idea of the “machine for living” and embodied his Five Points, as it is raised off the ground by pilotis and features a row of horizontal windows and a roof terrace.

ANSWER: Ville Savoye

[10] Le Corbusier laid out his Five Points in this essay collection, in which he encourages the development of fresh building principles for the industrial age.

ANSWER: Toward a New Architecture [or Vers une architecture; or Toward an Architecture]

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