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National Scholastics Championship at George Mason University

Round 6

Related Tossup/Bonus Round

1. He chaired a committee at the 1964 Democratic Convention to determine the status of the delegates for the Mississippi Freedom Democrat Party. As his state’s attorney general, he organized twenty two states to file amicus briefs in the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, and he attempted to discredit his opponent in the primaries, Gary Hart, with a co-opted Wendy's ad. For 10 points, name this man who won only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia while losing to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.

ANSWER: Walter “Fritz” Mondale

This man was the first Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, under Teddy Roosevelt. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this conservationist, who was later elected governor of Pennsylvania where he derided the "amoeba treatment."

ANSWER: Gifford Pinchot

[10] Pinchot feuded with this former mayor of Seattle, who tried to privatize certain Alaskan coal reserves as Taft's Secretary of the Interior.

ANSWER: Richard Achilles Ballinger

2. He described the visit of the countryfolk Cathos and Magdelon to the city in one work. His marriage to the young Armande Bejart was reflected in the convent-raised ward Agnes and her guardian Arnolphe in a play he wrote. He also described the troubled adoration for Celimene that a title character has, but in another work by this author of The Affected Young Ladies, the trouble is not between the couple Elmire and Orgon, but rather with the hypocrite the latter takes in. For 10 points, name this French author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

ANSWER: Moliere [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]

This author’s sympathetic stores about prostitutes include “Madame Tellier’s Establishment” and “Ball of Fat.” For 10 points each:

[10] Name this French author of “The Necklace.”

ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant

[10] Maupassant also wrote this horror story whose protagonist is haunted by an invisible Brazilian vampire.

ANSWER: “La Horla”

3. This work decries Karl Schlegel’s “ideal spectator” and notes that it is not a comparison between “gay dilletantism” and “gallant earnestness.” This work contrasts the appearance to reality, which is “suffering,” and claims that music is the superior art because it incorporates the “world will.” The final ten sections of this work focus on Richard Wagner, while the first fifteen focus on the works of Aeschylus and Sophocles. For 10 points, name this work that contrasts the Appollonian and Dionysian views of the titular Greek literature, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

ANSWER: The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music [or Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem der Musik]

This holiday commemorates the month in which the Qu’ran supposedly began to be revealed. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Muslim holiday that takes place during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.

ANSWER: Ramadan

[10] This holiday marks the end of Ramadan, and starts when the new moon is sighted.

ANSWER: Eid ul-Fitr [prompt on Eid; accept the Lesser Eid; accept Idu-I-fitr]

4. These comprise the “pair” devices named for Sziklai and Darlington. Their operation is described by the Ebers-Moll model; they can operate in cutoff, saturation, inverse, or active modes depending on the emitter, base, and collector voltages. The first of these devices was the point-contact one built in 1947 by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley; junction ones were later employed in IC’s. For 10 points, name these electronic devices that have largely replaced vacuum tubes and underpin almost all modern electronics.

ANSWER: bipolar transistors

Identify the following about buffers, for 10 points each:

[10] The effect of buffers can be related by this equation, which states that pH equals pKa plus the log of the concentration of conjugate base over the acid.

ANSWER: Henderson-Hasselbalch Equation

[10] These are buffers whose pKa values lie between 6 and 8 and which facilitate biochemical reactions. They are named after a Canadian-American biochemist, and include MOPS and Tricine.

ANSWER: Good’s Buffers

5. King Louis XVI once awarded a manor in Picardie as a prize for introducing one dish using this ingredient, and it is used in such recipes as Chicken Souvaroff and Tournedos Rossini. Though its traditional center of production is Strasbourg, its first producer in the United States was the D’Artagnan company of New Jersey, which creates it using the gavage process, in which cornmeal is pushed through a tube. For 10 points, name this expensive item which, from 2006 until May 2008, was banned in Chicago, a gourmet food consisting of an engorged duck liver.

ANSWER: foie gras

The Amery, Ronne, and Ross are prominent examples of these features, while the Wilkins one is in the process of disintegrating. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these masses of frozen water which are attached to the Antarctic landmass on at least one side, but also float on the sea.

ANSWER: ice shelves

[10] Papa Monzano swallows this substance invented by Felix Hoenniker, leading to the freezing of all life on Earth, in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.

ANSWER: ice-nine

6. Fritz Kreisler and Harold Bauer were some of his regular collaborators, and his students included the father of Mstislav Rostropovich, who became famous for playing the same instrument as this man. After coming to prominence at the Teatro del Liceo, he joined with pianist Alfred Cortot and violinist Jacques Thibaud to form a long-lasting trio. He lived the last decades of his life in Puerto Rico to protest the nationalist government of his homeland. For 10 points, name this Spanish exile and noted interpreter of Bach on the cello.

ANSWER: Pablo/Pau Casals

Three rowboats are in the foreground, and the outlines of several larger masts are barely visible in the background. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1874 painting, which lent its name to an art movement.

ANSWER: Impression: Sunrise

[10] Claude Monet also painted many views of water lilies in his garden at his home in this French city.

ANSWER: Giverny

7. The Julia reaction can form one type of these compounds, which can also be produced via dehydrohalogenation in the E2 reaction. The atoms forming their functional group are sp 2 hybridized, and these compounds can be hydrogenated to form saturated compounds in the presence of Raney’s catalyst. The E-Z system is used to denote the substituents on these functional groups which can exhibit cis-trans isomerism. For 10 points, identify these organic compounds with carbon-carbon double bonds, whose simplest example is ethylene.

ANSWER: alkenes

They attach to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence of mRNA to begin translation. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these cellular organelles which can be bound to the endoplasmic reticulum.

ANSWER: ribosomes

[10] In eukaryotes, ribosomal RNA is assembled in this sub-organelle, which itself is found inside the organelle that contains genetic material.

ANSWER: nucleolus [accept nucleoli]

8. This man studied the cultural dimension of human problem-solving by observing the Yurok Indians in northern California. He published his major theory in 1950's Childhood and Society and went on to write "psychohistories" of Gandhi and Martin Luther. Stagnation, doubt, and despair are some of the negative options he posited in his model. For 10 points, name this man who coined the term "identity crisis" to explain each central conflict in his eight-stage model of human development.

ANSWER: Erik Homburger Erikson

He posited a conflict between businessmen and engineers in "The Engineers and the Price System." For 10 points each:

[10] Name this American sociologist who also admonished universities in "The Higher Learning in America" and wrote another work which contains a chapter called "The Belief in Luck."

ANSWER: Thorstein Bunde Veblen [accept Torsten Bunde Veblen]

[10] This Veblen work, with the aforementioned chapter on luck, talks a lot about "pecuniary emulation" and the "conspicuous consumption" done by the titular group of people.

ANSWER: The Theory of the Leisure Class

9. Upon the election of Ignacio Comonfort, this man was selected to preside over the Supreme Court, and his namesake law abolished special courts for the clergy and military. Earlier in his career, he served the liberal government of Juan Alvarez as his minister of justice and public instruction, after returnin from exile in New Orleans. He led liberals to victory in the War of Reform, and resisted foreign invaders after fleeing to El Paso del Norte. For 10 points name this native-ancestry president of Mexico, who led resistance against Emperor Maximillian.

ANSWER: Benito Juarez

Led by John Bright and Richard Cobden, this group advocated for support of the Union during the American Civil War in addition to its more primary free-market aims. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this British association of orators, which sought to overturn certain restrictions and taxes on the importation of grain.

ANSWER: the Anti-Corn Law League

[10] The Anti-Corn Law League got its way in 1846, when this prime minister, who also founded the London police force, repealed the Corn Laws in the wake of the Irish potato famine.

ANSWER: Robert Peel

10. Lynda J. Dryden compares this work to The Simpsons in an essay about its impact on popular culture, “To Boldy Go.” J. Hillis Miller asked “Should We Read” this work, while Edward Said’s book Culture and Imperialism contains an essay about the “Two Visions” of this work. Another criticism of this work dubs its author a “bloody racist;” that essay is “An Image of Africa” by Chinua Achebe. For 10 points, name this novella about Charlie Marlowe’s journey up the Congo to find Kurtz, by Joseph Conrad.

ANSWER: Heart of Darkness

For 10 points each, name these William Golding novels.

[10] The conch shatters when Roger kills Piggy with a rock in this novel about a group of boys abandoned on an island.

ANSWER: Lord of the Flies

[10] The title character attempts to survive on a rock in the North Atlantic after a wave throws him overboard his ship.

ANSWER: Pincher Martin

Category Quiz: Tossups

11. One area of it named for Meckel can be found on the mandibular arch, and Schmorl’s nodes are protrusions of it that jut into the spine. Its hyaline variety protects the ends of bones in joints, while its fibrous variety comprises the discs found between vertebra. It consists of cells known as chondrocytes, forming a “model” skeleton for developing mammals until ossification, at which point it hardens into bone. For 10 points, name this type of connective tissue that comprises that human nose and the entirety of a shark’s skeleton.

ANSWER: cartilage

12. This album evolved out of a project whose master recordings were supposedly stolen, Cigarettes and Valentines. In the liner notes, each song's lyrics are presented with a date. B-sides for the album include "Favorite Son", "Shoplifter", "Governator", and "Too Much Too Soon", all of which were released in foreign countries. Containing "She's a Rebel", "Extraordinary Girl", and "Letterbomb", it takes place in a city called Jingletown, and the protagonist develops two distinct personalities, St. Jimmy and Jesus of Suburbia. For 10 points, name this album featuring "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", a 2004 smash for Green Day.

ANSWER: American Idiot

13. The Argives claim that this character was raised by the three daughters of the river Asterion. The lighting of a funeral pyre for this figure’s stepson angered her, and in retaliation she caused a snake to bite Philoctetes. She promised Paris the kingship of all Europe and Asia in an attempt to win his judgment, and her sacred animal was the peacock. For 10 points, identify this goddess of marriage, mother of Hebe, Hephaestus, and Ares, wife of Zeus, and queen of the gods.

ANSWER: Hera [or Here]

14. One work by this man sees a crowd gather around a red circle while a blue angel carries a man in the foreground. In another work, a man in blue adjusts the white veil of a woman in a red dress while a goat plays a violin. In addition to The Creation of Man and La Mariee, he created stained glass windows at Notre Dame de Reims and painting in which a burning synagogue is at the right of the title event. A green man and an upside-down woman are major elements of another work. For 10 points, identify this artist of White Crucifixion and I And The Village.

ANSWER: Marc Zakharovich Chagall [accept Mojsa Zaharavic Sagalu]

15. During his time in his state’s legislature, this man worked with Governor George Wolf to champion the Free School Bill. He was suspected of having a lifelong affair with Underground Railroad compatriot Lydia Hamilton Smith, and his steelworks were burned by Jubal Early. Most of his power came as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and he also led the Committee on Reconstruction. For 10 points, name this man, dubbed the “Dictator of Congress,” who was a Pennsylvania Radical Republican during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

ANSWER: Thaddeus Stevens

16. He is the great-grandson of Ottoman interior minister Ali Kemal, and was once fired from the shadow cabinet for accusing the hometown of murder victim Ken Bigley of "wallowing in its victim status." An avid bicyclist, he was formerly a Belgian correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and editor of the Spectator. An MP from Henley since 2001, he took a new job, from which he appointed David Ross to coordinate the 2012 Olympics. For 10 points, name this Tory who defeated Ken Livingston in the April 2008 election to become the new mayor of London.

ANSWER: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

17. In one of his stories, Louis Berry and Herman Basket discuss a search for a runaway slave who they plan to bury alive with Chief Issetibbeha. In addition to “Red Leaves," he wrote about a dispute over a soiled rug that leads Sarty to thwart his father’s plan to destroy property of Major de Spain. In another work, Carothers rapes Thomasina and the wild dog Lion helps Boon Hogganbeck and Ike McCaslin track down Old Ben. For 10 points, name this author of “Barn-Burning” and “The Bear,” who also wrote about the Compsons in The Sound and the Fury.

ANSWER: William Faulkner

18. For the lattices in a genus, this quantity can be found using the Smith-Minkowski-Siegal formula. This quantity for an atomic nucleus can be found using an equation that has volume, asymmetry, and Coloumb terms among others, Wiezsacker’s formula. Einstein and Galileo both lend their names to equivalence principles that relate two forms of this quantity, and under special relativity, this quantity is equal to total energy divided by the speed of light squared. For 10 points, name this quantity, which equals force over acceleration by Newton’s second law.

ANSWER: mass

Category Quiz: Bonuses

Arts

Begin in 1893, it will have an egg-shaped dome amidst eight rough-hewn spires that reach five hundred feet in height when it is finished. For 15 points, name this still-in-progress Barcelona cathedral which occupied the last thirty-four years of architect Antonio Gaudi's life.

ANSWER: la Sagrada Familia [or the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family]

Current Events

Its new chairman, Anthony Terracciano, bought almost 500,000 dollars of its stock in April, signaling confidence that the government will soon step in to help it. For 15 points, name this former government sponsored entity, the nation’s leading provider of student loans.

ANSWER: Sallie Mae [or SLM Corporation]

Geography

A future bridge called the Friendship Bridge will link it to Qatar. Its name translates as “two seas”, and it is connected to the Arabian Peninsula by the King Fahd Causeway. For 15 points, name this member of the Arab League ruled by the Khalifah family.

ANSWER: Kingdom of Bahrain [or Mamlakat al-Bahrain]

History

Believed to have taken place in Tunisia, it featured the ineffective deployment of eighty elephants and the encirclement of the Carthiginians by Numidian cavalry under King Massinissa. For 15 points, name this battle in which Scipio Africanus won the Second Punic War for Rome.

ANSWER: Battle of Zama

Literature

This author of The Mayor of Zalamea wrote a play in which King Basilio imprisons Sigismundo. For 15 points, name this Golden Age Spanish playwright of Life is a Dream.

ANSWER: Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Math Calculation

For 15 points, find the intersection point of the lines x + 2y = 5 and 3x – y = 1.

ANSWER: (1,2) “one comma two” or “x equals 1, y equals 2”

Popular Culture

Influenced by the style of Confederate sympathizer A.J. Volck, it has recently featured a switchblade-wielding love-interest named Eva Rose. For 15 points, name this dialogue-free comic strip by Mark Tatulli about a funny-haired boy who lives in alongside aliens and squids.

ANSWER: Liō

Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy

Convened by Marcian, it overturned the decision of the “synod of robbers” at Ephesus two years earlier with regard to the teachings of Eutyches. For 15 points, identify this 451 CE ecumenical council, which approved Pope Leo I’s Tome, thus rejecting the Monophysite heresy.

ANSWER: Council of Chalcedon

Science

It is formally the category of all decision problems that can be solved in sub-exponential time by a universal automaton without uniquely defined state transitions. For 15 points, name this class of apparently difficult problems that may or may not be equal to an easier subclass.

ANSWER: Nondeterministic Polynomial [do not accept “P” or “NP complete” or “NP hard”]

Social Science

Her work is collected in “Love, Guilt, and Reparation” and “The Psychoanalysis of Children”, and she had a notable split with Ana Freud. For 15 points, name this psychologist who studied the role of aggression on the psyche of children.

ANSWER: Melanie Klein

Stretch Round

19. This author of the short story "Herodias" claimed to have read fifteen hundred books in his last decade to mimic the doomed intellectual ambitions of his clerks Bouvard and Pecuchet. The Egyptian dancer Kuchuk Hanem was the model for his Carthaginian romance Salammbo, but he’s more famous for writing of the ineffectual foot surgery made by Charles, which sets off his wife’s affairs. For 10 points, name this man who depicted Frederic Moreau’s Sentimental Education and wrote about the infidelities of Emma in Madame Bovary.

ANSWER: Gustave Flaubert

This is the tendency of a plant to grow either towards or away from a light source. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this phenomenon.

ANSWER: phototropism

[10] This other tropism explains roots growing into the ground and stems growing away from it. It continues to act even when potted plants are turned sideways, as they continue to slowly bend and grow upward.

ANSWER: gravitropism

[10] Tendrils can often facilitate this response to touch. It explains the tendency of some plants to grow around or cling to surfaces, as displayed by the coiling of vines around supporting objects.

ANSWER: thigmotropism

20. One of its major southeastern towns is found on the Hyblaei Hills, and much of its agriculture takes place on the Plain of Catania. Madonie Park is a major preserve in its north, and this home to such provinces as Enna and Raguse has such major urban areas as Noto. The autonomous region dominated by this territory also includes Pelagie, Panteleria, Egadi, and Lipari. For 10 points, name this home to Mount Etna and Syracuse, an island found across the Strait of Messina from the city of Reggio on the southwest of the mainlaind of Italy.

ANSWER: Sicily [or Sicilia]

The protagonist is Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at College on a Hill. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this novel which features an "airborne toxic event" that inspires various death-fearing characters to take the drug Dylar.

ANSWER: White Noise

[10] This American postmodernist of Ratner’s Star and Underworld wrote White Noise.

ANSWER: Don DeLillo

[10] DeLillo’s latest work, Falling Man, deals with Keith Neudecker, a man who abandons his career to become a poker player after experiencing tragedy at this building complex.

ANSWER: The World Trade Center [or Twin Towers]

21. Plutarch claims that Thamus proclaimed this figure’s death in Palodes to much lamentation. This figure is sometimes credited with fathering Iambe with Echo, and his pursuit of the nymph Pitys saw her become a pine tree to escape this figure. Tmolus officiated a contest between this man and Apollo that ended with King Midas ruling in this character’s favor, earning ass-ears as punishment. His attempted rape of Syrinx ended when she turned into a bunch of reeds. For 10 points, name this half-goat god of shepherds who played his namesake pipes.

ANSWER: Pan

The central figures of this work wear a fur tabard and a green dress. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this 1434 Jan van Eyck painting, set in Bruges, which depicts an Italian couple exchanging vows.

ANSWER: The Arnolfini Wedding [or Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride; accept anything involving “Arnolfini” and a marriage-related word]

[10] In a famous self-portrait, van Eyck depicted himself wearing this colored headgear.

ANSWER: a red turban [from Man in a Red Turban; prompt on turban]

[10] A multi-leveled crown and a red garment adorn Jesus at the top center of this work, also known as the Adoration of the Lamb, which Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert painted.

ANSWER: the Ghent Altarpiece

22. Following the revolution of the Young Turks, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburn-Gotha proclaimed himself king of this country, which lost South Dobruja in a 1913 treaty. While under Turkish rule, Stefan Stambulov led a rebellion here in 1876, and later, the Congress of Berlin reduced the size of this country by revising the very generous Treaty of San Stefano. Long ruled by the Communist Todor Zhivkov, for 10 points, name this Balkan country, the successor to a medieval empire whose tsars Simeon and Samuel fought the Byzantines to its east.

ANSWER: Bulgaria

Bisected by the Vardar River, it borders Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a country which is in a constant dispute over this place's name, Greece. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this country which is formally known as a "former Yugoslav republic" in international bodies.

ANSWER: Macedonia

[10] Almost entirely reconstructed since a 1963 earthquake, this "city of international solidarity" is the capital of Macedonia.

ANSWER: Skopje [or Shkup; or Skoplje]

[10] Located about fifteen miles west of Lake Prespa, this other large lake on the Macedonian-Albanian border feeds underground rivers.

ANSWER: Lake Ohrid

23. The Steinhart-Hart equation allows certain resistors to be used as these, while the rate of conductance is measured by one of these which rely on the Coulomb blockade. One of these named for Beckmann used Raoult’s law to analyze molar masses of compounds. One named for Galileo contains several colored glass balls of various densities floating in a liquid, and one named for Six displays the minimum and maximum value of the property it measures. For 10 points, identify this object, commonly used to measure temperature.

ANSWER: thermometers

This son of Mars jumped across a trench being dug by his brother, an act which constituted enough of a bad omen to result in his death. For 10 points each:

[10] Identify this man, who only saw six vultures to his brother Romulus’s twelve and, as a result, didn’t get to found Rome.

ANSWER: Remus

[10] This Vestal Virgin, the mother of Romulus and Remus, was impregnated by Mars in a forest, rather angering her uncle Aumulius.

ANSWER: Rhea Silvia [accept Ilia]

[10] Rhea Silvia’s father Numitor was a king of the Italian city of Alba Longa, which was legendarily founded by this son of Aeneas.

ANSWER: Ascanius [or Iulus]

24. This man's artistic influences included his stepfather Peter Pelham and the late Rocoist Joseph Blackburn, who created the "portrait d'apparat" technique which this man used to depict Epes Sargent and Baron Graham. This painter of The Red Cross Knight depicted a man suffering a stroke in Parliament in The Death of Chatham and an animal on a gold chain near a glass of water in another work. For 10 points, name this painter of Boy With a Squirrel who showed a distressed man being pulled back into a boat in Havana harbor in Watson and the Shark.

ANSWER: John Singleton Copley

He died after accidentally shooting himself with a gun that was an exhibit in a murder trial. For 10 points each.

[10] Name this man, who served as commander of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the American Civil War and ran for governor of Ohio as a Peace Democrat in 1863.

ANSWER: Clement Laird Vallandigham

[10] Clement Vallandigham was perhaps the most prominent member of the group of anti-war northerners who were given this pejorative nickname.

ANSWER: Copperheads

[10] Known for leading Union troops in the Peninsular Campaign, this man repudiated the peace platform of the Copperheads despite running against Lincoln in the 1864 election.

ANSWER: George McClellan

25. The title charter of one of his poems was "tarred and feathered and carried in a cart / by the women of Marblehead." In addition to "Barclay of Ury" and "Skipper Ireson’s Ride," he discussed the tradition of putting a black cloth over a hive in "Telling the Bees." Another poem he wrote discussed a family that is trapped in their house due to a storm. For 10 points, name this author of “Snowbound,” who wrote "Shoot if you must this gray old head / But spare your country’s flag," in "Barbara Frietchie."

ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier

Its first movement has themes reminiscent of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and other spirituals, while the beginning of its fourth sounds very similar to the Jaws motif. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1892 symphony, its composer’s ninth.

ANSWER: From the New World [or The New World Symphony]

[10] Name the Czech composer of From the New World.

ANSWER: Antonin Leopold Dvořák (d-VOR-zhak)

[10] Another popular Dvořák piece is the G-flat seventh of eight works in this whimsical piano genre, published as his Opus 187.

ANSWER: humoresque

26. It is a special case of the Bose-Einstein distribution with chemical potential zero, mass zero, and occupancy two. This function achieves a maximum at about 2.8 times the kinetic temperature since it is proportional to frequency cubed over one minus e to the frequency-energy equivalent over kinetic temperature; it thus converges to 0 at high frequency, unlike the Rayleigh-Jeans law that it replaced. For 10 points, name this law governing blackbody radiation, named for a German pioneer in quantum mechanics.

ANSWER: Planck’s blackbody distribution or function or law

His forces lost at the Battle of Naseby, and he married the French Catholic Henrietta Maria. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this King of England, whose defeat by Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army led to his 1649 execution.

ANSWER: Charles I [prompt on Charles]

[10] In 1648, this man expelled one hundred and forty three members from the Long Parliament. That resulted in the Rump Parliament, which was the body that arranged the trial of Charles I.

ANSWER: Thomas Pride

[10] Initiated by Edward Coke, this statement reaffirmed habeas corpus and stated that no taxes could be levied without Parliament’s consent. Charles accepted it in 1628, but soon reneged.

ANSWER: Petition of Right

27. He composed twelve symphonies on historical themes, including The Odyssey of a Race, commissioned on the founding of Israel, and The Peace, celebrating the end of World War I. He joined with Oscar Fernandez to found the national Academy of Music in his home country, which he later honored by combining techniques from The Art of the Fugue with the native music he learned as an itinerant cellist in Bahia. For 10 points, name this composer of the Bachianas Brasilieras, the leading composer of Brazil.

ANSWER: Heitor Villa-Lobos

Identify these somewhat related things pertaining to a scientist, for 10 points each:

[10] This term, symbolized i, which describes the ration of moles of particles in solution compared to the moles of solute added.

ANSWER: van’t Hoff factor

[10] The van’t Hoff factor is useful in calculating boiling point elevation and freezing point depression, which are these properties which vary with the number but not the mass of particles.

ANSWER: colligative properties

[10] The unrelated Van’t Hoff equation describes a linear relationship between inverse temperature and this quantity symbolized K.

ANSWER: equilibrium constant

28. He faced civil war when rebel dukes elected the anti-king Rudolf of Swabia, and after Rudolf's death he was opposed by the Lotharingian count Herman of Salm. He expelled Robert of Guiscard's troops from Rome after his mother Agnes, Archbishop Anno of Cologne, and Adalbert served as his regents. His appointment of the bishop of Milan to oppose the Patarine archbishop supported by Alexander II led to the investiture controversy. For 10 points, name this Holy Roman Emperor, who sought pennance from Gregory VII at Canossa in 1077.

ANSWER: Henry IV

It begins with a story about the hypocritical Ser Ciappelletto told by Panfilo. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this collection of stories whose narrators include Fiammeta, Pampinea, and Filostrato.

ANSWER: The Decameron

[10] This Italian author wrote The Decameron.

ANSWER: Giovanni Boccaccio

[10] Boccaccio also wrote this collection of over a hundred biographies of figures such as Semiramis, Penthelisea, and Dido.

ANSWER: On Famous Women [or De mulieribus claris; accept equivalent translations such as On Illustrious Women]

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