High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 The 2019 Scottie Written and edited by current and former players and coaches including Todd Garrison, Tyler Reid, Olivia Kiser, Rajeev Nair, Garrison Page, Caleb Tamminga, Parker Bannister, Hunter Lindsey, Mason Reid, and Anish Patel (with a special assist by Ramapriya Rangaraju)ROUND ONETOSSUPS1.This painting was possibly commissioned for the marriage of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco [peer-fran-chess-coe], who may have served as the model for a red-robed figure in its upper left. Adjacent to that depiction of Mercury stands a trio of women who hold hands while dancing. This painting’s right shows a blue-skinned (*) Zephyrus grasping at Chloris. A blindfolded Cupid hovers above this work’s central figure, who stands in an orange grove. For 10 points, name this Sandro Botticelli painting depicting Venus in the namesake season.ANSWER: La Primavera [accept The Allegory of Spring] <TR>2. This man was born in Arkansas in 1880 to “Pinky” and a Union civil war hero. This man finished top in his class at West Point and achieved the rank of brigadier general after serving with the 42nd Rainbow Division in World War I. The Missouri Meerschaum Company made pipes to this leader’s specifications and still markets a (*) corncob pipe in his honor. This general dispersed the Bonus Army while serving under President Hoover. For 10 points, name this General famous for “returning” to the Philippines and for accepting Japan’s surrender on the USS Missouri.ANSWER: Douglas MacArthur <TG>3. This scientist is credited with the accidental invention of carbonated water, a process he described as “impregnating water with fixed air,” as well as the discovery of hydrochloric acid, or “vapor of spirit of salt.” His best known discovery involved focusing (*) sunlight onto mercuric oxide, and noting that mice sealed in with the vapor did not suffocate. For 10 points, name this British scientist who discovered what he referred to as “dephlogisticated air,” which we now refer to as oxygen.ANSWER: Joseph Priestley <RR>4. A character in this novel fails to propose during a mushroom expedition because of loyalty to his late childhood love Marie. Another character in this novel is visited by his mother on his ninth birthday after being told that she was dead. Stiva is unfaithful to his wife Dolly in this novel, and (*) Levin eventually weds Kitty after his second proposal. The title character of this novel visits Italy during an affair with Count Vronsky, causing her social disgrace in St. Petersburg. A train kills the title character of, for 10 points, this novel by Leo Tolstoy.ANSWER: Anna Karenina <GP>5. The author of this work names three characters in the work after himself, a humanist thinker, and a Lord Chancellor of England. The protagonist of this frame narrative has been on multiple voyages to the New World with Amerigo Vespucci. A fool in this work insults a friar while at (*) Cardinal John Morton’s dinner party. This philosophical work is told in two letters written to Peter Giles by the narrator, and Raphael Hythloday recounts his time on a crescent-shaped island in it. For 10 points, name this work written by Thomas More about an ideal society.ANSWER: Utopia <TG>6. The first casualty of this event was two year old William Fildes, and this event led directly to the founding of The Guardian newspaper. This incident inspired Percy Shelley’s “The Masque of Anarchy” and led to the Cato Street conspiracy. The Six Acts (*) were passed in the aftermath of this event, which involved a speech given by Henry Hunt denouncing the Corn Laws. For 10 points, name this 1819 massacre of protesters in Manchester, which has a name referencing the Battle of Waterloo.ANSWER: Peterloo massacre <RN>7. This author’s short story “Two Words” appears in a collection narrated by the protagonist of a novel by this author. That creation of this author lost her mother after she choked on a chicken bone and was conceived after her mother slept with a snakebitten gardener. Alex Cold meets with (*) “Beasts” of the Amazon in another novel by this author of Eva Luna. For 10 points, name this Chilean author of City of the Beasts, who features four generations of the Trueba family in The House of the Spirits. ANSWER: Isabel Allende <TG>8. This composer based the libretto for one of his operas on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. This composer of The Ban on Love wrote another work in which a woman is defended by an unnamed knight in trial by combat. That work also contains a (*) “chorus” now played at many weddings. Another of his works ends with a character riding a horse into a funeral pyre to cleanse a cursed ring. For 10 points, identify this German composer of Lohengrin and the operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung.ANSWER: Richard Wagner <TR>9. Two methods for measuring this value for a given substance are named for Pierre Lecomte du Noüy [nwi], including his namesake “ring” method. This quantity is equal to Gibbs energy per increase in exposed area, is represented by gamma, and is measured in dynes per centimeter. This force is responsible for (*) capillary action and is reduced by surfactants. For 10 points, some insects are able to walk on water due to this property of liquids that results from cohesive forces.ANSWER: surface tension <MR>10. According to Hecataeus, this figure was actually a snake which lived on Tainaron. In order to bypass this figure, the Sybil of Cumae fed him a honey cake containing “drowsy essence.” This creature’s brother was the guardian of Geryons’s cattle, and was named Orthrus. The (*) Twelfth Labor of Heracles was to bring this monster to King Eurystheus, which Hades allowed on the condition it was done without weapons. For 10 points, name this three-headed dog who guards the gates of the underworld. ANSWER: cerberus <MR>11. This show set a record by receiving thirty-two Emmy nominations in 2019, including over half of the nominees for supporting actor and actress in a drama. Despite the critical success, this show’s most recent season has an audience score below forty percent on Rotten Tomatoes, partially due to heavy criticism of the writing of David (*) Benioff and D. B. Weiss. A character played by Peter Dinklage claims that “there’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story” in its finale, “The Iron Throne.” For 10 points, name this HBO fantasy series focusing on the various houses of Westeros, including the Lannisters and Starks.ANSWER: Game of Thrones <TR>12. A member of this family led the Siege of Imola and captured the Romagna. One member of this family of unclear parentage was known as the Infans Romanus, while another formed the League of Venice against Charles VII. One member of this family authored the Treaty of Tordesillas and had his rival (*) Savonarolla executed. Another member of this family served as the inspiration for Machiavelli’s The Prince, and that man’s father, Rodrigo, served as Pope Alexander VI. For 10 points, name this Italian family whose members included Cesare and Lucrezia.ANSWER: Borgia family <RN>13. During this period, one religious sect remembers the assassination of its first leader by making a pilgrammage to that leader’s tomb. An appearance by Gabriel is celebrated during this holiday’s Night of Power, which takes place on one of its last (*) ten nights. Worshipers fast from sunrise to sunset during this timeframe, breaking the fast each night with a light meal known as iftar. For 10 points, name this holy month of Islam, during which Muslims celebrate the revelation of the Qur’an to Mohammad. ANSWER: Ramadan <HL>14. While a boy stood in “uffish thought” in this poetic work, he is approached by a beast that comes “whiffling through the tulgey wood.” In this poem, that boy’s father “chortled in his joy” that his son had slain a creature with “jaws that bite” and (*) “claws that catch.” Besides being warned to avoid the title monster in this poem, the son is told to “shun the frumious Bandersnatch,” and “beware the Jubjub bird.” The author of this work included it in his “Through the Looking Glass.” For 10 points, name this nonsensical poem by Lewis Carroll.ANSWER: “Jabberwocky” <TG>15. In a flashback experienced by a butler in this movie, the protagonist is shown destroying his 2nd wife’s bedroom after she leaves him, while a sequence of breakfast scenes in this film show the deterioration of that man’s first marriage to Emily. The death of this film’s namesake at (*) Xanadu happens as he drops a snowglobe and says the name of a beloved childhood toy. Reporter Jerry Thompson never discovers that Rosebud is a sled in this movie. For 10 points, name this film starring Orson Welles that was partly inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst.ANSWER: Citizen Kane <TG>16. A technology initially developed for this project allowed for the use of stereotactic large-core needle biopsies to detect breast cancer. Newsweek branded this project a “1.5 billion dollar blunder” after incorrect specifications led to a “spherical aberration.” That mistake was fixed by the installation of (*) COSTAR. This object’s replacement has been delayed due to the ripping of a sunshield and is named for James Webb. For 10 points, name this telescope launched by NASA in 1990, whose images Deep Field and Ultra Deep Field revealed new galaxies.ANSWER: Hubble Space Telescope [or HST] <TG>17. In the weeks leading up to this war, one side shot down six MiG fighter jets in an air battle with one of its opponents, and a UN peace-keeping force was removed from a border after a president received poor intelligence from the Soviet Union. One country in this war lost most of its aircraft to a surprise attack on its first day. The (*) USS Liberty was “accidentally” attacked by the winning side in this conflict that ended with loss of territory by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. For 10 points, name this war in which Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in just under a week.ANSWER: Six-Day War [or 1967 War; or June War; or Third Arab-Israeli War; or Third Israeli-Arab War; or an-Naksah; or the Setback; prompt on Israeli-Arab or Arab-Israili War] <TG>18. Double-crossovers are used to fold this substance for storage in a namesake “origami.” Northern blotting is used to detect fragments of this molecule in a sample. Walter Gilbert coined the name for a hypothesis in which self-proliferating versions of this molecule existed before (*) single celled organisms. One type of this molecule is depicted by cloverleaf diagrams and carries anti-codons to the ribosome during translation. For 10 points, name this single stranded nucleic acid which comes in transfer and messenger varieties. ANSWER: RNA [or ribonucleic acid] <MR>19. This man drinks three glasses of brandy and hums “Aupres de Ma Blonde” before leaving a bunker. This character plans to fake an arm injury to visit a mechanic, and later attests he could have shot Gregory Fitzhurst with his left hand. While flying a navy hydroplane, this protagonist hears the sound (*) “pocketa- pocketa- pocketa,” and later mutters “puppy biscuits” before entering an A&P. For 10 points, name this title character, whose favorite pastime is daydreaming while his wife gets her hair done in a James Thurber short story.ANSWER: Walter Mitty [accept either; accept The Secret Life of Walter Mitty] <GP>20. This state’s Bracken Cave hosts the world’s largest colony of bats, and it is the largest producer of wool in its country. This state’s Brewster County is large enough to contain the state of Connecticut. The first suspension bridge ever built in the U.S. crosses the (*) Brazos River in this state, where a category 4 hurricane in Galveston killed 8,000 people. For 10 points, name this state that is home to Big Bend National Park with capital at Austin.ANSWER: Texas <TG>BONUSES1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Evangeline about this group of people. For 10 points each:[10] Many of these descendants of a colony of New France were forcibly removed from the Atlantic Coast in “the Great Upheaval”.ANSWER: Acadians[10] After a successful siege of the Acadian capital at Port Royal, the British took control of what became this Canadian province with capital of Halifax.ANSWER: Nova Scotia[10] After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, many Acadians settled in Louisiana, where they became known by this name, a mispronunciation of Acadians.ANSWER: Cajuns <TG>2. Answer the following about a reality franchise, for 10 points each.[10] Javier Colon was the winner on season one of this show. Contestants on this show are chosen by getting a “chair turn” from one or more judges who listen to their performance while facing away from the stage.ANSWER: The Voice[10] The best audition possible for The Voice is rewarded with a “this many” chair turn, which is the number of judges who compete for contestants on the show.ANSWER: four[10] This long-time coach on The Voice will not return for the show’s seventeenth season. This Maroon 5 frontman was noted for his rivalry with Blake Shelton.ANSWER: Adam Levine <TG>3. Franz Schubert famously titled a work of this type after a fish. For 10 points each:[10] Give the name for musical compositions with five voices or instruments.ANSWER: quintet[10] Schubert’s Trout Quintet was this type of quintet named after the instrument that was accompanied by violin, viola, cello, and double bass.ANSWER: piano quintet [10] A traditional wind quintet is comprised of a flute, clarinet, French horn, and two double-reed instruments. Name either double-reed instrument.ANSWER: bassoon or oboe <TG>4. Males of a “peacock” variety of this species use black patches between technicolor hues to attract females. For 10 points each:[10] Name this largest order of arachnids, which has eight legs and fangs which are used to inject venom.ANSWER: spider[10] Spiders use this organ for gas exchange. Despite its name, these aren’t at all like similarly named structures for respiration in humans.ANSWER: book lung [prompt on just “lung”][10] A common myth about this spider is that it would be the most dangerous to humans except that its fangs aren’t strong enough to penetrate human skin. In fact, the spider known by this household name can penetrate human skin and only leave a mild burning sensation.ANSWER: granddaddy longlegs [accept harvestmen; accept harvesters; accept Opiliones; accept Phalangida] <TG>5. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest is these, ‘It might have been’” is a famous line in a poem by this Quaker poet. For 10 points each:[10] This anti-slavery advocate is known for his long poem Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl.ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier[10] Whittier is considered to be one of these “schoolroom” poets from New England. Others in this group include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant.ANSWER: Fireside Poets[10] The afore-mentioned quote was from this poem by Whittier about the remorse felt by the namesake maid and a judge. Both of them pondered what a life with each other might have been after a chance meeting by a hayfield.ANSWER: Maud Muller <TG>6. For almost 3,000 years, Zoroastrians have chosen sky burial, in which scavenger birds are counted on to eat the dead. For 10 points each:[10] Kites and crows help, but these birds of prey are relied on for an efficient and hygienic ritual.ANSWER: vultures [10] These elevated and circular structures are where the bodies are placed for sky burial.ANSWER: towers of silence [accept any of the following: dakhma, dokhma, dakhmag, deme, dema][10] In Cherokee myth, a “Great” one of these birds from the same family as vultures was responsible for the creation of the mountains. These birds are often seen circling wherever there is carrion.ANSWER: buzzard <TG>7. Neither of these men graduated from high school, but that didn’t stop them from creating their own printing press and weekly newspaper. For 10 points each:[10] Name this duo more famous for inventing the world’s first successful airplane.ANSWER: Wright Brothers [accept Wilbur and Orville Wright][10] The Wright Brothers’ successful flight took place in modern day Kill Devil Hills, but is usually credited to this town 4 miles to the north.ANSWER: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina[10] The Wright Brothers conducted much of their research using one of these devices. Their version consisted of a wooden box, a fan, and balances used to measure lift and drag.ANSWER: wind tunnel <TR>8. This playwright misquoted Neville Chamberlain for the title of his alternative history play Peace in Our Time, which saw the Nazis win the Battle of Britain. For 10 points each,[10] Name this British playwright that created the divorcees Elyot and Amanda, who end up honeymooning in adjacent rooms, in Private Lives.ANSWER Noel Coward[10] This Noel Coward comedic play sees the author Charles Condomine conduct a seance at his house to gather material for his next book. He is annoyed when the ghost of Elvira, his first wife, haunts him as a result.ANSWER: Blithe Spirit[10] Blithe Spirit takes its title from a line in this Percy Shelley poem, in which Shelley asks the title creature to “Teach me half the gladness/That thy brain must know”.ANSWER: To A Skylark <GP>9. A variant of this chemistry technique is named after Karl Fischer, who used it to determine trace amounts of water in a sample. For 10 points each:[10] Name this laboratory technique that can be used to find the concentration of an unknown analyte.ANSWER: titration[10] Titrations are typically performed using this volumetric device which consists of an elongated glassware tube used to add exact amounts of titrant to the analyte.ANSWER: buret[10] This point of the titration occurs when the titrant fully neutralizes the analyte and the two become stoichiometrically equal to one another. On a titration curve, it is the point with the highest slope.ANSWER: equivalence point <CT>10. Notable buildings in this city include Harold Washington Library and the Museum of Science and Industry. For 10 points each:[10] The I.M. Pei designed University Apartments are in the Hyde Park neighborhood of this city.ANSWER: Chicago[10] Chicago is also home to this famous structure, designed by Anish Kapoor and located in Millenium Park. This sculpture’s common nickname derives from its shape. ANSWER: Cloud Gate [or The Bean][10] Chicago is also home to Flamingo, a 53-foot tall sculpture by this artist. That work does not move, unlike this artist’s more famous mobiles. ANSWER: Alexander Calder <OK>11. This empire lacked both wheels and a written language, but nonetheless built roads across almost all of its territory. For 10 points each: [10] Name this empire with capital at Cuzco, which ruled over a large amount of South America before the arrival of Europeans.ANSWER: Incan Empire [10] This last Incan emperor won the throne after a civil war against his brother Huascar. He was later captured by Francisco Pizarro. ANSWER: Atahualpa [or Atabalipa][10] Atahualpa was captured at this battle in 1532, where he was ambushed by Spanish forces. ANSWER: Battle of Cajamarca [ca-ha-MAR-ca] <OK>12. In this fairytale, a miller’s daughter makes a hard bargain with a tiny man after her father tells the King she can spin gold from straw. For 10 points each:[10] Name this fairytale in which a queen must come up with the title character’s name if she wishes to keep her first born child.ANSWER: Rumpelstiltskin [be generous with pronunciation][10] Rumpelstiltskin is one of the stories in the classic collection Children’s and Household Tales published by these siblings.ANSWER: The Brothers Grimm [or Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; accept the Grimm brothers.][10] This confessional poet and author of the Pulitzer winning collection Live or Die wrote a version of Rumplestiltskin in which she said “a small old man who wants to get out” is “inside many of us.” This bipolar author of The Awful Rowing Toward God died in her garage from carbon monoxide poisoning.ANSWER: Anne Sexton <TG>13. Recently, members of this profession across the U.S. from North Carolina to Arizona have engaged in protests and strikes. For 10 points each:[10] Name this profession, whose workers are dissatisfied with issues such as class size and retirement benefits.ANSWER: teachers [accept educators or reasonable equivalents][10] Many protesting educators are members of this organization, which is the largest labor union in the United States.ANSWER: the National Education Association [or NEA][10] In Kentucky, this means of protest by 10 school districts prompted the Labor Cabinet to subpoena the names of teachers who may have participated. Teachers who engaged in this action used days allotted for health to travel to the Capital and protest. ANSWER: sick-outs [accept descriptive answers such as “calling in sick”] <TG>14. This thinker expanded upon behaviorist ideas, arguing that people can learn by watching other people. For 10 points each:[10] Name this psychologist who emphasized the importance of modeling. His social learning theory is seen as a bridge between behaviorist and cognitive ideas.ANSWER: Albert Bandura [10] Bandura is most known for this experiment, in which children observed and imitated adults who were aggressive towards a namesake toy.ANSWER: Bobo doll experiment[10] Bandura also pioneered the study of this concept, a person’s belief in their ability to complete tasks and attain a goal. It is often confused with confidence.ANSWER: self-efficacy [prompt on “efficacy”] <TR>15. The United Kingdom has been negotiating its withdrawal from this entity for two years, and the date of withdrawal has been continually pushed back. For 10 points each:[10] Name this political entity, which allows for the free movement of goods and people throughout the namesake area. ANSWER: EU [or European Union; or European Parliament; or EuroParl][10] The European Union was created by this treaty. It was later amended by the treaties of Amsterdam and Lisbon. ANSWER: Treaty of Maastricht[10] Maastricht is located in this European country, which was one of the founding members of the European Economic Community, the predecessor to the European Union. ANSWER: Kingdom of the Netherlands [or Nederland; accept Holland] <OK>16. This man’s Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire is one of his only writings to be published, since most of his belongings had to be buried with him after he died of cholera in 1832. For 10 points each:[10] Name this French scientist, whose work allowed Clausius and Kelvin to derive the concept of entropy.ANSWER: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot[10] One of these devices named after Carnot has the maximum efficiency allowed by thermodynamic laws.ANSWER: heat engine[10] During the Carnot cycle, two isothermal processes alternate with two processes of this type, in which no heat is lost or gained.ANSWER: adiabatic <MR>17. Bernard Gillam created one of these depicting James G. Blaine with tattoos of his political sins covering his body. For 10 points each.[10] “Tattooed Man” is one of these editorial devices that typically target leaders, politicians, and influential people to make a point.ANSWER: political cartoon [prompt on “cartoon”][10] Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall’s corruption was exposed in the New York Times by this “Father of the American Cartoon.” ANSWER: Thomas Nast[10] This phrase accompanies a drawing of a fragmented snake that appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. It is believed to be the first political cartoon published in America.ANSWER: “Join or Die” <TG>18. Notable examples of this feature in the U.S. include the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Pontchartrain. For 10 points each:[10] Name these partially enclosed bodies of water where freshwater from land meets the saltwater of the sea. ANSWER: estuary[10] Estuaries are dynamically affected by this natural occurrence in which the sea falls and rises due to the influence of the sun, moon, and Earth's rotation.ANSWER: tides[10] This variety of tide occurs when the gravitational influence of the sun and moon partially cancel out one another, resulting in more moderate tidal conditions.ANSWER: neap tides [accept neaps] <CT>19. This collection of hymns and religious texts was written over 3,000 years ago in India. For 10 points each:[10] Name these texts, the oldest of which, the Rig, is comprised of ten mandalas.ANSWER: Vedas[10] Like most Hindu scriptures and epic poems, the Vedas were written in this ancient Indo-European language.ANSWER: Sanskrit[10] Many of the fundamentals of Hinduism, such as karma, can be found in these texts, whose name means “sitting down near.” These writings are often connected to the Vedanta because they are near the end of the Vedas.ANSWER: Upanishads <TG>20. One god of this object had a cult centered at Ur, and was regarded as the head of the Sumerian pantheon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this object in the night sky, gods of which include Sin and the Egyptian god Thoth.ANSWER: Moon[10] Moon deities are often paired in mythology with sun deities, such as in the mythology of these people, in which the Moon god Igaluk desires his sister, the sun goddess Malina. These people’s mythology also includes Sedna and Nanook, the master of polar bears. ANSWER: Inuit[10] Although there are many different versions of the Sedna story, in all of them she loses these body parts, which become seals and other marine mammals. ANSWER: fingers <OK> ................
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