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 The 2019 Scottie Round SevenWritten 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)TOSSUPS1. In one work by this playwright, Guido plans to leave a dagger beside a Duke’s bed as a sign of mercy, only to find that the Duke’s wife has murdered him. This writer of The Duchess of Padua also created Mrs. Erlynne, who distracts Lord Darlington and company to help the title character escape from behind a (*) curtain in Lady Windermere's Fan. In his most famous play, Bunbury is a fictional invalid used by another character to avoid events such as a meeting with Lady Bracknell. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright who created Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief in The Importance of Being Earnest.ANSWER: Oscar Wilde <GP>2. When these structures assist in the engagement of parasitism they are known as haustorial, while those that emerge out-of-sequence are known as adventitious. The initial emergence of these structures is known as the radicle, which develops into the (*) apical meristem, from which the remainder of this structure grows. These structures can exist in symbiotic relationships with fungi called mycorrhizae [my-kuh-RYE-zee]. Examples of these structures include carrots and radishes, which are their “tap” variety. For 10 points, name these vascular structures responsible for acquiring water and nutrients for a plant, usually from the soil below. ANSWER: roots <RR>3. A national memorial at the site of this incident contains a survivor’s tree, a survivor’s wall, and a field of empty stone and glass chairs. The day of this event, April 19th, coincided with the date of the Battles of Lexington and Concord as well as that of a tragic raid in (*) Texas. The man who carried out this attack used three tons of explosives to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah building, and was captured due to a missing license plate. For 10 points, name this 1995 event that killed 168 people, for which Timothy McVeigh was executed.ANSWER: the Oklahoma City Bombing [accept answers like “blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma”; accept answers like “blowing up the Murrah building” before “Murrah”] <TG>4. This philosopher wrote an extremely popular epistolary novel that was prohibited by the Catholic Church and subtitled The New Heloise. This thinker claimed that civil society was founded by the first man to fence off property and say “this is mine.” Another work by this author of Discourse on (*) Inequality argues that the people possess sovereignty through the general will. That work opens by claiming that “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” For 10 points, name this Swiss-French philosopher who wrote The Social Contract.ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau <TR>5. In one section of this poem, the speaker had been “Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules” before “Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house.” The speaker of this poem addresses Death as a “bitter hug of mortality” and can’t answer a child asking “What is (*) grass?” The speaker of this poem is “now thirty-seven years old in perfect health” and claims “I am large, I contain multitudes.” For 10 points, name this poem that notes “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” the longest poem in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.ANSWER: “Song of Myself” <GP>6. The man credited with inventing this operation in the 16th century did so to “shorten the labours” and “double the life” of astronomers by limiting “slippery errors” of calculations, and defined this operation as a ratio of two distances in geometric form. That man, John (*) Napier, used 10 to the 7th power and the base one over e in his original version of these computations. The “common” type of this operation is based on the number 10, while base e is used for the “natural” type. For 10 points, name this mathematical function that is the inverse of exponentiation.ANSWER: logarithm [accept common logarithm or natural logarithm before “common.”] <TG>7. A man in a yellow scarf seems to be among the many men falling asleep in the background of this painting, in which another man with a goatee leans over a railing. The artist of this work painted himself to the far right taking notes, and signed his name alongside the date 1875 on a table surrounded by five men. A similar scene painted by the same artist features David Hayes (*) Agnew as the central figure. The only woman in this work recoils in horror as the central figure holds a bloody scalpel. For 10 points, name this realist painting of a surgery demonstration led by the titular doctor, a work of Thomas Eakins.ANSWER: The Gross Clinic <CT>8. After the death of his father, this ruler was brought up as a cowherd in “flower city.” The Arthashastra was written during the reign of this emperor by his Chief Minister, Chanakya [cha-nah-kia]. This emperor allied with Seleucus I by marrying his daughter and giving him 500 (*) elephants. After abdicating in favor of Bindusara, this emperor left Pataliputra and became a Jain monk. For 10 points, name this grandfather of Ashoka, the founder of the Mauryan Empire.ANSWER: Chandragupta Maurya <AP>9. After President Trump joked about trading this place for Greenland, residents joked back that they would be happy with the trade. Wanda Vazquez Garced was sworn in as governor of this locale after her predecessor resigned over a texting scandal. Mayor (*) Carmen Yulin Cruz accused the Trump administration of “killing us with inefficiency” during relief efforts after Hurricane Maria hit this island in 2017. For 10 points, name this U.S. territory in the Caribbean with capital at San Juan.ANSWER: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico <TG>10. This novel’s protagonist develops his writing skills by attending San Jose State. One character in this novel argues that all sins are a variation of theft, leading another character to be framed for stealing birthday gifts. After his adopted son Sohrab smiles for the first time in this novel’s last chapter, the narrator says “for you, a thousand times over.” In this novel’s pivotal scene, the future Taliban leader (*) Assef rapes Hassan. For 10 points, name this novel titled after Hassan’s role for Amir in a competition involving flying toys, the most famous work of Khaled Hosseini.ANSWER: The Kite Runner <TR>11. This man began to wear his trademark clothing while he and his wife Anita were gauchos. In the Uruguayan Civil War, this general defended Montevideo from the forces of Manuel Oribe, and he also served in the Ragamuffin War. This leader founded the International Legion, and was originally sentenced to die for joining the (*) Carbonari. This “Hero of Two Worlds” won the battles of Calatafimi and Volturno while leading the Expedition of a Thousand. For 10 points, name this general who led the redshirts in the unification of Italy.ANSWER: Guiseppe Garibaldi <AP>12. This property arises from phonon exchanges that produce bound electron pairs, which can be described in three dimensions by the competing Ginzburg-Landau and Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theories. Substances that exhibit this property are said to operate at (*) high temperature when they merely require liquid nitrogen to cool them. Materials with this property expel magnetic field lines in the Meissner effect, which can be used to demonstrate magnetic levitation. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which materials exhibit a negligible electrical resistance.ANSWER: superconductivity <RR>13. A cowboy narrates the opening scene of this movie, in which the protagonist writes a 69-cent check for an opened quart of milk. This cult classic spawned an annual festival in Louisville in which superfans called “achievers” are invited to drink white russians and enjoy unlimited (*) bowling. In one scene of this film, the Vietnam veteran Walter spreads Donny’s ashes from a Folgers coffee can, which mostly blow into the protagonist’s face after he misjudges the wind. For 10 points, name this Coen brothers crime comedy that stars Jeff Bridges as “the dude.”ANSWER: The Big Lebowski <CT>14. It is a tradition that the names in this work’s aria about a “little list” of people who “would never be missed” are changed for each performance. In another aria from this operetta, “a more humane ‘ruler’ never did” exist and is “reckoned a true philanthropist.” After being sentenced to death for (*) flirting, one character becomes Lord High Executioner of Titipu in this work, which has been criticized for its use of yellowface and stereotypical names like Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum. For 10 points, name this comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that ends with Ko-Ko escaping execution.ANSWER: The Mikado [or The Town of Titipu] <TG>15. According to one definition, tri-methyl-borane is one of these materials, as its empty orbital is capable of forming a dative bond to create an adduct. That theory of these substances expands on another that states that these species become anions after reacting with their conjugates. That formulation by (*) Bronsted and Lowry extended the prior Arrhenius definition of these substances as proton donors. For 10 points, name these structures defined as having a pH less than seven, the complement of bases. ANSWER: acids <RR>16. The absence of the “Three F’s” might have contributed to the onset of this event, and the Chocktaw Indians famously raised thousands of dollars to aid in its relief. The “Soupers” converted to protestantism in an effort to gain aid during this event, and people boarded “coffin ships” in order to escape it. (*) Robert Peel repealed the Corn Laws in response to this event, which was caused by the water mold phytophthora infestans. For 10 points, name this mass starvation in nineteenth century Ireland, caused by the failure of a certain crop.ANSWER: Irish Potato Famine [or Great Famine] <RN>17. This character’s father had him dressed in white and blue to signify that he was a “heavenly joy,” while his son was predicted to be “a terrible fellow” after killing Badebec in childbirth. This character used a nine-hundred foot comb with teeth made of elephant tusks to comb cannonballs out of his hair. After an (*) eleven month pregnancy, this giant was born from Gargamelle’s left ear. For 10 points, name this father to Pantagruel from a collection of stories written by Francois Rabelais. ANSWER: Gargantua <TG>18. In one account, this god has to fill and cover an otterskin with red gold after killing the son of a sorcerer. This god rescues the goddess Idun from the giant Thjazi [thyah-zee] while disguised as a falcon, and kills the servant Fimafeng for receiving praise. This god transforms into a gadfly to sting the dwarf (*) Brokkr [brah-ker] during the creation of Mjolnir [mi-yul-neer], causing it to have a short handle. Poison drips onto this god as he waits for Ragnorok, during which he will break free, and his son Fenrir is predicted to kill Odin. For 10 points, name this mother of Sleipnir and trickster god of Norse mythology.ANSWER: Loki [accept Lopt] <GP>19. The use of flashbacks in this work’s scherzo movement references Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, while this work’s Largo movement features an English horn solo which was adapted into Harry Burleigh's "Goin' Home.” Neil Armstrong took a recording of this work with him during the Apollo 11 mission. The third movement of this work was inspired by the (*) “Song of Hiawatha” and this symphony features a flute melody resembling the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” For 10 points, name this final symphony by Antonin Dvorak, inspired by his trip to America.ANSWER: New World Symphony [or Symphony From the New World; or Dvorak’s Symphony 9 (Dvorak not needed after mention)] <RN>20. In 1876, a notable member of this group named Charles Hires introduced root beer as a “temperance drink” at the US Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. This religious organization’s interest in nature and science led to accusations of witchcraft, while Mary Dyer and other (*) “Boston Martyrs” were executed for violating a law banning these people from Massachusetts. Richard Nixon was a “Friend” of this faith, which believes that any man or woman may commune directly with Christ. For 10 points, name this pacificist group founded by George Fox, whose members included William Penn.ANSWER: Quakers [or Religious Society of Friends; or Friend’s Church; accept Friends before mention; prompt on Friends after mention] <TG> BONUSES:1. The title of this economic work was inspired by the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville. For 10 points each:[10] Name this work, which argues that authoritarian regimes originate from centrally planned economies. This work also describes the titular path on which individuals lose their freedom.ANSWER: The Road to Serfdom[10] The Road to Serfdom includes the section “The Great Utopia,” which argues that the democratic kind of this political philosophy is unachievable. This system’s “national” variety was espoused by the Nazis.ANSWER: socialism[10] The Road to Serfdom was written by this Austrian economist. He feuded with John Maynard Keynes and also wrote the essay “Why I Am Not a Conservative.”ANSWER: Friedrich Alfred von Hayek <TR>2. This art movement emerged as a reaction to World War 1, and was focused just as much on social reformation as artistic reformation. For 10 points each:[10] Name this art movement that shares its name with a publication written by its founder, Theo van Doesburg. This movement is known for its abstract works focused on primary colors.ANSWER: De Stijl [or neoplasticism; or The Style][10] The leading De Stijl [duh SHTYLE] artist was this Dutch painter of Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow. He split with other De Stijl artists because he refused to use diagonal lines.ANSWER: Piet Mondrian[10] Mondrian created this work after moving to New York late in his career. It depicts the city grid of Manhattan filled with taxis.ANSWER: Broadway Boogie Woogie <TR>3. This author published a collection of interviews with civil rights leaders in Who Speaks for the Negro? For 10 points each:[10] Name this Kentucky-born author. In his most famous work, one character researches Cass Mastern for his dissertation.ANSWER: Robert Penn Warren[10] The aforementioned Warren work is this one, in which an attempt at blackmail leads to the suicide of Judge Irwin. It is narrated by Jack Burden.ANSWER: All the King’s Men[10] Burden works alongside this corrupt Governor of Louisiana, whose character was inspired by real-life Governor Huey Long.ANSWER: Willie Stark [accept either underlined portion] <TR>4. This artist portrayed the movement of flight in a series of abstract sculptures. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Romanian sculptor of the Bird in Space series.ANSWER: Constantin Brancusi [bron-KOOSH][10] Brancusi was later commissioned to build this sculpture in memoriam of Romanian soldiers in World War I. It features rhomboidal shapes stacked atop one another at roughly 30 meters in height.ANSWER: Endless Column[10] This other Brancusi sculpture in the memorial sits nearby the Endless Column. The sculpture’s title object is surrounded by twelve stone seats all in the shape of an hourglass. ANSWER: Table of Silence <CT>5. Among the many cities visited by it were Honolulu, Sydney, and Yokohama. For 10 points each: [10] Name this American Naval fleet that sailed around the world from 1907 through 1909. It was commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt. ANSWER: Great White Fleet[10] Theodore Roosevelt was a member of this political party that advocated for child labor laws, women’s suffrage, and harsher regulation of industry.ANSWER: Progressive Party [or Bull Moose Party; accept Progressive Movement or Progressivism)[10] Another notable member of the Progressive movement was this former Wisconsin Governor known as “fighting Bob” who ran unsuccessfully for the Presidency in 1924. ANSWER: Robert La Follette <PB>6. This stage is reached when a body of water flows over its banks and onto dry land. For 10 points each:[10] Name this mostly natural disaster. An unnatural one of these occurred in Johnstown, Pennsylvania after the failure of the South Fork dam.ANSWER: flood[10] This term refers to the highest level reached by a flooding body of water. ANSWER: crest[10] Many places attempt to control flood waters by building these earthen embankments to manage the water level. Unlike dams, these structures are usually built parallel to the flow of a waterway.ANSWER: levee [or dike] <TG>7. The longest continental shelf in the world is in this region’s namesake body of water. For 10 points each:[10] The New Siberian Islands are in this area’s so-called “circle,” which is known for its aurora borealis.ANSWER: the Arctic Circle [accept Arctic Ocean][10] If you follow the Arctic Circle to the east across Norway, Sweden, and Finland, you will have crossed this peninsula, which gives its name to the cultural region containing those countries.ANSWER: Scandinavian Peninsula[10] This island group belonging to Denmark is sometimes considered part of Scandinavia. This archipelago is about halfway between Scotland and Iceland.ANSWER: the Faroe Islands <TG>8. Gaea, Tartarus, and Eros are believed to have come from this place, whose name can be translated as “the gaping void.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this state of random disorder that is now used to describe confusion and disarray.ANSWER: chaos[10] Chaos means “abyss” in this language, whose myth system gave us Erebus and Nyx.ANSWER: Greek [accept word forms][10] This Egyptian god of war and chaos tricked his brother Osiris into a casket and contends with his nephew Horus for control of the world.ANSWER: Seth <TG>9. Not long after this man’s victory at the Battle of Hattin, Henry II imposed one of the first income taxes. For 10 points each:[10] That tax was a “tithe” named after this leader, although the money raised was never used to campaign against him.ANSWER: Saladin [or An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub][10] Saladin founded this dynasty after undermining and then defeating the Fatimid dynasty.ANSWER: Ayyubid[10] Saladin’s victory at the Battle of the Horns of Hattin took place between the second and third of these religious wars, in which Christians wished to recover the Holy Land from Muslims.ANSWER: crusades <TG>10. The Hall effect causes charges to separate perpendicularly to this entity. For 10 points each, [10] Name this vector field, which according to Gauss’s Law has a flux of zero through its surface.ANSWER: magnetic field [accept B-field][10] This law relates the magnetic field to the current around a closed loop. It sets the curl of the B-field equal to the permittivity of free space times the total current density.ANSWER: Ampere’s Law[10] This physicist added to Ampere’s law by noting that changing electric fields could also generate magnetic fields. That law is among one of his four namesake equations.ANSWER: James Clerk Maxwell <GP>11. In one of this author’s later books, Rilla takes in an orphaned baby and her brother dies during World War I. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Canadian author, whose most famous series follows the life of Anne Shirley. ANSWER: Lucy Maud Montgomery [10] Anne Shirley is a denizen of this farm, where she lives with Matthew and Marilla. It partially names Montgomery’s most famous book. ANSWER: Green Gables[10] The farm Green Gables and the town of Avonlea are located in this smallest Canadian province. ANSWER: Prince Edward Island <OK>12. This war was the final in a series of conflicts instigated by Otto von Bismarck. For 10 points each:[10] Name this 1870 conflict which led to the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire.ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War[10] The forces of Helmuth von Moltke were victorious during this battle, which led to the fall of the second French Empire.ANSWER: Battle of Sedan[10] This French Emperor was captured at Sedan. He shares his name with a more famous uncle.ANSWER: Napoleon III [prompt on “Napoleon”] <AP>13. This element was called “cold fire” by Henning Brand, who isolated it in 1669. For 10 points each,[10] Name this element that can be found in bone-ash and has chemical symbol P.ANSWER: phosphorus[10] This allotrope of phosphorus glows in the dark and was used in early match heads. It was also used to make smokescreens in warfare.ANSWER: white phosphorus[10] This number is the atomic number of phosphorus. This is also the group number that phosphorus belongs to.ANSWER: fifteen <GP>14. This author took his pen name from the name of a German city, and often dedicated his writing to “The Happy Few.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this French author, who was an early proponent of realism and left behind the unfinished novel The Pink and the Green. ANSWER: Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle][10] This Stendhal novel details Julien Sorel’s life in post-Revolutionary France and his love affairs with Mathilde de la Mole and Madame de Rênal. ANSWER: The Red and The Black[10] This city partially titles a book by Stendhal focusing on Alessandro Farnese. During the Renaissance, this city was ruled by the Farnese family. ANSWER: Parma <OK>15. Notable counterexamples to the superstition involving this number include Dmitri Shostakovich and Philip Glass. For 10 points each:[10] Name this “cursed” number. Gustav Mahler tried to avoid the curse by not referring to The Song of the Earth as a symphony of this number.ANSWER: nine [or ninth][10] The curse of the ninth supposedly started with this German, whose ninth symphony is nicknamed “Choral” for its innovative use of voices.ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven[10] The voices in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony appear in the fourth movement, where they sing lyrics taken from this Friedrich Schiller poem. It opens by describing the title emotion as a “beautiful spark of divinity.”ANSWER: Ode to Joy <TR>16. Following a downturn in her career, perhaps highlighted by movies such as Mr. Deeds and Alien: Resurrection, Wynona Ryder is back. For 10 points each:[10] Ryder has starred as Joyce Byers for three seasons in this series set in the fictional Hawkins, Indiana. In this series, her son Will and his sidekicks face challenges from the Upside Down.ANSWER: Stranger Things[10] This English actress was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award at the age of 13 for her portrayal as Eleven in Stranger Things.ANSWER: Millie Bobby Brown[10] Brown’s movie debut took place in this film, the fourth in Legendary Picture’s “Monsterverse” franchise.ANSWER: Godzilla: King of the Monsters [accept Godzilla 2: King of the Monsters; prompt on “Godzilla” or “Godzilla 2.”] <TG>17. This author tried to kill off his most famous creation, but ultimately bowed to public pressure to bring him back. For 10 points each:[10] Name this British author, who wrote works featuring Professor Challenger in addition to the mystery stories he is most famous for.ANSWER: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle[10] Professor Challenger is the protagonist of this science-fiction work by Doyle, in which dinosaurs are discovered on a plateau in South America. ANSWER: The Lost World[10] Doyle’s most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, lives in apartment 221B on this street before retiring and moving to the country to keep bees. ANSWER: Baker Street <OK>18. Structures described by this term can be seen in the wings of an ostrich and the hind legs of whales. For 10 points each:[10] Name this term given to parts of the body that lose their function over the course of evolution. ANSWER: vestigial[10] The coccyx is considered vestigial because it is a remnant of these structures in humans.ANSWER: tail[10] In humans, this vestigial organ sits at the junction of the small and large intestine, and is homologous to the cecum in other mammals.ANSWER: appendix <CT>19. Answer the following about the only successful armed uprising in Australian history. For 10 points each.[10] This rebellion took place after the arrest of John Macarthur, a lieutenant of the New South Wales Corp. It was named for the nickname of the New South Wales Corp, which had to do with a product the Corp traded.ANSWER: Rum Rebellion of 1808[10] Macarthur had been arrested by this man, who survived a mutiny on the Bounty seventeen years earlier.ANSWER: William Bligh[10] Major George Johnston invaded Government House and placed Bligh under arrest in this capital city of New South Wales.ANSWER: Sydney <TG>20. In ancient times, Turks believed that this deity led 17 others that ruled the universe. For 10 points each:[10] This god’s name is synonymous with “sky” and names a mountain in Kazakhstan.ANSWER: Tengri[10] That mountain, Khan Tengri, may have been named by these practitioners of Tengriism. Their greatest spirit was named Koke Mongke Tengri, or Eternal Blue Heaven.ANSWER: Mongols[10] The Mongols, led by this grandfather of Mongke and Kublai Khan, adopted a policy of religious tolerance in lands they conquered. ANSWER: Genghis Khan [accept Temujin] <TG> ................
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