Round 7 – Detroit Catholic Central High School Spring ...



1. The protagonist of this novel has an image of the Virgin of Cobre on his wall, and tells another character not to fear the “Reds of Cincinatti”. That protagonist also recalls an arm-wrestling match he won against a native islander, and he also admires a (*) baseball player who was able to play despite having painful bone spurs in his ankle, Joe Dimaggio. At the end of the novel, the protagonist dreams of lions on an African beach after Manolin brought him back to his house. For ten points, name this novella in which Santiago’s marlin is eaten by sharks, a work by Ernest Hemingway.

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea

Bonus: Ernest Hemingway was a member of the “Lost Generation”. For ten points each, name these other people associated with that group:

Bonus 1: This woman coined the term “Lost Generation”. She wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and is famous for the quote “A rose is a rose is a rose”.

Answer: Gertrude Stein

Bonus 2: This husband of Zelda Sayre wrote about Jules Peterson and Abe North in Tender is the Night and is most famous for a novel narrated by Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby.

Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bonus 3: Gertrude Stein is famous for collecting works by this Spanish artist who painted a portrait of Stein.

Answer: Pablo Picasso

2. In the work of Pliny the Elder, this figure laughed the day of his birth. Believers follow that he received (*) seven revelations from the lord of the universe on peak of Mount Sabatam. He convinced King Vishtaspa to convert from Mithraism, ultimately leading to a new religion that became the official belief of the Sassanian Empire. He claimed that Ahriman was evil itself and Ahura Mazda a entity of good. For ten points, Identify this man who established the religion known today as Parsiism.

Answer: Zoroaster or Zarathustra

Bonus: Answer the following questions related to Zoroaster, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: This is the name for the hymns attributed to him which are the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism.

Answer: the Gathas

Bonus 2: Zoroaster appears in this faith as one of the “Manifestations of God”. Other manifestations in this religion include Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna.

Answer: Baha'i

Bonus 3: Zoroaster was believed to live in this modern day country with capital Tehran.

Answer: Iran

3. At the end of this song the singer ponders being a rock, “but not to roll.” Earlier in this song, the singer proclaims that “the piper will lead us to reason.” Near the end, the titular object is said to be found on the (*) “whispering wind.” The singer imagines “rings of smoke” and the voices of the onlookers. “A spring clean for the May Queen” is spoken of near the end of this song which sees the lead singer repeating “it makes me wonder.” For ten points name this song about a “lady who knows all that glitters is gold,” a hit song of Led Zeppelin IV.

Answer: Stairway to Heaven

Bonus: Vin Diesel once built a go-kart that runs on the hopes and dreams of orphans. It goes fast. For ten points each, answer these questions about a certain song.

Bonus 1: This song serves as the beat for Mac Miller’s “Don’t Mind if I do”, and the protagonist states “I get a thousand hugs” from ten thousand of the titular creatures.

Answer: “Fireflies”

Bonus 2: “Fireflies” is the most successful effort of this band that is famous for other songs such as “Hello Seattle” and “Vanilla Twilight”.

Answer: Owl City

Bonus 3: Owl City is this man’s favorite band, the star of such movies as Footloose and Training Day. In an episode of Spongebob, Spongebob inquires what this man would do after seeing Patrick eating his grandma’s cookies.

Answer: Kevin Bacon

4. This politician backed Keith Joseph in his bid to become Conservative Party leader, but he was forced to drop out of the election. In 1975 this politician entered the contest alone and became leader of the (*) Conservative Party. At the 1979 general election this person became Britain's first female Prime Minister. Name this woman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990, the only woman to have held either post.

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Bonus: Answer the following related to Margaret Thatcher, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: Thatcher was Prime Minister under this monarch, the current Queen of England, reigning since 1952.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Bonus 2: Thatcher succeeded this Labour politician as Prime Minister; he is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary

Answer: James Callaghan

Bonus 3: This man succeeded Thatcher as Prime Minister, serving from 1990 to 1997 and Leader of the Conservative Party during that time

Answer: John Major

5. At age 8, he entered the local cathedral school and started in the fifth grade. He ended up graduating as the youngest and most able student in 1876. In 1884, he submitted a 150-page dissertation on electrolytic conductivity to the University of (*) Uppsala for his doctorate. The most important idea in the dissertation was his explanation of the fact that neither pure salts nor pure water is a conductor, but solutions of salts in water are. For ten points, name this physicist turned chemist, a founder of the science of physical chemistry, who has namesake acids.

Answer: Svante August Arrhenius

Bonus: Answer the following about that chemist, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: Arrhenius was from this country, whose currency is the krona and whose capital is Stockholm.

Answer: Sweden

Bonus 2: Arrhenius used the infrared observations of this proximate celestial object to calculate the absorption of infrared radiation by atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Answer: Earth’s Moon

Bonus 3: Along with Arrhenius, this man is credited with founding physical chemistry, and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis and reaction velocities.

Answer: Wilhelm Ostwald

6. One of his paintings hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London and it depicts a group of World War I soldiers being led back to tents for treatment. The East Wall of another of his works depicts Micah, Haggai, Malachi, and Zechariah. In addition to Gassed and Frieze of Prophets, he portrayed a girl in white dancing in a forest, while the titular artist works intently to her left in his (*) Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood. He is better known for a series of murals on exhibit at the Boston Public Library and a portrait of a pale woman, with a notably red ear, wearing a black dress. For ten points, name this painter of Triumph of Religion and Madame X.

Answer: John Singer Sargent

Bonus: John Singer Sargent is often thought of as an advocate of the Impressionist movement. For ten points each, name these other Impressionist painters:

Bonus 1: This man was originally an Impressionist painter, a period in which he painted his Mont Sainte-Victoire, but he broke away from Impressionism and is now called the “Father of Modernism.”

Answer: Paul Cézanne

Bonus 2: Some of the lesser known works of this other Impressionist painter are The Theater Box and The Large Bathers.

Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bonus 3: In his Luncheon of the Boating Party Renoir depicted this Impressionist painter of The Floorscrapers and Paris, Rainy Day.

Answer: Gustave Caillebotte

7. Old burned-up military vehicles can be seen near Elephant Pass, the site on an important battle in this organization’s history.  In this organization’s IPKF Period, the Operation Pawan was launched by national forces to eliminate this group, but the month-long siege was fruitless.  (*) Sarath Fonseka notably survived an assassination attempt by this group and this group’s leader is nicknamed “Younger Brother.”  That leader, the same man who founded this group after the Black July attacks, was found dead last year. For ten points, what organization assassinated Rajiv Gandhi after gaining control of the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka?

              Answer:  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Also accept Tamil Tigers and LTTE)

Bonus: I will give you the country and a brief description, and you for ten points each will name the militant group:

Bonus 1. Lebanon. Meaning “Party of God,” this militant Muslim group is currently led by Hassan Nasrallah.

Answer: Hezbollah

Bonus 2: Ireland. Associated with Sinn Fein and is currently called the Workers’ Party of Ireland.

Answer: Irish Republican Army

Bonus 3: Colombia. Guerrila group closely associated with the lucrative Colombian drug exchange.

Answer: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Also accept FARC)

8. The main character in this novel lives in the exclusive Floral Heights section of the city of Zenith. His daughter Verona is 22 years old and is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr, his son is named after Teddy Roosevelt, and his other daughter is named Tinka. The titular character’s neighbor, (*) Howard Littlefield, is an executive at the Zenith Street Traction Company. The titular character’s closest friend is Paul Riesling, and he also devises many ridiculous schemes to quit smoking. For ten points, name this novel about a 46 year old real-estate dealer written by Sinclair Lewis.

Answer: Babbitt

Bonus: For ten points each, name these other Sinclair Lewis works:

Bonus 1: Dictator Buzz Windrip rules a socialist United States in this Sinclair Lewis work.

Answer: It Can’t Happen Here

Bonus 2: Carol Kennicott attempts to civilize Gopher Prairie, Minnesota in this work critical of small-town America.

Answer: Main Street

Bonus 3: The titular doctor of this work finds an entity that destroys bacteria during the research that he does with Max Gottlieb.

Answer: Arrowsmith

9. These entities were first given a description by Max Schultze, who described them as "spherules." They are deficient in Gaucher's disease and aplastic anemia, and they can be rendered dysfunctional in HELLP syndrome. Giulio (*) Bizzozero is noted for discovering that they gather around the site of a blood vessel injury, a process that proceeds the formation of a blood clot. Their numbers are also compromised in hemophilia. For ten points, name these cell fragments in the blood that lack nuclei and play a role in coagulation.

Answer: platelets

Bonus: Answer these questions about blood, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: This is the yellow liquid in which the blood cells are suspended. It makes up about 55% of the blood by volume.

Answer: Blood plasma

Bonus 2: This English physician was the first to correctly describe the circulation and properties of blood in the human body.

Answer: William Harvey

Bonus 3: In ancient times, blood was grouped with phlegm, yellow bile and black bile by Hippocrates as one of these.

Answer: Four humors

10. The outer panels of this work show a dog harassing an elderly wayfarer on the Path of Life. The interior progresses from the Creation and Fall of Man on the left wing to the center, which shows a procession led by demons heading into Hell on the right wing. A later painting of this name used a drawing by John Dunthorne as a model for the title object. The central panel of the triptych shows a group of nuns stuffing a bag with the title (*) commodity and a group of princes following the title conveyance. Willy Lott’s cottage appears in the later painting, which shows the title object crossing a stream of the Stour River. For ten points, give the shared name of a Bosch triptych and a Constable painting, both of which feature a harvest wagon.

Answer: The Hay Wain

Bonus: A student of Ary Scheffer, the installation of this man’s most famous project was made possible by the fundraising of Joseph Pulitzer. For ten points each:

Bonus 1: Name the French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Answer: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Bonus 2: Bartholdi is also well-known for this stone sculpture, commemorating its namesake city’s resistance during the Franco-Prussian war.

Answer: The Lion of Belfort

Bonus 3: The supports for the Statue of Liberty were designed by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc and this man, who would go on to build a steel structure on the Champ de Mars.

Answer: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

11. This river loses two-thirds of its potential flow in the Inner Delta near the city of Segou. One of its tributaries, the Bani, flows into it at the city of Mopti, but the river does not make up for the loss of water near Segou. The odd boomerang shape of this river baffled many European geographers for two millenia. Lake (*) Debo is a wide section of this river located in the center of the country that contains the city of Djenne, and that lake is home to many mud houses on its central islands. Important to the Mali and Songhai dynasties, this is for ten points, what African river that flows through the western part of the continent and is named for the country with capital at Niamey.

Answer: Niger River

Bonus: Name these rivers, given clues, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: This river topples over Victoria Falls in Africa.

Answer: Zambezi River

Bonus 2: This river, the longest in Canada, flows into the Beaufort Sea.

Answer: Mackenzie River

Bonus 3: This river is spanned by the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.

Answer: Arno River

12. This president ratified a tax passed by Congress that levied a direct tax on houses, lands, and slaves, but one veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion got angry and led an uprising. That uprising, Fries’ Rebellion, occurred during this man’s presidency. His son served at US Ambassador to (*) Russia and he called contemporary Caesar Rodney the “oddest-looking man in the world.” This man who defended the British troops after the Boston Massacre signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, helping spark the Quasi War with France. For ten points, name this second US President.

Answer: John Adams

Bonus: Answer the following about John Adams’s predecessor, George Washington, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: George Washington was a victor at this Revolutionary War battle on Christmas Day, in which his troops were able to take the namesake town after crossing the Delaware.

Answer: Battle of Trenton

Bonus 2: George Washington’s Secretary of War, Tim Pickering, was the leader of the Essex Junto, a group that featured prominently in this Connecticut convention.

Answer: Hartford Convention

Bonus 3: George Washington was almost overthrown as leader of the Continental Army in this effort led by a namesake brigadier general to replace Washington with Horatio Gates.

Answer: Conway Cabal

13. The mission’s craft used was built primarily by Southwest Research Institute and John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Artifacts traveling with this mission’s probe include a collection of 434,738 names stored on a compact disc, a piece of SpaceShipOne, a (*) Florida state quarter, and an American flag. Launch of the mission’s probe was delayed six days to allow for borescope inspections of the Atlas rocket’s kerosene tank. It’s goal is to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons. Named from the moons Nix and Hydra, for ten points, name this NASA robotic spacecraft mission scheduled to reach Pluto in July 2015.

Answer: New Horizons

Bonus: Answer the following about everyone’s favorite space probe, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: The New Horizons Space Probe will study this largest satellite of Pliuto, discovered by James Christy in 1978.

Answer: Charon

Bonus 2: Pluto is a part of this group of objects found beyond Neptune’s orbit.

Answer: Kuiper Belt

Bonus 3: It was discovered in June 2005 by the Hubble Space Telescope, and is the outermost natural satellite of Pluto.

Answer: Hydra

14. Rolando Garcia co-authored Towards a Logic of Meanings with this man, and in a book about conversations with himself, this man revealed that he felt “education means making creators.” This man also held the belief that children organized information into groups of related ideas called (*) “schema.” It was while standardizing Cyril Burt's reasoning tests that this man began his ideas concerning “genetic epistemology.” For ten points, name this Swiss developmental psychologist whose theory of cognitive development proposed having sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal stages.

Answer: Jean Piaget

Bonus: For ten points each, answer the following about a psychologist and his writings.

Bonus 1: This work discusses the “oceanic feeling,” which argues that society has made humanity unhappy by repressing mankind’s instincts with prohibitive laws. 

Answer: Civilization and Its Discontents or Das Unbehagen in der Kultur

Bonus 2: This psychologist who created the “Oedipus complex’ wrote Civilization and Its Discontents.  

Answer: Sigmund Freud

Bonus 3: Freud offered a more developed conception of his theories of human motivation in this essay, which asserts human existence is a struggle between Eros and the “death drive” which he dubs “Thanatos.” 

Answer: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” or “Jenseits des Lustprinzips”

15. While on his deathbed, a Persian roofer claimed to have closed this man’s chimney, which ultimately led to his death of carbon monoxide poisoning. He wrote a nonfiction work, The Experimental Novel, as well as a series of twenty novels concerning the Rougon and (*) Macquart families. French president Jacques Chirac held a ceremony in 1998 in honor of the publication of this man’s most famous work. For ten points, name this Frenchmen who was involved in the Dreyfus Affair and published his most famous work in 1898, J’Accuse.

Answer: Emile Zola

Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about the Dreyfuss Affair:

Bonus 1: The real person who gave out French military secrets was this major.

Answer: Ferdinand Esterhazy

Bonus 2: Dreyfuss was imprisoned on this island, which Clement Duval attempted to escape from. It is named for the adversary of Jesus.

Answer: Devil’s Island

Bonus 3: The Dreyfuss Affair was criticized by this winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1921. He is famous for his work Penguine Island.

Answer: Anatole France or Jacque Francois Thibault

16. This country’s Peninsula de Zapata contains the largely marshland Cienaga de Zapata National Park in this country’s Matanzas Province. To the north lies the Gulf of Cazones and to the southwest lies the Nueva Gerona, which contains the large island (*) Juventud. The Nicholas Canal separates this island nation from the Cay Sal Bank. The Sierra Maestra contain Pico Turquino in this island, home to the cities of Cienfuegos, Holguin, and Santiago. The Bay of Pigs borders the aforementioned Zapata Peninsula to the South. For ten points, name this Caribbean island nation whose capital is Havana.

Answer: Cuba

Bonus: Answer the following about some other island nations in the Caribbean, for ten points each:

Bonus 1: This colony of the United States has the large cities of Ponce and San Juan.

Answer: Puerto Rico

Bonus 2: This island chain just to the south of Cuba is a popular tourist destination. It has “Grand” and “Little” namesake islands.

Answer: Cayman Islands

Bonus 3: Mount Gimie is in the middle of this island whose largest city is Castries.

Answer: St. Lucia

17. This man received an equestrian statue from King Bocchus to be placed in the forum, which annoyed his enemies.  His victory at the Battle of Orchomenos just before being replaced by Flaccus along with victories at Chaeronea and the (*) Colline Gate and capturing of Jugurtha helped him gain power and eventually become consul.  While consul and dictator, he put up proscriptions intended to eliminate the populares and the equites. For ten points, name this famous Roman general, brief dictator and enemy of Cinna and most notably Marius.

              Answer:  Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

Bonus: Ancient Rome has a colorful military history. Answer some questions about it for ten points each:

Bonus 1: Republic-era Rome battled against Carthage in this series of wars fought over control of the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer: Punic Wars (Do not accept more specific answers)

Bonus 2: In this Second Punic War battle, the Carthaginian Hannibal annihilated an entire Roman army shortly after crossing the Swiss Alps.

Answer: Battle of Cannae

Bonus 3: Julius Caesar in this 52 BC battle defeated the Gallic leader Vercingetorix.

Answer: Battle of Alesia

18. Based on a play by Beaumarchais, the opera’s librettist Lorenzo da Ponte removed the political satire in the play when he translated it into Italian. It opens with the duet “Cinque, dieci, venti, trenta” in which the title character is measuring the space for Susanna’s new room. (*) Cherubino professes his desire for the Countess, while much of the conflict in the opera is based on Count Almaviva’s intent to reinstate the feudal right of a lord to sleep with a peasant girl on her wedding night. For ten points, this is what comic opera by Mozart detailing the former barber of Seville’s wedding proceedings.

Answer: The Marriage of Figaro or Le nozze di Figaro

Bonus: For ten points each, answer the following about a composer and his works:

Bonus 1: Controversial in part for its harsh sounds and barbaric rhythms, this ballet consists of parts entitled “The Adoration of the Earth” and “The Sacrifice”.

Answer: The Rite of Spring or Le Sacre du pintemps

Bonus 2: This composer of the Dumbarton Oaks concerto and the oratorio Oedipus Rex composed The Rite of Spring.

Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Bonus 3: This Stravinsky work for chorus and orchestra without violins or violas incorporates archaic church motifs and a double fugue. Its three sections were inspired by three chapters from a book of the Bible.

Answer: Symphony of Psalms

19. One of this man’s final works, “Writ on the Signing of the Form,” exhorted Jansenists to not give in to Louis XIV. In 1658, this mathematician offered a prize for the quadrature of a cycloid, which he awarded to himself. He wrote on the subject of projective geometry and corresponded with Fermat on the beginnings of (*) probability theory. The syringe and hydraulic press were created by this man, who is also known for a justification for belief in God known as his namesake “wager.” For ten points, name this French mathematician who, in mathematics, also has a namesake triangle.

Answer: Blaise Pascal

Bonus: A Pascal is the SI unit for pressure. Identify these other SI units named after people.

Bonus 1: This man lends his name to the temperature system whose zero value is absolute zero. This makes it approximately 273 degrees below the Celsius scale.

Answer: Lord Kelvin (or William Thompson)

Bonus 2: This man lends his name to the SI unit for resistance.

Answer: Georg Simon Ohm

Bonus 3: This man’s name is given to the SI derived unit for dose equivalent. It tries to reflect the biological effects of radiation, as opposed to the gray.

Answer: Rolf Sievert

20. This man’s first novel featured the young Indian boy Flapping Eagle who wanders the earth for 777 years, 77 months, and 7 days after drinking a fluid that makes him immortal. In addition to Grimus, this author wrote about an illegitimate child of a former United States ambassador to India, Maximilian Ophuls, who performs a tightrope act in the novel (*) Shamilar the Clown. He described the four generations of the family of Moraes Zogoiby in The Moor’s Last Sigh, which was published eight years after a more famous work, The Jaguar’s Smile. This man’s most controversial work details the two actors Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha. For ten points, identify this contemporary Indian author of The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and The Satanic Verses.

  Answer: Salman Rushdie

 

Bonus: Identify these things related to Indian literature for ten points each.

Bonus 1: This man wrote about his conflicts between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture in The Home and the World, but is better known for a work that translates as Song Offerings, titled Gitanjali.

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

Bonus 2: One of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, this work is ascribed to Valmiki and details the namesake character’s quest for his wife Sita, who has been stolen by the Demon King.

Answer: Ramayana

Bonus 3: This novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and wrote such works as A Bend in the River and A House for Mister Biswas.

Answer: V.S. Naipaul

TB: A selection rule limits emission of this radiation to atomic transitions corresponding to a change in magnetic quantum number of one. Potentials for induced (*) ones have a one over radius cubed dependence, while natural ones have a one over radius squared dependence. A current in a circular path is formally equivalent to a magnetic one of these. The physical type consists of two equal and opposite point charges. For ten points, name this type of charge configuration consisting of a positive charge and a negative charge.

Answer: Dipole

Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about bonding:

Bonus 1: In this chemical bond involving electrostatic attraction, the metal donates one or more electrons, forming a positively charged ion with a stable electron configuration.

Answer: Ionic Bond

Bonus 2: It includes many kids of interactions, including ∏ (multiplication)-bonding and metal-to-metal bonding.

Answer: Covalent Bond

Bonus 3: These weak intermolecular forces become stronger as the atom or molecule in question becomes larger, and arise from the interactive forces between temporary multipoles in molecules without permanent multipole moments.

Answer: London Dispersion Forces

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