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 The 2019 Scottie Round FourteenWritten 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. While pregnant, this man’s mother supposedly dreamt that she would give birth to a lion. This leader subdued the Euboean [yoo-bee-in] revolt and issued a set of economic sanctions called the Megarian Decrees, and he gained power by ostracizing his political rival Cimon. This man claimed that “famous men have the whole earth as their (*) memorial” in a speech given two years prior to his death from a plague. For 10 points, name this Athenian statesman who gave a funeral oration while leading Athens during the Peloponnesian War.ANSWER: Pericles <RN>2. This place has only sixteen major towns, four of which are in the Disko Bay. The ruins of the Hvalsey Church are located in this nation, which has its highest point at Mount Gunnbjorn. Following World War II, the United States unsuccessfully tried to (*) purchase this island, which contains the Thule Air Base. The Davis Strait separates this island from Baffin Island, and its capital is Nuuk. For 10 points, name this Danish island, the largest island in the world.ANSWER: Greenland <PB>3. In one novel, Hal, Charles, and Mercedes die after one of these creatures refuses to accompany them into danger. A giant one of these animals with a clock on his body guides Milo in “The Phantom Tollbooth,” while one of these beasts named Argos is the only one to recognize (*) Odysseus on his return home. Another of these animals exposes the title character as a common man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. For 10 points, name these literary animals that include Tock, Buck, and Toto.ANSWER: dogs <TG>4. A member of this art movement depicted Jesus holding a lantern and knocking on a door with no handle in The Light of the World. Two other works from this movement were based on scenes from Hamlet and La Vita Nuova and both used Elizabeth Siddal as a model. Those works, Ophelia and Beata Beatrix, were painted by two of this group’s founders, John Everret (*) Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For 10 points, name this mid-nineteenth century group of English artists who rejected the influence of the artist of The School of Athens.ANSWER: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [or PRB] <TR>5. The Precambrian animal Arkarua is thought to have been the first member of this phylum. One class within this phylum, Crinoidea, contains sea lilies. Most adult members of this phylum possess pentaradial symmetry, and its members possess tube feet which are a part of their (*) water vascular system. One member of this phylum is a major predator of coral reefs, while members of its class Asteroidea are capable of regenerating lost arms. For 10 points, name this phylum which contains sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and starfish. ANSWER: Echinodermata <OK>6. Edward Everett claimed that this legislation would “stain the fair fame” of the United States, and Jeremiah Evarts led the ABCFM in its opposition to this act. Davy Crockett was the only member of the Tennessee delegation to vote against this act, which provided the background for the court case (*) Worcester v. Georgia. This law led to the Treaty of New Echota, which provided the legal basis for the forced relocation of one tribe to Oklahoma. For 10 points, name this 1830 act passed by Andrew Jackson that led to the Trail of Tears.ANSWER: Indian Removal Act <RN>7. The second movement in this work includes a lengthy eleven-bar theme with muted strings, and some musicians refer to it as the “symphony with the fugal finale.” This symphony reuses the aria “un bacio di mano” in its first movement, and it was the last of three symphonies written by its composer in (*) Vienna in 1788. The nickname for this work may have been given after it reminded Johann Cramer of thunderbolts. For 10 points, name this last and longest symphony by Mozart, which brings to mind the fifth planet.ANSWER: Jupiter Symphony [or Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K51] <TG>8. In one song named partially for one of these two-word objects, the narrator is told that “wherever [their father] laid their hat was his home.” In another song named for one of these objects, the singer asks how it feels to be “with no direction home / like a complete unknown.” A (*) band named after one of these objects took its name from a song by Muddy Waters and found fame with songs like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” For 10 points, name this object, which titles songs by The Temptations and Bob Dylan as well as a band fronted by Mick Jagger. ANSWER: rolling stone [accept The Rolling Stones] <OK>9. One character in this novel sells two of her horses at an inflated price to a man fleeing a war after previously turning down two diamonds for them. In this novel, Lord Styrene is impressed by a character portraying Clytemnestra during charades. That character throws a dictionary out of a (*) carriage window in this novel’s first chapter. Rawson Crawley is disinherited after marrying one of this novel’s protagonists, who leaves Miss Pinkerton’s Academy. For 10 points, name this novel about Becky Sharpe and Amelia Sedly, the best known work of William Thackery.ANSWER: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero <GP>10. When this molecule was found on the dwarf planet Ceres, it led some astronomers to believe Ceres may have drifted from the outer solar system, where this molecule is more common. This molecule was used in Charles Townes’ maser, and it is oxidized in the (*) Ostwald process to produce nitric acid. This lightest trigonal pyramidal compound is commonly used in fertilizers. For 10 points, name this compound produced by the Haber-Bosch process, a weak base with chemical formula NH3.ANSWER: ammonia <TC>11. When this man’s cattle were stolen by Autolycus, he proved the theft by cutting his mark into the hooves of his cattle. After a betrayal, Zeus sent Thanatos to take this man’s life, but instead this man chained Thanatos down in Tartarus. (*) Camus compared mankind’s search for meaning with this person’s situation, which has become synonymous for a hopeless task that must be repeated over and over. For 10 points, name this mythological character, whom the gods sentenced to endlessly push a boulder up a hill.ANSWER: Sisyphus <TG>12. Sixty thousand sandbags were used to protect tombs at this place during World War II, and The Grave of the Unknown Warrior at this site holds the body of an unidentified soldier from World War I. This building was designated as a “Royal Peculiar” around 1560, and it is officially known as the Collegiate Church of St Peter at its title location. The (*) Coronation Chair is in this church’s St. George’s Chapel, which has seen the crowning of British monarchs since Harold Godwinson in 1066. For 10 points, name this church that houses the Stone of Scone.ANSWER: Westminster Abbey [accept The Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster before read] <TG>13. One performer who was active in this city was nicknamed “Bricktop” and reportedly had an affair with another African-American performer in this city. That other performer in this city starred in the 1927 film Siren of the Tropics, and caused controversy when she appeared onstage in this city wearing only (*) fruit. During World War II, that performer was forced to leave this city and became an agent for the French Resistance. For 10 points, name this European city, the home of the Folies Bergere and Josephine Baker. ANSWER: Paris <OK>14. In this author’s debut novel, a young orphan is imprisoned after stealing a pistol from a Nazi officer. Another work by this author of The Path to the Spiders’ Nest features a character describing fifty-five cities named after women. That work depicts a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan and is titled Invisible Cities. This author’s most famous work uses (*) second-person narration for its odd-numbered chapters and features two protagonists — Ludmilla and you, the reader. For 10 points, name this Italian author of If on a winter’s night a traveler.ANSWER: Italo Calvino <TR>15. In the Lagrangrian, this quantity is represented by a capital V and is subtracted from a related quantity. Conservative forces are equal to the negative gradient of this quantity, which is equal to one half times a constant times the (*) displacement squared for springs. This quantity’s gravitational type is equal to mass times little g times height. For 10 points, name this type of energy a system has due to its configuration or location, which is often contrasted with kinetic energy.ANSWER: potential energy [TC]16. This leader’s advisor Frederick Wilhelm von Haugwitz established the Directorium, and this ruler levied the Toleration Tax on her Jewish subjects. This monarch’s nation began an alliance with France in the Diplomatic Revolution, and this ruler lost the Battle of Mollwitz in a conflict in which she lost control of (*) Silesia to Frederick the Great. This mother of Joseph II had her claim to the throne challenged in the War of Austrian Succession. For 10 points, name this Austrian Hapsburg Empress whose succession was allowed by the Pragmatic Sanction.ANSWER: Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina <RN>17. A man with this name was called a “Son of Thunder” due to his fervency, and was reproached by Jesus after suggesting that a group of disbelieving Samaritans be punished with the fire of heaven. Either that son of Zebedee or another man with this name called the “Presbyter” recorded a series of visions that he received while in exile on the island of (*) Patmos. Another religious leader with this name wore camel’s hair and ate locusts and honey while foretelling the coming of his cousin Jesus. For 10 points, give this name used by the author of the fourth gospel and the book of Revelation.ANSWER: John [accept James until Presbyter] <TG>18. Menaechmus is given credit for “discovering” these structures and is believed to have used them to solve the problem of “doubling the cube.” The “Great Geometer,” Apollonius, wrote an eight-chapter work on these curves, and Archimedes based his principles of these equations on four books by Euclid titled for them. Three of these types of curves can be defined as the (*) locus of points P whose distance to a focus is a multiple of its eccentricity with the distance from P to a directrix. For 10 points, a circle is a special case of what “sections,” examples of which include the parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse.ANSWER: conic sections [or conics]<TG>19. In his book The Nature of Rent, this man presented his theory on the price of rent in London in the early 19th century. This man was an outspoken critic of the Poor Laws and supported the Corn Laws, which his close acquaintance, David Ricardo, disagreed with. In his most well-known work, this economist argued that the human population will eventually outstrip its resources, which will lead to his namesake “catastrophe.” For 10 points, name this economist who published An Essay on the Principle of Population. <PB>ANSWER:Thomas Robert Malthus20. This author created the fictional author of The House on Eccles Street, who visits the protagonist of this author’s novel Slow Man. In a novel by this author, a professor moves to his daughter’s farm after becoming involved with a student named Melanie Isaacs. This author created an unnamed (*) magistrate who helps a torture victim escape to her family, while another of this author’s novels sees the title character bring his mother to Prince Albert. For 10 points, name this South African author of Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Life and Times of Michael K. ANSWER: Joseph Maxwell (J. M.) Coetzee <GP>BONUSES:1. Answer some questions about a dispute that ended in murder, for 10 points each.[10] This man was killed by four knights in a cathedral after their king’s passive-aggressive outburst “Who shall deliver me from this turbulent priest?”ANSWER: Thomas Becket [ or Saint Thomas of Canterbury; accept Thomas of London; accept Thomas à Becket][10] Becket held this title as leader of the Catholic Church in England.ANSWER: The Archbishop of Canterbury[10] Becket’s death came after this king was angered over his excommunication of Roger of York. This ruler submitted to a public penance for his role in Becket’s death.ANSWER: Henry II [or Henry Curtmantle; or Henry Court-manteau; or Henry FitzEmpress; or Henry Plantagenet; prompt on only “Henry”] <TG>2. Examples of this type of trait include a straight hairline, as opposed to a widow’s peak, and the ability to fold one’s tongue. For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of trait, which is classically exhibited only when an offspring inherits two copies of a gene. ANSWER: recessive[10] Another example of a recessive trait is a wrinkled seed shape in pea plants. This monk was the person who performed the first experiments examining genetics in pea plants. ANSWER: Gregor Mendel[10] The crossing of two different organisms with differing traits, as in a pea plant with round seeds and one with wrinkled seeds, is known by this name. ANSWER: dihybrid cross <OK>3. Between 1910 and 1930, over a million African-Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North. For 10 points each:[10] That “Great Migration” contributed to this intellectual and cultural movement of African-American writers and artists centered in a namesake neighborhood in Manhattan.ANSWER: The Harlem Renaissance [10] This author of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.ANSWER: James Mercer Langston Hughes [10] “Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play” is the opening to this work by Hughes.ANSWER: The Weary Blues <TG>4. For 10 points each, answer the following about agrarianism. [10] Agrarians believe that these types of societies are to be preferred over urban societies.ANSWER: rural [accept equivalents such as “country”][10] Virgil wrote ten pastoral poems with this title. Theocritus also wrote a work with this title, which translates as “on the care of cattle.”ANSWER: Bucolics[10] This founding father and first Postmaster General said that the only “honest way” for a nation to acquire wealth was through agriculture.ANSWER: Benjamin Franklin <TG>5. In 1401, this man won a contest against other artists including the likes of Filipo Brunelleschi. For 10 points each: [10] By winning the competition, this man was given a commission to work on the Florence Baptistery.ANSWER: Lorenzo Ghiberti [accept Lorenzo di Bartolo][10] Ghiberti made this pair of huge doors for the Florence Baptistery. These doors were covered with reliefs of scenes from the Old Testament and got their nickname from Michelangelo.ANSWER: Gates of Paradise[10] The Gates of Paradise were made primarily from this material.ANSWER: bronze <TG>6. Most of this organization’s employees weighed between 100 and 125 pounds for the sake of speed. For 10 points each:[10] Name this delivery service operated by Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Express Company, whose riders only needed seven days and seventeen hours to carry Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address from Nebraska to California.ANSWER: the Pony Express[10] This frontiersman, known later for his “Wild West” shows, worked for, but probably never carried mail for, the Pony Express. ANSWER: William Frederick Cody [accept Buffalo Bill Cody][10] If you wanted to travel out west yourself, you may have ridden in one of this company’s stagecoaches. This company is currently the fourth largest banking institution in the United States.ANSWER: Wells Fargo & Company <TG>7. The cruise control of a car would ideally set this quantity to zero. For 10 points each:[10] Name this vector quantity which is a measure of the change in velocity over time.ANSWER: acceleration[10] This law of motion equates acceleration to the change in force divided by its mass, which explains why it’s harder to push a full shopping cart rather than an empty one.ANSWER: Newton’s Second Law[10] This force always points its direction towards the center of rotation and is responsible for keeping objects on curved paths.ANSWER: centripetal force <CT>8. For 10 points each, answer the following about the second largest state in Australia.[10] This state, with capital of Brisbane, is two and a half times as big as Texas.ANSWER: Queensland [10] This UNESCO World Heritage Area off the coast of Queensland is the only living organism that can be seen from space.ANSWER: the Great Barrier Reef[10] This mountain range runs from Queensland through New South Wales and contains Mt. Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia.ANSWER: the Great Dividing Range [ accept Eastern Highlands] <TG>9. John Singleton Copley painted a boy with a squirrel performing this action. For 10 points each:[10] Name this action taken by a legendary ghost ship called this kind of Dutchman.ANSWER: flying [10] Notre Dame de Paris is characterized by the flying type of this projecting support.ANSWER: buttress[10] In the piece Pines of Rome in Fantasia 2000, a herd of these creatures take flight after a supernova explodes over their home.ANSWER: whales <TG>10. For 10 points each, answer the following about Roman comedies. [10] This Roman comedic playwright wrote The Menaechmi, a comedy involving mistaken identity among twins.ANSWER: Titus Maccius Plautus[10] Two sets of twins named Antipholus and Dromio are the main characters of this work by Shakespeare which is a retelling of Plautus’ Menaechmi.ANSWER: A Comedy of Errors[10] Thornton Wilder drew inspiration from this playwright’s Andria for his novel The Woman of Andros. He was brought to Rome as a slave by a senator.ANSWER: Terence [accept Publius Terentius Afer] <TG>11. In 1988, this man made a speech at the United Nations saying that all parties in the Middle East could live in peace. For 10 points each:[10] That speech led to peace talks resulting in the Oslo Accords, for which Shimon Perez, Yitzhak Rabin, and this man were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace.ANSWER: Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini [accept Abu Ammar][10] Arafat was chairman of this organization for over 30 years. This group was founded with the goal of creating a free Palestine in IsraelANSWER: PLO [or Palestine Liberation Organization][10] This group in control of the Gaza Strip also has the stated goal of liberating Palestine from Israeli occupation. Several countries have designated the military wing of this group as a terrorist organization.ANSWER: Hamas <TG>12. One of these events in August 2017 was visible across the entire contiguous United States. For 10 points each: [10] Name these events, which can occur in total, annular, or partial forms. ANSWER: solar eclipse[10] A solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are all situated in a straight line, a formation known by this term. ANSWER: syzygy[10] During a total solar eclipse, the only part of the sun that can be seen is this outermost layer of plasma. ANSWER: corona <OK>13. Answer some questions about long-running TV shows, for 10 points each.[10] This FOX show holds several distinctions, including being the longest-running scripted prime-time series and the longest-running animated series. Members of this show’s title family include Homer and Bart.ANSWER: The Simpsons[10] This NBC production first aired in 1954, making it the longest-running talk show in the world. Jay Leno has hosted the most episodes of this show, and it is currently hosted by Jimmy Fallon.ANSWER: The Tonight Show[10] This daytime ABC show is the longest-running American soap opera still in production. This show details the lives of the residents of Port Charles, and is no longer focused on the title institution.ANSWER: General Hospital <TR>14. This character gives Madame Hortense the nickname “Bouboulina” while having dinner. For 10 points each,[10] Name this title character that gives his santuri to the narrator after his death. That death was predicted by a premonition the narrator had of a floating arm grasping him.ANSWER: Alexis Zorba the Greek[10] Zorba the Greek is a novel by this Grecian author. His other works include Captain Michalis and The Last Temptation of Christ.ANSWER: Nikos Kazantzakis[10] Zorba has this occupation throughout the novel. Emile Zola’s novel Germinal focused on a strike of people with this occupation.ANSWER: miner <GP>15. This goddess of vegetation was the queen of the underworld and had to remain there for four months out of each year. For 10 points each:[10] Name this woman abducted by Hades because of her beauty. ANSWER: Persephone[10] Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and this goddess of the harvest.ANSWER: Demeter[10] Persephone had to stay in the underworld because of being tricked into eating the seeds of this fruit.ANSWER: pomegranate <TG>16. This quantity can be decreased in water by adding substances to it. For 10 points each:[10] Name this colligative property at which a solid becomes a liquid. For water, it is zero degrees celsius.ANSWER: melting point [or freezing point][10] Phase transitions like melting involve a substance changing from one of these forms to another. The four regularly observable ones include plasma.ANSWER: states of matter[10] This is the name for a phase transition directly from a gas to a solid. A common example is when frost forms on the ground.ANSWER: deposition <TC>17. This action is performed in the Bible through the casting of lots, and other methods for performing this action include the use of hallucinogens. For 10 points each:[10] Name this practice used to decipher the will of the gods or gain insight about the future. In ancient Greece, this practice was most notably performed by the Pythia at Delphi.ANSWER: divination [or prophecy; accept word forms like divining or prophesying][10] In China, divination was performed using these objects. Heat was used to produce cracks in these objects, which were then analyzed by diviners.ANSWER: oracle bones [prompt on just “bones”][10] Most oracle bones were made from either the scapula of oxen or the shells of these animals. A common mytheme states that the world rests on the back of one of these animal’s shells.ANSWER: turtles [or tortoises] <TR>18. Several paintings by Eugene Delacroix generated sympathy for one side in this conflict. For 10 points each:[10] “Freedom or Death” became the motto of revolutionaries in this war, which saw the namesake country throw off Ottoman rule.ANSWER: Greek War of Independence [or Greek Revolution; accept Greek Uprising; accept the “Struggle”][10] The Greek War of Independence had an unfortunate number of these occurrences in which one side slaughters many members of the other side. A notable one of these occurred on the island of Chios.ANSWER: massacre[10] This English poet and father of Ada Lovelace died at Missolonghi while fighting for Greek independence.ANSWER: George Gordon Byron [or Lord Byron; accept 6th Baron Byron] <TG>19. While heading for the North Pole, Robert Walton picks up this man and hears his tale of horror. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character who created a namesake monster.ANSWER: Victor Frankenstein[10] Frankenstein was written by this author, whose husband was also a well-known writer.ANSWER: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley[10] Frankenstein is subtitled as the “modern” version of this mythological Titan, who also titles a work by Shelley’s husband. ANSWER: Prometheus <TG>20. One of this composer’s operas based on the life of Benvenuto Cellini provided the material for his Roman Carnival Overture. For 10 points each:[10] Name this French composer. His interest in Virgil’s Aeneid inspired him to compose the opera Les Troyens.ANSWER: Louis-Hector Berlioz[10] Berlioz was commissioned to create this work to commemorate the soldiers who died in the July Revolution. This work features an unusually large orchestra and includes four offstage brass ensembles.ANSWER: Requiem [or Grande Messe des morts][10] This most famous Berlioz work also makes use of offstage performers, although to a much smaller degree. Its opium-inspired movements include “March to the Scaffold” and “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath.”ANSWER: Symphonie Fantastique [or Fantastical Symphony] <TR> ................
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