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SCOP Novice Tournament: Round 5

Tossups

1. This leader, who faced Tyrone's Rebellion, passed the Act of Supremacy, giving this monarch control over the Church. Rober Cecil advised this ruler whose favorites included Robert Dudley and who presided over Sir Francis Drake's defeat of a fleet (*) nicknamed "Invincible" off the coast of Holland. The daughter of Anne Boleyn, name this ruler who presided over the defeat of the Spanish Armada, also known as "The Virgin Queen".

ANSWER: Queen Elizabeth I [accept Good Queen Bess]

2. In this novel, Daisy and Demi are the nicknames of Margaret and John Laurence, the twin children of the Brooke family. The central characters grow jealous of well-to-do friends such as Sallie Gardiner, Kate Vaughn, and Laurie Laurence even though they have their own (*) servant named Hannah. The main characters in this novel are the daughters of Marmee and named Amy, Beth, Meg, and Jo. Name this novel about some young ladies by Louisa May Alcott.

ANSWER: Little Women

3. When one of these objects' orbit is within Earth's orbit, they are classified in the Aten group, and the Trojan variety of these objects are found within the Lagrangian Points of a larger object. The Alvarez hypothesis states that one of these objects caused the K-T extinction event. The most massive of these objects is Vesta, and the largest was recently classified as a (*) dwarf planet, Ceres. Mame these rocky objects that orbit the sun, most commonly found in the namesake belt between Mars and Jupiter.

ANSWER: Asteroids

4. One famous player of this instrument composed "A Night in Tunisia", and, with Charlie Parker, that musician is famous for popularizing bebop. Another musician famous for playing this instrument recorded "Boplicity" and "Freddie Freeloader" on the albums (*) Birth of the Cool and Kind of Blue, respectively. Played in bent form by Dizzy Gillespie, name this brass instrument famously played by Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.

ANSWER: trumpet

5. The construction of this entity was first proposed by Asa Whitney and Theodore Judah. The Big Four, including Leland Stanford, helped finance it. It was revealed that its construction costs were too high in the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Its construction was aided by many Chinese immigrants with dynamite and came to end at (*) Promontory Point, Utah with the driving of the Golden Spike. Name this railroad constructed by Central Pacific and Union Pacific that linked the coasts of America.

ANSWER: First Transcontinental Railroad

6. The title of a work by Sigmund Freud pairs this concept with Moses. Denying this is the foremost sin in Islam, shirk, and the Sh'ma in Judaism is a proclamation of this doctrine. Despite the importance of Angra Mainyu, Zoroastrianism is usually defined as this. During the Amarna period, Akhenaten advocated a form of this called (*) Atenism. The concept of Brahman makes this concept apply to Hinduism, and Christianity's Trinity is a complex form of this. Name this religious concept of belief in only a single god.

ANSWER: Monotheism or Monotheistic

7. He said that governments should accept other Christian denominations to limit civil unrest, and both Leibniz and Berkeley criticized him for attacking the concept of innate ideas. Besides penning a Letter Concerning Tolerance, this philosopher stated that secondary qualities of objects do not exist without human perceptions, and that minds are born like (*) blank tablets or "tabula rasa". Name this suggester of the right to "life, liberty and property", a British empiricist who wrote Two Treatises of Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

ANSWER: John Locke

8. The protagonist of this novel attacks his childhood bully with applesauce and dreams that a ghostly hand breaks his window and reaches into his bedroom. The housekeeper Zillah shows kindness to the two narrators of this novel, Lockwood and Nelly Dean, who recount how that protagonist gets revenge by acquiring his bully’s estate, (*) Thrushcross Grange. Meanwhile, that bully, Edgar Linton, marries the protagonist’s beloved Catherine Earnshaw. Name this Emily Bronte novel about Heathcliff.

ANSWER: Wuthering Heights

9. This leader began his military career by preventing the migration of the Helvetii, an incident described in a work often used as a Latin textbook, the Commentaries. After that conquest, this leader was ordered to disband his army; instead, he defeated his former ally Gnaeus (*) Pompey after crossing the Rubicon. Name this Roman leader whose dictatorship was ended by Cassius and Brutus on the Ides of March.

ANSWER: Gaius Julius Caesar [do not accept anything including "Caesar" and another name, like "Caesar Augustus"]

10. This quantity in a simultaneous electric and magnetic field is the surface integral of the Poynting vector, and the intensity of a sound wave is this quantity per unit area. Stefan's law expresses how much of this quantity is radiated from an object. For an object moving at constant speed under a constant force, this quantity is equal to the product of force and speed. This quantity (*) dissipated by a resistor of resistance R with a current of I equals I squared R. Name this quantity equal to the work done per unit time, measured in watts.

ANSWER: power [prompt on capital P]

11. Ted Stepien's ownership of this city's NBA team led to a rule that bans teams from trading first round picks in consecutive years. This city's baseball team lost a World Series after Edgar Renteria's walkoff hit in 1997. Their football team was the victim of "The Drive" by John (*) Elway and was moved by Art Modell in 1996, becoming the Baltimore Ravens. Recently, Dan Gilbert swore that his team will win a title before the Miami Heat do, in reference to the departure of LeBron James. Name this city, home to the Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers.

ANSWER: Cleveland, Ohio

12. In addition to dreaming about Hennoli, the protagonist of this work shares a room in the annex with a dentist Dr. Dussel, and kisses and regularly confides in Peter van Daan. The protagonist, who headed entries to "Kitty" instead of "Dear Diary," believes that "in spite of everything", (*) "people are really good at heart." Years later, Otto found this account of his daughter's life before her death at Bergen Belsen. Name this manuscript about a Jewish girl's experience hiding during World War II.

ANSWER: Diary of Anne Frank (Accept Diary of a Young Girl)

13. This scientist predicted there were two elements lighter than hydrogen in an attempt to describe the aether (EE-thur). In addition to determining the ideal amount of alcohol present in vodka, in his most notable work this scientist used the Law of (*) Octaves to introduce eka-aluminum, which accurately predicted many of the properties of gallium. Name this Russian chemist who omitted the noble gases from the periodic table he developed.

ANSWER: Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

14. In 2008, Michael Barbieri defeated this state's longest serving House Speaker, Terry Spence. After Michael Castle was defeated in the Republican primary, this state's special Senatorial election race is led by Chris Coons over former anti-masturbation, current Tea Party candidate (*) Christine O'Donnell. A noted corporate haven, its Attorney General is Beau Biden, son of this state's former Senator, current Vice President Joe Biden. Name this state on the Eastern Seaboard, whose largest city is Wilmington and capital is Dover.

ANSWER: Delaware

15. This Greek deity was also known as Bopis, and bathes yearly in the well Canathus. Ixion was made to spin on a fiery wheel for eternity as punishment for wooing this deity. Peacocks, representing vanity, are symbols of this deity, and she immaculately conceived the deformed god of smithing. She punished Io and Leto for having (*) affairs with her husband, and she drove Heracles mad, causing him to kill his children. The Greek counterpart of Juno, name this goddess of childbirth and marriage, the sister and wife of Zeus.

ANSWER: Hera [accept Juno until "Greek"]

16. He depicted some clothmakers in black hats one of his works, and a woman with a gourd and the namesake king look over their respective shoulders to see a hand and some cloudy writing in another. In addition to Syndics of the Draper's Guild and Belshazzar's Feast, the flexor mechanism is performed on the body of Aris Kindt in his (*) The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. In his best-known work, he depicted a blue and gold flag next to the Shooting Company of Captain Franz Banning Cocq. Identify this Dutch painter of The Nightwatch.

ANSWER: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [accept either underlined portion]

17. This function of x is equal to the integral with respect to t from 1 to x of the function 1 over t. This function for a times b equals this function of a plus this function of b, and a similar formula can change division to subtraction. This function was first used in the early 1600's by English mathematician John (*) Napier, and one common technique used when working with these operations is a change of base. The natural type of these uses base e and the common type uses base 10. Name this operation, the inverse of exponentiation.

ANSWER: logarithms [accept prefix of "natural"; accept suffix of "to the base e"; prompt on ln]

18. This character has business partners such as Henry Palmetto, who commits suicide by train, and a man who fixed the 1919 World Series and wears molars for cufflinks named Meyer Wolfsheim. The funeral of this protégé of Dan Cody is interrupted by the tennis shoe-seeking Klipspringer and attended by a man known only as "Owl Eyes". He is (*) shot by George Wilson in his West Egg pool after he takes the blame for running over Myrtle Wilson to protect his beloved Daisy Buchanan. Name this Great title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel.

ANSWER: Jay Gatsby [accept either or both underlined names; accept any underlined part of James "Jimmy" Gatz; accept The Great Gatsby]

19. In U.S. vs. E.C. Knight, the Supreme Court ruled that this act could did not give Congress the power to disrupt local manufacturing. Theodore Roosevelt first used the powers granted by this act in 1902 to sue the Northern Securities (*) Company. Including the Establishment Clause, name this 1890 act that gave the Federal Government the power to break up trusts, later strengthened by the Clayton Act.

ANSWER: Sherman Antitrust Act

20. These organisms have sclerocytes that generate their spicules, part of their asconoid or syconoid bodies. Made of a gelatinous substance called mesohyl, these organisms are the only animals to display no symmetry, and all examples are sessile in adulthood. They feed from the water that flows through their (*) osculum; in many cases, that flow is generated by flagellated cells called choanocytes (koh-AA-noh-"sites"). Name these simplest animals that make up phylum porifera.

ANSWER: sponges [or porifera before mentioned]

Bonuses

1. DeMorgan's laws are analogues of the distributive property for these mathematical objects. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these unordered collections of distinct elements.

ANSWER: sets

[10] This operation on two sets yields all elements that are in either or both sets. It is often contrasted with the intersection of two sets, which only includes elements in both sets.

ANSWER: union

[10] This mathematician's namesake paradox concerns a set whose members are sets that do not contain themselves. He collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead on Principia Mathematica.

ANSWER: Bertrand Russell

2. Its B-side consists of numerous medleys, including "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End". For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1969 album whose A-side featured "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Octopus's Garden", and "Come Together", and whose album cover features the band walking across the street in front of their studio.

ANSWER: Abbey Road

[10] Abbey Road was the last album recorded by this immensely famous British band, although Let it Be, featuring Paul McCartney on the title track, was their last album to be released.

ANSWER: The Beatles

[10] This George Harrison song from Abbey Road was released as a single with "Come Together" and became his only #1 with The Beatles. Its refrain pleads, "I don't want to leave her now/You know I believe, and how".

ANSWER: "Something"

3. Zephyr and Aura blow wind on the Greek goddess of love. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this painting centered on a red-haired nude woman who has just emerged from the water to stand on a half shell.

ANSWER: The Birth of Venus

[10] In addition to The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery, this Early Renaissance artist befriended Lorenzo d'Medici.

ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli [or Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi; or Il Botticello]

[10] Cupid shoots an arrow in front of an orange grove in this other Sandro Botticelli work translated as "allegory of spring".

ANSWER: Primavera [or Nascita de Verre]

4. Answer the following about early American authors, for 10 points each:

[10] African-American poet Phyllis Wheatly addressed this general and future president as "his Excellency", describing how he provoked Britannia to "[droop] the pensive head" during the American Revolution.

ANSWER: General or President George Washington

[10] This woman celebrated the burning of her house as a gift from God in one poem. She addressed her "Dear and Loving Husband" in another poem that appeared in her book The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.

ANSWER: Anne Dudley Bradstreet

[10] This puritan preacher compared humanity to spiders dangled over a fire in his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

ANSWER: Jonathan Edwards

5. These entities can create fjords and whale shaped hills known as drumlins. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these large bodies of ice, which are classified into Alpine and continental varieties.

ANSWER: Glacier

[10] This is the term for till left behind by a glacier. This debris can be soils or rocks either absorbed into the glacier or scraped off by the glacier as it moves.

ANSWER: Moraine

[10] This general term refers to the reduction in size of a glacier, whether by melting, evaporation, or ice calving.

ANSWER: Ablation

6. It is widely considered to be the earliest novel in human history. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this work by Murasaki Shikibu, the story of a young prince who marries Princess Aoi [ah-oh-ee] after being exiled from court by Lady Kokiden [ko-kee-den].

ANSWER: The Tale of Genji (accept Genji Monogatari)

[10] This diary was written during the Heian [hay-ahn] era by an attendant of Lady Sadako. Various sections ponder things that are both far and near and things that look more important when written in Chinese characters.

ANSWER: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon [accept Makura no Soshi]

[10] The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book are both classical works from this nation, the home of Kenzaburo Oe [oh-ay] and Yukio Mishima.

ANSWER: Japan [or Nihon-koku; or Nippon-koku]

7. Answer the following about anthropology for 10 points each:

[10] This British anthropologist is famous for her decades of research on chimpanzees in Tanzania.

ANSWER: Jane Goodall

[10] In The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict studied the "shame culture" of this nation by studying prisoners in American World War II internment camps.

ANSWER: Japan

[10] Benedict was mentored by this Columbia University professor who studied the potlatch custom of the Kwakwaka'wakw Indians of Vancouver Island.

ANSWER: Franz Boas

8. Answer some questions about ancient Egyptian burial rituals, for 10 points each:

[10] Late Middle Kingdom versions of these containers were decorated with the heads of the sons of Horus: Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef. They housed the organs of the dead.

ANSWER: Canopic jars/chests

[10] This sister and wife of Osiris, the god of the dead, protected the liver.

ANSWER: Isis

[10] The heart did not rest in the canopic jars, but was judged on the Scales of Justice. Hearts that failed were fed to this "devourer", who was part hippopotamus and part leopard, with the head of a crocodile. 

ANSWER: Ammit

9. These objects require a host cell to reproduce, distinguishing them from living organisms. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these biological entities that essentially consist of genetic material surrounded by a protective coat.

ANSWER: viruses

[10] Viruses possess this outer shell made of protein, the structure of which is often used to classify viruses.

ANSWER: capsids

[10] This virus, the first to be isolated, leaves a mottled discoloration on its namesake plant. It was crystallized by Wendell Stanley.

ANSWER: tobacco mosaic virus [or TMV]

10. This act sponsored by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas repealed the Missouri Compromise restrictions on slavery in favor of "popular sovereignty". For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1854 act which essentially provoked the American Civil War.

ANSWER: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

[10] This political party formed in 1854 in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It nominated John C. Fremont as its first Presidential nominee in 1856 and first won the White House in 1860.

ANSWER: Republican Party

[10] This 1860 Presidential winner came out of political retirement to campaign against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He would win re-election before being shot by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln

11. Observant Jews do this six or seven times a year, including on Tisha b'Av and Yom Kippur. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this religious practice, the act of not eating or drinking for an extended period of time.

ANSWER: Fasting [accept word forms; accept ta’anit or tzom]

[10] This ninth month of the Islamic calendar is the month of fasting for observant Muslims. Each day’s fast is broken by the Iftar meal, and the Night of Power falls during one of the last ten days of this month.

ANSWER: Ramadan

[10] The end of Ramadan is marked by this holiday whose name literally means "Festival of Breaking the Fast". Muslims are forbidden from fasting during it, and it is often celebrated over three days.

ANSWER: Eid ul-Fitr [be lenient with pronunciation; prompt on “Eid”; do not accept Eid ul-Adha]

12. Answer the following about the Nazi invasion of France for 10 points each:

[10] This Low Country, led by King Leopold III from its capital at Brussels, was conquered in eighteen days as part of the German invasion towards France.

ANSWER: Belgium

[10] The invasion of France went through Belgium and the Low Countries instead of attempting to break this defensive barrier along the French-German border.

ANSWER: Maginot (maa-zhih-NOH) Line

[10] Following the fall of France, the Nazis established this puppet government, led by Phillipe Petain and named for its capital.

ANSWER: Vichy (VIH-shee) France

13. It opens with the Director of the Hatchery giving a tour of the Bokanovsky cloning process. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this dystopian novel about a 5 tiered society that takes soma. In it, Lenina and Bernard Marx fly to a reservation and meet John Savage.

ANSWER: Brave New World

[10] This author of Point, Counterpoint and Eyeless in Gaza wrote the totalitarian satire called Brave New World.

ANSWER: Aldous Huxley

[10] Brave New World is a quote taken from this Shakespearean drama in which Sycorax imprisons Ariel in a tree. Prospero eventually frees Ariel, who then serves him.

ANSWER: The Tempest

14. Name these conserved quantities in physics for 10 points each.

[10] The kilowatt-hour is actually not a unit of power, but rather measures this conserved quantity, whose kinetic variety equals half the mass times the square of velocity.

ANSWER: energy

[10] Schwarzchild black holes have no other properties or features except for this conserved quantity.

ANSWER: mass

[10] Reissner-Nordstrom black holes have both mass and this conserved quantity, but no angular momentum. Electric current is defined as a change in this quantity over time.

ANSWER: electric charge

15. A protest here led to Jeff Widener's iconic photograph of a man, possibly named Wang Weilin, standing in front of four tanks. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Beijing square tragically cleared on the night of June 4, 1989 after Deng

Xiaoping's conservative faction used their control of the military.

ANSWER: Tiananmen Square

[10] Deng Xiaoping's conservatives thereby won their internal argument with Zhao Ziyang's liberal faction, a setback to Communist Party liberalization efforts in this country.

ANSWER: People's Republic of China [accept PRC]

[10] Tiananmen means "Heavenly Peace Gate", referring to a gate on the north of the square which is the main entrance to this ancient, restricted-access imperial residence of Chinese emperors.

ANSWER: the Purple Forbidden City [or Zijin Cheng]

16. This opera's book was written by Lorenzo da Ponte, and it traditionally ends with the title character being dragged to Hell by a statue of the Commendatore. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this opera, which famously includes the "Catalogue Aria" listing the title character's many, many sexual conquests.

ANSWER: Don Giovanni [or Köchel 527]

[10] Don Giovanni was composed by this Austrian, who also collaborated with Lorenzo da Ponte on Cosi fan tutte. He's also famous for 41 symphonies.

ANSWER: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[10] This other Mozart opera includes the Queen of the Night aria. The title instrument, which has the power to charm men, is given to Tamino.

ANSWER: The Magic Flute [or Die Zauberflöte; or Köchel 620]

17. Its water famously becomes mist before it hits the ground after a plunge of about half a mile. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this waterfall, the tallest in the world.

ANSWER: Angel Falls

[10] Angel Falls lies south of the Orinoco River in this country, whose capital of Caracas is separated from the Caribbean Sea by a thin mountain range.

ANSWER: Venezuela

[10] Another prominent body of water in Venezuela is this oil-rich and duckweed-infested lake in the northwest of the country.

ANSWER: Lake Maracaibo

18. This holder of the rank of General in the United States Army was superintendent of West Point between the World Wars. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this US military leader, who was on the USS Missouri to accept the Japanese surrender ending World War II. He famously remarked "I shall return" to the Philippines.

ANSWER: Douglas MacArthur

[10] MacArthur left the Philippines shortly before the surrender of 75,000 soldiers, who were forced to undergo a 60 mile "Death March" in this Philippine province.

ANSWER: Bataan Death March

[10] This US President forced MacArthur to resign for insubordination during the Korean War. This successor of FDR had earlier assigned MacArthur to occupy post-war Japan.

ANSWER: Harry Truman

19. They occur when there is a change in oxidation state. For 10 points each

[10] Identify this type of reaction in which atoms or molecules gain and lose electrons.

ANSWER: Redox Reactions (accept Oxidation-Reduction reactions in either order)

[10] One common example of a redox reaction is the rusting of this metal with symbol Fe. Rusting oxidizes it from its ferrous to its ferric state.

ANSWER: Iron

[10] Redox reactions occur in these electrochemical cells that consist of two half cells in series separated by a salt bridge. They can sometimes be used to store electrical energy.

ANSWER: Voltaic Cell or Voltaic Pile (accept Battery or Galvanic cell)

20. Before noting that "Pythagoras was misunderstood", this work notes that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". For 10 points each:

[10] Published along with "The Over-Soul", name this 1841 essay that argues for individualism.

ANSWER: "Self-Reliance"

[10] "Self-Reliance" was written by this American transcendentalist and colleague of Henry David Thoreau. His address "The American Scholar" explains his thoughts on education.

ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson

[10] Emerson gave "The American Scholar" at this famous Boston Ivy League university. Quentin Compson attends this school in The Sound and the Fury.

ANSWER: Harvard University

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