Valencia Delta Burke Invitational 2007 - Stanford University



Valencia Delta Burke Invitational 2007

Round 7

1. It is much darker than an adjacent region because of the relative lack of goblet cells and Peyer’s patches. Distiguished by long villi which increase its surface area, it absorbs more fats and water than its neighboring regions, and it lacks the Brunner’s glands found in the duodenum. FTP identify this middle region of the small intestine.

A. jejunum

2. The assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden is the basis of an opera by this man, in which a fortune-teller named Ulrica correctly predicts that Renato will kill his advisor Riccardo at the title location. In addition to A Masked Ball, this man wrote the operas Simon Boccanegra and The Force of Destiny. A chorus of Hebrew slaves sing "Va, pensiero" in his opera Nabucco, while the opera Il Travatore features his Anvil Chorus. An opera by this man includes the aria "La donna e mobile" and centers on a hunchbacked court jester, while another centers on the love of Radames for an Ethiopian princess. For 10 points, name this 19th century Italian composer of the operas Rigoletto and Aida.

A. Giuseppe Verdi

3. Napoleon may have been responsible for this war because he seized Malta, whose knights had, kept the aggressors at bay. It saw the first time an American flag was raised over foreign soil, and it may have been the first time in US history when the President alone conducted a war without the approval of Congress. Pasha Yousif Karamanli, with no check on his power, demanded a quarter of a million dollar tribute from the United States and was refused by President Jefferson. This was followed by a declaration of war by the Americans and a quick beat down at the Battle of Derna in FTP what 1801-1805 war with pirates in the northern coast of Algeria?

A. The First Barbary War

4. This deity raped the maiden Caenis and then chivalrously turned her into a male at her request afterward. He also knocked up Medusa, who after being beheaded by Theseus emitted his children Chrysaor and Pegasus. The horse Arion was the offspring of his rape of his own sister, Demeter. He took the side of the Trojans in their war with the Greeks because the Athenians had spurned his gift of a spring in favor of Athena’s gift of the olive tree. Father of Triton, FTP name this brother of Zeus who made that spring near Athens with his trident?

A. Poseidon

5. The old butler Firs dies at the end of this play, despite the wish of his patroness Lyubov that he be cared for. Lopahkin begs Madame Lyubov to allow the building of summer villas on her ancestral estate, but she won’t do it despite her property’s foreclosure. So Lopahkin buys the property and begins the process of the removal of the title area of the estate. Ending with the ever-louder sound of an ax chopping wood, FTP name this play that ends with the title trees being cut down, a work by Anton Chekhov.

A. The Cherry Orchard

6. The local name for it is the Jayhoun, which is identified with the biblical Gihon, a river from Eden. It formed the northern border of the Persian Empire at the death of Cyrus and as it forms the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, before running through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, it is one of the chief sources for the Aral Sea. FTP identify this river which in antiquity was called the Oxus, which runs parallel to the Syr Darya.

A. Amu Darya River

7. A collaborator of Conon and Eratosthenes, his achievements include formulas for the sum of a geometric series and the volume and surface area of a sphere, an approximation of pi using inscribed polygons, and a method for finding an object’s center of gravity. He supposedly built a namesake “claw,” a grappling device which could pluck a ship out of the water and then sink it. Also the builder of a namesake screw used for raising water, FTP name this Syracuse native who may have helped King Hiero II find out whether his crown was really gold but probably didn’t run naked down the street screaming “Eureka!”

A. Archimedes

8. After a decade of absolute rule by Mohammed Ayub Khan, this nation had to deal with martial law imposed by General Yahya. Two years later, the Awami League precipitated a civil war after which its eastern portion declared itself independent as Bangladesh. Governed by leaders such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto, FTP, name this Asian nation currently led by Pervez Musharraf and has its capital at Islamabad.

A. Pakistan

9. Proposition C does not pass after Deputies Williams and Wiegel rig an election incorrectly, thus denying them a pay raise. Deputy Johnson is revealed to be a former prostitute and Steely Dan groupie. Deputy Garcia, a Mexican racist and Hill Street Blues enthusiast, angers Deputy Jones with his suggestion that they engage in “good cop, black cop.” The first police department to accept a corporate sponsorship, their agreement with Hottie’s Wings forces their depuites to drive hot-pink Crown Vics. FTP name this Comedy Central show about the police department of “the Biggest Little Town in America,” set in Nevada.

A. Reno 911!

10. The author of this poem said she closed seven of its eight lines with the first person plural pronoun because she wanted to “represent [the young men’s] basic uncertainty.” The seven claim that they “lurk late” and “strike straight,” the latter a reference to their playing pool at a bar called the golden shovel, perhaps a symbol and foreshadowing of the unadorned final line: “We die soon.” FTP name this very short poem by Gwendolyn Brooks whose title rhymes with its second line, “We left school.”

A. “We Real Cool”

11. The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Record are two compilations of practices of the Rinzai sect of this religio-philosophical school. Its origins can supposedly be traced to the time the Buddha held up a lotus to his students, leading Mahakasyapa to smile, showing his transcendent understanding, an event called the Flower Sermon. To free the mind from the fetters of logic, it sometimes uses stories or questions, like “Does a dog have Buddha nature” or “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” called koans. FTP name this school of Buddhism, the dominant form of Japan.

A. Zen Buddhism

12. Pencil and paper ready. FTP, find the slope of the line with equation 3y - 6x + 2 = 0. A good idea is two solve for y and identify the coefficient of x.

A. 2

13. Recent proposed legislation dealing with it include California’s Proposition 90 and Oregon’s Measure 37; Supreme Court cases dealing with it include Kelo v. New London and Wayne v. Hathcock. Hugo Grotius called it “supreme lordship”, while Canadians call its expropriation. In rare cases, owners can be compensated for “loss of goodwill”, especially in the case of complete takings but rarely easements. FTP, name this legal principle that allows governments to assume ownership of private property for public use provided that the owner is justly compensated.

A. eminent domain (prompt on supreme lordship before it is mentioned)

14. Discovered by cytologist Christian René de Duve, they originate by budding off from the membrane of the trans-Golgi network and each one is surrounded by a membrane that maintains an acidic environment within the interior. They contain a wide variety of hydrolytic enzymes that break down macromolecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharides. Materials to be digested in them are transported by three main pathways: endocytosis, autophagocytosis, and phagocytosis. FTP name this cellular organelle.

A. Lysosome

15. Considered controversial due to a tumultuous personal life, including trysts with the painter Henry Fuseli and American businessman Gilbert Imlay, her first published work was 1787’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. Her best known work was a response to Burke’s conservative critique of the French Revolution, advocating republicanism and attacking Burke’s gendered rhetoric. Penning a number of proto-feminist novels including, Mary: A Fiction as well as Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman, this thinker is best known for her political treatise the Vindication of the Rights of Woman. FTP name this early feminist and mother of Mary Shelley.

A. Mary Wollstonecraft

16. This poet uses the rhythms of a sermon in the short lyric “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” and famously concluded, “After the first death, there is no other” in “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.” His best-known poem argues that “Old age should burn and rave at close of day.” FTP name this Welsh author of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”

A. Dylan Thomas

17. Celestial bodies maintain an atmosphere if the mean velocity of surrounding gas particles does not exceed this quantity. It is equal to the square root of two times G times the mass of the body divided by its radius; an object traveling at at least 71% of this value goes into orbit. For Jupiter, it is around 61 km/s; for Earth, 11.2 km/s. Name this minimum speed at which an object can travel and break away from the gravitational pull of a body.

A. escape speed or escape velocity

18. Early in his career he was a designer at the Royal Tapestry Workshop, where his work came to the attention of King Charles IV, whose family he painted.  His work later turned satirical and nightmarish, like the series of etchings called Los Caprichios, one of which was called "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.”  Even more dark were the prints in the series The Disasters of War and the works he created in his home the Quinta del Sordo dubbed The Black Paintings, including Saturn Devouring His Children.  FTP name this Spanish painter who depicted the horrors of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain in The Third of May, 1808.

  A. Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

19. This man served as British viceroy of Ireland from 1798 to 1801, and in the following year, he negotiated the Treaty of Amiens. This followed seven years as governor general of India, for which he was named marquis. His victories as a general in the American Revolution included Brandywine Creek and Camden, but his forces suffered defeats at Princeton and Trenton. FTP name this British general who surrendered to Washington at Yorktown.

A. Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis

20. This author described the writing life in his novel Martin Eden and described a US controlled by the fascist entity called the Oligarchy in The Iron Heel. Humphrey van Weyden is a boy who is first rescued by and later cast away by seaman Wolf Larsen in this author’s The Sea Wolf, but he’s best known for two novels set in the far northwest. Creator of the dog protagonists Buck and White Fang, FTP name this author of The Call of the Wild.

A. Jack London

Delta Burke 2007—Round 7 Bonuseseseseses

1. Stuff about a great, great German and his great, great works FTPE.

A. This giant of German letters wrote scientific treatises on the perception of colors and morphology of plants, but we know him better for heavy literature like his Faust.

A. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

B. This 1774 Goethe work depicts the title character’s obsessive and unfulfilled desire for Lotte which leads him to suicide.

A. The Sorrows of Young Werther

C. Goethe was associated with this German literary movement characterized by intense self-consciousness and Romantic melodrama.

A. Sturm und Drang

2. Identify these philosophers who wrote extensively about religion FTPE.

A. This British dude didn’t like religion too much, penning the devastating, Why I am not a Christian. He also won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 for such works as the History of Western Philosophy.

A. Bertrand Arthur William Russell

B. This guy wrote a work called Theodicy in which he considered why God allows bad things to happen to good people, his answer to which got him parodied by Voltaire as Pangloss.

A. Gottfried Leibniz

C. This 15th and 16th Dutch theologian and humanist wrote The Handbook of a Christian Knight, and The Praise of Folly.

A. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

3. ID these winners of 2007 Major League Baseball awards FTPE.

A. This Cleveland Indians pitcher won the Cy Young over Josh Beckett.

A. C. C. Sabathia

B. This short stop for the Phillies won the NL MVP.

A. Jimmy Rollins

C. This Red Sox second baseman won the AL Rookie award.

A. Dustin Pedroia

4. If you were a mycologist, you’d study a kingdom of entertaining fellows. FTSNOP …

A. F5P, what taxonomic kingdom would you study?

Answer: Fungi (accept fungus)

B. FTP, the mycelium of a fungus is a network of these hollow tubes.

Answer: hyphae

C. Fungi often form symbiotic pairs with algae or with plant roots. For 10 points for one and 15 for both, give the terms for these two symbiotic pairings.

Answer: lichen and mycorrhizae

5. Stuff about a Southern US tribal people FTPE.

A. This tribe likes to remind folks that it never signed a peace treaty with the US, though they did recently sign a lucrative agreement with Florida’s governor allowing them to provide full gambling services at their casinos.

A. Seminoles

B. This Seminole war chief during their second namesake war was tricked into a meeting with army officials who promptly threw him into Fort Moultrie where he died.

A. Osceola

C. The Seminoles began as a splinter group of this other member of the so-called “Civilized Tribes,” known for fighting the Red Stick war and losing at Horseshoe Bend to forces under Andrew Jackson.

A. Creek

6. Identify the following from the exciting world of tapestry FTPE.

A. This work was commissioned by Bishop Odo to commemorate William the Conqueror's victory in the Battle of Hastings.  It features Halley's Comet and King Harold II killed with an arrow to the eye.

A. Bayeux Tapestry

B. Two of the world's most famous tapestries concern this mythical animal.   Both from the late 15th century, one, currently hanging in New York's Cloisters, is a series of seven French tapestries depicting a hunt for it, and the other, currently in the Musée de Cluny, is a Flemish series of six works thought to be an allegory for the five senses.

A. unicorn

C. In modern times, artist Judy Chicago employed tapestry and other forms of art traditionally associated with women to create this ensemble piece celebrating historical women.  Invited "guests" include Georgia O'Keeffe, Hatsheput, Judith, and Sappho.

A. The Dinner Party

7. ID these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe FTPE.

A. Roderick and Madeline are the last members of the title family in this story; their home sinks into a tarn at the end.

A. “The Fall of the House of Usher”

B. Prince Prospero’s costume ball is totally ruined when the title entity shows up.

A. “The Masque of the Red Death”

C. C. Auguste Dupin discovers the stolen title object simply pinned in plain sight.

A. “The Purloined Letter”

8. ID these things which, like Jim Baker, were forged by Dwarves in Norse myth FTPE.

A. This spear of Odin’s would never miss its target.

A. Gungnir

B. This boat of Freyr’s could travel on land or water and could be folded up to be placed in his pouch.

A. Skidbladnir

C. This hammer of Thor’s always returned to his hands when thrown.

A. Mjolnir (zhol-neer)

9. Given the two 2 by 2 matrix B such with first row 1 and 2, and second row -1 and 4, find the value of the entry for the first row and first column of each of the following matrix FTPE.

A. 3B.

A. 3

B. B2.

A.-1

C. B B-1 (B times B inverse)

A. 1

10. Identify the following relating to pre-WWI navies FTPE.

A. This ironclad behemoth of a ship launched in 1906, but was obsolete by the outbreak of WWI.

A. HMS Dreadnought

B. In 1911, this super-dreadnought, named for the King of Britain at the time, was launched.

A. HMS King George V

C. The Dreadnought was made possible by the invention of this mechanical device that derives thermal energy from steam.

A. steam turbine

11. FTSNOP, name these items from the Messier catalogue.

A. F5P, labeled M31, this massive spiral galaxy is about 2 million light-years away.

A: Andromeda

B. FTP, labeled M45, this cluster in Taurus has seven stars visible to the naked eye; it’s also called the Seven Sisters.

A: Pleiades

C. F5P, this nebula with a notable pulsar is labeled M1.

A: Crab nebula or pulsar

D. FTP, also called Virgo A, this bright galaxy in the Virgo cluster is famous for the massive jet of radiation emerging from its core.

A: M87

12. FTPE identify the following African lakes.

A. Named for a British monarch, this is one of the sources of the Nile.

A. Lake Victoria

B. Fed by the Chari River this lake is very quickly drying up and supports a population of 20 million in West Africa, including its namesake nation.

A. Lake Chad

C. This lake gave its name to German East Africa. It is at the south of the Great Rift Valley and is the second deepest freshwater lake in the world after Baikal in Russia.

A. Lake Tanganyika

13. Stuff about a British author and works FTPE.

A. This author shocked English sensibilities with his frank depictions of sexuality and women’s desire in novels including Women in Love and Sons and Lovers.

A. D.H. Lawrence

B. Lawrence’s most shocking book was this depiction of Constance, the title character, and her fling with the gamekeeper Mellors.

A. Lady Chatterly’s Lover

C. This novel titled for an epithet for Quetzalcoatl is set during the Mexican revolution.

A. The Plumed Serpent

14. ID these leaders of the Black Muslim movement FTPE.

A. Though founded by Wallace Fard, the Black Muslims were led by this man from 1934 till his death in 1975.

A. Elijah Muhammad

B. Elijah Muhammad is suspected of calling for the assassination of this charismatic leader, subject of a autobiography actually written by Alex Haley.

A. Malcolm X

C. Muhammad’s son Wallace advocated a more tolerant stance, leading to this other man to split from the group and found the Nation of Islam, which he leads to this day.

A. Louis Farrakhan

15. FTSNOP, name the element which has the following ground state electron configuration. For instance, if I said, “1s2, 2s2, 2p1,” you’d say “boron.”

A. F5P, 1s2

Answer: helium

B. F5P, 1s2, 2s2, 2p6

Answer: neon

C. FTP, 1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p5

Answer: chlorine

D. FTP, argon, plus 4s2, 3d10 [note: that’s “three-d-ten”]

Answer: zinc

16. Name these works of classical music FTPE.

A. Commission by the dancer Ida Rubinstein, this repetitive piece composed by Maurice Ravel has been called "the world's longest crescendo."

A. Bolero

B. On the Trail is the middle movement of this five-part work by Ferde [FUR-dee] Grofé [grow-FEY], which was inspired by a trip to Arizona.

A. Grand Canyon Suite

C. Arturo Toscanini conducted the debut performance of this somber Samuel Barber work, which was originally included in his String Quartet No. 1.

A. Adagio for Strings

17. I hope you’ve read Catch-22; it would help you answer these questions about it FTPE.

A. This bombardier captain is the protagonist of the novel.

A. John Yossarian

B. The only losing transaction this war profiteer makes is dealing in Egyptian cotton.

A. Milo Minderbinder (acc. either name)

C. This prostitute is designated by the name of the squadron member who loved her before dying in a mission; she later stabs Yossarian because she blames him for her man’s death.

A. Nately’s Whore

18. Answer the following about the first Holy Roman Emperor for fifteen points each.

A. Son of Henry the Fowler, this monarch’s forces won the battle of Lechfeld in 955, and in 962 he went to Rome to get himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor, in imitation of Charlemagne.

A. Otto the Great or Otto I

B. This is the people defeated by Otto at Lechfeld, a tribe that settled Hungary and lends its name to that country’s language and native name.

A. Magyars

19. Because I’m out of ideas, you get to name some insect orders FTPE.

A. This order, known as the “true bugs”, includes cicadas and stink bugs.

A: Hemiptera

B. Ants, bees, wasps, yadda yadda.

A: Hymenoptera

C. Termites belong to this order.

A: Isoptera

20. Stuff about some Christian heresies FTPE.

A. This heresy conversely believed that the human and divine characters of Christ were not the same. God could not have a mother, ergo Mary was not the mother of God and the human Christ died on the cross while the divine Christ lived on. It later became the Assyrian Church.

A. Nestorianism

B. This heresy in turn believed that Christ was wholly divine and was founded by Eutyches, known for denouncing Nestorius as a heretic. Empress Theodora was one of these.

A. Monophysitism

C. This 451 Ecumenical Council, the forth, was called by Pope Leo I to denounce Monophysitism and Eutyches. It was held in a city across the Bosphoros from Constantinople.

A. Council of Chalcedon

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