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TOSSUPS1. A lion sculpted in this material is the best-known landmark in the German city of Braunschweig. A group of heads made of this material were used to decorate the royal palace of Benin. Gold and this material were used to create the Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Due to its realism, the creator of one sculpture named for this material was accused of casting a (*) live model to create it. This material was used for a sculpture depicting a cowboy trying to hold onto a horse, Frederic Remington’s Bronco Buster. Auguste Rodin cast The Thinker in this material and created a life-size sculpture named for “The Age of” it. This material was used to create the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity, Donatello’s David. For 10 points, name this alloy of copper and tin.ANSWER: bronze <Sivakumar>2. During this event, Sheriff William H. McCleary failed to stop the fighting, and one group involved in it was launched upstream from the Davis Island Dam. One side during this event was represented by future Attorney General Philander Knox. This event ended after Governor Robert (*) Pattison sent in the state militia. Public perception of this event stemmed from an assassination attempt made by Alexander Berkman just before it collapsed. During this event, a crowd tried to set fire to boats which contained 300 Pinkerton agents. This strike began after failed negotiations between the Amalgamated Association labor union and Carnegie Steel chairman Henry Clay Frick. For 10 points, name this 1892 strike in a steel mill near Pittsburgh.ANSWER: Homestead strike <Sivakumar> 3. In one novel set in this country, an ugly woman who is obsessed with Coca-Cola is told she will marry a rich man named Hans but instead dies after being hit by a yellow Mercedes. That author from this country also wrote about a woman who kills and eats a cockroach in her maid's room. The Hour of the Star and “The Passion According to G.H.” are set in this country, where in another novel, a woman has an affair with the ghost of her husband a year after he dies dancing while a samba. In this country, the bar owner Nacib Saad loves his chef (*) Gabriela, whose skin is like "clove and cinnamon.” Vadinho and Teodoro are the two titular men in Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, which is set in this country. For 10 points, name this home of Jorge Amado, who wrote in Portuguese.ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil]4. This politician exclaimed “long live Poland!” in Polish before announcing his recognition of the Oder-Neisse line. After the end of his first term, this man found the political party RPF, which dissolved after just eight years. This man withdrew his country’s representatives from the Hallstein Commission, causing the Empty Chair Crisis. This politician replaced Pierre Pflimlin as prime minister after a failed coup led by the founder of the OAS, Raoul Salan, His policy of (*) dirigisme led to the “Thirty Glorious Years”. Lester Pearson was angered when this leader exclaimed “Vive le Quebec libre!” at the Montreal World’s Fair. The Evian Accords were negotiated by the FLN and this figure, who was succeeded after his final term by George Pompidou. This man led Free France during World War II. For 10 points, name this first president of the French Fifth Republic.ANSWER: Charles de Gaulle <Sivakumar>5. In one appearance, this character calls a woman in a prom photo a “bimbo,” not knowing that said woman is his mother. This character requests a 20-dollar bill from his Uncle Max to perform a “magic trick,” and he says, “Let’s go exploring!” while riding off on a sled in his last appearance. For a presentation, this character states that bats are bugs, and he later fails to spell “stupendous” in front of his teacher, Mrs. (*) Wormwood. This character probably has a crush on his neighbor, Susie Derkins, but sets up the GROSS club to annoy her. This character plays a game in which he has to sing the Very Sorry Song and the score is Q to 12; the only rule of that namesake game is that one can never play it the same way twice. In his first appearance, this character states that tuna fish sandwiches attract tigers. For 10 points, name this character created by Bill Watterson, who is usually paired with his stuffed tiger Hobbes.ANSWER: Calvin <Hao> 6. One of this author’s characters responds, “I am the Deed to your Thought,” after being confronted about carrying a hatchet concealed in a cloak. He’s not Umberto Eco, but the main character of that work by this author visits Friedrich Barbarossa after mocking an unfinished cathedral. The title character and his wife are turned into dancing bears that attempt to lead a revolution against humanity of another of this man’s works; those two satirical poems are “Germany: A Winter’s Tale” and (*) “Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Famous for writing poems in cycles, this poet wrote of a beautiful creature on the Rhine who lures sailors to their deaths. For 10 points, name this author of the North Sea cycles and “Die Lorelei,” whose Buch der Lieder was the source of many Romantic tone poems. ANSWER: Heinrich Heine <Sharma>7. A compound with this color is the simplest of a class of compounds that react with aldehydes or ketones to form homologated ketones in the Büchner–Curtius–Schlotterbeck reaction. That gas, which is this color, also reacts with an acyl chloride in the first step of the Arndt–Eistert synthesis. Besides diazomethane, which is this color, another compound with this color is often used in pulp bleaching. That gas is chlorine dioxide. Despite being poisonous, cadmium sulfide, lead iodide, and lead (*) chromate were all traditionally used as pigments of this color. Bromophenol blue turns this color at pHs below 3, and sodium burns this color in a flame test. The most common allotrope of an element with this color is an eight-atom ring, and aqua regia notably dissolves an element with this color. For 10 points, name this color of elements such as sulfur.ANSWER: yellow <Hao>8. In a namesake theory, one thinker from this country divided signs into rhemes, dicents, and arguments. That thinker also wrote an article for The Monist titled “Man’s Glassy Essence” where he attempted to “lay out what ought to be the brick and mortar of” philosophy. Another thinker from this country wrote the work Individualism: Old and New to criticize this country. A political philosopher from this country developed the idea of a (*) “veil of ignorance”, behind which we should make decisions about society. That thinker from this country stated that inequalities should be set up benefit the least well off in his A Theory of Justice. For 10 points, name this country, home of thinkers such as Charles Peirce, John Dewey, John Rawls, and the pragmatist William James.ANSWER: United States <McLain>9. One of these objects includes a white lily in an earthenware jug, outside of which the artist’s signature is written. Another of these objects by the same artist contains a convex mirror reputedly inspired by The Arnolfini Wedding. The probable Master of Flemalle, Robert Campin, is best known for creating the Merode one of these objects. Two of these objects named for the Last Judgment and the (*) Seven Sacraments were created by Rogier Van der Weyden. The central panel of one of these objects includes a creepy-looking concert of angels to the left of the Nativity. One of these objects created in Isenheim was painted by Matthias Grünewald and Nikolaus Hagenauer, while another named for Ghent was created by Jan and Hubert van Eyck. For 10 points, name these artworks placed behind the altar of a church.ANSWER: Altarpieces (accept triptychs) <Sivakumar>10. In a novel by this author, one boy is accidentally shot in the foot by a starter’s pistol; the narrator casually mentions later that he died of gangrene. That novel’s protagonist goes to jail after taking the fall for a South American prostitution ring run by his fiancee, Margot Beste-Chetwynde. This author wrote about Paul Pennyfeather’s expulsion for a pants-less run through campus in one novel, and about Brenda cheating on Tony Last in another work. He created a (*) teddy-bear-carrying character who throws up in the narrator’s window and takes him to the title estate of the Catholic Marchmain family. For 10 points, name this author of Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust, who wrote about Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited. ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh <Carlson>11. The official newspaper of this religion is known as The Final Call. Adherents believe that the Book of Ezekiel proves the existence of a giant spaceship named the Mother Plane. Rising to prominence through a documentary titled The Hate That Hate Produced, this religion was founded in 1930s Detroit by Wallace Fard. This religion states that the island of (*) Patmos was the birthplace of white people, created by Dr. Yakub. One of its key leaders was Elijah Muhammad, who rejected slave names and renamed Cassius Clay as Muhammad Ali. Three members of this religion assassinated a former advocate, Malcolm X. For 10 points, name this religion currently led by Louis Farrakhan, which is sometimes classified as a “hate group” and “black supremacist.” ANSWER: Nation of Islam [prompt on “NOI,” do not accept or prompt on “Islam”] <Mathew>12. The introduction of a book written by this man begins with a translation of the Ten Commandments. One treaty signed by this man sets the southwestern boundary of another ruler’s land at Watling Street. Fortifications that this man designed are listed in the Burghal Hidage. During this man’s rule, an army trying to meet up with the warrior Hastein was defeated at Farnham by his son Edward the (*) Elder. This man was assisted in translating Gregory I’s treatise Pastoral Care by a monk who would later write a biography of him, Bishop Asser. This man defeated the Great Heathen Army at the Battle of Edington and baptized its leader Guthrum after signing the Peace of Wedmore. For 10 points, name this Viking enemy and “Great” Anglo-Saxon king of Wessex.ANSWER: Alfred the Great <Sivakumar>13. One piece of evidence for this phenomenon is the discovery of an observational scale known as the “End of Greatness”. The difference between comoving and proper distance is that comoving distance accounts for this phenomenon. The existence of this phenomenon is supported by the isotropic distribution of distant gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. One explanation for this phenomenon predicts adiabatic fluctuations and a lack of magnetic (*) monopoles. Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, and Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for establishing the acceleration of this phenomenon. Mathematically, it results from the cosmological constant, which may manifest itself as dark energy. Inflation is a theory of, for 10 points, what increase in distance in distant areas of our universe?ANSWER: Expansion of the universe (accept equivalents like “expansion of space”; anti-prompt on “inflation” before mention) <Sivakumar>14. An early poem by this author begins with the line “O Bubble blast, how long can'st last?” and goes on to describe the certainty of death. In another poem by this author, one title character answers the other’s question with the question, “art indeed ignorant of these my woes?” and describes earlier troubles like the War of the Roses. This poet of “Upon a Fit of Sickness” and "Dialogue Between Old England and New" lamented “my pleasant things in (*) ashes lie” in “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House.” This author describes her love for her husband in a poem that begins “if ever two were one, then surely we.” For 10 points, name this colonial poet, the author of the collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet <Parikh> 15. This figure once seduced a nymph by turning into a tortoise and once she took him into her lap, turned into a snake and raped her. In the Iliad, this figure rescued Aeneas from Diomedes after Diomedes wounds Aphrodite. This figure also turned one of his lovers into a sunflower after she betrayed this figure’s lover to her father Orchamus. Zephyrus once forced this figure’s thrown discus into the (*) head of his lover Hyacinthus, killing him. This figure and his twin sister killed the 14 children of Niobe, and he traded some cows to Hermes in exchange for his lyre. He fathered Asclepius and slew the Python to place his oracle at Delphi. For ten points, name this successor of Helios, the Greek god of light and music.ANSWER: Apollo <Orlov>16. Parasitic organisms of this phylum may cause whirling disease or Proliferative Kidney Disease in salmon, and organisms of the Haliclystus genus in this phylum are “stalked.” A class in this phylum contains only one organism, the parasitic Polypodium hydriforme. Another organism in this phylum uses a pneumatophore to stay afloat and is actually a colony of specialized individual animals known as a siphonophore. Carukia barnesi and Malo kingi are members of this phylum that cause (*) Irukandji syndrome, and organisms in this phylum are defined by explosive venom containing nematocysts. The bodies of organisms in this phylum are mainly composed of mesoglea, and they are classified into medusae or polyps depending on whether they are swimming or sessile. For 10 points, name this phylum, composed of organisms such as anemone, corals, and jellyfish.ANSWER: Cnidaria <Hao>17. Minor candidates in one election in this state included James Beretta and Randy Brinson. Former White House aide and self-described centrist Lee Busby ran as a write-in candidate in this state’s most notable election. A governor of this state resigned after an affair with senior adviser Rebekah Mason and was succeeded by Kay (*) Ivey. This state’s auditor Jim Ziegler came under fire after comparing a certain candidate’s relationships to Joseph and Mary. That Senate candidate in this state frequently visited the Gadsden Mall and was accused of molesting teenage girls in a November 2017 Washington Post article. For 10 points, name this state where Democrat Doug Jones won a December 12 election against Republican Roy Moore.ANSWER: Alabama <Sivakumar>18. One movement in this work is based on a design for the Marius Petipa ballet Trilby. Another section of this composition begins with a bassoon playing five consecutive D-sharps in its most famous orchestration. A B-flat minor movement marked andante in this piece depicts two rich and poor (*) Jews arguing, while another depicts a hero at the gates of Kiev. Several sections of this piece are written in alternating 5/4 and 6/4 time and are known as promenades. This work, whose sections include “The Market at Limoges,” “The Hut on Hen’s Legs,” and “The Old Castle,” was based on a set of paintings by the artist’s late friend Viktor Hartmann. For 10 points, name this piano suite composed by Modest Mussorgsky.ANSWER: Pictures at an Exhibition <Sivakumar>19. It’s not Gauss’s Law, but in one situation, applying this law can determine a piecewise function that is linearly proportional to radius before a certain value, then inversely proportional to the radius after that. Combining this law with the London equation allows one to find the London penetration depth in superconductors. This law predicts that the divergence of J is 0, even though in reality, it equals the negative partial derivative of rho with respect to time. Therefore, a term involving the partial derivative of electric field with respect to time must be (*) added to this law to correct it, which was first done using a displacement current. This law has integral and differential forms that can be proved equal using the Kelvin-Stokes theorem. If current density is not constant, then the Biot-Savart Law must be used instead of this one. For 10 points, name this member of the Maxwell equations that states that the line integral of a magnetic field around a closed loop is proportional to the current.ANSWER: Ampère’s Circuital Law (do not accept or prompt on “Ampère’s Force Law”) <Hao>20. In 1929, London’s secretary of state for colonies refused to meet with this man to discuss European colonization of Africa. George Padmore, a friend of this man, helped shape his anti-colonalist ideals. Early in his political career, this man created a newspaper called (*) Mwigithania, which translates to “He Who Brings Together”. Upon his release from exile in Lodwar, he was placed as head of the KANU Party. He also represented the Kikuyu tribe in testifying at the Carter Land Commission. In response to European colonialism, this man led the Mau Mau Rebellion. This member of the Kapenguria Six preceded Daniel Arap Moi and created the policy of Harambee. For ten points, name this first president of Kenya. ANSWER: Jomo Kenyatta <Tummarakota>BONUSES1. The butler Stevens and the housekeeper Miss Kenton appear in this man’s The Remains of the Day. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author of Never Let Me Go who also won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro[10] This most recent novel by Ishiguro depicts the travels of the Briton couple Axl and Beatrice, who live alongside Saxons in Arthurian Britain.ANSWER: The Buried Giant[10] In The Buried Giant, this figure is killed while trying to protect the dragon Querig. A more famous romance depicts him accepting a challenge from the Green Knight.Answer: Sir Gawain <Sivakumar> 2. Possession by these spirits may bring clairvoyance, extreme strength, or seizures to their victims. For 10 points each:[10] Name these voodoo spirits that include Aziyan, Erzulie, and Papa Legba.ANSWER: loas[10] Practitioners use loas to communicate with this voodoo supreme deity. ANSWER: Bondye[10] This loa is the tuxedo-wearing spirit of death and keeper of the underworld.ANSWER: Baron Samedi or Papa Ghede <Mathew>3. For the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, this man composed his War Requiem. For 10 points each:[10] Name this composer who depicted the fate of the title fisherman and his apprentice in his opera Peter Grimes.ANSWER: Benjamin Britten[10] Eric Crozier narrated this Britten work, in which a central theme is played by the orchestra and then by each family of instruments.ANSWER: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra[10] The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was based on the rondeau from Henry Purcell’s incidental music to this Aphra Behn play.ANSWER: Abdelazar <Sivakumar>4. Answer some questions about the Petersburg Campaign. For 10 points each:[10] At the start of this battle, Union forces exploded a Confederate mine. However, the Ninth Army Corps was eventually defeated by Robert E. Lee and William Mahone.ANSWER: Battle of the Crater[10] After his defeat at the Battle of the Crater, this general was replaced by John Parke. He had earlier resigned command of the Army of the Potomac after the Battle of Fredericksburg. ANSWER: Ambrose Burnside[10] The Petersburg Campaign took place in this state, where Lee subsequently surrendered at Appomattox Court House. ANSWER: Virginia <Sivakumar> 5. In one work, Herbert Dreyfus described What (these things) Can’t Do. For 10 points each:[10] Name these things that Dreyfus argued will always rely on symbols rather than unconscious instincts.ANSWER: computers (prompt on robots, artificial intelligence, or machines)[10] In the paper “Minds, Brains, and Programming,” John Searle made this thought experiment to argue that computers will never have consciousness, no matter how human looking they appear.ANSWER: Chinese room argument[10] This computer scientist helped crack the enigma machine during World War II and names a test for determining if a computer has achieved strong A.I. that is based on its ability to pass for a human in conversation.ANSWER: Alan Turing <McLain>6. The colonization of the titular planet is the subject of this man’s The Martian Chronicles. For 10 points each:[10] Name this science-fiction writer known for Fahrenheit 451.ANSWER: Ray Bradbury[10] The 13-year-old best friends Jim Nightshade and William Halloway encounter the evil being Mr. Dark in this 1962 Bradbury novel.ANSWER: Something Wicked This Way Comes[10] The opening work of Bradbury’s short story collection I Sing the Body Electric! describes a “Device” named for this mountain. An Ernest Hemingway short story opens by describing a frozen leopard carcass near this mountain’s summit.ANSWER: Mount Kilimanjaro <Sivakumar>7. Kundt's tube can be used to measure this quantity in a gas or a solid rod. For 10 points each:[10] Name this quantity, which is equal to the square root of Young’s modulus divided by density in a solid.ANSWER: speed of sound[10] At Mach 1, the Prandtl-Glauert transformation fails, since it predicts an object would experience an infinite amount of this quantity, which is the force per unit area.ANSWER: pressure[10] This effect occurs when the speed of sound in a liquid decreases if a powder is mixed in with the liquid. It is alternatively known as the allasonic effect.ANSWER: hot chocolate effect <Hao>8. This city contains a shrine to its first king, Yax K'uk' Mo' (yash-kook- MO) at the top of its Hieroglyphic Stairway. For 10 points each:[10] Name this site near the Honduras-Guatemala border, most famously ruled by 18-Rabbit.ANSWER: Copan[10] Copan was a major city of this Mesoamerican civilization, which declined after an unexplained 9th century political collapse. Their other cities included Chichen Itza.ANSWER: Mayans [10] This earliest known civilization in Mexico created several statues of colossal stone heads at sites like La Venta and San Lorenzo.ANSWER: Olmecs <Sivakumar>9. In a triangle, the sum of any two sides must be greater than the third. Answer some questions about other inequalities. For 10 points each:[10] According to the trivial inequality, the square of every real number is greater than or equal to this number.ANSWER: zero[10] This other inequality states that for any two sequences u sub i and v sub i, then the square of the sum of the products between the corresponding terms in each product is less than or equal to the product of the sums of the squares of the terms in each sequence. Another version of this inequality takes the inner product and dot product of vectors.ANSWER: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality[10] An inequality named for this person states that the quantity one plus x raised to the nth power is always greater than or equal to one plus x times n for all n greater or equal to negative one. Another man with the same last name as this man developed the idea of expected utility to resolve the St. Petersburg paradox.ANSWER: Jacob Bernoulli <Hao>10. On the hit song “Stardust”, Billy Butterfield performed a legendary trumpet solo with this man’s orchestra. For 10 points each:[10] Name this clarinetist who recorded a famous version of Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine”.ANSWER: Artie Shaw [accept Arthur Jacob Arshawsky][10] In 1938, Shaw defied convention by signing this black female singer as his band’s vocalist. She composed “God Bless the Child” and was nicknamed “Lady Day”.ANSWER: Billie Holiday[10] This man’s clarinetist Barney Bigard named Shaw as his favorite clarinet player. This pianist’s band often performed at the Cotton Club and wrote songs like “Take the ‘A’ Train”.ANSWER: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington <Sivakumar>11. In one study of the Trobriand Islanders, this anthropologist discussed the methods and rituals used to grow crops such as taro, bananas, and yams. For 10 points each:[10] Name this anthropologist who described the Kula ring in his Coral Gardens and Their Magic.ANSWER: Bronislaw Malinowski[10] Often compared to the Kula ring, this practice was described as a total prestation by Marcel Mauss in The Gift.ANSWER: potlatch[10] In contrast to Malinowski’s biocultural functionalism, this anthropologist espoused structural-functionalism. He is better known for writing “The Mother’s Brother in South Africa”, “On Joking Relationships”, and The Andaman Islanders.ANSWER: Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown <McLain>12. Amina is struck by a car in one novel in this sequence. For 10 points each:[10] Name this trilogy comprised of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street.ANSWER: Cairo Trilogy[10] The Cairo Trilogy was written by this Egyptian author, whose other novels include Midaq Alley and The Children of Gebelawi.ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz[10] This other group of novels set in Egypt includes Justine and Balthazar and was written by Lawrence Durrell.ANSWER: Alexandria Quartet <Sivakumar>13. The GCM models this statistic, which is usually measured over a 30-year period. For 10 points each:[10] Name this statistic, which differs from weather in that this statistic is long-term, not short-term.ANSWER: climate[10] This system of climate classification is the most widely used. In this system, climates are classified into five groups labeled A through E, with extra letters added for more specificity.ANSWER: K?ppen classification system[10] The letters Cs in the K?ppen climate classification for a location indicates specific type of temperate climate. Notable cities with this type of climate include Santiago and San Francisco.ANSWER: Mediterranean climate <Hao>14. This man’s eccentric behaviors included commissioning a rotating golden statue of himself that always faced the sun. For 10 points each:[10] Name this dictator known as “Turkmenbashy”, the nominal first president of Turkmenistan.ANSWER: Saparmurat Niyazov[10] Niyazov supported a 1991 coup in this country which sought to reinstate its Communist government and overthrow its president Boris Yeltsin. This country is currently led by Yeltsin’s successor Vladimir Putin.ANSWER: Russia[10] Another notorious dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has led this country since its independence. He moved its capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997.ANSWER: Kazakhstan <Sivakumar>15. The 63 Building, which is completely encased in gold, is located in this city. For 10 points each:[10] Name this city, north of which is Mt. Bukhan. This capital city lies on the Han River and is served by Incheon and Gimpo International Airports.ANSWER: Seoul[10] Seoul is an example of these types of cities, which are much larger than any other city in their respective countries. Paris and London serve as other examples of these types of cities.ANSWER: primate cities[10] The “title” of “most primate city” has been given to this city, which has about thirty to forty times the population of its country's second largest city. The greenery of Lumphini Park and the Dusit Palace are located in this city.ANSWER: Bangkok <Hao>16. An imaginary country called the Cimbrian People’s Republic appears in this work, which also includes the author Silas Flannery. For 10 points each:[10] Name this novel, whose narrator meets Ludmilla while buying a new copy of a book.ANSWER: If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler[10] If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler was written by this author, whose character Qwfwq narrates most of the stories in his Cosmicomics. He also wrote Invisible Cities.ANSWER: Italo Calvino[10] Calvino is from this country, whose other authors include Dante Alighieri.ANSWER: Italy <Sivakumar>17. Masters of this style included Kuniyoshi and Moronobu. For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of woodblock print, one example of which shows a turbulent sea near the titular Japanese town.ANSWER:ukiyo-e[10] This artist famously chased a chicken across a canvas to paint maple leaves. Fine Wind, Clear Morning and The Great Wave off Kanagawa are part of his 36 Views of Mount Fuji.ANSWER:Katsushika Hokusai[10] This man included scenes like The Plum Garden in Kameido in his One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. He also depicted Kanagawa as part of his series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.ANSWER:Utagawa Hiroshige <Sivakumar> 18. This element is almost always in the +1 oxidation state, and it is the best electrical conductor out of all the elements, even when tarnished. For 10 points each:[10] Name this transition metal. A positive result in Tollens' test is indicated by a precipitate of this element, which forms a namesake “mirror.”ANSWER: silver[10] In this experiment, silver particles were fired at an inhomogeneous magnetic field. This experiment proved the quantization of intrinsic angular momentum.ANSWER: Stern-Gerlach experiment[10] The Ag+ ion has this property. The Langevin theory applies to materials with this property, and levitating magnets use this property.ANSWER: diamagnetism (accept word forms) <Hao>19. Answer some questions about Nazi collaborationist governments. For 10 points each:[10] After taking over France, the Nazis installed this puppet government led by Philippe Petain. ANSWER: Vichy France[10] The Nazis also replaced Johann Nygaardsvold with this leader of the Nasjonal Samling party, who governed with Josef Terboven. ANSWER: Vidkun Quisling[10] While under Nazi control, Hungary was governed by this political party named for the distinctive symbol on its flag. It was led during its ten-year existence by Ferenc Szalasi. ANSWER: Arrow Cross Party <Sivakumar> 20. Name some figures from Indian mythology. For 10 points each:[10] This deity was given a magic mango after he won a race around the world by circling his parents, Shiva and Parvati, three times, claiming that they were the world.ANSWER: Ganesha [or Ganapati, or Vinayaka, or Binayak][10] Ganesha beat this figure in that competition, his brother and the Hindu god of war.ANSWER: Kartikeya [or Murugan or Skanda or Kumura or Subramanya][10] Ganesha had to use a trick to win the competition because his mount, the mouse, was nowhere near as fast as this animal, the mount of Kartikeya.ANSWER: peacock <Orlov> ................
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