Maryland Spring HS Round 1 - randomized



Maryland Spring HS Tournament

Round 1

Packet by SteveJon Guth, Logan Anbinder, Paul Marchsteiner, Monica Remmers, Jeff Amoros, Jeremy Eaton, and Andrew Lohr

1. This author wrote a story which tells of a robber named Kandata who loses his chance at salvation when he forbids other residents of hell from climbing to heaven with him, "The Spider Thread." Like Gogol, this author wrote a story called "The Nose," as well as another story about the mad painter (*) Yoshihide watching his daughter burn in a carriage.  He wrote a story told from multiple perspectives about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband, but is probably best known for a story about a lowly servant who steals the clothes of a woman near the titular structure. FTP, name this author of "Hell Screen," "In a Grove," and "Rashomon."

ANSWER: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

2. Experience gained under Joaquin de Arrodondo helped shape this man's career, and he received accolades for his bravery at the battle of Medina.  He lost his leg fighting the French at Vera Cruz in the Pastry War.  In one of his seven stints as president, he put down a revolt in Zacateca and allowed his army to loot the state for two days, while in another term of office, he led the troops who perpetrated the (*) Goliad Massacre before losing the Battle of San Jacinto. The leader of the Mexican forces that lost to Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista, for ten points, name this Mexican general and politician, perhaps best known for his victory at the Alamo.

ANSWER: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

3. One ruler of this country advocated Prometheism and returned to power in 1926's May Coup.  The Golden Liberty principles and Sarmatists culture of its nobility shaped its culture, while those nobles rallied after one of its kings made the Lvov Oath. One of its rulers took Galicia after the death of Dmitry Dedko in 1349, but later renounced this country's claim on Silesia.  (*) Casimir III led this country, who under Józef Piłsudski defeated the Soviets at the so-called "miracle" of its major river. Also ruled by  Wadyslaw II Jagiello,  FTP, name this European nation in which Lech Walesa led the Solidarity Movement, the subject of several notable partitions.

ANSWER: Poland

4. During World War II, this franchise played one season as a combined team with the Cardinals, losing every game they played. This team’s longest-tenured head coach retired after Neil O’Donnell’s rookie season, four years before O’Donnell led them to Super Bowl XXX, where he threw two interceptions in this team’s loss to the (*) Cowboys. Chuck Noll retired in 1991 after coaching this franchise for 22 years, a span during which he won four Super Bowls with the help of John Stallworth and Franco Harris. Led more recently by a QB known for sexual assault allegations, for ten points, name this NFL team of Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger.

ANSWER: Pittsburgh Steelers

5. One of this artist's paintings sees a patient having a stone extracted from his head by trepanation by a man with a funnel on his head. Another of this man's works is a scene of people singing, partying, and wasting their human existence in similar way on the titular vessel. In addition to The Cure of Folly and (*) Ship of fools, he also painted Christ in the sky looking down at the multitude of methods of corruption of humans who around the titular vehicle in his Haywain triptych. FTP, name this Northern renaissance painter of another triptych detailing a plethora of crazy animals, giant fruit, and lots of promiscuous humans, The Garden of Earthly Delights. 

ANSWER: Hieronymus Bosch

6. This work's protagonist is deeply scarred after his family is wracked with scarlet fever, while another death in this work is erroneously justified by the discovery of a locket.  While writing four letters to his sister Margaret Walton Saville, Captain Robert Walton informs her about his quest to find (*) Hyperborea, and his experience meeting the titular character. The titular character is nursed for four months by his childhood friend, Henry Clerval.  That character, Victor, is pursuing his creation across the arctic at the beginning of the novel. FTP name this book by Mary Shelley about a man who makes a monster.

ANSWER:  Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus

7. One that serves the devil in Catalan myth is called Dip, and spectral versions of these animals associated with the sound of geese belong to Bran and are called the Cwn Annwn.  One that haunts Peel castle on the Isle of Mann is called the Moddey Dhoo.  One named (*) Argos died when he recognized Odysseus, and one named the Barguest leaves no footprints.  The Aztec psychopomp Xolotl is usually depicted with the head of one of these and another will kill and be killed by Tyr at Ragnorak, Garm. For 10 points, name this animal, one of which has three heads and guards Hades.

ANSWER:  Dog [accept hound]

8. One sacred site in this nation constructed upon a massive rock in the ocean is guarded by sea snakes while another temple was said to be formed when Indra slew a demon; these temples are Tanah Lot and Tirta Empul. One cultural activity is the  wayang kulit shadow puppet theatre and a metallic percussion ensemble known as the (*) gamelan. This nation occupies most of an island it shares with Malaysia and Brunei and another island of this nation is shared with Papua New Guinea. FTP, identify this Asian archipelagic nation that holds the islands of Borneo, Bali and Java and has its capital at Jakarta.

ANSWER: Indonesia

9. Niven's theorem concerns the rational values of this function, which has an n-dimensional analogue used for calculating parallelepiped volumes.  This function was used in Euler's solution to the Basel problem and its Taylor series contains only odd powers of alternating sign.  This function, which is the negative of its own second (*)derivative and equal to zero when x equals zero, has an imaginary coefficient when expressed with DeMoivre's theorem. Name this trigonometric function equal to one over cosecant that, for 10 points, is represented on a right triangle as opposite over adjacent, the odd analog of cosine.

ANSWER Sine function [accept sine of x]

10. FasL and several molecules that bind to TNF receptors promote this cellular process.  Dronc RNAi prevents this process in Drosophilia embryos.   One early step in the internal pathway is the production of caspase-9, which cascades to produce caspace-3 and caspase-7.  This process is induced by production of (*) p53, and in later steps the release of cytochrome c causes mitochondria to break down and released ATP attracts phagocytic cells like macrophages.  Common causes of cancer are mutations that makes cells resistant to this process.  For 10 points, name this process likened to programmed cell death.

ANSWER:  Apoptosis [accept programmed cell death until mentioned, prompt on PCD until then]

11. This ruler ignored the Statute of Monopolies act passed under his father to raise money, and angered landlocked areas by assessing the ship money tax throughout England. His campaign against Alexander Leslie and the Coventers was hampered by lack of funds.  His relationship with George (*) Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, alienated Parliament until Villiers' death at the siege of New Rochelle in the 30 Year's War, and this man's losses in the Bishops' Wars with Scotland resulted in the Short and Long Parliaments. Opposed by the Roundheads during the English Civil War, for ten points, name this English king who fell victim to regicide, the son of James I.

ANSWER: Charles I

12. The Walrasian variety of this quantity satisfies the weak axiom of revealed preference, and Jevons paradox predicts a greater value for this with rising efficieny.  A strong negative income effect in Giffin goods causes this quanity to rise with price, and the (*) subsitution effect occurs when two similar products are offered, like Coke and Pepsi  The Slutsky equation relates two forms of this quantity named for Hicks and Marshall.  Say's law states that this is created by supply.  For 10 points, name this economic quanity which represents the amount of a good consumers desire for a given price.

ANSWER:  Demand

13. This author feuded with Matthew Arnold after accusing Arnold of insufficiently praising a presidential biography this man had helped to publish. One of this author's characters, Colonel Sellers, perpetualy schemes to get rich. This author also wrote a story in which Simon Wheeler recounts the story of Jim (*) Smiley. This author of The Gilded Age and Puddn'Head Wilson wrote of Hank Morgan using his knowledge of an eclipse to modernize Camelot. For 10 points, name this American author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

ANSWER:  Mark Twain [accept Samuel Langhorne Clemens]

14. By Poynting's theorem, the density of this value can be calculated for traveling electromagnetic waves to be epsilon nought E cross B.  For a charged particle, its canonical form includes a term proportional to the vector potential.  In quantum mechanics its operator is given by minus i times h-bar del, and by Noether's theorem the conservation of this quantity follows from translation invariance of space. (*) Impulse is defined as the change in this quantity with respect to time, which is conserved in inelastic collisions.   For 10 points, name this quantity, sometimes symbolized by p, which can be expressed as mass times velocity.

ANSWER:  Linear Momentum [prompt on p before mentioned]

15. This president served as civil service commissioner under Benjamin Harrison, and was reappointed to the post by Grover Cleveland after the election of 1888.  His successor dismissed a man who had overseen this President's "Midnight Forests" plan, Gifford Pinchot, and he earlier pursued (*) antitrust cases against Northern Securities and Standard Oil.  His eponymous tenet of international diplomacy states the U.S. has the right to intervene and stabilize the financial affairs of Central American nations, modifying the Monroe Doctrine.  Awarded the Nobel Prize for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War, FTP, name this 26th president.

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt

16. This composer's often performed fourth symphony's fourth movement is entitled Finale con epilogo fugato.  This composer's 1914 work for orchestra and violin uses that solo instrument to represent the titular bird of a George Meredith poem.  The first movement of his eighth symphony in D minor was entitled "seven variations in search of a theme."  He combined a swaying theme with a borrowed hymn in his Fantasia on a Theme by (*) Thomas Tallis, while he set poems from Whitman's Leaves of Grass to music in his Sea Symphony.  For 10 points, name this British composer who borrowed material from his opera Sir John in Love for his song Greensleeves.

ANSWER:  Ralph Vaughan Williams

17. This man kneels and prays to the Virgin Mary so that he might find a church in which he could attend Christmas Mass. This man is given deer, a boar, and the hide of a fox from one host, with whom this figure remains until a New Year's day incident. He rides the horse Gringolet and wears the star of Solomon on his shield, and is given a green girdle by Lady (*) Bertilak which will protect him from his primary antagonist, who had earlier picked up his severed head after being decapitated by this character in front of the court of Camelot. FTP, identify this Arthurian knight who, in a work of the Pearl Poet, faces off against the Green Knight.

ANSWER: Sir Gawain

18. This philosopher embraces ideas of Fechner and Bergson in one work and in another criticizes Spinoza's unity of all things and Hume's separateness--those works are A Pluralistic Universe and The Sentiment of Rationality.  Walt Whitman is an example of a healthy person in a work which includes chapters like "The Sick Soul" and discusses the victory of Liberal Christianity over old hell-fire theology.  This author of (*) The Varieties of Religious Experience defined the titular concept of his most famous work as the mediator between the tough and tender minded.  For 10 points, name this thinker who wrote the textbook Principles of Psychology and drew from C.S. Pierce in his lecture series Pragmatism.

ANSWER:  William James

19. One building with this name was created from the Palazzo Venier der Leoni, a small, unfinished building built in the 18th century along the Grand Canal in Venice. Another of these structures is located in the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas and was designed by Rem Koolhaas. A series of serpentine steel structures, The Matter of Time by Richard Serra, is outside yet another of these. That one is a building whose (*) curved titanium plates mimic fish scales and was created by Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain.  FTP, name these institutions which are namesakes of a family of art collectors, the most famous of which is located in New York city and is notable for its spiraling design, created by Frank Lloyd Wright.

ANSWER: Guggenheim Museums [accept equivalents]

20. This substance is produced via the synthesis of a chemical created by combining three main ingredients of fluorspar, hydrofluoric acid, and chloroform and heating between 600 and 900 degrees Celsius. This fluorocarbon was discovered accidentally by Roy Plunkett when an iron container catalyzed the polymerization of perfluorethylene. Because of its low (*) reactivity, it is a common coating when storing corrosive chemicals. A DuPont trademark, this chemical is used as a common coating of many cooking utensils because of its remarkably low coefficient of friction.  For 10 points, name this chemical synonymous with a “non-stick” coating.

ANSWER: Teflon [accept Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE until "DuPont trademark," prompt afterwards]

BONUSES

1. Name some stuff about a certain King of the Franks FTPE:

[10] This aforementioned king is notable for killing lots of Saxons in his campaigns to Christianize Europe.  He was crowned on Christmas Day in 800 AD as emperor of the Romans.

ANSWER: Charlemagne [Accept Charles the Great]

[10] This pope famously crowned Charlemagne in 800, after fleeing Rome from an angry mob of nobles who tried to tear out his tongue and rip off his ears.

ANSWER: Pope Leo III

[10] The Treaty of Verdun, ending the schism between Charlemagne's grandsons, was prompted after the armies of Louis the German and Charles the Bald took this notably mutlingual 842 pledge of solidarity in the wake of the Battle of Fontenay.

ANSWER: Oaths of Strasbourg

 

2. Answer some questions about growing stuff in the laboratory, for 10 points each:

[10] This common gut bacterium is a favorite to grow in the lab, requiring just glucose, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphate, and a few ions.  Lab strains are deliberately weakened to avoid an outbreak similar to the O157:H7 strain.

ANSWER:  Escherichia coli

[10] This bacteriophage notable for infecting E. coli with its retracting cell puncturing device is a common vector for genetic manipulation and research on mammalian cells.

ANSWER:  T4 Virus or Phage

[10] This common gelatenous chemical is often used as a bacterial growth medium, because unlike actual gelatin it is undigested by bacteria.  It's also used as a thickening for soup.

ANSWER:  Agar agar

 

3. FTPE, name some things about a musical work.

[10] This ballet was organized under impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1913 for the Ballet Russes and is known for is its primitive polyrhythmic and polytonalities. Such pagan themes and wild dancing shocked audiences and prompted riots at the work's premiere.

ANSWER: The Rite of Spring [Le sacre du printemps]

[10] This Russian composer of Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant and The Firebird and wrote The Rite of Spring.

ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky

[10] This is the first part of Rite of Spring, which sees the abduction of the girl who is to be sacrificed. Carmille Saint-Saëns considered its opening bassoon solo such a misuse of the instrument that he stormed out within a few bars.

ANSWER: A/The Kiss of the Earth [accept Adoration of the Earth, L'Adoration de la Terre – be lenient with translations; there are loads]

 

4. The speaker notes that "lawyers find out still litigious men" no matter the circumstance, and of the two sexes he notes, "we die and rise the same."  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this poem which demands "For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love."

ANSWER:  The Canonization

[10] This British poet of The Canonization also penned A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and some Holy Sonnets.

ANSWER:  John Donne

[10] A Donne poem personifying this entity describes it as a "busy old fool" that is "half as happy as we," and sees the speaker pass over the chance to wink at it in order to creepily leer at his sleeping lover.

ANSWER:  The Sun

 

5. Note to Moderator: If you're reading this part out loud, STOP, DUDE! More importantly, do NOT reveal the "Qin" portion of the first answer line.

His rule brought an end to the Warring States period, whose turbulence prompted his reliance on the extreme Legalism of Han Feizi. For ten points each:

[10] Identify this Chinese emperor who began construction on the Great Wall of China and created a massive army of terracotta soldiers for his gravesite.

ANSWER: Qin Shi Huangdi or Ying Zheng (accept "First Qin Emperor" or equivalents, as that's what those words mean)

[10] Shi Huangdi created this dynasty, named for the state he ruled prior to unifying China. It fell to the Han in 206 BCE, but not before instituting wide-scale book burning and anti-Confucianist policies.

ANSWER: Qin (pronounced "CHIN")

[10] This chancellor and top aide under Shi Huangdi instituted revolutionary changes to the Chinese bureaucracy, helping modernize governmental efficiency by standardizing weights and measures as well as the currency.

ANSWER: Li Si

 

6. Name some Italian artists who each sculpted their own statue of David FTPE:

[10] This man's David has a sling on his shoulder and is staring off into the distance looking concerned with his upcoming battle with Goliath. This artist also sculpted a famous Pieta and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

ANSWER: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

[10] His David appears to be in the motion of hurling the rock at Goliath. He might be better known for his sculptures of Apollo and Daphne and Ecstasy of St. Theresa.

ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

[10] In addition his standing bronze David, Donatello created a statute of this figure, who prominently carries a large shield. This work's commission by the Armorer's Guild was a pivotal event in the development of renaissance patronage.

ANSWER: St. George

 

7. Answer some questions about optical illusions important to a certain branch of psychology, for 10 points each.

[10] This branch of psychology, founded by Wertheimer, predicts that psychologists cannot study optical illusion by breaking them down because the whole is different than the sum of its parts.

ANSWER:  Gestalt Psychology

[10] This illusion is an orthographic wireframe shape that appears to jump between two orientations--which corner seems to jump out at the viewer.

ANSWER:  Necker Cube

[10] This student of Carl Stumpf along with Kohler was the author of Principles of Gestalt Psychology and helped to found Gestalt.  This psychologist found that, contrary to Thorndike and Pavlov, that chimpanzees could learn by sudden insight.

ANSWER:  Kurt Koffka

 

8. When they accrete enough mass, they may cause a type one A supernovae and form a neutron star.  For 10 points each:

[10] Name this stage at the end of a low-mass star's life cycle, named for its small radius

ANSWER:  White Dwarf [prompt on dwarf]

[10] This is the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf supported by electron degeneracy pressure, approximately one point four solar masses.

ANSWER:  Chandrasekhar Limit

[10] A white dwarf fromed from a star massive enough to start the triple alpha process, but not massive enough to generate neon, will have a core primarily composed of these two elements.  Most white dwarfs are expected to have this composition.

ANSWER:  Oxygen and Carbon

 

9. He issued a namesake doctrine regarding U.S. aid to foreign states after the Suez Canal Crisis. For ten points each:

[10] Identify this president, who pushed for the passage of the Federal Highway Act and appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court.

ANSWER: Dwight Eisenhower

[10] This man, secretary of state under Eisenhower, oversaw the creation and execution of Operation Ajax, which replaced the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh with Shah Reza Pahlavi in Iran.

ANSWER: John Foster Dulles

[10] Eisenhower clashed with this Arkansas governor during the integration of Little Rock Central High School. After the forced integration, this governor closed all Little Rock high schools, leading to the system's "Lost Year."

ANSWER: Orval Faubus

 

10. This 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature wrote Love Under the Rain and The Thief and the Dogs but is probably best known for a trilogy of novels named after a city in his native country. FTPE:

[10] Name this author of  Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street.

ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz

[10] Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street are entries in Mahfouz's "Trilogy" named for this city, the capital of his native African country.

ANSWER: Cairo

[10] This other Mahfouz novel, told from multiple perspectives, recount the events from the titular historical moment when Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

ANSWER: The Day the Leader Was Killed

 

11. Quantum mechanics predicts that the same result should hold for electrons, but this experiement was conducted in the early 1800s, before quantum mechanics was even formalized.  For 10 points each

[10] Name this experiment that demonstrated light interfering with itself, cementing the wave theory of light.

ANSWER:  Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment [accept two slit]

[10] This principle, stating that every point on a wavefront acts as a source, can explain why the two slits interfere with each other.

ANSWER:  Huygen's Principle

[10] Placing a detector in front of one slit causes the interference to stop, demonstrating that light obeys this principle of quantum mechanics.  The Davisson Germer experiment established this for electrons.

ANSWER:  Wave Particle Duality [accept complementarity, accept anything like light acts like both waves and particles]

 

12. Answer the following about geographical features of Israel, FTPE:

[10] This lake sits between Israel and Jordan, and is the lowest above-water point in the world. It is beginning to dry up, leaving behind huge deposits of a mineral that provides its Hebrew name.

ANSWER: Dead Sea or Salt Sea or Yam Ha-Melach or al-Bahr El Mayyit

[10] This desert, inhabited by Bedouin, covers more than half of Israel. It lies to the south, as indicated by its name, which is a Biblical word for "south."

ANSWER: Negev or al-Naqab

[10] This Israeli port city is located south of the Negev, and sits on the Red Sea on a namesake gulf. It also sits on the Arabah, a section of the Great Rift Valley that spans almost half the Israeli-Jordanian border.

ANSWER: Eilat

 

13. No one really likes modernism, but answer some questions about modernist poetry FTPE anyway:

[10] This poem describes the titular object as “glazed with rain” and sitting “beside the white chickens.” It is exemplary of its author's desire to have no aesthetic meaning in poetry, also seen in "This is Just to Say."

ANSWER: The Red Wheelbarrow

[10] In addition to writing The Red Wheelbarrow, this man also penned The Dance, Patterson, and The Great American Novel.

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams [prompt on “Williams” and “William Williams” and accept WCW]

[10] In this other Williams poem, he describes the titular place as, “the back wings of the hospital where nothing will grow lie cinders In which shine the broken pieces of a green bottle.”

ANSWER: Between Walls

 

14. FTPE, given clues on the fictional world, provide the fantasy series from which it comes:

[10] This series by George R.R Martin features the land of the Seven Kingdoms on the continent of Westeros. Some notable cities include King's Landing, Winterfell, and Storm's End.

ANSWER:  A Song of Ice and Fire

[10] Rand Al'Thor travels to many cities such as the Caemlyn, Emond's Field, and the home of the Aes Sedai, Tar Valon in this series by Robert Jordan.

ANSWER:  Wheel of Time

[10] Countries in this series include Gondor, Rohan, and Mordor. Set in the world, Middle Earth, name this most famous fantasy series by J.R.R Tolkien.

ANSWER:  Lord of the Rings

 

15. Along with Anu, Enki, and Ninhursag, he is one of the primary Sumerian deities. FTPE:

[10] Name this Sumerian god whose name means "Lord of the Wind," who was banished to the underworld, Kur, for raping his consort Ninlil.

ANSWER: Enlil

[10] This other Fertile Crescent storm deity killed the dragon Tiamat, and notably has 50 different appellations.

ANSWER: Marduk

[10] Marduk was a patron deity of this Mesopotamian city, where he replaced Enlil as the head of its pantheon.  The Enuma Elish is an account of the creation myth of this city

ANSWER:  Babylon

 

16. One key feature of this depicts people pointing skyward at the passage of Haley's Comet. For ten points each,:

[10] Identify this embroidery that shows Count Guy taking Harold Godwinson captive at Ponthieu, as well as the arrival of a French fleet at Pevensey.

ANSWER: Bayeux Tapestry

[10] The tapestry depicts the funeral of this English king and son of Aethelred the Unready, whose death provided the motivation for the Norman invasion. He feuded with Harold's father Godwin and was sainted by Pope Alexander III.

ANSWER: Edward the Confessor

[10] Not shown on the tapestry is this battle, which occurred about three weeks prior to Hastings and saw Harold face off against Vikings led by Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson as well as the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada.

ANSWER: Battle of Stamford Bridge

 

17. FTPE, prove your knowledge about a Hellenistic school of philosophy.

[10] Identify this school named for the painted porch at which they gathered.  Its foundational beliefs were in the suppression of emotion and the control of will.  

ANSWER: Stoicism

[10] This Phoenician founded Stoicism, and was later succeeded by Cleanthes and then Chrysippus as head of the Stoic school.  He was notably taught by Crates of Thebes.

ANSWER: Zeno of Citium

[10] This Roman emperor -- the last of the Five Good ones -- oversaw a Stoic revival and is well known for his Meditations.

ANSWER: Marcus Aurelius

 

18. Name these saints from descriptions of their patronages FTPE:

[10] This saint is famous for teaching pagans about the Holy Trinity by using shamrocks and for driving the snakes out of Ireland, a place for which he is the patron saint.

ANSWER: Saint Patrick

[10] He crossed a river with an absurdly heavy Christ child on his back. This tale made this man the patron saint of travelers as well as giving him his name, which is Latin for “bearer of Christ.”

ANSWER: Saint Christopher

[10] This saint is patron of falsely accused people is perhaps more notable for his creation of a namesake order founded to combat the heresy of the Cathars.

ANSWER: Saint Dominic

 

19. Answer some questions about the chemical laws that govern batteries, for 10 points each.

[10] This unit of charge is equal to the absolute value of the charge of one mole of electrons.  It's namesake also names two laws of electrochemistry relating the amount of reactants used and current produced.

ANSWER:  Faraday's Constant

[10] This equation, an application of Le Chatlier's principle to electrochemistry named after a German chemist, predicts that the potential of a redox reaction rises with the concentration of the reactants.

ANSWER:  Nernst Equation

[10]  Latimer diagrams are used to measure this value, which is represented by different zones of a Pourbaix diagram.  It differs from formal charge in that covalent electrons are not shared equally.

ANSWER:  Oxidation State [or value]

 

20. In 8 AD he was exiled to Tomis for “a poem and a mistake.” FTPE:

[10] Name this Roman poet who wrote a series of love poems called the Amores and the elegiac poem Remedia Amoris which describes how to break away from old lovers.

ANSWER: Ovid

[10] This most famous work of Ovid tells the story of the Fall of Icarus, the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, and many other stories about mythological transformations.

ANSWER: Metamorphoses

[10] In this work by Ovid about the titular concept, he advises the reader how to meet, seduce, and maintain relationships with women. One section of it advises women to seek out both young and old lovers alike.

ANSWER: Ars Amatoria [accept The Art of Love]

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