High School Quizbowl Packet Archive

 2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 6 – Tossups1. A philosopher with these two names described how “God is everything that truly is because he himself makes all things and is made in all things” in a text suppressed for its pantheistic implications. That philosopher with these names was legendarily stabbed to death with pens by his students, and wrote The Division of Nature. A different philosopher with these two names developed the idea of a specifying or instantiating property sometimes rendered “thisness” called “haecceity,” (heck-SEE-it-ee). That philosopher with these two names contended that words mean the same thing whether they are applied to God or to things, which is his concept of “univocity of being.” For 10 points, give these two names shared by a 9th-century Irish philosopher called “Eriugena” and a 13th-century Scottish philosopher whose middle appellation was “Duns.”ANSWER: John Scotus [accept Johannes in place of “John”; or John Scotus Eriugena; or John Scotus Erigena; or John Duns Scotus]<The above question is for the category RMP Philosophy and was written by John Marvin>2. This man temporarily kept a Cézanne still-life in a hedge while returning from a project to buy paintings for the National Gallery in Paris. With Hubert Henderson, this Liberal peer wrote the pamphlet “Can Lloyd George Do It?” This man resigned from the Indian Fiscal Commission after marrying the ballerina Lydia Lopokova. This advisor’s views were spurned in favor of the Heavenly Twins, Lord Sumner and Lord Cunliffe. This conscientious objector described how “I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal” in a letter to his lover Duncan Grant. This man chaired the second Commission at the Bretton Woods Conference, where his proposal for an International Clearing Union was defeated. For 10 points, name this British government advisor at the Paris Peace Conference who pressed his case in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes (canes)<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Daoud Jackson>3. One of this author’s poems is set in a song whose piano accompaniment opens by rapidly repeating F?A?F?E?D?E. “Anacreon’s Grave” is one of the texts by this author that are set in a cycle of 51 songs by Hugo Wolf (vulf), which opens with three settings of this author’s “The Harp Player.” He wrote the lyrics used in Part II of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, where his texts for the holy anchorites are sung by the chorus. A setting of one of this author’s poems begins with G?octaves in the piano’s right hand, and is about a son who is tempted to die while his father rushes away from the Erlking. Schubert used a “spinning” motif in the lied (leed) “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel,” which is based on a text by this man. For 10 points, songwriters used texts from what author’s play Faust?ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (GUR-tuh) [accept Goethe-Lieder]<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Charlie Dees>4. A Baptist pastor named Peter Ruckman was known for his vitriolic arguments that a particular example of this action was divinely inspired. Origen created a document called the Hexapla which compared different instances of this action. A group of Armenian saints including David the Invincible and Movses Khorenatsi is named for their “holy” performance of this action; one of them, Mesrop Mashtots, invented the Armenian alphabet in order to make this action possible. When performing this action, another person re-ordered sections to reflect his opinion of them and controversially added the word “alone” to Romans 3:28. For 10 points, give this action which Martin Luther did into German and which St. Jerome did into Latin.ANSWER: translating the Bible [or equivalents such as rendering the Bible in the vernacular; prompt on translating or translation]<The above question is for the category RMP Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>5. These conditions often arise from adhesion of mannose-sensitive, type-one fimbriated UPEC strains to UP1 proteins on umbrella cells. These conditions may be cleared through trapping by Tamm–Horsfall protein. A type of these conditions is the primary indication for nitrofurantoin, also known as Macrobid. These conditions typically involve formation of a biofilm on transitional epithelia. Chronic recurrence of them predisposes patients to an “ascending” route of infection that can lead to a form of these conditions called pyelonephritis (PIE-uh-lo-neh-FRIGHT-iss), which affects the upper part of a namesake system. They are more common in women due to the location and length of their urethras. For 10 points, name these infections of a namesake “tract” that includes the bladder.ANSWER: urinary tract infections [or UTIs; or bladder infections, cystitis, kidney infections, and pyelonephritis before “pyelonephritis” is read, prompt after; prompt on urine infections; prompt on infections; prompt on bacteriuria] <The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Joelle Smart>6. In a novel with this language in its title, Bear Bavinsky burns most of his paintings. A “teacher” of this language titles that 2018 novel by Tom Rachman. The author says “good luck” in a “cracked” attempt at this language in a Richard Hugo poetry collection that reflects on the author’s military experiences. Jhumpa Lahiri originally wrote “The Boundary” in this language. A poetic form that originated in this non-English language was used by another author to write the lines “One luminary clock against the sky / Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right” and “I have been one acquainted with the night.” Locals speaking this language populate the predominant settings of Roderick Hudson, A Farewell to Arms, and Catch-22. For 10 points, name this native language spoken by the title character of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.ANSWER: Italian language [or Italiano; accept The Italian Teacher]<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Penelope Ashe>7. The 2018 Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters is a film from this country. In another film from this country, a young woman softly hums “kee-dee-kee-dee-kee-dee” while straddling a would-be suitor and inserting needles into his eyes. Audition is a horror film from this country, which also produced an animated film in which a nerdy boy gets his foot snagged on an airship’s mooring line and almost plunges to his death, but is saved by a young witch in a purple dress who miraculously regains her powers. In another film from this country, four people, including a woodcutter and a bandit, all remember a murder very differently. Rashomon is from, for 10 points, what country where Kiki’s Delivery Service was made by Hayao Miyazaki (hah-YOW mee-yah-ZAH-kee)?ANSWER: Japan [or Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku]<The above question is for the category Arts Film and was written by Danny Vopava>8. For a smooth function F between manifolds, a point P is described by this term if the differential of F at P is full rank. An axiom in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory that guarantees that no set is an element of itself is alternately named the axiom of foundation or the axiom of this term. Any sufficiently large string in a language with this property can be written as xyz such that sticking more y’s in the middle keeps the new string in the language, according to the pumping lemma. This term describes a graph whose vertices all have the same degree. Every face of a Platonic solid is a convex polygon with this property. For 10 points, give this term describing polygons like squares and equilateral triangles, which have equal side lengths and angle measurements.ANSWER: regular [or word forms like regularity; prompt on foundation until read]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>9. A character in one of this author’s short stories only realizes that he is convalescing in his old school when he sees a chalkboard on which he had written the words “Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans, We.” The protagonist of one of this author’s novels refuses to sign a deposition containing the word “amorous.” That character is approached by the journalist T?tges (TURT-guss). A birthday cake in the shape of St.?Anthony Abbey is brought in at the end of another novel by this author in which Robert, one of a group who had chosen to take the “host of the lamb,” spends an hour and a half every morning at the Prince Heinrich Hotel playing the same game. For 10 points, name this German author of The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum and Billiards at Half-Past Nine.ANSWER: Heinrich Theodor B?ll<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Daoud Jackson>10. This man’s coffin was stolen 22 years after his death from his resting place on the ?le d’Yeu (eel dyuh). A national fleet was destroyed at Mers-el-Kébir in anticipation of this man’s government coming to power. He was succeeded by Robert Nivelle in a post in which he used the “Voie Sacrée” (vwah sah-KRAY) to reinforce a city under German attack. This man replaced his country’s motto with the slogan “Work, family, fatherland” and was influenced by the ideas of Charles Maurras in implementing the National Revolution. He rose to prominence for spearheading the French defense of Verdun before dissolving the Third Republic while heading an authoritarian government with its headquarters near Clermont-Ferrand. For 10 points, name this Chief of State of Vichy France.ANSWER: Marshal Philippe Pétain (pay-TAN) [or Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain]<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Daoud Jackson>11. A playwright from this country was given the epithet “enemy of woman” for his misogynistic tendencies, and wrote The Deal, A Bullet in the Heart, and The People of the Cave. The first modern Arabic novel, Zaynab, was written by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, an author from this country, which was also home to Tawfiq al-Hakim. An author from this country wrote a novel in which Yasin has a realization when he sees his father playing the tambourine. In that novel from this country, Amina gets hit by a car, and al-Sayyid Ahmad has extramarital affairs with women he met at the grocery store despite enforcing conservative values on his family; that novel is Palace Walk. For 10 points, name this country home to Naguib Mahfouz, the author of the Cairo Trilogy.ANSWER: Egypt [Arab Republic of Egypt; or Mi?r; or Khēmi]<The above question is for the category Literature World and was written by John Marvin>12. A 1987 book asks why “gender metaphors” in this book should not be considered as fundamental components of its discussions. A condensed summarizing commentary was added to this book by ?milie du Ch?telet (ay-mee-LEE du shot-LAY) in her standard French translation of it. Feminist philosopher Sandra Harding questioned whether this book constituted a “rape manual.” The preface to this book argues about its subject that “the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers,” and features the line “I feign no hypotheses” in its General Scholium. This book’s first section includes statements like “The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impress’d” and “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” For 10 points, name this groundbreaking scientific work on the laws of mechanics, written by Isaac Newton. ANSWER: Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica [or Principia Mathematica; or General Scholium until it is read]<The above question is for the category Science History of Science and was written by Joseph Krol>13. The US military uses a wrist-mounted version of this device called a PCASS. Edward Jones and Harold Sigall’s “bogus pipeline” technique involves using a fake example of this device during studies. An early version of this device was invented by John Larson for use in Berkeley by August Vollner, and was later adopted for widespread use by Leonarde Keeler. Generally, the first step in using this machine is to administer a?CQT. These machines measure the GSR, or galvanic skin response, along with the blood pressure and heart rate. Several early versions of this machine were invented by William Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman. For 10 points, courts generally do not accept as reliable what kind of machine that purports to measure honesty?ANSWER: polygraph [or lie detector]<The above question is for the category Social Science Psychology and was written by Penelope Ashe>14. One form of this quantity is proportional to the ratio of k-squared divided by epsilon in the k-epsilon model. The Hartmann number is the ratio of electromagnetic force to a force caused by the presence of this quantity. This value is proportional to velocity to the power of the behavior index minus one according to the Ostwald-de Waele equation. That equation can be used to model rheopectic materials, which experience an increase in this quantity over time. This quantity is directly proportional to the square of the mixing length at a boundary layer. Stokes’s law states that the product of 6?pi, radius, flow velocity, and this value equals the drag force. For 10 points, name this quantity measured in poise (pwahz) that represents a fluid’s resistance to flow.ANSWER: viscosity [or turbulent viscosity; or effective viscosity; or dynamic viscosity]<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Paul Lee>15. This person’s trademarks included using the inscription FC, which stood for the non-existent “Freedom Club,” and using Eugene O’Neill stamps, which was probably intentional misdirection. In 1967, he became the youngest assistant math professor in Berkeley history, and decades later crime theorists noted this person was living in Berkeley during most of the Zodiac killings. A famous sketch of this person showed him in a hoodie, sporting a mustache, and wearing dark sunglasses. Shortly after the 1995 publication of his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, this man was arrested at his isolated Montana cabin. For 10 points, identify this domestic terrorist who attacked modern technology by mailing bombs.ANSWER: the Unabomber [or Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski (kuh-zin-skee)]<The above question is for the category History American (1945-present) and was written by Mike Cheyne>16. A painting by this artist depicts a man pointing at a book on a woman’s lap mid-page-turn as a gentleman serenades them with a Spanish guitar. A version of a painting by this artist of The Love Lesson in the Louvre depicts a hazy landscape with a mountain and river in place of a boat. In another version of that painting, a small dog stands next to a man in red facing away from the viewer and holding a staff. A painting by this artist depicts well-dressed couples about to depart an island, surrounded by swarms of putti. That painting by this artist is a typical example of his fête-galante (FET-guh-LONT) theme. For 10 points, name this French rococo painter of The Shop Sign of Gersaint (zhair-SANN) and The Embarkation to Cythera.ANSWER: Jean-Antoine Watteau (vah-TOH)<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>17. Thomas Addis Emmet concluded his argument in this case by quoting the Aeneid, which prompted William Wirt to compare the United States to Troy. Sears, Roebuck & Co.?v.?Stiffel Co.?finally settled an argument that was introduced in this case, which said that federal patents preempted state intellectual property law. This case nullified the decision found by a state Court of Errors in Livingston v.?Van Ingen. As business manager for the petitioner in this case, Cornelius Vanderbilt operated with a license obtained from the Federal Coasting Act. In his majority opinion, John Marshall declared that “the power of regulating commerce extends to the regulation of navigation.” For 10 points, name this 1824 court case that ruled that a New York steamboat monopoly granted to Robert Fulton was unconstitutional.ANSWER: Gibbons v.?Ogden [or Gibbons v.?Ogden]<The above question is for the category History American (pre-1865) and was written by Nitin Rao>18. A Korean folktale features a woman lighting a fire on the tip of this object in order to cure her husband of leprosy. A Japanese yōkai (YO-kye) called Tenome (TEH-no-may) has eyes on these objects. The monkey-like kami Sarutahiko drowned due to having this object caught in a shellfish. Kyrgyz hero Manas was said to have been born with a clot of blood in this object. In the Journey to the West, Buddha bets the monkey king that he would not be able to travel farther than this object. Guanyin is sometimes shown holding a jar of water in one of her thousand of these body parts. For 10 points, name this body part that can take different gestures in Buddhist mudras. ANSWER: hand [or specific parts of the hand, such as finger or palm]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Paul Lee>19. A law widely seen as retribution for this law’s passage claimed to respond to the death of Chase Harrison in a hot car in Herndon, Virginia. This law was strongly advocated by Bill Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. In December 2016, a “global” version of this law was signed, adding to its targets people such as Yahya Jammeh. Reconsideration of this law and its fallout was the purported reason for a June 2016 meeting involving Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump,?Jr. As a result of this bill, the Dima Yakovlev Law was passed, forbidding American adoption of Russian children. This law is named for a man who was murdered in prison in 2009. For 10 points, name this law which bars Russian officials involved in corruption and human rights abuses from using US banks.ANSWER: Magnitsky Act<The above question is for the category Current Events US and was written by Penelope Ashe>20. After looking at this object, a character thinks “no, the other was also” this thing, “for nothing was simply one thing.” A person who lives near this object has a son afflicted with “tuberculous hip,” and other characters decide to bring him parcels after ruminating over “what does one send” to this place. A character has “had her vision” when she finishes a painting with a single bold stroke upon seeing this object. A trip to this place almost gets cancelled when the children aren’t ready in the morning, and earlier, various characters repeatedly declare that they can’t travel to this place tomorrow because the wind isn’t right, among other reasons. For 10 points, identify this building that only Cam, James, Lily Briscoe, and Mr.?Ramsay end up journeying to in a Virginia Woolf novel.ANSWER: The Lighthouse [or To The Lighthouse; or Godrevy Lighthouse]<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by John Marvin>Extra. This compound was eliminated in the final step of the first preparation of tetra-tert-butyl tetrahedrane. Ketenes can decompose to a carbene and this compound. The Exxon and Shell processes add two hydrogen atoms and this compound to an alkene. A pendant histidine residue aims to alleviate a property that arises because this compound forms a stronger bond than oxygen to an iron atom in a porphyrin complex. In the Mond process, very pure nickel can be obtained by decomposing a horrifyingly toxic complex nickel forms with four equivalents of this molecule. The water-gas shift reaction reacts this compound and water to form hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide. For 10 points, name this gas consisting of an atom each of carbon and oxygen.ANSWER: carbon monoxide [or CO]<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Ewan MacAulay>2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 6 – Bonuses1. Johannes Daubert was so thoroughly impressed by this man’s first major book that he rode his bike one hundred kilometers to talk to him, and then quit philosophy since he had nothing to add. For 10 points each:[10] Name this mathematician-turned-philosopher who rejected the psychologistic account of mathematics in his Logical Investigations.ANSWER: Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl[10] Husserl developed phenomenology around this methodological technique, which involves suspending judgment about the contents of the external world and reserving metaphysical assumptions in order to observe consciousness directly.ANSWER: bracketing [or epoché (eh-po-KAY); or phenomenological reduction][10] Husserl’s first book was a treatise on The Philosophy of this subject. Earlier, Frege (FRAY-guh) wrote a book on The Foundations of this subject, which influenced Russell. It involves the elementary mathematics of numbers and the basic operations of addition and subtraction.ANSWER: arithmetic<The above question is for the category RMP Philosophy and was written by John Marvin>2. Common examples of these things include “IO,” “Maybe,” and “List.” For 10 points each:[10] Name these structures that are used to effectively create general types and to chain operations together in a certain programming paradigm. These design patterns have been analogized to stations on an assembly line.ANSWER: monads[10] Monads are used in this programming paradigm, a declarative category that is opposed to imperative paradigms like object-oriented and procedural programming. The most common example of a language purely in this paradigm is Haskell (HASS-kull).ANSWER: purely functional programming[10] One of the properties of the functional paradigm is that it avoids these consequences, where a global state or other system external to the program is modified in the course of execution. Their name evokes certain consequences in medicine.ANSWER: side effects<The above question is for the category Science Computer Science and was written by John Marvin>3. In a poem by this writer, two characters’ footprints are described as “First traces in the world, of life and time / And love, and mortal hope, and vanishing.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this Victorian poet, who explored Norse mythology in Ask to Embla and Ragnar?k. This poet was the subject of Mortimer Cropper’s biography The Great Ventriloquist, and two critics controversially claimed that another poet’s The Fairy Melusine was influenced by him.ANSWER: Randolph Henry Ash[10] Roland Michell and Maud Bailey work together to race Cropper and James Blackadder to discover evidence of Ash’s passionate affair with fellow poet Christabel LaMotte in this novel by A.?S.?Byatt.ANSWER: Possession[10] Ash’s love of the dramatic monologue is often compared to this real Victorian poet, whose “Mr.?Sludge, ‘The Medium’” provides the epigraph to Possession. This man wrote “My Last Duchess.”ANSWER: Robert Browning<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Shan Kothari>4. If two continuous functions agree on a set with this property, they must agree everywhere. For 10 points each:[10] Name this property. A subset of a topological space has this property if its closure is the whole space or, equivalently, if it intersects every open set in the topology.ANSWER: dense [or density][10] The fact that the real numbers have the Archimedean property can be used to prove that this subset, often symbolized Q, is dense in the reals. This is the set of numbers that can be written as the quotient of two integers.ANSWER: rational numbers [or the rationals][10] This adjective refers to a space, like the real numbers, that has a countable dense subset. ANSWER: separable<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>5. This priest wrote a virelai (veer-LAY) about courtly love called “Douce dame jolie” (doose dahm zhoh-LEE). For 10 points each:[10] Name this canon who wrote music for Reims (rance) Cathedral, and who was the first composer to supervise the creation of an anthology of his complete works.ANSWER: Guillaume de Machaut (gee-YOME duh mah-SHOW) [or Guillaume de Machault][10] Guillaume de Machaut wrote the first complete setting by a single composer of this collection of texts. That work uses a chant intonation to open the “Gloria” and “Credo” movements.ANSWER: mass [or missa; or messe][10] Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame, as well as the Roman de Fauvel (ro-MAWN duh fo-VELL), exemplify this style of medieval polyphony. It was written about by Philippe de Vitry (fee-LEEP duh vee-TREE) and is contrasted with a preceding “antiqua” style.ANSWER: ars nova<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Penelope Ashe>6. This project was begun during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. For 10 points each:[10] Name this public work that discharged waste into the Tiber River. This marvel of Roman engineering was originally built to drain the marsh on the site of the Forum.ANSWER: Cloaca Maxima [or the Greatest Sewer][10] This architect later cleansed and enlarged the Cloaca Maxima before riding through the sewer in a boat to prove his success. This right-hand man to Augustus also built the original Pantheon and won the Battle of Actium.ANSWER: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa[10] This contemporary of Agrippa made reference to Agrippa’s public works program in his ten-volume De architectura, which inspired Leonardo Da Vinci.ANSWER: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio<The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Nitin Rao>7. This goddess is alternatively listed as the daughter of Peneus or the daughter of the Arcadian river Ladon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this naiad (NYE-ad) who was turned into a laurel tree to avoid a pursuer.ANSWER: Daphne[10] Daphne was pursued by this god.ANSWER: Apollo[10] Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne came after he was shot by an arrow fired by this goddess, either because he mocked her archery skills or because she hated his singing.ANSWER: Eros<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Fred Morlan>8. Joseph Asagai calls this character’s choice to straighten her hair “mutilation,” and later asks her to move to Nigeria with him. For 10 points each:[10] Name this character, the sister of Walter, who has to choose between Joseph and her rich, assimilated boyfriend George Murchison.ANSWER: Beneatha Younger [prompt on Younger][10] Beneatha was created by this author, who wrote a play about the life of the Younger family as they figure out how to use an insurance payout and decide whether to take a buyout rather than move into an all-white neighborhood.ANSWER: Lorraine Hansberry [Lorraine Vivian Hansberry][10] Name that play, whose title comes from Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem,” which asks “What happens to a dream deferred?”ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by John Marvin>9. This statesman’s “Second Reply to Hayne” praised “liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this politician from New Hampshire who signed a treaty with Baron Ashburton. He was the third member of the so-called “Great Triumvirate” alongside Clay and Calhoun, and was secretary of state under three presidents.ANSWER: Daniel Webster[10] The Webster–Ashburton treaty resolved this mostly nonviolent boundary dispute over the northern border of Maine with New Brunswick. It began with disagreements between lumberjacks.ANSWER: Aroostook (uh-RUSS-took) War[10] The Webster–Ashburton treaty also put to rest the disputes surrounding this short-lived micro-state at the far north of New Hampshire. This country declared independence and drafted a constitution after denizens were taxed by both America and Canada, resigning their efforts when the American militia showed up.ANSWER: The Republic of Indian Stream<The above question is for the category History American (pre-1865) and was written by John Marvin>10. This man modified Patrick Geddes’s theories to divide the history of civilization into the eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic periods. For 10 points each:[10] Name this sociologist who wrote The Myth of the Machine and The City in History.ANSWER: Lewis Mumford[10] Mumford wrote in Technics and Civilization that this machine, “not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.” In the 13th century, water-based versions of these machines, called clepsydra, began to appear at monasteries.ANSWER: clocks [accept water clocks][10] Mumford used this proper name to refer to people who work in “megamachines.” Ward Churchill claimed that people killed in the 9/11 attacks were “little” versions of this person.ANSWER: Eichmanns [or little Eichmanns; or Otto Adolf Eichmann]<The above question is for the category Social Science Sociology and was written by Penelope Ashe>11. A man with scales and peacock feathers sits on a house in this painting. For 10 points each:[10] Name this predominantly green painting, whose angry central character plays the piano. The title of this painting is on the piano’s music book.ANSWER: The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre[10] The Gold Scab is by this artist, who depicted his mother sitting in a chair in Arrangement in Grey and Black No.?1.ANSWER: James Abbott McNeill Whistler[10] Whistler usually signed his paintings with a monograph based on this creature, usually with an elongated stinger-like tail.ANSWER: butterfly<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>12. This man was compelled by his father into a loveless marriage with Cardinal Richelieu’s (REESH-lyuh’s) niece, whom he locked away at Ch?teauroux (shah-toh-ROO). For 10 points each:[10] Name this French general who shattered the tercio (TAIR-see-oh) formations of the Army of Flanders at the Battle of Rocroi (ro-KWAH). During the Franco-Spanish War, he was decisively defeated by his rival Turenne at the Battle of the Dunes.ANSWER: The Grand Condé [or Louis II, Prince of Condé; prompt on Duc d’Enghien (duke dong-GAN); prompt on Prince of Condé][10] The Grand Condé was a rebellious leader in this civil war during the minority of Louis XIV. This rebellion consisted of a Parlements’ (par-luh-MONT) phase and a Princes’ phase and was named for slings used to break the windows of Cardinal Mazarin’s (mah-zah-RAN’s) associates.ANSWER: The Fronde[10] The Grand Condé was pardoned for his role in the Fronde by this 1659 treaty that ended the Franco-Spanish War. By the terms of this treaty, Louis XIV was married to Maria Theresa of Spain and France gained the county of Roussillon (roo-see-YON).ANSWER: Treaty of the Pyrenees<The above question is for the category History European 1400-1914 and was written by Nitin Rao>13. Answer the following about flamenco dancing steps, for 10 points each.[10] The traditional means of advancing to show one’s legs and arms when flamenco dancing is the escobilla (ess-koh-BEE-yah) step, in which this specific part of the body brushes along the ground. This padded area of the foot is found between the toes and the arch.ANSWER: ball of the foot [prompt on sole][10] One of the most distinctive steps in flamenco dancing is this sort of step known as a golpe (GOAL-pay). In tap dancing, this type of step is contrasted with a “stomp” as the weight is shifted onto the foot that makes the sound.ANSWER: stamp[10] In the 20th century, flamenco steps have been combined with steps from other dance traditions as part of Nuevo flamenco. One such style of flamenco has been influenced by this Cuban dance genre, whose yambú form is performed with a 4/4 (four-four) clave (KLAH-vay) rhythm.ANSWER: rumba [or rhumba]<The above question is for the category Arts Ballet/Dance and was written by Daoud Jackson>14. The positive counterpart to this concept is ziran (TZUH-ran), which can be loosely translated “self-so” or “so of its own.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this central Daoist concept, which refers to being in harmony with the Dao such that one’s actions are uncontrived and spontaneous. It has been translated “effortless action” and “non-doing.”ANSWER: wu wei (woo way)[10] A text from a different school of thought evokes a sentiment similar to wu wei when it asked: “was it not Shun who did nothing and yet ruled well?” That text, the Analects, was written by this man, whose school of thought was revived during the Tang dynasty in response to Daoism and Buddhism.ANSWER: Confucius [or Kǒng Fūzǐ][10] A traditional painting subject shows the Buddha, Laozi (LAO-tsuh), and Confucius tasting this substance, with three different reactions, emphasizing the simultaneous harmony and difference among their respective religious traditions.ANSWER: vinegar [or acetic acid]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>15. A hallmark for this disease is the dimpled appearance of skin, which is termed “peau d’orange” (PO doh-RAWNJ). For 10 points each:[10] Name this type of cancer. Over-expression of HER2 is associated with an increased risk in this disease. ANSWER: breast cancer [prompt on cancer][10] The utility of this screening exam for breast cancer is controversial; it’s essentially an X-ray of the breast.ANSWER: mammogram [or mammography; or mastography][10] This term is used for breast cancer that lacks estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, or HER2. This type of breast cancer is notable due to the inability to treat it with hormone therapies.ANSWER: triple-negative breast cancer [or TNBC]<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Fred Morlan>16. This writer’s novel Clélie (klay-LEE) introduced the carte de tendre (kart duh TON-druh), a map depicting the path towards love. For 10 points each:[10] Name this French writer who coined the term roman à clef (ro-MAWN ah KLAY) and fictionalized the lives of 17th century socialites in novels such as Artamène (ar-tah-MEN), which is among the longest novels ever written.ANSWER: Madeleine de Scudéry (mah-duh-LEN duh skoo-day-REE)[10] De Scudéry was among the witty précieuses (prace-YUZZ) mocked in this playwright’s The Ridiculous Précieuses. Orgon falls under the spell of a hypocrite in his play Tartuffe.ANSWER: Molière [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin][10] De Scudéry solves the mystery surrounding the death of the renowned goldsmith René Cardillac (ruh-NAY kar-dee-YAK) in a novella by this Prussian writer, whose “tales” include “The Sandman.”ANSWER: E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann]<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Shan Kothari>17. Donald Rumsfeld said that he eliminated these two words from a speech, but forgot to have them removed from a banner. For 10 points each:[10] Give these two words displayed above a man giving a May 2003 speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which resulted in much mockery.ANSWER: Mission Accomplished[10] This president, who was speaking about the Iraq War, gave the so-called “Mission Accomplished” speech.ANSWER: George Walker Bush [or Dubya; or Bush the younger; or Bush 43; prompt on Bush; do not accept or prompt on “George Herbert Walker Bush” or “George H.?W.?Bush”][10] Rumsfeld told this journalist that he forgot to remove the banner. This co-author of the book The Final Days wrote the four-volume Bush at War series, which included Plan of Attack and State of Denial.ANSWER: Bob Woodward [Robert Upshur Woodward]<The above question is for the category History American (1945-present) and was written by Mike Cheyne>18. These two cell types are extremely deficient in mouse strains with loss-of-function mutations in DNA-PKcs. For 10 points each:[10] Name this pair of immune cell types that are functionally eliminated in PRKDC-scid mice due to defects in V(D)J recombination, which is integral to their development in the thymus and bone marrow.ANSWER: B AND T cells [accept in either order; prompt on lymphocytes][10] The NOD background in NOD scid gamma mice is used on its own as a spontaneous model for this disease, which can be prevented by injecting the mice with Freund’s adjuvant. The biobreeding rat is another model of this disease.ANSWER: type 1 diabetes [or T1D; or diabetes mellitus type 1; prompt on diabetes or diabetes mellitus][10] The “gamma” in NOD scid gamma refers to the common IL2R gamma chain of the receptors for a group of these molecules called interleukins. X-linked SCID results from mutations in that receptor for this broad class of cell signaling proteins, and the lethality of Spanish flu was likely from a namesake “storm” of them.ANSWER: cytokines <The above question is for the category Science Astronomy and was written by Joelle Smart>19. All but one member of this institution drown themselves in the name of the title character at the end of Max Beerbohm’s satirical novel Zuleika Dobson. For 10 points each:[10] Name this institution, from which Paul Pennyfeather is forced to rusticate at the beginning of a later novel after falling victim to the Bollinger Club’s drunken revelry.ANSWER: University of Oxford[10] Although it is thinly disguised as “Christminster,” a more serious representation of Oxford in literature appears in the novel Jude the Obscure by this author of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far From The Madding Crowd. ANSWER: Thomas Hardy[10] Getting into Oxford is the focus of the play The History Boys by this British author who also wrote a series of Talking Heads monologues.ANSWER: Alan Bennett<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Joseph Krol>20. When asked why the military chose to bomb this region, Deputy Chief of Mission Monteagle Stearns testified to the Senate that “we had all those planes sitting around and couldn’t just let them stay there with nothing to do.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this region of a Southeast Asian country. It contains thousands of its namesake sandstone receptacles, which locals believe are for collecting monsoon rains.ANSWER: Plain of Jars [prompt on Xiangkhoang Plateau][10] The Plain of Jars is located in this country. The US Air Force dropped more bombs on this landlocked neighbor of Vietnam during the “Secret War” than it did during the entirety of World War II.ANSWER: Laos [or the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; or Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; or République démocratique populaire lao][10] The Plain of Jars is near this tallest mountain in Laos, which has not been climbed in thirty years because it is next to the grounds of a military base and is covered in unexploded ordnance.ANSWER: Phou Bia (POO BEE-uh)<The above question is for the category Geography World and was written by John Marvin>Extra. A sequel to this story is entitled “The Discourager of Hesitancy.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this short story without a clear ending. It discusses a punishment given to a peasant for being the lover of a princess.ANSWER: “The Lady, or the Tiger?”[10] “The Lady, or the Tiger?”?is a short story by this author.ANSWER: Frank R. Stockton [Frank Richard Stockton][10] The title “Discourager of Hesitancy” is this kind of weapon. One of them that appears in Peter Pan is called Johnny Corkscrew.ANSWER: sword [or scimitar]<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Fred Morlan> ................
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