Classis City Classic: Round 5



Classic City Classic: Round 5

1) His son was a poet, famous for the sonnet Trumbull Stickney. His grandson of the same name also pursued a career in politics, and that grandson served as Ambassador to the UN before losing in the 1960 election on the Republican ticket with Richard Nixon. He himself served on the Dillingham Commission to study immigration patterns, during which time he developed opinions voiced during his time as head of the Immigration Restriction League. Serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this is, FTP, what Massachusetts Senator whose isolationist convictions prevented the US from joining the League of Nations?

Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge

2) One of this figure's poems states “I hope to see my Pilot face to face” in an extended metaphor comparing setting out to sea with death, while another asks to "Forgive these wandering cries/ Confusions of a wasted youth," and is a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Yet another famous poem asks "When can their glory fade?" in relation to a group that is said "not to reason why/ but to do or die" during a military advance at the Battle of Balaclava. FTP, name this English poet, known for his poems “Crossing the Bar,” “In Memoriam”, and “Charge of the Light Brigade”?

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

3) Though originally a normal ninja, his betrayal and murder causes him to respawn seeking revenge. Quan Chi taught him his mastery of sorcery and martial arts, and after winning a tournament he asks the Elder Gods to resurrect the Shirai Ryu clan, but crosses them by killing Daegon and Taven, preventing Armageddon. He manages to kill his comrade before finding out that he had killed his own older brother Sub-Zero. FTP, name this character from Midway’s Mortal Kombat series whose trademark yell “GET OVER HERE!” features him firing his spear as he pulls his opponent towards himself.

Answer: Scorpion

4) During his late career he defeated an army of Pontus at the Battle of Zela, and he opposed Quintus Pius in running for the office of Pontifex Maximus. When captured by Cilician pirates, he supposedly demanded that they ask for a much larger ransom payment, and later he crucified all of them as revenge. Cassivellaunus fought against him during his invasion of the British Isles, and his military career also featured victories with the Populares at Pharsalus against Pompey, and at Alesia in the Gallic Wars. FTP, who is this Roman dictator that was assassinated on the Ides of March?

Answer: Gaius Julius Caesar

5) This literary figure wrote a poem laughing at the possibility of seeing his old friend at the Western Ocean if he could get the titular machine. That poem, “Green Automobile,” can be found with “Siesta in Xbalba” in his collection Reality Sandwiches. This man alludes to Garcia Lorca and watermelons in his poem “A Supermarket in California,” while his best known work consistently mentions “Moloch” and “Rockland” while making various allusions to pop culture, and is dedicated to friend Carl Solomon. FTP, identify this proponent of the Beat Generation best known for his poems “Kaddish” and “Howl.”

Answer: Allen Ginsberg

6) Frederick Knickerbocker proposed a theory of reaction in these entities explaining why one firm will follow rivals into new markets, and similar recent research has showed that globalization is increasing the prevalence of this market situation described by Stackelberg, Cournot, and Bertrand models. In it the demand curve is kinked, collusion is a high risk, and a firm’s behavior can be assessed using game theory. Commonly exampled by the media and beer industry, FTP, what type of market exists when a few firms dominate the industry?

Answer: Oligopoly (prompt on duopoly on early buzz)

7) Before the Plains of Abraham, James Wolfe once said “Gentlemen, I would rather have written this poem than take Quebec tomorrow”. One line in this poem pleads to “Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r,” while another mentions “some mute inglorious Milton.” In addition to popularizing the phrase “kindred spirit,” this poem inspired the title of a Stanley Kubrick movie with the line “the paths of glory led but to the grave” as well as inspiring the title of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd. Beginning with the phrase, “curfew tolls the knell of parting day," FTP, name this 1751 poem set in church and written by Thomas Gray.

Answer: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

8) Located in the Tharsis bulge, it is the largest between it and others in the bulge such as Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus. Its formation has been dated back to the Amazonian epoch. It consists of a central edifice 17 miles high and 335 miles across that is surrounded by an outward-facing cliff up to about 6 miles high. This means that anyone who stood on the planet’s surface could not see the top because of the curvature of the planet. Located on the planet Mars, FTP name this universally largest known volcano.

Answer: Olympus Mons

9) Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland all claim this nation’s king Maurice Benyofszky as from their nation, and he is credited with introducing its Latin alphabet. However, Radama and Ranavalona are the two most common names of its native monarchs. Sometimes known as the “Island of the Moon,” geographically its highest peak is Mt Maromokotro, its largest lake is Alaotra, and its longest river is Betsiboka. FTP identify this fourth largest island in the world, the home to the fossa and lemur, with its capitol at Antananarivo.

Answer: Madagascar, accept Malagasy

10) Adenosine diphosphate inhibitor drugs, such as Plavix and Ticlid, will decrease the aggregation of these cells thereby decreasing the chance of forming their final product. Their aggregation or clumping together can be caused by a number of agents, such as ADP and collagen. Their aggregation is a part of a sequential mechanism leading to the initiation and formation of a hemostatic plug. Also known as thrombocytes, FTP, name these fragments of cells that are responsible for blood clotting.

Answer: platelets (also accept thrombocytes before mentioned)

11) The artist stated that he was trying to depict the “terrible passions of humanity” in his use of red and green. The thickness of the paint and the lines of the work contribute to the awkward perspective that leads downward to the door in the rear of the composition, nearby a couple huddled under one of three strangely placed lights. The subject of the work, located at 30 Place Lamartine, was owned by Joseph-Michel and his wife Marie, who later posed for the artist’s friend Gauguin. FTP, name this 1888 work by Vincent Van Gogh, depicting a late night spot with a large billiards table in the center.

Answer: The Night Café

12) Located on the Wadi Ara in the Jezreel valley of the Nablus Plain, Liman von Sanders was defeated by an early example of the strategic use of air power by Edwin Allenby in a 1918 battle at this location, which was earlier the site where Necho II and his allies defeated and killed King Josiah. More famously it was the site where an uprising of the Mitanni and Canaanites was crushed by Thutmose III. FTP, the word Armageddon is derived from the name of what place, the site of the first recorded battle?

Answer: Tel Megiddo

13) One character in this novel leaves an apology letter underneath a basket of apricots causing the titular character to fall ill upon discovering it. After a performance of the opera Lucie de Lammermoor, the title character pretends to receive “piano lessons” in order to maintain an affair with the law student Leon Dupuis. The protagonist also moves from Tostes to Yonville with her doctor husband Charles where she begins another affair with Rodolphe Boulanger. FTP, identify this novel centering on an adulterous French woman named Emma, the best known novel by Gustave Flaubert.

Answer: Madame Bovary

14) The first patent for one was filed by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925. When placed in a configuration with diodes and a capacitor, several of these constitute an operational amplifier. In 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain succeeded in building the first practical point-contact one at Bell Labs. FTP, name this three terminal, solid state semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals. 

ANSWER: transistor

15) With Deidamia he had a son that took Andromache as a bride and killed King Priam, and he himself killed Troilus and wounded King Telephus. His anger was once incited by Thersites who was killed instantly for making fun of his sensitive regret over killing Penthisilia. Others he killed out of rage include Memnon, who had killed his friend Antilochus, and of course the victor over his close friend Patroclus, Hector. FTP, what leader of the Myrmidons was invincible except for the body part by which his mother dipped him in the Styx?

Answer: Achilles

16) This force is calculated in a ratio with the inertial force to give a dimensionless number representing fluid flow, known as the Rossby number. Though it is responsible for the nature of the rotation of large scale objects such as tropical cyclones, it does not play a significant role in the rotation of toilet bowl and bathtub vortexes, as described in the common myth. FTP, name this phenomenon which causes moving objects on the surface of the earth to appear to veer to the left in the southern hemisphere, and to the right on the northern hemisphere.

Answer: Coriolis Effect

17) Like Beethoven, this composer created a Symphony in C, but composed his in three movements, rather than the traditional four. He went on to create great works such as the opera Ariadne and Bluebeard. His most famous work, a symphonic poem based off a Goethe work, is famously depicted in Disney’s Fantasia. FTP, name this French composer who created the masterpiece, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Answer: Paul Dukas

18) In the Coulometric variety of this technique, a platinum anode generates iodine currents which are used when one reaches the endpoint to determine the amount of water in the original solution. This was one type of this classic technique invented by Karl Fischer in 1935. During acid/base ones, a burette is used to administer the neutralizing agent thereby creating an equivalence point with polyprotic acids/bases having multiple equivalence points. FTP, this is what lab technique used in analytical chemistry to determine the unknown concentration of an acid/base.

Answer: titration

19) This opera in three parts is based on the Victor Hugo play The King Amuses Himself. The opera begins with the unhappy titular character’s daughter being abducted by the Duke of Mantua. The protagonist plots to kill the duke to save his daughter, but in the end, his daughter Gilda, who is in love with the duke, disguises herself as man to save the duke and is killed. The protagonist yells out “the curse”, as his daughter dies in his arms. Featuring the aria "La Donna e Mobile," FTP, what is this Giuseppe Verdi opera about a cursed jester?

Answer: Rigoletto

20) This suppressor of the January Uprising created the Okhrana to monitor political radicals, though his education by Vasily Zhukovsky and advisement by Pyotr Shuvalov led him to be relatively liberal, as exampled by the local governing bodies called Zemstvos that he fostered. Alexander Soloviev failed to assassinate him, but a massive pogrom ensued after the People’s Will killed him with a bomb. FTP, which Russian Czar freed the serfs?

Answer: Alexander II Nikolayevich ‘the Liberator’

Tiebreaker: During this battle, Nicodemous Heights was an important artillery position and the Texas Brigade made a notable counter-charge that wrecked General Mansfield's attack. Two entire Union corps including Franklin’s and Fitz-John Porter’s were held in reserve during this battle which also saw action around Dunkard church. Robert Toombs held off several assaults over the Rorhbach Bridge but was forced to retreat after a ration of whisky inspired Burnside’s troops to begin an assault that was only ended by the timely arrival of AP Hill’s troops from Harper’s Ferry. FTP, identify this September 1862 civil war battle that stopped Lee’s invasion into Maryland, the bloodiest day of the war.

ANSWER: Antietam (Accept: Sharpsburg for unreformed southerners)

BONUSES

1) Name these works by Arthur Miller, FTPE:

A) This response to McCarthyism centers on John Proctor and a town’s frenzy to discover and punish performers of witchcraft.

Answer: The Crucible

B) In this work by Miller, the disgruntled Willy Loman commits suicide in order to provide some money for his failure sons Biff and Happy.

Answer: Death of a Salesman

C) This Miller play, based on a true story, centers on Joe Keller and his trouble regarding the manufacture of some faulty airplane parts during WWII.

Answer: All My Sons

2) Famous for works like Man and His Symbols and Mysterium Conunctionis, in this thinker's Psychology and Alchemy he elaborates on some of the reasons why he split with Freud. FTPE

A) The terms introversion and extroversion are associated with what Swiss founder of analytical psychology?

Answer: Carl Gustav Jung

B) Jung's theories of the archetype, anima, and epitome can be considered part of this larger idea that contrasts with his theories of the individual, and which can alternatively be defined as the "reservoir of the experiences of mankind."

Answer: Collective Unconscious, accept Collective Subconscious

C) This doubly eponymous "type-indicator," which is something of a personality classifier, is based off of Jung's work Psychological Types.

Answer: Myers Briggs Type Indicator (accept MBTI)

3) In 1845 Buys-Ballot verified this effect that also led to the proof that light requires no medium for transmission. FTPE

A) Identify this effect exampled by moving sirens, in which the frequency of a wave changes for an observer moving relative to the wave's source.

Answer: Doppler Effect

B) With gravity the doppler effect is the cause of this other effect, in which a wavelength of light appears longer to an observer, and which is most frequently seen in stars.

Answer: redshift

C) This effect was once used to measure the doppler effect and to conduct studies on redshift. Essentially it refers to the resonant emission and absorption of gamma ray photons, and is named for the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Answer: Mossbauer Effect

4) In a work by one author from this country, a colonial official forces Sergeant Amusa to prevent the ritual suicide of Elesin Oba, FTPE,

A.) Identify this home country of Christopher Okigbo and Wole Soyinka.

Answer: Nigeria

B.) Identify the aforementioned work with Sergeant Amusa and Elesin Oba, a play by Soyinka.

Answer: Death and the King's Horsemen

C.) The most famous author from Nigeria is the creator of Okonkwo in his Things Fall Apart.

Answer: Chinua Achebe

5) This figure once made her father Anu send the bull of heaven to kill a certain man that had angered her, though the bull was slain by Enkidu. FTPE

A) Identify this Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, who also went by the name Inanna.

Answer: Ishtar

B) Ishtar was angered by this aforementioned king of Uruk, who was two thirds immortal and who in an epic famously killed Humbaba with the aid of Enkidu.

Answer: Gilgamesh

C) Ishtar's lover was this god of vegetation, who was rescued from the underworld at the start of every growing season.

Answer: Tammuz (or Dumuzid)

6) FTPE name these parts found in the brain.

A) This part of the brain mainly deals with movement, both with controlling and learning movement, and it is latin for little brain.

Answer: cerebellum

B) Spatial memory and navigation is partially coordinated by this part of the limbic system, which otherwise is responsible for storing long-term memories, and is latin for sea-horse.

Answer: hippocampis

C) This part of the hindbrain is involved in motor control and sensory. It also forms part of the metencephalon along with the cerebrum.

Answer: pons

7) This author wrote a collection of poems entitled Chamber Music. For ten points each:

A) Name this author, whose first novel was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Answer: James Joyce

B) This incredibly confusing last novel by James Joyce includes the characters of the Four Masters, Anna Livia Plurabelle, and Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

Answer: Finnegan's Wake

C) This short story by Joyce, the last in the collection Dubliners, centers on Gabriel Conroy and the dance party held by the Morkan sisters.

Answer: “The Dead”

8) Answer the following about influential generals from European history, FTPE

A) This general defended Portugal in the Peninsular campaign before joining Blucher to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo; he later became Prime Minister.

Answer: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (accept either)

B) This other English general defeated Monmouth's rebellion at Sedgemoor, though he's more famous for his decisive victory at Blenheim in 1704. He was also an important advisor to Queen Anne.

Answer: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (accept either)

C) This francophone general aided Marlborough at Blenheim during his three decade service for the Austrian Hapsburgs, during which time he also defeated the Turks many times, most famously at Zenta.

Answer: Prince Eugene of Savoy

9) An accomplished pianist, this composer created The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, FTPE

A) Identify this British composer of the operas Gloriana, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, and Peter Grimes.

Answer: Benjamin Britten

B) This work was commissioned to celebrate the reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed during World War II. The work features nine poems by Wilfred Owen.

Answer: War Requiem

C) In this opera by Britten, Rome is portrayed as fighting off an invasion. At its end Tarquinius has left the home, and the titular character commits suicide.

Answer: The Rape of Lucretia

10) The Davis Strait separates Greenland from this island. FTPE:

A) What island, the namesake of a current and the fifth largest in the world, is home to Nunavut’s capital, Iqaluit?

Answer: Baffin Island

B) To the south of Baffin lies Ungava Bay and this much larger bay that shares its name with the strait thought by its namesake to lead to the Northwest Passage.

Answer: Hudson Bay

C) Akimiski Island lies in this southern extension of Hudson bay, with cities like Fort Albany and Moose Factory located on its shores.

Answer: James Bay

11) For ten points each, identify these novels by Willa Cather.

A) The titular Shimerda daughter marries Cuzak and is childhood friends with Jim Burden in this novel, set in Nebraska.

Answer: My Ántonia

B) This novel, set in Nebraska, focuses on four main characters, Alexandra and Emil Bergson, Carl Linstrum, and Marie Shabata, and at one point its plot jumps sixteen years into the future.

Answer: O Pioneers!

C) This winner of the 1923 Pulitzer Prize focuses on the son of a Nebraska farmer, Claude Wheeler, who wishes for a world outside of farming, a desire that drives him to join the army.

Answer: One of Ours

12) With formaldehyde, it forms the explosive RDX, and with bleach can form a poisonous gas. FTPE

A) Identify this compound  created in nitrogen fixation by plants, which is also used in fertilizers.

Answer: Ammonia (accept hydrogen nitride, do not accept ammonium)

B) Making use of aluminum oxide and an iron catalyst, this process is used to mass-produce ammonia, and is named for the winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Answer: Haber-Bosch process

C) Ammonia is considered the simplest of this class of compounds, which are characterized by the presence of a nitrogen atom. Their lone pair typically makes them bases.

Answer: amines    

13) Identify the following from Japanese history, FTPE:

A) The victor at the siege of Terabe, this leader fought in an alliance with Takeda Shingen, and later won at Sekigahara to establish his long namesake dynasty

Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu (accept either)

B) Tokugawa was preceded by this leader whose rule is called the Momoyama period. He brought an end to the Sengoku period and is considered the first unifier of Japan.

Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (accept either)

C) Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s accomplishments were only possible due to his predecessor, this leader from Owari who was forced to commit suicide by Mitsuhide.

Answer: Oda Nobunaga (accept either)

14) Answer these questions about the Norse trickster-god Loki, FTPE

A) In the process of luring away the horse Svadthilfari from his master, Loki was impregnated by Svadthilfari, and so Loki gave birth to this eight-legged horse that he gave to Odin as a gift.

Answer: Sleipnir

B) While in the form of the female giantess Thökk, Loki refused to weep for the death of this popular God, thus preventing his release from Hel. Loki had earlier tricked Hodr into killing him with mistletoe.

Answer: Balder

C) In one story, Loki killed Fimafeng, the servant of this sea god, whose daughters are the waves, and whose wife is Ran.

Answer: Aegir (accept Gymir)

15) FTPE name these shows one would see on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.

A) This creation of Seth Green features various skits using various claymation and action figures as the characters. It can often be seen parodying movies like the Stars Wars franchise.

Answer: Robot Chicken

B) This show most recently premiered Season 4 with Brock Samson being resuscitated by OSI doctors after the climactic battle between the Monarch and the OSI agents. Following the adventures of the titular family, it is a parody of the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon Johnny Quest.

Answer: The Venture Brothers

C) This shows’ protagonists can often be seen causing mayhem and destruction with their demonic death metal melodies. Nathan Explosion, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Toki Wartooth, Pickles, and William Murderface make up the band, Dethklok is this show.

Answer: Metalocalypse

16) Later ruled unconstitutional by the court case Myers vs. US, this lasted three months and resulted from such actions as the defendant’s vetoing of the Freedman’s Bureau and otherwise impeding Republican goals. FTPE:

A) With William Evarts serving as the subject’s defense counselor and Salmon P Chase presiding, what is this process with which resulted in the concerned party's acquittal by the single vote of Edmund Ross?

Answer: Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment (accept reasonable equivalents and/or word forms)

B) The case for Johnson’s removal rested on the Tenure of Office Act, which protected this former Attorney General from removal. Johnson had attempted to put Lorenzo Thomas in his place.

Answer: Edwin Stanton

C) Stanton was serving in this Cabinet position previously held by Jefferson Davis.

Answer: Secretary of War

17) Name these earlier hominids that may have given rise to Homo sapiens, FTPE

A) This late hominid died only around 30000 years ago, and were largely present in colder regions, notably in central Europe, where they were discovered in a namesake German valley.

Answer: Homo neanderthalis (accept Neanderthal)

B) This early hominid has been suspected as being an ancestor to the earliest members of the living Homo sapien. They are so named for their walking upright.

Answer: Homo erectus

C) This hominid not in the Homo genus is considered to be the most primitive possible human ancestor, identified having a brain only slightly larger than that of a chimpanzee or gorilla. It is also considered the first hominid to display complete bipedalism.

Answer: Australopithecus

18) Three men stole a Magritte work from a Belgium museum on October 2, so while Interpol is hard at work on that, answer the following about famous art thefts, FTPE:

A) The most famous art theft of all time occurred on August 21, 1911, when Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia stole this work, a creation of Leonardo da Vinci.

Answer: Mona Lisa

B) This artist's The Duchess of Devonshire was once stolen and held for ransom 23 years later. This artist is more famous for The Blue Boy.

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough

C) This work by Cellini was once stolen in Vienna. Originally created for Francis I, it shows a golden sea and earth goddess facing each other, with this sculpture's function noted with the small container next to the male.

Answer: Saliera, accept Salt Cellar

19) The Root-Takahira Agreement, signed with Japan in 1908, was an attempt to keep open trade with China by recognizing Japanese territorial ambitions. FTPE:

A) The agreement was an extension of this American policy in China, which created spheres of influence in China and prevented anyone from monopolizing trade.

Answer: Open-Door Policy

B) The Open-Door policy was the brainchild of this Secretary of State from 1898-1905, who wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Answer: John Hay

C) Failure of the Open Door policy was a main reason for this Naval Conference that resulted in the Nine Power treaty, and confirmations of the integrity and independence of China.

Answer: Washington Naval Conference

20) Told mostly through the use of diary entries and letters, this work features the lover Shug Avery as well as Nettie, the protagonist’s sister. For ten points each:

A) Name this work of African-American literature which is set in rural Georgia and won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Answer: The Color Purple

B) This author of The Color Purple also wrote The Temple of My Familiar and Everyday Use.

Answer: Alice Walker

C) This wife of Albert Johnson and sister of Nettie is the protagonist of The Color Puprle.

Answer: Celie

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