Acf regionals 2011: Wafd Like an Egyptian Tossups by Northwestern a
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Tossups by Northwestern A (Dan Donohue, Cory Haala, and Anant Shah) 1. One section of the Sritattvanidhi details the thirty-two different iconographic representations of this deity, while the Mudgala Purana describes his eight incarnations. The primary festival dedicated to this deity sees devotees immerse clay representations of him in the nearest body of water. One story claims that he ate most of a city on Mount Kailash, while another story claims that he once suffered from Shani's evil eye. He once ran in a circle around his parents in order to win a race against his brother Skanda. His mount is a rat or a mouse, and he is often worshipped as the remover of obstacles. The most famous story about this god details how his attempt to stop his father from seeing his mother in the bath, resulting in his decapitation. For 10 points, identify this son of Parvati and Shiva, known for his one-tusked elephant head. ANSWER: Ganesha [accept any of the following: Ganesh; Ganesa; Ganapati; Vinayaka; or Pillaiyar] 2. One character in this play describes being tormented by demonic “servants and helpers” who he believes punish him because he refused to fix his chimney. Another character first appears wearing a hiking outfit and claims to have met a man’s wife at a mountain lodge a year earlier. A mother accidentally poisons her two sons when she breast-feeds them while she has a fever. In this play’s first act a girl mysteriously shows up trying to claim “the kingdom” she says the protagonist promised her years earlier. The main character hopes that Kaja Fosli will convince Ragnar Brovik to keep working as his draftsman. At the end of this play Hilda Wangel convinces the title character to dangerously climb a ladder, from which he falls to his death. For 10 points, name this Ibsen play about Halvard Solness, an architect. ANSWER: The Master Builder [or Bygmester Solness] 3. Two of the four circles that can be drawn at any point on this shape are named for Villarceau. An integrable Hamiltonian system can only move on a surface with this shape according to the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem. Like the Klein bottle, it has an Euler characteristic of zero. At most, seven colors are used be used to color a map of this shape, according to the Heawood conjecture. Its surface area equals four pi squared times the product of the inner and outer radii. It is topologically defined as the product of two circles. For 10 points, name this three-dimensional surface shaped like a doughnut. ANSWER: torus [or tori; or toroidal] 4. One figure who gained power in this city was the anti-clerical politician Count von Montgelas, though subsequently, a king sitting in this city took a more conservative tack and appointed the pro-Catholic Karl von Abel as chief minister. Many of its cultural institutions were built in the 1820s under Louis I. Long the seat of the Wittelsbach kings, this city was the site of actions that led to imprisonment in the Landsberg for a man who allied with Erich von Ludendorff in the Beer Hall Putsch. Sixteen years later, Eduard Benes was sold out, the Sudetenland was surrendered, and “peace in our time” was achieved by an accord at, for10 points, what city, which in 1972 hosted the Olympic Games at which several Israeli athletes were killed? ANSWER: Munich [or Munchen] 5. One section of this work asserts that liberals have failed the “test of acceptability” because they believe “proclaiming the need for new ideas is a substitute for them.” This work claims, “ideas are inherently conservative” in a chapter about the “Marxian pall.” It was originally titled Why the Poor are Poor and criticizes the unchecked growth of personal debt in its chapter “The Bill Collector Cometh.” One chapter describes how consumers’ desires increase to the point that they believe luxury items are necessities in a phenomenon called the “dependence effect.” This book famously describes the politician’s desire for predictability over originality as “conventional wisdom.” For 10 points, name this economic work that discusses how income disparities have been fixed after World War Two, written by John Galbraith. ANSWER; The Affluent Society 6. This battle saw an early skirmish in which surprise fighting broke on in the streets of Wachau, but its beginning occurred as Austrian forces advanced on a Polish-held mill in Dölitz. Usually considered the successful execution of the Trachenburg Plan, this battle saw the French expulsed from a school house by Poniatowski and the Polish forces in the town of Markkleeberg. One important turning point in this battle was Murat’s disastrous use of cavalry arranged in columns at Liebertwolkwitz, followed shortly by Blücher’s routing of Marmont’s French forces at Möckern. Though Napoleon’s side was bolstered by men from the Confederation of the Rhine, the Prince of Schwarzenherg’s coalition of six nations emerged victorious. For 10 points, name this October 1813 battle that resulted in Napoleon’s abdication and exile on Elba. ANSWER: Battle of Leipzig [or Battle of the Nations] 7. The theoretical prediction of this particle was made in a 1970 paper by Glashow, Iliopoulos, and Maiani, who connected its proposed existence to the number of then-known lepton generations. The schematic representation of particles incorporating this particle can be seen by extending the baryon decuplet to a three-dimensional pyramid. Confirmation for the existence of this particle was provided by the discovery of the D-meson, in which this particle is found with an up or down anti-quark, and the lambda-plus baryon. The most notable experimental confirmation of this particle’s existence was known as the November Revolution, during which the finding of a bound state of this particle with its anti-particle was confirmed and eventually named the J/psi meson. For ten points, identify this quark, the fourth to be discovered and part of the same generation as the “strange” quark. ANSWER: charm quark 8. In one of this author’s stories Moses cannot bury his wife’s cousin and must keep her corpse in his house because his neighborhood has regulations against death. In another story Johnny Hake supports his family after being fired by breaking into his neighbors’ homes. This author of “The Death of Justina” and “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” wrote about Miss Dent who threatens her former boss Blake with a gun on the titular train in “The Five-Forty-Eight.” The title character of his best-known story is rejected by his mistress Shirley Adams during his journey home, in which he travels by jumping from pool to pool. For 10 points, name this author who described Neddy Merrill in “The Swimmer” and also wrote The Wapshot Chronicle. ANSWER: John Cheever 9. In this opera, one character pretends a letter from her sister Ida is a summons to visit her dying aunt. A soprano describes how she could act any part from a queen to a country girl in the “Audition Aria” that she sings to Chevalier Chagrin. Earlier, a woman steals her husband’s watch during an aria inspired by the Csárdás folk dance that she performs while disguised as a Hungarian countess. In the final act of this opera, the disguises of Frank, the maid Adele, and Rosalinde are exposed when they find themselves in a prison after a night of drinking at Prince Orlofsky’s ball before Falke reveals the party was a set-up to play a joke on Eisenstein. For 10 points, name this Johann Strauss opera titled for a cave-dwelling animal. ANSWER: Die Fledermaus [or The Bat] 10. On this holiday, Malkhuyot, Zikhronot, and another blessing are added to the Musaf service. On the eve of this holiday, Ashkenazi recite the Akeidah, Chatanu, and Techinah prayers, which are subsets of the Selichot prayers. Followed the next day by a fast commemorating Gedaliah, it is believed to be the day when God opens the Sefer HaChaim, or Book of Life. It also includes the tashlikh, a ceremony in which crumbs are thrown into an open body of water. Apples dipped in honey are consumed on this two-day holiday, which begins on the first of the ten Days of Awe. Immediately preceded by the month of Elul, it occurs on the first and second of Tishrei, about nine days before Yom Kippur. For 10 points, name this Jewish holiday on which the shofar is blown to commemorate the new year. ANSWER: Rosh Hashanah 11. This man brought Satchel Paige into his country to play on his “All-Star” baseball team. This man was the only leader to take in refugee Jews at the Evian conference. His secret police, led by Johnny Abbes, was likely responsible for murdering the dissident journalist Jesús Galíndez. He signed a treaty that ended the U.S.’s sixteen year old role as an administrator of his country’s customs with Cordell Hull. His forces also bombed the car of Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, which led to Lyndon Johnson turning on him. Opposed by the Mirabel sisters, for 10 points, name this “Boss,” the dictator of the Dominican Republic in the 1940s. ANSWER: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina [prompt on El Jefe, the Boss, or the Chief] 12. The metabolism of this molecule is affected by the glaucoma drug physostigmine. One of this molecule’s receptors is opposed by atropine, which is extracted from deadly nightshade. The poison curare blocks another receptor of this molecule; that class of receptors is attacked in the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis and is called muscarinic. Botulinum toxin inhibits the release of this compound, causing paralysis. Reduced synthesis of this neurotransmitter, which is broken down by a namesake esterase, is often postulated to cause Alzheimer’s disease. Found in neuromuscular junctions, it is responsible for muscle contractions. For 10 points, name this neurotransmitter synthesized from a certain nutrient and a common group often found linked to coenzyme-A. ANSWER: acetylcholine 13. In this work one character leaves her handwarmer in a barn after being rescued by the protagonist from a bull attack. While on trial for insulting a constable an elderly woman who sells porridge called “furmity” reveals an important action from the past. In this novel Nance Mockridge plans a parade featuring effigies of the main character and his mistress after Jopp reveals their affair, which shocks Lucetta Templeman into having a fatal seizure. In this novel Newson’s daughter Elizabeth-Jane romances her adoptive father’s rival in the grain business Donald Farfrae. The title character once got drunk and auctioned his wife for five guineas. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel about Michael Henchard. ANSWER: The Mayor of Casterbridge 14. This composer used the same instruments from the second Brandenburg concerto for his Capricorn Concerto. This composer has a flute and a harp play a theme imitating a rocking chair at the beginning of one work, and he used the poem “The Monk and his Cat” in his song cycle written for Leontyne Price, Hermit Songs. Staccato horns represent a streetcar in a piece ending when the soprano sings about a child being tucked into bed. He was inspired by “Prometheus Unbound” to write Music for a Scene from Shelley and he adapted a James Agee piece for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. This composer of the opera Vanessa rearranged the second movement of his String Quartet No. 1 to create a piece that was played over radio announcements of FDR’s death. For 10 points, name this American composer of Adagio for Strings. ANSWER: Samuel Osborne Barber 15. The best book published in either English or French in this polity is awarded the annual Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize. Just like a nearby province, which hosts Ogopogo, this place is home to a lake monster, that is named after this province. This province’s highest point, Mount Baldy, is found in its Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Here, the Assiniboine River meets the Red River system, which also includes the Nelson River. Tourists come to its city of Churchill to see polar bears migrate inland toward the shore of Hudson Bay, which borders the northeastern tip of this province. This easternmost of the “Prairie Provinces” borders Nunavut to the north, North Dakota and Minnesota to the south, and Saskatchewan to the west. For 10 points, name this home of Winnipeg. ANSWER: Manitoba 16. This painting shows two angels draping a pink cloth around a golden bust. On the right side of this work, a red rope is tied around a satchel at the feet of a woman who kneels and grasps the hands of her companion. Also on the right of this work, a child tugs on the blue dress of a woman in a pink shawl who holds a fan. At the center of this painting, a gray and white dog stands by a man in pink holding two staves on top of a hill, while at the far right, a quiver of arrows and some roses adorn a bust of Venus. At the far left, cherubs fly around a group of people standing near a golden boat. For 10 points, name this Rococo depiction of a journey to or from the title magical land of love, a painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau. ANSWER: The Embarkation for Cythera [or L’embarquement pour Cythere; accept reasonable substitutions for “Embarkation”, like “Journey” or “Pilgrimage”, and basically any directional pronoun, like “to” or “from”] 17. The Krutzsch process produced about a ten percent aqueous solution of this compound, but was never commercialized. This compound is produced commercially by sending bubbles of air through a solution of anthracene, leading to the autoxidation of 2-alkyl anthrahydroquinone to a 2-alkyl anthraquinone. That process is known as the AO process and was invented by Riedl and Pfleiderer. This compound is found with ferrous salts in Fenton’s reagent, and oxidizes sodium hypochlorite to give oxygen. A three percent aqueous solution of it is useful for treating minor wounds. It is broken down to oxygen and water by catalase. For 10 points, name this oxidizing agent with formula H2O2. ANSWER: hydrogen peroxide [accept H2O2 before mentioned] 18. In one poem in this collection, the speaker declares that the earth sings in the “twilight falling in your eyes, toy doll, snail of the Earth.” One of these poems is paraphrased from a Tagore poem and is called “In My Sky at Twilight.” In another poem from this collection, the speaker declares, “I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees”, while in its best-known poem, the speaker describes “The same night whitening the same trees” and remarks that “In the distance someone was singing”. This collection also includes “Every Day You Play” and “Ah Vastness of Pines.” Its final poem describes how “The memory of you emerges from the night around me.” and laments that “In you everything sank!” For 10 points, name this collection that also includes a poem beginning “Tonight I can write the saddest lines”, a work of Pablo Neruda. ANSWER: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair [or Veinte poemas de amor y uno cancíon desesperada; or Twenty Poems of Love and a Desperate Song] 19. This group’s “Venerable Sage” was James L. Wright. Members of this group accounted for most of the perpetrators who killed Chinese laborers in 1885’s Rock Springs Massacre, and their rules were found in the Adeplhon Kruptos. J.R. Sovereign led them when Daniel DeLeon and his Socialist Labor Party departed from this organization. Nine years previously, their popularity saw a marked decline in wake of the failed 1886 strike of Stephen Jay Gould’s Great Southwest Railroad. Their motto, “an injury to one is an injury to all,” was created by its leaders which were called the Grand Master Workmen and exemplified by Terence V. Powderly and Uriah Stevens. For 10 points, name this labor union that, after Haymarket Square, lost favor to the American Federation of Labor. ANSWER: The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor [or KoL; or K of L] 20. In a work about its “genesis and structure,” Jean Hippolyte argued that this work is a bildungsroman. This work considers the ethical roles of the brother-sister relationship in a section about the “Ethical Order” of the title concept. Its preface explains that philosophers must “look purely” at consciousness in a method called “zusehen.” The subsection “Independent and Dependent Self-Consciousness” argues that two consciousnesses can only define themselves by playing the roles of lord and bondsman to each other. This work explores the relationship of self-consciousness and “Absolute Knowledge” and discusses the master-slave dialectic. For 10 points, name this work that advances a dialectical view of history by Hegel. ANSWER: The Phenomenology of Spirit (or The Phenomenology of Mind; or Phänomenologie des Geistes) 21. The chorus in this play invokes the “blissful powers underground” to “bless the children, give them triumph now.” Threatened with leprosy by a messenger of Apollo named Pylades, the main character pretends that he is a messenger bringing news of his own death. One character in this play exposes her breast before being stabbed, as foreshadowed by a dream in which she is bitten by a snake while breastfeeding. Another scene sees the nurse Cilissa sent to bring Aegisthus and his guard, but Cilissa is convinced by the chorus to bring Aegisthus alone. Therefore, Aegisthus falls victim to the murder plot concocted by Electra and Orestes to avenge Agamemnon’s murder. For 10 points, name this second play of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, which takes its title from Electra’s liquid offering at Agamemnon’s grave. ANSWER: The Libation Bearers [or Choēphoroi] 22. The ancestor of this dynasty was Robert the Strong. One king of his dynasty, John the Posthumous, lived only five days before being murdered by his uncle. That uncle, Philip the Tall, oversaw the reinstatement of Salic Law, assuring that his younger brother Charles the Fair would take the throne after he left no heir. Charles also failed to produce an heir, so Edward III of England claimed the French throne, leading to the Hundred Years’ War. Another member of this dynasty was canonized after he died in the Eighth Crusade and was named Louis IX. Ruling from 987 to 1328, they succeeded the Carolingians. For 10 points, name this French dynasty founded by Hugh. ANSWER: Capetian Dynasty [or House of Capet] ACF Regionals 2011: Wafd Like an Egyptian Bonuses by Northwestern A (Dan Donohue, Cory Haala, and Anant Shah) 1. This poem inspired a J.S. Jones play about the title Fortune-teller of Lynn. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 900-line poem about a titular New England mystic who had the “nose of a witch” and “carried a switch/To aid in her work of sin.” ANSWER: “Moll Pitcher” [10] In this other lengthy poem by the author of “Moll Pitcher,” a group of people get stuck in a blizzard and pass the time by reading an almanac. It is subtitled “A Winter Idyll.” ANSWER: “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll” [10] “Snow-Bound” and “Moll Pitcher” were written by this 19th-century Quaker poet who also penned “Barbara Frietchie.” a Fireside poet and noted Quaker. ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier 2. Her reign saw the repeal of the Act of Supremacy. For 10 points each: [10] Name this queen of England who succeeded Edward VI and Lady Jane Grey. She married Phillip of Spain in order to produce a Catholic heir to the throne, thereby disinheriting Elizabeth I. ANSWER: Mary I [or Bloody Mary; or Mary Tudor] [10] Bloody Mary’s marriage to Phillip of Spain incited this uprising, led by a committed Protestant who desired to inflame resistance to Spanish influence on the English throne. ANSWER: Wyatt’s Rebellion [10] The persecution of non-Catholics under the Heresy Acts are the subject of chapter 16 of this work, which chronicles the stories of those who have been historically persecuted for their Christian beliefs. It was written by George Fox. ANSWER: The Book of Martyrs 3. It divides all perception into impressions or ideas in its first section “Of the Understanding” which provides a foundational explanation of its author’s skepticism. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1739 philosophical work, its author’s first book, whose ideas would be adapted in a later book’s discussion of the “is-ought” problem. ANSWER: A Treatise of Human Nature [10] This Scottish empiricist wrote A Treatise of Human Nature and described the “is-ought” problem in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. ANSWER: David Hume [10] The tenth section of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding analyzes the validity of believing in these phenomena, arguing the evidence against them is always greater than the evidence for them. ANSWER: miracles 4. At the end of the play this character is about to fight a duel with Sir Lucius O’Trigger before Sir Anthony enters to resolve the true identity of a woman calling herself “Delia” in letters. For 10 points each: [10] Name this character who pretends to be “Ensign Beverley” to woo Lydia Languish. ANSWER: Captain Jack Absolute [10] Captain Jack Absolute romances Lydia Languish in this play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. ANSWER: The Rivals [10] The Rivals also features this famous middle-aged widow who claims to have seen “an allegory on the banks of the Nile” instead of an alligator in one of her characteristic confused sayings. ANSWER: Mrs. Malaprop 5. It was proposed in the 1950 paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” to answer the question “Can machines think?” For 10 points each: [10] Name this test of a computer’s intelligence in which a person engages in conversation with a computer and another person via a computer screen and tries to distinguish the two. ANSWER: Turing test [10] The Turing test was refuted by his thought experiment proposed by John Searle in which Searle is guided by a computer to communicate in the namesake language, thus showing that he, like a computer, may behave intelligently but really does not think about or understand the language. ANSWER: Chinese room experiment [accept “box” for “room”; accept “argument” for “experiment”] [10] This reply to the Chinese room experiment argues that the only way we know that humans understand Chinese is by their behavior. If a computer can convincingly behave like it knows Chinese, it can be said to understand Chinese. ANSWER: other minds reply 6. It divides human development into separate “ethnical periods” beginning with the evolution of different arts of subsistence. For 10 points each: [10] Name this anthropological work that discusses consanguinity in families and famously argues that the human race has progressed from savagery to barbarism to civilization. ANSWER: Ancient Society [10] This early American anthropologist wrote Ancient Society and argued all societies progressed from matrilineal to patrilineal in his book Systems of Consanguinity. ANSWER: Lewis Henry Morgan [10] This thinker was inspired by Morgan’s Ancient Society to write The Origin of the Family, but he may be better known for co-authoring The Communist Manifesto with Marx. ANSWER: Friedrich Engels 7. Enjoy Dan-Don’s 2010 Oscar predictions, for 10 points each: [10] Dan’s predicting that the Oscar for Best Picture will go to this Aaron Sorkin fictionalization of the history of Facebook, anchored by a cast including Justin Timberlake, the new Spiderman actor, and that Michael Cera lookalike. ANSWER: The Social Network [10] The main character in this film pisses off her mom, played by Barbara Hershey, after her director, played by Vincent Cassels, drives her to scratch her shoulders and hallucinate about sex. ANSWER: Black Swan [10] This actress won a Golden Globe for her role as Nic Allgood in the dull Oscar-bait The Kids Are All Right. Earlier roles include her star turn opposite Michael Douglas in The American President. ANSWER: Annette Francine Bening 8. The first Republican congress in US history investigated this man via the Covode Commission. For 10 points eac: [10] Name this “bachelor” President, a Democrat who defeated John C. Fremont and third-party candidate Milliard Fillmore to become President.
[10] Buchanan helped write this 1854 declaration, but disagreed with its conclusion that the US should go to war with Spain if it would not sell Cuba to the Americans. ANSWER: Ostend Manifesto [10] As President, Buchanan picked this man to be governor of Kansas in order to ensure a fair vote on Kansas’ status on the question of slavery. The violence and general chaos that the ensuing Lecompton Constitution prompted in both Kansas and the Democratic Party basically summed up Buchanan’s presidency. ANSWER: Robert Walker 9. Identify the following works of Kenzaburo Oe, none of which are the sadly-untranslated Flaming Green Trees trilogy, for 10 points each. [10] This novel sees Mitsusaburo’s brother Takashi kill himself after leading a revolt against “The Emperor”, a Korean grocery-store owner. Its title is a reference to the suicide of Mitsu’s friend, who painted his head red, stuck a cucumber up his ass, and hung himself. ANSWER: The Silent Cry [accept Man’en gannen no futtoboru or Football in the First Year of Man’en or even Soccer in the First Year of Man’en] [10] The narrator and a group of other boys from a reformatory are sent to a plague-ridden village, whose inhabitants flee and leave the central characters to their fate, in this novel, Oe’s first. ANSWER: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids [accept Memushiri ko-uchi or, as Wikipedia suggests, Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring] [10] This novel’s narrator engages in several dialogues with Mori’s father, who describes how he and his retarded son somehow exchanged twenty years of life, then set out to assassinate a criminal kingpin known as “Big Shot A”, or “The Patron”. ANSWER: The Pinch Runner Memorandum [or Pinchi ranna chosho] 10. An insoluble form of this compound, bound to polystyrene, is sometimes used in place of this compound because it is difficult to remove it and its oxide from the reaction mixture. For 10 points each: [10] Name this organophosphorus compound that combines with either DIAD or DEAD and a primary or secondary alcohol in the Mitsunobu reaction, and with aryl azides in the Staudinger reaction. ANSWER: triphenylphosphine [or triphenylphosphane; or PPh3; or Ph3P] [10] PPh3 reacts with an alkyl halide and a strong base to form a phosphonium ylide, an important reagent in this reaction that typically converts carbonyls to Z-alkenes, though its Schlosser modification produces E-alkenes. ANSWER: Wittig reaction [10] Stryker’s reagent consists of a hexameric complex of PPh3 bound to the hydride of this metal. This metal is found, along with lithium, in Gilman reagents. ANSWER: copper [or Cu] 11. Built using fifteen billion dollars worth of gold in Japan, it contains 1,500 smaller wheels that each contain three bombs. For 10 points each: [10] Name this spaceship that answers the Qur’an’s question of how mountains are moved. It is described in the Book of Ezekiel as four wheels made of beryl. ANSWER: the Mother Plane [or the Mother Wheel] [10] The Mother Plane is a central belief of this African-American religion, whose leaders included Wallace Fard Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan.. ANSWER: Nation of Islam [do not accept or prompt on “Islam”] [10] The Nation of Islam teaches that a mad Meccan scientist named Dr. Yakub violently bred the white race from his 59,999 followers on this island, which was also home to the author of the Book of Revelation. ANSWER: Patmos 12. His Castelfranco Madonna shows St. Francis and Nicasius holding the flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in front of Mary and baby Jesus, who are seated on a throne. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Renaissance painter who showed a nude flutist seated by a clothed lutist in his painting Pastoral Concert. ANSWER: Giorgione [or Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco] [10] Giorgione’s most famous work in this one, which shows a stork sitting atop a building looking down at a shoreline where a half-nude woman breastfeeds perhaps unaware of the titular approaching storm. ANSWER: The Tempest [or La Tempesta] [10] Girgione’s Sleeping Venus was probably finished by this man, his assistant. Sleeping Venus no doubt helped inspire this man’s Venus of Urbino. ANSWER: Titian [or Tiziano Vecellio] 13. He emerged victorious at the Battle of Khanwa thanks to Silhadi, who betrayed the Rajput leader Mewar. For 10 points each: [10] Name this man who, with guns and artillery, won the First Battle of Panipat. ANSWER: Zahir ud-din Muhammud Babur [10] Babur was the great great grandson of this Middle Eastern conqueror who ruled from Samarkand, defeated the Golden Horde, and sought to reestablish the Mongol Empire all while dealing with his famous limp. ANSWER: Tīmūr the Lame [or Temür; or Tamerlane; or Tīmūr-e Lang] [10] Timur defeated and captured and this sultan of the Ottoman Turks at 1402’s Battle of Ankara. This “Thunderbolt” won the Battles of Kosovo and Nicopolis. ANSWER: Bayezid I [or Beyazit I; prompt “Thunderbolt”; prompt “Yıldırım”] 14. This husband of Fortunata tries to impress his guests by planning his own funeral and designing a prolific tomb that he asks Habinnas to build. For 10 points each: [10] Name this incontinent freed slave who worked so hard that he became rich enough to host a banquet that includes such decadent features as twelve dishes representing the signs of the Zodiac. ANSWER: Trimalchio [accept “Trimalchio’s Feast” or “Cena Trimalchionis”] [10] Trimalchio appears in one section of this ancient Roman comic novel, which details the travels of a former gladiator named Encolpius and his sixteen-year-old male lover, Giton. ANSWER: The Satyricon [or Satyrica] [10] This Roman author is generally thought to be the author of the Satyricon. ANSWER: Gaius Petronius Arbiter [prompt on “Arbiter”; accept Titus Petronius] 15. It is seen in the motion of gyroscopes and spinning tops. For 10 points each: [10] Name this phenomenon in which the orientation of the axis of a rotating body changes. ANSWER: precession [10] In this type of precession, the torque from an external magnetic field causes precession in the magnetic moment of an atom. The torque is equal to the cross product of the field and the gyromagnetic ratio times angular momentum. ANSWER: Larmor precession [10] The Thomas precession in a hydrogen atom adds this kind of correction to the hydrogen spectrum. This correction is of the same order as the spin-orbit interaction, and its combined effect with spin-orbit can be derived directly from Dirac’s formalism. ANSWER: special relativistic correction [accept word forms] 16. Clarinets represent a huge wave during a musical storm depicted in this work that was originally titled “The Lonely Island.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this overture titled for the archipelago where the composer visited Fingal’s Cave while on the same vacation that inspired his Scottish Symphony. ANSWER: Hebrides Overture (or Die Hebriden; or Mendelssohn’s Opus 26; prompt on Fingal’s Cave) [10] The Hebrides Overture is a work of this German composer who also wrote incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Rhenish Symphony. ANSWER: Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [10] In this Mendelssohn cantata, the chorus plays a group of Druids dressed up as demons who make mischief during the title festival, even though their government has made it illegal to celebrate the spring. ANSWER: The First Walpurgis Night (or Die erste Walpurgisnacht) 17. He carved a tree branch into a phallus, which he placed on Prosymnus’s grave and used to sodomize himself, in order to repay Prosymnus for taking him to the center of the Alcyonian Lake. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this Greek god of wine and madness, to whom dithyrambs were sung. He often hung out with the drunkard Silenus. ANSWER: Dionysus [accept Bacchus or Bakkhos] [10] This daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia was the mortal mother of Dionysus. Dionysus had to finish his gestation in Zeus’s thigh after this woman was obliterated when Zeus revealed himself to her in all his glory. ANSWER: Semele [10] This jerkbag king of Thrace, a son of Dryas, imprisoned the Maenads and refused to worship Dionysus. In revenge, Dionysus drove him mad, causing him to mistake his son for ivy and hack him apart, after which his people had him torn apart by wild horses. ANSWER: Lycurgus of Thrace [accept Lykurgos or Lykourgos] 18. For 10 points each, answer these questions about that seven-time consul, military-reforming Roman guy named Gaius Marius. [10] This longtime rival of Marius served two nonconsecutive terms as consul and, although he became dictator in the confusing wake of Marius’ death, he resigned that post after revising the Roman constitution. ANSWER: Lucius Cornelius Sulla [10] Sulla and Marius fought alongside each other in this 98-88 BCE war in which the namesake Italians rebelled after the assassination of Marcus Livius Drusus the Younger, the one politician who lobbied for their citizenship. ANSWER: Social War [or War of the Allies; or Marsic War; or Italian War] [10] Marius’ reforms of the Roman legions began when he served as a commander in this 113 to 101 BCE war fought in Gaul, where Rome defeated the namesake tribe at Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae. ANSWER: Cimbrian War 19. Their namesake acetyltransferases are euchromatin-containing enzymes that acetylate their lysine amino acids to active transcription. For 10 points each: [10] Name these proteins that combine with DNA to form chromatin. ANSWER: histones [10] To make chromatin, DNA wraps like string around a spool around a histone octamer to form this basic unit of DNA packaging, which is visualized as a bead on the string of DNA. ANSWER: nucleosomes [10] The histome octamer of a nucleosome does not contain this one of the five classes of histone proteins. Members of this class sit atop the nucleosome, keeping the DNA in place and linking other nucleosomes. ANSWER: H1 [or histone 1] 20. This movie ends when the protagonist escapes a soccer game in the prison yard and runs to the seashore. For 10 points each: [10] Name this film in which a young boy spars with his cruel teacher nicknamed “Sourpuss” before he is sent to reform school for stealing a typewriter. ANSWER: The 400 Blows (or Les Quarte Sen Coups) [10] This French New Wave auteur of The 400 Blows also directed Jules et Jim. ANSWER: Francois Truffaut [10] The 400 Blows tells the story of this recurring fictional alter ego of Truffaut who also appears in the films Bed and Board and Love on the Run. ANSWER: Antoine Doinel [accept either] 21. It is written in Alexandrine verse. For 10 points each: [10] Name this play in which Hippolytus plans to leave Troezen because of his love for Aricie all while dealing with the fact that his stepmom, the title character, has a crush on him. ANSWER: Phèdre [10] Phèdre is work of this French dramatist who also penned the Bible-inspired plays Athalie and Ester, as well as a play inspired by The Wasps entitled Les Plaideurs. ANSWER: Jean Racine [or Jean-Baptiste Racine] [10] In this Racine play, Oreste, in a convoluted scheme to marry Pyrrhus’s betrothed, Hermione, entreats Pyrrus to execute Astyanax, the son of Hector and the title character. ANSWER: Andromaque 22. Pope Sixtus IV gave his backing to it, and the Pope’s nephew, Girolamo Riario, hoped to benefit from it, but he was killed ten years later. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1478 assassination attempt in which one victim was stabbed in a chapel filled with 10,000 people. The conspirators, including Francesco Salviati, were thrown from the window of the Palazzo Vecchio. ANSWER: Pazzi conspiracy [10] The Pazzi conspiracy targeted Giulano and Lorenzo the Magnificent, two brothers of this wealthy Florentine banking family that included Cosimo the Elder, the grandfather of the intended targets. ANSWER: de’ Medici [10] The Medici dynasty began with Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici, whose cousin Salvestro originally gained a foothold as a leader of this movement. 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