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2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 9 – Tossups

1. The Qur’an discusses the teaching of black magic to mankind in this place by the fallen angels Harut and Marut. In this place, the academies of Sura and Pumbedita (poom-beh-DEE-tah) arose to create the Geonic (guh-OWN-ick or gay-ON-ick) period. In a Jewish community from this region, Anilai and Asinai founded a robber-state near Nehardea (nuh-HAR-deh-AH). The Rosh Ha-Golah (ROHSH hah-go-LAH) led Jews in this place, where Rav Ashi compiled a namesake Talmud. From the start of the Diaspora (dye-ASS-por-uh) to the late Middle Ages, this area was the center of Jewish scholarship. In the Iyaric (eye-AR-ick) speech of Rastafarians, this place’s name is a shorthand for corrupt worldly institutions. For 10 points, name this area around an ancient Fertile Crescent city where a “captivity” of the Jews took place.ANSWER: Babylonia [prompt on Mesopotamia; prompt on Iraq]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by Penelope Ashe>

2. A character in this book describes how “I incline to Cain’s heresy… I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” A “Sawbones” in this novel who is “as emotional as a bagpipe” turns “sick and white with the desire to kill” another character in this novel. In a “full statement” at the end of this novel, one of the central characters describes how Poole was unable to find any salt in London and mourns the last time he “can think his own thoughts or see his own face (now how sadly altered!) in the glass.” Richard Enfield goes on frequent walks with Gabriel Utterson in this book, during which he tells of a man who was more like a juggernaut than a person. For 10 points, name this novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about a scientist who creates a potion which turns him into a monstrous alter-ego.ANSWER: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Daoud Jackson>

3. The Tepe Yahya site in present-day Iran was a trading center for this material in the third millennium BC, and a headless Iddi-Ilum statue of the governor of Mari was made of this material. This material was used to create a set of up to a thousand statues that the king was ritually prohibited from viewing, and which usually held a knife in the lap, generally ranging from one to two feet tall; those figurines made from this material were likely manufactured by the Oba kingdom and were found, mostly defaced, in the Yoruba (YOH-roo-bah) town of Esie (ay-SEE-eh). Emissaries of the god Mwari were represented in this material, which was used for a set of eight four-foot sculptures discovered by Karl Mauch (Mao-kh) and created by the ancestral Shona people. For 10 points, name this soft rock used to carve the Zimbabwe Birds found at Great Zimbabwe.ANSWER: soapstone [or steatite; prompt on stone; prompt on rock]<The above question is for the category Social Science Anthropology and was written by Penelope Ashe>

4. Mutation of the receptor for this hormone causes Donohue syndrome. Mutations in either this hormone or KCNJ11 cause the “permanent neonatal” version of one disease. Cone snails use a version of this hormone as venom. Its receptor is downregulated by PTPN1. This hormone’s receptor activates IRS-1, which in turn activates PI-3-Kinase and PKB. Growth hormone triggers the release of a growth factor similar to this hormone, also called somatomedin C. This hormone, six molecules of which are coordinated to zinc in a vesicle, has derivatives called glargine and detemir. A lack of this hormone can cause ketoacidosis, and this hormone increases fat and glycogen synthesis. For 10 points, name this hormone created by the beta cells of the Islets of Langerhans.ANSWER: insulin<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Eric Mukherjee>

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5. This action was a response to a meeting at Trebur that announced a one-year time limit. Conrad II and Bertha of Savoy participated in this journey, which involved a crossing of Mont Cenis due to easier passes through the Alps being closed by hostile Swabians. In 1872, Otto von Bismarck proclaimed that “we will not” re-enact this action, which ended at a castle owned by Matilda of Tuscany. At the end of this action, a man donned a hairshirt and fasted for three days while barefoot in the snow, leading to Gregory VII absolving him for escalating the investiture controversy. For 10 points, identify this journey undertaken by Henry IV to reverse his excommunication and reclaim control of the Holy Roman Empire.ANSWER: going to Canossa [or Henry IV’s journey to Canossa or similar answers]<The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Penelope Ashe>

6. This quantity in RDE can be modeled as proportional to the two-thirds power of the diffusion coefficient according to the Levich equation, and “staircase” and “linear sweep” are common methods used to measure this quantity. In Jefimenko’s (yee-fee-MEN-kuh’s) equations, magnetic field can be calculated by integrating the time-retarded density of this quantity over volume. The bound surface form of this quantity is symbolized K and is defined as the cross product of magnetization with the normal vector. Presence of one form of this quantity results in skin and proximity effects in a nearby conductor. This quantity is multiplied by an infinitesimal component of length in the Biot–Savart (b’YOH sah-VARR) law, and by the permeability of free space in the integral form of Ampère’s law. For 10 points, name this quantity measuring the flow of electric charges. ANSWER: current [prompt on I; prompt on J]<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Paul Lee>

7. Larry Rivers described being inspired by reading War and Peace to paint an updated version of a scene by this artist. Pendant portraits of Daniel Boone and Captain McClarke flank a version of a mural by this artist, in the background of which two men climb a rock stack to raise a flag. Worthington Whittredge posed as the central man of one of this artist’s paintings while studying with him in Düsseldorf. Larry Rivers described thematic changes made in updating a painting by this artist by saying “I couldn’t picture anyone getting into a chilly river around Christmas time with anything resembling hand-on-chest heroics.” For 10 points, name this German-born artist of Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way and Washington Crossing the Delaware.ANSWER: Emanuel Leutze<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by Daoud Jackson>

8. The first monastery of this denomination was built by Padmasambhava (pud-muh-sum-buh-vuh) at Semye. That monk from this religion supposedly meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days, and three hours in a cave near its Tiger’s Nest monastery. This religion teaches that “Wisdom Kings” live in the Womb Realm. Most people in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia (call-MICK-ee-uh) follow this religion, whose practitioners create colored mandalas out of sand and destroy them to demonstrate non-attachment. This religion, followed by three-quarters of the population of Bhutan, inscribes mantras on prayer wheels, and probably inherited prayer flags from the Bon religion. A leader in an order of this sect is the Dalai Lama. For 10 points, name this Buddhist denomination, the religion of Tibet.ANSWER: Vajrayāna Buddhism [or Tibetan Buddhism until “Tibet” is read; or Mantrayāna; or Tantrayāna; or Tantric Buddhism; or Tángmì; or Mìzōng; or Mikkyō; or Diamond Vehicle; or Thunderbolt Vehicle; prompt on Esoteric Buddhism]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>


9. This event triggered a sixteen-month debate in the House of Lords that resulted in questioning of Lord Hoffmann’s impartiality and the triple decision of R v. Bow Street. The listed reasons for this event included the assassination of Carmelo Soria. In response to this event, Eduardo Frei (fray) ordered the temporary withdrawal of ambassadors from both Spain and the UK. This event was the first application of the “universal jurisdiction” principle and the first detention of a person carrying a diplomatic passport in British history. This event occurred at London Bridge Hospital on October 17, 1998, in fulfillment of a Spanish warrant issued by Baltasar Garzón. For 10 points, identify this apprehension of a former Chilean dictator.ANSWER: arrest of Augusto Pinochet (PEE-no-chet) [prompt on prosecution of Augusto Pinochet; do not accept or prompt on “indictment of Augusto Pinochet” or “trial of Augusto Pinochet” or “imprisonment of Augusto Pinochet”] <The above question is for the category History World and was written by Penelope Ashe>

10. This character carries around excerpts from Rasputin’s writings, with which he sympathizes. This character professionally models in the nude with a second job engraving tombstones. After his father marries his first mistress, he calls his half-brother his “son.” This character has a relationship with Roswitha before she is killed in the war, and joins a troupe of performing dwarves who entertain soldiers. This character breaks his vow to never play again to found the Rhine River Three jazz band, and he is born with full adult mental capacity. After his father announces this character will become a grocer, he decides he will never grow up. For 10 points, name this character with a scream that can shatter glass, the protagonist of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.ANSWER: Oskar Matzerath [prompt on Matzerath]<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by John Marvin>

11. Olivier Messiaen (oh-leev-YAY mess-YAWN) used squiggly lines to indicate for this instrument to play a “discolored” sound of oscillating pitch in the “Interstellar Call” movement from his From the Canyons to the Stars. This instrument reprises its “Prologue” in an offstage “Epilogue” in a serenade that sets Keats’s “To Sleep” and Blake’s “The Sick Rose.” Alongside the tenor Peter Pears (peers), Dennis Brain played this instrument at the premiere of that serenade by Benjamin Britten; Brain also popularized the second of Richard Strauss’s concerti for it. In various passages in The Rite of Spring, all eight of these instruments are played “bells up.” They are notated in F. The wolf in Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is represented by, for 10 points, what coiled brass instrument?ANSWER: French horn<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Shan Kothari>

12. This lake’s refilling after desiccation in the Pleistocene (PLICE-tuh-seen) marks the origin of its superflock of haplochromines. This lake is the subject of Hubert Sauper’s documentary Darwin’s Nightmare. Over 130 people live on this lake’s 20,000-square-foot Migingo Island. Its largest island, Ukerewe (oo-keh-REH-weh), is home to a community of albinos. Outflow from this lake supplies the Owen Falls Dam, and its primary inflow is the Kagera River. A perch species introduced to this lake outcompeted or ate hundreds of its native cichlid (SICK-lid) species to extinction. John Hanning Speke named this lake during an expedition to find the source of the Nile. For 10 points, identify this African Great Lake whose name honors a British queen.ANSWER: Lake Victoria [or Nalubaale; or Nyanza] <The above question is for the category Geography World and was written by Joelle Smart>


13. A thinker born in this country, Tjalie (CHAH-lee) Robinson, has promoted aspects of Indo culture in this country such as the Tong Tong Festival. Immigration to this European country became higher during the violent Bersiap (behr-see-AHP) period, after which many former members of the KNIL immigrated to this country. This country was the primary destination of refugees after the collapse of the Republic of South Maluku, and terrorist attacks by Moluccans in this country included an attempt to capture its Queen Juliana. Opposition to migrants to this country, which once operated the “ethical policy,” prompted the film Fitna to be made by the leader of its VVP, Geert Wilders (heert VILL-ders). For 10 points, name this country which accepted large numbers of immigrants from its former colonial possessions in Indonesia.ANSWER: the Netherlands [or Holland]<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Daoud Jackson>

14. This poet declared that, “The Greeks did naught but play the fools and lie. Let Greeks be Greeks.” This poet concluded “Farewell, dear mother; Parliament, prevail, And in a while you’ll tell another tale” in a poem presented as an exchange between two geographic places. After a personal tragedy, this poet wrote about a place “high erect; Framed by that mighty Architect, With glory richly furnished.” This author wrote the line “If ever two were one, then surely we” and addressed another poem to “thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain.” This poet of “A Dialogue between Old England and New” and “Verses upon the Burning of our House” addressed her output in “The Author to Her Book.” For 10 points, name this Puritan poet whose poems were collected in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.ANSWER: Anne Bradstreet<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Penelope Ashe>

15. Addition of triphenylphosphine oxide or porphyrin-based clathrates can increase the yield of this process. The domain size of the product of this process is proportional to growth velocity to the “one over D-plus-1 power,” where D is the number of dimensions. The Avrami equation can be used to model the kinetics of this process, and a Craig tube can be used in small-scale versions of this technique. Floating zone and Czochralski (cho-KRAHL-skee) methods are forms of this technique used to produce high-quality semiconductors. Pasteur performed chiral resolution of sodium tartrate using this technique. Hot gravity filtration can be used to remove insoluble impurities prior to this technique. For 10 points, name this purification technique that results in formation of ordered, solid products. ANSWER: crystallization [or recrystallization; or word forms; prompt on nucleation; prompt on purification; prompt on separation]<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Paul Lee>

16. Local #1 of the International Workers of the World organized laborers in the production of this commodity. The organization Earth First! held a “national rendezvous” to halt production of this commodity in the Cove-Mallard area. A 1990 car bombing paralyzed an activist named Judi Bari who led non-violent opposition to the production of this commodity during a set of namesake “wars.” The Clinton administration adopted a 1994 plan to promote sustainable use of this commodity in the Pacific Northwest. Some activists used methods such as spiking to prevent harvest of this commodity. Endangered Species Act protections for the northern spotted owl heightened controversy over, for 10 points, the harvest of what commodity from forests?ANSWER: wood [or timber; or lumber; prompt on trees]<The above question is for the category History American (1945-present) and was written by Shan Kothari>


17. The ambidextrous Asteropaios (AS-ter-oh-PAY-us) throws two spears at once at this man, only to get graphically disemboweled for his trouble. This man defeats Simoeis and is aided when Hera and Hephaestus whip up a massive fire and a general brawl breaks out among the gods. After this character’s killing of Lycaon (lye-KAY-on) and many Paionians leaves a river “choked with bodies,” this man is aided by three ever grander divine interventions preventing him from being drowned. This character fights the river Scamandros (scuh-MAN-drohs) in a scene from the Iliad in which he is roused by the death of Patroclus. For 10 points, name this Greek hero who is later killed when Paris shoots him in his vulnerable heel.ANSWER: Achilles<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Jason Golfinos>

18. With Cauchy (koh-SHEE), a mathematician from this country names a theorem guaranteeing the local existence, but not the uniqueness, of a solution to the equation “y-prime equals f-of-x-comma-y,” provided that f is continuous near the initial value. The proof of Montel’s theorem relies on a theorem named for two men from this country, which guarantees that a sequence of uniformly bounded, equicontinuous functions will have a uniformly convergent subsequence on compact sets. A mathematician from this country discovered the first space-filling curve and names the standard axioms that define the natural numbers. A theorem that allows double integrals to be flipped is named for a man from this country. For 10 points, name this home country of Giuseppe Peano and Guido Fubini. ANSWER: Italy [or Italian] [The second sentence refers to the Arzelà–Ascoli theorem.]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>

19. The last entry in the first collection of these poems opens by describing the “concave womb” of a hill. That collection’s dedication, formatted to appear like a Roman inscription, is to “the well-wishing adventurer in setting forth.” The first section of these poems was possibly inspired by Henry Wriothesley (rizz-lee), who may be described by the line “the master-mistress of my passion.” The first poem in this series describes how “beauty’s rose might never die” if “from fairest creatures we desire increase.” Another poem in this group mentions that “eternal summer shall not fade” but that “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” The poem “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is part of, for 10 points, what group of fourteen-line poems by the author of Hamlet?ANSWER: Shakespeare’s sonnets [or sonnets by William Shakespeare; or equivalents]<The above question is for the category Literature Shakespeare and was written by Joseph Krol>

20. In a 1981 German film, this condition motivates Detlef and Christiane F. to frequent the Bahnhof Zoo train station. A man who adopts his deceased best friend’s mantra “Accept the good,” who is played by Benicio del Toro, has this condition in the film Things We Lost in the Fire. In Bad Education, Juan is revealed to have exploited Ignacio’s suffering from this condition in order to murder Ignacio. As a result of this condition in another film, Marion goes to work for Big Tim and Harry Goldfarb’s arm is amputated. Allison, who has this condition, notices that her daughter Dawn has died, while Mark Renton tries to overcome this condition in Edinburgh (EDD-in-burr-uh), in a 1996 Danny Boyle film. For 10 points, identify this condition that is the subject of Requiem for a Dream and Trainspotting.ANSWER: heroin addiction [prompt on drug addiction; prompt on opiate addiction; prompt on addiction]<The above question is for the category Arts Film and was written by Penelope Ashe>


Extra. During this war, several merchants were kidnapped after being accused of trading contraband ship timbers in the Fielding and Bylandt affair. During this war, Antonio Barceló’s “floating battery” first appeared as part of the Grand Assault, which occurred during a nearly four year long “Great Siege.” The “Moonlight Battle” relieved Gibraltar during this war. A conflict incorporated into this war included the defeat of William Baillie by the iron rockets of Tipu Sultan at Pollilur. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and the Second Anglo-Mysore War were international theaters of this conflict, which also included the death of Casimir Pulaski at the Siege of Savannah. For 10 points, name this war whose main theater ended with Charles Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown to George Washington.ANSWER: American Revolutionary War [or War of the American Revolution; or American War of Independence; prompt on Revolutionary War; prompt on Fourth Anglo-Dutch War until it is read; prompt on Anglo-Spanish War until “William Baillie” is read]<The above question is for the category History European 1400-1914 and was written by Penelope Ashe>


2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 9 – Bonuses

1. The Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote a tract asking “Dare We Hope” for this possibility? For 10 points each:[10] Give this Christian theological position, which holds that all people are reconciled to God after death. A denomination was founded through the union of the Unitarians and holders of this position.ANSWER: universalism [accept universal salvation and universal reconciliation][10] Evangelical pastor Rob Bell drew controversy after writing a book claiming that we should hope universalism is true, titled this thing Wins. According to the Gospels, when asked which is the greatest commandment, Jesus replied that it is to do this to God “with all your heart” and to do this to your neighbor “as yourself.”ANSWER: love[10] John Calvin advanced this highly anti-universalist position, which holds that God personally foreordains not only who will be saved, but who will be condemned to hell.ANSWER: double predestination [or the double decree; prompt on predestination]<The above question is for the category RMP Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>

2. Counterstains used in this method include safranin. For 10 points each:[10] Name this method of staining that classifies bacteria into namesake positive or negative classes.ANSWER: Gram stains [or Gram staining; or Gram’s method][10] Gram-positive bacteria stain this color after a Gram stain, whereas gram-negative bacteria show up as pink.ANSWER: violet [or purple][10] All bacteria in this phylum are gram negative. This phylum contains bacteria that are corkscrew-shaped, and includes Leptospira and Borrelia. ANSWER: spirochaete<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Eric Mukherjee>

3. These objects are “cut into joints” and “imbedded in jelly,” and are found alongside “pies, fruits” and “the necks of four bottles.” For 10 points each:[10] Name these two objects that a character had the “forethought” to bring on her trip, and in which Loiseau (lwah-ZOH) wants to partake.ANSWER: two whole chickens[10] The title sex worker shares those chickens on a stagecoach in this short story. The other passengers are angry with her for not offering herself to a Prussian officer so they can continue on their journey.ANSWER: “Ball of Fat” [or “Boule de Suif”; or “dumpling”; or “butterball”; or “ball of lard”][10] “Ball of Fat” was written by this French author, who also wrote about a woman working for years to pay back some jewelry she broke without knowing it was actually cheap, in “The Necklace.”ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant (mo-pah-SAWN)<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by John Marvin>


4. Chicago-native Florenz Ziegfeld was inspired by the Folies-Bergère (foh-LEE-bair-JAIR) of Paris to begin his own show, the Ziegfeld Follies. For 10 points each:[10] Ziegfeld’s first taste of show-business came when his father opened a nightclub to cash in on this 1893 extravaganza, which sought to show a midwestern city’s recovery from an 1871 fire.ANSWER: World’s Columbian Exposition [or Chicago World’s Fair or Chicago World’s Exposition or World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition][10] Ziegfeld’s first success came when managing Eugen Sandow, a pioneer of this activity. Angelo Siciliano changed his name to Charles Atlas after developing a system for performing this activity.ANSWER: bodybuilding [prompt on exercise; prompt on calisthenics; prompt on weightlifting][10] Ziegfeld housed the premiere of Show Boat in his namesake theatre on Broadway, which was financed by this man who published The New York Journal and lost a 1906 race for New York’s governorship.ANSWER: William Randolph Hearst<The above question is for the category History American (1865-1945) and was written by Daoud Jackson>

5. This philosopher wrote about ordering every item on the menu in a restaurant in Marseilles (mar-SAY) in his unfinished collection On Hashish. For 10 points each:[10] Name this German Jewish philosopher who also left his monumental Arcades Project unfinished. His “Theses on the Philosophy of History” were published in his Illuminations collection.ANSWER: Walter Benjamin (VALL-tuh BEN-yah-meen)[10] One of Walter Benjamin’s early essays was on “The Task of” this sort of person. Benjamin attempted this role when he set out to render Proust in German.ANSWER: the translator [accept word forms; accept “The Task of the Translator”][10] This earlier German philosopher argued that one should only translate into one’s own language. He was the first thinker to assert that thought depends on language and wrote a Treatise on the Origin of Language in 1772.ANSWER: Johann Gottfried von Herder (HAIR-dur)<The above question is for the category RMP Philosophy and was written by John Marvin>

6. A character with this name abandons her fiancée Stolzius for the dissolute nobleman Desportes during the first ricercari in Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s opera Die Soldaten (dee zoll-DAH-tin), which is based on a play by Jakob Lenz (YAH-kop LENTS). For 10 points each:[10] Identify this first name of the woman who is murdered under a blood-red moon in an “Invention on a Single Note” from another opera.ANSWER: Marie[10] The latter Marie appears in this Alban Berg (ALL-bahn BAIRG) opera based on a play by Georg Büchner. Its title character is inflamed with jealousy after seeing Marie dancing with the Drum Major.ANSWER: Wozzeck (VOT-seck)[10] As a member of the Second Viennese School, Berg was a student of this composer, who applied his twelve-tone system to create operas like Moses und Aron.ANSWER: Arnold Schoenberg [Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg]<The above question is for the category Arts Opera and was written by Shan Kothari>


7. In this author’s collection More Pricks Than Kicks, Belacqua Shuah struggles with the prospect of killing a lobster. For 10 points each:[10] Name this author of a novel in which Murphy dreams about Belacqua. Malone Dies is part of a trilogy of novels he wrote while in Paris.ANSWER: Samuel Beckett[10] Samuel Beckett was intrigued by the lazy lute maker Belacqua who appears in this section of a larger poem. In this section, the protagonist makes his way up seven terraces of a mountain, the entrance to which is guarded by Cato the Younger.ANSWER: Purgatorio [or Purgatory][10] This British writer created the character of Lyra Belacqua in his series His Dark Materials.ANSWER: Philip Pullman<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Daoud Jackson>

8. This man is a member of the McCoy family, of Hatfield feud fame. For 10 points each:[10] Name this former Massey Energy CEO who was imprisoned for his role in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion and finished third in a May 2018 Senate primary behind Patrick Morrisey and Evan Jenkins.ANSWER: Don Blankenship [Donald Leon Blankenship][10] Blankenship was seeking the Republican nomination to oppose Joe Manchin in November in this state.ANSWER: West Virginia[10] In an April 2018 ad, Blankenship denounced the “China Family” of the current Senate Majority Leader, whom Blankenship referred to by this two-word nickname, referencing a 2014 incident in which narcotics were found on a boat near Colombia.ANSWER: “Cocaine Mitch”<The above question is for the category Current Events US and was written by Penelope Ashe>

9. Answer the following about private libraries in early colonial America, for 10 points each.[10] This clergyman bequeathed a generous library and a substantial part of his fortune to a college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that led to it being named in his honor.ANSWER: John Harvard[10] John Winthrop gave a copy of this Italian humanist’s Anglica Historia to Harvard College.ANSWER: Polydore Vergil[10] Historians have used this man’s library to dispute claims that he was secretly a Catholic. This militia captain of the Plymouth Bay colony founded the Massachusetts town of Duxbury.ANSWER: Myles Standish<The above question is for the category History American (pre-1865) and was written by Daoud Jackson>

10. The Super-Kamiokande experiment has established a lower bound of 1.6 times 10-to-the-34 years for the half life of this process. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this hypothetical, but currently unobserved process in which a common hadron decays into a neutral pion and a positron.ANSWER: proton decay[10] Proton decay is predicted by the Georgi–Glashow model, which also predicts interactions that do not conserve this quantity, equal to one third the number of quarks minus the number of antiquarks.ANSWER: baryon number[10] Protons, as well as other baryons, are composed of this many quarks.ANSWER: three<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Matt Mitchell>


11. In a novel from this country, Nyai Ontosoro, the concubine of Herman Mellema, becomes the mentor to a young writer named Minke. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Asian country where Pramoedya Ananta Toer (pra-MOOD-yah Ananta TOOR) narrated stories to his prison cellmates, which became This Earth of Mankind, the first volume of the Buru Quartet. Multatuli’s Max Havelaar was also set here.ANSWER: Indonesia[10] The wizened reporter Cookie recounts the romance between the journalists Guy Hamilton and Jill Bryant in this Australian novelist’s The Year of Living Dangerously, in which the dwarf Billy Kwan expounds on the moral sense of Indonesian wayang kulit (wah-YAHNG koo-LIT) puppet plays.ANSWER: Christopher John Koch[10] The dangerous Communist rallies in The Year of Living Dangerously resemble those that Baby Kochamma suspects her dalit servant Velutha of joining in The God of Small Things, by this Indian writer. ANSWER: Arundhati Roy [Suzanna Arundhati Roy]<The above question is for the category Literature World and was written by Shan Kothari>

12. Name these creatures from South American folklore, for 10 points each.[10] In Brazil, a headless one of these animals was once a woman who had a sexual encounter with a priest and must now roam the countryside spewing fire from its neck.ANSWER: mule[10] The Chilote (chee-LOH-tay) people of south Chile believe that in the caves of Brujo (BROO-hoh), warlocks are protected by these deformed, mute guardians created from kidnapped babies.ANSWER: imbunches [or imvunches][10] This dragon may travel between the spiritual and physical worlds in Inca myth. This term was adopted as part of the name of several Inca leaders along with the name “Tupac.”ANSWER: Amaru<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>

13. The vocalist hums, rather than sings, during the reprise of the theme in this piece’s first movement, which sets a poem by Ruth Corrêa, who premiered it. For 10 points each:[10] Name this piece for the unusual ensemble of soprano and eight cellos. Its two movements, which each have a second Portuguese title in parentheses, are “Ária (Cantilena)” and “Dança (Martelo).”ANSWER: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 [prompt on Bachianas Brasileiras][10] The “Ária” of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (ay-TOR vee-luh-LOH-boos) is mostly in this time signature. Villa-Lobos used it in the languid middle section of the toccata Festa no sertão from Ciclo brasileiro to evoke the African-influenced rhythms of sertanejo (sair-tuh-NAY-zhoo), or Brazilian country music.ANSWER: 5/4 (five-four) time [or quintuple time; or quintuple meter; or “in five”][10] The second movement of the brief Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 for strings uses Brazilian rhythms in 11/4 time and is in this traditional form. A Bach piece shows off The Art of this imitative form in which each voice plays the subject one after the other in counterpoint.ANSWER: fugue [or fuga; or Fuge; accept The Art of the Fugue or Die Kunst der Fuge]<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Shan Kothari>


14. This event began during a student protest on November 17, 1989. For 10 points each:[10] Name this transfer of power that ended the one-party rule of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party.ANSWER: Velvet Revolution [or Gentle Revolution; or sametová revoluce; or nežná revolúcia][10] This General Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party resigned in November 1989 during the Velvet Revolution.ANSWER: Miloš Jakeš (MEE-lohsh YAH-kesh)[10] The term “Velvet Revolution” was created by Rita Klímová, who served as the ambassador for Czechoslovakia to the United States and had this academic profession. Ernesto Zedillo and Luis Donaldo Colosio, two leading candidates in the 1994 Mexican presidential election, both had this profession.ANSWER: economist [or professor of economics]<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Fred Morlan>

15. After a mathematician suggested a new method of doing this mathematical procedure to Gosta Mittag-Leffler, he responded by placing his hands on the works of Weierstrass (VYE-ur-SHTRAHSS) and saying “the Master forbids it.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this mathematical procedure. Abel and Cesàro (cheh-ZAH-ro) both name methods of performing this operation to divergent series, though more usually this would be denoted by a large sigma.ANSWER: summation [or anything about adding up the terms of the series][10] The aforementioned new method of summation was proposed by this French mathematician. The collection of his namesake sets forms a sigma-algebra, and he is the second namesake of a theorem concerning a certain property of closed real intervals [a,b].ANSWER: Émile Borel[10] The Heine–Borel theorem states that any closed interval [a,b] has this topological property in the reals, which is usually defined as meaning that any open cover of this interval has a finite open subcover.ANSWER: compactness [or sequential compactness]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Joseph Krol>

16. Ruy González de Clavijo (KLAH-vee-hoh), the Castilian ambassador in this city, recorded its continuous state of reconstruction. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Transoxianan (TRANS-ock-see-ANN-in) capital along the Silk Road that is home to a longstanding observatory and the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum.ANSWER: Samarkand [or Samarqand][10] This Turkic conqueror, who is buried in the Gur-e-Amir, ruled his empire from Samarkand. This “lame” ruler built pyramids of skulls after sacking Baghdad and Delhi.ANSWER: Timur the Lame [or Tamerlane][10] This grandson of Timur built his namesake observatory in Samarkand. Under this monarch’s patronage, his astronomers published the incredibly accurate Zij-i Sultani star charts.ANSWER: Ulugh Beg [or Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Nitin Rao>

17. This print was the basis for a bronze sculpture by pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi (pow-LOHT-see), found in the piazza (pee-AHT-sah) outside the British Library. For 10 points each:[10] Name this monotype that depicts the title man naked, seated on a mossy rock while writing on a scroll with a compass.ANSWER: Newton[10] This British artist of Newton depicted Urizen crouching in front of the sun holding a giant compass beneath him in The Ancient of Days, which originated as the frontispiece of his book Europe a Prophecy.ANSWER: William Blake[10] Blake often colored his etchings using this method, in which paints are made from pigments suspended in an aqueous mixture.ANSWER: watercolor [or aquarelle]<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by Shan Kothari>


18. Answer the following about comets, for 10 points each.[10] A prevailing theory on their composition, proposed by Fred L. Whipple, compared their nucleus to this two-word phrase.ANSWER: dirty snowball [prompt on snowball][10] After breaking apart, this comet collided with Jupiter in 1994.ANSWER: comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 [or SL9; or D/1993 F2][10] This comet, which is classified as a dwarf planet, orbits the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. It was also the first object classified as a centaur.ANSWER: 2060 Chiron [or 95P/Chiron]<The above question is for the category Science Astronomy and was written by Fred Morlan>

19. This man advocated “Just Community Schools” in which decision-making was based on a democratic process involving both teacher and student votes. For 10 points each:[10] Name this psychologist who identified the social contract and universal ethics as the two parts of the “post-conventional” stage in a model he created.ANSWER: Lawrence Kohlberg[10] Kohlberg’s model outlines the development of this faculty, which is assessed in James Rest’s Defining Issues Test.ANSWER: moral reasoning or judgment [or moral development][10] In a scenario introduced in Kohlberg’s Essays on Moral Development, a man named Heinz must decide whether it is moral to perform this action in order to save a life.ANSWER: steal a newly developed treatment or drug that he cannot afford [or break into or burglarize a laboratory or pharmacy; the drug is identified in the scenario as a “form of radium,” which is not a required part of the answer, but if the player specifies another particular substance or medical treatment then the answer is wrong]<The above question is for the category Social Science Psychology and was written by Penelope Ashe>

20. Answer the following about literary visits to the Colosseum by moonlight, for 10 points each:[10] In this Edith Wharton story, Delphin Slade’s widow reveals to Mrs. Ansley that she forged the letter bearing Delphin’s initials that led Mrs. Ansley to visit the Colosseum at night and fall ill when they were girls.ANSWER: “Roman Fever”[10] Winterbourne becomes enraged upon seeing that Giovanelli has taken the title character to the Colosseum at night in Daisy Miller, a novella by this writer.ANSWER: Henry James[10] The four central characters go on a frivolous midnight ramble to the Colosseum in this last finished novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is named for the character Donatello’s resemblance to a Praxiteles sculpture.ANSWER: The Marble Faun<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Shan Kothari>


Extra. The son of this family, Henry, was named “Cain” until he killed his brother Abel. For 10 points each:[10] Give the last name of this New Jersey family, whose patriarch George invents the wheel and multiplication. This family’s maid is named Lilly Sabina.ANSWER: the Antrobus family[10] The Antrobus family survives the ice age and a massive war in this surreal play. It ends with the stage manager telling the audience that the actors got sick and Sabina asking the audience to continue the action themselves.ANSWER: “The Skin of Our Teeth”[10] “The Skin of Our Teeth” is by this playwright, who also wrote a play set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire called “Our Town.”ANSWER: Thornton Wilder [Thornton Niven Wilder]<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by John Marvin>


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