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National Scholastics Championship at George Mason University
Round 1
Related Tossup/Bonus Round
1. Landau proposed that excitations in these propagate via
“rotons,” and glitches are thought to occur in pulsars when
neutrons turn into these, explaining their unusual vorticity. They
can also form Rollin films, which exhibit the Onnes effect, wherein
capillary forces acting on them are greater than gravity, and they
have infinite thermal conductivity. Occurring below the lambda
point for helium, for 10 points, identify this property exhibited
by a liquid which has zero viscosity.
ANSWER: superfluid [or superfluidity]
It explains why Amish communities have members with extra toes,
and why Pingelap islanders have a greater-than-normal incidence of
color-blindness. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon in which a small population forms an
isolated colony and thus causes reduced genetic variation among its
populace.
ANSWER: founder effect
[10] The founder effect is a specific type of this evolutionary
mechanism in which allele frequencies shift due to random,
non-selection forces.
ANSWER: genetic drift [accept allele drift]
2. A 1925 paper arguing against skepticism, written by G.E.
Moore, was titled "A Defense of" this. It was the primary method of
reasoning used in the treatises of Claude Buffier, who influenced a
circle including Dugald Stewart and Thomas Reid which exalted it in
Scotland. From 1816 to 1870, it was declared the official
philosophy of France, and this phrase also titled a work which
blamed hereditary succession of kingship and the failure to
immediately declare independence for the troubles of colonial
America. For 10 points, name that influential tract of Thomas
Paine.
ANSWER: common sense
It prohibited any large country from claiming an exception from
taxes on harbor and railroad usage. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this policy formulated by Secretary of State John Hay,
which also stated that China's independence should be respected and
all nations should have equal access to trade in China.
ANSWER: the Open Door policy
[10] This author of the collection Door Into the Dark included
such poems as "Digging" in his Death of a Naturalist, and he later
made a noted translation of Beowulf.
ANSWER: Seamus Justin Heaney
3. Its symbolic end came at the bloodless Battle of Ugra, in
which Akhmet withdrew his forces. It won a key victory at the
Vorskla River against Vytautas, and its general Mamai lost another
battle at Kulikovo. Mamai’s successor Tokhtamysh fought Timur, and
it long had a capital at Sarai Berke. Its original capital was
named for Batu, and perhaps its greatest leader was Oz Beg. For 10
points name this westernmost division of the Mongol Empire’s lands,
that included much of present-day Russia and was named for the
color of some of its early leader's tents.
ANSWER: Golden Horde [or Ulus Juchi; or Kipchak Khanate]
Identify the following about life before and after Alexander the
Great, for 10 points each.
[10] This father of Alexander gained control of Greece after his
victory at Chaeronea and married Olympias.
ANSWER: Philip II [or Philip of Macedon]
[10] With a name from the Greek word for "succesors," these men
took over Alexander's empire after his death. They included
Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus.
ANSWER: the Diadochi
4. This novel features a story describing Franz Pokler’s yearly
meetings with his daughter Ilse, and it is revealed that the
protagonist was once conditioned by Laszlo Jamf. Margherita Erdman,
whom the protagonist had met in The Zone, leads him to the Anubis,
while another scene in this novel sees a giant octopus during a
meeting with Kate Borgesius. It opens with, “A screaming comes
across the sky” and ends with Captain Blicero placing Gottfriend
into the V2. For 10 points, Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is the
protagonist of what novel by Thomas Pynchon?
ANSWER: Gravity’s Rainbow
A sausage-seller attempts to unseat Cleon in this author’s play
The Knights. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Greek playwright whose comedies include The Frogs
and Lysistrata.
ANSWER: Aristophanes
[10] In this Aristophanes play, Dicaeopolis attempts to
establish a personal peace treaty during the Peloponnesian War,
only to be hounded by a chorus of coal-sellers.
ANSWER: The Acharnians
5. This man discussed phrases which describe objects we are not
acquainted with in his essay “On Denoting.” He argued that objects
are inferred by logical constructs that are formed from quanta of
sensation in his 1918 lectures on Logical Atomism. This author of
Why I am not a Christian found a paradox in Frege’s theory, wherein
a set cannot be a member of a set of all sets that are not members
of themselves. For 10 points, identify this philosopher who
collaborated with Whitehead on the Principia Mathematica.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
He was inspired by Siyyad Ali-Muhammad of Shiraz, who took the
name Bab (“Bob”). For 10 points each:
[10] Name this author of The Seven Valleys, a founder of a world
religion.
ANSWER: Baha’u’llah or Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri
[10] Baha’u’llah founded this Persian religion that believes
that Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, the Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, and
Muhammad are among the messengers of god.
ANSWER: Baha’i Faith
6. In one of his works, Pierpoint Mauler runs a corrupt meat
packing plant, which is opposed by the Black Straw Hats. In another
play by this author, Shui Ta is the cruel alter ego of Shen The who
runs a tobacco factory. He also wrote about Grusche, who refuses to
pull the baby Michael out of the title object, leading to the judge
Azdak declaring Grusche the true mother. Kattrin, Eilif, Swiss
Cheese, and Anna Fierling are title characters of another play by
him. For 10 points, name this author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle
and Mother Courage and her Children.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht
Inspired by a scene from the ninth book of the Odyssey, it
describes objects which "bloom below the barren peak" and "blow by
every winding creek." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem about people who are perpetually under the
influence of drug-like flowers, which ends with a narration from a
sailor who resolves to live there forever.
ANSWER: "The Lotos-Eaters"
[10] "The Lotos-Eaters," like "Ulysses," is a Homeric-themed
poem by this author of Idylls of the King.
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
7. George Rappleyea, the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron
Company, organized this event. Its namesake published his memories
in Center of the Storm, and Reverend Lemuel Cartright opened this
event with a prayer. Broadcast over WGN Radio, it addressed a
violation of the Butler Act and was presided over by John Raulston.
The prosecutor died four days after winning this case, which was
argued by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. For 10 points
name this 1925 court case against a substitute biology teacher who
lectured on evolution.
ANSWER: Scopes "monkey" trial
Answer the following about the history of Argentina, for 10
points each:
[10] A former dancer, she succeeded her husband as president of
Argentina in 1974. Her presidency was marked by a failing economy,
and she was overthrown in 1976 by Jorge Videla.
ANSWER: Isabel Peron [prompt on Peron; do not accept Eva or
Evita Peron]
[10] Videla initiated this campaign of political suppression, in
which fifteen thousand Argentines were killed or disappeared. The
Mothers of the Plaza de Maya brought attention to this
conflict.
ANSWER: Dirty War [or Guerra Sucia; or Process of National
Reorganization]
8. Its fifth movement uses a double-bass to play the melody of a
waltz, while its eighth uses ill-tuned violin shrieks to depict
“Persons With Long Ears,” and its eleventh uses badly-played scales
to depict “Pianists.” Following the cello melody of the thirteenth
movement, its finale turns into a playful dance after recapping the
piano tremolo of its opening, “The Introduction and Royal March of
the Lion.” For 10 points, name this work whose sections include
“Fossils,” “The Aquarium,” and “The Swan,” by Camille
Saint-Saens.
ANSWER: The Carnival of the Animals [or Le Carnaval des
Animaux]
It is interchangeable with “Lento,” and is applied to the second
movement of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this slowest unmodified tempo, usually indicating
forty to sixty beats per minute.
ANSWER: largo
[10] An arrangement of the “Ombra mai fu” aria of this
composer’s Xerxes is often played by string ensemble at solemn
events, where it is called his “Largo.”
ANSWER: George Friedrich Handel
9. An ongoing clinical study compares the effectiveness of
Iosartan and atenolol on elastin fibers in this structure. A septal
defect lies directly under this structure, which is “overriding,”
in the tetralogy of Fallot, and in Takayasu disease this
structure’s namesake arch is inflamed. This structure’s namesake
valve contains the nodules of Arantius, and its branches include
the subclavian and the brachiocephalic. It arises in the left
ventricle, and it carries oxygenated blood to the entire body. For
10 points, name this largest artery in the human body.
ANSWER: the aorta
Identify the following industrial processes, for 10 points
each:
[10] Ammonia is oxidized using a largely-platinum catalyst in
this reaction, which creates nitric acid.
ANSWER: Ostwald process
[10] This process uses cryolite to lower the melting temperature
of alumina and uses a high amperage current to convert alumina to
aluminum.
ANSWER: Hall-Heroult process
10. One model for explaining this phenomenon relies on the
assumption that productive capacity is at its maximum and advocates
controlling it via the quantity theory. The "gap" named for this
happens when government spending is greater than the difference
between production and consumption. Subsidy programs for needed
labor can cause the "demand-pull" variety, while the normal kind
experienced in the first world is "cost-push." or 10 points, name
this phenomenon in which more money is required to buy the same
goods, causing a drop in the value of money.
ANSWER: inflation
One important operation in these is the subject-auxiliary
inversion, and most current research on them is done through the
minimalist program. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of grammar posited in Syntactic
Structures.
ANSWER: Transformational-Generative Grammar
[10] Syntactic Structures was written by this student of Zelig
Harris and current professor at MIT.
ANSWER: Noam Chomsky
Category Quiz: Tossups
11. Carved ceiling figures extend nearly halfway to the floor as
a man takes a bowl from a woman at a bucket of water in one version
of this event. Another painting, originally intended to depict this
scene, was retitled to a setting at the house of Levi. In addition
to those works by Tintoretto and Veronese, another of these
paintings contains a mysterious knife and separates the figures
into three groups, with the central one wearing blue and red and
one side of the table unoccupied. For 10 points, name this Biblical
scene, also painted by Leonardo.
ANSWER: the Last Supper
12. In one role, this man’s character declares "Killian, here's
your Sub-Zero, now plain zero”, and in another, he grudgingly
replaces a sick Phoebe O’Hara, using a ferret to make friends. As
Dr. Alex Hesse, he declares “It’s not a tumor!” and, insulted, asks
another character “Does my body disgust you?” One of his characters
allies with the boss of Bane to save his cryogenically preserved
wife, while another must save John Connor. For 10 points, name this
star of such movies as The Running Man, Kindergarten Cop, and
Junior, who played a futuristic cyborg in the Terminator series.
ANSWER: Arnold Schwarzenegger
13. In 1928, he took charge of purging the Moscow party of
anti-Stalinist elements, and from 1930 through 1941, he was
chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars. Two years before hs
1986 death, Konstantin Chernenko invited him to rejoin the
Communist Party; forty years earlier, he had rejected Soviet
participation in the Marshall Plan, but was exiled to Mongolia a
few years later. For 10 points, name this Soviet diplomat, who
engineered a 1939 pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop and is the
namesake of certain bottles of flammable liquid.
ANSWER: Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov
14. Recent data suggests that this body has experienced five
volcanic events, occurring between 3.5 billion and 100 million
years ago. One such eruption likely occurred from the Arsia Mons, a
member of the Tharsis Montes which was named by Giovanni
Schiaparelli. A better known feature is a shield volcano 27
kilometers high, whose lava residues were explored by the Express
orbiter in 2004 and is the tallest known mountain in the solar
system. For 10 points, name this home to Olympus Mons orbited by
Phobos and Deimos, the fourth planet from the Sun.
ANSWER: Mars
15. In December 2004, David Qualls and seven John Doe plaintiffs
filed a lawsuit against this procedure, which has been invoked over
fifty thousand times since 2003. Connecticut Republican Congressman
Christopher Shays has become a leading opponent of its use,
claiming it will "destroy" morale, and wrote a May 2008 open letter
to Robert Gates denouncing it. For 10 points, name this procedure,
which in about half of cases targets non-commissioned officers, an
Army policy of retaining soldiers for several months after their
term of enlistment expires.
ANSWER: stop-loss
16. Aeschylus claims that one punishment of this man was exacted
in the presence of Cratos and Bia by Hephaestus, and that during
that punishment he was visited by Io and the Oceanides. He
suggested that Deucalion and Pyrrha build a ship to escape the
flood, and he once tricked Zeus into taking just the fat and bones
of a bull by hiding the meat in the skin, but Zeus later bound him
to a rock and had a bird eat his liver. For 10 points, identify
this Titan, whose name means “forethought” and who stole fire from
the gods.
ANSWER: Prometheus
17. It takes its title from a speech by the Ambassador that
notes, "The sight is dismal/ And our affairs from England come too
late." At one point in this play, Alfred is nearly forced to appear
in a private performance of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The title
characters bet on whether a birth year doubled is an odd number and
flip a coin "heads" ninety-one straight times. Then they are sent
on a ship with a letter from the prince that demands their
execution. For 10 points, name this play about two doomed buddies
of Hamlet, written by Tom Stoppard.
ANSWER: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
18. Perhaps the best of these procedures operates by balancing
about a pivot value, then recursing; that numerically unstable
algorithm was invented by Hoare. One of these named for the
apparent motion of small elements swaps neighboring elements;
another one, apparently named for a clown, swaps two elements at
random. Bozo, bubble, Shell, insertion, and quick- are just a few
of the numerous algorithms of this type. For 10 points, name this
class of algorithms that put the elements of a list in order.
ANSWER: sorting algorithms
Category Quiz: Bonuses
Arts
This granddaughter of economist Henry George first broke into
musicals with The Black Crook. For 15 points, name this
choreographer, most noted for the ballets Fall River Legend and
Rodeo.
ANSWER: Agnes George de Mille
Current Events
In 1976, while a member of the economics department at
Chittagong University, he issued twenty-seven dollars worth of
loans to women in Jobra. For 15 points, name this man whose Grameen
Bank went on to sponsor over seven million transformative
"microloans."
ANSWER: Muhammad Yunus
Geography
It overlooks the Burlington Bay section of central Lake Ontario,
and is home to such landmarks as the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
and McMaster University. For 15 points, name this city located
south of Kitchener and Toronto, but north of London.
ANSWER: Hamilton
History
Named for a Roman general known for his delaying tactics, it has
been affiliated with the Labour Party since 1906. For 15 points,
name this organization founded by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, which
advocated a gradual move towards socialism in Britain.
ANSWER: Fabian Society
Literature
The janissary Sokolli builds the title structure of his most
famous work, set in Visegrad, a town in his homeland of Bosnia. For
15 points, name this author of The Bridge on the Drina.
ANSWER: Ivo Andric
Math Calculation
Given a standard 52-card poker deck, for 15 points, find the
probability of drawing two red cards consecutively, without
replacement.
ANSWER: 25 over 102 [or “twenty-five one-hundred-and-seconds”
]
Popular Culture
Current players on this country's roster include Carlos Tevez
and Lionel Messi, and they are scheduled to play the USA at Giants
Stadium on June 8. For 15 points, name this country whose
national team won the 1978 World Cup, led by Mario Kempes, in
addition to the 1986 World Cup.
ANSWER: Argentina
Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy
The author’s reading of the Upanishads resulted in this work’s
examination of the “tat tvam asi” as an example of pure perception.
For 15 points, identify this work in which Arthur Schopenhauer
extended Kant’s “ding an sich” from humanity to all phenomena.
ANSWER: The World as Will and Representation [accept The World
as Will and Idea or Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung]
Science
The induced Emf can alternatively be stated as the contour
integral of this over charge. For 15 points, identify this force
law which states that the force on a charged particle is equal to
the velocity times the Electric Field plus the velocity times the B
field.
ANSWER: Lorentz Force law
Social Science
He pioneered the field of salvage ethnography while studying
Indian cultures in California. For 15 points, name this
anthropologist also famous for writing about the last California
Yahi Indian in his Ishi in Two Worlds.
ANSWER: Alfred Louis Kroeber
Stretch Round
19. Alexander McLeod was arrested after drunkenly discussing his
role in this event, and Amos Durfree was killed during it. The
group behind it set up a headquarters on Navy Island under the
command of Rensselaer van Rensselaer, and targeted an object owned
by William Wells which carried supplies to aid William Mackenzie.
That item was ultimately captured, set on fire, and sent over
Niagara Falls. For 10 points, name this 1837 incident in which the
namesake American commercial steamer was destroyed by some rowdy
Canadians, nearly causing war with Britain.
ANSWER: Caroline affair [accept anything reasonable with
Caroline in it]
The central conflict of the play revolves around Angustias
trying to marry Pepe el Romano. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play, in wih an oppressive matriarch rules over
her daughters Angustias, Amelia, and Adela at the title
location.
ANSWER: The House of Bernarda Alba [La Casa de Bernard Alba]
[10] This author of The House of Bernarda Alba also wrote about
Leonardo Felix running off with "The Bride" in his play Blood
Wedding.
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca [do not accept or prompt on
partial answer]
[10] This poet talks about "Garcia-Lorca" in his poem "A
Supermarket in California," but he may be better known for writing
"Kaddish" and "Howl."
ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg
20. The lead baritone's aria, “Credo in un Dio crudel,” contains
the renunciation “Heaven is an old wives' tale,” while the main
vengeance plot is sworn in the Act II finale, “Si pel ciel marmoreo
giuro!” Minor characters in this work include Roderigo, Lodovico,
and Emilia; the chorus represents Venetians and Cypriots. The
soprano soloist's “Ave Maria” in Act IV precedes her death by
strangulation. For 10 points, the title character dies while
weeping over his dead wife Desdemona in what Giuseppe Verdi opera
based on a Shakespearean tragedy?
ANSWER: Otello [or Othello]
Karaganda and Pavlodar are some of the bustling metropolises in
this country. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this country, the only one which borders both the
Caspian Sea and China.
ANSWER: Kazakhstan
[10] The Uzynaral strait across the Sarymsek Peninsula connects
the two sections of this arc-shaped lake, which is fed by the Ili
river and is a prominent feature of southeastern Kazakhstan.
ANSWER: Lake Balkhash
[10] Once known as Verny, this city on the Malaya Almaatinka
River was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997.
ANSWER: Almaty [or Alma-ata]
21. She begins to lose her tomboy nature after her best friend
kills a rattlesnake, after which she works as a maid for Mrs.
Harling and her violin-playing father commits suicide. Because she
does not stay to guard Wick Cutter’s silver, she avoids being
assaulted, but later she’s impregnated and abandoned by Larry
Donovan, and Lena Lingard urges that remembrances of her be written
down. For 10 points, name this Bohemian wife of Anton Cuzak, who is
chronicled in Jim Burden's remembrances of Black Hawk, Nebraska in
a Willa Cathernovel.
ANSWER: Antonia Shimerda Cuzak [prompt on Shimerda; prompt on
Cuzak]
Identify the following festivals that Hindus celebrate, for 10
points each:[10] Also known as Vijaya Dashami, this holiday
commemorates Rama's victory over Ravana. For most Bengalis, it is a
celebration of Mahishasura's defeat at the hands of Durga.
ANSWER: Dasara or Dussehara [be lenient on pronounciation]
[10] This festival marks Rama's return to Ayodhya. Lasting from
three to five days, brothers give their sisters gifts on the second
day of this festival.
ANSWER: Diwali or Deepavali
[10] Streets are crowded with people spraying "gulal" on this
festival of colors. Vishnu assumed the form of Nara-Simha to kill
Hiranyakashyapu on this day.
ANSWR: Holi
22. Count Maximilian von Trautmansdorff was greatly responsible
for its conclusion, and France was represented at its negotiation
by the Marquis de Sable and the Count d’Avaux. Pope Innocent X
issued the Bull “Zelo domus Dei,” which contested all of its
articles that were detrimental to Catholicism. This settlement also
recognized the Swiss Confederation and confirmed the Peace of
Augsburg. For 10 points name this agreement, negotiated in Munster
and Osnabruck that ended the Dutch and German phase, or final part,
of the Thirty Years’ War.
ANSWER: Peace of Westphalia
His early works include the Coffee Mill. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Dadaist, who repeated Coffee Mill’s “grinder”
design as a portion of his Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors,
Even and drew facial hair on the Mona Lisa in his L.H.O.O.Q.
ANSWER: Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp
[10] Duchamp entered this painting, described by Julian Street
as an “explosion in a shingle factory,” in the 1913 Armory Show,
where it shocked the American art world.
ANSWER: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 [or Nu descendant un
escalier no. 2]
[10] This Dadiast invented a type of photo named after himself
and helped Duchamp and Katherine Dreier found the Societe Anonyme.
He took pictures of Duchamp as Rose Selavy.
ANSWER: Man Ray [or Emmanuel Radnitsky]
23. Including the large Lake Orumieh in its northwest, this
country controls Minoo and Larak Islands, and a 2007 IMF survey
found that the exodus of educated professionals from this country
gives it the highest "brain drain" in the world. Divided into
provinces known as ostan, this country has a capital that lies at
the feet of the Elburz Mountains, and it borders the Balochistan
province of Pakistan. For 10 points, name this only country to
border both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, an "Islamic
Republic" found to the east of Iraq.
ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Iran
Identify the following pertaining to electrochemistry, for 10
points each:
[10] This device is made up of a glass tube which contains
porous material that allows free flow of ions. Alternatively,
filter paper can also be used as one of these.
ANSWER: salt bridge
[10] These devices consist of two metal electrodes dipped in
electrolytes and are connected by the salt bridge. Deposition
occurs at the cathode in such devices.
ANSWER: voltaic cell or galvanic cell
[10] This adjective is used to describe modern batteries which
replace the bulky liquid for a semi-solid paste containing
electrolytes. They are sometimes named after the French scientist
Leclanché.
ANSWER: dry cells
24. This quantity is classically three times Boltzmann’s
constant for any crystal, but that breaks down when the temperature
is less than the Debye temperature, when the law of Dulong and
Petit for this fails. For an ideal gas, the isochoric form is given
by the number of molecular degrees of freedom times Boltzmann’s
constant over two. It can be defined as the rate at which the
temperature of a body changes when energy is added. For 10 points,
name this amount of energy required to raise a body's temperature
by one degree.
ANSWER: the heat capacity [prompt on specific heat capacity or C
or C-p or C-v]
Russia has had a long history of repelling foreign invaders. For
10 points each:
[10] This ruler of Novgorod defeated the Swedes at the river
which gives him his name, and also repulsed the invasion of the
Teutonic Knights at Lake Chud in the Massacre on the Ice.
ANSWER: Alexander Nevsky
[10] In this epic battle of 1812, Napoleon won a pyrrhic victory
against General Mikhail Kutuzov, but he was unable to hold onto
Russia and was forced into a disastrous retreat.
ANSWER: Borodino
[10] Fredrich Paulus's attemptes to take this city in the second
half of 1942 were stymied by Vasily Chuikov, and the Axis forces
surrendered in February 1943 after a long siege.
ANSWER: Stalingrad [prompt on Volgagrad]
25. This painter showed a nun balancing a book on her head and a
man in a tin hat poking at another's skull in his The Cure of
Folly. A greenish figure's face is obscured by a long musical
instrument, two figures kiss in front of a brown tree, and several
pitchforks are raised towards the center, as Jesus looks on from a
cloud, in another of his paintings. For 10 points, name this
creator of 1490's The Haywain, who also showed a blue giraffe, a
bird-monster eating a man, and a plethora of naked figures in his
triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.
ANSWER: Hiëronymus Bosch [or Jerome Van Aeken; or Jeroen
Anthoniszoo]
They are used in the process of subcloning in order to move a
gene from between vectors. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these pieces of circular, non-chromosomal DNA found
most commonly in bacteria.
ANSWER: plasmids
[10] Plasmids are passed directly between bacteria when a
structure known as a pilus connects the two bacteria in this
process.
ANSWER: conjugation
[10] This term is used to describe a bacterium that is capable
of “grabbing” DNA from its environment and incorporating it into
its genome.
ANSWER: competence [accept word forms such as competent]
26. One of this figure’s relatives was the pet of Phaia and was
slain by Theseus, while another of his offspring was clubbed to
death on Mount Abas by the same person who strangled another of
this character’s children in a cave. The firebrand-wielding Iolaus
assisted in the death of the child of this character who lived at
Lerna, and, like Cronos, this character earlier used an adamantine
sickle to cut the sinews of Zeus. For 10 points, name this monster
that fathered Orthros, the Nemean Lion, and the Hydra with
Echidna.
ANSWER: Typhon
One of this author’s poems praises limestone, while another
opens "Stop all the clocks." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this British poet of The Age of Anxiety, "Funeral
Blues," and "The Unknown Citizen."
ANSWER: Wystan HughAuden
[10] This poem, later repudiated by Auden, is named after the
date that World War II started. It opens with the speaker sitting
"in one of the dives / on Fifty-second street."
ANSWER: "September 1, 1939"
[10] This Auden claims of the Dutch masters that "About
suffering they were never wrong" and describes describes Brueghel’s
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.
ANSWER: "Musee de Beaux-Arts"
27. In some cases, this process is presaged by increased
recombination in the pericentromeric region of diagrams that show
this process, which lends credence to the idea that the two stages
during which this can occur are “entangled”; those two stages
uniquely see this occur equally frequently in Patau syndrome. This
process can occur during meiosis I or II, depending on whether a
tetrad or sister chromatids fail to unbind. For 10 points, name
this failure of genes to separate properly, which leads to monosomy
or trisomy, like in Down syndrome.
ANSWER: nondisjunction
Identify the following about Finland’s contributions to the
world of architecture, for 10 points each.
[10] This Finnish designer of the General Motors Technical
Center in Warren, Michigan is more known for, among other things,
the Miller House and the TWA Terminal at JFK airport.
ANSWER: Eero Saarinen [prompt on Saarinen]
[10] This collaboration with Hannskarl Bandel, built to
commemorate the Louisiana Purchase and located in St. Louis, is
Eero Saarinen’s most famous work.
ANSWER: the Gateway Arch [or the Jefferson National Expansion
Memorial]
[10] This non-Saarinen’s major works include the Paimio
Sanatorium, the Turun Sanomat newspaper offices, and the Municipal
Library building in what was at the time Viipuri, Finland.
ANSWER: Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
28. In one of his novels, Dennis Barlow meets Aimee Thanatogenos
at the Whispering Glades cemetery. In addition to writing The Loved
One, he described business dealings with South American brothels,
which get the innocent Paul Pennyfeather thrown into jail, in his
novel Decline and Fall. In another of his works, Lady Marchmain
tries to convert the protagonist to Catholicism and Rex Mottram
tries to marry Lady Julia Flyte. For 10 points, name this author
who wrote about Charles Ryder’s return to the titular estate in
Brideshead Revisited.
ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh
Identify the following people who tried to change the way
America worked, for 10 points each.
[10] This man designed an efficient power loom with Paul Moody
and founded the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham,
Massachusetts, the world’s first all-in-one textile mill.
ANSWER: Francis Cabot Lowell
[10] This journalist feigned insanity to get committed into the
Blackwell’s Island asylum, and exposed the conditions of that
facility. She later wrote Around the World in Seventy-Two Days.
ANSWER: Nellie Bly [or Elizabeth Cochrane]
[10] This utopian living community was organized by George
Ripley, and its notable residents included Bronson Alcott, Margaret
Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
ANSWER: Brook Farm
