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ACF Fall 2007: Vavilov, Actually

Packet by Andrew Hart

Tossups

1. Though its not in the United States, just off of this regions eastern tip is a land mass known as Staten Island. The only city

along National Route 3 between this regions two largest cities was founded in 1972 and is called Tolhuin. At over 8,000 feet, its

tallest point is Mount Darwin, and it contains two regional capitals, its largest city, Ushuaia, and Punto Arenas. Its town of Puerto

Toro is the worlds southernmost and it is separated from a continental mainland by the Strait of Magellan. FTP, name thisarchipelago shared between Chile and Argentina at the southernmost tip of South America whose name stems from the many fire

that its Western discoverer saw from sea.

ANSWER: Tierra del Fuego [accept Land of Fire]

2. If the net charge on a body is zero, then this describes the highest-order term in the harmonic expansion of its potential in

general. An oscillating one produces a radiation field with the asymptotic form of a spherical wave. The potential energy of one o

these is given by minus its moment dotted into its associated field and the potential of one varies as one over distance squared. A

physical one can be modeled as two separated charges of equal magnitude and opposite sign; its namesake moment will then be tcharge times the separation distance. FTP, name this physical system containing two electric monopoles.ANSWER: an electric dipole [prompt on one over distance squared or other close equivalents before "one over distance squared

3. The protagonists mother is conceived when the fugitive Joseph Koljaiczek takes refuge from constables under a womans skir

in a potato field. She dies after a dead horses head full of eels inspires her to eat only fish. Its protagonist outlandishly seducesMaria, the younger sister of a man with hieroglyph-like scars on his back, Herbert Truczinski, and his father Alfred dies from

swallowing a pin to conceal his fascist affiliations from the Russians. The title object is given to the protagonist for his third

birthday, after which he decides to stop growing. Set in Danzig, FTP, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath by Gunter Grass.

ANSWER: The Tin Drum (orDieBlechtrommel)

4. This property ensures complete separation when dividing hydroxides of group III cations because it causes Zinc 2+ and

Aluminum 3+ to immediately redissolve into NaOH. Isoelectric focusing can be used to separate molecules with this property,

such as proteins, by applying a potential difference across a pH gradient and allowing the small molecules to move towards the

anode or cathode. One notable compound displaying it reacts with ammonia to form a hydroxide ion and with hydrogen choride t

form a hydronium ion. FTP, name this property of substances such as water that can react as either acids or bases.

ANSWER: amphoterism [oramphotericness oramphiprotism oramphiproticness]

5. A myth about this figure earned Athena the cult title of Chalinitis in Corinth. Hesiod gives him the duty of bearing the

thunderbolts for Zeus and suggests that his name resulted from his birth near Ocean, while his brother Chrysaor was named for hi

sword. He was captured in Pirene after his captor followed the advice of Polyeidos and received a dream from Athena. Charged b

Iobates to complete several tasks, that captor used him in his battles with the Amazons and with the Chimaera. That hero,

Bellerophon tamed this creature with a gift from Athena, a golden bridle, before failing in an attempt to reach Olympus himself.

Born from the decapitated body of Medusa, this is, FTP, what mythological winged horse?

ANSWER: Pegasus


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6. One of his campaigns was conducted against Grimoald III, duke of Benevento, who had formerly been his hostage. In his

namesakeLibri, theologians attacked the Second Council of Nicaea, before he himself convened the Synod of Frankfurt, whichoverruled that ecumenical council. In his cold war with the Byzantines, he advanced his own candidate to succeed Hadrian I,

Pope Leo III. Defeat at Zaragoza forced his troops to retreat to Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees, a site famous for the poem it

inspired, The Song of Roland. His biographer Einhard served as secretary for his son and successor, Louis the Pious. FTP, name

this king of the Franks, whom Leo crowned Holy Roman Emperor on December 25, 800.

ANSWER: Charlemagne [orCarolus Magnus orCharles the Great; prompt on "Charles" or "Carolus"]

7. One character in this work recalls that a famous author had to flee from the Eiffel Tower as it was about to crush him by its

vulgarity. After learning that Masha is going to marry the schoolmaster Medvedenko, one character is left a message on page 121

lines 11 and 12, of his own bookDays and Nights. That character plans to meet him at the Hotel Slavianski Bazaar, and she bears

him a child that dies young, whereupon Nina is deserted by her lover, a playwright. She returns to Sorins home while Arkadina

and Trigorin are visiting, but when she leaves for Eltz, Treplev shoots himself, like he had the title creature. Thus ends, FTP, whiplay by Anton Chekhov?

ANSWER: TheSeagullorChayka

8. Prior to its translation by William of Moerbeke, it was unavailable to medieval Europe, except through the excerpts quoted in

Macrobiuss commentary on Ciceros Somnium Scipionis. One section denounces excessive Laconianphilotimia, while Book III

cites the need for a noble lie as the basis for the title concept. Discussion of a line divided into four parts and of the sun are

metaphors for its authors idea of the levels of existence and of the absolute good respectively, but, the most famous excerpt

features shackled prisoners watching shadows to illustrate the theory of forms in the allegory of the cave. FTP, name this

Platonic dialogue in which Socrates claims that a philosopher should rule the titular entity.

ANSWER: TheRepublic [orPoliteia]

9. Ones by Thomas Wyatt include Like to these unmeasurable mountains and Whoso List to Hunt. The author ofThe

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge wrote ones dedicated to Vera Knoop, and a notable series of them is addressed to a Fair Youth

and a Dark Lady. Vikram Seths novel The Golden Gate consists of Pushkinian ones, while another sequence of them begins by

considering how Theocritus had sung and includes the line How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. FTP, name this poeti

form, whose collections include Elizabeth Barrett Brownings ones From the Portuguese, and whose types include Petrarchan

and Spenserian.

ANSWER: sonnets [acceptSonnetsto Orpheus, Shakespeares Sonnets, orSonnetsfrom the Portuguese]

10. During his reign, his forces defeated Spain at Jarbah and lost in a battle with the Knights of St. John in an attempt to capture

Malta. While serving as governor in the Crimea, he helped his father to build an army. A principle known as the circle of justiceguided the legal kanuns which he set up, and he supported the ascension of John Zapolya following one of his military victories.

Against Rhodes, he used the naval forces enhanced by his grandfather Bayezid II and led by Khayr ad-Din or Barbarossa, though

he later failed at the first siege of Vienna. The winner at Mohacs and son of Selim the Grim, this is, FTP, what Ottoman Sultan,

who oversaw that empires golden age?

ANSWER: Suleiman the Magnificent [orSuleiman I orSuleiman the Lawgiver orSuleiman Kunani]


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11. The pre version of this occurs only in plants and forms a namesake microtubule band underneath the cell membrane. Before

this stage can begin in some plant cells, a phragosome must be formed to bisect large vacuoles. Molecular motors drive thecentrosomes apart during it, and microtubules connected to the centrosomes form the spindle apparatus. During it, the nucleolus

disappears and, at its end, the nuclear membrane dissolves. Condensin facilitates the chromatin condensation of this phase and ea

chromosome that forms during it contains two chromatids connected by a centromere. FTP, name this first stage of mitosis.

ANSWER: prophase [do not accept prophase I or prophase II]

12. This country signed the Security Treaty with the U.S. in 1951, an agreement that was strengthened in the 1960 Treaty of

Mutual Cooperation and Security, and the Treaty of San Francisco allowed the U.S. to occupy it. It knew American sailing vessel

as Black Ships, and a contingent of Americans anchored in Uraga harbor signed a convention with this country in 1854. The U.S

exchanged six diplomatic notes with it in 1907 that limited passports issued by this country, an accord known as the Gentlemans

Agreement. FTP, name this country which, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, saw its cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated by

atomic bombs.

ANSWER: Japan [orNihon-koku orNippon-koku]

13. It was commissioned by Cardinal Jean de Billheres, whose funeral monument it once adorned. Giuseppe Lirioni reconstructed

four fingers on this work that were broken when it was moved, but may have taken liberties with its hand gesture. After its artistoverheard a group of people attributing the work to Cristoforo Solari, he added his name to this piece on a sash across one figure

chest. The figures are out of proportion; if the smaller character were normally sized, the larger would be sixteen feet tall. FTP,

name this statue of Mary holding the body of Christ after his crucifixion, the first major work of Michelangelo.

ANSWER: MichelangelosPieta

14. Series of these found in U-shaped valleys are known as Paternoster ones. Other types include holomictic and endoheic, which

have little intermixing between layers, known as thermoclines, and no significant discharge, respectively. Those produced by

scouring are called tarns. Vostok is the largest one in Antarctica. Long Islands Ronkonkoma resulted from glacial calving and isthus the kettle type. Oxbow ones are formed when a meander is cut off from a stream and artificial ones are often known as

reservoirs. FTP, name these water-filled geographic features exemplified by Superior in the U.S.

ANSWER: lakes

15. The last major land battles in this conflict were at Assietta and Lauffeld, and it is also noted for Dettingen, the last battle in

which a British monarch led troops. The French took, but were forced to return, Madras in the First Carnatic War, an Indian phas

of this war, while the capture and return of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island occurred in the North American phase, King

Georges War. Prince Charles Albert of Bavaria was one of the claimants in this war that was ended by the 1748 treaty of Aix-la-

Chapelle. It began with Frederick II of Prussias failure to agree with Charles VIs Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. FTP, name this w

over Maria Theresas ascension to the throne of its namesake country with capital Vienna.

ANSWER: The War of the Austrian Succession [prompt on King Georges War before it is said]

16. The speaker notes that he wants to be a lion, but that everybody wants to pass as cats. The speaker wants to be Bob Dylan, an

the title character wishes he was someone just a little more funky. The speaker wants to see himself staring back in the TV, and

will paint himself in all of the beautiful colors, his favorite of which is gray. It opens at the New Amsterdam with the speakerstaring at a yellow-haired girl while the title figure strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer. Those two look

into the future, tell each other fairy tales, and stumble through the barrio, all while staring at the beautiful women in, FTP, what


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song about the title man and me by the Counting Crows?

ANSWER: "Mr. Jones" [accept "Mr. Jones and Me]

17. This books introduction dedicates an orderly account to Theophilus and it contains a story in which a Pharisee is condemn

for making the outside of his dishes clean but forgetting who has made the food. The parables of the Good Samaritan and the

Prodigal Son appear only in this book and its second chapter contains the passage in which Mary lays Jesus in a manger because

there was no room for them in the inn, a locale not mentioned in Matthews version of the nativity. Its author and namesake is

traditionally taken to be the companion of Paul mentioned in Colossians 4:14, a doctor. FTP, name this third canonical gospel,

coming after Mark and before John.

ANSWER: The Gospel According to Luke

18. One character in this work drinks Coca-Cola from a paper sack that most of the townspeople believe contains alcohol, while

another, Mrs. Dubose, breaks a morphine habit and dies in pain rather than addicted. A blanket mysteriously appears over the

shoulders of one of its characters when Miss Maudie Atkinsons house burns down, and an unruly mob breaks up after WalterCunninghams father becomes embarrassed. A legal defense in this novel hinges on the defendants withered left arm, but Tom

Robinson is still convicted of raping Mayella Ewell and dies trying to escape prison. FTP, name this work that features Jem, Scou

and Atticus Finch, a novel by Harper Lee.

ANSWER: ToKill a Mockingbird

19. What are known as the Tait-Bryan angles in aeronautics are elsewhere known for this person. An equation that calculates

loading of beams is named after Bernoulli and this scientist. A formula that can evaluate series using integrals is named after

Maclaurin and him. Initial value problems can be integrated approximately by his namesake iterative method. The limit of the

difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm is a constant denoted gamma that is named after Mascheroni an

him. FTP, name this mathematician whose namesake number is the base of the natural logarithm, e.

ANSWER: Leonhard Euler

20. The third of nine of them written in 1992 by modernist Belgian composer Boudewijn Buckinx is only 40 seconds long.Tchaikovskys was reworked into his third piano concerto and features a notableAllegro brillante, while Mahler composed one

with anAllegro moderato known asPurgatorio that was worked into a performing version by musicologist Derek Cooke. Themost famous one features two movements, anAllegro moderato in B minor and anAndante con moto in E major, and concludes

with a B minor scherzo fragment. FTP, give this shared name of these symphonies, the most notable of which is Schuberts eight

which has inspired several reconstructed endings.

ANSWER: "Unfinished"symphonies [accept Unvollendete]

21. A character in this work sings of a cook who beats a dog to death with a ladle for stealing a breadcrust, and that character stin

of garlic, which he eats for the health of his kidneys. One character provides another some chicken bones to gnaw on and a boy in

this work tends to the title characters goats and acts as his messenger. This work mentions a personal god uttered forth by

Puncher and Wattmann during a nonsensical monologue that results when Pozzos servant Lucky is instructed to think. FTP,name this tragicomedy in two acts in which Vladimir and Estragon linger in hopes of seeing the title character, an absurdist pla

by Samuel Beckett.

ANSWER: Waiting for Godot[orEnAttendant Godot]


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22. The 1892 Republican Party platform claimed a belief in "the broadest sense" of this doctrine in a sentence also reaffirming th

Monroe Doctrine. One article arguing for this doctrine denounced "idle French talk of balances of power" and predicted apopulation of between 250 and 300 million Americans by 1945. This name was first used in the Young America publication

United States Magazine and Democratic Review, in an article about "The Great Nation of Futurity," but it appeared more

influentially in an article title "Annexation," which described "a continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our

yearly multiplying millions." FTP, name this two-word phrase coined by John O'Sullivan in an argument for the annexation of

Texas, that justified Americas need to overspread the continent through westward expansion.

ANSWER: Manifest Destiny

23. On this works left, a cat carries a mouse in its mouth and a flock of birds extends from its upper left corner loop through a

towering cave-like structure. Its center features numerous berry trees and for a time it was known as "The Picture with the

Strawberry-Tree Fruits." Songbirds on the left look on as horses and cats are ridden in a circle around a central pool. Members of

both sexes bathe communally in two pools in the center and left of this works central panel and the left and right panels of thiswork depict the Garden of Eden and Hell. FTP, name this 1504 triptych by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts the worldly sinful

pleasures of human life.

ANSWER: The Garden of Earthly Delights

24. A footnote inPlyer v. Doe states that no distinction between legal and illegal aliens governs its application. It has five section

the fourth of which states that the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. The process of attributing rights to one of its

clauses is called incorporation doctrine and was first laid out in Gitlow v. New York. The first decision based on this amendmen

narrowly interpreted its privileges or immunities clause as applying only at the federal level in ruling against a group of butchers

the Slaughter-House cases. FTP, name this constitutional amendment with notable Due Process and Equal Protection clausespassed in 1868 to give rights to former slaves.

ANSWER: the 14th Amendment


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ANSWER: Beethovens 5th symphony in C minoror Opus 67

4. Name the following middle infielders FTPE:

[10] This Yankee captain finished second in last years MVP voting after batting .344 and with teammate Alex Rodriguez was

voted an All Star game starter.

ANSWER: Derek Sanderson Jeter

[10] This Marlins shortstop was traded from the Red Sox for Josh Beckett and was named 2006 National League Rookie of theYear. Oh yeah, and hes totally awesome.

ANSWER: Hanley Ramirez

[10] This second overall draft pick of the Devil Rays in 2002 exhausted his rookie eligibility in 2004 as a shortstop, but in 2007 h

played some second base and centerfield and mashed 24 homers and swiped 22 bases.

ANSWER: Melvin Emmanuel "B.J." Upton [accept Bossman Junior]

5. Name these Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings FTPE.

[10] Also known as the Kaufmann House, this cantilevered Pennsylvania residence lies above a cascading stream.

ANSWER: Fallingwater(s)

[10] This spiraling museum of modern art on New Yorks East Side was Wrights last major work.

ANSWER: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York [do not accept Guggenheims in other locales]

[10] This Tokyo buildings faade is now displayed at the Museum Meiji-Mura. It was one of the few buildings to survive 1923sGreat Kanto earthquake.

ANSWER: The Tokyo Imperial Hotel

6. Name each of the following asterims FTPE.

[10] Sirius and Procyon form two vertices of this asterism that appears during cold months.


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ANSWER: the Winter Triangle

[10] Sometimes called the "Drinking Gourd," this massively famous asterism in Ursa minor contains a star you've probably heard

of, Polaris.

ANSWER: the Little Dipper

[10] This quadrilateral consists of the three largest stars in its namesake constellation and also the largest in Andromeda.

ANSWER: the Great Square ofPegasus

7. Name these Hindu deities FTPE:

[10] This Hindu destroyer god is often worshiped in the form of the phallic lingam.

ANSWER: Shiva [orSiva]

[10] Many stories recount how this god was beheaded by Shiva and thus acquired his distinctive elephant head. He is the god of

beginnings.

ANSWER: Lord Ganesha

[10] This wife of Shiva and mother of Ganesh is sometimes regarded as a representation of Shakti or Durga.

ANSWER: Parvati [orParvathi orUma orLalitha orGowri orShivakamini orAparna orMataji orMena orHaimavati]

8. In memory of my favorite regionalist, that awesome author ofCrumbling Idols andMain-Travelled Roads Hamlin Hannibal

Garland, heres a bonus on regionalism. FTPE:

[10] This New England regionalist satirized Calvinism in The Ministers Wooingand wrote about Little Eva, Simon Legree, and ttitle slave in Uncle Toms Cabin.

ANSWER: Harriet BeecherStowe

[10] Another New Englander, this man pennedA Hazard of New Fortunes and wrote about the rags-to-riches success of the title

paint magnate in The Rise of Silas Lapham.

ANSWER: William Dean Howells

[10] This New Orleans regionalist penned Old Creole Days andMadame Delphine in addition to a work about a Creole family tha

features Honore and his quadroon half-brother Darker Honore, The Grandissimes.

ANSWER: George Washington Cable

9. Name an artist and some of his works FTPE.

[10] This student of Verrocchio painted most of the two Virgins of the Rocks.

ANSWER: Leonardo da Vinci [accept either]

[10] An s-shaped bend in a road, two lakes, and jagged peaks lie behind the enigmatically smiling woman in this super-dooper

famous da Vinci portrait.


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ANSWER: TheMona Lisa [orLa Gioconda orLaJoconde]

[10] Da Vinci depicted this scene in a fresco in the Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan that depicts a decidedly feminine St. John.

ANSWER: TheLast Supper[orIlCenacolo orLUltima Cena]

10. He uttered the famous words Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. FTPE:

[10] Name this American astronaut, the first man to walk on the moon.

ANSWER: Neil Alden Armstrong

[10] This command module pilot of Apollo 11 was the only member of the three-man crew not to set foot on the moon; during

each orbit of the moon in the module, he was out of contact with all humanity for 48 minutes.

ANSWER: Major General Michael Collins

[10] The unsuccessful Soviet competitor to the Apollo program was this series of eight ships, which included the first mission to

orbit the moon and return to Earth, and which failed to make landings on the moon in their eight launches from 1964 to 1970.

ANSWER: Zond

11. They depend solely on the amount of solute present, not the nature of the solute. FTPE:

[10] Name these properties of solutions, an example of which is freezing point depression.

ANSWER: colligativeproperties

[10] This colligative property is the hydrostatic pressure produced by a solution across a semipermeable membrane.

ANSWER: the osmotic pressure

[10] This factor, symbolized i, is the number of moles of solute produced by each solid mole dissolved in solution.

ANSWER: van 't Hofffactor

12. At his own request, he was strangled instead of burned, and his brother Tupac replaced him. FTPE:

[10] Name this last sovereign emperor of the Incan Empire.


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ANSWER: Atahualpa

[10] This second cousin to Hernan Cortez was the conquistador who overthrew the Incan Empire.

ANSWER: Francisco Pizarro

[10] Pizarro captured Atahualpa during this attack on the royal procession that lasted only a half hour.

ANSWER: The Battle ofCajamarca

13. Name these rivers frequently traveled by Chris Frankel FTPE:

[10] Frankel loves to swim with the crocodiles in this longest African river, which forms from the confluence of its namesake Blu

and White tributaries at Khartoum, Sudan.

ANSWER: Nile River [accept Iteru orPiaro orPhiaro if there are any ancient Egyptians or Coptics around]

[10] Frankel has summer homes in both of the capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, of nations named after this river; it forms from

the Lualaba River below Falls alternately named Boyoma and Stanley.

ANSWER: Congo River [orZaire River]

[10] Frankel worked as a whitewater rafting guide on this river that flows through Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and empties into

the Indian Ocean in Mozambique, with upper and middle courses that are separated by Victoria Falls.

ANSWER: Zambezi River

14. It claims that The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. FTPE:

[10] Name this speech that was dedicated to the Union dead at a Civil War battle and begins Four score and seven years ago

ANSWER: The Gettysburg Address

[10] One of the few signed manuscripts of the Gettysburg Address was given to this personal secretary of Lincoln who would late

serve as Secretary of State under McKinley, where he would usher in the Open Door Policy with China.

ANSWER: John Milton Hay

[10] Another of the signed manuscripts was given to this keynote speaker that day at Gettysburg, a Massachusetts Whig who lost

the 1860 election as a Vice Presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party.

ANSWER: Edward Everett

15. He was killed by Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. FTPE:

[10] Name this Spanish playwright and poet of the rural trilogy of plays that includes Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba.

ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca [prompt on partial last name]

[10] This first play of Garcia Lorcas rural trilogy tells of a Groom who gets into a knife fight with a member of the Felix family

who runs away with his Bride.


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ANSWER:Blood Wedding(s) [orBodas de Sangre]

[10] This poet of "The Weary Blues" and "Harlem," which contains the line What happens to a dream deferred? wrote a notabl

translation of Garcia LorcasBlood Wedding.

ANSWER: James Mercer Langston Hughes

16. Sale of these caused an infuriated Martin Luther into post his 95 Theses in Wittenberg. FTPE:

[10] The 95 Theses were more formally titled The Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of these documents,which remitted punishment of sins already forgiven and were used to finance church constructions.

ANSWER: Indulgences

[10] Though Luther was not in attendance, his followers presented a namesake document, which became the Lutheran confession

of faith, at this 1530 imperial diet, which sought to reunite Catholics and Protestants.

ANSWER: Diet ofAugsburg [or Council ofAugsburg]

[10] This close friend of Luther and fellow professor at Wittenberg wrote much of theAugsburg Confession from fourteen pointsagreed upon between Lutherans and Zwinglians at the Colloquy of Marburg.

ANSWER: Philip Melanchthon [or Philip Schwartzerd]

17. Name these psychologists who broke with Freud FTPE.

[10] This Austrian broke from Freud on his view of the unconscious; he famously posited archetypes, the collective unconscious,

and synchronicity.

ANSWER: Carl Gustav Jung

[10] This daughter of Freud emphasized the Ego more than her father in publications such asEgo and the Mechanisms of Defense

ANSWER: Anna Freud [accept A. Freud]

[10] This German broke from Freuds five psychosexual stages to posit eight stages of psychosocial development and also coinedthe term identity crisis.

ANSWER: Erik HomburgerErikson

18. It originated from the various types ofrenga, and it reached its prominence after works in this form were published in a four

volume work by Reginald H. Blyth. FTPE:

[10] Name this poetic mode which employs a pattern of 5-7-5 on, or syllables.

ANSWER: haiku


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[10] A master of the pre-Shiki haiku, or hokku, was this Edo-period poet whose name comes from a banana tree near his hut.

ANSWER: Matsuo Basho

[10] Among Bashos works is this collection, which he wrote after returning from a journey through Honshu, having stopped at

Nikko and Sakata before reaching Sado.

ANSWER:Narrow Road to the Deep North orOku no Hosomichi

19. One notable example of it is the human bodys constant internal temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. FTPE:

[10] Name this ability of an organism to maintain a stable internal environment, a term coined by biologist Walter Bradford

Cannon.

ANSWER: homeostasis

[10] This hypothesis advanced by James Lovelock stated that the Earth functions as a homeostatic superorganism that uses positiv

and negative feedback loops to maintain a metastable condition.

ANSWER: Gaia hypothesis [accept clear-knowledge equivalents]

[10] This process of programmed cell death that can begin with the P53 transcription factor allows the body to maintain ahomeostatic number of cells.

ANSWER: apoptosis

20. He comes to believe that life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. FTPE:

[10] Name this Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, the title character of a Shakespeare tragedy.

ANSWER: Macbeth

[10] Macbeth kills this king at the behest of his wife, thus becoming the short-lived king of Scotland.

ANSWER: King Duncan

[10] The witches of Macbeth prophesize that none born of woman shall harm Macbeth; luckily this Thane of Fife was born via

caesarean section.

ANSWER: Macduff

21. Name things about a philosopher and his works FTPE:

[10] This Austrian did not consider himself a member of the logical positivist Vienna Circle, but the 1921 publication of his onlybook-length work distributed during his lifetime deeply influenced the group.

ANSWER: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

[10] This is the only book Wittgenstein released in his lifetime; its final thesis is What we cannot speak about we must pass over

in silence, and it purports to lay out the conditions for a logically perfect language.

ANSWER: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [orLogisch-Philosophiche Abhandlung]


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[10] This Wittgenstein work came out two years after Wittgensteins death and discusses several problems in semantics,

philosophy of mathematics, and logic; it posits that all are a result of conceptual problems with language.

ANSWER: ThePhilosophical Investigations [orPhilosophische Untersuchungen]

22. FTPE, name these novels by John Steinbeck.

[10] Rose of Sharon breastfeeds a starving man in the final chapter of this novel, in which the Dust Bowl forces the Joad family tmove from Oklahoma to California.

ANSWER: The Grapes of Wrath

[10] In this novel, a bunch of bums led by Mack throw a disastrous party for Doc, a marine biologist based on Ed Ricketts.

Through a series of vignettes, it depicts the denizens of the title Monterrey street.

ANSWER: Cannery Row

[10] In this novel written directly afterTortilla Flat, Jim Nolan joins the Party and leads migrant workers in a strike against the

owners of a fruit orchard.

ANSWER:In Dubious Battle

23. Name this figures from Arthurian legend FTPE.

[10] This best of the Knights of the Round Table fathered Galahad by Elaine, but his affair with Guinevere led to war with Arthu

and the deaths of Gaheris and Gareth, whom he accidentally killed while rescuing the queen.

ANSWER: SirLauncelot du Lac

[10] This king was made to look like Gorlois by a spell of Merlin, which tricked Gorloiss wife, Lady Igraine, into bearing Arthu

ANSWER: Uther Pendragon

[10] According to theMabinogion, this knight was able to change his height and hold his breath for 9 days. The son of Ector, he i

more often known as Arthurs seneschal and foster brother.

ANSWER: SirKay [or SirCaius]

24. A common phenomenological scale of this property ranks minerals based on their ability to scratch one another and is named

for Mohs. FTPE:

[10] Name this ill-defined property of materials.

ANSWER: hardness

[10] Hardness is in general well-correlated with this property, the maximum stress that a material can withstand before it is pulled

apart.

ANSWER: the tensile strength [accept ultimate strength; prompt on "sigma"][10] Related to the tensile strength is this property, the density of deformation energy that a material can absorb before it fails.

ANSWER: the fracture toughness

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