Answer: G(Eorge) E(Dward) Moore
2005 Chicago Open
Round 5 Tossups
1. His eldest brother was a popular illustrator who worked with Yeats on several occasions. The posthumously published Commonplace Book was a collection of some of his writings between 1919-53. Late in his life he returned to the challenge of refuting Cartesian skepticism in two essays: “Certainty” and “Four Forms of Skepticism.” Better known essays are one in which he draws from his dissertation acknowledging his debt to F.H. Bradley, “The Nature of Judgment,” and another in which he extends to sense-experience the strong distinction between the mind and its objects, “The Refutation of Idealism.” FTP, name this longtime editor of the journal Mind, the British author of Principia Ethica often called the philosopher to the Bloomsbury Group.
Answer: G(eorge) E(dward) Moore
2. One character in this novel is nicknamed Limping Lucy and another is known as Gooseberry for his large, protruding eyes. The novel’s villain is first brought under suspicion through the words of, Drusilla Clack, a woman who deems him a “Christian Hero,” and is caught in the end while disguised a sailor. The hero had been implicated in a letter left by Rosanna Spearman, but he was only acting under the influence of opium administered by Mr. Candy. This is all revealed in a series of narratives collected by Gabriel Betteredge and through the work of Sergeant Cuff, who ultimately determines that Godfrey Ablewhite, not Franklin Black, was the culprit. FTP, name this novel in which Rachel Verinder is robbed of the title jewel, a work by Wilkie Collins.
Answer: The Moonstone
3. It is enclosed in a fibroelastic capsule that dips into the organ, forming trabeculae. Short septa extend inwards from the capsule and are connected to a complex reticulin framework. Its namesake artery is a branch of the celiac [seel-ee-ack] artery, and its namesake vein is a branch of the portal vein. It enlarges during such diseases as infectious mononucleosis and malaria and is derived from the mesenchyme. FTP, name this lymphatic organ that contains red and white pulp and which filters blood and destroys old blood cells.
Answer: spleen
4. He twice served as a U.S. foreign minister - in his last political post to Britain during the presidency of Buchanan and in his second political post to Russia during the second Andrew Jackson term. His father had served as Madison’s treasury secretary and sent this man to be Albert Gallatin’s private secretary on Gallatin’s negotiations to end the War of 1812. He followed that up by working on the legal staff of the Second Bank and then serving as a senator from Pennsylvania, but he gained his most famous most when Silas Wright refused it and was chosen because, like his superior, he was an ardent supporter of expansionism. FTP, identify this vice president of James Polk after whom a large Texas city is named.
Answer: George Mifflin Dallas
5. During his time at Harvard he threw a yearly March party to open up one of his Chateau Lafitte or Petrus vintages. His last books were collaborative efforts entitled Military Spending and The Future Impact of Automation on Workers. An 1936 article on “composite commodities” marked his entry into the economic field, which he followed up his 1946 article redefining the wage contract. Many of his theories were integrated in his major work, The Structure of the American Economy. He also contradicted the notion that a country’s exports reflect the commodity most abundant in that country, which became known as his paradox. FTP, name this man who also developed a theory of inter-industrial relations known as input-output analysis, a 20th-century Russian economist.
Answer: Wassily Leontief
6. Its plan is centered on an internal courtyard with a great staircase, which is known as the Scala dei Giganti. It has been erected over many years after the burning of the original structure in 976, and the beginning of the building of it in 810 marked the beginning of the greatness of its city. On its east side runs a narrow canal, which is transversed by a structure memorialized by Byron, the Bridge of Sighs that Byron memorialized in Child Harold. It sits on the Piazetta, adjacent to both the Old Library and adjoined to San Marco. Also known as the Palazzo Ducale, FTP, identify this structure which was the main residence for the elected rulers of Venice.
Answer:Doge’s Palace (accept early Palazzo Ducale)
7. One character compares this work’s setting to the decorations at her Aunt Mary’s during New Year’s. We meet another character as she demands to know the presence of Florence, and another character claimed to have run a pacifist newspaper but he eventually reveals the truth of his life as a journalist in Rio. The author demanded that all future performances be done with Second Empire furniture presence, and the choice of furnishings is the subject of the play’s first conversation between the journalist and the Valet. At the end the journalist furiously rings for the valet before concluding “Hell is other people.” FTP, name this one-act work in which Estelle, Inez, and Garcin occupy a room in hell, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Answer: No Exit (or Huis Clos)
8. Both the integrated and non-integrated Sachs-Wolfe effects are due to this phenomenon. First observed experimentally in Harvard’s Jefferson Laboratory by Pound and Rebka, it used a very narrow emission line produced by the Mossbauer effect to measure the desired effect despite only a 22-meter difference in height between source and detector. One of the three fundamental testable predictions of general relativity, FTP, what is this effect in which photons escaping a gravitational field lose energy and hence have their wavelength changed?
Answer: gravitational redshift
9. A history of his campaigns and the house of which he was the first king was written by the Widikund of Corvey. The illegitimate son of Hedwiga and a man known as the “Illustrious,” he began his conquests by defeating Gisilbert, duke of Lotharingia. His wife accompanied him on his campaigns building monasteries, one of which was their burial site of Quedlinburg. His daughter Gerberga married Louis IV of France and another daughter, Hedwige, was the mother of Hugh Capet. FTP, identify this man who succeeded Conrad I, becoming the first ruler of the Saxon line, the father of Otto the Great known for his hobby of hunting birds.
Answer: Henry the Fowler or Henry I
10. The lesser known story of his origin concerns a curse placed on him by Lord Shani [sha-nee] the day of his birth. Another myth concerning that birth is that those who look at the moon on that day will be cursed themselves. After his defeat of the Bhuta Ganas [boo-tha ga-naaz], he was made a pati [pa-thee], or leader, and given a different name. He had a sister named Jyoti [jyo-thee] and a brother named Subramanya or Skanda or Kartikeya, and his own aliases include Vinaikudu [vi-nye-kuh-doo] and Vigneshwara [vig-naysh-wuh-ra]. A tray of laddus [luh-dooz] is a popular accompaniment for him, as is the rat on which he rides. FTP, name this four-armed deity, the remover of obstacles and son of Parvathi and Shiva who has an elephant head.
Answer: Ganesha (or Ganapati; accept Vinaikudu or Vigneshwara early)
11. After this band’s bassist got a collection of Jimmy Cagney DVDs they spent two weeks talking to everyone in the style of 30s American gangster. The band was complete when the former drummer of Yummy Fur joined and they found an abandoned warehouse for rehearsal, terming it the Chateau. Their self-titled debut opens with “Jacqueline” and includes such tracks as “The Dark of the Matinee,” “Tell Her Tonight,” and another one that debuted on namesake EP, “Darts of Pleasure.” Several homoerotic lyrics penned by Alex Kapranos are included in the second single from the album, “Michael.” FTP, identify this group whose biggest hit remains “Take Me Out,” a Scottish rock band named after an assassinated Austrian archduke.
Answer: Franz Ferdinand
12. He started writing because he kept fainting in anatomy class and decided to switch to a poetry workshop. A suicide bomber blows up a restaurant in “Can I Get A Witness” and a man buys a vibrator to use as a religious tool in “Do Not Go Gentle,” two tales from his most recent collection of stories. The Business of Fancydancing and The Man Who Loves Salmon are two of his nine poetry collections, but he’s best-known for his novels. One is about John Smith, a deranged serial murderer, and the other is about the rise and fall of Coyote Springs, a rock band from Spokane, this author’s hometown. FTP, name this author of Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, a Native American writer.
Answer: ShermanAlexie [John Smith appears in the novel Indian Killer and Coyote Springs appears in Reservation Blues]
13. In this procedure, the adsorbents most commonly used are alumina and silica gel, which are prepared by mixing with an inert binder like calcium sulfate and then spread on a glass, plastic, or aluminum plate and dried, with a resulting thickness on the order of 0.1 millimeter. This is then spotted with the desired compound and the resulting plate is placed into a pool of solvent. Similar to the “paper” method but more versatile, FTP, what is this simple, quick, and cheap chromatography procedure, often abbreviated TLC?
Answer: thin-layer chromatography
14. In the first year 23 and 26 millimeter coins were made with the words “Holy Treasure” on one side and a solar calendar replaced the lunar calendar. The system of government had five sub-rulers, four named after the cardinal points, and a set of “princes” under each of those five rulers. The majority of those who participated belonged to the Hakka class, and soon after one of their armies was repulsed by Frederick Townsend Ward, their leader took poison and died in a sewer. Intent on establishing a “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace,” the participants succeeded for a decade before the triumphs of the Ever-Victorious Army and the beginning of imperial reconquest. FTP, name this 1850-64 rebellion, led by Hong Xiuquan against Manchu China.
Answer: Taiping Rebellion
15. His Fourth Symphony in F Minor marked the end of a period of clashing harmonies that also included his Toccata marziale and his ballet Old King Cole. He moved on to a phase that included his Christmas cantata Hodie and a setting from act five of Merchant of Venice, his Serenade to Music. That late period didn’t see the completion of his opera Thomas Rhymer but did see him finish the opera The Pilgrim’s Progress and his Seventh Symphony, “Sinfonia Antarctica.” He remains best-known for a period that inspired his Norfolk Rhapsodies and Five Tudor Portraits. FTP, name this English composer of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Answer: Ralph [rafe] Vaughan Williams
16. This artist is the subject of one of the six essays in Somerset Maugham’s The Vagrant Mood. After decorating a ceremonial ship presented by his city to the king, he started signing his creations, “Painter to the King,” including his canvas Adoration of the Kings. His largest project was a series of ten paintings he did on the Labors of Hercules. Only his legends of St. Jerome and the Hieronymites have remained in situ, but they are typical of his larger series like Carthusian Saints. His heavy tenebrism is perhaps most evident in his scores of depictions of St. Franics. FTP, name this man best-known for his portrayals of apostles, saints, and monks, a Spanish painter often found as the last entry in art encyclopedias.
Answer: Francisco Zurbaran
17. It will use a Rambus XDR memory bus and FlexIO to connect to the rest of the components in order to push data rates exceeding 100 gigabytes per second. Its main core implements double-issue in-order execution and contains 512 kilobytes of L2 cache and each of the eight subunits contains 256 kilobytes of local memory. The main unit is called a PowerPC Processing Element and the subunits are termed Synergistic Processing Elements. It is a co-creation by Toshiba, IBM and Sony for a new system that will include a blu-ray disc drive and probably an exclusive-for-awhile update to the Grand Theft Auto series. FTP, what is this biologically named CPU for the upcoming Playstation 3?
Answer: Cell Processor
18. The epilogue of this novel relates that the title character’s true love ran off with a Polish count who lied to her and abandoned her. A rival for that love was the young tuberculosis victim Hippolite, who offers up an “Essential Statement” on morality and life. The ending also tells of the final sentence of the man who murdered Totsky’s former mistress, a young woman who refused the marriage proposal of Ganya and later the title character’s proposal. That title character had spent four years away and once again returns to a Swiss sanatorium at the end. In the interim he failed to marry either Natasa Filippovna or Aglaya Epanchin. FTP, name this novel about the epileptic Prince Myshkin, a work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Answer: The Idiot (or Idiootti)
19. Its flag was crossed by a diagonal green stripe, to the bottom of which was a field of white with three red crosses. For a five year period this region was largely controlled by Union Miniere du Haut company, which was later abandoned in favor of a nationalist corporation, Gecamines. It issued its own stamps and had a 16-plane airforce commanded by Jan Zumbach. Its president briefly negotiated with Cyrille Adoula and went into exile upon the invasion of UN forces. Renamed Shaba for several years, FTP, name this region that under the rule of Moise Tshombe became a breakaway republic of Congo in 1960.
Answer: Katanga (accept Shaba before it is mentioned)
20. Its theoretical necessity was first realized by Glashow, Iliopoulos, and Maiani, who in 1970 realized that its existence could suppress flavor-changing neutral currents to the observed levels, and further theoretical support for it was found in 1971 with the SU(3) description of quark flavors. Discovered by two competing teams at SLAC and Brookhaven in 1974 in the J/psi meson in, FTP, what is this quark, the fourth-heaviest and the partner of the strange quark?
Answer: charm (be nice and prompt on “J/psi”)
2005 Chicago Open
Round 5 Bonuses
1. His Puberty shows a naked adolescent girl sitting on a bed, and his self-portraits include one “between clock and bed” and one “with burning cigarette.” FTP each—
A. Name this European painter.
Answer: Edvard Munch
B. Edvard Munch’s most famous work is this 1893 one depicting a panic-stricken figure with its palms raised to its cheeks.
Answer: The Scream or The Cry
C. The Kiss,The Voice, Ashes, and Madonna are all part of this 22-work series of paintings on love and death by Munch.
Answer: The Frieze of Life
2. Name these men who wrote histories of Rome, FTP each:
A. He was a senator who fought against the Gauls in 225 BC and against Carthage in the Second Punic War. His now lost history was written in Greek and began with the arrival of Aeneas in Latium and ended with his own recollections of the Second Punic War.
Answer: Quintus Fabius Pictor
B. This Greek, who lived during the reign of Augustus, wrote a 20-volume history of Rome, of which 9 volumes remain in their entirety. Those Antiquities of Rome cover the period from Rome’s founding to the 3rd century BC.
Answer: Dionysus of Halicarnassus (or Dionysius Halicarnassensis)
C. Before his death in AD 17, he completed the 142 books of his Ab Urbe Condita Libra chronicling the period from the founding of Rome to 9 BC.
Answer: Livy (or Titus Livius)
3. Name these things about some structures in the human body:
A. For 5 points, In lower vertebrates, there are only 10 pairs of them, with the last one being the vagus. In humans there are 12 pairs. What are they?
Answer: cranial nerves
B. For 10 points, What is the 12th cranial nerve in humans? It innervates the muscles of the tongue.
Answer: hypoglossal nerve
B. For 10 points for one and 15 for both, name the two human cranial nerves that begin with a “t.” They are numbers four and five.
Answer: trochlear [#4] and trigeminal [#5]
4. “He loved the Medici, / Albeit he had never seen one; / He would have sinned incessantly / Could he have been one.” FTP each—
A. Name this “child of scorn” and title character of an Edwin Arlington Robinson poem.
Answer: Miniver Cheevy (prompt for full name on partial answer)
B. Miniver Cheevy was a resident of this fictitious locale based on Robinson’s home of Gardiner, Maine. Other poetic subjects and residents included Richard Cory and Eben Flood.