ACF Fall 2010
Packet by Chipola [Dallin Kelson]
Edited by Will Butler, Carsten Gehring, John Lawrence, Dallas Simons, and Guy Tabachnick
1. A faithless elector in this election chose to abstain from voting due to Washington, D.C.’s lack of statehood. 67,000 votes in this election in New Mexico were misattributed due to a programming error, and New Mexico was won by only 366 votes. In another state during this election, N. Sanders Sauls became involved in the contest phase of the election after Katherine Harris ended the protest phase. That state also had many voters confused by the location of Pat Buchanan’s name on butterfly ballots. For 10 points, name this election decided in favor of the Republican candidate after recounts in Florida were stopped by the ruling in Bush v. Gore.
ANSWER: Election of 2000
2. This type of organic molecule is oxidized in the Swern oxidation. They can also be oxidized by Pyridinium chlorochromate, which is abbreviated PCC. Tosyl chloride converts these into tosylates, and thionyl chloride reacts with them to form alkyl chlorides. They react with carboxylic acids in the Fischer esterification. Reacting aldehydes with an organomagnesium halide reagent creates these. Sulfuric acid can be used to dehydrate these in elimination reactions governed by Zaitsev's rule. Tertiary ones are reactive with hydrogen halides in the SN1 reaction. For 10 points, name these organic compounds that have a hydroxyl group, an example of which is ethanol.
ANSWER: alcohols
3. In one work, this author urged psychologists to stop using mentalistic constructs like defense mechanisms, homunculi, and the two title concepts. In another work, he distinguished internal speech, or autoclitics, from the four types of regular speech: echoic behavior, mands, tacts, and interverbals. He wrote a novel demonstrating a community founded by T. E. Frazier according to this man’s theory. This psychologist delivered reinforcing stimuli to creatures in his namesake box during operant conditioning. For 10 points, name this behaviorist who wrote Verbal Behavior, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, and Walden Two.
ANSWER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
4. This nation's southernmost city is the port of Leticia, and its city of Buenaventura is often called the world's wettest city. This country occupies the northern portion of the Guajira Peninsula. The Cauca department is home to its third-largest city Cali. This nation's Magdalena River empties into the ocean at the city of Barranquilla, and this nation is known for its emerald production. Its border with a northern neighbor is formed by the Darien Gap, and this country is home to the cities of Medellin and Cartagena. For 10 points, name this South American nation troubled by a guerilla group called FARC, which has its capital at Bogota.
ANSWER: Colombia
5. In one novel by this author, Charlotte loves the Captain but is married to Edward, who loves Ottilie. In another of this author's plays, Klarchen kills herself after the title character is put to death by the Duke of Alba. This author of Elective Affinities and Egmont wrote a play in which Helen has a son named Euphorion with the title character and in which Wagner creates a homunculus. Another character created by this author kills himself after he is spurned by Lotte, and a play by this author sees Gretchen drown her child after the title character makes a deal with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. This artist painted a woman with a sword in a burning landscape where a dark river flows into a giant mouth. In another work by him, skeletons with trumpets and spears kill people in a desolate landscape alongside a cart full of skulls. In addition to Dulle Griet and The Triumph of Death, he painted a man holding a kabob and riding a barrel while being pushed towards a sickly man with an oar in The Fight Between Carnival and Lent. This man also painted a work in which a man and his donkey plow a field on a hill while a ship sails away from a small splash in the background. For 10 points, name this artist of The Peasant Wedding and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.
ANSWER: Pieter Brueghel the Elder
7. This protein's namesake prosthetic group is synthesized in a pathway that includes 5-aminolevulinic acid as an intermediate. 2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate alters its binding ability, but has less interaction with a version of this protein using zeta and epsilon chains. That form is found in the embryo, and separate versions of this protein are expressed in the fetus and in adults. When the glutamic acid at position six of this protein is changed to a valine, a disorder that results in increased malarial resistance occurs. This protein is a tetramer, and defects in this protein yield thalassemia and sickle cell anemia. For 10 points, name this protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen.
ANSWER: hemoglobin
8. This leader organized a conference that was intended to break up all Burschenschaften after Karl Sand murdered August Kotzebue. That conference resulted in the issuance of the Karlsbad Decrees. This man helped to marry off Marie-Louise to another ruler and sent 30,000 troops under Karl Schwarzenberg to help that leader assault Russia. This man was later forced to resign his position at the start of the 1848 revolutions. This leader was a major player at a meeting that broke up the Duchy of Warsaw and started a period known as the Concert of Europe. For 10 points, name this Austrian statesman who served as the host for the Congress of Vienna.
ANSWER: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein
9. One team by this name won the National League from 1894 to 1896 with a line-up including Hughie Jennings, John McGraw, and Wee Willie Keeler, who innovated a namesake short batted ball with a high bounce. In their heyday, the modern team by this name had a rotation including Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar, who helped this team win the 1973 World Series. That team also featured Boog Powell and Brooks Robinson and was managed by Earl Weaver. The losers of the 1996 ALCS thanks in part to Jeff Maier, for 10 points, name this team whose current players include Miguel Tejada and Nick Markakis, for whom Cal Ripken, Jr., played home games in Camden Yards.
ANSWER: Baltimore Orioles [prompt on “Baltimore”]
10. One work by this author features a wedding in which the groom leaves Muriel at the altar, and takes its title from a phrase written by Boo Boo. One work by this author centers on a seven year old writing a letter from the title camp in 1924, and another of this author's works discusses the effect of The Way of a Pilgrim on the girlfriend of Lane Coutell. This author of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters created a character who punches his roommate Stradlater and stays at Mr. Antolini's house before going to Central Park and meeting his sister Phoebe. For 10 points, name this author of Franny and Zooey who wrote about Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: Jerome David Salinger
11. One early leader of this religion, who gave the “Salt Sermon,” was Sidney Rigdon. Males in this religion can enter the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods. One book sacred to this religion contains the vision of the Tree of Life and an account of the wars between the Lamanites and the Nephites. Members of this religion were driven out of Nauvoo, Illinois. Its founder was told by the angel Moroni where to find the gold plates that he translated into their namesake book. For 10 points, name this religion whose early leaders include Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, many of whom currently live in Utah.
ANSWER: Mormonism [or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]
12. This composer set lyrics by David Byrne in his collection, Songs from Liquid Days. He set the titular Allen Ginsberg poem in his sixth symphony, “Plutonian Ode,” and he used tunes from David Bowie and Brian Eno’s albums in his second and third symphonies, subtitled “Low” and “Heroes” respectively. He is better known for an opera which involves Tolstoy, Tagore, and Martin Luther King; and one whose sections “Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket” and “I Feel the Earth Move” follow the third “Knee Play.” For 10 points, name this American minimalist composer whose “portrait trilogy” includes Satyagraha and Einstein on the Beach.
ANSWER: Philip Glass
13. One theorem named for this man means that for any simply connected open proper subset of the complex plane, there exists a bijective analytic map from it to the open unit circle about the origin. Manifolds with a smooth inner product are named for him. He and Cauchy name a set of differential equations used in determining whether a function is holomorphic. He is also known for a function for which a namesake hypothesis states that all trivial non-zeros of the function have real part one-half. For 10 points, name this formulator of a zeta function and a method of integration which involves using his namesake sums.
ANSWER: Bernhard Riemann
14. In the second stanza of this poem the speaker longs for a “beaker full of the warm South” that “tastes of Flora” and is compared to the “blushful Hippocrene.” The speaker of this work discusses Ruth “sick for home” and is carried away “on the viewless wings of Poesy” to a place where “there is no light.” This poem closes after the speaker asks, “was it a vision, or a walking dream? Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?” For 10 points, name this poem which opens, “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk” and contains the phrase “tender is the night,” a poem written by John Keats to a title bird.
ANSWER: “Ode to a Nightingale”
15. This architect included a ribbon-like spiral staircase in his renovations of the Art Gallery of Ontario. A large pair of binoculars dominates the center of his Chiat/Day Building. He included a “Sky Church” in a building whose structure was inspired by pictures of guitars. He also designed a building inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, his Dancing House in Prague. This architect used random computer-generated curves to invoke the structure of a ship for a building that sits along the Nervion River. For 10 points, name this Canadian architect of Seattle’s Experience Music Project and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
ANSWER: Frank Gehry
16. This god put Delphinus in the stars after the latter helped him court his wife. He and Apollo were forced to build the walls of Troy for King Laodemon after attempting to overthrow Zeus. In another story, this god fathered Despoena and Arion when he seduced Demeter in the form of a stallion, and his wife transformed Scylla into a barking monster after Scylla had an affair with this figure. He lost a contest to Athena when she gave Cecrops an olive branch, thus giving her patronage of Athens. Out of wedlock, he was the father of the Cyclops Polyphemus, and with his wife Amphitrite, he fathered Triton. For 10 points, name this trident-wielding Greek god of the sea.
ANSWER: Poseidon
17. The Sommerfeld number is important in the study of decreasing this phenomenon, and the Frenkel-Kontorova-Tomlinson model describes it. Its coefficient is related to the Stribeck number by the Stribeck curve. It causes the formation of tribofilms. It is described by a pair of laws named for Amonton, and the point where one form of it is overcome is the angle of repose. This force is independent of sliding velocity and proportional to the normal force. When its strength alternates with motion, the stick-slip phenomenon occurs. For 10 points, name this phenomenon, which represents the force resisting any sliding motion, and which comes in static and kinetic varieties.
ANSWER: friction
18. As prime minister, this man sought to make his country a “Just Society.” His tenure in office was briefly interrupted by Joe Clark. His Finance Minister, John Turner, resigned before he instituted wage and price controls in his country. This leader’s time in office saw his country join the Group of Six to make the G7. He invoked the War Measures Act after the abduction of James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the FLQ in the October Crisis. This man established the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of the patriating Constitution Act of 1982 to remove his country from British law. For 10 points, name this Liberal prime minister of Canada who served from 1968-1984.
ANSWER: Pierre Elliott Trudeau
19. At one point, this character follows a priestess carrying his daughter to a cave in the middle of the night. This character’s father is a flute player who is heavily in debt, and he gains fame for defeating an opponent nicknamed “the cat” in a wrestling match. This character beats his wife during the Peace Week, and is exiled from his village after his gun goes off and kills a youth during Ezeudu's funeral. This figure is disappointed in his son Nwoye and takes care of the boy Ikemefuna before killing him with a machete. For 10 points, name this yam-farming resident of Umuofia who fights against British colonization, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Okonkwo
20. This man’s successful efforts to expand railroads in his country resulted in an increase from 400 to 15,000 miles during his time in office. This leader was advised by men like Enrique Creel, Ramon Corral, and Jose Yves Limantour, who were members of his Cientificos. In an interview with James Creelman, this leader claimed he would not run for office again in an upcoming election, but won that election after imprisoning his opponent. For 10 points, name this long-time, dictatorial ruler whose removal from office in 1911 by forces under Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, and Francisco Madero marked the start of the Mexican Revolution.