2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament - Playoff Packet 3
Packet by Eric Mukherjee, Charles Meigs, and Chicago
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, and Gautam Kandlikar
Tossups
1. This author wrote about the false prophet Antonio Conselheiro (cone-sell-yeh-roe), who creates a self-aggrandizing cult in one novel, and in another work Bonifacia gives up the being a nun to become a prostitute at the title location. In addition to The War of the End of the World and The Green House, he wrote about a group of cadets at the Leoncio Prado military School in Lima in his novel The Time of the Hero, and in his most famous work Pedro Camacho works on radio broadcasts with Mario Varguitas. For 10 points, name this Peruvian novelist who wrote Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa
2. Among this river’s tributaries are the Klickitat, Cowlitz (KOE-litz), Pend Oreille (pawn-doe-ray) and Okanogan (oak-uh-noggin), and it passes through the cities of Invermere and Golden in one country it flows through. Among the notable dams along this river include the Wanapum, Priest Rapids, and the Bonneville, and the Channeled Scablands are a series of coulees along this river, the most notable of which gives its name to this river’s most notable dam. Flowing through Wenatchee, Kennewick, and Pasco, one of its most treacherous sections for gamers is The Dalles (dallz). The site of Grand Coulee Dam, and forming a large part of the Oregon-Washington border, FTP, name this river.
ANSWER: Columbia
3. Sclerocytes and Spongocytes secrete substances that make up the central matrix of these creatures, and the outer layer of these creatures is made from pinacocytes. These creatures are defended by silicate projections called spicules, and the central excretory structure is the osculum. Members of this phylum appear in asconoid, synconoid, and leuconoid body types, and their digestive systems are composed of rings of microvilli with interspersed collar cells. Made of a central matrix called the mesohyl, these creatures belong to the classification parazoa because they are thought to contain no tissues. For 10 points, name these simple organisms, also known as sponges.
ANSWER: Porifera [or Sponges before mention]
4. King Midas is shown with donkey ears in this artist's painting Calumny, and he painted the panel entitled Fortitude in a seven part series illustrating the seven great virtues. His early biblical scenes include The Return of Judith to Bethulia and The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes, and his works The Trials of Moses, The Trials of Jesus, and The Punishment of the Rebels are in the Sistine Chapel.In one of his more famous painting, a partially naked male god is resting, but is provoked by some satyrs as the other female deity watches the scene, and he inserted Chloris, Flora, and Zephyrus in one of his most famous works. For 10 points, name this Florentine artist best known for Mars and Venus, Primavera and The Birth of Venus.
ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli
5. The title character leaves Solomon to live with Cash McCord in this author’s story “Livie.” In one story Leota complains to Mrs. Fletcher in her beauty salon that Mrs. Pike got a reward for discovering a rapist hiding as an exhibit in a freak show, and in another story Phoenix Jackson takes a strenuous journey to get medicine for her grandson. In addition to writing “The Petrified Man,” in this author’s most famous story one character claims her sister wants her grandfather to shave his beard after she moves home with her two-year-old daughter, Shirley-T. For 10 points, name this author of “The Worn Path,” who wrote about Stella-Rondo in “Why I Live at the P. O.”
ANSWER: Eudora Welty
6. This man was present, but not killed, during the explosion on the USS Princeton that killed Abel P. Upshur, and after his retirement he published an autobiography entitled Thirty Years View. Charles Lucas dueled this man on Bloody Island after accusing him of lying, and he was succeeded in his most famous post by Henry S. Geyer. He authored a series of Homestead Acts, and he gained his nickname after introducing a version of the Specie Circular into the Senate. He was almost shot by Henry Foote during a series of debates on the Compromise of 1850, and he supported his son-in-law John C. Fremont’s expeditions to California. Also notable for attacking Andrew Jackson in a Nashville Hotel in 1813, for 10 points, name this nineteenth-century Missouri Senator nicknamed “Old Bullion”.
ANSWER: Thomas Hart Benton
7. It can be promoted with the use of potassium hydroxide, and Gerhard Ertl provided a detailed description of its mechanism. One of the raw materials for it is uses methane to produce a mixture called “synthesis gas” although the methane is recovered at the end, while the other reactant is obtained from the atmosphere. An iron oxide catalyst allows it to be used at lower temperatures, and the removal of the end product allows the reaction to run continually due to Le Chatelier’s principle. For 10 points, identify this process used to produce ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen.
ANSWER: Haber-Bosch Process
8. In this novel Garcia introduces one character to the smugglers Gonzales and Raoul. One character unsuccessfully attempts to hang himself at the beginning of the novel and the novel ends when that character goes on a homicidal rampage shooting people in the street. That character, Cottard, lives in the same building as another character who has spent years working on a novel yet he has only written one sentence—the writer Joseph Grand. Father Paneloux gives a sermon arguing that the death of the innocent child Jacques Othon is a test, and Raymond Rambert attempts to escape Oran. For 10 points, name this novel in which Dr. Rieux attempts to fight the titular epidemic, written by Albert Camus.
ANSWER: The Plague (accept La Peste)
9. One of this man’s acts was to reverse a 1953 law that allowed abortion, and he also demolished the old legislature to replace it with the People’s House as part of his “systematization” program. He established a list of banned books after reading books on Kim Il Sung’s Juche idea; this was part of the fallout from a speech given in front of the executive committee that advocated a quasi-Maoist version of socialist realism, commonly called the July Theses. He originally came to power after the death of Gheorgiu-Dej, and is also notable for staying out of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nicknamed “Genius of the Carpathians”, he was killed alongside his wife Elena on December 25, 1989 after a show trial. For 10 points, name this final communist dictator of Romania.
ANSWER: Nicolae Ceausescu
10. This dude founded the Mount Pelerin Society with Albert Hunold, and he criticized social scientists for what he dubbed “scientism,” misusing natural scientific principles, in his Abuse of Reason. He got into a review war with John Maynard Keynes after he reviewed that man’s A Treatise on Money; Keynes then bashed this man’s Prices and Production. He advocated a cyclic theory of trade, and penned the influential Why I am Not a Conservative, which is generally appended to his The Constitution of Liberty. He also argued that Nazi Germany and the USSR were examples of countries whose socialism led to tyranny. For 10 points, name this economist who wrote The Road to Serfdom.
ANSWER: Friedrich August von Hayek
11. The general Abu ‘Awn commanded an army for this dynasty whichwas victoriousat the Battle of the Great Zaab. Al-Mahdi, a leader of this dynasty was responsible for the massacre at Fakhkh, and the most notable ruler of this dynasty began a period dominated by the Barmecides. The Buyids took their capital and Al-Mu’tasim employed the use of Turkish mercenaries. The last remaining member of the previous dynasty, Abdur-Rahman III, took power in Andalus, and early leaders of this dynasty included Abu Muslim, al-Ma’mun, and al-Mansur. Noted for the expansion of the “Round City” of Baghdad under such caliphs as Harun ar-Rashid, for 10 points, name this dynasty which succeeded the Umayyads.
ANSWER: ‘Abbasids or ‘Abbasiyuun [CM]
12. This organ is affected by CORD and Nyctalopia, while injury to it results in the de-differentiation of Muller cells. The presence of white blood cells in the capillaries of this organ leads to Sheerer’s phenomenon, and neutrophils are localized to its outer and inner plexiform layers. Amacrine cells populate its inner nuclear layer, while bipolar cells are responsible for the center-surround inhibition that characterizes one group of cells here. The choroid coat separates it from the sclera, while a small depression in its center is known as the fovea. The site of cone and rod cells, for 10 points, name this organ enervated by the optic nerve and located in the back of the eye.
ANSWER: Retina [EM]
13. This poet wrote “The firefly wakens; waken thou with me” in his poem “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal.” The title objects of one poem are described as “Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail / That brings our friends up from the underworld,” and another poem starts with the line “the wood decays, and woods decay and fall.” In addition to “Tears, Idle Tears” and “Tithonus,” the title character of one poem comments “much have I seen ands known—cities of men” and later declares he needs “to strive, to seek to, and not to yield.” and another poem includes the assertion “Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die.” For 10 points, name this Victorian poet who wrote “Ulysses” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred Lord Tennyson
14. Klingelhoffer miniaturized the apparatus used in this technique in the MINOS apparatus, and one effect measured in this experiment is the splitting of spin states by a quadropole moment, which is used to characterize spin states. Other quantities calculated include the magnetic splitting and the isomer shift, which can be used to measure covalency and electronegativity. The apparatus is typically kept cold by liquid nitrogen, and is typically calibrated using the electron capture of Cobalt-57 to Iron-57, which gives a line at 14.4 kev. The sample and source are moved relative to each other by a linear track, and the absorption of the sample is measured at various velocities. For 10 points, name this form of spectroscopy that relies on the recoil-free emission or absorption of gamma rays by a sample, based on an effect named for a German.
ANSWER: Mossbauer spectroscopy [EM]
15. This composer’s operas were unpopular, with “The Uncle from Boston” and “the Two Pedagogues” mostly ignored. Wagner uses excerpts of one of this composer’s works in Parsifal, repeating a passage from the “Dresden Hymn” from the original composer’s Fifth Symphony, a work commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. This composer of the Reformation Symphony and Songs Without Words composed a third symphony which contains the Hebrides Overture. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Italian and Scottish Symphonies.
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
16. This deity wields a knife known as Sultr, and sleeps in a bed are known as the Blikjandabol, or Gleaming Disaster. One of her subordinates guards a bridge and is named Modgud, while her other servants include Ganglot and Ganglati. In one story this deity acquired the king Dyggvi as a spouse. Fallandaforadis a pitfall in front of her hall Eljundnir, while her estate includes a creature bound at Gnipa’s cave and the river Gjoll. One notable story about this deity involves her telling Hermod that she will release one of her denizens if every creature on earth mourns for him, and this daughter of Angerboda and Loki is half-old and half-young. The owner of Garm, for 10 points, name this Norse goddess who rules over the underworld.
ANSWER: Hela [EM]
17. This man’s autobiographies include one in the form of a letter to a doctor explaining his penchant for academia entitled A Kind of History of My Life. His ideas were attacked in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man by Thomas Reid. His Four Dissertations followed up on an earlier work. Sections of one of this man’s works include “Of the Reason of Animals” and “Of Miracles,” and this author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion awoke Kant from his dogmatic slumber. For 10 points, name this philosopher of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
ANSWER: David Hume
18. One character in this novel fathers the illegitimate child Adele Varens with an opera singer and that charatcter pretends to be engaged to Blanche Ingram, and Bessie Leaven nurses the title character back to health after taking a beating from Mrs. Reed at Gateshead House. The title character befriends Helen Burns and uncovers the embezzlement of Mr. Brocklehurst while at school. St. John Rivers’ ends up being the title character’s cousin and Bertha Mason burns down Thornfield Manor. For 10 points, name this novel in which the title character ultimately marries Mr. Rochester, written by Charlotte Bronte.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre
19. On the upper left of this painting a silver crucifix can be seen in front a green curtain, and scholar Mary Hervey asserts that the floor of this painting is based on the pavement of Westminster Abbey. The inscription “aetatis svae 25” appears on the binding of a book one figure is leaning on, and a Lutheran hymn book a lute, and two globes are also seen. An anamorphic skull appears in the bottom of portrait of the Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville. For 10 points, name this Hans Holbein the Younger portrait of two politicians.
ANSWER: The (French) Ambassadors
20. The Greek Constantine Phaulkon served as chief advisor to Narai, one ruler of a state in this country. The Russian ship Aurora was present in 1912 for a coronation during the rule of this country’s sixth member of a still reigning dynasty. In 1913 one ruler of this country passed a law banning the chewing of betel, and the Phibun dictatorship drew upon the concept of wiratham to expand its territory in the twentieth century. In 1569, the Taungu wrought havoc upon a kingdom in this country, and in 1431 that kingdom sacked the Khmer capital of Angkor. Home to the Ayutthaya kingdom and the current Chakri dynasty, for 10 points, name this country most famously ruled by the sexually hyperactive Mongkut, depicted in The King and I.