Penn Bowl XIX: the Packet Wins Again!

Penn Bowl XIX: “The packet wins again!”

Edited by Sid Chandrasekhar, Shantanu Jha, Eric Mukherjee, Mehdi Razvi, and Chris White

Packet by Rutgers New Brunswick (Jeremy Hixson, Harrison Hsu, Charlie Loelius) and Chicago A (David Seal, Michael Arnold, Seth Teitler, Paul Gauther)

Tossups

1.At one point in this work, one character fills a bathtub with water upon hearing a noise that is never fully explained. At the end, that protagonist dies and his child goes to live with another family, whose child was first encountered in a somewhat abandoned town. Earlier, those two protagonists went to the ocean, where a drifting boat was raided for supplies, where the protagonist leaves a revolver and is forced to go after it. This protagonist and his son find a home in which slaves are kept for sex, and in another episode the man and his son find an survival shelter and eat tomato sauce out of jars. The protagonist of this novel hears and speaks with the ghost of his wife, who had killed herself earlier rather than continue to live in the world. For ten points, name this work that focuses on the unnamed man and his son traveling along the titular highway in a post-apocalyptic world by Cormac McCarthy.

ANSWER:TheRoad

2.A 2008 Supreme Court case originating in this state and named for Medellin extended Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon in invalidating the Vienna Conventions and decisions of the International Court of Justice as “binding domestic law”. In another case named for this state and White and regarding the payment of “indemnity bonds”, Salmon Chase redefined statehood and declared secession unconstitutional. Another case originating in this state saw a Stevens’s dissent argue for the absolute uniqueness of the object in question overruling concerns of symbolic communication, while another case originating in this state overturned Bowers v. Hardwick. For 10 points, name this state notable for a case overturning sodomy laws co-named for Lawrence.
ANSWER:Texas

3.Alexander Glazunov wrote one of these pieces, his Seventh. Another of these works includes a wordless soprano in the final movement, was described by its composer as "four movements, all slow" and by Constant Lambert as "a cow looking over a gate". A non-freestanding example is the thirteenth movement of Handel'sMessiah, also known as "Pifa". In addition the aforementioned elegy to World War I dead, Ralph Vaughn Williams' Third, the best-known work of this name, which unusually has five movements, features a second movement entitled "By the Brook", a depiction of a thunderstorm, and is subtitled "Recollections of Country Life". For 10 points, give this common name, whose examples include Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.
ANSWER:Pastoral Symphony(just "Pastoral" is needed after the end of the question)

4.Flurprimidol and ancymidol are two chemicals that inhibit synthesis of these compounds, whose precursors include ent-kaurene. PIF3/4 is a transcription factor whose activity is regulated by these compounds through their promotion of ubiquitination of DELLA proteins. A bioassay for these compounds using barley endosperm relies on their stimulation of hydrolytic enzymes in germinating cereal grains. Teijiro Yabuta and Eiichi Kurosawa named and discovered these compounds during studies of foolish seedling disease. For 10 points, name this class of plant hormones that break dormancy and stimulate cell elongation.

ANSWER:gibberellins

5.InMeno, Socrates uses this concept, as established by priests, to argue for his theory of learning. In another dialogue, Socrates refutes the analogy of the lyre in order to provide support for this concept. According to Bertrand Russel, it is refuted by physicalism, and Hume counters the claim that justice requires this concept to be true by noting that the overthrow of a million million kingdoms would be less horrible than the damnation of a single person. Argued for using the Argument from Affinity and Argument from Opposites inPhaedo, for 10 points, identify this concept which, inThe Republic, Plato advocates before discussing the afterlife, something that can't exist if this concept is false.
ANSWER:Immortalityof the Soul [orLife after DeathorLife Before Death; accept obvious equivalents of any of these]

6.An enthroned God watches over the placement of Mary on her bier in Andrea del Castagno’sDeath of the Virgin, a mosaic in the Capella Nova in this church, and many scenes from the life of this church’s namesake appear in its Zen Chapel. Eight saints, including Blaise, Nicholas, and Thecla, are depicted in the sparse mosaic of theLeonard Cupola, one of five domes in this cathedral. This basilica’s presbytery is home to a marble seat, transferred from nearby Aquileia, in which this basilica’s namesake is said to have composed his gospel on wax tablets. Sculptures in porphyry of the Tetrarchs and four bronze horses, taken from the Hippodrome, are among the works in this basilica taken from the sacking of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade. For 10 points, name this basilica, seat of the Patriarch of Venice.
ANSWER:Saint Mark’s Basilica [or Basilica di San Marco]

7.Inversion of auxiliaries and these objects occurs in T→C-movement and DP-movement involves the raising of these objects from the specifier position of an embedded VP to the TP specifier in a main clause. A pleonastic variety of these constituents lacks theta-roles and, in English, frequently replaces entire phrases which otherwise serve this clausal role. Those "dummy" versions are called expletives and include "it" and "there". Icelandic is notable for a group of these constituents called "quirky", which often appear in the dative case, though in many Indo-European languages, these constituents are more often marked by the nominative. For 10 points, what are these clausal constituents which in traditional grammar are often contrasted with the predicate?
ANSWER:Subject

8.A plot whereby these people were paid by Jews and the King of Granada to poison wells with reptile parts and excrement was discovered by the bishop of Pamiers in 1321, prompting a general massacre. Prompted by the rediscovery of these people in India and the “Imperial Danger” scare, George Thin wrote an influential book about them. A detention center was established for these people in 1865 by Kamehameha V, which was to become famous for the work of a Catholic priest there named father Damian. For 10 points, name these people associated with a colony on Moloka’I, notable suffers of a disease characterized by skin lesions.

ANSWER:lepers [accept word forms and equivalents like sufferers ofleprosy]

9.Meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft found a necessary condition for instability of inviscid parallel plane flows that is stronger than this man’s inflection point criterion. This man showed that inviscid Couette flow is unstable if the square of “r squared omega” decreases with radius, a result later extended by the linear stability analysis of G. I. Taylor. He predicted a type of surface wave that travels slower than Love, S and P waves, and he found a one over wavelength to the fourth power dependence in the intensity resulting from his namesake elastic light scattering process, while another formulation partially named for this Englishman leads to the ultraviolet catastrophe. For 10 points, name this man who also formulated a classical blackbody theory with Jeans.

ANSWER:JohnStruttor 3rdBaronRayleigh

10.In one essay, this author discusses the inability of peasants to give directions. In that same work he expounds upon toasting, claiming that should we come close to running out of things to toast to we would even “drink to our mother-in-laws.” “On Eating and Drinking” appears in a collection that opens with a page long dedication to the author's longtime friend and truest companion, his pipe. That work isIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. The author's most famous work begins after the author notes that he seems to have come down with every disease that they advertise cures for and tells the doctor so. His prescription, which he takes along with his friends Harris and George and dog Montemorency, is to go on a boating trip. For ten points, name this 19th century British humorist, whose most famous work isThree Men in a Boat.

ANSWER: Jerome K.Jerome

11.After this figure was denied a prophecy from the Delphic oracle, he attempted to steal the tripod in order to start his own oracle. This figure killed all the sons of Neleus except Nestor, who refuses to tell of this figure’s exploits in theMetamorphoses. One his sons that was harmed and later healed by shavings from the spear of Achilles was named Telephus. Dryope kidnapped this man’s arms-bearer Hylas, and Philoctetes became the heir to his arrows, which had been poisoned when his wife Deinara mistook the blood of Nessus for a love potion, leading to this man’s death. This figure was born when Zeus took the form of Amphitryon to seduce his mother, Alcmene. For 10 points, name this Greek hero, best known for slaying the Nemean lion and the Lernean Hydra as part of his Twelve Labors.

ANSWER:Herakles[orHercules]

12.One journal entry by this man reminded him to research Nicholas Roerich, the one time guru to Henry Wallace and he later searches for the remains of an expedition led by the German Schaeffer. He began his most recent game hanging from a train that was hanging off the edge of a cliff in the Himalayas, and later in that game he goes to a Turkish prison after being betrayed by Flynn. This character has been romantically involved with Chloe Frazer and Elena Fisher, and he is voiced by Nolan North. This character’s most recent game saw him attempt to prevent Lazarevic from finding the city of Shamballah. For ten points, name this character, the protagonist of theUnchartedseries, a treasure hunter and descendant of explorer Sir Francis.

ANSWER: NathanDrake

13.This country’s paluumuuto law has allowed for the repatriation of Ingrians to this nation since the early 1990s. One president of this country was re-elected after his opponent, Honka, withdrew following the “Note Crisis”, which was prompted by pressure from the Soviet Union, with whom this country signed the YYA Treaty. An earlier agreement with the Soviets saw this nation lease Porkkala as a military base, thus eliminating Russia’s need for this nation’s Hanko Peninsula. Prior to leading this country through the Lapland War, Carl Mannerheim negotiated that agreement, the Moscow Armistice. The Winter War was fought between the USSR and, for 10 points, what Scandinavian country with capital at Helsinki.

ANSWER:Finland

14.In the lower right corner of this painting, a small white dog leans its front paws on the brim of a fountain and stares up, open-mouthed, at the central figure. Appearing beneath that central figure are two rakes, tangled in a bush and on the left, a statue reminiscent of Falconet’sMenacing Cupidwatches the central figure, holding his finger to his lips. Two putti stare up at the central figure on the titular object, which is attached to two ropes held by an elderly man seated in the shadows on the right, and a beam of sunlight falls on the central figure just as she is kicking off a shoe. A man reclining hidden in a rosebush looks up the skirt of the central figure in, For 10 points, what painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard?

ANSWER:The Happy Accidents of theSwing[orLes Hasards Heureux del’Escarpolette]

15.According to St. Hippolytus of Rome’sThe Apostolic Tradition, a person was anointed with oil of this type just prior to baptism and anointing with oil of thanksgiving, and according to St. Cyril of Jerusalem’s catechetical instructions, candidates for baptism underwent this “terrifying” act daily. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, David is credited with writing four apocryphal psalms to be sung during performance of this act and one New Testament account of this act involves a failed attempt by the sons of Sceva in Acts. The “Parable of the Strong Man” is Jesus’s response to the Beelzeboul controversy over this practice, and Jesus uses this practice to drive Legion into a herd of pigs, which then drown themselves. For 10 points, name this practice of casting demons out of the possessed.

ANSWER:Exorcism[accept word forms]

16.The beginning of this work pays homage to the Aeneid with the line “They were men of no ordinary stature, equally at home in war and in dangers of every kind,” introducing the main characters as bold and adventurous people. In the fifth canto of this work, the main characters say good-bye to the familiar constellations of the northern world and are introduced to the Southern Cross and St. Elmo’s fire. This poem also pays homage to King Sebastian, and the title of this work refers to the sons of a companion of Bacchus, who was also the mythical first settler of a certain country. For 10 points, identify this poem by Luis Vaz de Camoens about the exploits of Vasco da Gama, the national epic of Portugal.

ANSWER:Os Lusiadas[orThe Lusiads]

17.Upon heating, this element sublimes from its most common ore, mispickel. This element reacts with zinc metal and sulphuric acid to produce a gas which is then passed along a heated glass tube in the Marsh test for its presence. The yellow allotrope of this element resembles white phosphorus in adopting an unstable tetrahedral arrangement. In the body, this element can accumulate in the mitochondria and react with lipoic acid, inhibiting the action of pyruvate dehydrogenase. Forming a III-V [three-five] semiconductor with gallium, for ten points, name this element which also appears in salvarsan, Erlich’s “magic bullet” for syphilis, despite its extreme toxicity, a non-metal with symbol As.

ANSWER:ArsenicorAs

18.According to Baladhuri, one ruler of this dynasty minted the first aniconic coins after a dispute over papyrus and anti-Islamic coins; that ruler was the initiator of the Marwanid Restoration. Another story says that a Jewish sorceror’s promises of long-life prompted the anti-Christian iconoclastic law of another ruler of this dynasty, Yazid II. Another ruler of this dynasty ended the jizya tax of the mawali; that ruler, Umar II, also began collecting the hadith. Yazid I, son of this dynasty’s founder Muawiyah, defeated Husayn at Karbala. This dynasty was halted from further advances into western Europe by Charles Martel at Tours. For 10 points, name this first Islamic caliphate, which was succeeded by the Abbasids.

ANSWER:UmayyadDynasty

19.One of this man's poemsends asking “when will the horde be beaten back and my husband be back home?” Another speaks of how children's “young feet twined my path through jade bamboo” and claims “we sang... till fading stars meant fading song.” Besides “Song of an Autumn Midnight” and “Down Mount Zhongnan”, he wrote of meeting a Daoist immortal and a “Jade Woman” who gifts him “Liquid Sunrise” in his six poems “Wandering about Mount Tai.” He watches “the Long Road of the River of Stars” in another poem, in which he takes a “pot of wine among the flowers.” Another work recounts how a figure had gone to "the river of swirling eddies" when the narrator was sixteen and opens recollecting a time when "my hair was still cut straight across my forehead."For 10 points, name this poet of “Drinking Alone with the Moon” and "The River Merchant's Wife", who also wrote a poem to his contemporary Du Fu.

ANSWER:Li BaiorLi PoorLi Bo

20.These objects include a variable subclass whose members increase up to 6 magnitudes in brightness; that subclass is named for the prototype FU Orionis, while another subclass consists of the Herbig Ae/Be objects. They evolve from deeply embedded Class 0 [“zero”] sources which have material infalling from the original molecular cloud core onto the surrounding accretion disk. At the low mass end they include the T Tauri stars, which evolve into spectral types G, K and M. For 10 points, name these objects that, depending on their mass, evolve along the Henyey and/or Hayashi tracks towards a major feature on the HR diagram.

ANSWER:young stellar objects[orYSOs; orpre-main sequencestars or objects; orPMSstars or objects; acceptT Tauristars or objects before “Herbig Ae/Be objects”; acceptprotostars,baby stars, etc.]

TB1. Two structures outside of this site’s citadel, the West House and the House of the Oil-Merchant, have been linked to perfume-making, while a fresco of a goddess whose white limbs and face appear from behind a shield is associated with a temple complex including the Houses of the Idols and of the Frescoes at this site. A gate topped by two now-headless lions marks the boundary of this site’s citadel and separates Grave Circles A and B at this site close to both Argos and Tiryns. Many structures here, including the Treasury of Atreus and Tomb of Aegisthus, represent this site’s mythologizing by one early excavator, Heinrich Schliemann. For 10 points, name this Greek site, which is best known for the golden “Mask of Agamemnon” and which is the namesake of an early Greek civilization.
ANSWER:Mycenae