Zot Bowl I/Truman State Novice/VCU Novice 2008

Zot Bowl I/Truman State Novice/VCU Novice 2008

Round 12

Packet by House 3 (Ray Anderson, Brendan Shapiro, Jon Wong, Dwight Wynne) with help from Chris Chiego and Seth Teitler

TOSSUPS

1. W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror was a “Commentary on” this work, and Ernest Renan wrote a sequel to this work that he called “an idealist’s fancy sketch”. Act IV of this play is interrupted by a dance of Nymphs and Reapers, and in Act II one character is tormented by a drunk singing about a woman named Kate. Characters that are mentioned but do not appear include Claribel, who is married to the King of Tunis, and the witch Sycorax. Believing his son Ferdinand to be dead, Alonso instead discovers him playing chess with Miranda, the daughter of the magician Prospero, in, for 10 points, which Shakespeare play about the aftermath of a storm?

Answer: The Tempest

2. Important advancements in this technique include the use of the reflectron to improve resolution in the MALDI version, which uses an ultraviolet laser with wavelength between 330 and 360 nm. Another version of this technique begins with the formation a Taylor Cone and won John Fenn a Nobel Prize in Chemistry; that version is known as Electrospray Ionization. Once the sample is ionized, the next step is usually either gas or liquid chromatography, and the final readout contains the base peak and molecular ion peak. For 10 points, name this technique of organic chemistry that breaks a compound into smaller ions and measures their mass-to-charge ratio.

Answer: mass spectrometry

3. Outlaws Belle Starr and Bill Doolin both died in this present-day state, and Bass Reeves was the longest-serving lawman in the territory that would later become this state. That territory was dissolved by the Curtis Act, and a March 16, 1896 majority opinion by John Marshall Harlan appended Greer County to this state. The westernmost part of this state was added by the Organic Act and was known as No Man’s Land. This state was the site of a massive April 22, 1889 Land Rush, which rules were violated by so-called “Sooners”. For 10 points, name this state which on November 16, 1907 became the 46th state, growing mostly out of the former Indian Territory.

Answer: Oklahoma

4. For many years, a 1944 performance of this work by the Munich Philharmonic was misidentified as a 1941 performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. The second theme of the first movement, introduced by the woodwinds, is quickly overtaken by a repeat of the first theme. The celebratory feast and funeral scenes of a never-written opera are thought to be the origin of the scherzo and largo of this work; a part of that largo formed the basis for the spiritual “Goin’ Home”. Completed while in Spillville, Iowa, for 10 points, name this symphony, its composer’s Opus 95, which synthesizes African-American and Czech influences, written by Antonin Dvorak.

Answer: Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World (accept either, don’t need Dvorak after given, also piss off Ray Luo and accept New World Symphony)

5. One character in this game must agree to have a ghost tear off his body parts while he meditates at “Mu” in the Kingdom of Dalaam where Brain Food Lunches are available for purchase. Another character joins the main group in this game dressed in a tux after being telepathically contacted at the Winters Academy. Enemies in this game include the Cute Lil’ UFO and the New Age Retro Hippie while locations include a series of numerically named cities. The Runaway Five are a major music group in, for 10 points, what Super Nintendo game in which cash is withdrawn at ATMs in towns like Fourside and Onnett and the hero is the yo-yo toting, baseball-bat swinging Ness?
Answer: Earthbound(prompt on “Mother 2,” do not accept Mother or Mother 3)

6. In one of his works, Alois Straubleder leads the police back to his house where the fugitive Ludwig Goetten is hiding. He worked for a statistics bureau while working on his first novel, and another of his novels reveals that Leni Pfeiffer was in love with a Russian POW. A member of the "rubble literature" school, he wrote The Safety Net and A Soldier's Legacy in addition to the aforementioned media satire about a woman arrested by police for sleeping with a bank robber, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Author of The Train Was on Time and Group Portrait with Lady, for 10 points name this novelist who wrote of the Fahmel family's rebuilding of an abbey in Billiards at Half-Past Nine.

Answer: Heinrich Böll

7. Tributaries of this river include the Big and Little Nehama, the Niobrara, the White, and Vermillion. A current environmental issue centers on maintaining its summer flow for a dwindling amount of river barge traffic, which is made possible by operations at the Fort Randall, Gavins Point, Big Bend, Garrison, Oahe [oo-AH-hee], and Fort Peck Dams. Beginning at the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and Madison Rivers, more notable tributaries include the Yellowstone, Big Sioux, and Platte. For 10 points, name this long tributary that begins in Montana and enters the Mississippi just north of St. Louis in its namesake state.
Answer:Missouri River

8. Her story appears after that of Dido in Bocaccio’s On Famous Women, and she is the focal point of the bottom right panel of Ghiberti’s Doors of Paradise. Assad falls in love with this woman in a Karl Goldmark opera, and she attempts to elope with the sculptor Adoniram in a Charles Gounod opera. In one legend, a visitor was relieved to find that this woman’s legs were not those of a donkey but merely just hairy. Another story claims that she gave up her virginity for a drink of water, and from that union came Menelik I, from whom all future Emperors of Ethiopia claimed descent. For 10 points, name this ruler who in First Kings visited and asked riddles to Solomon.

Answer: Queen of Sheba (accept Makeda, Nicaula, or Bilqis)

9. Despite having knowledge of the exact start time of this event, 5 AM on July 19, a police chief decided to lie about it rather than distribute arms. Felix Morrow wrote the first American study of one part of it, and Hugh Thomas and Philip Knightly argued against George Steer’s interpretation of another part of it. A group led by Robert Merriman first saw action at the Jarama Valley in this war, that Abraham Lincoln Brigade was one of several International Brigades organized by Comintern to fight the Falange. For 10 points, name this 1936-1939 war in which the Popular Front government was overthrown by Franco, which included the bombing of Guernica.

Answer: Spanish Civil War (prompt on “Spanish Revolt” or “Spanish Revolution”)

10. Molecules in this family are typically cleaved at a glycine around position 250, resulting in a C-terminal domain that has no known use. The signaling pathway of one molecule in this family involves a complex consisting of the proteins Fused, Costal-2, and Cubitus interruptus, and members of this family often attach to the membrane proteins Patched and Smoothened. Neural tube differentiation is controlled by a ventral-dorsal gradient of one protein in this family. For 10 points, identify this family of signaling proteins named after a certain animal, whose three mammalian members are desert, Indian, and Sonic.

Answer: hedgehog or Hh (do not accept or prompt on “Sonic Hedgehog” as we need the family and the signaling pathway is relevant to Drosophila Hedgehog, not Sonic hedgehog)

11. Malanowski and Wood explored “Burnout and This” in Ohio public school teachers, while McLeod looked at the relationship between this and boredom proneness. Leonard Geller wrote a 1982 article about its “failure”, and E. L. Shostrom’s Personal Orientation Inventory was designed to measure this. The term was first coined by Kurt Goldstein after his studies of injured war veterans, and achievement of this is the goal of client-centered therapy. However, it may be best known as a B need, as opposed to D needs like safety and esteem. For 10 points, name this highest need in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Answer: self-actualization

12. He has won one La Liga Championship, but this phase of his career was marked by turmoil, including a falling out with manager Fabio Capello. 2008 highlights for him include gaining a notable cap in friendly against France and scoring a 70 yard goal in a professional league match. He won most of his championships with the Premier League team he began his career with. The first player signed under the "Designated Player Rule" in MLS, he hashelped his new team fill the Home Depot Center. For 10 points, name this noted England national, former Manchester United and Real Madrid and current LA Galaxy soccer star.
Answer: David (Robert Joseph) Beckham

13. He has "nothing to look forward to with hope," and before encountering him, one character had been to Rowe's. He wants to team up again with Harold Wilson, with whom he had bickered four years ago, and though his brother is "rich, a somebody - director in the bank", he only wants to earn enough money "to at least buy tobacco with/So he won't have to beg and be beholden". This character has come to help Warren "ditch the meadow", though a discussion of the meaning of home follows from Mary 's earlier claim that this man "has come home to die". For 10 points, name this man with given name Silas, whose death is the title action of a Robert Frost poem.
Answer: The Hired Man (accept Silas before mentioned)

14. This man wrote a hymn which has been compared to Psalm 104, and though some have questioned whether he was impotent, he apparently fathered six daughters, one of whom married his successor, Smenkhare. His father broke with traditional incest rules by marrying a commoner named Tiy. Egypt may have lost all of its Asian holdings except part of Palestine under this man’s rule, as indicated by the Amarna letters, discovered at the site where he attempted to build a new capital. For 10 points, name this husband of Nefertiti, who attempted to institute monotheism in Egypt with worship of Aton.

Answer: Akhenaton or Akhnaton or Ikhnaton (accept Amenhotep IV or Greek Amenhopis IV, or Neferkheperure Amenhotep)

15. The Rego-Rourke and Rubenstein-Thompson algorithms attempted to disprove it, and John Stallings once wrote a paper on "How Not to Solve" this problem. The method eventually used to solve it was introduced by Richard Hamilton in 1982, but it was not until a series of papers written in 2002 and 2003 applied Ricci Flow with "surgery" that it was considered provable to say that the namesake relationship existed between a simply close connected 3-manifold and the three-sphere. For 10 points, name this Millenium Problem, a conjecture named for a French mathematician, whose solution led to the declining of the 2006 Fields Medal by Grigory Perelman.
Answer: The Poincaré Conjecture

16. Kusku attempted to resurrect this god’s son by submerging him in a lake, while another death-related myth claims that in his haste to see his dead wife he opened a box containing dead souls before he had reached the land of the living. Another myth attributes the creation of the horse to him, and he defeated the testicle-eating Moon and created a new man from Moon’s blood in one creation myth. Sometimes depicted as an old man who passes on knowledge of the sacred rites, he stole fire from the Fire Beings and allegedly spied on Badger and other animals while impersonating the moon. For 10 points, name this trickster deity of the American Southwest.

Answer: Coyote

17. He used a figure in Antonio Pollaiuolo’s The Rape of Deianira as the model for Hercules in his Hercules and the Birds of Stymphalis. “The Drummer and Piper” and “Job and His Wife” are the two side panels of this man’s Altar of the Three Kings, and portraits by this man include those of Oswolt Krel and the Tucher family. He may be best known for a work that includes an hour glass, an empty balance scale, a polyhedron with a skull on it, and a magic square which gives the date of the work, 1514, in the middle two cells. Also known for woodcuts like his Apocalypse series, for 10 points, name this German engraver of Melancholia I.

Answer: Albrecht Durer (the Younger)

18. The narrator of this work and his girlfriend invent the term “discovering archetypes” as a euphemism for having sex and refer to their child as “The Thing”. Another character, the co-founder of the School of Comparative Irrelevance, creates as an alter ego an amalgam of Conrad characters called Seven Seas Jim, and claims that you can differentiate lunatics from cretins, fools, and morons “by the fact that sooner or later [they] bring up the Templars”. The Plan is set in motion by Colonel Ardenti, who shows a supposed Templar manuscript to Diotallevi, Belbo, and Casaubon. For 10 points, name this Umberto Eco novel which begins near the titular scientific device.

Answer: Foucault’s Pendulum

19. This man struck an alliance with Humabon, who drew him into a battle where he was outnumbered almost 30 to 1. During that battle, both of his legs were chopped off, then he was beheaded with a kampilan, or so says his diarist, Antonio Pigafetta. Thus this dude learned the hard way not to mess with Lapu Lapu, the Rajah of Mactan Island. Before his death, he survived two separate attempted mutinies by Juan de Cartegena, and the San Antonio headed back to Spain while going through his namesake strait. After his death the Victoria, under the command of del Cano, made it back to Spain, so for 10 points, this explorer gets credit for the first global circumnavigation.

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

20. He is the first namesake of a phenomenon whose onset is classically associated with a Richardson number of less than one-fourth. He derived a namesake set of equations relating the Seebeck and Peltier coefficients. He is first namesake of a process in which a star heats and radiates due to gravitational contraction, a mechanism that led him to claim the Sun was less than a billion years old. He is also first namesake of the axiom that there cannot be a perfect heat engine.For 10 points, name this man who names a shearing fluid instability and a contraction with Helmholtz, a statement of the second law of thermodynamics with Planck, and an absolute temperature scale by himself.

Answer: 1st Baron Kelvin or William Thomson

BONUSES

1. Initially, the colonial government’s abuse of this treaty to profit in land speculation angered both the indigenous peoples and the British settlers. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this 1840 treaty, whose land-selling article was superseded by the 1862 Native Land Act, which ostensibly gave the British rights to North Island.

Answer: Treaty of Waitangi

[10] The Treaty of Waitangi was made with several chiefs of the Maori, the indigenous people of this present-day country.

Answer: New Zealand

[10] This colonial lieutenant governor explained the terms of the treaty to the first five Maori chiefs to sign it. A month later, he survived a stroke, and it was up to Thomas Bunbury to collect signatures from other chiefs.

Answer: William Hobson

2. Answer the following on the quantum mechanical model of the hydrogen atom, for 10 points each.

[10] The angular dependence of the electron wavefunction is given by one of these functions, which can be expressed in terms of associated Legendre functions. They form an orthonormal set on their namesake surfaces.

Answer: spherical harmonics

[10] The electron wavefunction can be calculated by applying separation of variables to this fundamental wave equation of quantum mechanics, named for a man who lends his name to a thought experiment involving a cat.

Answer: Schrödinger equation

[10] The quantization condition associated with the radial Schrödinger equation yields this quantum number. The binding energy is inversely proportional to its square.

Answer: n or the principal quantum number

3. Set in a German village, this film shows two friends who encounter the title character using the somnambulist Cesare as a sideshow attraction. For 10 points each:

[10] Cesare correctly prophecies one of the main characters' deaths, and upon further investigation the title character is revealed to be head of the local insane asylum in this 1920 film directed by Robert Wiene.
Answer: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Das Cabinet des Caligari
[10] This Fritz Lang film follows a child murderer, who is eventually stopped by less vile elements of the Berlin criminal community. Notably, only the shadow of Peter Lorre's character appears as he kills his victims.

Answer: M

[10] This short piece of orchestral music in B Minor serves as a leitmotif in M. Its theme begins with six staccato eighth notes followed by an accented quarter note, then two repetitions of two staccato eighths and an accented quarter note.