Minnesota Open 2010: Brought to You by the Citizens and Officials of Rutland, Vermont
Questions by UCSD (Vivek Bhave, Chris Chiego, Auroni Gupta, Brian Tsui)
Edited by Rob Carson, Mike Cheyne, Gautam Kandlikar, and Bernadette Spencer
Tossups
1. The protagonist of this novel witnesses a staging of Acolastus at an academic pageant and meets up with the acclaimed magician Cornelius Agrippa. After dallying with Geraldine, the English love interest of the earl of Florence, hears a story about the torture of the assassin Cutworthe, which prompts him to leave a place he calls the “Sodom of Italy”. At one point, this novel’s protagonist is attacked by bandits while staying in the house of Johannes and Heraclide de Imola. Later, the real-life writer Pietro (*) Aretino helps release its protagonist and his courtesan Diamante from prison. This novel, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, was inspired by Lazarillo de Tormes. For 10 points, identify this picaresque novel about the page Jack Wilton, written by Thomas Nashe.
ANSWER: The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton
2. The “three-hundred-thousand-character petition” against the “Five Daggers” anticipated much of the rhetoric of this period. One article written during this period was titled “Realism—the Broad Road,” which challenged the earlier conclusions of the Yenan Forum. It followed the three-anti/five-anti campaigns and could be interpreted as an abrupt policy change. This period was the focus of the speech “On the Correct Handling of the (*) Contradictions Among the People.” The Anti-Rightist Campaign was a reaction against the events of this period, during which one leader outlined six criteria for identifying “poisonous weeds.” It arose out of a speech given promoting intellectualism by Zhou Enlai. For 10 points, name this period in the 1950’s, during which the Chinese Communist Party temporarily encouraged the spreading of social criticisms much like an earlier period of intellectual diversity.
ANSWER: Hundred Flowers Campaign/Movement [accept Baihua Yundong or anything with Baihua]
3. It is bordered on its south by a structure that formed during the Eocene called the Gonave, and its major craton is underlain by the Abitibi greenstone belt. Also subjected to the Grenville and Sevier orogenies, much fault-blocking has taken place on it due to its subduction of the Farallon structure. It includes the Anahim, Jemez, and Raton hotspots, and its surface was covered by the Sundance Sea as well as the Cretaceous Inner Seaway. The MTJ experiment is being conducted at the northern terminus of another feature found at its western edge. Another feature found on this body contains the world’s largest dike swarm, and the southern end of that feature has (*) lobes named Wadena and Rainy as evidence of recent glaciations events. A more notable feature of this geological mass is a large caldera housing a supervolcano that is thought to erupt every 600,000 years. For 10 points identify this geologic mass that includes the Canadian Shield and the Yellowstone Supervolcano, and whose fight with the Pacific Plate causes earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault.
ANSWER: North American Plate
4. Nancy Fraser accused this work of bracketing off inequalities and assuming the existence of a priori private concerns in her book called Rethinking the subject of this work. One section of this book argues that the literary form of the title subject has been turned into the world of culture consumption. This work contends that as the press became increasingly commercialized, it turned from transmitting (*) debate to shaping it. In the introduction to this work, its author describes the influence of polis-oikos in ancient Greece and capitalism on development of civil society. This work argues that as medieval courts changed into towns, coffee houses and salons became the center of the title area of civic debate. For 10 points, name this book expanded upon in The Theory of Communicative Action, the first major work of Jurgen Habermas.
ANSWER: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
5. The Kroger-Vink notation incorporates the change in charge to describe these structures, and the Howie-Whelan equations need to be modified with an exponential of g dot R in order to describe these structures. A Dutch physicist lends his name to a vector which describes the shear produced by one type of these. In addition to types which are described by the Burgers vector, another type of these that obey the conservation of charge come in (*) Schottky and Frenkel varieties, the latter of which sees the migration of an ion to an interstitial. They include interstitial self-atoms, interstitial impurities, self impurities, or vacancies, and they come in stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric varieties. Higher dimensional examples of them include precipitates, stacking faults, and dislocations. For 10 points, identify these locations where the appropriate atoms are misplaced.
ANSWER: crystal defects [reverse prompt on point defects or dislocations for those poor souls who were trigger happy; prompt on “crystals,” “ionic crystals” or “lattices” at any point]
6. Two characters in this novel bond over having previously had a crush on the same daughter of a Dutch tile-factory owner, whose daughter they save from the ruins of that factory. One of those characters later punches a priest in preparation for joining the Atheist Club and unearths 100 coffins, 98 of which are carried off by Yelisey, who later carries a character who repeats “Bring me my mother’s bones”. The most colorful character in this novel is a bear who, when not serving as a smith, attempts to defecate on a commode and is used for sniffing out kulaks. This novel opens with the conflict between thinking and mindless (*) working, the former of which is espoused by Voshchev, whose existentialism deepens as he sees the peasants and workers constructing the title object, the seat of the House of the Proletariat. Nastya and Chiklin are the central couple of, for 10 points, which Soviet dystopian novel written by Andrei Platonov?
ANSWER: The Foundation Pit [or Kotlovan]
7. One line in this song explains that the speaker needs “a holiday like the lady who sung ‘Blue’”. Its second verse describes an object that “ricochets off the moon and sets the forests ablaze” after traveling “past the Indian graves/where the dinosaurs laid/Then out through China/nearly miss the airliners.” Its third verse begins (*) “Chauffeur, chauffeur, come and take me away” and features the speaker’s return to his hometown where “the lightbulbs around my mirror don’t flicker” and where “everybody claps cause everybody is pleased”. A mellow piano tune precedes the hook of this song, which is delivered by Matthew Santos and features the lines “Then have no fear / the camera’s here”. For 10 points, demonstrate that “you are what you say you are” by producing the title of this breakout single by Lupe Fiasco.
ANSWER: “Superstar”
8. This composer was commissioned by Hieronimo Graf von Colloredo to write six duos for viola and violin, of which he only finished four due to illness. This man wrote incredibly high notes for trumpet, surpassing those even for the flute, in his difficult Trumpet Concerto in C Major. His better-known choral works include six Te Deums, the Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae, and the Missa Hispanica, as well as a work composed on the death of Archbishop (*) Sigismund von Schrattenbach, his Missa pro defunctis. He was aided in writing two duets for the court of Salzburg by another composer, who was accidentally given credit for his 25th symphony. For 10 points, identify this Austrian composer who was a huge influence on Mozart, the brother of the king of the string quartet, Joseph.
ANSWER: Johann Michael Haydn [accept just Haydn after mention of “Joseph,” prompt on it before]
9. One character in this work loves the song and book “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” which she recommends to recuperating soldiers. The protagonists in this work drive a Ford called “Auntie” after one character’s Aunt Pauline. The narrator grows up in San Francisco and once wrote a fan letter to Henry James. Near end of this work, the protagonist gives speeches at Cambridge and Oxford, pleasing her friend Mildred Aldrich. The final chapter of this work compares itself to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and offers joke titles like (*) Wives of Geniuses I Have Sat With. The title figure of this work went on to write a memoir called What is Remembered. The majority of this work tells of the protagonists running a salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris and entertaining such guests as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. For 10 points, name this work written by Gertrude Stein from the perspective of her longtime companion.
ANSWER: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
10. This man’s son was a lawyer who defended prostitute Minnie Stacy with a speech still taught as the perfect closing argument, the “Soiled Dove Plea.” This father of Temple Lea worked as an Indian agent and offended John C. Calhoun by showing up at a meeting dressed in native garb. This man employed Francis Scott Key as his lawyer after he viciously attacked Congressman William Stanbery with his cane. In one notable speech, he described northerners as moving “with the steady momentum of a (*) mighty avalanche.” While operating a trading post in Cherokee Nation, this man was known as “Big Drunk.” Late in life, he was evicted as governor for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy. This man’s biggest military victory came at San Jacinto when he beat down Santa Anna. For 10 points, name this politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
ANSWER: Sam Houston
11. They can be condensed into one equation in a namesake gauge where the Laplacian of Coulomb potential is zero. Applying Ampere’s law to one of them and taking the curl of both sides gives an equation that relates the Laplacian of the B-field to a characteristic quantity; that quantity, which scales as the one half power of the (*) supercurrent density, is the distance at which the B field decays to B naught over e. One of them relates the time derivate of the superconducting current to the electric field and the other relates the curl of the current to the magnetic field. The aforementioned characteristic constant is the “penetration depth” given by these equations, which are able to describe the Meissner effect. For 10 points, identify these equations named for two brothers, one of who also lends his name to some dispersion forces.
ANSWER: London equations
12. The upper-right corner of this painting contains a white mountain peak with a pattern of shadows resembling the silhouette of a striding man. Its background features several small buildings at the foot of a dark mountain, in front of which a road curves toward the horizon. On that road are a group of eight multicolored human figures that this work’s painter referred to as “the heterosexuals”. A statue facing away from the viewer is displayed on a red plinth on a chessboard to the right of this painting’s central figures, one of which casts a shadow on a (*) malnourished dog eating from a pile of meat in the bottom-right. The right side of this painting contains a group of ants crawling upon an upward-reaching blue-gray hand, on which is perched an egg from which a daffodil blooms. For 10 points, identify this Ovid-inspired painting whose title figure stares at his reflection in a lake, a work of Salvador Dali.
ANSWER: The Metamorphosis of Narcissus [or La Metamorfosis de Narciso]
13. This architect, in a collaboration with the Montgomery & Bishop firm and Margaret and Harry Duncan, designed the first racially integrated neighborhood in Philadelphia, Greenbelt Knoll. He used a question mark as the basic structure for Rochester, New York’s First Unitarian Church, while another of his buildings features triangles and rectangles engraved on its walls and is surrounded on three sides by an artificial lake. This first major work of the designer of the Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban National Assembly Building in (*) Bangladesh was the Yale University Art Gallery, a style he would return to for the circular openings in the atrium of the Phillips Exeter Academy Library. He used sixteen parallel vaults divided into three wings in the design for Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum. For 10 points, identify this designer of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, an Estonian-born Jewish architect.
ANSWER: Louis Isadore Kahn [or Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky]
14. In such poetry collections as I Heard God Laughing and The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky claimed to be “interpreting” the works of this poet. In one of his poems, he describes the spurning of the mountains and the earth of God’s love, which Man foolishly takes up, earning the jealousy of the angels. He wrote of the “blazing lightnings” and “dawn wind” in a poem in which his friends advise him against falling in love. Those poems, subtitled “Time-rise” and “News from Abroad,” do not contain such common themes of this poet as criticism of the hypocrisy of religious leaders. He undertook the Chilla-nashini vigil on the fortieth anniversary of his marriage with Zayn al-Attar, which itself occurred after this man (*) learned the Qu’ran by heart and thus earned his pen-name. He is currently Interred in a frequently-visited tomb in Shiraz. For 10 points, identify this author whose Divan contains many ghazals, the favorite poet of many Iranians.
ANSWER: Khwajeh Šamsu d-Din Muḥammad Hafez-e Šhirazi [or Hafiz; accept Daniel Ladinsky before his name is read]