Truman Bowl II Round VII: Return of the Bulldogs Packet by: Wouldn’t you like to know?
Tossup:
Most myths say that this goddess was born before her brother but all agree that they were twins. She transformed the prince Actaeon into a stag after he discovered her bathing in the forest and sent a killer boar after Adonis after he boasted that he was a better hunter than her. Identified with the Roman goddess Diana, she is usually depicted as a young woman with a bow and arrows. Name this goddess of the hunt, widerness, and young girls.
ANSWER: Artemis
Leo Strauss condemned this man as a teacher of evil doctrines, while scholars such as Harvey Mansfield acknowledge him as the founder of modern political science. In one work he argues that a ruler should not kill his subjects, while at the same time arguing that people would sooner forget the theft of their property than the death of a parent. Arguing that it is better to be feared than loved, this is FTP what Italian philosopher known for The Prince.
ANSWER: Niccolo Machiavelli
This poem was written in 1899 and originally published in 1910 in the author’s collection of short stories titled Rewards and Fairies. Its famous line,” "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same" is written on the wall of the center court players' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon. Name this work by Rudyard Kipling, who’s closing line is, “Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man my son!”
ANSWER: If
It’s highest peak is Jbel Toubkal and is populated by Berbers. It’s rich in iron and lead ore, as well as silver, mercury rock salt, natural gas among other natural resources. For 10 points name this mountain range that stretches from Morocco through Algeria to Tunisia.
ANSWER: Atlas Mountains
This early 20th century war saw the first use of airplanes in combat by Italy. Mustafa Kemal, later to become known as Atatürk, was the only undefeated Turkish military commander in this war. For 10 points, name this war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire that resulted in Italy gaining Libya and the Dodecanese from the Ottomans.
ANSWER: Italo-Turkish War
Later Greeks thought the fortifications of this city had been built by the Cyclopes. Ancient Greek history from roughly 1600 to 1100 B.C. is named after this city. For 10 points, name this city that is ruled by Agamemnon in the Iliad.
ANSWER: Mycenae
These are created by alternating pressure deviations. For these waves, the amplitude is the difference between the pressure of the undisturbed air and the maximum pressure caused by the wave. In this type, compressions and rarefactions are parallel to the direction of travel. Also known as compression waves, FTP, sound waves are an example of this kind of wave.
ANSWER: longitudinal waves
This work was intended to be an orchestral transcription of six pieces fromIsaac Albéniz's Iberia. While working on the transcription, the composer was informed that the movements had already been orchestrated by Enrique Arbós, and thatcopyrightlaw prevented any other arrangement from being made. Despite Arbós’s offer to waive the rights, the composer decided to write a new piece, originally titled Fandango. Commissioned by Russian ballet dancer Ida Rubenstein, FTP, name this work by Maurice Ravel.
ANSWER: Bolero
He was defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama. This was the final battle of the Second Punic War, which lasted 17 years and featured his victory in the Battle of Cannae, one of the greatest defeats of the Roman army in its history. For 10 points, name this Carthagenian general who marched over the Alps and is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.
ANSWER: Hannibal
This is the Italian word for “work” and comes from Latin for the same word. The mid- to late 19th century saw the “golden age” of this art form. The written text of one of these is known as a libretto. The “bel canto” style of this was popularized by the works of Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, and their contemporaries. Accompanied either by the continuo group or by a full orchestra, FTP, name this art form combining text and musical score.
ANSWER: opera
Captain Emory Upton said after this event that “I have heard of the dead lying in heaps, but never sat it till this battle.” It battle began on the morning of September 17 when Joseph Hooker led his Union troops in an attack down the Hagerstown Turnpike. Despite the Union Army’s sizable advantage in manpower, General George McClellan opted to send in less than three-quarters of his forces. Skirmish sites included Miller’s cornfield, the DunkerChurch, Burnside’s Bridge, and the Bloody Lane. FTP, name this 1862 American Civil War battle, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
ANSWER: The Battle of Antietam [accept: Battle of Sharpsburg]
This physical law was first created in 1835 but was not published until 1867. One form of this law states that the divergence of an electric field is equal to the charge density over the permittivity of free space. More commonly, it is written as “the surface integral of E dA equals Q over epsilon naut.” For 10 points, name this law which states that the electric flux through any closed surface is proportional to the enclosed electric charge.
ANSWER: Gauss’s Law or Gauss’s Flux Theorem
The artist of this painting spotted the setting for his work off a small white cottage that he decided to dress up with Gothic-style coat of paint. Originally from Eldon, Iowa, the artist asked his sister to pose as the woman, wearing prim, colonial-print apron trimmed with rickrack. He based the man on the right of his dentist which he posed in a black jacket and overalls holding a pitchfork. Name this iconic work by Grant Wood.
ANSWER: American Gothic
He writes in one of his more famous poems, “She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies.” His The Vision of Judgment depicts a conflict in Heaven about the fate of King George III’s soul. Because of his participation in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks revere him as a hero. His own eponymous hero has become a literary character archetype who usually demonstrates a high level of intelligence but a crushing sense of arrogance and distaste for social norms. FTP, name this Romantic British poet, best known for Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
ANSWER: Lord Byron or George Gordon Byron or 6th Baron Byron or George Gordon Noel (full name for last one)
This band originally formed in Oxfordshire in 1985. In band’s first hit song the singer declares he wants to have control, a perfect body, and a perfect soul. Their second album released in 1995 moved heavily away from the style seen on their first album and features such songs as “Sulk,” “Black Star,” and “Nice Dream.” Their next two albums released in 1997 and 2000 respectively are often considered the greatest albums of their decades and are much more electronic in nature. For ten points name this band who also released a pay your own price album in 2007, and is famous for songs like “Creep,” and “Fake Plastic Trees.”
ANSWER: Radiohead
Stanley Prusiner won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with these. That same year, another scientist working on these pleaded guilty to child molestation charges. That man, Carleton Gajdusek, had brought back boys from Papua New Guinea as he was studying a disease of the native Fore tribe that was eventually found to be transmitted through the consumption of infected remains of deceased tribe members. For ten points, identify the causative agents of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru, a particle that causes the repeated misfolding of proteins resulting in sponginform encephalopathies.
ANSWER: prions (ACCEPT proteinaceous infection)
The Congress of Tucuman declared this nation’s independence after Jose de San Martin’s successful crossing of the Andes. A lost war with a neighboring ruler Dom Pedro I led to the separation of modern-day Uruguay. This nation’s other later territorial disputes include one over Beagle Channel that was mediated by John Paul II, and a more famous one over what it calls the Islas Malvinas. Name, for ten points, this loser of the Falklands War with capital at Buenos Aires.
Answer: Argentina
Beginning on the 15th day of the month of Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar's festival year, it is a seven day holiday that starts with a fifteen part meal called Seder. This Seder is considered to be Christ’s Last Supper. For ten points name this Jewish holy holiday that commemorating the Hebrews' escape from enslavement in Egypt.
ANSWER: Passover
It’s located across the Straits of Johor from Johor Bahru and is connected to this city via a causeway. It is the 5th wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP. It’s is roughly the same size as Monaco and Vatican City. For 10 points, name this city-state that split from Malaysia in 1965.
ANSWER: Singapore
This author was originally born in Lima, Peru in 1942, but was raised in Chile as a child. The neice of the slain president of the country, she was forced into exile and struggled as a reporter before writing her first successful novel, The House of Spirits. Inspired by her family’s experiences and the history of her country, name this author who went on to become one of the only commercially successful female authors from South America.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende
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This psychologist frequently worked with rhesus monkeys, as in his social isolation experiments. In one of his most famous experiments, he separated infant rhesus monkeys from their mothers and replaced them with an artificial mother made of wire, and another of terrycloth. For 10 points, name this American psychologist.
ANSWER: Harry FrederickHarlow
Debuting in 1969, it could have originally been named “Whither Canada?” but it was not. The first episode alone dealt with topics such as Mozart, Whizzo Butter, and Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson. The third episode entitled “How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from a Long Way Away,” features a now iconic sketch wherein one man asks the other if his wife is a sport, enjoys photography, and what sex with a woman is like. Featuring other classic such as “The Lumberjack Song,” and “The Dead Parrot Sketch,” for ten points name this British sketch comedy show starring John Cleese and Eric Idle amongst others.
ANSWER: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
In many cases, these compounds are formed through the breaking of a double bond that allows a new single bond to form between constitutive parts of the desired molecule. Nylon, silicone, and synthetic rubber are three examples of this type of molecule. They are large molecules that are made up of repeating units connected by covalent bonds. Their name means many parts. Name this type of molecule that makes up the basis for plastic.
ANSWER: Polymer
Bonuses:
For ten points each, answer the following questions about statistics.
[10] It can be determined by arranging the numbers in a data set from lowest to highest and selecting the middle number. Unlike the mean, this value is relatively resistant to outliers in a data set.
ANSWER: Median
[10] In this type of distribution, also known as a bell curve, roughly 68 percent of the data points fall within one standard deviation of the mean.
ANSWER: Normal Distribution
[10] This value, equal to the square of the correlation coefficient, tells what percentage of variation in the dependent variable can be explained by the model.
ANSWER: Coefficient of Determination
For ten points each, identify these works by Edgar Allen Poe.
[10] This poem is arguably Poe’s most famous work. It begins “Once upon a midnight dreary” and concludes with the titular bird’s oft-quoted word, “Nevermore.”
ANSWER: The Raven
[10] In this 1843 short story, the narrator murders an old man and hides his dismembered body beneath the floor. His guilt soon catches up with him, as he begins having hallucinations about the titular organ.
ANSWER: The Tell-Tale Heart
[10] This 1846 work focuses on Montresor’s plot to murder Fortunato by chaining him and locking him in a cellar, which turns out to be not so difficult since Fortunato is already quite inebriated.
ANSWER: The Cask of Amontillado
For 10 points each, name these three gods of the Trimurti from Hindu mythology.
[10] This red-clad god of creation is traditionally depicted with four arms, four faces, and four arms.
ANSWER: Brahma
[10] This maintainer or preserver god is described as having innumerable avatars, though only ten of them are commonly considered the most prominent.
ANSWER: Vishnu
[10] This is the name of the blue-throated god of destruction and transformation, the final one of the Trimurti.
ANSWER: Shiva
Given a description, name the method used.
[10]Separating mixtures based on their boiling points. Most notably used with petroleum. ANSWER: Distillation
[10]Determine the end point of reaction. Often uses a burette and indicator. ANSWER: Titration
[10]Separating mixtures based on how quickly they move through a medium. An example is separating ink on paper. ASNWER: Chromatography
Time to get philosophical for you bonus points if they real exist.
[10]Traditional branches of this branch of philosophy include Ontology and Cosmology. For ten points name this subfield of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world.
ANSWER: Metaphysics [10]All though not well known for these contributions to metaphysics is this man who argued for an absolute container space. For ten points name this philosopher better known for his scientific contributions such as his three laws of motion and of gravity.
ANSWER: Issac Newton
[10]Popular in his lifetime as a historian, this philosopher would also innovate the genre of essays. For ten points name this Scottish philosopher whose empiricism is seen as a precursor to antimetaphysics.
ANSWER: David Hume
Name these artists all with different statutes that have the same name.
[10]This artist’s depiction of the biblical hero David consists of a marble statue nude standing in comtemplation. Other works by him include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and Pietà.
ASNWER: Michaelangelo
[10]The bronze statue of David by this artist shows him standing victoriously over the head of the defeated Goliath. This Italian Reanaissance sculptor also created St. George and the equestrian statue of Gattamelata at Padua.
ANSWER: Donatello
[10]The lifesize marble statue of David preparing to throw a stone at David was done by this seventeenth century Italian painter. His other works include The Rape of Prosperpina and Apollo and Daphne.
ANSWER: Bernini
For your bonus answer these questions about a mid 1980s conflict.
[10]Long standing disputes over the sovereignty of the name sake island and many subsequent islands led to their occupation by Argentina. For ten points name this 1983 conflict that lasted 72 days and is Argentina’s only war since the 1880s.
ANSWER: Falklands War
[10]The Falkland Islands remain under the control of this nation despite turning over Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997. For ten points name this superpower and ally of the United States.
ANSWER: The United Kingdom
[10]The United Kingdom was lead by this prime minister at the time by this woman, for ten points name the only female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
ANSWER: Margret Thatcher
Answer these questions about Seth MacFarlane’s hit shows.
[10]Based on the animated film, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, this show aired for three seasons on Fox before being canceled but returned in 2005. For ten points name this American television show about life on Spooner St. featuring the Griffin Family.
ANSWER: Family guy
[10]Debuting in 2005, this show was MacFarlane’s second hit on Fox. For ten points name this American television show that follows the daily life of CIA operative Stan Smith.
ANSWER: American dad
[10]The worst received of MacFarlane’s shows is this show that debuted in 2009. Called “Family Guy in blackface” by the New Republic, is for ten points what spin off show of Family Guy.
ANSWER: The Cleveland show
For 10 points each, name these successors of Alexander the Great.
[10] He established a dynasty that ruled Egypt until its final member, Cleopatra VII, committed suicide.