Antonin Artaud Tournament of Cruelty
August 11, 2001
Round 8 Tossups
1. Le duc d’Albe was written for Paris in 1840, but not produced. In that year his opera Poliuto was released in that city as Les Martyrs. He conducted Rossini’s Stabat Mater for Ferdinand I. Declining in health quickly at a young age, he produced his last important opera Don Sebastien while suffering from constant headaches and occaisional lapses of mental competence and in 1845 he became paralyzed. For 10 points, name this composer whose first opera Enrico di Borgogna did not meet with quite as much success as his later operas Don Pasquale, Anna Bolena, La fille du regiment and Lucia di Lammermoor.
answer: Gaetano Domenico Maria Donizetti
2. The epigram of this poem is misquoted from “Wishes to His Supposed Mistress” by Richard Crashaw. It was first published in The Knickerbocker, and later in Voices of the Night. There is a paraphrase of Seneca’s complaint that “art is long and time is fleeting.” The poem argues that the grave is not the goal of life and that we must act “that each tomorrow finds us further than today.” The poet implores the reader to be a “hero in the strife” and not “like dumb driven cattle.” Famously, the poet says that we shouldn’t trust our future and wants to “let the Past bury its dead.” "Our footsteps on the sands of time" are described in, for 10 points, what poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
answer: A Psalm of Life
3. For the first 11 years of his reign, the real power was in the hands of Godwine, Earl of Essex whose daughter, Edith, he married in 1045. It was Godwine’s son who was responsible for the subjugation of Wales. Fleeing to Normandy with his father upon the invasion of the Danes in 1013, he returned to England the next year with the ambassadors who negotiated with the Norsemen. Living in exile, he returned to the court of his half brother Hardencanute in 1041 and seized the throne the next year. For 10 points, name this canonized king of England whose close ties with Normandy and disputed inheritance paved the way for the conquest of 1066.
answer: Saint Edward the Confessor (also accept Janjee king of Budakhan)
4. His theory of social myth argued that the masses could be manipulated by propaganda. He had a hatred of social decadence, and eventually hesitantly joined the Action Fran ais, which sought to establish a traditional moral order. His works include The Socratic Process, an anti-intellectual tract, and in Introduction to the Modern Economy, he analyzed technology and society. In Illusions of Progress, he argued against the idea of inevitable human progress. For 10 points, identify this revolutionary thinker, who argued for the use of spontaneous violence to induce revolution, in his work, Reflections on Violence.
answer: Georges Sorel
5. In some cases they are pulse triggered, where their state is determined by the entire span of the clock pulse, but in most cases they are edge triggered. They have at least two inputs and a clock input, while the more complex master-slave variety also contain a preset and a clear. The most common types are the D type, which is just like a D latch but with a present and a clear, and the JK type. All of them, however, are constructed by connecting various latches together. Used to construct registers, this is, FTP, what type of basic memory circuit, which has nothing to do with a type of sandal?
answer: flip-flop
6. One of his plays, The Pedant Imitated, was largely unpopular in his day, but was used as material by Moli re for one of his plays. A tragedy of his, The Death of Agrippine, was suspected of blasphemy. His Lettres is an extended attack on the Fronde, and a defense of Mazarin. A student of Gassendi, he abandoned his military career after being wounded at the siege of Arras in 1640, and began to write satirical science fiction to promote new theories. Those works include the Voyages to the Moon and the Sun. For 10 points, identify this French writer, who was the hero of a play by Edmund Rostand and whose ulfactory apparatus was more than ample.
answer: Cyrano de Bergerac (prompt on either word)
7. His portrait of the gypsy tavern girl La BohŽmienne owes its gaiety and brightness to two painting techniques he employed: fully illuminating the figures with direct light, and blending the brilliant colors directly on the canvas. Noted for using rapid brush strokes to gain the immediacy of a sketch, his portraits of men like Pieter van den Broecke and Willem Coymans are notable for their spur-of-the-moment feel. For 10 points, name this artist of Men Regents of the Haarlem Alms House and The Laughing Cavalier.
answer: Frans Hals
8. The natural escarpment on the north side of the city was augmented by a system of buttressed walls and a massive sally-port called the mushlalu. The oldest temple, ascribed to Shamshi-Adad I was later used as a burial ground. The massive Tigris-side quays were created under the direction of Adad-nirari I in the 13th century BC. Containing 34 temples dedicated to various deities, the city was thoroughly sacked in 614 by the Babylonians. For 10 points, name this religious capital of the Assyrians, less strategic than Nineveh or Nimrud, but spiritually critical, the partial namesake of one of the greatest Assyrians.
answer: Ashur
9. Invented in 1900 by Johann Elster and Hans Geitel, the voltage applied by the conductive variety varies with intensity while the multiplier variety uses an electric field to attract electrons to the dynode, thus converting into a measurable electric current. In this device, an electron tube with a photosensitive cathode emits electrons when illuminated, which an anode collects with the current being proportional to the intensity of the light. For 10 points, name these devices that give an electrical output in response to light.
answer: Photocell or photoelectric cell or electric eye or photo tube
10. Graham Greene proclaimed that it had “a pattern and meaning valid for all of us,” and Evelyn Waugh, edited this book, whose title alludes to Dante’s Purgatorio. After a profligate life filled with travel, including stints at Cambridge and Columbia Universities, the narrator confines himself within what he calls the “four walls of my new freedom,” which turn out to be the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky. For 10 points, name this important piece of 20th-Century Catholic literature, the immensely popular autobiography of American monk and social activist Thomas Merton.
answer: The Seven Storey Mountain
11. Its districts include Fatih, Eminonu, Uskudar and Kadikoy, while its closest equivalent to Times Square is neon-lit Taksim Square. Tourist attractions include the Blue Mosque and the Topkapi Palace and still-existing parts of the wall built by Emperor Anastasius. Several bridges cross the Golden Horn, including the Ataturk Bridge, and two cross the Bosporus in, for 10 points, what Turkish city built on two continents?
answer: Istanbul or Constantinople
12. He broke with president Andrew Jackson in 1834 and supported Hugh Lawson White for president in 1836. Speaker of the House in 1834 and 1835, he later served in the Senate from 1847 until 1859. He admitted the right of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, supported the Compromise of 1850, objected to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and opposed the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. Secretary of War under William Henry Harrison, he had gained fame as a lawyer in Nashville. For 10 points, name this presidential candidate in 1860 who supported slavery and the union at the head of his Constitutional Union Party.
answer: John Bell
13. One night the narrator sees a man thrown out of a window of a pool hall, and tries unsuccessfully to get himself thrown out too. After several months of following around the officer who refused to throw him, he writes a novel about the man, but the novel is rejected. Feeling the need for companionship, he decides to visit his superior Anton, but just sits with him in silence. Later the narrator goes to a dinner party at the house of Zverkov, but antagonizes people. The narrator finally convinces a prostitute Liza to give up her profession, only to have her rebuff him later. A nihilistic government worker with a bad liver is the narrator of, for 10 points, what novel by Feodor Dostoyevsky?
answer: Notes from the Underground
14. His first scientific paper dealt with his isolation of tartaric acid from cream of tartar. Among his other discoveries were glycerine, a green pigment named for him, arsenic acid, lactic acid, and prussic acid. His analysis of manganese dioxide in 1774 led him to discover chlorine and barium oxide. Elected to the Stockholm Royal Academy of Sciences, in Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire he records that air is made up of two gases, one that supports combustion and the other that prevents it. For 10 points, name this chemist who probably discovered oxygen two years before Priestly.
answer: Karl Wilhelm Scheele
15. He composed two famous settings of the Vespers, the Dominican Vespers and the Vespers of the Confessor while in his home town between stints in Paris and Munich. Of his 19 Masses, his 16th, like his 26th piano concerto, is nicknamed "Coronation." From 1781 to his death, he composed only three religious works, including the "Great" Mass in C minor and the motet Ave Verum Corpus. For 10 points, name this composer whose last choral work was an unfinished Requiem that was completed by Franz SŸssmayer.
answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
16. Henry Fielding wrote a version of it titled, The Dumb Lady Cur’d. The opening features a domestic dispute witnessed by a man named Robert. The title character meets Thibaut [tee-BOH] and his son Perrin [per-AHN], who come to him about Thibaut’s sick wife. She is given a piece of jewel-encrusted cheese to eat. After his rich uncle dies, Leandre inherits a fortune and is able to marry Lucinde, who had been feigning illness to avoid her father Geronte’s choice of husband. For 10 points, identify this play about a wood-gatherer turned doctor named Sganarelle [snya-RELL], a play by Moliere.
answer: The Doctor In Spite of Himself or Le Medecin MalgrŽ Lui
(accept equivalents for the English)
17. The ninth chapter covers the acquisition and retention of habits of thought among members of society and is called “The Conversation of Archaic Traits.” The 11th chapter of the book is a detailed account of the causes and effects of gambling in industrial societies and is titled “The Belief in Luck.” The author argues that in industrial societies, hard work is seen as base and the purchase of idle goods is seen as having intrinsic value. He also analyzes the tendency of lower classes to adopt the habits of the upper class, terming it “pecuniary emulation.” For 10 points, identify this book which introduced the idea of conspicuous consumption, written by Thorsten Veblen.
answer: The Theory of the Leisure Class
18. Claiming that human understanding is circular because we comprehend the whole through its parts and vice versa, he views it not as an act, but as an experience. His minor works include Dialogue and Dialectic and The Relevance of the Beautiful. Assuming Karl Jaspers’ former post at the University of Heidelberg, he co-founded a preeminent philosophical journal and became renowned for using in his lectures the kind of dialogue that lies at the core of his project. His more famous debate partners include JŸrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. A precocious student, he obtained his doctorate at age 22 before studying under Husserl and Heidegger. FTP, name this philosopher whose 1960 work Truth and Method is a landmark of 20th-Century hermeneutical theory.
answer: Hans-Georg Gadamer
19. Examples were allegedly seen by Shelley, Goethe, and Elizabeth I, the last reporting it on her deathbed. When met by Catherine the Great, she had her soldiers fire at it. One can check for its existence by standing at a church door on the eve of St. Mark’s feast day and waiting until the stroke of midnight. In an 1846 short story by Dostoevsky, it torments Golyadkin by achieving all at which the lowly clerk had failed. Hammond Innes used it as the title of his first novel and it appears as the subject of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting, “How They Met Themselves.” For 10 points, name this twin-like apparition of Germanic folklore, a harbinger of death that appears in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel, The Devil’s Elixir.
answer: doppelgŠnger
20. Leader of an expedition to Timbuktu in 1894, he had previously served with Gallieni in Madagascar. Though his offensives to Artois and Champagne failed, he prevented German breakthrough to the Channel ports at the first battle of Ypres. The author of Plan 17, its failure in the early years of World War I led to a loss of prestige heightened by his neglect of the defenses at Verdun and his oversights at the Somme. For 10 points, name this French general known for his calmness in times of calamity who led the French armies at the beginning of the first World War and helped lead the counter-attack at the first battle of the Marne.
answer: Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre
Round 14 Bonuses
1. Answer the following questions about Japanese religion for 10 points each.
(10) This word describes what is incomprehensible to human beings and usually refers to ancestral spirits and deities of Shintoism.
answer: kami
(10) Also known as Yawata, this Shinto war deity is the divine protector of the Japanese people. Symbolized by the dove, he is associated with the emperor Ojin, during whose reign writing was introduced to Japan.
answer: Hachiman
(10) Hachiman is also referred to by this term which describes a manifestation of Buddha and is the Japanese equivalent of the Sanskrit bodhisattva.