The Illinois Open 2004: The Philosophy of Spite
Tossups by UIUC (Sudheer Potru and Dom Ricci)
Tossup 1. When the Nazis occupied her native country, she was forced to flee, an experience she wrote about in Return to the Future. The daughter of an archaeologist, she included some of his work in her own, using stories of folklore and legends in works like The Snake Pit and The Son Avenger. Early works of hers include Images in a Mirror and Jenny, but she may be most recognized for her Catholic-themed stories, including the historical novel Olav Audusson and a trilogy about a fourteenth-century woman including characters like Simon Darre and Eat Erlend. For ten points, name this author of Kristin Lavransdatter, the first Norwegian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer: Sigrid Undset
Tossup 2. Its end unexpectedly, proclaiming a time of restoration and blessing for Israel, leading many scholars to believe it was written by others. Probably addressed to audiences in northern Israel and southern Judah, its namesake was originally a shepherd from Tekoa whose name translates to “burden”, and who flourished under the reigns of the kings Uzziah and Jeroboam II before his exile by Amaziah after a famous earthquake. The first book named for a Hebrew prophet, it appears before Obadiah and after a book it quotes often, Joel. For ten points, name this third book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, which shares its name with a “famous” cookie-maker.
Answer: Book of Amos
Tossup 3. When used in an amplifier, it can be represented as a voltage-dependent current source in the small-signal equivalent model. Many of its characteristics can be determined by its aspect ratio, although the Early voltage determines the extent of any channel-length modulation occurring within it. Generally operating in either triode or saturation mode, its cheap parts and usual lack of body effect makes it ideal for making integrated circuits. Consisting of a gate, source, and drain, for ten points, name this type of transistor, named for the layers that comprise it.
Answer: Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor [i.e. MOSFET]
Tossup 4. A lifelong devotee of the wayang, or plays based on the Hindu epics, he was often known to his countrymen as “Bung Karno”. After spending two years in a colonial jail, he defined his Pantjasilla, or “Five Principles” of nationalism, internationalism, democracy, social prosperity, and belief in God. He later ordained his “Guided Economy” and “Guided Democracy” to lead his country, which gained independence in 1949 before he was overthrown in a coup sixteen years later. For ten points, name this father of the woman who took power from Suharto in 1998, the first president of an independent Indonesia.
Answer: Sukarno
Tossup 5. It features a cameo appearance by Jean-Pierre Melville as the novelist Parvulesco who, in an interview, states that his ambition is to become immortal, and then die. In addition to copying dialogue directly from William Faulkner's Wild Palms and overdubbing the movie Westbound with the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, it introduced the quick cut and the jump cut. The thematic debate of existential motivation occupies an extended bedroom discussion between Patricia and the Bogart-idolizing car thief Michel Poiccard, portrayed by Jean-Paul Belmondo, in, for ten points, what New Wave film by Jean-Luc Godard?
Answer: Breathless (or A bout de soufflé)
Tossup 6. It agreed to provide 10,000 troops and 2,000 knights for its constituent members, which at various points included Constance and Biberach. Forming due to the work of Philip the Magnanimous and John Frederick I of Saxony, it allied with both Denmark and Francis I, although Pope Paul III helped to raise an army that would eventually decimate it at the decisive Battle of Muhlberg, effectively ending it. Also including Bremen, Magdeburg, and Anhalt, it was begun in its namesake city in 1531 and was opposed to Charles V. For ten points, name this league of Protestant princes who fought the Holy Roman Empire.
Answer: Schmalkaldic League
Tossup 7. It arose out of a mission that Skirnir was sent on by Odin, and it succeeded where Leyding and Dromi had both failed due to their constitution of iron. Ironically very smooth and soft, it was crafted by the dwarves from bear’s sinews, a fish’s breath, the beard of a woman, and the noise of a cat’s footfall, and its use resulted in both its victim’s captivity at the rock Gioll a mile into the earth and the biting off of Tyr’s hand. For ten points, name this special silken fetter that will break at Ragnarok, used to bind the wolf Fenrir for a very long time.
Answer: Gleipnir
Tossup 8. Sometimes synthesized in the gastrointestinal tract by enterochromaffin cells, this molecule is a constituent of many venoms. With chemical formula C-10 H-12 N-2 O, it was first identified as a vasoconstrictor in blood serum. LSD may act by inhibiting its action, and its reuptake is inhibited by cocaine and tricyclic antidepressants, and reduced activity of this molecule is associated with increased levels of bipolar mood disorder and depression. Also given the name of 5-HT, or 5-hydroxytryptamine, for ten points, name this neurotransmitter whose reuptake is also inhibited by SSRIs.
Answer: serotonin
Tossup 9. The first mentions of this civilization may be found in a Greek trading guide entitled “Periplus of the Erythraean Sea”, and its notable monuments include its underground tomb of Nefas Mawcha and its Tomb of the Brick Arches. Under the leadership of its king Gadarat, it successfully invaded much of southern Arabia, and it also conquered the kingdom of Meroe under its greatest leader Ezana, who converted to Christianity just a few years after coming to power. For ten points, name this African kingdom centered in northern Ethiopia, which ruled mainly from the third to sixth centuries.
Answer: Aksum
Tossup 10. After working on Arrhenius’ dissociation theory, he proposed independently of J.A. le Bel that carbon has a tetrahedral structure. His namesake isochore relates the equilibrium constant to temperature while his book Studies in Chemical Dynamics described his work with electrolytic solutions, namely his so-called “factor” used in calculation of colligative properties. However, he is probably most remembered for his equation relating osmotic pressure to membrane potential and temperature. For ten points, name this Dutch winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Answer: Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
Tossup 11. This work suggests that totalitarianism can be imposed on the general populace without terror, and claims that technological rationality continues to suppress free thought. Arguing that only people with knowledge of their own wants and needs are truly free, this work posits that systems like the economy engender so-called “false needs.” Also distinguishing between welfare and warfare states, it details how formerly private spheres of existence are used to socially dominate mankind, removing all other facets of society and providing only a single type of existence. For ten points, name this magnum opus of Herbert Marcuse.
Answer: One-Dimensional Man
Tossup 12. He helped to determine a more precise shape for the Milky Way galaxy in his Photometric Researches, and he also provided a definition for the meter using the wavelength of light. His work in logic included review of Venn’s Logic of Chance and writing his own work A System of Logic, considered as Semiotic, although he may be better known for expounding on his “New List of Categories”, or quality, relation, and representation. These categories appear in his works “Illustrations of the Logic of Science” and a set of lectures subititled “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”. For ten points, name this founder of pragmatism.
Answer: Charles Sanders Peirce
Tossup 13. Extending to about 1,500 km in length at its widest, the Soper River runs along its southernmost coast, and Auyuittuq National Park lies on the Cumberland Peninsula, which makes up its east coast. The Hudson Strait separates it from the Labrador-Ungava mainland, and it is mostly unhabited except for a few coastal settlements like Iqaluit. Discovered by Martin Frobisher, this island is separated from Greenland by the Davis Strait and a bay of the same name. For ten points, name this fifth-largest island in the world and largest in Canada, named for a British navigator.
Answer: Baffin Island
Tossup 14. The famous soprano Amelita Galli made her operatic debut with this work, during which the title character twice screams one of its former titles, “The Curse”. Maddalena, the sister of the “cut-throat of honor” Sparafucile, is yet another victim of the Duke of Mantua’s attempted seduction, which causes the title character to plot to kill him for having done the same to his daughter Gilda. Premiering in 1851, its libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Victor Hugo’s Le Roi s’amuse. Featuring the aria “La donna e mobile”, for ten points, name this opera about a buffoon, composed by Giuseppe Verdi.
Answer: Rigoletto
Tossup 15. Kandula Sastry worked with biological emitters derived from this effect, and it is used in a namesake type of electron spectroscopy. Its namesake also worked extensively with cosmic ray air showers, and its incidence generally decreases with atomic number, although for zinc, the probability of x-ray emission is approximately equal to that of the occurrence of this internal spontaneous photoelectric process. Defined as the readjustment of an atom through the ejection of an electron of the K subshell, this effect is also known as autoionization. For ten points, identify this physical effect discovered in 1925 by a Frenchman.
Answer: Auger effect
Tossup 16. Raised at the estate of William Methwold, during childhood he is pushed down a two-story hillock by Evelyn Burns. Later in life, he works in a CUTIA army unit after forgetting who he is, and his sister Jamila Singer refuses to sing for the nation after seeing his condition. By the end of the novel in which he appears, his narrative and his nose have produced thirty special blends of pickles, which Mary Pereira and his lover Padma make into actual flavors. However, on the morning of his 31st birthday, he is killed by his rival Shiva, who was also born at the beginning of August 15, 1947. For ten points, name this protagonist of Midnight’s Children, who shares his last name with a mountain where Moses received divine law.
Answer: Saleem Sinai [accept either]
Tossup 17. A.M. Mowry wrote the first landmark book on this event, which is believed to have sparked much anti-Irish sentiment. Partially coming about due to a suffrage requirement of $134 worth of land, its namesake was a lawyer who served as a member of his state’s legislature, but failed in his reform efforts. Acting against the orders of Samuel Ward King, he founded a “People’s Party”, which elected him governor along with King. However, he was imprisoned for treason when this uprising unsuccessfully attempted to capture a weapons arsenal in the capital, Providence. For ten points, name this 1842 rebellion in Rhode Island.
Answer: Dorr’s Rebellion
Tossup 18. He served for a time as governor of Bithynia, and became Nero’s “director of elegance” after his time as consul. He was arrested at Cumae in southern Italy after gaining the enmity of Tigellinus and being framed by Scaevinus in Piso’s conspiracy, and it is generally agreed upon that he made his fame through laziness. That same laziness is a quality he displayed in a famous work, which uses Menippean satire and tells of the characters Ascyltos and Encolpius and their banquet with the main character Trimalchio. For ten points, name this 1st century CE author of The Satyricon.
Answer: Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Tossup 19. His father founded Cozad, Nebraska, but homesteader confrontations forced his family to flee and change their names. His reputation was established in 1899 when the French government acquired his La Neige and reinforced by his 1923 publication of painting philosophy, The Art Spirit. Inducted into the National Academy of Design on the basis of portraits like Young Woman in Black, he organized a 1908 protest exhibition when his students John Sloan and William Glackens were denied membership. For ten points, who was this urban realist leader of the Eight and the Ashcan School?
Answer: Robert Henri
Tossup 20. This idea built on those in its author’s earlier 1937 work The Nature of the Firm, and George Stigler was the first to call it a “theorem” in 1966, just six years after its proposal in the paper “The Problem of Social Cost”. Originally analyzed in the context of overlapping radio frequencies, it argues that in the absence of transaction costs and greater information, the private sector will forego litigation and deal with externalities by itself. For ten points, identify this theorem named for the British winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Answer: Coase’s Theorem
Overtime Tossup. This story claims that “every sin is the result of a collaboration,” and the cowboy exclaims at the end that he didn’t in any way cause the central crime. The gambler is claimed to be “a kind of adverb” by the Easterner, who also reveals that Johnnie wasn’t cheating at cards, although the Swede seems to have thought otherwise. His beating of Johnnie in a fight forces him to leave Pat Scully’s Palace in Romper, which is also the title establishment. For ten points, name this short story about an inn painted in an odd color, written by Stephen Crane.
Answer: “The Blue Hotel”
The Illinois Open 2004: The Philosophy of Spite
Bonuses by UIUC (Sudheer Potru and Dom Ricci)