Packet by Matt Weiner

ACF Fall 2005

Packet by Matt Weiner

1. Tourist attractions in this city include the Waring Street banks, rose bushes in DixonPark, the Crown Liquor Saloon, and the Linen Hall Library. It is built around the twelfth-century castle of John de Courci and was revived in the early seventeenth century by Arthur Chichester. One translation of its name is “crossing of the river,” referring to its position on the Lagan. It is serviced by the Aldergrove airport, while riskier transportation here included the Harland and Wolff shipyards, builders of the Titanic. Its suburb of Stormont is home to the provincial legislature, and it also hosts the University of Ulster. FTP, name this capital of Northern Ireland.

ANSWER: Belfast [or Béal Feirste]

2. One character in this play claims that he was prevented from entering the military due to “eye disease” and is thus forced to walk around a lake while his companion takes the ferry. That character’s name refers to his blond hair and indicates his foreign ancestry, while the title figures make themselves known by chanting “Brekekekex ko-ax ko-ax.” In order to imitate Heracles, the protagonist dresses in a lion’s skin and carries a club and joins the Eleusianian initiates to view a contest in which verses are weighed on a scale. Eventually, Dionysus (die oh NYE sis) and Xanthias (ZAN thee ess) select Aeschylus to come back to the word of the living, dismissing Euripides (yurr IPP eh deez). FTP, name this play by Aristophanes (err est OFF uh neez), featuring a chorus of marsh-dwelling amphibians.

ANSWER: The Frogs [or Batrachoi]

3. The group responsible for the chief example of these was founded by the Teacher of Righteousness and called itself The Union. They include The Rule of the Community, The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, and The Song of the Sage, while the “Copper” volume indicates the hiding-places of certain relics. First publicized by Athanasius Samuel, they are responsible for moving the accepted date of standardization of the Old Testament to around 70 CE. The oldest were found at the site of a massacre of Samarians under Alexander, and the first were found at the Qumran caves. FTP, name this collection of nearly two thousand fragmentary documents written by Essene Jews hiding from the Romans.

ANSWER: the Dead Sea Scrolls

4. Her daughter of the same name was married to Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal on the condition that Manuel expel Jews from his kingdom. She had earlier ended Portugal’s involvement in her succession with the Treaty of Alcacovas, made necessary when her niece Joan la Beltraneja fought a civil war after Henry IV revoked the Accord of Toros de Guisando. The mother of Juana the Mad, she oversaw the completion of the Reconquista by the taking of Granada and collaborated with her confessor Torquemada to established the Inquisition. FTP, name this queen whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon created a unified Spain and led to the patronage of Columbus.

ANSWER: Isabella of Castile [or Isabella I; prompt on “Isabella the Catholic”; prompt on “Isabel la Católica”]

5. Optical purity is maintained as a result of this kind of reaction, which also results in an inversion of configuration arising from trigonal bipyramid transition state, which indicates its concerted mechanism. Its rate is greatly accelerated through the use of polar and aprotic solvents, and this reaction requires the presence of a good leaving group. Nearly impossible to perform with a trisubstituted compound due to steric factors, its mechanism is often an attack by a negatively-charged species on the backside of a carbon attached to a halide. FTP, give the alphanumeric designation for this type of organic reaction, known as a bimolecular nucleophilic substitution.

Answer:SN2 (accept bimolecular nucleophilic substitution on early buzz, prompt on “nucleophilic substitution” or “SN”)

6. Performer Vladimir von Pachmann devoted his entire career to playing this man’s pieces, while John Field was one inspiration for his works and Cornel Wilde was nominated for an Oscar after portraying him in A Song to Remember. After studying music theory under Joseph Elsner, his notable works included the Berceuse, the Ballade in G Minor and the Fantaisie-Impromptu. His Barcarolle and Ballade in A-flat Major were written at Nohant after leaving Majorca. FTP, name this composer of 21 nocturnes, 55 mazurkas, and 6 polonaises, a prolific French-dwelling piano composer from Poland.

ANSWER: Frédéric Chopin [or Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen]

7. Sheridan La Fanu wrote about the ghost of one which pursues Reverend Jennings in “The Green Tea.” Leading Filipino writer Nick Joaquin wrote about four of them who went to Eden. Octavio Paz wrote about one who is a grammarian, a white one appears in the title of one of Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga volumes, and a mountain named for another is dreamt of in the title of a Derek Walcott play. Their king, Sun Wukong, is a leading character in Journey to the West, and an army of them is led by Hanuman in the Ramayana. FTP, name this type of animal whose “house” you are welcomed to in a Kurt Vonnegut collection, and whose paw, according to W.W. Jacobs, brings three perilous wishes.

ANSWER: monkeys [do not accept apes or other such answers]

8. The prohibition on hearsay testimony was ruled to arise out of this amendment in Hickory v. U.S and Bridges v. Wixon. The cases of Pointer v. Texas, Beavers v. Henkel, and Klopfer v. North Carolina respectively addressed its guarantees of confronting witnesses, being tried in the district where the crime was committed, and receiving a “speedy and public” trial, while perhaps the most adjudicated provision of this amendment was addressed in Powell v. Alabama, Betts v. Brady, and Gideon v. Wainwright. FTP, name this amendment which guarantees the assistance of counsel in all criminal prosecutions.
ANSWER: Sixth Amendment

9. From 260 to 273, this province was the namesake of an independent empire centered on Trier. Narbo Martius was founded here, while its native religious center of Lugdunum became the capital. It was the home of the Insubres and the Cenomani, who allied with Carthage, while the help of Aedui helped conquer the Allobroges and the Arverni here. After the Suevi and Helvetii settled here and Vercingetorix launched a revolt, a series of wars in the 50s BCE under the command of Julius Caesar brought the whole region under Roman control. FTP, name this ancient land, divided into Cisalpine and Transalpine portions, which corresponds to present-day France.

ANSWER: Gaul [or Gallia]

10. In molecular spectra, an analogue of this phenomenon causes a mixing between the rotational and vibrational levels of a molecule, and in electrodynamics, an analogous quantity appears as a compensatory factor known as the Christoffel voltage. Its interaction with pressure gradients is the cause of geostrophic motion, and an object moving only under its influence will describe an “inertial circle.” The reason why cyclones can’t form at the equator, it directs the direction of rotation of hurricanes. For ten points, identify this force seen in a non-inertial reference frame which is proportional to the cross product of the angular frequency and the velocity.

ANSWER:Coriolis force or effect

11. Mark van Doren dubs him a “commonplace cad” and blames his stubbornness for audience coldness towards the play in which he appears. Before undertaking a journey to France, his mother advises him to “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” He considers marrying the daughter of his compatriot Lafeu after his admirer takes advantage of his tryst with Diana to fulfill his challenge of bearing a child and retrieving his ring without his knowledge. The Count of Rousillon, he struggles to choose between the treachery of his sidekick Parolles and the nobility of his eventual wife, Helena. FTP, name this leading male role in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.

ANSWER: Bertram

12. The Mongolian deity Aigiarm bet this against horses in wrestling contests and won ten thousand horses without ever losing. During peacetime, Math ap Mathonwy was required to put his feet in the lap of someone who possessed it. Islam’s Houris can reclaim it at any time, while Hera bathes in Canathus to acquire it and Sita and Shakti are sometimes given this property under the title of “Kumari.” Hypermnestra was the only Danaid to retain this, as a result of which she declined to kill Lynceus, and Rhea Silvia was a member of a Roman devotional order required to keep this and known as “Vestal.” FTP, the Pleiades, Hestia, Artemis, and Athena zealously guarded their possession of what quality, also the source of an honorific given to St. Mary?

ANSWER: virginity or maidenhood or other obvious equivalents

13. One of them simply depicts a plain coastal landscape on which two men are fighting with sticks. Ethereal figures sit behind several real women and a laurel-wreathed horned animal standing on its hind legs in The Witches’ Sabbath, and other subjects include a drowning dog, old people eating, and Judith and Holofernes. Created in the “Quinta del sordo” or “Country-house of the Deaf-Man,” this series that also depicts Saturn Devouring His Children reflects similar themes to the earlier Caprichios and Disasters of War. FTP, name this series of somber Goya paintings named for a traditionally depressing color.

ANSWER: Black Paintings

14. It is generally divided into three phases, the last two of which are reduction and regeneration. The reduction of thioredoxin to a dithiol by ferredoxin activates several important enzymes that catalyze it, including seduheptulose bisphosphatase, which along with an aldolase results in the conversion of erythrose-6-phosphate. Xylulose-5-phosphate is eventually epimerized to ribulose-5-phosphate within this set of reactions, which also uses NADPH and ATP to produce PGAL. Also preventing photorespiration through use of Rubisco, FTP, name this cycle of reactions that takes place in the stroma of the chloroplast and is part of the so-called “dark reactions”.

ANSWER: Calvin-Benson cycle (prompt on dark reactions before the end)

15. On suspicion of consorting with Satan, he was attacked by Major Ridge’s Lighthorse Patrol, who cut off his fingertips. He continued working on his controversial invention, demonstrated it in a debate about border placement in Chatooga, and later using it in collaboration with Elias Boudinot to create the Tsalagi Tsu lehisanunh (pronounced phonetically). He got the idea from Charles Hicks and worked with his daughter Ayoka to develop the “Talking Leaves.” FTP, name this originator of the syllabic alphabet for Cherokee, which became the first system of writing in a North American Indian language.

ANSWER: Sequoya [or Sikwayi; or George Gist; or George Guess]

16. One of them is a Carthusian priest who gets in trouble for dispensing communion by standing backwards and tossing the wafer over his shoulder. Another is the father of Ramona who died in a stove explosion, and a letter home from summer camp by one of them at age seven was published as “Hapworth 16, 1924.” All of them earned their college funds by appearing on the radio program It’s a Wise Child, including one believed to be the unnamed narrator of “The Laughing Man,” and another who makes Muriel a widow by shooting himself in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” FTP, name this group, the subjects of the bulk of Nine Stories as well as all of Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters and Franny and Zoey, a recurring family in the works of J.D. Salinger.

ANSWER: Glass siblings/family

17. Objects crucial to its plot include a crate of oil lamps used to defeat the turncoat Sergeant Barnes; Nancy’s camera, whose flash interrupts a romantic pairing at a club owned by Skillet; and a staircase which the protagonist climbs to kill himself. The coroner Sam contacts Lieutenant Peters after finding a pattern of irregularities while examining taxi driver Juanita Jones and antiques dealer Bobby McCoy, two victims of the title character, who fell in love after noting the resemblance of Tina and Luva. That character was once known as Mamuwalde and encountered disaster while seeking support for an anti-slavery campaign in Romania. FTP, name this film starring William Marshall as a vampire, a highlight of the blaxploitation genre.

ANSWER: Blackula

18. A doctor named Eustochius published an edition of this man’s works, and his first major pupil was a man named Amelius, who was later supplanted by the man who wrote the first biography of this thinker. He was supported by a rich widow named Gemina, through whom he met such notables as a senator named Sabinillus, the man who probably introduced him to the emperor Gallienus. His work includes discussions of “the impassivity of the unembodied” and “intellectual beauty,” which are among the “tractates” collected in a book compiled by his disciple Porphyry. FTP, name this philosopher from the 3rd century AD, a mystic best-known for his Enneads.

ANSWER: Plotinus

19. Roll-front uranium deposits can form in these structures when their contents meet reducing zones. In cases where the phreatic surface coincides with their upper boundary, they are termed unconfined, while the confined type lie entirely below the vadose or unsaturated zone. Flow in these structures is generally described by the porosity of the material, and by Darcy’s law, which involves the hydraulic gradient. Candidates are generally layers of unconsolidated material or permeable rock lying at or below the water table. Artesian wells are drilled down into, FTP what water-bearing rock layers?

ANSWER: aquifers

20. This present-day country was the site of the Battle of the Three Kings, securing its independence for centuries, and later, its independence was controversially supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, leading to a settlement of its status at the Algeciras conference. Five years later, the “Panther’s Leap” incident off its shores resulted in the internationalization of Tangier. In 1936, it was where Francisco Franco pronounced his war on the SpanishRepublic, and the consequences of Spain’s departure from here included the Green March against the Polisario Front. FTP, name this country presently ruled by Mohammed VI which is engaged in an independence dispute with Western Sahara.

ANSWER: Kingdom of Morocco [or Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah]

21. Decrying the “era of official evasion and posturing,” its preamble declares that its intent is to “restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.” It pledges to accomplish eight items within a single day, including beginning an audit, banning proxy voting, and opening committee meetings to the public. The next 100 days were to include the Family Reinforcement Act, Taking Back Our Streets Act, and Citizen Legislature Act, creating term limits. Introduced six weeks before the 1994 midterm elections, it is credited with changing control of the House of Representatives. FTP, name this list of Republican legislative priorities devised by Newt Gingrich.

ANSWER: Republican Contract With America

22. They typically reach conclusions by the method of confidences, and they can either reason from data to goals or from goals to data, processes known as backward and forward chaining. The first one, known as Dendral, was built in 1965 at Stanford in order to analyze chemical compounds, and the things they know are typically represented as “if-then” production rules. Gavin Riley developed one for NASA called CLIPS, which also includes an object-oriented language called COOL for writing more of them. Frequently incorporating heuristics and comprising a knowledge base and an inference engine, for ten points, identify these artificial intelligence programs which make decisions based on the analysis of information and take their name from their similarity to human specialists.

ANSWER: expert systems

1. Name these places important in the Texas-Mexico conflict for 10 points each.

[10] 330 troops under James Fannin surrendered to José Urrea here, and their subsequent massacre by Santa Anna was paired with the Alamo in a cry of remembrance.

ANSWER: Goliad

[10] This 1836 victory for Sam Houston over Santa Anna ended the war of Texan independence.

ANSWER: San Jacinto

[10] The Mexican War was nominally sparked by the U.S. insistence that Texas extended to the Rio Grande, while Mexico held that the boundary stopped at this other river.

ANSWER: NuecesRiver

2. Name these Platonic dialogues, FTPE:

[10] Socrates discusses geometry with a slave owned by the title character in this dialogue which suggests that “learning” consists of remembering things we already knew.

ANSWER: Meno

[10] The unpleasant Callicles appears in this dialogue, which is named for a sophist from Leontini.

ANSWER: Gorgias

[10] Socrates and Critias discuss the legend of Atlantis and the creation of the world, and they note that defective male souls become animals and women.