ACF Fall 2006
Tossups by Dartmouth A Team (Anirudh Jangalapalli, Robert Cousins, Tiberiu Moga and Dominic Machado), Rochester A (Eric “Happy-Action Doo-Dah Fun-Time” Keihl, Rebekah “They call me Becky” Greene, Eric “The Other Eric” Merenstein, and Brent “Booze n’ Hookers” Waddington), UGA C (Paul Ruddle, Tyler Kelly, Andrew Shell, Jay Ivey)
1. Pertussis toxin exerts its effects by ribosylating a specific residue on one of these, which prevents it from being activated. Cholera toxin works in a similar manner, but it causes these to be constitutively active. The prominent oncogene Ras codes for one of these, and the beta-adrenergic receptor kinase prevents them from associating with their receptors, which have seven transmembrane domains. When activated by their receptors, the beta and gamma subunits remain attached, but the alpha subunit often sets off a second messenger cascade by activating enzymes like phospholipase C. FTP name these ubiquitous proteins found on the inner surfaces of cell membranes, named for their binding of the nucleotides GDP and GTP.
ANSWER: G Proteins
2. John Mearshimer preaches an “offensive” version, and Reinhold Neibuhr had a Christian variety. Among its followers in American government were Kennan, Kissinger, and Scowcroft. Kenneth Waltz attempted to combine it with structuralist thinking to create a more rigorous program of political research, but its proponents have been reluctant to incorporate game theory into their writings. It insists that states are the only actors who play a significant role in world politics, the international system is anarchical, and that states are unitary rational actors motivated by survival. FTP name this broad, often pessimistic school of international relations theorists such as Hans Morgenthau and E.H. Carr, contrasted in IR theory with liberalism, though the term is usually opposed to idealism in philosophy.
ANSWER: Realism [accept Neorealism or Structural Realism before ‘Neibuhr’]
3. Its credits contain a dedication to Howard Ashman, a composer and executive producer for this film who died of AIDS during production. It was the studio’s second movie produced via the CAPS method, after The Rescuers Down Under. Paige O’Hara and Robby Benson played the title roles, but such big names as Angela Lansbury, playing Mrs. Potts, and Jerry Orbach, as Lumiere, stole the show in this film, where the villain uses antlers in all of his decorating and is especially good at expectorating. It continued the renaissance that began two years before with The Little Mermaid, and it was followed the next year by Aladdin. FTP, name this Disney animated feature, including the songs “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest,” which tells of how Belle’s love transforms the prince back to his human form.
ANSWER: Beauty and the Beast
4. This Roman Catholic signed the Port Elliot treaty and had a daughter nicknamed “Princess Angeline” who inspired Edward S. Curtis to become a photographer of native Americans. This man’s loyalty to Doc Maynard prompted a tax to be levied on the settlers of a new city, creating a fund to pre-emptively compensate him for disturbing him by mentioning his name after death. Under those conditions, he allowed the city to be named for him. He may be best known for lamenting that “Day and night cannot dwell together” and that his race will soon be extinct, though he notes that “the dead are not powerless” and “there is no death, only a change of worlds.” Dr. Henry A. Smith, who did not speak this man’s Salish tongue, promulgated those questionably authentic words thirty years after the fact. FTP, name this Suquamish chief from the Puget Sound region.
ANSWER: Chief Noah Seattle [or Seeatla]
5. Dr. Kennedy relates the story of Yanko Goorall’s courtship of the title character of one of this man’s short stories. The unnamed narrator disbelieves a Northman’s assertions that he’s not working with the enemy in “The Tale,” while the interaction between Tuan and the Malaysian Arsat is told of in “The Lagoon.” Victor Haldin is betrayed by Razumov in one of this man’s novels set in St. Petersburg and Geneva. A trader fails to find a legendary Gold mine in Almayer’s Folly, and in another novel the title character, Mr. Verloc, plans to blow up Greenwich Observatory. Better known known novels include one about the leader of the stevedores at the San Tome silver mine, Nostromo, and another concerning the chief mate on the Patna, Lord Jim. The creator of the sailor Marlowe, this is FTP what author of Heart of Darkness?
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad
6. He abandoned many operas, including The Cup of the King of Thule and Don Rodrigue, and he died before he could complete an opera about Ivan the Terrible. His opera teacher was Jacques Halevy, whose daughter he married. His instrumental works include Children's Game and some incidental music to a play by Alphonse Daudet. One of operas most famous duets, "Au fond du temple saint," comes from his The Pearl Fishers. His most famous opera includes character such as Zuniga, Escamillo, and Don José. FTP, name this French composer who wrote an opera about a Spanish gypsy named Carmen.
ANSWER: Georges Bizet
7. One of this man’s plays concerns the daughter of the innkeeper Peter Sabouroff along with the subtitular characters, which include Peter, Alexis, and Professor Marfa. “The Birthday of the Infanta” and “The Fisherman and his Soul” are among the children’s stories collected in A House of Pomegranates. In a poem he writes that “A year ago I breathed the Italian air” and praises the titular city, while a spirit waits for Cuffy Williams to perform a brave deed in “The Canterville Ghost.” Mrs. Arbuthnot debates whether to tell Gerald that Lord Illingworth is his father in this man’s A Woman of No Importance, and in his best-known poem he writes that “all men kill the thing they love,” the coward with a kiss and the brave man with a sword. Also known for Lady Windemere’s Fan, this is, FTP, what dandy author of The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Importance of Being Earnest?
ANSWER: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
8. Unlike its partner, it does not change sign under spatial reflection, though it does change sign under time reflection, and its boundary conditions stipulate that its normal component must be continuous across a boundary between media. The great strength of this property for a neutron star results in the formation of two "hot sports" on its surface and is responsible for the short timescale of a neutron star's rotational damping. A spin will precess around an applied one, and an equation which states that it is divergence-free indicates that classically, its monopoles do not exist. FTP identify this physical quantity whose behavior is governed by such equations as Ampere's law, the dual of the electric field.
Answer: magnetic field
9. Baptist and Methodist churches were burned in this colony in the 1830s after Anglicans blamed those groups for inciting Samuel Sharpe’s rebellion. It was also the location of the Maroon Wars, which resulted in the ex-slave Cudjoe winning independence for an area in its interior. This country was known by its native population as the “Land of Wood and Water,” whereas the Spanish first called it Santiago when Juan de Esquievel founded the first European town here. The Battle of the Saintes quashed French plans to occupy this island, which were resumed in 1806 and again crushed by John Duckworth. Robert Venables and the elder William Penn had seized it for Britain in 1655, and Spain conceded that fact in the 1670 Treaty of Madrid. Twenty years later, an earthquake destroyed its then-capital at Port Royal, which had been the base of operations for Henry Morgan. FTP, name this island country full of rum and Rastafarians.
ANSWER: Jamaica
10. Born in Naples, he traveled with his father to Rome at the age of seven, and eventually caught the eye of Pope Paul V, whom he immortalized in a 1620 bust. Many of the sculptures his workshop created don’t survive today, because they were made from marzipan and eaten at papal feasts. His lesser known surviving works include an Apollo and Daphne, featuring Daphne in the moment of metamorphosis, and a fully clothed David in motion. FTP, name this famous Baroque Italian architect, known today for his fountains, and Ecstasy of St Theresa.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
11. This man discovered the erotic memoirs of a French hermaphrodite who committed suicide named Herculine Barbin. One of his works discusses discursive formations, and another explores the writings of Raymond Roussel. The argument of his doctoral thesis was undermined by research showing that confinement of the insane spiked only in the 19th century, and that work criticized the country retreat of Samuel Tuke as brutal. The Panopticon was the focus of his most famous work, which was written after The Order of Things and Birth of the Clinic. FTP, name this French philosopher, the author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish.
ANSWER: Michel Foucault
12. He refuses to finish a story involving a shepherd who has to cross a river with a herd of goats. While trying to examine some teeth, he is vomited on, and earlier, he is beaten by two monks after he tries to rob one. After a mix-up by Maritornes, he gets into a fight with a carrier and an innkeeper, who later steals his saddlebags. He suggests making the Balsam of Fierbras for money, but is rebuffed by his traveling companion. Teague O’Regan from the novel Modern Chivalry was based on this character, who governs the island of Barataria and helps his master search for Dulcinea. FTP, name this squire of Don Quixote.
ANSWER: Sancho and/or Panza
13. In the surface enhanced variety of this effect, the magnitude can be increased by the presence of small metal particles near a substance to be studied, probably due to plasmon resonance. Creating ultraviolet resonance is another technique to improve the magnitude of this effect, which is typically much weaker than the competing processes of diffuse reflectance and fluorescence. It results when an electron enters a virtual excited state, then relaxes via the emission of a photon to either a higher or lower vibrational energy level, creating the Stokes or anti-Stokes variety, respectively. FTP name this type of inelastic scattering first observed by its Indian namesake.
ANSWER: Raman effect or scattering
14. The lower boundary for this period’s system is defined by a stratotype section on the Burin peninsula in Newfoundland. Sea levels rose significantly during this period, as evidenced by certain limestone deposits from the period exposed along the Yangtze River. After the recent breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia, major landmasses included Baltica, Laurentia, and Gondwona, though no land plants existed. The fossil record from the period is dominated by trilobites, and the general acceleration of biotic diversity during it is known as its eponymous “explosion.” FTP name this first geologic period of both the Phanerozoic Eon and Paleozoic Era, which was followed by the Ordovician.
ANSWER: Cambrian Period
15. Belgian composer Boudewijn Buckinx (BO-de-wine Boo-kingsk ) made a typically postmodern “statement” when he produced nine of them between 1991 and 1992. Other examples include Burgmüller’s second, Borodin’s third, Bruckner’s ninth, Sibelius’ eighth, Bizet’s “Roma,” Mahler’s tenth, and Tchaikovsky’s seventh. FTP, heart attacks, a blood infection, and drowning in a mineral bath are among the reasons that these musical works fall under this category, the classic examples of which are Schubert’s eighth and Beethoven’s tenth.
ANSWER: Unfinished Symphonies
16. This man, who is held responsible for squashing the development of the carnival song tradition, was given an order to appear at Bologna, which he returned with eighteen corrections labeled. His canonization was advocated by Catherine de Ricci and Philip Neri, while his follower Benevini translated this person’s On the Simplicity of the Christian Life. He rose to power after negotiating the withdrawal of Charles VIII and gathered disciples known as the Wailers. He was aloof from both the Bigi and Arrabbiati parties, but he earned his greatest enmity among the Compagnacci, who worked against his prohibitions on gambling and sodomy. During the same year that he was excommunicated by Alexander VI, this Dominican converted Sandro Botticelli, who contributed to the destruction of paintings and books during this man’s 1497 Bonfire of the Vanities. FTP, name this priest who came to power after the Medici left Florence.
ANSWER: Girolamo/Jerome/Hieronymous Savonarola [do not accept Jordan Boyd-Graber]
17. This author wrote about espionage in a short story in which Moldweorp turns against Porpentine, who is subsequently killed. That short story, “Under the Rose,”, appears with “The Secret Integration” and “Mortality and Mercy in Vienna” in his collection Slow Learner. Last decade, he published a novel in which Prairie searches for her mother Frenesi, who had left her husband Zoyd Wheeler, while another is narrated by Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke. Those works, Vineland and Mason & Dixon were published after his most famous, in which the sexual encounters of Tyrone Slothrop precede V-2 rocket hits. FTP, name this reclusive American author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow.
ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon
18. Josef Lenart was indicted in 1995 for a role in undermining this initiative, whose mediation was discussed decades earlier at the Cierná-nad-Tisou conference. Some of its participants went on to found Charter 77, while others outlined its goals in the Action Program and the Literary Gazette’s Two Thousand Words article. Its economic dimension was inspired by the “third way” of Ota Sik, who advocated “socialism with a human face.” In its wake, the period of “normalization” began, Gustav Hasak rose to power, and the Brezhnev Doctrine was elucidated. FTP, Oldrich Cernik, Frantisek Tomasek, and Alexander Dubeck led what 1968 attempt at Czechoslovakian autonomy from the Warsaw Pact, which was ended by Soviet military intervention?