2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament- Playoff Packet 2
Packet by Chris Borglum
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, and Gautam Kandlikar
Tossups
1. Wallace Stevens described this figure “singing and chanting the things that are part of him” in the poem “Like Decorations in a NiggerCemetery.” In the poem “A Pact,” Ezra Pound writes that this figure “broke the new wood [and]/Now is a time for carving.” In a 1930 ode to him, another poet describes this earlier writer moaning “like a bird/with its sex pierced by a needle” and a group of young men chasing his “beard full of butterflies"; that is a Garcia-Lorca homage citing this writer’s putative homosexuality. This poet described a carpenter measuring out a plank in I Hear America Singing. For 10 points, name this nineteenth-century poet whose “barbaric yawp” was sounded in works like “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “Song of Myself.”
ANSWER: WalterWhitman
2. This man brutally suppressed the January Uprising occurred in the western part of this man's kingdom. A later unpopular decision was the appointment of Dmitri Tolstoy as Minister of Education, leading to a conservative revision of the gymnasia curriculum with emphasis on Greek and Latin. He created the system of local councils, or zemstvos, which gave greater administrative power to districts and towns, and he relaxed the Russification policies of his father, allowing the Finnish parliament to meet again. The Okhrana was created during his reign to monitor radicals, and he was on his way to a meeting to discuss the drafting of a new constitution when members of The People’s Will succeeded in killing him with a bomb. For 10 points, name this son of Nicholas I best known for emancipating Russia’s serfs.
ANSWER: Alexander II Romanov
3. A 1998 study by Dr. Peter Eriksson used the marker bromodeoxyuridine to demonstrate that neurogenesis takes place in the dentate gyrus region of this structure. The granule cells of the dentate gyrus project to the large pyramidal cells of this structure’s Ammon’s Horn via the mossy fiber system. Damage to this region may result in anterograde amnesia, and it is typically one of the first areas damaged by Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study found that this region has grown larger in cab drivers who have navigated London for decades, since this area is involved in spatial navigation and memory formation. For 10 points, name this part of the brain which derives its name from the Greek for “seahorse.”
ANSWER: hippocampus
4. A persistent rumor contemporary with this painting’s first exhibition in 1782 had it that the artist ate raw pork for inspiration. On the stand at the lower left are glass and clay jars which some critics suggest could contain laudanum, while the central figures are framed by a burgundy drape in the background which matches the sheet on which the prone female lies. The animal in the upper left has pale eyes with no iris or pupils visible, while the figure atop the woman looks at the viewer pensively with his left hand cradling his chin. Loaded with sexual overtones and featuring a horse looking on while an incubus sits on a sleeping woman’s chest, for 10 points, name this work by Henry Fuseli depicting a bad dream.
ANSWER: The Nightmare
5. In 1992, Robert Abrams defeated this politician in the New York Democratic Senate primary for the seat that eventually stayed with incumbent Al D’Amato. Previously serving three terms in the House as the representative of New York’s Ninth district, after a televised debate with this politician, George H.W. Bush was caught by an open microphone saying he “kicked a little ass.” A revelation that this politician’s real-estate broker spouse had not submitted tax returns caused controversy to the presidential ticket that includedthis Democrat. FTP, name this politician, who recently quit as an advisor to the Clinton campaign over comments that Obama got preferential treatment because of his race, best known for being Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential election.
ANSWER: Geraldine Ferraro
6. “Zeinab and Kathema” and “The Retrospect” are among the short poems of this author among the miscellany now called The Esdaile Notebook. His verse play satirizing George IV’s attempts to bar his wife Caroline from her privilege to the throne, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Swellfoot the Tyrant, was suppressed, as was an 1811 pamphlet which got him and Thomas Hogg expelled from Oxford, The Necessity of Atheism. Better known is his elegy which concludes that his friend’s soul “like a star,/Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are,” and his avian ode that begins, “Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit!” Author of “Adonais” and “To a Skylark” was, for 10 points, what Romantic who also wrote “Ode to the West Wind”?
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
7. Rhodium on carbon can be used as a catalyst in the hydrogenation of benzene to reduce benzene into this molecule. Substituent atoms on this molecule are given the designation "axial" or "equatorial" based on their orientation to this molecule's planar structure. Partial twisting relieves the steric hindrance between its flagpole hydrogen atoms, and it was Hermann Sachse who first suggested the reason for the lack of angle strain proposed by Adolf von Baeyer, a theory which was later expanded on by Ernst Mohr, who suggested that it has a chair conformation which relieves that strain. For 10 points, name this cycloalkane which contains six carbons.
ANSWER: Cyclohexane
8. Krishna was given the gem Syamantaka by the Hindu king of these animals, Jambavantha. Agrius and Oreus were half-human and half this creature before they were turned into birds, and another Greek myth has it that Atalanta was raised by one after being abandoned in the forest. Korean legend states that Tangun, founder of the nation, was born from a woman who had previously been one of these animals. The daughter of Lycaon was turned into one of these animals after Zeus raped her and impregnated her with Arcas, who later almost killed her while hunting. For 10 points, what is this animal into which the nymph Callisto was changed, and is represented in the stars by Ursa Major.
ANSWER: bears
9. This band’s original bassist Alec Such has never “officially” been replaced, though Hugh Macdonald has played with them since 1994. According to Dr. David Thorpe, their 2003 acoustic greatest hits album proved that “Satan is firmly in control here on Earth.” That album, This Left Feels Right, featured a new song called “Last Man Standing” that this band would, two years later, rework for the album Have A Nice Day. For 10 points, identify this New Jersey band, whose singles from 1986’s Slippery When Wet include “Wanted: Dead or Alive,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” and “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
ANSWER: Bon Jovi
10. Modern knowledge of this group is partly derived from the Story of Wenamun which describes one example, the Tjeker. An inscription on a column at Karnak shows Ramses III standing on corpses of the Weshesh and Denyen, and some historians believe that Ramses II chose to come to terms quickly with the Hittites after Kadesh because of impending danger posed by this other group. Merneptah’s sending of grain to some neighbors leads to speculation that famine might have led to their series of invasions, and the best known of the group, the Peleset, is known to have settled in the Levant and become the Philistines. For 10 points, name these naval immigrant-invaders of Egypt in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE?
ANSWER: Sea Peoples
11. The tenor aria “Dalla Sua Pace” and the soprano aria “Mi Tradi Quell’alma Ingrate” were both written into this opera after its first four performances, all of which were conducted by the composer himself. Only the protagonist of this opera can be said to live in the aesthetic sphere of existence, as he epitomizes “daemonic sensuousness,” according to Kierkegaard’s Either/Or. A prime example of dramma giocoso, which actually names its subtitle, the title character’s servant gets two prime songs, “Notte et Giorno Faticar” describing his tireless work to protect his master and the famous “Catalogue” aria in which his lovers are listed. Ending with the title lover dragged into hell by the statue of the Commendatore, for 10 points, name this opera by Mozart.
ANSWER: Don Giovanni
12. Cryptasterina hystera is a rare example of a viviparous organism in this phylum. The skeletal plates of creatures in this phylum are made up of fine networks of calcium carbonate known as stereom. One member of this phylum, the Xyloplax [ZY-lo-plax], may represent a sixth class, but it may just be an unusual member of the Asteroidea class. Nearly all of its members are benthic, including sea lilies and sea cucumbers. They have a water vascular system, and many members move via tube feet. For 10 points, name this phylum of “spiny-skinned” creatures, including sand dollars, sea urchins, and starfish.
ANSWER: Echinodermata or echinoderm
13. One mode of the title entity of this work is characterized as “de trop,” or “superfluous for all eternity.” The other mode is derived from the former through the process of neantisation, or nihilation, that causes it to lie “coiled in the heart of [the first title term]—like a worm.” That first mode is the en-soi (ahn-swah), while the latter is pour-soi (poo-swah), the latter of which roughly corresponds to the existence of human consciousness. This work includes the famous formulation that man is “condemned to be free,” and its second chapter examines a type of self-deception the author terms mauvais foi (mow-vay fwah), or bad faith. For 10 points, name this 1943 "Phenomenological Essay on Ontolog" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
ANSWER: Being and Nothingness or Le Etre et le Neant [subtitle: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]
14. Jacques Derrida argues that this resists itself in an essay examining “The History of Madness in the Age of [this method]” and it also finishes the title of Derrida’s collection, Resistances of [it]. Its founder called this process the third and final blow to humanity’s inflated view of its uniqueness, following the Copernican revolution and Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Using this practice on children was documented by Melanie Klein. First practiced on the patient called Anna O, for 10 points, name this method of “depth psychology” during which a patient talks about his problems in order to understand himself better, a practice developed by Sigmund Freud.
ANSWER: psychoanalysis
15. The narrator of one of his poems “thought it was the Judgment-day” when the title event “Shook all our coffins as we lay,” and the speaker of another poem states that “every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I.” In addition to “Channel Firing” and “The Darkling Thrush,” he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree and The Woodlanders. Diggory and Thomasin get together after the death of Eustacia Vye and Wildeve, and Clym Yeobright becomes a preacher in a better known work, while the title character of another work commits suicide after his failed marriages to Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead. For 10 points, identify this creator of the fictional WessexCounty, who wrote The Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure.
ANSWER: Thomas Hardy
16. General John E. Wool resigned instead of leading this campaign, though he participated in similar work in North Carolina. This campaign proceeded along the Bell and Benge routes, as well as the Northern, while the most common water route began at Ross’s Landing in Chattanooga. The complicity of Elias Boudinot and JohnRidge in the agreement that led to this event got them killed by fellow tribesman long after John Ross appealed to Van Buren to allow tribal elders to lead smaller parties, greatly lessening the death toll. Taking place in 1838 and 39, for 10 points, name this forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia to Oklahoma.
ANSWER: Trail of Tears [accept some combination of the words “removal” and “Cherokee”]
17. This process can be considered a form of semimartingale, especially in its applications to securities investment and gambling probability predictions. The mean-square displacement of a particle exhibiting this is shown by the equation r squared= 6k times T times Bt, where k is the Boltzmann constant, T is temperature, and B is the mobility of the particle. Having a fractal dimension of 2, it is a Wiener process and can also be approximated using the Langevin (lan-zhuh-van) equation, and Jean Perrin used it to determine Avogadro's constant. First observed by its namesake in pollen grains suspended in water, For 10 points, name this type of random movement, an analysis of which which was characterized in a 1905 paper by Albert Einstein.
ANSWER: Brownian Motion
18. In Act IV of this work, the title character disguises himself as a French lute player and uses a flower to poison his own slave, along with the prostitute Bellamira and her pimp Pilia-Borza. Its title character feigns his own death at the same time, prompting the governor of the title locale, Farneze, to order the body thrown over the city walls “as prey for vultures,” which works into the title character’s schemes, as it gives him access to Calymath, whom he shows a passage allowing Turkish troops to take the city. However, his later plan to kill Calymath backfires as he himself plummets into a boiling cauldron and his daughter Abigail converts to the Christianity he hates. For 10 points, name this play about a Semite named Barabas, by Christopher Marlowe.
ANSWER: The Jew of Malta
19. Sexual innuendo abounds in a poem by this writer in which he describes a perfume that the love gods have given him which will make Fabullus want to turn into “one big nose.” That poem is one of his “Juventius” cycle, addressing a young male lover, while another cycle is the “Mentula,” Latin slang meaning “dick,” a term used to refer to Mamurra, an equestrian officer of Julius Caesar. These works survive due to the 1300 finding of the Codex Veronensis, which was being used plug up of a wine cask. He wrote "Ave atque vale" upon the death of his brother, and his Carmina are poems written to a woman described by Cicero as the Medea of the Palatine, the sister of Cloduis Pulcher. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who addressed Clodia as his erotic love-interest Lesbia.
ANSWER: Gaius Valerius Catullus
20. What some considered abuses of this legal concept were seemingly halted by the decision in Wayne v. Hathcock in 2004, but a case just two years later allowed the substitution of the word “purpose” for “use” in one of its central requirements. The result of that ruling was greater likelihood that the Pfizer Corporation could build a research facility in Connecticut. That case, Kelo v. New London, involved a partial taking. In a complete taking, owners can be compensated for “loss of goodwill”, but this is rarely the case with easements. For 10 points, name this legal principle that allows governments to assume ownership of private property for public use provided that the owner is justly compensated.
ANSWER: eminent domain
21. At the request of Barbara Heck, Philip Embury delivered the first American sermon of this denomination in America in 1766. In 1784 Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vesey were installed as Elders of this denomination for America and sent there from Ireland, along with the author of “A Plan of the Society for the Establishment of Missions Among the Heathen,” Thomas Coke, as Superintendent. Those three men then ordained Coke’s fellow Superintendent, Francis Asbury. Beginning as a movement within the Church of England and retaining 25 of its 39 Articles, George Whitefield helped create, for 10 points, what church founded by Charles and John Wesley?
ANSWER: Methodism or MethodistChurch
2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament- Playoff Packet 2
Packet by Chris Borglum
Edited by Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, and Gautam Kandlikar
Bonuses
1. The plaintiff in this case was a laundry owner who appealed his $10 fine for making a female employee work more than 10 hours in one day in a Pacific Northwest state. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this case that upheld a state law limiting working hours for women.
ANSWER: Muller v. Oregon
[10] In the Muller case, this future first Jewish Supreme Court justice filed a brief that utilized studies showing the pernicious effects of long work hours on women.
ANSWER: Louis Brandeis
[10] The Brandeis case did not overturn the precedent of this 1905 case that invalidated limits on the hours bakers (and other employees) could work as a breach of the right to free contract.
ANSWER: Lochner v. New York
2. Answer the following about the character known as La Longue Carabine, even if you think you’ve never heard of him, for 10 points each.