ROUND 11 – 2011 Detroit Catholic Central Academic Tournament
1. In this novel, an Italian carriage driver kisses a woman who he claims is his sister. After this incident, that woman is forced off by the clergyman Mr. Beebe, who also stated that another character in the novel “murdered his wife in the sight of God.” At the beginning of the novel, two characters have a complaint about their situation at the (*) Pensione Bertolini, but it is resolved by an offer made by Mr. Emerson and his son, George. For ten points, name this EM Forster novel about Charlotte Bartlett and Lucy Honeychurch who desire the titular locale overlooking the Arno River.
Answer: A Room with a View
Bonus: For ten points each, name these other Forster works.
Bonus 1: Dr. Aziz is accused of raping Adela Quested in the Marabar caves in this novel that examines the tension between British colonists and natives of the titular country.
Answer: A Passage to India
Bonus 2: This posthumously published work centers around the titular character who engages in same-sex love, which is not condemned in the book.
Answer: Maurice
Bonus 3: Forster wrote a work in which Dante is the driver of the “Celestial” titular vehicle. This word also lends its name to a type of bill in which many different bills are passed in the form of one, exemplified by the Compromise of 1850.
Answer: Omnibus
2. Construction of this entity began in Rome. It passed through landmarks such as Montezuma Marsh and Joseph Smith led a march along the entirety of this structure. Its construction began on July 4, 1817, and it began as a simple construction of a (*) four-foot deep, forty-foot wide ditch. However, much stone and wood masonry was required to carry it over hills and streams of New York and Pennsylvania. For ten points, name this canal, completed in 1825 that gave New York direct access to the markets of the West, which collected enough tolls in the first seven years to repay the cost of construction from people passing through to its namesake lake.
Answer: The Erie Canal
Bonus: Names these major party losing Presidential candidates:
Bonus 1: Lost to Coolidge in 1924, he was the Democrat and carried less than 29% of the popular vote, lost in the Electoral College 382-136
Answer: John W. Davis
Bonus 2: Lost to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide in 1964, he was the Republican and received only 52 electoral votes while Johnson took 486
Answer: Barry Goldwater
Bonus 3: Lost to John Kennedy in 1960, the popular vote margin was less than 110,000, but the electoral vote count was 303 to 219; he would go on to win the presidency 8 years later.
Answer: Richard Nixon
3. One section of this is a sack called the greater omentum. It is divided into four sections, each of which has a specific function. The fundus is formed by the upper curvature of the organ. The body is the main, central region. The pylorus or antrum is the lower section of the organ that facilitates (*) emptying the contents into the small intestine. The cardia is where the contents of the esophagus empty into the stomach. For ten points, name this hollow, muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract between the throat and the small intestine.
Answer: Stomach
Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about the cell cycle:
Bonus 1: The cell is in it for 90% of the cell cycle, and it consists of G1, S, and G2 phases. Name this part of the cell cycle.
Answer: Interphase
Bonus 2: This is the stage of interphase when protein synthesis occurs and the cell starts to grow.
Answer: Growth 1 (accept G1) phase
Bonus 3: This is the phase when the cell has left the cycle and has stopped dividing, when the cell is actually quiescent. Name this stage
Answer: Gap 0 (accept G0) phase
4. Near the end of his life, this man gave the lecture “The Name and Nature of Poetry,” in which he argued that poetry should appeal to the emotions rather than the intellect. In one poem, this author described how the title entity “is hung with bloom along the bough” and “wearing white for Eastertide.” In another poem, the speaker addresses Hearsay and states that he’d face the world “as a wise man would, and train for ill and not for good.” Those two poems, “Loveliest of tress, the cherry now,” and (*) “Terence, this is Stupid Stuff” were collected in A Shropshire Lad. However, this man begins a better known poem, “The time you won your town the race/We chaired you through the market-place.” For ten points, identify this English poet of “To An Athlete Dying Young.”
Answer: A.E. Housman
Bonus: For ten points, identify these other Victorian writers for ten points each:
Bonus 1: This poet begins one work with the lines, “The sea is calm to-night,” and laments that “we are here as on a darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight”
Answer: Matthew Arnold
Bonus 2: This man included the lines, “Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle!” in his “The Windhover,” but he is better known for a work that begins, “Glory be to God for dappled things–,” “Pied Beauty.”
Answer: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bonus 3: This man wrote a 1871 nonsense poem that tells the story of the love between the title characters who marry in the land "where the Bong-tree grows." Who wrote “The Owl and the Pussycat”?
Answer: Edward Lear
5. Although he had a separated shoulder, Matthew Stafford was able to do this by throwing the game-winning touchdown pass in a game against the Cleveland Browns in 2009. After being dragged back to the underworld by Hermes, Sisyphus was forced to roll a boulder up a hill which always rolled back down, meaning he would never be able to do (*) this with regard to his task. Although the release date for his album Detox has been pushed back over six years, Dr. Dre claims that he has almost done this with his album. An incident in which one person was notably told she would be allowed to do this involved an assertion that Beyonce’s video for “Single Ladies” was the greatest video of all time. For ten points, name this action that Kanye West told Taylor Swift he would let her do at the 2009 MTV VMA’s.
Answer: Finish (accept become the youngest to throw for five touchdown passes in a single game before “Hermes”, lead the Detroit Lions to victory before “game-winning,” also accept anything close to finish including but not limited to “complete,” “succeed,” “accomplish,” etc.)
Bonus: For ten points each, answer these questions about Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Bonus 1: Kanye performed this single off of the album during the 2010 MTV VMA’s with Pusha T. He also released a 35 minute movie accompanying the song, and its chorus states “Let’s have a toast” to various types of people.
Answer: “Runaway”
Bonus 2: The single “Monster” off the album features Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, and this female rapper from Trinidad. She achieved mainstream success with the single “Your Love” from her upcoming album Pink Friday.
Answer: Nicki Minaj (Also accept Onika Maraj, Roman Zolanski, Harajuku Barbie, and prompt on “Cookie”)
Bonus 3: Many of Kanye’s fans criticize him for not including this mascot on his album cover. This animal was featured sitting on the bleachers on the cover of The College Dropout and blasting off on the cover of Graduation.
Answer: Dropout Bear (prompt on partial answers)
6. He was named Typhon by Plutarch and over time people altered his images into representations of Amon by replacing his ears with horns. He was symbolic of the struggle of forces that brought harmony through his daily fighting of the demon Apopis and his constant consequent victory. However, this struggle gradually caused this god to be the associated with the serpent and later the epitome of (*) chaos and disruption. Created in opposition to the forces of the goddess of justice, he grew jealous of his brother and killed him, cutting his brother’s body into 14 pieces and hiding them throughout Egypt . For ten points, identify this Egyptian god who was defeated by his brother, Osiris’ son, Horus.
Answer: Set
Bonus: Identify these other personages of the Egyptian pantheon for ten points each.
Bonus 1: Set was created in opposition to the power of this daughter of Ra, who predated the universe and oversaw its creation.
Answer: Ma’at
Bonus 2: Serving the gods as the supreme scribe, this ibis-headed man was known as the "tongue of Ptah" for his knowledge of hieroglyphics, and as the "Heart of Re" for his creative powers.
Answer: Thoth
Bonus 3: Son of Osiris and Nepthys, and god of embalming to the Egyptians, this god is usually pictured with the head of a jackal.
Answer: Anubis
7. This man worked his way up from an army assistant cook in 1946 to the rank of a Major General and commander of his nation. Upon taking office one week after his coup, he renamed the government house to the “Command post,” a house formerly presided over by his predecessor (*) Milton Obote. He instituted his “Economic War” policy which expelled both Asians and Europeans from his nation. The invasion of Tanzania in 1978 led to this man’s deposition. For ten points name this dictator who is portrayed in the movie “The Last King of Scotland”.
Answer: Idi Amin
Bonus: Answer the following about another African country’s recent events, for ten points each:
Bonus 1: African Union Peacekeeping forces are currently trying to restore order in the South of this country on the Horn of Africa, where a referendum regarding the independence of its southern region will soon take place.
Answer: Somalia
Bonus 2: This country got angry when a terrorist group from Somalia set off bombs during the FIFA World Cup in its capital city on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Answer: Uganda
Bonus 3: Name that African terrorist group that set off bombs during the FIFA World Cup.
Answer: al-Shabaab
8. One version of it features marble panels that are uniform and calm except for one, which reflects the turmoil in the figure sitting below that panel. In another version, light shines through a circular window, while an empty bread plate rests prominently on the floor. Still another version has the table set at an angle to the plane of the picture with many of the figures (*) surrounded by halos, but unlike other versions, servants, dogs, and cats are also included. For ten points, name this subject of paintings by Castagno and Tintoretto and a woodcut by Durer, whose most famous version features lunettes with the Sforza coat-of-arms above the main painting of Jesus Christ and his twelve apostles, a work by Leonardo da Vinci.
Answer: The Last Supper
Bonus: For ten points each, answer the following about an artist and his works.
Bonus 1: After studying under the Bellini brothers and finishing some of Giorgione's works, this 16th century Italian Renaissance painter devoted himself solely to oil works such as the Pesaro Madonna.
Answer: Titian
Bonus 2: In this Titian nude, the title figure wears a bracelet on her right arm, and her right hand holds a bunch of flowers.
Answer: Venus of Urbino
Bonus 3: In this mythological scene, the first title character jumps out of his cheetah-drawn chariot after he instantly falls in love with the second title character, who was abandoned by the man whose ship can be seen in the distance.
Answer: Bacchus and Ariadne
9. Mountains lie in the northeast of this city and stretch from the far southeastern tip to Eagle. These mountains are sometimes described by locals as the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. This city, the 100th largest in the United States by population, is drained by a namesake river which flows into the Arrowrock and Anderson Reservoirs. It lies in (*) Ada County in the southwest of its state, which it happens to be the capital and largest city of. In 2001, census estimates claim that this city is behind Seattle and Portland as the third most populous city in the northwest. For ten points, name this city that lies between Salt Lake City and Portland, the capital of Idaho.
Answer: Boise
Bonus: For ten points each, answer the following about cities in the northern United States:
Bonus 1: This largest city in Washington is home to the Experience Music Center and the Space Needle.
Answer: Seattle
Bonus 2: This city in Washington, the namesake of the region’s Native American tribe, is home to Gonzaga University.
Answer: Tacoma
Bonus 3: This city in the northern Midwest is the largest city in North Dakota.
Answer: Fargo
10. Grubbs’ are able to tolerate many functional groups and are compatible with a wide range of solvents. Vanadium acts as one in the contact process, and the term is derived from the Greek for “to untie” or “to pick up.” In the reaction of (*) ethyne to ethane, palladium acts as one. However, palladium is partially “poisoned” in this reaction by lead acetate. Usually, these entities act in the slow step, or the rate determining step, of any chemical reaction. This allows them to speed up reactions. For ten points, name these molecules that are not consumed by reactions, but lower their activation energies.
Answer: Catalysts
Bonus: Give these other chemistry terms, for ten points each:
Bonus 1: At this point, all atomic motion stops. Zero degrees Kelvin is at this point.
Answer: Absolute zero
Bonus 2: This is the amount of energy not available for work in a thermodynamic system. According to the second law of thermodynamics, it is constantly increasing.