2001 Michigan MLK Memorial
Questions by Chicago A (Andrew Yaphe, Alice Chou, Ryan Scranton, and Chris Zimpleman
1. The author asked to include Yalden, Pomfret, Blackmore, and Thomson. The first one was on Cowley and includes a famous discussion of the metaphysicals, and the project was finished in 1781, when the author was 72. FTP, identify this collection of 52 critical biographies, which does not include Chaucer or Spenser but which is an excellent survey of eighteenth century poetry, a work of Samuel Johnson.
Answer: The _Lives of the Poets_
2. Measured statistically in the weak limit, this phenomena leads to shear tangential to the gradient of the potential and angular anti-correlations between background populations and foreground galaxies. Clusters like CL0024 and QSO pairs like 0957+561 are examples of the strong limit of this phenomena, leading to multipleimages of background galaxies. For 10 points -- name this phenomena, first confirmed by Walsh, Carswell, and Weymann in 1979 and predicted years earlier by Einstein's general relativity.
Answer: _Gravitational Lensing_
3. The movement was split when Fergus O¹Connor¹s party of physical force emerged in opposition to William Lovett¹s party of moral force. After their rejection in May, the convention moved to Birmingham, and instructed its members to resort to arms, leading to riots in the summer of 1839. FTP, identify this movement, which began when a Workingmen¹s Association in London demanded a program of reform including manhood suffrage and vote by ballot in a petition it sent to Parliament.
Answer: the _Chartist_s
4. This virus, which was discovered in Uganda in 1937, can produce rashes, fever. And meningitis, and can also result in death. It is spread by mosquitoes, but researchers believe that it may have been transported to the United States by sparrows, who are capable of harboring the virus for long periods of time. For ten points, name this disease, whose presence in New York has produced thirty deaths over the past two summers.
Answer: _West Nile Virus_
5. During the Reagan administration, she served as the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and in the early 1990’s founded the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative civil rights group in Washington D.C. It was also at this time that she allowed Marta Mercado, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant, to live in her home in exchange for doing household chores. For ten points, name this woman, whose nomination for Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration is in trouble because of her failure to disclose her relationship with Mercado.
Answer: Linda _Chavez_
6. His seal is stolen by Donald Bean Lean, who uses it to incite his followers in the army to rebellion. Although he falls in love with the beautiful Flora, she refuses him and decides to become a nun after her brother, Fergus Mac Ivor, is executed for treason in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. FTP, identify this novel, a work published anonymously in 1814 that gave its name to a series of historical novels by its author, Walter Scott.
Answer: Waverley
7. He's not Zeeman, but his Precession was used alongside work by Lorentz to explain the polarization and splitting of atomic emission lines in sodium. He's not Thomson, but his Frequency relates the charge/mass ratio of the electron to the energy of the photons emitted during cyclotron radiation. For 10 points -- name this turn of the century physicist whose most famous equation relates the acceleration of an electron to the power it radiates and demonstrated the need for quantum mechanics to explain atomic structure.
Answer: Sir Joseph _Larmor_
8. In 1918, he joined with Amadée Ozenfant to found the Purist movement, and two years later they started publishing a magazine, _The New Spirit_. In early works, like the Villa Savoye, he did away with load-bearing walls, instead using thin columns or pilotis, while he used the ³Modulor² system to design such mass-housing projects as the Unité at Marseilles. FTP, identify this architect, who designed the city of Chandigarh and the church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, a Swiss who was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
Answer: _Le Corbusier_ (accept Charles-Edouard _Jeanneret_ before the end)
9. This doctrine originated in England in the seventeenth century, and among its early proponents were John Toland and Anthony Collins. It originally held that any revelation was by nature false, since God possesses a disinterested benevolence and would make any knowledge needed for happiness universally accessible. However, later thinkers such as Voltaire and Thomas Paine would transform this view into the one more commonly known today. For ten points, name this idea, which states that God has simply created world and left it to its own devices.
Answer: _deisim_
10. This director is notable for his long, fluid takes and his regular flouting of basic cinematic technique, such as the 360 degree rule. His prolific career began with a series of Japanese silent films, and he is often seen as the more traditional counterpart to Akira Kurosawa. For ten points, name this Japanese writer and director whose films include “Drifiting Weeds” and “The End of Summer,” and whose best known film, “Tokyo Story,” is routinely ranked just behind “Citizen Kane” on the list of the greatest films ever made.
Answer: Yasujiro _Ozu_
11. Development on it began in 1987 at DEC's Western Research Laboratory, but the first distributions weren't widely released for public consumption until 1990. Still, the ability to easily extend the language to include new features made it very popular with developers, eventually leading to the 1998 spin-off of Scriptics, later re-named Ajuba, from Sun by language founder John Ousterhout. For 10 points -- name this scripting language, interpreted by the wish program on windows machines and basis of the Tk GUI extension.
Answer: _TCL_ (pronouced "tickle"; accept _Tcl/Tk_ on early buzz)
12. The fourth measure amended a law of 1793 and established a $1,000 dollar fine for marshals who refused to execute warrants. The second passed the House by the narrowest margin, and required the federal government to pay 10 million dollars to Texas for renouncing its claims on New Mexico, which became a territory in which slavery was unrestricted. FTP, identify this collection of legislative acts, which also abolished the slave trade in Washington, D. C. and admitted California as a free state, whose passage was orchestrated by Henry Clay.
Answer: the _Compromise of 1850_ (prompt on _Fugitive Slave_ Act if someone says it before the second sentence)
13. He has admitted to accepting 1.8 million dollars from a Swiss bank account of Pierre Falcone, but maintains that the money was for a legal oil deal. However, the French government, aware of Falcone’s status as an international arms dealer, have arrested this man on charges of gun smuggling and set an unusually high bail for his release. For ten points, name this French gun runner, the son of a former president of France.
Answer: Jean-Christophe _Mitterrand_
14. The protagonist learns about Americana to impress Percy Gryce, whom she arranges to encounter on a train ride to Bellomont. After becoming involved in a plot to get Freddy van Osburgh married to Mrs. Norma Hatch, she becomes an apprentice at Regina¹s as a milliner, and overdoses at a cheap boarding-house the night before Laurence Selden comes to declare his love. FTP, identify this 1905 novel, the story of Lily Bart that was the first success of Edith Wharton.
Answer: The _House of Mirth_
15. After his death, he was succeeded by the Khalifa Abdullah el Taashi, and his followers seized Kassala. His first major victory was at El Obeid over General Hicks, which gave him control over Kordofan. FTP, name this military leader from Dongola, who in 1885 massacred a garrison led by General Gordon at Khartoum as part of his effort to free Sudan from Egyptian rule.
Answer: the _Mahdi_ or Mohammed _Ahmed_
16. This country is separated from its neighbor to the east by the Corentyne River, while the Pakaraima Mountains lie on its western border. The Essequibo river connects the center of the country to the Atlantic Ocean, where the port cities of Spring Garden and Anna Regina are centers of trade. FTP, identify this nation bordered by Brazil, Venezuela, and Surinam, whose capital is Georgetown.
Answer: Guyana
17. The preface to Part III of the book was written in London and tells us that, since the author is no longer living in a Catholic country, he feels free to publish his findings. The book argues that its title figure was murdered in the wilderness, but that his memory survived among his people. FTP, identify this work on the psychology of religion, which claims that the founder of Judaism was an Egyptian, the last book by Sigmund Freud.
Answer: _Moses and Monotheism_
18. Natto, pork belly, chocolate and banana, shark fin, konnyaku (con-yak-oo), pumpkin, yogurt, and octopus were recently chosen as some of the top twenty-four favorite themes. Like Monday Night Football, it features slo-mo replays, insipid commentary and obscure vocabulary, and like Julia Child it showcases expensive ingredients and a possibly deranged host. FTP, earn the ovation and fame of the people forever and name this Japanese cooking game show which airs on the Food Network.
Answer: _Iron Chef_ or _Aiyan Sheffu_ (eye-yon chef)
19. After the death of Lucius Ceionius Commodus, this man was adopted as imperial heir. His 23-year reign was marked by a war with Vologesus of Parthia, and Quintus Urbicus put down a revlot in Yorkshire and built a turf wall from the Forth to the Clyde, but not much happened, as he spent all his time in Rome. FTP, identify this Roman emperor, who was succeeded in 161 by Marcus Aurelius and who received his title for getting his predecessor, Hadrian, deified.
Answer: Titus Aurelius _Antoninus Pius_
20. His most famous book emerged out of research on the Shetland Islands and a study of social stratification conducted under E. A. Shils at the University of Chicago. In the 1950¹s he was based at NIMH, and his work at hospitals like St. Elizabeth¹s led to his 1961 book _Asylums_. FTP, identify this Canadian-born sociologist, who presented a picture of social activity as a dramatic performance in his 1959 _The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life_.
Answer: Erving _Goffman_
21. Formed at a South Bronx homeless shelter, this rap duo is known for their minilmalist beats and militant ideology. Their first album contained bitter attacks on fellow rappers from the front man and distorted samples from the DJ, while their second contains a more pronounced black nationalism, borrowing much of its rhetoric from Malcolm X. For ten points, name this influential rap group, whose albums include “By All Means Necessary” and “Criminal Minded,” and which includes DJ Scott La Rock and KRS-One.
Answer: _Boogie Down Productions_
22. The one of 1918 resulted in the trials of Victor Berger and Eugene Debs, and was applied in the Supreme Court's decision in Abrams v. U.S. A more famous one was passed 120 years earlier, and resulted in 10 convictions, all of which were of Republican editors. FTP, give the common name of these pieces of legislation, which outlawed any writing that brought the government into disrepute, whose 1798 version is often paired with the Alien Act.
Answer: the _Sedition_ Act
23. Production of this substance stimulates the release of the hormone cholecystokinin and secretin which, in turn, increase the flow of bile and pancreatic juices and the fraction of digestive enzymes in the
latter. Moved by peristalsis into the duodenum, it's the result of the partial digestion of food by amalase, pepsin and hydrocholoric acid. For 10 points -- name this semiliquid substance, the precursor of chyle in the digestive process.
Answer: _Chyme_
24.His _Rota_ for voices and instruments was composed for the opening ceremony of the Munich Olympics, and his other late works include musical adaptations of Sophocles and an opera on the Prometheus myth. In 1924, he cofounded the Gunther School to encourage musical education, and his _Schoolwork_ is a manual of exercises for children. FTP, identify this German composer of a trilogy that includes _The Triumph of Aphrodite_, _Songs of Catullus_, and an oratorio in Latin and German based on student poems of 13th-century Bavaria, _Carmina Burana_.
Answer: Carl _Orff_
25. Ezra Pound said that Arthur Golding¹s 1567 translation of this work was the most beautiful book in the English language. Book Fifteen features Cipus, Hippolytus, Numa, and a section on the doctrines of Pythagoras, while the work as a whole ends with the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. FTP, identify this long Latin poem, the major work of Ovid.
Answer: the _Metamorphoses_
26. Schooled under Michael Maestlin in the 1590s, he had his first professorship at the Protestant seminary in Graz, remaining there until the Counter Reformation forced all the Protestants in the area to convert back to Catholicism. It was during his time in Graz that he published "The Cosmographic Mystery", the work that facilitated his move to Prague in 1600. For 10 points -- name this astronomer, assistant to Tycho Brahe and namesake of the three laws of planetary motion.
Answer: Johannes _Kepler_
27. Giving its name to the valley that comprises most of southeastern Colorado, this river was crossed by Coronado in 1541 near present day Dodge City, Kansas. Starting near Leadville and flowing east, it
currently provides irrigation throughout Colorado, Kansas, and Oklohoma before joining the Mississippi in its namesake state. For 10 points -- name this river, the longest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system
at 1450 miles.
Answer: _Arkansas_ River
2001 Michigan MLK Memorial
Bonuses by Chicago A (Andrew Yaphe, Alice Chou, Ryan Scranton, and Chris Zimpleman
1. Identify these works by the great Willa Cather, FTP each.
(10) Her second novel, it is the story of Alexandra Bergson¹s life on the Nebraska prairie.
Answer: _O Pioneers!_
(10) The title character of this 1925 novel is Godfrey St. Peter, the author of an eight-volume history of Spanish Adventurers.
Answer: The _Professor¹s House_
(10) This novel about a boy killed in France during World War I won Cather the Pulitzer Prize in 1922.
Answer: _One of Ours_
2. Given brief definition, name the term from statistical mechanics for the stated number of points.
(5) This quantity is equal to the product of the Boltzmann constant and the natural logaritm of the degenerate states available in the system.
Answer: _Entropy_
(15) This type of ensemble allows for the exchange of both particles and heat with the environment. An example would be an open beaker.
Answer: _Grand Canonical_ Ensemble
(10) For a system of N particles, this space will by 6N dimensional, with three spatial and three momenta axes for each particle.
Answer: _Phase_ space
3. For ten points each, identify these people and groups involved in the upcoming Israeli elections.
(10) This current Prime Minister of Israel has offered his resignation to force an election.
Answer: Ehud _Barak_
(10) This long time leader of the Israeli right is currently leading Barak by ten points in
polls, and promises to make no deals with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Answer: Ariel _Sharon_
(10) This is the right wing party to which both Sharon and fellow conservative Benjamin
Netanyahu belong.
Answer: _Likud_ Party
4. Answer these questions about the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century, FTP each.
(10) In 1683, Kara Mustafa led a siege of this city that was relieved by an army led by John Sobieski.
Answer: Vienna
(10) After Charles of Lorraine defeated the Ottomans at this battle of August 12, 1687, Mohammed IV was deposed.
Answer: Mohacs
(10) This 1699 treaty ended the war with Austria and ceded Hungary, Transylvania, and Croatia.
Answer: the Treaty of _Karlowitz_
5. Identify these British psychiatrists, FTP each.
(10) This author of _Sanity, Madness and the Family_ and _The Divided Self_ argued that schizophrenics really aren¹t so crazy after all.
Answer: Ronald D. _Laing_
(10) A long-time analyst at Paddington Green Children¹s Hospital, his works include _The Child, The Family and the Outside World_ and _Playing and Reality_.
Answer: Donald Woods _Winnicott_
(10) This author of _Hamlet and Oedipus_ founded the British Psychoanalytic Society and also wrote one of the first biographies of Freud.
Answer: Ernest _Jones_
6. Answer these questions about a painter, FTP each.
(10) He was born Girolamo Mazzola in 1503, but is better known by a name that refers to his home town in Italy.
Answer: Parmigianino
(10) Parmagianino may be best known for this portrayal of the Virgin Mother, which was commissioned in 1534 and may now be seen at the Uffizi.
Answer: the _Madonna of the Long Neck_ or _Madonna del Collo Lungo_
(10) In this 1527 work, now in London¹s National Gallery, the titular saint sleeps while a kneeling Saint John points at the Madonna and Child.
Answer: the _Vision of Saint Jerome_
7. For 10 points each -- answer the following questions about Bonobos.
(10) Bonobos are separated from the areas occupied by the much more numerous chimpanzees by this river. Name it.
Answer: _Congo_ River
(10) Like chimpanzees, bonobos are classified into this family.
Answer: _Pongidae_
(10) A leading primatologist, he co-wrote "Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape" with photographer Frans Lanting detailing their social hierarchies and natural history.
Answer: Frans _de Waal_
8. For the stated number of points, answer the following about igneous rock formations.
(5) Broadly speaking, all igneous rock formed below the surface is the result of the solidification of this molten rock.
Answer: _magma_
(10) These type of intrusions of igneous rock occur when upsurges of magma cool before reaching the surface and push through weaker layers at the surface. Examples include Devil's Tower and Edinburgh Castle Rock.
Answer: _volcanic plug_
(15) When erosion removes softer material surrounding the plug, it exposes these crystal-like structures formed when the rock fractures as it cools and contracts.
Answer: _columnar joints_