2007 Bulldogs Over Broadway
Packet by: Brown B (Dennis Jang, Aaron Rosenberg)
Edited by Ben Colman
Tossups:
1. Born in England, his family immigrated to the United States in 1818. From 1827 until his death in 1848, he lived at the estate known as Cedar Grove in the town of Catskill, New York. His patron Luman Reed commissioned his most famous series, a set of five canvases with titles like The Savage State, The Consummation and Desolation. His most famous landscape was painted in 1836, and shows the titular body of water as seen from Mount Holyoke. FTP, name this artist of The Course of Empire and The Voyage of Life, often considered the founder of the Hudson River School.
ANSWER: Thomas Cole
2. This man had overthrown Hippias with the assistance of the Alcmaeonidae. Upon his assumption of leadership in 510 BCE, he instated multiple reforms, such as abolishing the four traditional tribes and replacing them with demoi. He also restructured the Boule and the Dikasteria, and established legislative bodies chosen by lot rather than heredity. His early reign was to be tumultuous, as from 508 -507 BCE he was exiled after Cleomenes successfully seized control of the government. FTP, name this Athenian statesmen, often called the “Father of Athenian Democracy.”
ANSWER: Cleisthenes
3. The Ensemble Interpretation and many-worlds interpretation have both attempted to resolve it. Stephen Hawking says that whenever he hears it mentioned, he reaches for his pistol. It was developed to illustrate the problems inherent in the Copenhagen Interpretation of concepts such as quantum decoherence and superposition when applied to macroscopic systems. Albert Einstein had previously suggested a variant with a keg of gunpowder instead of hydrogen cyanide gas. FTP, identify this thought experiment developed by an Austrian physicist which states that, until we look inside the box, the titular animal might as well be simultaneously dead and alive.
ANSWER: Schrödinger’s Cat
4. After returning to school, the narrator attends a lecture from Rev. Homer A. Barbee praising the school’s founder. He is later severely wounded by a boiler explosion and receives electroshock therapy which damages his memory. When beaten up by a group of thugs, he dons a hat and a pair of sunglasses which causes people to mistake him for someone named “Rinehart.” At the end of the novel, the narrator taps a wire to power 1,369 light bulbs after he falls down a manhole. FTP, Herbert Bledsoe, Tod Clifton and Ras the Exhorter are all characters from what 1952 Ralph Ellison novel?
ANSWER: Invisible Man[do not accept “The Invisible Man”]
5. In addition to Achieving Our Country, he defended Rawls’ concept of reflective equilibrium in the essay “The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy”.This author posits that man can still work for freedom despite the fact that certain values and beliefs are not inherently better than worse than others in Contigency, Irony, and Solidarity, and he also argued that earlier philosophers had become too obsessed with polishing and inspecting the title object of another work. FTP, name this neopragmatist, a former Stanford professor and the author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
ANSWER: Richard Rorty
6. George Bernard Shaw described this character as “though she has imagination and an intense appetite for beauty, she has no conscience, no conviction.” She frequently thinks of a character having vine leaves in his hair, but when he arrives at her house after a party of Judge Brack’s, he tells the wife of the town magistrate that he has killed their “child.” However, this character actually has the “child,” but she throws it into the fire; the next day, she learns that a gift of hers goes off while Eilert Lovborg was searching in Mademoiselle Diana’s boudoir for his manuscript, killing him. Shooting herself with the other of her father’s guns at the end of the work is, FTP, which title character of an Henrik Ibsen play?
ANSWER: Hedda Gabler (prompt on “Gabler” or “Tesman”)
7. The oldest of these display a suppression of electromagnetic emission known as the Gunn-Peterson trough. Chinese-American physicist Hong-Yee Chiu coined their name in 1964 as an abbreviation of their previous name, claiming that because they were so mysterious, no other short name could fully describe them. The so-called “twin” one is not a double one at all, but is merely called so because it was the first object to be identified using gravitational lensing. Because they have among the highest known redshifts, it is possible that none remain today, and the ones that we have observed are all extremely far away. FTP, identify these extremely luminous Active Galactic Nuclei, which are believed to result from the infall of matter into supermassive black holes.
ANSWER: Quasars
8. Towards the end of the story, Dobbs and Curtin have one final duel. Dobbs wins, but is killed by bandits, while Curtin is taken back to Howard’s Camp to recover. John Hurston won the Academy Awards for both Directing and Adapted Screenplay, and his father, Walter Hurston, won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Howard. Based upon a novel by the mysterious B. Traven, the most famous scene from this 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart is a confrontation between Bogart’s character and a group of bandits disguised as Federales. FTP, name this movie in which the bandit leader Gold Cap states that “I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”
ANSWER: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
9. The two flutes at the beginning of this piece depict two sources joining together to form the titular body. Later, the horns symbolize the calls of forest hunters, and the strings depict the merriment of a peasant’s wedding. Next, muted violins deliver a serenade resembling those of nymphs. Towards the work’s final section, the winds and brasses play a hymn symbolizing the ancient castle of Vysehrad. The orchestra then gradually decrescendos before ending the piece with two sudden, loud chords. Such is the structure of, FTP, what tone poem by Bedrich Smetana, the second in a set of six, which depicts the longest river of the Czech Republic?
ANSWER: The Moldau (or Vlatava)
10. This play premiered at the Globe in 1606, but the quarto printing was not produced until the next year. Taking place over the course of one day, the titular figure is actually a conman who earned his gold through dishonest means. Voltore, Corbaccio, and Corvino are some of his marks, all seeking to inherit his fortune unaware that his illness is fake. He spreads rumors of his own death, only to appear disguised in the senate and taunt his inheritance seekers for losing out to the servant Mosca. FTP, identify this Ben Jonson play which draws its name from the titular Venetian nobleman.
ANSWER: Volpone
11. This work is divided into two sections, or tableaus, the second of which contains only one movement as numbered in the original score. The magical creatures and objects of the story’s antagonist are represented by a descending chromatic motif in the strings. The composer later re-arranged the work as three separate suites in 1911, 1919, and 1945. The primitivist style of the music foreshadowed the composer’s next two major works, which were also based on the folk tales and history of his home country. In the story, Prince Ivan falls in love with one of thirteen princesses and is attacked by Kaschei the Immortal, but is quickly rescued by the titular figure. This is, FTP, what 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky?
ANSWER TheFirebird
12. In some stories, this mythological being avoided a fight by eating a griddle-cake with a iron griddle hidden inside it. This character is trapped on the couch of Midac, whom he had brought up as a prince, before the blood of three kings was sprinkled on the floor. Sadbh, having been turned into a deer, was spared death by Bran and Sceolan, the hounds of this mythological being, who defeated Aillen the Burner and accepted the home of Tadg as compensation for the death of his father, Cumhall, at the hands of Goll mac Morna. FTP, name this mythological character who gains his wisdom from the Salmon of Knowledge as the hero of the Fenian cycle.
ANSWER: FinnMcCool [accept either, as well as Fionnmac Cumhaill]
13. In 2003, it was shown that a benzo-1-aza-adamantane derivative can be synthesized using this reaction on a nonresonance stabilized amide, while the Wharton reaction is a variant of it for alpha-beta-epoxy-ketones. The use of a high-boiling solvent and ethylene glycol in its modification named after Huang and Minlon, while substrates that are sensitive to basic conditions are used in its counterpart, the Clemmensen reduction. The use of hydrazine on a carbonyl group helps speeds up, FTP, which chemical reaction which forms an alkane by fully reducing a ketone?
ANSWER: Wolff-Kishner reaction
14. Founded in 1978, the two men met while studying in Zurich. Notable completed works include the renovation of a London power station completed in 2000 to house the Tate Modern. Another museum project is a new building for the de Young Museum in San Francisco completed in 2005, which features a reflective copper sheathing. Early works like the 1992 house for the Goetz Collection in Munich evoke a minimalist aesthetic, but current projects like the National Stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, dubbed the “Bird’s Nest” are slightly more complicated. FTP, identify this Swiss architectural firm named for its founders, the winner of the 2001 Pritzker Prize.
ANSWER: Herzog de Meuron
15. The inverse form of it contains a complex integral known by such names as the Bromwich Integral and the Fourier-Mellin Integral. Its bilateral form occurs when the limits of integration are extended to include the entire real axis. It is especially useful for analyzing functions such as the Dirac Delta Function, Heaveside Step Function, and other piecewise continuous functions. This is, for ten points, what linear operator used to simplify differential equations, which takes the improper integral from zero to infinity of a function multiplied by e raised to the negative ST power?
ANSWER: Laplace Transform
16. It was purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 1988 before moving to its current home in McMinnville, Oregon in 1995. To prove its worth, the creator decided to test it during a break in the hearings of the Senate War Investigating Committee. On November 2, 1947, in Long Beach California, it remained airborne for just under a mile, which prompted Congress to cut off its funding. Contrary to its nickname, it is actually built of birch. For ten points, identify this ‘flying boat’, built by Howard Hughes, which still holds the record for the longest wingspan of all time at 319 feet.
ANSWER: Spruce Goose [accept H-4 Hercules]
17. The Arikaree River flows eastward as a tributary of the Republican River out of this state, whose San Juan mountains are home to its namesake mineral belt, known for its deposits of molybdenum. Its “Piedmont” region is along the base of the Front Range, while its Western Slope has prominent activity near the Gunnison River. Its Lake County is home to its highest point, Mount Elbert, while near its second largest city can be found the US Air Force Academy and a mountain discovered by Zebulon Pike. Sharing a common border with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, this is, FTP, which Rocky Mountain state with its capital at Denver?
ANSWER: Colorado
18. This man’s relationship with ethnologist and archaeologist Henry Christy resulted in a work about the study of Toltec remains in Mexico, Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern, His last work, Anthropology, states that culture is possessed by solely man, a point he also espoused in his 1871 magnum opus which defines culture as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief… and any other habits acquired by man as a member of society.” FTP, name this English anthropologist and author of Primitive Culture.
ANSWER: Edward Burnett Tylor
19. Robert Oppenheimer asked him to lead the chemistry department of the Manhattan Project, but he turned down the offer. In his later years, he popularized the unorthodox concept of orthomolecular medicine in books such as How to Live Longer and Feel Better, which advocated very high doses of vitamin C. During the race to uncover the structure of DNA, he proposed a triple helix model which, ironically, violated bonding rules which he himself had investigated. Following World War II, he became a strong advocate of ending nuclear testing. FTP, name this American chemist, who is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes without sharing either with another recipient, and for whom the most common electronegativity scale is named.
ANSWER: LinusPauling
20. It stood in what is now Bodrum, Turkey. Its patron was reportedly so heartbroken after the death of her husband that she fell into the habit of drinking his ashes during its construction. The structure sat in an enclosed courtyard, with a central platform holding the tomb, and 36 columns holding up a pyramidal roof. It managed to withstand an earthquake but was destroyed in 1494 by crusaders. FTP, identify this magnificent tomb, built by Artemesia II in southwestern Anatolia, and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
ANSWER: Mausoleum of Maussollos[accept Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or reasonable equivalents]
Extras:
In America, this conflict became known as King George’s War. When the French troops invaded Bohemia, Charles VII Albert was elevated to the status of King and later became Holy Roman Emperor for a brief time. One of the sides first agreed to cede one of its provinces in the Peace of Breslau, but then attempted to reclaim it before being defeated again and signing the Treaty of Dresden. In 1740, Frederick the Great invaded the region of Silesia, sparking, FTP, this war which pitted Bavaria, France, and Prussia against Empress Maria Theresa, that ended with the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle
ANSWER: War of the Austrian Succession
This author described “a vision of the broken rose/ In an inferno of oil and blood” when describing the “preventive war” in Iraq. His first work of fiction was Flowers and Shadows, while he wrote about the artistic crisis of Omovo and his failed affair in Dangerous Love. He published his short story “A Prayer for the Living” in the Guardian in 1993 to raise funds for relief charities in the Sudan region, and other recent works include In Arcadia, Infinite Riches, and the collection of poems An African Elegy. His most famous work’s narrator is Azaro, an abiku, who attempts to live amongst corrupt politicians and destitute parents. FTP, identify this Nigerian author who won the 1991 Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road.
ANSWER: Ben Okri
Words spoken to this man show despair that a city of one hundred twenty thousand people in it do not know right from wrong after the withering of a kikayon. A son of Amittai, he is first mentioned in 2 Kings during the reign of Jeroboam II, and he had planned to go to Tarshish from Joppa to avoid the command of another. He eventually does carry out his task, resulting in a fast as he brings news that the city will be destroyed in forty days; he only does this after being thrown overboard by fellow sailors during a storm. Finally prophesying for Nineveh after being spit out by a giant fish is, FTP, which Biblical prophet?
ANSWER: Jonah
Though it did not gain its current name until the latter 20th century, the concept behind it was developed as early as the 14th century by Berber Scholar Ibn Khaldun, and later by John Maynard Keynes. Wall Street Journal writer Jude Wanniski coined the term, although the man for whom it is named does not take credit for inventing it. It illustrates the concept of taxable income elasticity, and was a cornerstone of supply-side economics during the Reagan years. This is, FTP, what curve, which shows that the government makes no money when the tax rate is either 0 or 100%, and was supposedly drawn on a napkin?
ANSWER Laffer Curve
The full ceremonial name he bestowed upon himself translates as “The all-powerful warrior who, because of his inflexible endurance and will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake.” Anti-Western, he forced men of his country to wear an abacost, and gave his country a new name. He rose to power after overthrowing Joseph Kasa-Vubu When he attempted to expel the Tutsis from his country, war broke out, and he was unable to coordinate a resistance due to his battle with cancer. The rebels, led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila, overthrew him in 1997, and he fled to Morocco where he died later that year. FTP, name this dictator of the former Zaire.
ANSWER: Mobutu Sese Soko
Bonuses:
1. Identify the following concerning an unreadable work of fiction, FTPE: