2007 Deep Bench
Questions by Illinois A (Baboukis, Canning, Cao, Meade, Messner, Sanner, Sorice, Taylor)
Edited by Rob Carson and Andrew Hart
Quads Packet Tossups
1. The Harivamsa, Bhagavata Purana, and Padma Puranas are the sources for the details of his life, and he is seen as the god of the common people. The eighth son of Devaki and Vasuveda, at birth he was switched with the child of Yasoda and Nanda, and as a child he slew several demons, including Putana and Bakasura. Brahma tried but failed to assert his authority over him by stealing his cattle, and Indra tried to flood his village, but he held up Govardhana mountain as an umbrella. Gandhari cursed him to die alone, and he is seen as the eighth avatar of Vishnu. FTP, identify the Hindu deity who slew Kamsa and appeared in the Bhagavad Gita as Arjuna's spiritual advisor.
ANSWER: Krishna
2. One of this man's works examined such diverse forms of expression as a child's drawing and the "specter of pure language," The Prose of the World. His first work was a repudiation of behavioral psychology and defined existence as consisting of physical, vital, and mental components. In addition to The Structure of Behavior, he dissed Arthur Koestler and Leon Trotsky in Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem. His most famous workargued for dissolution of prejudices that prevent people from experiencing "things" themselves, and this man worked with Sartre as an editor of Les Temps Modernes. FTP, name this twentieth century French philosopher, author of The Phenomenology of Perception.
ANSWER: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
3. In one poem he asks that you "Don't go far off, not even for a day" and "may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach," and according to the title, he craves your mouth, voice, and hair. The speaker of one of this man's poems sees the title creature "Among the market greens/ a bullet from the ocean depths," and in a romantic poem he compares open kisses to drinking turpentine. Among his poems are ones dedicated "to a Large Tuna," "to Salt," and "to Sadness," and this poet addresses someone into which everything sinks in The Song of Despair. FTP, identify the poet who asks you to "rise up to be born with" him in The Heights of Machu Picchu.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda (or Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto)
4. His father, who was illiterate, notably repealed a law preventing senators from marrying lower-class women. Rebuilding projects during this man’s reign included the Church of the Holy Apostles and the San Vitale in Ravenna, which featured mosaics of him and his consort Theodora. While his reign was marked by conflict with the Papacy over the handling of the monophysite heresy in Syria, it also saw the recompiling of the Corpus Juris Civilis, which became known as his namesake code. He had the Hagia Sophia rebuilt after it was burned down in the Nika riots, which were put down by his general Belisarius. FTP, name this Byzantine emperor, the last leader of the Eastern Roman Empire.
ANSWER: JustinianI or the Great (accept Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus)
5. Some of the responsibility for the protection for this region recently shifted from Georgia to Bulgaria, and its namesake café was bombed and then seized for government use. An arch consisting of two hands holding gigantic crossed swords known as the Hands of Victory is located in this area, as is the so-called Assassin's Gate or Golden Dome. It contains such monuments as its country's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and it comprises about four square miles. In the southern part of this area, the United States has constructed a permanent embassy. It was mostly established in 2003, after soldiers captured the Republican Palace and surrounding buildings. FTP, name this allegedly safe part of Baghdad, contrasted with the unsafe "Red Zone."
ANSWER: The GreenZone (also accept International Zone or Emerald City)
6. Coombs tests detect these bodies bound to erythrocytes, and a technique that uses these entities is ELISA. These molecules have a namesake fold, in which two beta sheets are held together by amino acid charges. These adaptable molecules can somatically recombine in a process called V(D)J recombination and are also capable of changing isotype by altering conformation of their heavy chains. Like enzymes, they operate via a a so-called "lock-and-key" mechanism, as verified by Linus Pauling. FTP, name these characteristically y-shaped immune molecules exploited in vaccination and produced by B cells in response to specific antigens.
ANSWER: antibodies (or immunoglobulins)
7. While the first three themes are in minor keys, D, B-flat, and C respectively, the fourth and fifth sections are in E and D major. That third section represents a woman's decision to carry the child of a man she does not love, while the fourth represents the man that she does love forgiving her. Muted strings and heavy use of harmonics represent the moonlight, and both figures are characters in a poem by Richard Dehmel. Consisting of only one movement, this work is in rondo form, and was written by the man who propagated the twelve tone school. FTP, identify this tone poem for string sextet by Arnold Schoenberg.
ANSWER: Transfigured Nightor Verklarte Nachte
8. A tricky character in this work gets his comeuppance when three cronies, including Bardolph, steal his horses. Its protagonist uses a pair of stag horns to disguise himself as Herne the Hunter, but ends up being pinched by people dressed as fairies and elves. Meanwhile, Anne's father plots to have Slender seize her and marry her, while her mother plots for Dr. Caius to do the same thing, but in the end she sneaks off and marries Fenton while the protagonist is being ridiculed for writing almost identical letters to two potential lovers. FTP, identify the Shakespearean play that centers around the antics of the Ford and Page households and the rogue Sir John Falstaff.
ANSWER: The Merry Wives of Windsor
9. Its erstwhile headquarters in Philadelphia now serves as an art gallery containing portraits of prominent early Americans. Alexander Dallas was an early champion of it, while another man connected with it produced a “Commercial Digest” of the various laws and trade regulations of the world. That man took control of it upon Langdon Cheves’s resignation. Originally chartered after President Madison was unable to stabilize the dollar in the wake of the War of 1812, it enjoyed prosperity through the 1820s until it was finally undone by the rivalry between its president and Andrew Jackson. FTP, name this organization, which lost its charter and fell into bankruptcy under the leadership of Nicholas Biddle.
ANSWER: Second Bank of the United States
10. This man moves in with a prostitute and gets her pregnant after asking Marth Tothero for advice. He gets a job in a used-car lot after his wife gives birth, but his wife gets drunk and drowns their daughter when trying to give her a bath. His in-laws try to hold his marriage together, and all agree that this man will garden for Mrs. Horace Smith, play golf with the minister, and still live with Ruth Leonard. His regular job consists of selling a household contraption known as the "Magipeel," and after he is accused of drowning Rebecca and subsequently rejected by Ruth, he runs away again. FTP, identify the protagonist of Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
ANSWER: HarryAngstrom(accept either, accept Rabbit Angstrom early)
11. The probability that this rule does not hold is given by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Loschmidt’s paradox was posited as a challenge to one form of this axiom, the H theorem. A better-known statement of it is that the imperfect integral of inverse absolute temperature with respect to heat transfer is non-negative, the Clausius inequality. A better-known challenge to it was provided by a construct that seemingly can increase the availability of an isolated system, Maxwell’s demon. FTP, name this fundamental law of thermal chemistry, according to which the entropies of isolated systems increase.
ANSWER: the second law of thermodynamics (prompt on "second law," "slt" or "2lt")
12.In the song "Live By Your Rep," they accused Bone Thugz-N-Harmony of stealing their style, and former member Koopsta Knicca left due to a money dispute. They have branched out into movies, producing the film Choices as well as its sequel, and one of their big hits opens with a sample from "Tell Me Why Has Our Love Turned Cold" by Willie Hutch. Collaborations with Lil Flip and Pimp C can be found on the 2003 album Da Unbreakables, while Young Buck, 8-Ball and MJG contributed verses to their hit "Stay Fly." Jon Stewart once noted "For those keeping score, Martin Scorcese zero, [this entity] one." FTP, identify the rap group from Memphis comprised of DJ Paul and Juicy J that won an Oscar for the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
ANSWER: 3 6 Mafia
13. A maggot fell from this person's nose before burial, after which a memorial statue with lapis lazuli hair was constructed. Initially known for prodigious consumption of shepherd’s beer, this "bolt" is seemingly initiated into a cult of female devotees of the sun by Ninsun. Created from clay at the behest of an oppressed people, this warrior is initially envisioned as a meteor. A trapper causes this warrior to be led to “the Sheepfold” by the harlot, Shamhat. This participant in the slaying of the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba eventually falls victim to Ishtar’s rage. FTP, name this wildman companion of Gilgamesh.
ANSWER: Enkidu
14. Materials of this type often form sheathes that satisfy a criterion named for Bohm. The namesake frequency of these substances is given in mks by the electron charge times the square root of the quantity number density over permittivity times electron-ion reduced mass and their namesake waves are also named for Langmuir, who discovered them. They are quasi-neutral in a Debye sphere, the radius of which, the Debye length, characterizes their charge shielding; however, many of the atoms in matter of this phase are ionized. FTP, name these collections of dissociated electrons and ions, the so-called fourth phase of matter.
ANSWER: plasmas
15. Among the successful delaying actions fought in this campaign were the Battle of Westerplatte, in which 182 men held the eponymous island for a week against several thousand opposing soldiers, and the Battle of Krojanty, after which the 18th Pomeranian Uhlans Regiment was decorated for valor shown in covering the retreat. That battle also featured a cavalry charge by one side that, after some initial success, was taken apart by Lt. General von Wiktoren’s artillery fire Despite that and similar small-scale holding actions, the defending armies were either destroyed or forced into retreat in battle after battle until they were eventually wiped from existence at battles such as Bory Tucholskie, Modlin, and Warsaw. FTP, name this first German campaign of WWII.
ANSWER: Accept equivalents of the following: Invasion of Poland, Polish Campaign,Fall Weiss
16. This river is named for the first ship to have been documented traveling down it, one captained by Robert Gray. The original Bridge of Gods was created when the Bonneville Slide dammed it, while Hanford Reach is the only American section of it that is currently undammed. After rising in the lake that shares its name, the river runs to Lake Windermere and the Arrow Lakes, before being joined by the Pend Orielle River as it crosses into Washington. It also forms a confluence with the Wilamette River near Vancouver, but its largest tributary is the Snake. FTP, what river forms a famous scenic gorge passing through the Cascade Mountains before finally dumping into the Pacific as Astoria, Oregon?
ANSWER: Columbia River
17. This object produces an irrotational dyadic field from a vector field and its terms have coefficients of root one over the metric factors. A theorem named for this operator states that the change in a function between two points is equal to the line integral between the points of this operator acting on that function. The dot product of this operator with a unit vector is a directional derivative, its curl vanishes, and its dot product with itself is the Laplacian. FTP, name this operator that produces a vector field pointing in the direction of steepest change from a function; a multi-dimensional derivative symbolized by a down-pointing triangle.
ANSWER: gradient (or del or nambla)
18.This character felt that the Germans should share the guilt for World War I, and when eating with a professor and his wife, the couple complimented an editorial attacking him. A patron of the Black Eagle Tavern pokes fun at his inability to dance and chides his obsession with Indian myths. He had thought about killing himself when he turned fifty, but his introduction to Maria and Pablo keeps him in good spirits. After a ball, he is taken to the Magic Theater and stabs Hermine, and he is comforted by Mozart and is sentenced to eternal life. FTP, identify this protagonist of Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf.
ANSWER: Harry Haller
19. The artist later depicted the same scene with some angels looking on in the upper left as men with spears descend the central steps from a columned building. On the far right of this painting, an old woman grasps for an object that a man wearing a blue sash holds high above her head. On the left, an old womanbites the ass of a soldier who pulls on the hair of a woman, while in the center, a soldier skewers a woman who is protecting a small child. Originally attributed to Jan van der Hoecke or Brueghel the Elder, this painting depicts the events of Matthew 2:1-18. FTP, name this recently reattributed Peter Paul Rubens work thatdepicts the killing of a lot of babies by soldiers on Herod's command.
ANSWER: The Massacre of the Innocents
20. The effects of this battle were overshadowed by a naval defeat for the victors two days later at Beachy Head. Early actions included Meinhardt Schomberg’s defeat of Neill O’Neill’s dragoons at Roughgrange. Both Meinhardt’s father and George Walker, the Defender of Derry, would later die in this battle. Though the conflict would not end until Godert de Ginkell crushed the forces of the Marquis de St. Ruth at Aughrim the next year, this battle was the first important victory for the League of Augsburg. Directly preceding the first siege of Limerick and taking place outside of the coast town of Drogheda, FTP, name this battle, in which William of Orange drove James II’s army back over an eponymous Irish river.
ANSWER: Battle of the Boyne
TB. In a general RLC Circuit, this occurs when the reactance of the capacitor cancels the reactance of the inductor, which maximizes the parallel impedence. In a damped system, the degree to which this occurs is inversely proportional to the quality factor. If the system isundamped, the frequency at which this occurs reduces to the natural frequency of the oscillator, called the pure variety of this effect, and the amplitude of oscillation of the system increases without bound. FTP, name this physical effect, which explains how a small amplitude driving force at the natural frequency of a system can have drastic consequences.
ANSWER: amplitude resonance (accept “electrical amplitude resonance”)
2007 Deep Bench
Questions by Illinois A (Baboukis, Canning, Cao, Meade, Messner, Sanner, Sorice, Taylor)
Edited by Rob Carson and Andrew Hart
Quads Packet Bonuses
1. There are real art clues coming in this bonus, but my favorite anecdote regarding this artist is that Cookie Monster had to be explicitly instructed not to eat his Still Life with Apples. FTPE:
[10] Name this French post-impressionist of The Grand Bathers and The Overture to Tannhauser.
ANSWER: PaulCezanne
[10] Cezanne was rather fond of depicting this mountain that was near his home.
ANSWER: Mount (or Mont or Montagne) Sainte-Victoire
[10] This somewhat earlier work of Cezanne features a triangle formed by the three figures. One figure is holding another down, while a third stabs the second figure.
ANSWER: The Murder
2. Answer some questions about a heresy, FTPE:
[10] This heresy, named for a third century Alexandrian priest, held that Jesus was eternal, but not part of God. Instead, he was a dependent entity created for the salvation of the world.
ANSWER: Arian heresy
[10] This first ecumenical council refuted Arianism and promulgated its namesake creed.
ANSWER: First Council of Nicaea (not Nicene)
[10] This term, coined by Augustine, is a Greek term meaning one substance. It came to signify those who followed St. Alexander of Alexandria against the Arians.
ANSWER: homoousian(s)