Buckeye Spring Tournament 2012: Spider-Man Gives Chase! FAPPO!
All questions by Ohio State University (Max Bucher, Will Davis, Avery Demchak, Jacob Durst, Tyler Friesen, Matt Gerberich, Nandan Gokhale, Jarret Greene, Richard Hersch, Peter Komarek, Jasper Lee, Simon Lui, Lauren Menke, Asanka Nanayakkara, Brice Russ, Kirun Sankaran, Andy Sekerak, Keith Stephens, Joe Wells) and Virginia Commonwealth University (George Berry, Sean Smiley, Cody Voight)
Edited by George Berry, Jacob Durst, Jarret Greene, Jasper Lee, Andy Sekerak and Cody Voight
Round 6 – Tossups
1) This man’s poems include “Lak of Steadfastness” and “The Former Age.” A poet reads about Ceyx and Alcyone before dreaming about a knight upset at losing a game of chess in one work by this man. In addition to The Book of the Duchess, this writer retells a story of ill-fated (*) Trojan War lovers in Troilus and Criseyde. One part of his most famous work is a story of a knight convicted of rape trying to find out what it is that women want most. For 10 points, name this medieval English writer who wrote of the Miller, the Pardoner, and the Wife of Bath in his Canterbury Tales.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Chaucer
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2) The Karl Fischer variety of this procedure is used to determine trace amounts of water in a sample, and EDTA is often used in used when metal ions are involved. Potentiometric versions of this often involve periodically measuring the voltage across an analyte solution. Results of this technique are often plotted on a namesake (*) curve usually containing a distinct inflection point, and chemicals such as phenolphthalein are often used to determine an equivalence point in acid-base ones. For 10 points, name this lab procedure in which a concentration of an unknown solution can be found my adding a reagent with known concentration drop-wise often through a buret.
ANSWER: titration
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3) The dead of this religion must cross the Chinvat Bridge to enter the afterlife. The hymns of this religion are collected in the Gathas. According to this religion, the ovular being Gayomart was the first man, who was slain by an evil demon. The uncaring god of time in this religion is (*) Zurvan. This religion holds fire to be a means of purification. Corpses of members of this faith are left to be devoured on Towers of Silence in a "sky burial." This religion believes that the evil Ahriman is locked in conflict with the god Ahura Mazda. For 10 points, name this Persian religion considered to be the foundation of monotheism.
ANSWER: Zoroastrianism
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4) This artist's debut album included a cover of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" and a song performed on this artist's breakthrough performance on Saturday Night Live, "Chasing Pavements." This 2009 Grammy winner for Best New Artist recently released the album (*) 21, where in one song she sings, "sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead," and in another she sings "the scars of your love remind me of us" and "we could have had it all." For 10 points, name this British soul singer of "Someone Like You" and "Rolling In The Deep."
ANSWER: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
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5) In one novel by this author, the attempted rape of a fisher girl is prevented by the perpetrator being attacked by a swarm of hornets. That work is titled The Sound of Waves. In another work by this writer, the son of a Buddhist priest is haunted by a beautiful structure because of his physical imperfections, such as his stutter. That desire for beauty leads him to burn down that building. A cycle of novels by this author sees the young (*) Kiyoaki die outside the monastery of Satoko, and tells his friend Honda that he will “meet him beneath the falls” before his death, setting up the theme of reincarnation. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and The Sea of Fertility who committed Seppuku after a failed coup.
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima or Kimitake Hiraoka
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6) The Farasan and Hanish Islands are archipelagos that lie in the southern part of this body of water. During the Eocene epoch, this body of water began to form due to its namesake rift. In December 2011, volcanic activity created a new member of the Zubair Islands in this sea. Lying on its western coast are the cities of (*) Massawa and Assab, and this body of water covers the entire Eritrean coastline. The Bab el Mandeb strait connects this body of water with the Gulf of Aden to the south, while the Sinai Peninsula and Gulf of Suez lie to its north. For 10 points, identify this narrow, colorfully-named sea that sits between northeast Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
ANSWER: Red Sea
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7) The osculating type of this figure for a curve at point P has the same tangent and kappa as that curve at that point. The curve that is the solution to the brachistochrone problem is created using this figure. This figure has parametric equations x equal to a times cosine of t and y equal to a sine of t. Rotation of it around a central axis forms a torus. This figure is a (*) conic section with eccentricity zero and is a specific case of an ellipse that has equal major and minor axes. For 10 points, name this figure that consists of all the points on a plane equidistant from a center point.
ANSWER: circle
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8) One resolution arrived at in this event was the condemnation of slavery, although Viscount Castlereagh pushed for its full abolition. Switzerland was declared neutral at this event, which created a 38-member German Confederation. This event was followed by the creation of the Holy Alliance. (*) Talleyrand represented France here, where he managed to keep most of Continental France intact and restore Louis XVIII to the throne. Chaired by Prince Klemens von Metternich, this is, for 10 points, what meeting in the namesake Austrian capital that sought to create a balance of power at the end of the Napoleonic Wars?
ANSWER: Congress of Vienna
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9) Men under the instruction of this man’s Service Department were involved in the Battle of the Overpass in 1927, and he sent a peace ship to Europe in 1915 to try and end World War I. Starting as an engineer in the Edison Illuminating Company, in later life this man used his newspaper, the (*) Dearborn Independent, to publish his anti-semitic views. One product offered by this man came “in any color you want, as long as that color is black!” For 10 points, name this American industrialist who introduced and popularized the assembly lines and the five dollar workday in the production of automobiles such as the Model T.
ANSWER: Henry Ford
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10) One member of this art movement painted a large plume of ash as the titular volcano erupts in Cotopaxi and another work in which a waterfall can be seen below mountains of the namesake range in Heart of the Andes. Another member of this art movement painted the series The (*) Course of Empire as well as a work that depicts a certain body of water after a a storm. This art movement included Frederic Edwin Church as well as the artist of The Oxbow. For 10 points, identify this American art movement founded by Thomas Cole, which was known for landscape painting and was named after a New York waterway.
ANSWER: Hudson River school
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11) Palamedes placed this figure’s son in front of his path when this figure pretended to be insane in using a plough. This figure was slain by Telegonus, who did not recognize this figure as his father. Eurycleia recognized this figure after seeing on this figure a (*) scar from a boar hunt. This man was stranded on Calypso’s island for seven years, and he came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse. This father of Telemachus slew his wife’s suitors after returning to his homeland for the first time in ten years. For 10 points, name this husband of Penelope and king of Ithaca.
ANSWER: Odysseus
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12) One mission to accomplish this feat was codenamed Operation Sandblast and was led by Edward L. Beach, while the friar Martin Ignacio de Loyola was the first to do this twice. The second person to accomplish this did so using his namesake route; that man was Andres de Urdaneta. While undertaking this feat, (*) Francis Drake established the colony of Nova Albion and pirated several Spanish vessels before being knighted upon his return, and the most famous expedition to accomplish this feat saw its captain replaced by Juan Elcarno after he was killed on the Philippine island of Cebu. For 10 points, name this feat, first achieved by Ferdinand Magellan’s crew.
ANSWER: Circumnavigating the Globe [accept anything remotely close like Sailing Around the World, etc]
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13) David Baltimore names a classification scheme for these organisms and also discovered an enzyme used by one type of these organisms. A model organism for these organisms was discovered by Esther Lederberg. The DNA of one of these organisms was labeled with radioactive phosphorus while their protein coat was labeled with radioactive sulfur in the (*) Hershey-Chase experiment. That organism was the T2 phage and that protein coat is their capsid. Another type of these organisms uses the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome and is their "retro-" type. For 10 points, name these organisms that reproduce inside host cells and which include HIV.
ANSWER: viruses
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14) One of this author’s last works deals with the relationship between his countrymen and the Jews, Two-Hundred Years Together. In one novel by this author, the minor government official Rusanov is annoyed by Kostoglotov, who writes a letter to Vera Gangart after leaving the title establishment. In addition to (*) Cancer Ward, this author also wrote a novel in which the title member of the 104th Work Squad lays brick and manages an extra bread ration. For 10 points, name this Soviet author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
ANSWER: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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15) Hamilton Hume and William Lovell led one expedition in this country. Members of the Red Ribbon Rebellion here presented Charles La Trobe with the Bendigo Petition. Another event in this nation saw the destruction of the Bentley Hotel and the establishment of the Ballarat Reform League before miners under Peter Lalor were defeated. In addition to the Eureka (*) Stockade, this country witnessed the antics of outlaw Ned Kelly, and a Rum Rebellion against colonial governor William Bligh. Earlier, James Cook landed at this country’s Botany Bay and navigated its Great Barrier Reef. For 10 points, name this country with Aboriginal culture, whose largest city is Sydney.
ANSWER: Australia
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16) This process powers the perpetual motion machine known as Feynman's ratchet. Langevin derived his namesake equation to model this process. This process is also known as the Weiner process. Jean Perrin confirmed the atomic nature of matter and derived Avogadro's number in his studies of this process. Those studies also verified the stochastic model of this process described in one of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers. It was discovered when its namesake observed (*) pollen grains suspended in water. For 10 points, name this random movement of particles suspended in a fluid.
ANSWER: Brownian motion
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17) In one depiction of this figure by Arnold Friberg, he is kneeling in the snow as he prays next to a white horse in the woods. Another depiction of this man displays him as Zeus, sitting on a throne with one hand pointing to the sky and another holding a sword. Besides that statue by Horatio Greenough, a painting of this man shows him behind a (*) black man and in front of a figure holding a flag on a boat. That painting shows others trying to clear chunks of ice from a river this man traversed on Christmas night, 1776. For 10 points, name this American politician depicted “Crossing the Delaware” in a painting by Emmanuel Leutze.
ANSWER: George Washington
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18) This man referred to the "dizziness of freedom" in a work in which a man looking over a cliff instinctively feels the need to jump. This man that wrote The Concept of Anxiety investigated the possibility of a "teleological suspension of the ethical" in a work in which the story of the sacrifice of Isaac is retold four times. This philosopher that wrote Fear (*) and Trembling created a debate between A and Judge Wilhelm over hedonistic and responsible lifestyles. For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher that wrote Either/Or.
ANSWER: Soren Kierkegaard
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19) One of this author’s novels concerns the title native of Columbus, Ohio who becomes the mistress of Lester Kane in Chicago. In addition to Jennie Gerhardt, this author wrote an unfinished trilogy centering on Frank Copperwood and starting with The Financier. This author’s first novel dealt with the title character’s move from Wisconsin to Chicago, where she meets (*) George Hurstwood, while his most well-known work focuses on the murder of Roberta Alden by the social climber lover of Sondra Finchley, Clyde Griffiths. For 10 points, name this pioneer of naturalism who wrote the novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.
ANSWER: Theodore Dreiser
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20) An instruction in one of these pieces to replay a movement from the beginning was stolen from the autograph at the World’s Fair in 1958. Giuseppe Verdi wrote the "Libera me" for one of these works honoring Rossini, and for another borrowed a duet from Don Carlos for the “Lacrimosa.” Benjamin Britten used the poems of Wilfred Owen in one of these works. One of these works by Faure features a definitive setting of the “Pie (*) Jesu.” One work of this type was completed by Franz Sussmayr after its composer's death left only the first section completed by Mozart. For 10 points, name this form of mournful musical composition,a setting of the Catholic mass for use in funerals.
ANSWER: Requiem [prompt on "mass"]
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