Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
National
Scholastics
Championship
2005
Round 7
Valencia Community College
Orlando, FL
Related Tossup/Bonus
1. Despite a brutal grade-school education in which he was constantly beaten by his schoolmaster Orbilius, he was able to go to Greece for higher education just in time for the battle of Philippi. Like Archilochus, whose iambic style he imitates in his work Epodes, he too threw away his shield and ran. He eventually ingratiated himself with the patron Maecenas and devoted himself to literature, producing a Carmen Saeculare for Augustus and his Satires and Odes. For 10 points, name this Roman poet from Venusia, who also dabbled into literary criticism in his Ars Poetica.
ANSWER: Horace [or Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Kendall
Bonus: Identify these characters from the Aeneid, for 10 points each.
[10] This queen of Carthage kills herself when Aeneas leaves her.
ANSWER: Dido
[10] Aeneas had to carry this aged father on his shoulders away from the sack of Troy.
ANSWER: Anchises (an KEYE seez)
<Borglum>
2. Treatment with caffeine prevents it from occurring, as the conversion of membrane tubes into a tubulovesicular network is inhibited after the formation of a phragmoplast. In 1996, Michael Liu discovered a pea plant incapable of undergoing this process, as it lacked sufficient vesicle secretion for the creation of the cell plate. Divisions in the insect embryo often occur without it, and in animals, it results from the collective action of actin microfilaments, which produce the necessary cleavage furrow by which it usually occurs. Rarely complete at the end of telophase and literally meaning “cell movement”, for 10 points, name this process defined as the splitting of one cell into two daughter cells.
ANSWER: cytokinesis
<Potru>
Bonus: Answer the following about a biological process, for 10 points each.
[10] Divided into leptotene, zygotene, pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis, this is the first stage of meiosis. Crossing-over of homologous chromosomes takes place during it.
ANSWER: prophase I
[10] Though male meiosis results in four sperm cells, female meiosis results in only one ovum. This is the name given to these three “reject” nuclei that are extruded from the egg.
ANSWER: polar bodies
<Wolpert>
3. One who left his employer became a nukenin, and his family became obligated to kill or retrieve him. By the Sengoku period, they were already the subject of folklore, as in the widely held belief that the Clan of Sanada could defeat an army twenty times its size. Okite [oh-kee-tay] was their code of conduct, and they were experts at mixing gunpowder and using colored rice grains to communicate. A few actually did use shuriken, or throwing stars. For 10 points, name these spies and assassins that practiced a variant of jujitsu and kenjutsu, the purpose of which, according to the Internet, is “to flip out and kill people.”
ANSWER: ninjas [or shinobi]
<Chuck>
Bonus: Identify these modes of transportation for 10 points each.
[10] This word describes cable cars that take skiers to the top of a mountain or boats used to travel about Venice.
ANSWER: gondola
[10] Classified into Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama categories, these help commuters travel around Honshu.
ANSWER: shinkansen [or bullet trains]
Chuck>
4. Its last colonial governor was Lord Christopher Soames, who presided until its first election saw the UANC ticket win. However, after a meeting attended by former prime minister Ian Smith, new elections were held in 1980 and the ZANU party emerged an overall winner, while Canaan Banana became its first president. Now embroiled in controversy over its current leader’s seizure of land from white settlers is, for 10 points, what country formerly known as Rhodesia?
ANSWER: Republic of Zimbabwe [accept Rhodesia before it is read]
<Frankel>
Bonus: The last of them was ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging in 1902. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this series of wars fought between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa during the end of the 19th Century.
ANSWER: Boer Wars
[10] Transvaal and this republic, named for a nearby river with a colorful name, allied to form the main source of Dutch opposition to the British.
ANSWER: Orange Free State
<Frankel>
5. Internationally, they are regulated under the regime known as Basel Two. In the U.S., these entities were deregulated by the Garn-St. Germain Act, which removed the limitation on the services they could offer under Regulation Q of the Glass-Steagall Act. Also revoked in recent years was the Pepper-McFadden Act, which prohibited them from operating in more than one state. For 10 points, what are these institutions that usually belong to the FDIC, or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
ANSWER: interstate banks
<Weiner>
Bonus: It is made up of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and seven other presidential appointees. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this highest administrative body of the Fed.
ANSWER: Federal Reserve Board of Governors
[10] The Board members are joined by five presidents of regional Reserve banks to form this body, which deliberates and votes on monetary policy moves.
ANSWER: FOMC [or Federal Open Market Committee]
<Weiner>
6. Corruption is revealed in this work through a letter to Mrs. Littlepaugh, who exposes a scandal to the narrator. The narrator’s father commits suicide when blackmailed about a bribe from American Electric Power Company, and the cover-up of that bribe allows the narrator to blackmail a famous surgeon into heading a hospital. The hospital deal is called off after Tom breaks his neck playing football, and the revelation that Anne has been sleeping with Willy causes Adam Stanton to plan an assassination. Narrated by Jack Burden and centering on the political career of Willy Stark is, for 10 points, what novel by Robert Penn Warren based on the career of Huey Long?
ANSWER: All the King’s Men
<Douglass>
Bonus: Identify these novels with political agendas, for 10 points each.
[10] Jack London claims Darwin’s Origin of Species as a source for this novel about the conflict between Humphrey van Weyden and the titular harsh captain of the Ghost.
ANSWER: The Sea-Wolf
[10] Erich von Stroheim’s film, Greed, was based on this Frank Norris novel about a title character that practices dentistry illegally and is married to a lottery winner named Trina.
ANSWER: McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
<Ismail>
7. On the left, a bearded man hangs his feet over the foam-covered water as he stirs his oar, while another man just in front him faces the viewer as he paddles his own oar. Several boats can be seen in the background on the right, as can a man in green who faces the center as he steers. The dominant image is an American flag, positioned upright in the center of the boat, behind the title character, clad in a general’s uniform and standing on one knee at the edge of the boat. For 10 points, name this Emmanuel Leutze painting of the future first president and his men rowing towards Trenton.
ANSWER: Washington Crossing the Delaware
<Frankel>
Bonus: Identify these ancient sculptors from works, for 10 points each.
[10] The statue of Athena in the Parthenon, most of the Elgin Marbles
ANSWER: Phidias
[10] Apollo the Lizard-Slayer, Hermes holding the infant Dionysus
ANSWER: Praxiteles
<Ismail>
8. Vinyl groups can be produced on them with the use of a saturated solution of cuprous chloride, and they themselves can be produced from the dehalogenation of tetrahalides or
the reaction of sodium acetylides with primary alkyl halides. Their most notable feature allows them to produce nitriles when reacted with ammonia, and they undergo reactions with Lindlar’s catalyst to produce the less saturated of their two sister groups. For 10 points, name these straight-chain hydrocarbons, of which acetylene is the smallest member, and which contain a carbon-carbon triple bond.
ANSWER: alkynes [do not accept alkanes or alkenes or any other wrong answers]
<Potru>
Bonus: Name these classes of organic compounds, for 10 points each.
[10] Closely resembling aldehydes, these have a carbonyl group between two carbons, and the simplest one is used in nail polish remover.
ANSWER: ketones
[10] Methyl acetate is the simplest of these compounds with functional group R-C-O-O-R-prime, often used in fragrances.
ANSWER: esters
<Dhuwalia>
9. In 1878, a brigade named after them was established in Persia. Their villages were largely self-governed locally by “atamans” and nationally by “hetmans.” Key figures in their history include Stenka Razin, who led a peasant’s revolt in 1670, and Ivan Mazeppa. Divided into the communities of the “Zaporog” and “Don,” they were long the cavalry and domestic enforcement arm of the tsars. For 10 points, identify these romanticized frontiersmen of Russia.
ANSWER: Cossacks
<Berdichevsky>
Bonus: Name these Russian rulers, for 10 points each.
[10] The first king of Moscow to assume the title of tsar, he is remembered for acts of cruelty, such as killing his son in an argument, and for subjugating the boyars by creating the oprichnina.
ANSWER: Ivan the Terrible [or Ivan IV; or Ivan Vasilyevich; or Ivan Grozny; prompt on Ivan]
[10] This regent of Ivan IV became czar after the Rurikid line ended with the death of Ivan’s son Feodor I.
ANSWER: Boris Feodorovich Godunov
<Frankel>
10. Unable to tell whether her suitor Glaucus was a monster or a fish-god, this daughter of Phorcys fled to the land, where Glaucus could not follow. Circe then fell in love with Glaucus and poisoned the waters near the toe of Italy, where this woman was bathing, changing her into a monster. In the Odyssey, the sailors are advised to take the path past her, for it was better to lose six men than lose the entire ship in a whirlpool. For 10 points, name this creature with six heads, twelve legs, and a lower body made of barking dogs, the counterpart of Charybdis.
ANSWER: Scylla (either as written or as SIL-uh)
<Dhuwalia>
Bonus: Name these sorceresses for 10 points each.
[10] She turned Odysseus’s men into pigs and warned the hero about the Sirens. Non-Homeric myths indicate that she bore the explorer a child named Telegonus.
ANSWER: Circe
[10] This devotee of Hecate restored the youth of Aeson (E-son) and was a spouse of Aegus at one time, and she became Jason’s wife after helping to attain the Golden Fleece.
ANSWER: Medea
<Southard>
Category Quiz Tossups
1. He found a creative way to avoid his state’s then-current one term limit for governors by having his wife Lurleen successfully run, though his wife died two years later and was replaced by Albert Brewer. In the meantime, he broke from the Democratic Party and prepared a third party presidential run by recruiting Curtis LeMay as a running mate. He ran in the Democratic primaries for the next presidential election, but his plans were ended when Arthur Bremmer shot and paralyzed him in May 1972. For 10 points, name this Alabama governor remembered for his vocal support of segregation.
ANSWER: George Wallace
<Frankel>
2. A patch of it is unexpectedly found in the crater of Mauna Kea at an elevation of over 13,000 feet, and the Russian term “talik” describes regions that lie above it but below the active layer. Often the site of mounds called pingos, it is formed by a process known as pergelation. Estimated to comprise around twenty percent of the world’s land surface, it can maintain its integrity if it is composed of well-drained, coarse-grained sediments as opposed to finer-grained soil with lots of ice. Mostly located at latitudes greater than 60 degrees, for 10 points, what is the term for ground that is kept below 0 Celsius for a period of at least two years?
ANSWER: permafrost [begrudgingly accept permanently frozen ground before “ground”]
<Chuck>
3. He holds the record for most consecutive years with a song in Billboard’s Top 40 for at least one week. That streak was broken after his last hit, 1999’s “Written in the Stars,” a duet with Leann Rimes from Aida. His most recent albums have been successful, as Songs From the West Coast and Peachtree Road have proved that he and his frequent collaborator Bernie Taupin still are a potent combination. For 10 points, who is this musician, best known for the songs “Rocket Man,” “Crocodile Rock,” and two versions of “Candle in the Wind”?
ANSWER: Sir Elton John [or Reginald Dwight]
<Phillips>
4. She was inspired by Sir Walter Scott to write the unpopular novel The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. A forced sojourn in Scotland inspired her Mathilda, and she wrote about the “Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca” in the novel Valperga. She created a portrait of her deceased husband in a novel in which a plague kills all but one person on Earth, The Last Man, but she is best known for a novel whose story is told to Robert Walton by the title character. For 10 points, name this English author, the wife of the poet Percy and the author of Frankenstein.
ANSWER: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
<Wolpert>
5. Later incorporated into a declaration by the United Nations as a “common program for purposes and principles,” it asserted eight planks including “open access to markets,” and “freedom from want and fear.” Signed aboard a pair of vessels anchored in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, it also assured American entry into World War II. For 10 points, identify this August 1941 manifesto that was signed during a secret meeting by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt and is named for a certain body of water.