BARGE 2012
Edited by Chris Ray
Packet by Ohio State A (Jarret Greene, Jasper Lee, Nandan Gokhale, Kirun “Party Time” Sankaran)
1. One of this author's essays identifies Habberton's Helen Babies and Uncle Tom's Cabin as examples of the titular “Good Bad Books.” Another savages Stuart Chase and the use of “false limbs,” as well as the imagery of a “jackboot” being “thrown into the melting pot.” That work cites the defense of Russian death marches as “rectification of frontiers” as among the reasons to abandon “dying metaphors,” “pretentious (*) diction,” and “meaningless words.” An earlier work by this man posits acceptance rather than resistance as the key to the naturalistic prose of Henry Miller, as explained by the titular biblical metaphor. A hospital stay led to “How the Poor Die,” reminiscent of longer pieces like The Road to Wigan Pier by this author of “Inside the Whale.” A .44 Winchester is used for the title action of the most famous essay by this author of “Politics of the English Language.” For 10 points, identify this author of the essay “Shooting an Elephant” as well as 1984.
ANSWER: George Orwell
2. In one class of this process, the RecA protein binds to gaps and causes the destruction of the LexA protein. Following this process, the Uvr and SfiA proteins are transcribed, and a possible next step is the creation of DinB and UmuCD proteins, which may cause this process to become counterproductive. The Mut protein family carries out another type of this process, which when not carried out properly, leads to the aforementioned SOS response. Lynch syndrome occurs if proteins in this process are mutated. This process removes (*) thymine dimers, and the base excision branch removes deaminated bases such as xanthine. Failure of this process leads p53 to trigger apoptosis. DNA Polymerase I carries out this process during proofreading, correcting such steps as innapropriately adding Uracil. For 10 points, name this process in which the nucleotide sequence is corrected.
ANSWER: DNA Repair [accept logical equivalents like Fixing DNA Errors, accept "Nucleotide Excision Repair" before "Mut protein" and prompt until "Base excision" is mentioned, prompt on "Base Excision Repair" until "Base excision" is mentioned]
3. A building known as the Tiled Kiosk comprises one of three structures that form this city’s namesake Archaeological Museums where the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great can be seen. Outdoor sculpture in this city includes a work where two snakes interwine as they rise, Serpent Column as well as the crumbling remains of the Walled Obelisk; both of which are found in its Hippodrome. A 1630 attempt at human flight occurred from the top of one of this city’s landmarks after which the pilot was given a sack of gold and promptly exiled to Algeria for sorcery. That landmark was completed in 1348 by (*) Genoese colonists and is a conical-topped stone tower located in this city’s Galata district. It’s not Rome, but its seven hills house such buildings as a palace which has a highest structure known as the Tower of Justice as well as a Byzantine church dedicated to Logos capped with a pendative-supported dome. Home of Topkapi Palace and the Hagia Sophia, FTP, identify this city lying on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait, the largest city in Turkey.
ANSWER: Istanbul or Constantinople or Byzantium
4. This thinker was challenged in a series of articles putting forth an “adverbial theory” by C.J. Ducasse, and studied under a man who introduced the term “dictate of reason” and wrote The Methods of Ethics. This thinker posited that physical facts were independent from mental ones in one paper and criticized F.H. Bradley in “The Nature of (*) Judgement.” This editor of Mind held Thales’ analysis of the term “landscaping” in high regard and in order to critique philosophical skepticism, this thinker gave an example referencing his hands in order to prove the existence of an external world. This author of A Defence of Common Sense compared the color yellow to the concept of “goodness” in a text that disputes the naturalistic fallacy and puts forth the Open Question Argument. For 10 points, name this British philosopher who wrote Principia Ethica.
ANSWER: G(eorge) E(dward) Moore
5. King Kong director Merian Cooper was subject to a massive bounty during this war, which saw him imprisoned as a POW after volunteering for one side's air force. The open letter “To All Former Officers, Wherever They May Be” was published during this war by a side desperate to recover its mass-deserted cadre. One side in this conflict allied with the government of Symon Petliura and relied on the cryptography skills of Jan Kowalewski. It featured such units as Jozef Haller’s “Blue Army” and Semyon Budyonny’s famous 1st (*) Cavalry Army, which was defeated at the Battle of Komarow, history's last great cavalry battle. The Treaty of Riga ended this conflict after the forces of Mikhail Tukhachevsky were surrounded and routed by Jozef Pilsudski at the Miracle at the Vistula,” and it is often seen as the westernmost theater of a civil war against the White Army. For 10 points, name this post-WWI conflict that saw the Red Army's invasion of Western neighbor stopped at the Battle of Warsaw.
ANSWER: Polish-Soviet War [accept Russo-Polish War of 1919-1921, Polish-Bolshevik War, Bolshevik War or the War of 1920; prompt on “Russian Civil War” or equivalent answers]
6. Scholars consider the first sequel to this work to have been written by Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and disagree over whether a new section should be started after it describes a “wandering merchant, or tiller of fertile fields, Colchian or Assyrian, from Argos or Thebes.” This work's author mentions “taking purges for madness each spring” before lamenting that the central subject is not worth it, and warns Peleus and Telephus, “speak inappropriately/And I’ll laugh or fall asleep.” It opens by asking if people wouldn’t (*) laugh if they saw “a human head/On a horse’s neck” or a painting of a woman that looks like “the tail of a black fish.” The famous line “good Homer nods” is found in line 359 of this work, which dictates that a single purple patch is sufficient and that plays should be five acts long. Famous for comparing its subject to painting and for describing the technique of in medias res, for 10 points, identify this verse treatise and followup to Aristotle's Poetics, written by the Roman poet Horace.
ANSWER: Ars Poetica [or Art of Poetry; or On the Nature of Poetry]
7. Members of this religion believe in God as a total essence of the universe, as opposed to a supreme being above all existence. Adherents of this faith often make pilgrimages to the supposed tomb of Jethro and often congregate in public spaces called mawqaf. Teachings of this religion are divided into three layers, known as zahir, batin and anagoge, with each layer corresponding to different levels of understanding of the teachings. Some (*) 80% of this faith’s adherents are known as juhhal, or “ignorant,” as they are barred access from holy literature and meetings, while the others are known as al-Uqqal or “the knowledgeable initiates.” Represented by a 5-pointed, 5-colored star, this religion views the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim as divine and refer to themselves as al-Tahwid. For 10 points, name this Islam-influenced religious group mainly located in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
ANSWER: Druze [accept Tawid Faith until mentioned]
8. The cyclotomic variety of these objects cannot be uniquely factored if p is greater than 23. Similar objects named for Eisentstein and Gauss are equal to a plus b times the cube root of minus one, and a plus b times the square root of minus one, respectively. The Gauss Lemma extends irreducibility from this polynomials with these as (*) coefficients to polynomials over Q. Cantor's Diagonalization proof showed this set has the same cardinality as the rationals, aleph null. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic implies that these can always be uniquely factored. For 10 points, name this countably infinite ring, the set of numbers that contain no fractional or decimal part forms, symbolized Z.
ANSWER: Integers [accept Z until mentioned, do not accept 'Natural Numbers," "Rationals," "Reals," "N," "Q," or "R"]
9. One of these delivered in London blamed missionaries for creating the titular problem and distanced the speaker from Kipling's line “and check the flow of pride” in “White Man's Burden.” Another of these orations opened by referencing Demosthenes’ “Oration on the Crown” before describing “the greatest patron learning has ever had;” that example ended with an ominous suggestion that the audience must choose “between God and Baal.” David Kawanakoa was invited to hear one of them denouncing the colonization of the Philippines, “The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism,” that was delivered in (*) Kansas City in 1900 shortly before the speaker was joined by Adlai E. Stevenson. The most famous of these orations describes “idle holders of idle capital” and declares that “we need an Andrew Jackson.” That work ends with the statement that “you will not crucify mankind” on the title object, and famously championed of bimetallism. For 10 points, name these orations by a three-time Democratic Presidential candidate that include the famed “Cross of Gold.”
ANSWER: Speeches by William Jennings Bryan [accept equivalents; prompt on answers like “nomination acceptance speeches” but accept any of those specific forms if they mention Bryan]
10. Red drapery surrounds Pietro Gentile, who wears the Maltese cross and sports a long sword strapped to his belt, in this artist's Portrait of a Gonfaloniere, This artist painted the titular mythological creature sitting back and looking perplexed after grasping at his query and coming away with only a wig in Corisca and the Satyr. In this artist's first major work, a brown-haired man whispers to his companion, who presses a (*) finger to his lips as they lean over a wall to leer at a nude woman who twists away. This artist appears in green leaning into a canvas and stretching out a lone brush in Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, and drew on characteristic themes to paint Susanna and the Elders and a more famous work depicting a maid holding down a general while the other title figure cuts through his neck with a sword. For 10 points, identify this painter of a famed Judith Slaying Holofernes, a female Italian Baroque artist
ANSWER: Artemisia Gentileschi
11. The committee that undertook this project took over Frederick Gisborne’s company and included the then glue-magnate Peter Cooper. This effort required massive quantities of gutta percha, and ground to a halt after the appropriately-named Wildman Whitehouse decided it would be a great idea to subject it to tremendous levels of voltage. Work on this project resulted in the patenting of a new mirror galvanometer by Lord Kelvin, and its first success was directed at the village of (*) Heart’s Content. The result of this effort was severely damaged in a 1929 event that inspired the study of turbidity currents. Robert Halpin oversaw the major revision of this project from the bridge of the Great Eastern, though it's much less successful first incarnation was completed using the Niagara, Agamemnon, and two other ships. For 10 points, Cyrus Field realized what brainchild of Samuel Morse, a continuous line allowing electronic communication between North American and Europe?
ANSWER: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable [accept equivalents]
12. One equation named for this man includes the contribution of collisions to the motion of particles in a fluid. He's not Gibbs, but this man names a set of factors equal to the exponential of energy times beta that are used to calculate the partition function. This man's constant relates the natual log of the multiplicity to the integral of one over the (*) temperature, the latter of which was an expression coined by Clausius to define a quantity later related by Shannon to information. This physicist names a distribution function for the states of an abstract system, a specific instance of which describes the velocity of particles in an ideal gas he co-names along with Maxwell. For 10 points, name this physist whose namesake constant relates energy to temperatures scales.
ANSWER: Ludwig Boltzmann
13. This poet highlighted one word per line to create the phrase “My life is hid in Him that is my treasure” in one poem. In another work by this author, God ponders “for if I should/bestow this jewel.../he would adore my gifts instead of me.” This man's efforts inspired the model for Silex Scintillans by one of his proteges, Henry Vaughn, and he wrote a poem that ends with the speaker deriding Death as “thou so much worse, that thou shall be no more.” This author of The Pulley” and “A (*) Dialogue-Anthem” wrote that “a verse it s not a crown” but that “I am with Thee: and Most take all” in “The Quiddity.” In a poem by this author, the speaker claims “affliction shall advance the flight in me.” That poem, which takes the form of inverted and upright pyramids, is entitled “Easter-Wings” and appears in hist most famous collection. For 10 points, identify this British poet and Anglican priest who wrote The Temple. For 10 points, name this metaphysical poet.
ANSWER: George Herbert
14. In waning days of this state, one of its final rulers founded new city around a Gooseberry tree after being chased out of its former strongholds by a kingdom founded by Ken Arok, the Singhasari. Georges Coedes did much of the work to revive modern scholarship on this state, documented by the Chinese monk Yijing.The Kota Kapur inscription details some of this kingdom’s early military conquests, including that of the gold-rich Malayu which was conquered by (*) Jayanasa. This state's king Dharmasetu conquered the Pan Pan kingdom before its crumbling holdings were appropriated by Rajendra the Great. It was centered along the Musi River in Palembang, from which it eventually controlled all trade through the Sunda and Malacca straits. This contemporary of the Sailendra was eventually overtaken by the Chola and Majapahit kingdoms in the 13th century. For 10 points, name this maritime trading empire that ruled medieval Sumatra and Java.