Round 6
Tossups
1. This figure dreams about presenting a heavy copper axe to his mother, the goddess Ninsun. This figure had ominous dreams depicting two dead figures when he embarked on a journey with a “shaggy” companion to kill a monstrous forest keeper known as Humbaba. This god sought the help of [*] Utnapishtim (“oot-na-pish-tim”) in order to become immortal and avoid the fate of his deceased companion. When this figure refused to lay with the goddess Ishtar, her father An sent the Bull of Heaven to kill him, but he defeated it with the help of Enkidu. For 10 points, name this “two-thirds” divine king of Uruk, the hero of a Mesopotamian epic.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh [accept Bilgames; do not accept or prompt on “Girugamesh”]
<Bhattacharya>
2. One character in this novel once engaged in a day-long arm-wrestling match with a huge black man in Cienfuegos, and he dreams of lions on a beach. That character in this novel is known as “salao,” and he fears the “Indians of Cleveland” and loves Joe DiMaggio. The protagonist of this work constructs a new [*] harpoon out of an oar and a knife, and he often wishes “the boy” Manolin was there to accompany him. After he breaks an eighty-four-day streak of bad luck, mako sharks eventually eat the marlin Santiago has been chasing for three days in, for 10 points, what novella by Ernest Hemingway?
ANSWER: The Old Man and the Sea
<Mehigan>
3. One part of this object, HR 465, shows unusual spectral levels of promethium. The Triangulum may be a satellite of this object, and the Ernst Hartwig-observed SN1885A is the only supernova ever to take place here. Le Gentil M32 and Mayall II, the brightest globular cluster in the Local Group, orbit this object. Simon Marius was the first to observe it telescopically, and in discovering this object, Azophi described it as [*] a “small cloud.” It is speculated that this object may one day collide and merge with the Milky Way. For 10 points, name this largest galaxy in the Local Group, designated M31 and the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.
ANSWER: Andromeda galaxy [accept “M31” before mentioned; accept “NGC 224”]
4. This man depicted a station attendant next to three red pumps in his painting Gas, and in anther work by this man, a figure stares out a window from his desk at the corner of a building. This painter of Office in a Small City depicted a fire hydrant and a barbershop pole are in front of a line of storefronts, and in another work, two very [*] similar women sit at a table to eat a food advertised by a large red sign. This painter of Early Sunday Morning and Chop Suey created a work showing an ad for five-cent Phillies and three patrons sitting at a bar. For 10 points, name this Ashcan School painter of Nighthawks.
ANSWER: Edward Hopper
<Mehigan>
5. This ruler believed that kings should receive the approval of the sangha instead of setting themselves up as gods in their own right. This man’s son Mahindra brought his influence to Sri Lanka, and this man ruled from the capital of the region of Magadha at Pataliputra (“pa-thaw-lee-pootra”). The city of Sarnath is home to a pillar topped by four lions which promulgates “conquest by dharma” with one of this ruler’s [*] edicts. This man built vihraras and stupas after experiencing religious conversion due to the brutality of his Kalinga campaign. For 10 points, name this grandson of Chandragupta, a “Great” Mauryan and Buddhist ruler of India.
ANSWER: Ashoka Maurya [or Ashoka the Great]
<Lee>
6. This man’s Requiem requires four large brass sections at the corners of the stage, and one of his symphonies was originally intended as a viola concerto for Paganini and contains the movements “March of the Pilgrims” and “Orgy of Brigands.” This createor of Grande Messe de morts and [*] Harold in Italy composed a piece sometimes called An Episode in the Life of an Artist which he dedicated to Harriet Smithson. That piece by this man features an E-flat clarinet playing an idée fixe, and its movements include “March to the Scaffold” and “Dream of a Witch’s Sabbath.” For 10 points, name this composer of Symphonie fantastique.
ANSWER: Louis-Hector Berlioz
<Mehigan>
7. This organ’s namesake “tail” produces its namesake polypeptide in PP cells, and the hormone CCK stimulates its acinar cells. A secondary duct here is called the duct of Santorini, and this organ secretes chemicals into the duct of Wirsung, which joins the common bile duct at the ampulla of Vater. Ghrelin is produced in the [*] epsilon cells here, and this organ also produces amylin and somatostatin. This organ has both endocrine and exocrine functions, and alpha and beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans in it produce hormones regulating blood glucose levels. For 10 points, identify this organ that produces glucagon and insulin.
ANSWER: pancreas
<Mehigan>
8. The first season for the largest tournament of this activity was won by FruitSeller, and teams for this activity include Old Generations and Liquid. In the campaign of this game, a unit that can fire lasers while moving is called the Diamondback, and looking at a memory crystal allows access to a minicampaign. Xel’naga (“zel-naa-ga”) watchtowers provide more vision in this game, whose standard maps include Steppes of War, Blistering Sands, and Lost Temple. At the end of this game’s campaign, an artifact causes [*] Kerrigan to turn back into a human, after which she is carried off by Jim Raynor. For 10 points, name this real-time strategy game, the successor to Brood War.
ANSWER: Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty [or Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty; prompt on “Starcraft”]
<Vikram>
9. One of this monarch’s prime ministers backed Harry Parkes’ actions during the Arrow incident. This monarch’s prime minister Lord Salisbury handled the Fashoda Crisis before being succeeded under the next monarch by Arthur Balfour. When this monarch’s prime minster Lord Melbourne tried to resign, the [*] Bedchamber Crisis erupted, and this monarch’s reign saw the Corn Laws repealed by Robert Peel. Because her husband Prince Albert was a member of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, this woman was the last monarch of the house of Hanover. For 10 points, name this nineteenth century queen of Britain.
ANSWER: Queen Victoria
<Lee>
10. This author wrote about Kate and Alexander Cold’s journeys to exotic places in a trilogy including Forest of the Pygmies and City of the Beasts. In one novel by this writer, “The Bridegroom of Death” is engaged to Irene Beltrán, who is in love with the photographer Francisco Leal. This author of Of Love and Shadows wrote about Eliza Sommers in Daughter of Fortune. This woman wrote a novel whose title character is a TV script writer who falls in love with Rolf Carlé, and in another of her novels, Esteban and his clairvoyant sister Clara are part of the Trueba family. For 10 points, name this Chilean author of Eva Luna and House of the Spirits.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende Llona
<Mehigan>
11. In one work by this man, Sganarelle drinks Lucile’s urine to “examine” her. In addition to The Flying Doctor, this man wrote a play in which Horace and Agnés foil Arnolphe’s plans for a cuckold-free life. This man, with Lully, wrote a comedy-ballet about Jourdain’s aspirations for nobility. This author of the School for Wives wrote a play in which Mariane is loved by both [*] Cléante and his father Harpagon, and in another of his plays, Elmire and her husband Orgon are swindled by the titular hypocrite. Writer of The Bourgeois Gentleman, for 10 points, name this French comic playwright of The Miser and Tartuffe.
ANSWER: Moliére [or Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
<Mehigan>
12. It’s not Israel, but an ethnic group from this country is the Cochin Jews, who speak Judeo-Malayalam. Mostly living in this nation’s state of Orissa, the Oriya people built the Konark Sun Temple. The origin of the Romani people, or “gypsies,” is theorized to be in this country. The Marathi are an ethnic group in the west of this nation, while its indigenous people, including the isolated Andaman islanders, are classified as [*] Adivasis. The Kannadigas and Telugus are two major groups of this country’s Dravidian people. For 10 points, name this multiethnic south Asian country, home to Aryan speakers of the official language Hindi, with population of over 1.1 billion.
ANSWER: Republic of India [or Bharat Ganarajya]
<Wasserman>
13. The twelfth resolution at this event, for “the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit,” was passed on the evening of its second day. A local Hicksite Quaker family, the McClintocks, whom an organizer knew from abolitionist activities, was the inspiration for this event. Though she did not endorse its product, Amelia [*] Bloomer attended this event. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton managed to convince Lucretia Mott that the document produced by this event should include a call for suffrage. For 10 points, name this convention held in upstate New York which drafted the Declaration of Sentiments concerning women’s suffrage.
ANSWER: Seneca Falls Convention
<Lee>
14. One of these substances contains a carbon-nitrogen double bond connected to an aryl or alkyl group. The Schiff variety of these substances are imines. According to Ralph Pearson, the hard types of these substances include fluoride and chloride, whereas the soft ones include benzene and hydride. The super types of these substances include sodium amide and n-butyllithium. These substances turn red litmus paper [*] blue. The Bronsted-Lowry theory defines them as proton acceptors, while Lewis theory defines them as electron pair donors. For 10 points, name these chemical substances which have pH’s greater than 7, which often release OH minus ions into solution.
ANSWER: bases [accept Schiff base before “Schiff”; accept imine before “imine”]
<Vikram>
15. In preparation for this action, men are to dress in only two sheets of white unhemmed cloth called an ihram. On the first day of this action, tawaf occurs. Other parts of this action involve drinking water in order to represent Hagar’s struggle to find water for Ishmael from the [*] Zamzam Well and staying on Mt. Arafat for an afternoon. In Mina, participants in this action “stone the devil.” The most important part of this event involves walking seven times around the Ka’bah. For 10 points, name this pillar of Islam that Muslims must do at least once in a lifetime that involves a pilgrimage to Mecca.
ANSWER: hajj [accept “doing hajj” and equivalents”]
<Dong>
16. A variant on this effect was observed in a rope-pulling experiment conducted by Max Ringelmann. This effect was first demonstrated in 1968 by Darley and Latane. In one experiment on this effect, participants completed questionnaires while a room filled with smoke. This effect’s causes include [*] pluralistic ignorance, deference to qualified authority, and diffusion of responsibility. Good Samaritan laws combat this effect, which was observed during Winton Moseley’s murder of Kitty Genovese. For 10 points, identify this psychological effect that results in a reduced likelihood of one person helping another when in a group of observers.
ANSWER: bystander effect [accept “Kitty Genovese syndrome” before “Genovese”]
<Mylavarapu>
17. This man stole an eye from three sisters that shared that eye and one tooth in order to find the location of the Hesperides (hes-pear-ih-dees). While returning from his most famous quest, this man saved an Ethiopian woman from a monster named Ceto, and this hero accidentally killed Acrisius in a discus-throwing competition. The gift of a helmet of [*] invisibility belonging to Hades allowed this hero to escape from Euryale (yoo-ray-lee) and Stheno, and his reflective shield, given by Athena, caused his enemy to turn into stone from her own glance. For 10 points, name this Greek hero, the husband of Andromeda and slayer of Medusa.
ANSWER: Perseus
<Liu>
18. A poem attributed to this man states that “truth and beauty buried be” and relates the ill-fated love between the two title birds. This author of “The Phoenix and the Turtle” wrote a long narrative poem that relates how Tarquin causes the title lady to commit suicide, entitled “The [*] Rape of Lucrece.” This man is better known for a series of poems, many of which are addressed to the Fair Youth, who might have been the Earl of Southampton, or the Dark Lady, whose eyes are “nothing like the sun.” For 10 points, name this Elizabethan writer whose 154 sonnets include one which begins “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
ANSWER: William Shakespeare
<Liu>
19. This experiment was replicated with erroneous results by Dayton Miller. This experiment was replicated with a self-orienting capacitor by Trouton and Noble, and its central device was shortened in the Kennedy-Thorndike experiment. The Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction sought to explain the results of this experiment, in which [*] light was split with a half-silvered mirror. This experiment proved that the speed of light does not depend on the viewer’s movement through space. Utilizing an interferometer at Case Western was, for 10 points, what doubly named experiment that disproved the existence of the luminiferous ether?
ANSWER: Michelson-Morley Experiment
<Vikram>
20. This ruler turned grain collectors, or frumentarii, into police and spies and executed Gaius Avidius Nigrinus and Lusius Quietus. Derisively nicknamed “Graeculus”, this man commanded the First Legion in Dacia. He killed the Ten Martyrs and Apollodorus of Damascus, the latter of whom compared the dome at this man’s [*] Tivoli villa to a pumpkin. His wife, Vibia Sabina, had an affair with his secretary, Suetonius, and his own deified lover, Antinous, drowned in the Nile. This ruler had the Pantheon rebuilt and defeated the Bar Kokhba revolt. Preceding Antoninus Pius, name for 10 points, this Roman emperor, Trajan’s successor, who built a wall across Britain.