Penn Bowl 2011: Written entirely by Eric Mukherjee
Packet by Illinois B and Harvard (Dallas Simons, Andy Watkins, Ted Gioia, Stephen Liu, Cara Weisman, Martin Camacho)
Tossups
1. In one of this man’s paintings, a man in crutches on the bottom right is seen looking up, while a nearby man in brown rides a white horse and members of the crowd consume the title beverage from bowls. The title character himself cuts off part of a purple cloak to aid a follower. In addition to The Wine of St. Martin’s Day, this man painted many religiously-influenced works like The Fall of the Rebel Angels and Census at Bethlehem. In yet another painting, three men lead a group of(*) dogs down a hill above a group of skaters, and in another, a fisherman, shepherd, and plowman can be seen oblivious to the title event. For 10 points, name this Flemish painter of The Hunters in the Snow and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.
ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
2. This ruler's government shot down the reconnaissance plane EC-121, and this leader's government reformed his nation's agriculture industry with the introduction of the Taean System. This leader ordered thirty-one assassins from Unit 124 to make a raid on the Blue House in an attempt to assassinate the ruler of a neighboring nation, and this leader supposedly wrote an opera called The Flower Girl. Although friendly with Eastern European leaders, this ruler strongly disliked Albania's Enver Hoxha, and this ruler espoused ideas of sustainability and (*) self-reliance termed “chaju,” “charip,” and “chawi” in a political ideology called juche. For 10 points, identify this leader who was granted the title “Eternal President” upon his death and turned North Korea until a Marxist state before being succeeded by his son Kim Jong-Il.
ANSWER: Kim Il-Sung
3. One figure earned this title by agreeing eat the corpse under a shroud at a funeral pyre, only to find his asker underneath, while another authored the laava, a series of hymns concerning marriage rites, which includes chanting of the Har. Makhan promised to give god 500 gold coins for his safety in a storm, which one of these figures named Tegh called him out on. Flowers are thought to have sprouted from where one of these figures (*) died, and that figure famously declared “there is no Hindu, there is no Muslim”. The final of these figures is said to be the Adi Granth, which the tenth of these people, Gobind, affirmed as his successor. For 10 points, name these individuals including Granth Sahib, Gobind Singh, and the founder of their faith, Nanak.
ANSWER: gurus of Sikhism [accept obvious equivalents]
4. The protagonist of this novel imagines a naked man standing on a beach waiting for a bird to fall from the sky while listening to the Farvival twins play piano, but imagines nothing after listening to Mademoiselle Reisz play. One character is derided for moving to the “pigeon house” and going to races with Mrs. Highcamp. A dinner party is ruined when Victor sings a song that reminds the protagonist of her lover. Alcee (*) Arobin has an affair with the protagonist who vacations on Grand Isle where she meets Robert Lebrun. This novel centers on a woman married to Leonce who eventually drowns herself in the Gulf of Mexico. For 10 points, name this novel about the sexual genesis of Edna Pontellier by Kate Chopin.
ANSWER: The Awakening
5. Features on it include a large rift zone called Guor Linea and the crater Cunitz, which lie in its equatorial highlands known as Eistla Regio. This body has regions of “complex ridged” terrain known as tesserae and is the only body known to have web-like networks of fractures called arachnoids, which may be similar to its volcanic coronae. The Akna Mountains form the western border of its Lakshmi Planum, which lies on the smaller of its two “continents”. The Magellan Probe first imaged this body on which Giovanni Riccioli first observed the faint glow on this body’s dark side known as Ashen light. The sun’s magnetic field induces a weak magnetosphere for this body, which lacks a magnetic field of its own likely due to its slow rotation. Ishtar Terra is home to Maxwell Montes ,the highest point on, for 10 points, what planet with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere?
ANSWER: Venus
6. After playing his collegiate ball at the University of Iowa, this man was drafted 19th overall by the Chicago Zephyrs. By the early 1970s, this man would join John Havlicek and Dave Cowens in leading the Celtics to the NBA championship in 1974 and 1976, but his most famous shot was one from just around the free throw line that gave the Celtics the clinching basket in game 7 of the 1969 NBA finals. He had his first head coaching job in 1976 with the Milwaukee Bucks, and by the early 1990s he had established his namesake style of offense using smaller players like (*) Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin to outrun the opponents. In his next coaching gig, he is infamous for introducing the Hack-a-Shaq where he would intentionally send Shaquille O’Neal to the free throw line, and in his final playoff appearance in 2007, he led the eighth seeded Golden State Warriors to an upset over that former team, the Dallas Mavericks. For 10 points, identify this longtime NBA coach who retired in 2010 as the all time wins leader among coaches.
ANSWER: Don Nelson
7. This author wrote about a character who gives a lecture called “What is Realism?” at Altona College in a novel divided into eight sections referred to as “Lessons.” The last chapter of that novel centers on the Lady Chandos Letter, a female rewriting of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Lord Chandos Letter. He created another character who writes a retelling of Ulysses from Molly Bloom’s perspective titled The House on Eccles Street. This man created a character who tries to write the chamber opera (*) Byron in Italy after his ear is burnt off by acid when his daughter Lucy’s home is invaded by three men. This author of Elizabeth Costello wrote a novel about the sadistic Colonel Joll and another book in which Melanie Isaacs’ accusation of sexual harassment leads to the dismissal of college English professor David Lurie. For 10 points, name this South African author who wrote Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace.
ANSWER: J. M. Coetzee
8. This deity was sometimes combined with the goddess of the dead Amentet to become the solar goddess of the west. This goddess was associated with protective eye of the primordial snake, Wadjet, as well as a piece of jewelry known as the menat. Sharing her most distinctive feature with the predynastic goddess Bat, this deity, who had a major cult center at Dendara was closely associated with the sycamore. The sistrum was dear to this mother of Harsomtus, who poured milk over her husband’s eyes to heal them after Set plucked them out. As the Eye of Re, this wife of Horus became wrathful and her slaughtering spree only ended when she was tricked into drinking beer from the Nile. For 10 points, name this Egyptian goddess who sometimes takes on the destructive form of Sekhment but is usually the calm cow-headed goddess of love and fertility.
ANSWER: Hathor
9. This law can be generalized to a time-dependent version involving differentiated retarded potentials which is included in Jefimenko's Equations. A gauge named for this law sets the divergence of the magnetic vector potential to zero and involves solving Poisson's equation. This law is weakened in the presence of electric field screening, and Oliver Heaviside derived a variant of it accounting for relativity. Though it doesn’t account for gravity, it was discovered after experimentation with a (*) torsion balance, and this analogue to the Biot-Savart law contains a namesake constant equal to one over four pi times the permittivity of free space. For 10 points, identify this equation of electrostatics which relates the force to the inverse square of the distance between two charges.
ANSWER: Coulomb's Law
10. At one point in this battle, the ships Russell and Three Sisters ran aground, and one side in this battle stationed Robert Monckton at Point Levy. That side defeated a small force under Vergor after avoiding troops under the command of Levis and Vaudreuil, and had stationed Hardy at another promontory. This battle immediately followed an engagement at Beauport, and this battle was precipitated by a nighttime trip to the landing point past the Montmorency River at Anse de Foulon. After George (*) Townshend took command in this battle, Bougainville, who had just relieved another general, was forced to retreat. For 10 points, identify this battle which saw the death of General Louis-Joseph de Montcalmr and James Wolfe, a 1759 British victory on the Plains of Abraham.
ANSWER: Battle of Quebec [accept Battle of the Plains of Abraham early]
11. Rare conditions associated with this entity include a type of primordial dwarfism known as MOPD II which is linked to its PCNT region, as well as an inherited inability to use biotin properly, connected to its HLCS region. Isoleucine may replace valine in its amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein leading to early onset Alzheimer’s disease, and an A4V mutation on its SOD1 gene is one cause of Lou Gehrig’s disease. This was the second chromosome to be fully sequenced by the Human Genome Project, and it contains fewer (*) nucleotides than any other chromosome. Its long arm may be translocated in one cause of this chromosome’s best known disorder whose symptoms include heart defects, upward slanting eyes, and flat facial features. For 10 points name this autosome, a trisomy of which causes Down Syndrome.
ANSWER: chromosome 21
12. This man described a journey down “to Hela’s drear abode” in the aftermath of Baldr’s death in the poem “The Descent of Odin: An Ode.” Another work by this poet is addressed to “Daughter of Jove, relentless power” and asks it to teach the speaker “to scan, what others are, to feel, and know myself a man,” while another poem depicts the “distant spires” and “antique towers” of a place “where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy Shade.” This poet of “Ode to Adversity” is best known for a work that imagines “some (*) Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood” or “some mute inglorious Milton” buried in the title location. That work ends with the speaker’s own epitaph and begins, “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.” For 10 points, name this English poet of “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.”
ANSWER: Thomas Gray
13. This architect’s last building is a church shaped as a hexagon, which is topped by a spire rising above an oculus that lets light fall onto the altar. Dan Kiley designed the landscape surrounding the house this man built for architecture patron J. Irwin Miller in Columbus, Ohio. The “Jetsons Lounge” appears in a curved dorm he designed for Vassar called the Noyes House, and he completed the design of the General Motors Technical Center, taking over from his (*) father. This architect designed a concert hall whose roof is shaped as one-eighth of a sphere using his characteristic thin-shell concrete structure. This architect designed the Kresge Auditorium at MIT and the TWA Terminal, but his best-known work is a flattened catenary curve. For 10 points, name this Finnish-American architect who designed Dulles International Airport and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
ANSWER: Eero Saarinen
14. A supervening cause can relieve a defendant of the liability of one of them. Property ones include private nuisance, conversion, and trespass. Consent is a valid defense for the intentional interference form of them and assumption of risk defends against the most common of them. The most common of them requires that the defendant failed to act as a (*) “reasonable person” and they require a plaintiff to prove the existence of a legal duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and injury as a proximate result of that breach. Sometimes occurring with crimes like assault, battery, and malpractice, negligence is the most common of them and they are responsible for the vast majority of civil suits. For 10 points, identify this term in law that refers to a wrongful act that injures another and is not a breach of contract.
ANSWER: torts
15. This ruler's quick divorce of Ingeborg of Denmark led his country to be put under an interdict, and one conflict involving this ruler saw him given the cities of Issoudun and Freteval by a ruler with whom he had signed the earlier Treaty of Gisors. This man also signed the Treaty of Bove after defeating the Count of Flanders at Amiens. This ruler's son was known as Louis the Lion, and he was the victor at a battle which saw the participation of a papal and the capture of William of Longsword. That battle saw the defeat of Otto IV and ultimately forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. For 10 points, identify this victor at the Battle of Bouvines, a French monarch who went on the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart, and whose name recalls that of a certain Roman emperor.
ANSWER: Philip II Augustus [accept Philip Augustus]
16. When this work’s protagonist leaves for war, his aunt secretly sews diamonds into his coat because his father refuses to give him any money. The protagonist had been imprisoned for murdering the bodyguard Giletti before moving to Bologna with the actress Marietta Valsera. While in prison, the protagonist uses alphabet cards to converse with the jailer’s daughter, to whom he had offered a carriage soon after returning home after killing a Prussian (*) officer at Waterloo. Throughout the novel, the protagonist receives help from his aforementioned aunt Gina, Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover Count Mosca, under whose orders Ferrante poisons the prince in order to free him. Towards the end of this work, the protagonist’s love affair with Clelia Conti proves to be short-lived when she dies shortly after childbirth. For 10 points, name this work in which Fabrizio moves to the titular building on the Po, by Stendhal.
ANSWER: The Charterhouse of Parma