ACF Regionals 2010: A Cultural Artifact of Unimaginable Significance
Packet by Minnesota A (Brendan Byrne, Rob Carson, Andrew Hart, Gautam Kandlikar) and Miami A (Kyle Fields, James Radl, Michael Salvadore)
Tossups:
1. This author wrote about a man who assassinates General Juan Alvarado before winning a boxing match against Danny Ward in "The Mexican". Another work by this author describes the Nashville Massacre, where eight hundred weavers were killed, and is written as the manuscript of Avis Everhard, who tried to sabotage "The Oligarchy". This author of The Iron Heel wrote about a man who ignores the warnings of the "old-timer on Sulphur Creek" and freezes to death after a tree dumps snow on his work. The protagonist of another novel defeats Spitz to become leader of a team before the Yee-hat Indians kill his master, John Thorton. For 10 points, name this author of "To Build a Fire" who wrote about the sled dog Buck in The Call of the Wild.
ANSWER: Jack London
2. In this work's second section, the cymbal, flute, and violins play quietly while the tenor whispers, "Move him into the sun". The first movement introduces the recurring tritone between C and F-sharp. The penultimate movement consists of alterations between excerpts from the B-minor and C-major scales, ending with the hushed chorus holding the final syllable of "sempiternam". The boys chorus quotes from the composer's earlier canticle Abraham and Isaac at the beginning of the "Offertorium". At the end of this work, the baritone and tenor converge to sing "let us sleep now" before all three sections of the chorus join to repeat "requiescant in pace". Commissioned for the reconsecration of the Coventry Cathedral, for 10 points, name this choral mass featuring the poetry of Wilfred Owen, composed by Benjamin Britten.
ANSWER: War Requiem
3. Carle and Olson developed an "electrophoretic" version of this technique that involved orthogonal field alternation. Though it has nothing to do with clinical trials, another form of this technique has "3+3", "2+3", and "3+2" types, where the second number indicates the number of haptene-labeled probes. Visualization methods in this technique include the "trypsin-Giemsa", or "G-banding", technique. Cells used in this technique must be treated with colchicine so that they can be arrested in metaphase. In normal humans, this technique visualizes a set of 46 genetic structures. For 10 points, identify this technique used during pregnancies to screen for fetuses having chromosomal abnormalities, which produces an ordered plot of an individual's chromosomes.
ANSWER: karyotyping [accept word forms]
4. This legislation established the Consolidated General Order to oversee a system modeled on John Becher's work at Southwell, and it was protested by Joshua Hobson's Murder Book. Driven by Edwin Chadwick's reading of a sensationalist Mark Peters article and by the violent Swing Riots, this legislation scrapped the failed Speenhamland and pro-human auctioning Roundsman systems. This bill sought to correct the failed modifications proposed by Knatchbull and Gilbert for a 1601 law, and tragically discouraged one action's "outdoor" form. The Andover scandal resulted from the ensuing bureaucratic war zones created by legislation, whose "less illegibility" provision actually banned tolerable conditions in workhouses. Passed two years after the Great Reform Bill and inspired by the ideas of Bentham, and Malthus, for 10 points, identify this 1834 legislation that ended up starving and killing rather than aiding many of its namesake impoverished Britons.
ANSWER: The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (or PLAA) or the New Poor Law [do not accept Old Poor Law or Poor Law of 1601 or Elizabethan Poor Laws]
5. This figure once disguised a maid as his foster father's wife in order to foil Rhun's attempted seduction. In another story, this figure forced his rivals in the Court of Maelgwn to make baby noises, after which he shook the castle with wind summoned by a song he composed. As a boy, this figure worked alongside a blind man named Morda and once changed himself into a hare, a fish, and a grain of wheat. He gained his abilities after he spilled a potion intended to give Morfran wisdom onto his own thumb; later, he was eaten by, and reborn from, Morfran's mother, the witch Ceridwen. He was originally known as Gwion Bach, though Elphin gave him a name meaning "radiant brow". For 10 points, identify this legendary Welsh bard.
ANSWER: Taliesin [accept Gwion Bach before it's said]
6. Like John Hicks, this economist described bundles of goods that could be analyzed together, which he termed "composite commodities". One idea advanced by this man was criticized in by Edward Leamer who drew upon an idea modified by Vanek, but that result was supported by a 1972 study by Robert Baldwin. Earlier, B. C. Swerling criticized that result on the grounds that this man had chosen to analyze data from an year with abnormal trading conditions. This man also developed a linear model of an economy that uses a consumption matrix to denote the dollar value of goods consumed and produced by various industries of an economy. For 10 points, identify this economist whose "paradox" is inconsistent with the Hechsher-Olin model, best known for his development of the input-output analysis.
ANSWER: WassilyLeontief
7. The brief first section of this work describes how the protagonist is a servant of Mrs. Van Hopper in Monte Carlo before shockingly marrying an upper-class man. The protagonist of this novel is nearly hypnotized into jumping to her death before rockets signaling a shipwreck snap her back to sanity. At the end of this novel, a magistrate named Colonel Julwin deems a suspicious death a suicide before Jack Favell and Mrs. Danvers burn down the male protagonist's home. The unnamed protagonist of this novel marries Maxim de Winter, who shot the adulterous title character, his first wife, and sunk her corpse in a boat. The oft-quoted first line of this novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again". For 10 points, name this novel by Daphne du Maurier.
ANSWER: Rebecca
8. In one song, this band's singer describes "walkin' through some youth, smilin' through some pain" before repeating the title message. That song, "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)", can be found on the second of their Music to Crash Your Car To compilations. One song by this group notes that "in seasons of wither / we'll stand and deliver" before advocating that the listener "Be strong, laugh, and" perform the title action. The title figure of another of their songs is said to be both "the one that makes you feel all right" and "your Frankenstein", while in an earlier song, they praised the "red lips, fingertips" of the title figures, who are "dancin' down on the Sunset Strip". For 10 points, identify this band which released the songs "Shout at the Devil", "Dr. Feelgood", "Saints of Los Angeles", and "Girls Girls Girls", founded by Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee.
ANSWER: Mötley Crüe
9. One of this country's most popular historical figures, Omukama, used the Kibiro salt mines to expand the power base of its Bunyoro Kingdom, which eventually united with Kitara state. The Kabaka of its largest constitutent was deposed in 1953 in a boneheaded move by Colonial Governor Andrew Cohen, who was forced to reinstate Edward Mutessa II after surviving several near-lynchings. This country's current ruler rose to power after organizing the National Resistance Movement in the Luweero Triangle. When not gaining omnipotence by having sex with children, raging psychopath Joseph Kony leads an Acholi-backed militant group in this country, which saw Operation Thunderbolt in 1976. That commando raid led to the death of Yoni Netanyahu after a hijacked Air France flight landed at this country's Entebbe airfield. For 10 points, name this East African country ruled by Milton Obote and Idi Amin from its capital of Kampala.
ANSWER: Republic of Uganda [Accept Buganda]
10. The first speech given by one of these people after attaining perfect knowledge is called a samavasarana. The teachings of one of these people are collected in the Agam Sutras. One of these people taught that "right knowledge", "right faith", and "right conduct" were central to attaining enlightenment. The first of these beings lived 592,704 quintillion years and was 1500 meters tall; successive incarnations of these beings lived shorter lives and took shorter statures, with the last one standing six feet and living 72 years. The final one of these beings was originally known as Lord Vardhaman, and presided over the founding of a religion that split into "sky-clad" and "white-clad" sects. Lord Rishabha was the first of these figures, sometimes known as "Fordmakers". For 10 points, name these prominent figures of Jainism, the twenty-fourth and last of whom was Mahavira.
ANSWER: Tirthankaras [accept Fordmakers until said; accept Jinas]
11. The Hateg formation was located within this entity, and is now a source of dinosaur fossil riches in Romania. The Western portion of this entity is called the "Alpine" part, which has such disappeared subportions as the Valais and Meliata segments. This entity was divided by the Elburz and Carpathian orogenies, after which its northern part became known as the "Para" part. The "Paleo" version of this entity was found north of the Cimmerian plate, which formed the final version of this entity when it moved northward. This body opened up when the component of Pangaea began to move apart. For 10 points, name this gigantic body of water that opened up between Laurasia and Gondwanaland, named for a Titaness and daughter of Uranus.
ANSWER: Tethys Ocean [accept Tethys Sea]
12. This author was friends with the Monaco-born Countess de Bagnoregio, who moved to Pittsburgh after marrying a philanthropist. This author's early publications included a journal article in which he begins to advocate enriching chess by removing a rook, but eventually takes the opposing position and argues against his own suggestion. He also authored monographs on Leibniz and Ramon Llull. In 1918, this author attempted to forget over three hundred years of history and endeavored to fight Turks and Moors, resulting in the production of two chapters and a fragment of a third chapter of a text in which a knight-errant loves Dulcinea and accompanies Sancho Panza. For 10 points, name this writer, the titular "author of the Quijote" in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges.
ANSWER: Pierre Menard [accept either underlined part; accept "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote; or "Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote]
13. The Akkerman Convention was signed so that the losers of this conflict could devote full attention to it, and Russian diplomat John Capodistria was key in stabilizing its aftermath by popularizing the potato. and it was driven by the infrastructure laid out by a secret society modeled on freemasonry, whose name translates as "Friendly Society". A refusal to honor the Treaty of London led to this conflict's decisive battle, which saw Login Geiden, Henry di Rigny, and Edward Codrington smash the fleet of Ibrahim Pasha at Navarino. Led by Alexander Ypsilantis, it began a downward spiral for the losers, who subsequently fought a series of variously disastrous wars against Russia. For 10 points, name this 1820s war against Ottoman hegemony that saw the death of Lord Byron, a struggle for the independence of a certain country fought in cities like Missolonghi, Corinth, and Athens.
ANSWER: Greek War of Independence [accept anything that establishes Greeks are fighting, and they aren't free]
14. One master of this instrument worked with Nat and Cannonball Adderley on his album Bohemia After Dark and was nicknamed "Klook". Another man who played this instrument wrote the album We Insist! —Freedom Now for the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and founded the orchestra M'Boom. In addition to Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, another master of this instrument recorded the album A Night in Birdland while leading his band the Jazz Messengers. A bandleader known for this instrument gained fame in Benny Goodman's band for playing the solo in "Sing, Sing, Sing", and Elvin Jones played it in the Coltrane Quartet. For 10 points, name this instrument played by Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, and Ringo Starr.
ANSWER: Drums
15. In tokamaks in which a separatrix exists, the safety factor obtains this value at the separatrix. By analyzing the two-dimensional Ising model, Kramers and Wannier established that the specific heat took on this value at the Curie point. This value is obtained when computing the occupancy number for the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate, and classical calculations of electron self-energies also yield this value. In quantum field theory, terms having this value are removed through the process of renormalization, and this value is also obtained for the energy radiated by a black body when extrapolating the Rayleigh-Jeans law to higher frequencies. For 10 points, identify this value attained by the classical metric of general relativity at the singularity of a black hole, in which things get unquantifiably large.
ANSWER: infinity [accept word forms, prompt on divergence]
16. According to legend, this man would hide in the bushes to see whether his soldiers were drinking. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft proved that this man made a mistake in naming Leech Lake as the source of the Mississippi River. This man's papers were confiscated by Nemesio Salcedo, who was convinced he was spying on New Spain. This man coined the name "Great American Desert" for the region he most famously explored. He died while leading an amphibious assault on York during the War of 1812. An expedition led by John Fremont later named what this man called "Grand Peak" after him. For 10 points, give this "Lost Pathfinder" and namesake of the Rocky Mountains peak that allegedly inspired the song America the Beautiful.
ANSWER: Zebulon Montgomery Pike
17. The author of this work included "values", "symbolic generalizations", and "exemplars" among the components of the "disciplinary matrix", a concept introduced in this work's 1969 postscript to clarify its central concept. This work's insistence on N.R. Hanson's idea of the theory-dependence of observation led to its argument that the holism of meaning is shared by both theoretical and observational terms, leading to the first appearance of its author's semantic incommensurability thesis. This work posits that "puzzle-solving" makes up most of the process of "normal science" and asserts that the accumulation of "anomalies" leads to a "crisis", which is eventually resolved by a "paradigm shift". For 10 points, identify this 1962 monograph by Thomas Kuhn.
ANSWER: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions [prompt on "SSR"]
18. This artist showed Alekto dragging Mars out of the Temple of Janus as he stomps on a book representing the arts in The Consequences of War, which is paired with The Allegory on the Blessings of Peace. He featured a fountain with water spouting out of the breasts of a statue of Diana on the right side of a painting that shows him dancing with Helene Fourment. He painted Saturn lifting Veritas up to heaven in The Triumph of Truth, which is the last work in a series including The Disembarkation at Marseilles and Louis XIII Comes of Age. This artist of The Garden of Love painted a cycle based on the life of Marie de Medici. For 10 points, name this Flemish painter of The Descent from the Cross known for his voluptuous nudes.
ANSWER: Peter Paul Rubens
19. At one point in this novel the protagonist refuses to pick up a dusty copy of the novel How Grete was Plagued by her Husband Hans. In another episode the main character opens a door to find Willem and Franz being beaten by The Whipper. The servant Leni takes a liking to this novel's protagonist, who fires the advocate Huld before buying three identical canvases from the painter Titorelli. In this novel's penultimate section, a priest recites a parable about a man who accepts a command not to travel through the door to the law; and this book begins with two men waking the protagonist to inform him he is under arrest. For 10 points, name this novel in which Joseph K is arrested for an unknown crime by Franz Kafka.
ANSWER: The Trial [or Der Prozess]
20. Along with Eduardo Martinez, this man developed the first large-scale process to synthesize the anti-cancer drug Ecteinascidin. A lactone named for him is the precursor to several prostaglandins for which he developed total-synthetic routes. This man's namesake ylide is used in a reaction converting a carbonyl to an epoxide, which is co-named for this man and Michael Chaykovsky. A reaction in which terminal alkynes can be produced by the homologation of an aldehyde through a triphenylphosphine is co-named for this American chemist of Lebanese descent and Philip Fuchs. For 10 points, name this 1990 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a professor at Harvard best known for his contributions to retrosynthetic analysis.