Aztlán Cup Packet 13: Swarthmore (M. Baranello, A. Glick, A. Chu, B. Bagley)

Tossups:

1. The central executive controls this system and uses the phonological loop and the visuospacial buffer, and all of these parts can operate partially independent of each other to conserve resources. It allows for rehearsal in a process similar to overt speech and hearing. The system shows evidence of a word length effect and also allows for the recency effect on the serial position curve. For ten points, name this system capable of holding seven plus or minus two chunks.

ANSWER: working memory or short term memory

2. Two people in the Bible share this name. The lesser known was the eldest son of Cain, born after his father’s banishment to the land of Nod. The better known was the son of Jared, and father of Methuselah. He lends his name to one of the primary religious texts of the Essenes, and is quoted in the Book of Jude. FTP, identify this prophet and purported author of one of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament, who walked with God, and then was “taken by the Lord”.

ANSWER: Enoch

3. In response to the Yellow Scarves rebellion,, Liu Bei, an obscure relative to the royal family, Zhang Fei, a rustic butcher, and Guan Yu, a scruffy soldier of fortune, all swear the Peach Garden Oath of brotherhood to protect the empire, only to have treacherous minister Cao Cao (pronounced: Tsao Tsao) take the emperor’s son hostage after the rebellion’s end, setting off a great war. FTP, this forms the opening of what classic Ming Dynasty work chronicling a famous period in which the Han Dynasty split into three warring factions?

ANSWER: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(or San Guo Yan Yi)

4. In 2003, scientists discovered that these compounds could be formed via the reaction of an alkene with hydrogen peroxide activated with a silicotungstate catalyst. Some of these compounds are used for sterilization in laboratory settings because of their reactivity. Reacting these compounds in aqueous acid yields trans 1-2 diols. They are most often formed from the reaction of alkenes with peroxyacids. For ten points, name this class of compounds, consisting of a 3-membered cyclic ether.

ANSWER: epoxide

5. Their predecessor was founded in early summer 1765, a group known as the Loyal Nine. Consisting mostly of economically minded tradesmen and workers, they grew rapidly and acquired their more famous name by the end of the summer. Their first major act was to hang an effigy of Andrew Oliver in Newbury Street. A mob quickly formed and Oliver’s house was eventually burned down. This was one of the first popular protests of the unpopular Stamp Act. Chapters of this group quickly spread beyond Boston. Name this group FTP, which included John and Samuel Adams and is most famous for having a tea party.

ANSWER: Sons of Liberty

6. Rob Hunt and Al Moran in 1963, Doug Flynn and Tim Foli in 1978, Wally Backman and Jose Oquendo in 1986, Roberto Alomar and Rey Ordoñez in 2002, Ken Boswell and Bud Harrelson in 1969. All of these pairs, all though not together for a long time, played second base and shortstop together during the given years for this team. For ten points, which team in 2004 is hoping to have a good double play combination and better defense up with Jose Reyes and Kazuo Matsui in the middle infield?

ANSWER: Mets (prompt on New York)

7. This phyllosilicate grouping of minerals consists of over 30 specific types, including glauconite and paragonite. On the molecular level, these minerals consist of silica tetrahedrons arranged into many connected 6 membered rings. These minerals are best known for their easy cleavage in one direction into sheets. They flake easily and have a hardness between 2 and 3 on the Mohs hardness scale. For ten points, name this group of minerals, the most prevalent of which are lepidolite, biotite, and muscovite.

ANSWER: Mica (pronounced MY-ca)

8.A housekeeper claiming to be his wife published his poems after his death. In “An Horatian Ode”, he chronicles Cromwell’s return from conquering Ireland in 1650. About that time he served as the tutor of Thomas Fairfax’s daughter. Seven years later, he served in Parliament for the town of Hull, whose river Humber is referenced in his most famous poem as being less mighty than the Indian Ganges. For 10 points--name this author of “To His Coy Mistress”.

ANSWER: AndrewMarvell

9. The name’s the same. Ezra and Nehemiah wrote of it. Martin Luther wrote a book about it. Verdi wrote an opera about it. During it, contrapuntal music was banned in churches. Several thousand were deported. One very important office was moved. It lasted from 586 B. C. to 538 B. C.. It lasted from 1309 to 1378. Cyrus the Great ended it. Urban VI ended it. FTP, name this event after which the Jews were once again a nation state and the papacy had escaped Avignon and moved back to Rome.

ANSWER: Babylonian Captivity

10. In his 1552 Da Asia, João de Barros identifies it as Axuma, one of the cities of the Queen of Sheba; others identified it as the gold-mining Biblical city of Ophir. David Randall-MacIver confirmed its African origins in 1905, but the white Rhodesian government of the time refused to accept this. Founded by Shona-speaking peoples on a medieval trade route between inland gold mines and the seaports on the Mozambique coast, this is, FTP, what 1,800-acre granite ruin of a city located between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers in what is now its namesake country?

ANSWER: Great Zimbabwe

11. Most organisms of this phylum have 3 layers on their exterior, including the periostracum and prismatic layer. Many use byssal threads to attach to a hard surface. Certain classes use a crystalline style to aid in digestion. The Aplacophora class secretes calcium containing spicules into its epidermis to aid in protection. Also covered with the nacreous layer, its larval form is generally known as the veliger. For ten points, name the phylum containing cephalopods, gastropods, and bivalves.

ANSWER: Mollusca

12. The entire action of the book takes place over one day in London. Peter Walsh comes to visit an old lover. Lucrezia takes her husband to see a famous doctor. Peter’s old lover will buy the flowers herself. After a brush-off from the doctor, Septimus Smith kills himself. Richard comes home but can’t tell Clarissa he loves her. Clarissa continues preparing for her party. These are just some of things that come to pass in, FTP, this novel by Virginia Woolf, which was used as the basis for the book and subsequent movie The Hours.

ANSWER: Mrs. Dalloway

13. It originated in southern Arabia and was used in medicine beginning with the Sumerians. The Greeks believed Ge changed her son Sykeus into the first tree bearing it during the War of the Titans. The prophet Isaiah makes a poultice from it to cure Hezekiah; the Prophet Muhammad says it is the one fruit he would take with him into paradise. The Talmud identifies it as the Forbidden Fruit because its leaves were used to make the first clothing; Jesus, in his only destructive miracle, curses and kills a tree that refuses to bear it. FTP, name this fruit often served ground and dried in pastries such as newtons.

ANSWER: fig

14. Its original source was a suspect anti-Freemason 1797 work by the Jesuit Abbe Barruel about the French Revolution. The more direct source was the satiric 1864 pamphlet “Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu,” by Maurice Joly. A German named Herman Goedsche developed Joly’s material into a series of novels, which found their way into Russia, where the secret police plagiarized them into this document in the late 19th century to shore up the position of Tsar Nikolas II by proposing an international Jewish conspiracy. FTP, name these documents, exposed as a fraud as early as the 1920s but still spreading through the Internet and Middle East as factual truth.

ANSWER: Protocols of the Elders of Zion

15. In 1993 Vigdor Teplitz and Eugene Herrin at Southern Methodist University claimed that two earthquakes that year were caused by nugget-sized chunks of it passing through the Earth. Baryon triplets of it were produced at Brookhaven National Labs in 2001. In 2002 observations of the unusually small size and low temperature of two neutron stars led some to believe their cores contained it in plasma form. FTPE, name this extremely dense metastable degenerate phase of matter composed of three flavors of undifferentiated quarks.

ANSWER: Strange quark matter (accept strange matter or quark matter before it is mentioned; prompt on strangelets, nuclearites, dark matter, and degenerate matter before it is mentioned.)

16. Some explain the mysterious death of this English king, hated by the church for his irreligion, as part of a pagan ritual. A second son, he received England when his father divided his possessions among his offspring, but reunited his father’s lands when his elder brother, Robert Curthose, pawned his duchy to raise funds for a Crusade. FTP, name this king who ruled England from 1087-1100, the second son of William the Conqueror.

ANSWER: William II or William Rufus

17. Name's the same. A short story by Georg Brandes. One of the most advanced systems of inductive logic processing. The name of a religion in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo. In mathematics, it's used with subscripts to represent transfinite numbers, especially the cardinality of infinite sets. It’s also “one of the points of space that contain all its points’, as the title object of another short story, by Jorge luis Borges. FTP, name this first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

ANSWER: aleph

18. Regarded as a landscape specialist during his youth, it is known that he painted part of the background of another artist’s portait at least once. His favorite pieces were his landscapes, such as Sunset: Carthorses drinking at a Stream, but another genre brought him fame. He became known for portraits such as Mr. And Mrs. Robert Andrews, and his most famous work, depicting Jonathan Buttall, was sfamous for the striking contrast in the color of the background and the subject’s clothes. FTP, name this English portraitist most famous for his Blue Boy.

ANSWER: Thomas Gainsborough

19. This book opens with a message from the publisher, noting that two of their five editors quit over the decision to publish this work – understandable, since it does take a rather casual attitude towards rape, bestiality, and incest, all of which appear at some point in the story. The plot itself consists of an elaborate extended metaphor for the Cold War: New Tammany College is engaged in a “Quiet Riot” with nearby Student-Unionist College. The main character of the novel decides that he is the next Messiah, and travels to Tammany to proclaim himself as such. FTP, identify this novel by John Barth.

ANSWER: Giles Goat-Boy

20. His last words are reputed to be “tell them I’ve lived a wonderful life.” Born in Vienna in 1889, he studied aeronautical engineering in Manchester before meeting Gottlob Frege, who urged him to begin formal studies in philosophy. His early work applied the tools of formal logic to metaphysics and tried to solve classic problems of philosophy. He went on to reject nearly all his work of this period, arguing against speculative metaphysics and systematic formal philosophy in favor of a turn to ordinary language. A student of Bertrand Russel at Cambridge, FTP, name this philosopher, author of the late Philosophical Investigations and early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein

21. The year is 2155, and the Alliance has lost the war against the Hierarchy. During the war the Yehat, cousins to the Pkunk, surrendered while their Shofixti children made the ultimate sacrifice. The Androsynth have mysteriously disappeared to be replaced by the Orz. The Melnorme sold some probes to the Slylandro, who accidentally programmed them to destroy all life in the galaxy. The Utwig have broken their ultron and can’t fix it. Only the Spathi captain Fwiffo has remained to guard over a slave-shielded Earth. All this is going on as Captain Zelnick embarks on the Precursor vessel Vindicator to save the galaxy in what classic 1992 PC and 3DO game by Toys for Bob and Accolade?

ANSWER: Star Control 2

22. France promised to stimulate its economy and pursue disinflation. Japan promised to pursue a monetary expansion, deregulate finance and to open its borders to free trade. West Germany promised to pursue tax cuts and liberalize the financial markets, as did the UK. The US promised to adjust its tax structure and implement a deficit-reduction program. This all happened at, FTP, what September 22, 1985 New York hotel conference in which the US convinced four allies to help it drive down the value of the dollar?

ANSWER: The Plaza Accord

23. Ippolit (EE-paul-eet) is an embittered intellectual who will soon die. (*) He has feelings for Aglaya Yepanchin, a beautiful young woman and member of the Petersburg aristocracy, as does the novel’s protagonist. Her father, General Yepanchin is a wealthy society man who is an early patron of the protagonist but begins the novel infatuated with Nastasya Fillipovna, a “fallen woman” who is loved and pitied by the protagonist but who is the object of Parfyon Rogozhin’s obsession. Rogozhin meets the Christ-like protagonist, Prince Myshkin, in the beginning of this novel, the second of Dostoevsky’s later masterpieces.

ANSWER: The Idiot

Aztlán Cup Packet 13: Swarthmore (M. Baranello, A. Glick, A. Chu, B. Bagley)

Tossups:

1.Three historical things with something in common. Name them for FTPE.

A.After the French opposition to a Hohenzollern successor to the Spanish throne in 1866, Otto von Bismarck judiciously edited this document so it implied an insult to Napoleon III. Just as Bismarck intended, France was furious and the Franco-Prussian war began.

ANSWER: Ems Telegram

B.The British intercepted this in 1917, which proposed a German-Mexican alliance and suggested that Mexico might receive some of America as a reward.

ANSWER: Zimmerman Telegram

C.This was written by George Kennan in 1946 and first proposed the policy of containment.

ANSWER: Long Telegram

BONUS 2: Name the following for fluid mechanics FTPE.

A.This force is equal to the weight of the water displaced by a body.

ANSWER: Buoyant or buoyancy

B.This term describes flows without buoyancy forces.

ANSWER: barotropic

C.These are waves that can be found in strata of fluid that are almost parallel to each other and enclosed by two planes that are almost perpendicular to them

ANSWER: Rossby

3.The ancient Anasazi civilization once ruled the Colorado Plateau but died without leaving any written history, leaving archeologists to guess at its fate primarily through three major archeological sites. Name them from clues FTPE.

A.Stretching ten miles along its namesake canyon population center in northwest New Mexico produced a complex road and fire-signaling system and many great pueblo houses before it was vacated in AD 1150.

ANSWER: Chaco Canyon (accept Chaco Phenomenon)

B.Shortly after the fall of Chaco, this mountainous area in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah became home to large cliff dwellings and towers, probably in response to military threats, before it too was vacated in around AD 1300.

ANSWER: Mesa Verde

C.Though less well known than Mesa Verde, this national monument near Chinle, Arizona features several extant ruins of the Anasazi and Navajo peoples.

ANSWER: Canyon de Chelly (pronounced SHAY)

4.Now that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King has won Best Picture, fantasy films may finally achieve a degree of recognition. To see why they didn’t manage to get that kind of recognition earlier, answer the following questions about earlier fantasy films for the stated number of points:

A.F5P, this actor held numerous roles, including that of Conan the Barbarian, before launching his political career.

ANSWER: Arnold Schwarzenegger

B.F10P, this actor portrayed a diminutive fantasy protagonist who was not a hobbit when he played the eponymous hero in the 1988 film Willow. He was also eponymous evil sprite in the horror series “Leprechaun”

ANSWER: Warwick Davis

C.F15P, these animators, known primarily for their holiday television specials, created a 1980 animated musical version of The Return of the King, with such classic songs as “Frodo of the Nine Fingers,” and “Where There’s A Whip, There’s A Way.”

ANSWER: Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass

5.This question writer is tired of her music theory classes not doing her any good in quizbowl. Here’s a question for her kindred spirits. Given the notes in a chord, name whether it is in root position, first inversion, second inversion or third inversion for the stated number of points plus a 5 point bonus for all correct. All chords are in close position.