2010 NAREN: Just What Is It That Makes Him So Different, So Appealing?
Packet 2
N.B. TO TEAMS USING THIS SET FOR PRACTICE MATERIAL: Due to circumstances involving the rescheduling and rewriting of the original tournament, this packet shares some questions with packet 14.
TOSSUPS
1.In one legend from this religion, a figure pushes up the sky for 18,000 years; that deity is the creator god Pangu. Two figures from this religion repaired the sky after a water demon broke the pillar connecting heaven and earth, and that water spirit fought the fire god unsuccessfully for Heaven's throne. The "Supreme" and "Grand Pure" layers of heaven are guarded by two of the three Jewels of this religion, which considers Heaven's ruler to be the Jade Emperor, and a famous quote from this religion states that "the Name that can be Named is not the Everlasting Name." For 10 points, name this religion, whose principal text, the Tao Te Ching, was written by Lao Tzu.
ANSWER: Taoism [accept Daoism, The Way]
2.This scientist discovered the nature of respiration as a form of combustion, and was the first to posit the existence of allotropes when he proved that diamond and charcoal were made of the same element. This scientist critiqued the phlogiston theory in Reflections on Phlogiston, and his General Considerations on the Nature of Acids promoted the view that acidity is caused by the presence of oxygen. His Elementary Treatise on Chemistry is considered one of the first modern chemistry textbooks, and he named the elements hydrogen and oxygen. The first to state the law of conservation of mass, for 10 points, name this French chemist, often considered the father of modern chemistry.
ANSWER: Antoine Lavoisier
3.This man defended Jay's Treaty in his "Camillus" papers, and he led one of the battalions that won the Siege of Yorktown. He presented the "Report on Manufactures" to Congress and argued for assumption of state debts incurred after the Revolutionary War. This politician agreed to move the capital to Washington, D.C., and proposed an excise tax which led to the Whiskey Rebellion. Under the pseudonym "Publius," this figure co-wrote a work along with John Jay and James Madison in favor of the new Constitution, the Federalist Papers. For 10 points, name this Federalist leader and first Secretary of the Treasury killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
ANSWER: Alexander Hamilton
4.This country contains the Wadden Sea National Parks, which are named after an intertidal zone on its northwestern border. Its administrative regions are known as Gemeinden, Landkreise, and Länder, in increasing size. One region in this country located across a major river valley from the Vosges Mountains is the Black Forest. One port city located in this country is Kiel, while the spa city of Aachen is located on its western border. For 10 points, name this European country, bordered by the Oder and Rhine rivers and divided into East and West sections for much of the 20th century, with capital at Berlin.
ANSWER: Germany
5.One character in this novel speaks with Conte Altamira and Don Diego Bustos after discussing how to woo a woman with Prince Korsakoff, and in another episode from this novel a character memorizes a message for the duke of Angouleme. Characters from this novel include Chénal, who arranges for its protagonist to tutor the mayor of Verrieres' children, and Elisa, the chambermaid who exposes its protagonist's affair. Its protagonist is attracted to Mathilde de la Mole, and near the end of this work travels to his hometown to shoot Madame de Renal. For 10 points, Julian Sorel is the protagonist of what novel by Stendhal?
ANSWER: The Red and the Black [accept Le Rouge et Le Noir]
6.In one legend involving this figure, he meets Fadir and Modir and later claims their son Jarl, and in another story featuring him he transformed into a seal and fought for the necklace Brisingamen. Occasionally referred to as "Rig," this god nicknamed "gold-toothed" wields the sword Hofund and rides the steed Gulltop, and the Lay of Hyndla references Gjalp and Greip as being two of this deity's nine mothers. He was said to be able to hear the grass grow, and he will kill and be killed by Loki at Ragnarok. Known as the "White God," for 10 points, identify this Norse deity, owner of Gjallrhorn and guardian of the Rainbow Bridge.
ANSWER: Heimdallr
7.One of this man's works was probably modeled after Pantarces and was set up at Olympia, Anadumenus. This student of Hegeladas and rival of Hegias created a work in which a bare-headed figure holds a helmet with her extended right hand. One of his sculptures lay between the Propylaea and a building which housed another of his sculptures. That sculpture has the tale of Pandora's birth in relief on its pedestal, holds a small statue of Victory, and has a sphinx on her helmet and Medusa's head on her breastplate. For 10 points, identify this Greek sculptor of numerous Athenas such as Athena Promachos and Athena Parthenos.
ANSWER: Phidias
8.The beginning of his period of leadership was marked by the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial, and this man agreed to recognize postwar European boundaries when he signed the Helsinki Accords. His economic policies were described as "the lowest stage of socialism" and resulted in his rule being known as his eponymous stagnation. This figure signed the SALT I with Richard Nixon, and his eponymous doctrine claimed that the Soviet Union could interfere in its satellites' internal affairs and was released in response to the Prague Spring. Succeeded by Andropov, for 10 points, name this General Secretary who succeeded Khrushchev and headed the U.S.S.R. during the detente.
ANSWER: Leonid Brezhnev
9.Some of its symptoms were faked in the Rosenhan experiment so subjects could get admitted to hospitals. Schneider's first-rank symptoms distinguish it from other disorders and include thought diffusion and insertion, while other symptoms may include reduced ventrical and hippocampal size. The disorganized type of this disease is characterized by erratic or childlike behavior. Medications for it may cause tardive dyskinesia because they block dopamine receptors, though clozapine is considered safer than other antipsychotics. For 10 points, name this psychiatric disorder, which has a paranoid variety characterized by delusions and auditory hallucinations.
ANSWER: schizophrenia
10.One character in this novel is worried after hearing an acquaintance dined with the Cox family at the Coles' party, and another character in it travels to Highbury as a result of Colonel and Mrs. Campbell's trip to Ireland. One episode in this novel sees boarding school mistress Mrs. Goddard attend a dinner party, and this novel begins with Miss Taylor leaving Hartfield. The niece of the chatty Miss Bates, Jane Fairfax, is secretly engaged to Frank Churchill in this novel, which later sees Robert Martin, rather than Mr. Elton, ends up marrying Harriet Smith. For 10 points, the titular matchmaking female eventually marries George Knightley in what novel by Jane Austen?
ANSWER: Emma
11.This statement is apparently violated in classical electrodynamics by magnetic forces between moving charges that do not occur along a common line. Because of this statement, internal forces cancel each other, and thus for a system with no external forces momentum is conserved. This statement explains why the ratio of acceleration of two objects in a collision is inversely proportional to the ratio of their masses. For 10 points, identify this law which states that two interacting particles exert forces on each other equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, commonly stated as "every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
ANSWER: Newton's third law of motion
12.The three left hand fortissimo chords A, G#, and C# open this composer's "Prelude in C sharp minor". One of his orchestral works based on gypsy themes ends in a loud E major chord, and alongside Caprice Bohemien, he wrote a suite with movements marked "Non allegro" and "Andante con moto" which uses a three-note motif and features alto saxophone near the beginning. Another work by this composer of the Symphonic Dances begins with four quick notes in A minor followed by E and F notes and contains 24 variations on the title melody. For 10 points, identify this Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff
13.This politician's opposition to labor strikes in the coal industry led the Archbishop of Canterbury to accuse this figure of a "politics of confrontation". This politician's term saw the unpopular Community Charge tax introduced, and John Nott proposed cutting navy funding during this politician's term which saw the Falkland Wars occur. Her namesake economic policy involved the privatization of many industrial monopolies, including British Petroleum and British Airways, and this leader was targeted by an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. For 10 points, name this first female to hold the office of British prime minister, a conservative known as the Iron Lady.
ANSWER: The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher
14.They started out under the name "On a Friday", but changed to their current name, inspired by the title of a Talking Head’s song. In one song, the lead singer sings, "This is what you’ll get, when you mess with us", "Karma Police". In another song, the singer claims, "an airbag saved my life". Johnny Greenwood, this band’s guitarist, composed the soundtrack to There Will Be Blood, and in one song the singer states "I'm a weirdo", "I wish I was special", and that he is the titular kind of person. For 10 points, name this alternative rock band with front man Thom Yorke, notable for albums such as Hail to the Thief and Ok Computer, whose first single was "Creep".
ANSWER: Radiohead
15.Although married to Lew, Eloise pines for the killed-in-action Walt in this writer's short story "Uncle Wiggity in Connecticut," and in another story by him Sybil talks about the title creatures to Muriel's husband Seymour who later shoots himself. This author of "A Perfect Day For Bananafish" wrote a work in which one of the title characters dates Lane Coutell while the other argues with his mother Bessie, and in addition to Franny and Zooey, he wrote a novel in which a character is expelled from Pencey, cares for his sister Phoebe, and refers to fake people as "phonies." For 10 points, identify this creator of the Glass family who created Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
ANSWER: J. D. Salinger
16.With deviation, this quantity names a form of data used in calculating least-squares lines. For a binomial distribution, this quantity equals the probability of success times the number of trials. The geometric type of this quantity equals the square root of the product of a set of values, while the harmonic type equals the sample size divided by the sum of the reciprocals of those values. This quantity for a population is symbolized mu, while for a sample it is denoted by an x with a bar over it. For 10 points, give this quantity calculated by dividing the sum of a set of values by the number of values, the most common method of calculating an average.
ANSWER: mean [prompt on "average" before the end]
17.This man depicted running horses and an excited crowd in Racing at Longchamp. One of his early works depicts dozens of men in top hats and is styled after works by Velazquez. In addition to Music in the Tuileries, he painted a man with a top hat in front of a drinking waitress at a bar in The Cafe Concert. He painted a series of works depicting the Parisian nightlife, a famous one of which featuring a woman faultily reflected in a mirror facing a large crowd. His most famous work depicts a woman dining with two gentlemen while a slave washes rags in the background. For 10 points, name this French painter of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere and The Luncheon on the Grass.
ANSWER: Edouard Manet
18.Originally founded as a wing of its country's Communist Party, it later helped to establish the Patriotic Union. Following an agreement with Belisario Betancur, military leaders colluded with this group to sabotage a ceasefire. Initially operating alongside the ELN and M-19, its past targets have included the founder of the Green Oxygen Party, and Andres Pastrana attempted to negotiate with them by removing the military from 16,000-square-mile tract of land, but this was reversed by Alvaro Uribe. Founded by a man nicknamed "Tirofijo", or "Sureshot", it is currently headed by Guillermo Saenz Vargas, also known as Alfonso Cano. For 10 points, name this Colombian militant group.
ANSWER: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejercito del Pueblo [or FARC; or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia; or RAFC; or People's Army]
19.Its last two phases are reduction and regeneration. Important enzymes in these steps include aldolase, transketolase, and sedoheptulose bisphosphatase. C4 plants use PEP carboxylase to form oxaloacetate before beginning these reactions, allowing them to increase productivity by carboxylating more often than can C3 plants. NADPH is oxidized when it donates an electron to form G3P, which can be converted to glucose. However, five out of every six G3Ps are used to regenerate RuBP, which is attached to CO2 by Rubisco in the first step. For 10 points, name this reaction cycle that occurs in the stroma and produces sugars from carbon dioxide.
ANSWER: Calvin-Benson cycle [prompt on dark reactions]
20.Ezra Pound's second Canto begins by telling this man to "hang it all", as "there can be but one 'Sordello!'" He wrote "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be" in a poem appearing in his collection Dramatis Personae, and in addition to "Rabbi ben Ezra," he wrote a work in which the narrator used "one long yellow string" of his lover's hair to strangle her. This author of "Porphyria's Lover" more famously wrote a poem in which the narrator's "nine-hundred-years old name" was ranked "with anybody's gift" by a woman with "a heart too soon made glad" painted by Fra Pandolf. For 10 points, name this English poet of dramatic monologues including "My Last Duchess."
ANSWER: Robert Browning [prompt on Browning]
21.An autoimmune disease involving antibodies against this structure's namesake peroxidase causes destruction of its follicles and is named for Hashimoto. Most of it is located below the cricoid cartilage, but it also extends up the sides. PTH opposes the action of one of the hormones it produces, and iodine and tyrosine are required to produce two others. Deficiency of those two hormones, which are named for it, is known as cretinism in young children. The third hormone, calcitonin, is involved in blood calcium homeostasis. For 10 points, name this butterfly-shaped gland in the lower neck which is enlarged in Graves' disease, creating goiter.
ANSWER: thyroid gland
2010 NAREN: Just What Is It That Makes Him So Different, So Appealing?
Packet 2
BONUSES
1.Identify the following about Japanese theater for 10 points each.
[10] This type of theater often contrasted with Noh uses a hanamichi, or a walkway into the audience, is highly stylized and uses elaborate makeup.
ANSWER: Kabuki
[10] This form of Japanese theater somewhat similar to Kabuki uses puppets controlled by ningyouzukai as well as shamisen players.
ANSWER: bunraku
[10] This Japanese bunraku dramatist wrote The Battle of Coxinga and The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, as well as many plays notable for double suicides.
ANSWER: Chikamatsu Monzaemon [prompt on partial; accept Sugimori Nobumori]
2.Dr. Rank flirts with her before revealing that he has tuberculosis of the spine. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this character, a friend of Kristine Linde treated childishly by her husband Torvald.
ANSWER: NoraHelmer [accept either]
[10] Along with Torvald and Krogstad, Nora appears prominently in this play by Henrik Ibsen which ends with Nora leaving her marriage.
ANSWER: A Doll's House
[10] In this other Ibsen play, Hilda Wangel admires architect Halvard Solness, who eventually lets Ragnar Brovik leave his firm and later falls from a tower to his death.
ANSWER: The Master Builder
3.The entire apparatus for this experiment was placed inside a wooden box and observed with a telescope. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this experiment in which a bar with two small balls of lead was hung from a torsion fiber near two larger lead balls, and the deflection of the fiber was measured.
ANSWER: Cavendish experiment
[10] The Cavendish experiment is cited in a modern context as a measurement of this value, the constant coefficient in the classical equation governing the weakest fundamental force.
ANSWER: universal gravitational constant [or Newton's constant; prompt on "G"; accept big G or capital G or anything else that distinguishes it from lowercase g]