Illinois Novice Tournament 2001 Round 3

Illinois Novice Tournament 2001 – Round 3

Packet by Michigan A (Matt Lafer, Jeff Shattuck, Armen Terjimenian, Paul Litvak, and Benjamin Heller)

Tossups

1. The story takes place in a palace; each room in the palace is decorated a bright color, except for the seventh and final room, which is painted black with red windows. It also contains a large clock whose chimes are loud enough to interrupt the entire party being hosted by Prince Prospero. At the strike of midnight, a new guest wearing a funeral shroud appears, beckoning the party-goers into the black and red room, where they all fall down dead. FTP, name this short story by Edgar Allen Poe, where the shrouded figure is a representation of the titular ailment.

Answer: “The Masque of the Red Death”

2. Ground was broken for it on June 18, 1999 to the north of Point State Park, and construction was completed in early summer of 2001. Seating approximately 64,450 people, it is run by the Sports and Exhibition Commission of Allegheny County and, at the professional level, serves to replace Three Rivers Stadium. FTP, what is this new football-only stadium, home to the Pitt Panthers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Answer: Heinz Field or Heinz Stadium
3. He preferred the more autonomous Congregational model of church governance to the hierarchical structure of Presbyterianism and defended his views in A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline. Cited to appear before the Court of High Commission in 1630, he fled to Holland, and three years later he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Leaving Massachusetts to found Hartford in 1636, he became known as the “Father of American Democracy.” For 10 points, name this founder of Connecticut.
Answer: Thomas Hooker

4. They were frequently written for specific holy days and were sung at Mass between the Credo and Sanctus or at Vespers. In the late 16th century, Venetian composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli wrote them for multiple choirs and contrasting instruments. After 1600, the term came to indicate any composition setting a serious non-liturgical, but often sacred, text. For ten points, what is this form of multi-voiced, sacred vocal composition, named for the French for “word”?

Answer: Motet
5. This sorting algorithm has an efficiency on the order of N squared, making it among the slowest, but it is used due to its relative simplicity compared to faster methods. For each pass through the data, the largest element is moved to the first unsorted position in the data set, and whatever was there is put in its place. For ten points, name this algorithm, so called because it appears that the data is rising to its proper place.
Answer: Bubble Sort
6. He was primarily a pastoral god with the epithet “Shepherd.” One myth says that he was the son of Duttur and Enki while another says his mother was Ninsun, the Wild Lady Cow. His marriage to the goddess Inanna and his death at the hands of demons in the underworld formed two major festivals. His death and rising were celebrated in Babylon at festivals commemorating the yearly cycle of vegetation. Known to the Sumerians as Dumuzi, for ten points, who is this Babylonian god and husband of Ishtar?
Answer: Tammuz
7. The term referred to the native inhabitants of Laconia. The ephors declared war on them each year so that they could be murdered at any time and the krypteia patrolled the countryside looking for dangerous ones. Bound to the soil, their owners could neither free nor sell them, but the Messenian variety were freed by Epaminondas in 370 BC, although the system continued until the second century. For 10 points, name these state-owned serfs of Sparta.
Answer: Helots

8. His association with Laura Riding, an American poet, led him to settle on the island of Majorca in 1929, which he called home until his death. His poetry was notably bland until his experiences in trench warfare in World War I, which also led to a memoir, Goodbye to All That. His translation of Khayyam’s Rubaiyat was extremely controversial in his day, and his White Goddess claimed that all modern religions are rooted in an ancient goddess cult. FTP, name this poet, more popularly known as a novelist, who wrote historical fiction such as Claudius the God and I, Claudius.

Answer: Robert Graves
9. The term originated in the language of the Algonkian tribe of the Ojibwa. This practice was first accurately described by a Methodist missionary, Peter Jones, and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan explained it. It takes two forms: the group variety where entire societies are organized around it, and the individual variety that can include shamanism. Closely tied to animism, for ten points, what is this practice that involves worshipping a spirit-imbued animal or natural object, the most famous example of which includes Native American poles.
Answer: Totem
10. Useful because of its boiling point of 56 degrees Celsius and infinite solubility in water, it is used extensively in industrial solvents. It is produced for commercial use in the US through the dehydrogenation of isopropyl alcohol and with the cumene hydroperoxide. The simplest and most important of the aliphatic ketones, it has a formula of CH3COCH3. FTP, what is this solvent, commonly found in nail polish remover?
Answer: Acetone
11. It was named for a writer and leader in the Mexican independence movement. Its main products are chicle and copra produced on an offshore island and there are significant sponge and turtle fishing industries. Located west of the Caribbean Sea and east of Campeche and Yucatan and north of Belize, it is on the Yucatan Peninsula and contains cities such as Felipe Carillo Puerto, Tulum, and Valle Hermosa. FTP, what is this province of Mexico whose most visited city is Cancun?
Answer: Quintana Roo

12. Characters in this novel include the Self-Taught Man, who believes he can learn the entire sum of human knowledge by reading every book in the library in alphabetical order, and Anny, former lover of the central character, who is constantly reading history books in order to escape the present-day life. It centers on the study of the Marquis de Robellon, a mysterious French aristocrat. Robellon becomes the obsession of Roquentin, and Roquentin’s study draws him to the town of Bouville, where he suddenly realizes the true nature of objective reality, which brings about the title affliction. FTP name this existential novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Answer: Nausea

13. In 1879 he published his Defence of Philosophic Doubt in which he endeavored to show that scientific knowledge depends just as much as theology upon an act of faith.

In the second ministry of his uncle, Lord Salisbury, he was secretary for Scotland and then chief secretary for Ireland, where his opposition of Irish Home Rule earned him the name "Bloody." As prime minister from 1902 to 1905 he passed his namesake education act. For 10 points, name this man who as Foreign Secretary during World War I issued his declaration expressing British approval for Zionism.
Answer: Arthur James Balfour
14. For a gas, it is defined as the ambient pressure integrated over the change in volume. For a rotational solid, it is product of the systematic moment of inertia and the angular velocity integrated over the change in angular velocity. When performed by gravity it is always positive. For ten points, what is this physical quantity, simply defined as the energy expended to apply a force over a given distance, with units of Joules?
Answer: Work

15. In The Spirit of the Age the critic William Hazlitt wrote a number of replies to this thinker whom he felt assumed too much of Godwin’s moral theories. One of his disciples was Samuel Whitbread, who in 1807 introduced a law into Parliament to regulate the poor. Like Ricardo, he wrote an essay on the Corn Laws, but is more famous for another essay, expanded into 5 volumes, which argued that the titular entity grows geometrically, while food supply grows arithmetically. FTP, identify this thinker, famous for his On Population.

Answer: Thomas Malthus
16. No light comes from single window in the middle back wall. Two boys with feathers in their caps face the light source, an unidentified shine from the right side of the painting. Two men on the far right look toward the left and point at a bald and stooping man at the end of the table. Another man at the end of the table sits with his head down. For 10 points name this Caravaggio painting that depicts men pointing and shouting out to a tax-collecting saint.
Answer: The Calling of Saint Matthew

17. Characters in this play include a dim-witted constable named Elbow who arrests people for sexual misconduct. Barnadine is a prisoner who is sentenced to death along with one of the main characters, while Pompey is a clown who works for a mistress named Overdone. The plot revolves around the restriction of sexual freedoms in Vienna, and the hypocrisy of Angelo, who has abandoned Mariana, yet sentences Claudio to death for the same crime. FTP, identify this play by Shakespeare in which Claudio is saved by his sister Isabella, who marries the Duke.

Answer: Measure for Measure
18. Written at roughly the same time as Ruth, it is the only book of the Minor Prophets to tell a narrative about the prophet rather than express his teachings. The prophet, son of Amittai, is also the subject of a chapter in Moby Dick, in which a sermon and a hymn are written to him. FTP, name this book of the Old Testament concerning the man who was to prophecy the destruction of the Assyrian city of Nineveh, causing him to flee out to sea and be swallowed by a giant fish.
Answer: Jonah or Jonas

19. It is comprised of two subunits; p51, which stabilizes the molecule, and p66, which is the catalytically important subunit. Drugs like ddl, ddc, d4t, and 3tc are used to inhibit its production but due to its tendency to misread the RNA sequence, innumerable variations in its form can be found, which prevents drugs such as AZT from being very effective. FTP, name this enzyme found in HIV that creates ribonucleic acid from a DNA template.

Answer: Reverse transcriptase

20. Receiving legal training from Attorney General William Wirt, this leader of the Liberty Party helped found the Free Soil Party and served as the first Republican governor of Ohio. In Mississippi v. Johnson and Georgia v. Stanton, he spoke for the court in refusing to prohibit Andrew Johnson and Edwin M. Stanton from enforcing the Reconstruction Acts. Disavowing the court’s jurisdiction in Ex parte McCardle, he later dissented in Ex parte Garland believing that loyalty oaths should be enforced. For 10 points, name this chief justice of the US Supreme Court from 1864 to 1873.

Answer: Salmon P. Chase

21. Seeking to study humans at their best, its creator introduced to psychology concept of “B-values”, which are largely spiritual. The few attempts to verify its correctness have actually provided evidence for the competing theory of William James, who posited only three major categories. In a later work, Motivation and Personality, the idea’s originator added to it by describing the cognitive and aesthetic fulfillment as integral to human development. For ten points, identify this theory which states that physical desires must be satisfied before spiritual ones, put forth by Abraham Maslow.

Answer: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Bonuses

1. 
   Identify the economic curves FTPE.
   

A. This curve describes the tradeoff that occurs when a firm chooses to produce a good x over a different good y. Outward shifting outwards when new technologies are found, while it moves inward if a supply shock occurs.

Answer: Production possibility curve (also accept production possibilities curve, production possibilities frontier, or transformation curve)
B. This curve, famous in its use in supply-side economics, demonstrates that there is an optimal rate of tax where government revenues are optimized, thus denying the need for budget deficits.
Answer: Laffer curve
C. Many Keynesians support this curve which shows a positive correlation between unemployment and inflation, although it was declared dead by many during the height of the New Economy.
Answer: Philips curve

2. Identify the following members of the Warren Commission, for 10 points each:

A. This Michigan representative went on to become the first president of the US never to be elected president of vice president.
Answer: Gerald Ford
B. This former director of the CIA and brother of a Secretary of State had been implicated in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the overthrows of Arbenz in Guatemala and Mohammed Mossadeq in Iran.
Answer: Allen Dulles
C. This Louisiana representative had a falling out with the Commission, then perished in a mysterious plane crash soon after being seen off at an airport by a young Bill Clinton.
Answer: Hale Boggs

3. Identify these concepts from genetics FTPE.

A. This is the term for any of two or more genes that may occur alternatively at a specific site on a chromosome.

Answer: Alleles

B. These “jumping genes” discovered by Barbara McClintock can move from one site on a chromosome to another or between different chromosomes.
Answer: Transposons
C. These rings of bacterial DNA replicate independently of the bacteria’s chromosomes. They are useful to scientists because of their role in recombinant DNA and protein production.
Answer: Plasmids
4. Identify the poem from the opening lines for 10 points, or for 5 points if you need the poet.
A. (For 10) “Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! Sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.
(For 5) Walt Whitman
Answer: “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
B. (For 10) “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table”
(5 points) T.S. Eliot
Answer: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
C. (For 10) “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge…”
(For 5) Wilfred Owen
Answer: “Dulce et Decorum Est”

5. FTPE, answer some questions about a movement in ancient philosophy:

A. This movement sought to deny the possibility of knowledge about a class of facts about the world. Arcesilaus, a member of this school, was the first to take over the Plato’s Academy.
Answer: Skepticism
B. Skepticism was founded by this man, formerly a member of Alexander’s army.
Answer: Pyrrho
C. The only skeptic whose works survive, he is the author of Against the Dogmatists and Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Ezra Pound wrote a famous “Homage” to him.
Answer: Sextus Propertius

6. Title boys of the world unite. Name these Russian members of the Mighty Fistful from works, 10-5.

A. (For 10) Tamara, Piano Sonata, music to King Lear
(For 5) Islamey, Overture on Russian Themes
Answer: Mily Balakirev
B. (For 10) Sadko, Servilia,
(For 5) The Golden Cockerel, Scheherezade
Answer: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
C. (For 10) Podpraporshchik, The Nursery, The Marriage, Sunless
(For 5) Boris Godonov, Pictures at an Exhibition.
Answer: Modest Mussorgsky

7. This nationa was granted independence in 1948 and was the scene of an extended US policing action in the early 1950’s. For 10 points each:

A. Name this nation with capital at Seoul.
Answer: South Korea
B. This first president of South Korea was ousted in 1960.
Answer: Syngman Rhee
C. After working as the chief of the Korean CIA, this man took over in 1980 after President Park was assassinated.
Answer: Chun Doo Hwan

8. 30-20-10: Name the region.

A. Historically known as Artsakh, it claims to be an independent country, however, no country recognizes its autonomy.
B. Lying on the Kura River, its capital is located at Stepanakert.
C. Located totally inside Azerbaijan, it has been the subject of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 1988.
Answer: Nagorno-Karabakh
9. Answer these questions about William Shakespeare’s As You Like It for ten points each.
A. This melancholic attendant of Duke Senior delivers the famous “All the world’s a stage” monologue.
Answer: Jacques
B. This daughter of Duke Senior is the play’s central character; she falls in love with Oliver while disguised as a man, and the usual Shakespearean hijinks ensues.
Answer: Rosalind
C. This jester accompanies Rosalind on her journey to the forest of Ardenne.
Answer: Touchstone

10. Identify the following about modern physics FTPE.

A. This basic picture of modern quantum mechanics and particle physics depicts all matter, composed of hadrons and leptons, as interacting through the four fundamental forces: weak, strong, gravity, and electromagnetism.
Answer: Standard Model
B. The forces are mediated through this class of particles which have integer spin.
Answer: Gauge Bosons
C. For five points each, these two particles are the bosons that mediate the strong nuclear force and the gravitational force.
Answer: Gluon (strong) and Graviton (gravity)

11. Identify these concepts related to Hinduism FTPE.

A. This circular diagram, a favorite symbol of Carl Jung’s, is a representation of the universe, which is used during certain sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation.
Answer: Mandala
B.This is the ancient custom of a Hindu wife immolating herself on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband.
Answer: Sati or Suttee
C. This term, Sanskrit for “color,” denotes any of the four social castes in traditional Hindu society.
Answer: Varnas
12. Identify the following about the Rolling Stones FTPE.
A. In order to be allowed to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, Mick Jagger intentionally muddled the lyrics to this suggestively-titled song, replacing the offensive term with “some time”.
Answer: “Let’s Spend the Night Together”
B. This former member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers joined the Stones to replace Brian Jones at lead guitar.

Answer: Mick Taylor

C. This failed attempt at a psychedelic concept album featured one hit, “She’s a Rainbow”.
Answer: Their Satanic Majesties Request

13. FTPE, identify the books from descriptions.

A. In this John Galsworthy work, Soames Forsyte treats his with like chattel, so she falls in love with an architect.
Answer: The Man of Property
B. In this Jules Verne work, the presumed-dead Captain Nemo resurfaces on the title locale.
Answer: The Mysterious Island
C. In this Charles Dickens work, Kit Nubbles searches for his brother and grand-niece Nell, who have lost the title location to the hunchbacked Daniel Quilp, only to find Nell dead.
Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop
14. Name the following from Soviet history:
A. First, this was the Soviet State Security Committee, the equivalent of the American CIA.
Answer: KGB or Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
B. This man served as head of the KGB from 1967 until 1982. He became president of the USSR in June 1983 but ill health overtook him in August and he disappeared from public life.
Answer: Yury Vladimirovich Andropov
C. As Soviet ambassador to this nation from 1954 to 1957, Andropov engineered its capture when Imry Nagy delivered a petition requesting to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact.
Answer: Hungary
15. Impressionists suck. Name these artists who suck for 10 points each:
A. She was no captain, but she did paint The Boating Party, Feeding the Ducks, and The Bath.
Answer: Mary Cassatt
B. Blah, blah, blah, Haystacks, Water Lilies.
Answer: Claude Monet
(10) Place du Theatre Francaise, Bridge at Bruges, though he maybe best known for being born in the West Indies.
Answer: Camille Pissarro
16. For 10 points each, given a definition, identify the geological term.
A. Sands and gravel carried by rivers and deposited along the course of the river.

Answer: Alluvium or alluvial deposits

B. Deposits of wind blown fine particles.

Answer: Loess

C. An evaporite calcium sulphate mineral found in clays and limestone.

Answer: Gypsum

17. FTP, name the Egyptian deities given what they look like.
A. A woman with the head of a cat.
Answer: Bast
B. A white-skinned man with a forked tail and bright red hair.
Answer: Set
C. A man with the head of an ibis or baboon.
Answer: Thoth
18. Name the play given characters for 10 or from the author for 5.
A. (For 10) Arsinoe, Eliante, Celimene
(For 5) Moliere
Answer: Le Misanthrope or The Misanthrope
B. (For 10) Philocleon, Bdelocleon, a dog
(For 5) Aristophanes
Answer: The Wasps or Sphekes
C. (For 10) Aslaksen, Morten Kiil, Dr. Thomas Stockmann
(For 5) Heinrich Ibsen
Answer: An Enemy of the People

19. Name the author from works, 30-20-10.

A. The Just Assassins, Caligula
B. The First Man, The Plague
C. The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus,
Answer: Albert Camus
20. Answer the following questions on primates, 10 each
A. Primates are found on 5 out of the 7 continents of the planet. All or nothing, name both of the continents where they are not found.
Answer: Antarctica or Australia
B. If you didn’t know, humans are primates. Humans display this characteristic of primates, which allows for the organism to walk only using two appendages.
Answer: Bipedalism
C. All primates have a distinctive skull that contains this type of ‘bar’ behind the orbit of the eye—name it.
Answer: Postorbital bar
21. A close childhood friend of Louis XI, when Louis took possession of some of his territory on the Somme he began a lifelong struggle against the king. For 10 points each name:
A. This French duke who led the League of the Public Weal and who entered into a treaty against Louis with Edward IV of England.
Answer: Charles the Bold or Charles le Temeraire
B. Charles the Bold served as the last powerful duke of this region of France, famed for its wine production.
Answer: Burgundy
C. Charles captured this city on the Rhine in 1475, but was pushed out the next year and killed in a battle outside the walls.
Answer: Nancy