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2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 17 – Tossups

1. This author recounted how a man shouted “Buttered toast!” through a megaphone to enemies nearby. This author lamented the tendency for people in a particular country to put things off by saying “mañana” in a book that begins by recalling his wonder at arriving in a city where everyone wore overalls and tipping was banned by the anarchist government. This author failed to free Georges Kopp after recovering from a sniper wound to the neck, as recounted in a memoir that also describes three days he spent atop the Poliorama theater in Las Ramblas defending POUM headquarters against Stalinists during the May Days in Barcelona. For 10 points, name this English author who depicted his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia.ANSWER: George Orwell [or Eric Arthur Blair]<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Shan Kothari>

2. This person’s name is used for kinetic equations which describe a system that is not in equilibrium. A quantity named for this person has the ratio negative energy times a constant divided by absolute temperature in an exponent and gives the relative probability of an energy. This scientist gave theoretical support to a result showing that the power from a blackbody varies with the fourth power of temperature, which had been stated earlier by Josef Stefan, and the constant named for this person and Stefan can be expressed by including this person’s constant raised to the fourth power. For 10 points, name this scientist whose namesake constant equals the gas constant divided by the Avogadro constant and which is multiplied by three-halves and temperature to calculate average kinetic energy.ANSWER: Ludwig Boltzmann<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by David Reinstein>

3. In this culture, the “nökör” relationship designated a person who abandoned his family loyalties to follow a strong leader. In contrast, the “anda” oath created a fictitious family relationship between people in this culture. This culture had the first Kheshig (KEH-sheek) elite guard, and it divided its army into units such as the mingghan and tumen. The secret Yassa law governed the Yam system of road-borne messengers in this culture’s empire, which selected new leaders at an assembly called a Kurultai. This culture is the subject of a late thirteenth century “secret history,” and this culture’s namesake empire won the Battle of the Kalka River over a Russian-led coalition. For 10 points, name this culture whose nomadic horseman traditions allowed it to become the dominant military force in Eurasia in the thirteenth century.ANSWER: Mongol culture or empire [or Mongolian]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Penelope Ashe>

4. A member of this school compared the self to a chariot in a dialogue with a Bactrian king called Questions of Menander. A member of this belief system used the “diamond slivers” tetralemma to explain his belief that substances lack essences. This group had a long-running debate with the Nyaya school about the nature of the self, and conceived of human beings as comprising five aggregates. Members of this nastika, or unorthodox, school posited a series of twelve links that underlie its doctrine of “dependent origination.” The Kyoto School adopted the idea of absolute nothingness, or sunyata, from Nagarjuna, who founded this group’s Middle Way tradition. For 10 points, name this Indian religion that explained the origin and cessation of suffering through the Four Noble Truths.ANSWER: Buddhism [or specific schools such as Theravada, Mahayana, or Madhyamaka]<The above question is for the category RMP Philosophy and was written by Shan Kothari>

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5. The murder of a martyr from this country may have inspired a composer from here to set Psalm 78 as the motet Deus venerunt gentes (DAY-oos VEN-eh-roont JEN-tess). That composer contributed two pavanes (pa-VONS) and four galliards (GAL-yerds) to the first printed collection of keyboard music from this country. Three composers from this country collaborated on Parthenia, a collection from this country’s virginalist school. Latin text meaning “I have never put my hope in any other but in thee” opens a motet from this country; that motet, which is for eight choirs of five voices each, singing antiphonally (an-TIFF-uh-null-ee), is Spem in alium. One of this country’s monarchs composed Pastime with Good Company. For 10 points, name this country where Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and Henry VIII composed. ANSWER: United Kingdom [or Great Britain; or England; or UK]<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Joseph Krol>

6. Intensive and standard control of this variable were compared in the SPRINT trial. In 2014, the Joint National Committee issued its eighth set of guidelines for managing elevation of this variable. The elevation of this variable when seeing a practitioner is referred to as the “White Coat” version of a certain disease. In addition to proteinuria (pro-teen-YUR-ee-uh), an elevation of this variable is a diagnostic criterion of pre-eclampsia. ARBs and ACE inhibitors are used to decrease this variable. The standard method of measuring this variable relies on listening for Korotkoff sounds, and orthostasis is a sudden drop in it when changing position. The solitary nucleus receives input from baroreceptors, which sense changes in it. For 10 points, name this vital sign that is measured by an arm cuff.ANSWER: blood pressure [or BP]<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Eric Mukherjee>

7. According to a 1999 study, this organization was both the least transparent and the least responsible to national governments of its kind in developed economies. This organization launched the Outright Monetary Transfers program, which has reduced government bond spreads despite the fact that the conditions for it to be triggered have never been met. Unlike the Federal Reserve, this organization does not target employment rates, and its primary objective is to keep HICP inflation below 2 percent. This organization’s current head said it will do “whatever it takes” to preserve the currency it issues. Since 2016, this organization’s baseline interest rate has been set at 0 percent. For 10 points, name this financial organization, headed by Mario Draghi, which sets monetary policy for all states within the eurozone.ANSWER: European Central Bank [or ECB]<The above question is for the category Social Science Economics and was written by Travis Tea>

8. During a 2012 trial in this state, the media was only allowed to show the hands of a witness known as “M.B.” That trial resulted in Dharun Ravi receiving 30 days in jail partly for his illegal usage of iChat. David Wildstein, an employee of this state, was accused of trying to punish a mayor for supporting Barbara Buono for the governorship. A student attending college in this state, Tyler Clementi, killed himself after his roommate used a webcam to film him kissing another man. A politician in this state sent an email saying “time for some traffic problems” to a Port Authority official. For 10 points, the “Bridgegate” scandal in what state closed lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge on orders of Governor Chris Christie?ANSWER: New Jersey<The above question is for the category History American (1945-present) and was written by Mike Cheyne>


9. This author used the pen name Flora Fairfield to publish “The Rival Painters.” Her story of Rosamond Vivian’s isolation, A Long Fatal Love Chase, wasn’t published until 1995. In one of her books, Tommy Bangs hires Nat Blake to sell eggs; Nat is a student at Plumfield, a school run by the Bhaer family. In another of her novels, she writes about a group of characters who create the Pickwick Club. That same novel details how the Laurences allow Beth to learn the piano; the book ends after the death of Beth, who is remembered by the rest of the March family. For 10 points, name this author of Little Men and Little Women.ANSWER: Louisa May Alcott<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Fred Morlan>

10. According to an important saying, “Satan flees from the house in which” this chapter is recited. The last verse in this chapter says “God does not burden any soul with more than it can bear.” In this chapter, a verse that says “whoever believes in God has grasped the firmest hand-hold, one that will never break” and begins “there is no compulsion in religion” follows a verse that says “neither slumber nor sleep overtakes him” and “his throne extends over the heavens and the earth.” This surah, which comes after al-Fatihah, is the longest in the Quran and is the second. For 10 points, give this surah, which shares its name with the adult form of an animal which Samiri incites the Israelites to make out of gold and worship.ANSWER: surah al-Baqarah [or The Cow; or The Heifer; or surah 2 or the second surah until “second” is read]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>

11. In one opera, another character sings “what will I do” and “where will I go” without this character in an aria that precedes the chorus “Trionfi amore.” That aria is quoted in an opera where this woman sings a duet with a character who can only buzz in response because he has been turned into a fly. The dull John Styx sings to this woman about being King of Boeotia (bee-OH-shuh) in an opera whose plot is set in motion when she is seduced by Aristée. In that opera, she sneaks in as a bacchante (buh-CONT) to a party hosted by Pluto where the guests dance a Galop Infernal. This woman is the second title character of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s first reform opera, which was parodied in a work in which Public Opinion compels her husband to rescue her. For 10 points, name this female lead from Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld.ANSWER: Eurydice (yur-ID-uh-see or oo-ree-DEECE) [or Euridice (ew-ree-DEE-cheh)]<The above question is for the category Arts Opera and was written by Shan Kothari>

12. In the 1980s, a “Solidarity Crisis” led to protests and strikes in response to the policy of this province’s Socred (soh-CRED) government. Graham Island and Moresby Island make up an archipelago in this province that is governed by the Haida First Nation, and was formerly named for Queen Charlotte. A tower called Living Shangri-La is the tallest in one city in this province, which developed out of a settlement called Gastown. That city in this province has a fully-automated, elevated metro line which recently abandoned its new Morgan Freeman-voiced announcements; that metro system in this province is called the SkyTrain. Indigenous peoples from this province, including the Tsimshian (TSIM-shee-in) and Kwakiutl (kwah-kee-OO-tull), hold a once-criminalized gift-giving feast called Potlatch, and make totem poles. For 10 points, name this Canadian province whose largest city is Vancouver.ANSWER: British Columbia [or Colombie-Britannique]<The above question is for the category Geography World and was written by John Marvin>


13. As a young man, this character allied with Otreus and Mygdon to fight the Amazons. This man divorced his first wife Arisbe in favor of the daughter of Dymas and Eunoë. As a child using the name Podarces, this man was spared during the massacre of his brothers spurred by the treachery of his father Laomedon (lay-OM-uh-don). He later ordered his own son exposed on Mount Ida by Agelaus (aj-uh-LAY-us) after Aesacus (eye-SAY-kuss) prophesied (PROFF-uh-sighed) that his second son would be a firebrand and the ruin of his city. This man is killed while clutching Zeus’s altar by Neoptolemus after journeying to Achilles’s tent to beg for the body of his son Hector. For 10 points, name this king of Troy during the Trojan War.ANSWER: Priam [or Podarces until it is read]<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>

14. These objects were modeled by Kuzmin using Plummer’s potential. Bertil Lindblad identified a problem regarding the shape of these objects, which he theorized were due to kinematical waves. The flocculent type of these objects have a disjointed appearance in their main features, unlike in the grand design variety. De Vaucouleurs’s (duh voh-koo-LURR’s) system classifies these objects into categories such as Sab (S-A-B) and Sbc (S-B-C). The rotational speed of these objects is proportional to their luminosity by the Tully–Fisher relation. These galaxies occupy the right ends of the tuning fork diagram, being further classified on whether they have barred arms or not. For 10 points, name this type of galaxy exemplified by the Milky Way.ANSWER: spiral galaxy [or barred spiral galaxy; prompt on galaxy]<The above question is for the category Science Astronomy and was written by Jasper Lee>

15. A legend claims that upon hearing of the death of a man with this name, Thomas FitzStephen killed himself to avoid the king’s wrath. A ruler with this name awarded a bishopric to his trusted financial minister, Ranulf Flambard, and levied an unpopular tax to fund the adventures of his brother, Robert Curthose. Conspiracy theorists say that ruler with this name was killed by the French through the bowman Walter Tirel. This was the name of a man also known as Adelin, the son of Henry I who died in the White Ship disaster. A ruler with this name who had a red-faced appearance was killed while hunting in the New Forest. For 10 points, give this name of an English king known as “Rufus” and his father, the Norman conqueror.ANSWER: William [or William II; or William I; or William Rufus; or William Adelin; or William the Conqueror; prompt on Rufus until it is read; prompt on Adelin until it is read]<The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Mike Cheyne>

16. In one part of this piece, a crow brings food to Paul the Hermit and another saint in the Theban Desert. The Crown of Thorns is laid down beside the open tomb at the bottom of this piece, in which an angel plays a viol (vile) next to a gothic overhang. This painting’s depiction of the Resurrection shows an orange glowing orb behind Christ. Its crucifixion scene shows John the Baptist holding a book and standing next to a lamb that is bleeding into a cup while pointing at the suffering Christ. The interior of this piece, created for the Monastery of St. Anthony, was sculpted by Nikolaus Hagenauer (HAH-guh-NOW-er). When fully open, the panel to the right of those sculptures in this piece depicts St. Anthony being attacked by chimerical (kye-MAIR-ih-kull) demons. For 10 points, name this 16th-century altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald (mah-TEE-ahss GRUE-nuh-valt).ANSWER: Isenheim Altarpiece<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>


17. This poet wrote the line “If the heats of hate and lust / In the house of flesh are strong, / Let me mind the house of dust / Where my sojourn shall be long.” This poet wrote “now, of my threescore years and ten, / twenty will not come again,” in a poem whose title object “stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide.” In one poem by this author, the narrator agrees with a character who tells him that “the heart out of the bosom / was never given in vain” now that he has passed the title age where there’s “no use to talk to him;” earlier that “wise man” tells him “give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.” For 10 points, name this poet of “When I Watch the Living Meet,” “Loveliest of Trees,” and “When I was One-and-Twenty.”ANSWER: Alfred Edward Housman<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by John Marvin>

18. If a sequence of continuous functions has this property at every point and converges to a continuous function on a compact set, the convergence is uniform by Dini’s theorem. A function is of bounded variation if and only if it is the difference of two functions with this property. It’s not “dominated,” but a convergence theorem for functions with this property allows one to interchange limits and integrals. Any bounded sequence with this property converges to either its least upper bound or its greatest lower bound. A differentiable function whose first derivative never changes sign has this property. For 10 points, give this property whose “increasing” form can be stated as “f-of-x is greater than f-of-y whenever x is greater than y.”ANSWER: monotone [or word forms such as monotonic; prompt on increasing or decreasing]<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>

19. In a novel by this author, two characters on a date think that the ostriches at the zoo are warning them of something, and a character misinterprets his love interest’s statement that she would “die” if they had sex and feels a sense of untranslatable shame. That character meets a poet nicknamed Goethe (GUR-tuh) and tries to get with Kristyna in a section of a novel by this man, called “Litost.” The protagonist of another novel by this author writes a letter to the editor comparing the communists to Oedipus and sleeps with a woman named Sabina who wears her grandfather’s bowler hat; that protagonist named Tomáš (toh-MAHSH) lives through the Prague Spring. For 10 points, name this Czech author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.ANSWER: Milan Kundera<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by John Marvin>

20. This foodstuff was blown on before it was placed in a pot to stop it from being afraid of fire and was always picked up from the floor because “Our sustenance suffers, it lies weeping.” The Cotxcatlan (coach-COT-lahn) cave shows the earliest evidence for the domestication of this crop. This crop was made into a gruel known as atolli, and a historic manuscript describes how this foodstuff was used to make Pozoli on ceremonial occasions. It was first domesticated from teosinte (tay-oh-SIN-tay) grasses. Niacin deficiencies were avoided by carrying out the process of nixtamalization on this foodstuff. Along with squash and beans, this crop was planted as part of the “three sisters” triad. For 10 points name this staple crop of the Aztecs which was used to make tortillas and tamales.ANSWER: maize [or corn]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Daoud Jackson>


Extra. The narrator of this book describes great success at locating 150 war wagons, after which a visit to Colonel Dunbar’s camp encourages him to switch to providing care packages for soldiers. This book describes the dissolution of John Collins, who becomes an alcoholic and refuses to take his turn at rowing, after which the narrator throws him overboard from a boat. The formation of a mutual defense “Junto” is discussed in this book, which is addressed to the author’s son William, the governor of New Jersey. Its protagonist leaves his brother James’s New England Courant and later purchases the Pennsylvania Gazette as part of his printing business. For 10 points, name this life story which includes the foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.ANSWER: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Penelope Ashe>


2018 National All-Star Academic TournamentRound 17 – Bonuses

1. This party, reeling from corruption investigations, was effectively dissolved in 1994 and became the PPI. For 10 points each:[10] Name this political party which from 1976 to 1979 governed via the “historic compromise,” in which it received support from the Communists.ANSWER: Christian Democracy [or Christian Democrats; or Democrazia Cristiana; or DC][10] This man, a member of the Italian Christian Democracy party, was a two-time prime minister. His abduction and murder by the Red Brigades in 1978 severely weakened the historic compromise.ANSWER: Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro[10] After Christian Democracy’s dissolution, the more right-wing party members joined Forza Italia, a party led by this controversial media tycoon and longest-serving postwar Italian prime minister.ANSWER: Silvio Berlusconi<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Mike Cheyne>

2. Johann Nepomuk Maelzel designed ear trumpets for the bearer of this condition. For 10 points each:[10] Name this condition that forced the composer of Für Elise to use conversation books and rendered him unable to directly experience his own Ninth Symphony.ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven’s deafness [accept equivalents such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s loss of hearing; prompt on partial answer][10] Beethoven expressed his despair at his growing deafness in an 1802 “Testament” written to his brothers Carl and Johann often named after this town outside Vienna. Beethoven’s return from this town to Vienna marked the beginning of his middle period.ANSWER: Heiligenstadt (HIGH-lig-un-SHTOTT)[10] Beethoven’s increasing deafness made it harder for him to perform at concerts, such that Carl Czerny (CHAIR-nee) eventually premiered this Beethoven piece. This E-flat major concerto begins with three thundering chords punctuated by virtuosic cadenza-like passages.ANSWER: Piano Concerto No. 5 [or Emperor Concerto; or Fifth Piano Concerto; prompt on partial answer]<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Shan Kothari>

3. The existence of bet-hedging strategies was first proposed to explain delays in this process through dormancy. For 10 points each:[10] Name this process in which environmental cues prompt a seed to sprout into a seedling.ANSWER: germination [accept word forms][10] Bet-hedging strategies, like delaying germination in arid environments, reduce both the arithmetic mean and the variance in this quantity. Fisher’s fundamental theorem can be derived by treating this quantity as the trait of interest in the Price equation.ANSWER: fitness[10] Seed dormancy can be ended by this class of plant hormones, which stimulate alpha-amylase production in the endosperm. ANSWER: gibberellins<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Shan Kothari>


4. Loviatar, daughter of Tuoni, gives birth to nine of these things which are banished to the land of Kaleva. For 10 points each:[10] Name these things, personified by Namtar and Sitala Devi. Ishtar is struck by sixty of them after passing through seven gates on her way to the underworld.ANSWER: diseases [or illnesses][10] This Greek god of healing had daughters named Hygieia and Panacea and two sons who were surgeons. This god was the son of Apollo and Coronis.ANSWER: Asclepius[10] After losing an arm to Sreng, king of the Fir Bolg, Nuada had his arm remade from this material by the Celtic physician Dian Cécht (tee-ahn CAKED).ANSWER: silver <The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Rohith Nagari>

5. Answer the following about lotteries in literature, for 10 points each.[10] This author’s short story “The Lottery” ends with Tessie being stoned to death.ANSWER: Shirley Hardie Jackson[10] The title character of this novel ends up being handcuffed to Marcus’s corpse in Death Valley after his relationship with Trina turns sour when she wins 5,000 dollars in the lottery.ANSWER: McTeague[10] A hairdresser wins 8,500 dollars in the lottery but decides to do good deeds with the money in the play Sheppey, which was written by this author whose other dramas include The Circle and The Letter.ANSWER: William Somerset Maugham (mawm)<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Kurtis Droge>

6. She was friends with Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie performed at her wedding. For 10 points each:[10] Name this surrealist who had many social associations in the New York jazz scene. Her Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape shows a moon and a pink cloud at the top of ladders, and she painted herself walking with a black cat in Portrait of the Artist in a Green Dress.ANSWER: Gertrude Abercrombie[10] This medium was used by Romare Bearden in his many works depicting jazz musicians, such as Out Chorus and It’s a Black Thing. A Fauvist also used this medium in creating an art book called Jazz.ANSWER: collage[10] Jazz is by this artist, who also created the painting The Music as a companion for his masterwork The Dance.ANSWER: Henri Matisse<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>

7. Answer the following about the physicist Léon Brillouin (lay-ON bree-WANN), for 10 points each.[10] Brillouin zones are unit cells in this type of space. Planes in this type of space are represented with Miller indices.ANSWER: reciprocal space [or k-space; or momentum space][10] Brillouin scattering occurs when photons are scattered by these quasiparticles. They correspond to quantized vibrations of a crystal lattice.ANSWER: phonons[10] Brillouin also co-developed the WKB approximation, which is used to find approximate solutions to equations of this type, which relate a function to one or more of its derivatives.ANSWER: differential equations [accept specific types, such as linear differential equations or second-order differential equations or partial differential equations]<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Matt Mitchell>


8. This character is the subject of gossip by the free-spirited Dorimant, the heiress Harriet and the old flame Mrs. Loveit. For 10 points each:[10] Name this fashionable man-about-town who is the title character of George Etheredge’s play The Man of Mode. ANSWER: Sir Fopling Flutter [or Flutter][10] This contemporary to George Etheredge coined the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” in his play The Mourning Bride, and also introduced the lovers Mirabell and Millamant in The Way of the World. ANSWER: William Congreve[10] In a plot worthy of one of his plays, Etheredge retired from writing, lost his fortune through participation in this activity, and then married a wealthy widow. This activity is the ruin of Alexei Ivanovich in a Dostoyevsky novella and Hermann in a Pushkin short story.ANSWER: gambling [or playing cards; or playing roulette; or playing spades]<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Joseph Krol>

9. This country’s churches, which are often round, use a concentric design inspired by Solomon’s Temple, where each layer inward is progressively more sacred and thus more restricted. For 10 points each:[10] Name this country whose church preserved the books of Enoch and Jubilees in its canon. Since the Aramaic originals were not found until the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, those books were thought to be written in this country.ANSWER: Ethiopia [or The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; or ye’Ītiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk][10] Those texts were preserved in this liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, a Semitic language which is the predecessor of Amharic.ANSWER: Ge’ez (GHEE-ezz) [or Gi’iz][10] The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to house this object in its Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, which only one priest is allowed to enter per Old Testament warnings. A replica of this object called a “tabot” is placed in the center of every Ethiopian Orthodox church in keeping with the model of Solomon’s Temple.ANSWER: Ark of the Covenant<The above question is for the category RMP Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>

10. Answer the following about the career of William Pepperrell, the first American to be made a baronet, for 10 points each.[10] William Pepperell made his fortune in what is now Maine through selling lumber and this good. Crafts such as ketches were used in gathering this good.ANSWER: fish [or seafood][10] During King George’s War, Pepperrell was placed in charge of four thousand troops who were charged with capturing this island fortress in Nova Scotia. The successful attempt was compared by one participant to a boisterous Harvard commencement.ANSWER: Louisbourg (LOO-ee-burg)[10] Pepperrell was allowed to raise his own regiment, the 51st, but disbanded it after Louisbourg was returned following this treaty which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.ANSWER: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (EX-la-shah-PELL)<The above question is for the category History American (pre-1865) and was written by Daoud Jackson>


11. The Cohen–Kung theorem showed that this thing’s direction is not bounded by any initial conditions. For 10 points each:[10] Give this Turing-complete construct named for an insect that “walks” on a grid of black and white squares according to certain rules. Its behavior is chaotic, but it seems to always converge on a repeated “highway” pattern at some point.ANSWER: Langton’s ant[10] Langton’s ant is an example of one of these constructs, which are systems designed in discrete grids of cells that change state with each generation according to some ruleset. ANSWER: cellular automata [or cellular automaton; or cellular spaces; or tessellation automata; or iterative arrays; or CA; prompt on homogeneous structures; prompt on cellular structures; prompt on tessellation structures; do not accept or prompt on “automaton” or “automata” or “finite automata”][10] The most famous cellular automaton is this “game” by John Conway, where interesting patterns abound including “spaceships” like the “glider” and oscillators like the “toad” and the “beacon.” This system is capable of emulating itself with the “OTCA Metapixel” pattern.ANSWER: John Conway’s Game of Life<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by John Marvin>

12. At the end of this poem, the speaker asks “why do you beckon me with your hand?” and says “for one moment of peace / I would give the peace of the tomb.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this poem, which begins “I have lit my treasured candles, / one by one, to hallow this night” and asks “what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?”ANSWER: “Poem without a Hero” [or poema byez geroya; or other plausible translations such as (a/the) poem without (a/the) hero(es)][10] “Poem without a Hero” was written by this Russian poet of Requiem.ANSWER: Anna Akhmatova (ahkh-MAH-tuh-vuh) [or Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (gur-YEN-kuh)][10] Akhmatova wrote “Poem Without a Hero” to commemorate those who died in her country during this war. Akhmatova remained in Leningrad during a 900-day siege in this war.ANSWER: World War II [or Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna; or Great Patriotic War]<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by John Marvin>

13. This man is warned by David of Doncaster not to go to an archery contest. For 10 points each:[10] Name this folk hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.ANSWER: Robin Hood[10] This character, sometimes cited as Robin’s nephew, warns Robin Hood not to go to Church Lees, where Robin is killed.ANSWER: Will Scarlet [or Will Scarlock; or Will Scadlock; or Will Scathelocke; or Will Scatheloke; or Will Shacklock; prompt on Will][10] In “Robin Hood and the Pedlar,” Robin vomits medicine all over Will Scarlet as well as this other Merry Man who is most commonly cited as the only one present for Robin Hood’s death.ANSWER: Little John [prompt on John]<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Fred Morlan>


14. This man was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan but lynched after governor John Slaton commuted his sentence to life in prison. For 10 points each:[10] Name this director of the National Pencil factory who was killed in Atlanta in 1915.ANSWER: Leo Frank [Leo Max Frank][10] Eight years before the murder of the Jewish Frank, a race riot in Atlanta led to the disenfranchising of black voters; like in many Southern states, disenfranchisement took the form of an impossible “literacy test” combined with this sort of law exempting whites from the test.ANSWER: grandfather clause[10] Another change to Georgia’s election system in 1907 was the introduction of this practice by the Democratic Party. The Supreme Court allowed this sort of discrimination as late as 1935’s Grovey v. Townsend but ruled it unconstitutional in 1944’s Smith v. Allwright.ANSWER: all-white primary [or answers indicating that only white voters were allowed to participate in primary elections to choose Democratic nominees]<The above question is for the category History American (1865-1945) and was written by Penelope Ashe>

15. This language’s word for “mustache” is “maus gras,” from “mouth grass.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this lingua franca spoken in Papua New Guinea whose lexicon is derived from English. Its word for “if” is “sapos” (sah-POHCE), from the English “suppose.”ANSWER: Tok Pisin (tock PISS-in)[10] Although Tok Pisin’s name is derived from “talk pidgin,” it is actually this kind of language, which usually arises when a generation of native speakers acquire a pidgin as their first language. The primary language of Haiti is an example of one of these languages based on French.ANSWER: creole[10] The fact that almost all creoles share certain grammatical features independently of their parent languages – for example, having the default verb tense be past rather than present – led Derek Bickerton to develop this universal grammar sub-theory. This theory argues that Creole grammar is enforced onto ungrammatical pidgins by its namesake innate mental structures.ANSWER: language bioprogram theory/hypothesis<The above question is for the category Social Science Linguistics/Languages and was written by John Marvin>

16. A predecessor to this company was founded by Edward Doheny of Teapot Dome scandal fame. For 10 points each:[10] Name this state-owned oil company that was formed from the Huasteca and El Aguila companies. This company’s formation was based in Article 27 of its country’s Constitution, granting all subsoil resource rights to the nation.ANSWER: Pemex [or Petróleos Mexicanos or Mexican Petroleum][10] This Mexican president nationalized oil companies to form Pemex. This President also created agrarian collectives known as ejidos (eh-HEE-dose) and allowed Leon Trotsky to settle in Mexico City.ANSWER: Lázaro Cárdenas del Río[10] Cárdenas’s son Cuauhtémoc (k’wow-TAY-mock) ran against this political party in the presidential elections of 1988 and narrowly lost a clearly-rigged election. This party remained in power until Vicente Fox of PAN won the 2000 election.ANSWER: PRI [or Institutional Revolutionary Party or Partido Revolucionario Institucional]<The above question is for the category History World and was written by Nitin Rao>


17. This chapter comes after a section where the novel’s protagonist laments the fleeting nature of life, titled “Illusion.” For 10 points each:[10] Name this blank chapter from The Tale of Genji, thought to imply its protagonist’s death.ANSWER: “Vanished into the Clouds” [or “Kumogakure”][10] The Tale of Genji was written by this Heian (HAY-on)-era lady-in-waiting, known also for her poetry and her diary. She was granted her royal position because of her notoriety as a writer.ANSWER: Murasaki Shikibu [or Lady Murasaki; or Fujiwara no Takako][10] This other Heian-era book collects the observations of Sei Shōnagon. It contains the sections “hateful things” and “things of beauty.”ANSWER: The Pillow Book [or Makura no Sōshi]<The above question is for the category Literature World and was written by John Marvin>

18. A character was taught to sing this song by Mr. Langley at Urbana, Illinois. For 10 points each:[10] Name this song performed by a Douglas Rain-voiced character after he repeatedly tells Dave that he is afraid. The lyrics involve “a bicycle built for two.”ANSWER: “Daisy Bell”[10] “Daisy Bell” is performed by the computer HAL 9000 in this Stanley Kubrick film created in collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke.ANSWER: 2001: A Space Odyssey[10] At the beginning of 2001, an iconic match cut shows this object being thrown into the air, followed by a sudden jump to a shot of an orbiting satellite millions of years later.ANSWER: bone [or thigh bone; or femur; prompt on club]<The above question is for the category Arts Film and was written by Mike Cheyne>

19. Protests against this politician in 2018 began in response to his inadequate handling of the Indio Maíz (mah-EEZ) Biological Reserve forest fires. For 10 points each:[10] Name this Nicaraguan president whose IMF-recommended social security cuts sparked an expansion of the Indio Máiz protests. The protests turned deadly after this man ordered the army to quell them with live ammunition.ANSWER: Daniel Ortega [José Daniel Ortega Saavedra][10] Ortega is a member of this socialist party that overthrew Anastasio Somoza in 1979. A Reagan administration scandal arose from illegal funding of the Nicaraguan Contras in order to topple this party.ANSWER: Sandinistas [or Sandinista National Liberation Front or FSLN or Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional][10] This Vice President and First Lady of Nicaragua compared the protestors to “vampires in search of blood.” This woman’s political rise began when she defended Ortega from allegations that he had sexually abused her daughter.ANSWER: Rosario Murillo Zambrana [prompt on Rosario; prompt on “La Chayo”]<The above question is for the category Current Events Non-US and was written by Nitin Rao>

20. The Kohn–Sham potential is a fictitious external potential that simplifies calculations in this technique. For 10 points each:[10] Name this computational chemistry technique that resembles the Hartree–Fock methods but for the introduction of an exchange-correlation potential V-sub-XC.ANSWER: density functional theory [or DFT][10] DFT relies on finding a functional for this quantity, which can be improved by the Weizsäcker (VYTE-secker) correction. In time-of-flight mass spectrometry, this quantity is equalized for each fragment.ANSWER: kinetic energy [prompt on energy][10] DFT struggles in general to deal with these intermolecular interactions arising due to the formation of instantaneous dipoles. ANSWER: London dispersion interactions [prompt on van der Waals]<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Ewan MacAulay>


Extra. The Vorderberg tiling does this with a single irregular enneagon repeated in two interlocking spirals. For 10 points each:[10] Identify this term for covering the plane with shapes, without overlapping them or leaving empty space.ANSWER: tessellation [or tessellating; prompt on tiling][10] This term refers to tessellations that notably do not repeat their pattern; though they may have rotational or mirroring symmetries, they do not have translational symmetries. Quasicrystals can be modeled as examples of this kind of tessellation, which includes the Penrose tilings.ANSWER: aperiodic tilings [or non-periodic tilings][10] This aperiodic tiling uses divisions of 1-to-2-to-root-5 right triangles to tile the plane. It is the first known tiling where the tiles appear in infinitely many orientations, but astoundingly all vertices still have rational coordinates.ANSWER: pinwheel tiling<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by John Marvin>


quizbowlpackets.com 17.docx · Web viewThis surah, which comes after al-Fatihah, is the longest in the Quran and is the second. For 10 points, give this surah, which shares its name

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