Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT) XVIII March 28, 2009 BHSAT XVIII: Table of Contents Packet 1 Packet 2 Packet 3 Packet 4 Packet 5 Packet 6 Packet 7 Packet 8 Packet 9 Packet 10 Packet 11 Packet 12 Prepared by Yale Student Academic Competitions P a g e | 1 Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT) XVIII March 28, 2009 Packet 1 1. The light source in this painting comes from a large box-shaped lantern at the foot of the figures on the right, who stand facing a group of figures on the left, that includes a praying monk. At the top of the painting, is a group of people huddled with fear as the watch the grisly scene, and at the bottom, there is a pile of corpses, but the two central groups of people, are the soldiers of the firing squad on the right, and the group of intended victims on the left, which include a man with his arms outstretched in a V-shape towards the sky. FTP, what is this Francisco Goya painting, depicting the day after the Spanish uprising against Napoleon. ANSWER: The Third of May 1808 or El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, or Los fusilamientos de la moncloa del Príncipe Pío or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo 2. The adult human body contains, on average, twenty four grams of this element, with about sixty percent of that total residing in the skeleton. Among commercially useful minerals both talc and dolomite contain high concentrations of this element, and Grignard reagents are formed when alkyl halides react with them. Atoms of it are at the centers of Porphyrin rings in Chlorophyll, and when its hydroxides are put in a suspension with water it finds use as an antacid and a laxative. For ten points name this alkaline earth metal, with atomic number 12. ANSWER: magnesium 3. He will play Scotty in the new Star Trek film, and is being coached by his Scottish wife to perfect his accent. His starred in Asylum and the sketch show Big Train, before appearing as scientist Benji Dunn in Mission Impossible 3. He appeared in Tarantino and Rodriguez‘s Grindhouse, in the trailer for Don’t, along with Nick Frost. Don’t was directed by Edgar Wright, who had also directed this actor, writer, and comedian‘s best work, a television series which he co- wrote and co-starred with Jessica Stevenson called Spaced. FTP, name this British actor, star of Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and Run, Fat Boy, Run. ANSWER: Simon Pegg 4. Blazars sometimes exhibit it when expelling high-velocity jets of plasma. Barnard‘s Star notably also shows it. While its opposite is nearly ubiquitous, this effect is measured only in about 100 galaxies, most of which are gravitationally-bound dwarfs in the local group, and which include the Andromeda galaxy. It is so rare because very few objects have enough motion to counteract the Hubble expansion of the universe. FTP, name this shortening of the wavelength of light emitted by approaching objects, the opposite of the red shift. ANSWER: blue shift 5. In Act I, Scene ii of this work, several characters are seen rehearsing a play-within-a-play, which they will later perform in Act V. Egeus forbids the marriage of Hermia to her lover Lysander, so they elope by escaping into the forest by night, where they are followed by Demetrius, who is in turn followed by Helena. The king and queen of the fairies, Oberon and Titania, are in the midst of a marital squabble, so Oberon has her punished by making her fall in love with the first thing she sees upon waking, which turns out to be a man whose head has been transformed into a donkey's. FTP, Puck and Bottom are characters in what comedy by William Shakespeare? ANSWER: A Midsummer Night's Dream 6. The series has spawned a spinoff called The Carlyles. Jessica Szohr, who portrays Vanessa Abrams, is dating Ed Westwick, who plays Chuck Bass. The title character, who is never seen, is voiced by Kristen Bell, who had previously played Veronica Mars. Blair Waldorf is played by Leighton Meester, and Blake Lively plays Serena van der Woodsen. Adapted from a series of books by Cecily von Ziegesar, FTP, name this CW TV series. ANSWER: Gossip Girl 7. Crystals are trigonal-rhombohedral and usually white or colorless. It is harder than gypsum but softer than fluorite, placing it as number 3 on Moh‘s scale. Stalagmites and stalactites are often made from this, a common component of limestone and the primary mineral in metamorphic marble. Shells of many marine organisms are made from this carbonate mineral. FTP, name this most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate. ANSWER: calcite (prompt on calcium carbonate early) 8. The poem this novel takes its title from features a ―blood-dimmed tide‖ that seems appropriate to the book as well. It begins with the main character throwing ―The Cat‖ to the great delight of his fellow villagers - palm wine is drunk and Prepared by Yale Student Academic Competitions P a g e | 2 Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT) XVIII March 28, 2009 yams are eaten. Ominous signs are present, but the main character acts often out of fear, and is eventually exiled. The stereotypically named Mr. Brown eventually arrives and ―mere anarchy is loosed upon the world‖. FTP name this novel set in Umuofia and telling the tale of the ill-fated Okonkwo, a work of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. ANSWER: Things Fall Apart 9. [Note to moderators: Pause 2 seconds between each sentence] Pencil and paper ready. The answer‘s the same. The quantity three to the sixth power minus three squared divided by seventy-two. The square root of the quantity eighty- three times sixty-three minus seventy-three squared. The fourth triangular number. The log base 2 of 1024. All these are equal to, FTP, which number, symbolized by the Roman numeral X? ANSWER: 10 10. Author Nathanael West died in a car accident the day after this author died, possibly due to his grief at his friend‘s passing. That death left his final novel based on the life of Irving Thalberg unfinished, though it was printed posthumously under the title The Last Tycoon. The relationship between psychologist Dick Diver and his patient and wife Nicole in one novel is based on this author‘s actual problems with his mentally unstable wife, Zelda. In another novel, the title character becomes a millionaire by bootlegging in order to win the love of a girl he met during World War I, Daisy Buchanan. FTP, who is this author of Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby? ANSWER: F. Scott Fitzgerald 11. Although this man received 73 electoral votes, he would not become president; a situation which most directly led to the introduction of the 12th amendment. As vice president, he presided over the impeachment trail of Samuel P. Chase. Later in his political career, he was accused of treason for supposedly wanting to set up a monarchy in western North America. This man may be better known, though, for an incident that occured when he was running for governor of New York in 1804, where a federalist political opponent sullied his name with many slanders and eventually made him lose the election. This is, FTP, what man who challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel and killed him? ANSWER: Aaron Burr 12. After serving in the Social war under his father Strabo he was sent to clear Sicily and Africa of opposition in the ensuing Civil War. He then subdued more enemies of Sulla when he was sent to Spain, after which he returned to Rome and took much credit for putting down Spartacus' rebellion. After he was made consul, he was given the extraordinary command of clearing the Mediteranean of pirates, which he did sucessfully. He success would soon come to an end, however, at the hands of one of his fellow triumvirs. Losing the battle of Pharsalus, this is, FTP, what member of the first triumvirate who fought against Caesar for control of the Roman Empire? ANSWER: Pompey 13. Apart from the addition of trombones and piccolo in the last movement, this composition's instrumentation is largely consistent with the format formalized by the composer, namely double woodwinds, horns and trumpets. It consists of a standard set of 4 movements, with the 2nd movement in A flat major. The opening motif is extremely famous and has been incorporated into jazz by Duke Ellington and World War 2 Allied radio broadcasts. FTP, name what is probably the best known piece of classical music, which opens with a distinctive short-short-short-long idea, the middle symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. ANSWER: Beethoven‘s 5th Symphony 14. After serving in the Second Crusade with his uncle Conrad, he would see his calvary defeated by Civic infantry at the battle of Legnano. As Duke of Swabia he was able to take Rome, fighting off the forces of the Lombard Leauge, after sacking Milan in 1162 as well. Saladin called his death a "miracle,"when, on his way to fight in the third Crusade, this man drowned in the Calycadnus river. FTP, name this famous leader of the House of Hohenstauffen who received his nickname from his red beard. ANSWER: Frederick Barbarossa (also accept Frederick I Hohenstaufen or Frederick III of Swabia) 15. Fresh on the heels of the wars of religion, Pope Sixtus V treated it as a crusade. Their battle plan involved anchoring off the coast of Flanders, where the Duke of Parma's army stood ready to commence the invasion.