Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament 2008

Packet by Michigan (Surya Sabhapathy, Scot Putzig, Michael Hausinger, Andy Kravis, Leigh Stutler, Phil Guan, Kai Ruan)

Tossups

1. In 1998, a research team led by Robert Ballard scanned the battlefield and found an important ship from this battle nearly intact. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo launched the initial attack, while Yamamoto Isoroku was the primary Japanese commander. The Japanese forces lost four aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser, seriously depleting their forces, while the U.S. lost one destroyer and one aircraft carrier, the Yorktown. This battle occurred two months before the U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. For 10 points, name this June 3-6, 1942 WWII naval battle, an invasion of an atoll sometimes called "the turning point of the Pacific." Answer: Battle of Midway

2. A repeated story in this play involves a boy driving down the road, swerving to avoid a porcupine, and crashing into a tree. Various games are played during the night, including “Humiliate the Hosts,” “Get the Guests,” and finally, “Bringing up Baby.” One of the characters sees herself as an “Earth Mother” and only George can satisfy her desires. One of the characters is an attractive young biology professor, new to the college, who is alternately called a “stud” or a “houseboy.” A history professor and his wife, the daughter of the college’s founder, are the evening's hosts. For 10 points, identify this play in which Nick, Honey, George, and Martha spend the night talking and playing games, a work by Edward Albee.

Answer: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

3. The cherries on the tree outside the window in this painting may represent love, while the oranges on the windowsill and chest may represent purity and innocence. There is a pair of clogs in the bottom left hand side of this painting, and at the bottom, there’s a fluffy brown dog that might represent faith. At the top of this painting is an ornate brass chandelier, and directly under it, a convex mirror reflects the room. One of the people engaged in the title event is all in black, and he holds the hand of a woman dressed in green with a white head-scarf. For 10 points, identify this painting by Jan van Eyck, which depicts Giovanni and his wife. ANSWER: The Arnolfini Wedding (accept clear knowledge equivalents like "Arnolfini Marriage," accept Double Portrait, accept “Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife”; this thing doesn’t actually have a title, so just go with it if they’re close)

4. This man’s early political involvement included calling for the adoption of bullion by the British government, and he advanced the idea that it did not matter if government paid their debts by raising taxes or borrowing more money, known as his equivalence. He opposed the Corn Laws, which he believed would drastically increase rent prices for farmland. In one of his most famous works, this man developed the idea that countries would derive the most profit not by competing to be the most efficient, but rather by specializing in certain areas of production. The formulator of the Law of Rent and comparative advantage, for ten points, identify this English economist, the author of Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

ANSWER: David Ricardo 5. One phenomenon associated with objects having this property causes hadronization. The Noether charge associated with symmetry under an S U three gauge group, this property is possessed by the carriers of the force it predicates; particles with this property thus experience asymptotic freedom and confinement and the gluon has a very short range. Hadrons and mesons have a zero value for this property, but quarks do not, so the latter are subject to the QCD strong force, for which this property is the associated charge. For 10 points, name this property of subatomic particles that is usually imagined as red, green, or blue.

ANSWER: color charge [accept strong charge before “strong”; prompt on things like they’re subject to the strong force]

6. One character in this work becomes sick and is brought by the Oracle to have a spiritual encounter with the earth goddess. That same earth goddess also becomes angry with another character after he beats his wife during the Week of Peace. Another episode in this novel concerns the many possessions believed to have befallen Ezinma and her pregnancies. Another character accidentally shoots a boy in Umuofia and is exiled for seven years in Mbanto, and that same character had earlier wrestled the Cat. Nwoye converts to Christianity and is beaten by his father and leaves home. For 10 points, name this tragedy about the yam-farming Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe. ANSWER: Things Fall Apart

7. Information about this dynasty comes from Sima Qian's Shiji, while the classical novel Fengshen Yanyi chronicles its war with another dynasty. Some scholars have theorized that this dynasty moved its capital six times until finally settling in modern day Anyang where its golden age began. After P'an-k'ang ruled, this dynasty acquired the alternate name “Yin.” A mainstay of the dynasty's economy was the production of bronze materials and weapons for ceremonial purposes, war, and divination, and the earliest form of writing was developed in this period. For 10 points, name this first true Chinese dynasty which ruled between 1600 B.C.E and 1046 B.C.E, following the mythical Xia and preceding the Zhou. ANSWER: Shang (accept Yin on early buzz)

8. In this work, its author argues that citizenship derives from showing a concern for a society’s inhabitants. The author of this text posits that by amalgamating the individual wills of the constituents of a society, a “General will” is formed, and the government is limited to merely legislating laws that pertaining to the welfare of the society, and if that line is crossed, the citizens are released from obligations. The author argues that by placing oneself under a sovereign, one is placing one under one’s own control, and the title concept of this work replaces the state of nature. For ten points, identify this work which famously states “man is born free, but everywhere is in chains”, a political- philosophical text by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

ANSWER: The Social Contract: or, Principles of Politic Law

9. One form of this chemical has D two symmetry and can be to form chiralane. Another form of this chemical undergoes the so-called flagpole interaction, which destabilizes that form even though it has no torsional strain. In this molecule’s most common form, which has D three d symmetry, large mono-substituents are most stable when attached to one of its three equatorial positions. Having envelope, twist, boat, and chair confirmations, this cyclic molecule is most simply produced by addition of hydrogen to benzene. For 10 points, name this hydrocarbon, a ring with chemical formula C six H twelve.

ANSWER: cyclohexane [prompt on hexane or cycloalkane or C six H twelve or any permutation thereof]

10. The protagonist of this novel spends a significant amount of time listening to the voice of a river. One character in this work teaches the protagonist the way to love and tells him that he will need many coins to be her friend, prompting him to spend time learning to make money from the merchant Kamiswami. She later dies from a snake bite. That character, Kamala, eventually bears the protagonist his son, who runs away and is never seen again. The start of this book sees its title character leave home with his friend Govinda to attempt to seek enlightenment on his own, which he finds with Vasudeva. For ten points, identify this book about an Indian man, a work by Hermann Hesse.

ANSWER: Siddhartha

11. In Howard’s End, Helen compares this symphony to “goblins walking over the universe”. In the andante con moto section of this work of music, the key switches to C major, notably exposed by trumpets and tympani, and that same key is used for the trio section of the scherzo. The first four notes in this work of music are the third and fifth of the triad of this symphony’s key in three 8th’s and a half note; that is to say, three G’s and an E-flat, and is followed by the same rhythm a whole step down. That theme is followed by softer, faster notes in the violins. For ten points, identify this Romantic symphony by Beethoven, completed right before the Pastorale, a work in C Minor.

ANSWER: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

12. In 1230, the Golden Bull of Rimini allowed this group to invade the Chelmno lands, and over the next century it conducted wars against Novgorod, Lithuania, and Poland. Founded in the 12th century in Acre, it later moved to Transylvania to help Hungary defeat the Cumans. This group was headed by the Hapsburg family between the early nineteenth century and World War I, and it now exists primarily as a charitable organization. Althoguh they were unable to take this group’s headquarters at Marienberg, in 1410, a joint Polish-Lithuanian force defeated this group at the Battle of Tannenberg. For 10 points, name this crusading military organization based in modern day Poland and the Baltic States. ANSWER: Teutonic Order (accept Teutonic Knights, prompt on "German Knightly Order" or "German Order")

13. Andrew Toney holds this team’s record for most points in a quarter with 25, scored against the Boston Celtics and Kyle Korver made the most three pointers. Recent first round draft picks that they actually kept includes Samuel Dalembert, Thaddeus Young and Andre Iguodala. They’re also notorious for setting their league’s record for the worst win percentage in history thanks to a 9-73 year in 1973. For ten points, what is this NBA franchise, best known for its players Julius Erving, Charles Barkley and Allen Iverson?

ANSWER: Philadelphia 76ers (accept either underlined part)

14. This poem utilizes consistent perfect masculine rhyme and a four quatrain format, although one line in each stanza is lengthened into iambic pentameter. In one stanza of this poem, the speaker invokes “Twilight and evening bell/and after that the dark!” This poem begins “Sunset and evening star/and one clear call for me!” and asks that there be no moaning when he puts out to sea. The last stanza of this poem relates the speaker’s desire to “see his Pilot face to face” when he has accomplished the title act. For ten points, identify this Tennyson poem written on the back of an envelope and always placed at the end of his collections of poetry.

ANSWER: “Crossing the Bar”

15. In one story his daughter was promised to Alvis, so he kept the unlucky suitor outside until the sun rose, petrifying him. His temple was located at Uppsala and his hall, Bilskirnir, was in Asgard. He had three children, Magni, Modi and Thrud, and his chariot was pulled by two goats named Tanngrisni and Tanngnost, which scorched the earth and cracked the mountains whenever he rode. To wield his weapon, he must wear Megingjord, and he also wears Jam Griepr. In one story, Utgard-Loki called him weak when he could only lift the paw of a cat, which was really the Midgard Serpent, and he was married to the beautiful Sif. For 10 points, name this Norse god who was a son of Odin and wielded Mjolnir. ANSWER: Thor

16. Many of the delegates to this event had previously caused a schism at a Society of Friends meeting, which motivated them to form the core of this event’s participants. Prior to this event, its organizers had been turned away from a worldwide anti-slavery conference, prompting them to organize it, and it produced a notable “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”, which among other things, stated that “all men and women are created equal.” It also produced eleven demands, the ninth of which was the right to vote. For ten points, identify this gathering to discuss women’s rights, which was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and held in the latter’s New York home.

ANSWER: Seneca Falls Convention

17. In humans, these structures have a number of pyramids that empty into a calyx. Within these, the proteins NHE3 and V-type H-ATPase are exposed to the lumen and excrete protons, while NBC1 and AE1 excrete bicarbonate ions. A disease that affects these organs, Liddle’s Syndrome, is the result of a single mutant allele encoding the aldosterone-activated sodium channels and produces hypertention. A release of antidiuretic hormone by the pituitary gland results in increased water re-absorption by these organs and an increase in urine concentration. FTP, identify these organs that produce erythropoietin and contain over one million nephrons. ANSWER: kidneys

18. This man is the author of Kids Who Kill and From Hope to Higher Ground: 12 Steps to Restoring America's Greatness. One of the initiatives promoted by this politician in his home state was a fund called the “Tax-Me- More” fund which people could donate money to, and another was “covenant marriages”, which make divorce very difficult. In 1992, he lost an election to Senator Dale Bumpers, but he later won a special election for lieutenant governor and two terms as governor. In his first term he lost over 110 pounds after being diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes. He plays bass for the band Capitol Offense and is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. For 10 points, name this 2008 Republican Presidential candidate from Arkansas. ANSWER: Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee 19. This region has an inverse cubic brightness slope and an unexplained namesake cliff at a one to two resonance, beyond which are twotinos and inside of which are cubiwanos. First rigorously predicted in a 1988 paper by Julio Fernandez, this region is probably the source of SDO’s and Centaurs, as well as the short-period comets that it was posited to explain. This disc-like region of the solar system extends from the orbit of Neptune to about fifty-five AU. For 10 points, name this region home to Pluto; a so-called belt usually named for a Dutch-American astronomer.

ANSWER: the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt [accept either underlined part in either order]

20. It is part of the Pannonian Basin, and its northernmost point is the city of Zabnik. It controls over 1200 islands off the coast of Dalmatia and is famous for its many national parks, such as its section of the Dinaric Alps. Pula and Zadar are notable cities in this nation, which celebrates the 8th of October as its independence day. Its shoreline is split into two non-contiguous parts by Bosnia-Herzegovina around the city of Neum. Hungary and Slovenia lie to its north and Italy lies directly across the Adriatic Sea from this nation. For ten points, identify this nation, formerly a part of Yugoslavia, whose capital is Zagreb. ANSWER: Croatia

21. In William Wilson by Edgar Allen Poe one of these antagonizes the main character when his morals lapse, and Percy Shelley writes about one in Prometheus Unbound and claimed to see one before he drowned. In Johann Goethe’s autobiography Truth and Fiction, he claimed to have seen one of these things approaching him on horseback. Abraham Lincoln also famously claimed he saw one of these multiple times. For 10 points, identify this literary term from the German for "double walker," which refers to the double of a living person and is sometimes called an "evil twin." ANSWER: doppelgänger (accept fetch, prompt on twin, similar) Bonuses

1. Name these characters from Shakespeare's Macbeth for 10 points each: [10] This man is the King of Scotland who Macbeth murders in his sleep. He’s Donalbain and Malcom’s father.

ANSWER: Duncan [10] He is a general in Duncan's army and a loyal friend of Macbeth, until Macbeth has him murdered in his lust for power and the throne. ANSWER: Banquo [10] Banquo's son, he survives Macbeth's attempt to murder him, and according to the Witches’ prophecy, he will be king one day.

ANSWER: Fleance

2. Answer these questions about itinerant ancient Greek philosophers, for 10 points each:

[10] Plato's teacher, this man was known to walk through the streets of Athens and question passers-by about philosophical topics using the method named after him.

ANSWER: Socrates [10] This man, one of the founders of Cynicism, is said to have wandered the streets with a lamp in broad daylight, in search of an honest man. He lived in a barrel.

ANSWER: Diogenes

[10] This meandering school of philosophy was founded by Aristotle in 335 BC, and its most prominent followers were Theophrastus, Satyrus, and Strato of Lampsacus. ANSWER: Peripatetics

3. It overlooks the Stravinsky Fountain. For 10 points each, [10] Name this building in Paris, named after a former French President, which houses the Musée Nationale D'Art Moderne. It has a brightly colored exoskeleton consisting of tubes. ANSWER: the Pompidou Center (or le Centre Pompidou) [10] This Pritzker-winning Italian architect designed the Pompidou Center. His current projects include the Modern Art Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Times tower. ANSWER: Renzo Piano [10] Piano also designed the single-longest airport terminal in the world, a four-story terminal at Kansai International Airport in this Japanese city. ANSWER: Osaka, Japan

4. For 10 points each, identify the following related to a term in fluid dynamics.

[10] This property, the constant of proportionality between sheer and velocity gradient for Newtonian fluids, provides a measure of a fluid’s internal resistance to flow.

ANSWER: viscosity [prompt on mu or nu]

[10] A flow’s Reynolds number has this dependence on the dynamic viscosity mu, given fixed density, velocity, and scale length.

ANSWER: one over mu [accept equivalents like mu to the minus 1 or reciprocal mu or inverse of mu; accept dynamic viscosity in the place of mu]

[10] If inertial effects are much more important than viscosity, i.e. if the Reynolds number is high, this type of flow occurs. Characterized by a logarithmic velocity distribution, it is less ordered than laminar flow.

ANSWER: turbulent flow

5. Name these distractions you can find on YouTube for 10 points each: [10] This viral Tay Zonday song repeats the titular weather phenomenon every other line, rhyming it with "some stay dry while others feel the pain." ANSWER: Chocolate Rain [10] Among the episodes of this Neil Cicierega web-series inspired by J.K. Rowling are "The Mysterious Ticking Noise," "Bothering Snape," and "Wizard Angst." ANSWER: Potter Puppet Pals (prompt on partialANSWER or "P.P.P.") [10] This 20-year-old posted a tearful video to YouTube defending Britney Spears' lackluster MTV comeback. It had over 4 million views in two days. ANSWER: Chris Crocker

6. For 10 points each, name these things about a famous assassination on November 26, 2006: [10] This Russian dissident and author of Blowing up Russia: Terror from within was poisoned in London while eating sushi. ANSWER: Alexander Litvinenko [10] He was poisoned with the 210 variety of this radioactive substance. ANSWER: Polonium [10] Litvinenko previously worked at this Russian secret intelligence agency. ANSWER: Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastnosi (accept Committee for State Security)

7. Identify these things about early Japanese literature for 10 points each: 1. Often considered the first modern novel, this work by Murasaki Shikibu recounts the romantic escapades of its title character. ANSWER: The Tale of Genji (also accept Genji Monogatari) 2. This diary kept by Sei Shonagon contains her observations on the court of Empress Sadako, and personal opinions on current events, poetry, and beauty. ANSWER: The Pillow Book (also accept Makura no Soshi) 3. In the Tale of Genji, this is the beautiful princess that Genji marries.

ANSWER: Princess Aoi

8. Identify these historic court cases of the Supreme Court smacking down the state legislations, F10PE.

[10] The Supreme Court extended its powers to declare state laws unconstitutional in this case, which centered around the Yazoo land crisis in Georgia.

ANSWER: Fletcher v. Peck

[10] This case was brought by a man with two sons in a cotton mill. It ruled unconstitutional a law that prohibited commerce of goods manufactured with child labor.

ANSWER: Hammer v. Dagenhart

[10] In this 1965 case, the Supreme Court ruled that states could not prevent the distribution of contraceptive.

ANSWER: Griswold v. Connecticut

9. When dissolved in water, strong acids undergo this process to a high degree. More generally, it describes the reversible separation of any compound into components. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this process from chemistry by which solutions are formed.

ANSWER: dissociation

[10] If a substance A dissociates into two substances B and C, this value is given by the equilibrium activity of B times the equilibrium activity of C over the equilibrium activity of A.

ANSWER: the dissociation constant [prompt on K sub d or equilibrium constant] [10] Undergone by Bronstead-Lowrey acids, this type of dissociation is the separation of a neutral molecule into an anion and cation. It is not to be confused with a similarly named form of dissociation which creates two radicals.

ANSWER: heterolysis [or heterolytic dissociation or heterolytic fission; do not accept or prompt on “homolysis”]

10. It occurred in 69 CE. For 10 points each, [10] Name this time period, which occurred directly after the death of Nero and included the rules Vitellus and Otho.

ANSWER: Year of the Four Emperors [10] Appointed by Nero to put down the rebellion of the Jews during the first Jewish-Roman War, he later became the last of the four emperors. His last words are said to be "I think I am becoming a god." ANSWER: Vespasian [10] This man, who seized power immediately after Nero's death, had previously been the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis before joining forces with Vindex to rebel openly against Nero. ANSWER: Galba

11.Answer these questions about an author and his works, F10PE.

[10] This novel centers around the Compson family, in which Benjy is an idiot, and Quentin commits suicide while at college.

ANSWER: The Sound and the Fury

[10] This author of The Sound and the Fury and The Rievers also wrote As I Lay Dying.

ANSWER: William Faulkner

[10] This Faulkner novel consists of seven short stories, including “Raid”, “Retreat” and “Drusilla”. It centers on the Sartoris family, and takes place prior to “Flags in the Dust”.

ANSWER: The Unvanquished

12. Identify these works of Eugene Delacroix, F10PE,

[10] In this painting, a bare breasted woman stands on a pile of corpses and holds up a red flag to usher on her troops.

ANSWER: Liberty Leading the People (also accept “La Liberte Guidant la Peuple”)

[10] In this Delacroix work, a woman is prostrating herself in front of the title bearded figure, whose calmly watching all of his worldly possessions destroyed.

ANSWER: The Death of Sardanapalus (also accept “La Morte de Sardanapale”) [10] This Delacroix painting depicts the title monarch riding on a white horse as his brightly clothed people look on.

ANSWER: The Sultan of Morocco

13. Answer the following about human hormones, for 10 points each: 1. Synthesis of this hormone by the pineal gland is inhibited by light and stimulated by the dark. Not surprisingly, it is responsible for regulating circadian rhythms. Answer: melatonin 2. Secreted by the alpha cells of the pancreas, this antagonist of insulin triggers the breakdown of glycogen stored in the liver to ultimately increase blood sugar. Answer: glucagon 3. This hormone is involved in the positive feedback cycle that stimulates uterine contractions during birth, and it is one of two endocrine hormones released by the posterior pituitary gland. Answer: oxytocin

14. For ten points each, identify these Christian saints.

[10] This man, resident of a cave, penned much of the last book of the Bible, hence his appellation of “Revelator.”

ANSWER: Saint John the Revelator

[10] This man is notable for being the first Christian martyr, and probably spent most of his time prior to that giving money to old widows.

ANSWER: Saint Stephen

[10] This saint, namesake of an order of monks, has a namesake rule stating the universality of Christ and was sainted in the thirteenth century.

ANSWER: Saint Benedict

15. Answer these questions about the Japanese lineage of the gods, FTSNOP.

[10] It all began with these two deities, the mother and father of Amaterasu. Name both for five points each.

ANSWERS Izanagi and Izanami

[10] One of Amaterasu’s brothers was this god of the seas and storms, who threw a horse in her house.

ANSWER: Susano’o

[10] Amaterasu is distantly related to this legendary first Emperor of Japan, although the lineage is not direct.

ANSWER: Jimmu

16. It introduced the word "robot," from a Czech word meaning "forced labor." For 10 points each, [10] First, name this 1921 play in which the mass production of artificial humans eventually backfires, resulting in the eradication of the human race. ANSWER: R.U.R (also accept Rossum's Universal Robots) [10] Name this author of R.U.R., much of whose work focused on the threat of Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. ANSWER: Karel Capek [10] In R.U.R, this is the name of the human who runs the plant and explains the history of the company to Helena at the start of the work. ANSWER: Harry Domin (also accept “Domain”)

17.ANSWER these about a conflict between Russia and Saxony-Poland took on Sweden, F10PE.

[10] That conflict was this 1700-1721 war, which featured the battle of Poltava, and saw Sweden decline and Russia emerge.

ANSWER: The Second Northern War (also accept “Great Northern War”)

[10] At the start of the Great Northern War, Peter I of Russia laid siege to this city, which worked until the King of Sweden showed up.

ANSWER: Narva

[10] This King of Sweden smashed Peter at Narva, but ultimately lost the war.

ANSWER: Charles XII

18. Name these types of volcanoes for 10 points each.

[10] Formed by flows of light lava, they make up most of the largest volcanoes on Earth. Examples include Mauna Loa and Olympus Mons.

ANSWER: shield volcanoes

[10] Generally very tall and steep, these volcanoes are composed of hardened layers of lava, tephra, and ash. They are generally the most explosive volcanoes.

ANSWER: stratovolcanoes [or composite volcanoes]

[10] The simplest volcanic formation, they are formed when pyroclastic fragments collect around a vent. One example is Sunset Crater in Arizona.

ANSWER: volcanic cone [accept cinder cone or ash cone or spatter cone]

19. The third of these, in G major, has only 2 complete movements and is written for 3 separate violins, violas, and cellos as well as continuo. FTPE:

[10] Name these 6 works given to a certain margrave which each use different orchestrations. The first, in F major, has a minuet for an fourth movement, while most of them have 3 movements.

ANSWER: Brandenburg Concertos

[10] This man wrote the Brandenburg concertos as well as a collection of 48 preludes and fugues entitled The Well- Tempered Clavier. He wrote over 200 cantatas for his Lutheran church, but he also wrote a Catholic mass in B minor.

ANSWER: Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt until you get at least a “J.S. Bach” because Johann is not specific enough) [10] This work uses a double chorus and depicts the suffering of Jesus based on a text by Pisander. It was followed by a similar work named for Mark, and 10 of its movements were used in the Cothen funeral music.

ANSWER: St. Matthew Passion

20. Name these rivers for 10 points each: [10] It is the world's ninth longest river and forms the border between Eastern Russia and Northern China running along the province of Manchuria. ANSWER: Amur (accept Heilong Jiang) [10] Its two major tributaries are the White and the Blue, and cities on it include Khartoum, Aswan, and Luxor. ANSWER: Nile [10] It is the longest tributary of the Mississippi river where it flows in just north of St. Louis. ANSWER: Missouri