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1. In Drosophila, one of these structures gives rise to hybrid dysgenesis. One of these structures that is flanked by inverted repeats and made up of directed repeats can be used to introduce new DNA into an organism’s genome without using a virus, and is called the “Sleeping Beauty” one. One of these structures that is likely to be the reverse transcript of 7S RNA is called the Alu element. Class I of these structures are further classified as LINEs or SINEs depending on whether they code for reverse transcriptase, and some of these structures function via a “cut and paste” mechanism. For 10 points, name these structures discovered by Barbara McClintock in maize, which are often called “jumping genes.” ANSWER: transposons [accept transposable elements or TEs; prompt on jumping gene before mentioned]
2. An object belonging to this god allowed a hero to escape from the sisters Stheno and Euryale after the birth of Chrysaor. After Phaedra hanged herself and after some centaurs killed Hippodameia, this deity bound the pair of men who sought the hand of the infant Helen into his Chair of Forgetfulness. This god was handcuffed by a trickster and locked in his house for several days. Aside from imprisoning Pirithous and Theseus and giving Perseus his helmet of invisibility, this god completed the rape of his wife when she ate pomegranate seeds. That wife, Kore, later came to be known as Persephone. For 10 points, name this Greco-Roman god of the underworld. ANSWER: Hades [or Pluto]
3. Narayana Kocherlakota suggested that this concept and memory are equivalent, by showing equivalent economic allocations for a given economy when this is swapped with perfect memory. Miguel Sidrauski did pioneering work to introduce this concept to utility functions. In post Keynesian models, the supply of it is a function of the demand for bank credit. Changes in its supply have no impact on real variables according to the “neutrality” theory for it, and have a direct impact on the price level according to the “quantity” theory of this concept. For 10 points, identify this economic concept, whose supply is measured by M1and M2, and which was once backed by a gold standard in many countries. Answer: money [accept money supply until “supply” from people who are not listening]
4. Everett and Hirschmann formulated a stronger version of this statement involving the Shannon entropy. Robertson generalized this statement to arbitrary Hermitian operators. This statement can be formulated for any two observables with nonzero commutator, and the original formulator of this statement demonstrated it with a thought experiment wherein one tries to look at an electron with a microscope. A result of this statement is that the pulse of a struck drum has a well-defined instance in time but occurs over a large range of frequencies. The lower bound in this inequality is h-bar over 2, and one form of this statement relates energy and time. For 10 points, name this principle whose most familiar form states that position and momentum cannot be simultaneously known to arbitrary precision. ANSWER: Heisenberg uncertainty principle
5. This group is closely related to a similar one formed by Alice Lakwena, who claimed to be in communication with a dead Italian World War I captain. An opponent of this group, the former gang biker Sam Childers, was played by Gerard Butler in the film Machine Gun Preacher. In 2011, Rush Limbaugh questioned American involvement against this group, calling it an example of Obama targeting “Christians.” The apparently now deceased Vincent Otti represented this group at the 2006 Juba peace talks with the government it primarily opposes. Its actions are the focus of the documentaries Children of War and Invisible Children. This group is led by the mystic Joseph Kony. For 10 points, name this violent insurgent group based in northern Uganda. ANSWER: Lord’s Resistance Army [accept LRA, accept Lord’s Resistance Movement or LRM, accept Lakwena Part Two before “Lakwena” is mentioned] 6. The final piece by this composer is a sonata for viola and piano that opens with pizzicato on the open strings. This composer’s Suite for Variety Orchestra was for long misidentified as his lost Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2. This composer’s first violin concerto has a scherzo that has been called a “demonic dance,” and a G-E-B-B-flat motif opens this composer’s cello concerto in E-flat major, which was written for Rostropovich. This composer’s eighth string quartet in C minor was written as a suicide note and heavily features the D-E-flat-C-B motif that he used to represent himself. This composer set a series of Yevtushenko poems to his 13th Symphony and he included an “invasion theme” in his 7th symphony. For 10 points, name this composer of the “Babi-Yar” and “Leningrad” Symphonies. ANSWER: Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
7. In this work, a rich king, a proud king, and a king who tries to negotiate time to settle his affairs are all visited by an Angel of Death. In another section of this work, a man designs a beautiful golden statue that has the ability to blow enemies to death, but a more impressive achievement is a sage’s design of a flying metallic animal that aims for the sun. This work includes that story about “The Ebony Horse” and a story in which a tailor leads robbers to the correct house, but Morgiana notices chalk marks on the door of her master, who is the brother of Kasim. This collection includes the story of a man who finds a wonderful lamp and is told through the frame-story of Scheherazade and Sahryar. For 10 points, name this collection of stories including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Aladdin. ANSWER: The Arabian Nights Entertainment [accept One Thousand and One Nights; or Kitab alf laylah wa- laylah]
8. During the Cold War, this country targeted Communists with the PROFUNC program. It was home to a 1989 university massacre of fourteen women carried out by a man saying he was “fighting feminism.” When asked by an interviewer how far he would go in fighting terrorists, one of this country’s leaders remarked “Just watch me.” That leader of this country controversially invoked the War Measures Act after government officials were kidnapped in 1970. One region of this country underwent secularization in the 1960’s Quiet Revolution and experienced the October Crisis thanks to the actions of a nationalist group, the FLQ. For 10 points, name this country led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who took on separatists in the province of Quebec. ANSWER: Canada [do not accept “Quebec,” as it is not a country]
9. The title character of this opera sings the aria “Les tringles des sistres tintaient” to entertain an antagonist, and one character compares love to a rebellious bird before throwing an object at her future lover, who works under Lieutenant Zuniga. One protagonist of this opera receives a letter from his dying mother asking him to marry Micaela. The second act of this opera is set in Lillas Pastia’s inn, where Dancaire and Remendado plan their next exploit. The fate motif plays as the title character’s doom is predicted when her friends play cards. The title character of this opera throws away her ring at Escamillo’s bull fight, which makes Don Jose stabs her. For 10 points, name this work that contains the Habañera, an opera about a gypsy written by Georges Bizet. ANSWER: Carmen
10. This thinker used the example of a man offering a lira to the laziest beggar in one work that discusses the virtues of not working. This author of In Praise of Idleness is also the namesake of a statement that New Foundations attempted to work-around, which is conceptually equivalent to the statement about “the barber with a shave.” In another work, he examined the designators the “author who wrote Waverley” and examined the sentence “the king of France is bald.” This author of “On Denoting” worked with the author of Process and Reality which attempted to work-around his namesake paradox, which showed that Cantor’s set theory is self-contradictory. For 10 points, name this man who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead on Principia Mathematica. ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
11. One ruler with this name kept his mistresses, such as Marie-Louise O’Murphy, at a place nicknamed “Stag Park.” During the reign of another ruler with this name, a clergyman named de Rohan became embroiled in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. Yet another ruler with this name was opposed by the League of the Public Weal. The execution of an attempted assassin of a ruler of this name is described in the introduction to Discipline and Punish. That ruler reportedly said the line “After me, the flood.” The eleventh ruler of this name was nicknamed the “Universal Spider,” while the fifteenth ruler had a mistress named Madame de Pompadour. For 10 points, give the name of the French ruler who ordered the building of the Palace at Versailles and was nicknamed the “Sun King.” ANSWER: Louis 12. These compounds are treated first with oxalyl chloride and DMSO and then with triethylamine in a reaction that is carried out in dichloromethane. The enzyme ALDH acts on these compounds, and the Lucas test can be used to test for the presence of secondary or tertiary version of these compounds. These compounds can be oxidized to aldehydes in the Swern oxidation and by PCC, and reacting alkenes with Hg(OAc)2 (“HG OAC -2”) and water and then removing the mercury acetate yields these compounds. These compounds attack protonated carboxyllic acids in the first step of the Fischer esterification. For 10 points, name these compounds characterized by the presence of a hydroxyl group, examples of which include ethanol and methanol. ANSWER: alcohols [prompt on hydroxyls before mentioned; accept primary or secondary or tertiary alcohols]
13. In October of 1985, members of this religion were given a document that foretold the coming of a “Supreme Tribunal” that would advise all kings and leaders. That document, which praised the formation of the League of Nations, cited this religion’s founder, who foretold the “planetization of mankind”. That founder of this religion spent four months in the Black Pit and wrote its sacred text the Kitab-i-Aqdas while in exile in Acre. Houses of worship in this religion are nine-sided and have a central dome. A shrine to its founder was built by the Guardian Shoghi Effendi at Haifa. This religion believes that there was a series of Messengers of God from Abraham to the Bab. For 10 points, name this religion founded by Baha’u’llah. ANSWER: Baha’i
14. This author wrote a poem that asserts “They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault, They have taken the Oath of Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt.” Another of his poems describes “Triumph and Disaster,” about which the speaker implores “treat those two impostors just the same.” In that poem, he also tells the reader “never breathe a word about your loss” and “force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn.” This poet wrote that “Till Earth and sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat,” “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” He also wrote “you’ll be a man my son” to conclude his poem “If.” For 10 points, name this poet, who also wrote The Jungle Book. ANSWER: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
15. Shortly after getting married, this man’s wife was kidnapped by the Mergids. One story says he was killed by having sex with a woman who hid a pair of pliers inside her vagina. As a teenager, this man killed his half-brother Behter in a land dispute. This husband of Borte set up an extremely strict law code called the “Yassa” and his forces razed Urgench to the ground. He chose not to name his oldest son, Jochi, as successor. In 1220, this man’s army sacked Samarkand and his generals included Subotai, who attacked the kingdoms of Georgia and the Kievan Rus. He was succeeded by his son Ogedei and was the grandfather of the Yuan Dynasty founder, Kublai. For 10 points, name this man born Temujin, the founder of the Mongol Empire. ANSWER: Genghis Khan [accept Temujin until mentioned, accept Taizu, do not prompt on “Khan” by itself, as that is equivalent to buzzing in and saying “King”]
16. The Chinese remainder theorem concerns a system of linear congruences in which all moduli are pairwise this. For integers a and b with this property, the largest integer not obtainable from a positive linear combination of a and b is equal to the product of a and b minus a minus b. The Euler totient function returns the number of integers that share this property with and are less than or equal to the argument. The Euclidean algorithm returns one for numbers with this property, held by the numerator and denominator of a fraction in lowest terms. For 10 points, name this property of positive integers that do not share any common divisors. ANSWER: coprime [or relatively prime; do not accept or prompt on “prime”]
17. The husband of this novel’s protagonist killed the family cat before telling her daughter that they are going on a picnic. Another section of this novel describes the execution of a woman in which all of the audience must pull on a rope. Early in this book, its main character takes solace in the Latin phrase “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” Professor Piexioto explains that this novel was found on cassette tapes and that Judd came up with the Particicution in its epilogue. Its protagonist works with the Commander, who is married to Serena Joy. Its title role refers to concubines whose main purpose is to get pregnant for reproductive purposes, and such candidates who fail become an “unwoman.” For 10 points, name this dystopian work about Offred that is set in the Republic of Gilead, written by Margaret Atwood. ANSWER: The Handmaid’s Tale 18. One painting from this movement shows the title figure's hair sprawled across a large bowl in which she has hidden her lover's severed head. Mary offers her cheek to a recently wounded boy Jesus in one work from this movement. One artist from this movement showed a group of neglected sheep wander into a corn field in the background as their shepherd shows a moth to a young girl in The Hireling Shepherd. Elizabeth Siddal served as the model for Beata Beatrix and Ophelia, which were painted by this movement's John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, respectively. For 10 points, name this movement which sought to take art back to a time before its corruption by a Renaissance artist. ANSWER: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [accept Pre-Raphaelites or PRB]
19. A famous Herblock cartoon shows a barrel with this man’s name on it resting on paint buckets, with the Republican elephant refusing to stand on it. This man told an opponent “I think you may be an authority on what a pixie is.” His original campaign slogan was “Congress need a tail-gunner.” This man was denounced by the Tydings Committee and his chief counsel was Roy Cohn. During one event, he was asked by Joseph Welch if he had “no sense of decency.” This man became infamous after a Wheeling, West Virginia speech in which he claimed to have a list of 205 suspicious individuals in the State Department. For 10 points, name this Wisconsin Senator who led a 1950’s charge against Communists in the U.S. government. ANSWER: Joseph Raymond McCarthy
20. The title character of one of this author’s early works keeps the slave Isidore as his mistress and owns a male slave named Hali. A square near Arnolf’s house is the setting for another of his works, in which Horace repeatedly promises that he will marry Agnes. After writing The Sicilian, he created a character who is sued for telling a poet to give up after reading his sonnet and is sent into isolation. This author also wrote about a man served by Toinette, who opens a play by refusing to pay his apothecary fairly. This author wrote The School for Wives and created The Doctor in Spite of Himself. The title character of a work by this author is a religious hypocrite that tries to seduce Orgon’s wife Elmire. For 10 points, name this author of The Imaginary Invalid and Tartuffe. ANSWER: Moliere [accept Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tiebreaker: Two of these structures contain iron mesh fencing that is a fertile ground for the “love lock” craze, in which lovers write their names on a padlock affixed to one of them. One of them was opened in 1900 for the Universal Exposition and contains many gilded sculptures and art deco lamps. In addition to that structure named for Alexander III, another of these structures is named the Arcole after another structure that was a battle site during the War of the First Coalition. One of these structures contains an equestrian statue by Giombologna that depicts Henry IV, which stands at the point that the structure passes over the Ile de la Cité. For 10 points, name these structures that include the Pont Neuf, which span the Seine in a certain European capital. ANSWER: bridges of Paris [or bridges over the Seine before “Seine”; or ponts de Paris; or pasarelles de Paris; prompt on partial answer; prompt on more general answer such as bridges of France; accept equivalents] Bonuses
1. These storms originate over tropical depressions and can only form if surface water temperature is higher than 26.5 degrees Celsius. For 10 points each: [10] Name these tropical storms with winds over 74 miles per hour (119 km per hour, for the British and Canadian folks) that revolve around an eye and are given names like Katrina. ANSWER: hurricanes [accept typhoons, baqulros, or cyclones] [10] Convective spirals of precipitating clouds surrounding the eye of the hurricane are given this name. ANSWER: spiral rainbands [10] This scale that will be modified in 2012 is used to measure the amount of damage and wind speed of hurricanes. ANSWER: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale
2. The oboe represents the crow of a cock, which scares away the central figures of this symphonic poem, which are represented by xylophones. For 10 points each: [10] Name this symphonic poem that depicts dancing skeletons, and was parodied in the section “Fossils” in Carnival of the Animals. ANSWER: Danse Macabre [10] Danse Macabre is a work by this French composer of Carnival of the Animals. ANSWER: Camille Saint-Saens [10] This section from the Carnival of the Animals parodies Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld by slowing it down immensely to depict the title animals. ANSWER: “Tortoises” [or “Tortues,” do not accept “Turtles”]
3. This man reportedly missed the Battle of Inkerman because he was relaxing on his yacht. For 10 points each: [10] Name this British aristocrat, who was controversially hailed as a hero after bravely leading the extremely ill- fated 1854 “Charge of the Light Brigade” after receiving an order from his brother-in-law the Earl of Lucan. ANSWER: James Thomas Brudenell, the Earl of Cardigan [accept either part] [10] The “Charge of the Light Brigade” occurred at this battle, which also featured a failed Russian attack repulsed by the Highland Brigade’s Thin Red Line defense. This battle ended with the Light Brigade suffering over 250 casualties during the charge. ANSWER: Battle of Balaclava [10] The Battle of Balaclava occurred during this 1853 to 1856 war between the Russian Empire and a coalition of European powers and the Ottoman Empire. Most of the war was fought on the namesake Black Sea peninsula. ANSWER: Crimean War
4. This work advises the title figure to be cruel quickly and to cause a great injury. For 10 points each: [10] Name this work of political philosophy on monarchic rule by the author of Discourses on Livy, which is dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici. ANSWER: The Prince or Il Principe [10] The Prince was written by this fifteenth century Italian philosopher. ANSWER: Niccolo Machiavelli [10] In a section on the different types of soldiery, Machiavelli argues that these types of soldiers and auxiliaries are dangerous and useless. His example of their treachery is mainly that of the Carthaginians who revolted after the First Punic War. ANSWER: mercenaries 5. The protagonist of this play used to be a piano player, but gets angry when he is given a toy drum during the title event. For 10 points each: [10] Name this play about Stanley Webber, a resident at a boarding house run by Meg and Petey. Before the title event, the sinister Goldberg and McCann arrive and they end the play by taking Stanley away. ANSWER: The Birthday Party [10] The Birthday Party is a play by this English playwright, who wrote about hitmen Ben and Gus in The Dumb Waiter. He also wrote a play which uses reverse chronology titled Betrayal. ANSWER: Harold Pinter [10] A few years before his death, Pinter played the title role in Krapp’s Last Tape, a play by this absurdist author, who also wrote about Hamm, who is unable to stand, and Clov, who is unable to sit, in the play Endgame ANSWER: Samuel Barclay Beckett
6. This force exists because molecules at a certain location only experience cohesive forces from one direction, and a gradient in this force causes the Marangoni effect. For 10 points each: [10] Name this force, which is responsible for the formation of the “tears of wine” and causes capillary action and the formation of meniscuses in test tubes ANSWER: surface tension [10] This man, along with Thomas Young, names a differential equation which sets the pressure differential across two surfaces as twice the product of the surface tensions and the mean curvature. ANSWER: Pierre-Simone Laplace [10] Eotvos’s rule states that as a general rule, surface tension decreases with an increase in this value. This quantity is plotted against Gibbs free energy in Ellingham diagrams. ANSWER temperature
7. This man led the “Revolt of the Sergeants” that toppled Gerardo Machado’s government. For 10 points each: [10] Name this world leader who cultivated alliances with gangsters like Meyer Lansky. The 26th of July Movement opposed this man, and a revolution against him began with the 1953 raid on the Moncada Barracks. ANSWER: Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar [10] Batista’s government was toppled by a revolution led by this Communist, who became head of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, when he was succeeded by his brother Raul. ANSWER: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz [10] In 1953, Castro was put on trial after the Moncada raid. He gave this reportedly almost four-hour speech in his defense in which he assailed Batista and declared himself a patriot like Jose Marti. ANSWER: “History Will Absolve Me” [accept “La historia me absolvera”]
8. He is conflated with Amun and Atum and he sprang from the deification of the primordial waters, Nun. For 10 points each: [10] Name this captain of the solar barge, a sun god who is the chief deity of Egyptian mythology. ANSWER: Ra [or Re; or Amun-Ra; or Atum-Ra; or Ra-Horakhty] [10] Ra travels on the evening boat Mesektet and battles with this evil creature to keep it from stopping the boat. ANSWER: Apep [or Apophis] [10] Mehen and this deity stand on Mesektet to help Ra battle the serpent Apep. He chopped up Osiris and once ate a soiled head of lettuce. ANSWER: Set [or Seth]
9. A dog is curled up sleeping on the right of this painting, and a girl can be seen searching through a chest in this painting’s background. For 10 points each: [10] Name this painting by Titian in which the title figure clutches a handful of roses while reclining nude in front of a green curtain. ANSWER: Venus of Urbino [10] This other Titian painting shows a cherub riding a fish and several nymphs standing on a distant shore while the title figure holds a red cloth and the horn of a bull. ANSWER: The Rape of Europa [10] This painting by Titian shows Cupid reach into the central sarcophagus, which is flanked by one nude and one clothed woman. This work is now part of the Galleria Borghese. ANSWER: Sacred and Profane Love [or Venus and the Bride]
10. Name the following about the various uses of metals in organic chemistry, for 10 points each. [10] A palladium catalyst is used in this reaction which only produces the trans product when it couples halides to form alkenes. ANSWER: Heck coupling/reaction [10] Palladium is also found in Lindlar’s catalyst, which is used to hydrogenate these compounds into alkenes. These compounds have at least one carbon-carbon triple bond. ANSWER: alkynes [10] Hydrogenations can also be catalyzed by a form of this metal. That catalyst containing this metal is named for Raney, and this metal is purified by the Mond process. ANSWER: Nickel [accept Ni]
11. This code is a combination of the Qur’an, Hadith, and fatwas. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Islamic law code that sets out moral and religious commandments. ANSWER: Sharia [10] This Islamic faction believes that Ali was the righteous heir to the Prophet and that the first three caliphs who preceded Ali were not legitimate. ANSWER: Shi’a [10] This concept from Sharia law basically means Islamic Jurisprudence. It was through the reasoning encompassed by this term that the purity of water used in ritual ablution was ascertained. ANSWER: fiqh
12. Whitelaw Reid considered this event to be damaging to the Republican presidential ticket. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1892 labor dispute in Pennsylvania, during which Henry Clay Frick, while in charge of company operations, was stabbed in a failed assassination attempt by Alexander Berkman, the lover of Emma Goldman. ANSWER: Homestead Strike [10] The Homestead Strike was directed against the steel company owned by this Scottish industrialist. He established many libraries throughout the U.S. and eventually sold his company to J.P. Morgan. ANSWER: Andrew Carnegie [10] This attorney for Carnegie Steel was later appointed a Senator by Governor Samuel Pennypacker. As Secretary of State under William Howard Taft, he advocated the system of “dollar diplomacy” in Latin America. ANSWER: Philander Chase Knox
13. This author created the fictional Snopes family. For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, who set many of his works in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. ANSWER: William Cuthbert Faulkner [10] This work by Faulkner centers on the Bundren family, whose matriarch Addie passes away. Her children include Darl, who has a mental breakdown, and Jewel, who is actually the illegitimate son of the Reverend Whitfield. ANSWER: As I Lay Dying [10] Faulkner wrote a trilogy about Flem and the rest of the Snopes family, which concluded with 1959’s The Mansion. Name either of the other two novels in the trilogy, both of which have titles referring to the locations in which they are set. ANSWER: The Hamlet or The Town [accept either, only need one part]
14. This book’s chapter “The Ancient Ones” centers on the Anasazi people of southwest United States, and latter chapters in this work relate case studies of Henderson and Pitcairn islands. For 10 points each: [10] Name this book by Jared Diamond which begins with a long chapter about mining and deforestation in Montana. In it, Diamond analyzes the impacts of environmental stresses and changes on the title occurrences. ANSWER: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed [accept “Survive” in place of “Succeed”] [10] Collapses can be caused by overpopulation, a phenomenon which was discussed in this thinker’s An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, he described the geometric growth of humans and the linear growth of supplies. ANSWER: The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus [10] Demographics of a given group of people can be represented in this type of diagram. One of these structures with a very wide base and narrow top suggests that the population size is rapidly increasing. ANSWER: age structure diagram [prompt on population pyramid]
15. Some species of these snakes are capable of making popping noises from their vent lining, and many species of these snakes are in the genus Micrurus. For 10 points each: [10] Name these banded snakes, which can be distinguished from the similar looking scarlet and king snakes by using the handy rhyme “red and black, venom lack; red and yellow, a venomous fellow.” ANSWER: coral snakes [10] King snakes express the Batesian form of this phenomenon because they express the coloration of a harmful organism despite being harmless. If king snakes were harmful, they’d be expressing its Mullerian form. ANSWER: mimicry [10] Another biologist named Muller was Herman Muller, who developed his namesake “ratchet” as a hypothesis to explain this phenomenon. John Maynard Smith coined the term “the two-fold cost” of this process. ANSWER: sexual reproduction [accept sex; accept word forms, prompt on reproduction]
16. Frans permanently separates from his wife at the end of this novel, in which Tomas refuses to denounce an article and ends up working a brief stint as a window washer. For 10 points each: [10] Name this novel in which Tereza is never able to come to terms with the fact that Tomas has numerous affairs, including an extended affair with the artist Sabina. ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being [or Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí or l'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être] [10] This Czech author wrote Unbearable Lightness of Being. This author also collected various narratives in his The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. ANSWER: Milan Kundera [10] In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the chairman of a collective farm owns this type of animal named Mephisto. Mephisto befriends Karenin, the dog of Tomas and Tereza. ANSWER: pig [accept synonyms and word forms]
17. In his final book, this character “goes to the hospital.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this inquisitive monkey created by Margret and H.A. Rey. In a series of children’s books, he gets involved in adventures and is owned by the unnamed “Man with the Yellow Hat.” ANSWER: Curious George [10] In the 2006 Curious George film, the Man with the Yellow Hat is given the name Ted and is voiced by this actor, who also voiced the title character in Megamind. With Adam McKay, he created the website “Funny or Die.” ANSWER: John William “Will” Ferrell [10] In that film, George is voiced by ubiquitous voice actor Frank Welker, who also voiced Roger, the family dog on this cartoon about the Generic family. The title child was voiced by Howie Mandel and had mother who infamously said “don’t ‘cha know” all the time. ANSWER: Bobby’s World
18. A decisive battle in this conflict was Philip I’s victory at Frankhausen. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 1520’s conflict in Germany, in which the insurgent forces led by Thomas Muntzer and Hans Muller von Bulgenbach failed to defeat the alliance of nobles called the Swabian League. ANSWER: German Peasants’ War [accept Deutscher Bauernkrieg, do not accept “Peasants Revolt”] [10] The Peasants’ War was dismissed by this man in his work Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants. His more fondly remembered works include his 1517 Ninety-Five Theses that laid the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation. ANSWER: Martin Luther [10] The previous century witnessed another European insurrection in the Hussite Wars. In that conflict, this Holy Roman Emperor battled the radical Hussites. This king of Hungary and Bohemia was disliked for having Jan Hus executed at the Council of Constance. ANSWER: Sigismund of Luxemburg 19. Blanca falls in love with Pedro Tercero and moves to Canada with him in this novel. For 10 points each: [10] Name this novel about varous generations of the Trueba family. Esteban Trueba originally loves the green- haired Rosa the Beautiful, but marries Clara del Valle. ANSWER: The House of the Spirits [accept La casa de los espiritus] [10] The House of the Spirits is by Isabel Allende, an author from this South American country. Allende is related to a Marxist president of this country, Salvador Allende. ANSWER: Republic of Chile [10] This title figure of an Allende novel is an orphan who eventually marries the European Rolf Carle. This character is conceived when her mother makes love to an Indian gardener dying of a snakebite. ANSWER: Eva Luna [accept either part, as it’s asking for the character]
20. Along with the Gate of the Kiss and the Table of Silence, this work is part of an ensemble at Targu Jiu to commemorate fallen soldiers from World War One. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 30 meter tall sculpture consisting of a series of repeating rhomboidal motifs. ANSWER: The Endless Column [accept The Column of the Infinite, Coloana infinitului] [10] The creator of The Endless Column also made multiple marble and bronze versions of this other work depicting the flight of the title creature. A customs official famously wanted to tax this work because he thought it wasn't art. ANSWER: Bird in Space [or L’Oiseau dans l’espace] [10] This modernist sculptor created the Sleeping Muse in addition to The Endless Column and Bird in Space. ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuşi [pronounced like “Brancush” but be lenient]
21. Answer the following about the Supreme Court case Gertz v Robert Welch. Welch, Inc, for 10 points each. [10] After being attacked in Robert Welch’s magazine American Opinion, lawyer Elmer Gertz sued this group, the publishers of the magazine. Founded by Welch, it is a right-wing group supposedly named after the first American casualty of the Cold War. ANSWER: John Birch Society [10] In his opinion in Gertz, Lewis Powell wrote that under this amendment, “there is no such thing as a false idea.” This amendment prohibits infringements on the freedom of the press and speech in general. ANSWER: First Amendment [10] Another memorable First Amendment case involved this Montgomery Public Safety commissioner suing the New York Times for defamation after believing he was attacked in an advertisement titled “Heed Their Rising Voices.” ANSWER: L.B. Sullivan