MUT 2012: My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts? Packet Nine Edited by the University of Minnesota and University of Illinois

Tossups

1. This author wrote about a film star named Sakura who was raped by American soldiers in The Beautiful Annabel Lee was Chilled and Killed. At the end of one of his novels, the unnamed narrator killed a blacksmith using an iron ingot after escaping from a warden who promised his detainees they could live normal lives. In a parody of Yukio Mishima, he wrote about a man who wears goggles in a hospital bed and hopes he has cancer in The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away. Bird, the antisocial protagonist of another of his novels, is the father of an abnormal newborn. Mitsu and Takashi narrate another of his works as they return to their childhood village after Mitsu’s handicapped son is institutionalized. For 10 points, name this Japanese author The Silent Cry. ANSWER: Kenzaburo Oe

2. Four days before this event began, a rally featured such speakers as Markus Wolf and Marianne Birthler. It was arguably set in motion by a press conference that featured the ad-libbed words “effective immediately, without delay” in response to a question by Tom Brokaw. This event had been called for two years earlier in a speech described as “extreme” and “unpresidential” by Howard Baker. It was celebrated the following month by a Leonard Bernstein concert. This event began soon after the resignation of Erich Honecker and the ascension of Egon Krenz, and it had been famously commanded by Ronald Reagan in a challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate. For 10 points, name this event begun on November 9, 1989, which toppled a structure dividing a German city. ANSWER: Fall of the Berlin Wall [accept German Reunification, even though it isn’t completely accurate, prompt on Peaceful Revolution, accept obvious equivalents]

3. One of this man’s works takes its title from William Morris’ News from Nowhere and has George Orwell faking his death. After this man appeared on the cover of Time with the caption “We Can’t Afford Freedom,” frequent critic Noam Chomsky accused him of using words in “idiosyncratic senses.” One of his works features Rogers, Steve, and Professor Burris visiting Frazier at the title location. This author of Verbal Behavior proposed a plan in World War II featuring missiles guided by pigeons. In one of his books, the title community is run by a Board of Planners and features Managers and Scientists. For 10 points, name this behaviorist, the developer of the “air crib” and the author of Walden Two, who also created an operant conditioning chamber known as his namesake “box.” ANSWER: Burrhus Frederic Skinner

4. One of this author’s novels chronicles the trials of Ludwig Breyer, who develops syphilis, and Adolf Bethke, whose marriage dissolves during his absence. That novel follows the aspiring teacher Ernst Birkholz. In another novel by this man, the protagonist tosses a bottle at several nuns to get them to stop praying, but Josef Hamacher takes responsibility for it. This author’s novel The Road Back is a spiritual successor to one of his books, in which Muller tries to benefit from Kemmerich’s death by gangrene by asking for his boots. For 10 points, identify this novelist who chronicled the experiences of Paul Bäumer during World War I in his All Quiet on the Western Front. ANSWER: Eric Maria Remarque

5. After a whipping incident, members of this group committed the Boyd massacre by killing over 60 sailors. One leader of this group cut down a pole to initiate the Flagstaff War, while members objected to a certain tax in the Dog Tax War. Their culture was documented in the writings of Sir George Grey, a governor-general. Members fought against each other in the battle of Te Ahuahu, and Europeans who joined them were called “Pakeha.” This group was severely depleted in the Musket Wars, while they fought the British under the leadership of Hone Heke. When negotiating with William Hobson, they signed the Treaty of Waitangi. This people have designated seats in the Wellington Parliament. For 10 points, name this native people of New Zealand. ANSWER: Maori [accept native New Zealanders until mentioned] 6. In CIDNP (“kidnap”), these structures are assumed to occupy various spin states in a non-Boltzmann distribution, and the standard enthalpy associated with a compound breaking up into two of these structures is defined as the bond disassociation energy. These structures are studied in EPR spectroscopy, and compounds like AIBN are used to generate these. These structures are generally formed in reactions that are shown as fish-hooked arrows, and these molecules are often generated by chain transfer in reactions that is used to make polymers. Catalase and antioxidants prevent the formation of these structures. For 10 points, name these molecules which have unpaired electrons. ANSWER: free radicals

7. In one poem, this author asserted his birth was in the “sweat of death” and that he had “fallen twice in the feeding sea, grown Stale of Adam’s brine.” This author of “I Dreamed My Genesis” described his childhood as “happy as the grass was green” when he was “young and easy under the apple boughs.” “Under the windings of the sea” and “no more may gulls cry at their ears” are given as the title times in his poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion.” This author of “Fern Hill” wrote that “blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” and said that “old age should burn and rage at close of day.” For 10 points, name this author who advised to “rage, rage against the dying of the light” in “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night.” ANSWER: Dylan Thomas

8. One work in this medium shows Dudley Carter, a proponent of Art in Action, set up his sculpture of the Bighorn Mountain Sheep, and that work also depicts Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge and was made for San Francisco City College. One work in this form includes parts depicting ancient and modern human sacrifice and Anglo America; that work is titled The Epic of American Civilization and is located at Dartmouth. Jose Orozco worked extensively in this medium, and one work in this form features portraits of Trotsky and Lenin and was originally painted for the Rockefeller Center. For 10 points, name this art form employed for works such as Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera, in which paint is applied directly to walls. ANSWER: murals

9. In Tibetan Buddhism, a material made from colostrum indicates the importance of this practice, and they practice a “spiritual” type of it to generate an “inner heat.” Women practice this act on Karva Chauth, and most Hindus perform it on Durga Puja and for the New Moon. In another religion, this action is done in between suhoor and iftar. Many Mormons partake in one type of it during the first Sunday of every month. This practice is central to Tisha B’Av is a means of atonement during Yom Kippur. Muslims do it from sun-up to sundown during a period of time that culminates with Eid ul-Fitr. For 10 points, name this religious act of individual sacrifice that Muslims perform during Ramadan. ANSWER: fasting [or things like not eating etc...]

10. This compound binds to Glycine 257 of Hedgehog protein to activate it, and this compound’s production is modulated by class 2 SREBP transcription factors. A precursor to this molecule is synthesized by the epoxidification of squalene. Side effects of drugs that inhibit the production of this compound include a drop in coenzyme q 10 levels, and those drugs inhibit HMG CoA reductases. This compound is the starting material for the synthesis of aldosterone and other steroid hormones. Building up of this material along arterial walls can cause atherosclerosis. For 10 points, name this compound, often classified into LDL and HDL, which are its “good” and “bad” types. ANSWER: cholesterol

11. Two lovers in this opera sing “Oh, quanti occhi fisi” at the end of their duet “Viene la sera.” The title character of this opera sings “Un bel di” in anticipation of her husband returning when the robins build their nests, and she struggles to pronounce ornithology. The title character of this opera throws away figurines of her ancestors after which her uncle Bonzo gets angry. At the end of this opera, the title character sings “Piccolo Iddio” to her child named Trouble and then kills herself after the maid Suzuki introduces her to Kate, her husband’s new American wife. For 10 points, name this Puccini opera about the Japanese woman Cio-Cio San, who marries Lieutenant Pinkerton. ANSWER: Madama Butterfly [accept Madame Butterfly] 12. This man argued that obedience without freedom leads to the formation of secret societies in a refutation of Hobbes called “On the Common Saying: That may be true in Theory, but is of no use in Practice.” In one essay, this man argued that the pastor’s advice “Do not argue” hinders man’s desire to “sapere aude!” or “dare to know” that was necessary for “man’s emergence from his self-imposed tutelage.” In another work, this man claimed that synthetic a priori judgments are restricted to the realm of the phenomena, or appearances, and is apart from the “thing-in-itself.” This author of What is Enlightenment? also formulated the categorical imperative. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who wrote Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason. ANSWER: Immanuel Kant

13. The drift velocity equals the product of this quantity and mobility, and the Poisson equation is derived by eliminating this quantity by substitution. The displacement field equals the polarization density plus the product of this quantity and the permittivity. This quantity falls off with the cube of distance for dipole configurations. The path integral of it is equal to the time derivative of the magnetic flux, and its divergence is proportional to the charge density. For 10 points, name this physical quantity which when multiplied by a test charge gives an inverse-square force, a result of Coulomb’s Law. ANSWER: electric field [prompt on E-field]

14. Before one election, this politician was hurt with images of a kiss exchanged with Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha. In a debate in that election, this politician’s opponent walked over to the opposing podium to demand this figure sign a pledge abstaining from soft money, an act seen as bullying. This author of It Takes a Village won a Senate seat in 2000 after defeating Rick Lazio. In the Pete Souza photograph The Situation Room, this person appears to anxiously hold her right hand over her mouth as she awaits information about Operation Neptune Spear in Pakistan. She succeeded Condolezza Rice in her current Cabinet post, which she took after failing to win the 2008 Democratic nomination. For 10 points, name this Obama Secretary of State. ANSWER: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton [accept Rodham, prompt on Clinton]

15. The strings are used to mock horn calls in one section of this work that is followed by a section in a minor mode that uses shivering staccato eighth notes. Sixteenth notes represent the breeze and triplets symbolize a storm in a section of this work with a two-note pattern on the violas to represent a dog barking. Bagpipes are represented by the low strings at a country dance in this work, whose other sections depict a sleepy shepherd, a hunt, and cuckoos singing before a storm. The composer wrote sonnets to accompany sections of this work, which is contained in The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. For 10 points, name this set of four concertos that begins with Spring and ends with Winter, composed by Vivaldi. ANSWER: Four Seasons [accept Le Quattro Stagioni; prompt on The Contest Between Harmony and Invention (or that, in Italian) before read]

16. When two brothers washed ashore it was this figure who supported the one who did not become king, Agnar. This goddess directs Hlin to protect the people that this woman deems worthy, and this woman holds that power because she weaves the clouds and the fates of men. She is the only woman that can sit in Hlidskjalf and she resides in the hall Fensalir. A god disguised as the giantess Thokk overcame her acquisition of an oath from all worldly things that intended to protect her son from harm. An oversight in that oath allowed the blind god Hoder to kill the son of this goddess with mistletoe. For 10 points, name this mother of Baldr and wife of Odin. ANSWER: Frigga [or Frigg]

17. Hiroo Kanamori developed a formula to measure the moment of these events. Microzonation classifies areas based on the occurrence of these events that can trigger seiches. Turbidites and scarps are features that form as a result of these events. These events begin at asperities and generally originate in the Wadati-Benioff zone or the brittle part of the brittle-ductile boundary. These events are caused by elastic rebound and are located by triangulation. The epicenter is directly above the focus of these events. For 10 points, the Mercalli and Richter scales measure what events that occur along fault lines and are studied by seismologists? ANSWER: earthquakes 18. In one speech before Congress, this man said he was not at the Battle of Stillman’s Run, but did have a “good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes.” In another speech, he said “Let us have faith that right makes might.” This man denounced “that attractive rainbow” of the war against Mexico and asked for proof of Mexican belligerence in the Spot Resolutions. He used a Farmers’ Almanac showing the position of a moon while defending “Duff” Armstrong in a murder trial. This man gave the Cooper Union speech and also stated that “I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free” in his “House Divided” speech. For 10 points, name this man who staged an 1858 series of debates with Stephen Douglas before winning the presidency two years later. ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln

19. In this work, Phebe is sold to cover up the affair between Cass Mastern and Annabelle Trice. One character in this novel got drunk at his own barbecue and decided to support MacMurfee. The protagonist of this novel picks up a hitchhiker in New Mexico who helps him formulate his idea of the Great Twitch. Sibyl Frey is impregnated by Tommy, who becomes paralyzed after a football accident in this novel. This novel’s protagonist refers to Theodore Murrell as the Young Executive and to his father as the Scholarly Attorney before learning that Judge Irwin was his father. Adam Stanton learns of his sister Anne’s affair from Tiny Duffy who heard it from Sadie Burke. For 10 points, name this novel about Jack Burden who works for Willie Stark, written by Robert Penn Warren. ANSWER: All the King’s Men

20. In 1987, graverobbers sawed off this deceased world leader’s hands and held them for ransom. His return to his country was marred by the Ezeiza massacre, which killed members of the Montoneros. In 1951, this leader opened the Republic of the Children theme park, four years before being forced into exile. This man tried to cultivate European relations with the “Rainbow Tour.” While imprisoned, his followers had earlier staged a 1945 protest at the Plaza de Mayo. This man’s followers were known as the “shirtless ones” or descamisados. He was succeeded by his third wife Isabel, while his popular second wife was a former actress who died of cancer at age 33. For 10 points, name this leader of Argentina who was married to the woman known as Evita. ANSWER: Juan Domingo Peron

Tiebreaker This author fictionalized a love affair in a novel about Mardou Fox and Leo Percepied. In another of his novels, Jackie Duluoz has visions of the “Great World Snake” which lives undereath a castle at Lowell, Massachusetts. This author of The Subterraneans and Doctor Sax wrote about Ray and Japhy, who is based on Gary Snyder, climbing California’s Matterhorn Peak and participating in various Buddhist rituals. In his best known work, this man featured such characters as the poet Carlo Marx and the morphine-adicted “Old Bull” Lee, who was based on William S. Burroughs. In that work, this man wrote about Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty traveling the coutnry in a bus. For 10 points, name this “Beat” author of The Dharma Bums and On the Road. ANSWER: Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac Bonuses

1. You correctly guess the price of a toaster that can work on sixteen pieces of bread simultaneously on The Price is Right and win an all-expenses-paid trip to explore the architecture of Chicago. For 10 points each: [10] You decide to make this house on Woodlawn Avenue your first stop. This structure is essentially made up of two connected parallel rectangles, and its architect called the third floor of this house “The Ship.” ANSWER: Robie House [10] You then decide to go to Millenium Park, whose Pritzker Pavillion was designed by this man. This architect also designed Prague’s “Dancing House” and the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. ANSWER: Frank Gehry [10] Finally, you decide to make a detour to Plano to visit the Farnsworth house, which was designed by this architect. This man designed many buildings for the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was also a teacher. ANSWER: Ludvig Mies van der Rohe [prompt on Ludvig Mies van der Rohe]

2. This principle requires that an individual place themselves in the “original position” and some critics attack it due its vague outline of what the original position actually is. For 10 points each: [10] Name this ethical construct that suggests an individual remove themselves from a situation to make a moral decision without personal bias. ANSWER: veil of ignorance [10] This philosopher and author of The Law of Peoples developed the “veil of ignorance” in his book A Theory of Justice. ANSWER: John Rawls [10] Robert Nozick wrote a book on anarchy, state and this, which was a response to A Theory of Justice. This word, from the Greek for “no place” describes a society which possesses a perfect socioeconomic climate. ANSWER: Utopia

3. This man played Mr. Aziz, a pizza store proprietor, in Spider-Man 2. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Indian-American Daily Show correspondent who frequently appears as a “Senior Middle East Correspondent.” He was hilariously cast as the villainous Admiral Zhao in the terrible live-action The Last Airbender movie. ANSWER: Aasif Mandvi [accept Aasif Hakim Mandviwala] [10] The Last Airbender was directed by this man, who cheerfully went to the “twist ending” well for such films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village, all of which are at least better than The Last Airbender. ANSWER: M. Night Shyamalan [accept Manoj Shyamalan] [10] Wikipedia claims Aasif Mandvi once did a commercial for this food company. Other commercials for this company have featured the character of Bad Andy, while more recent ones feature CEO Patrick Doyle admitting this company’s old product stunk. ANSWER: Domino’s Pizza

4. The ‘Adepts’ of this religion seek to maximize Te and its other principles include Ch’i and Ni. For 10 points each: [10] Name this religion symbolized by the Yin-Yang and founded by Lao Tzu. ANSWER: Taoism [or Daoism] [10] This principle of Taoism is action without action, or no-action, which many people interpret as implying a life of serenity and meditation. ANSWER: wu wei [10] Zhuangzi (zhwong-zuh), a Taoist thinker authored a namesake book that contains a notable passage in which he describes himself dreaming that he was one of these creatures. ANSWER: butterflies or butterfly 5. In From Ritual to Romance, Jessie Weston expands on this work by comparing rituals of Osiris and Tammuz to the search for the Holy Grail. For 10 points each: [10] Name this work first published in 1890. Subtitled “A Study in Magic and Realism,” it compares mythology to religion by discussing various gods of vegetation. Its title refers to a mythological object presented by Aeneas to the gatekeeper of Hades. ANSWER: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Realism [10] The work of The Golden Bough’s author, James Frazer, inspired this Polish anthropologist and teacher of Jomo Kenyatta. He wrote about the Trobriand Islanders in Argonauts of the Western Pacific. ANSWER: Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski [10] This 1949 work by an American scholar notes that many myths share identical structures, which the author dubs “monomyths.” This book analyzes the title figure’s call to adventure, the enduing of a road of trials, the obtaining of a great boon, and the return to the ordinary world. ANSWER: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (by Joseph Campbell)

6. This equation admits solutions with indefinite probability densities and negative energies, which led to its being initially rejected. For 10 points each: [10] Name this alteration of the Schrödinger equation obtained by quantizing the relativistic expression for energy, which Pauli and Weisskopf later reinterpreted as the field equation for spin-0 particles. ANSWER: Klein-Gordon-Fock equation [10] This English physicist developed a different relativistic version of the Schrödinger equation that describes elementary spin-1/2 particles. With Enrico Fermi, he also names a distribution describing the energies of identical particles obeying the Pauli exclusion principle. ANSWER: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac [10] One of the chief successes of the Dirac equation was its prediction of this antiparticle of the electron, which Dirac originally envisioned as a hole in an infinite sea of negative-energy particles. ANSWER: positron

7. An anamorphic projection of a human skull appears in the bottom of this painting. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve standing on either side of two shelves containing numerous items such as a lute with a broken string, a Lutheran hymnbook, a globe, and an astrolabe. ANSWER: The Ambassadors [10] This painter of The Ambassadors was the court painter to Henry VIII and made a famous portrait of Thomas More. ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger [prompt on Hans Holbein] [10] Holbein lived for a while in Antwerp, which was the birthplace of this artist, who made portraits for King Charles I, including a famous triple portrait. ANSWER: Anthony van Dyck [accept Anthony van Dyke]

8. A cartoon about this event depicts the English king and was titled “Leap No Leap.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this event in which various New England Federalists met to denounce the wartime policies of James Madison’s administration. Delegates demanded presidents be limited to one term and also proposed secession. ANSWER: Hartford Convention [10] The Hartford Convention occurred during this war between the United States and Great Britain, a conflict which featured the burning of the White House. ANSWER: War of 1812 [10] One key delegate to the Hartford Convention was Harrison Gray, a member of this family. The Patriot author Mercy Warren was born in this family, as was her brother, a pamphleteer who died when he was struck by lightning. ANSWER: Otis [accept James Otis] 9. This character’s grandfather was arrested for making a joke about Trujillo. For 10 points each: [10] Name this character, an overweight Dominican American, who is a fan of science fiction and comic books. The novel in which he appears is titled for his “Brief Wondrous Life,” which includes attending Rutgers and his ultimate death in the Dominican Republic. ANSWER: Oscar de Leon [accept Oscar or de Leon, accept Oscar Wao, accept Wao even though that is just a nickname] [10] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was written by Junot Diaz, a foreign-born author who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, much like this author of The Namesake and the short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. ANSWER: Jhumpa Lahiri [accept Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri] [10] The title story in Interpreter of Maladies takes place in this country, the country of heritage of most of the characters in the collection. Another author from this country, Arundhati Roy, wrote The God of Small Things. ANSWER: Republic of India [accept Bharat Ganarajya]

10. In one song about this city, “Mister Reuben” asks the title question to his “wifey dear.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this city which appeared in the title of a hugely popular 1918 song which asked “how ‘ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm after they’ve seen” this city. ANSWER: Paris [accept Paree] [10] “How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)” was popular among servicemen and their families during American involvement in this conflict. Other songs popular during this war included “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag” and “Over There.” ANSWER: World War I [accept the Great War] [10] This song, which was popular with WWI troops, is called Australia’s unofficial national anthem. It is a bush ballad describing a swagman who captures a sheep and gets in trouble with the police. ANSWER: “Waltzing Matilda”

11. This woman fled her native Tyre after her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband Sychaeus. For 10 points each: [10] Name this figure from Africa who threw herself on a funeral pyre after her lover chose duty instead of her. ANSWER: Dido [10] Dido refused to speak this man, her lover, when he came to the underworld. He is the namesake of an epic by Vergil. ANSWER: Aeneas [10] Aeneas finally settled down and married this woman. Turnus was favored to become the husband of this woman, but Faunus warned her father Latinus not to marry her to a Latin. ANSWER: Lavinia

12. In 2006, the IAU decided that there were no longer nine planets. For 10 points each: [10] The IAU stripped this object of planet designation; it shares its orbit with the moon Charon. ANSWER: Pluto [10] Pluto is found in this astronomical region whose other members include Makemake (mah-kay-mah-kay) and Ixion, and which is believed to be the source of short-period comets. ANSWER: Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt [10] These objects are believed to be escaped Kuiper Belt objects. These solar system bodies now interact with the gas giants but are not in resonance with a planet, unlike Trojans. ANSWER: Centaurs

13. This author dedicated his play Horace to Cardinal Richelieu. For 10 points each: [10] Name this French dramatist who wrote about Don Rodrigue becoming the title hero in his play Le Cid. Richelieu felt the play did not respect the rules of classical unity and was thus problematic. ANSWER: Pierre Corneille [10] In Le Cid, the title character battles these enemy forces in Spain. In Shakespeare’s Othello, the title character is said to be a member of this group who serves in the Venetian army. This term refers to no real ethnic or racial group, but was frequently applied to Muslim Iberians or North Africans. ANSWER: Moors [10] Horace is not about the Roman poet Horace, who wrote this treatise on the genre, which includes descriptions of the tactic of “in medias res” and the blooper referred to as the “Homeric nod.” Also known as the “Letters to Piso,” this work shares its name with an Archibald MacLeish poem. ANSWER: Ars Poetica [accept The Art of Poetry or On the Nature of Poetry

14. One early action by this group was assaulting Patrol Four Four Bravo, kicking off the Black July riots. For 10 points each: [10] Name this separatist group which sought to create an independent state in Sri Lanka. Pioneers in the use of suicide belts, this group killed Sri Lanka President Premadasa and India Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the 1990’s. ANSWER: Tamil Tigers [accept LTTE or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] [10] Rajiv Gandhi’s mother, Indira, was killed by her Sikh bodyguards after authorizing this 1984 operation in which the military attacked Sikh separatists at the holy site of the Golden Temple of Amritsar. ANSWER: Operation Blue Star [10] Earlier in Indira Gandhi’s ministry, this modern-day country achieved its independence in 1971 with support from India. This country was formerly the region of East Pakistan. ANSWER: People’s Republic of Bangladesh

15. This value is plotted against volume of liquid added to find the equivalence point on titration curves. For 10 points each: [10] Name this quantity, the change in which is minimized by buffers. This quantity is equal to the negative log of the hydronium ion. ANSWER: pH [10] The pH of a buffer can be calculated by using this equation, which sets pH equal to pKa minus the log of the ratio of concentrations of the weak acid and its conjugate base. ANSWER: Henderson-Hasselbach equation [10] A commonly used buffer in biochemistry is the MES buffer, which was developed as one of these buffers. All of these buffers have pKa values between 6 and 8, and have low absorbance between 240 and 700 nanometers. ANSWER: Good’s Buffers

16. One character in this novel is the hunchbacked Philip Wakem, while the protagonists’ cousin is named Lucy Deane. For 10 points each: [10] Name this work of British literature, in which brother and sister Maggie and Tom Tulliver grow up near the title river and ultimately die there when their boat capsizes. ANSWER: The Mill on the Floss [10] This author wrote The Mill on the Floss and wrote about the title miser in Silas Marner, as well as writing the “study of provincial life” titled Middlemarch. ANSWER: George Eliot [accept Mary Ann Evans] [10] In Middlemarch, this woman marries the doofus clergyman Edward Casaubon, who never finishes his The Key to All Mythologies. She will be disinherited if she marries Casaubon’s cousin Will Ladislaw. ANSWER: Dorothea Brooke [accept either part] 17. This man’s second wife, Eupraxia of Kiev, accused him of forcing her to participate in orgies. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Holy Roman Emperor who is better known for performing penance at the fortress of Canossa after being excommunicated by the pope during the investiture controversy. He shares his name and number with a French king assassinated in 1610. ANSWER: Henry IV [accept Heinrich IV] [10] This was the papal name of the pope who excommunicated Henry IV. The first pope with this name also names a chant used in Mass and other church rituals. ANSWER: Gregory [number does not matter, accept Gregorian] [10] The investiture controversy was resolved by the Concordat of Worms, a meeting between Henry V and a pope of this name. During the siege of Belgrade, another pope with this name apocryphally excommunicated the Halley’s Comet, believing it to be a bad omen. ANSWER: Callixtus [number does not matter]

18. In fungi, these structures are composed primarily of NAG chains, and cross linked NAG and NAM chains make up peptidoglycan, which form these structures in bacteria. For 10 points each: [10] Name this structure which is absent in animal cells and is composed of cellulose in plant cells. ANSWER: cell walls [do not accept cell membrane] [10] This class of compounds works by inhibiting the cross linking of bacterial cell wall subunits. This class of compounds has a beta-lactam ring, and was discovered in its namesake ascomycote. ANSWER: penicillin [10] This is the name given to the holes between plant cell walls that connect adjoining cells. The symplastic pathway goes through these structures, which are similar to the gap junctions between animal cells. ANSWER: plasmodesma [accept plasmodesmata]

19. After this event, Brackley Kennett was charged for failing to read the Riot Act. For 10 points each: [10] Name these 1780, anti-Catholic uprisings in England which resulted in much damage throughout London. Its namesake was the leader of the Protestant Association opposed to the Papists Act of 1778 that had eliminated restrictions of Catholics. ANSWER: Gordon riots [10] The Gordon Riots effectively destroyed one of these institutions at Newgate Street. Another example of this institution in London was on the Fleet River, which housed failed debtors like William Penn. ANSWER: prisons [accept jails or other synonyms] [10] A more recent English riot was the 1910 Tonypandy or Rhondda Riots, which involved striking members of this profession in south Wales. During the riots, Home Secretary Winston Churchill controversially sent in troops to support policemen against the strikers. ANSWER: coal miners [prompt on miners, accept equivalents]

20. The title character of this work finds his wife’s innards hanging from an apron in a tree. For 10 points each: [10] Name this short story in which the greedy title character meets Old Scratch and makes a deal with him. He eventually becomes a loan shark but is apparently taken to Hell when he leaves his Bibles in a desk. ANSWER: “The Devil and Tom Walker” [10] This author wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker,” but his more famous short stories are collected in his The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, including one about Brom Bones and Katrina Van Tassel. ANSWER: Washington Irving [10] Another short story in the Sketchbook is about this man, who falls asleep and wakes up to discover that his dog is now dead and his son is a grown man. ANSWER: Rip Van Winkle [accept Rip or Van Winkle] 21. This man entered politics to support the Junkers and was sympathetic to the ideas of Joseph Maria von Radowitz. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Prussian proponent of “blood and iron,” known as the “Iron Chancellor,” who fought against Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War. ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck [accept Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck] [10] Bismarck modified this communication that was sent by Wilhelm I from the title spa, thus sparking the Franco- Prussian War as it led to angry French citizens demanding war. ANSWER: Ems Dispatch [10] During the Franco-Prussian War, this Prussian Field Marshal was Chief of the General Staff and was commander at Sedan. He won the Battle of Koniggratz in the Austro-Prussian War, and his nephew was a commander during World War I. ANSWER: Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke the Elder