2011 Moon Pie Classic Round 2

2011 Moon Pie Classic Round 2 Packet by Snead State, Chuck Pearson, Mike Bentley, and editors

1. The wife of the man who wrote this story later revealed in her memoirs that its central obsession was a dramatized version of a real fascination held by the author, and that the object of it was an aristocrat named Władysław Moes. Similar strange-looking men reappear to the main character at points during this story, and provide the impetus for the main character to make important decisions: to leave Munich for southern getaway, to leave Trieste for elsewhere, and to stay in the new city even though good sense would tell him to leave. The smell of carbolic acid is repeatedly mentioned in this work, a disinfectant attempting to combat a disease, but the main character is too hung up on a pretty boy to leave the title location. Cholera kills Gustav von Aschenbach due in part to his obsession with Tadzio in, for 10 points, which novella set in a certain Italian city, written by Thomas Mann? Answer: Death in Venice

2. Over the last two weeks one of its Twitter pages have included updates from April 21 announcing that an analysis summary of “X(3872) and psi(2S) production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV” is available, and another from the week earlier announcing that the summary of “Observation of W arrow tau nu” is likewise available. A long shutdown of it is set for 2013 to prepare for higher-energy running in the following year. Built to discover things like superpartners, it successfully fired the first protons around the tunnel in 2008. For 10 points identify this particle accelerator located near the border of France in Switzerland Answer: Large Hadron Collider or LHC

3. During the long period between 1920 and 1936, during which he spent seventeen consecutive years in the army without being promoted, this man at one point served as aide to General John J. Pershing on the American Battle Monuments Commission, and after his retirement he himself would retire to a farm near Gettysburg. Having worked in a creamery in Abilene, Kansas to help put his brother through college before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1911, his career took off following the invasion of Pearl Harbor and during a post-war term as President of Columbia University he had to dissuade the Pulitzer Prize committee from nominating him for his account of his action in World War II, Crusade in Europe. Ultimately retiring as a General of the Army, for 10 points name this military figure who directed Operation Overlord and was named Commander in Chief of all US Forces in 1953 by the American people, who elected him the 34th President in that year. Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. In one version of the legend about him he met his fate as a result of the anger of Zeus, who believed he was trying to seduce Semele. The son of Aristaeus and Autonöe, Semele’s sister, in other versions of the story he met his doom because it was his mother’s suggestion to Semele that she had in fact born Dionysus to a mortal lover; Semele asked for proof and was destroyed, and that led to a curse from Zeus on this figure. That death came about during a hunt, when he accidentally stumbled upon a goddess at her bath. For 10 points name this unfortunate man, turned into a stag by Artemis whose naked body he had seen and thereupon torn to pieces by his own hounds. Answer: Actaeon 5. At the end of this story a cat is picked up and affectionately treated by a man who has just recently acquired a yellow shirt with blue parrots, although it may also be spattered with blood as are apparently his eyeglasses which he stoops to clean. That character states he was falsely convicted for the murder of his father, whom he alleges to have died in the flu epidemic of 1918 instead, and chose his name because he can’t ever seem to make the evil he does conform to what he has already suffered in punishment. He appears to help a family whose car has flipped over when one of its passengers nudges the cat she carries upon her realization that the plantation she is taking them to see is actually not in Georgia but Tennessee, where she wanted to go in the first place if for no other reason that she fears running afoul of the escaped murderer called the Misfit. For 10 points name this story in which the Misfit does meet and gun down a family, a short story by Flannery O’Connor? Answer: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

6. Criticism of this formulation takes note of the fact that only a few of its terms, R sub asterisk and f sub p, are shown to be in operation anywhere beyond 230,000 astronomical units away, and that only these and one other, n sub e, are susceptible to experimental measurement. All others have as their only model one example which may or may be atypical of the process it seeks to identify. It was formulated ten years later to attempt to discover under what circumastances would end the silentium universi, or, more simply put, to answer the simple question of “Where are they?”, and its formulator suggested that it was meant less to be a definitive answer and more to get the conversation started, as this did at the Green bank Observatory. For 10 points name this possible answer to the Fermi paradox with formula Capital N equals capital R sub asterisk f sub p n sub e f sub l f sub i f sub c capital L, one which seeks to provide the variables which would go in to the Earth being contacted by intelligent extraterrestrial life. Answer: Drake equation

7. He came to military command rather late in life and despite being inexperienced turned himself into a fearsome cavalry commander whose victories were built on the moralistic, rigid discipline of his soldiers, whose strict training allowed them to do miraculous things like keep formation, not ride out too far in pursuit of a defeated enemy, and even reform after a repulse or success. This was something this man’s main opponent, Rupert of the Rhine, could never get his own troopers to do. It may have been Rupert which gave this man the nickname “Old Ironsides”, which was soon applied to the name of his cavalry, and though he briefly forced himself to retire from military service by an act of Parliament he himself proposed, he was soon back in the field against the Cavaliers at such battles as Naseby and later against the Irish at the nortorious siege of Drogheda as the head of the New Model Army. For 10 points name this soldier and politician, who played a large role in the defeat of the forces of Charles I and later ruled England briefly as Lord Protector. Answer: Oliver Cromwell

8. Among the unique features of this city is the so-called Gay Village on Canal Street, as well as Moss Side, an area widely considered one of the worst places for violent crime anywhere. In its city center stands a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to whom workers from here sent a letter of support in 1862 even though his cotton blockade threatened to ruin them. A library and rail station built in Roman-style stands over the site where, almost sixty years before the letter to Lincoln, unemployed textile workers here protested the high prices of grain and lack of parliamentary representation, an assembly forcibly broken up by cavalry in the so-called “Peterloo Massacre”. Past the Albert Square one can take Market Street past this city’s large Ferris Wheel in Exchange Square, and at the Printworks one can dine at the Hard Rock Café emblazoned with lyrics from Oasis, which came from here. For 10 points name this northwestern English City, also famous for its football club and their characteristic red and gold colors. Answer: Manchester 9. A woman pushes her lover away from herself while seated next to a red cloth in this artist’s The Blunder, and he depicted the title figure staring toward the sky while playing an instrument in Mezzetin. A man in an over-sized and ruffled white dress stands in the foreground as four men and a horse watch that title figure in this artist’s painting, Gilles. In another of his works, a woman in a pink dress and a man holding her hand look on as a portrait of Louis XIV is shown being packed away. His reception piece to the Royal Academy featured a statue of Venus and several winged cupids surrounding a group of couples making the namesake voyage. That painting ushered in the fete galantes genre. Known for works like Gersaint’s Shopsign, for 10 points, name this French rococo artist of Embarkation to Cythera. Answer: Jean-Antoine Watteau

10. He averaged almost a triple double during his senior season in high school and despite such stats was not recruited by any college even after letters were sent to over 30 American Universities, possibly due to his foreign origins. Dick Davey, then coach at Santa Clara requested footage of this man but was said to be “nervous as hell” in his choice despite later awarding this athlete a scholarship. Originally drafted by Phoenix, he spent a tour in Dallas before returning back to the desert and winning 2 consecutive MVP awards. For 10 points identify this Canadian guard known for his hair and flashy assist moves. Answer: Steve Nash

11. In one collection of her works a girl’s mother has her spy on the boarders of the house she runs before falling in love with a singer, whom the daughter attempts to seduce unsuccessfully. Another tale tells of a prostitute who plays a game with her customers whereby they attempt to toss a coin into her vagina. These are found amongst the “stories” told in a collection whose framing narrative is a continuation of one of these author’s earlier works, involving the misadventures of the title character and the love she finds with an Austrian émigré. One of her most famous works tells of a brutal miner who strikes it rich but loses his beautiful fiancée and marries her sister, a clairvoyant who surrounds herself with mediums and fellow psychics. “Wicked Girl” and “Toad’s Mouth” are some of the Stories of Eva Luna, which, along with House of the Spirits, are works by what Chilean author? Answer: Isabel Allende

12. Quinones and melanins derived from this neurotransmitter contribute to browning of bruised or cut fruits and vegetables. Synthesis of it occurs in the medulla of the adrenal glands, and it is released from the hypothalamus as a neurohormone. One drug derived from this neurotransmitter can induce loss of sodium and dilation of the blood vessels in low doses. Higher doses of that drug, called Intropin, leads to vasoconstriction and greatly reduced kidney function. Reuptake of this neurotransmitter is inhibited by cocaine and amphetamines, and deficiencies can lead to attention deficit disorder when the concentration is reduced in the prefrontal cortex, as well as Parkinson’s disease. Abnormally high levels of this neurotransmitter contribute to psychosis and schizophrenia. For 10 points name this monoamine neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and reward. Answer: Dopamine 13. Shortly after March 9, 1862 a man named Theodore Timby began receiving royalties for an invention he had patented almost twenty years earlier which had just seen battle for the first time. A similar invention had been developed but not actually built as early as 1815 by Colonel John Stevens, whose sons Robert Livingston and Edwin oversaw a federally-funded development project for one of these on which work was never completed. Its first use in combat came under the command of a Lieutenant John Warden, who faced in battle an enemy armed with a similar invention commanded by Franklin Buchanan. A much smaller version of the so-called Stevens Battery became the revenue cutter Nauagatuck right about the same time as the first deployment of, for 10 points, what weapon based on the designs of John Ericsson, which fought a similar warship called the CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads under the name USS Monitor? Answer: Ironclads

14. While in Europe in the 1640s this man’s interest in astronomy led him to visit Galileo to tell him his works had been translated into English. He was in Europe to escape the English Civil War, an action he attributed to the timidity inherited from his mother which had caused her to give birth to this man prematurely from fear of the Spanish Armada. In spite of this caution, he was no stranger to controversy, getting into a fight over his incorrect claim he had been able to square the circle made in his On Man that earned him the enmity of John Wallis and probably cost him membership in the Royal Society. Equally unpopular were his often misunderstood philosophical ideas, which held that man was ultimately motivated by self-preservation and ought to do whatever necessary to preserve it, his so called “Right of Nature”, but that the best path for that was Reason, without development of which men would live as animals in an existence that was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”. For 10 points name this thinker best known for his Leviathan. Answer: Thomas Hobbes

15. One character named this hangs around Harry Hope’s saloon and according to the stage instructions is “obviously Italian”; she is therefore particularly stung when another character calls her a “fat Dago hooker”, although this is partly because she prefers to call herself a “tart”. Another character named this also appears destined for prostitution after she runs away to Augusta fleeing a husband who has tied her to a bed when she won’t have sex with him, having been bought from her father for “some quilts and nearly a gallon of cylinder oil” as well as a week’s pay of seven dollars. Perhaps the most famous figure with this name is a young girl fixated on a certain feature of her mother’s clothing, whose meaning she questions, and draws connections between it and a sickly minister who is secretly the girl’s father. A prostitute in The Iceman Cometh and a daughter of Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road both have, for 10 points, what name shared by Hester Prynne’s daughter in The Scarlet Letter? Answer: Pearl

16. A region of it located near the calcarine sulcus is remarkable for a wide stripe of myelin running through it that was once named for Félix Vicq-d’Azyr, although that line is now usually known by the name the Italian anatomist who studied it more extensively. Because of this Stria of Gennari, this region is sometimes known as “striated”. It sits directly on top of a strip of dura mater separating it from the cerebellum known as the tentorium, and within it are the so-called areas 17, 18, and 19 identified by Korbinian Brodmann as responsible for visual processing. For 10 points name this lobe of the brain, a part of the cerebrum named for the bone directly on top of it and like it named for the Latin for “to the rear of the head”. Answer: occipital lobe (prompt on “cerebrum” before that word is read; prompt on “stria of Gennari” before that is read) 17. Historian J.B. Bury describes how it became commonplace in histories dating from the 400s CE to use this term to refer to one person, specifically the person outside of the emperor who had the most power in the Roman empire. The term was briefly revived during the reign of Constantine and was bestowed as an honorific on any senator who had performed outstanding service to the empire. Those designated by this term in its original use saw most of their power stripped from them during the 300s BCE, during which time the leges Sextio-Liciniae of 367 and the lex Ogulneia of 300 removed their ability to hold the consulate and the priesthoods exclusively. Allegedly deriving their name from the fact that their families provided the elderly “fathers” to serve in the first Senate, for 10 points name this aristocracy of Rome typically set in opposition to the plebeians. Answer: patricians

18. In 1930 this man did a study on the rate of technology and the increase in productivity due to it and figured out that by 2030 the fundamental economic problem of not enough to go around would be solved, about which he wrote in his Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. However, he did add as a caveat that this prediction would not come true if there were a major destructive war that intervened, and when it did he wrote a text on How to Pay for the War, on the strength of which he was sent to the Bretton Woods Conference. That war might not have happened if peacemakers had read his caution against a “Carthaginian Peace” being made at Versailles in his Economic Consequences of the Peace. His most famous work introduced new concepts such as the consumption function and multiplier. For 10 points, name this economist who discussed these concepts in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Answer: John Maynard Keynes

19. A letter sent from Phyllis Wheatley shows that in 1773 she received a folio copy of Paradise Lost from the man, then a merchant, who two years later would escort Ethan Allen to London after his capture at Longue Pointe. A mishap in his youth compelled this man to quit the navy and instead join the army, and after service as Commissary General under General James Wolfe at Louisbourg this man assumed his mercantile career, rising to become an MP from London and Lord Mayor of that city. For these services he was made a baronet and appended the motto Scuto Divino, “With God as My Shield”, to his coat of arms whose upper left depicted a severed human leg and whose center shows Neptune rising from the sea and keeping a sea monster at bay, a reference to his mishap which occurred in Havana harbor in 1749. For 10 points name this man, whose coat of arms was a less famous depiction than the one he commissioned John Singleton Copley to paint of his encounter with a shark. Answer: Brooks Watson

20. Like the setting of this story, the main character was once proud and certain but at its beginning finds himself alone and unsettled in a rainstorm. His discomfort comes from having recently been discharged from his position and when the story starts he is unsure what his next move will be, but in the darkness of the title location he finds illumination in the form of an old woman’s lamp and the old woman herself, who suggests that anything done to avoid starvation is not wrong no matter what it is, and that the victim of a crime she is herself committing had once sold snake meat as fish in the marketplace and would therefore forgive what is happening. In this way old woman justifies taking a dead woman’s hair to make a wig, but has her logic thrown back at her when the protagonist strips her naked and steals her clothes to keep himself from starving. For 10 points name this story set amongst the dead bodies abandoned at a ruined gate in Kyoto, one of the most famous of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Answer: “Rashomon” 21. Much of this novel revolves around lions, one of which eludes the man into whose tutelage the main character falls even while he keeps another as a pet, and in the end a lion kills him and prepares his soul for migration into the body of a lion cub. The main character internalizes a lion’s roar as a way to silence the inner voice whose nagging has led him to abandon his life as a millionaire in America to go to Africa, where his strength and clumsiness has led him to destroy the water supply of one tribe after he throws a bomb down a well to clear it of frogs. That same strength allows him to guarantee the water supply of another tribe when he moves a ritual statue of a weather goddess to bring about a downpour and to give him the title of Sungo, the soubriquet of this work’s title. For 10 points identify this novel whose main character abandons his atmospheric title and returns to the Unites States having learned how to silence his internal “I Want, I Want”, one of the best known novels of Saul Bellow. Answer: Henderson the Rain King 2011 Moon Pie Classic Round 2 Packet by Snead State, Chuck Pearson, Mike Bentley, and editors

1. Given a mountain name the country, 10 points each: 1. The highest mountain in the western Hemisphere, Aconcagua, is located in this country. Answer: Argentina 2. This mountain at the mouth of Guanabara Bay is a popular hiking attraction, but Christ the Redeemer is the more popular site. Answer: Brazil 3. Mount Pinatubo is an active volcano on Luzon in this nation. Its last violent eruption took place in 1991. Answer: Philippines

2. A former full general and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, this man had as an army officer sworn to uphold the Constitution, although that didn’t necessarily imply he had read it. For 10 points each: 1. Name this man, the Secretary of State who affirmed that “As of now, I am in control, here, in the White House” during a press conference called shortly after an assassination attempt made by John Hinckley. Answer: Alexander Haig 2. Haig served under this President, who in the meantime was cracking jokes like “Honey, I forgot to duck” and presumably reminiscing about the time he was in that film with the monkey. Answer: Ronald Reagan 3. Haig later tried to explain that he really knew all along that the line of Presidential succession would have gone first through George W. Bush, with whom he was in “close contact”, and then to this man, the Speaker of the House in 1981. Answer: Thomas “Tip” O’Neill

3. Given a prominent setting in a play identify the play, 10 points each or 5 points if an additional clue is needed. 1. [10 points] An interrogation room with a prominent window in a Police Station in Milan. [5 points] An insane person uncovers a murder of a political prisoner by police in this work by Dario Fo. Answe: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist 2. 10 points] Most of the action of this play occurs in Irma’s “house of illusions” in Spain. [5 points] Various men impersonate others while a revolution goes on in this Jean Genet work, from whose title locale a former whore named Chantal attempts to sing to the masses but is abruptly shot. Answer: The Balcony [Le Balcon] 3. [10 points] The Madame Ranevskya estate in Russia. [5 points] This play by Chekov concerns the attempts to find some way to keep from chopping down the trees of the title. Answer: The Cherry Orchard

4. Identify these mathematical operations FTPE. 1. This operation turns x cubed into 3 x squared Answer: Derivative/Deriving 2. This operation turns x cubed into x to the fourth over four. Answer: Integration 3. Symbolized with an exclamation point, it multiplies a number and all numbers before it. Answer: Factorial 5. After being released by Heracles, the Titan Prometheus was made to wear a ring made out a chain link so that Zeus could keep a vow made on the Styx. For 10 points each: 1. This vow was to keep Prometheus chained forever as a penalty for Prometheus bringing this to his creations. Answer: Fire 2. Prometheus had stolen fire because this brother of his, who was charged with giving advantages to all the animals, had used them all. Answer: Epimetheus 3. Epimetheus and Promethus were generally held to be the sons of Clymene and this Titan. Answer: Iapetus (accept “Japet”)

6. According to the story, a runner named Pheidippides ran the almost twenty-six miles between this battlefield and Athens, dropping dead after announcing the victory. For 10 points each: 1. Name this battle of 490 BCE. Answer: Marathon 2. This man was the King of Persia at the time of Marathon Answer: Darius I 3. This man was the commander of the Greek side at the Battle of Marathon and is credited with formulating the tactics that defeated the Persians. Answer: Miltiades

7. Answer these questions about Russian revolutionary literature, 10 points each: 1. This man delivered the first stirrings of a future Russian revolution with his 1790 publication of Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, a polemic dealing with the plight of Russian peasants. Despite being apolitical himself, he was banished to Siberia by Catherine the Great upon its publication. Answer: Prince Alexander Radishchev 2. The 1862 novel What Is To Be Done?, cultivating the larger-than-life character Rakhmetov who was designed to be the mythological hero of a new Russian socialism, was written by this author while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. Answer: Nikolai Chernyshevsky 3. This more famous revolutionary first wrote The Development of Capitalism In Russia in 1899, while in exile in Siberia, and upon the completion of that exile he composed the pamphlet, also entitled What Is To Be Done?, which laid the first blueprint for the eventual Bolshevik Revolution. Answer: Vladimir Lenin

8. The law for which this man was best known first published it as a Latin anagram, and it states that the restoring force exerted by a material is equal to the spring constant multiplied by the displacement of the spring. For 10 points each: 1. Name this scientist, whose law deals with the elasticity of materials. Answer: Robert Hooke 2. Hooke worked as the instrument maker for this man and built the apparatus whose use helped him make the discovery that for a fixed amount of ideal gas at a fixed temperature, the pressure and volume of the gas are inversely proportional. Answer: Robert Boyle 3. Independently of Boyle and without the help of Hooke, this French scientist discovered what has since come to be known as Boyle’s Law, by whose name French-speaking scientists still call it. Answer: Edmé Marriotte 9. Among the programs associated with the stars of this TV show include the short-lived Homewrecker and Nitro Circus. For 10 points each: 1. Name this show, where idiots like Ryan Dunn, “Steve-O”, and “Wee-Man” ply destructive and often painful pranks on each other. Answer: Jackass 2. This man is the host of Jackass; film roles include Men in Black II and The Dukes of Hazzard. Answer: Johnny Knoxville [accept “Phillip Clapp”] 3. This star of Jackass was recently the star and creator of “Unholy Union”, an MTV show which followed him and his fiancée Missy’s journey to their wedding ceremony. Answer: Bam Margera

10. The composition of the three figures in the foreground of this work owes much to Titian’s Pastoral Concert. For 10 points each: 1. Name this painting, where a woman in a chemise can be seen bathing in the background and two men and a woman—who is staring directly at the viewer--dine in the foreground. Answer: Luncheon on the Grass [or Le déjeuner sur l'herbe] 2. This painter of Luncheon on the Grass also painted a work based on Venus of Urbino entitled Olympia, which features a nude woman reclining on a bed with her maid in the background. Answer: Edouard Manet 3. Manet’s portrait of this author shows him holding a book while seated in a chair surrounded by Japanese art. A miniature reproduction on Olympia can be seen behind him. Answer: Emile Zola

11. For 10 points each, name this economics things. 1. This 18th and 19th Century British economist is most well-known for creating his “Iron Law of Wages.” Answer: David Ricardo 2. This German philosopher is known for coining the term “Conspicuous Consumption” in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class. Answer: Thorstein Veblen 3. This term coined by philosopher Adam Smith is used to describe a nature of self-regulation within the marketplace. Answer: Invisible Hand

12. Identify the following about the career of Andrew Jackson, 10 points each. 1. Jackson is known as the hero of this battle in the War of 1812 where he defeated the British Army that was intent on invading the namesake city. Answer: Battle of New Orleans 2. As president, Jackson had to endure this South Carolina led crisis involving the supremacy of Federal Law. Answer: Nullification Crisis 2. This social scandal affair involved many wives of Jacksonian Cabinet members, and turned around a wife held to be an unsuitable match for Jackson’s secretary of war. Answer: Peggy Eaton Affair (accept “Petticoat Affair”) 13. When the novel begins, its main character has just been thrown out of Pencey Prep, a private school; he then decides to take the train to New York and has an awkward non-encounter with a hooker and an even more awkward non-encounter with his English teacher. For 10 points each: 1. Name this novel by J. D. Salinger. Answer: The Catcher In The Rye 2. Name this main character of The Catcher in Rye. Answer: Holden Caulfied 3. Holden Caulfield is very attached to this sister, whose “Christmas dough” he wants to borrow to leave New York. Answer: Phoebe

14. Although several of her texts on a similar theme like The Sea Around Us and Edge of the Sea were best –sellers, this woman is best remembered for a work whose title comes from the fact that pesticides have made quiet the various noises made by birds and insects when the weather becomes war. For 10 points each: 1. Name this author of Silent Spring. Answer: Rachel Carson 2. Silent Spring argued the dangers of pesticide, especially this one, whose ingestion by birds led to poor eggshells and the deaths of hatchlings. Answer: DichloroDiphenylTrichloroethane 3. Critics of Carson blame the ban on DDT that was partially the result of Silent Spring’s popularity on the rise of this disease, spread by the mosquitoes which DDT had once killed. Answer: malaria

15. Given a description of a religious holiday identify it, 10 points each. 1. Associated with this holiday is the recitation of the Kol Nidre, as well as contemplation on the wrongs committed by the observer and how to offer recompense for them. Answer: Yom Kippur 2. Shortly after Yom Kippur is this holiday, whose strict observers erect the namesake dwellings. Answer: Sukkot or Feast of the Tabernacles 3. Yom Kippur and Sukkot are both in this busy religious month, which also contains the observation at its first sundown of Rosh Hashanah. Answer: Tishrei

16. Given a brief description of a past dictator, identify the dictator for 10 points each. 1. Under this man’s reign, the Khmer Rouge killed roughly 2.5 million people. Answer: Pol Pot 2. This man proclaimed himself Emperor of the state he renamed the Central African Empire which lasted slightly over three years until he was overthrown. Answer: Jean-Bidel Bokassa 3. This former warlord is currently on trial at the ICC for crimes against humanity due to the thousands of deaths during his reign as leader of Liberia. Answer: Charles Taylor 17. It is narrated by the captain of a steamer who is sent deep into Africa to fetch a man who has set himself up as a god. For 10 points each: 1. Name this story by Joseph Conrad. Answer: “Heart of Darkness” 2. Name the narrator of “Heart of Darkness”, who also features in Conrad’s Lord Jim and Chance. Answer: Charles Marlow 3. This is the leader of a trading post who Marlow tries to return to normal life; he is killed in the end, mouthing the words “The Horror! The Horror!” Answer: Mr. Kurtz

18. Its overuse as a topical cream can lead to a condition known as argyria, which in extreme cases can turn the skin permanently blue. For 10 points each: 1. Name this precious metal used in photography as well as jewelry, atomic number 47. Answer: Silver 2. Silver’s use as a topical ointment as well as in dentistry derives from its high perceived amount of this, an unexplained phenomena wherein metal ions prove fatal to germ cells. Answer: oligodynamic effect 3. Silver’s readiness to absorb neutrons leads to its use in control rods in an alloy with cadmium and this metal, atomic number 49, first isolated from a dark blue dye from which it gets its name. Answer: Indium

19. The main cast of this TV show consists of a male chauvinist, a former MOSAD officer, a geek, and a badass war veteran named Gibbs. For 10 points each: 1. Identify this show that currently airs on Tuesday Nights on CBS, revolving around a team investigating crimes associated with the Armed Services. Answer: NCIS 2. The actor who plays Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the shows protagonist, has also starred in Saint Elsewhere, Chicago Hope , The West Wing. Answer: Mark Harmon 3. The aforementioned chauvinist, this character prides himself on his deep knowledge of movies and is played by actor Michael Weatherly Answer: Tony DiNozzo [accept either mame]

20. One of the themes of this film is that of following one’s conscience against trusted friends, and is thought by many to be the director’s answer to the scorn he received for naming names to the House Un- American Activities Committee. For 10 points each: 1. Name this film about a washed-up fighter played by Marlon Brando and corruption in the trade unions on the docks of New York. Answer: On the Waterfront 2. This man directed On the Waterfront. Answer: Elia Kazan 3. Part of the most famous scene of On the Waterfront was shot with the two actors filming their parts separately, including, according to Rod Steiger’s commentary in the DVD, the delivery of this line given after Brando asserts “I coulda had class”; he continues with “I coulda been somebody. Instead of a bum. Which is what I am, let’s face it”. Answer: “I coulda been a contender” (accept “I could have been a contender”)