2010 NAREN: Just What Is It That Makes Him So Different, So Appealing?

2010 NAREN: Just What Is It That Makes Him So Different, So Appealing? Packet 14 N.B. TO TEAMS USING THIS SET FOR PRACTICE MATERIAL: Due to circumstances involving the rescheduling and rewriting of the original tournament, this packet shares some questions with packet 2.

TOSSUPS

1.As an officer during the Rif War, he led the Regiment of Foreigners against Moroccan tribes. The left-leaning government in 1936 banished him to the Canary Islands, where he began to plot a coup. Due to demands for land which Hitler considered excessive, his country maintained a policy of neutrality throughout World War II. In 1959, he yielded to IMF and Opus Dei demands for a free market economic policy, which contributed to a 14-year economic boom called the Spanish Miracle. For 10 points, name this leader of the victorious Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the military dictator of Spain from 1936 to 1975. ANSWER: Francisco Franco Bahamonde

2.This shape is the inverse curve of a cardioid. Its three-dimensional analog is given by z over c equals x squared over a squared plus y squared over b squared, and it can be represented in polar coordinates by r equals d over one plus or minus cosine theta. A method of approximating integrals using these shapes is named for Simpson. Light reflected off a mirror with this shape will be focused at a single point. Its eccentricity equals one, and it may be generated by slicing a cone with a plane parallel to a straight line along its surface. For 10 points, name this conic section which is the set of points equidistant from a line and a point, an example of which is y equals x squared. ANSWER: parabolas

3.In one episode in this work a character proclaims that "God has arrived" as the blind pianist George Shearing enters the bar and performs, while in another the protagonist moves in with Roland Major. Characters in it include Galatea Dunkel, whose husband Ed keeps leaving her to travel, and Remi Boncoeur, who invites the protagonist to San Fransisco. The protagonist meets Mississippi Gene and Montana Slim on his way to Cheyenne, from where he hitchhikes to Larimer Street. Near the end of the novel, he catches dysentery in Mexico City and is left there by Dean Moriarty. Narrated by Sal Paradise, for 10 points, name this definitive work of the Beat Generation, a novel by Jack Kerouac. ANSWER: On the Road

4.The last Soviet republic to declare independence, this country's largest political party is the Nur Otan. The world's oldest space launch facility, Baikonur Cosmodrome, is located in this country north of the Syr Darya river. This country also contains the Soviet Union's primary nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk. Its capital was moved to its current location from Almaty in 1997, and its largest lake is Lake Balkhash. It has nearly 2000 kilometers of shoreline along the east side of the Caspian Sea, and it is bordered by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. For 10 points, name this central Asian nation with capital at Astana, the world's largest land-locked country. ANSWER: Republic of Kazakhstan

5.Matthew, John 6, and First Corinthians 11 are cited as justification for it, and Pope Paul VI reiterated it in Mysterium fidei. The Lutheran doctrine of the Sacramental Union and the Anglican one of the Real Presence are both alternatives to it. It requires a distinction between accidents, which can be sensed, and substance, which cannot, causing Luther to call it "an absurd and unheard-of juggling with words". It was first declared at the Fourth Lateran Council and defined by the Council of Trent. For 10 points, name this Catholic doctrine in which the bread and wine of the Eucharist become the blood and body of Christ. ANSWER: transubstantiation

6.During his reign, a "Sudanese" style of architecture was introduced to his empire, as he commissioned several works by Ibn as-Sahili. Major buildings built during his reign include religious structures at Dingueraye and Zaria. His son Magha ruled for a short period of time, much to the dismay of his brother Sulayman. During his reign, the Songhai empire was added to his territory following the capture of Gao by Sagman-dir. According to al-Umari, he single-handedly depressed the price of gold in Egypt for a long time because of one visit to Cairo. For 10 points, name this Mali ruler who splurged on a hajj in 1324. ANSWER: Mansa Musa [accept Kankan Musa, do not prompt on Mansa, as it is merely a title] 7.This law explains why a catalyst does not alter the equilibrium position of a reaction. Given data such as electron affinity, heat of vaporization, and heat of ionization, this law is used in Born-Haber cycles to calculate the lattice energy of an ionic solid. This law can also be used to calculate heats of formation. It states that enthalpy is a state function, which is why it is known as the law of constant heat summation. For 10 points, name this thermodynamic law which states that the enthalpy change of a reaction equals the enthalpy of the products minus that of the reactants, named for a Swiss-born Russian chemist. ANSWER: Hess's law [accept law of constant heat summation before it is mentioned]

8.In one episode in this novel, the protagonist cuts out a Kruschen Salts advertisement that amuses him and pastes it into an album. Minor characters in this novel include Thomas Perez, the protagonist's mother's friend, and Celeste, whose restaurant the protagonist frequents. The protagonist acts as a police witness for warehouse guard Raymond Sintès, despite his reputation as a pimp, and he's proposed to by Marie Cordona, who visits him in his jail cell after he's arrested for killing an Arab, although his trial concentrates on his lack of grief shown at a funeral. For 10 points, Meursault is the emotionless protagonist of what work of Albert Camus? ANSWER: The Stranger (accept equivalents like L'Etranger, The Outsider, The Foreigner)

9.He dedicated his violin concerto and his double concerto for cello and violin to the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, with whom he frequently collaborated. His first symphony is often called "Beethoven's tenth" due to its similarity to that composer's "Ode to Joy." Another of his works was based on the Lutheran Bible and was written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, A German Requiem; however, he is better known for a piece written in gratitude to the University of Breslau for awarding him an honorary doctorate. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Academic Festival Overture and a namesake lullaby. ANSWER: Johannes Brahms

10.One man sent to spy on her, Trendhorn, had his eye knocked out by a chess piece, and Leabharcham lied about her appearance to protect her. As a result of a prophecy made by the druid Cathbad, she was raised in seclusion until she was old enough to be married to King Conchobar, despite objections from his knights. However, she fell in love with Naoise and later escaped with him and his two brothers, who were eventually killed outside Emain Macha. She was offered to the killer of her lover, which caused her to bash her own head against a rock out of misery. For 10 points, name this green-eyed woman whose beauty brought grief to all of Ireland, a heroine of the Ulster cycle. ANSWER: Deirdre of the Sorrows [or Derdriu]

11.The post-decision type of this explained students' favorable attitudes toward appliances they chose to buy. In one experiment involving this concept, subjects were paid either $20 or $1 after being told to lie about liking a dull task. It was found that the latter group reported having enjoyed it more, because they were otherwise unable to justify having lied. It was first studied in When Prophecy Fails, which documented the results of the world's failing to end on the members of a doomsday cult and was written by Festinger. For 10 points, name this psychological concept involving the conflict between contradictory beliefs. ANSWER: cognitive dissonance

12.A formulation of the scientific method entitled "Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy" is included at the beginning of the third part of this work. Although ideas from calculus appear in this work, the methods are primarily geometrical in nature and are referred to as "fluxions". The second book, written as a rebuttal of a theory of Descartes, contains a study of air resistance and hydrostatics, while the third book, On the System of the World, contains a derivation of Kepler's laws. For 10 points, name this book which introduces the law of universal gravitation and contains the author's three namesake laws, a Latin treatise on mechanics by Isaac Newton. ANSWER: Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica [or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy]

13.This work's protagonist places a marble tombstone over the grave of a girl who died fifteen years prior. In one section, a clergyman proclaims that students at Lowood must cut their hair to "mortify in [them] the lusts of the flesh", and in another the title character has her fortune read by a gypsy who is actually her employer in disguise. Earlier, she panics after being sent to the Red Room by Mrs. Reed. The protagonist later returns to Thornfield Manor after thinking she hears the voice of a character already married to Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Brontë. ANSWER: Jane Eyre, an Autobiography 14.One strip of this parodies a novel by Mark Danielewski and begins with "every day a new city, a new IHOP," House Of Pancakes. In another strip from this a character is left wondering "internalized? Analyzed? Or is it attitudes?", while in another the titular entities fly out of a bucket chanting "kill the physicists". In addition to No Pun Intended and Cuttlefish, better-known strips include one parodying the Discovery Channel's "boom de yada" video and one where the phrase "my normal approach is useless here" captions the cosine of a heart. For 10 points, identify this webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language drawn by Randall Munroe. ANSWER: xkcd

15.The central character in this work expresses his wish to arrange a party for a group of peasants after drinking champagne. In an aria in this opera, Don Ottavio vows to avenge the death of his betrothed's father, Fuggi, crudele fuggi, and the title character escapes death at the hands of Zerlina and Masetto only by switching clothes with his servant. At the end of this opera, Donna Elvira expresses her pity for the central character, and after he refuses to repent for his sinful life, the statue of the Commendatore drags him to hell. For 10 points, name this opera containing the Catalog Aria about the titular Spanish libertine, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ANSWER: Don Giovanni [do not accept "Don Juan"]

16.This man defended Jay's Treaty in his "Camillus" papers, and he led one of the battalions that won the Siege of Yorktown. He presented the "Report on Manufactures" to Congress and argued for assumption of state debts incurred after the Revolutionary War. This politician agreed to move the capital to Washington, D.C., and proposed an excise tax which led to the Whiskey Rebellion. Under the pseudonym "Publius," this figure co-wrote a work along with John Jay and James Madison in favor of the new Constitution, the Federalist Papers. For 10 points, name this Federalist leader and first Secretary of the Treasury killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. ANSWER: Alexander Hamilton

17.Its last two phases are reduction and regeneration. Important enzymes in these steps include aldolase, transketolase, and sedoheptulose bisphosphatase. C4 plants use PEP carboxylase to form oxaloacetate before beginning these reactions, allowing them to increase productivity by carboxylating more often than can C3 plants. NADPH is oxidized when it donates an electron to form G3P, which can be converted to glucose. However, five out of every six G3Ps are used to regenerate RuBP, which is attached to CO2 by Rubisco in the first step. For 10 points, name this reaction cycle that occurs in the stroma and produces sugars from carbon dioxide. ANSWER: Calvin-Benson cycle [prompt on dark reactions]

18.Ezra Pound's second Canto begins by telling this man to "hang it all", as "there can be but one 'Sordello!'" He wrote "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be" in a poem appearing in his collection Dramatis Personae, and in addition to "Rabbi ben Ezra," he wrote a work in which the narrator used "one long yellow string" of his lover's hair to strangle her. This author of "Porphyria's Lover" more famously wrote a poem in which the narrator's "nine- hundred-years old name" was ranked "with anybody's gift" by a woman with "a heart too soon made glad" painted by Fra Pandolf. For 10 points, name this English poet of dramatic monologues including "My Last Duchess." ANSWER: Robert Browning [prompt on Browning]

19.This politician's opposition to labor strikes in the coal industry led the Archbishop of Canterbury to accuse this figure of a "politics of confrontation". This politician's term saw the unpopular Community Charge tax introduced, and John Nott proposed cutting navy funding during this politician's term which saw the Falkland Wars occur. Her namesake economic policy involved the privatization of many industrial monopolies, including British Petroleum and British Airways, and this leader was targeted by an assassination attempt at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. For 10 points, name this first female to hold the office of British prime minister, a conservative known as the Iron Lady. ANSWER: The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher

20.This man depicted running horses and an excited crowd in Racing at Longchamp. One of his early works depicts dozens of men in top hats and is styled after works by Velazquez. In addition to Music in the Tuileries, he painted a man with a top hat in front of a drinking waitress at a bar in The Cafe Concert. He painted a series of works depicting the Parisian nightlife, a famous one of which featuring a woman faultily reflected in a mirror facing a large crowd. His most famous work depicts a woman dining with two gentlemen while a slave washes rags in the background. For 10 points, name this French painter of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere and The Luncheon on the Grass. ANSWER: Edouard Manet 21.An autoimmune disease involving antibodies against this structure's namesake peroxidase causes destruction of its follicles and is named for Hashimoto. Most of it is located below the cricoid cartilage, but it also extends up the sides. PTH opposes the action of one of the hormones it produces, and iodine and tyrosine are required to produce two others. Deficiency of those two hormones, which are named for it, is known as cretinism in young children. The third hormone, calcitonin, is involved in blood calcium homeostasis. For 10 points, name this butterfly-shaped gland in the lower neck which is enlarged in Graves' disease, creating goiter. ANSWER: thyroid gland 2010 NAREN: Just What Is It That Makes Him So Different, So Appealing? Packet 2

BONUSES

1.Name these British Composers for 10 points each. [10] Although he composed the opera Ivanhoe, he is more famous for his collaboration with William Gilbert which produced the “Savoy Operas” including HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, and The Yeomen of the Guard. ANSWER: Arthur Sullivan [10] He incorporated poems by Wilfred Owen in his War Requiem. However, his most famous compositions include the operas A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Billy Budd, and Peter Grimes. ANSWER: Benjamin Britten [10] The Rondeau from his composition Abdelazer was used by Britten as the theme in his Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; however, he is more famous for compositions such as King Arthur and Dido and Aeneas. ANSWER: Henry Purcell

2.This king of the Arverni lost at Noviodunum Biturgium, and eventually retreated to Alesia, which was then successfully sieged. For 10 points each: [10] Name this rebel leader, who won at Gergovia, but then lost, and had to retreat. ANSWER: Vercingetorix [10] Vercingetorix led these people in a rebellion in 52 BCE, only to get spanked by the Romans. ANSWER: Gauls [10] This figure led the forces that defeated Vercingetorix, and he would later write a work about the Gallic Wars. ANSWER: Gaius Julius Caesar

3.Name these concepts in quantum mechanics for 10 points each. [10] This principle, formulated by a German physicist, states that one cannot accurately determine both the position and the momentum of a particle. It is often given as the reason electrons orbit relatively far from the atomic nucleus. ANSWER: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle [10] This is a function defined over all possible quantum states that represents the probability amplitude of each state as a complex number. The square of the absolute value of this function gives the probability that the system will be in a given state. ANSWER: wavefunction [10] This Hermitian operator represents the total energy of a quantum system and plays an important part in the Schrodinger equation. ANSWER: Hamiltonian operator

4.Answer the following about a certain book that takes place in Macondo for 10 points each. [10] This magical realist novel tracks generations of the Buendia family. ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien Anos de Soledad; do not accept "A Hundred Years of Solitude"] [10] This Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude also wrote works such as Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera. ANSWER: Gabriel Garcia Marquez [prompt on "Marquez"] [10] This matriarch of One Hundred Years of Solitude is married to Jose Arcadio Buendia and is the novel's longest- lived character, dying after shrinking to the size of a fetus. ANSWER: Ursula Iguaran [accept either name]

5.Derek Freeman challenged it by arguing that the islanders it studied lied to its author. For 10 points each: [10] Name this work, which argued that adolescence in the title Polynesian society was less stressful than in American culture. ANSWER: Coming of Age in Samoa [10] This author of Coming of Age in Samoa also wrote Growing up in New Guinea and the autobiography Blackberry Winter. ANSWER: Margaret Mead [10] This Columbia anthropology professor and mentor to Mead wrote Anthropology and Modern Life and The Mind of Primitive Man. ANSWER: Franz Boas

6.One of his works depicts the titular person sitting in a bathtub holding a letter, with blood staining his towel. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Neo-Classical painter of The Death of Marat and The Death of Socrates, who also liked to paint Napoleon, depicting his Coronation as well as him in his Study. ANSWER: Jacques-Louis David [10] This David painting shows the three titular Roman brothers holding out their arms, as their father ceremonially raises their swords and their female relatives weep on the right-hand side. ANSWER: Oath of the Horatii [10] This David work was intended to be a sequel to a similarly titled Poussin painting. It shows Hersalia in the center, with Romulus and Titus Tatius engaged in a battle on either side. ANSWER: The Intervention of the Sabine Women

7.Recently the city of D.C. legalized same-sex marriages. For 10 points each name, some things about the controversial issue of same-sex marriage: [10] This current mayor of D.C. legalized same-sex marriage in the nation's capital when he signed the bill proposed by David Catania on Dec. 18, 2009. ANSWER: Mayor Adrian Fenty [10] In 2008, California voters voted for this proposition, which amended the Californian constitution to ban same- sex marriages. ANSWER: Proposition 8 [Accept California Marriage Protection Act or Prop 8] [10] In 2009, this country became the first South American country to allow same-sex marriage. ANSWER: Argentina

8.One type of these entities is the dip-slip variety. For 10 points each: [10] Name these fractures in the rock of the Earth's crust, which are frequently the sites of earthquakes. ANSWER: faults [10] In contrast to dip-slip faults, these faults consist of two bodies moving horizontally. They are known as dextral or sinistral depending on whether the net motion is right or left. ANSWER: strike-slip faults [10] These faults are a combination of dip-slip and strike-slip faults, and contain significant components of both vertical and horizontal motion. ANSWER: oblique faults

9.For 10 points each, answer the following about an existential play without many characters. [10] This "tragicomedy in two acts" shows two days in the lives of Vladimir and Estragon, who don't know when the titular entity will show up but keep expecting him, presumably forever. ANSWER: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts [10] In addition to Waiting For Godot, this playwright from the Theatre of the Absurd also wrote plays such as Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape. ANSWER: Samuel Beckett [10] This character from Waiting for Godot dances for Didi and Gogo and goes on a stream-of-consciousness monologue before having his hat removed in the first act. He later returns leading a blind Pozzo. ANSWER: Lucky

10.Name the following things about Civil War General George McClellan for 10 points each: [10] Infamous for being the bloodiest day of combat in American history, this battle that could have been a Union victory was instead inconclusive due to McClellan's unwillingness to pursue Lee across the Potomac River. ANSWER: Battle of Antietam [accept Battle of Sharpsburg] [10] Including conflicts at Oak Grove and Malvern Hill, this series of conflicts near Richmond between McClellan and Lee marked the end of the Union general's Peninsula Campaign. ANSWER: Seven Days Battle [accept Seven Days Campaign] [10] Gen. McClellan had earlier replaced this general, the formulator of the Anaconda Plan, as General-in-Chief of the Union forces. ANSWER: Gen. Winfield Scott

11.The gods held a trial to determine whether or not this man had divine permission to kill his mother. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Greek hero who escaped from his mother Clytemnestra and vowed to avenge his father Agamemnon. ANSWER: Orestes [10] Orestes was saved by his sister from these entities, appointed avengers of matricide. They were born from the blood of Uranus and comprise Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. ANSWER: Furies [or Erinyes; or Eumenides] [10] This new husband of Clytemnestra conspired with her to murder Agamemnon and seized his throne. Earlier, he and Thyestes ruled the kingdom of Mycenae after slaying Atreus. ANSWER: Aegisthus

12.Answer some questions about a certain Romanian sculptor for 10 points each: [10] Identify this sculptor of The Kiss whose Sleeping Muse is a large, tilted bronze head. ANSWER: Constantin Brancusi [10] Brancusi is most famous for this series of sculptures in which he tried to capture flight by eliminating details and simplifying the titular creatures to streamlined oval shapes. ANSWER: Bird in Space [10] This Brancusi sculpture residing in Targu Jiu is based on the axis mundi and is composed of stacked iron rhombuses. ANSWER: The Endless Column

13.Name these hormones for 10 points each: [10] A deficiency of this hormone occurs in Klinefelter's syndrome, and it is converted to estradiol by aromatase. It is produced in the testes by Leydig cells and is the primary male sex hormone. ANSWER: testosterone [10] This neurohormone is released by the posterior pituitary and increases water reabsorption by the kidneys. Alcohol is an antagonist to it. ANSWER: antidiuretic hormone [accept ADH or vasopressin] [10] This hormone is secreted by delta cells in the pancreas and inhibits the release of growth hormone and glucagon. ANSWER: somatostatin

14.Famous lines from this work include "The horror! The horror!" and "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." For 10 points each: [10] Name this novella, which ends with the charismatic ivory trader Kurtz dying aboard a steamer in the Belgian Congo. ANSWER: Heart of Darkness [10] This Polish-born British novelist of Heart of Darkness also wrote about the titular sailor's deserting of the S.S. Patna in Lord Jim. ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [10] Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are both narrated by this alter-ego of Conrad, a British sailor described as a wanderer. ANSWER: Charles Marlow

15.It led the Delian League in their 468 BCE defeat of Persia. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Greek city-state, home to the Acropolis, which lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta. ANSWER: Athens [10] This man was leader of Athens at its peak, and famously defended Athenian democracy in his Funeral Oration. ANSWER: Pericles [10] One of Athens' greatest orators, this man urged Athenians in the fourth century BCE to resist conquest by Philip II of Macedon. ANSWER: Demosthenes 16.Name these bodies of water for 10 points each. [10] This sea, bound by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current, is famous for its large quantities of seaweed. ANSWER: Sargasso Sea [10] This bay, the largest in the world, is fed by both the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and is located to the east of India. ANSWER: Bay of Bengal [10] This sea, which contains the Gulf of Taganrog, is separated from the Black Sea by Crimea. ANSWER: Sea of Azov

17.His descendants constitute the longest known complete pedigree in existence. For 10 points each, [10] Name this sixth century BCE classical Chinese philosopher, whose teachings are collected in the Analects. ANSWER: Confucius [accept other romanizations, such as the pinyin Kong Fuzi, as well as his given name Kong Qiu] [10] Confucius either wrote or edited this history of the state of Lu, considered one of the Five Classics along with such works as the I Ching. ANSWER: Spring and Autumn Annals [10] This possibly-apocryphal founder of Daoism is traditionally held to be the author of the Daodejing. Murray Rothbard contended that he is the first libertarian political philosopher. ANSWER: Laozi [accept other romanizations, such as Laosi or Lao Tzu]

18.Using the molar mass of a compound, this law can be used to find the mass of a gas. For 10 points each: [10] This law, obtained by combining Boyle's, Charles', and Gay-Lussac's laws, is stated as P times V equals n times R times T. ANSWER: ideal gas law [10] This equation introduces elementary corrections to the ideal gas law. Its terms, a and b, account for differences between kinetic molecular theory and actual gas behavior. ANSWER: Van der Waals equation of state [10] The Van der Waals equation can be derived from a simplified version of this equation, which states that density times volume equals the expansion of a power series in molar volume. It can be used to derive the Boyle temperature. ANSWER: virial equation of state

19.Answer the following about things related to a certain novel narrated by Chief Bromden and set in an Oregon asylum for 10 points each. [10] Randle McMurphy is lobotomized at the end of this novel, but not before strangling Nurse Ratched and leaving her nearly unable to speak. ANSWER: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [10] In addition to writing One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, this man wrote about an Oregon logging family in Sometimes a Great Notion. ANSWER: Ken Kesey [10] Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters' adventures were recounted in this 1968 work by Tom Wolfe, which got its name from Kesey's parties centered around experimental drug use. ANSWER: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

20.Name some stuff about the Cold War in the 1980's for 10 points each. [10] Two years before this event, President Reagan asked "Mr. Gorbachev [to] tear down this wall". This event is often viewed as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. ANSWER: fall of the Berlin Wall [accept reasonable equivalents] [10] Sometimes called the "Fireside Summit", it marked the first meeting between President Reagan and newly appointed General Secretary Gorbachev. ANSWER: Geneva Summit of 1985 [10] This successor to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty(SALT) II was proposed by Reagan in 1982, but signed by George H. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. It reduced long range missiles to 1600 per side and nuclear warheads down to 6000 per side. ANSWER: STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty I [or START I; prompt on "Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty" or "START"] 21.Identify these Thornton Wilder works for 10 points each. [10] A wall of ice approaches from the north, Henry is revealed to have once been named Cain, and George Antrobus is said to have invented the wheel in this play. ANSWER: The Skin of Our Teeth [10] The Stage Manager narrates this Wilder play taking place in Grover's Corners in which Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb gossip and George and Emily are married. ANSWER: Our Town [10] In this Wilder novel, Brother Juniper investigates the lives of the five victims of the title Peruvian structure's collapse. ANSWER: The Bridge of San Luis Rey