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PRISON BOWL XI: WE LOVE NO FISH Head Edited by Chloe Levine. Vice Head Edited by Gilad Avrahami and Daniel Ma. Section Edited by Chloe Levine, Gilad Avrahami, Daniel Ma, Sam Brochin, and Rachel Yang. Written by Hunter College High School Quiz Bowl (Chloe Levine, Gilad Avrahami, Daniel Ma, Sam Brochin, Rachel Yang, Ben Chapman, Asher Jaffe, Ella Leeds, Alice Lin, Brian Lu, Cerulean Ozarow, Abishrant Panday, David Godovich) with help from Matthew Lehmann (Chicago). Special thanks to Tadhg Larabee (Richard Montgomery), Ms. Caitlin Samuel, Mr. Ross Pinkerton, Lily Goldberg, Ms. Lindsay Samuel, Julia Tong (Darien), and Finnegan the Dog. PACKET NINE Tossups 1. One ruler of this country made it illegal to throw away ballots with his face on it and created the FUNK party. An embassy in this country was evacuated in Operation Eagle Pull, and its politics were long dominated by the Sangkum party. In this country, the Super Great (*) Leap Forward was started by a ruler who ​ was formerly a teacher and set up the S-21 prison camp in a high school. That man declared himself Brother Number One. Along with Vietnam, the Kent State Massacre saw students protesting about incursions into this country once led by Pol Pot. For 10 points, name this country where the Khmer Rouge ruled, with capital at Phnom Penh. ANSWER: Cambodia [accept Kampuchea] <ML> ​ ​ ​ ​ 2. In response to one fighter in this battle throwing his weapons to the ground, one combatant reportedly said, “There’s a war going on here!” Some fighters in this battle escaped through a spontaneously constructed tunnel, and weapons used during this battle included cutlery. In one account of this battle, a tapestry turned to stone, and during this battle, an exclamation of (*) “Glisseo” preceded the creation of a slide. During this ​ battle, a massive pile of furniture was destroyed by Fiendfyre. This battle included the destruction of four Horcruxes. For 10 points, name this fictional battle in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which took place at its ​ ​ namesake school. ANSWER: Battle of Hogwarts [accept descriptions before the giveaway; prompt on Second Wizarding War; do ​ ​ ​ ​ not accept or prompt on “First Wizarding War”] <CL/GA/AJ> 3. In a work by this writer, the subject does a “ritual dance around a center / in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.” This writer’s only novel was originally titled Journal of My Other Self before gaining its current ​ ​ title about Malte Laurids Brigge. This writer described an animal who “paces in cramped circles, over and over” behind bars in one work and wrote of an object “still (*) suffused with brilliance” before declaring, “You ​ must change your life.” This writer behind “The Panther” and “Archaic Torso of Apollo” asked, “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” in a work titled for an Italian castle. For 10 points, name this German poet of the Duino Elegies. ​ ​ ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke <CL> ​ ​ 4. A young woman rests her foot on a globe in an unfinished allegorical work by this artist titled Truth Unveiled ​ by Time. In another work by this artist, a dog is nearly kicked by the title figure’s elevated feet as she presses ​ one arm onto a man’s face. This artist designed a gilt bronze reliquary for an large wooden chair now located in the (*) Vatican. This artist placed the Pamphili symbol, a dove, atop an obelisk in one work in the Piazza Navona. ​ This artist of The Rape of Proserpina was commissioned by Cardinal Cornaro for a sculpture of Cupid angling an ​ ​ arrow toward the heart of an enraptured nun. For 10 points, name this Renaissance artist of Rome’s The Ecstasy of ​ St. Teresa. ​ ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini [or Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini] <GA> ​ ​ ​ ​ 5. This scientist used a radon-beryllium neutron source to induce radioactivity in one experiment, and pressure is exerted at absolute zero by his namesake gas. This scientist names the space between occupied and unoccupied electron states, which is his namesake “surface.” With (*) Dirac, this scientist names a distribution ​ of energy states. This scientist’s paradox concerns the high probability but low evidence for aliens. A particle with half-integer spin that obeys the Pauli exclusion principle is named for this scientist who created a self-sustaining fission in Chicago Pile-1, which went critical in December 1942. For 10 points, name this Italian-born physicist who created the first nuclear reactor. ANSWER: Enrico Fermi <BC> ​ ​ 6. In this conflict, the losing side primarily used a Chassepot (“SHAS-po”) rifle which was actually superior to the famous Dreyse needle gun used by the other side. After the Battle of Gravelotte, one army in this war who had earlier lost the Battle of Wörth, was trapped at Metz. This conflict started in part due to a mistranslation of a (*) dispatch from the spa town of Bad Ems. During this war, Patrice de MacMahon led the entire Army of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Chalons to capture in the Battle of Sedan, where Napoleon III personally surrendered his sword to Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck. For 10 points, name this 1870 war which led to the creation of the Third French Republic and the unification of Germany. ANSWER: Franco-Prussian War [accept Franco-German War; prompt on War of 1870 until mention; prompt on ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 70/71] <BL> ​ ​ 7. In the touchdown variant of this process, the temperature is set a few degrees above the Tm of one species ​ ​ involved. This technique is frequently performed using magnesium chloride and dNTPs in a “master mix.” A 1993 Nobel Prize was partly won by an innovator of this technique, Kary (*) Mullis. One type of this technique ​ is the real-time (q) application. The results of the initial cycles of this technique will always have extra sticky ends, and this technique includes thermal cycling. An enzyme used in this technique is extracted from Thermophilus ​ aquaticus, which is known as Taq polymerase. For 10 points, name this laboratory technique used to clone a specific ​ sequence of DNA. ANSWER: polymerase chain reaction [accept PCR] <AJ> ​ ​ ​ ​ 8. One section of this work discusses the validity of Charles Fourier’s description of certain spaces as “mitigated jails.” According to Jürgen Habermas, one theory described in this work was subverted by the increase in reflexive labor. This work was the first to use the term “primitive accumulation,” which describes the origins of (*) class distinctions. In addition to the “value-form,” this work describes the attribution of seemingly intrinsic ​ value to tradeable items, a concept known as “commodity fetishism.” The second and third volumes of this work were published posthumously by Friedrich Engels. For 10 points, name this seminal economic text by Karl Marx. ANSWER: Das Kapital [or Capital; accept Capital: Critique of Political Economy or Das Kapital: Kritik der ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ politischen Ökonomie; accept Volume I added to any acceptable answer until “subverted”] <CL> ​ ​ ​ 9. In one work in this genre, a woman is taken to the “booby hatch” after her husband sees a unicorn in their garden. One book by James Thurber is titled for works in this genre for Our Time, and one group of works in ​ ​ this genre is identified using the Perry Index. Jean de la Fontaine worked in this genre, and one work in this genre is the origin of the term (*) “sour grapes” and features a fox. In perhaps the most famous work in this genre, ​ which was originally written by a slave, one character takes a nap halfway through a race, so a tortoise wins. For 10 points, name these short works featuring anthropomorphized characters and leading to a moral, many of which were written by Aesop. ANSWER: fables [accept Aesop’s fables; prompt on Aesopica; prompt on short story or short stories; do not ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ accept or prompt on “fairytales” or equivalents] <CL> 10. This composer wrote a Sonata Militare for violin and orchestra based on the theme from the aria “Non più ​ ​ andrai” from The Marriage of Figaro. The inclusion of a bell in the third movement of this composer’s second ​ ​ violin concerto earned it the nickname “Rondo à la clochette.” That work was later adapted into a piano (*) étude by Franz Liszt titled “La campanella.” This composer of “The Hunt” and “The Devil’s Laughter” included parallel octaves and triple stops in his last in a series of works, which inspired a set of variations by Sergei Rachmaninoff. For 10 points, name this composer of 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, a 19th-century Italian virtuoso ​ ​ violinist. ANSWER: Niccolò Paganini <GA> ​ ​ 11. NOTE TO MODERATOR: The answer line for this tossup is long, so you may want to read it before you read the tossup to teams. Description acceptable. Due to one of these things, the coastal area between Cleveland and Toledo is known as “The Mistake by the Lake.” The Bethune-Hill case was about these things, also the subject of Colegrove v. ​ ​ ​ Green, in which Justice Frankfurter stayed out of the “political thicket.” That decision was modified by (*) ​ ​ Baker v. Carr. A case about these things argued in 2017 is Gill v. Whitford and relies on the “efficiency gap.” These ​ ​ ​ things may be created by packing or cracking. A process named for a politician named Elbridge changes these things to favor a group and is called gerrymandering. For 10 points, name these boundaries which define the constituent areas of congressional representatives. ANSWER: boundaries of legislative districts [accept any all reasonable equivalents and descriptive answers; accept ​ ​ electoral or congressional or voting or political or representative or anything else reasonable in place of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ “legislative”; accept borders and equivalents in place of “boundaries”; prompt on district boundaries or districts ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ and equivalents; prompt on boundary or boundaries and equivalents until mention; prompt on voting or votes ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ elections; do not accept or prompt on “state boundaries” or “state borders”] <CL> ​ 12.

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