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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 SEVEN Tossups 1. One of this composer’s orchestral works begins with an eleven-note chord that leaves out a C-sharp from the tone row. This composer of Inscape and Piano Variations used two movements linked by a cadenza in a work for strings, harp, piano, and the soloist, a clarinet. In another work, woodwinds and brass underscore a narrator who reads, (*) “We cannot escape history.” This composer was inspired by a Henry A. Wallace speech to write one work for brass and percussion to honor American soldiers, and he also wrote the Lincoln Portrait. For 10 points, name this American composer of Fanfare for the Common Man, as well as the ballets Rodeo and Appalachian Spring. ANSWER: Aaron Copland <GA> 2. Dividing this quantity by the momentum of a massive particle yields the de Broglie wavelength. The change in position of a particle times its change in momentum is greater than or equal to one over four pi times this quantity. (*) Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle includes a quantity equal to this quantity divided by two pi, its “reduced” form. This quantity’s namesake was responsible for proving that the negative fifth power of wavelength is proportional to blackbody radiation. For 10 points, name this quantity symbolized h, which is named for the German father of quantum theory. ANSWER: Planck’s constant [prompt on h until mention; do not accept or prompt on “h bar” or “reduced Planck’s constant”; do not accept or prompt on “Planck” alone as this is a unit] <AJ> 3. Adherents of this religion celebrate a day of silence and meditation called Mauna Agaryas. In this religion, objects belong to a dravya and adherents to this religion believe that reality is made up of seven or nine tattvas. According to this religion, after death, the soul is reincarnated into one of (*) four kingdoms: celestial, human, animal or plant, and infernal. Monks and nuns in this religion may wear mouth covers and carry brooms with them. The adherents of this religion believe in a series of 24 tirthankaras. For 10 points, name this religion whose adherents practice ahimsa and whose founder was the Mahavira. ANSWER: Jainism [accept Jain Dharma] <AJ> 4. A friend of this character tells Marthe her husband has died after leaving a box of jewelry at another woman’s house. Advisors to this character include Valdes and Cornelius, and in one scene, this character declares, “If we say that we have no sin, / We deceive ourselves.” When this character cuts his arm, over the wound, the (*) Latin words “Homo, fuge!” appear. He’s not Rabbit, but this character’s love interest drowns her child and is named Gretchen, and a poodle follows him home and turns into Mephistopheles. For 10 points, identify this character who titles works by Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a man who makes a deal with the devil. ANSWER: Faust [or Doctor Faustus or Doktor Faustus; generously prompt on Adrian Leverkühn] 5. One group in this country is thought to be controlled by a man nicknamed “The Professor” and is called the Black Eagles. This country is home to the ELN, or National Liberation Army. This country’s First Search Bloc worked with Los Pepes in the 1990s against one (*) criminal. In 2002, twelve government officials from this country’s department of Valle del Cauca were kidnapped by an insurgent group opposed by Álvaro Uribe. In 2016, this country which experienced La Violencia rejected a peace deal with that group, its namesake Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC. For 10 points, name this South American country with capital at Bogotá. ANSWER: Republic of Colombia [accept República de Colómbia ] <AJ/CL> 6. This mythological figure committed suicide in a manner similar to a real-life king of Phrygia with the same name, which, according to some sources, was drinking an ox’s blood. A group of talking reeds which grew in a meadow whisper a secret this figure kept hidden with a turban. This figure hosted the lost and drunk satyr Silenus for ten days and was rewarded by (*) Dionysus. This figure was cursed by Apollo when he thought a victory against Marsyas was unfair, and was given the ears of a donkey. This king reversed a certain gift by putting his fingers in running water after he accidentally turned his daughter into a statue. For 10 points, name this king with the golden touch. ANSWER: Midas <RY> 7. A song about one these objects likely uses them as a metaphor for Emily West, a woman who legendarily slept with Santa Anna during the Battle of San Jacinto. The Cherokee widely distributed their namesake variety of these objects, a Georgia state symbol. An annual “Tournament” of these objects runs in (*) Pasadena, California. A double-overtime Georgia win occurred in a horseshoe-shaped stadium named for these objects, which holds the oldest college football game called its “bowl.” For 10 points, name this U.S. national flower whose “water” is often used to flavor food, often given to loved ones on Valentine’s Day. ANSWER: roses [accept Rosa; prompt on flowers until mentioned; do not accept “Rosaceae”] <DM> 8. The Norrland terrain is mostly within this biome which contains krumholtz vegetation at its northern boundary. Acid-tolerant plants thrive in this biome’s podzol, and many plant species in this biome are pioneers because of its high-intensity crown fires. In a notable phenomenon in this biome, Picea mariana cease to stand (*) vertically and are thus called “drunken trees.” Animals which live in this biome include wolverines, lynxes, and reindeer, and at the tree line, it meets the tundra. For 10 points, name this chilly biome sometimes known as snow forest. ANSWER: taiga [accept boreal forest; accept snow forest until mention; prompt on forest until mention] <AJ> 9. This thinker ended one work with “The Meaning of All This,” which proposes solutions for the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia. Eric Foner noted that this thinker broke with the Dunning School with his history of Reconstruction, and one work by this thinker includes “sorrow songs.” This thinker wrote that the (*) “color-line” was the “problem of the twentieth century,” and argued for leadership by the Talented Tenth. This thinker coined a term for oppressed groups seeing themselves through oppressive eyes, “double consciousness,” and opposed the Atlanta Compromise of Booker T. Washington. For 10 points, name this African American sociologist behind The Souls of Black Folk. ANSWER: W. E. B. Du Bois [or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois] <CL> 10. In one work by this author, a pair of young children deliver love letters sent between Uncle Maury and Mrs. Patterson. A character created by this author pretends to be a doctor and gives a woman turpentine after taking advantage of her need for an abortion. This creator of the pharmacist MacGowan and (*) Dewey Dell wrote a short story in which a gray hair is found beside Homer Barron’s corpse and set many works in a fictional Mississippi county named Yoknapatawpha. In addition to A Rose for Emily, this author wrote a work about the Bundrens and several about the Compsons. For 10 points, name this American author of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. ANSWER: William (Cuthbert) Faulkner <CL> 11. One work by an artist associated with this city features a short man with a green parrot on his arm at a wedding. It’s not Antwerp, but two peacocks sit at the right of a painting by an artist associated with this city, in which Heracles suckles at Hera’s breast, resulting in The Origin of the Milky Way. An artist associated with this city painted a Biblical scene lit from the left with a (*) diagonal table. The first reclining nude in Western painting is associated with this city, as is the artist behind Sacred and Profane Love and the Venus of Urbino. For 10 points, name this Italian city associated with Tintoretto, Giorgione, and Titian from its namesake school of painting, home to many canals. ANSWER: Venice [accept Venetian school (of painting); accept Venezia or Venesia] <CL> 12. A work often paired with this work describes a hunter “holding the Wolf in chace,” and this work was originally published under the pen name Glirastes in Leigh Hunt’s The Examiner. This work is frequently compared to one also based on the work of Diodorus Siculus which imagines a character wondering “What powerful but unrecorded race / Once dwelt in that annihilated place” and was written by (*) Horace Smith. This work describes a “shattered visage” and a “sneer of cold command” as seen by a “traveller from an antique land” reading the inscription, “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” For 10 points, name this poem about a “King of Kings,” a work by Percy Bysshe Shelley. ANSWER: “Ozymandias” <BL/CL> 13. One festival in this country which partially celebrates Catherine Cheynel, L’Escalade, commemorates a defeat of Charles Emmanuel I. One military leader from this country won the Sonderbund War and later founded an organization with Henry Dunant.