Naveed Bork Memorial Tournament: Tippecanoe and Tejas
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Naveed Bork Memorial Tournament: Tippecanoe and Tejas Too By Will Alston, with contributions from Itamar Naveh-Benjamin and Benji Nguyen, but not Joey Goldman Packet 2 1. Shipwrecks of interest found in this geographic feature include the HMS Goliath and the French ship Bouvet. This feature and Freel Peak lend their name to a “Roadless Area” around Lake Tahoe. According to legend, workers who created a method to bypass this geographic feature were killed and this feature itself was whipped 300 times, so nobody else could replicate the feat. The narrowest point of this feature is touched by the city of (*) Çanakkale [CHAN-nahk-kahl-lay]. This geographic feature is sandwiched between the Troad [TROH-”ad”] peninsula and the Thracian Chersonesus [“care”-SON-ee-suss]. Since Phrixus’ sister was thought to have fallen into this body of water, it was historically known as the “Sea of Helle” or Hellespont. For 10 points, the Bosporus and what other water passage comprise the Turkish Straits? ANSWER: The Dardanelles [accept Hellespont until “Helle”; prompt on Turkish Straits] 2. In one of these paintings, a man tears up a bright orange garment in protest at a young man raising an axe to slay a cow in sacrifice. In another of these paintings, a seated Sergius Paulus and several figures on the right gesture towards a sorcerer who has been temporarily struck blind. Protest erupted when these non-Mantegna paintings were moved to Buckingham Palace in 1763, since they were long publicly shown in a gallery in the Hampton Court Palace. Joshua (*) Reynolds’ Discourses on Art states that these works, which include The Sacrifice at Lystra, exemplify how much the “great style exacts from its professors” to represent subjects in a “poetical manner.” These works, which were created as models for Pieter van Aelst’s workshop, include a painting of The Miraculous Draught of Fishes from the life of Peter. For 10 points, identify these seven designs for tapestries by the artist of the School of Athens. ANSWER: Raphael’s Cartoons [prompt on Raphael paintings, etc.] 3. In this story, a man realizes he could have made a lot of money by catching fish, slaughtering geese, and towing barges while walking by a river he had not visited in the last forty or fifty years of his life. A woman in this story asks her husband to recall being given a blonde girl who died in childhood by a pussywillow. In this story, street urchins torment both the red-haired, freckled title character and the protagonist, calling him “Bronzy.” Its protagonist requests powders from the doctor’s assistant (*) Maxim for his wife of 52 years, whom he measures on her deathbed to get measurements for a coffin. After Marfa dies, the protagonist of this story falls ill and tells a priest to give the title object to a man he plays in a klezmer band with before dying. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov story in which Yakov gives a Jew the title instrument. ANSWER: “Rothschild’s Violin” [or “Rothschild’s Fiddle;” or Skripka Rotshilda] 4. Linguist Ilija Casule [kah-soo-lay] argues that a language isolate in this non-Turkey country with a vigesimal number system is related to ancient Phrygian. This country is home to a relatively isolated language spoken by 4 million people called Brahui, as well as the language isolate Burushaski, which provides a number of loanwords to Dardic languages. Comparisons are often made between the undeciphered Elamite script and an undeciphered pictorial writing system in this country belonging to a civilization often equated with an ancient place called (*) Mlehha. Chagatai Turkic, Persian, and Arabic contribute technical vocabulary to this country’s main non-English official language, which is written in Arabic script but otherwise basically the same as another language written in Devanagari. Its city of Quetta contains the academy that regulates the Iranian-derived Balochi language. For 10 points, name this country home to the site of Harappa. ANSWER: (Islamic Republic of) Pakistan 5. About a thousand pages describing this man’s beliefs were compiled into a text titled The Words of the Lord around the time of his death. Groups of “seven maidens” designated by this man engaged in ritual sexual acts with men he designated “brothers.” Though this man encouraged his followers to mass-convert to Catholicism, it quickly became obvious that they were faking, as they only married among themselves and kept referring to him as “holy master” and his daughter Eva as “Holy Virgin.” Though not Christian, this man believed in the Trinity, with the Messiah as one of three divinities, and regarded the (*) Zohar as the only true scripture because it did not deny the Trinity. After living among Sabbateans in Turkey, this man returned home and gained thousands of followers in his “Anti- Talmudic” movement, including the parents of Adam Mickiewicz. For 10 points, name this 18th century Polish rabbi who created a namesake syncretic form of Judaism. ANSWER: Jacob Frank 6. This initiative was originally envisioned as an extension of the grants in the Kerr-Mills bill, which was heavily advocated by Wilbur Mills. A 2011 paper by Amy Finkelstein et. al studied outcomes of people who were made newly eligible for this program in Oregon in 2008. This federal program provided most of the money for an initiative that created the Commonwealth Connector under a 2006 law signed by Mitt Romney. A controversial 1993 law introduced a (*) “claw-back” provision into this program in which states had to try to recover some cost from assets of the deceased. Access to this program was increased for pregnant women by a 1986 bill. A mandatory expansion of this program was ruled unconstitutional in the 2012 case NFIB v. Sibelius. For 10 points, name this Great Society program that provides insurance to lower income people. ANSWER: Medicaid [“Medicare” is wrong, just in case any durn foreigners are reading this] 7. In myth, a member of this family convinces the people that the divine founder of a city had been taken to heaven by a whirlwind. By one account, omens for the death of a member of this dynasty included chamber doors opening of their own accord, weapons making noise at night, and his wife dreaming of their house in ruins. A propagandist for an adopted member of this dynasty recorded one of its legendary ancestors as saying “favor my bold undertakings” in a prayer. As rulers, members of this real-life dynasty revived the cult of an “avenger” aspect of one god known as Ultio, and traced their ancestry to the lineage of the (*) Silvian kings in Alba Longa. A writer gave Ascanius a name based on that of this family - this is because, through Ascanius, this family claimed descent from Aphrodite, whom they honored as Venus Genetrix. For 10 points, name this Roman gens whose scions include the victor at Pharsalus. ANSWER: Gens Julia [or the Julii family; or Julio-Claudian dynasty/family] (the first clue refers to Proculus Julius) 8. In a poem by an author from this country, a sleeping drunkard, a lion-hunter, a Chinese dentist and a British queen “all [fit] together / In the same machine.” An extensively indexed travel guide for this country includes an entry on the “essential naiveté” of one of its female icons, whom the travel guide labels a “xylophone virtuoso.” This country’s national anthem ends with the lyrics: “Our enemies quail, / For they know they will fail / Against people so reverent and free,” and is sung to the melody of “Home on the Range.” A writer from this country included a book about pain and a book about utopias in a (*) 14-volume treatise interspersed with a number of religious Calypsos. That writer also wrote the short poem: “We will touch our feet, yes, / Yes, for all we’re worth,” referring to this country’s indigenous practice of boko-maru. For 10 points, name this fictional country home to authors Philip Castle and Bokonon, which is surrounded by a sea of ice-nine at the end of Cat’s Cradle. ANSWER: The Republic of San Lorenzo <Itamar> 9. When this work’s first movement transitions to D-flat major, it doubles the part for tenors and bass on the cellos before the harp enters along with alto voice. In this piece’s penultimate movement, the chorus states “wo” for three long chords before transitioning into a fugue in 4/2 time. Except for one word change, this piece’s final movement ends the same as its first movement, in F major. Its first movement opens with an F sustained on pedal and is scored without violins. The second movement of this piece, which is a march, opens with the statement (*) “For all flesh is as grass.” This piece’s fifth movement, written after it was first published, declares “you now have sadness.” This piece’s first movement introduces a rising [read slowly] F, A, B-flat motif to accompany a declaration drawn from the Beatitudes, “Blessed are they who mourn,” and reuses that motif throughout its seven movements. For 10 points, name this secular non-Latin work of mourning by Johannes Brahms. ANSWER: A German Requiem [or Eine Deutsches Requiem] 10. A law passed in this city stipulated that slave children were to be freed upon turning 18 years old and established a fund to pay for manumissions through inheritance taxes; those taxes were rarely collected, so few slaves were freed. A constitutional convention in this city established the department of “Cundinamarca” and provided for a new convention after ten years to compromise between centralist and federalist factionists, the latter of which included Jose Maria Obando and (*) Jose Antonio Paez.