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Round 11 lCV7 Questions by Uva Tossups 1. Frank Black. The Apples in Stereo. Optiganally Yours. Shonen Knife. Komeda. Dressy Bessy. Bis. The Sugarplastic. Cornelius. The Bill Doss. Devo. All these bands appear on this album. Based on and 'inspired by' a hit Cartoon Network series created by Craig McCracken, this album has its own plot: the girls save Townsville from Mojo lojo. Again. For ten points, name this album released in 2000. A: The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes and Villains (prompt on The Powerpuff Girls) 2. During her last writing stage, this author turned to nature and wrote works like 'La Petite Fadette.' Her middle period shows interest in humanitarian reforms and produced books like 'Consuelo' and 'Le Meunier d' Angibault.' Her first period, however, is her most well-known- a period of intense Romanticism stemming from her affair with Musset, and produced books like 'Lelia' and 'Valentine.' FTP, name this author of 'Indiana.' A: George Sand or Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant 4. Other than incandescent and fluorescent lighting, this type is best known for its energy efficiency, long-life, and outdoor applications such as street lamps and floodlights. The three types are mercury vapor, metal halide, and high-pressure sodium. Similar to fluorescent lighting, what is this type of lighting, distinguishable by its blue-ish or green­ ish tint in the headlights of expensive cars? A: fiD or High Intensity Discharge 5. Both his grandfather and his uncle served as secretary of state, he himself became involved in diplomacy at a young age, attending the Second Hague Peace Conference with his grandfather in 1907. He made his own important contributions to American foreign policy as well, helping to draft the U.N. Charter and negotiating the peace treaty with Japan. FTP, name this man who served as President Eisenhower's secretary of State. Answer: John Foster Dulles 6. Subtitled "Episode in the Life of an Artist", this piece was first performed on December 5, 1830 at the Paris Conservatoire. The premise is as follows ... A young musician despairs because of hopeless love, and takes opium, which gives him strange dreams. Through five movements, he chases the ghost of his beloved: Reveries, Passions. A Ball. In the Country. March to the Scaffold. Dream ofa Witches'Sabbath. For ten points, name this Berlioz piece, written for Harriet Smithson. A: Symphonie Fantastigue Round 11 7. Dating from the 2nd Dynasty and commonly paired with Sakhmet, the lion-headed goddess of Memphis, Wadjet, and Hathor, she was originally portrayed as either a wild desert cat or as a lioness, and only became associated with the domesticated feline around 1000 BC. She was strictly a solar deity until the arrival of Greek influence on Egyptian society, when she became a lunar goddess due to the Greeks associating her with their Artemis. For ten points, name this cat-headed goddess. A: Bastet 8. Bordering on the South China Sea, this island has two large lakes, Laguna de Bay and Taal. It was here the Filipino revolt against Spanish rule began in 1896, that U.S. forces wrested control of the islands from Spain in 1898, and that the Philippine insurrection against U.S. rule broke out in 1899. For ten points, name this island, largest among the Philippines' 7,107 islands. A: Luzon 9. Born circa 1360, his name has long been legend. As early as the 15 th century, his works were considered masterpieces. So great was his fame that the Church Council, held in Moscow in 1551, thus prescribed in its statutes the official canon for the correct representation of the Trinity: " ... to paint from ancient models, as painted by the Greek painters and as painted by [him]. ... " Still extant among his more or less authentic works are individual icons of the festival tier in the iconostasis of the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow's Kremlin, individual icons and frescoes of the Catherdral of the Assumption of Vladimir and The Old Testament Trinity from the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the St. Sergius Trinity Monastery. FTP, name him. A: Rublev 10. "Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself." These words were spoken as part of a famous farewell address from a controversial figure who made his career as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee before rising to the Senate, the Vice Presidency, and three presidential campaigns. For 10 points, name this 37th president who delivered his farewell address in August 1974. A: Richard Nixon 11. Traditionally a demon, she was the subject of a George Meredith novel which bears her name and tells her story in modem times. Referred to as 'the screech owl' in the King James version and 'the night hag' in the Revised, she is said to be Adam's first wife who refused to be inferior to him and instead left him and, in some traditions, married the devil. For ten points, name this woman, the mother of evil spirits in Arabic tradition. A: Lilith Round 11 12. Henry's father invites Catherine to visit in hopes that she'll raise the family fortunes. Catherine, however, has been reading Anne Radcliffe and frightens herself by letting her imagination run wild in the large house. Finally, her imaginings are disproved, Henry's father sees she is not wealthy and sends her home, and Henry follows her and proposes. FTP, they all live happily ever after, of course, in this, Jane Austen's 1817 Gothic spoof. A: Northanger Abbey 13. Born in Kentucky of Welsh ancestry, he served in the Black Hawk War under Zachary Taylor, whose daughter he later married. He later served under Taylor again, during the Mexican War, but by that time his fIrst wife had died, and he was later, as a senator, to become a fIrm opponent of Taylor during the debates over the Compromise of 1850. FTP, name this Mississippi senator, the only president of the Confederacy. Answer: Jefferson Davis 14. Composed of sieve tubes, companion cells, pfIbres, and parenchyma cells, they are formed by the apical meristems of root and shoot tips. Also called bast, FTP name this type of plant tissue, which conducts food made in the leaves to other parts of the plant. Answer: phloem 15. At 10:54 AM on June 5th, 1995 physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Science and Technology cooled Rubidium atoms to 20 billionth of a Kelvin away from absolute zero. At this temperature it is colder than anything in nature. When atoms are cooled to this temperature, behave according to rules fIrst predicted by two physicists in 1924. For ten points, name this fIfth state of matter, named for a German and an Indian physicist. A: Bose-Einstein Condensate 16. His own claim to the throne was quite tenuous, descending through his claim through his mother to be the heir of the Beauforts, the semi-legitimized descendants of John of Gaunt and his mistress. His wife, on the other hand, was probably the legitimate claimant, as the eldest daughter of Edward IV, but he decided to have her cousin the Duke of Warwick executed just in case. FTP, name this fIrst Tudor king of England. Answer: Henry VII 17. Chuko Liang, depicted as the voice of wisdom; Ts'ao Tsao, the personifIcation of autocratic evil; and Kuan Yu, the god of war; are all characters in this early Chinese novel, traditionally attributed to Lo Kuan-chung. Famed for its idyllic themes of brotherhood and loyalty, for ten points name this late fourteenth century work, an epic based on historical fIgures and events in the kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu. A: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Round 11 18. After she graduated from the St. Petersburg Theater School, she joined the famous Marinsky theater and in 1909 became famous when she danced in Diaghilev's 'Russian Seasons,' staged in Paris. In 1910 she formed her own dance troupe which traveled around the world. FTP, name this ballerina whose most beloved role was The Dying Swan to music by Saint-Saens. A: Anna Pavlova 19. He opposed Hume's skepticism on one hand, but on the other hand challenged the Enlightenment idea of faith in the unlimited scope of reason. His attempt to define the domain of rational understanding exactly is written up as his 'critical philosophy' in the following volumes: Critique of Judgement, Critique of Practical Reason, and, his most famous, Critique of Pure Reason. For ten points, name this philosopher. A: Immanuel Kant 20. A flock of migratory birds traveling between the United States and Canada was the unlikely catalyst for a debate on the nature of agreements between sovereign nations and the role of the U.S. Constitution in framing and defining such treaties. Such a treaty established between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1916 prohibited the hunting of migratory birds, but the state of Missouri held this to be an unconstitutional violation of state sovereignty. In a famous opinion handed down as part of, FTP, this Supreme Court decision of 1920, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes affirmed the federal government's right to establish and uphold international treaties, even when they conflict with state law. A: Missouri v. Holland 21. There were actually two of them, the first one "of the Parlements" and the second "Of the Princes". France's greatest generals, Turenne and Conde, both participated in them at various points, and after the final failure of the second one, Conde fled to the Spanish.

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