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ILLIAC -- ILLinois Academic Competition -- Round 7 1. According to this religion’s rule of three, all actions are returned to the actor at three times the ​ magnitude. In this religion’s liturgical calendar, eight sabbats are celebrated, as illustrated by the Wheel of the Year diagram. It isn’t Jainism, but many members of this religion work and practice ceremonies in the nude or “skyclad.” Members of this faith follow the code (*) “an it harm none, do ​ what ye will” known as the “Rede” of this religion. Members of this religion, which was popularized by Gerald Gardner, meet in small groups called “covens” to worship a Mother Goddess. For 10 points, name this most popular Neopagan religion whose members are known for practicing witchcraft. ANSWER: Wiccan [accept British Traditional Wicca; prompt on Neopaganism or any form of the word ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ “witch” or “witchcraft”; prompt on New Forest coven] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ < Ethan Ashbrook | Religion > ​ ​ 2. A Byzantine-inspired Paul Abadie-designed cathedral in this city is built out of strikingly white ​ travertine stone which self-whitens each rainfall. A hospital for war veterans in this city was turned into a national museum of military history. A headless statue of the patron saint of this city can be found holding his head outside another (*) cathedral in this city. Three striking 13th-century rose ​ ​ ​ windows dominate a cathedral restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (yoo-JEN vee-oh-LAY luh dook) in this ​ ​ city whose Les Invalides museum holds Napoleon’s tomb. For 10 points, name this city known for its cathedrals of Sacré-Cœur (sah-cray coor) and Notre Dame. ​ ​ ANSWER: Paris ​ < Iain Carpenter | Other Fine Arts > ​ ​ ​ 3. A poem by this author is addressed to a man “to whom no sound is dissonant which tells of Life.” ​ In one poem by this author, the title object makes a “soft floating witchery of sound.” Another poem by this author begins, “well, they are gone, and here must I remain.” This author of “This Lime-tree Bower (*) My Prison,” wrote a poem whose title phenomenon “performs its secret ministry/ ​ ​ ​ unhelped by any wind.” This author wrote many Conversation Poems to his son Hartley. This poet was interrupted by the person from Porlock while writing a poem describing a “stately pleasure-dome” in Xanadu. For 10 points, name this author of “The Eolian Harp,” “Frost at Midnight,” and “Kubla Khan.” ANSWER: Samuel Taylor Coleridge ​ < Mitch McCullar | Non-Epic Poetry > ​ ​ 4. According to tradition, Muhammad said that half the beauty in the world was apportioned to ​ mankind and the other half to this figure and his mother. After Zuleikha failed to seduce this figure, she brought him before her handmaidens who all cut themselves with knives. Before he died, this man requested that his descendants bring his bones to the city of (*) Shechem. This man ​ predicted the execution of a royal baker during his imprisonment. He interpreted a dream involving seven thin cows swallowing seven plump cows at the request of a pharaoh. For 10 points, name this biblical figure who was sold into slavery by his twelve brothers and was given a colorful coat by his father Jacob. ANSWER: Joseph [or Yusuf, or Yosef, or Yosep] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ < Jonathan Lau | Mythology, Stories, and Legends > ​ ​ 5. One modification to this equation multiplies one component of it by the d’Alambertian plus mu ​ squared. The total phase between turning points is evaluated as an integer number of pi in a method using Airy functions to approximate solutions to this equation. A semiclassical method to find solutions to this equation (*) is the WKB method. The derivative with respect to time of a state ​ vector is multiplied by h bar times i in the time-dependent form of this equation. This equation finds the allowed energy levels of quantum systems. For 10 points, name this equation named for an Austrian physicist who imagined a superposition between an “alive” and “dead” cat. ANSWER: Schrodinger’s equation ​ ​ < Iain Carpenter | Physics > ​ ​ 6. Scotland Yard retiree Richard Cullen claimed to have forensic evidence that this man was shot ​ by Secret British Intelligence agent Oswald Rayner. This man’s youth was spent with a group rumored to practice orgies and self-flagellation known as the Khlysty (klees-tee). This man was ​ ​ invited to a dinner at the Moika palace where he was offered wine and asked to say prayers to a cross on the wall before (*) surviving a shot to the back of the head. After being shot another two times ​ and beaten with a blunt object, this man’s corpse was thrown into a distributary of the Neva. The assassination of this man was orchestrated by Prince Felix Yusupov. He gained favor with Nicholas I after healing his son of hemophilia. For 10 points, name this holy mystic who possibly had an affair with Tsarina Alexandra. ANSWER: Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ​ < Michael Etzkorn | Continental Europe > ​ ​ 7. This author wrote an essay describing placing the word Whim above the door post and argues to ​ ​ ​ shun parents in an effort to counter the “doctrine of love” with a “doctrine of hatred.” That essay by this author argues against dragging around a “corpse of memory.” In another essay by this author, he asserts that “every end is a beginning” and that the first title construct was (*) the eye. In ​ an essay by this author, he argues that the true mark of genius is being willing to believe in your own thoughts. That essay by this author claims, “to be great is to be misunderstood” and “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” For 10 points, name this Transcendentalist author of “Circles” and “Self-Reliance.” ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson ​ < Ethan Ashbrook | Misc Literature > ​ ​ 8. In one debate in this election, a candidate compared the U.S. to a “goldfish bowl before the ​ world,” and later in this election, Quemoy and Matsu were described as “two little pieces of real estate.” The losing candidate in this election pledged to campaign in all 50 states. When asked about the losing candidate’s ideas, the then-president stated that he (*) might think of an answer “if he was ​ ​ ​ given a week.” While radio listeners gave the first debate of this election to a former California governor, those who watched on TV gave it to a candidate who hid his Addison’s disease from the public. This was the first election to have televised debates. For 10 points, name this election where Richard Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy. ANSWER: United States Presidential Election of 1960 [prompt on 60s; prompt on answers describing ​ ​ ​ ​ Nixon-Kennedy election with “What year?”] ​ < Sarod Nori | U.S. History > ​ ​ 9. An artist from this country painted a black-and-white checkerboard pattern collapsing towards ​ the center in Movement in Squares. Another artist from this country placed 102 names on the inside ​ ​ of a blue tent. Billy Childish created the Stuckist movement to oppose one artistic movement from this country. One artist from this country put (*) her bed on display and created the tent artwork ​ Everyone I Have Ever Slept With. Another artist from this country placed a shark in formaldehyde in The ​ ​ Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst are from, ​ for 10 points, what country home to the Tate Gallery in London? ANSWER: United Kingdom [accept England or Britain; accept Young British Artists] (Movement in ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Squares is by Bridget Riley) ​ < Iain Carpenter | Painting and Sculpture > ​ ​ 10. A bridge intermediate complex that models this type of reaction contains two pentaammine ​ ruthenium atoms connected by pyrazine. Henry Taube explained the mechanism behind the inner sphere variety of this type of reaction which occurs via covalent linkage. When heated, phosphorous acid undergoes disproportionation -- a variety of this type of reaction. The equilibrium constant in (*) the Nernst equation is related to the standard potential for this type of reaction. This type of reaction ​ can be written as two half-reactions occuring at the anode and cathode of a galvanic cell. For 10 points, name this type of reaction involving the transfer of electrons, which lowers one material’s oxidation state while raising the other. ANSWER: redox reaction [or reduction-oxidation reaction; accept inner sphere electron transfer; ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ prompt on reduction reaction; prompt on oxidation reaction; prompt on disproportionation until ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ mentioned] < Michael Etzkorn | Chemistry > ​ ​ ​ 11. One novel by this author centers on Felix, a theater director exiled to a prison while trying to ​ get revenge on his former assistant Tony. In another novel by this author, the protagonist works in the Rejoov compound while helping to advertise BlyssPluss pills as an age-reverting drug. This author retold Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the (*) novel Hag-Seed. The protagonist Jimmy plays the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ trivia game Extinctathon and takes the name Snowman in this author’s post-apocalyptic novel Oryx and ​ ​ ​ Crake. This author wrote about Angels and Guardians surveilling for rebels in a novel set in Gilead. For ​ 10 points, names this Canadian author who wrote about Offred in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. ​ ​ ANSWER: Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood ​ < Ethan Ashbrook | Long-Form Literature > ​ ​ To the Moderator: Please look over the answerline carefully 12. Description acceptable. Calibration of two techniques to accomplish this goal is assured with an ​ ​ ​ acrylic cylinder known as a Jaszczak (jay-zak) phantom. The changing magnetic fields in ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles is used in a magnetic particle technique to accomplish this goal. This goal makes use of true 3D information by capturing radiation with a gamma camera ​ ​ in the technique SPECT. The (*) functional techniques that accomplish this goal make use of tracers to ​ track metabolism -- such as the use of BOLD in functional magnetic resonance.

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