NSC 2019 - Round 15 - Tossups 1. Strabo records two variants of this character's death, both of which involve him building a canal in the town of Urium. He killed all of the sons of Agrius except Thersites ("THUR-sih-teez") while restoring his ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ grandfather to the throne of Calydon. This character is the first to volunteer for a night mission in which he captures and kills the spy Dolon, then assassinates the Thracian ("THRAY-shun") king (*) Rhesus. After ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ recounting how his grandfather Oeneus ("EE-nee-us") hosted Bellerophon, he exchanges his bronze armor with ​ ​ the gold armor of Glaucus. This son of Tydeus was a member of the Epigoni. He has the longest aristeia ​ (air-is-tee-ah) in the Iliad, during which he wounds both Aphrodite and Ares. For 10 points, name this Greek hero ​ ​ ​ of the Trojan War who shares his name with the owner of some flesh-eating mares. ANSWER: Diomedes ​ <Jose, RMP - Greco-Roman Mythology> 2. The 2019 iteration of an annual month-long festival in this city saluted the country of Colombia and featured walking tours of DJ Dewey Phillips's studio. A single-artist Sirius-XM station broadcasts from a museum in this city that includes a pink Cadillac in its collection. This city's "In May" festival coincides with a food competition that includes Whole Hog and Ribs divisions, the World Championship (*) Barbecue Cooking Contest. An eccentrically decorated recording studio known as the Jungle Room is part of this city's Sun Studios, where blues artists like B.B. King and W.C. Handy got their starts. A mansion in this city lends its name to Paul Simon's 1986 album, Graceland. For 10 points, Elvis Presley died in what city in ​ ​ southwestern Tennessee? ANSWER: Memphis, Tennessee ​ ​ <Augelli, Geography - United States> 3. From the 13th century, groups performing this action traditionally carried an empty palanquin ("PAL-un-keen") called a mahmal. In 1880, hundreds of people performing this action died after a British ​ ​ ​ officer crew abandoned a sinking steamship that had left from Singapore. Ludovico de Varthema ("vahr-THAY-muh") famously disguised himself as a person performing this action, a feat later replicated by ​ Richard Burton. A famous instance of this action began at Niani, passed through the realm of (*) Sultan ​ Baybars, and involved a caravan of 60,000 followers. People traveling by sea to perform this action traditionally land at the port of Jeddah. A devaluation of gold in Egypt resulted from a lavish instance of this action by Mansa Musa. For 10 points, name this religious journey to the holiest Muslim city. ANSWER: hajj [accept pilgrimage to Mecca; prompt on pilgrimage; prompt on traveling to Mecca] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <Alston, History - World> NSC 2019 - Round 15 - Page 1 of 13 4. Kohlrausch names a device for measuring this quantity which can be classified as either "TC" or "TD" at 20 degrees Celsius. Devices from Rainin labelled P-2, P-20, P-200, and P-1000 are used to measure this quantity. This quantity is precisely measured by placing a black paper strip behind the thin glass neck of a namesake (*) flask that has a rounded base. Titration is equivalent to the analysis named for ​ this quantity. Alcohol thermometers work because this quantity increases linearly with temperature in a liquid. This quantity should be measured from the bottom of the meniscus when reading it out on a burette. For 10 points, name this quantity measured using pipettes or graduated cylinders. ANSWER: liquid volume [prompt on liquid height or liquid level] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <Silverman, Science - Chemistry> 5. This poet bemoaned "a tawdry cheapness" that "shall reign throughout our days," even though that poem praises "the sage Heraclitus" for his idea that "all things are are a-flowing." This poet used ABAB quatrains in the "Yeux Glauques" ("yuh glock") section of a poem that laments a "botched civilization" ​ ​ and an "old bitch gone in the teeth." That poem is named for a poet who "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." In the "Rock (*) Drill" and "Thrones" section of another of his poems, this author started ​ using Chinese characters in its text. A short poem by this author compares "petals on a wet, black bough" to "faces in the crowd." "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" ("hew SEL-win MAW-bur-lee") is by, for 10 points, what poet who ​ ​ never finished his modernist epic The Cantos? ​ ​ ANSWER: Ezra Pound [accept Ezra Weston Loomis Pound] ​ ​ ​ ​ <Jose, Literature - American> 6. In 1970, activists of this ethnicity seized an ambulance with a mobile X-Ray machine in order to screen the community for TB. The Young Lords promoted the rights of people of this ethnicity, who have a large community in Holyoke, Massachusetts. African Americans and members of this ethnic group sought to stop the filming of a 1981 Paul Newman film titled Fort Apache, The Bronx. Although some people of this ​ ​ ethnicity gained a bill of rights and (*) citizenship via the 1917 Jones Act, 33 years later independence ​ activists carried out the Blair House plot to try to assassinate Harry Truman. The Sharks are a gang of this ethnicity in West Side Story. For 10 points, name this specific ethnicity of people from a US territory with ​ ​ capital at San Juan. ANSWER: Puerto Ricans [accept Nuyorican or Puerto Rican-Americans; or stateside Puerto Ricans; or ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ people from Puerto Rico; prompt on Latinx or Latino or Latina or Hispanic; do not accept or prompt on "New ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Yorker"] <Bentley, History - American> 7. This quantity equals the reciprocal of the derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to the action when using action-angle variables. This quantity increases exponentially via a cascade of bifurcations when the logistic map's parameter exceeds a critical value. In some dynamical systems, the repeated doubling of this quantity occurs at the onset of (*) chaos. This quantity squared divided by the cube of the semi-major ​ axis is constant in Kepler's third law. For a mass on a spring, this quantity equals 2 pi times the square root of mass over the spring constant. For 10 points, name this reciprocal of frequency, the time required for a system undergoing cyclic repeated motion to return to its original state. ANSWER: period ​ <Busse, Science - Physics> NSC 2019 - Round 15 - Page 2 of 13 8. This artist referenced Hapsburg rule by putting a double-headed eagle on the building that peasants enter in his landscape The Census at Bethlehem. Many of this artist's late landscapes feature ​ ​ "monumental" figures, such as one where a boy climbs a tree to rob eggs from a bird's nest. Earlier, he made the Large Landscapes print series with publisher Hieronymus Cock. This father of painters ​ ​ nicknamed "Hell" and "Velvet" showed King (*) Nimrod standing before a massive unfinished structure in ​ one of his three versions of The Tower of Babel. In a landscape long attributed to him, a ploughman ignores the ​ ​ legs of a mythological figure sticking out of the sea. For 10 points, name this Flemish artist credited with the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. ​ ANSWER: Pieter Bruegel the Elder [accept Pieter Brueghel the Elder] ​ ​ ​ ​ <Bentley, Fine Arts - Painting> 9. Harold Bloom once celebrated this author's philosophical analysis of the relationship between the human face and the anus in an essay from this writer's Conjunctions and Disjunctions. This author ​ ​ examines his countrymen's "baffling hermeticism" in venerating a "bleeding," "humiliated Christ" in an essay named for "The Sons of" a traitorous woman in his country's history. He mentions the "calm course of a star," "a willow of crystal" and a "poplar of water" at the opening of a (*) poem whose 584 ​ lines correspond to an ancient calendar. An essay about his countrymen's relation to death called "The Day of the Dead" was written by, for 10 points, what Mexican author of the essay collection The Labyrinth of Solitude ​ and the poem Sunstone? ​ ​ ANSWER: Octavio Paz [accept Octavio Paz Lozano] ​ ​ ​ ​ <Jose, Literature - World and Miscellaneous> 10. France imported 41 million of these creatures in 1833, creating an opportunity for M. Bechade to found Ricarimpex, a company that still breeds them today. A conch, a vase, a disc, and one of these creatures are traditionally held by the Hindu deity Dhanvantari. One variety of these creatures lives only within the rectum of the African hippopotamus, while the Ozobranchus family of these creatures prey on ​ ​ turtles. Some sanguivorous varieties of these creatures can quintuple their mass when (*) feeding and ​ inject a combination of saliva and hirudin ("heh-ROO-din") to reduce clotting. 36 of these creatures were used at ​ ​ once on the future King George IV after he fell ill in 1816. For 10 points, name these segmented worms noted for their ability to suck blood. ANSWER: leeches [or medicinal leech; accept any more specific species of leech; accept Hirudinea before ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ hirudin is mentioned; prompt on worms or Annelida before the giveaway] ​ ​ ​ ​ <Bentley, Other - Other Academic and General Knowledge> 11. This album's distinctive sound was influenced by Claude Thornhill's big band, which three of its personnel had recently left. This album's bonus track features vocalist Kenny Hagood. Three of its songs were written by Gerry Mulligan, a baritone saxophonist whose nickname titles its second track. This album's bandleader, along with Mulligan, tuba player Bill Barber, and Lee Konitz, were the only members of its nonet to attend all three sessions. This album's songs include (*) "Darn That Dream," ​ "Moon Dreams," and "Jeru." This album, the first collaboration between its bandleader and arranger Gil Evans, contains the popular tracks "Venus de Milo" and "Boplicity." For 10 points, name this 1957 Miles Davis album titled for a relaxed alternative to "hot jazz." ANSWER: Birth of the Cool ​ <Smith, Fine Arts - Jazz> NSC 2019 - Round 15 - Page 3 of 13 12.