A ACADEMIC C COMPETITION F FEDERATION 2015 ACF Nationals Packet by Minnesota and Washington Tossups 1. This explorer was put on trial after he drunkenly attempted to hang two of his own crew members from a tree because they strayed too far from camp - as a result, this man briefly lost his seat on the Council of Justice and had to issue a public apology. During one expedition, he was sent to search for a “golden kingdom” of Lavo, but a mistranslation of Marco Polo in German led him to sail in a different direction. His companions included the merchant Isaac Gilsemans, whose drawings depict their travels, and the carpenter Frans Visscher, who planted flags for him in the name of Prince Frederick Hendrick. This man named the Three Kings Islands after founding Storm Bay and the Forestier Peninsula, and then nearly wrecked while founding the Fiji Islands. For 10 points, name this explorer who sailed from Batavia to discover Van Diemen’s Land, which is now named in his honor. ANSWER: Abel Janszoon Tasman 2. Toward the end of this piece’s fourth movement, violas, cellos, and basses dither between D-sharp and E quarter notes for 21 measures while the violins assert the main theme in A major. The two D-major trio sections in this piece’s third movement are based on an Austrian pilgrims’ hymn. During the coda of this piece’s first movement, woodwinds and horns hold a four- octave E pedal point for 22 bars as strings repeat a four-bar motif. That movement has a long 4/4 poco sostenuto introduction in which sections exchange ascending 16th-note scales before switching to a 6/8 Vivace. A second-inversion A minor chord in the woodwinds and horns opens and closes the Allegretto second movement, whose theme is based on a long-short-short-long-long rhythm. It premiered on a program that included its composer’s Wellington’s Victory overture, and Richard Wagner referred to this symphony as “the apotheosis of the dance.” For 10 points, name this symphony completed four years after its composer’s Pastoral Symphony. ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 [or obvious equivalents, such as Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony; prompt on partial answers] 3. One formalism named for this man relies on a formula which states that the off-diagonal Hamiltonian matrix elements H- sub-i j are equal to 1.75 times S-sub-i j times the arithmetic mean of the diagonal elements H-sub-i i and H-sub-j j–that’s the Wolfsberg-Helmholtz formula. The transition states of pericyclic reactions can either have a Möbius topology or a topology named for this chemist. All of the Coulomb integrals are set to one value and all of the resonance integrals are set to another value in a method named for this man used to calculate the pi molecular orbitals of conjugated hydrocarbons. This chemist is the second namesake of an equation which states that the logarithm of the activity coefficient equals a temperature-dependent constant times the square of the charge times the square root of the ionic strength. For 10 points, name this German chemist who names a “limiting law” describing dilute electrolytic solutions with Debye (duh-BYE) and a rule stating that aromatic compounds possess 4 n plus 2 pi electrons. ANSWER: Erich Hückel 4. The architect Leah Beeferman proposed a utopian archipelago which takes advantage of this freedom. In United States v. Causby, the Supreme Court ruled that an ancient law governing this right “has no place in the modern world.” Five fundamental freedoms of this were outlined in the 1946 Bermuda Agreement, and numerous countries tried to claim this right in the Bogotá Declaration of 1976. A Latin saying that begins “Cujus est solum” once provided the basis for individuals to claim this right. During the Falklands War, the Total Exclusion Zone N was an attempt by Britain to extend its right to this in the name of self-defense. Since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, it has been established that nations and not individuals have the right to control this, at least within the bounds of their territory and several miles off their sea coast. For 10 points, name this legal right, defined as sovereignty over the area extending from the ground upwards. ANSWER: international airspace [or answers indicating the right to control air (or space) (or sky), freedom of the skies (or air), or ownership of space (or sky) (or airspace)] 1 5. This poet imagines “the strongest thread / Of our frail plant” saying “Patience and Gentleness is Power” in “On a Lock of Milton’s Hair.” John Keats wrote that this man “set / Upon my ambitious head a glorious gain” in a poem about receiving a laurel crown from him. Apollo determines which of this man’s contemporaries are worthy of dining with him in a poem this man wrote for The Reflector. This author of “The Feast of the Poets” was satirized as Horace Skimpole in Bleak House. In a poem about an encounter with Thomas Carlyle’s wife, Jane Welsh, this man wrote “Time, you thief, who love to get / Sweets into your list, put that in!” Another poem by him describes a man waking “from a deep dream of peace” and asking an angel with a “book of gold” to “Write me as one that loves his fellow men”. For 10 points, name this English essayist, poet, and editor of the Examiner who wrote “Jenny Kissed Me” and “Abou Ben Adhem”. ANSWER: Leigh Hunt [or James Henry Leigh Hunt] 6. This man receives a gift of magical pigs from an ally, but they are stolen, leading to a war between this man and the thief that ends when this man dies in single combat at a yellow ford. According to the Stanzas of the Graves, he was buried “where the waves beat against the land” at Aber Gwenoli. In another story, this man entered a castle and saw four endless chains attached to a golden bowl; when he touched the bowl, he became stuck to the floor. He was given a name referring to his golden hair by his foster father Teyrnon, who found him after cutting off the arm of a horse-stealing beast. He brought back Manawydan as a second husband for his mother shortly after himself marrying Cigfa. This man lost his role as king of Dyfed after being killed in one-on-one combat by Gwydion. Shortly after his birth, his mother had puppy blood smeared on her face so that her maidens accuse her of infanticide. For 10 points, name this hero who appears in all four branches of the Mabinogion, the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon. ANSWER: Pryderi [or Gwri Wallt Euryn; or Gwri of the Golden Hair] 7. Differential forms on a manifold named for this scientist form a Gerstenhaber algebra. This scientist’s namesake algebra is an associative algebra over a field with a bilinear operation which is antisymmetric and obeys the Leibniz rule and the Jacobi identity. This scientist names an operation which is the inverse of a similar operation named for Lagrange, is invariant under canonical transformations, and is used to determine the time evolution of phase space functions according to Liouville’s theorem. Auxetic materials have a negative value for a quantity named for this man which is defined as minus the ratio of transverse strain to axial strain. This man names an inhomogeneous equation whose uniqueness theorem can be used to develop the method of images. For 10 points, name this scientist who names an inhomogeneous version of the Laplace equation which states that the Laplacian of the electric potential equals the charge density divided by epsilon-naught. ANSWER: Simeon Denis Poisson 8. A legend says that this man rebuked the merchant Makhan Shah for offering him two gold coins, because the Shah had previously pledged 500 gold coins to anyone who could save his belongings in a storm. That incident caused the Shah to identify him as a holy man, while he was meditating for 20 years in Bakala. He was arrested in Bihar and brought to Delhi by a ruler who had solidified his power at the Battle of Samugarh. That occurred after this man prevented the conversion of 500 Pandits who sought his counsel. As a result, he gained the epithet Hind-di-Chaadar, or the Shield of India. This man’s son emerged from a tent five times with a bloody sword to test the loyalty of his followers, and thus founded the Khalsa order. Beheaded in 1675 by Aurangzeb, this man succeeded Har Krishan as guru, and was the son of Hargobind. For 10 points, name this ninth guru of Sikhism, the father of Gobind Singh. ANSWER: Guru Tegh Bahadur [or Hind-di-Chaadar until it is read] 9. An Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem ends each of its stanzas by mentioning “the golden prime” of this “good” character. In one appearance, he encounters a beggar and gives him a coin for alms, after which the beggar requests that this man strike him a blow. He marries a “cateress” and ends the nightly beating of a pair of black dogs after an episode in which he and two of his friends attend a party hosted by three ladies that is also attended by a trio of one-eyed kalandars. In another story, this character purchases a chest from a fisherman only to find the body of a woman cut into 19 pieces inside, after which he twice sets a three-day deadline for another character to solve the crime.