2020 Terrapin Open Packet 13 By Caleb Kendrick, Vishwa Shanmugam, Graham Reid, Emmett Laurie, Joelle Smart, Ewan MacAulay, Jack Lewis, Alex Echikson, Naveed Chowdhury, Justin Hawkins, Ophir Lifshitz, Ani Perumalla, Jason Shi, Kai Smith, Anson Berns, Jakobi Deslouches, NourEddine Hijazi, Caroline Mao, and Ethan Strombeck Tossups 1. One ruler with this name captured Chilia during an invasion of Moldavia that began in response to ​ Stephen the Great’s deposition of Basarab the Younger in Wallachia. A succession struggle that broke out during the reign of a ruler with this name inspired his Shia subjects to rise up in the Şahkulu Rebellion. Another ruler with this name agreed to hand over the Head of the Holy Lance to Pope Innocent VIII in exchange for the papacy continuing the imprisonment of his brother (*) Cem (“jem”). That ruler with this name ​ faced rebellions from his Karamanid brother-in-law Alaeddin Bey and extended his European domain by capturing Tarnovo and Salonika. A ruler with this name defeated a crusade led by Enguerrand VII De Coucy (“on-gair-ON the seventh duh koo-SEE”) and Sigismund of Hungary at the Battle of Nicopolis. The death of a ruler with this name who was captured at the Battle of Ankara led to the Ottoman Interregnum. For 10 points, give this name of two Ottoman Sultans, the first of whom was known as the “Thunderbolt.” ANSWER: Bayezid [accept Bayezid I or Bayezid the Thunderbolt; accept Bayezid II or Bayezid Osman] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <JL, World History> 2. A philosopher who held this view drew a distinction from what is apparent from the apparent itself using ​ the example of honey’s sweetness. That philosopher likened this view to climbing a stepladder, which, once climbed, can not be knocked down with one’s own feet. A single passage in Aristocles contains almost everything we know about a thinker who may have adopted this view after meeting gymnosophists while in India with Alexander the Great. Two adherents of this view argued for the eulogon, or the reasonable, and ​ ​ ​ ​ pithanon, or the probable, as better criteria than (*) katalepsis. A thinker who championed this view adopted ​ ​ ​ Agrippa’s Five Modes in a book about its “outlines,” which argues that epoche (“eh-po-KAY”), or bracketing, leads ​ ​ to ataraxia. Arcesilaus and Carneades advanced this view’s “academic” form. For 10 points, name this view whose ​ ​ adherents, including Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrho, advocated suspending judgment. ANSWER: skepticism [or academic skepticism; or Pyrrhonian skepticism; or Pyrrhonism] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <CK, Philosophy> 3. A poem by this author includes two sections described as “her word,” one of which describes the speaker’s ​ dislike of her husband’s smile that “never came of being gay.” In a poem by this author, a doctor takes a boy’s pulse, and the speaker declares: “Little – less – nothing! – and that ended it.” In another poem, the title lonely, childless woman’s husband “learned of finalities / Besides the grave” when she left him. He wrote a poem about a creature who “knows in singing not to sing” that, “when comes that other fall we name the fall,” “says the highway dust is over all.” This author of “The (*) Hill Wife” wrote a poem that ends, “And they, ​ since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs” and a poem that states the title bird “frames in all but words” the question “what to make of a diminished thing.” In another poem, he described the death of a boy who loses control of a buzz-saw. For 10 points, name this poet of “The Oven Bird” and “Out, Out—.” ANSWER: Robert Frost ​ <CK, American Literature> 4. During this conflict, children were abducted and sent to reeducation camps known as the Queen’s Camps. ​ Prior to this conflict, police attacked a crowd that marched on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to demand the punishment of the collaborationist Security Battalions. Ronald Scobie attempted to prevent this conflict by issuing a disarmament ultimatum, which was ignored by the far-right Organization X (“kye”). After the (*) Dekemvrianá, or December Events, Winston Churchill traveled to the country where this conflict occurred to ​ ​ ​ pressure the Soviets into honoring the Percentages Agreement. During this conflict, which pitted the EDES against the EAM-ELAS, the United States used Marshall Aid to fund one side in the first application of the Truman Doctrine. For 10 points, name this conflict, considered the first proxy war of the Cold War, that was fought in a Mediterrrean nation. ANSWER: Greek Civil War ​ <CK, European History> 5. After writing an essay opposing this activity, Benjamin Britten composed an orchestral song cycle based on ​ this activity set to text by Ravenscroft and Auden, which Vaughan Williams defended at its premiere in the 1936 Norfolk Music Festival. Percy Grainger’s “Blithe Bells” is a “ramble” on a movement from a vocal piece nicknamed for this activity. A chorus doing this activity in Act 3 sings “Was gleicht wohl auf Erden” (“voss GLY’sht vole owf AIR-din”) with [read slowly] a low A pickup, quarter-note D, then the 16th notes D E F-sharp G A in a (*) Weber opera. Due to the triadic B-flat major violin duet and 6/8 meter at its start, Mozart’s ​ String Quartet No. 17 was nicknamed for this activity. Bach’s secular cantata containing the aria “Sheep May Safely Graze” is nicknamed for this activity. Liszt’s Transcendental Étude No. 9 is titled for “wild” and this activity. For 10 points, name this activity often represented in music with drum beats and horn calls. ANSWER: hunting [accept Our Hunting Fathers or the Hunting Cantata or the Hunters’ Chorus or “Wild Hunt”; ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ accept Wilde Jagd or Jägerchor or Jagdquartett; or La chasse] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <JD, Classical Music> 6. One of these proteins encoded by CHRNA4 is mutated in some cases of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy. ​ LRP4 facilitates Dok7- and rapsyn-dependent clustering of these proteins by linking agrin to MuSK. These proteins are targeted by ipratropium, which eases symptoms of COPD. These non-enzymatic proteins are attacked in a disease frequently comorbid with thymomas and treated with inhibitors of a [emphasize] different protein such as pyridostigmine. (*) Scopolamine inhibits postganglionic parasympathetic transmission ​ ​ through their metabotropic subtype, which is responsive to muscarine. For 10 points, name these proteins whose nicotinic subtype is found on the postsynaptic side of the neuromuscular junction where it binds to a namesake neurotransmitter. ANSWER: acetylcholinergic receptors [or acetylcholine receptors; or muscarinic receptors or nicotinic ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ receptors; or nAChRs; or mAChRs; do not accept or prompt on “acetylcholine”] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ <VS/JS, Biology> 7. In this city, a 14-year-old dubbed “Chalk Girl” became a viral sensation after she was arrested for drawing ​ a flower in chalk. In a bizarre protest, a group of people gathered in front of this city’s space museum and trained laser pointers on its walls in an unsuccessful attempt to light it on fire. It’s not Prague, but in this city, individuals left over 10,000 post-it note messages on the “Lennon Wall.” Marco Rubio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez both co-signed a letter protesting (*) Blizzard Entertainment’s decision to ban a Hearthstone ​ ​ player born in this city. In 2019, protesters inspired by the Baltic Way formed a 50-kilometer-long human chain here. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted his support for protesters in this city who responded to the Fugitive Offenders amendment by storming its Legislative Council. For 10 points, name this city whose Umbrella Movement has protested encroachment on its sovereignty by China. ANSWER: Hong Kong [or Xianggang] ​ ​ ​ ​ <CK, Modern World> 8. This author asked “if you are kicked by a donkey, do you kick it back?” to explain why he didn’t respond ​ harshly to harsh criticism. A collection by this poet begins by describing a drawing in which “every figure… wears a plaintiff’s paper robe.” In response to critics like Muhammad Husain Azad, this poet declared, “If there’s no meaning in my verses, then so be it.” He’s not Saadi, but the biographer Hali wrote a yaadgar about this poet, who adopted a takhallus meaning “conqueror” or “victorious.” This poet was rivals with Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq at the court of (*) Bahadur Shah Zafar until the Indian Rebellion of 1857. This author wrote ​ that he “was not the only master of Rekhta” because in a “previous age,” there was Mir Taqi Mir. For 10 points, name this Urdu and Persian-language poet of many ghazals. ANSWER: Mirza Ghalib [or Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan] ​ ​ ​ ​ <JF, World/Other Literature> 9. After the French Revolution, exiles belonging to this order came to America under the leadership of ​ Augustin de Lestrange and occupied the present-day site of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. One member of this order left St. Bonaventure University to be ordained in Kentucky at this order’s Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, events described in his autobiography. This order split from the Cistercians under the leadership of Armand Jean de Rancé, who banned the (*) consumption of meat, fish, eggs, cheese, and ​ butter. An American from this order wrote The Seven-Story Mountain; that member of this order was Thomas ​ ​ Merton. This religious order operates the abbey of Westvleteren (“west-FLAY-ter-in”) in Belgium, one of several abbeys operated by this monastic order that contain working breweries. For 10 points, name this contemplative monastic order whose strict observance of the Rule of St. Benedict leads its monks to spend much of their time in silence. ANSWER: Trappists [accept Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance or OCSO until “strict observance” is ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ read] <NC, Religion: Christianity> 10.