Sun 'n Fun IX: The Medusa Laughs Again, Or Avoiding the Curse of the Ninth…we hope Packets by Ahmad Ragab et. al Round 9 Tossups: 1. [AR]This organization grants an award every third year to a significant work of American Revolutionary era history called the Cox Prize. This organization's headquarters since 1939, located at the heart of Dupont Circle, is called the Anderson House. This society's founding document adopted on May 13, 1783, is known as the Institution and its creation was presided over by Baron von Steuben. Members have included Admiral de Grasse, Thaddeus Koisciuszko and its second president was Alexander Hamilton. For 10 points, name this oldest military hereditary order in the US, whose first president George Washington was likened to the eponymous fifth century B.C. Roman farmer who was twice called to lead an army into battle. ANSWER: Society of the Cincinnati [accept Order of the Cincinnati] 2.[AR]One person with this surname was the editor of the New Yorker in 1933, and wrote historical fiction such as The Private Life of George Washington and A Flash of Gold. Another man with this surname wrote a novel about the titular doctor's method of removing painful memories in the minds of his patients, Dr. Heidenhoff's Process and a story about people who were quite thirsty, "The Parable of the Water-Tank." The larger work in which that short story appeared, Equality, was a sequel to a more famous work published in 1888. His cousin, a Baptist minister also gained fame as an author when a short work of his appeared in Youth's Companion and was accompanied by a namesake salute. For 10 points, give this surname shared by Edward and Francis, the latter author of the "Pledge of Allegiance" and the former the author of Looking Backward. ANSWER: Bellamy 3. [AR]Beginning from the Hamiltonian form of a particular eigenfunction of its related equation, the application of the adiabatic principle is a crucial step in its derivation as it leaves a residual electron-phonon interaction. It is an essential assumption of a rule that explains the intensity of vibronic transitions, the Frank-Condon principle. It assumes that nuclear motion is negligible as compared with electron motion and thus separates the wavefunction of the molecule into that of the nuclei and electrons. For 10 points, name this doubly-eponymous approximation useful in solving the time-independent Schrodinger Equation. ANSWER: Born-Oppenheimer Approximation 4. [AR]He began his career as a race car driver earning SI's driver of the year award in 1956 and 1957. Failing health forced him to give up racing in 1960 and he turned his attention to car design. When Lee Iacocca called him up he referred to the car for which he is best known for as a, "secretary's car." A recent book recounted the war both on and off the track he had with Enzo Ferrari and in honor of the 40th anniversary of one his best known vehicles, a new 540hp supercharged 5.4 liter V8 is being released in the spring of this year, the so-called "King of the Road." That car the GT500KR along with the 289 and 427 have cemented his place as one of the premier Ford tuners. For 10 points, name this automotive legend, designer of his namesake Cobra. ANSWER: Carol Shelby 5. [AR] In an open universe, the Dyson scenario will describe how one version of this is reached and in a closed universe, the Tipler scenario will. This will occur close to the set of points, which are neither the pasts, or the future of any other point in spacetime known as the c-boundary. The other primary condition known as the Aleph state occurs when an infinite amount of information is stored and processed. The classical formulation of this physic- theologic concept was introduced in a chapter called "Beyond the Collective: the Hyper-Personal" its developer suggests in The Phenomenon of Man, that it would futile to look for the impersonal in the noosphere and instead we must look to this as "The Future." For 10 points, name this term coined by the French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin to describe the maximum level of complexity consciousness could reach in the universe. ANSWER: Omega Point 6. [RF]It begins by suggesting, "there was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution." Edgar Allen Poe's review of this collection in the Broadway Journal felt its reliance on the allegory and didatic was heresy. This collection includes the stories of a gathering of forest creatures to celebrate the marriage of Edgar and Edith which is brutally interrupted by John Endicott and his Puritan followers and a physician who brings together four friends to sample his discovery of the Fountain of Youth. In addition to "The Maypole at Merry Mount" and "Dr. Heidigger's Experiment", it also tells the story of Reverend Hooper's inexplicable attraction to a certain garment, "The Minister's Black Veil". For 10 points, name this 1837 collection, so named because its stories had been previously published in magazines, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ANSWER: Twice Told Tales 7. [AR]The primary residence of these people is a longhouse known as the Tapui, which operated as self-subsistent economic and social units. Terminological confusion exists among the naming of this group as the term Cayua is often used interchangeably though it specifically refers to non-missionized natives as it means in the eponymous language, "men of the forest." This group is also compounded with the Tupi an indigenous people found just to the north of the Rio de la Plata. The language of this native population is from the Amerind family and is still spoken by over 4 million in South America, and such loanwords as cougar, toucan, and jaguar can be traced to it. For 10 points, name these indigenous peoples of Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. ANSWER: Guarani 8. [AR] Early in his career he worked in the office of Eero Saarinen and was heavily influenced by Alvar Alto. In one writing he asks, "Is not Main Street almost all right," arguing for the messy vitality of the built environment in his book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. He designed a number of buildings on his Alma Mater's campus including Gordon Wu Hall, and the Lewis Thomas Laboratory located at Princeton University. Also discussing symbolic forms in his study of the Vegas strip, Learning from Las Vegas, this architect's other major works include the expansion of the Seattle Art Museum in 1991 and the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London. Winner of the 1991 Pritzker Prize, for 10 points, name this American Born architect famous for his satirical riposte of Mies van der Rohe, when he stated, "Less is a bore." ANSWER: Robert Venturi 9. [AR]Jonsson and Mullenhoff suggest that it is purely the product of heathendom though lines such as "fields unsowed bear ripened fruit," suggest Christian influences. The title character is likely raised from the grave by the one who wishes for her sagacious advice. It mentions Ithavoll twice, or the Field of Deeds where the gods met to number the years and to name things and near the end to discuss the aftermath of Ragnarok. In the original source, it is followed by the "Homavol" but the order of the stanzas in this poem differs significantly in the Hauksbok than it does in the Codex Regius. For 10 points, name this first poem of the "Elder Edda" in which Odin requests the wisdom of the prophetess or volva. ANSWER: Voluspa [or Voluspo] 10. [AR + DH]Studying at Julliard under John Corigliano, he is a co-founder with three other composers of BCM International, a consortium to produce concert works. Utilizing his own namesake types of chords, notably sevenths and ninths that tend to suspend the second or fourth of the chords present in such choral works as "Cloud Burst" and "Paradise Lost." One work for brass ensemble, a work which is transposed a semitone lower for the choral transcription, "Lux Aurumque," and one of his most often performed pieces contains three sections including, "The Ride," "At the Station," and "The Motive Revolution." For 10 points, name this prolific, concert band and choral composer of such works as Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, and The Ghost Train Triptych. ANSWER: Eric Whitacre 11. [AR]Prior to the first battle of this name, an uprising was started by the Cenomani, the Insubres and the Boii in which they burned Placentia and headed to this site against the forces of L. Furius Purpeo. In the build-up to a series of battles fought here 269 years later, Tacitus describes the Othonian invasion of Northern Italy as a foreign one. Another conflict of this name featured the Irish Brigade under Dillon and Burke, known as the "Wild Geese" whose defense of the Po Gate saved the forces of Villeroi. The two battles fought here during the War of the Four Emperors were also known as the Battles of Bedriacum. For 10 points, name this site of an indecisive 1702 battle between the French and Eugene of Savoy during the War of Spanish Sucession. ANSWER: Battle of Cremona [accept Bedriacum before "Irish" is said] 12. [AR]On either side of two skeletons, there are hands painted seeming to embrace this work. There are two breast-like objects, one of which seems to be a representation of a cell in metaphase while the other is an egg being fertilized.