Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 1st Section Toss-up Questions Question #1: Miscellaneous 10 points Tinkers used to carry around lightweight versions of anvils these objects that could be wedged into the ground. These objects typically have hardie holes that are square and pritchel holes near the corner that are small and round. The flat face on top of these objects typically has rounded edges. Farriers use versions of these objects with most of the mass in the horn. These objects must be both heavy and fastened to a sturdy base to be used properly. Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore [“eel trove”-ah-TOH-ray] has a chorus sung by gypsies that is named for these objects. Name this iron block on top of which metal is placed to be hammered. Question #2: Literature 10 points This writer’s poem about a game of euchre (Francis) Bret Harte [YOO-kur] that turns into a fight [pause] was used politically by people who opposed Chinese immigration into the United States. That poem, “Plain Language from Truthful James”, led to a collaboration between this writer and Mark Twain on the play Ah Sin. In a short story by this writer, Piney Woods and Tom Simson join up with four people. One of those four people is Uncle Billy, who takes all of the horses and mules in this writer’s story. Name this writer who wrote about an honorable gambler named John Oakhurst in his story about people kicked out of a town, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”. 1 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 1st Section Toss-up Questions Question #3: Mathematics 10 points The smallest one of these shapes to circumscribe a ellipse given triangle is named for Jakob Steiner and is centered at the triangle’s centroid. A two-variable quadratic expression generates this shape if the xy coefficient squared, minus 4 times the x-squared coefficient times the y-squared coefficient, gives a negative value. This shape is formed by all the points that are half as far from a fixed point as they are from a fixed line. It is also formed by all the points for which the sum of the distance to two fixed points is constant; those points are called foci [“FOE-sigh”]. Name this conic section that can be formed by stretching a circle. Question #4: Social Studies 10 points Shortly after this state increased vehicle license fees California in 2003 and had an electricity crisis that drove up rates in 2001, it had a recall election that ended the political career of Governor Gray Davis. A person nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam” served two terms as this state’s governor twice, from 1975 to 1983 and from 2011 to 2019. Before becoming Chief Justice, Earl Warren was this state’s governor, and Ronald Reagan was this state’s governor before becoming president. In this state, Gray Davis was replaced as governor by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Name this state whose immediate past governor was Jerry Brown and whose current governor is Gavin Newsom. 2 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 1st Section Toss-up Questions Question #5: Science 10 points This person and Hendrik Lorentz are the (John William Strutt, 3rd namesakes of a pendulum that is shortened as it Baron) Lord Rayleigh swings. This person and James Jeans proposed a [accept either underlined model of radiation that predicted the emission of name] too much energy, which was called the ultraviolet catastrophe. Another phenomenon named for this person occurs when the ratio 2 pi r over lambda is very small, where r represents the size of particles. The extent of that phenomenon is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength, and it is used to explain the color of the sky. Name this British scientist who, like C. V. Raman [RAH-mun], is the namesake of a kind of scattering. Question #6: Literature 10 points This adjective is used to describe the reporting of direct [accept direct speech when the reporting has the exact words that speech or direct were spoken. This adjective is also used to describe question or direct most questions that end with a question mark, object] though it generally does not apply to questions that begin with the words “could you tell me” or “would it be possible”. The accusative case in many languages is used for “objects” that are described by this adjective when analyzing English sentences. Give this adjective that can mean the “object” that is acted upon by the verb in a sentence. 3 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 2nd Section Teamwork Questions Question #7: Social Studies 10 points per part This country unified with England when its King James VI became James I of England. 1 Name this part of the United Kingdom whose Scotland [accept Alba] rulers have included Macbeth and Robert the Bruce. 2 This person was the Guardian of Scotland until William Wallace he was defeated at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 while fighting for Scottish independence. He was later hanged, drawn, and quartered. 3 Four months before his victory at the Battle of Lanarkshire Stirling Bridge, Wallace killed William Heselrig, who was the sheriff of this town. Question #8: Social Studies 10 points per part The name of this party means “China’s National People’s Party”, and they are sometimes called Nationalists. 1 Name this political party that was headed by Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek and which ruled China before [kwoh-min-tahng] it ruled Taiwan. 2 The Kuomintang was founded by this doctor Sun Yat-sen [prompt on who was briefly the Provisional President of the Yat-sen] Republic of China during 1912. 3 Sun Yat-sen gained power when this emperor, Puyi [or the Xuantong who was six years old at the time, abdicated Emperor] the throne. 4 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 2nd Section Teamwork Questions Question #9: Fine Arts 10 points per part One example of this type of music is George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. 1 Name this type of piece that is similar to an oratorio(s) opera, but does not have staging. 2 This composer’s La damnation de Faust was (Louis)-Hector Berlioz written as a dramatic legend. It has been [“BARELY”-ohzz] performed as an opera, an oratorio, and something in between. 3 This 20th-century English composer wrote the Michael Tippett oratorio A Child of Our Time. Question #10: Fine Arts 10 points per part This composer’s Octet in E-flat major for Strings, which he wrote at age 16, is still performed. 1 Name this German composer whose tour of (Jakob Felix) Europe resulted in his 3rd Symphony being Mendelssohn(-Bartholdy) nicknamed Scottish and his 4th Symphony being nicknamed Italian. 2 Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” comes from A Midsummer Night’s incidental music he wrote for this play. Dream 3 Give the first name of Felix Mendelssohn’s older Fanny Mendelssohn sister, who composed Das Jahr [dahss yar] and Hensel sometimes published works under his name. 5 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 2nd Section Teamwork Questions Question #11: Science 10 points per part This category includes conifers and the ginkgo [GEENK-oh] plant. 1 Identify this category of plant whose name gymnosperms means “naked seeds”. [“GYM-no-sperms”] [or Acrogymnospermae] 2 These plants are the closest living relatives of ferns [or gymnosperms and angiosperms that do not fit Polypodiopsida] into either category. They reproduce by spores, and their leaves are called fronds. 3 Ferns and early gymnosperms developed during Devonian Period this geologic period, about 400 million years ago. It is sometimes called the Age of Fishes. Question #12: Science 10 points per part All cells have these structures; some also have a cell wall. 1 Name this structure that separates the cell cell membrane [or plasma interior from the world outside the cell. membrane or cytoplasmic membrane] 2 Much of the cell membrane comprises this phospholipid bilayer “bilayer”. 3 This term refers to proteins that are embedded integral membrane in the phospholipid bilayer. proteins [or IMPs or intrinsic proteins] 6 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 2nd Section Teamwork Questions Question #13: Literature 10 points per part The title character of this novel has two amulets, one of which has his father’s ne varietur [neh var-ee-eh-tur], and the other of which is from Babu [BA-boo]. 1 Name this novel in which the title character Kim helps a Tibetan lama find the River of the Arrow. 2 This author wrote Kim, The Jungle Book, and (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling “The White Man’s Burden”. 3 In this Rudyard Kipling poem, the narrator “Mandalay” talks about being on the road to the title location, where the flying-fishes play. Question #14: Literature 10 points per part The protagonist of this novel ends up in a small village in South America, where he is asked to read Charles Dickens novels to the leader. 1 Name this novel about Tony Last, whose wife A Handful of Dust Brenda has an affair. 2 This author of Brideshead Revisited wrote A (Arthur) Evelyn (St. John) Handful of Dust. Waugh [EEV-uh-lin waw] 3 In A Handful of Dust, Tony Last grew up while Morgan Le Fay [or staying at Hetton Abbey in a bedroom named Morganna or Morgain; for this supposed enchantress who lived on prompt on Le Fay] Avalon. 7 Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl Round 2 2020 State Tournament 3rd Section Toss-up Questions Question #15: Science 10 points These chemicals are transported between cells by auxins [prompt on plant PIN proteins.