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					ACF Nationals 2009: Round Two (2)
Tossups by Brandeis

1. This work contains a discussion of recognizing oneself in a mirror and recognizing the self in
“the mirror of possibility.” It claims that while the loss “of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife” will
be noticed by a religious fanatic, he will not notice that he has lost the self. According to this
work, even “feminine youthfulness” is informed by the the titular phenomenon, which it explains
can be caused by blind ambition or what its author terms the need to be "Caesar or nothing."
Scattered throughout are references to plays like Macbeth and Richard II, and it explains the
“defiance” and “weak” types of a certain phenomenon. This work ultimately asserts that true
Christians are the only ones who can escape the title condition. For 10 points, name this work
published under the pseudonym “Anti-Climacus” whose title malady is described as “despair,” a
book by Soren Kierkegaard.
ANSWER: The Sickness Unto Death [or Sygdommen til Doden]

2. Its first component was the Declaration of Principles, which promised, among other things, the
formation of a Committee for Economic Cooperation that was to include the Electricity
Developent Program. The APF formed as a coalition of those opposed to this treaty, and a key
mediator in the negotiation of this treaty was the man who was later criticized for declaring the
West "stingy" in response to the 2004 tsunami, Jan Egeland. Almost immediately after the
signing of these documents, the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre soured relations between the
parties. Including a change to the charter of one party to remove clauses about the “destruction”
of the other, the completion of its first phase was signified by a celebrated handshake on the
White House lawn. For 10 points, name this 1993 series of agreements between Yitzhak Rabin
and Yassir Arafat on Palestinian autonomy.
ANSWER: Oslo Accords

3. The conservation law for this quantity depends on whether the context is special or general
relativity, as in the former situation the divergence is 0, and by Noether’s theorem, the translation
symmetries imply this conserved current. While it is generally symmetric, this is not true if the
spin tensor is nonzero. In general relativity, where the conservation law is more complicated,
there is a relation between it and another quantity which is a nonlinear function of the metric and
which satisfies the Bianchi identity. It has an electromagnetic portion which can be expressed as a
function of the electromagnetic field tensor. It is a relativistic generalization of a quantity from
mechanics that is graphically represented as Mohr’s circle, expresses the internal force per area of
surface on which the force acts, and whose eigenvalues are called principle stresses. For 10
points, name this quantity which appears in the Einstein field equations as proportional to the
Einstein tensor, is defined as the flux of generalized momenta through spacetime, and which
causes and determines the way spacetime curves.
ANSWER: stress-energy tensor

4. He wrote that “the turnstile at Greenwich / chimed with laughter / my subway token” in one
poem and describes the title substance “on the courthouse lawn” while he smokes it in “Grass.” In
one collection by this poet, he contrasts one poem in which “a departing occupier” leaves a “heart
green acre” with another that begins “Seen from above, the sky / is deep.” Those works, “A
Downward Look” and “An Upward Look,” appear in his collection A Scattering of Salts. A child
waits for the delivery of a jigsaw puzzle in this man’s semi-autobiographical Lost in Translation.
Psyche screams, “Look alive! Much to do!” in his most famous work, an epic poem that uses
W.H. Auden as a spirit guide and has sections like “Scripts for the Pageant” and “The Book of
Ephraim.” For 10 points, name this American poet of The Changing Light at Sandover.
ANSWER: James Ingram Merrill
5. A solar panel array operated by Accionia in this province produces nine and a half megawatts
of power and sells each panel to an individual investor for sixty-four thousand dollars, and it is
the world's largest solar generator. Provinces which border this one include a southwestern
neighbor with capital at Logroño, La Rioja. Its northwest border is with the province that contains
San Sebastian and Bilbao, Pais Vasco. Its longest border, on both the east and south, is with a
large province home to Zaragoza, Aragon. Yamaguchi Park and the headquarters of the
governing body for pelota are located in the capital of this province, which also hosts the festival
of San Fermín each July. That capital was recently flooded by the Arga, a tributary of the Ebro.
While locals refer to this state as Foru Erkidegoa, it is known by another name in Spanish, and it
is home to the home of bull-running, Pamplona. For 10 points, identify this heavily Basque
province of northern Spain, whose north borders the Pyrenees and France, and which was once an
independent kingdom under such rulers as Sancho and the future French king Henry IV.
ANSWER: Navarre

6. Notably, one of these entities is absent in the Leishmania mexicana GPI8 protein, and
abnormally low numbers of pericytes occur if one is missing from PDGFβ. Binding of 14-3-3
proteins to GABAB [“Gabba-sub-bee”] receptors does not occur when two arginines are mutated
to alanine in one of these entities, which also binds to the COPI complex. They are usually C-
terminal signals, and a common mammalian one consists of the amino acids lysine, aspartate,
gluatamate, and leucine, or KDEL. hnRNP C proteins contain one of them that allows them to
override nuclear export signals. For 10 points, name these signals important in directing proteins
to the correct membranes, most often used to prevent a protein's export from the endoplasmic
ANSWER: retention sequence [or retention motif; or retrieval sequence; or retrieval motif]

7. During this event it is customary to cut the hair of three-year-old children, and many adults cut
their hair because they are allowed to on this day. It is said in the Zohar that on this day "the
house was filled with fire and intense light to the point that the assembled could not see."
Although this day refers to the anniversary of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's death, it is customary to
light ceremonial bonfires and run around them to mark the day of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s
joy. Occuring on the on the thirty-third day between Passover and Shavout, for 10 points, name
this Jewish festival that commemorates end of the plague on Rabbi Akiva’s disciples, often
celebrated with barbecues and picnics.
ANSWER: Lag B'Omer [accept thirty third day of Omer before thirty-third day is mentioned]

8. On the day Nazi troops moved into this country, an afternoon newspaper printed all of its
articles double-spaced in order to alert citizens to “read between the lines.” Teenagers in this
country formed their own partisan movement called the Churchill Gang, while other efforts were
coordinated by the Freedom Council. The vast majority of Jews in this country were saved from
an impending Nazi action by ambulance drivers who looked for Jewish names in phone books
and used their vehicles to hide whomever they found. The Lutheran Church recognizes Kaj
Munk, a pastor in this country who was killed after delivering an anti-Nazi sermon, as a martyr,
and its other World War II figures included the collaborationist prime minister Erik
Scavenius.After a German officer threatened to shoot anyone removing the swastika flag from
this country’s government headquarters, the king of this country volunteered to climb the flagpole
himself. For 10 points, name this country where a false urban legend states that king, Christian X,
wore a yellow star himself.
ANSWER: Denmark
9. The introduction to this man's collected poems praises him for expressing hatred while being
"clean" and "neither mean nor spiteful." That introduction laments "no white man can do more
than express his humiliated sympathy" and was written by the philosopher John Dewey. This poet
of “George William Gordon to the Oppressed Natives” wrote a sonnet on race riots which
proclaims "like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack" and says that the title action will
not be performed "like hogs," entitled "If We Must Die." Ray and Latnah are among the ocean-
loving denizens of The Ditch who welcome Lincoln Agrippa Daily to Marseilles in one novel by
this author. In another of his novels, the prostitute Felice refuses payment and Congo Rose enjoys
being slapped, leading Jake Brown to choose life with the former. This author of Banjo also wrote
about the goat rapist Harold Newton Day and the Christian convert Hopping Dick Delgado, both
of whom are passed over in favor of the laborer Juban by Tabitha Plant. For 10 points, name this
author of Home to Harlem and Banana Bottom, a Jamaica-born Harlem Renaissance author.
ANSWER: Claude McKay

10. This psychologist argued that dividing all women into categories of ones who can satisfy
loneliness and ones who can satisfy sexual desire results from collisions between men's need for
intimacy and their lust. His student Helen Swick Perry described his phobia of the color blue and
his mysterious two-year disappearance from college in her biography of this psychologist,
Psychiatrist of America. This psychologist defined a person's ability to minimize anxiety and
maximize self-esteem as the "self-system." He distinguished prototaxic, parataxic, and syntaxic
modes of experience in his 1953 book The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. For 10 points,
name this American psychoanalyst who collected his studies of schizophrenic patients in
Schizophrenia and the Human Process.
ANSWER: Harry Stack Sullivan

11. The second person of this name admitted missionaries to his kingdom but purportedly
refused to convert because he enjoyed polygamy and rum too much. A wife of one person of this
name worked for women's rights by persuading him to eat publicly in mixed company and served
as prime minister to another person of this name. The third person of this name was inspired by
William Richards to issue the Edict of Toleration and Declaration of Rights, which introduced a
legislature and supreme court to his country. This name, meaning "The Very Lonely One," was
first held by the man who ended human sacrifice, issued the "law of the splintered paddle" against
plunder, and won the Battle of the Leaping Mullet to complete his defeat of Kiwalao. For 10
points, give this common name of four rulers, the first of whom conquered Oahu and Maui to
unite Hawaii.
ANSWER: Kamehameha

12. Reclining figures in this work are modeled after allegorical nude figures in the Medici
Chapel. A study on Michelangelo's statue of Samson and the Philistines provided the basis for a
red-clad soldier with his back to the viewer, and a woman in orange holding a baby on the far left
of this work may be based on drawings of Sistine Chapel sybils. In the right background of this
painting, two figures stand in the doorway of a temple decorated with caryatids and two reclining
female figures, and two dark-skinned men lean over a balcony in the left background. A man in
blue on his knees holds a stake over the central figure, and a man in a turban holds up a broken
chisel and turns to the right of this painting. Broken ropes, stakes, and axes lie around a prostrate
and naked title figure, while a notably foreshortened orange-cloaked figure clasps a book while
hovering above. For 10 points, identify this painting of the titular saint intervening in an
execution, a work by Tintoretto.
ANSWER: Miracle of St. Mark Freeing the Slave [accept Miracle of the Slave]

13. This agreement set up a committee to resolve a lingering boundary question that had earlier
led Lyman Cutlar to destroy some property of Charles Griffin in the Pig War. That question, the
San Juan Boundary Dispute, was referred by this treaty to arbitration by Kaiser Wilhelm II. One
portion of this treaty addressed fishing north of the thirty-ninth parallel, while another part
resulted in a payment of fifteen million dollars. Negotiated for the U.S. by Secretary of State
Hamilton Fish, this agreement also created a court in Geneva to review the activities of Raphael
Semmes, in which the U.S. charged Britain with aiding the Confederate cause. For 10 points,
name this 1871 treaty which addressed the Alabama Claims.
ANSWER: Treaty of Washington

14. Fleischner's theorem states that the square of a two-connected graph has one of these, and
Chvatal conjectured in 1973 that every t-tough graph has one of these for some integer t. Every
graph with more than three vertices and a degree greater than half the number of vertices has one
of these, a result known as Dirac's theorem. The task of finding these is incomplete for both
directed and undirected graphs, and finding one of these for a graph with the minimum edge cost
is the Traveling Salesman Problem. For 10 points, name this tour through a graph which starts
and ends at the same vertex and contains every other vertex exactly once.
ANSWER: Hamiltonian cycle [prompt on Hamiltonian; do not accept "Hamiltonian path"]

15. One character in this story describes "placid corpses" floating in the Benares "bloated up like
sunfish." That character later taunts another for fearing his entire body will become a "vagina in
heat," and that character treasures a Georges Batailles photograph of a man being drawn and
quartered. The phrase "a certain party" is used to refer to a man after his son is shot for desertion,
about two years before a failed August 16th rebellion during which the fighters sing the titular
Bach cantata. This work opens with its narrator throwing a pair of nostril hair clippers at a
dwarfen lunatic who has crept into the hospital room where he lies dying of imaginary liver
cancer. Mocking the right-wing politics of Yukio Mishima, this story is one of four in a collection
that also includes Prize Stock, Aghwee the Sky Monster, and the tale that nicknames the narrator's
brain-damaged son Eeyore, "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness." For 10 points, an enormous
golden chrysanthemum in a purple aurora irradiates the world at the end of what novella by
Kenzaburo Oe?
ANSWER: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away [or Waga Namida O Nuguitamu

16. Sometimes said to live in fig leaves and banana plants, one of their kind kept two lambs as
pets. When the lambs were stolen, that particular figure fled and took the form of a swan. Another
tale describes how after eating a cake that fell out of a crow’s mouth, another of these figures
gave birth to Hanuman. Yet another of these figures was sent to distract Viswamitra and
eventually gave birth to the “daughter of the furrow,” Shakuntala. Although Anjana and Menaka
are not mentioned in the Rig Veda, that text does describe the romance of King Pururavas and the
most beautiful of them, Urvasi.Often paired with the Ghandarvas, who would provide music for
them to dance to, they were known as the “Daughters of Joy.”For 10 points, identify these
nymphs of Hindu mythology who were said to reside in Indra’s heaven.
ANSWER: Apsara(s)

17. This man opposed the economics-first program advocated by an earlier leader who wrote
Stadium and Light. This man's followers secured the passage of certain acts that ended the noble
exemption from taxation and the practice of extracting "robot" labor that are known variously as
the March Laws or April Laws. A bust of this person can be found in United States Capitol with
the subtitle "Freedom Fighter," and he claimed to have learned English by studying Shakespeare
in jail. This editor of the Pesti Hirlap proclaimed independence in Debrecen, but Viscount
Canning had to negotiate this man's exile at Shumen in Ottoman-controlled Bulgaria following
the defeat of the Revolutions of 1848. For 10 points, name this man who sought autonomy from
the Hapsburgs, the national hero of Hungary.
ANSWER: Lajos Kossuth

18. Brass and winds are played in short bursts of eighth notes over flashes of string to mimic
laughter during its “Grotesque Dance of Dorcon.” In addition to featuring fifteen distinct
percussion instruments, a wordless chorus can be heard throughout this work. The second section
begins with the exhausting “warrior’s dance” and ends with a divinely aided rescue from a pirate
camp. A series of parallel fourths in the horns and a triplet pattern in the solo flute represent three
statues coming to life in a sacred grotto during its opening. Its epilogue, featuring a group of
women playing tambourines in a manic 5/4 rhythm and dressed as bacchantes, is preceded by the
reunited title characters dancing a duet in honor of Syrinx and Pan. Commissioned by Diaghilev,
its composer would later adapt this work as his Suites No. 1 and No. 2 for orchestra. For 10
points, identify this 1912 ballet based on a drama by Longus, a work by Maurice Ravel.
ANSWER: Daphnis et Chloe or Daphnis and Chloe

19. In this author's only play, two aliens arrive on Earth and give humanity three days to raise the
global happiness quotient, threatening to exterminate the human race if their demands are not
met, but are soon revealed to be powerless and simply thrown in jail. In addition to writing that
play, Twilight Bar, this author coined the term "cocacolonization" in his final novel The Call
Girls and wrote a critical appraisal of Eastern religions in The Lotus and the Robot. He contrasted
two types of political problem-solving approaches, those who change themselves and those who
change the environment, in The Yogi and the Commisar, and he speculated that the emotional and
rational portions of the brain do not cooperate in his treatise The Ghost in the Machine. In a novel
by this author, Number 402 converses with the protagonist through tapping on the wall. In that
work, Rubashov is executed for offenses he did not commit in order to prove his loyalty to the
Communist cause. For 10 points, identify this Hungarian-born author of Darkness at Noon.
ANSWER: Arthur Koestler

20. A Raney nickel-catalyzed desulfurization is the last step in the Gassman method for
synthesizing these compounds, and they can also be synthesized by an intramolecular Wittig
reaction in a variant of the Madelung synthesis. The presence of the simplest of these compounds
can be detected by the Kovacs reagent, and another of them was formed via the first reported
intramolecular Heck reaction. They are synthesized from ketones in a [3,3]-sigmatropic
rearrangement named after Fischer. For 10 points, name these heterocyclic aromatic molecules
that contain a benzene ring fused to a pyrrole, whose namesake functional group is found on the
side chain of tryptophan.
ANSWER: indoles [or equivalents like indole derivatives]


21. The title character of one of this man's operas sings the "Shadow Song" while chasing her pet
goat, and he wrote an aria for soprano in which the insane Catherine is accompanied by Peter the
Great on flute, "La, la, la, air chéri." This composer of Dinorah saw his early opera Jephtha flop,
and Gaetano Rossi wrote the libretto to one of his works in which Armando rescues the sultan
from Osmino and which includes a castrato role, Il crociato in Egitto. This composer of Margaret
of Anjou also collaborated with Rossi on an opera in which the title characters both love
Teobaldo, Romilda and Costanza. In one of this man's operas, an explosion kills the titular
character, John de Leyden, and he wrote another in which Bertram offers the title character a
magic bough and takes him to frolic with dead nuns, Robert le Diable. For 10 points, identify this
composer of Les Huguenots and L'Africaine.
ANSWER: Giacomo Meyerbeer

22. This man may have used medical case studies by Antonio Benivieni as a source for a scene in
one of his plays in which a character shot in the chest by an arrow promptly begins to prophesy.
In one long poem by this author, the narrator states that he “consecrated [his] life” to the Palace
of Ruth, and he calls religion both “a monster like” and “the only grace of dames and men” in his
Eugenia. A soothsayer describes sacrificing a “milk-white ox” in this man’s Caesar and Pompey,
and in another of his plays, a man disguised as a soldier claims that he killed Cynthia’s husband.
The title character’s lover kills Pyrrhot and l’Anou in one of his two plays involving Bussy
d’Ambois. For 10 points, name this British co-author of Eastward Ho! who inspired a man to feel
"like some watcher of the skies" with his translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, as
memorialized by John Keats.
ANSWER: George Chapman

23. In addition to Aicardi-Goutières syndrome, a mutation in the TREX1 gene is associated with
this disease. A drug-induced type of it can occur after long-term use of isoniazid or quinidine. A
number of genes on chromosome 1 have been linked to it, including those for Fcγ receptors and
interleukin 10. High levels of antiphospholipid antibodies found in sufferers of this disease may
accelerate atherosclerosis, and this disease may also cause Libman-Sacks endocarditis. Sufferers
of this disease, prevalent in nine times as many women as men, demonstrate high levels of
circulating apoptotic cells, and its most recognizable symptom is a photosensitive butterfly-
shaped rash. For 10 points, name this “great imitator,” a chronic autoimmune disease in which
that facial rash resembles the fur on the face of a wolf.
ANSWER: systemic lupus erythematosus [or SLE]
ACF Nationals 2009: Round Two (2)
Bonuses by Brandeis

1. For 10 points each, answer the following about making ATP.
[10] Oxidative phosphorylation, which makes ATP, uses the energy and proton gradient gained
from this process in which the namesake particles are shuttled along four complexes and
cytochrome C.
ANSWER: electron transport chain [or electron transfer chain]
[10] This 1978 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry developed the chemiosmotic hypothesis, which
explains how the proton gradient drives oxidative phosphorylation by ATP synthase.
ANSWER: Peter (Dennis) Mitchell
[10] This only non-protein of the electron transport chain receives electrons from both NADH
and FADH2, and passes them on to cytochrome C via cytochrome C reductase.
ANSWER: Coenzyme Q [orUbiquinone]

2. In the most recently aired episode of this show, the protagonist shows off his black credit card
and the song "Sky Pilot" is featured. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this show about Kenny Powers, a washout Major League Baseball player who gets a
second chance.
ANSWER: Eastbound & Down
[10] Married to Jeremy Piven's sister since 1996, this former Saturday Night Live head writer is
the co-creator of Eastbound & Down. He has directed such films as Stepbrothers and Anchorman.
ANSWER: Adam McKay
[10] The role of Ashley Schaffer in Eastbound & Down is played by this frequent McKay
collaborator, the star of Talladega Nights, who also portrayed Robert Goulet on SNL.
ANSWER:Will Ferrell

3. Name some things from British religious history for 10 points each.
[10] This 1673 act prevented Roman Catholics from holding public office and was extended to
the peerage by a 1678 act.
ANSWER: Test Act
[10] This specific act of 1665 prohibited nonconformist pastors from living within the namesake
distance of their former parishes.
ANSWER: Five Mile Act
[10] This Five Mile Act was part of this series of laws, also including the Corporation,
Uniformity and Conventicle Acts, which were passed by Charles II directly targeted Puritans but
was deprecated by the Test Act. Provisions included the required use of the Book of Common
Prayer and a prohibition of ministers from returning to their former churches.
ANSWER:Clarendon Code

4. Gustav's daughter Sophie may be married to the protagonist in this work, which takes place
over three days and in multiple alternate worlds. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this novel about an amnesiac pianist due to perform a concert in an unidentified city
in central Europe.
ANSWER: The Unconsoled
[10] This is the protagonist of The Unconsoled. He is, according to the civilians of the unnamed
city, "the world's finest living pianist."
[10] This author of An Artist of the Floating World and Never Let Me Go penned The
ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro

5. They were guarded by the Norns and kept in a box known as an "eski." For ten points each:
[10] Identify these mythological objects associated with Idun.
ANSWER: golden apples or apples of youth
[10] In one myth, this storm giant took the form of an eagle and carried off Idun and her golden
apples. That action by this giant caused the gods of Asgard to age quickly.
ANSWER: Thiazi or Thiasi
[10] Because of Thiazi's capture of Idun, the gods were forced to send Loki to this abode. Known
as "the house of uproar," Thiazi lived there with his daughter Skadi.
ANSWER: Thrymheim

6. For 10 points each, name these Italian composers.
[10] This composer of La Clementina and some notable string quartets also wrote a cello concerto
in B flat major that was extensively altered by Friedrich Grützmacher.
ANSWER: Luigi Boccherini
[10] Best known for an 1890 opera that features such characters as Santuzza, Lola, and Turiddu,
this man also composed such works as Guglielmo Ratcliff and L'Amico Fritz.
ANSWER: Pietro Mascagni
[10] Thanks to his prolific use of the technique in his many harpsichord sonatas, a certain type of
arpeggiated chord accompaniment is known as this man's "bass." This student of Antonio Lotti
also composed operas for voice and harpsichord.
ANSWER: Domenico Alberti

7. The title character is taken prisoner by his own troops after dressing in a Russian
infantryman's uniform. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel in which the titular man is sent to the front for stealing a dog, sent to an
asylum for speaking against the state in front of the secret police, and sent to the army recruitment
office in a wheelchair.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier Švejk
[10] This author of The Good Soldier Švejk might have been gay, according to Wikipedia. More
importantly, he also wrote The Red Commissar.
ANSWER: Jaroslav Hašek
[10] This other Czech author of Too Loud a Solitude wrote about Milos Hrma, a railroad worker
during the Nazi occupation, who asserts his manhood against a trainful of Nazis in Closely
Watched Trains.
ANSWER: Bohumil Hrabal

8. For 10 points each, answer the following about solving polynomial equations.
[10] This value for a quadratic equation, equal to b2 – 4ac, indicates whether the equation has one
real solution, two real solutions, or two complex solutions.
ANSWER: discriminant
[10] This man divulged Tartaglia’s secret for solving depressed cubic equations. He and his
student Ludovico Ferrari, after whom the solution to the quartic is named, came up with the first
method for solving a general cubic.
ANSWER: Girolamo Cardano
[10] This theorem states that for the two roots of a quadratic equation x1 and x2, their sum equals
negative b over a and their product equals c over a. Its French namesake also used 393,216-sided
polygons to calculate pi to nine decimal places.
ANSWER: Viete’s theorem [or Vieta’s theorem]
9. The “Seventeen Article” one of 604 was based on Confucian principles. For 10 points each:
[10].What is this sort of document, another example of which was issued in 1889, and a third of
which was rewritten under the supervision of Douglas MacArthur?
ANSWER: Japanese constitutions [prompt on constitutions]
[10] In addition to the writing of the Seventeen Article Constitution, medieval Japan also saw this
civil and political disturbance following the death of Emperor Tenji. It occurred due to Oama's
attempt to unseat Otama from the throne.
ANSWER:Jinshin War [or Jinshin Disturbance]
[10] This series of reforms established by Emperor Kotoku included land reforms as well as
increased centralization of the Imperial Court.
ANSWER: Taika reforms [or Taika period; or Yamato era; or Asuka era]

10. A cupid holds on to one of the two horses on the side, but it is the struggle of the two blonde
nudes that fills the majority of the canvas. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this 1618 work representing the abduction and ravishment of Phoebe and Hilaeira,
two princesses of Argos.
ANSWER: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
[10] This artist of various self-portraits with his wife, Isabella Brant, and a monumental Descent
from the Cross for the Antwerp Cathedral, painted The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.
ANSWER: Peter Paul Rubens
[10] In this work, which features a crocodile and a tiger on the bottom, Rubens presents an
allegorical depiction of geography by having a certain number of female figures standing in for
the titular land masses.
ANSWER: The Four Continents

11. For 10 points each, identify the following related to metal oxides.
[10] A pentoxide of this transition metal is the most commonly used catalyst in the contact
process. Its trioxide acts as a catalyst in the conversion of ethylene to ethanol.
ANSWER: vanadium [or V]
[10] Diagonal lines plotted on this diagram give the temperature at which a metal will
spontaneously oxidize to a metal oxide. Alternatively, they can give the temperature at which
carbon monoxide can reduce a metal oxide to the pure metal.
ANSWER: Ellingham diagrams [or Ellingham lines]
[10] The Ellingham diagrams plot temperature on the x-axis and this quantity on the y-axis. They
can find the temperature of spontaneous oxidation by finding the temperature at which this
quantity equals zero, since all spontaneous reactions have a negative value for it.
ANSWER: Gibbs free energy

12. Many analyses of this language’s phonology include the nonspecific pseudo-phonemes /Q/
[“capital q”], marking the first half of a geminated consonant, and /N/, representing a syllable-
final nasal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this language which also includes a system of downstep.
ANSWER: Japanese language or Nihongo
[10] Mushamusha, meaning “frustrated” or “irritated”, belongs to this class of sound-symbolic
Japanese words that describe mental states.
ANSWER: psychomimes or gijoogo or gitaigo [do not accept “onomatopoeia”]
[10] This syllabary is used in Japanese to write words of foreign origin, while native words use
ANSWER: katakana
13. For 10 points each, name some things from the world of experimental film.
[10] Luis Buñuel cuts out Simone Mareuil's eye with a razor in this surrealist film, which ends
with the two mostly buried in sand.
ANSWER: Un chien andalou or An Andalusian Dog
[10] This experimental filmmaker of The Pittsburgh Trilogy showed his wife pregnant and the
process of giving birth to their first child in Window Water Baby Moving.
ANSWER: Stan Brakhage
[10] This man's Caravaggio featured Tilda Swinton as did his 1991 version of Edward II, which
won praise for its focus on the gay content of the play, but he is probably best known for Jubilee,
a story of Elizabeth I travelling to Britain in the 1970s where she hangs out with lots of punk
ANSWER: Derek Jarman

14. The title character is taken prisoner by his own troops after dressing in a Russian
infantryman's uniform. For 10 points each:
office in a wheelchair.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier Švejk
importantly, he also wrote The Red Commissar.
ANSWER: Jaroslav Hašek
Watched Trains.
ANSWER: Bohumil Hrabal

15. For 10 points each, name these governors of New York.
[10] This first Whig governor later purchased Alaska while serving as Secretary of State.
ANSWER: William H. Seward
[10] This Democratic governor who served for much of the Great Depression resigned his
governorship in 1942 when he was appointed to the post of Director of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation Operations. His family also founded a banking firm that went bankrupt in 2008.
ANSWER: Herbert Lehman
[10] This man was elected in 1872 after working as minister to France and as Lincoln’s Treasury
Secretary, in which role he ordered that anyone taking down a Union flag in New Orleans was to
be shot.
ANSWER: John Adams Dix

16. Identify these poems of Hart Crane, for 10 points each.
[10] "I met a man in South Street, tall-- / a nervous shark tooth swung on his chain" begins "Cutty
Sark," one section of this work. This long work also contains such subsections as "Powhatan's
Daughter" and "Atlantis."
ANSWER: The Bridge
[10] In this elegaic work, Crane discusses the "calyx" left by a sinking ship, and notes that the
titular writer of such works as "The Maldive Shark" saw "the dice of drowned men's bones
bequeathed to the sea."
ANSWER: "At Melville's Tomb"
[10] The speaker enters the "world / to trace the visionary company of love" in this last poem
published during Crane's lifetime. It may have been inspired by Crane's affair with novelist
Malcom Cowley's wife Pegg and is named for a shattered structure.
ANSWER:"The Broken Tower"

17. Its most important prayer is the Five Vows, and this religion is symbolized by the Divine
Eye. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this rather bizarre syncretic religion of Vietnam that reveres people like Victor Hugo
and has its Holy See at Tay Ninh.
ANSWER: Cao Dai [or Great Religion of the Third Period of Revelation and Salvation; or
High Tower; or High Place; or Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do]
[10] This man was originally a devout Caodaist, but he left the Cao Dai militia to lead his own
subsect militia, the Lien Minh. He was assassinated by an unknown party for his Vietnamese
nationalist activities.
ANSWER: Trinh Minh The
[10] This man is one of three Cao Dai saints. He may be better known for taking over China after
Yuan Shigai stepped down as president.
ANSWER:Sun Yat Sen

18. It became official in a 1992 Declaration of Independence. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this name given to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which shares a name with a
revolution that happened three years earlier.
ANSWER: Velvet Divorce
[10] The Velvet Divorce thus marked the end of an era that began in 1918 with the election of
this first president of the Czech Republic.
ANSWER: Thomas Masaryk
[10] This 1918 agreement between Masaryk and Slovak representatives agreed to principles of
Slovak autonomy within any future unitary state, and was signed in the namesake American city.
ANSWER: the Pittsburgh Convention [accept anything with Pittsburgh in it]

19. The overeducated Kamiti is rejected from a job at Eldares Modern Construction and Real
Estate Company, and the resulting flight from the police leads him to take up the identity of the
titular shaman. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, which is governed by the
nameless, corrupt Ruler.
ANSWER: Wizard of the Crow
[10] This man wrote Wizard of the Crow. Other works by this Kenyan author include Weep Not,
Child and A Grain of Wheat.
ANSWER: James Ngugi wa Thiong'o
[10] Subtitled "The Politics of Language in African Literature," this Ngugi essay seeks to set
aside the issue of tribalism to focus on how true African independence can only come about
through the title action and the sloughing off of imperial rule.
ANSWER: Decolonizing the Mind

20. Their namesake park includes Jackson Lake, for ten points each.
[10] Identify this mountain range whose second tallest peak is Mount Owen.
ANSWER: the Tetons
[10] The Tetons are located in this state, whose cities include Cheyenne.
ANSWER: Wyoming
[10] This seat of Albany County, Wyoming, which is adjacent to Fort Sanders, was incorporated
in 1874 near the namesake river.
ANSWER: Laramie

21. Identify these things relating to dark matter, for 10 points each.
[10] This type of dark matter is defined by the fact that it does not interact with ordinary matter
via the electromagnetic force. It is classified based upon the velocity dispersion of its constituent
particles into cold, warm, and hot types.
ANSWER: Nonbaryonic dark matter
[10] This class of theoretical particles of cold dark matter must interact through gravity and the
weak nuclear force. Examples with sub giga-electron-volt masses are called light dark matter.
ANSWER: WIMPs or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
[10] This leading WIMP candidate is formed by a mix of superpartners of the photon, Z Boson,
and neutral higgs, and is theorized to be the lightest supersymmetric particle.
ANSWER: Neutralino

22. Identify these logicians, for 10 points each.
[10] Later collected in the volume Illustrations of the Logic of Science, both "How to Make Our
Ideas Clear" and "The Fixation of Belief" were written by this American philosopher who was
also well known for his work with what he termed the "semeiotic."
ANSWER: Charles Sanders Peirce
[10] At the age of sixteen, this man wrote an essay inventing a semantics for modal logics which
was later the basis of semantics for other non-classical logics. His other well-known contributions
include his interpretations of Wittgenstein and the book Naming and Necessity.
ANSWER: Saul Kripke
[10] This logician’s namesake undefinability theorem limits the existence of formal definitions of
truth within a theory. He wrote "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages."
ANSWER: Alfred Tarski

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