Beaver Bonspiel X Round 8
Packet by Princeton (Chris Frankel, Dan Benediktson, Brent Besson, Tara Hariharan)

Tossups

1.  In this novel, the protagonist’s children include Steffie, Wilder, and Heinrich, though it is tough to keep track of their parentage because he has had four wives, including Dana Breedlove and Janet Savory.  The protagonist and his friends constantly worry about death and begin randomly uttering catch phrases and advertising lines as they remain glued to the television for coverage of the Airborne Toxic Event that has hit town.  Narrated by Hitler Studies professor Jack Gladney, for ten points, what is this chaotic and satirical novel by Don DeLillo?
	Answer: White Noise

2.  Participants, angered by high taxes enacted to build fortifications along its nation’s major trade route and provide protection from invaders, dressed up to allude to the soil that was responsible for their livelihood, and challenged the ruling dynasty’s mandate of heaven.  Led by Zhang Jiao, this event was depicted in the opening of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and contributed to the fall of the Han dynasty a few decades later.  For ten points, identify this 184 CE revolt in China named for the colorful scarves worn on the heads of rebels.
	Answer: Yellow Turban Rebellion (accept reasonable variations in translation)

3.  The music for this ballet was commissioned by Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Imperial Theaters, and was composed between 1884 and 1889.  Marius Petipa was asked to choreograph the piece, which includes “Vision d’Aurore” and “Le Chaperon rouge et le loup.”  For ten points, name this ballet composed by Tchaikovsky, based on a popular fairy tale.
	Answer: The Sleeping Beauty or Dornroschen or La Belle au Bois Dormant

4.  While attending law school, he is said to have majored in fencing and beer drinking.  His work includes papers on Abelian functions, his eponymous everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable function, the delta epsilon definition of limits, and a namesake form of resolving types of integration.  He is associated with “virus” substitution and Bolzano, the other namesake of his theorem on converging subsequences.  For ten points, name this mathematician, considered the founder of modern analysis.
	Answer:  Karl Weierstrass

5.  His parents both worked for Nat King Cole, and while it is not his main profession, he is an avid guitarist.  He also surfs and practices yoga, when not working on his nasty curveball, which is said to be the best since Sandy Koufax’s.  For ten points, name this southpaw, and 2002 Cy Young Award Winner who was unable to defeat Pedro Martinez in Game 5 of the American League Division Series, dooming the Oakland A’s to a fourth consecutive year of not making it to the ALCS.
	Answer: Barry Zito

6.  The poet scoffs at sexual passion, calling it “sublunary” and declaring it inferior since it “cannot admit / Absence, because it doth remove / Those things which elemented it.”  But the poet places the relationship between himself and his wife above the earthly realm, calling it “a love so much refined / That our selves know not what it is,” and compares their souls to two compasses, forming the most famous of the poet’s trademark “conceits.”  For ten points, name this metaphysical poem about the nature of love, written by John Donne.
	Answer: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

7.  Article 11 called for the creation of a government commission to investigate claims on citizen debts, since it promised that the U.S. would cover $5 million in money owed to the other nation involved in this settlement.  Partially inspired by the failure of the Rush-Gallatin talks to settle northern boundary disputes, it also featured America’s demand for the relinquishment of claims on Oregon north of the 42nd parallel.  For ten points, name this 1819 treaty negotiated between the U.S. and Spain that gave Florida to the United States.
	Answer: Adams-Onís Treaty

8.  Cities around its outskirts include Broome, Halls Creek, and Derby, and it contains the Mandora Marsh, a habitat of the endangered flatback and green turtles.  Located between the Pilbara and Kimberley ranges, it is north of the Gibson Desert and contains more square mileage than the Great Victoria and Simpson deserts, making it the largest desert in its continent.  For ten points, name this roughly 400,000 square mile desert in northwest Australia, named for both its large size and the vast presence of sediment in it.
	Answer: Great Sandy Desert

9.  They are released from the centrosomes and are organized at the poles of an animal cell by motor proteins. They interdigitate at the equator of the spindle and contribute to its symmetry.  Partially responsible for the capture and alignment of chromosomes on the spindle plate during metaphase of mitosis, FTP, what are these long thin structures out of which centrioles and cilia are built?
	Answer: Microtubules

10.  He followed his twin sister into the world of the dead after she died in giving birth to the god of fire.  There he was repelled by her corporeal decay and to purify himself he bathed in a stream, giving rise to several Japanese deities.  For ten points, name the progenitor of  the sun goddess Amaterasu and the storm god Susa-no-o, whose sister was Izanami.
	Answer: Izanagi

11.  It can be derived from thermodynamic equations of the transition-state theory, which explains why it contains the Boltzmann factor. However, it is more often expressed in terms of the frequency factor and steric factor to mathematically describe the activated complex and determine reaction rates.  For ten points, name this kinetic equation that explains why reaction rates tend to increase at higher temperatures, named for a Swedish scientist who described the simplest atomic theory for acids and bases.
	Answer: Arrhenius equation

12.  Historian George Bancroft under President Polk, future Texas governor John Connally under JFK, and future Rhode Island senator John Chafee under Nixon all served in this position.  The only Confederate one was Stephen Mallory, and the first one was Benjamin Stoddert who served after the department was created in 1798.  Both Teddy and Franklin  Roosevelt were assistants, and Edwin Denby held this post during the Teapot Dome scandal.  For ten points, James Forrestal served in what office before it lost cabinet status and became subordinate to the Department of Defense? 
	Answer: Secretary of the Navy

13.  A consequence of one of his arguments is that “nothing exists,” but he also believed that if anything exists, it is incomprehensible, and that if anything is incomprehensible, it is incommunicable.  He praised speech “as an amusement for myself,” and like other sophists, he also wrote great speeches, although his tended to focus on antithesis. Defending “the face that launched a thousand ships” in his Encomium on Helen, for ten points, who is this pre-Socratic philosopher who also serves as the title character in a Platonic dialogue about rhetoric?
	Answer: Gorgias

14.  Parallels to the main plot of this work appear when the protagonist envisions himself as Adam and later, when his university professor relates a folk tale about an Indian princess and Alexander the Great.  The professor tries to help the protagonist’s romantic endeavors by giving him a silver vase whose contents could “render the most virulent poisons of the Borgias innocuous,” but it ends up killing the title character, who had been raised in a toxic garden.  For ten points, name this Nathaniel Hawthorne short story about Giovanni and his love for Beatrice, the child of a mad scientist.
	Answer: "Rappaccini’s Daughter"

15.  It stands 42 stories tall in Manhattan, with a steel skeleton and, on the outside, bronze-tinted glass alternating with bronze plating.  This building consciously pushes itself back from Park Avenue, with a long way of pink granite between itself and the street, a conspicuous consumption of space in a more conservative area.  For ten points, identify this building designed by Philip Johnson and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
	Answer: The Seagram Building

16.  First and last names are the same.  One was a co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth who was hanged for attacking Secretary of State William Seward.  The more famous one was a Richmond lawyer and president of the American Bar Association who became the first Virginian on the Supreme Court since the Civil War.  He joined the court on the same day as William Rehnquist in 1972, replacing the retiring Hugo Black.  For ten points, give the common name that refers to the man who, during his 15 years on the Court, was a crucial swing member in such cases as Roe v. Wade, Bowers v. Hardwick and the Bakke decision.
	Answer: Lewis Powell

17.  It is determined from a set of three ordinary non-linear differential equations, and was derived from a simplified model of convection in the earth’s atmosphere.  Discovered by its namesake scientist in 1963, this is, for ten points, what strange attractor, the earliest recognized form of chaos, frequently associated with the question, “When a butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo, does it cause a hurricane in Texas?”
	Answer: Lorenz Attractor (prompt on "Butterfly")

18.  Born into an impoverished branch of a declining patrician family, he made his entry into politics by becoming a quaestor after receiving two large inheritances.  Before serving under Catullus in a campaign against German barbarians, he helped end war with Numidia by negotiating the surrender of Jugurtha, a move that incurred the wrath of his former ally, Marius.  Nicknamed “Felix” or “the lucky,” for ten points, who was this Roman leader known primarily for his bloody proscriptions?
	Answer: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

19.  The first title character of this play is described in a metaphor about a rusty key that is unable to unlock a treasure house, a reference to his alleged impotence that is told by his eldest wife, Sadiku.  The other title character, who gets an inflated ego after being photographed for a magazine, is pursued by the effeminate schoolteacher Lakunle, but ultimately loses her virginity due to a skilled seduction job by the wily chief Baroka.  For ten points, name this play about a love triangle spurred on by a clash between European and Yoruba customs, the most famous work of Wole Soyinka.
	Answer: The Lion and the Jewel

20.  In 1986, the local baker’s company issued an apology for this event, which began near a shop owned by Thomas Farrinor on Pudding Lane, though it came over 300 years too late.  Most famously described in Samuel Pepys’ [PEEPS] diary, it proved a boon to Christopher Wren, who was commissioned to design a memorial monument, as well as several city churches, including St. Paul’s, that had been consumed by it.  For ten points, name this disaster that began on September 2, 1666, and destroyed roughly 80% of a major English city.
	Answer: Great Fire of London

21. This work examines periods of major growth in technology, such as the Renaissance and the Industrial Age, and describes how the accomplishments of the eras were driven by a dominance of dynamic personalities in the population.  However, it describes a shift in behavior in the 20th century, as more and more people began focusing on conformity and the search for acceptance.  Dividing populations into tradition directed, inner directed, and outer directed social personalities, the book is subtitled “A Study of the Changing American Character.”  For ten points, name this sociological work by David Riesman.
	Answer: The Lonely Crowd

Bonus Questions

1.  Name these African empires for ten points each.
a) Beginning its rise to power by conquering the Kush in the 4th Century CE, this trading empire dominated Ethiopia until the rise of Islam in the 7th Century.
	Answer: Axum
b) The most famous leaders of this empire were its founder Sundiata, and his descendent Mansa Musa.
	Answer: Mali
c) This central African empire gained strength after the fall of the Songhai, when Idris Alawma united two major empires of the Kanuri tribe.
	Answer: Kanem Bornu

2.  Answer the following about some related colonial American figures for ten points each.
a) President of Harvard from 1685-1701, he commented on the Salem witch trials in Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits and wrote A History of the War with the Indians shortly after King Philip’s War.
	Answer: Increase Mather
b) This influential Puritan minister heavily involved himself in the Salem trials as seen in his work The Wonders of the Invisible World.
	Answer: Cotton Mather
c) Both Increase and Cotton Mather provided heavy opposition to this unpopular British colonial governor of New York, who later attempted to rule over a supercolony called the Dominion of New England.
	Answer: Sir Edmund Andros

3.  For ten points each, name the Led Zeppelin songs from lyrics.
a) “Hey, hey, momma, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove”
	Answer: "Black Dog"
b) “When I read the letter you wrote me, it made me mad, mad, mad.  When I read the words that it told me, it made me sad, sad, sad.  But I still love you so; I can’t let you go.  I love you.  Oh, baby I love you”
	Answer: "D'yer Maker"
c) “Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream.  I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been to sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen.”
	Answer: "Kashmir"

4.  Name these works of Albrecht Durer, FTP each:
a) This woodcut features a frustrated thinker sitting next to an irregular octahedron and a magic square.
	Answer: Melancolia I
b) This 1495 work features the titular figure, who was also painted by da Vinci, Caravaggio, and many others, kneeling with a book in his hand and a lion behind him.
	Answer: St. Jerome in the Wilderness
c) This woodcut shows several people being trampled by the four title characters as an angel looks on from the sky.
	Answer: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

5.  For ten points each, answer these questions about much-sought-after particles in physics.
a) This particle, frequently referred to as the “God Particle” and named for the Scottish physicist who first theorized it, is the force-carrier of a mass-imparting field of the same name.
	Answer: Higgs Boson
b) This high-energy collider scheduled to be completed at CERN in 2007 is specifically designed to detect the Higgs boson.
	Answer: Large Hadron Collider or LHC
c) Physicists are also hopeful that the LHC will allow them to discover particles like selectrons and photinos, which are predicted by this theory which implies a symmetry between bosons and fermions
	Answer: supersymmetry (or SUSY)

6.  Name these novels by William Makepeace Thackeray for ten points each.
a) The title character is an Irish thug named Redmond Barry, who gambles and uses deceit to marry a wealthy widow and assume her aristocratic name.  Stanley Kubrick adapted it on film.
	Answer: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. or The Luck of Barry Lyndon
b) This novel follows the exploits of the gentle, but naive Amelia Sedley and her friend, the selfish and materialistic social climber,Becky Sharp.
	Answer: Vanity Fair
c) A sequel to The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., it follows Esmonds’ grandchildren George and Harry Warrington and is set against the backdrop of the American Revolution.
	Answer: The Virginians

7.  Stuff about Solidarity, 5-10-15.
a) F5P, this Polish activist and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner helped form Solidarity, and served as its first leader.
	Answer: Lech Walesa
b) FTP, Solidarity formed in this city, whose shipyards became the site of union uprisings.
	Answer: Gdansk
c) F15P, In 1989 this Solidarity advisor was named by the Polish parliament as the nation’s first noncommunist prime minister since the 1940s.
	Answer: Tadeusz Mazowiecki

8.  Name the German philosopher from works for ten points each.
a) Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge; Addresses to the Gerrnan Nation; Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation
	Answer: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
b) Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; Critique of Judgment; Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
	Answer: Immanuel Kant
c) Theory of Communicative Action, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Truth and Justification
	Answer: Jurgen Habermas

9.  Answer the following about a French play for ten points each.
a) The title character of the play is an evangelistic hypocrite who dupes a wealthy Parisian into signing over his property and inheritance to him.
	Answer: Le Tartuffe
b) This protagonist of the play is unable to see through Tartuffe’s scheme until he spies on Tartuffe trying to put the moves on his wife, Elmire.
	Answer: Orgon
c) This young man is in love with Orgon’s daughter Mariane and eventually marries her, but almost gets screwed over when Orgon tries to wed Mariane to Tartuffe instead.
	Answer: Valere

10.  Name these tributaries of the Columbia river for ten points each.
a) Starting in Wyoming, it flows through Idaho and Hell’s Canyon before emptying into the Columbia in the Tri-Cities area.
	Answer: Snake River
b) It begins in the Cascade Range in central Washington and then flows southeast into the Columbia near Kennewick.
	Answer: Yakima River
c) This short, meandering river empties Coeur d'Alene Lake in Idaho, then flows into Washington through the major city which shares its name before draining into the Columbia.
	Answer: Spokane River

11.  For ten points each, answer these questions about U.S. foreign policy in the 1920s.
a) Held from 1921-22, this meeting produced a five-power treaty limiting the amount of tonnage of aircraft carriers, capital ships, and cruisers allowed for each nation involved.
	Answer: Washington Naval Conference
b) This agreement featured the main players in the Washington Naval Conference plus China, Portugal, The Netherlands, and Belgium.  Its main function was to assert China’s sovereignty and allow nations to do business with it on equal terms.
	Answer: Nine Power Pact
c) This ambitious, and ultimately unsuccessful, agreement saw the Secretary of State and a French diplomat promise to end the use of war as an instrument of foreign policy.
	Answer: Kellogg-Briand Pact

12.  Name these data types in the C programming language, for ten points each.
a) The only guarantee of this data type is that it be at least 32 bits.
	Answer: long
b) This data type is always four bytes, but contains only a memory address.
	Answer: pointer
c) This is a conglomerate data type composed of arbitrary elements, which may themselves all be of different types.
	Answer: struct

13.  Answer the following about a Romantic composer for ten points each.
a) Heavily influenced by Bedrich Smetana, he wrote such works as The Spectre’s Bride, the Requiem Mass, St. Ludmilla, and the Dumky Trio.
	Answer: Antonin Dvorak
b) This fairy tale opera by Dvorak was named after a kind of female water spirit from Slavic mythology who would lure men into the water and drown them.
	Answer: Rusalka
c) Listed as either Dvorak’s fifth or ninth symphony, it was heavily influenced by the time he spent in the United States.
	Answer: New World Symphony or From the New World

14.  For ten points each, answer these related questions about a famous author.
a) First, name the Argentine short story writer, the author of “The Garden of Forking Paths,” who went blind late in life and whose principal themes included labyrinths and doubles.
	Answer: Jorge Luis Borges
b) Name his most famous collection of short stories, containing “The Library of Babel,” “The Circular Ruins,” and others.
	Answer: Ficciones (or Fictions)
c) Name the deconstructionist novel that features a Borgesian labyrinthine library, presided over by a blind librarian named Jorge de Burgos, the site of seven murders in seven days.
	Answer: The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)

15.  Name the following from a story from Greek mythology for the stated number of points.
a) For ten points, Zeus paid a visit in disguise to this king of Arcadia, who arrogantly killed a child and served him to Zeus.  Outraged, Zeus was said to have killed him or turned him into a wolf.
	Answer: Lycaon
b) Zeus was so angry about the incident that he decided to destroy the human race in a flood.  However, this couple was spared.  Five points for each, name the man and woman who survived the flood and had to repopulate the earth.
	Answer: Deucalion and Pyrrha
c) Deucalion was helped by the advice of this Titan, his father, who was also punished by torture at the hands of a vulture for trying to steal fire.
	Answer: Prometheus

16.  For ten points each, answer the following about a work of social science and its author.
a) Compiled from its author’s lectures at the University of Geneva, this 1916 work discusses how individual elements of language like phonemes and words make no sense without first understanding the system of grammar and the process of communication.
	Answer: Course in General Linguistics (Cours de Linguistique Générale)
b) This Swiss scholar delivered the lectures that made up the Course in General Linguistics.
	Answer: Ferdinand de Saussure
c) Saussure’s linguistic theories helped form this school of thought that emphasized that phenomena in human culture did not occur independently, but in relation to each other.  In anthropology, this school was represented by Claude Levi-Strauss.
	Answer: structuralism

17.  Answer the following about some prophets from the Bible for ten points each.
a) In addition to promising Israel a Messiah descended from King David, this book predicts the destruction of evil nations like Assyria and Babylon, and shows a failed attack on Jerusalem by Assyrians.
	Answer: Isaiah
b) Isaiah precedes the book of this major prophet, who declares that Israel would fall to Babylon at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar and be in its control for 70 years.
	Answer: Jeremiah
c) In his two-chapter book, this minor prophet calls upon Jews to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.  His contemporary Zechariah also does this in the following book.
	Answer: Haggai

18.  Stuff about the female parts of a flower, for ten points each.
a) This is the sticky surface at the top of the pistil that traps and holds pollen.
	Answer: stigma
b) This hollow chamber in the ovary contains the ovules, which in turn contain the embryo sacs that house the eggs.
	Answer: locule
c) This slender, tube-like structure supports the stigma and connects it with the ovary.
	Answer: style

19.  Name these Madame Bovary characters from descriptions.
a) Emma’s husband, he is one of the novel’s few characters with real feeling, but as a doctor he is a total failure.
	Answer: Charles Bovary
b) This self-impressed pharmacist represents the bourgeois values of logic and science which Flaubert ridicules.
	Answer: Homais
c) One of Emma’s lovers, he is a young law clerk whose early innocence and, later, urban sophistication attract Emma.
	Answer: Leon Dupuis (accept either name)

20.  Given a gas law, name the scientist that the law is named after.  Five points for each, and a bonus for all five.
a) Equal volumes of gases contain equal numbers of moles. 
	Answer: Avogadro’s Law
b) This law states that gases expand when heated.
	Answer: Charles’s Law
c) A consequence of this law is one reason why a scuba diver must be wary when quickly ascending from great depths to the surface.
	Answer: Boyle’s Law
d) This law explains why sodas “fizz” and consequently go “flat” when they are left open over time.
	Answer: Henry’s Law
e) Strong solute-solvent interactions can cause a negative deviation in this law.
	Answer: Raoult’s Law