WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2 - A CAVALCADE OF WHIMSY
ROUND 9

TOSSUPS

1. Among the high points of this political party were its dominance of the Massachusetts legislature and Nathaniel Banks' position as Speaker of the House. Getting its start as the Society of the Star-Spangled Banner, it called for the exclusion of Catholics and foreigners from political office and a 21-year naturalization period before citizenship, reaching its height after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, nominating Milliard Fillmore for president in 1856. FTP, what was this party whose popular name derived from the standard answer given when members were asked about the party?
	Answer: Know-Nothings or American Party 

2. Among the ones named by the composer himself are number 18, the Duetto, and number 23, the Volkslied. Published in 8 groups of 6 during the period from 1830 to 1845, they all abandon the contrasting middle section typical of character music in favor of a simple uniform accompaniment with a singable melody, as seen in examples like the Hunting Song, Spinning Song, Spring Song, and the three Venetian Boating Songs. FTP, what is this collection of 48 unaccompanied piano works by Felix Mendelssohn?
	Answer: Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte)

3. In humans this disease occurs in several forms, with the intestinal form resulting in inflammation of the intestinal tract, vomiting, and severe diarrhea, while the pulmonary form, also called woolsorter's disease, affects the lungs and is quickly fatal. Most commonly it is seen as a cutaneous infection which produces malignant pustules on the arms and neck. However, it is more famous as a disease affecting herbivores which results in cardiac distress, trembling, convulsions, and death, and which became notorious for causing widespread epidemics throughout southern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. The first human disease for which a microorganism was shown to be the causative agent, FTP, what is this disease, the first for which an effective bacterial vaccine was developed?
	Answer: anthrax

4. The unnamed protagonist of this story is en route to a camp at an old mining claim on the left fork of the Henderson, and has split from his friends and associates to explore the possibility of procuring logs from some nearby islands. The dog he is traveling with is uneasy to leave the site where the protagonist stopped for lunch, but the protagonist continues into the Klondike, but after accidentally falling through some ice into a stream, he is unable to complete the title task, and soon resigns himself to death. FTP, what is this short-story by Jack London?
	Answer: To Build a Fire

5. The Liard is the largest tributary emptying directly into this river. At Lake Athabasca it joins the Athabasca River and the Finley-Peace River System to form the second longest continuous stream on the continent at 2,600 miles long. Originating in the Great Slave Lake, it flows generally northwest into the Arctic Ocean through a great delta. FTP, what is this great rivet of the Northwest Territories of Canada?
	Answer: Mackenzie river (accept Finley-Peace-Mackenzie)

6. At the end of this uprising the revolutionaries murdered their hostages, including the city's archbishop. Sparked by a bungled attempt to disarm the National Guard, it began with the election of a 92 member government to oppose Louis Thiers, who was forced to briefly retreat to Versailles before Marie MacMahon brutally recaptured the city. FTP, what was this March-May 1871 French uprising that followed France's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War?
	Answer: Paris Commune (accept Communards)

7. Lesser known works by this thinker include "Love, Power and Justice", "Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality", and "My Search for Absolutes". Forced to flee Germany by the Nazis, he was invited to America by Reinhold Niebuhr, where he taught at the Union Theological Seminary, and later Harvard and Chicago. His thought was a mixture of existentialism, depth psychology, and neo-scholastic ontology, and although he was often attacked as an atheist who disguised his lack of faith with complex language, he argued that the basis of theology  was man's estrangement from the divine. FTP, who was this German best known for his three volume opus "Systematic Theology"?
	Answer: Paul Tillich

8. For this reaction to occur, the compound to be added to must possess a double bond with a carbonyl group on each side, as in an alkene, which is converted to a cyclohexene. Discovered in 1928, it results in the formation of a ring structure, and occurs when a compound containing two double bonds separated by a single bond adds to a suitable compound. FTP, what is this reaction involving conjugated dienes named for its two German discoverers, the winners of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
	Answer: Diels-Alder reaction

9. Author of the verse novel Rip Tide, this man was one of the founders of the Saturday Review, and wrote its column "The Phoenix Nest". Married for a time to the poet Elinor Wylie, he was an enthusiastic and prolific poet responsible for the collections The Spirit of the Scene, The Stairway of Surprise, Starry Harness, and Merchants from Cathay, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his verse autobiography The Dust Which Is God. FTP, who was this brother of another famous poet best-known for editing The Reader's Encyclopedia?
	Answer: William Rose Benet

10. This test was born when its developer noted that her husband Clarence was much different than other members of her family. Now owned by Consulting Psychologists Press, Incorporated, its creator learned test construction at a local bank and soon gave her test to thousands of Pennsylvania schoolchildren, eventually becoming convinced that anyone can be placed into one of 16 personality types based on four scales: sensate/intuitive, thinking/feeling, judging/perceiving, and extraversion/introversion. Named both for its developer and the mother who introduced her to Jung's Psychological Types, FTP, what is this popular personality type indicator?
	Answer: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

11. This leader was forced to leave France briefly in 1791, but returned to become Minister of Justice. His calmness and authority during the crises of 1792, including his famous call for "more daring", cemented his importance to the Revolution. Founder of the militant Cordelier Club, starting in April 1793 he effectively led the government as a member of the Committee of Public Safety. FTP, who was this eloquent revolutionary whose power was eclipsed by that of Robespierre, leading to his 1794 execution?
	Answer: Georges Danton

12. It was mainly the product of the efforts of Arthur Davies, president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. Eventually moved to the Chicago Art Institute and Boston's Copley Hall, it consisted of approximately 1600 works, and was in effect two expositions, one presenting a cross-section of contemporary American art, the other a controversial survey of modern European art which is often cited as the beginning of American interest in progressive art. FTP, what was this seminal 1913 art "show" named for the building in which it was housed?
	Answer: the Armory Show (or International Exposition of Modern Art)

13. This theory is based on an idea put forward by the British scientist James Ephraim Lovelock, and has found favor with many conservationists. It proposes that the responses of living organisms to environmental conditions ultimately bring about changes that make the earth better adapted to support life, and that the system would rid itself of any species that adversely affects the environment. FTP, what is this hypothesis which holds that the whole earth functions as a single self-regulating system, named for the Greek earth goddess?
	Answer: Gaia hypothesis

14. While a teenager this writer was tested by forty professors in all areas of knowledge, and overwhelmed them at every point, gaining a position with the viceroy. Author of the poetry collections "Flood From the Muses' Springs" and "Fame and Posthumous Works of the Mexican Phoenix and Tenth Muse", as a nun this writer became a symbol of intellectual freedom with the "Reply to Sister Philotea", while her best-known poem is Foolish Men Who Accuse. Championed in an Octovia Paz study which discussed "the traps of faith", FTP, who was this 17th century Mexican poet, frequently described as "the first American feminist".
	Answer: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (or Juana Ramirez de Asbaje)

15. This historical figure was depicted with a cropped or shaven head, seated with a roll of papyrus on his lap, and was thought to have been the son of Ptah and Khredu-ankh. Likely responsible for the first temple at Edfu and the first pyramid, the so-called Step Pyramid at Saqqara, he was an architect, astrologer, and chief adviser to King Zoser, but later he became the patron of craftsmen and identified with Asclepius in his role as a physician. FTP, who was this Egyptian figure, one of the few mortals to achieve a sort of sainthood?
	Answer: Imhotep

16. Early in his religious career this man fell under the influence of George Wishart, and soon his association with the assassins of Cardinal Beaton led to nineteen months of forced labor. In 1551 he became chaplain to Edward VI, but he fled England after the ascension of Mary and soon published his "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women", which briefly alienated him from Elizabeth I, who nonetheless allowed him to return to Scotland to lead the Protestants. FTP, who is this founder of Scottish Presbyterianism?
	Answer: John Knox

17. A refinement to this astrophysicist's greatest contribution was made by the Brazilian Mario Schonberg, enabling it to be applied to helium-core stars. 1950's "Radiative Transfer" contained his analysis of energy transfer in stars, while "Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure" contained his work showing that white dwarves are the terminal stage of a star's development, but he is best known for a value which is about 1.44 solar masses for a hydrogen-free star. FTP, who is this Indian-born astrophysicist whose "limit" gives the maximum possible mass that a degenerate star may attain before collapsing?
	Answer: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

18. This farmer visited the people of Telmissus to learn the significance of an eagle who had appeared before him, and soon married the girl who told him to sacrifice to Zeus. Shortly after fathering Midas, he was seen by the Phrygians driving a simple cart, fulfilling an oracle stating that their next king would arrive in that manner. In gratitude for his good fortune he dedicated his cart to Zeus and fastened it to its yoke with a curious knot. FTP, who was this king famous for the legend that whoever could undo the knot would rule all of Asia?
	Answer: Gordius

19. In this language the same words serve as nouns and verbs, while adjectives are formed by adding the suffix "ful" and adverbs are formed by adding the suffix "-wise". The only known language whose vocabulary decreases in size over time, it has no irregular verbs, and words expressing unorthodox ideas have been eliminated in order to "diminish the range of thought" of its speakers. FTP, what is this language preferred by Big Brother in "1984"?
	Answer: newspeak

20. Among the provisions of this act which angered colonists were its categorization of hides, iron, and lumber as "enumerated goods", its tax placed on wine imported from Portugal's Atlantic islands, which had previously been duty-free, and its provision placing all colonial smuggling cases under the jurisdiction of a new Admiralty Court in Halifax at which defendants were required to prove their innocence without a jury trial. The only act to produce a significant colonial revenue for England, this 1764 act's main provision actually reduced a previous tariff in the hopes of passing on the tax to consumers. FTP, what was this act which cut in half import duties on non-British molasses?
	Answer: Sugar Act

WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2 - A CAVALCADE OF WHIMSY
ROUND 9

BONUSES

FTPE, answer the following about a medieval cycle of French tales.
1. (10 points) The subject of the tales is this character whose cleverness is often pitted against Brun the bear and Isengrim the wolf.
	Answer: Reynard the Fox
2. (10 points) The nucleus and starting point of the loosely connected tales of Reynard the Fox is formed by the sermons of Reynard by this lion, who answers the accusations of Isengrim and others.
	Answer: King Noble the Lion
3. (10 points) This Canterbury Tale describes a tale from the Reynard cycle in which Chauntecleer the cock eventually outwits the fox Don Russell and saves his favorite hen Pertelote.
	Answer: Nun's Priest's Tale

FTPE, name these architects.
1. (10 points) Known for his use of jutting shapes juxtaposed with geometric forms, often constructed using unusual materials like aluminum and raw plywood, his important works include the Loyola Law School, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Experience Music Project rock museum, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.
	Answer: Frank Gehry
2. (10 points) Admired for his use of the hyperbolic paraboloid form, this architect is most famous for works in Barcelona, including the Mila House, the Park Guell, and the Expiatory Church of the Holy Family.
	Answer: Antonio Gaudi y Cornet
3. (10 points) Influenced by Palladio, this architect introduced the classical style to English architecture as Surveyor of the King's Works from 1615-44, when he created the Queen's House at Greenwich, Whitehall Banqueting Hall, and St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden.
	Answer: Inigo Jones

Name the following about the mad scramble for power after the death of Alexander the Great.
1. (10 points) Known as the "one-eyed", this man was proclaimed supreme commander of Asia in 321. His growing power and meddling in Greece through his son Demetrius I Poliorcetes led the rest of the Diadochi to form a coalition against him.
	Answer: Antigonus I  Monophthalmus
2. (10 points) Antigonus was defeated at this 301 BCE battle in Phrygia by a coalition including Cassander, Lysimachus, and Seleucus I Nicator.
	Answer: Ipsus
3. (10 points) A boyhood friend of Alexander, this man declared himself king of Egypt in 304, establishing a ruling dynasty that lasted until 30 BC.
	Answer: Ptolemy I Soter

FTPE, name these figures from the Trojan War.
1. (10 points) After the single combat of Menelaus and Paris, a short lived truce was ended when this ally of Priam shot Menelaus with an arrow.
	Answer: Pandarus
2. (10 points) When Diomedes and this man discover that their grandfathers were friends, they stop fighting and exchange armor.
	Answer: Glaucus
3. (10 points) This king of Pylos was this oldest and wisest of the Greek generals who offered advise on every occasion. However, his advise often led to disastrous results for the Greeks.
	Answer: Nestor

FTPE, name these comets.
1. (10 points) Now known to be identical with Comet Kegler, this comet is the parent of the Perseid meteor shower. Featuring many jets of material, it will return in 2126, when some scientists conjecture it might collide with the Earth.
	Answer: Swift-Tuttle (Comet 109P/)
2. (10 points) Having a period of about 20,000 years, the ROSAT satellite detected mysterious radiation emanating from this comet discovered in 1996 and named for the amateur Japanese astronomer who first sighted it.
	Answer: Hyakutake (C/1996 B2)
3. (10 points) Formerly designated 1994X, this comet had been disrupted into at least 21 fragments by a close pass of Jupiter in 1992, leading to a spectacular collision with Jupiter in July 1994.
	Answer: Shoemaker-Levy 9

FTPE, answer the following about a playwright.
1. (10 points) This playwright is known for his experiments in verse drama seen in works like "Valley Forge", "Night Over Taos", "Key Largo", and "Anne of the Thousand Days".
	Answer: Maxwell Anderson
2. (10 points) Maxwell Anderson's most famous collaboration with Laurence Stallings was this controversially frank WWII play in which Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt vie for the favors of a French girl.
	Answer: What Price Glory?
3. (10 points) In this play, Mio wishes to avenge the execution of his father, an Italian radical, for a crime he didn't commit, but soon falls for Miriamne, a sister of one of the actual criminals, after which they are both killed by gangsters.
	Answer: Winterset

30-20-10, name the philosopher from works.
1. (30 points) "Chance, Love, and Logic", "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities", "Existential Graphs"
(20 points) "Photometric Researches", "Man's Glassy Essence"
(10 points) "Fixation of Belief", "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"
	Answer: Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced Pearce)

FTSNOP, name the following surrounding the drafting of the Monroe Doctrine.
1. (15 points) The Doctrine was inspired by a suggestion made by this foreign secretary of Great Britain that England and the United States issue a warning for European powers not to interfere in the newly independent republics of South America.
	Answer: George Canning
2. (10 points) Canning's warning was to have been directed against the Quadruple Alliance, which had been initially supported by this British statesman who served as chief British delegate to the Congress of Vienna.
	Answer: Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
3. (5 points) The chief architect of the Monroe Doctrine was this Secretary of State to Monroe.
	Answer: John Quincy Adams

FTSNOP, name the following about a lake.
1. (10 points) Fed by the Rainy River, this irregularly shaped lake is home to some 14,000 islands, and is located partly in Canada and partly in Minnesota.
	Answer: Lake of the Woods
2. (5 points) Lake of the Woods is drained to the northwest by this river which shares its name with the 3rd largest lake in Canada and the capital of Manitoba.
	Answer: Winnipeg
3. (15 points) Lake of the Woods separates the rest of Minnesota from this piece of land, the northernmost spot in the contiguous United States.
	Answer: the Northwest Angle

FTPE, name the following about relationships in nature.
1. (10 points) This is any interaction between two life forms in which one is benefited while the other is unaffected. An example is the burrows of marine worms which contain creatures which use the worms for shelter but leave the worm unaffected.
	Answer: commensalism
2. (10 points) This is the mutually beneficial association between fungi and the roots of plants in which the presence of the fungi enhances the absorption of ions by the roots, which in turn provides soluble organic nutrients for the fungi.
	Answer: mycorrhiza
3. (10 points) Including many mosses and lichen, this is the name for any plant which grows upon another plant but is neither parasitic on it nor rooted in the ground.
	Answer: epiphyte

FTPE, name these Keats' works.
1. (10 points) This long poem in loose rhymed couplets tells of the moon goddess Diana's love for a human shepherd. Keats emphasizes the shepherd's love for Diana as a symbol for the poet seeking perfection. It contains the famous line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
	Answer: Endymion
2. (10 points) The second version of an unfinished epic, this poem is narrated by Keats himself. In a dream, Keats enters a shrine, where the goddess Moneta reveals that the poet must embrace the suffering of humanity.
	Answer: The Fall of Hyperion (DO NOT ACCEPT Hyperion)
3. (10 points) In this ode, Keats comes upon the title figure and her immortal love asleep in the woods. Musing that she has no shrine or worshippers, Keats vows to be her priest and build a sanctuary for love "in some untrodden region of (his) mind".
	Answer: Ode to Psyche

FTPE, name these jazzmen.
1. (10 points) Originally a student of Darius Milhaud, this pianist soon formed a quintet with Paul Desmond and used his unique composition style incorporating unconventional meters to produce the seminal album "Take Five".
	Answer: Dave Brubeck
2. (10 points) Succeeding Duke Ellington fronting the house band at the Cotton Club, this scat singer is best-known for his 1931 signiture song "Minnie the Moocher".
	Answer: Cab(ell) Calloway
3. (10 points) Originally a member of Eddie Condon's band, this drummer eventually joined Benny Goodman's big band in 1935, becoming the first great jazz solo drummer for extended solos like "Sing, Sing, Sing".
	Answer: Gene Krupa

FTPE, answer the following about the history of Serbia.
1. (10 points) Serbia broke away from the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century under the Nemanja Dynasty, but it fell to the Turks shortly after the death of this 14th century king and emperor who had extended Serbian rule to Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Albania while instituting a legal code.
	Answer: Stephen Dushan
2. (10 points) To force Serbia to break their 1905 alliance with Bulgaria, the Hapsburg government in Vienna banned the import of all Serbian livestock, resulting in this economic "war" named for the main type of livestock banned.
	Answer: Pig War
3. (10 points) Formed by Serbian nationalists in 1908 and led by Dragotin Dimitrijevic, alias "Apis", this nationalist group was behind the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
	Answer: Black Hand or Unification or Death

FTPE, name the following about Jewish groups.
1. (10 points) Named for their separatist nature, this group arose after the revolt of the Maccabees, and attempted to regulate their lives according to the strict orthodoxy of the Torah and the oral law given by God to Moses.
	Answer: Pharisees
2. (10 points) One of the tenets of the Pharisees was the repetition of this basic creed of Judaism.
	Answer: the shma
3. (10 points) The opponents of the Pharisees, this group upheld only the written law.
	Answer: Sadducees

FTPE, name these computer science sorting techniques.
1. (10 points) This method converts an array of data into a partially ordered binary tree in which every node is greater than or equal to each of its two children. Then it sorts the data in reverse by repeatedly placing the largest unsorted element in its correct place. The data structure it uses gives it its name.
	Answer: heap sort
2. (10 points) This "divide and conquer" technique takes a list of data, breaks the data into smaller lists, sorts the small sets, and recombines the sorted sets into one large sorted list.
	Answer: merge sort
3. (10 points) This method scans the list from the beginning until it finds the first element out of order with respect to those that have come before. Then that element is removed from the list, all previous elements larger than the one removed are shifted one spot, and the out of place element is returned to the list in the correct spot, after which the process begins again.
	Answer: insertion sort

30-20-10, name the author.
1. (30 points) Nonfiction works include "The Cost of Living" and "Power Politics".
(20 points) She recently analyzed the September 11 terrorist attacks in "The Algebra of Infinite Justice", but her best-known work tells of the young twins Rahel and Estha.
(10 points) Her best-known work is "The God of Small Things".
	Answer: Arundhati Roy

5-10-15, name these important cartographers.
1. (5 points) This cartographer, with the mathematician Gemma Frisius and engraver Gaspar a Myrica, made Louvain, Flanders a center of mapmaking. He is remembered today for his cylindrical projection which allowed sailors to navigate long distances without compass adjustments.
	Answer: Gerardus Mercator (or Gerard De Cremer)
2. (10 points) In 1507 this German published 1,000 copies of a woodcut world map compiled from the voyages of Vespucci, which presented the New World as a seperate continent for the first time and included the first use of the term America.
	Answer: Martin Waldseemuller (or Hylacomylus)
3. (15 points) Along with J.B.B. d'Anville, this 18th century Frenchman is considered the founder of modern cartography. He used astronomical observations to fix accurate positions, resulting in extremely accurate continental outlines and reduction of gross errors in determining lines of longitude.
	Answer: Guillaume Delisle

F15PE, name these economic concepts.
(15 points) This is a sustained rise in the general price level arising from an autonomous rise in costs, and usually results with employees demand higher real wages or when employers seek to raise their profit margins.
	Answer: cost-push inflation
(15 points) In contrast to cost-push inflation, this is inflation caused by a sustained rise in aggregate demand beyond the full employment level of output.
	Answer: demand-pull inflation

FTPE, answer the following about people and events in the Russian Civil War.
1. (10 points) This admiral and explorer became War Minister in the anti-Bolshevik government at Omsk and proclaimed himself supreme ruler of Russia. With Denikin he fought the Bolsheviks until betrayed by his Czech allies.
	Answer: Aleksandr Kolchak
2. (10 points) This man became commander-in-chief of the White Army after Denikin's withdrawal to the Caucasus in March 1920. He was forced to flee to Turkey in November, effectively ending White Russian resistance.
	Answer: Piotr Wrangel
3. (10 points) This March 1921 mutiny named for the naval base at which it occurred saw many sailors rise against the Communist dictatorship, demanding political freedom and economic liberalism. They were brutally crushed, but did inspire the New Economic Policy.
	Answer: Kronstadt Mutiny

FTPE, name the following about a chemical process.
1. (10 points) Not completely understood, this process results in the improvement of the physical properties of rubber by forming cross-links when heated with a certain element.
	Answer: vulcanization
2. (10 points) This is the element heated with the rubber in vulcanization.
	Answer: sulfur
3. (10 points) Vulcanization was discovered in 1839 by this man when he accidentally dropped a mixture of rubber and sulfur on a hot stove.
	Answer: Charles Goodyear