Boston Summer Open Round 8 Questions by Gautam Mukunda et al TOSSUPS 1. This professor explored the roots of human ethics in _The Moral Instinct_ and was the first to discover the linkage between time-horizons and criminal behavior. He is more famous for his development of the theory of criminology adopted by Police Commissioner Bratton in New York City. For 10 points, name the sociologist who, in an article in _The Atlantic_, first explained the "broken windows" theory of policing. Answer: James Q. _Wilson_ 2. Among this city's most famous landmarks are the Ringstrasse, a street that circles the city center where the old city wall used to be, and the Hofburg Palace. Its famous Opera House is on Karajan Platz. For 10 points, name this imperial city on the banks of Strauss's favorite river. Answer: _Vienna_ 3. She was born in 1866 but her father kept her virtual recluse as a young woman. She would eventually move to the Lake District with her husband, William Heelis. At their farm there she would write and illustrate 23 books for children. For 10 points, name this creator of Peter Rabbit. Answer: Beatrix _Potter_ 4. Jouko Ahola won it in 1997. Yearly participants include Heinz Ollesch, Torfi Olafsson, Ironbear Collins, Magnus Samuelsson, and Magnus ver Magnusson. There's a reason why two of these contestants have names that roughly translate to "large." For 10 points, name this annual event consisting of fire engine pulls, barrel throws, and car lifts. Answer: _World's Strongest Man_ Competition 5. Born in 1548, this Italian supported the Copernician view of the universe and argued for the existence of life on other planets. A philosopher as well, he expounded upon his views of poetics, ethics, and metaphysics in the _Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast_ and the _Heroic Frenzies_. For 10 points, name this predecessor of Galileo, who was burned at the stake in the Campo dei Fiori in 1600. Answer: Giordano _Bruno_ 6. In 1588 a number of pamphlets attacking the Church of England appeared, and were responded to in kind by Robert Greene and Thomas Nashe, whom the Church hired to defend it. In 1590 the publisher of the pamphlets was discovered and executed, although Job Throckmorton, who probably wrote them, escaped. For 10 points, name this controversy, seven of whose extant pamphlets provide some of the period's finest satirical writing. Answer: _Marprelate_ Controversy 7. One of his less successful works contains, as its central motif, the song "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." Even geniuses get to have a bad day, though, and his successes more than made up for it. After he moved to Vienna in 1792 he wrote 32 sonatas and five concertos for the piano alone. For 10 points, what composer tore out the dedication to his Third Symphony upon hearing of Napoleon's coronation? Answer: Ludwig van _Beethoven_ 8. Danny Yatom had to step down from this organization after five agents were apprehended near Bern, Switzerland, while planting a wiretap on a phone line. Agent Yehuda Gil has admitted to falsifying documents, including some which alleged that Syria was planning an assault on Israel. For 10 points, what Israeli intelligence agency made some critical 1998 blunders? Answer: _Mossad_ 9. Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, long deemed the largest obstacle to true cross-platform compatibility, has been replaced in the Java2 standard by a new graphic user interface toolkit, part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). For 10 points, what name does this toolkit share with a musical genre made popular by Count Basie and Brian Setzer? Answer: _Swing_ 10. Medicine Hat, Tucson, Deadwood, Lost Mule Flat, Carquinez Straits, Little French Lick, Lundy's Lane, Skunktown Plain, Salem, Santa Cruz, Boston, Harrisburg, Spartanburg, and Painted Post. All of these places appear in a Stephen Vincent Benet that admonishes the reader to bury his heart at wounded knee. For 10 points, name this poem, whose title describes each of the above items. Answer: _American Names_ (accept _Wounded Knee_ early; prompt on "Stephen Vincent Benet") 11. A midshipman at nine, he may have been the youngest officer in the history of the U.S. Navy. A Tennesseean by birth and a Virginian by marriage, he was offered command of the Confederate Navy but chose to come North. He would eventually prove to be Lincoln's finest naval officer. For 10 points, name this victor at New Orleans and Mobile Bay who became the first American to hold the rank of Rear Admiral. Answer: David Glasgow _Farragut_ 12. The infertility of one of his fathers was cured by Medea and his other father granted him the fulfillment of 3 prayers. However, he used one unknowingly on his innocent bastard son, who his wife accused of rape. For 10 points, what husband of Phedre abandoned his future sister-in-law on the island of Naxos after she aided him in slaying her half-brother, the minotaur? Answer: _Theseus_ 13. When you don't like the existing ending, write your own! Words to live by if you're Nahum Tate, who in 1681 produced a revised, happy-ending version of to a contentious play. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare tragedy that contains a subplot in which Gloucester is turned against Edgar by Edmund. Answer: _King Lear_ 14. He was born in Ireland but upon being called an Irishman replied that "Just because a man is born in a stable doesn't make him a horse." He said that his most skillful work of generalship took place in India, but he is far more famous for his campaigns in Western Europe. For 10 points, name the man who displayed his mastery of fortifications with the Lines of Torres Vedras and his tactical abilities with his victory at the Battle of Waterloo. Answer: Sir Arthur _Wellesley_ (or the Duke of _Wellington_) 15. Copper Mountain. Finders Keepers. Once Bitten. Peggy Sue Got Married. The Dead Pool. Earth Girls Are Easy. In Living Color. The Itsy Bitsy Spider. Doing Time On Maple Drive. High Strung. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Mask. The Cable Guy. Liar Liar. The Truman Show. For 10 points, what actor stars in all of these? Answer: Jim _Carrey_ 16. It can be used as a verb to describe the interaction between two neutrons but it is usually a noun referring to a width of roughly 200 Angstroms, the gap between two cells. For 10 points, name this junction between an axon and a cell body. Answer: _synapse_ 17. This man came to Sarajevo in 1992 and told its people that he could name ten other places that were worse off than their own city. Earlier this year he met with Nuon Chea, the brother of Pol Pot, and stated that the Cambodian genocide was an internal affair that did not befit an international tribunal. His memoir, _Unvanquished_, complains endlessly about his treatment at the hands of US officials. For 10 points, name this famously double-named man who succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar as UN Secretary-General. Answer: Boutros _Boutros-Ghali_ 18. Helen Langdon recently published a biography of this Italian Renaissance painter who died on the run in 1610. He was born in Milan and his lover, a whore, may have been his model for Mary in "Death of the Virgin." For 10 points, name this artist whose behavior deteriorated even as his paintings became more religious. Answer: _Caravaggio_ (or "Michelangelo Merisi") 19. This man came to London with Samuel Johnson and, after the failure of his wine business, turned to acting. His success enabled him to buy the patent for the Drury Lane theater, where he helped to revive Shakespeare's popularity, with his directions still considered a landmark. For 10 points, name this 18th century stage manager, after whom a theater in London's West End is still named. Answer: David _Garrick_ 20. He introduced the broad-gauge railway and was the first to use compressed-air techniques in underwater and underground construction. His bridge over the Avon Gorge is still considered a masterpiece of design. For 10 points, name this foremost British civil and maritime engineer whose ships, the Great Western, Great Britain and Great Eastern, were each the largest ship in the world when built. Answer: Isambard Kingdom _Brunel_ 21. This man wrote the enormous _History of England_ but is substantially more famous for his work in philosophy. He refuted Rationalism and extended the work of Berkeley. For 10 points, name the empiricist whose _Natural History of Religion_ and _Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion_ assert that God does not exist because he is only an idea in the mind of man. Answer: David _Hume_ Boston Summer Open Round 8 Questions by Gautam Mukunda et al BONUSES 1. Name these literary works for 15 points from a description; 5 points if you need the author. A. (15 points)Philaminte plans to marry her daughter Henriette, who loves Clitandre, to Trissotin. All works out okay when Trissotin loses interest after Hentriette's father goes bankrupt. (5 points) Moliere Answer: Les _Femmes Savants_ or The _Learned Women_ B. (15 points) Tereza has nightmares about being forced to watch her lover and his mistress Sabrina have sex after she saw something similar suggested in a letter from Sabrina she discovered. (5 points) Milan Kundera Answer: The _Unbearable Lightness of Being_ 2. Name these things related to abstract algebra for 10 points each. A. What field of algebra, heavily used in quantum mechanics, is concerned with maps from groups to the set of automorphisms of vector spaces? Answer: _representation_ theory or _character_ theory (or the "theory of linear representations") B. What name is given to a ring which contains no nontrivial ideals? Answer: _field_ C. If F is a subfield of K, what name is given to the group of automorphisms of K that fix F, whose subgroups, according to a famous theorem, are in correspondence with intermediate fields between F and K? Answer: _Galois_ group (the correspondence is the Galois correspondence) 3. Name these albums and bands that feature imitations for 10 points each: A. After the success of the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," the Rolling Stones released their own "concept album" in 1969. Name this album, which included the hit "Sympathy for the Devil." Answer: _Our Satanic Majesties' Delight_ B. The Rolling Stones were then imitated by this jazz-rock fusion group in the early 1970s, which transformed "Sympathy for the Devil" into "Symphony for the Devil." Answer: _Blood, Sweat and Tears_ C. Perhaps the greatest imitator of all is Weird Al Yankovic. Name the new Weird Al album coming out this summer, also an activity to avoid. Answer: _Running with Scissors_ 4. For 10 points each, given the beginning and ending of three trails, name the trail. A. Fort Laramie, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana Answer: _Bozeman_ Trail B. San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas Answer: _Chisholm_ Trail C. Independence, Missouri to Fort Vancouver, Washington Answer: _Oregon_ Trail 5. Name these great generals of the late Byzantine Empire for 15 points each: A. This leading general of Justinian the First won at Dara, put down the Nika Insurrection, smashed the Vandal Kingdom of Northern Italy and took Rome several times, despite Justinian's unwillingness to support him. Answer: _Belisarius_ B. This eunuch was an assistant to Belisarius but later spied upon him. Later he had great success against the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy. Answer: _Narses_ 6. For 10 points each name these buildings: A. Frank Lloyd Wright designed this administrative building, with research tower, in Racine, Wisconsin beginning in 1936. Answer: Administrative Building, S.C. _Johnson_ and Son Company (accept "Johnson Wax") B. This structure burned down in 1619 but Inigo Jones had it restored by 1622. It received its ceiling paintings from Rubens in 1635. Answer: Banqueting House at _Whitehall_ (accept "Banqueting House") C. Sir Christopher Wren is best known for his work on Saint Paul's cathedral but he also did modifications on this cathedral in Wiltshire, the tallest in England. Answer: _Salisbury_ Cathedral (accept "Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary") Ans: Inigo Jones 7. The latest round of expansion by the National Hockey League will bring it from 26 teams to 30. For 5 points per answer: A. Name the four teams involved in this expansion. Answer: _Nashville_ _Predators_ _Atlanta_ _Thrashers_ _Minnesota_ _Wild_ _Columbus_ _Blue Jackets_ B. Two of the metropolitan areas getting expansion teams had previously been part of the NHL. Name the current teams that had played in those places. Answer: _Calgary_ _Flames_ (formerly in Atlanta) _Dallas_ _Stars_ (formerly in Minnesota) 8. Given the description, name the Knight of the Round Table for 10 points each: A. Foster-brother to Arthur, he was the Seneschal and a skilled warrior early in the saga, but a weakling in the later tales. Answer: Sir _Kay_ B. He worked as a kitchen-boy for a year, earning the nickname of Sir Beaumains, was knighted by Sir Lancelot, and was the brother of Gawain. Answer: Sir _Gareth_ C. He went mad and spent a year in the forest, but was brought back to sanity and returned in triumph to Camelot. Answer: Sir _Lancelot_ 9. In the fast lane of Internet commerce, it can be hard to keep up with who owns who these days. Name the parent company or largest stockholder of these three Internet vanguards for 10 points each: A. Excite Answer: _AtHome_ Networks B. Infoseek Answer: _Walt Disney_, Co. C. Lycos Answer: _CMGI_ (merger with USA Networks vetoed by stockholders) 10. Answer these three questions about the Restoration on a 5-10-15 basis: A. For 5 points, whose diary provides much of the existing commentary on everyday life in Britain's Restoration period? Answer: Samuel _Pepys_ (pronounced Peeps) B. For 10 points, what comedic actress, a friend of Samuel Pepys, rose to prominence as the mistress of Charles the Second? Answer: Nell _Gwynn_ (accept "Nell") C. At one point during her time as Charles's mistress, Nell Gwynn was riding in a carriage when it was besieged by an angry mob, which was actually out to kill a different mistresses. For 15 points, as best you can paraphrase, what did Nell say to soothe the mob and save her life? Answer: "No, I'm the _Protestant_ whore." (accept clear-knowledge equivalents) (The rival mistress was Catholic, and upon hearing Gwynn's religious persuasion, the mob dispersed.) 11. Name these works by George Orwell for 10 points each: A. This essay contains the lines, "a sahib has got to act like a sahib" and "white man mustn't be frightened in front of natives." Answer: _Shooting an Elephant_ B. The first published Orwell work, it chronicled the lives of the lower middle classes in two European cities. Answer: _Down and Out in Paris and London_ C. Part One of this book, also about poor people, describes the mining communities in the Black Country; Part Two contains Orwell's opinions of socialism. Answer: The _Road to Wigan Pier_ 12. 30-15-5. Name the scientist. A. He once stated that physicists were useless after forty, but then spent his 40th birthday working with particle accelerators. B. His wife wrote about life with him in "Atoms in the Family." He once calculated the power of the Trinity atomic bomb by dropping scraps of paper, convincing Leslie Groves that he had gone insane in the process. C. He won the Nobel Prize for discovering nuclear fission and predicted the existence of the neutrino. Answer: Enrico _Fermi_ 13. Given the work of modern political science, give the author for 10 points each. A. Taming the Prince Answer: Harvey C. _Mansfield_ B. A Theory of Justice Answer: John _Rawls_ C. Essence of Decision Answer: Joseph A. _Nye_ 14. Answer the following about related pieces of music for 10 points each: A. In this opera, Torquemada fixes clocks while his wife Concepcion sleeps around. Two of Concepcion's suitors hide in grandfather clocks that she asks a customer, Ramiro, to haul into her bedroom. She then decides to shag Ramiro instead and Torquemada makes the other two buy the clocks in which he finds them hiding. Answer: The _Spanish Hour_ or _L'Heure Espagnole_ B. In this opera, a naughty kid is punished when certain furniture and animals take on a life of their own. Answer: The _Child and the Enchantments_ or _L'enfant et les sortileges_ C. Both "The Spanish Hour" and "The Child and the Enchantments" come from this French composer, who is better known for a certain other work. Answer: Maurice _Ravel_ 15. Name these parts of a flower for 10 points each: A. This is the pollen-bearing tip of the filament. Answer: _anther_ B. It consists of one or more carpels in the center of the flower, and includes an expanded base, the ovary. Answer: _pistil_ C. This is the receptive portion of the style extending above the ovary. Answer: _stigma_ 16. Do you want your MTV? Answer these questions about this basic cable network for 10 points each. A. Cindy Crawford was the first, but who is the current host of "House of Style"? Answer: Rebecca _Romijn_-Stamos B. Long ago, there was Club MTV. Then there was The Grind. Today, where do MTV viewers go for their daily dose of scantily clad dancers and phat beats? Answer: _Isle of MTV_ C. Three letters: TRL. What do they stand for? Answer: _Total Request Live_ 17. Winston Churchill wrote a four-volume history of the English-speaking peoples. For 10 points each, give the titles of any three of those four volumes. Answer: The _Birth of Britain_ The _New World_ The _Age of the Revolution_ _The Great Democracies_ 18. Expand these acronyms from the world of computer science for 10 points each: A. XML ["ex-em-EL"] Answer: _eXtensible Markup Language_ B. HAVi [pronounced Havvy] Answer: _Home Audio/Video Interoperability_ C. Hapi (pronounced Happy) Answer: _Home Application Programming Interface_ 19. As of 1994, Boston was the largest city by population in Massachusetts, with 547,000 people. For 5 points each, name the next six in any order. Answer: _Worcester_ (165K) _Springfield_ (149K) _Cambridge_ (99K) _Lowell_ (96K) _New Bedford_ (94K) _Fall River_ (89K) 20. Identify the following about related literary works for 10 points each: A. The central character of this book spends seven years in a sanitarium, then leaves and disappears in an artillery barrage. Answer: The _Magic Mountain_ B. In this book the children of a prosperous German family succumb to decadence until the last member of the line dies at 15 of typhoid fever. Answer: _Buddenbrooks_ C. Who wrote both "The Magic Mountain" and "Buddenbrooks"? Answer: Thomas _Mann_