WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2 - A CAVALCADE OF WHIMSY
ROUND 11

TOSSUPS

1. For a component of a mixture this function is given by the equation d of the natural log of the function equals d mu over RT. The ratio of this function's value to its value in some standard state is called the activity, and it is essentially a measure of the tendency of a component of a liquid mixture to vaporize. FTP, what is this thermodynamic function used in place of partial pressure in reactions involving real gases and mixtures, symbolized f?
	Answer: fugacity (prompt on partial pressure)

2. One of the narrators of this novel tells the story to Shreve McCannon after he hears it from the protagonist's sister-in-law Rose Coldfield. It tells of the son of a poor West Virginian who desires to establish himself as the head of an aristocratic southern family. However, after returning from the Civil War he finds his plantation in ruins, and discovers that his son has murdered Charles Bon, whose son is now being raised by Charles' lover, the protagonist's daughter Judith. FTP, what is this novel about Thomas Sutpen by William Faulkner?
	Answer: Absalom, Absalom

3. Although originally an opera, this work is now commonly performed as an orchestral suite consisting of 8 sections played without interruption, the seventh of which contains the famous five variations on a Shaker theme entitled "Simple gifts". In it, neighbors and a revivalist attend a celebration for a newly built Pennsylvania farmhouse intended for a betrothed couple. Commissioned by Elizabeth Coolidge for Martha Graham, FTP, what is this ballet by Aaron Copland?
	Answer: Applachian Spring

4. As he was preparing an expedition to Peru this explorer was replaced by Pedro Arias de Avila, accused of treason, and executed. After sailing with Bastidasin in 1501 he went to Hispanola, but to escape creditors he hid on the vessel that took Martin de Enciso to Panama. At Darien he replaced the incompetant Enciso and took command of the ship, thereafter displaying the lack of rapacity and cruelty that won him the respect and friendship of the indigenous peoples of Central America, who accompanied him during his epic march across the isthmus. FTP, who was this first European to discover the Pacific Ocean?
	Answer: Vasco Nunez de Balboa

5. The great temple at Cholula was dedicated to this god, who according to one myth traveled to the east coast of his country, where he was consumed by divine fire, with his ashes turning into birds and his heart turning into the morning star. Said to have ended the 2nd epoch by creating a great hurricane which turned men into monkeys, most myths hold that he was tricked into exile from Tula by Tezcatlipoca, after which he sailed off to a mythical land, promising to eventually return. Impersonated by Cortez, FTP, who was this Aztec god represented as a feathered serpent?
	Answer: Quetzalcoatl

6. This scientist's work "Optical investigations" contains his principle of spectrum analysis, demonstrating that a hot gas emits light at the same frequency as it absorbs it when it is cooled. The first person to study the spectrum of the aurora borealis, he identified the presence of hydrogen in the Sun, and his 1868 work "Researches of the Solar Spectrum" presented an atlas of the solar spectrum with measurements of 1,000 spectral lines expressed in units of one ten-millionth of a millimeter. FTP, who was this Swedish astrophysicist whose name is now used to represent the unit of measure he used?
	Answer: Anders Jonas Angstrom

7. Along with Friedrich Holderlin and Friedrich Nietzsche, this man's work was analyzed in Stefan Zweig's study "Master Builders". The work of this author first gained notice while he was in jail accused of being a spy, one of many events that would ultimately lead him to commit suicide with his friend Henrietta Vogel at age 34. With his friend Adam Muller he founded the periodical "Phobus", which would publish some of his best works. After early dramatic efforts like the unfinished "The Schroffenstein Family" and "The Broken Jug" he completed his patriotic masterpiece, "Prince Friedrich von Homburg". FTP, who was this German also known for novellas like "The Marquise of O" and "Michael Kohlhass"?
	Answer: Heinrich von Kleist

8. This artist's work consists almost entirely of works set near his summer home in Cushing, Maine and the Brandywine Valley around his native Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Noted for his technical virtuosity, he was the son of the famous illustrator Newell Convers, and is most famous for a 1948 work depicting Anna Olsen. FTP, who is this painter of Christina's World?
	Answer: Andrew Wyeth

9. This politician's fall was precipitated by opposition to his "Six Edicts". Author of "Lettres sur la tolerance", he originally gained fame for the reforms he instituted as Intendant of Limoges, during which time he published his best-known work, "Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth". A member of the Physiocrats, he instituted a rigid economic system while reforming the French economy from 1774-76. FTP, who was this Controller General of Finance under Louis XVI?
	Answer: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

10. A chain of mountains run along the northern parts of this island group's two main islands, reaching a maximum height of 2,312 feet at Mount Usborne. Home to no indigenous land mammals, its government also administers the Shag and Clerke rocks, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands. Consisting of about 200 small islands and the East and West main islands, one of its names was given to it by John Strong, who made the first recorded landing there in 1690, while its South American name comes from the port of St. Malo. With capital at Stanley, FTP, what are these islands which in 1982 became the focus of an unoffical war between Great Britain and Argentina?
	Answer: Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas

11. This element has the highest melting point of any metal. Found with calcium and oxygen in the ore scheelite, it was first isolated in 1783 by J.J. and F. d'Elhuyer. A white or gray metallic transition element, it is used in high speed steels and in lamp filaments. With atomic number 74, FTP, what is this element originally called Wolfram with symbol W?
	Answer: tungsten

12. This director made several short documentaries for Italian television, including "Louis XIV", which was later released as a feature film. Films like "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" continued the neorealist style seen in his first acclaimed work, the clandestinely filmed "Open City". In 1949 he made "Stromboli", the first of a series of vehicles for Ingrid Bergman, who later became his wife. FTP, who was this Italian director now known as the father of the actress Isabella?
	Answer: Roberto Rossellini

13. This short story ends with the protagonist unable to sleep after a nightmare in which the recent suicide Eugenio blames her for his death. It is set during a single evening in the upper room of the protagonist, who, while being serenaded by the vain revolutionary Braggioni, reflects on her belief in Roman Catholicism and her time teaching Indian children during the Mexican Revolution. FTP, what is this short story about Laura, written by Katherine Anne Porter?
	Answer: Flowering Judas

14. It included the Wilderness Areas Act, Clean Water Restoration Act, Appalachian Regional Development Act, and Economic Opportunity Act. Its most important urban renewal measures included the Mass Transit Act and Housing and Urban Development Act, while its health legislation included the Older Americans Act, Medicaid, and Medicare. Intended to create a network of social welfare assistance and outlaw racial discrimination, it's name was first used at an October 31, 1964 rally, but it suffered funding problems due to the Vietnam War. The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were a part of, FTP, what domestic agenda of Lyndon Johnson?
	Answer: the Great Society

15. Chapter 4, verse 5 of this book foretells the coming of the prophet Elijah before the "great and dreadful day of the Lord". Consisting of 6 sections written in question and answer form, it was written just after the period of rededication of the temple of Jerusalem, and attacks the moral laxness of the people, especially the priesthood, relating this laxness with the economic hardships of the time. FTP, what is this last book of the Christian Old Testament?
	Answer: Malachi

16. Pyomyositis is an unusual form of the causative agent of this disease which can cause a form of conjunctivitis which can lead to scarring and blindness. Caused by the Neisseria bacterium, it can be mistaken for appendicitis in women, but in men is characterized by difficulty and burning in urination and the flow of pus from the urethra. FTP, what is this venereal disease often coexisting with syphilis?
	Answer: gonorrhea

17. Among this anthropologist's lesser known works are "The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead", "The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion", and "Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies". Professor of anthropolgy at Liverpool and Cambridge, many of his later works, like "Folklore in the Old Testament" and "Totemism and Exogamy", were ignored due to the enormous attention paid to his major work, an extensive cross-cultural study of religion and mythology which takes its name from a branch broken by Aeneas before his descent into the underworld. FTP, who was this Scottish anthropologist, author of The Golden Bough?
	Answer: James George Frazer

18. This literary character was the son of Ellen Higgins and Rudolph Virag, who killed himself two years before this man married. He has a daughter named Milly, but his son Rudy died as an infant. Known as Henry Flower to Martha Clifford, with whom he is conducting an epistolary love affair, his feelings of estrangement from Ireland is a core element of the novel in which he is found. FTP, who is this ad canvasser, the protagonist of Ulysses?
	Answer: Leopold Bloom

19. This ruler rose to power from the small Kakwa ethnic group, and eventually massacred many members of the Langi and Acholi peoples, while his unpredictable nature was seen in his 1972 expulsion of Asians from his country. Originally a member of the King's African Rifles, he rose through the ranks of his nation army while becoming national heavyweight boxing champion, and seized power in January 1971 from Milton Obote. FTP, who was this ruler of Uganda?
	Answer: Idi Amin (Dada)

20. The revolutionary approach this thinker would bring to philosophy was already present in his first work, the "Rules for the Direction of the Understanding". His work "Dioptric, Meteors, and Geometry" discussed the scientific views vital to his plan to reconstruct the whole of philosophy using deduction and his technique of "methodical doubt". First conceiving his mission in a famous "stove-heated room" in the winter of 1619, he put his plan into effect in the "Principles", the "Meditations on First Philosophy", and the "Discourse on Method". FTP, who was this French thinker best-known for his statement "Cogito, ergo sum"?
	Answer: Rene Descartes

WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2 - A CAVALCADE OF WHIMSY
ROUND 11

BONUSES

FTPE, name these poems by William Blake.
1. (10 points) The centerpiece of Songs of Experience, this 6-stanza poem concerns a creature which both attracts and terrifies. The fifth stanza closes with the famous question "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
	Answer: The Tyger
2. (10 points) In this short epic, the title figure returns from heaven and corrects the misinterpretations given to his works on earth. He eventually enters Blake's soul and preaches redemption and forgiveness.
	Answer: Milton
3. (10 points) The longest of Blake's poems, this 1804 poem, the third of his epics, presents his theory that the world of imagination is a world of eternity after death. It is named for a city.
	Answer: Jerusalem

FTPE, name the following about a psychologist.
1. (10 points) The daughter of another psychologist, this author of "Normality and Pathology in Childhood" was noted for her work in child psychology.
	Answer: Anna Freud
2. (10 points) Anna Freud's most important work was this 1936 work in which she argued that the title aspect of the human psyche had an active role in resolving conflict and tension.
	Answer: The Ego and (the) Mechanisms of Defense
3. (10 points) After emigrating to England Anna founded and directed this famous child therapy clinic.
	Answer: Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic

FTPE, name these orders of knights.
1. (10 points) Beginning circa 1070 as a medical order whose symbol was a black habit bearing a white eight-pointed cross, they soon became an Augustinian military order. They are mainly known for a series of ass-poundings which forced them to relocate to Acre, Cyprus, Rhodes, and finally Malta.
	Answer: Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem (or Knights of Rhodes or Malta)
2. (10 points) This first English order was founded in 1348 by Edward III, and gains its name and motto from a alleged incident which occurred when he was dancing with the Countess of Salisbury. 
	Answer: The Most Noble Order of the Garter
3. (10 points) Commonly known as the Sword-Brothers, this order was founded circa 1202 to support the Bishop of Riga in his missionary work among pagan Latvians. After early success, they were crushed by the Lithuanians at Saule in 1236, after which they became a branch of the Teutonic Knights, and disbanded in 1561 in the face of Russian threats.
	Answer: Livonian Knights

FTPE, answer the following about Krusty the Klown's favorite subject, enzyme kinetics!
1. (10 points) Enzyme reactions can be inhibited when an inhibitor binds to this site on an enzyme defined to be any bonding site other than the active site.
	Answer: allosteric site
2. (10 points) Used to express the speed of action of an enzyme, this number is the number of molecules of substrate that are converted into product per minute by one molecule of an enzyme. Catalase has an extremely high value of 6 million.
	Answer: turnover number or rate
3. (10 points) Symbolized K sub m, this constant is the concentration of a substrate required in order for an enzyme to act at half of its maximum velocity. It can be determined using the curve named for its namesake and Menten.
	Answer: Michaelis constant

FTPE, name these archangels.
1. (10 points) The archangel of light, a story tells of how he was sent by God to answer the questions of Esdras.
	Answer: Uriel
2. (10 points) Usually distinguished in art by a pilgrim's staff or by carrying a fish, this angel helped Tobias catch the fish which miraculously cured his blindness. He was also the angel sent by God to warn Adam of his danger.
	Answer: Raphael
3. (10 points) In Muslim theology, this is the angel of death who serves as Allah's messenger. He will be the last to die.
	Answer: Azrael

FTPE, name these stories found in Melville's Piazza tales.
1. (10 points) The Piazza Tales concludes with this story about a legal copyist who would prefer not to do most things.
	Answer: Bartleby the Scrivener
2. (10 points) In this story, the title figure is refused a sale by a potential customer who holds that since man cannot control God, he should not fear him, and hence he does not need the title character's product.
	Answer: The Lightning-Rod Man
3. (10 points) In this story Bannadonna attempts to rival the power of God but is destroyed by the title creation.
	Answer: The Bell Tower

5-10-15, name these Botticelli works.
1. (5 points) Two figures are seen blowing to shore the title figure, who is standing on a seashell.
	Answer: The Birth of Venus
2. (10 points) Cupid is in the top center of this work which includes a green figure on the far right, a man reaching into a tree on the far left, and three women dancing.
	Answer: Primavera or Spring
3. (15 points) The only work signed by Botticelli, twelve angels form a circle at the top, while three couples embrace along the bottom. The title scene takes place under a canopy in the center, while the inscription on the top predicts the end of the world.
	Answer: The Mystic(al) Nativity

FTPE, name the following about a Mexoamerican culture.
1. (10 points) The first major Mesoamerican culture, this culture thrived on the Mexican Gulf Coast from 1200-600 BCE. They were the first to develop large planned religious and ceremonial centers, the first of which was San Lorenzo.
	Answer: Olmecs
2. (10 points) During the middle period of the Olmec culture this religious center known for its pyramid was the dominant city, replacing San Lorenzo in importance.
	Answer: La Venta
3. (10 points) During the late Olmec period La Venta was replaced as the main ceremonial center by this site, the third of the major Olmec centers.
	Answer: Tres Zapotes

FTPE, given a metal, name the color it produces in a flame test.
1. (10 points) lithium
	Answer: red or crimson
2. (10 points) barium
	Answer: green
3. (10 points) calcium
	Answer: red or brick red

FTPE, name the following about Achilles.
1. (10 points) Achilles was the king of this Thessalian tribe noted for their brutality in the Trojan War. Originally ants, Zeus made them men to populate the island of Oenone.
	Answer: Myrmidons
2. (10 points) This sea goddess was desired by both Zeus and Poseidon, but when a prophesy revealed she would bear a child greater than his father she was wed to a hero instead. She soon gave birth to Achilles.
	Answer: Thetis
3. (10 points) Thetis married this father of Achilles who was banished from his kingdom of Aegina when he joined his brother Telamon in killing their half brother Phocus.
	Answer: Peleus

FTPE, answer the following crap about Sherlock Holmes.
1. (10 points) This ingenious woman is encountered in "A Scandal in Bohemia". Known as the only woman Holmes ever loved, she disappears at the end of the story.
	Answer: Irene Adler (accept either name)
2. (10 points) This right-hand man and chief of staff for Professor Moriarty is known as the "second most dnagerous man in London".
	Answer: Moran
3. (10 points) Wishing to rid himself of Holmes, Doyle tried to kill him off in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by having him fall from this site.
	Answer: Reichenbach Falls

FTPE, answer the following related fluid mechanics stuff.
1. (10 points) This is the name given to any fluid in which the velocity gradient is directly proportional to the shear stress.
	Answer: Newtonian fluid
2. (10 points) This operator named for a French mathematician takes a function and creates the sum of all of the function's second partial derivatives. It is symbolized del squared.
	Answer: Laplace operator
3. (10 points) The Laplace operator is found in this equation describing the flow of Newtonian fluids. Named for two scientists, it states that the partial derivative of velocity with respect to time plus v grad v equals 1 over the density times the gradient of pressure plus the viscosity times the Laplace operator of velocity.
	Answer: Navier-Stokes equation

FTPE, answer the following about the 30 Years War.
1. (10 points) After Gustavus Adolphus' death this Chancellor took over Sweden's war effort, and served as regent to Queen Christina.
	Answer: Axel Oxenstierna
2. (10 points) In 1633 Oxenstierna financed the Heilbronn League of German Protestants to oppose Germany, but the league broke up after this major 1634 military defeat.
	Answer: Nordlingen
3. (10 points) The Thirty Years War was ended by this 1648 treaty signed at Munster and Osnabruck.
	Answer: Peace of Westphalia

FTPE, answer the following about a lake.
1. (10 points) Known for its intense blue color, this lake reaches a maximum depth of 1,932 feet, and is found high in the Cascade Mountains.
	Answer: Crater Lake
2. (10 points) Crater lake was formed more than 6,000 years ago when a volcanic eruption destroyed the upper portion of this mountain.
	Answer: Mount Mazama
3. (10 points) More recent volcanic activity led to the development of this large island rising just above the surface of the water.
	Answer: Wizard Island

FTPE, name these random things from ballet.
1. (10 points) One of the oldest ballets still in the modern repertory is "Giselle" by this composer.
	Answer: Adolphe Adam
2. (10 points) In this Tchaikovsky ballet, Prince Siegfried battles the Evil Power to woo Odette.
	Answer: Swan Lake
3. (10 points) This choreographer and dancer reinvigorated ballet with his work with the Ballet Russe, working with Nijinsky and creating Anna Pavlova's "The Dying Swan" routine. Ballets he choreographed included "The Firebird" and "Les Sylphides".
	Answer: Michel Fokine

FTPE, stuff about an organelle.
1. (10 points) This organelle is the site of the cytoplasm that carries out aerobic respiration, and is the site of the cell's energy production.
	Answer: mitochondrion
2. (10 points) Mitochondria are bounded by two membranes, the inner of which is folded into these finger-like projections.
	Answer: christae
3. (10 points) Mitochondria are the site of the Krebs cycle and this series of reactions which follows the Krebs cycle and makes up the final stage of aerobic respiration.
	Answer: electron transport chain (or electron transport system)

FTPE, answer the following about a treasury secretary.
1. (10 points) Due to the nearness of his estate to that of FDR, this man became friends with the future president, and was named head of the Federal Farm Board in 1933. Made Treasury Secretary in 1934, he resigned due to the rejection of his plan to deindustrialize post-WWII Germany.
	Answer: Henry Morganthau
2. (10 points) Henry Morganthau helped draft this 1941 act which circumvented the Johnson Debt Default Act in order to aid Britian and other countries considered important to US military interests.
	Answer: Lend-Lease Act
3. (10 points) Marganthau organized this July 1-22, 1944 world conference which sought to establish a framework for world trade that would avoid future depressions.
	Answer: Bretton Woods Conference

Name these 20th century philosophers, FTPE.
1. (10 points) Conceiving of ideas as tools for the solutions of problems in the environment, this man developed a pragmatist philosophy described in his magnum opus, "Experience and Nature". His writings on education include "The School and Society" and "The Child and the Curriculum".
	Answer: John Dewey
2. (10 points) This founder of the Vienna Circle argued that the ultimate test for the truth of any assertion was the individual's private experience in works like "Raum und Zeit in der gegenwartigen Physik", "Questions of Ethics", and "Nature and Culture".
	Answer: Moritz Schlick
3. (10 points) This author of "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" attacked representationism in his major work "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature".	
	Answer: Richard Rorty

FTPE, answer the following about a type of literary work.
1. (10 points) This type of literary work deals with the outlaw cattle hunters of the Rio de la Plata region, as seen in works like Hilario Ascasubi's "Santos Vega" and Estanislao del Campo's "Fausto".
	Answer: gaucho literature
2. (10 points) Many critics consider the greatest example of gaucho literature to by this narrative poem by Jose Hernandez, in which the title cowboy describes the injustice he suffers at the hands of abusive law officers and his flight with his friend Cruz to become an outlaw.
	Answer: Martin Fierro
3. (10 points) Another great example of gaucho literature is Facundo by this author who also served as president of Argentina. Other works include Viajes and Recuerdos de provincia.
	Answer: Domingo Sarmiento

FTPE, name the following about an artist and her work.
1. (10 points) This room-size sculpture was executed from 1974-78, and consists of 39 place settings whose elaborate ornamentation represents women's contributions to Western civilization.
	Answer: The Dinner Party
2. (10 points) Originally named Cohen, this was the artist of The Dinner Party, who founded the first women's art program in the U.S. at Fresno State College.
	Answer: Judy Chicago
3. (10 points) In this project executed from 1980-85, Judy Chicago used 118 volunteer needleworkers to explore women's role in reproduction using traditional media like embroidery and quilting. Chicago claimed that it served as a metaphor for the creation of the universe.
	Answer: The Birth Project