2018 National All-Star Academic Tournament

Round 4 – Tossups
1. This person was lent a helicopter by Charles Keating to visit American Indians while in Arizona and
was aided by spiritual advisor Celeste van Exem. Henry Sebastian D’Souza ordered an exorcism to help
this person recover from a heart-attack suffered while visiting the Vatican. At the age of eighteen, this
person went to Rathfarnham in Ireland to train. Malcolm Muggeridge helped publicize this person with
the documentary Something Beautiful for God, and she established the Kalighat Home for the dying. This
saint, who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Missionaries of Charity. For 10 points, name this
Albanian-born nun who wore a white sari with a blue border while working in Calcutta.
ANSWER: Mother Teresa [or Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu]
<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Daoud Jackson>

2. A cliff-sided island in this ocean is home to the world’s smallest flightless bird, a type of rail.
Inhabitants of a nearby island in this ocean mostly worked at a canned crawfish factory until its volcanic
Queen Mary’s Peak erupted in 1961 and destroyed it. In the nineteenth century, an enterprising individual
declared himself ruler of those islands in this ocean with the intention of running them as an oceanic pit-
stop, renaming them “the Islands of Refreshment.” Today, inhabitants of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas,
which is located in this ocean, collect guano from the nearby Inaccessible and Nightingale islands. That
archipelago in this ocean is the most remote inhabited place on earth, Tristan da Cunha (COON-yuh). For 10
points, name this ocean also home to St. Helena (heh-LEE-nuh) and the Falkland Islands.
ANSWER: South Atlantic Ocean
<The above question is for the category Geography World and was written by John Marvin>

3. In a Nahua (NAH-wah) myth, the king Huemac (WAY-mock) challenged Tlaloc to a ball game for precious
stones and feathers; when he won, Tlaloc only gave him this substance. Huemac’s refusal to accept it
brought a drought upon the land. The Gulf Coast cultures are home to a myth in which the god of this
substance is resurrected from the body of a sea turtle. In Guatemalan syncretic Catholicism, God made
Adam out of this substance after wood proved too stiff and dirt proved too soft. A recurring theme in
Mayan myth is the tale of a hero opening a mountain containing the source of this substance. The Hero
Twins’ father is probably a god of this substance, and the twins themselves are often depicted as two
stalks of this plant. For 10 points, name this crop, the staple grain of Mesoamerican cultures.
ANSWER: maize [or corn]
<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Greek/Roman Myth and was written by John Marvin>

4. The closing moments of this opera include a description of two lovers, their bodies touching, one of
whom asks the other “how much do you love me?” A motif in this opera is made of the solfège (SOUL-
fezh) notes “la-sol-do.” A bass clarinet and saxophone play repeated melodies in a scene in this opera in
which a woman obsessively discusses popular musicians while in a prison. The opening scene of this
opera features an organ playing in the background, while soloists sing lines including “we could get some
gasoline” over a chorus singing repeated sequences of numbers. This opera, the first in the “Portrait
Trilogy,” includes the scenes “Bed” and “Spaceship” as well as several “knee plays.” For 10 points, name
this minimalist Philip Glass opera inspired by the creator of the equation “E equals mc-squared.”
ANSWER: Einstein on the Beach
<The above question is for the category Arts Opera and was written by Joseph Krol>

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5. A theorem about these values follows from a lemma stating that, under certain triangulations in which
vertices are labeled one, two, or three, there will always be a baby triangle with three differently-
numbered vertices. The desired solution to an ODE is shown to be one of these things in the proof of the
Picard–Lindelöf theorem. On a complete metric space, a mapping with Lipschitz constant less than one,
which is called a contraction mapping, has a unique one of these values. Sperner’s lemma implies a
theorem about these things named for Brouwer. These values for a function can be found by intersecting
its graph with the points x comma x. For 10 points, name these points where f-of-x equals x, which are so
named because the point does not move.
ANSWER: fixed points [accept Brouwer fixed point theorem]
<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>

6. A journalist with this surname imagined a “macabre parlor game” in which she invented a series of
alphabetically named characters with varied personalities in her essay “Who Goes Nazi?” That “First
Lady of American Journalism” with this surname, the second wife of Sinclair Lewis, had the first name
Dorothy. A writer with this surname wrote about a man who asks the narrator to throw a toaster into his
bathtub at the climax of the song “White Rabbit”; that narrator later recalls that “we were riding the crest
of a high and beautiful wave” while lamenting the end of the 1960s counterculture. That author with this
surname wrote “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” and a book about Raoul Duke and
Dr. Gonzo’s drug-laced trip to Nevada. For 10 points, give this surname of Hunter, the author of Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas.
ANSWER: Thompson [or Dorothy Celene Thompson; or Hunter Stockton Thompson]
<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Shan Kothari>

7. Plutarch reinterpreted Hesiod’s (HEE-see-id’s) claim that this creature lives for over 77,000 years by
explaining that “generation” can mean “one year” in some contexts. Philostratus held that this creature
lived at the source of the Nile and collected spices there, and most myths describe this creature as using
cinnamon, cassia, and nard to create its home. It shares its name with a descendant of Io through Epaphus
who was either the father or brother of Europa. This creature habitually creates a container out of myrrh at
the Temple of the Sun in Heliopolis, where it appears every five hundred years after a journey from its
normal home in Arabia. For 10 points, name this bird in Greek mythology which is immediately reborn
after dying.
ANSWER: phoenix
<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Penelope Ashe>

8. A writer defended his attempt at this task by defining a “frame of accuracy.” A poem about this task
describes it as “a poet’s patience / And scholastic passion blent” and depicts the result as “All thorn, but
cousin to your rose.” The product of Jim Falen’s attempt at this task inspired Douglas Hofstadter’s often
humorous version of it. Edmund Wilson’s harsh review of an attempt at this task led to a falling out with
Vladimir Nabokov, who denounced Walter Arndt’s performance of this task before publishing an
infamously literal, unrhymed, four-volume attempt at it himself. This task is complicated by alternating
feminine and masculine rhymes in the original fourteen-line stanzas. For 10 points, identify this task of
rendering a verse novel about a superfluous man by Alexander Pushkin into English.
ANSWER: translating Eugene Onegin into English [or translating Yevgeny Onegin into English;
accept word forms of “translating”; prompt on translating; prompt on translating Russian; prompt on
translating into English; prompt on translating Russian into English]
<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Shan Kothari>

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9. This navy’s 10th Light Flotilla trained to execute a plan to send several midget submarines up the
Hudson River in an attack against New York Harbor. This navy developed human torpedoes called “pigs”
and used them to damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in a raid on Alexandria. In a battle
that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Swordfish bombers launched by Andrew Cunningham
from the HMS Illustrious destroyed half of this navy’s capital ships while they were anchored in Taranto
(TAH-rahn-toh). Along with the Kriegsmarine (KREEKS-mah-REE-nuh), this navy prevented the British from
resupplying their base at Malta until this navy’s country surrendered to the Allies in 1943. For 10 points,
name this mostly-Mediterranean navy intended to secure the “Mare Nostrum” for Benito Mussolini.
ANSWER: Italian navy [or Regia Marina]
<The above question is for the category History European 1914-present and was written by Nitin Rao>

10. This man debated with Fred Singer on Nightline about the theoretical environmental effects of
Saddam Hussein burning Kuwait’s oil wells. He won a Pulitzer for his book The Dragons of Eden. He is
the namesake of a number that represents the number of stars in the universe. This scientist was the first
to suggest that Venus was a hot planet due to a version of the greenhouse effect. He chaired the
committee that gathered the Voyager Golden Record, and he worked with his wife, Linda Salzman, and
Frank Drake to create the plaques sent on board Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. For 10 points, name this
scientist who wrote the book Pale Blue Dot and created the television series Cosmos.
ANSWER: Carl Edward Sagan
<The above question is for the category Science Astronomy and was written by Fred Morlan>

11. The Serrano people believed that this thing flew out during a cremation ceremony intended to prevent
Coyote from eating a corpse, becoming a quartz dome. A questionably-legitimate Serbian Orthodox icon
titled for this thing actually depicts four of them and can typically be found above the church exit. In the
Southwest US and in Mexico, Pueblo people make votive objects with this name out of colored yarn on
wooden crosses, a practice which has spread to some Mexican Catholics. It appears on a giant sphere and
in over fifty other places in the Tây Ninh (TYE nun) Holy See, as this thing is the main symbol of Caodaism
(cow-DIE-ism). This symbol enclosed in a triangle is a common representation of the Trinity. For 10 points,
name this symbol that Freemasons use to represent the Great Architect, which appears atop a pyramid on
the US dollar bill.
ANSWER: eye of God [or Hatauva; accept Krukat’s Eye; or ojo de Dios; or the All-Seeing Eye of
God; or the Divine Eye; or God’s Eye; or the Eye of Providence; prompt on All-seeing Eye; prompt on
eye; prompt on eye above a pyramid; do not accept or prompt on “third eye”]
<The above question is for the category RMP Non-Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>

12. This novel’s second section is introduced as “Some things are of that nature as to make one’s fancy
chuckle, while his heart doth ache.” Mr. Francis compares his school to a location from this book in the
second volume of Ngugi’s autobiography titled for that place, In the House of the Interpreter. This novel
was written shortly after its author’s autobiographical Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners while he
was imprisoned in Bedford Jail. The hero of this book is threatened with Mount Sinai falling on his head
and is advised to abandon Mr. Worldly Wiseman before passing through the Wicket-Gate. For 10 points,
Christian passes through Vanity Fair and the Slough of Despond in what allegory by John Bunyan?
ANSWER: The Pilgrim’s Progress [The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come]
<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Daoud Jackson>

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13. Dubinin and Radushkevich found that the characteristic curves of materials for this process were
directly tied to that material’s structure. The enhanced ability of chitosan (KITE-oh-san) to perform this
process has made it an ideal material for cell scaffolds in tissue engineering. Capillary condensation can
occur due to a multilayer form of this process in confined space. One model of this process sets the
equilibrium constant equal to theta over one minus theta times pressure, where theta is fractional
occupancy. Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller modified Langmuir’s (LANG-myoor’s) isotherm model for this
process by allowing for formation of multilayers. Porous materials such as activated carbon can perform
this process in solutions. For 10 points, name this process in which a molecule sticks to a solid surface.
ANSWER: adsorption [do not accept or prompt on “absorption”]
<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Paul Lee>

14. A newspaper story about the death of one of these two people noted he “ended his sentence with a
proposition,” referring to rumors that he was killed while sexually assaulting James Day. The other one of
this duo falsely claimed to have lost his unusual hinged eyeglasses while on a bird-watching trip. Both the
play and the film Rope were loosely based on their lives. A twelve-hour speech ending with quotes from
Omar Khayyam about “The Book of Love” was given in defense of these two men by Clarence Darrow,
sparing them from receiving the death penalty as a punishment for their murder of Bobby Franks. For 10
points, name these two University of Chicago students who killed a teenager in 1924 to demonstrate the
“perfect crime.”
ANSWER: Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. AND Richard Albert Loeb [accept in either order]
<The above question is for the category History American (1865-1945) and was written by Mike Cheyne>

15. Speakers of this language separate verbs into two units, one indicating the sort of action and the other
indicating direction, and organize those units in an A-B-A pattern to indicate continuous action. An
experiment that can be seen as supporting the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis had speakers of an early form of
this language attempt to find objects that had been hidden as they watched; speakers of this language
performed markedly worse than other children their age, which may be because they didn’t yet have
words for “left” or “right.” In this language’s early history, its speakers alternately used rotated and
mirrored representations of actions, but converged on rotated as it developed. This language was first
studied by Judy Kegl. For 10 points, name this language that spontaneously arose through the 1980s in
the Villa Libertad (VEE-yah LEE-bair-tahd) vocational school for the deaf in Managua.
ANSWER: Nicaraguan Sign Language [or NSL; or Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua; or ISN; prompt on
sign language; do not accept or prompt on “American Sign Language” or “ASL”]
<The above question is for the category Social Science Linguistics/Languages and was written by John Marvin>

16. T. S. Eliot claimed that this drama was “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written.”
A scene from this play is depicted in the Peacham drawing, which is the sole surviving contemporary
depiction of its author’s plays. The central plot of this play is set into action by the title character’s callous
sacrifice of Alarbus. Another scene in this play features a woman writing the names of her attackers using
a stick in her mouth. Towards the end of this play, the mixed-race Aaron lies dying, half-buried, while
regretting only that he had not done more evil. In this play, Chiron and Demetrius, the rapists of Lavinia,
are baked in a pie which is eaten by Tamora, Queen of the Goths. For 10 points, name this bloody
Shakespeare tragedy whose title character is a revenge-wracked Roman general.
ANSWER: Titus Andronicus
<The above question is for the category Literature Shakespeare and was written by Joseph Krol>

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17. This object is styled similarly to a generally accepted rhyton found in Shaft Grave IV. Defenders of
this object’s veracity note that it was not discovered until after Panagiotis (pah-nah-YO-tiss) Stamatakis was
installed to supervise the integrity of its site. Unlike similar objects found nearby, this item has a non-
engraved, cut hair, a pointed beard, and two separate depictions of eyelids. When this item was found, its
discoverer sent a telegram to King George claiming to have “gazed upon” a mythical face. This object
was found within tomb V of royal circle A in 1876, and was ultimately dated to the middle of the
16th century BC. For 10 points, name this gold funerary object discovered by Heinrich Schliemann at
Mycenae (my-SEE-nee) and supposedly made for a king from the Iliad.
ANSWER: funerary mask of Agamemnon
<The above question is for the category History European to 1400 and was written by Penelope Ashe>

18. In a painting by this artist, a dark-skinned man is lying with all of his clothes on, including his shoes,
atop a multicolored quilt in the title Garret Room. Two men by a black car are trying to buy a widow’s
farmland in his Public Sale. A boy in a black hat and coat runs down a hill in his Winter 1946. When
interviewed about his ninetieth birthday, this artist said that a woman is “part of the family now,” and that
“it shocks everyone… that’s what I love about it.” This artist painted that woman in Knapsack, Sunshield,
and Lovers, along with 240 other paintings of Helga Testorf. He painted a girl with a neuropathic ailment
in a field of beige grass on her side, wearing a pink dress. For 10 points, name this American artist of
Christina’s World.
ANSWER: Andrew Newell Wyeth [prompt on Wyeth]
<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>

19. The quality of a sample of these molecules is measured by a namesake “integrity number” by
Agilent’s Bioanalyzer. SID-1 and SID-2 channels shuttle these molecules between non-neuronal tissues
and are required for passive uptake on IPTG-containing agar during feeding. AGO2 binds to these
molecules and cleaves them using the “H” type of a namesake enzyme function conferred by its PIWI
domain. Lentiviruses can deliver an artificial form of these molecules featuring a hairpin that is processed
by Drosha. Longer forms of these molecules are cut by Dicer to yield their small interfering type, which
gets incorporated into the RISC in a namesake silencing process discovered by Fire and Mello. For 10
points, name these nucleic acids involved in a namesake “interference” that include micro and messenger
types.
ANSWER: RNA [or ribonucleic acid; or RNAi; or RNA with any prefix, such as siRNA or microRNA;
prompt on nucleic acids until it is read; do not accept or prompt on “DNA”]
<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Joelle Smart>

20. This composer used symbols like radical, squared, equals, and plus in his analysis of “Jeux de vagues”
(zhuh duh VOG) from La mer. Paul Wingfield edited a book of studies on this composer; his reconstruction
of this composer’s late mass based on a faulty non-Latin text moved its “Intrada” to the beginning. This
composer scribbled down tunelets of speech called “nápěvky mluvy” (NAH-pev-kee m’LOO-vee) in notepads
and organized his music in layers of small rhythmic units called “sčasování” (s’CHA-so-VAH-nee). A clarinet
represents Ostap’s dying screams in his Gogol-inspired rhapsody. This composer’s String Quartet No. 2
was inspired by 700 letters he sent to his young “muse,” Kamila Stösslová (KAH-mee-lah SHTUSS-lo-vah). A
stepmother drowns a baby in ice in his opera Jenůfa (yeh-NOO-fah), which is based on the inflections of
Czech speech. For 10 points, name this composer of the Glagolitic Mass, Taras Bulba (tah-ROSS BOOL-
bah), the “Intimate Letters” String Quartet, and a brassy Sinfonietta.
ANSWER: Leoš Janáček (LEH-ohsh YAH-naw-check) [or Leo Eugen Janáček; accept Janáček Studies]
<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Ophir Lifshitz>

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Extra. The speaker of this poem finds “the start of populous states and rich republics” in a slave, saying
that “before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale.” This poem says “I see my soul
reflected in Nature as I see through a mist” after telling women “be not ashamed” of the “bath of birth,
this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.” The ninth section of this poem includes “Eyes,
eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows” in an extensive list of anatomical parts. This poem, which ends “I
say now these are the soul,” added a new technological word to its first line an title in the 1867 revision of
Leaves of Grass. For 10 points, name this Walt Whitman poem which discusses human forms.
ANSWER: “I Sing the Body Electric”
<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by Penelope Ashe>

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2018 National All-Star Academic Tournament
Round 4 – Bonuses
1. A character in a film by this director puts a crown of thorns on his head after reaching a supposedly
desire-granting room to much disappointment. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Soviet director whose film Stalker follows three men through a disturbing tunnel known
as “the meat grinder” in a prohibited area known as “the Zone.” He directed a historical epic about the
iconographer Andrei Rublev (rub-LYOFF).
ANSWER: Andrei Tarkovsky
[10] This earlier Soviet filmmaker and theorist created a groundbreaking use of montage in his 1925 films
Strike and The Battleship Potemkin.
ANSWER: Sergei Eisenstein [Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein]
[10] This 1969 film by Sergei Parajanov (puh-ruh-JON-off) tries to depict the life of a great Armenian poet
through evocative, rather than narrative, visuals. It features a shot of a boy lying on a monastery roof as
the wind turns the pages of hundreds of books around him, and many shots of the title fruit being cut.
ANSWER: The Color of Pomegranates [or Sayat Nova; or Tsvyet Granaty]
<The above question is for the category Arts Film and was written by John Marvin>

2. This writer began his novel Almayer’s Folly while working as first mate on the Torrens, which sailed
from London to Adelaide. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novelist who set his novels An Outcast of the Islands and The Rescue in Malaysia.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Korzeniowski]
[10] While on the return from Adelaide to London, this novelist was impressed by the young Conrad’s
conversation. This author popularized the name Jolyon in a series of books in which Enoch builds the
house Robin Hill for his wife Irene.
ANSWER: John Galsworthy
[10] Galsworthy travelled to the antipodes to meet this Scottish author of Kidnapped and Treasure Island.
ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson
<The above question is for the category Literature British Non-Shakespeare and was written by Daoud Jackson>

3. This principle is sometimes called the law of talion. For 10 points each:
[10] Give this legal principle whose name illustrates the equality of retribution relative to its crime. It
appears in Exodus, Deuteronomy, and the Code of Hammurabi.
ANSWER: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
[10] In this section of Leviticus, the “eye for eye” injunction comes before a commandment that “you are
to have one law for the alien and for the citizen.” This section, a dense law code that is named for its
repetition of a certain word, was probably an earlier text that was incorporated into the Priestly source.
ANSWER: Holiness Code [or chapters 17–26 of Leviticus]
[10] Though different traditions disagree about the numbering of this law code, they all agree on how
many items it contains. This code includes imperatives to have no other gods, to honor one’s parents, and
not to commit adultery.
ANSWER: The Ten Commandments [or Decalogue; or aseret ha-d’varîm; or aseret ha-dibrot; or The
Ten Words; or The Ten Verses]
<The above question is for the category RMP Christian/Bible Religion and was written by John Marvin>

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4. The nth term in one of these sequences is equal to the first term plus “n minus one” times a fixed
constant. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these sequences in which successive terms differ by a fixed value, unlike geometric sequences,
in which they differ by a fixed ratio.
ANSWER: arithmetic (AIR-ith-MET-ick) sequence [or arithmetic progression]
[10] A theorem co-named for Ben Green and this man states that the prime numbers contain arbitrarily
long arithmetic progressions. This UCLA analyst won the Fields Medal in 2006.
ANSWER: Terence “Terry” Tao [or Terence Chi-Shen Tao]
[10] This mathematician names a theorem about arithmetic progressions of the form “a plus nb” for fixed
a and b that contain infinitely many primes. He names infinite series of the form “a-sub-n over n to the s.”
ANSWER: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (DEE-ree-klet)
<The above question is for the category Science Math and was written by Tim Morrison>

5. A disaster in this city gave Joseph I a lifelong phobia of living inside walls, so he moved the court to
the nearby hills of Ajuda (uh-ZHOO-duh). For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Portuguese city whose Ribeira Palace was destroyed by a magnitude-nine earthquake in
1755. This city’s earthquake had a strong influence on the writings of Voltaire.
ANSWER: Lisbon [or Lisboa]
[10] This minister names the style of anti-seismic architecture used to rebuild Lisbon. This nobleman
gained immense power after executing the rival Távora family following an assassination attempt against
Joseph I.
ANSWER: Marquis of Pombal [or Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, 1st
Count of Oeiras]
[10] Pombal used the tensions of the Távora affair to expel this organization from Portugal. Spain
expelled this group after the Esquilache Riots, and they were formally suppressed in 1773 by the bull
Dominus ac Redemptor.
ANSWER: Jesuits [or The Society of Jesus]
<The above question is for the category History European 1400-1914 and was written by Nitin Rao>

6. The Southern Baptist Convention rejected the 2005 and 2011 revisions of this translation because they
introduced gender-neutral terms such as “human beings” or “people” instead of “man” and “mankind.”
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this modern Bible translation, by far the most popular English translation with Evangelical
Protestants. It supplanted the older KJV and RSV and remained ahead of new competitors like the NLT.
ANSWER: The New International Version [or NIV; do not accept or prompt on “tNIV”]
[10] The NIV is published by this company, which also publishes devotional books and other Christian
literature.
ANSWER: Zondervan [prompt on HarperCollins]
[10] Zondervan is owned by the media conglomerate NewsCorp, which also owns Fox News and the
Wall Street Journal. NewsCorp is the holding company of this Australian-born mogul, who was also
previously CEO of 20th Century Fox.
ANSWER: Keith Rupert Murdoch
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7. This group ran the news rating site The Knife of Aristotle. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this accused cult based in upstate New York that recruited members via “Executive Success
Programs.” Its leader Keith Raniere (ruh-NEER-ee) was arrested in March 2018.
ANSWER: NXIVM (Nexium) [accept phonetic or spelled-out pronunciations]
[10] This Wilfred and Smallville actress was accused of being Raniere’s second-in-command in NXIVM.
She led a women’s group called “DOS” or “The Vow.”
ANSWER: Allison Mack
[10] Members of DOS were required to undergo this physical process in order to join the group.
ANSWER: branding [or being branded with an iron]
<The above question is for the category Current Events US and was written by Penelope Ashe>

8. The speaker of this poem says “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.” For 10
points each:
[10] Name this poem whose speaker declares “Out of the ash I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like
air.”
ANSWER: “Lady Lazarus”
[10] “Lady Lazarus” was published in this collection, alongside “Tulips” and “Munich Mannequins.” Its
title poem begins “Stasis in darkness, then the substanceless blue, pour of tor and distances.”
ANSWER: Ariel
[10] Ariel is a collection of poetry by this author, including her poem “Daddy.” She also wrote a novel,
The Bell Jar.
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by John Marvin>

9. One of these events took place in 2009, which mainly affected the H1N1 (H-one-N-one) subvirus. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this process that alters the structure of antigens by combining different strains of a virus; of the
flu viruses, it only occurs in influenza A.
ANSWER: antigenic shift [do not accept “antigenic drift”]
[10] A pandemic of H1N1 flu that started in this year is estimated to have killed at least 50 million
people.
ANSWER: 1918
[10] The H in H1N1 refers to this protein, which binds the virus to cells.
ANSWER: hemagglutinin
<The above question is for the category Science Biology and was written by Fred Morlan>

10. This leader promoted a compromise doctrine known as Monothelitism to bring heretics back into the
Church’s fold. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Byzantine emperor who instituted Greek as the official language of the empire. This
emperor sacked Khosrau II’s palace at Dastagird in the last of the Byzantine-Sassanid Wars.
ANSWER: Heraclius
[10] Heraclius is known as the “first crusader” because he recovered this Christian relic while
campaigning in Persia. A miracle reportedly helped Empress Helena identify this relic at the site of the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
ANSWER: The True Cross [or Holy Cross; or Saint Cross; or Holyrood]
[10] Soon after the defeat of the Sassanids, Heraclius faced an invasion by these people, whose tribes had
recently been united under Muhammad. This ethnic group’s Rashidun Caliphate conquered the Levant,
Egypt, and Africa from Byzantium.
ANSWER: Arabs
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11. Among the most common types of these circuit components are their “parallel-plate” types, which
often feature a dielectric in between the plates. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these circuit components that are often said to store charge. Their namesake value is measured
in farads, and they are combined with inductors in LC circuits.
ANSWER: capacitor [or condenser]
[10] LC circuits resonate as this value approaches zero. This quantity’s real part is the resistance while its
imaginary part is reactance.
ANSWER: impedance (im-PEE-dance)
[10] The most useful properties of LC circuits arise when they resonate at their natural angular frequency,
which takes this value if the inductor has inductance L and the capacitor has capacitance C.
ANSWER: one over the square root of LC [or mathematically equivalent formulations]
<The above question is for the category Science Physics and was written by Joseph Krol>

12. This character is introduced when he crashes a religious revival by accusing the preacher of
pedophilia and bestiality, inciting an angry mob. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this apparent polymath who extensively catalogs the natural world and declares that “war is
God.”
ANSWER: Judge Holden [or the Judge]
[10] The hairless, pale Judge Holden leads a gang of murderous scalpers and thieves in this novel, which
follows “the kid” through the deserts of Mexico.
ANSWER: Blood Meridian
[10] Blood Meridian is by this author. He also wrote about a father and son wandering about in a post-
apocalyptic waste in The Road.
ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy [or Charles McCarthy]
<The above question is for the category Literature American and was written by John Marvin>

13. Answer the following about mostly bloodless wars, for 10 points each.
[10] Only one man was wounded in this dispute between Ohio and Michigan over a strip named for a city
on the Maumee River that shares its name with a city in Spain. The Frostbitten Convention ended this war
by awarding Michigan the Upper Peninsula.
ANSWER: Toledo War
[10] The only casualty of this British–US conflict was the namesake animal. This confrontation
concerned claims to the San Juan Islands between Vancouver Island and the Washington Territory.
ANSWER: Pig War [or Pig Episode or Pig and Potato War or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute]
[10] Though not bloodless, this 1798 naval war with France got its name because it was undeclared.
Offensive treatment of American diplomats in the XYZ affair led to the eruption of this conflict.
ANSWER: Quasi-War [or Quasi-guerre]
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14. Prior to the DSM-V (D-S-M-five), these disorders, together with mental retardation, were grouped in a
separate axis from nearly all other psychological diagnoses. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this class of disorders characterized by long-lasting cognitive patterns and behaviors that
disrupt everyday functioning. They are grouped into three clusters, and examples include the schizotypal,
antisocial, and histrionic types.
ANSWER: personality disorders
[10] Marsha Linehan developed dialectical behavior therapy to reduce suicidal ideation caused by this
personality disorder, which is characterized by fluctuating moods and an ambiguous sense of self.
ANSWER: borderline personality disorder [or BPD; or emotionally unstable personality disorder; or
EUPD]
[10] A personality disorder described by this term causes exaggerated self-importance and self-
admiration. It is named after a character from Greek mythology.
ANSWER: narcissism [or narcissistic personality disorder]
<The above question is for the category Social Science Psychology and was written by Shan Kothari>

15. A skull-headed man wearing a green top hat appears at the bottom left of a painting of this man, while
a parade of soldiers marches through the crowded street, led by a man holding a rapier with his head back
and wearing a bishop-like hat. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man who was depicted entering a European city in 1889 under a red sign.
ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Christ]
[10] That painting of Christ entering a city in this country was by James Ensor, member of a group of
artists from this place called Les XX (lay VAN). This country was also home to the surrealist René Magritte.
ANSWER: Belgium [Kingdom of Belgium; or Koninkrijk België; or Royaume de Belgique; or
Königreich Belgien]
[10] This three-word French slogan appears on the sign in Christ’s Entry Into Brussels.
ANSWER: “Vive le Sociale”
<The above question is for the category Arts Painting and was written by John Marvin>

16. Name some species in chemical reactions that produce impressive visual effects, for 10 points each.
[10] A classic example of a single displacement reaction is the thermite reaction, which involves reacting
this metal with iron oxide to produce a lot of heat.
ANSWER: aluminum [or Al]
[10] In a reaction called “pharaoh’s serpent,” the thiocyanate of this element is ignited to produce a
coiling solid emerging from a blue flame. This liquid metal is no longer used for that reaction due to its
high toxicity.
ANSWER: mercury [or Hg]
[10] A similar reaction called “elephant’s toothpaste” involves exothermic decomposition of this
compound to produce volcano-like foam. This compound is produced by the anthraquinone process.
ANSWER: hydrogen peroxide [or H2O2]
<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Paul Lee>

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17. This man was nominated for an Oscar four times, finally winning for the Henry James adaptation The
Heiress. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this composer of such ballets as Appalachian Spring and Rodeo.
ANSWER: Aaron Copland
[10] This English composer of Façade who worked in many genres was Oscar-nominated for his 1944
score for the Shakespeare adaptation Henry V. He wrote the celebrated cantata Belshazzar’s Feast in
1931.
ANSWER: William Turner Walton
[10] This man was not a classical composer, but did win an Oscar for scoring a 1941 adaptation of The
Devil and Daniel Webster. He scored Alfred Hitchcock films such as Psycho and Vertigo.
ANSWER: Bernard Herrmann [or Max Herman]
<The above question is for the category Arts Music and was written by Mike Cheyne>

18. In the preamble to the Communist Manifesto, this man is matched with François Guizot (ghee-ZOH) as
one of the powers in a holy alliance to exorcise the specter of communism. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Austrian statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Austria. This
conservative diplomat organized the Congress of Vienna and was forced to resign during the Revolutions
of 1848.
ANSWER: Klemens von Metternich [or Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince von Metternich-
Winneburg zu Beilstein]
[10] The March Revolution of 1848 led to the formation of this convention that issued a constitution and
proclaimed a united German Empire. This assembly offered the German throne to Frederick William IV
of Prussia, who declared that he would not accept “a crown from the gutter.”
ANSWER: Frankfurt Parliament [or Frankfurter Nationalversammlung]
[10] Also in 1848, this country ended its “Restoration and Regeneration” Period with a constitution
ushering in a federal state. In the previous year, this country experienced the Sonderbund War between its
Protestants and Catholics.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or the Swiss Confederation; or Schweiz; or Suisse; or Svizzera; or Svizra]
<The above question is for the category History European 1400-1914 and was written by Nitin Rao>

19. This novella features the short line “Then – the officer,” in which the dash between the first two
words represents the rape of the title character. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novella by Heinrich von Kleist, in which the title woman places an advertisement in the
local newspapers of an Italian town, asking for the father of her child to come forward.
ANSWER: The Marquise of O [or Die Marquise von O]
[10] von Kleist is generally considered part of this broader European literary movement. This movement
is also represented by Lyrical Ballads, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
ANSWER: Romanticism
[10] Romanticism partly developed from this earlier German movement, propounded by Hamann, Goethe
(GUR-tuh), and Schiller. This movement involves much greater extremes of emotion than usual in the
Enlightenment, and its name comes from a play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.
ANSWER: Sturm und Drang [or Storm and Stress]
<The above question is for the category Literature European and was written by Joseph Krol>

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20. Several myths about a character with this name may have been developed to explain the harvest song
alinon, which might have come in turn from the Phoenician “ai lanu” meaning “alas for us.” For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this prince of Argos and son of Psamathe (sah-MAH-thay), who Pausanius says was abandoned
by his mother and eaten by the dogs of Crotopus, causing a plague to affect the city.
ANSWER: Linus
[10] In another myth, Linus is said to have been the music teacher of this hero who killed him with his
lyre. He was punished by being sent out to the fields by Amphitryon, who had married his mother
Alcmene.
ANSWER: Heracles [or Hercules]
[10] In most stories, Linus is the son of this Olympian who was often depicted with a lyre. The first lyre
was made for this god by Hermes.
ANSWER: Apollo
<The above question is for the category RMP Greek/Roman Myth and was written by Daoud Jackson>

Extra. Answer some questions about molecular vibrations. For 10 points each:
[10] Molecular vibrational transitions are usually excited by electromagnetic radiation in this region of the
spectrum, which has a wavelength longer than visible light.
ANSWER: infrared [or IR]
[10] This term describes a pattern of motion in a molecular vibration where all parts of the system move
sinusoidally with the same string and a fixed phase relation. For a non-linear molecule with N atoms,
there exist 3N-6 of these patterns.
ANSWER: normal modes
[10] These features in a molecular vibrational spectrum arise due to transitions between two excited
vibrational states. They tend to appear at lower frequencies than the corresponding fundamental
transitions.
ANSWER: hot bands
<The above question is for the category Science Chemistry and was written by Ewan MacAulay>

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