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1.
One paper by Steven Haider and Gary Solon challenged the traditional estimation of this quantity using its
current analog as a proxy. Joshua Angrist used CWHS data to study the impacts on this quantity from
military service and draft avoidance behavior from the Vietnam War draft lottery. The parameter
B
in a
model that Gary Becker created to estimate this quantity accounts for changes in physical and intellectual
capability. Yoram Ben-Porath adapted that model to estimate this quantity into an individual (*)
human
capital production function, concluding that maximizing this quantity is equivalent to optimally investing in
individual economic growth. Since the late 20th century, most labor economists have decomposed the growth of
inequality in this quantity into persistent and transitory components. For 10 points, name this quantity that is, on
median, 2.8 million dollars for holders of bachelor’s degrees.
ANSWER:
lifetime earning
s [accept
career earning
s; accept total
lifetime income
; accept descriptions that
indicate how much
money
one makes in one’s
life
; prompt on income alone; reject “salary” or “annual income”]
<KJ, Social Science>
2.
The fraction of galaxies described by this adjective in galaxy clusters increases alongside another variable
in the Butcher-Oemler Effect. This adjective describes the star Sanduleak -69 202 in a 1987
Nature
paper that
described that star unusually being a progenitor for a supernova. This adjective names a “loop” that
intermediate-mass stars may undergo when they begin burning helium. This adjective describes anomalously
young stars in globular clusters like M53, which are called (*)
“stragglers” described by this adjective. Visible
light is subtracted from light named for this adjective in a common index used on the
x
-axis of observational H-R
diagrams. Along with white, this color describes the color of type-O stars and the star Rigel, which all have low
values for color index. Light’s wavelength
[emphasize]
decreases
, and thus energy increases, in this color’s
namesake “shift.” For 10 points, what color titles a Voyager 1 photo of Earth as a “pale dot?”
ANSWER:
blue
[accept
Pale
Blue
Dot
; accept
blue
shift; accept whitish-
blue
or
bluish
-white; accept
blue
light;
accept
blue
stragglers or
blue
straggler stars; accept
blue
supergiant; accept
blue
loop; accept
blue
galaxy fraction;
accept “Explosion of a
blue
supergiant: a model for supernova SN1987A”; prompt on
B
; prompt on
B
minus
V
;
prompt on supergiant by asking “what other adjective describes that star?”]
<EK, Other Science: Astronomy>
3.
This poet commonly names a six-line stanza with AAABAB rhyme scheme, which this author used in a
poem that describes “an eldritch ‘quack, quack,’” titled “Address to the Devil.” This poet warns, “Pleasures
are like poppies spread / you seize the flower, its bloom is shed,” in a poem that ends as a horse has its tail
ripped off. A bawdy poem by this author begins, “Jenny’s all wet” and repeats the line, “gin
(“ghen”)
a body
meet a body,” which (*)
Holden Caulfield misquotes in a scene that provides the title of
The Catcher in the Rye
.
This poet hails “inspiring bold John Barleycorn” in a poem whose protagonist encounters “warlocks and witches in a
dance” on his horse ride home after getting incredibly drunk. For 10 points, name this poet of “Tam o’ Shanter,” a
Scotsman who also penned “Auld Lang Syne.”
ANSWER: Robert
Burns
[or Rabbie
Burns
]
<MB, British Literature>
4.
Stephen Kinzer’s book on this country,
Blood of Brothers
, chronicles the murder of American hydroelectric
engineer Ben Linder. Susan Meiselas’s photo of a soldier about to throw a Molotov cocktail became a symbol
of a revolution in this country. ABC News reporter Bill Stewart was executed on public television by this
country’s military. Contraband from this country was allegedly funneled to traffickers like Freeway Rick
Ross with implicit CIA support according to (*)
Gary Webb’s “Dark Alliance” reports. Illegal arms sales used to
fund counterrevolutionary forces in this country were investigated by the Tower Commission, leading to the
conviction of Oliver North. For 10 points, name this country whose 1980s civil war was fought between the Contras
and Sandinistas.
ANSWER:
Nicaragua
[or Republic of
Nicaragua
; or República de
Nicaragua
]
<VD, American History>
5.
This photographer recalls how the first thing they did after purchasing a Minolta SR-T 101 was climb
Mount Fuji in the memoir “At Work.” A portrait by this photographer depicts a nude artist standing atop a
coffee table covered in white paint with black lines, blending in with a similarly patterned living room. A
blood smear lies next to a fallen bicycle in a photo this photographer took while in Sarajevo with their
partner (*)
Susan Sontag. A nude man curls in a near-fetal position around his fully-dressed wife in a 1981 photo
by this photographer. This photographer ignited a craze with a 1991
Vanity Fair
cover depicting a
seven-months-pregnant, nude Demi Moore. For 10 points, name this photographer who captured Yoko Ono and
John Lennon embracing on the day of Lennon’s assassination.
ANSWER: Annie
Leibovitz
[or Anna-Lou
Leibovitz
]
(The portrait in the second line is of Keith Haring.)
<VD, Other Arts: Visual>
6.
These devices share their name with the Smale-Williams strange attractor, which is formed by an iterated
map on the solid torus. In fluidic control systems, these devices name and toggle a type of valve that can be
either “normally open” or “normally closed.” The vector potential of one of these devices only has a theta
component. These devices name the rotational component of a Helmholtz decomposition, which is a vector
field with zero (*)
divergence. A toroid is a circular one of these devices used to confine plasmas in tokamaks.
Ampere’s law can be used to show that the magnetic field in one of these devices is “
mu
-naught
I N
,” where
N
is the
number of turns per unit length. For 10 points, name these coils of wire commonly used as inductors.
ANSWER:
solenoid
s [prompt on inductors until read; prompt on coils or helices of wire until read; accept
Smale-Williams
solenoid
attractor; accept
solenoid
valve; accept
solenoid
al vector field]
<VD, Physics>
7.
Nana was impregnated by one of these objects that sprung up from the blood from Agdistis’s castration.
After he was betrayed by Polymestor and stabbed by countless spears, a prince became one of these objects
that bled when touched. After he went mad and castrated himself at his wedding, Attis was transformed into
one of these objects. After killing his beloved tame stag by (*)
accident, a hunter became one of these objects out
of sadness. Phaeton’s sisters became these objects either because they disobeyed their father or as a result of
grieving for four months. King Cinyras’s daughter became one of these objects after she slept with him and gave
birth to his son, Adonis. Athens gained its name after citizens favored one of these things offered by Athena instead
of Poseidon’s horses. For 10 points, Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne ended when she became what type of plant?
ANSWER:
tree
s [or
bush
es; accept
tree
trunks; accept
myrtle
bush or
olive
tree or
poplar
tree or
myrrh
tree or
cypress
tree or
laurel
tree or
almond
tree or
pomegranate
tree or
pine
tree; prompt on plants or fruits]
<MB, Beliefs>
8.
The Voice narrates the prologue of a play in this language that tells the spectator to watch the “perfect”
title object “unwind the entire span of a human life.” In that play in this language, Anubis and the Sphinx
wait for the third trumpet call together. In a play in this language, a man gives birth to over 40,000 children
in an afternoon and his wife, whose breasts float away like balloons, renames herself Tiresias. A dog named
Puff features in a 20th-century update of (*)
Antigone
written in this language, which was also used for a play in
which the antagonist Zeus sends the title creatures after Orestes, titled
The Flies
. A woman uses a paper knife to stab
Inèz in a play in this language which claims that “Hell is other people.” For 10 points, name this language used to
write the play
No Exit
.
ANSWER:
French
[or
Français
]
(The first two plays are Jean Cocteau’s
The Infernal Machine
and Guillaume
Apollinaire’s
The Breasts of Tiresias
.)
<CM, European Literature>
9.
Operation Dragon Rogue was an operation to rescue hostages from Maoist rebels in this country. A clerk
began an investigation in this country after he noticed Elder Dempster’s profits from shipping guns and
explosives to this country. Much of the uranium used in the Manhattan Project originated from a mine in this
country. Sidney Gottlieb gave Larry Devlin a poisoned tube of toothpaste to murder a leader of this country
while Devlin was CIA station chief there. One leader of this country chartered (*)
Concordes for shopping trips
to Paris and moved Christmas to June, as part of his policy of authenticité. A copper company financed an attempt at
secession in this country in the province of Katanga. For 10 points, name this country ruled by Patrice Lumumba
and Mobutu Sese Seko.
ANSWER: Democratic Republic of the
Congo
[or the
DRC
; accept
Zaire
or
Congo Free State
or
Belgian Congo
;
prompt on Belgium]
<GT, World History>
10.
This genre and the ricercar were among Claudio Merulo’s significant innovations to transition keyboard
music away from imitation of vocal styles. A composer’s note at the end of a piece in this genre reads “not
without toil will you reach the end,” which was included in the second of two books of these non-partita pieces
by Girolamo Frescobaldi. A piece in this genre unusually scored for trumpets opens Monteverdi’s opera (*)
L’Orfeo
. A mordent on A followed by a descending D minor scale opens an organ piece in this genre that was
arranged for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski to open Disney’s
Fantasia
. For 10 points, name this genre whose name
derives from the Italian for “touch” and is paired with a fugue in a famous D minor piece by Bach.
ANSWER:
toccata
[prompt on Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BVW 565 until “fugue” is read]
<EG, Auditory Fine Arts>
11.
People performing this activity first witnessed the lost Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God appearing in the
air. This activity is depicted on a ring that is destroyed by cardinals after the death of each Pope since it is
used as a seal. In Matthew 13
(“chapter 13”)
, the wicked are thrown into a blazing furnace in a parable that
compares the creation of the Kingdom of Heaven to this activity. In Luke 5
(“chapter 5”)
, the sons of (*)
Zebedee witness a miracle involving this activity. After arriving in Capernaum, Jesus asks two brothers to
figuratively perform this activity on mankind. In order to pay a temple tax, Jesus performs a miracle so that Peter
finds a four-drachma coin while performing this activity. For 10 points, Andrew and Peter had professions based
around what activity on the Sea of Galilee?
ANSWER:
fish
ing [accept word forms such as catching
fish
or being a
fish
er or
fish
erman; accept the
Fisherman
’s
Ring or
Piscatory
Ring or Anello
Piscatorio
or Anulus
piscatoris
; accept
fish
ers of man; accept
net
ting]
<GE, Beliefs>
12.
Normal modes can be computed by stepping through a descending sequence of one type of these objects
via successive atom substitutions, and reading a correlation table. Volume A of the
International Tables for
Crystallography
contains a list of 230 of these objects. Mulliken symbols like A1 and B2 are used to label the
rows of 2D diagrams whose columns correspond to elements of these objects. S·A·L·Cs transform with the
irreps of these objects. Whether a molecule is IR or Raman-active can be read from the (*)
character table for
one of these objects. Examples of these objects like
C
-sub-infinity and
T
-sub-
d
respectively describe linear and
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tetrahedral molecules, and are built up from elements like axes of rotation and planes of reflection. For 10 points,
“point” examples of what algebraic objects describe the symmetries of molecules?
ANSWER:
group
s [accept point
group
s or space
group
s; prompt on symmetry transformations or elements by
asking, “are elements of what mathematical objects?”]
<VD, Chemistry>
13.
A public garden in this city housed automata of David and Goliath and was called the “Old Labyrinth.”
This city’s pioneering street lighting system was devised by an artist who also invented the fire hose. The
Persijn
(“purr-sign”)
family’s land ownership may have prompted this city to adopt their sigil of three Saint
Andrew’s crosses. In 1774, the world’s first investment fund was created in this city to bail out London’s Ayr
Bank. A failed 1650 attack on this city, where wealthy regents like the (*)
Bicker brothers held power, preceded
a 22-year vacancy of leadership ending in the “Disaster Year.” This city’s proto-central bank traded in units of the
guilder. The world’s first stock exchange was established in this city in 1602 when the VOC went public. For 10
points, tulip mania was centered in what city whose canals include the Prinsengracht?
ANSWER:
Amsterdam
(The first clue refers to the
Oude Doolhof
. The artist in the second clue is Jan van der
Heyden. The 1650 attack on Amsterdam was ordered by William II of Orange, whose death began the First
Stadtholderless Period.)
<VD, European History>
14.
In this novel, one character primarily addresses his narrations to Skimpy, a dog of unknown origins that
frequently bites people. Another character in this novel writes and distributes pornographic stories inspired
by the prostitute Golden Toes and Huatica Street. The existence of four separate first-person “I’s” in this
novel is referenced in the “four” that opens this novel announcing the results of a dice roll. Despite facing
practical exile in this novel, (*)
Gamboa refuses another character’s written confession. A character in this novel
called “the slave” is murdered in retaliation for snitching on a member of a group called “The Circle” for stealing the
answer key for a chemistry test. For 10 points, the cover-up of Jaguar’s crimes at Leoncio Prado Military Academy
occurs in what novel by Mario Vargas Llosa?
ANSWER:
The
Time of the Hero
[accept
La
ciudad y los perros
or
The
City and the Dogs
]
<JF, World and Other Literature>
15.
One of these events takes place behind a tree stump in the foreground of a painting that depicts the artist’s
home, Het Steen
(“shtayn”)
, in the early morning. A portrait titled for one of these events used a low angle
point of view to assuage its subject’s insecurity regarding his height, and shows Endymion Porter gazing into
a wood to the right. To decorate Schleissheim Palace, Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned to create four
large paintings of these events, one of which includes a (*)
crocodile and hippopotamus. Figures ice skate on a
frozen lake in the background while men return from one of these events through bare trees with their dogs in a
painting from its artist’s Labours of the Months series. For 10 points, Anthony van Dyck depicted Charles I at what
sort of event, whose participants title a Pieter Brueghel painting “in the Snow?”
ANSWER:
hunt
s [or
hunt
ing; accept fox
hunt
s, wolf
hunt
s, boar
hunt
s, lion
hunt
s, tiger
hunt
s, hippopotamus
hunt
s, or crocodile
hunt
s; accept
Charles I at the
Hunt
; accept
Hunter
s in the Snow
]
<HG, Visual Fine Arts>
16.
They’re not kidneys, but these structures are systematically associated with a sclero·choroidal condition
that presents with multiple, ill-defined yellow placoid lesions. Adenomas in these structures can be detected
by a sestamibi scan, which localizes Tc99 to their oxy
·
phil cells. These structures are the most likely cause of a
condition whose symptoms are described as “stones, bones, groans…and psychiatric overtones.” These
structures release a compound that inhibits OPG synthesis, thereby elevating (*)
RANKL levels. These
structures release a compound that upregulates alpha-1-hydroxylase, which promotes phosphate reabsorption by
catalyzing the activation of Vitamin D. It’s not the stomach, but chief cells in these glands release a compound that
counterintuitively stimulates osteoblasts to activate osteoclasts and break down bone. For 10 points, calcitonin is
opposed by a calcium-elevating hormone released by what glands located adjacent to the thyroid?
ANSWER:
parathyroid
glands [accept
parathyroid
hormone; prompt on PTH; reject “thyroid”]
(The first line
refers to sclerochoroidal calcification. The second line refers to hypercalcemia.)
<KT, Biology>
17.
A zigzagging rampart discovered at this battle’s Oberesch site allowed for the easy encirclement of
counterattackers. A historian recounts bleached bones and skulls nailed to tree trunks in the aftermath of this
battle, whose survivors made a stand at Aliso. Tony Clunn’s discovery of coins at Goldacker implies that
portions of this battle were fought between a great bog and Kalkriese. An initial skirmish in this battle
against a force marching to their winter camp may have allowed spies to escape with the attacking (*)
Bructeri. A general’s failure to listen to Segestes’s warnings led him to lose this battle. Following a loss to a
Cherusci general at this battle, an emperor headbutted a wall while bemoaning Quintilius Varus’s actions. For 10
points, the Germanic chieftain Arminius caused a crushing defeat at what battle that caused Augustus to cry out
“Give me back my legions?”
ANSWER: Battle of
Teutoburg
Forest [accept
Varian Disaster
or
Clades Variana
until “Varus” is read]
<KT, Ancient History and Archaeology>
18.
In an essay, this author demonstrates the ridiculousness of capitalizing all nouns by translating “The Tale
of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate.” An essay by this author complains of the “overwrought reverence” and
“callous disrespect” of the fact that “a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has” in the title language. This
author so hated a French translation of one of his stories that he retranslated it and subtitled it (*)
“Clawed
Back Into a Civilized Language Once More.” The advice “A tale shall accomplish something and arrive
somewhere” appears in an essay by this writer, which complains that an author “breaks the record” by scoring “114
offenses…out of a possible 115” in that author’s novel
The Deerslayer
. For 10 points, name this American satirist
who wrote “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” and created Huckleberry Finn.
ANSWER: Mark
Twain
[or Samuel Langhorne
Clemens
]
(The essay in the first two sentences is “The Awful
German Language.”)
<CM, American Literature>
19.
This program used LINDEFs to generate a map that was then split using binary space partitioning, and
within each sector of a map, this program used visplanes to render flats. Tom Hall named this program’s
original design document as its “Bible.” During Microsoft’s “Judgment Day,” Bill Gates promoted Windows
95 alongside an influential port of this program spearheaded by Gabe (*)
Newell. This program caused
numerous workplace network overloads in 1993 because of its pioneering “deathmatch” mode. This program’s
WAD files were used by Eric Harris to recreate Columbine High School. A Canon printer and a pregnancy test have
successfully run this program, which was created by John Romero and John Carmack at iD Software as a successor
to
Wolfenstein 3D
. For 10 points, name this first-person shooter in which a space marine fights demons on Mars.
ANSWER:
DOOM
[accept the
Doom
Bible]
<GE, Other Academic>
20.
Susanna Rinard’s principle of Equal Treatment holds that the rationality of these states should be
assessed in the same way as other states. The AGM model represents these states as deductively closed sets of
sentences and formally models their “revision.” These states are identified with sets of outward behaviors in
dispositional accounts. Quine’s confirmation holism holds that scientific theories rely on our entire (*)
“web
of” these states. Alvin Goldman and other reliabilists hold that these states can be trusted if they are obtained via a
truth-conducive process. In a 1963 paper, Smith holds this state with respect to there being 10 coins in Jones’s
pocket, but he seemingly does not
[emphasize]
know
that the man with 10 coins will get the job, despite that state
being justified and true. For 10 points, name these attitudes that we have about what is true.
ANSWER:
belief
s [accept justified true
belief
s]
<VD, Philosophy>
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Bonuses
1. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research in this city was the first clinic to perform gender-affirming
surgeries. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this capital city whose Weimar-era gay nightclubs like the Eldorado inspired the setting for the musical
Cabaret
.
ANSWER:
Berlin
[10m] The SPD and KPD satirized the Nazis as homosexuals due to this man’s leaked love letters to Karl-Günther
Heimsoth. Hitler’s fear of a coup from this leader of the Brownshirts caused the Night of the Long Knives.
ANSWER: Ernst
Röhm
[or Ernst Julius Günther
Röhm
]
[10h] Erwin Gohrbandt, one of the first sex reassignment surgeons, later conducted hypothermia experiments at this
first Nazi concentration camp located northwest of Munich. Theodor Eicke’s structure for this camp became the
standard for others.
ANSWER:
Dachau
(“DAH-khow”)
<GE, European History>
2. “Voices” with this quality nickname a D minor chamber piece from 1909, its composer’s only mature composition
for that ensemble. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this adjective. A 1928 chamber piece whose nickname features this adjective uses a viola to represent its
inspiration, of whom the composer wrote “You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving.”
ANSWER:
intimate
[accept
Intimate
Voices
,
Inner
Voices
, or
Voces
Intimae
; accept
Intimate
Letters
or
Listy
důvěrné
]
[10e] Sibelius’
Voces Intimae
and a different composer’s
Intimate Letters
are pieces in this genre. Antonín Dvořák
was inspired by a visit to Spillville, Iowa to write an “American” piece in this chamber genre consisting of two
violins, a viola, and a cello.
ANSWER:
string quartet
[10m] This composer’s unrequited love for Kamila Stösslová, a married woman almost 40 years his junior, inspired
his piece
Intimate Letters
. This composer’s first string quartet is nicknamed for Tolstoy’s novella
The Kreutzer
Sonata
.
ANSWER: Leoš
Janáček
<VD, Auditory Fine Arts>
3. These things are typically placed in incubators set around 37 degrees Celsius. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these things whose populations may be detached from Roux bottles using trypsin. These things are fed
by several substances sold through Thermo Fisher’s Gibco line of products, including DMEM and RPMI 1640.
ANSWER: cell
culture
s [or tissue
culture
s; accept cell
line
s; accept cell
culture
media or cell
culture
bottles or
cell
culture
dishes; accept, but DO NOT REVEAL,
Petri
dishes; prompt on cells]
[10h] When culturing cells, this substance is often added to DMEM at a concentration of 10 percent to inhibit
trypsin. Cell cycles can be synchronized through starvation by this animal-derived substance.
ANSWER:
fetal bovine serum
[or
FBS
; prompt on serum; reject “bovine serum albumin” or “BSA”]
[10e] Eukaryotic cell cultures can be placed within these shallow dishes named for a German bacteriologist. Zone
diameters are measured in these dishes after an antimicrobial disc is placed amidst a bacterial culture.
ANSWER:
Petri
dishes
<AY, Biology>
4.
Two answers required.
Camille Paglia draws on these concepts to portray Western culture as a struggle between a
“Sky Cult” and an “Earth Cult” in her book
Sexual Personae
. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two concepts.
The Birth of Tragedy
argues that the Greeks achieved the highest form of art via
the dichotomy between these two concepts, which represent divine order on the one hand and drunken passion on
the other.
ANSWER:
Apollonian
AND
Dionysian
[10e]
The Birth of Tragedy
was written by this German philosopher, who declared that “God is dead” in
The Gay
Science
.
ANSWER: Friedrich
Nietzsche
[or Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche
]
[10h] Nietzsche argued that contrary to the Enlightenment view of Greek tragedy as simple and noble, Greek
tragedy is attempting to overcome pessimism, which is illustrated by the “wisdom” of this figure from Greek
mythology.
ANSWER:
Silenus
<JS, Philosophy>
5. The flashback that introduces the main action in Malcolm Lowry’s
Under the Volcano
is triggered when Laruelle
does a parody of this activity using Marlowe’s
Doctor Faustus
. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity popular in ancient Rome, in which people would attempt to determine their future by
flipping to a random page of a certain Roman author’s work and reading the first line they saw.
ANSWER:
sortes Vergilianae
[or
Virgilian Lots
; prompt on answers involving predicting the future from reading
Virgil; reject “Sortes Homericae”]
[10e] People who employed the sortes Vergilianae most commonly drew from this epic of his, which begins, “I sing
of arms and the man.”
ANSWER:
The
Aeneid
[10m] An emperor known by this name used a line from the
Aeneid
to determine that his brother Quintillus should
not succeed him. The “pumpkinification” of another emperor of this name is described in Seneca’s
Apocolocyntosis
.
ANSWER:
Claudius
[accept
Claudius
Gothicus or Tiberius
Claudius
Caesar Augustus Germanicus]
(Quintillus
did in fact succeed Claudius Gothicus via coup, reigned for 17 days, and was assassinated by his soldiers.)
<HG, European Literature>
6. Gislebertus depicted demons tipping the scales of lost souls in a sculpture in one of these spaces for the Cathedral
of Saint-Lazare in Autun. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these semicircular or triangular spaces between the lintel of a cathedral door and an arch, where
Romanesque and Gothic sculptors would frequently depict Christ in Majesty.
ANSWER:
tympanum
[or
tympana
; accept
lunette
s]
[10h] The Gallery of Kings appears above this cathedral’s multitiered tympanum. This cathedral in Northeastern
France contains the Smiling Angel sculpture as well as three stained glass windows by Marc Chagall in its axial
chapel.
ANSWER:
Reims
(“rams”)
Cathedral [accept Notre-Dame de
Reims
or Our Lady of
Reims
]
[10e] Strasbourg Cathedral contains an influential tympanum depicting the death of this person, who is the living
figure in medieval Pietà sculptures.
ANSWER: Virgin
Mary
[or the
Madonna
; prompt on the Virgin]
<GE, Visual Fine Arts>
7. Communist party leader Manuel Figueroa won a landmark court case in this country that smoothed the pathway
for small electoral parties to stand in federal elections. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country that Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to in 1945, three days after the end of
World War II.
ANSWER:
Canada
[accept
Figueroa v
Canada
(AG)
]
[10e] The Gouzenko defection is sometimes considered the first action of this period of geopolitical posturing
between the Western and Eastern Blocs characterized by a nuclear arms race.
ANSWER:
Cold War
[10m] Upon defecting, Gouzenko offered proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada that prompted the government to
deploy an inquiry empowered by this statute, which was invoked again a couple decades later by Pierre Trudeau
during the October Crisis.
ANSWER:
War Measures
Act
<GP, British and Commonwealth History>
8. A traditional Norwegian form of this subsistence practice dating back to the Bronze Age has been found to repair
biodiversity loss in the Scandinavian Mountains. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of pastoral nomadism that involves seasonal migration and herding of livestock between
summer and winter pastures.
ANSWER:
transhumance
[reject “transhumanism”]
[10h] A 2009 anthropology documentary named for this plant examines Norwegian-American transhumant
shepherds in Montana. This plant titles a 2013 book that discusses Potawatomi ethnobotanical knowledge as a
complement to Western science.
ANSWER:
sweetgrass
[accept
Sweet Grass
County; accept
Braiding
Sweetgrass
]
[10e]
Sweetgrass
pays homage to
Grass
, a 1925 silent documentary about Bakhtiari transhumance that pioneered the
“salvage” form of this field in film. This field of anthropology involves the systematic study of an individual culture.
ANSWER:
ethnography
<AS, Social Science>
9. Answer the following about Dunwich, a melancholy Suffolk port village that sank slowly but inexorably into the
sea over the centuries, in the imaginations of various authors, for 10 points each.
[10e] In
The English Hours
, this author recalls fondly of Dunwich that “the minor key is struck here with a felicity
that leaves no sigh to be breathed.” This author wrote
The Turn of the Screw
after moving to Britain.
ANSWER: Henry
James
[10h] The narrator of this novel describes Dunwich as a city “dissolved into water, sand, and thin air,” beneath a
forlorn photo of the All Saints’ Parish. This novel’s unnamed narrator meets his friend Michael Hamburger in
Middleton.
ANSWER:
The
Rings of Saturn
[or
Die Ringe des Saturn
: Eine englische Wallfahrt
]
(by W. G. Sebald)
[10m] This chronically nervous poet found respite in the ruins of Dunwich, and took long walks along its cliffs,
inspiring the poem
By The North Sea
. This Victorian poet wrote
Atalanta in Calydon
.
ANSWER: Algernon
Swinburne
<VD, British Literature>
10. Sometimes, division by 648 is actually multiplication by 12. Answer the following about modular arithmetic, for
10 points each.
[10m] For a system of integer congruences each of the form “x is congruent to
a
-sub-
i
mod
n
-sub-
i
” with coprime
moduli, this theorem ensures an integer solution.
ANSWER:
Chinese remainder
theorem [accept
CR
T]
[10h] The Chinese remainder theorem generalizes to rings by replacing the moduli with these sets and coprimality
with comaximality. Two of these things are comaximal if 1 can be written as a sum of elements chosen from them.
ANSWER:
ideal
s [accept pairwise comaximal
ideal
s]
[10e] To actually solve a system of integer congruences, one uses repeated division in Euclid’s algorithm for
computing this function. Two integers are coprime if this function returns 1 when applied to them.
ANSWER:
greatest common divisor
[accept
greatest common factor
or
gcd
or
gcf
]
<RA, Other Science: Math>
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11. Saxo Grammaticus describes this woman as an “Amazon” and recounts how in two separate battles, she alone
turned the tides with “matchless spirit “ and “splendid bravery.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Viking ruler and shield maiden who assisted her future husband Ragnar Lodbrok in avenging his
grandfather.
ANSWER:
Lagertha
[or
Ladgertha
or
Ladgerda
]
[10e] Lagertha tested Ragnar’s worthiness for marriage by forcing him to fight against a bear and one of these
creatures. One of these creatures named Fenrir bit off the right hand of Tyr.
ANSWER:
wolf
[accept
dog
]
[10m] During a battle in Denmark, Lagertha turned the tide of battle after saving a son of Ragnar by Aslaug named
for a mark of this creature in his eye. Utgard Loki embarrassed Thor by making one of these creatures appear to be a
cat and challenging Thor to lift it.
ANSWER:
snake
[accept
serpent
]
(The son of Ragnar by Aslaug is Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye. The creature made to
look like a cat is Jörmungandr.)
<MB, Beliefs>
12.
Two answers required
. Nicola Spaldin’s group pioneered the study of materials that exhibit these two properties,
which are of interest for developing ultra-low power logic devices. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give these two properties, which rarely occur together because one is favored by empty
d
-shells and the other
is favored by partially filled
d
-shells. Bismuth ferrite is an example of a material with both of these two properties,
which share a common prefix.
ANSWER:
ferroelectric
AND
ferromagnetic
[reject partial answers; prompt on multiferroic]
[10e] Intel’s recent MESO architecture reads out a multiferroic layer using the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect, in
which accumulation of this quantity generates current. This quantity is an intrinsic form of angular momentum.
ANSWER:
spin
[or
spin
angular momentum]
[10m] While ferromagnetic materials display nonzero magnetization, ferroelectric materials display nonzero values
of this quantity in the absence of external fields. The divergence of this vector field, symbolized
P
, is the bound
charge.
ANSWER:
polarization
density [or electric
polarization
]
<VD, Physics>
13. The construction of these vessels in the US began earlier than their British counterparts, but due to budgetary
issues, they were not commissioned until 1910. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify these battleships named after a prototypical 1906 British vessel. These ships’ “all-big-gun” design and
other innovations made previous battleships obsolete and accelerated the early 20th-century naval arms race.
ANSWER:
dreadnought
s [accept HMS
Dreadnought
]
[10h] Despite being of five different classes, 13 American battleships ordered between 1911 and 1916 compose this
“type,” which was characterized by “All or Nothing” armor schemes to allow them to function as a single line.
ANSWER:
Standard
Type Battleships
[10m] The battleships that were supposed to replace the Standard Type battleships were canceled after this 1922
arms reduction conference, which set the US and Royal Navies equal to each other in battleship tonnage.
ANSWER:
Washington
Naval Conference
<GT, American History>
14. In February 2023, then-candidate Bola Tinubu claimed that his presidential opponents were intentionally
hoarding these things amid a planned redesign. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these things. In early 2023, one country’s 200, 500, and 1,000 denominations of these things were
redesigned under Central Bank governor Godwin Emefiele in an effort to curb inflation.
ANSWER: bank
note
s [or
currency
or
cash
or
money
or
bill
s; accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, Nigerian bank
notes
or
naira
]
[10m] Those banknotes were redesigned in this country currently led by Bola Tinubu, where the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission has arrested bank managers for failing to place naira banknotes in ATMs.
ANSWER:
Nigeria
[10h] The deadline to switch to only using the new banknotes was extended to February 2023 after a legal challenge
by this ruling party of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara. Bola Tinubu is a member of this party.
ANSWER:
All Progressives Congress
[or
APC
]
<KJ, Current Events>
15. The title of Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection
Unaccustomed Earth
originates from this text’s claim that “My children
have had other birthplaces, and…shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this text in which the narrator describes his inefficient coworkers and monotonous experience working
at the title place, where he finds a package of manuscripts written by the surveyor who preceded him.
ANSWER: “The
Custom-House
” [prompt on, but DO NOT REVEAL, the preface to
The Scarlet Letter
; prompt on
introduction or frame story or prologue in place of “preface”; reject “the first chapter of
The Scarlet Letter
”]
[10e] “The Custom-House” is the preface to this novel. Bharati Mukherjee’s novel
The Holder of the World
loosely
retells this novel’s protagonist Hester Prynne as the lover of a Hindu raja.
ANSWER:
The
Scarlet Letter
[10m] A girl who has been confined to gardens her entire life drinks an antidote that kills her at the end of a
Hawthorne story set in this country, which also provides the setting of Lahiri’s book
In Other Words.
ANSWER:
Italy
(The story is “Rappaccini’s Daughter.”)
<CM, American Literature>
16. When determining whether a drug analog is worth synthesizing, medicinal chemists may use software to
compute this function of the drug’s partition coefficient. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this function of the partition coefficient that is below plus-five for orally active drugs. The negative of
this function is used to determine a solution’s pH from its concentration of protons.
ANSWER:
logarithm
[or
log
]
[10m] The cLogP
(“c-log-P”)
of a drug is important for this property of orally active drugs, which can be quantified
with a variable labeled
F
. This property is the fraction of an administered drug that reaches systemic circulation.
ANSWER:
bioavailability
[accept oral
availability
]
[10h] Veber’s parameters define criteria for predicting good bioavailability for orally active drugs. One of the
required criteria involves ten or fewer of these entities, which are
[emphasize]
not
exemplified by amide C–N
bonds.
ANSWER:
rotatable bond
s [accept answers indicating
bond
s that allow
rotation
or can
rotate
]
<JZ, Chemistry>
17. This period is celebrated by the festival of Paryūshaṇa, during which Shvētāmbara monks read the Kalpa Sūtra
and Mahāvīra’s birth is celebrated. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this period, which Hindus begin with a fast to observe Vishnu’s sleep. Buddhist monastics retreat to
observe Vassa during this time.
ANSWER:
monsoon
season [accept
wet
or
rainy season
; accept
Chāturmāsya
; prompt on answers that indicate a
span of months from June or July to October or November; prompt on summer or fall or autumn; prompt on rains or
rains retreats]
[10e] Buddhists celebrate the conclusion of Vassa with Kathina, during which the laity offer monks these objects
known as
kāsāya
. These objects are typically dyed saffron or brown.
ANSWER:
robe
s [accept
chivara
or
ticivara
]
[10m]
Description acceptable.
During monsoon season, Jain monks stay in lay communities to avoid travel which
would involve this activity. To avoid this activity, Jain monks patrol the white marble floors of temples with peacock
feather whisks called pichi.
ANSWER:
kill
ing insects [accept descriptions or equivalents such as
harm
ing insects or
step
ping on insects;
prompt on violating ahimsa with “By doing what?”]
<AY, Beliefs>
18. One essay by this author describes how he used the two title entities to “cultivate his orchard” in a metaphor
explaining a certain practice as an art. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this creator of a character who ponders “perhaps there has been no I” after an abbess doesn’t recall if
another character existed. Afterward, this author’s character wanders in a garden that had “no memories, nothing.”
ANSWER: Yukio
Mishima
[10e] Mishima finished that last book in the
Sea of Fertility
tetralogy shortly before a failed attempt at a coup led
him to do this action. Akutagawa wrote “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” before doing this action at 35.
ANSWER: committing
suicide
[accept
harakiri
or
seppuku
or descriptive equivalents]
[10m] This Mishima novel, in which Kochan’s repressed homosexuality and admiration for masculinity leads him to
be ashamed of admiring a picture of Joan of Arc, is speculated to be semi-autobiographical.
ANSWER:
Confessions of a Mask
[accept
Kamen no Kokuhaku
]
<JF, World and Other Literature>
19. During World War II, a factory in this city attached steel ropes to gas balloons to create a net to prevent Japanese
fighter planes from going on bombing runs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this first planned industrial city in India. After World War I, Viceroy Chelmsford praised this city for
supplying steel to the British war effort and renamed the city after its founder.
ANSWER:
Jamshedpur
[accept, but DO NOT REVEAL,
Tatanagar
]
[10m] This steel tycoon and “Father of Indian Industry” founded and is now the namesake of Jamshedpur. He was
inspired to found the city after seeing a lecture in which Thomas Carlyle said, “The nation which gains control of
iron soon acquires the control of gold.”
ANSWER: Jamsetji
Tata
[10e] In a sign of the overall direction of the Indian economy, Tata Steel was recently surpassed as the most
profitable Tata company by one offering this sort of product, often contrasted with goods.
ANSWER:
services
[accept
consulting services
or Tata
Consultancy Services
; prompt on consulting]
<RR, World History>
20. A brief revival of this dance genre in the 1990s resulted in a Gap commercial in which khaki-wearing actors
danced to “Jump, Jive, an’ Wail.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this family of dances such as the Carolina Shag that has East Coast and West Coast variants and was
danced at the Savoy Ballroom.
ANSWER:
swing
[accept East Coast
Swing
or West Coast
Swing
]
[10h] The ‘90s swing revival repopularized this early swing dance adapted from the Charleston, whose basic move
is the swingout.
ANSWER:
Lindy hop
[accept
jitterbug
]
[10e] The curious rise of swing in the ‘90s was precipitated by the popularity of ska, a music genre from this
country. Bob Marley was from this country and pioneered its genre of reggae.
ANSWER:
Jamaica
<IZ, Other Arts: Auditory>
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