Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
Round 11—Questions by Rutgers-Newark and Bryn Mawr (from SNEWT) with additions by CB, Angelina Fadool and Raj Dhuwalia

TOSSUP 1:  Pencils ready: it’s math time!  For ten points, convert the base-ten number 53 to a base-four number.

ANSWER:  311 (read:  three-one-one)

TOSSUP 2:    The emphasis on light and on the classes of angels in this work are likely the influence of the author’s reading of the critically important Neo-Platonist thinker Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.  Its first word, “Glory,” indicates the author’s pious joy at this stage of his journey, the culmination of a trip that began with his wandering alone in a dark wood.  Ending with a vision of God himself, FTP name this third and last section of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

ANSWER:  Paradiso (acc. Paradise)

TOSSUP 3:   Born in England in 1801, he espoused the connection between God, nature, and nation early on in his career. Later on, however, with the advent of railroads, his views weren’t so clear-cut. He constantly wondered whether industrialization was progress, or the end of holiness (of nature). A sawed-up tree-trunk in his paintings is symbolic of this question, whereas a gnarled tree is a sign of antiquity, i.e. the American past. FTP, identify this pioneering American artist who raised the status of landscapes in such works as “The Falls of Kaaterskill,” “The Course of Empire,” and “The Oxbow,” the founder of the Hudson River School.

ANSWER: Thomas Cole

TOSSUP 4:   You were lucky that you met Rover on the train, he got you a delivery job for Nook.  Be sure to visit K.K. Slider every Saturday night, he’ll jam for you.  Sahara is here to sell you an exotic carpet from far away, and if you give Wendell his favorite food, he‘ll give you some wallpaper.  FTP, these are all characters from what popular Nintendo Game Cube video game?

ANSWER: Animal Crossing

TOSSUP 5:  After a childhood spent in exile in Kuwait, this leader launched a successful campaign in 1902 to recapture his family’s traditional home of Riyadh and eventually, the surrounding areas. As a ruler, he wisely adopted a policy of self-interest: staying neutral during WWII, keeping out of local conflicts and making profitable concessions to US oil companies. FTP, name this man, a leader of the Wahhabi movement in Islam, who united and declared himself king of the area he named Saudi Arabia.
	Answer:  Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud

TOSSUP 6:   The Leyden Jar is an example of this type of circuit component.  In a circuit, they often have paper or mica between two rolled-up conducting plates, while textbook ones often consist of two parallel plates.  In practice, they are usually rated in terms of micro- or pico-farads.  FTP, name these circuit devices, defined as an arrangement of conductors used to store electric charge.
	Answer: capacitor (accept condenser)

TOSSUP 7:  First published in 1896 in the collection A Shropshire Lad, the title figure is now a “[t]ownsman of a stiller town.”  The speaker seems both ironic and sincere simultaneously when he muses that the title figure is a “[s]mart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay.”  So goes, FTP, what poem by A. E. Housman about a runner who has died an early death?
	
ANSWER:  “To an Athlete Dying Young”
TOSSUP 8:  These organelles handle the products of receptor-mediated endocytosis in addition to a variety of other functions. A hydrogen ion ATPase enzyme is found in the membranes of these organelles to acidify the internal environment, for a low pH is required to keep its many enzyme contents active, as well as to protect the rest of the cell from their harmful effects. FTP; identify these organelles more commonly referred to as the "garbage disposal system" of a cell.

ANSWER: Lysosomes

TOSSUP 9:  Based on the author’s first wife Siri von Essen as a warning to her, it was made into a ballet by Birgit Cullberg, an opera by Ned Rorem, and a film by Alf Sjöberg.  The conventional divisions of acts, scenes, and intermissions were substituted with pantomime and a peasant dance. There are three speaking parts in the play, including Christine, the cook, the main character, an aristocrat who has been raised to hate men, and the valet Jean, whom she has an affair with. FTP, identify this censored play by August Strindberg.  

ANSWER: Fröken Julie (accept Miss Julie or Countess Julie or Lady Julie)

TOSSUP 10:  A Republican member in the House of Representatives from 1885 to1891, he was on the Ways and Means Committee and took a prominent part in the framing of the McKinley Bill of 1890. In 1906, he was elected to the Senate. He had an isolationist policy and he voted against United States entry into World War I. Earlier in 1900, he was elected governor of Wisconsin, during which time he instituted many measures for the nomination of candidates by direct vote and the regulation of railroad rates. FTP, identify this man nominated as the presidential candidate of the Progressive Party in 1924. 
 
ANSWER: Robert La Follette

TOSSUP 11: In one particular legend, this parthenogenetic god was thrown from Olympus onto the island of Lemnos after he sided with his mother in an argument against Zeus. Another legend, commonly depicted in Greek art, has Dionysus taking him back to Olympus intoxicated and slumped over the back of a mule.  Worshipped predominantly in Athens, he managed to marry Aphrodite, despite being depicted as an animated cripple bent over an anvil.  FTP, identify this Greek god of fire, known to the Romans as Vulcan. 

ANSWER: Hephaestus (accept Vulcan before Lemnos)

TOSSUP 12:  The account of its finding is detailed in The House of the Devil; it was discovered in 1937 by a Missouri pilot who left his Falamingo monoplane on top of the tepui, or tabletop mountain, and descended with his three companions on foot. Rising 3,212 feet, with a free fall of 2,421 feet, it is 16 times the height of Niagara Falls.  Located in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, FTP name this tallest waterfall in the world. 

ANSWER: Angel Falls

TOSSUP 13:  For Diaghilev he composed the ballets Chout and Le Pas d’Acier, while Sergei Eisenstein’s film Alexander Nevsky was the source of both a namesake cantata and the suite Lieutenant Kije.  He also wrote the opera War and Peace and the ballet Romeo and Juliet, as well as the neoclassical Classical Symphony and a famous piece of children’s music in which the human title character is represented by the violin.  FTP, name this composer of “Peter and the Wolf.” 
 
ANSWER: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

TOSSUP 14:  He was influenced greatly by both Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War and his own experiences on the Argentine Pampas. As a commander of the naval forces of Uruguay, he was known as “The Hero of Montevideo” for his attempts to fend off Argentina’s dictator; he ended up in South America after being condemned to death for participating in an insurrection of Genoa against Piedmont. FTP, identify this wearer of a flamboyant “red shirt” uniform, an Italian general responsible for the unification of Italy. 

ANSWER: Giuseppe Garibaldi

TOSSUP 15: This religion classifies all the reality of the universe into two classes:  ajiva and jiva, meaning living beings and non-living objects.  Its guiding principles are the nine Tattvas, Followers believe in 24 Tirthankaras, those who complete the full cycle of existence, the 24th of which is the religion’s founder, Mahavira.  FTP name this religion of India which strictly follows the code of ahimsa, or non-violence, to the point of sweeping the ground before their path to preserve insects.

ANSWER:  Jainism

TOSSUP 16:  Born in 1903, this archaeologist’s autobiography is titled White Africa.  Raised among the children of the Kikuyu tribe, he graduated from Cambridge and made important discoveries of human and proto-human skeletons at Rusinga Islands.  His wife and son also made significant discoveries in the field, most notably his son Richard’s discovery of the Turkana boy, the skeleton of a 9-year-old hominid that existed about 1.5 million years ago.  FTP, name this discoverer of the oldest Homo Sapiens in the world, the head of a British archaelogical family closely connected with Olduvai Gorge.

ANSWER: Louis Leakey

TOSSUP 17:  In 2002 a 220-pound statue of the title character of this short story was stolen in St. Petersburg.  That character is first found in a roll by a barber named Ivan, whose wife thinks he has harmed someone to get it.  Eventually the reader learns it left of its own accord from a man named Kovalev, who observes it in the fancy dress of a civil servant before it returns to him.  FTP name this Nikolai Gogol short story about a missing item from Kovalev’s face.

ANSWER:  “The Nose”

TOSSUP 18:  Assumed to have no electric charge, the first trace of these particles was discovered during the 1980s, at the electron-positron-collider, PETRA, in Hamburg, Germany; they operate only over a short range because of their massiveness; eight exist, even thogh nine would seem to exist, one for each color-anticolor pair.  Quantum Chromodynamics is based upon the interaction of quarks with these particles, which are responsible for the formation of protons and neutrons by binding quarks together.  FTP, name this carrier of the strong nuclear force, which holds together the parts of an atomic nucleus.

ANSWER: Gluons

TOSSUP 19:  Accomplished for 10 million dollars, it was backed by President Pierce, as he wanted to insure U.S. possession of the Mesilla Valley.  Purportedly done to clear up some confusion after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, it was mainly carried through to make possible a southern railroad to the Pacific.  FTP name this acquisition of land by the United States in 1853, named for the railroad promoter and diplomat that negotiated the deal.

ANSWER: Gadsden Purchase

TOSSUP 20:  This author was born in West Virginia, but spent the first half of her life in China.  She returned to the United States to graduate from Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1914, but again went to China to teach in a missionary school for Chinese boys.  She would go onto write The Exile, and Fighting Angel, biographies of her parents.  FTP name this author, most famous for her novel on a Chinese peasant, The Good Earth.

ANSWER: Pearl Buck

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003—Round 11 Boni

BONUS 1:  30-20-10 Name the novelist from works.
(30 pts.)  The Spoils of Poynton; The Awkward Age
(20 pts.)  The Tragic Muse; What Maisie Knew
(10 pts.)  The Wings of the Dove; The Turn of the Screw	
	ANSWER:  Henry James

BONUS 2: Answer the following questions about the human brain FTP each.

[10] This part of the human brain is an important relay station for the sensory impulses and also is the origin of many of the involuntary acts of the eye, such as the narrowing of the pupil in bright light. 
	ANSWER: Midbrain

[10] This part of the human brain acts as a regulator, controlling body temperature,  metabolism, heart rate, sexual development, sleep, and the body’s use of fat and water. 
	ANSWER: hypothalamus

[10] Name the lobe in the human brain in which the speech center is located. 
	ANSWER:  frontal

BONUS 3: For the stated number of points, identify the British monarch.

[5] He lost the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.
	ANSWER: George III

[5] The last absolute monarch of England, he was convicted of treason and then executed.
	ANSWER: Charles I

[10] After the death of her Catholic sister, Mary I, this monarch tried to restore religious order by declaring England a Protestant state.
	ANSWER: Elizabeth I

[10] This king of Wessex kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to promote literacy while he himself translated many works into Anglo-Saxon.
	ANSWER: Alfred the Great

BONUS 4: Many compositions have been inspired by literary works. Given the piece and the composer, identify the writer whose eponymous work was used as an inspiration and/or text FTP each. 

[10] Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy
	ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé

[10] The “Ode to Joy” from the Choral Symphony by Beethoven
	ANSWER: Friedrich von Schiller

[10] Billy Budd  by Benjamin Britten
	ANSWER: Herman Melville

BONUS 5:   Name these Civil War engagements FTPE.
A.  This July 21, 1861, battle was so expected to be a Union rout that people brought picnic lunches and came to watch.  Confederates routed the Union forces, however.
	A.  First Bull Run or First Manassas
B.  Taking place on April 6-7, 1862, near Pittsburg Landing, it was a marginal Union victory in that Confederate General Alberty Sydny Johnston was killed.
	A.  Shiloh
C.  This May 5-6 battle in Virginia had many casualties caused by smoke inhalation as the woods in which the fighting occurred caught fire.
	A.  Battle of the Wilderness

BONUS 6: You might need pencil and paper for this.  With no other forces present, a 30-newton force is applied to a 6-kilogram block.  For 15 points each:
[15]  What is the resulting acceleration of the block, in meters per second squared?
	Answer: 5 meters per second squared [note: F=m*a]
[15]  The 30-newton force accelerates the block at 5 meters per second squared, and it is applied for 10 meters.  What is the work done by the force, in joules?
	Answer: 300 joules [note: W=F*d]

BONUS 7: Identify the mythological figure on a 30-20-10 basis.
[30]: Terrifed for his safety, his mother sent him away, entrusting him to two of her closest colleagues - a woman warrior named Fiachel and a druidess named Bodbal. 
[20]: Tales of his exploits were documented in the 3rd century CE, now referred to as the Fenian Cycle.
[10]: This legendary Irish hero was the leader of the Fianna, a legendary army of Irish warriors serving under the High King of Ireland; he is perhaps most famous for catching and eating the Salmon of Knowledge.
	ANSWER:  Finn Mac Cumhail or Finn Mac Coul

BONUS 8: 5-10-15, given the description, identify the JD Salinger character.

[5] He wonders what happens to the ducks in Central Park during winter and has an unsuccessful rendezvous with a prostitute after leaving Pencey Prep.
	ANSWER: Holden Caulfield (either name acceptable)

[10] This title character has a nervous breakdown, and after a fight with her boyfriend, Lane, comes home to be comforted by her brother Buddy.
	ANSWER: Franny Glass (Francis Glass also acceptable)

[15] He is the most frequently mentioned character in Salinger’s works. The oldest child in the precocious Glass family, he commits suicide during his honeymoon in Florida.
	ANSWER: Seymour Glass

BONUS 9: Identify the artist who painted the given work FTPE. If you need an easier  work, you will get 5 points. 

[10] Le Cirque, or The Circus 
[5] Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte
	ANSWER: Georges Seurat

[10] The Potato Eaters
[5] Sunflowers
	ANSWER: Vincent van Gogh

[10] Spirit of the Dead Watching
[5]  Tahitian Women
	ANSWER: Paul Gauguin
BONUS 10:  Stuff about a certain economic policy for fifteen points each.
A.  This general term refers to regulatory and trade practices in Western Europe between 1550 and 1720 which were meant to help nations prosper.
	A.  mercantilism
B.  Though this national commercial enterprise didn’t make much of a dent in its Dutch counterpart, it did help create the Raj and other portions of its nation’s colonial holdings.
	A.  British East India Company

BONUS 11:  Identify the following terms from economics FTP each.

[10]  This mechanism, predicted by Adam Smith, is said to operate the economy while remaining unseen.
	ANSWER: Invisible hand

[10] Used in context of price, income, etc., it indicates how one variable changes in  response to another.
	ANSWER: Elasticity

[10]  Developed by W.S. Gossett, this statistical method deals with the problems associated with inference based on "small" samples.
	ANSWER: Student’s t-Test

BONUS 12:  Pets play an important role in the Harry Potter series. Name these pets that help further the plot of J.K. Rowling’s hit series for the stated number of points.
 
[5]  This suspicious cat gains Ron’s trust after helping Hermione, Harry and him to save Sirius Black and discover that Peter Pettigrew is still alive.
	ANSWER: Crookshanks

[5]  This hyperactive owl was given to Ron to replace his rat Scabbers in Book 3.
	ANSWER: Pigwidgeon

[10]  Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts for standing by this giant arachnid when he  was thought to be the monster in the Chamber of Secrets.
	ANSWER:  Aragog

[10]   This creature was almost executed after bitting Draco Malfoy on the hand.  Please remember to bow.
	ANSWER:  Buckbeak

BONUS 13:   Identify the following people associated with Existentialism FTPE.

[10] He insisted on the need for individual decision and leaps of faith in the search for religious truth, thereby contradicting Protestant rationalist theology. He is considered to be the founder of the movement.
	ANSWER: Soren Kierkegaard

[10] In contrast to Kierkegaard, he rejected the entire Judeo-Christian moral tradition in favor of a heroic pagan ideal after proclaiming the “death of God.”  
	ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche

[10]  He wrote that “man is condemned to be free” in Being and Nothingness. 
	ANSWER: Jean Paul Sartre

BONUS 14:   Identify the geological period for 10 points given the years it spanned. If you also need an organism that first appeared in the period, you will get 5 points. 

[10] 4500 - 543 million years ago.
[5] Anaerobic bacteria
	ANSWER: Precambrian (accept Proterozoic or Archaeozoic)

[10] 417 - 354 million years ago
[5] Amphibians, Insects
ANSWER: Devonian

[10] 290 - 248 million years ago
[5] Dinosaurs
	ANSWER: Permian (Not Triassic)

BONUS 15: Identify the following Roman Emperor, 30-20-10:
[30] His neglect of the armies was one of his many critical errors during his reign.  At one point, instead of leaving Rome to inspect his armies, he went to Greece and competed in the games there.
[20] He was the adopted son of the previous emperor, Claudius, who was supposedly murdered by his wife Agrippina to secure the throne for young Lucius (as he was known then). 
[10] An amateur musician, he is widely known for the apocryphal allegation that he fiddled while Rome burned.
	ANSWER: Nero (accept early Lucius)

BONUS 16: Name the Faulkner work from characters  on a 5-10-15 basis.

[5]  Jason Compson III, Quentin Compson, Benjy Compson.
	ANSWER: The Sound and the Fury

[10] Anse Bundren, Addie Bundren, Whitfield, Jewel
	ANSWER: As I Lay Dying

[15] Thomas Sutpen, Clytie, Charles Bon.
	ANSWER: Absalom, Absalom!

BONUS 17: Given a description, identify the Hitchcock film FTSNOP.

[5] This film has a documentary-like opening that divulges the setting to be Phoenix, Arizona; the protagonist is Norman Bates.
	ANSWER: Psycho

[10] It pays homage to Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin through a close-up of broken glasses during the sequence in which the children are attacked by the title animals.
	ANSWER: The Birds

[15]  Loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murder case, this was Hitchock’s first color film. Coincidentally, he was experimental in his use of cutting: there are no cuts.  
	ANSWER: Rope

BONUS 18: Name the composer from works, 30-20-10
[30]  Vitebsk, Study on a Jewish Theme
[20]  El Salon Mexico, Lincoln Portrait
[10]  Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo
	ANSWER: Aaron Copland
BONUS 19:  Name these writers of Westerns FTPE.
A.  Perhaps the greatest of Western writers, and a favorite of Colonel Potter on MASH, this early 20th-century practitioner’s best-known work is probably Riders of the Purple Sage.
	A.  Zane Grey	
B.  This writer isn’t exclusive to Westerns, having written Terms of Endearment, but he did write Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredo.
	A.  Larry McMurtry
C.  Author of over 200 books and probably second only to Zane Grey in fame as a Western author, this man wrote Hondo and How the West Was Won.
	A.  Louis L’Amour

BONUS 20: Name these extreme elements FTP each:

[10]  This is the only liquid nonmetallic element
	ANSWER: Bromine

[10] This is the most electronegative element 
	ANSWER: Flourine

[10] This is the element with the highest melting point of all the metals
	ANSWER: Tungsten