ACF Nationals 2011

Packet by Chicago C, UVA, and Maryland

Tossups
1. One work by this thinker considers broken and unbroken myths while discussing the limits of the
conventional, or rigid, form of the titular concept. This thinker noted that scriptural literalism requires as much
conjecture as the work of David Strauss in his appeal to supplant the cultural identity of Christ in favor of a New
Being. His best known work identifies meaninglessness as the culprit behind the present age of anxiety and
closes by observing that the title concept is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared. This
author of The Dynamics of Faith more centrally described a question-and-answer relationship to explain how divine
revelation serves as an inextricable counterpart to ontology in his three-volume Systematic Theology. For 10 points,
name this Christian theologian, a German-born lothario who mentored Rollo May and wrote The Courage to Be.
ANSWER: Paul Johannes Tillich
2. In the interline variety of these devices, readout occurs by shifting charge to a neighboring hidden column, while
full-frame versions of these devices read out the entire data set at the same time, leading to longer readout times.
Defects in these devices result in the spillover of charge into neighboring elements, a process known as blooming,
and the optimal dynamic range of these devices is limited by the existence of dark current. The operating principle
of these devices is that an incoming photon excites an electron out of a charge well, allowing that electron to be
read out; accordingly, these devices are characterized by their well depth and their pixels can be damaged via
ionizing radiation. They are generally preferable in scientific applications to CMOS sensors because of their
excellent quantum efficiency. For ten points, identify these semiconductor devices which are used heavily used in
astronomical imaging.
ANSWER: charge coupled device
3. One ruler of this name and number concluded the Treaty of Vercelli with the Lombard towns and struggled for
control of Italian possession with Tancred of Lecce. That ruler of this name and number married Constance, the
daughter of Roger II, which allowed this man to press his claim to the Sicilian throne. Another ruler of this name
and number had a minority rule that never officially ended and was advised by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and
William de la Pole, the duke of Suffolk. That ruler lost the battle of Towton, leading to his imprisonment in the
Tower of London. Briefly restored by Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, this husband of Margaret of Anjou
was murdered in the Tower after Warwicks forces were routed at Tewksbury by Edward IV, who succeeded this
man. For ten points, identify this regnal name and number of the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor, a son of
Barbarossa succeeded by Frederick II, and the Lancastrian English king during the first phase of the Wars of the
Roses.
ANSWER: Henry VI
4. This cultures carvings are mostly in the Massim style, which frequently includes pig motifs. The legends of this
people feature Tudava, a trickster figure who taught them the secrets of gardening. Women in this culture often flirt
with men by playfully biting off their eyebrows and eyelashes. An ethnographic film by Garry Kildea and Jerry
Leach depicts this cultures unique modifications to the game of cricket. In one of its festivals, yams are shaved and
given to women by men other than their husbands, which signifies the power of this cultures women. In another
event native to this culture, necklaces are traded clockwise and armshells are traded counter-clockwise around
the islands they inhabit. Their culture is the subject of a trilogy of books, including The Sexual Life of Savages in
North-Western Melanesia and Coral Gardens and Their Magic. For 10 points, name this culture whose members
participate in the kula ring and were written about by Bronislaw Malinowski.

ANSWER: Trobrianders [or the Trobriand Islanders]

5. Schechter and Berger mapped the active site of these enzymes, and MEROPS groups them into twelve clans and
forty families. Hereditary angioneurotic edema is caused by a deficiency in one antagonist of these proteins, C1INH,
and the nerve gas sarin binds to the active site of a closely related protein. Subtilisin is an example found in bacteria
and makes up forty percent of commercial enzyme sales. One of these molecules is activated by IgM binding
to a complex containing it and cleaves C4 and C2; that example is activated C1s. These proteins are important
during blood clotting, where examples include factor X and thrombin, while examples in the digestive system
includ trypsin and elastase. These proteins, which are inhibited by serpins, typically have a catalytic triad including
aspartate, histidine, and their namesake. For 10 points, name this class of enzymes which cleave other proteins at
their namesake residue.
ANSWER: serine proteases [prompt on partial answer]
6. In a single J shell, for even values of the angular momentum this quantity is equal to one, while for odd angular
momentum it is zero. For light nuclei and negligible Coulombic effects, the square of its quantum number
approximately commutes with the Hamiltonian. One projection of this quantity is equal to the charge minus half the
sum of strangeness and baryon number. Because strong interactions are invariant under rotations within the space
defined by this property, it follows by Noethers theorem in that it is conserved in strong interactions. Its symmetry,
like the symmetry of a similar property, is approximated by the SU(2) group and that symmetry follows from up
and down quarks having almost the same mass. For 10 points, name this quantum number introduced to explain the
difference between a proton and a neutron.
ANSWER: isospin
7.This characters pipe is knocked out of his mouth by a former friend who throws a knife at him at Frennas. His
maid Maria marries an avaricious Polish Jew who only desires her valuable set of dishes. This character begins to
court his wife after a picnic in Schuetzen park, during which Augusts steamboat explodes, and is able to play six
sad airs on the concertina. His wife, a member of the Sieppe family, carves wooden Noahs Ark figures to make
extra money, and eventually becomes a miser who delights in rolling around in gold coins. Erich von Stroheims
film Greed is based on the novel named for this man, who steals his wifes lottery winnings and flees toward
Mexico, only to end up in Death Valley handcuffed to his dead former friend Marcus Schouler. For 10 points, name
this San Francisco dentist, the title character of a novel by Frank Norris.
ANSWER: McTeague
8. An analogous creature to these beings in another mythos was called the vele, and a story tells of how Prince
Marko captured a leader of these beings named Nadanojla by having his falcon steal that leaders headdress. These
creatures were described as either ugly or beautiful depending on whether tales of them came from the north or the
south, and they were sometimes subservient to a chief who took the form of a fat, jolly green man. According to
one legend, these beings could survive outside their natural environment so long as they kept possession of a comb,
and these beings were celebrated during the Radunitsa feast. One story about these beings tells of how a young seal
hunter named Ivan Savelyevich encountered one while playing his balalaika and fell in love with her, but eventually
left her by crossing himself. Most encounters with these beings would end poorly for the man, as they would
typically end up making him dance to death or drowning him. For ten points, identify these analogues of the Ondine
and the Lorelei, water sprites of Slavic myth.
ANSWER: russalka
9. One woman in this painting stands in front of a darkened version of Furinis Lot and his Daughters, a possible
criticism of her morality. On the left, a young woman stands with her face to the wall next to an elderly woman

with a large nose and wide eyes showing the effects of lupus. Since the subjects of this painting were all sketched
separately before being painted together, they are all looking in different directions. Notoriously derided for
depicting the corner baker and his wife after they have won the lottery, this painting portrays its title figure
wearing a blue sash and numerous glittering medals. The artist stands in shadow in the back of this work, which
depicts him using a mirror to paint Maria Luisa and Carlos Maria Isidro. For 10 points, name this Francisco Goya
painting, commonly interpreted as a caricature of the title Spanish monarch and his relatives.
ANSWER: The Family of Charles IV
10. From 1972 to 1974, James Sinclair restored the original version of this piece, whose composer was forced to
pare down its instrumentation for its premiere by Nicholas Slonimsky. This works third movement is a paraphrase
of the hymn Dorrance, and takes its title from a poem written by Robert Underwood Johnson. Its first movement
intersperses bass ostinatos of minor third intervals with quotations from songs such as Old Black Joe. Its
composer call it his First Orchestral Set, and wrote a program for its second movement describing a boy at a
picnic who dreams of hearing soldiers playing a patriotic marching song. Its movements include The Housatonic at
Stockbridge and The Saint Gaudens in Boston Common. For 10 points, name this composition by Charles Ives
which depicts several locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
ANSWER: Three Places in New England
11. This writers autobiography was partially composed by speaking into a tape recorder while sitting in the treetops
hiding from his nations police. Though not primarily known for his poetry, this writer did write the long poem El
central, which was part of his poetic series on his nations history titled Leperosorio. One novel by this author opens
with an address to that novels main character, Fray Servando, while another novel parodies the Holy Trinity by
splitting its narration between three characters, one of whom is named the Gloomy Skunk. In addition to writing the
novels Hallucinations and The Color of Summer, this author reincarnated a character from his novel Singing From
the Well as Fortunato in his most famous work, which formed the second part of his series of novels that he called
pentagonia. For ten points, identify this author of The Palace of the White Skunks who related his experience of
being a homosexual in Castros Cuba in his autobiography Before Night Falls.
ANSWER: Reinaldo Arenas
12. Baudoin developed an efficient one-pot way to generate ortho- substituted products based on this reaction,
while Beller developed a technique using diadamantyl-n-butylphosphane ligands to carry out this reaction using in
situ formed complex catalysts. A group including Kim, Lee, and Hyeon developed a version of this reaction that
used hollow silica spheres to create spherical recyclable heterogeneous catalysts of a certain metal. This reaction is
commonly used for macrocylicization in the synthesis of Rutamycin B. Sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate
are commonly used in this reactionfor activation of one reagent for the transmetallation step. Nickel can be used
as a catalyst for a version of this reaction for aryl chlorides. The mechanism of this reaction is somewhat similar
to the Stille reaction, and it is an efficient way in a synthesis to create carbon-carbon bonds between two aryls.
The traditional catalyst consists of four triphenylphosphines bound to a certain metal. For 10 points, name this
palladium-catalyzed reaction that couples aryl boronic acids and aryl halides.
ANSWER: Suzuki-Miyaura coupling [or Suzuki-Miyaura reaction; or SM coupling]
13. This leader had a major diplomatic standoff with France after his nephews stole a yacht belonging to Bruno
Roger, painted it yellow, and tried to auction it back to French officials. He received a de-facto exile as Polish
Ambassador after the Gafsa Incident, a comically failed coup that saw angry lunatics drive through the streets
shooting people and demanding they blame the government. Bettino Craxi supposedly instructed Italy's SISMI to
secretly facilitate this leader's rise to power in order to prevent Chadli Benjadid from invading. The opposition of alNabhani's Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Liberation Party, led this man to reshape the Neo-Destour Party into the Constitutional
Democratic Rally after declaring his predecessor, Habib Bourguiba, medically unfit for office. After this man's

agents confiscated some fruits and vegetables from a 26 year-old grad student, the student lit himself on fire,
sparking protests against this man that led Mohamed Ghannouchi to take over in the Jasmine Revolution. For 10
points, name this recently-deposed former dictator of Tunisia.
ANSWER: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
14. One commander in this conflict dropped crash dummies with parachutes as part of Operation Magistral, which
led to a heroic stand on Hill 3234. Tensions leading up to it were exacerbated by an incident in which Adolph Dubs
was killed after a hostage standoff in a hotel by members of Setami Milli. This conflict saw the nefarious KHAD
carry out a series of massacres at the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, and was partially triggered by the growing popularity of
the Khalq Party. This effort was driven by hardware like the BMP-1, in which it exposed a serious chassis design
flaw, and SU-25 Frogfoots based out of Bagram Air Base. It opened with with Storm-333, a furious assault by
Alpha Group on the Tajbeg Palace that killed President Amin. Occuring in the wake of the Saur Revolution, it
turned on the participation of men like Michael Vickers in Operation Cyclone, which supplied Stinger missiles to
the Mujahideen. For 10 points, identify this 1979-1989 conflict that saw a communist power occupy Kabul.
ANSWER: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan [accept any equivalent that involves both the USSR and
Afghanistan; prompt on partial answer]
15. In one work, this figure is entreated to get blazed off some hop plants with the speaker and have sex on
his raincoat, while a rowan tree was once taken to be this character in a fever dream. A reflection on cosmic
interconnectedness prompted by this character's attendance at a funeral resembles a discourse on Juliet in her
creator's Translating Shakespeare. This character's mother Amalia attempts suicide by drinking iodine, while Misha
and Nicky identify a laundry girl as her daughter. She marries a man who becomes known as Shooter for his
brutality and is first seduced by a man she tries to shoot at a posh Christmas party. She is encountered in a library
reading room in Yuriatin by a man who is soon after conscripted into the army, though the two reunite at Varykino,
where this character inspires a cycle of poems. For 10 points, name this woman who becomes the obsession of the
titular Yuri in Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago.
ANSWER: Lara [accept Larissa Feodorova Guishar or Larissa Antipova]
16. At one point in this work, the author relates the anecdote of how Brasidas was bitten by a mouse and therefore
released it, in contrast with Bellarmine, who allowed rodents to prey on him. The third section of this work quotes
Hecuba from "The Trojan Women," saying that "there is nothing secure in the world; no glory, no prosperity," as
well as Diodorus Siculcus on the vagaries of fortune. This work's 15th and final section, entitled "Corollary," notes
that "ignorance is the mother of devotion," while an earlier section draws on Strabo's observation that "the leaders
and examples of every kind of superstition are women." Later the author calls the Getes "genuine theists" for their
devotion to their god Zamolxis. Beginning by noting the widespread nature of human belief in "invisible, intelligent
power," for ten points, identify this work which traces the evolution of the title phenomenon from polytheism to
Christianity, written by David Hume.
ANSWER: Natural History of Religion
17. A young bishop named Cosimo Gheri was notoriously raped to death by the first man to hold this city's
dukedom as his army marched through Fano. A more accomplished holder of its dukedom won the Battle of
Gembloux and squared off against Philips of Marnix in a major siege. Pier Luigi was installed as its duke by the
successor of Clement VII, Pope Paul III, who founded the Jesuits and convoked the Council of Trent and was the
scion of its major ruling house. A duke of this city triggered the Spanish Fury after capturing Antwerp and was
the son of the illegitimate daughter of Charles V who was pushed out as Governor of the Netherlands by the vicious
Duke of Alba. Hapsburg military genius Alessandro Farnese is better known by his title as this city's Duke, as is the
aforementioned Margaret. The center of a Duchy that also included Piacenza and which was given by Napoleon to
Marie-Louise, for 10 points, name this Italian city near Bologna home to a major medieval university and the artist

of Madonna of the Long Neck.

ANSWER: Parma
18. This musician played a blues piece on all twelve keys at breakneck speed in his recording Crazy Chords. He
collaborated with Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams, and Chick Corea on the song La Fiesta, one of the tracks on
his album Captain Marvel. Towards the end of his life, he often collaborated with the pianist Kenny Barron. One
of the Four Brothers of Woody Hermans Second Herd along with Serge Chaloff, Herb Stewart, and Zoot Sims,
he popularized the light, vibrato-free style inspired by his idol, Lester Young. He collaborated with Charlie Byrd on
a popular version of Desafinado, one of the songs on his 1962 album Jazz Samba, and built on its success with
an album he recorded along with Joao and Astrud Gilberto. For ten points, name this saxophonist nicknamed the
Sound, who fused jazz and bossa nova in pieces such as The Girl from Ipanema.
ANSWER: Stan Getz
19. One character in this novel is only able to say the word shuttlecocks after learning that her lover slit his throat
with a pen knife. The first sign of conflict in this novel comes when one of its characters touches the wrist of another
characters husband at the site of Martin Luthers original Protest. Its main character spends his fortune on his
mistress La Dolciquita, and begins a relationship with Maisie Maidan, who dies after learning of his motives for
moving to Nauheim. Its narrators wife commits suicide after catching her lover in the park with Nancy Rufford, and
first encounters the title character because of her faked heart condition. Beginning This is the saddest story I have
ever heard, this novel describes the affair between Florence and the husband of Leonora. For 10 points, name this
novel narrated by John Dowell, whose wife cheats on him with Edward Ashburnham, written by Ford Madox Ford.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
20. Potato King George led the economic core of this group, the subject of a series of public battles between
Sidney Gulick and newspaper editor V.S. McClatchy. Ex-soldiers drawn from this group backed John Burns's
1954 revolution against the monopolistic Big Five, having earlier rescued the Lost Battalion in the Vosges
Mountains as part of the 442nd Infantry Regiment. James Phelan, who had earlier served on the Committee of
Fifty, propelled himself to a Senate seat by opposing this group's picture brides. Samuel Gompers got into
a fight with his Mexican constituents after they refused to abandon this group during the Oxnard strike, while
Milton Eisenhower headed up a newly-created governmental agency tasked with managing them. Teddy Roosevelt
negotiated a compromise involving the Gentlemans Agreement when the San Francisco school board refused to
admit to public schools members of this group, who later occupied Tule Lake and Manzanar. For ten points, identify
this ethnic group which by Executive Order 9066 was confined to detention camps during World War II.
ANSWER: Japanese-Americans [accept equivalents; accept more specific answers like Issei or Nissei; accept
Japanese in California, which most of the clues refer to]
Tiebreaker. One side in this treaty negotiated that their interpreters Abraham and Cudjo would receive two hundred
dollars in payment, and one leader of that side was Ya-ha Hadjo. This treaty ended a war that was sparked when
Neamathla refused to surrender some of his warriors. It followed the signing of a treaty at Camp Moultrie earlier in
the conflict it ended. Another war between the parties to this treaty began three years after its ratification, and that
war saw the Dade Massacre occur. The chief American negotiator for this treaty was James Gadsden and the other
party to this treaty was forced to move to Creek lands in Oklahoma, giving up their lands in Florida. For ten points
name this 1832 treaty that ended the First Seminole War.
ANSWER: Treaty of Paynes Landing

Bonuses

1. This man helped set his country on a disastrous course by inspiring false confidence in his Compte rendu, a report
to King Louis XVI. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this French finance minister, a major figure just prior to the Revolution, whose dismissal helped trigger
the storming of the Bastille.
ANSWER: Jacques Necker
[10] This other French finance minister established the Banque Generale and tried to fix Louis XIV's massive
debt with paper currency before being ousted over the Mississippi Bubble. He had earlier gone on the lam after
murdering some poor bastard in a duel in a futile effort to get national harlot Elizabeth Hamilton to sleep with him.
ANSWER: John Law
[10] The treatment of the Mississippi Bubble in Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness
of Crowds inspired the investment doctrines of this Brain Trustee, the architect of American industrial management
during both World Wars. He also modified the Acheson-Lilienthal into a namesake atomic energy proposal in 1946.
ANSWER: Bernard Baruch
2. Give the following economic situations for 10 points each.
[10] When a vendor is able to accurately predict the demand for a product in the vendors market, the vender
cancaptured all of the consumer surplus by doing this, maximizing their profits.
ANSWER: First-degree price discrimination (prompt on partial answer)
[10] In this economic game, a two-player version of three card poker named for a game theorist who solved the
assignment problem, the first player has many optimal strategies, but the second player has only one, which always
puts him in the advantage.
ANSWER: Kuhn Poker
[10] These kind of status goods, which are classically represented with a diamond tipped cane, paradoxically see
their demand rise with their price.
ANSWER: Veblen Good
3. Answer some questions about computational chemistry for 10 points each.
[10] Popular examples of these constructs used in molecular mechanics include MM2, which is used for
hydrocarbons, and ECEPP, which is used for proteins.
ANSWER: force fields
[10] This potential is commonly used in molecular mechanics to model London dispersion forces between nonpolar molecules. It is sometimes named after the two exponents, 6 and 12, that represent the attractive and repulsive
forces.
ANSWER: Lennard Jones potential
[10] These models come in simple two or three site varieties, but may make use of as many as five sites to model
lone pair activity. Typically, modelling proteins requires these models to avoid anomalous Coloumb interactions, but
when computation time is at a premium a so called continuum model for implicit solvation can be used instead.
ANSWER: water model
4. This action was the major achievement of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency and arose out of the earlier
Operation Overcast. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this clandestine Allied effort during the final days of World War II to secure German scientists and
prevent their expertise from falling into Soviet hands.
ANSWER: Operation Paperclip
[10] The biggest prize of Operation Paperclip was this former SS officer, who was just ridiculously good at building
rockets. After spending some quality interrogation time in a shack in Virginia known only as P.O. Box 1142, he
went on to become a major architect of the U.S. space program.
ANSWER: Werher von Braun

[10] The OSS's information on von Braun came heavily from this man, who pretty much became the most important
intelligence source in the war when he walked into a U.S. embassy and asked to be a spy. He helped facilitate DDay and outed Elyesa Bazna as German spy Cicero with the help of his handler, Allen Dulles.
ANSWER: Fritz Kolbe
5. In one work of this genre, the slave Habrotonon is revealed to be the long-lost daughter of Smircrines, while
another work in this genre contains the double plots concerning the love of Phaedria for Thais and Chaerea for
Pamphila. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this genre exemplified by the play The Arbitration as well as by the imitators of that plays author.
ANSEWR: New Comedy
[10] A notable example of the Greek New Comedy is this play in which Sostratos wins the hand of a peasant girl
after rescuing the title character Knemon from a fall into a well. Like The Arbitration, it was written by Menander.
ANSWER: Dyskolos [accept The Grouch, Old Cantankerous, or anything else that involves someone being
generally grumpy and old]
[10] Knemon in The Grouch and Laches in the aforementioned The Eunuch by Terence are examples of this stock
New Comedy character, who represents an aged parent; sometimes that parent is a miser and sometimes a source of
helpful advice.
ANSWER: senex
6. Answer some questions about Islamic jurisprudence, for ten points each.
[10] Islamic jurisprudence often involves evaluating the Sunnah, the words and deeds of the Prophet, by examining
the chain of transmission and reliability of these narrations of Muhammad's life.
ANSWER: Hadith
[10] This word denotes the use of reason by analogy, and in many Sunni schools joins ijma, or consensus, as an
acceptable method of fiqh. Depending on who you ask, it's either a kind of Ijtihad, totally different, or an agent of
Satan, so you should phrase your bonus parts on either concept carefully.
ANSWER: Qiyas
[10] A revival of Ijtihad is central to the thought of this Swiss-born Islamic theologian, who advocates the creation
of a Western Islam in works like Islam, the West, and the Challenge of Modernity.
ANSWER: Tariq Ramadan
7. It was originally written for piano white its composer was under the tutelage of Faur, and shares the same form
as Faurs Opus 50. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this piece first performed by the composers friend Ricardo Vies in 1902. Its orchestrated version uses a
melody played by the horn to evoke a slow seventeenth century dance popular at the Spanish court.
ANSWER: Pavane for a Dead Princess [or Pavane pour une infante dfunte; or Pavane for a Dead Child]
[10] This French composer of Daphnis et Chlo wrote Pavane for a Dead Princess.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel
[10] Vies also premiered Ravels Gaspard de la Nuit, which ends with this movement composed to be more
difficult than Balakirevs Islamey. It uses jagged and violent music to portray a dwarf-like demon.
ANSWER: Scarbo
8. Answer some questions about a quantum mechanical effect, for 10 points each.
[10] This phenomena is the process by which an applied external magnetic field splits the energy levels of atomic
spectra. It's less important electrical equivalent is named for Johannes Stark.
ANSWER: Zeeman Effect

[10] This coefficient important in lifting the degeneracy of energy levels with equal angular momentum represents
the total contribution to the magnetic moment from spin and orbital magnetic moment. It is calculated from the
quantum numbers l, j and s.
ANSWER: Lande g-factor
[10] One difficulty with calculating the Lande g-factor is the anomolous gyromagnetic ratio of the electron. The
electron's g-factor differs from this value predicted by the Dirac equation by approximately two tenths of a percent
due to QED effects.
ANSWER: two
9. The CauchyRiemann equations give one criterion for evaluating whether a function has this property. For 10
points each:
[10] Give this property that a complex function on a domain R posses if it is complex differentiable at every point in
R.
ANSWER: analytic [or holomorphic]
[10] This theorem states that if a complex function f of z is continuous in a region R and for every closed rectifiable
curve in R, the integral along that curve of f of z equals zero, then f is analytic. It can be thought of as the converse
of Cauchy's integral theorem.
ANSWER: Morera's Theorem
[10] This generalization of a Taylor series can be used to create a unique expansion of a holomorphic function
within an annulus. They are defined as the sum from n equals negative infinity to infinity of a sub n times z to the n
where z is a non zero complex number.
ANSWER: Laurent series
10. The sixth section of this poem, which is dedicated to the authors dead cousin Warren Winslow, is separately
titled Our Lady of Walsingham and reflects on a saints shrine in Norfolk. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem in seven parts that begins with a fleet discovering a drowned sailor who clutched the dragnet and is re-buried with military honors.
ANSWER: The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
[10] The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket was written by this confessional poet, whose other works include the
collection Life Studies and the poem For the Union Dead.
ANSWER: Robert Lowell
[10] This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection by Robert Lowell includes The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket. It
takes its name from a folk ballad about a stonemason who kills an aristocrats family after he is refused payment for
his work on the title structure.
ANSWER: Lord Wearys Castle
11. This building is home to Andrea Sacchi's masterpiece, the Allegory of Divine Wisdom, which depicts Jupiter
romping around in the heavens over an spherically-challenged globe. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Roman palace which overlooks Bernini's Triton Fountain and whose stables were home to the bat
cave-like studio of Bertel Thorwaldson. It also features a helicoidal staircase designed by Borromini.
ANSWER: Palazzo Barberini [or Barberini Palace]
[10] The ceiling of the Palazzo Barberini features the Allegory of Divine Providence, the masterpiece of this
preeminent fresco painter and architect of the Italian High Baroque.
ANSWER: Pietro Berrettini de Cortona [accept any underlined name]
[10] Cortona's Allegory is often seen as the clear ideological successor to the sprawling ceiling frescoes on The
Loves of the Gods painted for the Palazzo Farnese by a member of this family. Its members Agostino, Ludovico, and
Annibale established one of the earliest art academies in Bologna.
ANSWER: Carracci

12. For 10 points each, name these 20th century sculptors.

[10] This sculptor created many depictions of spiders, including the large steel and marble Maman outside the
Bilbao Guggenheim. She sculpted a headless sphinx with many breasts in Nature Study, and was photographed by
Robert Mapplethorpe holding Fillette, her sculpture of an enormous latex phallus.
ANSWER: Louise Bourgeois
[10] This sculptor commemorated Dag Hammarskjold in Single Form, which stands outside the United Nations.
The majority of this sculptors pieces consist of curved forms pierced with a single smooth hole, which is sometimes
crisscrossed with string.
ANSWER: Barbara Hepworth
[10] This Swedish sculptor collaborated with his wife Coosje van Bruggen on the massive Spoonbridge and Cherry
in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Free Stamp in Cleveland, some of his many giant sculptures of everyday
objects.
ANSWER: Claes Oldenburg
13. The Uraeus is the stylized form of this animal used to denote soveriengty, while the goddess Wadjet was often
depicted as one of these creatures. For10 points each:
[10] Identify this creature, which underwent a major synthesis with the vulture Nekhmet following the unification of
Upper and Lower Egypt.
ANSWER: Cobra [prompt on snake]
[10] This anthropomorphized object, sometimes viewed as the daughter of a solar deity, underwent transformation
into the uraeus cobra. In one story, this deity goes wandering off into the desert and only Thoth can persuade her to
return, while in another, she wages war on her fathers enemies as Sekhmet.
ANSWER: Eye of Ra
[10] The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt is probably referenced on this extraordinarily important artifact of
Egyptian iconography, whose two sides depict the central mace-wielding figure wearing the southern White Crown
and northern Red Crown, respectively. It was discovered along with some maceheads at Hierakonopolis.
ANSWER: the Narmer Palette [Note: While the name Menes is often considered to refer to the historical Narmer,
you really don't ever call this thing the Menes Palette, so that shouldn't be accepted]
14. Vanderbilt professor Lesley Gills book about this institution opens with an interview with Luis Urbina, a man
trained here. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this institution which focused on the teaching of counterinsurgency tactics. Its graduates included
officers in the Atlacatl Battalion which perpetrated the El Mozote massacre.
ANSWER: The School of the Americas or the Western Hemisphere Institute for Securit Cooperation
[10] The El Mozote massacre occurred in this Central American nation, which saw pitched battled between FMLN
guerilla units and U.S. funded death squads, which became a political inconvenience for Reagan after they killed
some nuns. Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated in this country in 1980.
ANSWER: El Salvador
[10] The school's valedictorian is probably this man, who has been responsible for just about every nefarious thing
that happened in Peru in the last quarter-century. Highlights include prolific Shining Path-slaughtering as head of
Grupo Colina and collapsing the Fujimori regime after being caught on tape bribing people several dozen times.
ANSWER: Vladimiro Montesinos
15. This author's 1979 Nobel lecture lauds poetry as providing a potential universal language of sensation For 10
points each:
[10] Identify this Greek poet who wrote rather incessantly about light and somewhat advocated worshiping the sun
while publishing works like Maria Nefeli and Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Second Lieutenant Lost in Albania.

ANSWER: Odysseus Elytis

[10] This major work of Elytis, a musically-structured collection of autobiographical poetry, describes Greece as
my everlasting rose and mirrors the composition of a Greek Orthodox service.
ANSWER: To Axion Esti [accept all reasonable translations like It Is Worthy, Worthy It Is, Worthy To Be, etc.)
[10] Elytis often translated works by natives of this island, including the surprisingly law-enacting poetry of
Pittacus. Other lyric residents include Alcaeus and Sappho.
ANSWER: Lesbos [accept Mytilini]
16. This work claims that when a tradition becomes Burkean... it is always dying or dead, and that the classical
utilitarian theories give people no reason to believe in their claims. For ten points each:
[10] Identify this work of moral philosophy which seeks to rehabilitate Aristotelian ethics by investigating what
sorts of things lead to an individuals flourishing.
ANSWER: After Virtue
[10] After Virtue is the most famous work of thie neo-Aristotelian who continued his critique of Enlightenment
liberalism in Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
ANSWER: Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
[10] Much of MacIntyres moral philosophy is drawn from this work, which consists of a series of questions,
representing topics, followed by arguments for and against them. It is the masterwork of Thomas Aquinas.
ANSWER: Summa Theologiae (accept grudgingly Summa Theologica)
17. Answer these questions about maps, for 10 points each:
[10] This Flemish dude created an eponymous 1569 cylindrical projection that remains popular despite the fact that
the original version makes it seem like Canada is angrily phagocytosing the map legend.
ANSWER: Gerardus Mercator
[10] John Snow created a notable 1854 map charting this phenomenon with respect to certain installations in the
vicinity of Broad Street, dealing a major blow to Miasma theory.
ANSWER: Cholera [prompt on more general answers like disease, epidemic, etc.]
[10] The Sanborn maps, which contain a century's worth of detailed geographical plans for most American cities,
are incessantly employed for historiography, urban engineering, and like ten million other things. The maps were
originally commissioned for this non-cholera reason.
ANSWER: Fire [Fire Insurance, really, but accept equivalents; prompt on just insurance]
18. This man was assistant postmaster general under Grover Cleveland. For ten points each:
[10] Name this Illinois politician who supported the gold standard and served as vice president under Cleveland
during the latters second non-consecutive term.
ANSWER: Adlai Stevenson I
[10] Stevenson served as the VP nominee in William Jennings Bryans unsuccessful 1900 run for President,
replacing this friend of Bryans, who did not balance the ticket as well as Stevenson.
ANSWER: Charles Arnette Towne
[10] Stevenson served as a representative from Illinois during the tenure as speaker of the house of this Maine
politician, who would later lose a presidential election after being branded a continental liar.
ANSWER: James Gillespie Blaine
19. It features such historical characters as Jean Froissart, and its plot turns on a forged letter. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1861 novel about the thwarted love of Gerard, a calligrapher turned monk, and his former wife, the
red haired Margaret. When Margaret dies of the plague, the future Erasmus of Rotterdam is orphaned.
ANSWER: The Cloister and the Hearth

[10] The Cloister and the Hearth was written by this Victorian author who treated contemporary social issues in
other novels like Peg Woffington and Hard Cash.
ANSWER: Charles Reade
[10] Charles Reades interest in didactic storytelling influenced this contemporary to write Jezebels Wife, which
advocated for the humane treatment of the institutionalized. He is better known for writing detective novels such as
The Law and the Lady and The Moonstone.
ANSWER: William Wilkie Collins
20. This author wrote about a terrible poet being fooled into thinking he's fantastic in "The Maysville Minstrel." For
10 points each:
[10] Name this author of Haircut, as well as a 1924 collection that introduces such pieces as Alibi Ike and
Champion with a sardonic preface that discusses the art of short story writing.
ANSWER: Ring Lardner
[10] In 1916 Lardner published this epistolary novel subtitled A Bushers Letters. It follows the exploits of a
baseball rookie named Jack Keefe who makes it up to the big leagues and fights with a left-hander named Allen.
ANSWER: You Know Me Al
[10] Ring Lardner is a favorite author of this fictional character, who hangs out in the zoo with his sister Phoebe and
gets beaten up by a pimp named Maurice.
ANSWER: Holden Caulfield [or Holden Caulfield; or Holden from Catcher in the Rye; or other equivalents that
demonstrate clear knowledge]