ࡱ > ~ %` \ bjbjٕ . T , , , , D , T 3B D- D- D- D- D- D- D- D- A A A A A A A $ C h qE ^ A 8 D- D- 8 8 A D- D- A A A A 8 J D- D- A A 8 A A A A D- 8- Pm , > A A B 0 3B A E ? B E A A L E VA \ D- 0 A 3 5 D- D- D- A A A D- D- D- 3B 8 8 8 8 $ BHSAT XVII Round 12 March 29, 2008 Packet By Eric Mukherjee and Michael Bilow 1. This English poet converted from Catholicism to Anglicanism and later became the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. A writer of religious poetry, he is also well known for his sermons written as an Anglican clergyman. The term "metaphysical" was used by critics such as Samuel Johnson and Helen Gardner to describe the witticisms and conceits embedded in his poetry. FTP name this poet perhaps best known for poems like "To His Mistress Going to Bed" and "Death be not proud." ANSWER: John Donne 2. The allosteric regulator 2,3-BPG decreases its binding affinity at high altitudes, and in the embryo, the Portland and Gower types of this molecule predominate. The Bohr effect describes a shift in this molecules dissociation curve with changes in pH, and one notable disease involving this protein sees a substitution of valine for glutamic acid on one of its beta chains. FTP, name this iron-containing protein that is mutated is sickle-cell anemia, and which is responsible for carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. ANSWER: Hemoglobin 3. This German Romantic composer composed the theme for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and became President of the Reich Music Bureau, even though his daughter-in-law was Jewish. Married to a soprano, he wrote many operas, most importantly Elektra and Salome. He is also famous for his tone poems including Don Quixote. FTP name this composer whose Also Spracht Zarathustra is used in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. ANSWER: Richard Strauss (prompt on Strauss) 4. The publication of his most famous work lead to his falling out with Charles Fox, which he tried to rectify in his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, and Immanuel Kant praised this mans Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. His most famous work argued that the title event wasnt a move toward democracy, but merely a rejection of just authority and tradition. FTP, name this conservative political philosopher, the author of Reflections on the Revolution in France. ANSWER: Edmund Burke 5. The title character of this work has worked for the Wagner Company for 30 years, and after asking Howard for a transfer to New York, he gets fired. Other characters in this work include the protagonists children, Biff and Happy, who decide to go into business together, and his wife Linda, who remarks on the irony of a life-insurance motivated suicide at the end of the play. For ten points, identify this play about the suicide of Willie Loman, a work by Arthur Miller. ANSWER: Death of a Salesman 6. While serving in the Burma, he wrote an essay entitled Shooting an Elephant, in which he strongly criticized the British Empire. Returning to England before the outbreak of WWII, he traveled to Spain to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Totalitarian settings are present in many of his most famous books; FTP name the author of Homage to Catalonia and Animal Farm. ANSWER: George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair 7. Pencil and paper ready. Let log refer to the logarithm base 2 function. What is the largest real value, x, for which the log of the log of the log of x is undefined? (Repeat from Pencil and Paper ready.) Note that the largest value for which the log of x is undefined is zero, and that the log of 1 is zero. Thus the largest value for which the log of the log of x is undefined is 1. ANSWER: 2 8. In one story, She banishes one of her brothers to the night after that brother kills the goddess of food, and another of her brothers throws the skin of a horse into her main temple, prompting her to banish him to earth. She gives her grandson Jimmu a sword, mirror, and jewel before sending him on a mission to pacify her nation. She was born from the left eye of her father Izanagi, and in one story, she is inspired to poke her head out of a cave by the dancing of Uzume. FTP, name this chief kami of Shinto, the Japanese goddess of the sun. ANSWER: Amaterasu-omikami 9. The theory of this was first articulated by Konstantin Mereschkowski in 1905, and examples of it include rhizobia in roots of legumes. Evidence for it occurs in brown algae, which have chloroplasts surrounded by four membranes. FTP, give this term for the process by which eukaryotic cells are believed to have taken up mitochondria and chloroplasts, by encapsulating them in membrane. ANSWER: Endosymbiosis 10. Standing at 62, this Smith College graduate immediately went on to concoct a shark repellant for the Office of Strategic Services, a job that would take her to India, Sri Lanka and China. Late in her television career, she would be joined by Jacques Pepin. Beginning the career that would make her famous in 1963 on WGBH in Boston, name FTP this TV chef, author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and host of The French Chef who died in 2004. ANSWER: Julia Child 11. In one chapter of this work, a main character considers the idea that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet based on Anne Hathaways adultery; that same character is lectured by Garrett Deasy earlier in the novel when he picks up his paycheck. After visiting Mrs. Dingham, the protagonist catches a glimpse of Gertie McDowells legs before saving Stephen Dedalus from Bella Cohens brothel. FTP, name this novel centered on Leopold Bloom and his adulterous wife Molly and has chapter titles derived from the Odyssey, by James Joyce. ANSWER: Ulysses 12. One of this mans edicts tells how he only kills two peacocks and a deer for his meals. He received the ambassador Dionysus from Ptolemy II Philadelphius, and this man also established relations with Antiochius II of the Selucid Empire. He passed a series of Rock and Pillar edicts after his conversion to Buddhism, which was brought about after he was horrified by his own actions during a war against Kalinga. The son of Bindusara, FTP, name this Mauryan emperor whose namesake wheel adorns the Indian flag. ANSWER: Ashoka Maurya 13. He represented the plaintiff in the Gibbons v. Ogden trial, and also represented his alma mater in the Dartmouth College v. Woodward case. His time as secretary of state saw his negotiation of the eastern border of the US after the Aroostook war, and he also had a celebrated series of debates about protectionist tariffs with Robert Hayne. FTP, name this 19th-century politician and secretary of state from Massachusetts, the namesake of a treaty with Lord Ashburton. ANSWER: Daniel Webster 14. One of the concepts associated with this man is defined as communication between the conscious and unconscious minds, and another concept he posited is a set of universal images often found in literature. In addition to syzygy and archetypes, theorized the existence of a group memory available to all humans known as the collective unconscious. For ten points, identify this psychotherapist who wrote Psychological Types and who posited introversion and extroversion and founded analytic psychology. ANSWER: Carl Gustav Jung 15. One building designed by this man was inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and currently stands in Prague. In addition to the Dancing House, this man also designed the Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago. A monorail runs through this mans Experience Music Project in Seattle, while another museum designed by him is found in Bilbao, Spain. FTP, name this postmodern architect who designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim. ANSWER: Frank Gehry 16. Its water soluble salts are highly toxic to human beings, even at low concentrations, but its insoluble sulfate salt is often used in medical imaging of the lower intestine in a namesake enema. It produces hydrogen gas when placed in water, though it does not burn like potassium or sodium. FTP, name this element, number 56, with a strongly basic oxide, whose name comes from the Greek word for heavy. ANSWER: Barium 17. It was partially revoked in the Reciprocal Act, and it extended the provisions of the earlier Fordney-MacComber Act. It was initially blocked by Progressive republicans, and it lead to an export decrease of over 700 million dollars. Despite over one thousand economists writing a letter to the president asking him to veto it, Herbert Hoover signed it into law in 1930. FTP, name this tariff named for a senator from Utah and a representative from Oregon, which was partially responsible for the Great Depression. ANSWER: Smoot-Hawley Tariff (accept either order) 18. Marshal Vendomes exploits during this war include a victory over Reventlow at Calcinato, and a key allied victory came at Ouedenaarde. Another battle occurred southwest of Mons fortress, and saw the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat the Duc de Villars at Malplaquet. This war began when Phillip of Anjou was given all of Charles IIs possessions after his death, and came into conflict with Leopold I Hapsburg. Ended by the Treaty of Utrecht, FTP, name this 1701-1714 European conflict. ANSWER: War of the Spanish Succession 19. It can also be derived using the calculus of variations in conjunction with Fermats principle of least time, or from the Huygens-Fresnel principle. In anisotropic media, only the o-ray and not the e-ray follows this law, which can also be used to find the critical angle of total internal reflection. FTP, name this law of optics that says the ratio of the sines of the indcidence angles of a ray is equal to the ratio of the refractive indices of the medium. ANSWER: Snells Law 20. This person has a soft drink named after her, and learned her trade at Meglin's, a talent school which Judy Garland also attended. She presented Walt Disney with an Academy Award in 1937, two years after she scored her own "Juvenile Award" Oscar for her work the previous year in movies like Bright Eyes. This was her breakout role, and in the film she performs her signature song about the good ship "Lollipop". She also had leading rolls in Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and The Little Princess before becoming a spokeswoman for breast cancer and United States ambassador and Diplomat. Name her FTP. ANSWER: Shirley Temple 1. The protagonist has a dream in which he sees a peasant beating a horse to death, and meets the drunkard Marmeladov in a bar. FTPE: [10] Name this novel about the student Raskolnikovs murder of a pawnbroker. ANSWER: Crime and Punishment [10] Crime and Punishment was written by this Russian author of The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. ANSWER: Fyodor Dostoyevsky [10] This former employer of Raskolnikovs sister Dunya and overall evil kills himself near the end of Crime and Punishment, but not before Dunya tries to shoot him and fails. ANSWER: Svidrigailov 2. This daughter of Hyperion rides a silver chariot pulled by oxen. FTPE: [10] Name this Greek goddess of the moon, the roman equivalent of Luna. ANSWER: Selene [10] The subject of a Keats poem with the line A thing of beauty is a joy forever, this shepherd was loved by Selene, who asked Zeus to put him in an eternal sleep so she could visit him always. ANSWER: Endymion [10] Selene was also said to be the mother of this monstrous creature, which was choked to death and flayed by a certain hero, who would later wear its skin. ANSWER: Nemean Lion 3. According to its followers, this religion originated with the Flower Sermon, and its classic form has five main schools. FTPE: [10] Name this form of Buddhism that arose in Tang Dynasty China, and whose sects include the Rinzai and Choto. ANSWER: Zen Buddhism [10] Much of Zen inquiry relies upon these nonsensical anecdotes and statements, like Whats the sound of one hand clapping? A notable collection of them is the Gateless Gate. ANSWER: Koans [10] This collection of 100 koans was collected by Yuanwu Keqin during the Song Dynasty. It includes Nansen Kills a Cat and Toho and the Tiger ANSWER: Blue Cliff Record or Hekiganroku 4. The title character of this work stops dating Ruth after she decides to stay in England, and his relationship with Moishumi turns sour after she starts cheating on him. FTPE: [10] Name this novel about noted Yale graduate Gogol Ganguly. ANSWER: The Namesake [10] The Namesake was written by this Bengali-American author of The Interpreter of Maladies. ANSWER: Jhumpa Lahiri [10] This most recent short story collection of Jhumpa Lahiri features Going Ashore and Only Goodness. ANSWER: Unaccustomed Earth 5. In frogs, this process results in the creation of the gray crescent. FTPE: [10] Name this process during embryonic development that sees the differentiation of the inner cell mass into three distinct germ layers. ANSWER: Gastrulation [10] This inner germ layer develops into the lining of the digestive tract. ANSWER: Endoderm [10] The blastophore forms the opening to this primitive gut structure formed during gastrulation. ANSWER: Archenteron 6. It is defined as the quantity of energy needed to raise the temperature per unit mass of a substance by one degree Celsius. FTPE: Name this quantity expressed by the variable c. ANSWER: specific heat capacity According to this law, the product of the specific heat and the atomic weight of a solid is a de facto constant. ANSWER: Law of Dulong and Petit (either order) This theorem states that a system in equilibrium at an absolute temperature will have an average energy of one over 2 times k times T per degree of freedom. It can be useful in predicting the specific heat of a substance. ANSWER: equipartition of energy theorem 7. The suicide of Emperor Nero brought about an interesting time in Roman history. FTPE: [10] The year of the Four Emperors began when this man succeeded Nero; he would later be killed by the Praetorian guard after the Rhine legions refused to swear loyalty to him. ANSWER: Servius Sulpicius Galba [10] The Year of the Four Emperors ended when this first member of the Flavian Dynasty took power in AD 69. ANSWER: Titus Flavius Vespasianus [10] The Year of the Four Emperors is chronicled in this mans Histories. He also wrote a biography of Agricola and a year-by-year history of the time after the reign of Agustus Caesar. ANSWER: Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus 8. Its first movement is a setting of the hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus, and the second half derives its text from Goethes Faust II. FTPE: [10] Name this symphony in E-flat major that derives its nickname from the very large chorus that was featured in its first performance. ANSWER: Symphony of A Thousand or Mahlers 8th Symphony [10] This Austrian composer of Song of the Earth and Kindertotenleider wrote The Symphony of A Thousand. ANSWER: Gustav Mahler [10] Mahlers Song of The Earth was partly inspired by the poems of this author of The River Merchants Wife; Ezra Pound also owes some inspiration to this man. ANSWER: Li Po or Li Bai 9. This industrial process uses approximately 1% of the worlds annual energy output, and its use of an iron catalyst allows it to occur at lower temperatures. FTPE: [10] Name this method of creating ammonia, named for a German chemist. ANSWER: Haber-Bosch process [10] The Haber process is the industrial equivalent of this process undertaken by root nodule bacteria in plans, that transforms a namesake diatomic atmospheric gas into ammonia. ANSWER: Nitrogen fixation [10] This German surface chemist and 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize gained much of his fame from his refinement of the Haber process. ANSWER: Gerhard Ertl 10. His son Xixan was thrown out of a window after this man was denounced as a capitalist roader. FTPE: [10] Name this CCP official, the de facto Chinese head of state up until 1989. ANSWER: Deng Xiaoping [10] Deng oversaw the crackdown of student protesters at this location. It was precipitated after the death of Hu Yaobang, and events include the Unknown Protestor standing in front of a column of tanks ANSWER: Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989 (Accept equivalents that mention Tiananmen Square). [10] This premier of China supported the crackdown at Tiananmen Square; he was later replaced by Jiang Zhemin in 1998. ANSWER: Li Peng 11. The title character of this work is hanged after he kills the master-at-arms of the ship he serves on, which naturally displeases Captain Vere. FTPE: [10] Name this story about a foretopman aboard the Bellipotent. ANSWER: Billy Budd, Foretopman or Billy Budd, Sailor [10] This author of White Jacket and The Confidence Man wrote Billy Budd, Foretopman, as well as some book about Captain Ahabs hunt for Moby Dick. ANSWER: Herman Mellville [10] This is the name of the master-at-arms killed by Billy Budd. Black blood pours from his face after he dies, and he is said to resemble Titus Oates by another character. ANSWER: John Claggart 12. Identify some paintings by Diego Velasquez, FTPE: [10] Michel Foucaults The Order of Things features a notable discussion of this painting, which features a dwarf on the right side and the ladies-in-waiting of the Infanta Margarita attending to her. ANSWER: Las Meninas or The Maids of Honor [10] Velasquez painted a notable portrait of this pope, clad in a red robe and sitting in a chair; the Irish painter Francis Bacon later parodied it. ANSWER: Innocent X (accept Portrait of Pope Innocent X or equivalents) [10] This only surviving Velasquez nude features Cupid holding up a mirror in front of the title figure. ANSWER: The Rokeby Venus or La Venus del Espejo 13. Gibbs paradox results when this quantity is derived to be non-extensive. FTPE: [10] Name this thermodynamic quantity, symbolized S, that always increases for a closed system according to the second law of thermodynamics. ANSWER: Entropy [10] This computer scientist extended the notion of entropy to information. He also names a sampling theorem with Nyquist. ANSWER: Claude Shannon [10] The entropy is defined as Boltzmanns constant multiplied by the natural logarithm of this quantity, symbolized omega. ANSWER: Degeneracy, or Number of microstates 14. Answer some questions about an early American diplomat and jurist, FTPE: [10] This first Chief Justice of the US supreme court negotiated a namesake treaty with Britain in 1795. ANSWER: John Jay [10] With Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, John Jay helped publish the Federalist Papers; the three of them used this pseudonym. ANSWER: Publius [10] John Jay also ran for governor of New York as a Federalist candidate, but was defeated by this man, who would go on to become James Madisons vice president. ANSWER: George Clinton 15. Name some stuff from the current college basketball season, FTPE:[10] Tyler Hansbrough has led this team to the Elite Eight, where they will face Louisville today. ANSWER: University of North Carolina Tar Heels[10] This UCLA freshman phenom from Oregon had an article written in Sports Illustrated about fans heckling him. He had 29 points and 14 rebounds Thursday night against Western Kentucky. ANSWER: Kevin Love[10] The head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers, he was voted coach of the year in the SEC both this year and in 2006. Last year, he paintedhis chest for a Lady Vols game. ANSWER: Bruce Pearl 16. Answer some questions about people involved in the Watergate scandal, FTPE: [10] The Saturday Night Massacre occurred when Nixon ordered the firing of this special prosecutor; William Ruckelshaus and Elliot Richardson resigned instead. ANSWER: Archibald Cox [10] This chief White House Counsel during the affair authorized the payment of money to E. Howard Hunt and the other burglars. ANSWER: John Wesley Dean III [10] This Washington post reporter and author of Plan of Attack and State of Denial teamed up with Carl Bernstein to expose the Watergate Scandal. ANSWER: Bob Woodward 17. Identify some stuff relating to that dude Euripedes poor treatment of women, FTPE: [10] The title witch of this play kills her husband Jasons children. Thats pretty much the only important thing that happens/ ANSWER: Medea [10] Hercules wrestles death in this play, whose title characters husband Admetus was allowed to live by the fates in exchange for the title womans life. ANSWER: Alcestis [10] This other playwrights Thesmophoriazusae [Thes-mo-fo-ria-zou-sigh] sees a group of women put Euripedes on trial. ANSWER: Aristophanes 18. QCD is an SU(3) gauge theory that describes this force, and particles subject to it experience asymptotic freedom and confinement. FTPE: [10] Name this fundamental force that is responsible for holding nuclei together. ANSWER: Strong nuclear force [10] These particles mediate the strong force between quarks in a nucleus. ANSWER: Gluons [10] The strong force can only apply to particles that have this property. Unlike electromagnetic charge, it can come in three different varieties, and it is the reason that hadrons can exist even though two quarks have the same spin. ANSWER: Color charge 20. Identify some recent videogames, FTPE: [10] The three entries in this Namco RPG series are all titles after Nietzsche works; you play as Vector Industries employee Shion Uzuki and attempt to stop the invasion of the Gnosis. ANSWER: Xenosaga [10] This objectivist 2007 first-person shooter features the unique feature of allowing the player character to inject plasmids in order to gain special powers. ANSWER: Bioshock [10] This PS3 game and latest addition to an Insomniac Games franchise sees the title Lombax and his robot companion battle the Cragmite Emperor Tachyon. The RYNO weapon makes a reappearance, as does Captain Quark. ANSWER: Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (accept either, also accept Ratchet and Clank 6) ; M Q R 6 = > A [ e f g j 6 7 : < . 0 ? D F I - @ B E ܃{{ hd h7W 6hd hE 56>*\]hd h 5>*\hd h ]hd h 6] hd h hd h3H 5>* hd h3H hE hd hd 5>*\hd hd hd hE hd h7W 5>* hd h7W h