Academic Competition Federation.
Regionals Tournament.
February 4, 2006.

Packet by UCLA.
Questions by Ray Luo, Charles Meigs, Dwight Wynne.

Literature 5/5

CM
The musical group Sick Dick and the Volkswagens is mentioned in this novel, and a play by Richard Wharfinger plays a prominent role in this novel, as does a third century bishop of Jerusalem and the Austro-Hungarian noble family of Thurn und Taxis.  The main character's psychiatrist apparently did an internship in Buchenwald, and another character has built a supposed working version of Maxwell's Demon.  Though the main character is originally from a town called Kinneret-among-the-Pines, most of the novel is set in a fictional suburb of Los Angeles.  As in another work of the author, the company Yoyodyne, Inc. is referenced, and the central plot involves a long dead organization leaving male in boxes with the slogan W.A.S.T.E.  Featuring such characters as Dr. Hilarius, John Nefastis, and Genghis Cohen, an avid philatelist, it concerns the underground postal organization Trystero.  FTP name this novel featuring Oedipa Maas, wife of Mucho Maas, a novel of Thomas Pynchon.
ANSWER: The Crying of Lot 49

RL
A letter from Willa Dean Purter reveals the death of Cleotha Holman, the dedicatee of a song sung by one who feels like family among strangers, and like strangers among family, the suit-selling gambling uncle Wining Boy.  Another uncle Doaker tells the story of how the ghosts of the Yellow Dog pushed Sutter down the well in revenge for the burning of a boxcar caused by Boy Charles's retaking of Joel Nolander's musical instrument given in exchange for Robert Sutter's slaves.  Berniece saves and educates her brother Boy Willie by invoking the ghosts of her ancestors Esther, Ola, and Charles, by pounding on the titular keyboard in, FTP this play by August Wilson.
ANSWER: The Piano Lesson

RL
Title's the same.  One notes that "repeated evidence has proved that it can live on what can not revive its youth" as "the sea grows old in it," and the "external marks of abuse" on "this defiant edifice" as it "wade through black jade."  The other relates the experience of looking at it "through the lenses of old scratched isinglass," as it is "speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice," but finally let go when rainbow filled the boat.  FTP Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop both wrote poems about what "tremendous" animal?
ANSWER: "The Fish"

DW
It is the name of Bathsheba Everdene’s father in Far From the Madding Crowd, and Tom Canty’s father in The Prince and the Pauper.  This name also applies to the landlord of the Maypole Inn in Barnaby Rudge, and the owner of Skeet and Nig in The Call of the Wild.  It may be better known as the name of Mr. Oakhurst, the main character in The Outcasts of Poker Flat, or as the name of Mr. Watson, who chronicled most of the adventures of his friend Sherlock Holmes.  FTP identify this common first name, also shared by the authors of the Book of Revelation and The Grapes of Wrath.
ANSWER: John

DW
This short story contains the interesting sequence of letters d-h-c-m-r-l-c-h-t-d-j.  The title object contains a narrow hallway with a mirror that “faithfully duplicates all appearances,” and two closets, one on the left of the hallway in which “one may sleep standing up,” and one on the right, which appears to have little more than a toilet. It is defined once as “a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible” and a second time as “a ubiquitous and lasting system of hexagonal galleries.”  Axaxaxos mlo, The Combed Thunderclap, and The Plaster Cramp are just three of the books the narrator oversees.  FTP identify this Borges short story about a collection of an infinite number of books.
ANSWER: “The Library of Babel”

CM
Answer these questions about two authors who set their most famous works in the same country.  FTSNOP.
[10]  "Justine," "Balthazar," "Mount Olive," and "Clea," make up this tetralogy.
ANSWER: The Alexandria Quartet
[5]  The Alexandria Quartet was the magnum opus of this British author.
ANSWER: Lawrence Durrell
[5]  This novelist, famed for the Cairo Trilogy, is the only Arab to have won a Nobel Prize in Literature.
ANSWER: Naguib Mahfouz
[10]  This novel gained Mahfouz the controversy which ended up in Mahfouz getting cut in 1994.  It tells stories of the major prophets of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and most controversially depicts Muhammad.
ANSWER: The Children of Gebelawi; or The Children of the Alley; or Aulaad Haratina

RL
Plays by Ben Jonson.  FTPE.
[10]  Kitely and his wife are tricked by Brainworm, Stephen is made fun of for his stupidity, Kno'well is suspicious of his son's efforts to escape, and the braggart Captain Bobadil is put down by Downright in this early character study with a sequel.
ANSWER: Every Man in His Humour
[10]  Dame Pliant accompanies Kastril, a young man who wants to be gallant, while Pertinax Surly reveals the plot as friend of Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight who'd like to indulge in sensual pleasure, in the shop at Lovewit's house set up by Subtle.
ANSWER: The Alchemist
[10]  The titular new wife of Morose, who can't stand noise, is revealed to be a boy trained by Sir Dauphine, who was disinherited by Morose until the new wife starts chatting endlessly as soon as she marries Morose.
ANSWER: Epicene; or The Silent Woman

RL
Identify the following types of poetic meters.  FTPE.
[10]  Also called strong-stress meter, this meter is organized by stress only and is exemplified by Old English poems as well as Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Cristabel."
ANSWER: accentual meter
[10]  Prominent in French, Italian, and Japanese, this type of meter measures only the number of vowel or glide nuclei in a line, as in Marianne Moore's "Poetry."
ANSWER: syllabic meter
[10]  Found in Sanskrit and Greek poetry, this meter measures feet according to duration of utterance, an attempt at which is Edmund Spenser's "Iambic Trimetrum."
ANSWER: quantitative meter

DW
Two young men vie for the love of Katrina Van Tassel in Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow."  FTPE.
[5,5]  For five points each, name those two men.
ANSWER: Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones; accept either name for both
[10, 10]  Now for 10 points each, name their horses.
ANSWER: Gunpowder (Crane's horse) and Daredevil (Bones's horse)

DW
Family literature.  Name these sons.  FTSNOP.
[5,5]  For five points each, name the two sons of Taras Bulba.
ANSWER: Ostap and Andrii
[10]  For ten points, name the illegitimate brother Karamazov.
ANSWER: Smerdyakov
[10]  For a final ten, name the son of Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov in Fathers and Sons.
ANSWER: Arkady (accept Arkasha)

History 5/5

DW
The 2005 Supreme Court case Sherrill, New York  v. Oneida Nation of New York involved interpretation of the 1790 act of the same name as this better-known one, which the San Pedro was accused of violating in an 1817 Supreme Court case.  Sections 3 and 4 of that act set the date at which it went into effect as May 20, while Section 2 gave the penalty for violating it as a fine of between one hundred and ten thousand dollars and a jail sentence of between one month and one year.  The second of three acts passed in response to the Berlin and Milan decrees and the Orders of Council, it was designed to alleviate economic problems caused by the passage of the Embargo Act.  Succeeded by Macon’s Bill No. 2, FTP identify this 1809 act that restricted trade with Britain and France but relaxed the embargo on neutral countries.
ANSWER: Non-Intercourse Act (accept extremely early Indian Non-Intercourse Act)

DW
He escaped from a life sentence by disguising himself as a stonemason and walking away from the fortress of Ham.  As an exile in England he joined Wellington’s special forces to suppress the Chartists, and while in Italy he had participated in the 1830 uprising.  However, it wasn’t until he defeated Ledru-Rollin, Lamartine, and Cavaignac that he became the ruler of his home country.  He created a Council of State and a Senate, which didn’t do anything important, and a Legislative Body, whose members were elected by universal male suffrage in corrupt elections.  After dissolving the original Legislative Assembly on the forty-sixth anniversary of his uncle’s greatest victory, he declared himself emperor in 1852.  FTP who was this man who ruled France until his defeat at Sedan in 1870?
ANSWER: Napoleon III; or Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte; do not prompt on "Napoleon"

CM
He invented a base-eight number system that he thought better suited to military use due to the high amount of cubic boxes for storage.  Fears of an invasion of Western Europe by this man were quelled at a meeting at Altranstadt with Malborough, which had been fanned by his defeat of the Saxons at Punitz.  While a prisoner at Bender, he earned the epithet Demirbaş, a Turkish term translating as "old-timer."  A member of the Pfalz-Zweibrucken ruling house, his most famous military engagements came in a war started by a league formed against this man under the guidance of the Livonian agitator, Johann Reinhold Patkul.  His quick landing in Sjaelland led to the peace of Trevendal and another one of the members of the league would be extinguished after victories at Klissow and Pultusk and the siege of Thorn and the capture of Cracow.  Eventually dying at Frederiksted, he vainly tried to enlist the help of Mazeppa, whose capital at Baturin had been destroyed before he could help this man.  His last major victory came at Holoszczyn, and though he would lose this war, the victor still lost its port of Taganrog to the Turks.  Having soundly defeated opposing forces at Narva, he made the mistake of turning against Poland before finally marching to the Ukraine.  FTP name this man, only 27 by the time he was finally defeated at Poltava, the king of Sweden who led forces in the Great Northern War.
ANSWER: Charles XII; prompt on Charles; or Karl XII

CM
Purchased by the Florentine Acciaiuoli in 1390, it had earlier been center of a state whose official language was Catalan.  In the later part of its Catalan rule, the land to its northwest was conquered by a company of Navarrese mercenaries, echoing the manner in which the Catalans had come to power here.  They had defeated Walter V of Brienne at Halymros, who had hired the company only to not meet his obligations to his company.  Walter had succeeded the French knightly family of de la Roche in power here, which had held power for over a hundred years.  Its early prestige had greatly been checked by a 529 closure that dispersed intellectuals to distant Harran and Ctesiphon, the latter in Sassanid Persia.  Though Venice would twice launch attacks on this city, it would pass into Muslim hands in 1456.  Finally returned to Christian rule in 1833, this is, FTP what city, made capital in the same year by King Othon I, but perhaps more famous for its ancient prowess under such leaders as Pericles.
ANSWER: Athens or Athinai (accept Attica and Duchy of Athens until “city” is mentioned)

CM
Among the men who played a part in this man's assassination was a eunuch named Aspamithres, chamberlain to this king.  Though the assassination of this king along with his oldest son should have allowed Hytaspes to ascend the throne, Hytaspes was in Bactria, and this man's third son took power, executing the primary assassin, Artabanus.  Among the most important inscriptions from this man's reign is an inscription in which he claims to have destroyed the den of the daivas, leading some to believe that this man was religiously intolerant.  Earlier in his reign he had gained notoriety for taking a statue of Bel from the temple in Babylon and his earliest military activity included quashing a revolt in Egypt.  He is most famous for a grand expedition that set out from Sardis and included among its preparations the digging of a canal through the Chalcidice, a campaign that saw Persian victory at Artemisium and Thermopylae before a resounding naval defeat at Salamis.  FTP name this Persian king whose reign saw the latter stages of the Persian Wars started by his father Darius I.
ANSWER: Xerxes I; or Khshayarsha(n) I; or Ahasuerus I; or Achashverosh I

DW
Answer these questions about the political career of Charles Evans Hughes.  FTPE.
[10]  Hughes served discontinuous terms on the Supreme Court, once as an Associate Justice and once as Chief Justice. Name either president who appointed him
ANSWER: William Howard Taft; or Herbert Hoover
[10]  As Chief Justice, Hughes fought against this bill proposed by Franklin Roosevelt, which would add six new justices to the Supreme Court.
ANSWER: Court Reorganization Bill; grudgingly accept anything with the words court-packing plan
[10]  Hughes first gained public attention with his appointment as grand inquisitor on this 1905 committee that investigated illegal practices at Equitable and other life insurance companies.
ANSWER: Armstrong Committee; or Armstrong Investigation

DW
Canada, from before it was really Canada.  FTPE.
[10]  This 1774 Act was deemed “Intolerable” by colonists but probably prevented rebellion in the namesake region.
ANSWER: Quebec Act
[10]  This 1839 report on Canadian affairs, written by its then-governor, is considered one of the most important documents leading to the British Commonwealth of Nations.
ANSWER: (Earl of) Durham’s Report
[10]  In the year before they finally got around to creating a constitution for themselves, a group of Irish Americans from this secret society led the last American attack on Canada.  Unless, of course, you believe all that stuff in the movies really happened.
ANSWER: Fenians

CM
Stuff about a city.  FTPE.
[10]  After WWI, sovereignty over this city was claimed by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but a 1919 seizure led to a state known as the Regency of Carnaro being established here.  After the treaty of Rapallo, it became independent and was annexed to Italy in 1924.
ANSWER: Fiume; or R(ij)eka
[10]  This man, perhaps better known as a poet, established himself as "Duce" in the seizure of Fiume and declared war on Italy, establishing a prototypical fascist state with many similarities to Mussolini's Italy.
ANSWER: Gabriele D’Annunzio
[10]  This man worked at the US Consulate in Fiume, though he is much more famous for co-sponsoring a bill outlawing contracts in which the worker waived his right to join a labor union.
ANSWER: Fiorello LaGuardia

CM
Answer these questions about the Medieval Baltic.  FTPE.
[10]  This group of privateers harassed Denmark in the late 14th century, eventually occupying the island of Gotland as a base for their piracy.
ANSWER: Victual Brothers; or Vitalienbrüder; or Fetaliebröder
[10]  Queen Margaret of Denmark conceded the island of Gotland to this group then under the leadership of Grand Master Konrad of Jungingen, which expelled the Victual Brothers.  They were famously defeated 12 years after the conquest by Poland-Lithuania.
ANSWER: Teutonic Order; or Teutonic Knights; or Deutscher Orden; or Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum; or Német Lovagrend; or Zakon Kryżacki
[10]  This 1410 battle saw Grand Master Ulrich von Junginen fall along with many Teutonic Order leaders, but the Polish-Lithuanian forces could not take the Order's castle at Marienburg, and after a treaty, gained little from the Order.
ANSWER: Battle of Tannenberg; or Battle of Grunwald; or Battle of Žalgiris

CM
Answer these questions about Russo-Japanese conflict.  FTPE.
[10]  The Russian Baltic Fleet was soundly defeated by Japanese forces under General Togo at this 1905 naval battle.
ANSWER: Tsushima Straits Battle; or Sea of Japan Naval Battle
[10]  This battle, fought in 1939, was in response to an incursion of Mongolian cavalry into the territory of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, and resulted in a Russian victory that may have encouraged Japan to fight against the U.S. rather than Russia in the Pacific.
ANSWER: Battle of Khalkin Gol; or Battle of Khalkhin Lake or Nomonhan Incident
[10]  In an attempt to escape Port Arthur with his Russian Pacific fleet intact, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft's force was defeated by the Japanese in this 1904 precursor to Tsushima Strait.
ANSWER: Battle of Shantung or Battle of the Yellow Sea

Science 5/5

RL
The RACE type of this process is a special case of the achored type of this process, which utilizes an universal linker.  The hot-start version separates the components before the 1st step, and the touch-down version decreases hybridization temperatures over time.  The ARMS system utilizes the allele-specific type, which relies on single nucleotide distinctions near the 3 prime end.  Its product usually has an adenosine 3 prime overhang, and enzymes from Pyrococcus furiosus have been used thanks to their 3 prime-5 prime exonuclease proofreading, but VENT and taq pol are also common.  Taking about 30 cycles, FTP name this DNA amplification technique invented by Kary Mullis.
ANSWER: polymerase chain reaction

RL
It is supported by the exponential increase in heat capacity of vanadium, with an exponential constant equal to half the energy gap, which at T=0 is 3KT_c, which corresponds to photons in the microwave region of the spectrum.  Its explanation differs from those for Bose-Einstein condensation in that both sign change and lack of sign change label exchanges are considered involving both boson-like and fermion-like particles.  It explains that in the absence of lattice vibrations, the critical temperature would be zero, a result derived from the isotope effect.  Postulating a band gap below which Cooper pairs can form to mediate a state of reduced resistivity, FTP name this theory of superconductivity named for the initials of three physicists.
ANSWER: Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory

DW
No anti selectivity has been found for this reaction, and when multiple products are possible, there is little preference except when one product involves a double bond conjugated to an aromatic ring.  This reaction takes place on its own between 100 and 150 degrees Celsius, and, unlike Hofmann elimination, its mechanism involves a cyclic flow of six electrons.  FTP identify this elimination reaction in which an amine oxide decomposes into a dialkylhydroxylamine and an amine, named after its discoverer at MIT.
ANSWER: Cope elimination

DW
One class of solvers of these is based on Richardsonian extrapolation, and far surpasses the other in stiff problems.  Other solvers can be implicit, such as Adams-Moulton, or explicit, such as Adams-Bashford, and some non-iterative ones add a middle step called a modifier.  However, these so-called predictor-corrector methods are not self-starting and must be initiated using Runge-Kutta algorithms.  Mathematically, they can be solved using either the Laplace transform or the D operator, both of which give an n-degree polynomial.  FTP identify this type of equation involving one or more dependent variables, only one independent variable, and one or more derivatives of the dependent variable with respect to the independent one.
ANSWER: ordinary differential equations; or ODEs

DW
It was determined in 1973 to be 6,300 light-years away, which gives it an apparent magnitude of -3.2.  About 10 light-years in diameter, it was misclassified as a planetary nebula in 1919, and William Herschel originally thought it was a stellar system that could be resolved with larger telescopes.  The inner part of this appears bluish and emits synchrotron radiation.  It also contains NP0532, a pulsar, and an X-Ray source, Taurus X-1.  Independently discovered by John Bevis and Charles Messier, FTP identify this nebula, the remains of a 1054 supernova, designated M1.
ANSWER: Crab nebula

RL
Answer the following about vesicular traffic.  FTPE.
[10]  Lying past the end of the appratus for which it is named, this network serves as a branch point for constitutive and regulated secretion pathways.
ANSWER: trans-Golgi network
[10]  Proteases and V-class proton pumps are packaged into endosomes at the trans-Golgi network, to be sent to this organelle that requires a low luminal pH.
ANSWER: lysosome
[10]  Vesicular trafficking can be tracked by transfecting cells with a temperature sensitive vesicular stomatitis virus G fused to a gene for the green type of this colorful molecule used to monitor transport, an alternative to autoradiography.
ANSWER: green flourescent protein

RL
People involved with the photoelectric effect.  FTPE.
[10]  In experiments that first confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves, this scientist ironically noted that electric discharge occurred more readily between two electrodes when ultraviolet light falls on one of them.
ANSWER: Heinrich Hertz
[10]  An assistant of Hertz, this man followed up on experiments of Hallwachs, showing that ultraviolet light facilitates the discharge by causing electrons to be emitted from the cathode surface, and giving the first accepted explanation of the photoelectric effect.
ANSWER: Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard
[10]  In 1914, this scientist validated Einstein's account of the photoelectric effect, noting that below the cutoff frequency, no effect occurs, which is partly responsible for his winning the Nobel Prize in 1923.
ANSWER: Robert Andrews Millikan

DW
Terms from chemistry.  FTPE.
[10]  This is a mixture of two or more substances in which one phase is suspended as a large number of small particles in a second phase.
ANSWER: colloid
[10]  This is the term for a colloid in which a liquid is suspended in another liquid.
ANSWER: emulsion
[10]  This is the process by which colloids settle out through dissolving salts in a solution.  It often occurs in river deltas when clay particles are filtered out upon contact with the ocean's salt water.
ANSWER: flocculation

DW
The Greek letter lambda is universally used as a parameter in the definition of two different random variables.  FTPE.
[10]  The probability mass function for this type of random variable is given by the formula e to the negative lambda times lambda to the x over x factorial, for integers x greater than or equal to zero.
ANSWER: Poisson random variable or distribution
[10]  The probability density function for this type of random variable is given by the formula lambda times e to the negative lambda x for x greater than 0 and 0 for x less than or equal to zero.
ANSWER: exponential random variable
[10]  The exponential random variable is continuous because x can take any value, but the restriction that x must be an integer makes the Poisson random variable this type.
ANSWER: discrete

DW
Answer the following about an unexplained mystery.  FTPE.
[10]  All that is known conclusively about the explosion near this Russian river is that it occurred about 7:15 AM on June 30, 1908, but the most popular explanation is that it was caused by a comet hitting the earth.
ANSWER: Podkomennaya Tunguska River; or Tunguska event
[10]  The Jackson-Ryan theory, which has since been discredited but somehow still makes its way into popular fiction, states that the explosion was caused by a small one of these passing through the earth.
ANSWER: black hole
[10]  One explosion that is almost universally accepted as being formed by an extraterrestrial object is the Chixiclub impact site, which is responsible for the creation of this geologic boundary.
ANSWER: K-T boundary

Religion Mythology Philosophy 3/3

CM
This sect's name has etymologically developed into a slur against homosexuals in Hungarian, and among the religious texts they accept is the likely fraudulent Pauline epistle to the Laodiceans, and their name was a translation of the Syriac Massaliani, which corresponded to the Greek Euchites persecuted after the 1231 Council of Trier.  Called Patareni in Bosnia and Popelicans by the historian Geoffroi de Villehardouin, they accepted the doctrine of adoptionism, which arose in 8th century Spain and suggested that Christ had been born human but had been adopted by the divine God. Their creation myth involved God spawning Satanail and Michael, the former of whom created the world and became Satan upon the dropping of the "-il" suffix, meaning god in Hebrew.  Thus, the goal of this sect was to avoid earthly pleasures, as the earth in its entirety was a manifestation and creation of Satan.  Only the creation of man had required God's intervention.  Founded by its eponymous Bulgarian founder in the tenth century and roughly similar to Western dualistic heresies such as Albigensianism and Waldensianism, FTP name this medieval Balkan heresy.
ANSWER: Bogumilism; prompt on Paulicianism or Pavlikiani or Patareni before mentioned

DW
One woman by this name gave birth to twins on Mount Cithairon after being dragged back from Sicyon by her uncle Lycus.  She was the grand-aunt of Oedipus and the mother-in-law of Niobe, and her sons Amphion and Zethus built the walls of Thebes.  The better-known woman by this name is often called by a different one, or sometimes is said to be the sister of a woman with that name.  In any case, she was abducted after bringing presents on board a stranger’s ship, prompting her followers to wage war with Athens.  Sometimes called Hippolyta, FTP identify this Amazon queen and wife of Theseus.
ANSWER: Antiope

RL
He critiqued Plato in Dissemination and wrote an autobiography titled Circumfession.  He believed that the meaning of a word is deferred to the meanings of words it contrasts with, and thought that neither speech nor writing is primary to the other.  His Glas is a two columned book containing Hegelian philosophy on one side and discussions of Jean Genet on the other.  An analyst of conceptual distinctions, he wrote Margins of Philosophy, Writing and Difference, and Speech and Phenomena.  FTP name this Jewish French philosopher of deconstruction who wrote Of Grammatology.
ANSWER: Jacques Derrida

CM
Answer the following questions about Tibetan Buddhism.  FTPE.
[10]  This temple complex is perhaps the most renowned in the world, and is home to the most venerated statue in the Tibetan faith, that of the Jowo Shakyamuni Buddha.  It is located in Lhasa.
ANSWER: Jokhang Temple
[10]  The largest independent country with a majority Tibetan Buddhist population, this country was ruled by the eighth Bogdo Gegen, the third highest figure in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, up until 1921.
ANSWER: Mongolia
[10]  The spiritual leader of this school of Tibetan Buddhism is the Ganden Tripa, the first of whom may either have been Tsongkapa or Gyaltsab Je, though the most famous member of this school is the Dalai Lama.
ANSWER: Gelukpa Tibetan Buddhism; or Yellow Hat Tibetan Buddhism

DW
Although it is one of the best-known Egyptian myths, it was never actually a story in Egypt's set of myths.  FTPE.
[10]  This god was hacked into fourteen pieces by his brother Set, although his wife Isis found thirteen of them and made a replacement for the fourteenth out of wood.
ANSWER: Osiris
[10]  If I know you correctly, you’ve already guessed what that fourteenth piece was, so instead you get to name the area of Phoenecia where Osiris’ coffin came ashore after Set’s first attempt to kill him.
ANSWER: Byblus
[10]  The most complete account of the story comes, surprisingly, from Plutarch, in which Set’s name is changed to this Greek one.
ANSWER: Typhoeus

RL
Works by Soren Kierkegaard.  FTPE.
[10]  Beginning with "In Vino Veritas" modeled on the banquet from Plato's Symposium, which shows contempt for the recently married Regine Olsen, it modifies Either/Or to separate out a religious sphere, and dissects his affair in "Guilty?/Not Guilty?"
ANSWER: Stadier paa livets vei; or Stages on Life's Way
[10]  Written under the name Johannes Climacus, it follows up on attacks of Hegel by the earlier Philosophical Fragments by arguing that subjectivity is truth, and that existence cannot be systemitized because it is always developing.
ANSWER: Afsluttende uvidenskabelig efterskrift; or Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments, A Mimic-Pathetic-Dialectic Composition, an Existentialist Contribution
[10]  Written under the name Anti-Climacus, it discusses The Concept of Dread by deriding Socrates' definition of sin as ignorance as inferior, and argues for religious writings that adopt the manner of a physician treating a patient.
ANSWER: Sygdommen til doden; or The Sickness Unto Death

Fine Arts 3/3

RL
The signature of the artist in this work is an etching off of the background, which is decorated with a technique also used for the Palais Stoclet friezes in Brussels.  Housed in the Upper Belvedere, it shows a woman's hand sliding beneath the cloak of a man's before emerging to grasp the man's right hand.  The St. Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna is the inspiration for the field of flowers, on which the woman kneels with the edge of her feet standing next to nothingness.  Black and white rectangles decorate the man's cloak while circles of flowers surrounded by gold tesserae cover the woman's dress and hair.  FTP name this Gustav Klimt painting of an act of love.
ANSWER: The Kiss

RL
The strings in the background of this work represents "the silence of the druids--who know, see, and hear nothing," whereas the trumpet phrase repeated 7 times over it alternates with contrapuntal woodwinds that accelerates in speed and loudness during the course of the work.  Revised in the 1930s, it is often paired with Central Park in the Dark in the Good Old Summer Time in performance, where the titular entity is mocked after what the composer calls "a secret conference" finds that the voice of the flute's "invisible reply" comes to nothing.  Subtitled "A Contemplation of a Serious Matter," FTP name this Charles Ives work that may lead to a dead tossup.
ANSWER: The Unanswered Question

RL
He perpetrated the "Great James Robbery" when he enticed Juan Tizol away from Harry James, taking along Willie Smith and Louis Bellson, the latter performing the drum solos in his "Skin Deep."  3 of his stars left in 1950 to join his former band member Johnny Hodges, but he continued to reinvent himself with works like Drum Is a Woman and Far East Suite.  He was back in the spotlight after a solo by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves in "Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue" for the Newport festival.  Writing "Take the 'A' Train" with Billy Strayhorn, FTP name this jazz composer who earned his rank at the Cotton club with the works "It Don't Mean a Thing" and "Mood Indigo."
ANSWER: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

RL
Name these early Renaissance sculptors.  FTPE.
[10]  He sculpted the bronze relief Zacharias in the Temple for the baptistery of the Siena Cathedral and well as the classically nude The Creation of Adam in San Petronio of Bologna, and is known for the Fonte Gaia fountain in Siena, near his birthplace.
ANSWER: Jacopo della Quercia
[10]  His Flying Angel from The Assumption over Porta della Mandorla of Florence Cathedral was done just prior to his early death, but he's best known for Quattro Santi Coronati, four roman looking saints in Or San Michele in Florence.
ANSWER: Nanni di Banco
[10]  He sculpted the 1st Renaissance contrapposto in St. Mark of Or San Michele and a pumpkin-headed Habbukuk in Zuccone of an empty niche on Florence Cathedral, as well as a bronze David and the equestrian statue of Erasmo di Narni Gattamelata.
ANSWER: Donatello; prompt on "Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi"

RL
Identify these films of the French New Wave.  FTPE.
[10]  An altar to Honore de Balzac sits in the room of young Antoine Doinel, who gets put into a reform school for stealing a typewriter, and figures out that his mom is cheating on his dad, in this most famous Nouvelle Vague film by Francois Truffaut.
ANSWER: Les quatre cents coups; or The 400 Blows
[10]  Based on the novel The Invention of Morel, this Alain Resnais film of the stream of consciousness school is about the stranger X's possible meeting with the woman A, which he claims occurred 365 days ago and ended with him luring her away.
ANSWER: L'annee derniere a Marienbad; or Last Year At Marienbad
[10]  This later Jean-Luc Godard film tells the story of the Virgin as a basketball-playing high school kid who has the great quote that "to be chaste is to know every possibility."  By the way, the angel Gabriel is a thug, and Joseph is an asshole.
ANSWER: Je vous salue, Marie; or Hail Mary

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Name these works of operatic music based on Sir Walter Scott novels.  FTPE.
[10]  This Gaetano Donizetti opera used Italianized names like Enrico for Henry Ashton and Arturo for Arthur Bucklaw, adapting a Scott novel about a Ravenswood heroine who goes mad after being forced into marrying Hayston of Bucklaw.
ANSWER: Lucia di Lammermoor; or Lucy of Lammermoor
[10]  This Hector Berlioz overture is based on Scott's retelling of the legend of Robert MacGregor, sometimes called the Scottish Robin Hood, who becomes an outlaw when his land was seized by James Montrose.
ANSWER: Rob Roy Overture
[10]  This Georges Bizet opera is based on Scott's second chronicle of the Canongate, a novel subtitled, or sometimes alternatively called St. Valentine's Day.
ANSWER: Les jolie fille de Perth; or The Fair Maid of Perth

Social Science Geography 2/2

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In its appendix on character, its author points out the productive orientation in an ideal humanistic community as opposed to our current society's marketing orientation, a theme he revisits in Man for Himself.  The titular problem arose when Renaissance impinged on the structure of the Middle Ages, and socialism extended responsibility to caring for everyone else.  Masochism and sadism are both authoritarian methods for the titular process, while destructiveness and automaton conformity explain Nazist terrorism and uniformity in modern society.  Referenced in The Art of Loving, FTP name this book about reversing the effects of alienation, by Erich Fromm.
ANSWER: Escape from Freedom; or The Fear of Freedom

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The central region of this country is dominated by mountain ranges such as the Choke [CHOAK], Mendebo, and Ahmar, or "Red" mountains, though the tallest mountain, Ras Dashan, is in the Semien Mountains in the northwest.  Among its most important rivers is the east-flowing Awash, but the country's most notable river, known there as the Abbai, has its source near the city of Bahir Dar.  Among lesser known provinces in this country are Benishangul-Gamaz, Gambella, and Oromia, and the nation is home to a small northern part of the lake formerly known as Lake Rudolf.  Home to Lake Tana in the northwest and the regions of Tigray in the north and Ogaden in the southeast, this is, FTP what nation, the source of the Blue Nile River with coastline in the independent Republic of Eritrea and capital at Addis Ababa.
ANSWER: Ethiopia; or Ityopp’ya

RL
It notes the importance of the "shill," a member of a team who "provides a visible model for the audience of the kind of responses the performers are seeking."  FTPE.
[10]  Name this 1959 work of sociology that analyzes the way people establish themselves to others by giving a performance akin to taking a role in a drama.
ANSWER: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
[10]  Name the interactionist sociologist who wrote The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, who also described institutionalization in his Asylums.
ANSWER: Erving Goffman
[10]  Goffman calls this the "part of the individual's performance which regularly functions in a general and fixed fashion to define the situation for those who observe the performance," establishing the setting for the role taken by the actor.
ANSWER: the front

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Name these geographic features of Scotland.  FTPE.
[10]  The "Little" version of this separates the Isle of Skye from North Uist, while the larger "North" variety, commonly known just as this, separates Lewis from the Scottish mainland.
ANSWER: The Minch
[10]  This mountain range starts southwest of Aberdeen and gives it name to the region dominated by Aberdeen.  It goes to the west coast of Scotland and features Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the UK.
ANSWER: The Grampian(s) Mountains
[10]  Surrounded by the islands of Mainland, Hoy, Graemsey, Burray, and South Ronaldsay, this body of water is perhaps best known for being an important Royal Navy base in the Orkneys.
ANSWER: Scapa Flow

Literature History Science 2/2

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A tribute to Eugene Onegin, the main character in this man's most famous novel is named after a river in the far north of Russia, which runs 1,140 miles through Komi province to its namesake sea.  He translated and published an Azeri story of a minstrel, Ashik Kerib, having grown interested in the region from trips to spas as a sickly child.  Among his poems were "The Novice" and "The Demon," and he suffered a similar fate to Pushkin at the hands of the officer Martynov, ending his life at age twenty-seven.  The inspiration for early works such as "The Circassians" and "Prisoner of the Caucasus" would later provide the setting to his most famous novel, a work consisting of six novellas, the longest of which is titled "Princess Mary."  FTP name this writer most famous for his depiction of the superfluous man Pechorin in his A Hero of Our Time.
ANSWER: Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

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It inhibits binding of TGF-beta type bone morphogenetic protein, allowing posterior neural plate development in the presence of retinoic acid.  It affects transcription factors of Sox genes and secretes the proteins follistatin, noggin, and chordin, which bind to RI and RII subunits of BMP receptors.  First uncovered in newts, it can generate its own axial mesoderm and notochord after being transplanted to a host, allowing formation of two nervous systems.  Localized to the gray crescent on the dorsal lip of the blastopore in the gastrula, FTP name this control center that directs embryonic differentiation, often named for a German 1935 Nobel winner.
ANSWER: Spemann-Mangold organizer region; or the Organizer

CM
Answer these questions about the reign of Trajan.  FTPE.
[10]  Trajan took this capital city of the Dacians and established a colony near to the site.
ANSWER: Sarmisegetuza
[10]  Among the mysteries of Trajan's reign is how he came to annex this kingdom after the death of Rabbel II Soter, but legions were stationed in Petra and Bosra by 107.
ANSWER: Nabataea
[10]  In 116, Trajan captured the cities of Susa and Ctesiphon, deposing the king Osroes I of this longtime rival of Rome.
ANSWER: Parthia; or Arsacid Empire

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Stories by John Cheever.  FTPE.
[10]  Charlie the elevator operator hoards a room full of presents and dinners for the holidays, but gets fired when he became too happy while working.  He gives the gifts to his landlady and she in turn feels powerful in giving them to the destitute.
ANSWER: "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor"
[10]  The narrator's common wife Ethel is snared into an extramarital affair with Trenchard, who visits her at the park where her children play.  Trenchard demands the narrator give Ethel a split-up, but he hurls a flower pot at him.
ANSWER: "The Season of Divorce"
[10]  Mr. Pasturn betrays his wife by giving the key to their bomb shelter to his mistress Mrs. Flanagan, who takes another lover.  Mr. Pasturn goes to jail in regret that his plan for the end of the world will not be carried out.
ANSWER: "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow"

Your Choice 1/1

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Among actors with cameos in this film are Marina Sirtis playing a Persian matriarch and Tony Danza, who plays an actor that suggests that a black character's dialogue should be dumbed down.  Other minor characters include the predictably named health care worker Shaniqua Johnson, Peter Waters, the apple of his mother's eye and devotee of St. Christopher, and Maria, a Hispanic servant and best friend to an uptight white woman.  In a scene that ties into the opening of the film, Tommy Hanson shoots Peter when he mistakes Peter's pulling out a St. Christopher figurine to be him pulling out a gun.  The film's most emotional scene involves a traffic stop involving the Thayers, an affluent Hollywood black couple, by racist cop Jack Ryan, who later saves Mrs. Thayer's life.  FTP name this drama featuring Terrence Howard, Don Cheadle, and Matt Dillon.
ANSWER: Crash

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Name these baseball players still playing effectively well into their forties.  FTPE.
[10]  Despite posting a career best in ERA, he was not offered arbitration by his current team leading to wide speculation that this player may sign with the Rangers, Red Sox, or Yankees, or retire at 43.
ANSWER: (William) Roger Clemens
[10]  This former Braves first baseman has recently signed a multi-year contract that has him locked up until age 49, and plans to play past his fiftieth birthday.
ANSWER: Julio (Cesar Robles) Franco
[10] This player’s only All-Star appearance came in 2003, at age 40, when he won 21 games.  Now 43, he is still an effective starter, earning a 13-7 record with a 4.28 ERA with the hapless Mariners.
ANSWER: Jamie Moyer