Round 1 - 2022 Scottie

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The 2022 Scottie Round 1 1. This author wrote the afterword for a work by his translator Eliot Weinberger, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei . One collection by this author claims that its title concept “is the profoundest fact of the human condition” and includes a section which claims that one group hides their identity behind masks. This author wrote a poem that begins and ends with the same six lines and includes a total of (*) 584 lines. That poem describes “willow of crystal, a poplar of water” and was inspired by the Aztec Calendar. For 10 points, name this author of “Sunstone” and The Labyrinth of Solitude . ANSWER: Octavio Paz [accept Octavio Paz Lozano ] <RO> 1. This man was part of the “Illustrious Generation” born to King John I and Phillipa of Lancaster. For 10 points each: [10] Name this prince who sponsored expeditions down the coast of Africa after his country’s conquest of Ceuta [ soo-ta ], beginning the Age of Discovery. ANSWER: Prince Henry the Navigator [accept Infante Dom Henrique, Duke of Viseu ] [10] Henry the Navigator was a prince from this country’s House of Aviz. This country founded the colony of Brazil. ANSWER: Kingdom of Portugal [10] Henry the Navigator allegedly founded Portugal’s first observatory at this “school” for mathematicians, scientists, and navigators. It is named for a coastal town at the southwestern tip of Portugal. ANSWER: Sagres [ saa-grus ] School [accept Court of Sagres ] <TW> 2. The Rudier Foundry made a cast of this sculpture that is now housed in the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. A version of this sculpture at the Cleveland Museum of Art was damaged in a bombing, while the original can be found in the gardens of a museum named for its artist. This sculpture was enlarged with the help of Henri Lebosse, and it was originally intended to depict (*) Dante and be part of The Gates of Hell . This sculpture’s title figure leans forward and rests his chin on his right hand. For 10 points, name this sculpture by Auguste Rodin. ANSWER: The Thinker <GR> 2. The title character of one work by this man dies after trying to cure humanity of melancholy and dedicates the novel in which he appears to "the first worm that gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse." For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas . He also wrote Quincas Borba . ANSWER: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis [accept either] [10] Machado de Assis is an author from this country. Another author from this country, Paulo Coelho, wrote about the shepherd Santiago’s journey to discover treasure in The Alchemist . ANSWER: Brazil [10] Machado de Assis also wrote Dom Casmurro , which was inspired by this Shakespeare play. In this play, Iago manipulates the title Moor of Venice into believing that Desdemona is having an affair. ANSWER: Othello [or The Tragedy of Othello , The Moor of Venice ] <RO> ================================================================================
3. This man organized many of his followers to help defend against the Fenian Raids after being promised that he wouldn’t be arrested. Followers of this man defeated William McDougall the same day he seized Fort Garry, and he ordered the execution of Thomas Scott. This founder of (*) Manitoba was sentenced to death in a trial ordered by John MacDonald after the failure of the North-West rebellion. For 10 points, name this man who led the Métis [ may-tee ] during the Red River Rebellion against Canada. ANSWER: Louis Riel <GR> 3. This city lies in the foothills of the mountain Monserrate. For 10 points each: [10] Name this South American city whose Capitolio Nacional is located in Bolivar Square. This city is the third highest capital city in the world after Quito and La Paz. ANSWER: Bogota [10] The Bogota River is a right tributary of this river, one of the largest river systems in the Andes. ANSWER: Magdalena [10] Bogota and the Magdalena River are in this country. Coffee is one of this country’s greatest exports. ANSWER: Republic of Colombia <GR> 4. This city’s financial center is located in Brickell, while its “streamlined” Colony Hotel is found on Ocean Drive. Plan Z is a proposal to make this city’s Rickenbacker Causeway more bicycle friendly as it crosses (*) Biscayne Bay. This city is bisected by its namesake river, which is connected by canal to Lake Okeechobee. Fort Lauderdale is part of this city’s metropolitan area, and it is the seat of Dade County. This city’s neighborhood of Little Havana is home to many Cuban exiles. For 10 points, name this city in southeastern Florida. ANSWER: Miami <GR> 4. Ablation can occur when one of these objects loses mass. For 10 points each: [10] Name these large objects which can undergo calving to create icebergs. ANSWER: glacier s [10] This term describes an accumulation of the debris deposited by a glacier as it moves. ANSWER: moraine s [10] The erosion caused by glaciers creates this material consisting of finely-grained rock particles. ANSWER: glacial flour [or rock flour ] <CW> ================================================================================ 5. Dieter Seebach and E.J. Corey described how this phenomenon can be inverted by a technique called umpolung. Molecules must possess this property in order to be used in the mobile phase in reverse phase high-performance liquid chromatography, and molecules with this characteristic separate from the organic layer in a separatory funnel. An electronegativity value between (*) 0.5 and 2.0 indicates that a bond between two atoms possesses this property. Ammonia possesses this property due to the lone pair of electrons found on the central nitrogen atom. For 10 points, name this property possessed by water in which electric charge is unevenly
distributed throughout molecules. ANSWER: polar ity <AP> 5. The premier performance at this opera house was Antonio Sallieri’s Europa riconosciuta . For 10 points each: [10] Name this opera house located in Milan and known for rowdy performances of operas such as Aida . ANSWER: La Scala [10] Alan John’s opera The Eighth Wonder is about the construction of this opera house, where it premiered. It contains a theater named for soprano Joan Sutherland. ANSWER: Sydney Opera House [10] This German city is home to the Margravial Opera House. Its namesake music festival plays operas by Richard Wagner. ANSWER: Bayreuth <GR> 6. The aerial forces of one side in this war were led by Chuck Horner. The Battle of Norfolk was the final battle of this war, which began after Resolution 660 was rejected. Soldiers of one country involved in this war were accused of taking babies out of incubators by Nayirah [ nay-ee-ruh ], the teenage daughter of an involved country’s ambassador. One side in this war launched (*) SCUD missiles into Israel in an attempt to bring them into the war. This war’s “Highway of Death” refers to the mass bombing of the fleeing Republican Guard, who set fire to hundreds of oil wells while fleeing from a coalition led by Norman Schwarzkopf. For 10 points, name this war where a United Nations coalition kicked Iraq out of Kuwait. ANSWER: Persian Gulf War [or First Gulf War ; prompt on “Operation Desert Storm”; prompt on “First Iraq War”; do not accept or prompt on “Iraq War”] <GR> 6. Answer the following about sea monsters in mythology, for 10 points each. [10] The Hafgufa is sometimes equated with this large sea monster which originally appeared in Norse mythology. This creature is commonly depicted as a giant squid or octopus. ANSWER: Kraken [10] This sea monster would swallow large amounts of water before regurgitating it and causing whirlpools. This monster lived in the Strait of Messina opposite of Scylla. ANSWER: Charybdis [10] The bones of the sea monster Curruid were used to create this weapon wielded by Cu Chulainn [ coo-cullin ]. ANSWER: Gae Bulg a [or Gae Bolg a] <GR> ================================================================================ 7. In one work by this author, Missie May sleeps with the ice cream parlor owner Otis Slemmons to steal his money, but realizes that they are actually the title coins. This author of "The Gilded Six-Bits" is given the epithet “The Genius of the South” in an Alice Walker essay titled “Looking for [this author].” That epithet is placed on this author's tombstone in (*) Eatonville, which is also the setting of one of her novels in which the protagonist’s husband is bitten by a rabid dog during a hurricane. That novel by this author follows Janie Crawford, who is forced to shoot Tea Cake after he contracts rabies. For 10 points, name this author of Their Eyes Were Watching God .
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston <RO> 7. This league’s name comes from the score needed to birdie every hole of a par-72 golf course. For 10 points each: [10] Name this professional golf league which began play in 2022 as a rival to the PGA Tour. ANSWER: LIV Golf [10] This left-handed golfer and winner of 45 PGA events signed a $200 million contract with LIV Golf in 2020. ANSWER: Phil Mickelson [10] In 2020, Mickelson gave a controversial interview in which he questioned the human rights record of this nation, whose Public Investment Fund provides the majority of the funding for LIV Golf. ANSWER: Saudi Arabia <JD> 8. One set of scriptures teaches that in order to embrace this concept, individuals must first let go of their attachment to the five aggregates, or skandhas . The “pari-” variety of this concept describes events that occur upon death, while in Hinduism, unity of the atman and the brahman leads to a form of it known as (*) moksha . The first of the Four Noble Truths teaches that elimination of dukkha can lead to this concept. This idea is often visualized as the extinguishing of a candle, and its realization brings adherents out of the cycle of samsara . For 10 points, name this Buddhist concept that refers to liberation from suffering. ANSWER: nirvana [or nibbana ] <AP> 8. In order to legitimize her rule, this monarch ordered ten Buddhist monks to compose a commentary on The Great Cloud Sutra in which she was prophesied as a bodhisattva. For 10 points each: [10] Identify this Chinese Empress Regnant who founded the short-lived Second Zhou Dynasty. ANSWER: Wu Zetian [accept Wu Zhao, Wu Hou, or Tian Hou] [10] Wu reformed this system by allowing those outside the nobility to participate in it. The Han Dynasty was the first to use this system, which nominated candidates for bureaucratic positions based on their mastery of classical texts. ANSWER: imperial exam ination [or civil service exam ination; or keju ; prompt on partial answer] [10] Wu fought a pair of wars in this region against the Goguryeo [ go-gur-yo ] and Silla Kingdoms. This region was later ruled by the Joseon [ cho-sahn ] dynasty. ANSWER: Korea [or Korea n Peninsula] <TW> ================================================================================ 9. This ion is bound to the active ingredient of the antiviral drug Tamiflu. The prefix “pyro-” is used when two of these ions are linked together to create a molecule with a minus 4 charge. One of these ions is bound to the sixth carbon of a mannose sugar to create a signaling molecule that tags molecules for transport to the lysosome, while the first step of (*) glycolysis involves the addition of this anion to a glucose molecule. Kinases are enzymes that facilitate the transfer of these anions, which, along with deoxyribose, form the backbone of DNA. For 10 points, name this ion that is attached to adenosine in ATP and has formula P-O-4-3 minus. ANSWER: phosphate [accept P-O-4-3 minus before mention] <AP> 9. A doctor created by this author reminisces about knighthood while describing an elderly couple surviving a crash.
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