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: What you call “Assad margins” I call “unspoken rizz”
Tossups
1.
A Baroque-era four-tiered bell tower for a building dedicated to this figure has a blue facade adorned with
floral stucco ornaments. The Virgin Orans mosaic resides on the “Indestructible Wall” of a building
dedicated to this figure in Kyiv, whose teal cupolas were added in Ivan Mazeppa’s restorations. Visitors
compared the Proconnesian marble floor of a church dedicated to this figure to the moving water of the sea.
Black-winged (*)
seraphim
adorn the four triangular supports of a church dedicated to this figure, which are
necessary because its circular dome sits over a square space. Isidorus of Miletus designed that building dedicated to
this figure, which later had minarets added under Mimar Sinan. For 10 points, name this feminine personification of
divine wisdom, the dedicatee of a Byzantine church-turned-mosque in Istanbul.
ANSWER: Saint
Sophia
[accept Hagia
Sophia
or Aya
sofya
; accept Holy
Wisdom
until “wisdom” is read]
(The
first two clues are about St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv.)
<VD, Other Arts: Visual>
2.
The absence of this quantity in the Wheeler-Dewitt equations necessitated approaches that generate this
quantity, such as the emergent definition of this quantity in the Page-Wootters formalism. A foliation
produces a series of surfaces indexed by this quantity in the ADM formalism. The integral of “
ds
over
c
”
along a worldline defines one form of this quantity. The “problem” of this quantity tries to reconcile its
dynamical treatment in general (*)
relativity with its treatment as an absolute background parameter in quantum
mechanics. Intervals that are negative, and thus fall inside the light cone, are described as “like” this quantity. This
quantity changes more slowly for a sibling traveling in a rocket in the twin paradox. For 10 points, relativity unifies
space with what quantity?
ANSWER:
time
[accept proper
time
; accept
time
like; accept problem of
time
; accept
time
dilation; prompt on
spacetime]
<JF, Physics>
3.
A baby in one of these locations grows the equivalent of one week every day by drinking milk from his own
thumb. A sūrah titled for one of these locations tells the story of how a plank is stolen from a ship by
Al-Khidr, who travels in the company of Mūsā. In Sūrah At-Tawbah, a spider spins a web and a dove creates
a nest outside one of these locations to protect (*)
Abū Bakr. The 18th Sūrah is named for these locations and
includes a story in which seven youths sleep for 300 years in one of these locations. The moment that a prophet was
commanded to “Read!” in one of these locations is celebrated on the Night of Power. For 10 points, Jibrīl gave his
first revelation to Muhammad while in what location on Mount Hira?
ANSWER:
cave
s [accept
ghar
; accept the
Cave
of Hira; accept the
Cave
Sūrah; prompt on mountains or hills]
<GE, Beliefs>
4.
This character belatedly realizes that his barber’s son is 30 years dead in a passage examined in a chapter
of Richard Rorty’s
Contingency, Irony, Solidarity
, titled “The Barber of Kasbeam.” A Billy Collins collection
takes its title from this character’s parenthetical description of his “very photogenic” mother’s death: “picnic,
lightning.” This character parodies “Ash Wednesday” by repeating “because you took advantage…” as he
confronts a (*)
porno director nicknamed “Cue” who drives a red Aztec convertible. This character describes “the
tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate” as his nickname for a girl whom he enrolls in school in
Beardsley. Annabel Leigh inspires this character’s love for the “nymphet” Dolores Haze. For 10 points, name this
protagonist of
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov.
ANSWER:
Humbert
Humbert
<HG, American Literature>
5.
The Peterborough Cathedral supported a campaign in which individuals with this name each donated a
penny to restore part of the tomb of a royal with this name. That royal with this name commissioned Juan
Luis Vives to write
Instruction of a Christian Woman
. A royal with this name collected a set of
Prayers or
Meditations
to become the first female author to publish under her own name in English. A series of love
letters sent by a royal with this name triggered the execution of Thomas (*)
Culpeper. A royal with this name
briefly married Arthur, Prince of Wales. The Act of Supremacy was passed after Pope Clement VII refused to annul
a marriage involving a daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella with this name. For 10 points, give this shared name of
three wives of Henry VIII.
ANSWER:
Catherine
[accept
Catherine
of Aragon; accept
Catherine
Parr; accept
Catherine
Howard]
<GP, British and Commonwealth History>
6.
This thinker anticipated Descartes’s exploration of the ability of God to deceive people by discussing the
process by which intuitive and abstract cognitions lead to beliefs. This thinker built on Aristotle’s idea of a
mental language to analyze concepts as “natural signs,” developing an early version of the language of
thought hypothesis. This philosopher reduced the number of categories in his ontology from ten down to two:
(*)
substance and quality. This philosopher argued that certain entities were merely the result of thinking of several
particulars at once after abandoning his fictum-theory of them. John Duns Scotus’s realism about universals was
disputed by this nominalist’s
Summa of Logic.
For 10 points, the idea that “entities should not be multiplied beyond
necessity” is what medieval philosopher’s namesake razor?
ANSWER: William of
Ockham
<MB, Philosophy>
7.
An independence movement in this country flies the banned Morning Star flag, which was formerly flown
as a colonial flag. Seven years after the Soviet-backed Operation Trikora, the New York Agreement provided
for a 1,000-person referendum on the independence of a region of this country, which this country’s military
rigged in the disparagingly-named “Act of No Choice.” The disgraced bishop Carlos Ximenes (*)
Belo
reported on a massacre perpetrated by this country in the Santa Cruz cemetery. This country led Operation Lotus,
which overthrew the Fretilin-led government in a
[emphasize]
neighboring
country that gained its independence in
2002. For 10 points, name this country whose invasion of East Timor and occupation of Western New Guinea was
overseen by Suharto.
ANSWER:
Indonesia
[or Republic of
Indonesia
or Republik
Indonesia
]
<KT, World History>
8.
Description acceptable
.
A 2008 paper by Ran Nathan references a skate’s mermaid purse as a vector of this
process’s non-standard LDD subtype, which “breaks the rules” by occurring more frequently than expected.
In rainforests, the Janzen-Connell hypothesis links greater success in this process to less predation and
greater survival. Nutritious elaiosomes attract ants in a form of this process that ends in the colony’s refuse
midden. Either turgor pressure or tension caused by desiccation can lead to a non-fungal “ballistic” form of
this process, as seen in the (*)
sandbox tree. “Winged” samaras and the pappas of dandelion clocks facilitate this
non-germination process, which is triggered by fire in some serotinous plants. Squirrels engage in this process when
they abandon acorn stashes. For 10 points, wind and defecating animals are vectors for what process in which a
parent plant spreads its embryos?
ANSWER:
seed dispersal
[accept answers that indicate
seed
s being
transmitted
,
deposited
,
blown
,
launched
,
exploded
, etc. away from their parent
plant
; accept
planting seed
s or
tree
s or
plant
s; prompt on dispersal; prompt
on reproduction]
<KT, Biology>
9.
Description acceptable.
After returning from this place, a character watches an object “wilt into gory
icicles” in a passage that concludes “He who wields power over time and tide: He is the true Lord.” The
“burning waters” surrounding this place inspired a later author’s description of “tricksy lights” in the Dead
Marshes. A group traveling to this place encounters an old man’s severed head under a cliff. A man takes a
hilt from this place after he beheads a corpse, whose blood melts a (*)
sword “from the days of the giants.” A
journey to this place is prompted by the murder of the wise councilor Aeschere. Upon receiving the sword Hrunting,
a man swims down to this place to do battle with a creature who terrorized Heorot after the death of her son, a
“descendant of Cain.” For 10 points, give this residence of a monster and his mother in
Beowulf
.
ANSWER:
Grendel
’s
lair
[or
Grendel’s mother
’s
lair
; accept
cave
in place of “lair”; accept synonyms such as
hideout
in place of “lair”; accept any answer that describes where
Grendel
or
Grendel’s mother
lives]
(The Dead
Marshes are in Middle-earth, near Mordor. All direct quotes are from Seamus Heaney’s translation.)
<HG, British Literature>
10.
In September 2023, one company in this industry announced plans to partner with CATL to maintain
financial viability. The Inflation Reduction Act stipulates that some products in this industry will not be
eligible for a tax credit if they use critical minerals. In November 2023, the Senate voted to rescind the Biden
Administration’s waiver of (*)
Buy America requirements that would have affected the manufacture of
components of this industry. During a series of negotiations, an executive in this industry, Jim Farley, argued that his
opponents were acting in bad faith regarding a proposed facility extension in Belvidere, Illinois. Rich Boyer and
Shawn Fain led a series of 2023 negotiations against companies in this industry that resulted in an immediate 11
percent raise for workers. For 10 points, name this industry whose manufacturers include Stellantis and Ford.
ANSWER:
auto
motive industry [accept
car
manufacturing or
truck
manufacturing or
automobile
manufacturing;
accept electric
car
industry]
<KJ, Current Events>
11.
This figure names a marble sculpture once topped by a now-destroyed Calvary group that sits in the
middle of a courtyard in the Champmol monastery. Another depiction of this figure appears directly below a
reclining “effigy” by Tommaso di Pietro Boscoli. Philip the Bold commissioned Claus Sluter to sculpt this
figure as one of six people holding scrolls in a (*)
“well” named for this figure. A scar on the right knee of a
sculpture of this figure was legendarily created when an artist struck it and exclaimed, “Now speak!” The San Pietro
in Vincoli holds that sculpture of this figure, who is flanked by Leah and Rachel and bears features thought to result
from a mistranslation of the Hebrew word for “radiant.” For 10 points, Michelangelo’s Tomb of Pope Julius II
includes a “horned” depiction of what prophet?
ANSWER:
Moses
<HG, Visual Fine Arts>
12.
Supposed recordings of these people dying were produced by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers. A song about
“Apple Blossoms” in a certain location was inspired by these people, who were the subject of the song “Glory
to Those Who Look Forward.” A propaganda poster depicts one of these people above the message “There’s
no God.” One photograph depicts the incinerated body of one of these people who died as part of a program
called “Union.” One of these people was called the “Last Citizen” due to working on (*)
Mir while his country
was dissolved. Shortly after the completion of a facility at Baikonur, Valentina Tereshkova became the first female
one of these people. Soyuz 1 was controlled by these people and succeeded Vostok 1, which Yuri Gagarin piloted.
For 10 points, name these Soviet astronauts.
ANSWER:
cosmonaut
s [accept
Soviet astronaut
s until read; accept
Russian astronaut
s until “Soviet” is read;
prompt on astronauts]
(The song in the second line is “And on Mars, there will be Apple Blossoms.” The incinerated
body is of Vladimir Komarov, who was the first person to die in a space flight.)
<GE, European History>
13.
After throwing one of these objects named Sviagriss on the ground, King Hrolfr declares Eadgil no better
than a pig for bending over to pick it up. One of these objects wrapped in wolf’s hair warns a Burgundian
king about the treachery of Atli the Hun. A cursed one of these objects is found alongside the Helm of Terror
and Hrotti in a treasure hoard. Loki completes a wergild that he owes to Hreidmar by placing one of these
objects upon an exposed whisker of an (*)
otter’s pelt. That one of these objects named Andvaranaut turns one
owner into a creature whose blood grants the ability to understand the language of birds. Odin owns one of these
objects that creates eight copies of itself each night, named Draupnir. For 10 points, name these objects, one of
which turns Fafnir into a dragon and titles an operatic cycle by Richard Wagner
(“REE-card VOG-ner”)
.
ANSWER:
ring
s [accept
Andvaranaut
until read; accept
Draupnir
until read; accept gold
ring
s]
(The cursed ring
is Andvaranaut.)
<MB, Beliefs>
14.
In one work, this character successfully stakes his life to win a mancala-style board game against a king
sitting in a room of beautiful swords. One woman’s fear about the popularity of this character leads her to
summon a group of nine witches to kill him, but the witches are so impressed that they instead begin to assist
this character. This character, who was introduced to Western audiences through (*)
Djibirl Tamsir Niane’s
1960 translation of one work, is born after his father makes a promise to marry an ugly maiden. In a climactic battle,
this character fires an arrow tipped with a cock’s spur. This character, who first uses the branch of a baobab tree to
walk, was given a griot companion by his father. After a return from exile, this character and his mother Sogolon
defeat the sorcerer Sumanguru. For 10 points, name this central character of an oral epic and founder of the Mali
Empire.
ANSWER:
Sundiata
[or
Sundiata
Keita; prompt on Keita]
<JF, World and Other Literature>
15.
A 1993
BAMS
(“bams”)
paper by Crum and Alberty details specs for a common type of these scientific
instruments, the WSR-88D. A quantity measured by these non-microscope scientific instruments is held equal
to 200 times
R
to the 1.6 power in a formula named for Marshall and Palmer. These scientific instruments
measure the
Z
used in
Z
-
R
relations, which is typically reported in dBZ
(“d-b-z”)
. Better resolution may be
achieved using the newer dual pol
(“pole”)
(*)
variety of these scientific instruments, which can be used to detect
signatures like velocity couplets or hook echoes on the right-rear flank of supercells. These scientific instruments
may be used to detect signatures like velocity couplets or hook echoes on the right-rear flank of supercells. Base
reflectivity measured by these scientific instruments can be viewed on the NWS website, where it is overlaid with
warning polygons. For 10 points, what scientific instruments’ Doppler form is used to detect precipitation using
microwaves and radio waves?
ANSWER: weather
radar
receivers [or weather
radar
antennae or Doppler
radar
receivers or Doppler
radar
antenna or
radar
dishes; accept
radome
; prompt on antennae or receivers or dishes]
<EK, Other Science: Earth Science>
16.
One member of this group hid fake blood inside a “Bible-like book” that he stabbed with a hidden sword
to protest hypocrisy among this group’s members. A thinker who belonged to this group argued that slavery
resulted from the misapplication of power and was “inconsistent with the Christian religion” in his
posthumously published “Journal of John Woolman.” A split in this group was led by a figure who claimed to
have died and been reborn genderless with the title (*)
“Public Universal.” One member of this group negotiated
his colony’s first land purchase treaty with the Lenape in 1682. That man established a “Holy Experiment” as a safe
haven for this group after receiving a land grant from Charles II. For 10 points, name this famously nonviolent
religious group that included William Penn and was also known as the “Society of Friends.”
ANSWER:
Quaker
s [accept Society of
Friends
until read]
(The first line refers to Benjamin Lay.)
<JF, American History>
17.
Three nitrogen groups are bound to this element in alternative coupling agents used in solid-phase peptide
synthesis, such as B
·
O
·
P and Py
·
B
·
O
·
P. A method of activating a palladium zero catalyst for the Heck
reaction involves acetate forming a bond with this element. Nickel complexes to ligands containing this
element were used to develop the Tolman cone angle parameter. Berry (*)
pseudo-rotation is classically
exemplified by this element bound to five fluorine atoms. Many courses incorrectly teach that oxygen binds to this
element in a betaine
(“beta-een”)
intermediate
[emphasize]
after
a carbon-carbon bond forms in the Wittig reaction.
For 10 points, name this element that sits right below nitrogen on the periodic table.
ANSWER:
phosphorus
[or
P
; accept
phosphine
(“FOSS-feen”)
]
<JZ, Chemistry>
18.
One anthropologist from this country used the example of animals seeing blood as beer to illustrate the
idea of “multinaturalism,” helping initiate anthropology’s ontological turn. An ethnography of this country
describes the seeming indifference of poor mothers to the deaths of their infants, only some of whom possess
the “knack” for life. One memoir recounts fieldwork in this country from which the author gained that the
(*)
Nambikwara and Caduveo were “neither true Indians nor true savages;” that memoir is
Tristes Tropiques
. Daniel
Everett controversially claimed that a language from this country has no terms of quantification. Eduardo Viveiros
de Castro’s
Cannibal Metaphysics
describes the “Amerindian perspectivism” of this country’s indigenous people,
like the Pirahã. For 10 points, name this country that contains most of the Amazon Rainforest.
ANSWER:
Brazil
[or Federative Republic of
Brazil
or República Federativa do
Brasil
]
<VD, Social Science>
19.
Asmik Grigorian’s 2022 album
Dissonance
features pieces by this composer, including a dreamy song in
9/4
(“nine-four”)
whose narrator says that their only happiness “lives in the lilacs.” In January 2023, five of
this composer’s pieces were performed back-to-back in a 4.5-hour concert by Yuja Wang and the
Philadelphia Orchestra for this composer’s 150th birthday. The notes “E, D-sharp, long E” begin the last of
this composer’s Opus 34
14 Romances
, a (*)
Vocalise
(“vo-kuh-LEESE”)
for soprano that is often transcribed for
other instruments. This composer underwent hypnotherapy to help him through a mental breakdown that he suffered
after the disastrous premiere of his first symphony, after which he wrote his massively successful Piano Concerto
No. 2 in C minor. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of four difficult piano concerti and
Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini
.
ANSWER: Sergei
Rachmaninoff
[or Sergei Vasilyevich
Rachmaninoff
]
<IZ, Auditory Fine Arts>
20.
One translation of this author alludes to Elton John by referring to lives snuffed out like “a candle in the
wind” and is by Mary Jo Bang. This author wrote two sections themed on a Boethius-inspired praise for Lady
Philosophy in an unfinished work titled “The Banquet.” This author invented a verse form of stanzas with
11-syllable lines in which the first and third lines rhyme, and the second line rhymes with the first and last
lines of the next stanza. (*)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translated a poem by this author that opens with the
narrator finding himself in “a forest dark.” That poem by this author opens “Midway through life’s journey,” after
which the narrator encounters a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf. For 10 points, name this poet credited with inventing
terza rima to write
The Divine Comedy
.
ANSWER:
Dante
Alighieri [or Dante
Alighieri
]
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