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2023 ARCADIA Edited by Michael Bucknall, Vincent Du, Ganon Evans, Jim Fan (head), Henry Goff, Eric Gunter, Kevin Jiang, Evan Knox, Caroline Mao, Grant Peet, Ryan Rosenberg, Jonathan Shauf, Kevin Thomas, Justin Zhang, and Ivvone Zhou Written by Rasheeq Azad, Matt Capobianco, Jacob Egol, Michael Eng, Crow He, Hasna Karim, Rahul Keyal, Sam Kung, Ashish Subramanian, Graham Troy, Annabelle Yang, and the editors Packet 2 : 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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