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Packet 9
: Sima Liu, oh I haven’t heard of that Chinese historian
Tossups
1.
This deity is worshipped in open fields by performing the veṟiyāu dance and spreading flowers on a flag of
a rooster. A festival held near the full moon of the month Thai celebrates when this deity slew the demon
Sūrapadmaṉ. The faithful carry kāvaḍi to the “Six Abodes” of this deity, which includes a temple in the
Paḻaṉi hills where this deity entered seclusion. In a Saṅgam poem dedicated to this deity, he instructs a sage to
create the (*)
Tamil language. The spear Vēl is wielded by this deity, who is accompanied by the consorts Vaḷḷi and
Devasenā. While riding a peacock, this deity lost a competition for a mango from his parents Shiva and Pārvatī after
he lost a race to his younger brother Gaṇesha. For 10 points, name this Hindu god of war.
ANSWER:
Kartikeya
[accept
Skanda
or
Subrahmanya
or
Shanmukha
; accept
Mahasena
or
Kumara
; accept
Murugan
or
Murugu
]
<GE, Beliefs>
2.
This battle resulted in one side returning to their “Fleet in Being” strategy for the rest of a war. One side in
this battle had their plans of a pincer attack prevented by the cryptanalysis department Room 40. One side in
this battle suffered from their prioritization of a high rate of gunnery with low-quality armor-piercing shells.
A commander in this battle who remarked, “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships
today,” chased an enemy during the “Run to the South.” Reinhard (*)
Scheer’s fleet sunk the HMS
Invincible
in
this battle but retreated when the Grand Fleet, commanded by John Jellicoe, managed to “cross the T” twice. This
1916 battle resulted in a continued blockade of Germany. For 10 points, name this largest naval battle of World War
I, named for its location near the coast of Denmark.
ANSWER: Battle of
Jutland
[accept
Jutland
or the
Jutland
; accept the Battle of
Skagerrak
or
Skagerrak
schlact]
<GT, European History>
3.
Ultracold neutrons were produced by transferring momentum from fast neutrons to these particles in a
2011 paper by Piegsa et al. Hydrodynamic transport of these particles can result in very high thermal
conductivity due to wavelike heat transfer. These particles make up the linear portion of a dispersion relation
that also includes maxons and rotons in superfluid helium. Scattering between two of these particles can
occur by a normal or an (*)
Umklapp process. Depending on whether neighboring atoms are in or out of phase,
these quasiparticles are classified as “optical” or “acoustic.” In a crystal, these quasiparticles can be derived by
considering each atom in its lattice site as a harmonic oscillator and then taking the normal modes. For 10 points,
name these quasiparticles that are the quanta of sound.
ANSWER:
phonon
s
(The clue in the second sentence describes second sound.)
<RA, Physics>
4.
This real-life author befriends society hostess Lesley Hamlyn, a confidant of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and
murderess Ethel Proudlock, during a visit to Penang in Tan Twan Eng’s 2023 novel
The House of Doors
. A
line from Christopher Isherwood’s translation of the Katha Upanishad titles a novel by this author about a
World War I pilot’s search for enlightenment in India. The missionary Davidson fails to moralize a prostitute
in Pago Pago named (*)
Sadie Thompson in one of many stories this author set on the South Sea, “Rain.” This
author created a stockbroker who abandons his family to become an artist in Tahiti in a novel retelling the life of
Paul Gauguin. For 10 points, name this British novelist of
The Moon and Sixpence
, who wrote about the club-footed
orphan Philip Carey in
Of Human Bondage
.
ANSWER: W. Somerset
Maugham
[or William Somerset
Maugham
]
(Proudlock is the subject of Maugham’s story
“The Letter.” The novel is
The Razor’s Edge
.)
<RK, British Literature>
5.
In one scene from this film, a character confesses that he can’t swim before jumping off a cliff despite being
told that the fall will kill him anyway. A woman in this film played by Katharine Ross rides away on the front
of a bicycle in a scene set to “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.” Gabriel García Márquez’s “Dangerous
Loves” was premiered by an institute named for a character from this film whose 2023 (*)
Dramatic Grand
Jury Prize went to
A Thousand and One
. At this film’s conclusion, a mustached character dual-wields pistols in a
freeze frame set to the sound of a Bolivian fire squad. A character from this film names the largest independent US
film festival, which is hosted in Utah. For 10 points, name this 1969 film in which Paul Newman and Robert
Redford play the title pair of outlaws.
ANSWER:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
<GE, Other Arts: Visual>
6.
This ruler destroyed a Jesuit-built church named after his grandfather before pardoning Jesuits and
allowing it to be rebuilt the next year. This ruler’s daughter was a learned Sufi and wrote a biography of
Moinuddin Chishti; that daughter would later care for this ruler during house arrest. This ruler’s campaign
against the Safavids stalled after three failed sieges of Kandahar. This ruler’s father allowed this ruler’s
stepmother to dominate the court, prompting a failed rebellion, but this ruler nevertheless overcame (*)
Sharyar Mirza in a later succession crisis. This ruler’s choice of Dara Shikoh as his successor began a crisis that
resulted in his usurpation and imprisonment in Agra Fort. For 10 points, Aurangzeb succeeded what Mughal
emperor who built the Taj Mahal?
ANSWER:
Shah Jahan
[accept
Khurram
]
<JF, World History>
7.
A 24-part epic poem by this poet reflects on looking out at the Arkansas landscape. In one work, this poet
described how after breaking a vase, the “love that reassembles the fragments is stronger” than that which
“took its symmetry for granted whole.” Ruth Padel was forced to resign as Oxford Professor of Poetry after
reports arose that she had alerted journalists of harassment charges against this poet. This poet described a
time in which you would “greet yourself arriving at your own door” in (*)
“Love after Love.” The difficulty in
seeing “emptiness as desolation” was mentioned in describing the home region of this poet in a Nobel lecture
subtitled “Fragments of Epic Memory.” This poet lamented how “the classics can console, but not enough” at the
end of his poem “Sea Grapes.” For 10 points, name this St. Lucian poet who wrote
Omeros
.
ANSWER: Derek
Walcott
<JF, World and Other Literature>
8.
In one technique, fractions of this property called Manders’s coefficients are calculated after Costes’s
randomization method quantifies the background threshold value by repeatedly recalculating Pearson’s
correlation coefficient. One mutant with this property has a histidine substitution at the tyrosine-66 position.
Linkers like R·S·I·A·T tether protein fragments in a bimolecular technique named for this property. Both (*)
Cy3 and Cy5 exhibit this property in a technique named for Förster. Colocalization determines co-occurrence of
proteins by examining the spatial overlap of this property, which can be produced by reporter genes like tdTomato
and mCherry. In flow cytometry, lasers activate cells labeled with markers that exhibit this phenomenon, its
namesake “phores.” For 10 points, name this phenomenon exhibited by luciferase and GFP.
ANSWER:
fluorescence
[accept word forms; accept
fluorophore
s; accept green or blue
fluorescent
protein; accept
fluorescence
resonance energy transfer; accept bimolecular
fluorescence
complementation; prompt on
luminescence or luminous; prompt on giving off light or color; prompt on FRET; prompt on BiFC; prompt on BFP;
prompt on GFP until read; prompt on colocalized or colocalization until “colocalized” is read by asking “what
property is exhibited by colocalized proteins?”]
<KT, Biology>
9.
An intended painting of this visual subject was called “this painting that keeps haunting me” in a letter to a
friend whom the artist met at Fernand Cormon’s atelier. This subject backgrounds the Belgian painter
Eugene Boch, suggesting his lofty aspirations, in a portrait titled
The Poet
. The presence of gas lamps led an
artist to add a “discreet paleness” to this title subject of an 1888 river landscape, as described in a letter to his
(*)
brother. This subject appears to the right of a yellow awning in a painting titled for a “café terrace.” Vertical
yellow streaks of reflected light feature in a painting of this subject “over the Rhône.” This subject was most notably
painted from the window of a Post-Impressionist artist’s Saint-Rémy asylum. For 10 points, a lone cypress tree
foregrounds what subject in the masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh?
ANSWER: the
night
sky [or
star
ry sky; accept
The
Starry Night
or
Starry Night
Over the Rhône
; accept
stars
or
constellations
; prompt on sky]
(The friend is Émile Bernard.)
<RK, Visual Fine Arts>
10.
The Attic festival calendar marks the seventh day of each month as a day sacred to this deity and names
its third month after his Boedromios aspect. In certain
ephebeia
ceremonies, young boys would cut off their
long hair and offer it to this deity to symbolically represent entering adulthood. A Theban festival honoring
this deity features a procession led by a young boy bearing an olive branch hung with the festival’s namesake
plant to an altar where he would offer a bronze tripod. This deity transformed into a (*)
dolphin to carry
Cretan priests to one of his main places of worship. The Panhellenic Games held the year after the Olympic Games
were named for a serpent that this deity purportedly slew as an infant. For 10 points, name this patron deity of
Delphi, the Greek god of light and music.
ANSWER:
Apollo
[or
Apollon
, or
Phoebus Apollo
, or
Boedromios Apollo
]
(The Theban festival is the
Daphnephoria.)
<JF, Beliefs>
11.
This work argues that “the knowledge of good and evil is nothing else but the emotions of pleasure or
pain” and such knowledge cannot check other emotions. While this work’s first section appears to support a
correspondence theory of truth, the second introduces the “adequate idea,” which is true “considered in
itself.” This work argues that “the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of
things,” part of a position later dubbed (*)
“parallelism.” This work argues that it is the nature of all things to
strive to preserve their own existence as part of its doctrine of conatus. After introducing definitions and axioms, this
work’s first proposition states “substance is, by nature, prior to its modifications.” This book drew controversy for
its use of the phrase “God and Nature.” For 10 points, name this work which argues that God is the only substance,
written by Baruch Spinoza.
ANSWER:
Ethics
<MB, Philosophy>
12.
Well-preserved Native American sites in this state include the Kolomoki Mounds and a large stone image
of an eagle south of this state’s town of Madison. William McIntosh was one of several leaders to sign the
controversial Treaty of Indian Springs, which transferred land to this state. Chief Tomochichi welcomed the
initial European settlers of this state. A Supreme Court case originating in this state ruled that states have no
criminal jurisdiction in (*)
Indian Country. A different Supreme Court case against this state led to the apocryphal
phrase, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” New Echota was the capital of the Cherokee
nation in this state where Samuel Worcester lived. For 10 points, James Oglethorpe founded the colony that became
what state at Savannah?
ANSWER:
Georgia
[accept
Cherokee Nation v.
Georgia
; accept
Worcester v.
Georgia
]
<EK, American History>
13.
The fast section of one of these pieces is dominated by a
staccato
sixteenth note melody, first played
piano
and then in frenzied octaves, which begins
[read slowly]
“F G A B-flat C B-flat A B-flat C, C.” Franz Doppler
orchestrated six of these pieces. These pieces often use a harmonic minor scale with a raised fourth, such as in
a late one based on a march that also appears in Berlioz’s (*)
Damnation of Faust
. Marc-André Hamelin wrote a
celebrated cadenza for the second of these pieces, which opens with a “gracenote C-sharp, C-sharp,” followed by
“C-sharp – B, C-sharp – B.” Tom plays the second of these pieces in the
Tom and Jerry
episode
The Cat Concerto
.
These pieces are divided into slow
lassan
and fast
friska
sections. For 10 points, dances like the
verbunkos
and
csárdás
(“CHAR-dahsh”)
inspired what set of 19 virtuosic piano pieces by Franz Liszt?
ANSWER:
Hungarian Rhapsodies
[prompt on rhapsodies]
(The scale is the Hungarian minor scale; the fifteenth
Hungarian Rhapsody is based on the Rákóczi March.)
<VD, Auditory Fine Arts>
14.
A type of these phenomena is significant only within distances on the order of the “radius of
deformation.” The Pierson–Moskowitz spectrum describes the distribution of these phenomena when a
system is in a state of equilibrium described as “fully developed.” A model of these phenomena sets zero equal
to
[read slowly]
the time derivative of
u
plus the third spatial derivative of
u
plus 6 times
u
times the spatial
derivative of
u
. The speed of these phenomena is given by the square root of the quantity (*)
g
times
d
under an
approximation that holds depth to be much less than the horizontal scale of motion. The rotation of the Earth
produces large-scale examples of these phenomena named for Kelvin and Rossby. Examples of these phenomena
called solitons are sometimes identified with unusually large “rogue” ones of them. For 10 points, name these
phenomena whose heights measured from crest to trough.
ANSWER:
wave
s [accept ocean
wave
s or water
wave
s; accept rogue
wave
s; accept shallow water
wave
s; accept
atmospheric
wave
s or tropospheric
wave
s or stratospheric
wave
s; accept (equatorial) Kelvin
waves
; accept Rossby
waves
; accept surface
waves
; accept gravity
waves
; accept
soliton
s until read]
(The first line describes oceanic
Kelvin waves. The third line is the Korteweg–de Vries equation.)
<VD, Other Science: Earth Science>
15.
A collection from this country begins with the prologue “Little Ballad of the Three Rivers” and inspired
the name of Robert Bly’s “deep image” poetic movement. The magazine
Blue Overalls
was edited by a group
of poets from this country, who had previously formed on the 300th anniversary of the death of an author
from this country who once had a facial feature compared to “a swordfish with an awful beard.” A poem
from this country imagines a (*)
woman with “eyes of cold silver” who “dreams on a balcony.” A poet from this
country repeated, “I will not see it!” in the section “The Spilled Blood,” which is part of a poem that contains the
refrain “at five in the afternoon.” For 10 points, name this country whose Generation of ‘27 included the author of
“Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter,” Federico Garcia Lorca.
ANSWER:
Spain
[or Kingdom of
Spain
or
España
or Reino de
España
]
<HG, European Literature>
16.
Jerry Falwell labeled this person a “phony” for appealing for American sanctions during a visit to
Kentucky to attend his daughter’s graduation. This first chairman of “The Elders” described an alienating
and racist “final solution” in his country during the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize lecture. This man lambasted his
own government for denying a visa to the Dalai Lama, with whom he wrote a 2016 book outlining (*)
“eight
pillars of joy.” This man, who wished to be called only “Arch,” advocated for the institution of a wealth tax on white
citizens to fulfill his concept of a “Rainbow Nation.” This man used John Mbiti’s idea of “ubuntu” to chair the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission. For 10 points, name this Anglican archbishop who opposed apartheid.
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