The Illinois Open 2003: Transfigured Spite
Toss-ups by Michigan A (Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Ben Heller, Matt Lafer, Paul Litvak)
1. The title character nearly wins the hand of the Countess Ida, defeating her suitor, the Chevalier De Magny, at
cards. He is subject to the shocking revelation that Captain Quinn, whom he thought he had killed, is not dead and
is, in fact, his captain on an expedition to serve in the Seven Weeks‟ War. After deserting to the side of the
Prussians, he becomes a spy for Frederick the Great and finds his uncle masquerading as a nobleman. He returns to
England, marries Lady Honoria, and attempts to reacquire his ancestral property, but her son, Lord Bullingdon,
returns from the Americas and has this man put in Fleet Prison. For ten points, identify this picaresque novel by
William Thackeray.
Answer: Barry Lyndon
2. Following the indecisive battle at Fontenoy and the capture of Aix-la-Chapelle, two of the parties later involved in
this agreed on the Oaths of Strasbourg. As a result of this pact, the territory of Provence and Burgundy as well as the
titles of emperor and King of Italy went to Lothair, while the territory from the Rhine to the eastern edge of the
empire went to Louis the German, who became King of the Franks. The western portion of Francia was confirmed
to Charles the Bald. For ten points, name this 843 treaty between the sons of Louis the Pious that divided the empire
of Charlemagne.
Answer: Treaty of Verdun (accept Oaths of Strasbourg before it‟s mentioned)
3. In chapter six of this work, the author quotes Schiller’s adage that “hunger and love are what move the world” and
argues that the two ideas are not in opposition; thus, self-love is a necessary precondition for love of others. The
author famously calls technology a “prosthetic God” in chapter five. The author begins his analysis with a
discussion of the “oceanic feeling” that he describes as the dissolution of the boundary between the ego and the
outside world. The fundamental thesis of the work is that, despite the misery of mankind before culture, the
alternative of life within culture creates a conflict between libidinal impulses and the constraints of society. For ten
points, identify this work, which uses psychoanalysis to attempt to understand culture as a whole, written by
Sigmund Freud.
Answer: Civilization and Its Discontents
4. In these molecules, intense absorption at the 400-nanometer Soret band can be seen, as well as smaller peaks
called Q bands at around 600 nanometers. Strong bases such as alkoxides can be used to remove the two protons on
their inner nitrogen atoms to form a dianion. Due to anisotropic effects from the ring current, the NMR signals for
the meso protons on the bridged methine carbons can only be seen in low fields. They obey Huckel‟s rule, and
examples include the prosthetic group for the enzyme that breaks down hydrogen peroxide in the body, catalase. For
ten points, identify this class of nitrogenous biological pigments, which when combined with metals form
hemoproteins such as cytochromes, chlorophyll, and hemoglobin.
Answer: porphyrins
5. This man‟s doctrine of universals was outlined in his Amending Errors on Universals. In his On the Truth of the
Sacred Scriptures, he outlined five criteria for interpreting the Bible, which led him to interpret St. Augustine‟s
division between the heavenly and earthly cities as literal, a doctrine repudiated by Archbishop Courtenay in 1382.
He famously argued before Parliament against the right of the church to grant sanctuary and more famously denied
the doctrine of transubstantiation in his On Civil Dominion, which was condemned by Gregory XI. For ten points,
identify this theologian, after whom a translation of the Bible is named and whose movement at Oxford inspired the
Lollards.
Answer: John Wycliffe (also accept John Wycliff, John Wyclif, John Wicliffe, or John Wiclif )
6. As reinforcements approached this battlefield, the eventual winning general turned to one of his officers and said:
“the battle is lost, but there is still time to win another.” The initial contact between the armies was between the
infantry of Andreas O‟Reilly and Claude Perrin, who was aided by the forces of Jean Lannes. But as Melas
continued to collapse the French flank, Napoleon surmised that they were being attacked by the main force of
Austrians and he ordered the forces of Desaix [DAY-zai] to move towards the fighting. For ten points, name this
Italian battle of June 14, 1800 in which Napoleon destroyed the forces of the Second Coalition.
Answer: Marengo
7. It contains the story of Esther, who is in love with the preacher King Barlo, whom she catches drunk and in bed
with another woman. The story of Fernie Mae Rosen, the daughter of a Jewish man and a black woman is related in
“Fern.” It opens with the tale of Karintha, who becomes a prostitute, and Becky, a white woman who sleeps with a
black man and burns to death. In sections like “Theater”, “Bona and Paul,” and “Avey”, the author explores race in
the context of failed relationships. The final section concerns a man trying to improve the lives of blacks in New
York and ends with Father John and Carrie observing a sunrise. For ten points, identify this masterpiece of the
Harlem Renaissance containing the novella “Kabnis”, written by Jean Toomer.
Answer: Cane
8. A generalization of this was used by Sasler to model the clustering of galaxies in the universe. With kurtosis equal
to the inverse of the factor lambda and skewness equal to the inverse of the square root of lambda, its utility was
elucidated in Bortkiewicz‟s Law of Small Numbers, in which it was used to model the number of soldiers in the
Prussian cavalry that were killed by horse kicks each year. With an expected value and variance equal to lambda, for
ten points, name this discrete distribution that can be defined as is the binomial distribution in the limit of a large
number of trials and low probability of success.
Answer: Poisson distribution
9. This man negotiated the disagreement between his brother Thomas Woodstock, earl of Gloucester, and the king
over the royal advisors Michael de la Pole and Robert de Vere. His third marriage was to Catherine Swynford, a
member of the important Beaufort family. His marriage to Constance of Castile gave him a claim to the kingdom of
Castile and Leon, and he departed England for Spain in 1386 to assert his claim. Unpopular due to his opposition to
reforms, his palace, Savoy, was burned during the Peasants‟ Revolt. For ten points name this brother of Edward the
Black Prince whose military failures lost much of the English territory in France.
Answer: John of Gaunt (prompt on “John”)
10. This man spent most of his later years designing a wooden glider based on insect forms. Beginning as an icon
painter, after meeting Picasso in 1913 he incorporated Cubism into works like his series of 4 three-dimensional
painted Reliefs. His “Programme of the Productivist Group” saw the origins of a state-sanctioned artistic group that
worked on utilitarian furniture and housing. When his most famous design was finished in 1920, it consisted of an
iron spiral framework containing a glass cylinder, cone, and cube. That work was intended to be twice as tall as the
Empire State Building, but Mother Russia characteristically lacked the steel. For ten points identify the artist who,
after designing his “Monument to the Third International,” became the leader of the Constructivists.
Answer: Vladimir Tatlin
11. In what is arguably this man‟s most famous philosophical work, he parodies Descartes‟ Meditations, arguing that
the method of doubt leads to an impracticable kind of skepticism; a “solipsism of the present moment.” This author
of Egotism in German Philosophy and Lotze’s System of Philosophy presents a poetical Christ in The Idea of Christ
in the Gospels and describes poetry and religion more generally in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. He is also
well known for his autobiography, Peoples and Places, wherein he writes of his time at Harvard and his friendships
with Royce and James. For ten points, identify this naturalist philosopher and author of Skepticism and Animal Faith
and the novel The Last Puritan.
Answer: George Santayana
12. This man‟s namesake exponential factor appears in fugacity calculations, though its effect is generally negligible
at low pressures. With Robertson, he names an effect where radiation from a star causes small particles in orbit to
spiral inward and be consumed, and in the 1890s, he made accurate calculations of the value of the universal
gravitational constant. A onetime assistant to Maxwell, his most famous work was in electromagnetism, and led to
his namesake flux and theorem. For ten points, name this British scientist probably now best known for his vector,
the cross product between the electric field and magnetic field of an electromagnetic wave.
Answer: John Henry Poynting
13. This work‟s opening section concerns the natural world and includes subsections like “The Birds Arrive” and
“The Rivers Come Forth.” The fourth section, “The Liberators‟, is the longest, and has sections on Guayaquil,
Sandino and Manuel Rodriguez. The fifth section, “The Sand Betrayed” details the rise of authoritarian regimes in
South America as well as exploitation by the United States. Other parts include “The Flowers of Punitaqui” and
“The Fugitive”, though “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” is better known. For ten points, identify this collection of
340 poems by Pablo Neruda.
Answer: Canto General
14. This man composed a Festkantate for the cornerstone‟s laying of the cathedral of his friend, Archbishop Franz
Josef Rudigier. A student of Otto Kitzler, he wrote a “Study” Symphony in F and composed his Inveni David and
Vaterlandsleid just before he left Linz for Vienna. He revised his second symphony, known as the “Nullte,” and his
third, or “Wagner,”around 1877. For ten points name the German composer considered, in his time, too much like
Wagner, though perhaps most famous for his Fourth Symphony, entitled “Romantic,” and for his unhealthy
obsessions with various teenage girls.
Answer: Josef Anton Bruckner [Editor‟s note: “What‟s a „pederaste,‟ dude?” - Donny]
15. In 1997 Archbishop Daniel Cronin opened the cause for the canonization of its founder, who is buried in St.
Mary‟s Church in Hartford, Connecticut. This organization‟s emblem, designed by James McMullen, contains a
fasces crossed by a dagger and an anchor representing its namesake. Begun with the San Salvador Chapter in New
Haven, one of its main objectives is to provide life insurance to support the widows and children of deceased
members. Founded by Michael McGivney, this is, for ten points, what Catholic fraternal organization named for the
man that is credits with bringing Christianity to the New World?
Answer: Knights of Columbus
16. Nonelectronic types of this, such as those seen in proton-proton scattering, are a poor source for photons but can
yield information on the strong nuclear force. An electron with spin parallel to its velocity will emit the circularly
polarized type which has been useful in the analysis of longitudinal polarization seen in beta decay. The major
source of gamma rays in cosmic ray showers, this phenomenon is also the major mechanism of kinetic energy loss
in electrons traveling at relativistic velocities. For ten points, name this type of radiation caused by the acceleration
of an electron when deflected by another charged particle, with a name from the German for “braking radiation.”
Answer: Bremsstrahlung (accept braking radiation before its mentioned)
17. Though this mythological figure escaped Hera‟s direct wrath, Tethys was beseeched to deprive her of water and
this is why she never dips below the horizon. Her illegitimate child was spirited away by Hermes and raised by Maia
before it could be killed, which events followed her expulsion from Artemis‟ inner circle. Her rape by Zeus resulted
in Arcas and, ultimately, her transformations. For ten points identify this daughter of Lycaon whose name means
“fairest,” a once chaste huntress who was transformed into a bear.
Answer: Callisto (prompt on “Ursa Major”)
18. In this man‟s first work, he gave a formula for computing the value of goods. This idea influenced the Vierri
brothers, with whom he founded the “Society of Fists” and the journal Il Caffe, which published “On Remedies for
the Monetary Disorders of Milan in the Year 1762." His 1804 work Elements of Public Economy was influenced by
Cantillon, though a disastrous visit to Paris following the publication of his most famous work alienated him from
the European intellectual community. In that work, he argued for a system based on rationality and that the effect of
social welfare should be taken into account when determining how society treats its delinquent. For ten points,
identify the thinker who opposed the death penalty in “On Crimes and Punishment.”
Answer: Cesar Beccaria
19. Divided into five distinct sections, this story chronicles the protagonist‟s life in and around the town of Pont
l‟Eveque. After being rejected by Theodore, she moves in with her employer and saves the family from a charging
bull. She helps to care for Virginie and Paul until they grow up and leave her. Feeling abandoned she invites her
nephew, Victor, to move into the Aubain household, but he soon dies on a trip to Havana. Eventually all that she has
left is her parrot, Loulou, who is stuffed as the tale winds down. The story ends with the main character‟s death
during a Corpus Christi festival. For ten points identify this tale about Felicite, a servant girl who possesses the title
feature, a short story by Gustave Flaubert.
Answer: “A Simple Heart” (accept “Un Coeur Simple”)
20. Its western edge is along the eastern edge of the Ustyurd Plateau and to the south is the Kyzylkum desert. Its
name means “Sea of Islands” and its islands include Vozrozhdenya. The city of Munyoq lies near its southern edge,
closest to the portion known as the “Greater Sea”. The Amu Darya and Syr Darya drain into this body of water on
the border of Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan. For ten points, name this
body of water, which has shrunk dramatically due to over-aggressive irrigation by the Soviet Union.
Answer: Aral Sea
Overtime. The hayashi sit at the back, playing four instruments, the most important part of their activity being the
kakagoe, or drum calls. The chorus, or jiutai, sits at the side of the stage, while the back wall is covered with a
painting of a tree. Typically, the main character appears as an ordinary person, or maejite, and then reappears as a
ghost, or nochijute. The protagonist, or shtie [“SHTAY”], is accompanied by a priest, or waki. Invented at the
Kasuge temple in Nara in 1375, it was patronized by the shogun since he was a friend of the inventors, Kanami and
Zeami. For ten points, identify this style of Japanese drama whose participants wear elaborate ceremonial masks, in
contrast to the painted faces of Kabuki.
Answer: Noh Theater
The Illinois Open 2003: Transfigured Spite
Bonuses by Michigan A (Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Ben Heller, Matt Lafer, Paul Litvak)
1. Answer these questions about a method in philosophy and its use for ten points each.
1.Coined by Ernst Mach in his The Science of Mechanics, this term is used to denote imaginary situations that are
used to reveal interesting things about nature. Examples include Maxwell‟s Demon and Heisenberg‟s Microscope.
Answer: thought experiments (Gedankenexperiment)
2. One of the earliest things retroactively labeled a thought experiment is in this six-part Epicurean poem by
Lucretius. It purports to prove the infinitude of space by imagining an attempt to throw a spear at the hypothetical
border.
Answer: On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura)
3. This thought experiment of John Searle attempts to undermine the argument for strong AI, describing a man
attempting to use a book of symbols to translate things.
Answer: Chinese Room experiment
2. He described his meeting with Paul Claudel as “the great stroke of luck in my life.” For 10 points each:
(10) Name the composer who set to music several of Claudel‟s works, e.g. Christophe Colomb and Man and His
Desire. He is probably most famous for The Sorrows of Orpheus and The Creation of the World.
Answer: Darius Milhaud
(10) Milhaud was a member of his group of French composers that included Honegger and Poulenc.
Answer: Les Six (accept the Six)
(10) Milhaud also set to music such works by this author as Traveller Without Luggage and Thieves’ Carnival.
Answer: Jean Anouilh
3. For ten points each, name these controversies surrounding the Jesus and his ministries.
1. Following the teaching of a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia, this heresy held that the Jesus was not, in fact, the
Jesus but two distinct persons, closely and inseparably united. The Council of Ephesus condemned it.
Answer: Nestorianism
2. Following the school of Lucian of Antioch, this fourth-century heresy held that, since the Godhead is unique, the
Jesus was in fact not God, but a created being.
Answer: Arianism
3. This North African heresy of the fourth-century held that only those living a blameless life belonged in the church
of Jesus and, further, that the validity of any sacrament depended upon the personal worthiness of the priest
administering it.
Answer: Donatism
4. Answer the following about quantum physics, for ten points each:
A. (10) This “paradox” [“quote unquote paradox”] purports to show that the concept of quantum entanglement and,
hence, quantum mechanics, violate the principle of locality and, hence, relativity.
Answer: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (accept EPR paradox)
B. (10) An Austrian scientist introduced this creature in his article “The present situation in quantum mechanics,”
which was intended as a reply to the EPR paradox.
Answer: Schrödinger’s Cat
C. (10) In 1964 an Irish scientist showed that if this is satisfied, there can be no local “hidden variables.” Verified
experimentally, it finally resolved the EPR paradox.
Answer: Bell‟s Inequality or Theorem (accept Bell-Wigner Theorem)
5. For ten points each, answer these questions appertaining to a doctrine in economics.
1. This infamous two-word phrase is Adam Smith’s “explanation” for the fact that a free market will sometimes
allocate factors of production, goods, and services optimally.
Answer: invisible hand
2. The applicability of the doctrine of invisible hand was made explicit mathematically by this man‟s general
equilibrium theory. He is the author of The Theory of Value and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Answer: Gerard Debreu
3. Gerard Debreu authored the first article on general equilibrium theory in 1954 with this man, but he is better
known for authoring Social Choice and Individual Values, winning the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics, and
deriving a certain theory about preferences.
Answer: Kenneth Arrow
6. Answer each of the following about the greatest architecture of them all, CPU architecture, for ten points.
A. (10) This term denotes the technique by which all stages in a processor‟s datapath are designed to work
simultaneously. The datapath uses special internal registers to hold the instructions between stages and the number
of instructions being worked on at the same time is equal to the number of stages.
Answer: pipelining
B. (10) This is the term for an architecture which contains multiple pipelines. Intel would argue, perhaps not
incorrectly, that it was introduced with the Pentium.
Answer: superscalar architecture
C. (10) This very recent Intel instruction set architecture has 6 pipelines and uses advanced branch predication
technology to speed-up instruction branching exponentially.
Answer: IA-64 or Itanium (accept Itanium II)
7. Answer the following questions about a famous photographer for ten points each.
1. This man helped to found the photo-secessionist movement and together with his partner Wayne Miller worked
on military exhibitions like “Road to Victory” and “Power in the Pacific.”
Answer: Edward Steichen
2. Based on his brother in law, Carl Sandburg’s, concept of human solidarity this 1955 Steichen exhibition consisted
of 503 photographs and was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art.
Answer: Family of Man series
3. Though this painter‟s work became obsessed with Jewish themes during the last 20 years of his life, he is
primarily known for avant garde works like The Geranium and Chinese Restaurant which were first exhibited at
Steichen and Stieglitz‟s 291 gallery.
Answer: Max Weber
8. For ten points each, answer these questions about a sociological doctrine.
1. This doctrine posits three interrelating components that lead to the formation of a person‟s self: meaning,
language and thought.
Answer: symbolic interactionism
2. The doctrine of symbolic interactionism originated with this man, the author of Movies and Conduct, and Social
Order and the Public Philosophy.
Answer: Herbert Blumer
3. Blumer derived this idea from the work of this man, a contemporary of Dewey. His works were all published
posthumously, and include The Philosophy of the Present and Mind, Self, and Society.
Answer: George Herbert Mead
9. For ten points each, answer these questions related to a school of poetry.
1. Influenced by the Symbolists, this group of Russian poets was founded by Sergei Gorodetsky and Nikolai
Gumilyov. Distrusted by the Soviets, much of their work was published in the journal Apollon.
Answer: Acmeists
2. This Acmeist poet wrote the collections The White Flock, and Plantain, but she is most famous for her long poem
“Poem without a Hero” and “Requiem”, which described Stalin‟s terror.
Answer: Anna Akhmatova
3. Exiled by Stalin after circulating a poem where he described Stalin‟s fingers as “worms”, he wrote the Voronezh
Notebooks after being allowed to return. Collections include Stone, and The Noise of Time.
Answer: Osip Mandelstam
10. Answer the following stuff about Oda Nobunaga for the stated number of points.
1. After conquering Owari, Nobunaga ambitiously marched on the Kinki district, which contains this city. This was,
at that time, the capital of Japan.
Answer: Kyoto
2. Nobunaga took advantage of a rainstorm and trickery to take the head of the foolish and brash Imagawa
Yoshimoto in this 1560 battle.
Answer: Dengakuhazama
3. Nobunaga committed suicide after receiving mortal musket wounds due to a revolt led by this cowardly man, one
of Nobunaga‟s poorer generals.
Answer: Akechi Mitsuhide
11. For ten points each answer these questions about a religious leader and his work.
1. This son of Pourushaspa of the Sptiiman family has a name that probably means “yellow camel.” He founded a
dualistic religion that worships Ahura Mazda.
Answer: Zoroaster (also Zarathustra)
2. This is the sacred text of Zoroastriaism and is comprised of the Yasna and the Vendidad. Much of it is written in
its namesake script, though some of it is in Pahlavi.
Answer: Zend-Avesta
3. These most sacred hymns of the Avesta are attributed to Zoroaster himself. A section of the Yasna is devoted to
them.
Answer: Gathas
12. Answer the following about cryptography, for ten points each.
1. This very simple cipher is a monoalphabetic cipher that merely shifts the cipher alphabet a constant number of
places with respect to the plaintext. It is named for a historical figure whose use of it was noted by Suetonius.
Answer: Caesar shift cipher
2. Developed in the 16th century, this is essentially a polyalphabetic Caesar shift cipher with 26 alphabets, with a
secret agreed-upon keyword desginating which alphabets to use. It was cracked independently by Babbage and
Kasiski in the 19th century.
Answer: Vigenere cipher
3. The idea behind this form of cryptography was first put-forth in the 1970s by Diffie, Merkle, and Hellman. It uses
“trapdoor” mathematical operations to allow a decipher from which the cipher cannot be deduced easily, allowing its
namesake feature.
Answer: public key cryptography (accept asynchronous cryptography)
13. Identify the following women from Celtic myth for ten points each:
1. Though she was eventually slain by Forbai in Galway pool, this warrior queen of Connacht made her mark by
invading Ulster and capturing the brown bull of Cooley.
Answer: Medb or Maeve
2.This daughter of Hereydd, who was associated with horses, was cursed after she refused Gwawl’s affections.
Instead she married Pwyll and raised Pryderi with him before being buried under a yew tree.
Answer: Rhiannon
3. This warrior-princess whose name means “Shadowy” taught Cuchulainn his famous battle leap and gave him Gae
Bolg, a spear.
Answer: Scathach
14. Answer the following about electrochemical cells for ten points each.
A. (10) This equation relates the reversible potential of an electrode to the standard reversible potential of the
electrode couple.
Answer: Nernst equation
B. (10) This related law states that the amount of reactant “consumed” at one of the electrodes in an electrolytic cell
is directly proportional to the amount of electricity which passes through the cell.
Answer: Faraday’s Second Law of Electrolysis (grudgingly accept Faraday’s Law of Ionization;
prompt on anything close, but do not accept “Faraday‟s Law of Induction,” which is simply wrong)
C. (10) This tube contains a substance that will dissociate into electrolytes and connects anode to cathode to allow a
current. It is often neglected in diagrams, but absolutely key to the operation of a real electrolytic cell.
Answer: salt bridge
15. For ten points each, identify these 19th century writers of the Civil War:
1. He wrote Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. His war experiences were recounted in A
Volunteer’s Adventures while Oriental Acquaintance described his travels.
Answer: John William De Forest
2. Known as the “laureate of the Confederacy”, this poet is the author of “The Cotton Boll” and “Ethnogenesis.” His
best known war poem is “Ode Sung at the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead.”
Answer: Henry Timrod
3. The author of the novels Rudder Grange and Pomona’s Travels, he is better known for short stories like “The Bee
Man of Orn” and “The Lady or the Tiger?”
Answer: Frank Stockton
16. Identify each of these history plays of Shakespeare from description for ten points:
1. This play begins with the title king trying to settle a dispute between between Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray,
Duke of Norfolk. After banishing them, Bolingbroke returns and usurps the thrown. The title king is killed by Exton,
who is banished.
Answer: Richard II
2. This play begins with the Chorus exclaiming “O for a Muse of fire” and describing how the title king came to the
throne. He is urged to conquer France by the Archbishop of Canterbury and goes to war, winning at the battle of
Agincourt.
Answer: Henry V
3. This play features the rebellion of Jack Cade, as well as the Battle of St. Albans, where Richard kills the Duke of
Somerset. The play also features the murder of the Duke of Gloucester following the fall of France.
Answer: Henry VI, Part Two (prompting is forbidden)
17. For ten points each, identify the following about a famous American.
1. Vice-president for Coolidge, he formulated a namesake plan for managing Germany’s reparations payments after
World War I.
Answer: Charles G. Dawes
2. Dawes served as head of supply procurement for the American Expeditionary Force, after which he was
appointed first director of the budget by this post-war president.
Answer: Warren G. Harding
3. After the onset of the Great Depression, Dawes served as the head of this government agency established in 1932.
It was dismantled in 1953 by Eisenhower.
Answer: Reconstruction Finance Corporation (accept RFC)
18. Answer the following about a family of viruses, for ten points each.
1. This two-genus family of negative single stranded RNA viruses known for causing hemorrhagic fevers gets its
name from the Latin for “thread-like,” indicating the nature of the viral particles.
Answer: filoviridae (or filoviruses)
2. This genus of filovirus, the first discovered, caused a deadly outbreak in a town in West Germany in 1967, giving
the virus its name.
Answer: Marburg-like viruses
3. This other genus of filovirus is perhaps better known, and contains the species Cote D’Ivoire, Sudan, Zaire, and
Reston.
Answer: Ebola-like viruses
19. For 10 points each, name these Roman generals I have trouble remembering.
1. Honored as the second founder of Rome after its sack by the Gauls, he conquered the Etruscan city of Veii.
Answer: Marcus Furius Camillus
2. Known as “the sword of Rome”, he won the “spolia opima” for the last time in Roman history. After saving Nola
from Hannibal he took Syracuse in a two years siege.
Answer: Marcus Claudius Marcellus
3. As a youth he distinguished himself at the battle of Pydna and developed a friendship with Polybius. He is most
famous for defeating Hannibal to end the Second Punic War.
Answer: Scipio Africanus the Younger
20. For ten points each, identify these Greek lyric poets from description:
1.This poet celebrated his native Thebes, though his celebration of Athens earned him a fine in that city. He is most
famous for his Pythian and Olympian Odes.
Answer: Pindar
2.This contemporary and rival of Pindar was the nephew of the poet Simonides. Only 21 poems of his are extant,
one of which is his ode celebrating Hieron I’s Olympic victory at a horse race.
Answer: Bacchylides
3.Known for his bacchanalian hymns, his style was emulated by postclassical Greek writers in a collection published
by Henri Estienne in 1554. Abraham Cowley used his name to describe a verse form. He supposedly died from
choking on a grape.
Answer: Anacreon