1999 ACF Nationals
Tossups by Harvard A (Joon Pahk, David Farris, Guy Jordan)
1. This book was attacked by Richard Wright for its use of dialect, but the dialect is generally true to form and evidences the author's
expertise in anthropology. It tells the story of a woman with unsuccessful marriages to Logan Killicks and Jody Starks, and finally a
third which works out until she is forced to kill her rabies-stricken husband, Tea Cake Woods, with a shotgun. FTP, name this novel
about a black woman in rural Florida named Janie, written by Zora Neale Hurston.
Answer: Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. Leon Brillouin resolved the paradox by showing the entropy increase made in choosing outweighs the decrease resulting from
execution. In the original version, two isothermal gases were joined at a small hole. By manipulating the hole, one gas could be made
hotter and the other cooler. For ten points, what netherworld being, first summoned by a Scottish scientist, seemed to use this method
to violate the laws of thermodynamics?
Answer: Maxwell's demon
3. He cured the daughter of the judge Asterius of blindness, but Asterius later sentenced him to death anyway. There is a dispute
between the Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin and the Blessed John Duns Scotus Church in Glasgow as to who has his remains. He
was beheaded in 269 for violating Emperor Claudius II's orders by performing marriages for Roman soldiers. FTP, name this saint
commemorated in mid-February.
Answer: Saint Valentine
4. Jean-Paul Sarte called him “the most complete human being of our age.” It was later learned that he had spent some time in the
Congo helping to organize the Patrice Lumumba Battalion, and he may have visited North Vietnam in 1966. In the autumn of that
year, he arrived in the Santa Cruz region, but was wounded, captured, and killed by Bolivian authorities the following year. FTP name
this Argentine doctor and revolutionary active in the Cuban Revolution.
Answer: Ernesto “Che” Guevara
5. Similar to hemoglobins, in these compounds a carbon-hydrogen phytol chain is attached to a porphyrin ring surrounding a central
magnesium atom. The rare type e is found in golden algae while types a and b are the major forms in higher plants where it is found in
chloroplasts. For ten points, name this class of pigments vitally important to photosynthesis.
Answer: chlorophyll
6. Will Honeycomb, Sir Andrew Freeport, and Sir Roger de Coverley appeared frequently in its pages, making shrewd observations on
contemporary society. It was a successor to the “Tatler,” which had been published by one of this journal‟s founders under the
pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. For ten points name this periodical, which lasted from 1711 until 1712, whose chief writers and
publishers were Richard Steele and Joseph Addison
Answer: "The Spectator"
7. He first gained fame for the one-act Le Villi, and Giuliu Ricordi bought that work‟s publication rights and signed this man to a
contract. After the failure of Edgar, he produced a successful opera based on a novel by the Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut. His final
work, based on a Carlo Giozzi play and completed by Franco Altano, was the only Italian impressionist opera. FTP, name this
composer of that tale of the son of Tamerlane and a Chinese princess, Turandot.
Answer: Giacomo Puccini
8. It was engendered by the Six Acts. Its organizer, having visited the U.S. and France in the 1790s, became obsessed with the idea
that a true patriot must overthrow the established government. Following the crackdown on radical protest after Peterloo, Arthur
Thistlewood conceived the idea of assassinating the entire Cabinet in order to spark a general rebellion in Britain. Shortly before he
and his conspirators were to leave their room on a certain street to commit the crime, they were apprehended. FTP, name this
botched plan.
Answer: Cato Street Conspiracy
9. One of its phosphorylated derivatives acts as a coenzyme in the synthesis of sucrose, lactose, glycogen, and chitin, and often
donates phosphate groups to ADP. It was first isolated from herring sperm, and this pyrimidine pairs naturally with adenine. For ten
points, identify this nitrogenous base which is involved in RNA synthesis but does not occur in DNA.
Answer: uracil
10. The man for which it is named deserted Roderick, "the last of the Goths" and the king of Spain, in 711, the year he made the
crossing for which he was immortalized. 993 years after Tariq ibn Siyad's Muslims took it, its owners were again deprived of it, and the
deprivers possess it to this day. FTP, name this English possession, the "mount of Tariq," or in the Arabic, "Jebel al-Tariq."
Answer: Gibraltar
11. This work consists of two sections narrated by an unnamed traveller and then three selections from what is ostensibly the title
character's journal. In a scathing preface, the author writes that the work "is certainly a portrait, but not of a single person. It is a portrait
of the vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development. You will say that no man can be so bad, and I will ask you why, after
accepting all the villains of tragedy and romance, you refuse to believe in Pechorin." FTP, name this 1840 novel by Mikhail Lermontov.
Answer: A (or The) Hero of Our Time or Geroy nashevo vremeni
12. Its author was in the area in question for only five months, but presciently identified language barriers as a cause of tension
between the major populations. His work concluded that the 1837 rebellions were the result of a lack of political cohesion and
representation. It also suggested French assimilation into English culture, and the political union of Upper and Lower Canada. FTP,
name this report produced by the Governor-in-chief of the British North American provinces in 1839 that paved the way for responsible
government and internal autonomy for colonies, a landmark in British constitutional history.
Answer: Durham Report
13. Although he only had one sexual encounter his entire life, he was unlucky enough to contract from it the syphilis that would
eventually kill him in 1900. He rejected any rational formalism or morality in favor of an emotivist approach, and identified competing
modes of tragedy. He also wrote glowing reviews of his own works in Ecce Homo, but is perhaps best known for a remark often
quoted out of context from a work that was made into a successful tone poem by Richard Strauss. FTP, identify this "God is dead"
thinker.
Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
14. U Geminorum systems, with periods of 30 days, are dwarf examples of this class. In a binary system with a white dwarf and a
secondary star, gravity can attract material from the secondary onto the dwarf's surface. Eventually the new material goes unstable, a
thermonuclear explosion occurs, and the process begins anew. For ten points, name this occurrence, similar to but less destructive
than a type-1 supernova.
Answer: novae (Accept dwarf novae on an incredibly early buzz. Do not accept supernova or type-2 supernova)
15. He acted under the name David Baron, and as a playwright, his juxtaposition of farce and terror was dubbed "comedy of menace."
This can be seen as a married couple and a friend of the wife, while reminiscing, recall a liason between the husband and the wife's
friend, in Old Times, or as a pair of criminals prepare a hit in The Dumbwaiter. FTP, name this British playwright of such works as The
Room, No Man's Land, and The Birthday Party.
Answer: Harold Pinter
16. After finding out that he was chosen as the new Pope while on a mission to Gaul, he worked to suppress heresy, especially
extreme forms of monophysitism. The Council of Chalcedon, which he summoned, accepted his teachings that Christ is both fully
divine and fully human, both incarnated in an historical person, as ultimate truth. The following year, in 452, he personally convinced
Attila and the Huns not to sack the city of Rome. FTP name this doctor of the church and pope from 440 to 461.
Answer: Pope Leo I or the Great (prompt on "Leo")
17. In 1911 Franz Boas wrote that there were 4 unrelated ones, and in a famous 1940 article, Benjamin Whorf claimed that there were
5. Due to that article, they became a famous example of how "we dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages."
Reports of their number exaggerated as the story proliferated, and they have often been claimed in print to be as many as 50, or even
200 plus. FTP, identify these words that according to Cecil Adams are due to the dull environment in which inhabitants of the far north
dwell.
Answer: eskimo words for snow (accept equivalents for "eskimo"; prompt on partial answer)
18. He extended the differential geometry of 2D surfaces, developed by his teacher Gauss, generalizing the concept of metrics and
geodesics. Thus, in 1854, he almost stumbled on general relativity. He gave his name to the extension of Cauchy's equations in
complex analysis and a curvature tensor which contracts to the Ricci tensor. For ten points, what German discovered the zeta
function.
Answer: Bernhard Riemann
19. During the early 19th century in America, there was a revival of the highly decorative "Canaletto" style, especially among portrait
painters such as John Singleton Copley. Thomas Sully, however, preferred plain, less ornate ones, which were well suited to the simple
light-hearted appeal of his subjects. Thomas Eakins was famous for designing and building his own. FTP, identify these devices which
are usually made of chestnut, and usually covered with a layer of gesso and bole before they are gilded.
Answer: picture frames
20. In a chapter of this book entitled "The Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar," the author puts forth his claim that a man's faith in
the goodness of human nature would be uncorrupted were it not for his belief in an un-dogmatic deistic religion. The title character, after
a long education, winds up marrying Sophie once he reaches a stage where he is mentally able to take on such a responsibility. FTP,
identify this 1762 educational work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Answer: Emile, ou l'Education (Emile, or Education)
T1. Harvard freshman Lothrop Withington, Jr. was the first to participate, on March 3, 1939. Three weeks later, a student at Franklin
and Marshall, declaring Harvard men sissies, indulged three times. Techniques varied; some chewed, while other students simply
gulped. By April, one Clark University student had downed eighty-nine of the creatures in one setting, prompting concern from animal
rights activists. FTP name this college craze of the late 1930s.
Answer: goldfish swallowing
T2. Central to its critical theory was a condemnation of modern society, positing that the mechanisms of modern life, particularly mass
media and market forces, are detrimental to personal values, dulling social morality in favor of an atmosphere which fosters the
accumulation of material wealth. Set up in its namesake city in 1923, it was funded by an endowment from Felix Weil, although during
WWII it moved to Columbia Univeristy where it continued to exist as a recognized school until 1947. FTP, name this school of
philosophy whose members included Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas.
Answer: Frankfurt School
T3. The name's the same: in Nella Larsen's novel Quicksand, it is the name of the black school where Helga Crane begins her
teaching career. In Greek mythology, it is the largest of the Cyclades islands, noted for being a center of worship for Dionysus. It is
also where Dionysus found his wife, after she had been abandoned there by Theseus. FTP, give this name, the home of Ariadne in a
one-act opera by Richard (REE-kard) Strauss, perhaps intended by Larsen as an ironic anagram of "Saxon."
Answer: Naxos
The oldest to do it was the Spaniard Ramon Blanco at age 60, the first woman to do it was Junko Tabei in 1975, the first to do it alone
was Reinhold Messner in 1980, and the youngest was Shumbu Tamany at age 16. The fastest accomplishments of this feat were by
Hans Kummer in 16 hours, 45 minutes, and Kaji Sherpa in 20 hours, 24 minutes, from the Tibet and Nepal sides, respectively. FTP,
what is this feat, first done by Norgay and Hillary in 1952?
Answer: climb Mount Everest
She starred in such films as I Married a Witch and Sullivan's Travels, and with frequent leading man Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire,
but her career came to a screeching halt--she ended up waiting on tables in New York City--when she cut her hair. For 10 points, who
was this classic Hollywood film actress, impersonated by Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential, who will forever be known for her distinctive
long blond hair, which she always let fall over one eye, earning her the nickname “The Peekaboo Girl”?
Answer: Veronica Lake
At the right, on a green platform, 4 men stand behind a flagpole, one with a large green garment with red spots, and one sporting blue
and orange pants bending away from the viewer. A red banner across the top proclaims "Vive la societé" (VEEV la SOH-see-uh-TAY).
In the center, behind a progression of citizens, many in grotesque costumes or poses, and a garish marching band, the title figure,
garbed in red and sporting a halo, rides a donkey. FTP, name this influential painting set in the artist's homeland, a depiction of the
Second Coming by James Ensor.
Answer: Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1885 or Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1885
This principle offers an elegant method of finding the equivalent resistance between adjacent points on an infinite resistor lattice. In
Young's famous double-slit experiment, it explains how the beams interfere either constructively or destructively at a point. For ten
points, what principle of electromagnetism states that the field at a point is the vector sum of the fields from individual sources.
Answer: principle of superposition
1999 ACF Nationals
Boni by Harvard
1. Answer the following about bivalves for the stated number of points. I promise there will be no The Scarlet Letter puns.
1. (5 points) Name the phylum to which bivalves belong.
Answer: Mollusca or molluscs
2. (10 points) The largest known burrowing bivalve, it is found along the North American Pacific coast. It's distinguished by a siphon
which can be up to 18 inches long.
Answer: geoduck (GOO-ey-duck)
3. (15 points) Some bivalaves attach themselves to surfaces with a strand of chitinous threads secreted by a gland in the foot. Name
it.
Answer: byssus
2. Name these Henrik Ibsen plays from their endings for 10 points each.
1. The title character of this play, Ibsen's first major work, is a zealous and uncompromising religious reformer whose name
suggestively means both "fire" and "sword" in Norwegian. He dies in an avalanche in the final scene while the heavens resound "Deus
caritatus" ("He is the God of love").
Answer: Brand
2. It ends with Judge Brack exclaiming, "People just don't do that," in reaction to the title character's suicide.
Answer: Hedda Gabler
3. Like Brand, Ibsen's final play also ends with an avalanche. This time the victims are Rubek and Irene.
Answer: When We Dead Awaken
3. Answer the following questions about the so-called "crime of the century," as it was called in 1906, for 10 points each.
1. First, name the famous architect and designer of Madison Square Garden who formed an important partnership with Charles Follen
McKim and William Rutherford Mead.
Answer: Stanford White
2. Next, name his lover, a vaudeville actress and singer, who was (unfortunately for him) married to a wealthy, jealous, and violent
man.
Answer: Evelyn Nesbit
3. Finally, name that husband, who shot White in Madison Square Garden, but who was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Answer: Henry Kendall "Harry" Thaw
4. Identify these things having to do with Biblical texts for 10 points each.
1. English Protestants withdrew recognition of these texts, appearing in the Vulgate but not the Masoretic Canon. Sixtus of Sienna
technically defined them in 1566 to be those books found in the Greek Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew scriptures. The term is
preferred over "apocrypha", since that term has the pejorative connotations of "spurious" or "heretical".
Answer: deuterocanonical texts
2. This name, meaning "things falsely ascribed," refers to works like 3rd and 4th Esdras, Secrets of Enoch, and Little Genesis, that are
of a "biblical" type but are not canonical.
Answer: pseudepigrapha ("Apocrypha" is wrong in this case.)
3. A copy of this coptic Gnostic book, telling of a disciple of Christ and traditionally believed to have been written in 53 C.E. in Madras,
was discovered in Upper Egypt in 1995. Another book of the same title found at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt is a collection of Jesus'
sayings.
Answer: Gospel(s) of Thomas
5. Given a stage direction, name the Shakespeare play from which it is taken for 5 points, and the character who performs the stated
action for 5 more points. Give both answers at once.
1. Here “blank” discovers Ferdinand and Miranda, playing at chess.
Answer: The Tempest and Prospero
2. He drops the juice on Demetrius' eyelids.
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oberon
3. Exit, pursued by a bear.
Answer: The Winter's Tale and Antigonus
6. Identify the following particles FTSNOP.
1. (10 points) The discovery of this meson by teams at Brookhaven and Stanford sparked the November 1974 revolution in particle
physics. Consisting of a charm and an anti-charm, it bears two names.
Answer: J/Psi meson (both required)
2. (15 points possible) The electroweak theory of Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam predicts three mediating particles called
intermediate vector bosons. Name them for 5 points each.
Answer: Z, W plus, W minus
3. (5 points) Martin Perl's discovery of this heaviest lepton won him a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize.
Answer: tauon or tau particle
7. Name the English unifiers FTP each.
1. This king of Mercia was acknowledged as the overlord of all Anglo-Saxons in 779.
Answer: Offa
2. This Wessex king recaptured London from the Danes in 886.
Answer: Alfred the Great
3. In 927, this man was acknowledged as the sovereign of all the English, effectively becoming the first King of England.
Answer: Athelstan
8. Identify the man, 30-20-10.
1. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, his works include The Long Christmas Dinner and The Lindbergh Flight.
2. He is not Jacques Offenbach, but this 20th century composer's opera Cardillac was based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman.
3. This composer is best known for Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber and the opera Matthias the
Painter, about the painter Matthias Grunewald.
Answer: Paul Hindemith
9. Identify the following works which feature Jesus Christ as a main character for 10 points each.
1. This novel by recent Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago is an alternative life of Christ.
Answer: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
2. This controversial work by the author of Ulysses: A Modern Sequel was placed on the Vatican's Index of forbidden books.
Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
3. In this story by D.H. Lawrence, Jesus comes down from the cross and ends up marrying a priestess of Ishtar.
Answer: “The Man Who Died”
10. Given the name of a mountain that is a northeastern state's highest point, name the specific mountain range of which it is a part
FTSNOP.
1. (15 points) Mount Greylock
Answer: Berkshires (prompt on Appalachians)
2. (10 points) Mount Marcy
Answer: Adirondacks
3. (5 points) Mount Washington
Answer: White Mountains (prompt on Appalachians)
11. Identify the following Islamic dynasties for 10 points each.
1. Ruling large areas of Egypt and the Holy Land between 1169 and 1250, this dynasty was comprised mainly of Kurdish aristocrats,
including their most famous leader, Saladin.
Answer: Ayyubids
2. The name of this dynasty which ruled from Egypt means "slave," as its rulers were former Turkic military slaves who overthrew the
Ayyubids in 1250, and ruled until 1517.
Answer: Mamluks or Mamelukes
3. This was the last Muslim dynasty to rule Spain, and is best remembered today as the dynasty that completed the palatial
complexes of the Alhambara and the Generalife.
Answer: Nasirids
12. Answer the following questions about the Krebs cycle for 10 points each.
1. The cycle begins with what 3-carbon product of glycolysis?
Answer: pyruvate
2. In the first step of the cycle, pyruvate is oxidized to acetyl CoA, which reacts with oxaloacetate to form what 6-carbon compound,
which also provides an alternative name for the Krebs cycle?
Answer: citric acid or citrate
3. In 1961 Peter Mitchell developed a theory which explained the process of oxidative phosphorylation, in which ATP is formed in the
mitochondrion due to a pH differential across the inner mitochondrial membrane. What 12-letter term did he use to describe his
theory?
Answer: chemiosmosis or the chemiosmotic theory
13. Identify these American works from memorable quotes for 10 points each. Just to spite you list people, none of the quotes are
from the opening or closing lines.
1. “There was the examination in William James' course. Gertrude Stein sat down with the examination paper before her and she just
could not. Dear Professor James, she wrote at the top of her paper. I am so sorry but really I do not feel a bit like an examination
paper in philosophy to-day, and left.”
Answer: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
2. “He had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: „You dear, you dear, you lovely
dear!‟ The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life.
Answer: Winesburg, Ohio
3. “Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? Please do, it's too light in here.”
Answer: Tender is the Night
14. Identify the writer from works, 30-20-10-5:
1. Life History and the Historical Movement; Vital Involvement in Old Age
2. Insight and Responsibility; Adulthood: Essays; Ghandi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
3. Identity and the Life Cycle; Identity: Youth and Crisis; Childhood and Society
4. Young Man Luther
Answer: Erik H. Erikson
15. Identify the following Andean Civilizations, NONE of which is the Inca, for 10 points each.
1. Their capital seems to have been the ceremonial center of Cahuachi, and they are perhaps most famous for their large monumental
designs in the desert.
Answer: Nazca
2. One of the highest urban settlements in history, this city and its namesake civilization flourished between 500-600 AD high above
the timber line on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. This site is noted for its large stone monolithic sculptures that some
scholars suggest connect it with the civilization on Easter Island.
Answer: Tiahuanaco
3. Formed by the legendary king Tacaynamo, this civilization with its capital at Chan Chan conquered most of the coastal region of
northern Peru until it ws itself conquered by the Incas in 1460.
Answer: Chimu
16. Identify the following art schools or movements from some of their members for the stated number of points.
1. (5 points) Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, and Philip Guston
Answer: Abstract Expressionism ("expressionism" is wrong, don't prompt)
2. (10 points) Hendrik Weissenbruch, Josef Israels, and Johannes Bosboom
Answer: The Hague School
3. (5 points) Evertt Shinn, Ernest Lawson, and William James Glackens
Answer: The Ashcan School, or The Eight
4. (10 points) Paul Serusier, Maurice Denis, and Edouard Vuillard
Answer: The Nabis
17. Name these elegies, given the name of the poet and the deceased, for the stated number of points.
1. (5 points) Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Arthur Hallam
Answer: In Memoriam: A.H.H
2. (5 points) Percy Shelley; John Keats
Answer: Adonais
3. (10 points) John Milton; Edward King
Answer: Lycidas
4. (10 points) Edmund Spenser; Sir Philip Sidney
Answer: Astrophel
18. Answer these questions about real analysis for 10 points each.
1. Despite the name it has nothing to do with a system of weights and measures. Instead, it's a set with a distance function which is
always positive, symmetric, and satisfies the triangle inequality.
Answer: metric space
2. A subset of a metric space has this property if every open cover of the subset contains a finite subcover.
Answer: compact or compactness
3. This theorem, named for two mathematicians, states that compactness is equivalent to a set being closed and bounded.
Answer: Heine-Borel theorem
19. Given a woman or goddess from mythology, name her husband for 5 points apiece.
1. Dionara
Answer: Heracles, or Hercules
2. Parvatha
Answer: Siva, or Shiva
3. Nephthys
Answer: Set, or Seth
4. Kyllikki
Answer: Lemminkainen
5. Doris
Answer: Nereus
6. Philinoe
Answer: Bellerophon
20. Answer these questions about the 1936 presidential election FTP each.
1. Father Coughlin‟s National Union for Social Justice supported this North Dakota congressman who ran on the Union Party ticket.
Answer: William Lemke
2. This prominent magazine predicted a Landon landslide based on a flawed survey.
Answer: Literary Digest
3. Name either of the states Landon carried.
Answer: Maine or Vermont
Name these computer science data structures for 10 points each.
1. This structure implements data lookup in order-one time by mapping keys onto values. A good function for this structure minimizes
collisions.
Answer: hash table
2. In this structure, elements are added one end and taken from the other. Known as a "first in, first out" structure, it's the opposite of
a stack.
Answer: queue
3. A doubly-linked list with pointers to both the head and tail, it's a double-ended queue which can implement queues, stacks, and
other generalized types.
Answer: deck or deque (pronounced "deck")
Name these caverns for 10 points each.
1. This cavern on the island of Capri, hollowed out from the limestone by the action of waves, is named for the unusual light patterns
from a submerged opening.
Answer: blue grotto
2. This cave on the island of Staffa, off of Scotland, continues about 700 feet under Scotland, and has 40-foot-high basaltic columns.
It is also the title of a work by Felix Mendelssohn.
Answer: Fingal's cave
3. You can find the underground Monumental Mountain inside this 5-level limestone cave in southern Indiana.
Answer: Wyandotte Cave
Name these religious leaders for 10 points each.
1. Baha Ullah, founder of the Ba'hai faith, claimed to be the successor of this man, who founded an ascetic sect that blended
Gnosticism, Sufism, and Shiite Islam.
Answer: The Bab or Mirza Ali Muhammed
2. The Jains believe that Mahavira was the 24th and last of these teachers or saints.
Answer: tirthankaras
3. This forerunner of the Protestant revolution denied the doctrine of transubstantiation and stressed the primacy of Scripture,
condemning the Pope as the Antichrist. His followers were known as the Lollards.
Answer: John Wycliffe
Answer the following questions about Euclid in literature for 10 points each.
1. Who was inspired by his study of Euclid to write a 1651 treatise providing a systematic logical foundation for moral and political
theory?
Answer: Thomas Hobbes (the book was Leviathan)
2. Which poet penned the sonnet "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare"?
Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay
3. Euclide Auclair is the central character of what Willa Cather novel?
Answer: Shadows on the Rock
Identify these buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for 10 points each.
1. His home and retreat near Hillside, Wisconsin.
Answer: Taliesin
2. Wright designed the domed ceiling of this building in Racine, Wisconsin out of bundles of Pyrex tubing.
Answer: S.C. Johnson Wax Company Administration Building
3. One of the few buildings Wright built outside the U.S. was this structure in Tokyo, which he began in 1913.
Answer: Imperial Hotel
Identify these works of Immanuel Kant for 10 points each.
1. In this 1788 work, Kant establishes a moral philosophy based on man's free will. Its central tenet is: "Act only on that maxim
whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law," known as the categorical imperative.
Answer: Critique of Practical Reason or Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
2. Kant outlines his philosophy of aesthetics in this 1790 work.
Answer: Critique of Judgement
3. Before the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant laid the foundation for his later moral work with this concise 1785, whose aim was to
identify and justify the categorical imperative as the supreme principle of morality.
Answer: Groundwork (or Grounding or Foundation) for the Metaphysics of Morals or Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
Given the chemical formula for an acid, give the its common name for 10 points each.
1. HCN
Answer: hydrocyanic acid or hydrogen cyanide
2. CH3COOH
Answer: acetic acid or ethanoic acid
3. CH3(CH2)2COOH
Answer: butanoic acid or butyric acid