The Illinois Open 2005: Spite, Death and the Devil
Tossups by UCLA (Ray Luo, Dwight Wynne)
1. Rachel asks a protagonist of this novel to leave the school because he's having an affair with Sarah, whom her
brother had thrusted upon him by locking her door. That brother, Armand Vedel, discovers a letter from Egypt that
relates Vincent's murder of Lady Griffith while editing the journal of Comte de Passavant, a notorious libertine. After
taking the money and reading the journal from Edouard's bag by using the check ticket left behind, Bernard
Profitendieu becomes the writer's secretary and travels with him and Laura Douviers to Switzerland. A real bullet is
substituted for a blank in the gun Boris uses to shoot himself in class, causing George Molinier to abandon illegal
activities. For ten points, name this Andre Gide novel including kids who forge coins.
Answer: Les faux-monnayeurs; or The Counterfeiters
2. This city's so-called Slave island contains the temple to Skanda on Kew street, and is surrounded by Lake Beira. To
the north is the commercial center known as the Fort, next to which is the shopping district of Pettah quarters. Also
home to the Pasteur institute, the Cinnamon gardens, and the Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, the seat of the parliament, it
lies on the Kelani river, and faces the Gulf of Mannar, where Arthur C. Clarke likes to scuba-dive. Birthplace of
Michael Ondaatje, for ten points, name this city lying south of the Polk strait and southeast of India, the capital of Sri
Lanka.
Answer: Colombo
3. Conspiracy theories attribute this term to the apparent suicide of the last non-Communist in the National Front
government; a 2004 investigation ruled the death murder and called it the third of this name. The first of this name
resulted in seven deaths by impalement on pikes, and King Wenceslas IV supposedly had a heart attack after learning
of it. The best known one resulted in the replacement of Ferdinand II and saw Wilhelm Graf Slavata and the count of
Martinicz falling into a pile of manure before running to the Catholic officials. For ten points, give the common name
of these events in which angry Czechs threw people out windows.
Answer: defenestration of Prague
4. This theory was originally illustrated with circles and arrows to show divergence of males and females at the 3rd
stage, where the former give up incorporativeness and the latter give up intrusiveness. Hope, willpower, purpose, and
competence are the first four virtues, corresponding to radii of maternal, paternal, family, and community zones of
relations. The questions of identity, intimacy, generativity, and integrity are considered from adolescence to old age,
but the child must first resolve trust/mistrust, autonomy/doubt, initiative/guilt, and industry/inferiority crises. For ten
points, name this theory developed in Childhood and Society by a German psychoanalyst.
Answer: Erikson's eight-stage theory of psychosocial development (accept either underlined part)
5. The giantess Eriphilia appears riding on a wolf in canto 7 of this work, only to be slain by the protagonist. He
escapes using a ring provided by Melissa, and rides off to Ebuda, where a maiden is chained to a rock after escaping
from Sacripant, king of Circassia. After his brother Cloridan is killed by Zerbino of Scotland, Medoro is nursed back
to health and taken to Cathay, leaving only his lover's bracelet behind. Mourning over the death of Zerbino in the
hands of Mandricardo, Isabella is killed by the drunk Rodomonte of Algiers, who, consumed by regret, challenges
passers-by at a bridge. Astolfo retrieves the sensibility of the titular hero, while Ruggiero ends up with Bradamante.
For ten points, name this epic by Ariosto about a knight crazy for Angelica.
Answer: Orlando Furioso
6. They are produced by cleaving the beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl coA intermediate using a lyase in
mitochondrial matrix, after thiolase joins 2 acetyl coAs and HMG coA synthase adds in a third along with water.
Produced when insulin is deficient, other members of the family come from reduction and decarboxylation of
acetoacetate to D-beta-hydroxybutyrate and odorous acetone. A mode of transport for excess acetyl coA to prevent
slowing of the Krebs cycle and speeding of gluconeogenesis during starvation and diabetes, they allow beta oxidation
to proceed and accumulate in blood in acidosis. For ten points, name these alternative fuels containing a functional
group found on acetone.
Answer: ketone bodies (prompt on “ketones”)
7. Four consecutive rulers of this empire, Igigi, Nanum, Imi, and Elulu ruled for a combined total of three years, before
Dudu and Shudurul brought some semblance of stability to the weakened empire. Among the more successful rulers of
this empire were Manishtushu, who assumed the throne after a clay tablet did in his brother, and Naram-Sin, who
assumed the title of “king of the four quarters of the earth” and demanded that his name be prefixed by the sign for
God. Legends say that its founder was the abandoned son of a temple prostitute who rose to become a cupbearer to the
king of Kish. For ten points, identify this first empire in the Middle East, founded in 2350 BC by Sargon.
Answer: Akkadian empire
8. He tells of 9 individuals affected by one man in The Crystal Frontier and translated his affair with actress Jean
Seberg into Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone. Author of a play about La Malinche, an agent of Hernan Cortes,
titled All Cats Are Gray, he wrote novels like Distant Relations and The Hydra Head, and stories collected in The
Orange Tree and Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins. Son of a diplomat and then part of the ILO delegation to
Geneva, he used flashbacks and cinematic monologues in Where the Air Is Clear and narrated the building of the
Escorial in Terra nostra. For ten points, name this Mexican author of The Masked Days, Aura, and The Death of
Artemio Cruz.
Answer: Carlos Fuentes
9. John Koza advocated agent representations for them that are limited by representation language syntax. A special
case of reinforcement learning in which reinforcements are used to increase the proportion of successful functions,
they were originated in a 1958 paper in the IBM Journal by R. M. Friedberg, who was trying to change small
FORTRAN programs. Individuals are classically represented in terms of strings over an alphabet, and a fitness
function is applied before the population is subjected to random cross-overs and mutations. Described in John
Holland's Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, for ten points, name this paradigm of algorithms inspired by
evolution.
Answer: genetic algorithms
10. He translated the writings of Paesanias and wrote on Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind. He wrote his
thesis on The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory and studied law at Middle Temple, and later published an “Aftermath” to
his most famous work in 1937. Author of Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies and Folk-Lore in the Old
Testament, he believed that old kings were overthrown throughout history because the vitality of kings were correlated
with the prosperity of the land. For ten points, name this author of Totemism and Exogamy who chronicled scientific,
religious, and magical forms of thinking in his The Golden Bough, a Scottish anthropologist.
Answer: James George Frazer
11. According to Giulio Carlo Argan, the ground in this painting represents the curve of the earth and the sky portrays
interstellar space. The thickness of colors had been varied during its completion, creating spots of white in the canvas.
Commissioned by Sergei Shchukin, who decided to defy bourgeois taste and hang it above his staircase, it centers
around two hands that fail to join, creating tensions among the orange figures. A similar scene is found in the center of
the same painter’s The Joy of Life. For ten points, name this painting of 5 female nudes engaged in the titular activity,
by Henri Matisse.
Answer: La Danse (or The Dance)
12. Candidates who ran for but did not get their party's nomination included Simon Cameron, James Guthrie, and
Daniel Dickinson, while the incumbent president did not bother seeking reelection. The eventful winner won his
party's nomination when his campaign managers promised cabinet posts to Indiana and Pennsylvania delegates, and
vice-presidential candidates Herschel Johnson, Joseph Lane, and Edward Everett each failed to carry his home state.
For ten points, give the year of this election which saw John Bell, John Breckenridge, and Stephen Douglas all lose to
Abraham Lincoln.
Answer: 1860
13. They can occur due to deamination of cytosine or because bases have both a common and a rare tautomer. They
can be classified as transitions or transversion depending on the similarity of the new base to the old one. It is
debatable whether frame-shift belongs to this category, but silent and missense definitely do, and the first discovered
one was the substitution of glutamic acid for valine in sickle-cell anemics. For ten points, identify this type of mutation
that results from the addition, subtraction, or substitution of only one nucleotide base.
Answer: point mutations
14. When he came to Jerusalem, Hushai the Archite called him king, then advised him not to pursue into the Fords of
the Wilderness and betrayed him by sending Zadok and Abiathar with a message for an old friend. His Gilonite
counsellor told him to have sex with his father's ten concubines in a tent on the roof for all of Israel to see. In battle
against Abishai and Ittai at the forest of Ephron, he was caught in the boughs of an oak and killed by Joab, against the
wishes of his father. Avenger of the rape of Tamar, for ten points, name this rebellious son of David advised by
Ahithophel.
Answer: Absalom
15. In the outcome of these, Robert Thompson was sentenced to three years in prison, but was murdered by a group of
Yugoslavians before he could finish his sentence. All other defendants were found guilty and sentenced to five years in
prison and fined $10,000; every defense attorney were found in contempt of court and also served prison time. The
Supreme Court upheld the convictions with only Hugo Black and William O. Douglas dissenting in Dennis v. US.
Ironically, all eleven defendants belonged to a party that initially supported trying people for violating the Alien
Registration Act. For ten points, identify this set of trials in 1948 and 1949 named for the anti-sedition portion of the
act eleven members of the Communist Party were found guilty of violating by allegedly discussing the violent
overthrow of the government.
Answer: Smith Act trials
16. He quarreled over an exotic dancer on the opening of his Club Basha, and taught Bob Wilber while recording
“Really the Blues” with Tommy Ladnier and Mezz Mezzrow. He wrote a ballet while in Paris, appeared at the
Brussels World's Fair, and once toured with Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra in London. Promptly
deported, he returned to the States to record “Texas Moaner Blues” with Louis Armstrong and “Shag” with the New
Orleans Feetwarmers. Switching from clarinet to soprano sax, for ten points, name this jazz musician who toured with
Noble Sissle and Josephine Baker, famous for rendering “Summertime,” “Dear Old Southland,” “Love for Sale,” and
“Wild Cat Blues.”
Answer: Sidney Joseph Bechet
17. A plot of current from this phenomenon against potential difference yields curves at different intensities that
converge to a stopping potential at some negative applied voltage, measuring the energy of the fastest electron. Since
no detectable time lag has ever been measured and the kinetic energy is independent of light intensity, the explanation
for this effect must rely on a characteristic cutoff frequency, the product of which with Planck's constant equals the
work function, the minimum energy needed by an electron to escape the forces that bind it to a metal surface. For ten
points, name this effect in which shining light on a metal facilitates the ejection of electrons from its surface.
Answer: photoelectric effect
18. It argues that composite entities are unstable, while atomic entities like the soul are consistent and unchanging.
When one of the disciples objects that the harmony of a lyre would likewise survive the instrument, Socrates points out
that harmony can occur in degrees, whereas the soul acts as an ideal governor. Anaxagoras' physical causation theories
were only partial explanations, for the soul acts as an opposite to the body to render it alive. Cebes points out that
knowledge as recollection also points to the return of life after death, while Simmias listens closely to Socrates' lecture
on forms. For ten points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates takes hemlock.
Answer: Phaedo
19. The protagonist of this play prays for “the serenity to accept things [he] cannot change and the courage to change
the things [he] can,” and soon celebrates his first birthday with Elmo Huston and Ed Anderson. Mrs. Coffman relates
the message that Marie has married Bruce, even though she flirted with trackstar Turk Fisher, causing the protagonist,
who treats his tenant Marie Buckholder like a daughter, to go back to his pre-AA ways. Lola dreams of the youth she
can't let go, while her husband Doc Delaney never got an M. D. because he had to provide for her, and started drinking.
For ten points, name this William Inge play about Lola's wish for the return of her dog.
Answer: Come Back, Little Sheba
20. It deposed Sigebert in favor of Cynewulf, and gave Mercia and Northumbria to Harold Harefoot when
Hardecanute chose to remain in Denmark. Each had authority to levy taxes and raise armies until their subjugation by
Egbert under the banner of Wessex. Eventually becoming the curia regis, it assembled bishops, chieftains, and
aldermen, and was called by Leofric to mediate the dispute between Earl Godwine and Edward the Confessor. The
supreme court of the land, it was succeeded by the commune concilium. For ten points, name this meeting of the wise
men of Anglo-Saxon England that elected Harold II.
Answer: witenagemot; or witan
Overtime. He helped the favorite subject of Toulouse-Lautrec explore the French chanson, and used Yvette Guilbert's
material for one of his most famous works, later orchestrated by Debussy at the suggestion of Gustave Doret. He wrote
Socrate for 4 sopranos and orchestra, based on Plato's dialogues, as well as the ballets Mercure and Parade. A student
of Roussel & d'Indy, for ten points, name this composer of “Automatic Descriptions,” “Things Seen from Right to
Left,” “Flabby Preludes for a Dog,” “Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear,” and the 3-piece “Gymnopedies.”
Answer: Erik Satie
The Illinois Open 2005: Spite, Death and the Devil
Bonuses by UCLA (Ray Luo, Dwight Wynne)
1. Lady Kokiden is displeased with the Emperor's new concubine Kiritsubo, whose pretty child is a threat to be heir
apparent. Meanwhile, the boy grows up to be captain of the guard, marries the older Princess Aoi, and makes love to
his stepmother. For ten points each…
1. Name this novel of Heian Japan about a prince who has affairs with Fujitsubo, Utsusemi, and Yugao, and settles
down with an orphan girl he bought from a hermit, just like everyone in Japan.
Answer: Genji monogatari (or The Tale of Genji)
2. The orphan girl Genji marries was named after this author of The Tale of Genji.
Answer: Murasaki Shikibu
3. This shorter setsuwa tale also from Heian Japan concerns fictional travels taken to Kyoto written by a man, Ki no
Tsurajuki who’s pretending to be a woman just like everyone in Japan.
Answer: Tosa nikki (Tosa’s Diary)
2. Name these works by Sigmund Freud for ten points each.
1. Freud defined the titular entities as the defensive controller obeying the reality principle and the primary
process-directed urge driven by the pleasure principle in this 1923 work of metapsychology.
Answer: Das Ich und das Es (or The Ego and the Id)
2. This work claims that parricide by sons produced remorse in Aboriginal cultures of Australia, leading to a sense of
guilt and subjugation to fraternity, and later organized religion.
Answer: Totem und Tabu (or Totem and Taboo)
3. Elaborating on his earlier essay “Obsessive Acts and Religious Practices,” Freud argued that religion is the product
of neuroses resulting from helplessness. Only if humanity can leave God behind can it achieve independence.
Answer: Die Zukunft einer Illusion (or The Future of an Illusion)
3. Name these choreographers of ballet for ten points each.
1. Stressing dramatic unity of dance and music, he choreographed Chopiniana, Le Pavillon d'Armide, and The Dying
Swan for Anna Pavlova before working with Sergei Diaghilev on The Firebird, Petrushka, Le spectre de la rose, and
Le coq d'or.
Answer: Michel Fokine
2. Forming the School of American Ballet with Lincholn Kirstein, he worked on The Boys from Syracuse and On Your
Toes. He then founded the NY City Ballet, and worked with music by neoclassical composers in The Four
Temperaments, The Prodigal Son, Opus 34, Ivesiana, and with Stravinsky on Apollon Musagete, Agon, and Violin
Concerto.
Answer: George Balanchine
3. He choreographed La boutique fantasque for Diaghilev, The Three-Cornered Hat for de Falla, and created the
symphonic ballet while at Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo.
Answer: Leonide Massine
4. Answer the following about a widely misunderstood term for ten points each.
1. This is an extra-sacramental remission of temporal punishment due to a sin that has already been confessed and
absolved. Types include real; personal; temporary; perpetual; partial; and the most controversial, plenary.
Answer: indulgences
2. At this council, Nicholas of Cusa brought up the misunderstanding of the words “a culpa et a poena” and
condemned those who falsely claimed that indulges released the penitent from both the penalty and the guilt of sin.
Answer: Council of Magdeberg
3. Ironically, this town where Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses forbade the preaching of indulgences: its
citizens had to go to Juterbog to get them.
Answer: Wittenberg
5. Named after the 1920 Nobel prize winner in chemistry, this equation can be used to find the change in either free
energy or electric potential for a reaction if the reaction quotient is known. For ten points each…
1. Name this equation.
Answer: Nernst’s equation
2. Nernst worked with Einstein on the relationship between molar conductivity and this coefficient defined by Fick's
law. This relation bears the name of Einstein and, sometimes, Nernst.
Answer: diffusion coefficient
3. A more generalized form of the Nernst equation, this equation states the electrochemical potential across a
membrane as a function of the concentration ions and the relative permeability of the membrane to each ion.
Answer: Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation (or GHK equation)
6. Name these types of odes. For ten points each.
1. DeFoe's “Hymn to Pillory,” Gray's “The Bard,” and Dryden's “A Song for St. Cecilia's Day” are examples of this
Greek ode based on units of 3 stanzas called strophe, antistrophe, and epode, analogous to thesis, antithesis, and
synthesis. It is named for a Theban lover of athletes.
Answer: Pindaric ode
2. Keats's “To Autumn” and Marvell's “Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland” are examples of this more meditative
Roman ode in which each successive stanza follows the pattern of the first stanza.
Answer: Horatian ode
3. Wordsworth's “Intimations of Immortality” and Tate's “Ode to the Confederate Dead” are examples of this type of
modern ode arising from misunderstanding of the Pindaric ode. It has no absolute pattern.
Answer: irregular ode
7. He anonymously published Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments Regarding the French
Revolution, which linked liberty with existence. For ten points each…
1. Name this German philosopher who followed Kant in defining God as “the moral will in the universe that becomes
conscious of itself in individuals” and who analyzed the Enlightenment in The Characteristics of the Present Age.
Answer: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2. Initially ascribed to the authorship of Kant, this work that made Fichte famous saw religion as belief in divinity of
moral law and spiritual experience as providing practical strength to morality, giving an explanation for the entire
spiritual life.
Answer: Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung (or An Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation)
3. Influenced by the Gospel of John, this late Berlin work of Fichte saw self reflection as the means of breaking up
infinity into individual objects, and sees the path to the infinite ego of God as possible through human knowledge.
Answer: Die Anweisungzum seligen Leben, oder auch die Religionslehre (or The Way Towards the
Blessed Life)
8. Poems by George Gordon, Lord Byron from quotations for ten points each.
1. The “Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,” breaking the idols in the temple of Baal and sending a plague
down on the Gentiles, as “the Assyrians came down like the wolf on the fold, and his cohorts were gleaming in purple
and gold.”
Answer: “The Destruction of Sennacherib”
2. A cheek and brow “so soft, so calm, yet eloquent, the smiles that win, the tints that glow” characterize the
personification of loveliness, who performs the titular action “like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.”
Answer: “She Walks in Beauty”
3. Although “we all have seen him, in the pantomime, sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time,” he “was a charming
child, at twelve he was a fine, but quiet boy; although in infancy a little wild.”
Answer: Don Juan
9. Name these seas of Siberia for ten points each.
1. East of the Taymyr peninsula and west of the New Siberian Islands, this sea named after its explorers receives the
Lena River at Tiksi.
Answer: Laptev Sea
2. Lying North of the Bering Strait and southeast of the Wrangel Island, this arm of the Artic Sea is named for a group
of nomadic people of far eastern Russia.
Answer: Chukchi Sea
3. Found between Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and Zemlya Frantsa-losifa, it receives the Ob. It connects to
the Laptev Sea to its East via the Vil'kitsk Strait and to the Barents Sea to its west via the Matochkin Strait.
Answer: Kara Sea
10. Industrial espionage helped the American textile industry get off the ground. For ten points each…
1. In 1789, this man smuggled plans for Richard Arkwright's spinning frame out of England--in his head. Initially
landing in New York, he would become a principal partner in the first American mill built entirely for textile
manufacture.
Answer: Samuel Slater
2. Slater's wife Harriet, the first woman to file for a US patent, was the daughter of this prominent Quaker merchant
who provided him with the capital to build that first textile mill.
Answer: Moses Brown
3. The most successful of the industrial spies was this inventor of the Waltham system for cotton manufacturing, who
used English technology to build the largest series of water-powered mills in the world at a Massachusetts town named
after him.
Answer: Francis Cabot Lowell
11. Much of his early important work was done with Hans Tuppy and E. O. P. Thompson and involved
1,2,4-flourodinitrobenzene, better known as his reagent. For ten points each…
1. Name this two-time Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, who first won in 1958 for the discovery of the amino acid
sequence of bovine insulin.
Answer: Frederick Sanger
2. Sanger's later work with Kjeld Marcker led to the discovery of the formyl-methionyl version of this type of RNA,
which acts as an adapter for protein synthesis.
Answer: transfer RNA
3. In addition to silica gel ionophoresis and thiol-blocking reagents, Sanger also invented a method for sequencing
DNA which uses its namesake type of ribonucleoside triphosphates to terminate strands mixed with all four dNTPs.
Answer: dideoxy method
12. Name these Japanese battles, for ten points each.
1. This 1598 naval engagement was the final battle in Japan's seven-year unsuccessful attempt to take over Korea.
Korean admiral Yi Sun Sin survived a gunshot wound just long enough to see the Japanese surrender.
Answer: Noryang Point
2. Ishida Mitsunari should have won this battle, but the defection of several daimyo, most notably Kobayakawa
Hideaki, to Tokugawa Ieyasu's side eventually turned a close battle into a rout, sealing Tokugawa's path to the
shogunate.
Answer: Sekigahara
3. This last major challenge to Tokugawa rule came when Toyotomi Hideyori's attempt to lift the siege on Osaka failed
miserably. The death of Sanada Yukimura devastated Hideyori's forces, and when Hideyori tried to break out of Osaka
castle, he was pushed back in while the castle caught fire.
Answer: Tennoji
13. Answer the following about neural development for ten points each.
1. Progenitors migrate for the cortical plate by climbing on these glial cells. Whether they reach ventricular zone or
cortex of a host depends on whether S phase is past. Whether they proliferate or become neurons depends on their axes
of cleavage.
Answer: radial glial cells
2. When neurons that secrete norepinephrine are made to innervate sweat glands, the cytokines leukemia inhibitory
factor and ciliary neurotrophic factor cause this sympathetic, small, transluscent, vesicle neurotransmitter to be
secreted instead.
Answer: acetylcholine
3. Leukemia inhibitory factor and ciliary neurotrophic factor bind to gp130 and LIFR-beta receptor subunits and
activate JAK tyrosine kinases that phosphorylate STAT transcription factors. Along with cardiotrophin, these form
class 6 of these cytokines that also activate plasma cells and cytotoxic T cells in the immune system.
Answer: interleukins
14. Just because Parliament signed the Home Rule Act in 1914 didn't mean that Ireland was completely free of British
control. For ten points each…
1. In this event, 57 soldiers resigned rather than fight Ulster Unionists, which led Asquith to declare the whole thing an
“honest misunderstanding” and showed that the military could not reliably be called upon to enforce the Home Rule
Act.
Answer: Curragh Mutiny
2. This uprising from April 24 to April 29, 1916 started with the seizure of the Dublin Post Office and ended when
Pedhraic Pearse surrendered unconditionally.
Answer: Easter Rebellion of 1916
3. Almost 2000 men were imprisoned without trial at this site in northern Wales for participating in the Easter
Rebellion of 1916. It came to be known as “ollscoil na reabhloide,” the “university of revolution,” because of the many
eventually prominent figures who met there.
Answer: Frongoch
15. Name these ancient Greek sculptors for ten points each.
1. Creator of Apollo Citharoedus, Meleager, and Ludovisi Ares, this Parosian made figures with opened lips and
deep-set eyes, such as those from Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea; Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; and with Bryaxis,
the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
Answer: Scopas
2. Known for graceful works like Resting Satyr, this Athenian is responsible for the ridiculously puny baby at the
Temple of Hera at Olympia found in Hermes with the Infant Dionysus. His best work is probably the s-curve nude
Aphrodite of Cnidus.
Answer: Praxiteles
3. He reduced the head size prescribed by Polyclitus's Canon and created figures with natural protruding limbs for
Alexander the Great, including Apoxyomenos the scraper, possibly an athlete cleaning his own arm.
Answer: Lysippus
16. Name the following stuff from the early history of topology for ten points each.
1. The first well-known topological equation, it states that, for any given solid, the sum of the number of vertices and
the number of faces, minus the number of edges, is always equal to two.
Answer: Euler equation
2. The Euler equation is replaced by this equation for solids with holes. The equation states that v - e + f = 2 - 2g, where
g is the number of holes in the solid.
Answer: Lhuilier equation
3. These two-dimensional manifolds correspond to a complex function f(w, z) [“f of w and z”] where w(z) [“w of z”] is
defined such that f(w, z) = 0 is a single-valued function on the surfaces. The most trivial example is the complex plane.
Answer: Riemann surfaces
17. Name these Angry Young Men for ten points each.
1. Novels like Stanley and the Women and The Old Devils really don't align this writer much with Angry Young Men,
but you could make a case for poems in A Case of Samples and a novel about disillusioned college professor Jim
Dixon, Lucky Jim.
Answer: Kingsley Amis (prompt on “Amis”)
2. This husband of poet Ruth Fainlight wrote about master gunner in The Widower's Son and factory worker in
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He is known for stories like “The Far Side of the Street” and “The Loneliness of
the Long Distance Runner.”
Answer: Alan Sillitoe
3. Not to be confused with an actor, he wrote The Pardoner's Tale, Living in the Present, and the poems in Weep
Before God, but is best known for a novel about radio gag writer Charles Lumley, Hurry on Down.
Answer: John Wain
18. Name these treaties signed under the reign of Louis XIV for ten points each.
1. Signed on an island in the Bidassoa River, it saw Spain cede Artois, parts of Flanders, and Roussillon in the South,
and stipulated that Marie Therese, daughter of Philip IV was to marry Louis XIV, but that the dowry was required to
exclude her heirs from the Spanish crown.
Answer: Peace of the Pyrenees
2. On pretext of the unpaid dowry, Louis waged War of the Devolution against the brother of Marie Therese, Charles
II, which was ended by this treaty. It returned Franche-Comte to Spain and gave France 12 towns on the Netherlands
border.
Answer: First Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
3. After William of Orange flooded the Amsterdam countryside, Louis decided to settle the Dutch War of 1672 to
1678 with these treaties signed separately with his enemies, gaining Franche-Comte and Artois from Spain, and
repealing Tariff of 1667.
Answer: Treaties of Nijmegen (or Nimwegen)
19. Name these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe for ten points each.
1. A man sick unto death with the long agony of enduring a crescent swinging down slowly with the wrath of the
Inquisition tries to escape by having rats nimble free his bandage, and is finally freed by General Lasalle's troops from
the fiery walls.
Answer: “The Pit and the Pendulum”
2. In the midst of devastation, Prince Prospero retires to his abbey with 1000 friends and throws a ball, during which
the titular symbolic figure, like a thief in the night, kills them off one by one while the ebony clock goes out.
Answer: “The Masque of the Red Death”
3. The narrator tries to arrest the death of the titular person, the compiler of Bibliotheca Forensica and the Polish
version of Wallenstein, by the use of Mesmerism. His body turns into detestable putridity as soon as he is awakened.
Answer: “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (the M. stands for Monsieur)
20. Answer each of the following about a scandal in American history for ten points each.
1. Thomas Durant thought he had a perfect scheme set up when Herbert Hoxie submitted the only bid for a stretch of
the Union Pacific Railroad. Hoxie signed the contract over to Durant as the head of this shady construction company.
Answer: Credit Mobilier of America
2. This Massachusetts representative was Credit Mobilier’s contact on Capitol Hill. When a lawsuit against Credit
Mobilier uncovered his stock records, a list of stock contracts was mistaken as a list of recipients, erroneously
implicating several high-ranking members of the government.
Answer: Oakes Ames
3. This Speaker of the House had declined Ames' offer of stock in Credit Mobilier but was nevertheless implicated. To
clear his name, he called a Congressional investigation that cleared himself and Vice President Henry Wilson but
incriminated former Vice President Schuyler Colfax.
Answer: James Gillespie Blaine