Tossups by Harvard for the 1998 ACF Regionals 1 It is perhaps

Tossups by Harvard for the 1998 ACF Regionals 1. It is perhaps inappropriately named, because there are a great many solutions to the problem posed, and there is now very little controversy over the answer. Many solutions make use of the relativistic Doppler shift, but perhaps the simplest explanation is that one of the observers feels an acceleration and the other does not, and this acceleration breaks the symmetry in the problem. For ten points name this apparent paradox arising from Einstein's theory of special relativity, so named because each of two siblings apparently should age less than the other. ANSWER: _TWIN_ Paradox 2. When Vladimir Horowitz married Wally, the daughter of Arturo Toscanini, this composer wrote a set of four Italian madrigals to celebrate their wedding. Aside from his orchestral works and operas such as "Szekely fono", he collaborated with Bela Bartok on a collection of folksongs. FTP, name this composer of such works as the Marosszek Dances and Hary Janos. ANSWER: Zoltan _KODALY_ (koh-die-ee) 3. This battle would have never been fought if the Persians had heeded the advice of Memnon of Rhodes, who advocated a scorched-earth policy which would force the Macedonians to withdraw for lack of supplies. This insulted the Persian dignity, and they opted to stand and fight, selecting a strong defensive position behind a river. However, it didn't matter, as the phalanx proved victorious anyway. For ten points, name this 334 BC battle, Alexander the Great's first victory in Asia Minor. ANSWER: _GRANICUS_ 4. Their initial education is in elementary mathematics, music, and poetry, accompanied by physical training. After this comes two or three years of military service, followed by ten years of learning mathematical science. The best of these then learn five years of training in dialectic, and then finally the best of these receive a full fifteen years of practical political training. This describes the education of, for ten points, what ideal ruler described in Plato's _Republic_? ANSWER: _PHILOSOPHER KINGS_ 5. Some said her nickname came from her help to victims of misfortune, and others from her own hard-luck experiences. Many believe, however, that this supposed romantic interest of Wild Bill Hickok and actual wife of Clinton Burke got her nickname from warnings that offending her was to court the event that usually precedes her Christian name. FTP, identify this expert rifle- and horsewoman who traveled with Wild West shows in the 1890s. ANSWER: _CALAMITY JANE_ or Martha Jane _CANARY_ or Martha _JANE BURKE_ 6. The date on which it struck was nicknamed "Black Thursday," and had it occurred ten years later, it probably could have affected the stock market. Fortunately, though, this particular disaster happened in 1988, well before its target had reached its present size. It worked by repeatedly spawning processes on the victimized machine, causing its performance to slow to a crawl, and consisted of a two parts: a 99-line bootstrap C program which was transmitted first to the target computer, which then pulled over the rest of the program from the original computer. For ten points, what was this non-virus which attacked the Internet on November 3, 1988? Answer: the Internet _WORM_ 7. Koch and his diplomat friend Gentz turned him into a strict advocate of the European balance of power. To that end, he counterbalanced Russia by maintaining an equal France. His other aim, counterbalancing Prussia, was achieved by building up his own nation's power. Name this Austrian Prince who triumphed at the Congress of Vienna. Ans: Klemens _METTERNICH_ 8. As a youth, he was an excellent caricaturist but was converted to landscape painting by his mentor, Eugene Boudin. At the age of 19 he went to Paris to study at the Atelier Suisse (ah-teh-lee-ay sweess), where he became friends with Camille Pissarro. In 1871 he moved to Argenteuil, where some of the most famous paintings not only of his, but of the entire movement of which he was part, were painted. For ten points name this painter, one of whose works gave the name to the Impressionist movement. ANSWER: Claude _MONET_ (not to be confused with Edouard Manet) 9. (Warning: TWO answers required!) The first meson to be discovered containing the charm quark, it was discovered almost simultaneously by teams at the Stanford Linear Accelerator and Brookhaven National Laboratories, led by Burton Richter and Samuel Ting, both of whom received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery. For ten points, give both names for this meson, one name the English letter often used to denote current density, and the other the Greek letter often used for the wave function. ANSWER: the _J_ / _PSI_ meson (both required) 10. She persuaded the daughers of Pelias that she could rejuvenate him if they cut him to pieces, and when Pelias was dead, her allies put Acastus on the throne. She murdered her half brother Apsyrtus, and later her two sons by her first husband, when he left her to marry Glauce, after which she married Aegeus. When she tried to poison Theseus, she was banished from Athens and returned to Colchis, whose king Aeetes was her father. For ten points, identify this niece of Circe and priestess of Hecate who helped her first husband Jason steal the Golden Fleece. ANSWER: _MEDEA_ 11. It had to be launched at high tide to be successful, which meant that only twenty-three days were available for practice. It was so successful, though, that a mere thirteen days after it began, it had achieved its objective. Devised by MacArthur as a plan to break out of the Pusan perimeter, it was a brilliant success, as the invasion behind enemy lines allowed the South Korean forces to advance nearly the length of Korea in less than a month. For ten points, what was this invasion which commenced on September 15, 1950? Answer: _INCHON_ invasion 12. Von Koch showed that it was closely related to the prime number theorem, but even when Hadamard and de la Vallee Poussin indepedently proved the latter in 1896, the former remained elusive. It states that the only nontrivial complex roots of the zeta function have real part equal to 1/2. Hilbert posed it as his eighth out of 23 problems, and with the acceptance of Wiles' proof of Fermat's theorem, it is the most notorious unsolved problem in mathematics. For ten points identify this conjecture, named for the German mathematician whose work in complex analysis led him to pose it in the late ninteenth century. ANSWER: _RIEMANN_ Hypothesis (accept also: "Riemann Zeta Hypothesis") 13. George Bernard Shaw, Gustave Flaubert, They Might Be Giants, Thomas Shadwell, Prosper Merimee, Balzac, and Moliere were among those who wrote versions of the story. Alexander Pushkin's short verse drama "The Stone Guest" closely followed his story as well. The first literary account was in Tirso de Molina's "El Burlador de Sevilla," but none of these accounts are as famous as Byron's epic satire or the great Mozart opera. For ten points name the common protagonist, the famous libertine of Seville. ANSWER: _DON JUAN_ (prompt on "Don Giovanni") 14. The losing army was defeated primarily by desertions, as many of the Turkmen horsemen deserted at the beginning of the battle, and as the commander ordered a retreat at the end, the reserve, led by Andronicus Ducas, a bitter rival of the army's commander, deserted, leaving the rest of the army to be decisively crushed. As a result, Romanus IV was captured by the Seljuk Turks, led by Alp Arslan. For ten points, identify this 1071 battle which led to the Byzantine loss of Asia Minor. ANSWER: _MANZIKERT_ 15. The quote "Son coeur est un luth suspendu:/ Sito^t qu'on le touche il re'sonne" from De Be'ranger, meaning "His heart is a suspended lute: / Whenever one touches it, it resounds," is placed at the beginning of this short story. Its narrator is visiting an old friend in response to a letter stating that he had a mental disorder and desired to see him. The climax comes when, while the narrator and his friend read a dragon story, the friend's dead sister Madeline enters the room, and the narrator flees to see a nearby tarn swallow up the title building, of FTP, which Poe short story? ANSWER: The _FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER_ 16. Formed from a glycerol base with only two hydrocarbon chains instead of the usual three, they naturally arrange themselves into bi-layers with the hydrophilic heads all pointing outwards and the hydrophobic tails on the inside. This ideal membrane configuration consists of, for ten points, what molecule whose third constituent is often a water-seeking phosphate group? ANSWER: _PHOSPHOLIPID_ 17. The title character fires one bullet into his gambling friend Jeff, one on a prison guard, two on a slave auctioneer and a plantation owner, and one on mysterious critters, which, like all the others, are only a part of his fevered imagination. Eventually he is hunted down and killed by the natives of the island on which he had set himself up as ruler, as the drums in the background continue to beat incessantly. For ten points, name this 1920 play by Eugene O'Neill, sometimes called the first expressionist play in America. ANSWER: The _EMPEROR JONES_ 18. Thomas McKean in 1781. Matthew Thomas sometime after November 4, 1776. Oliver Wolcott, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, and Elbridge Gerry in August and September of that year. William Williams, Charles Carroll, and Samuel Chase on August 2. Most every other member of the Second Continental Congress, including John Hancock, on July 4, 1776. FTP, what did each of these people do at those times? ANSWER: _SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE_ (or equivalent) 19. Thought in the Middle Ages to be reflections of heavenly warriors, and often accompanied by cracking sounds, no one knows exactly why they form in the various patterns that they do, including diffuse, pulsating, curtains, and arcs. Of course, the immediate cause is known: excitation of oxygen atoms caused by the solar wind. It's not surprising, then, that their activity correlates strongly with sunspot activity. For ten points, what is the scientific name for these "northern lights"? Answer: _AURORA BOREALIS_ (prompt on "northern lights") 20. Each of its 360 units was named for a seed, tree, flower, fruit, animal, or tool. These 360 were organized into groups of 30, each consisting of 3 decades of 10 units. It went into effect on 1 Vendemiaire, in the year 1, corresponding to September 22, 1792. FTP, identify this calendar, whose other months include Brumaire and Thermidor. ANSWER: French _REPUBLICAN CALENDAR_ or _REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR_ 21. The Akashi Straits Bridge between it and Honshu will be completed in 1998, linking Tokushima Prefecture with Osaka and Kobe. It is composed of four prefectures, the other three being Ehime, Kochi, and Kagawa, Japan's smallest prefecture. For ten points, what is this smallest of the four islands that make up Japan? ANSWER: _SHIKOKU_ 22. During a 1941 subway ride, he needed to come up with an idea for a story, so he looked into a collection of Gilbert and Sullivan plays he had with him. He saw a picture of the Grenadier Guards in Iolanthe, which led him to soliders, to military society, to feudalism, and to the breakup of the Roman Empire. When he reached John Campbell's office, he told Campbell he was planning a story about the breakup of the Galatic Empire. FTP, identify the author who thus accounted for the idea behind his Foundation series. ANSWER: Isaac _ASIMOV_ 23. At Stanford, he studied marine biology, and later led a biological expedition to the Galapagos Islands, which he recounted in_ The Sea of Cortez_ with E. F. Ricketts. He writes of the Nazi occupation of a Scandinavian village in _The Moon is Down_, an account of a tour of America with his dog in _Travels with Charley_, and of the Mexican peasants Kino and Juana in _The Pearl_. FTP, identify this Salinas-born author. ANSWER: John _STEINBECK_ 24. It appears in the words "bank" and "uncle", though not with its usual spelling. Like m and n, it's nasal, but unlike m and n, is [+high] and [+back], since it is produced in the velar region. It's most commonly found in English at the end of present progressive verb forms. For ten points, what is the name for this phoneme, usually spelled "ng" in English orthography? ANSWER: _ENGMA_ 25. Characterized by a disconnectedness from the culture and society in which they live and frequently an inability to act decisively in key situations, they are nonetheless often brilliant and high-minded young men whose futures seem all too promising. Examples include Rudin, Oblomov, and arguably also Count Alexey Vronsky, but more famous are the earlier heroes such as Lermontov's Pechorin and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. For ten points give the common two-word phrase that describes this ubiquitous protagonist of the 19th-century Russian novel. ANSWER: _SUPERFLUOUS MAN_ or _SUPERFLUOUS MEN_ 26. She is known only by a name indicating her relationship to her son. A professional poet, her commissioned poems were frequently anthologized during her lifetime. She was the second wife of Fujiwara no Kaneie, and her major work is a three-volume chronicle of their love affair. Name this relative of Lady Murasaki and mother of Michitsuna. ANSWER: the _GOSSAMER_ lady (accept _MICHITSUNA'S MOTHER_ before the last phrase) 27. This teacher of rhetoric from Cidnos is the only character in Act 2, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's _Julius Caesar_. He enters, reading a letter, and then exits to wait for Caesar, hoping to give him the letter as a petitioner. FTP, identify this man who wrote "Caesar, beware of Brutus, take heed of Cassius..." in his letter warning Caesar of the conspiracy against him. ANSWER: _ARTEMIDORUS_ 28. The trial of John Doyle Lee, leader of its participants, in Beaver in 1875 resulted in a hung jury, but an 1877 retrial led to Lee's execution at the site of this event. Sparked by a party of 137 emigrants camped 40 miles from Cedar City and by government plans to send troops into Utah, it occured while the attackers, after promising safe conduct, led the unarmed immigrants toward Cedar City. FTP, identify this 1857 massacre carried out by Mormon settlers and Paiute Indians, in which everyone but the children in the emigrant group were killed in an ambush. ANSWER: _MOUNTAIN MEADOWS_ massacre 29. A bishop of Ypres at his 1638 death, this Dutch theologian studied the impact of Lutheran and Calvinist doctrine while at the University of Louvrain, and supported a return to Augustinian views. For ten points, identify this author of Augustinus, which became the basis for the doctrine named for him which incorporated aspects of Protestant views into Catholicism and was later declared heretical by the church. ANSWER: Cornelius _JANSEN_ Bonuses by Harvard for the 1998 ACF Regionals 1. Answer the following about participants in an enduring literary conceit, 5-10-15: 1. For 5 points: Author whose novel "Ship of Fools" appeared in 1962. Answer: Katherine Anne _PORTER_ 2. For 10 points: Artist whose famous "Narrenschiff" from the last decade of the 15th century features a bibulous imp and a lecherous monk. Answer: Hieronymus _BOSCH_ 3. For 15 points: German whose 1494 "Stultifera navis" electrified the emerging business of bookprinting. Answer: Sebastian _BRANDT_ 2. Name the scientist, 30-20-10. 30: He was the first to observe and record the alpha-helix secondary structure of polypeptide chains. 20: His study of molecular bonding and development of the theory of electronegativity won him a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954. 10: He won another Nobel Prize in 1962, this time in Peace, for speaking out against atomic testing. Answer: Linus _PAULING_ 3. Answer the following questions about the Third Punic War for the stated number of points. 1. For ten points, name the commander of the Roman forces which destroyed Carthage, the adopted grandson of the victorious Roman general in the 2nd Punic War. Answer: Publius _SCIPIO AEMILIANUS_ Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (accept also _SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR_ or _SCIPIO AFRICANUS THE YOUNGER_) 2. For five points, whose repeated denunciations of Carthage provided much of the momentum behind the Third Punic War? Answer: Marcius Porcius _CATO THE ELDER_ 3. For a final fifteen points, the excuse for Rome to declare war on Carthage came from a series of disputes between Carthage and what Roman ally? Answer: _NUMIDIA_ (accept also _MASSINISSA_, the king of Numidia) 4. Answer the following questions about point-set topology for the stated number of points each. 1. For five, this term denotes a set containing all of its limit points. Answer: _CLOSED_ 2. For ten, the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem and the Heine-Borel property are the two common ways of showing this quality of a metric space. Answer: _COMPACT_ness 3. For fifteen, in a given metric space, if for any two distinct points A and B there exist two disjoint open sets U and V such that U contains A and V contains B, the space is said to have this attribute. Answer: _HAUSDORFF_ 5. Identify the speaker of each of the following Civil War quotations, for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." Answer: William Tecumseh _SHERMAN_ 2. For 10 points: "May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." Answer: "Fighting" Joe _HOOKER_ 3. For 15 points: "Oh men, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians" or some variant thereof. Answer: Barnard _BEE_ 6. Given a Shakespearean quote, name the *character* who speaks it for ten points each. 1. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more." Answer: _MACBETH_ 2. "O brave new world, that has such people in't!" Answer: _MIRANDA_ (from "The Tempest") 3. "He that filches from me my good name / Robs me of that which not enriches him / And makes me poor indeed." Answer: _IAGO_ (from "Othello") 7. Answer the following questions about HTML for 15 points each. 1. For fifteen points, what character is used to denote the beginnning of a character entity (for example, the copyright symbol)? Answer: _AMPERSAND_ 2. For fifteen points, what extension to HTML, partially supported in both Navigator 4.0 and IE 4.0, allows web page designers to specify style information in a separate document? Answer: _C_ascading _S_tyle _S_heets 8. Answer the following about love in classical literature, 5-10-15. 1. For 5 points: This Roman poet subtly satirized Virgil's Georgics, styling himself as "praeceptor amoris" in a faux-didactic bawdy tone that may have had something to do with his exile. Answer: _OVID_ (Publius Ovidius Naso) 2. For 10 points: Along with Cinna, Gallus, and Calvus, this poet lead the neotericist vanguard in the middle of the first century BCE. Recent research has proven that his poems about Lesbia's sparrow, though charming on the surface, are really concerned with his own penis. Answer: _CATULLUS_ (Gaius Valerius Catullus) 3. For 15: This Greek scholar instructed Virgil in grammar and provided Gallus with an anthology of mythological "Erotica Pathemata" or "Sexual Sufferings" in the hope of inspiring the poet to write elegy. Answer: _PARTHENIUS_ 9. Answer these questions about the Wars of the Roses for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points: All or nothing, which side had the white rose and which the red? Answer: white = _YORK_, red = _LANCASTER_ 2. For 10 points: After the Earl of Warwick showed the wrong face to Queen Margaret's troops, his troops deserted him; Margaret's troops went on to pillage the town and abbey of the same name. Because of this lapse of discipline, the City of London warned Margaret that it would not allow her troops in without a guarantee of good behavior, effectively buying time for Edward of York. Name the battle. Answer: the _SECOND_ battle of _SAINT ALBANS_ 3. For 15 points: In this March 1471 battle, Edward IV's forces met Warwick's in this locality, now part of northern London. Warwick, who fought on foot to avert suspicions that he would flee, was killed while fleeing the collapse of his left and center. Answer: _BARNET_ 10. Answer the following about philosophy, for the stated number of points: 1. For 5 points: In 1903, this philosopher and mathematician was elected to the Royal Society for his Treatise on Universal Algebra. A fellow of Trinity College, he became an advisor to and colleague of Bertrand Russell. Answer: Alfred North _WHITEHEAD_ 2. For 5 points: Whitehead and Russell found that their projected second books overlapped, so they decided to work together, producing what volume? Answer: _PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA_ 3. For 10 points: Whitehead took a philosophical bent later in life. One fundamental idea of his was that philosophy needed to replace the mind/body dichotomy, which he saw as leading inevitably to Hume's skepticism. Who, in his opinion, was responsible for the dichotomy? Answer: Rene _DESCARTES_ 4. For 10 points: Whitehead replaced "substance metaphysics" with the metaphysical category of an actual occasion. What did he call the philosophy that he developed around this idea? Answer: _PHILOSOPHY OF ORGANISM_ (do not accept: process philosophy--he didn't call it that) 11. Answer these questions about electric charge for the stated number of points. 1. For five, who originally applied the terms "positive" and "negative" to charge? Answer: Benjamin _FRANKLIN_ 2. If a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the direction of a current flow, the current carriers will feel a force to the same side regardless of which sign of charge they carry. For ten points, name this phenomenon, which allowed scientists to discover that current in wires is actually carried by negative electrons. Answer: _HALL_ Effect 3. A 1980 study of the Hall effect in semiconductors at extremely low temperatures showed that the Hall voltage is actually quantized because the ratio of the Hall voltage to the current can only be an integer multiple of Planck's constant divided by the square of the electron charge. For fifteen points, name the German scientist, a 1985 Nobel Prize winner, who discovered this phenomenon which is now used to standardize electrical resistances. Answer: Klaus _VON KLITZING_ 12. Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964, 486 electoral votes to 52, winning all but six states. For 5 points each, identify the six states Goldwater won. Answer: _ARIZONA_, _LOUISIANA_, _MISSISSIPPI_, _ALABAMA_, _GEORGIA_, _SOUTH CAROLINA_ 13. (Pencil and paper might be handy!) Lorena and John Wayne want to go on a vacation, but Lorena wants to go to the Phillippines, while John Wayne wants to go to Hollywood. So they decide to settle it by each simultaneously picking a destination. If they pick different places, their payoffs will each be zero; if they both pick the Phillippines, Lorena's payoff will be 6 and John Wayne's 4; if they both pick Hollywood, John Wayne's payoff will be 6 and Lorena's 4. 1. For ten points, how many pure-strategy Nash equilibria exist in this game? Answer: _TWO_ 2. For five points, what kind of equilibrium is the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium? Answer: _UNSTABLE_ 3. For fifteen points, with what probability will Lorena choose the Phillippines in the mixed-strategy equilibrium? Answer: _3/5_ or _60%_ or equivalent 14. Given an ascending pair of notes, identify the simple interval between them for ten points each. 1. E flat to G flat Answer: _MINOR THIRD_ (prompt on "third"; do not accept "major third." Accept "augmented second" reluctantly.) 2. D to B Answer: _MAJOR SIXTH_ (prompt on "sixth"; do not accept "minor sixth." Accept "diminished seventh" reluctantly.) 3. C sharp to G Answer: _TRITONE_ or _DIMINISHED FIFTH_ or _AUGMENTED FOURTH_ (prompt on "diabolus in musica") 15. For ten points each, answer the following questions about the Dreyfus affair: 1. To which nation was Dreyfus accused of selling military secrets? Answer: _GERMANY_ 2. Who did the Chief of Army Counterintelligence conclude was guilty of the original crime, not Dreyfus? Answer: Major Marie-Charles-Ferdinand _ESTERHAZY_ 3. Name the aforementioned counterintelligence chief. Answer: Colonel Georges _PICQUART_ 16. Answer the following questions about the hypothesized meteor impact responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs: 1. For ten points each, the extremely high concentration of what element in the rocks at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary provides strong evidence that the rocks are of extraterrestrial origin? Answer: _IRIDIUM_ 2. For fifteen points, at what site in Italy did Walter Alvarez first discover the so-called "iridium spike"? Answer: _GABBIO_ 3. For a final five points, how many million years ago (within five million) did the hypothesized impact occur? Answer: _66.4_ (accept 61.4-71.4) 17. Identify the writer of each Homer-related poem for 15 points from a quote, and 5 if you need the work's title. 1. For 15: "Much have I travelled in the realms of gold / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen" For 5: "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" Answer: John _KEATS_ 2. For 15: "There's a blind man here with a brow / As big and white as a cloud / And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest, / Writers of music and tellers of stories, / Sit at his feet, / And hear him sing of the fall of Troy" For 5: _Spoon River Anthology_ Answer: Edgar Lee _MASTERS_ 18. Answer the following about Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic, _Vertigo_, for ten points apiece. 1. What was the working title of _Vertigo_? Answer: _FROM AMONG THE DEAD_ 2. Kim Novak recalled that Hitchcock used what to get the timing of certain scenes "exactly so"? Answer: a _METRONOME_ 3. Who did Hitchcock originally want to play Madeleine, but became pregnant and had to be replaced by Kim Novak? Answer: Vera _MILES_ 19. Answer the following questions about the Songhai Empire for the stated number of points. 1. For five points, the Songhai Empire flourished in what modern-day nation? Answer: _MALI_ 2. For ten points, around 1100 AD, the Songhai capital was established in what city? Answer: _GAO_ 3. For fifteen points, the Songhai empire was eventually conquered by what firearm-using nation? Answer: _MOROCCO_ 20. Answer the following questions about scientific fraud for ten points apiece. 1. His 1865 experimental results were so perfect that scientists believe this man doctored his heredity data. Answer: Gregor _MENDEL_ 2. This atomist reported numerous experimental findings in 1804 and 1805 that no later chemists have been able to reproduce. Answer: John _DALTON_ 3. William T. Summerlin at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research did this to white skin grafts to falsify the results of skin-transplant experiments on mice in the mid-1970s. Answer: _colored them black_ with a felt-tip pen [or equivalent] 21. Identify the author from works, 30-20-10: 30: _God's Grace_, _The Tenants_, _Dubin's Lives_ 20: _The Magic Barrel_, _The Assistant_, _A New Life_ 10: _The Fixer_, _The Natural_ Answer: Bernard _MALAMUD_ 22. Identify the person, 30-20-10: 30: He was killed while flying in Alaska with Wiley Post, and wrote _The Illiterate Digest_. 20: He joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1915, and his act consisted of swinging a lasso while commenting on politics and society. 10: He once said "I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts." Answer: Will _ROGERS_ 23. For any conserved quantity, there exists a quantum mechanical symmetry which gives rise to it. Given a quantity, name the associated operation under which the Hamiltonian is invariant, for the stated number of points. 1. For five, angular momentum. Answer: _ROTATIONS_ in space 2. For ten, energy. Answer: _TIME_ translations 3. For fifteen, charge. Answer: quantum _PHASE_ 24. Answer the following questions about _The Glass Menagerie_ for the stated number of points: 1. For 5 points: Which character owns the Glass Menagerie? Answer: Laura _WINGFIELD_ 2. For 10 points: Who is the gentleman caller? Answer: Jim _O'CONNOR_ 3. For 15 points: Which animal in the glass menagerie does Jim O'Connor break while dancing with Laura Wingfield? Answer: the _UNICORN_ 25. Answer the following related questions. 1. For five points, what is the capital of Libya? Answer: _TRIPOLI_ 2. For ten, if your freshman requirements are math, physics, and circuit design, what is most likely your major? Answer: _ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING_ or _DOUBLE-E_ 3. For fifteen, what is the stage name of the lead singer of the Eels? Answer: _E_ 26. Answer the following questions about Chinese geography for ten points each: 1. In which province, on whose coast lie Hong Kong and Macau, is Canton located? Answer: _GUANGDONG_ 2. This island, part of the Guangdong province, is bordered on its west by the Gulf of Tonkin. Answer: _HAINAN_ 3. Which sea lies between the Korean Peninsula and the Shandong and Jiangsu provinces? Answer: _YELLOW_ Sea 27. Name these reputed Jewish settlers of North America, from the Book of Mormon, for ten points each. 1. This prophet led the tribe across the ocean to America, as told in his eponymous book. Answer: _LEHI_ 2. The Hebrews eventually split into two groups. Name the heathen group that forgot their beliefs and evolved into the Native Americans. Answer: _LAMANITES_ 3. This virtuous and industrious group built great cities, but were overcome, following the Old Testament pattern, in AD 400 by the sinful Lamanites. Answer: _NEPHITES_ 28. Identify the poem from lines, 30-20-10: 30: "Who hast not seen thee oft amid thy store?" 20: "Hedge-crickets sing, and now, with treble soft, The redbreast whistles from a garden croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." 10: "Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness" Answer: _TO AUTUMN_ by Keats (Note: accept _Ode to Autumn_ with a frown) 29. Answer the following questions about desegregation for ten points apiece. 1. To what high school did Arkansas governor Orval Faubus send the National Guard in 1957 to prevent 9 black students from enrolling? Answer: _CENTRAL_ High School 2. For which air force veteran, gunned down during the 1966 March to Jackson, did JFK send 400 Federal marshalls and 3000 troops in 1962 to allow him to attend the University of Mississippi? Answer: James _MEREDITH_ 3. According to a Chuck Brodsky song, who was the first white player in the Negro Leagues? Answer: Eddie _KLEPP_ 30. Who fights whom? Answer these questions about the pairings at Ragnarok for ten points each: 1. Loki and this god fight and slay each other. Answer: _HEIMDALL_ 2. This god is defeated, swallowed by the Fenris Wolf. Answer: _ODIN_ 3. In retaliation this son of Odin either stabs the wolf's heart, or tears his jaws apart, depending on the account. Answer: _VIDAR_