WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2003
ROUND 1

TOSSUPS

1. Closely advised by Minaya Fanez, his sword was called “Tizona” and his battle horse was called “Babieca”. He served the ruler of Zaragoza after distinguishing himself under Ferdinand I and Sancho II, but after Sancho’s war with Alphonso VI, Alphonso had him banished. After his death, his widow Jimena surrendered his kingdom, which he had established by taking Valencia in 1094. Named * Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, FTP, who was this great Spanish hero whose nickname comes from the Moorish for “lord”?
	Answer: El Cid Campeador (accept Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar until *)

2. Ones containing four to eight electrons can occur as either low-spin or high-spin types. Their formation is typical of transition metals, which form them with all Lewis bases. They are often colored and paramagnetic and experience field splitting, behavior which is explained by ligand field theory. FTP, what are these compounds held together by covalent bonds in which one of the two atoms supplies both electrons?
	Answer: Coordination complex or coordination compound

3. Sometimes called the "Berecynthain Hero", the only one to know of this man's disfigurement was his barber, who whispered the secret into a hole in the ground from which grew reeds that repeated it whenever the wind blew. He had gained the disfigurement when, as a worshipper of Pan, he preferred Pan's music to Apollo's, prompting Apollo to punish him with donkey ears. The Pactolus River figures in the most famous myth about him, in which the satyr Silenus grants him a wish. FTP, who was this king who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold? 
Answer: Midas 

4. While in Paris, the protagonist is influenced by the egocentric hack poet and amateur diabolist Cronshaw.  He has his first romantic experience with the older woman Emily Wilkinson, and is later befriended by the eccentric Thorpe Athelney, whose daughter Sally he marries after breaking free from his infatuation with Mildred Rogers. Featuring the club-footed orphan Philip Carey, FTP, what is this novel by Somerset Maugham?
	Answer: Of Human Bondage

5. With the exception of 1905, this man was president of the organization he founded every year from its 1886 inception until his death in 1924. To achieve his goals, he developed a strategy he dubbed “voluntarism”, in which labor exerted pressure on businesses by economic coercion achieved with strikes and boycotts. Originally apprenticed as a cigar maker in London, he immigrated to the United States and became president of the Cigarmakers’ Union, but led them out of the Knights of Labor. FTP, who was this labor leader who founded the AFL and served as its first leader?
	Answer: Samuel Gompers

6. The man on the far left of this painting has his head down counting the money before him on a table. Although a window is open in the top right, the main light from the scene comes from beyond the right edge of the painting. Two men in shabby clothing are arriving from the right, one of which is identified as Christ by the almost unnoticeable halo above his head. He is seen pointing to the title figure, who points at himself questioningly. FTP, what is this famous painting by Caravaggio?
	Answer: The Calling of St. Matthew

7. One of the major theorems concerning its properties was developed by Edmund Landau and Niels Bohr’s brother Harald Bohr. It was originally defined to be the sum of expressions of the form 1 over n raised to the x power, where n runs through the natural numbers, but was later extended to its modern form, in which it takes on finite values for all values of x different than 1. Useful for studying the properties of prime numbers, the hypothesis that it has an infinite number of complex roots with real part equal to ½ is usually cited as the greatest outstanding problem in mathematics. FTP, what is this function named for a German mathematician and a Greek letter?
	Answer: Riemann zeta function

8. His second novel, Our Age, was poorly received, and was soon followed by the controversial short story “Seventeen”. He first attracted attention with Lavish Are the Dead and his first novel, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, which followed a period in which the influence of the novel Huckleberry Finn inspired a desire to become a forest ranger. He won the Akutagawa Prize for The Catch, while later works like Awake, New Man and The Silent Cry were influenced by his brain-damaged son. Author of A Personal Matter, FTP, who was this Japanese author, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1994?
	Answer: Kenzaburo Oe

9. This island’s Kyrenia Mountains is noteworthy for its five-fingered peak Pentadaktylos, and is separated by the Mesaoria Plain from the other major chain, the Troodos, which shares its name with the island’s highest peak. Its longest river, the Pedieos, flows east towards Famagusta Bay. Shaped like a saucepan with a long handle extending to the northeast, its northern part is home to a republic only recognized by neighboring Turkey. FTP, what is this island southeast of Greece, home to the city of Nicosia?
	Answer: Cyprus

10. After a lengthy period of internal strife marked by the intrigues of such women as Fredegund and Brunhild, this dynasty was reunited with the reacquisition of the kingdoms of Austrasia and Neustria. Named for a semi-mythical ancestor known as the “sea-fighter”, they were supposed to possess magical powers due to their long hair. Power was yielded by mayors of the palace after the death of Dagobert. Originating with the Salian Franks, FTP, what was this French dynasty established by Chlotar I and Clovis?
	Answer: Merovingian Dynasty

11. Candidates for its authorship include a chancellor for the University of Paris and an abbot of Vercelli, both of which were known as Jean Gerson. Written in four major parts, its final section shows how individual faith has to be strengthened by the Eucharist. Part I gives “exhortations useful for spiritual living”, while the middle sections advocate the spiritual side of life and the comfort gained from being centered in Christ. Known for its simplicity of expression, FTP, what was this Christian devotional book written between 1390 and 1440 and often attributed to Thomas a Kempis?
	Answer: Imitation of Christ (Imitatio Christi)

12. Self-educated, this physicist first gained attention while studying at Leiden with his doctoral treatise, “On the Continuity of the Liquid and Gaseous State”. His law of corresponding states was the culmination of work begun with his observation that the size of molecules and the attractive forces between them could be introduced to give a more exact version of the ideal gas law known as his equation. FTP, who was this Dutch physicist known for his namesake weak attractive forces between atoms and molecules, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1910?
	Answer: Johannes van der Waals

13. One plot development concerns the handling of the jewelry of Constance Neville, who at play’s end marries Hastings with the help of Tony Lumpkin’s chicanery. All is set right by the arrival of Sir Charles, despite another deception perpetrated by Tony, engineered when he encountered the male protagonist, who was lost and had stopped in an ale-house. Taking advantage of an arrangement that required Kate Hardcastle to wear the clothes of a peasant, Tony convinced Marlow that the Hardcastle estate was an inn. Subtitled “The Mistakes of a Night”, FTP, what is this play by Oliver Goldsmith?
	Answer: She Stoops to Conquer, or, The Mistakes of a Night

14. His best-known early work was a setting of Tasso’s “Behold the Murmuring Sea”. A student of Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, he advocated what he called the seconda prattica method of composing after Artusi attacked the liberties he took with contrapuntal technique in his early books of madrigals. With works like Tirsi e Clori, Andromeda, and L’Orfeo he pioneered the use of opera as a music drama. FTP, who was this Italian composer of The Coronation of Poppea and The Return of Ulysses, the first great operatic composer?
	Answer: Claudio Monteverdi

15. In June 1864 he decisively defeated a superior Union force at Brice’s Cross Roads, Mississippi, and later covered the retreat of the defeated army at Nashville with his fierce rearguard defense. Known for his slogan “Get there first with the most men”, he escaped the surrender of Fort Donelson with the cavalry he raised at his own expense, becoming the South’s best guerilla fighter. Later, he added to his notoriety by becoming the first imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. FTP, who was this Confederate leader whose men slaughtered 300 black men, women, and children in the Fort Pillow massacre?
	Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest

16. Although this compound is used in the recovery of silver from discarded photographic films, it is more important for its role in the body. Small amounts of it pass into the bloodstream, where it continues its main function, which is best achieved at a pH of 1.5-2.5. It is produced when impulses from the vagus nerve and the actions of secretin and gastrin stimulate the release of its precursor, which is mixed with hydrochloric acid to convert it to active form. FTP, what is this powerful enzyme in gastric juice that digests proteins in the stomach?
	Answer: pepsin

17. Criticisms of this economic theory include the problem of how to choose between multiple economic models, as well as its underlying assumption of perfect market clearing. It was first introduced in 1961 by John Muth to explain why no successful model had ever been devised to predict prices in speculative markets, but gained its current importance when its most famous advocate and Thomas Sargent independently applied it to the macroeconomic problems of the early 1970s, concluding that a policy-neutral government approach to the economy was ideal. FTP, what is this theory that government economic actions only duplicate those taken by the private sector, most associated with Robert Lucas? 
Answer: rational expectations 

18. The title character leaves her job with the Harling family rather than give up her attendance at the town’s Saturday night dances, and later quits her job with Wick Cutter due to his amorous advances. When the narrator returns from Harvard to Black Hawk, he finds the protagonist has been left pregnant and unwed by the railroad man Larry Donovan, but she eventually marries Anton Cuzak and raises a large family. Narrated by Jim Burden, FTP, what is this novel by Willa Cather?
	Answer: My Antonia

19. As the fastest stenographer in the military, this man recorded the trials of the enemies of the brutal regime of Gerardo Machado, but ousted Machado’s successor Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in the “Sergeants’ revolt” of 1933. Taking the presidency for the first time in 1940, he ruled as a popular reformist president until his 1944 retirement. However, he engineered a second army revolt and returned to power in 1952 as a brutal dictator. FTP, who was this leader of Cuba forced from power by Fidel Castro?
	Answer: Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar

20. As this philosophical work opens, the author rejects Kant's "thing-in-itself", instead arguing that one of the title concepts exists as a split between "en-soi" and "pour-soi", summing up the relationship between the two with the phrase "existence precedes essence". Coining the term "nihilation" to describe the existence of the human consciousness, the author concludes by claiming that "authentic existence" is still possible, as long as people do not ignore the responsibility of choice by practicing "bad faith". FTP, what is this 1943 masterpiece of existentialism by Jean-Paul Sartre? 
Answer: Being and Nothingness (L'Etre et le neant) 

WILDCAT INVITATIONAL 2003
ROUND 1

BONUSES

1. Trying to fulfill the required quizbowl quota on Faulkner and Hemingway questions, name these Hemingway works, FTPE.
1. (10 points) Featuring the classic Hemingway character of Rinaldi, an Italian army doctor, this novel tells of the doomed love between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley.
	Answer: A Farewell to Arms
2. (10 points) The least successful of his full-length novels, this work uses the WWI colonel Richard Cantwell as the mouthpiece for Hemingway’s political views and innuendos about his former wives. The title derives from the dying words of Stonewall Jackson.
	Answer: Across the River and Into the Trees
3. (10 points) In this story, a wounded American officer in a Milan hospital befriends an Italian major, a formerly great fencer who has suffered a crippling hand injury and whose wife has died.
	Answer: In Another Country

2. FTPE, composer and his work.
1. (10 points) The first movement of this orchestral work was inspired by the Saint-Gaudens’ bas-relief in honor of Robert Shaw’s African-American regiment in Boston Common, and is followed by the movements “Putnam’s Camp” and “The Housatonic at Stockbridge”.
	Answer: Three Places in New England (or A New England Symphony)
2. (10 points) This was the composer of Three Places in New England, also known for Concord Sonata.
	Answer: Charles Ives
3. (10 points) Probably Ives’ most famous single-movement piece is this work in which the strings represent “the silence of the Druids”, while the woodwinds provide competing solutions to the problem posed by the trumpet.
	Answer: Largo to Presto: The Unanswered Question: A Cosmic Landscape (or A Contemplation of a Serious Matter)

3. Name these players in the Johnson impeachment trial.
1. (10 points) As chief justice, this man presided over the trial.
	Answer: Salmon P. Chase
2. (10 points) This senator served as the chief defense counsel. He also represented the U.S. in the Alabama claims case and served as Secretary of State for Hayes.
	Answer: William Evarts
3. (10 points) Although stricken by apoplexy during the trial, this senator was dramatically brought in to cast the deciding vote to avert conviction.
	Answer: James Grimes

4. FTPE, name the following about a plant tissue.
1. (10 points) Often storing food or other substances, this is a tissue of unspecialized cells lying between the epidermis and the vascular tissues of the plant.
	Answer: cortex
2. (10 points) The cortex is produced by this region at the tip of each shoot and root of a plant where cell divisions are constantly occurring, producing new tissue.
	Answer: apical meristem
3. (10 points) When the cortex forms an endodermis, the cell walls of its constituent cells all contain this cork-like band which serves to regulate the flow of water between the outer tissues and the vascular cylinder at the center of the root.
	Answer: Casparian strip

5. FTPE, name these deities from Sumerian myth.
1. (10 points) This cruel Sumero-Babylonian goddess of love and fertility sent the bull of heaven to attack Gilgamesh and Enkidu after Gilgamesh rebuked her advances.
	Answer: Ishtar
2. (10 points) This vegetation god is the husband of Ishtar. He dies every summer during the month that bears his name, and is taken to the underworld by the Gallu demons, prompting Ishtar to lead the world in mourning.
	Answer: Tammuz
3. (10 points) After the death of Tammuz, Ishtar descends to the underworld, ruled by this sister, who once threatened to send the dead to populate the earth unless she was reunited with the evil god Nergal, with whom she had fallen in love.
	Answer: Ereshkigal

6. E.M. Forster works from descriptions, FTPE.
1. (10 points) Adela Quested believes that she has been assaulted by Dr. Aziz during a visit to the Marabar Caves.
	Answer: A Passage to India
2. (10 points) The widow Lilia Herriton shocks her snobbish family by eloping with the Italian Gino Carella. After she dies in childbirth, her family tries to take the child from Gino, leading to the child’s accidental death.
	Answer: Where Angels Fear to Tread
3. (10 points) His only major work to deal with homosexuality, it tells of the title figure’s relationships with Clive Durham and Alec Scudder.
	Answer: Maurice

7. FTPE, stuff about a revolt.
1. (10 points) Named for a slogan used at chariot races, this revolt saw the Blue and Green factions unite to oppose Justinian. They sought to elevate a nephew of Anastasius to the throne, but were slaughtered in the Hippodrome by Belisarius.
	Answer: Nika revolt
2. (10 points) Justinian was able to remain in power due to the actions of this wife, the daughter of a bear keeper who was responsible for much of the legislation of his reign.
	Answer: Theodora
3. (10 points) Much valuable information about Theodora derives from this man’s Secret History.
	Answer: Procopius of Caesarea

8. FTPE, name the following about a river.
1. (10 points) This river rises northwest of Moscow and flows 2,193 miles into the Caspian Sea, making it the longest in Europe.
	Answer: Volga River (accept Ra or Itil)
2. (10 points) The main tributary of the Volga is this river which flows 1,122 miles from Udmurtia to join the Volga in the Samara Reservoir. It is the main historical route to the Urals and Siberia.
	Answer: Kama River
3. (10 points) Found at the confluence of the Volga and Oka Rivers is this major industrial center, the home of Lobachevsky State University, which from 1932-90 was known as Gorky in honor of the writer born there.
	Answer: Nizhny Novgorod

9. FTPE, answer the following about orbitals.
1. (10 points) This principle with a German name describes the order in which orbitals are filled in successive elements of the periodic table.
	Answer: Aufbau Principle
2. (10 points) This type of molecular orbital named for a Greek letter is disposed along the line connecting the nuclei of the molecule, as seen, for example, in hydrogen molecules.
	Answer: sigma orbitals
3. (10 points) This type of hybridized orbital appears frequently in chemistry, as in methane, where four of them form from the 2s orbital and the three 2p orbitals in the carbon, which then overlap with the 1s orbitals of the hydrogen.
	Answer: sp3 orbital

10. FTPE, name the following about a Canadian writer.
1. (10 points) David Hasselhoff’s favorite novelist, she is probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale.
	Answer: Margaret Atwood
2. (10 points) In this recent Booker Prize winner, Atwood combines the tale of Iris Chase Griffen, the sole survivor of a once powerful Ontario family, with the story of an unnamed pair of lovers who create a science fiction story.
	Answer: The Blind Assassin
3. (10 points) Your question-writer’s favorite Atwood novel is this work telling of Elaine Risley’s attempts to deal with memories of her childhood while returning to Toronto for a retrospective of her controversial art career.
	Answer: Cat’s Eye 

11. FTPE, name these Stoic philosophers.
1. (10 points) Although founded by Zeno of Citium, its early development was due to this third head of the Stoa, author of over 700 now-lost writings. According to a popular saying, without him there would be no Stoa.
	Answer: Chrysippus
2. (10 points) A freed slave, his thoughts were collected by his student Arrianus in the “Enchiridion”, or “Manual”. He held that a man should behave in life as he would at a banquet.
	Answer: Epictetus
3. (10 points) This playwright, Stoic and tutor to Nero is known for his so-called “pointed” prose, found in works like “On Clemency” and his 124 “Moral Epistles to Lucilius”.
	Answer: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

12. FTPE, stuff about a war.
1. (10 points) This war was sparked by the Red Stick movement among the namesake tribe, which conducted a series of attacks designed to curtail white settlement on the Alabama River. Andrew Jackson crushed the movement, forcing the Treaty of Fort Jackson.
	Answer: Creek War
2. (10 points) The Creek War started in earnest with William Weatherford’s destruction of this fort held by Daniel Beasley in August of 1813.
	Answer: Fort Mims
3. (10 points) Creek resistance was crushed in this March 1814 battle in which Jackson captured the main Creek fort on the Tallapoosa River.
	Answer: Battle of Horseshoe Bend

13. 30-20-10, name the artist from clues.
1. (30 points) He was apprenticed to Pacheco, and soon married Pacheco’s daughter. While still a teenager he painted the early masterpiece Old Woman Cooking Eggs.
(20 points) His time in Rome gave rise to the painting The Forge of Vulcan. He brought new seriousness to genre painting with The Waterseller of Seville, and created a masterpiece of history painting with The Surrender of Breda.
(10 points) His best known works include portraits of Juan de Pareja and Innocent X and the group scene Las Meninas.
	Answer: Diego Velazquez

14. Physics stuff, FTPE.
1. (10 points) This value is defined as the ratio of the potential difference across an electrical component to the current passing through it.
	Answer: resistance
2. (10 points) This device is an electrical circuit in which two known variable resistances, one fixed resistance, and a galvanometer are used to determine an unknown resistance by changing the variable resistances until the galvanometer registers no deflection.
	Answer: Wheatstone bridge
3. (10 points) In this device, two blackened platinum strips are arranged in a zigzag pattern and attached to adjacent arms of a Wheatstone bridge. One strip is exposed to radiation and the other is shielded, and the galvanometer is used to determine the radiant heat of the radiation.
	Answer: bolometer

15. FTPE, name the following legal stuff stemming from Article I of the Constitution.
1. (10 points) Section 9 forbids enactment of these laws that punish behavior committed before their own enactment.
	Answer: ex post facto laws
2. (10 points) Section 9 also forbids Congress from enacting these laws declaring persons guilty and imposing punishment without any trial or conviction.
	Answer: bills of attainder
3. (10 points) Much of the government’s regulatory power stems from this clause found in Section 8, which authorizes Congress to make regulations with foreign nations and between the states.
	Answer: commerce clause

16. Name these works of foreign lit from main characters, F15PE. You’ll get 10 if you need the author.
1. (15 points) Platon Kovalyov
(10 points) Nikolai Gogol
	Answer: The Nose
2. (15 points) Mizoguchi
(10 points) Yukio Mishima
	Answer: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

17. FTPE, name the following about members of a class of organic compounds.
1. (10 points) These compounds are characterized by the presence of a carboxyl group and NH2 attached to the same carbon at the end of the compound.
	Answer: amino acids
2. (10 points) Like aspartic acid, this amino acid's importance stems from the acidic carboxyl group on its side chain, which in this case allows it to couple with ammonia and safely transport it from the body.
	Answer: glutamic acid
3. (10 points) This amino acid's importance stems from the presence of an imidazole group on its side chain, which can act as both an acid and a base.
	Answer: histidine

18. FTPE, answer the following about the formation of the European Union.
1. (10 points) The European Union was established by this 1991 treaty.
	Answer: Treaty of Maastricht
2. (10 points) An important step in the formation of the Union was the signing of these two 1957 treaties of the same name establishing the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
	Answer: Treaties of Rome
3. (10 points) The origins of the European Union are found in this organization established by 1952’s Treaty of Paris. Also called the Schuman Plan, member nations pledged to pool the namesake resources in a unified market.
	Answer: European Coal and Steel Community (or ECSC)

19. Name these Muslim sects, FTPE.
1. (10 points) This puritan movement is closely associated with the Sa’udi family. Its members call themselves “Unitarians”, and emphasize the oneness of God, advocating a return to the teachings of the Qur’an and Hadith, basing their theology on the teachings of Ibn Taymiyah.
	Answer: Wahabi
2. (10 points) The Ithna ‘Ashariyah, or Twelvers, is the largest sub-sect of this branch of Islam that only recognizes the authority of the descendents of the fourth caliph, ‘Ali.
	Answer: Shi’ite (or Shi’I or Shi’a)
3. (10 points) Worshipping Malak Ta’us, or the Peacock Angel, this sect combines Islamic, Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Nestorian, and Christian beliefs. They maintain a strict isolation, and reject the existence of evil.
	Answer: Yazidi (or Azidi or Zedi or Izdi)

20. Name these authors from critical works FTPE, or F5P if you need other works.
1. (10 points) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, “Hamlet and His Problems”
(5 points) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
	Answer: Thomas Sterns Eliot
2. (10 points) “Politics and the English Language”
(5 points) 1984
	Answer: George Orwell (or Eric Blair)
3. (10 points) “The Artist as Critic”
(5 points) Lady Windermere’s Fan, Salome
	Answer: Oscar Wilde