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Edited by Ike Jose (head editor), Billy Busse, Ryan Westbrook, and Jason Thompson
(with packetizing/proofreading assistance from Ramapriya Rangaraju)
Editors 1

1. A non-Salman Rushdie novel called Shame depicts the aftermath of this event and caused its author to be exiled
from her home country. In April 2017, the CBIs request to reinstitute conspiracy charges for this events
perpetrators was granted by the countrys Supreme Court. 68 people were ultimately culpable for it according to
the report produced by the Liberhan Commission. This event caused members of the Dawood Company to place
twelve car bombs to blow up various buildings nine months after it took place. This 3-hour long event was
perpetrated by kar sevaks of the VHP. Shortly after this event, around 1000 people died in rioting partly instigated
by the Shiv Sena. Zealous members of the BJP wanting to construct a temple to Rama in Uttar Pradesh instigated,
for 10 points, what December 6, 1992 event in which a Muslim place of worship was destroyed in Ayodhya?
ANSWER: the destruction of the Babri Mosque [accept equivalents; accept answers that use Baburs Mosque
being destroyed or mosque of Babur being ransacked prompt on the Ayodhya controversy]

2. A variant of this result that applies to certain orbit types is the Mostow-Palais Theorem. The elimination of
opposite-signed double points by this statement shows that the set of certain equivalence relations between
manifolds is C-isomorphic to the cylinder defined by "M sub zero, cross the unit interval. This result is used to
prove a theorem stating that every Riemannian manifold can have the length of their paths preserved while
undergoing the namesake operation - that theorem based on this one was proved by John Nash. As a result of this
theorem, every compact manifold admits a normal vector bundle. Smale's proof of the h-cobordism theorem relies
on this theorems trick. It relies on the "weak immersion theorem" also proved by this theorems namesake. For
10 points, name this theorem stating that every smooth n-manifold can be fixed in R to the "2n plus 1."
ANSWER: Whitney embedding theorem [prompt on embedding theorem or Whitneys Theorem]

3. These are the first people mentioned in the subtitle of a book by Franklin Ford, who cites Herodotuss account of
Otanes as the first passage from antiquity to discuss them. In Xenophons dialogue Hiero, the poet Simonides tells
the title Syracusan that statues of these people can be found in temples. John of Salisbury defended these people by
comparing Julian the Apostate as an image of depravity. Ciceros On Duties praises these people since there can
be no fellowship between us and the pestilential class of humanity. Hotomanus was a leader of a group of French
Huguenots who justified the acts of these people, the Monarchomachs. In the book Politics, Aristotle suggests that
these people very rarely act purely for the common good and without benefit. Harmodius and Aristogeiton are the
first of, for 10 points, what people who commit an act of murder to depose a ruler?
ANSWER: tyrannicides [accept regicides; accept answers indicating people who killed a ruler; prompt on
assassins or killers]

4. In one article, this man describes the Rational Design research program as akin to driving with the rearview
mirror because it only explains past choices. Together with Raymond Duvall, this man gave a talk arguing that
modern nations are militantly agnostic about UFOs because the notion of extraterrestrial life is a threat to
human-centered rule. In perhaps his best-known work, he argues that the process of signaling, interpreting, and
responding completes a social act, allowing us to create intersubjective knowledge, and that the self-help view of
the world is only introduced because of predator states. His 2015 book, Quantum Mind and Social Science,
proposes to unify physical and social ontology. This man, who pioneered a school of thought along with Nicholas
Onuf and Peter Katzenstein, argued in his seminal 1992 article that Anarchy is What States Make of It. For 10
points, name this International Relations theorist often considered the founder of Constructivism.
ANSWER: Alexander Wendt
5. This critics example of "modern Broadway producers" using a "reliable person" to count the number of laughs in
the audience is part of his attack on "Personal Registrations" as a source of legitimate criticism. An essay by this
author argues "the poet perpetuates, in his poem, an order of existence, which in actual life is constantly
crumbling". A book by this critic praises metaphysical poetry for causing the reader to revel in the "dinglich
substance" of the "world's body". This author included his essay "Criticism Inc." in a volume arguing against
"scientific rationalism" and instead advocating an aesthetic approach to poetry. The term "New Criticism" was
coined in a book of the same name by this author, who helped compile I'll Take My Stand, a volume of Southern
Agrarian manifestoes. For 10 points, name this critic, better known as the Fugitive poet who wrote "Bells for John
Whiteside's Daughter".
ANSWER: John Crowe Ransom

6. This method is applied under the constraint of unitarity to derive the result that the square of the matrix
element for a particle interaction must be less than a constant times the square of the log of the energy scale; that's
the Froissart bound. A function central to this method is proportional to the ratio of a spherical Bessel function to a
spherical Hankel function of the first kind for the specific case of a hard-sphere potential. By taking the solution
obtained by this method, squaring it, and integrating over all solid angles, one can trivially derive the optical
theorem. The desired function in this method is given by the sum from L = 0 to infinity of 2L +1 times the L-th
Legendre polynomial times this method's namesake amplitude. The Born approximation is an alternative to, for 10
points, what method of solving scattering problems by decomposing a plane wave into an infinite sum of spherical
waves?
ANSWER: partial wave expansion [accept other words like method or analysis in place of expansion]

7. John Norton-Griffiths led a sabotage mission in this country to blow up a series of refineries. Troops from this
country were allocated according to the "Z Hypothesis" when it entered the First World War. This country was able
to defend itself at the Battles of Oituz and Marasesti after its capital had fallen, leading to somewhat favorable
terms for it in the Armistice of Focsani. Earlier this country unsuccessfully launched the Flamanda Offensive, but
was ultimately unsuccessful in cutting off August von Mackensen from the rest of his troops. In 1916, a secret
treaty promised this country the land of Banat and Bukovina in exchange for entry into the war. However, that
backfired when troops led by Erich von Falkenhayn captured this countrys oil-rich Ploesti region. For 10 points,
name this country that entered World War I on the side of the Entente with hopes of reclaiming Transylvania.
ANSWER: Romania

8. A qualitative study of this art form extensively quotes a half-Japanese person identified only as "Sushi". Steven P.
Schacht made a fourfold taxonomy of this art form, whose practitioners founded a street group called STAR in
1970. Ester Newton did early fieldwork among people who engaged in this craft. About a dozen artists of this type
were interviewed by sociologists Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor for a study centered on the 801 Bourbon Bar in Key
West, Florida. This practice typifies a "hip quietism" which cannot spur social change according to Martha
Nussbaum's essay "The Professor of Parody." Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, who both did this,
demonstrated near Christopher Park after a building run by the Genovese crime family was raided by cops. Mother
Camp is a study of, for 10 points, what performing art with subversive potential lauded by Judith Butler, whose
performers kicked off the Stonewall riots in costume?
ANSWER: drag performance [or drag queens; or dressing in drag; or female impersonators; or female
impersonation; accept cross-dressing or transvestite even though that's probably offensive; prompt on dress-up
or costume parade; prompt on queens; prompt on being transgender or transsexual, which is not distinguished
firmly from drag queening in the self-identity of some of the people described in this tossup]
9. Mathieu Amalric's 2010 adaptation of this play extensively features security cameras and includes references to
the FPS Modern Warfare 2. This play's dedication to a mysterious "Madamemoiselle M.F.D.R.", states "the first act is
a mere prologue, the next three acts are unfinished", the last is "tragedy", and that when they are stitched together,
they add up to a "comedy". In the final act, two characters take on the roles of Theagene and Hippolyte. This play's
second act begins with the braggart Matamore wondering if the "Mughal emperor" or the "Persian sophy" should
be subdued first. It begins with Dorante taking his friend to a grotto where a magus assists him in finding his son,
who has been missing for ten years. It appears that Prince Florilame's men have Rosine and Clindor killed at this
plays conclusion. Alcandre puts on the title trick for Pridamant in, for 10 points, what comedy by Pierre Corneille?
ANSWER: The Comic Illusion [or The Theatre of Illusion or LIllusion Comique]

10. A sutra that explicates this concept features a disciple named Manjusri being asked "Why do people not dig in
trees for gold?" and "Why do people not churn water into milk?", and centers on the serial killer Angulimala. Seven
arguments for why this doctrine applies to trees and plants were summarized by the Chinese scholar Chujin in the
Kanko Ruiju. This doctrine names a "treatise" by Vasubandhu, who argued that the objective of Chan contemplation
is not rebirth in the Pure Land, but the understanding of this concept. This concept, which is named for the word
for "seed" or "embryo", was extended to apply to non-living things by Dogen. Because a being possessed "karmic
delusions", Zhaozhou Congshen gives an answer of "mu" when asked if a dog has this concept in a Zen koan. For 10
points, name this fundamental quality of living things, which allows them to reach Enlightenment.
ANSWER: Buddha-nature [accept answers indicating all things can be a Buddha; accept Buddha-dhatu or
Tathagatagarbha]

11. In a letter to Claire Clermont, the author of this poem claimed that while writing it, a "stormy mist of
sensations" continuously afflicted him. This poem describes a group as "the splendours of the firmament of time"
that are never "extinguish'd," and suggests that group comes from those whose "names on Earth are dark / but
whose transmitted effluence cannot die / so long as fire outlives the parent spark." This poem praises "kings of
thought, / who wag'd contention with their time's decay", and notes that "Chatterton," "Sidney" and "Lucan" are
figures who "rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought". This poem twice states Go to Rome, calling it
the sepulchre of our joy. This poem's 55th and final stanza compares the "soul of" the title character to a star that
"Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are." For 10 points, name this elegy for John Keats, written by Percy
Shelley.
ANSWER: Adonais

12. In the book Farewell to an Idea, the art historian T.J. Clark calls one of these artists as "the greatest painter of
the 1950s" praising his painting To Become, That is the Question, To Have Been, That is the Answer. These artists
maintained it was the artists duty to destroy the last remnants of an empty, irksome aesthetic, arousing the
creative instincts. One of these artists built on Marx to develop a system of "triolectics" and incorporated its ideas
into a game meant to be played on a hexagonal surface, three-sided football. In a collaboration with Guy Debord,
one of these artists encased a book of "psychogeography" in sandpaper. The leaders of this group of artists wrote
the manifesto "The Case Was Settled" and included Karel Appel and Constant Nieuwenhuys (NEW-when-hers).
Asger Jorn was a member of, for 10 points, what avant-garde art group whose name is an abbreviation of three
northern European cities?
ANSWER: COBRA [or CoBrA]

13. It's not diffusion, but the rate at which this process occurs is found in the denominator of a parameter denoted
capital lambda which determines whether or not a reaction is electrochemically reversible via the Matsuda-Ayabe
conditions. In one technique, the peak current is related to the rate at which this process occurs by to the Randles-
Sevcik equation. This is the first word in the name of a technique which uses both an X-ray detector to observe
cathodoluminescence and an Everhart-Thornley detector to detect backscattering and secondary emission signals.
This process occurs in a non-linear fashion in cyclic voltammetry. In another technique, the device which performs
this process moves vertically in constant-current mode, but not constant-height mode. For 10 points, name this
process performed by a namesake piezoelectric probe in a technique which uses quantum tunneling to image a
surface.
ANSWER: scanning [accept scan rate]
14. The printer Anthony Haswell was arrested after he set up a public lottery in this politicians home state to
support his cause. After several other outlets refused to publish his essays, this man created his own newspaper
entitled The Scourge of Aristocracy and Repository of Important Political Truth. His opponents called him old
wooden sword after he was allegedly dismissed from Horatio Gates command. This man, who represented his
state with Lewis Morris, got re-elected to Congress while in jail, where he was sent for ridiculing the president in a
letter to Alden Spooner, earning him an ex post facto conviction under the Sedition Act. During another dispute,
this man used red-hot tongs from a fire pit to defend himself, two weeks after a fellow politician from Connecticut
called him a scoundrel and demanded he be expelled for spitting tobacco juice in his eye. For 10 points, name this
Vermont politician known for his 1798 brawl with Roger Griswold.
ANSWER: Matthew Lyon

15. During a 2012 Diamond Jubilee concert, pianist Lang Lang added a prominent one of these things to a cadenza
in Rhapsody in Blue. D sharp, F sharp, and A sharp are the first three of these things in a work whose Vivace first
section precedes a Pi lento B section that seemingly lacks them. Apocryphally, Charles Ives responded to
comments that his Country Band March had so many of these things with the rejoinder Youre quite right. Its
perfect. Sergei Prokofiev described Stravinskys neoclassical works as Bach on these things. These things make
the singer doo doo doot in a namesake rag that describes a new sensation thats goin around from the
musical Wonderful Town. These supposed things nickname the E-minor opus 25 No. 5 tude by Frederic Chopin,
due to its rapidly-resolved 9ths and other dissonances. For 10 points, name these musical events, such as a flautist
playing a D instead of a C.
ANSWER: wrong notes [accept clear equivalents such as incorrect notes; accept Wrong Note tude or The
Wrong Note Rag; accept extra notes before Vivace; prompt on dissonances or minor seconds or minor ninths or
grace notes or acciaccaturas or sixteenth notes by asking Which result from what things or supposed things?]

16. A poetry collection set at and named for this place instructs Hermione to "clothe those shining breasts, / Desist
from stirring the insanity of lovers" since the speaker is "congealed by old age". That book of hendecasyllabics is
subtitled for this place, and was written by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Seneca praises Scipio for spending his exile
at Liternum because his "downfall did not need a setting so effeminate" in a letter to Lucilius about "morals" and
this place. A prophecy made by the astrologer Thrasyllus supposedly inspired Caligula to build a 3-mile long bridge
at this place so that he could cross it by horse. The ruins of this town contain enormous barges that effectively
functioned as palaces. The ruins of this town are part of Italy's only underwater archaeological park. For 10 points,
name this ancient Roman pleasure town on the Bay of Naples.
ANSWER: Baiae [or Baia]

17. In one tale, this god throws the eyes of dead humans into the sky where they become stars and foil an evil
dwarf, who cant stand starlight. Wilhelm Bleek recorded an unusual tale in which this god gave one group of
people spears, and another group of people guns. When this god grew ferociously hungry, he took a lightning-
master form called the Wise One, and thunderbolted a cow for himself to feast upon. Upon gaining sight, his first
decision was that white people should live in the ocean and black people should live on land, then he created rivers
and mountains. He fell to Earth out of the mythical swamp of life, because he grew too heavy for a reed in the sky
swamp to hold him, after which he began forming other reeds into humans. He then sent out a chameleon to grant
immortality to man, but it dilly-dallied and was beaten by a lizard who brought word of death. FTP, name this
supreme creator god of the Zulu people.
ANSWER: Unkulunkulu [or uNkulunkulu]
18. When this storys narrator spends a year "visiting the depths of Asia," he spend hours "before the temple of
gods and the sepulchers of kings" and his spirit turns to the "nobleness of association." A character in this story
asks "What's the most inveterate mark of men in general?" during a speech in which she says Im your dull
woman, a part of the daily bread for which [the protagonist prays] at church. This novella opens with the
protagonist staying at an estate called Weatherend, where he sees a woman whom he had met in Italy ten years
prior, and had told her a mysterious secret. The protagonist of this story undergoes the "horror of waking" as he
realizes he wasted his own "taste of life" after having a chance encounter at the grave of his deceased wife, May
Bertram. For 10 points, name this story in which John Marcher awaits for some calamity to stricken him, written by
Henry James.
ANSWER: "The Beast in the Jungle"

19. To increase his land holdings, this man ordered that all the limbs of Joan de Gynes, the widow of Stephen Baret,
be broken. Alison Weir controversially claimed that this man raped a queen. A verse from Psalm 52 asking "Why do
you boast in mischief?" was carved into this mans skin a few days before he was drawn and quartered at Hereford.
This husband of Eleanor de Clare was once granted the entirety of Wallingford Castle, and seized control of land
belonging to Humphrey de Bohun, thus initiating a conflict that ended after the Battle of Boroughbridge. That war
named after this man ended with the death of Thomas, the Earl of Lincoln. This man and his same-named father
met their end after Roger Mortimer and the "she-wolf" Isabella of France invaded England. For 10 points, name this
man who, like Piers Gaveston, was a royal favorite of Edward II.
ANSWER: Hugh le Despenser the Younger [do not accept or prompt on the elder]

20. These things are represented by the second of the three dependent variables in the Goodwin equations, which
model oscillations in their behavior. One equation which describes these things can be simplified by replacing the
reciprocal terms in the denominator with Cleland coefficients or Dalziel coefficients. When using control theory to
model these things, their response coefficient is equal to the product of their flux control coefficient and their
elasticity coefficient. When measuring the function of these things, a stopped-flow apparatus can be used to obtain
accurate data during the initial transient burst phase. Their efficiency is quantified by the specificity constant,
which has a maximum value around 10^8 inverse molar inverse seconds due to diffusion. For 10 points, what
compounds have numerical efficiencies quantified by the turnover number and the Michaelis constant?
ANSWER: enzymes [prompt on "catalysts" or "proteins"]
1. Because this tournament is so fun and easy for you, you become the ultimate hope, choose to celebrate by hitting
the booze, end up becoming an alcoholic, and years later end up in the hospital. For 10 points each:
[10] You are diagnosed with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, a grouping of various neurological symptoms
associated with alcohol abuse, leading to a functional deficiency of this vitamin.
ANSWER: thiamine [or vitamin B1; prompt on B vitamins]
[10] To treat the thiamine deficiency, you are prescribed IV fluids containing a multivitamin, thiamine, and folic
acid. The fluid admixture is given this nickname due to the color of the solution.
ANSWER: banana bag [or rally pack]
[10] To treat your chronic alcoholism outside the hospital, you are prescribed this drug, which inhibits
acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, causing you to experience severe hangover-like symptoms within minutes of
ingesting alcohol.
ANSWER: disulfiram [or Antabuse]

2. These people used to be given a TP-82, which was a triple-barreled pistol which contains a 14-inch machete in
its grip and which was created by sawing off a Makarov shotgun. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these people. Many radio broadcasts by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers advanced conspiracy theories
holding that there were many lost examples of these people.
ANSWER: cosmonauts [prompt on astronauts; accept answers indicating astronauts from the Soviet Union or
Russian astronauts]
[10] Another conspiracy theory holds that this most adorable doggie cosmonaut who was put onto Sputnik 2 did
not die of oxygen depletion upon atmospheric reentry but rather through hyperthermia. As it turns out, that
conspiracy theory was correct.
ANSWER: Laika
[10] Vladimir, a test pilot with this surname, is said to be the first man in outer space according to yet another
cosmonaut conspiracy theory. Vladimirs father, Sergei, founded a namesake design bureau that produced aircraft
for the Soviet Union.
ANSWER: Ilyushin [accept Vladimir Ilyushin or Sergei Ilyushin]

3. This philosopher's artistic theories are contained in The Evidence of Film, an examination of the work of Abbas
Kiarostami. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this philosopher, whose book The Undivided Community argues that societies build their communities
due to their own conception of immanence, a kind of unity.
ANSWER: Jean-Luc Nancy
[10] Nancy wrote Being Singular Plural, which theorizes that existence is always co-existence and that being is
always "being with", or mitsein. The book was inspired by Nancy's reading of this philosopher's Being and Time.
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger
[10] In the early 2000s, Nancy began a project to deconstruct Christianity, which he believed to be founded on this
principle. A social form of this concept in lieu of knowledge is the basis for a kind of pragmatism advocated by
Richard Rorty.
ANSWER: hope [or social hope]
4. This man launched the career of the freedman Henry Black Harry Hosier, who was originally his driver, when
he taught him on long trips to memorize and recite Bible passages. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this man called the father of the American Methodist Church because he, along with Thomas Coke, was
one of its first two bishops appointed by John Wesley.
ANSWER: Francis Asbury
[10] A meeting by this name, held in 1784 at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore, is considered the founding moment
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Asbury was ordained at this meeting by the German pastor Phillip
Otterbein.
ANSWER: the Christmas Conference [prompt on the Methodist General Conference]
[10] The American church received a text called The Sunday Service of Methodists in North America, which was
an abridged version of this 1549 book edited by Thomas Cranmer, which includes the Thirty-Nine Articles.
ANSWER: Book of Common Prayer

5. One of these animals named Tosca tries to learn how to to spell and speak in a 2016 novel in which Tosca and
her mother serve in a circus. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this kind of animal that narrates a series of fictional "memoirs" in a novel by the German-Japanese
novelist Yoko Tawada.
ANSWER: polar bear [accept Memoirs of a Polar Bear or Ursus Maritimus; prompt on bear]
[10] In this novel by Han Kung, Yeong-Hye narrates that she is "not an animal anymore" after suffering from a
mania in which she believes herself to be a plant.
ANSWER: The Vegetarian [or Chaesikju-Uija]
[10] Nao is successively reincarnated as various animals such as a pig and dog in Life and Death Are Wearing Me
Out, a novel by this Chinese author and "hallucinatory realist" who won the Nobel in 2012.
ANSWER: Mo Yan [or Guan MoYe]

6. This person worked with Henry Wehrhahn to invent a 55-gallon steel oil drum while serving as the first
president of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this woman whose ambitions in industry started after she married the rather elderly Robert Seaman.
ANSWER: Nellie Bly [prompt on Elizabeth Cochran Seaman]
[10] Nellie Bly may be better known for faking insanity to get admitted to an asylum on the island known then by
this name, which led her to publish her scathing expose Ten Days in a Mad-House.
ANSWER: Blackwell's Island [prompt on Roosevelt Island, its modern name]
[10] Nellie took her nickname from a tune written by this songwriter, whose lyrics include "Oh! Susana" and
"Camptown Races".
ANSWER: Stephen Foster [or Stephen Collins Foster]

7. Answer the following questions about everyone's favorite Legendre polynomial: the second Legendre
polynomial. For 10 points each:
[10] This specific entitys shape comes from the second Legendre polynomial. Unusually for its kind of object, it
only has two opposing lobes, rather than four.
ANSWER: d-sub-z squared orbital [do not accept or prompt on partial answers]
[10] Setting the second Legendre polynomial equal to zero and solving for theta gives the "magic angle" at which
samples are spun in the solid-state form of this technique. In this technique, peaks are split by J-coupling.
ANSWER: NMR [or nuclear magnetic resonance]
[10] By defining theta as the angle with respect to the director, this quantity for a liquid crystal is defined as one-
half the average of the second Legendre polynomial.
ANSWER: order parameter [prompt on order]
8. These animals appear as motifs on cylinders from Mesopotamia, suggesting that ancient Egypt had a system of
cultural exchange with the Near East during prehistory. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these fabled animals, whose name is a portmanteau. In ancient art they are often seen in pairs
intertwining their snaky necks.
ANSWER: serpopards
[10] Two serpopards can be found on the obverse side of this ancient Egyptian artwork, which was likely
commissioned by its namesake, the first pharaoh of Egypt.
ANSWER: Narmer palette [or the Great Hierakonpolis Palette; prompt on Hierakonpolis Palette]
[10] The art historian John Gardner argued that the Narmer palette commemorated this historical event since
Narmer wears both a red crown and a white crown. That may not be true since this event likely took several
centuries.
ANSWER: unification of Upper and Lower Egypt [accept word forms]

9. This thinker advised taking opiates during childbirth since she was one of the first to correctly believe that
women were not "punished" with labor pains for Eve's first sin. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this scholar, who is considered to be the worlds first gynecologist. This professor of medicine produced
a widely-used medieval text that gives advice on menstruation, pregnancy, and other womens health topics.
ANSWER: Trota [or Trocta; accept Trotula]
[10] Trotula was a professor at this medieval Italian city, whose school of medicine inaugurated the "medical
Renaissance." This city is the namesake of the southernmost province of the Campania region.
ANSWER: Salerno [accept the Ladies of Salerno]
[10] Another one of the "Ladies of Salerno," Rebecca de Guarna, wrote a treatise on diagnosing diseases using this
substance. Diabetes was named because one of its symptoms was an excessive discharge of this liquid.
ANSWER: urine [or pee or piss]

10. In one of these poems, the speaker states "the wooden barge of life / somehow ran aground. Far away, the
screams of the crew resound" before concluding "Sadly, they won't take along You and I, my dear!" For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this verse cycle dedicated to Lyubov Mendeleyeva, the daughter of the inventor of the periodic table. It
was written partly because it took its author a year to consummate their marriage.
ANSWER: Verses about the Beautiful Lady [or Verses about the Most Beautiful Lady or Stikhi o Prekrasnoi
Dame]
[10] Verses about the Beautiful Lady was penned by this "Silver Age" Russian poet. Another of his poems satrically
praises a group of "apostles" who participated in the October Revolution.
ANSWER: Alexander Blok [Alexander Alexandrovich Blok]
[10] This other Russian poet praised Bloch as "the tragic tenor of the epoch" and "a monument to the beginning of
the century" in one of her poems. She wrote "Requiem" and "A Poem Without a Hero."
ANSWER: Anna Akhmatova [or Anna Andreyevna Gorenko]

11. In an 1868 battle, this man employed the Piquissiri Maneuver, in which he built an eleven mile road in the
midst of marshland to outflank the opposing armys battalions. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this military commander, who besieged the fortress of Humaita with the aid of observation balloons. He
assumed control of the army after Bartolom Mitre stepped down.
ANSWER: Duke of Caxias [or the Marquess of Caxias; or Luis Alves de Lima e Silva]
[10] The Duke of Caxias commanded the allied army in the War of the Triple Alliance, which pitted Brazil,
Argentina and Uruguay against this country, then led by Francisco Solano Lopez.
ANSWER: Paraguay
[10] The Duke of Caxias first came to prominence by suppressing the Balaiada revolt of around 3,000 bandits and
slaves in this province. The insurgents captured the town of Caxias within this province.
ANSWER: Maranhao
12. One of the Three Views of Japan are the pine-clad islands of Matsushima, which can be found off the coast of
this prefecture. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this prefecture within Tohoku, whose capital, Sendai was founded by Date Masamune.
ANSWER: Miyagi Prefecture
[10] Miyagi prefecture is especially well-known for a form of this glutinous rice cake that has been wrapped in soy
paste. The name of this food comes from the Shinto kami of food who is not Inari.
ANSWER: mochi [or Uke Mochi]
[10] Off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture is Tashirojima Island, where the ratio of these specific things to humans is
about 6:1. Other Japanese islands that have a lot of these specific things include Aoshima.
ANSWER: feral cats [or wild cats; prompt on cats; do not accept or prompt on "pet (cats)!"]

13. While living in exile in Jersey after the fall of the Second Republic, the man who created this theory tried to
prove it by dropping buckets of his own feces off at the local constable post. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this theory proposed by utopian socialist Pierre Leroux, which held that the state should collect human
excrement by levying a tax on it. It encouraged all people to willingly contribute their dung.
ANSWER: Circulus theory
[10] Leroux believed that dung was all that was necessary to perfect the vision of this Frenchman, who theorized
utopian communities known as phalanxes, ideally consisting of 1620 people each.
ANSWER: Charles Fourier [or Francois-Marie-Charles Fourier]
[10] This Marxist geographer and anthropologist based at CUNY cites Fouriers ideas in his 2000 book Spaces of
Hope. He defends Henri Lefebvres right to the city and writes about accumulation by dispossession in his A
Brief History of Neoliberalism.
ANSWER: David Harvey [or David W. Harvey]

14. An essay in the book Degradation of the Democratic Dogma uses this scientists thought to argue that human
ages consist of a 90,000 year-long religious era, followed by a 300 year-long "mechanical" era, then a 17 year-
long "electrical" era, then a 4 year-long "ethereal" era. For 10 points each:
[10] Name that scientist, who in another book by the author is theorized to have a poor understanding of
mathematics in a chapter called "The Grammar of Science".
ANSWER: Josiah Willard Gibbs
[10] "The Grammar of Science" is the 31st chapter of this book, which contrasts the medieval conception of the
Virgin Mary with the modern dynamo. It was written by a descendant of the 6th American president.
ANSWER: The Education of Henry Adams
[10] This poet wrote a biography of J.M.W. Gibbs and imagined Gibbs saying "Mathematics is a language" in a poem
from her collection A Turning Wind. She also wrote "To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century."
ANSWER: Muriel Rukeyser

15. An example of the "encrustation" form of this phenomenon occurs after azurite is encrusted by malachite, and
the azurite dissolves, leaving behind malachite in the form of azurite. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this phenomenon in which a mineral appears different because it has a crystal habit that is different
from its naturally-occurring shape.
ANSWER: pseudomorphy [accept word forms]
[10] Non-pseudomorphic malachite has a crystal habit that is mammillary, which is essentially a larger form of this
other habit. Goethite has this habit whose name is from the Greek for "grapes", which is formed by radially
depositing material around a nucleus.
ANSWER: botryoidal [or botryoid]
[10] Perhaps the most common example of pseudomorphy is the intraconversion of aragonite to this mineral and
vice versa, which defines the value of "3" on the Mohs hardness scale.
ANSWER: calcite
16. This composer included the movements river sings a song to trees and Peachtree Street in City Scape, her
musical portrait of Atlanta. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this contemporary American composer who mourned the death of her brother Andrew in her piece blue
cathedral.
ANSWER: Jennifer Higdon
[10] Higdon's composition Zaka was commissioned by this multiple-Grammy-winning ensemble that includes
pianist Lisa Kaplan and clarinetist Michael Maccaferri. Their name is drawn from a poetic description of lucid,
inescapable rhythms.
ANSWER: eighth blackbird
[10] eighth blackbirdwhich includes a flautist, clarinetist, pianist, violinist, and cellist, plus a percussionistis a
type of ensemble named for this Arnold Schoenberg work that pioneered that instrumentation. It depicts a
moonstruck commedia dellarte character.
ANSWER: Pierrot Lunaire [accept Pierrot ensemble or Pierrot plus percussion]

17. Answer the following about the pathetic career of co-emperor Lucius Verus, for 10 points each.
[10] Just a couple years into the Marcomannic Wars, Verus croaked of food poisoning at the start of this plague that
ran from 165 to 180 AD, and is sometimes named in honor of Galen.
ANSWER: Antonine Plague
[10] This man came to fame as a general under Lucius Verus, capturing Ctesiphon and burning the palace of
Vologases IV during the Parthian wars. He later tried to usurp the throne in 175 AD, by seizing Egypt and Syria, but
his head was brought on a plate to Marcus Aurelius three months later.
ANSWER: (Gaius) Avidius Cassius
[10] Verus was ridiculed for having a low-born mistress named Panthea from this city, which around the same time
was home to the Christian bishop Polycarp, who was burned alive by the Romans with his twelve companions.
ANSWER: Smyrna

18. An artist known simply as "Mastro Giorgio" created red and gold examples of these pieces, such as one showing
Circe transforming Ulysses's men into pigs. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these white-glazed pottery pieces from the Italian Renaissance. Many pieces of this kind of pottery often
have very vibrant colors even after 500 years since tin-oxide was fired onto its surface, preserving the colors.
ANSWER: maiolica
[10] Giovanni, a member of this group of artists, often made tiles of maiolica and incorporated them into his
designs. Another member of this family produced the Cantoria for Florence Cathedral.
ANSWER: della Robia [accept Luca della Robia or Giovanni della Robia or Andrea della Robia]
[10] This city was famed for its maiolica production and counted Nicola with pioneering the istoriato narrative
style on his pottery. A depiction of Venus named for this city was made by Titian.
ANSWER: Urbino [accept Venus of Urbino]

19. Name the following things related to flow in cylindrical pipes, for 10 points each:
[10] The Hagen-Poiseuille equation gives the change in this quantity for an incompressible and laminar flow in a
cylindrical pipe. Head loss is a change in this quantity that occurs due to friction.
ANSWER: pressure
[10] When deriving the Hagen-Poiseuille equation, one first obtains an expression for the velocity profile as a
function of radius, which has this shape.
ANSWER: parabolic [or parabola]
[10] Flow in a pipe with a non-cylindrical cross section can be approximated as flow in a cylindrical pipe by
defining the hydraulic diameter. Give the formula for the hydraulic diameter in terms of the area, A, and perimeter,
P, of the cross-section.
ANSWER: 4 times A over P [or 4A divided by P]
20. An aging professor is killed by Lady Purple, a marionette whom he brings to life, in one of the "nine profane
pieces" that comprise this author's first short story collection, Fireworks. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this British author whose story "The Company of Wolves" describes how Little Red Riding Hood sleeps
with the wolf instead of fighting.
ANSWER: Angela Carter [or Angela Olive Carter-Pearce]
[10] Angela Carter was commissioned to translate the fairy tales of this French author into English during the
1970s. He adopted the persona of Mother Goose in his Stories of Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals.
ANSWER: Charles Perrault
[10] In this 1972 novel by Angela Carter, the title things must be destroyed Desiderio. The title devices of this novel
harvest "eroto-energy" to create a new reality developed by their creator.
ANSWER: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmann