Delta Burke 2018

Questions by Chris Borglum, Billy Beyer, Sean Platzer, and Peter Torres
Round 1

1. In this country, the Fagan Commission convened after World War II to examine its most central
political issue. An early prime minister of this country was Jan [yahn] Smuts, who served as a military
commander in this country’s war against Great Britain under the leadership of Paul Kruger. The Group
Areas Act in this country deemed areas like Transkei and KwaZulu as Bantustans. The Spear of the
Nation was the armed faction of a political group in this country, the African National Congress. For 10
points, Nelson Mandela fought Apartheid in what African country?
    ANSWER: South Africa

2. Glenn Branca wrote a composition for 100 of these instruments in his Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination
City). Minimalist composer Steve Reich’s piece Electric Counterpoint features tape loops and this
instrument, which was written for a jazz performer on this instrument, Pat Metheny. Perhaps the best-
known classical performer on this instrument was Andres Segovia. Chet Atkins was a country virtuoso on
this instrument. For 10 points, what instrument was played by rock musicians like Eddie Van Halen and
Jimi Hendrix?
    ANSWER: (electric) guitar

3. This state contains a thirteen mile long portion of the historic Route 66, which passes through its cities
of Riverton and Baxter Springs. This state’s I-135 connects Selina with its largest city, which is home to
an airport named for the 34th President of the US, who was born in its city of Abilene. This state’s I-470
bypasses the downtown portion of its capital, which is home to the lunatics of the Westboro Baptist
Church. A former cattle trail that starts in Texas and is named named for Jesse Chisholm ends in a city in
this state which is home to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. For 10 points, name this state
whose cities include Overland Park, Wichita, and Topeka.
ANSWER: Kansas

4. One method for measuring this value involves listening for Korotkoff sounds. This value was first
quantitatively measured by Stephen Hales, who inserted a glass tube into a horse. This value is lowered
by classes of drugs called ARBs and ACE inhibitors. A device called a sphygmomanometer [sfig-moh-
muh-NOM-ih-ter] is used to measure this value, which is high in people with hypertension. This value is
measured in millimeters of mercury and is given as the systolic over the diastolic. For 10 points, name
this value that is usually lower than 120 over 80 for a healthy adult.
ANSWER: blood pressure [prompt on “pressure”]

5. A work in which a recently deceased ruler is punished in the afterlife by using a bottomless cup to try
to throw dice is written in this language and is titled for the ruler’s “gourdification.” One work written in
this language describes planting and grafting techniques for trees, among other farming topics, and is
titled Georgics.  A satirical work describing the adventures of Encolpius and his slave Giton written in
this language also presents a feast that ends with a mock funeral for its host, Trimalchio. For 10 points,
the Satyricon of Petronius and the poems of Catullus were written in what ancient European language?
    ANSWER: Latin
6. The Shield was a periodical dedicated to this political goal, which was advocated by Jeremy Bentham
in his pamphlet Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the Form of a Catechism. This goal was explicitly
barred for the first time by the Reform Bill of 1832, though it had been de facto outlawed prior to that.
Three thousand people participated in the “Mud March” from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall to agitate for this
goal. Emily Davidson was killed by a horse at the Epsom Derby while attempting to push for this goal.
For 10 points, Emmeline Pankhurst led the fight for what goal of allowing half of the population to vote
in a country led in 1928 by George the Fifth?
     ANSWER:  women’s suffrage in Great Britain (accept answers about “women’s right to vote”
in England or Great Britain)

7. Two of these phenomena split from each other in their twinned type, and Alexander’s band is found
between two of them. Spherical bowls filled with water were used by Theodoric of Freiberg to give a
geometrical analysis of these phenomena. The secondary type of these phenomena are larger than their
primary type and have their colors reversed. These phenomena are caused by the refraction and reflection
of sunlight through drops of their namesake form of precipitation. For 10 points, name these arc-shaped
phenomena whose colors can be remembered with the acronym ROY G BIV.
ANSWER: rainbows

8. The name of one of Muhammad's companions, Abu Hurairah, refers to his love of these animals. The
medieval thinker Al-Damiri told the story that these creatures were created on Noah's Ark when a lion
sneezed. One of these creatures named Muezza is said to have bowed to Muhammad after prayers; when
Muhammad saw Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe, Muhammad cut the sleeve off rather
than wake this type of animal. For 10 points, the touch of Muhammad on what animal is said to have
given it the ability to always land on its feet?
ANSWER: cats

9. One member of this family carries around pictures of his cat, Rose Aylmer, and bandages the hand of
his niece when she punches her cousin Francis. Uncle Jack’s brother in this family was depicted in a
finally published 2015 book to have attended a Citizens Council meeting, angering many readers.
Another member of this family tells his sister not to squish a roly poly bug after seeing a trial verdict he
finds unjust. The youngest member of this family is a tomboy who, with her brother, finds gifts in the
knot of a tree left by this family’s neighbor, Boo Radley. For 10 points, Jem and Scout share what last
name with their father Atticus in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
ANSWER: Finch

10. The Pavillon de Flore of this building was redesigned by Hector Lefuel in the 1860s after this building
underwent a devastating fire. It was Lefuel who moved Carpeaux’s sculpture The Triumph of Flora to this
building’s South Facade; he also designed this building’s Daru Staircase, at the top of which stands the
Nike of Samothrace. The Napoleon Courtyard of this building now features a large structure completed in
1989 that serves as the main public entrance into this museum. For 10 points, I.M. Pei’s large glass
pyramid was built as an addition to what major art museum complex in Paris?
ANSWER: Louvre Museum (accept Louvre Palace)

11. Nancy Tuckerman was this woman’s secretary. Ann Lowe designed a wedding dress for this woman,
who often wore elbow-length gloves and triple pearl necklaces. This woman is “Windblown” in the title
of a Ron Galella photograph. This woman became an editor at Doubleday in 1978, three years after the
death of her second husband, a Greek shipping magnate. This woman wore a pink pillbox hat and a pink
Chanel suit on November 22, 1963. For 10 points, name this First Lady whose husband was assassinated
in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
ANSWER: Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy [or Jacqueline Bouvier; or Jacqueline Onassis; or Jackie
O]
12. Simon Laplace [lah-PLAHS] illustrated causal determinism by hypothesizing this type of being that
could know all past, present, and future events by knowing the momentum and location of all particles in
the universe. In his aphorism “The Greatest Weight,” Nietzsche describes one of these entities telling you
that you’ll have to live every moment of your life again, in exactly the same way. Descartes proposed that
an evil one of these entities could be deceiving him with an image of a false external world. For 10 points,
what type of creature was posited as being capable of violating the second law of thermodynamics in a
thought experiment of James Clerk Maxwell?
ANSWER: demons

13. Kim Jong Un's half brother was killed by a nerve agent that contains an atom of this element double
bonded to oxygen and single bonded to sulfur, oxygen, and carbon. Alfred Redfield discovered that the
ratio of carbon to nitrogen to this element is 106:16:1 in phytoplankton. The middle number on fertilizer
labels indicates the amount of this element, which the alchemist Hennig Brand discovered while trying to
turn urine into gold. This element's red and white allotropes have both been used in matches. For 10
points, name this element that is bonded to oxygen in a phosphate ion.
ANSWER: phosphorus [prompt on “P”]

14. This character kills a man who wants to return to Glee Anselm and learn to play the valachord. This
native of the planet Corellia was given his last name by a naval recruiting officer. Enfys Nest gives this
character one vial of the hyperfuel coaxium. This character brags about making the Kessel Run in twelve
parsecs and wins a ship in a card game called sabacc [sah-BAWK] by preventing Lando Calrissian from
cheating. For 10 points, name this character who was played by Alden Ehrenreich in a 2018 movie and
who flies the Millenium Falcon with Chewbacca.
ANSWER: Han Solo [accept either]

15. This god turned Smyrna into a myrrh tree just at the moment Smyrna’s father Cinyras was cutting her
in two; the child Adonis came forth from the cleft Smyrna, and this deity hid him in a box that she gave to
Persephone for safe-keeping. When this deity was a child, Zeus gave her all the mountains of the world as
a gift. When Oeneus [EE-nee-uhs] of Calydon forgot to dedicate the first harvest fruits to this goddess,
she sent a giant boar to ravage his lands. This goddess set his own stags on the hunter Actaeon after he
saw her bathing. For 10 points, what sister of Apollo was the virginal Greek goddess of the hunt.
ANSWER: Artemis

16. Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño set the first section of his novel The Savage Detectives in this country.
In another novel set in this country, Juan Preciado travels to meet his father, the title character, in the
town of Comala; that novel is Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo. A caudillo looks back on the major events of
his life while lying on his deathbed in another novel set in this country; the author of that book wrote
another in which the title figure is based on American writer Ambrose Bierce’s hypothesized
disappearance in this country. For 10 points, The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo are novels
by Carlos Fuentes set in what North American country?
ANSWER: Mexico

17. A 1943 painting by this artist called The She Wolf exemplifies a middle space between his earlier
figurative work and later abstraction. Teal and black dominate a 1947 canvas by this painter titled for a
speech by Ariel in The Tempest. That painting’s encrusted surface reveals cigarette butts and thumbtacks
that fell onto the large canvas which was laid on the floor as this artist painted it. For 10 points, the
painting Full Fathom Five is by what Abstract Expressionist, who created works like Lavender Mist by
spattering and dripping paint on the canvas?
ANSWER: Jackson Pollock
18. In an 1843 letter to Richard Phillips, this scientist described an experiment that used an insulated
pewter ice pail. In the Davisson-Germer experiment, the number of scattered electrons was measured by a
cup named for this man, who names a constant equal to 96,485 coulombs per mole. A law named for this
man states the curl of the electric field equals the negative partial time derivative of the magnetic field.
The unit of capacitance is named for this man, whose namesake law of induction is one of Maxwell’s
equation. For 10 points, identify this namesake of the farad.
ANSWER: Michael Faraday

19. In one non-fiction work, this author considered the efficacy of spending the title amount of money to
make donations to campaigns to stop war, rebuild a women’s college, and encourage the hiring of women
in professional jobs. Three Guineas by this author was originally going to be interspersed with a novel
following the upper-class Pargiter family, The Years. An earlier novel by this author sees the title
character leave Elizabethan England to be an ambassador in Constantinople, where he falls asleep for
three days and awakens as a woman. The novel Orlando is by this author, who examined the artistic
evolution of Lily Briscoe in her novel To the Lighthouse. For 10 points, what British Modernist wrote
The Waves and Mrs. Dalloway?
ANSWER: Virginia Woolf

20. The desire of peoples with ethnicity related to this modern country to have their lands incorporated
into this country is called enosis. Enosis is especially desired by those who live on the south and west of
an island where their population is divided by the Green Line from a different ethnic population. This
country gained independence with the Treaty of Constantinople under the governance of Ioannis
Kapodistrias. For 10 points, what modern country separated from the Ottoman Empire and set its capital
at Athens?
ANSWER: Greece
Delta Burke 2018
Round 1 Bonuses

1. This scientist is credited with being the first to state the central dogma of molecular biology. For 10
points each:
[10] Name this man who, along with James Watson, determined the double helix structure of DNA.
ANSWER: Francis Crick
[10] The central dogma of molecular biology was restated following the discovery of these viruses, which
include HIV, and use the enzyme reverse transcriptase to produce DNA from RNA.
ANSWER: retroviruses
[10] That restatement of the central dogma also covers these misfolded proteins, which cause kuru, mad
cow disease, and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
ANSWER: prions

2. In October, 2018, a work by this artist was mostly destroyed at the moment the gavel dropped on its
auction sale. For 10 points each:
[10] What British street artist and political provocateur is the subject of the documentary Exit through the
Gift Shop?
ANSWER: Banksy
[10] The Banksy work that was destroyed by a shredder built into its frame was titled for a girl holding
one of these objects, which provided the only color in the painting.
ANSWER: balloon
[10] In 2004, Banksy created a number of artworks spoofing this specific currency, which he called
“tenners,” and which replaced the face of Queen Elizabeth with that of Princess Diana.
ANSWER: ten pound notes (prompt on “money” or “cash”)

3. The awards for achievement in French theater, the equivalent of the Tony Awards, are named for this
man. For 10 points each:
[10] Who wrote satirical plays like The Misanthrope and Tartuffe?
ANSWER: Moliere (prompt but look annoyed at “Jean Baptiste Poquelin”)
[10] Harpagon, who hoards the money he makes from usurious loans, is the title figure of this Moliere
play.
ANSWER: The Miser or L’Avare
[10] Moliere was lazy about names, using this as the name of Orgon’s daughter in Tartuffe and the object
of Harpagon’s affections in The Miser. This name was later used to name France’s female representation
of liberty.
ANSWER: Mariane (the liberty one is Marianne, but whatever)

4. In the New Testament Book of Matthew, Jesus calls James and John from this practice to join him as
disciples. For 10 points each:
[10] Those two were using nets to engage in what activity when called?
ANSWER: fishing
[10] In Mark, Jesus refers to James and John as “Boanerges,” or sons of this natural phenomenon; though
no reason is given, some suggest it refers to James’s hot temper.
ANSWER: thunder
[10] Back in Matthew, Jesus also called this man and his brother Andrew to join him, stating that he will
make them fishers of men.
ANSWER: Peter (or Simon)
5. This huge undertaking was codenamed Operation Vittles by the U.S. For 10 points each:
[10] What effort to avoid a Soviet blockade and bring food to the German capital took place from 1948 to
49?
ANSWER: Berlin Airlift
[10] The Berlin Airlift was supported by this larger recovery plan for Europe, commonly known by the
surname of Truman’s Secretary of State.
ANSWER: George Marshall or Marshall Plan
[10] Excessive printing of Reichsmarks by the Soviets combined with pre-war inflation led to the use of
these things as a de facto currency in occupied Berlin for much of the late 1940s.
ANSWER: cigarettes

6. One song by this person’s husband states “Ain't nobody leavin' here til we're straight outta cold beer.”
FTPE:
[10] Name this singer whose debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. includes the song “Harajuku
Girls” and another in which she spells out the word “bananas.”
ANSWER: Gwen Stefani
[10] Gwen Stefani is the lead singer of this band, whose songs include “Hey Baby” and “Don’t Speak.”  
ANSWER: No Doubt
[10] No Doubt’s song “Don’t Speak” is on this 1995 album, which also includes “Just a Girl” and
“Spiderwebs.”  
ANSWER: Tragic Kingdom

7. Its predecessor was set up in 1969 by the Department of Defense, and it shares its name with a lite web
browser released by Amazon in India in 2018. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this global computer system on which the World Wide Web can be accessed.
ANSWER: the Internet
[10] The Internet connects computers using this reliable transport layer, which uses a three-way
handshake to establish a connection. It complements the lower level IP.
ANSWER: TCP [or Transmission Control Protocol]  
[10] TCP uses these values to determine whether data has been transferred without errors. An algorithm
named for Fletcher can be used to compute their position-dependent type.
ANSWER: checksums  

8. This author’s book Mosses from an Old Manse collects stories like “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The
Birth-Mark.” For 10 points each:
[10] What American also wrote that novel you read about on Sparknotes in high school, The Scarlet
Letter?
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
[10] Mosses from an Old Manse also includes this story, the title character of which thinks he sees his
wife Faith consort with the devil in the woods.
ANSWER: “Young Goodman Brown”
[10] In this Hawthorne story, Reverend Hooper wears the title object, which obscures his face down to his
chin, to hide his sin.
ANSWER: “The Minister’s Black Veil”

9. Zhang Qian’s travels helped open up this trade route. For 10 points each:
[10] What pathway begun in the second century BCE eventually linked China to the Mediterranean?
ANSWER: Silk Road
[10] From around the third century BCE till the second century CE this empire, led by a bunch of kings
named Arsaces, controlled the western half of the Silk Road.
ANSWER: Parthian Empire
[10] Soon after its foundation by Al-Mansur, this capital city of the Abbasids became a central nexus on
the Silk Road.
ANSWER: Baghdad

10. One of these features, the largest system of its classifications, is found on the Iguazu River in South
America. For 10 points each:
[10] The tallest example of what kind of natural feature is named for American aviator Jimmy Angel and
is located in Venezuela.
ANSWER: waterfall (prompt on “cataract”)
[10] Iguazu Falls marks part of the border between Brazil and this country to its west.
ANSWER: Argentina
[10] The widest single-drop falls in the world are at Kaieteur in this country between Venezuela and
Suriname with capital at Georgetown.
ANSWER: Guyana

11. The thought experiment in which one is asked if she would save a drowning child is used to consider
the moral requirement for this action. For 10 points each:
[10] The cost of replacing the shoes one ruins in saving the drowning child is used as a guilt-inducing
metaphor meant to provoke people into this activity as regards starving children.
ANSWER: charitable giving (accept charity, donating to the poor, or equivalents)
[10] The Australian creator of the drowning child thought experiment, Peter Singer, also wrote the 1975
book Animal Liberation, which inspired the formation of this animal rights group, which is against the
preference for eating tasty animals.
ANSWER: PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
[10] The title of a 1972 article by Singer asks whether the “Act” form of this philosophical-ethical school
is self-defeating. It also has “rule,” “preference,” and “hedonistic” forms.
ANSWER: utilitarianism

12. His namesake equation was corrected by Maxwell’s equal area rule. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this scientist who names an equation that modifies the ideal gas law and a category of weak
intermolecular forces that includes dispersion forces.
ANSWER: Johannes Diderik van der Waals
[10] In the van der Waals equation, the corrective “b” term accounts for this quantity, which is inversely
proportional to pressure according to Boyle’s law.
ANSWER: volume
[10] The ideal gas law is a combination of Boyle's law, Charles’s law, Avogadro's law, and this law,
which states the pressure of a gas is directly proportional to its temperature.
ANSWER: Gay-Lussac’s Law

13. The Mayan deity Chaac had power over this domain. For 10 points each:
[10] The Mesoamerican deity Tlaloc [tlah-LOHK], who was supplicated by infant sacrifice, was a god of
what phenomenon, desired to help grow crops?
ANSWER: rain (prompt on “water”)
[10] Tlaloc was a deity of this culture.
ANSWER: Aztec
[10] Another Aztec deity was Tezcatlipoca, whose right foot was often depicted as this specific type of
object, representative of obsidian.
ANSWER: smoking mirror [prompt on ‘mirror’]
14. When asked for a definition of this animal in the novel Hard Times, a student replies,
“Graminivorous. Quadruped. Forty Teeth.” For 10 points each:
[10] What type of animal were Boxer, Mollie, and Clover in George Orwell’s book Animal Farm?
ANSWER: horses
[10] Hard Times is a novel by this British author of The Pickwick Papers.
ANSWER: Charles Dickens
[10] In Animal Farm, Boxer represents the trusting and loyal Russian proletariat; when things are hard at
the farm, he always responds with this four-word statement.
ANSWER: “I will work harder”

15. One of these performances takes place in Handel’s Orlando, which makes sense since it’s based on
Orlando Furioso. For 10 points each:
[10] What term is used for operatic performances of insanity?
ANSWER: mad scene
[10] This Italian composer loved him some mad scenes, including famous ones in Anna Bolena and
Lucrezia di Lammermoor.
ANSWER: Gaetano Donizetti
[10] This composer wrote Marfa’s mad scene in his opera The Tsar’s Bride; this member of the Russian
Five is better known for his symphonic suite, Scheherazade.
ANSWER: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

16. Frank Sulloway’s book Born to Rebel argues that this factor has definitive effects on traits like
intelligence and extroversion. For 10 points each:
[10] What is this factor among siblings about which psychologists still argue regarding its effects on
personality?
ANSWER: birth order
[10] This psychologist was the first to argue for major effects in personality based on birth order. He
broke from Freud in 1911 and theorized the inferiority complex.
ANSWER: Alfred Adler
[10] Actual data doesn’t systematically support the idea of a syndrome named for the idea that kids born
in this position suffer neglect or resentment compared to siblings in more privileged positions.
ANSWER: middle child (accept equivalents, I reckon)

17. One event of this name took place in 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland. For 10 points each:
[10] What name is given to the incident in which British soldiers shot into a crowd of unarmed Irish
protesters, killing 14?
ANSWER: Bloody Sunday
[10] An earlier Bloody Sunday took place in 1905 in this country where workers were massacred outside
of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.
ANSWER: Russia
[10] After Bloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to various reforms, including the creation of this
Russian legislative body in 1906.
ANSWER: Duma

18. Donna Strickland recently became just the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in this field of science.
FTPE:
[10] Strickland thus joins Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer as a winner in this scientific field for
her co-invention of chirped pulse amplification.
ANSWER: physics
[10] The Twitterverse was outraged to find out that Strickland hadn’t earned this status at her university
in Ontario, though she later noted she hadn’t applied for it. This status grants professors the right to due
process and academic freedom.
ANSWER: tenure
[10] Chirped pulse amplification can use these transparent optical elements as dispersive elements.
Amplification through these elements can lose power due to Rayleigh scattering.
ANSWER: prisms

19. The first internationally acclaimed writer from this country was the author of the novel Epitaph for a
Small Winner, Machado de Assis. For 10 points each:
[10] Jorge Amado, who wrote Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in Portuguese, was a native of what
country?
    ANSWER: Brazil
[10] The title female of Amado’s Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon works in this profession. In Laura
Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, Tita expresses herself through this activity.
    ANSWER: cook(ing)
[10] Amado’s novel Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, due to its depiction of Flor’s ghost ex-husband,
is classified as falling into this genre in which supernatural occurrences are taken in stride in otherwise
typical settings.
ANSWER: magical realism

20. Use of this route peaked at around 3,000 travelers in 1845. For 10 points each:
[10] What westward trail ended in the fertile Willamette Valley and brought settlers from the Midwest?
ANSWER: Oregon Trail
[10] Fort Hall and Fort Vancouver are among the fortified trading posts along the Oregon Trail run by
this Canadian company, the oldest still in business in North America.
ANSWER: Hudson’s Bay Company (or HBC)
[10] In 1846 the Oregon Treaty gave the US possession of the Oregon Territory, a prime goal of this
president, a Tennessean who is the only House Speaker to have become president.
ANSWER: James K. Polk