Rahul. Chaitanya. Shivank, that's Shiva with an N-K. Alright, are both teams ready to go? Good luck everyone.
I'll start here with tossup 1. 1. In this decade, one government refused to
offer a 21-gun salute to Henry Mayo after mistakenly seizing some US sailors. An election
held in the first year of this decade was marked by the slogan "A Real Vote and No Boss Rule" and
a pledge to enforce the Constitution of 1857.
One document issued in this decade called for the
restoration of communal ejidos and is named for (*) Ayala. The Tampico Affair took place in this
decade where the Pact of the Embassy was signed in Henry Lane Wilson's office during the Ten
Tragic Days. The Plan So like, the '10s? 1910S? That's correct, for 10 points. Here's your bonus.
Your bonus. 1. Answer the following about Amphitryon's
adventures after his exile from Tiryns, for 10 points each. [10] Amphitryon was purged of the blood guilt from having accidentally killed his uncle
Electryon by this king of Thebes, who later ordered his niece Antigone's death after she
disobeyed his order and buried her brother Polynices.
Creon? Creon is correct. [10] Creon then assigned Amphitryon to catch this
legendarily uncatchable beast. Amphitryon solved the problem by sending Laelaps, a dog who never
failed to catch its prey, after this beast, upon which Zeus resolved the paradox by turning both
animals to stone. The Teumessian fox? Yeah.
[10] Amphitryon's wife Alcmene gave birth to twin
sons: one, Iphicles, was actually Amphitryon's, while the other was this hero, a child of Zeus
who was later assigned twelve labors. Heracles? 30 Points. Tossup 2. 2.
The protagonist of a novel titled for this
entity is forced to pose for visitors at the Museum of Natural Wonders and is pursued by
Ridgeway. The first National Park Service site commemorating this thing was a museum opened in
Cincinnati in 2004. In a 2016 Colson Whitehead novel, Cora and Caesar use a literal version of
this thing. A book of its "records" was published by William (*) Still, while Eric Foner's "hidden
history" of it profiled the New York Vigilance Committee.
Personal Liberty Laws assisted people
using this entity, who were not actually given information The Underground Railroad? That's correct, 10 points. Your bonus. 2. There's more than one way to write an
equilibrium constant.
For 10 points each: [10] The law of mass action equates the
equilibrium constant to a ratio of component concentrations assessed by this metric. This
common metric for concentration equals moles of solute over liters of the solution. Molars? Yes, that's correct. [10] Technically, to keep units consistent,
concentration should be replaced by this value, a dimensionless effective concentration symbolized
lowercase a.
Its namesake coefficient gamma measures intermolecular attractions in a liquid. No clue. Answer please? Mole fraction? Bounceback? Activity? That's correct. [10] Transition state theory relies heavily on a
prediction from the grand canonical ensemble that this quantity for each molecule can be
substituted instead of molarity.
In TST, it is usually symbolized Q and comes in translational,
rotational, vibrational, and electronic components. Energy? Bounceback? Degrees of freedom? The partition function. 10 Apiece on the bonus. Tossup 3.
3. This English word, which is not a place name,
begins the title of a painting commissioned by Girolamo Marcello in which a cupid at the feet of
the title nude was painted out by a later artist. This is also the first word in the title of a
painting in which a drinking vase and a mandolin sit near a woman who grasps a walking stick. In
that painting titled for this action, a "wandering (*) Negress" is inspected but not
devoured by a passing lion.
Dream? Uh, yeah, that's correct. Sleep or dream. Here is your bonus. 3.
This man's Christian faith was shaped by his
grandmother, Ludmila, in opposition to his pagan mother, Dragomir. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Duke of Bohemia who was killed after his brother Boleslaus lured him to a church
dedication ceremony. Answer please? Wallenstein? Over here? Wenceslas? Yes. Good King Wenceslas himself.
[10] Wenceslas's body resides in a shrine in
Saint Vitus's Cathedral in this Bohemian city. One of the causes of the Thirty Years' War was
its namesake 1618 Defenestration, in which Catholic officials were thrown out a window. Prague? Prague is correct. [10] Wenceslas resumed the tribute paid to Henry
the Fowler, the father of this Holy Roman Emperor who won the Battle of Lechfeld.
Otto? More? Otto I? Yes, or Great. 20 And 10 on the bonus. Tossup 4. 4.
The sostenuto e pesante second movement of
this composer's 1926 piano sonata was written in part for the nine extra bass keys of an Imperial
Bsendorfer piano. One entry in a set of five piano pieces by this composer involves imitating a pair of
out-of-tune musettes, while another repeatly imitates the ribbit of an Unka frog. Many of this composer's slow movements
include dissonant or tone-cluster ostinatos, pastoral melodies, and imitations of animal
sounds, a style referred to as (*) "night music". Bartk? Yes, 10 points.
Right into the mic. Here's your bonus. 4. Answer the following about things done by
Edwin Arlington Robinson characters, for 10
points each.
[10] Despite the fact that he "glittered when he
walked" and was "richer than a king", Richard Cory ends the poem titled for him by committing
suicide in this specific manner. A description is acceptable. Shooting himself in the head? That's right! [10] "Miniver Cheevy" ends by noting that the
title character "coughed, and called it fate, and kept on" performing this action. A man named Eben
climbs to the top of a hill to do this, specifically proposing to himself that he do it
"to the bird", in "Mr.
Flood's Party". Crying? Over here? Singing? Drinking. [10] The title character of "Luke Havergal" is
repeatedly told to "go to" this specific place, where "the vines cling crimson on the wall",
because "there is not a dawn in eastern skies" sufficient for him. Western gate? That's correct, so 20 on the bonus.
Tossup 5. 5. An archbishop of this city who presided over
and was responsible for implementing the Council of Trent was named Charles Borromeo. The Della
Torre family were Guelph rulers of this city.
A viceroy ruling from this city named Eugne de
Beauharnais founded its stock exchange in 1808. Napoleon I crowned himself King of Italy in a
cathedral here. In 286 CE, Diocletian made it the capital of the Western Roman Ravenna? Nope, that's not correct. Western Roman Empire.
One dynasty in this city
secured power after the (*) death of signore Filippo Maria Visconti by allying with Florence
to secure the Peace of Lodi. A patron of Leonardo da Vinci from this city earned the nickname "The
Moor" for his dark skin and was named Ludovico Sforza. For 10 points, name this capital of
Lombardy, the financial capital of Italy. Milan? That's correct! Milan for 10 points.
Here's your bonus. 5. This artist's painting Excavation was inspired
by the 1949 Giuseppe De Santis film Bitter Rice. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this artist who made black and white paintings such as Zurich in the late 1940s
because he was too poor to buy pigments.
This husband of the artist Elaine Fried painted Clam
Diggers. Answer please? Homer? Nope. Over here? Johnson? Willem de Kooning. [10] De Kooning created a series of six paintings
of these type of people.
Another de Kooning painting pairs one of these people with a bicycle. Woman? Woman is correct. [10] In the 1980s, this artist created his own
Pop Art versions of de Kooning's Woman paintings. Earlier, this man elevated the aesthetics of
comic strips to high art in paintings such as
Whaam! Lichtenstein? Lichtenstein, for 20 on the bonus.
Tossup 6. 6. After browsing a library containing Paracelsus
and Roger Bacon, a woman in this story weeps against the cover of a journal recording how all
the projects of a man's life have fallen short of their aims. A character in this story
demonstrates a photographic plate, then dissolves it in a jar of acid when the image comes out Uh, The Birth-Mark? That's correct for 20 points.
Bonus. 6. Answer the following about depictions of the
Cultural Revolution in Chinese literature, for 10 points each.
[10] Two boys sent to a mountain village for re-education feature in Dai Sijie's novel titled
for this author and the "Little Chinese Seamstress." This author's characters include the
criminal Vautrin and the social climber Eugne de Rastignac. Balzac? Balzac's correct.
[10] Old Geng thwarts attempts to destroy his
fox-fairy tablet during the revolution in a Mo Yan novel titled for this color of sorghum.
During the revolution, a book of this color by Mao was disseminated by guards named for it. Red? Red is correct. [10] The employees of the hospital where Manna
works bicker over the Cultural Revolution in this novel by Ha Jin, in which Lin Kong does the title
action for eighteen years while trying to get a divorce from his wife Shuyu. Waiting? Waiting's correct.
30 Points. Tossup 7. 7. The Elchasaite sect reportedly engaged in a
form of this practice to treat those who have been bitten by rabid dogs.
First Corinthians
15:29 has been used to justify a vicarious form of this practice. Catechumens are individuals who
are receiving instruction to be prepared for this practice. In the Great Commission, Jesus urged
this practice to be performed in all nations. Like, baptism? Baptism's right.
20 Points. Here's your bonus. 7. This person's childhood home of Locust Hill
was not far from Monticello, and he briefly served in the Chosen Rifle Company of a future
colleague.
For 10 points each: [10] Identify this leader of the Corps of
Discovery. Answer please? Lewis? Yes. [10] This member of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe
joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition with her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau. Her knowledge of
sign language helped her secure horses for the expedition.
Sacagawea. Yep. [10] Some accounts hold that Sacagawea lived well
past 1812, dying in this modern-day state. The construction of forts such as Fort Phil Kearny in
this modern-day state increased white settlement in it.
Answer please? Iowa? Over here? Missouri? Wyoming. 20 On the bonus. Tossup 8. 8.
Minkowski's taxicab geometry created a version
of this quantity named for Manhattan. In the calculus of variations, the smallest value of
this quantity for distinct objects is the geodesic. A graph-theoretic notion of this
quantity counts the number of edges in a shortest path between two graphs. It's the distance metric? 20 Points.
Here's your bonus. 8. In 1959, the Hebgen Lake Earthquake occurred
in this state, which created the six-mile long Quake Lake by depositing rocks that impeded the
Madison River's flow. For 10 points each: [10] Name this large U.S.
State whose two
flagship universities have campuses in Missoula, Bozeman, Billings, and Helena. Montana? That's correct. [10] Going-to-the-Sun Road passes through this
Montana attraction, which lies directly across the U.S.-Canada border from Waterton Lakes
National Park. This park, which is west of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, contains the "Crown
of the Continent" ecosystem.
Glacier Bay? No, over here? Yellowstone? Just Glacier. Different national park. [10] Brower's Spring, which is thought to be the
source of the Missouri River, is located in the Centennial Mountains, the southernmost sub-range
of this mountain range that runs along the Montana-Idaho border and is itself a sub-range of
the Rockies. Over here? Black Hills? Bitterroot Range.
Tossup 9. 9. An anonymous poet from this country wrote of a
cat, "His whole instinct is to hunt, / Mine to free the meaning pent." A medieval tale from this
country concerns a king who is cursed with madness by a bishop, then begins to levitate and
lives among the trees like a bird. "Pangur Bn" is a poem from this country, whose other early
literature includes a poem about Sweeney, who visits places like (*) Swim-Two-Birds.
Ireland? 10 Points. Your bonus. 9. Prior to the 12th century, more powerful
members of this class of people were called bushi.
For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this class of people, whose wives were often trained to use a kaiken knife. A group
of these people launched a failed 1877 rebellion after modernization largely made them obsolete. Samurai? Correct. [10] Commoners were allowed to carry one of these
weapons, but only samurai were permitted to wield two of them.
Samurai often carried two of them,
the wakizashi and the katana. Swords? Yes. [10] Samurai often maintained these things, known
in Japanese as kare-sansui or ishi-niwa. Kyt's Ryan-ji contains a celebrated example of one of
these things.
Statue of Buddha? Over here? Castle? It's a rock garden. Or zen garden. 20 On the bonus. Tossup 10, after which we will have a score check.
10. This quantity is plotted on log scale on the
x-axis of a Bode plot, which measures a system's stability to changes in it. Since skin depth of
electric current varies with the minus one-half power of this quantity times permeability, at
high values of it, a conductor's resistance increases. In RLC circuits, when this quantity is
large, the voltage across the inductor is high and across the capacitor is low.
Low-pass filters
screen out signals with (*) high values of it. This quantity is represented by the speed at
which a phasor rotates. Fourier transforms convert a signal from the time domain to this
quantity's domain. Frequency? That's correct.
10 Points. Here is your bonus. 10. A common method of determining the optical
density of a cell culture involves measuring this quantity.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this quantity that is measured by placing a layer of liquid between two pieces of
glass and multiplying the sine of the critical angle at which light still transmits by 1.5,
Which is approximately glass's value for it. Index of refraction? That's correct. [10] The index of refraction equals the speed of
light over this quantity for light in the liquid. Unlike a related value, this specific quantity is
defined as just the wavenumber over the angular frequency.
Velocity? I need more. The velocity of light in a vacuum? No. Over here? Velocity of light in a medium? Prompt? Spin velocity? It's the phase velocity. Oh, okay.
[10] If the angular frequency is independent of
wavenumber, then the namesake relation for this process is that the group and phase velocities
are equal. This process is the spreading of a ray of light into a rainbow when it passes through a
prism. Dispersion. Yes, 20 points.
That's half. Score check. I have 220 for Barrington, and 130 Westview. Yep.
Rob. Rob, what's the score? 220 To 130. Barrington's up. [Laughter] Are both teams ready to resume? Good? Good? Good luck.
I'll start again on tossup 11. 11. An overland trail named for this city was
overlooked by Bent's Old Fort, a fur-trading depot managed by William Bent and his Cheyenne
wife Owl Eyes. During the Civil War, H.
H. Sibley was forced to withdraw from this territorial
capital after a Pyrrhic victory at Glorieta Pass. While imprisoned in this city, Zebulon Pike noted
the weakness of its defenses in his journal, Montreal? Nope. Indirectly leading to the 1846 bloodless capture
of this city by Stephen (*) Kearney.
Wheat shipments were transported along a railroad
linking this city with Atchison and Topeka. This destination of a silver-and-furs trade route
established by William Becknell was sacked after a 1680 rebellion led by Pope, the Pueblo
Rebellion. For 10 points, name this city annexed to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, the present-day capital of New Mexico. Albuquerque? Santa Fe.
What? Ooh. Tossup 12. 12. Late in a play, this character reverses an
insult about being called a "squashed cabbage leaf." She objects to getting into a "funny sort
of copper", claiming to have known a woman who died from bathing every Saturday night, while
arguing with Mrs.
Pearce. This character threatens to go into business with a Hungarian
named Nepommuck in a play in which an American philanthropist named Ezra Wannafeller pays her
father, a (*) dustman, a huge salary to lecture on morality. Like, Eliza? 10 Points. Your bonus.
11. In a play by this author, Edith is unable to
see or hear the ghost of Elvira, her husband Charles's ex-wife. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this British playwright of Blithe Spirit who also wrote a comedy in which the
newlyweds Sibyl and Elyot check into the same hotel as their ex-spouses, Private Lives. Coward? Yes [10] In his 1946 play Peace in Our Time, Coward
imagined a world where this government had taken over the United Kingdom.
At the end of Lillian
Hellman's Watch on the Rhine, Kurt leaves the country to continue to agitate against this
government. Nazi Germany? Yes. [10] Coward plays such as Design for Living and
Hay Fever are 20th-century examples of the comedy of these things. J.
A. Cuddon defined this genre
of comedy as addressing "the behavior and deportment of men and women living under specific
social codes". Answer? Mores? Over here? Manners? Manners. 20 And 10 on the bonus.
13. A nine-month-long performance of this
activity that began at the Chalceia resulted in a peplos for use in the Great Panathenaea. A
goddess's patronage of this activity was indicated by the epithet Ergane. A character who
is transformed into a nightingale after being raped by her sister's wife Tereus and having her
tongue cut out conveys her plight by performing this Like, writing in the sand? No.
The Proci are delayed in part by a daily
performance of this action that is then (*) undone every night. Philomela does this to
communicate with her sister Procne, and Penelope does it to create an item for Laertes. After
challenging Athena to a contest in this activity, Arachne is turned into a spider. For 10 points,
name this activity that can create a funeral shroud or a tapestry.
Weaving? Weaving is correct. Here's your bonus. 12. According to the "swipe-card" model, this
sense is actually based on the vibrational frequency of ligand binding, not the ligand's
shape, so it could actually distinguish deuterated ligands.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this sense that is regulated by the olfactory nerve. Smell? Mhm. [10] If true, the swipe-card model would
invalidate the more canonical mechanism for how these proteins work. Olfactory receptors and
rhodopsin fall into this class of proteins which all have seven transmembrane helices and
can act as guanine exchange factors.
Answer? No. Over here? No answer. These are GPCRs, or G-protein coupled receptors. [10] Upon sensing an odor, receptor neurons in
the olfactory mucosa pass the signal to a globular structure of this name in the olfactory
bulb.
More commonly, this term refers to the bundle of capillaries surrounded by Bowman's
capsule. Glomerulus? Mhm. 20 Points. Tossup 14.
14. During this period, the release from prison
of two sisters known as the "Crazy Prices" was demanded in exchange for The Guitar Player, a
stolen Vermeer painting. A large number of Armalite assault rifles were smuggled to one side
aboard the QE2 during this period. The "Widgery Whitewash" exonerated perpetrators of a massacre
during this Troubles? That's right! 20 Points.
Your bonus. 13. Answer the following about Joseph Haydn's
masses, for 10 points each. [10] Haydn's penultimate setting of the mass
shocked Maria Theresa because it reused music from a duet between Adam and Eve in this Haydn
oratorio, which opens with "The Representation of Chaos" and depicts events from the Book of
Genesis.
The Creation? That's correct. [10] Haydn's Mass in Time of War is alternately
known as the "Paukenmesse" due to its ominous solo for this instrument in the Agnus Dei. Two
sets of these instruments play dueling glissandi in the final movement of Carl Nielsen's
Inextinguishable Symphony. Timpani? Timpani's correct.
[10] This 1798 mass is scored for no woodwinds,
owing to Nikolaus II Esterhzy having recently dismissed his wind band. It gained both its
official title and its common nickname from contemporary events in the Napoleonic wars. Lord Nelson Mass? Yep, or the Missa in Angustiis or Mass for
Troubled Times. 30 On the bonus! Tossup 15.
15. A 2015 video depicts this man firing a
machine gun while encircled by camouflaged SUVs and is ostensibly a trailer for a movie called
Whoever Doesn't Understand Will Get It. This honorary leader of a branch of the "Night Wolves"
motorcycle gang engaged in a spat with John Oliver after posting a plea for help finding his
lost cat to his Insta Ka Ka Kadyrov? Yeah, 20 points! Heh heh heh heh. Here's your bonus.
14. Answer the following about the Parnassian
literary movement, for 10 points each. [10] The Parnassians were inspired by this
19th-century literary credo, advanced most prominently by Thophile Gautier. It suggests
that literature, among other things, needs no source of merit other than its own intrinsic
value.
Art for art's sake? That's right. [10] This Parnassian poet, who wrote "The Broken
Vase" and Revolt of the Flowers, won the first-ever Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Answer? Over here? Baudelaire? Sully Prudhomme. [10] Many prominent Parnassians later became
Symbolists, including this poet of "A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance" and "The
Afternoon of A Faun", the latter of which inspired a Debussy piece.
Mallarm? Mallarm is correct. 20 Points. Score check? Sure. I have 300 for Barrington, and 210 for Westview.
We've got that as well. So there's 5 tossups left. And here's tossup 16. 16.
This process is coupled to MAGE in the name
of a technique used in 2011 to engineer a whole synthetic genome lacking a stop codon. The tra
protein family forms a relaxosome to nick DNA. During this process. Type IV secretion systems
are homologous to the proteins used in it.
Joshua Lederberg discovered this process's mechanism,
which requires either an F-positive cell or an Hfr strain that has the fertility factor
chromosomally integrated. This process (*) spreads R factors, which encode antibiotic
resistance. During this process, a pilus forms between two bacteria, enabling Uh, like, horizontal gene transfer? I can prompt. Bacterial conjugation.
Yes, 10 points. Here's your bonus. 15. The second edition of this man's most famous
theological work included several chapters addressing Arthur Drews's then-recently released
book The Christ Myth.
For 10 points each: [10] Name this author of The Quest of the
Historical Jesus, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his medical missionary work founding a namesake
hospital in what is now Gabon. Schweitzer? That's right! [10] In another theological text, Schweitzer
claimed that this figure's "mysticism" was centered on the idea of "being-in-Christ".
Fourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament are credited to this apostle, who experienced a
conversion on the road to Damascus. Paul? Paul's correct. [10] Paul claims that Christ's coming redeemed
Christians from the "curse" or "schoolmaster" of Mosaic law, making circumcision unnecessary, in
this epistle addressed to a group of Anatolian churches.
Answer please? Letters to the Romans? Over here? Ephesians? Galatians. 20 On the bonus. Tossup 17. 17.
A character in this novel says "When you tell
a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth" in arguing that every sin is a type of theft. A
family friend tells its protagonist about irony after he writes a story about a man whose tears
become pearls. In this novel, an official wearing black sunglasses hurls rocks at an adulterous man
stuck in a chest-deep hole in a stadium. This novel closes in a San Francisco (*) park, where a
silent orphan whom the main character had adopted appears to smile.
This novel's protagonist frames
his Hazara servant for theft after witnessing his rape by Assef. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a
sequel The Kite Runner? 10 Points. Your bonus. 16.
At the beginning of this movie, the title
character wanders into a town where a dog carrying a human hand gleefully prances toward
him. For 10 points each: [10] Name this film in which a wandering samurai
plays off Tazaemon and Takaemon, two rival merchants, by having them both hire him as a
bodyguard. Answer? Seven Samurai? Over here? Ikiru? Yojimbo. [10] Yojimbo and its sequel Sanjuro are films by
this Japanese director, whose other collaborations with star Toshir Mifune include
Throne of Blood and The Seven Samurai.
Kurosawa? That's correct. [10] This director of The Good, The Bad, and The
Ugly remade Yojimbo as the spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars, after which he was
successfully sued by the distributors of Yojimbo for copyright infringement. Leone? Leone is correct. 20 On the bonus.
Tossup 18. 18. In 1966, one artist working in this state
published a book of photos he took of a two-and-a-half mile long section of a road in its
most populous city. Ed Ruscha photographed "every building" along a road in this state.
This is California? 20 Points! Your bonus. 17. The so-called "warm" theory of this process
posits that the era of radiation took place alongside this process to resolve the "graceful
exit problem." For 10 points each: [10] Name this process proposed by Alan Guth, in
which the space between particles of the universe increased at a rate that was faster than the
speed of light. Inflation? [10] Cosmic inflation is theorized to have
occurred less than a microsecond after this event, in which the universe was born from a
singularity.
Fred Hoyle coined the two-word name for this event. Big Bang? That's correct. [10] The Big Bang theory is an alternative to
this theory of the universe's origin, which holds that matter is continuously added to it. Hoyle
later proposed a "quasi-" form of this theory suggesting that the universe evolves through
"mini-bangs." Oh my god.
I was just looking at that. Answer please? Steady-state. 20 On the bonus. Yeah, let's check the score again.
With 2 to go, I have 300 Barrington, 310 Westview. It's a 10-point game with 2 tossups left. First, tossup 19. 19.
The process of "spiritualization" that
constitutes this philosopher's theory of memory resembles that of an earlier philosopher but
rejects that philosopher's notion of the wahm, or estimative faculty. This philosopher asserted
that God is simple and changeless but can create complex plurality by contemplating all of reality
simultaneously. Intellectual heirs of this philosopher argued that there are both religious
and philosophical kinds of truth, a doctrine known as "double truth." That is Averr [bump]? What was that? Averroes? 20 Points. Great job! Here is your bonus.
18. This practice was eventually banned by the
Canadian government, in part since it was often used to deny rival chieftains the ability to
access necessary goods. For 10 points each: [10] Name this gift-giving ceremony practiced by
the Tlingit, Haida, and Kwakiutl tribes of Northwest North America. It was observed and
described in the anthropology book The Mind of Primitive Man.
Potluck? What? Potluck? No. Over here? Potlatch? That's what it's called. [10] This teacher of Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale
Hurston and author of The Mind of Primitive Man is also known as the "father of anthropology." Boas? That's correct. [10] In his book The Gift, Marcel Mauss argued
that the potlatch is this type of institution, in which exchange occurs independent of economic and
social factors.
In this type of interaction, gift-giving appears to be voluntary, but is in
fact obligatory. What do you got? Reprocity? Over here? Force? Total prestation. So when we were saying "potlack," I think the C-H
was like the sound of a K. I heard potluck.
I heard potluck. Okay. That's uh, score after that? 330 For Barrington, 320 Westview. Can we time-out? Time-out? Yeah.
[Game continues at 27:00] Shh. It will just be in the area. Thank you. Both teams ready to go? Ready? Good luck.
Tossup 20. 20. Normal modes that transform as a quadratic
function of position will change this quantity. It's not volume, but this quantity squared, over
radius to the sixth, times the harmonic mean of ionization energy, equals the long-range
interaction energy in an ideal gas.
This quantity must change for a vibration to be observed in
Raman Polarizability? That's 20 points! Yes! [Applause] Here is your bonus. 19. Answer the following about the ancient
Athenian philosopher Cratylus, for 10 points each: [10] In the Platonic dialogue Cratylus, Cratylus
and Hermogenes contend, respectively, that these things are either purely natural or purely
conventional. The Confucian doctrine of zhengming is often translated to English as the
"rectification" of these things.
Names? Names is correct. [10] In response to Cratylus's contention that
studying names is the best way to understand what they designate, Socrates invokes the theory of
these abstract, eternal entities, of which empirical things are just copies. Ideals? What was that? Ideals? No. Over here? Ideal forms? Yeah, ideal forms? Forms, or ideas.
[10] Aristotle reported that Cratylus eventually
became such a radical follower of this pre-Socratic philosopher that he extended one of
this man's aphorisms to claim that one cannot step into a river even once. Heraclitus. That's correct! [Applause] Final score is 360 Westview, 330 Barrington? 360340, In favor of Westview. [All-star game continues at 32:50] [applause] From the playoff games, DCC was our champion.
And
the top scorer from Detroit Catholic Central in the playoff rounds was Robert Crawford. [Applause] As you just saw, Westview finished second. And
Rahul Keyal was their top scorer. [Applause] Matthew Lehmann was the top scorer for
Barrington, with 91 points per game.
[Applause] And finally, Grant Li, from Thomas Jefferson. [Applause] We will have the top scorer from prelims and the
top scorer from the championship team draft who they want on their all-star team. Then we will
get the all-star game all ready to go. Oh, that's me! So [laughter] Ryan, give him the mic.
No, no. I want Luke. [Applause] I'd like to choose my dear friend and future
NASAT teammate, Matthew Lehmann. [Applause] I'll pick Rahul.
[Applause] Alright. Yeah, I'll take Grant. [Applause] James. [Applause] So, by default, I'll be on this team.
So we have our teams. And now to choose The final thing about the all-star game, which I
forgot to mention, is that these teams will also be playing for charity. We have $500 that we'll
be donating to one of two charities from the all-star game teams. The charity that the winning team selects will
receive $400, and the charity that the losing team selects will receive $100.
And the teams
will picking their charities from a list of charities that were pre-selected by PACE. Alright. So the two teams have selected. The team on the audience's left is fighting for
Adopt a Classroom, a charity that provides school supplies to classrooms in need.
The team on the
audience's right fights for the Audubon Society, which is a charity that aims to help protect and
preserve bird habitats. [Applause] So first thing's first, we have the traditional
make-teams-improvise-team-names. Go! Rhodesians! [Laughter] Let's not do that, please. What? White Raisins.
White Raisins it is. Krypteia. You're Krypteia. Alright.
There is one more quick thing to attend to. Uh, K-R-Y-P-T-E-A [sic]. Alright, so before we start the packet: Congratulations to all you guys on making the
All-Star Game! You've all proven your prowess with fairly standard academic quizbowl but now
it's time for something different. The first section of this all-tossup packet will
consist entirely of goofy ideas.
The rules for this round will be slightly modified: the game
will be played in these teams using standard PACE. NSC scoring, but each team will have TWO
opportunities to buzz per tossup. Everybody ready to play? Do you guys want to check your buzzers at all? Go for it. Alright.
Alright. Both teams ready to go? Good luck all-stars. Tossup 1. 1.
The People's Party was formed in Samoa in 2008
to oppose a proposed instance of this action. The Kudaka scheme governed an instance of this action
known as "Nana-san-maru", or 7-3-0, that took place in Okinawa several years after its return
to Japanese control. The song "Hll dig till hger, Svensson" won a song contest held to
publicize this Changing road alignment from left to right? 20 Points! [Applause and laughter] Tossup 2. 2.
A simple chronology for the differentiation of
the interior of this astronomical object is provided by Nimmo et al. This object was once
thought to be chemically similar to the Sun, but it turned out to have a chondritic composition,
according to a The Earth? It's the Earth. 20 Points! [Applause and laughter] Tossup 3. 3.
Though it has nothing to do with
mark-and-recapture, a formula that applies to these model organisms involves 2 times L divided
by 5, Humans? No. Only once. All plus 2, times p times A over D, all divided
by 50, plus 2, all times a modifier coefficient. A 183-citation paper about these
organisms authored by Andrew Balmford, Lizzie Clegg, Tim Coulson, and Jennie Taylor is titled
Why Conservationists Should Heed these organisms, and notes that 80 percent of them are
identifiable by graduates of primary school.
Having these model organisms reproduce in a
different language environment was detailed in an article that noted a certain value of 1/4096 or
1/8192 would be multiplied by five; that method was first identified by (*) Junichi Masuda. Seven
generations of scientists have currently discovered 802 of these, including the
plasma-based Rotom. For 10 points, name these Pokmon? [Laughter] Alright, shh. Tossup 4.
4. This author seemed to supersede every other
author with his titles: Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote The Idiot, but this author wrote The Idiots;
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Black Arrow, but this author produced the novel The Arrow of Gold;
and finally, even though Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim, this modernist penned a novel in which
the pirate Let's go with Conrad. 20 Points! Well solved. Tossup 5.
5. In one novel, this character is given the
password "Calypso" by an oracle within Snake Canyon. In that Edward Packard novel, this
character returns to the "Cave of Time." Packard wrote So, the narrator? Yeah. It's you.
20 Points. Those are Choose-your-own-adventure novels. He made the right choice there. Tossup 6.
6. Given that most of you were playing in the
superplayoffs, you might remember that this term was the answer to the first part of the sixteenth
bonus in round 16. One could theoretically use this term to refer to the LongPen, a device
invented to enable remote book signings by a certain author during her book tour for Oryx and
Crake. When modified by (*) "swinging" Atwood machine? There we go! Shh.
Tossup 7. 7. Symptoms of this disorder include lethargy, an
inability to eat, diarrhea and an upset stomach. To treat this disorder, doctors may prescribe a
mixture of phyllium, lecithin, silicon dioxide and guar gum.
This disorder may afflict those who
have Rapunzel Syndrome and engage in (*) trichotillomania. The pain caused by this
condition sometimes can only Baldness? What's that? Baldness? No. [Laughter] Baldness makes you lethargic and diarrhea. [Laughter] The pain caused by this condition sometimes can
only be alleviated by the surgical removal of a trichobezoar.
For 10 points, name this condition
suffered Throwing up hairballs? Yeah. Alright, so we're going to move from regular
wackiness to odd trends in old writing that you people are too young to remember having been
forced to play. Sometimes questions just didn't feel like giving you a pronoun! For example: 8. Sierra Sam is a man who weighs 95 percent more
than all adults, and who was born in 1967 with the assistance of his father Sam Alderson.
One
of Sierra Sams descendants is Thor, who has a more well-formed pelvis, face, and spine.
However, both Sam and Thor have met the same fates numerous times: (*) death by either
shattering glass, or due to an ineffective safety device. Like, test-tube babies? They are not. [Laughter] For 10 points, give the profession of both Sierra
Sam and Thor, who are used to gather data from simulated vehicle impacts. Crash test dummies.
[Applause] Tossup 9. 9. Orthography was once a disproportionately
important subject in bad old quizbowl! Players would sometimes spend hours studying orthography
in order to improve their skills regarding orthography, though savvier players just learned
to recognize when a tossup was telling a seemingly pointless story while repeatedly
emphasizing a moderately Birds? No. [Laughter] complicated word, like (*) orthography, that they
would then simply buzz in and spell.
For 10 points, spell orthography. [Laughter] Hit it! O-R-T-H-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y? You did it! [Applause and laughter] Tossup 10. 10. If you thought that was bad, trash
tournaments were even worse: early trash tournaments would often eschew anything even
slightly real in favor of goofy gimmicks.
That said, for a quick 10 points, buzz in (*) second. [Thumbs down gesture] Clear. But I still buzzed in second! Well, alright, that's fair. [Laughter] Where did power end on that? That was definitely out of power.
[Laughter] Alright. Sometimes questions would get extremely
enamored with a particular gimmick and necessitate quite a bit of lateral thinking. For
example: 11. Wheres the first novel written by Paul
Theroux? Can you find it at the tiny mountain in Maine whose granite was quarried for the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier? Or can you find it with the merchant Peter, who founded the Poor Men of Lyons
after taking a vow of poverty? Perhaps, with sufficient effort, you can find it in a series by
Martin (*) Handford, where it appears in the form of a man whose girlfriend Waldo? Waldo! [Applause] Tossup 12.
12. A word beginning with these five letters was
coined to name the most famous creation of the man who also developed the Frozen S'More and the
Chocolate Chip Cookie Shot. These five letters begin both the name of the signature product of
Dominique Ansel's bakery and the most common English name of a figure who employed the dragon
Campe C-R-O-N-U? 20 Points. That's cronut and Cronus.
[Laughter] Alright! Now it's time for some action tossups, which are
not a terrible trend in old quizbowl writing, but are instead a delight at parties. To successfully
answer one of these questions, you must physically perform the thing being described. Do
not describe what you're trying to do out loud unless I prompt you to do so. Some questions
might involve a prop; in that case, you can either find a prop or you can mime something.
Some questions require a partner; when you buzz, you must choose a partner and perform the action.
Without explicitly stating what you're trying to do, you can physically or verbally direct them to
do things.
Does anyone have any questions about action
tossups? Good luck! Well alright, let's see how this one goes. Tossup 13. 13. The angel on the Vandoni spire in the
north-west corner of the Duomo Di Milano is performing this action.
The main part [applause and laughter] It is not that, unfortunately. Very grand, you kno? Continuing: The main part of the Pilgrim Statue created by
Hammat Billings for the National Monument to the Forefathers is doing this action. One person
performing this action wears a red robe and stands next to a man in a blue robe while
carrying a copy of (*) Timaeus. That is also not correct.
[Raises index finger] [applause] Tossup 14. 14. Partner required. The most famous depiction
of this pose is the third altar of science on the Illuminati "Path of Illumination" in Angels &
Demons.
That depiction of this pose is found under a cherub-filled sky fresco and is flanked
by two theater boxes containing donor portraits of various members of the Cornaro family. Alright. Uh, you need a partner. [Laughter] Uh Yeah, there you go.
[Laughter and applause] That was the Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Tossup 15. 15.
A man sings about giving his love a cherry
that had no stone and a chicken that had no bones before a man in a toga does this action and then
apologizes to Yes! 20 Points! [Applause] Tossup 16. 16. Partner required. One performance of this
action was inspired by a woman saying you have a very good autumn face, even now.
Homer avoids
performing this action by hiding in a Christmas tree bound for the dump that someone wanted to
get rid of in April after cutting in line at the Kwik-E-Mart. The petticoat version of this
action took place between Mrs. Elphinstone and Lady Almeria. [Audience shouting] You can't just describe it like that.
Sorry! You've got to mime it. Wait, can't you tell the You can't Well, if you act it out and convince me, you'll get the points. Both of you! Yeah, there you go. [Laughter] That was still 20.
Apparently, the score is tied now. There are5 tossups left. All action? Uhh maybe. Tossup 17.
17. Multiple partners required, prop optional. This action was preceded by a delivery of Big
Mamas and Papas Pizzeria which angered Pepsi. A record set by this action surpassed a mark
previously held by a depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama hugging.
Uh, like Yeah, yeah. [Applause] That was the group selfie at the Oscars. Lest you get too comfortable, we're going to do a
few mashup tossups. Answers will require a linguistically logical combination of two things;
answers giving only one thing will receive nothing but scorn.
Tossup 18. 18. This phrase titles a play by Woody Allen in
which Puey, Susey, and Louis, the nephews of the magazine writer Allan Felix, help him in his
conflict with the evil pirate Blackbeak. The character mentioned in this phrase is played by
Dooley Wilson but voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who is actually told to (*) "follow his nose" to "As
Time Goes By".
For 10 points, give this famous Like, "Play it again, Toucan Sam?" That's right! [Applause] Tossup 19. 19. In this movie, a blind boy insists "this is
how I say hello" while groping a girl named Mary Jane on an airplane en route to a resort on
Spooky Island. A luchador named Zarkos and an ostrich poacher named Mark tell the protagonists
of this movie that Mondavarious has turned the Norwegian men into demons.
An old man posing as a
doorman is unmasked as the leader of a bubble wrap cult, prompting a character in this movie to
say (*) zoinks, its Zoltan! In the sequel to this movie, subtitled Monsters Unleashed, five
alien women merge to become a giant that is looking for the Continuum Transfunctioner, which
is a Rubiks cube. For 10 points, name this movie in which a dog solves the mystery of what
happened to Jesse and Chesters lost vehicle with the help of Daphne, Uhcrap. [Laughter] Dude, where's my Mystery Machine? No. Scooby Dood Wheres My Car? Yeah.
[Applause and laughter] Tossup 20, the penultimate tossup. What's the score by the way? 160 For Krypteia, 120 for White Races [sic]. Tossup 20. 20.
Virginia Woolf asserted that "all Hounslow
Harriers should let flowers fall on" a copy of this movie. A crush on the Jonathan
Rhys-Meyers-portrayed Joe, the rakish Earl of Rochester, distracts this movie's main character
from completing The Fair Jilt and the poem "The Disappointment". Its protagonist travels to
Suriname with her closeted best friend Tony and her new friend Jules, played by (*) Keira
Knightley, despite the fact that her parents had forbidden her from doing any more spying for
Charles II. For 10 points, name this Uh, Pirates of the Aphra Behn? No.
Pride and Pirates of the Caribbean and Prejudice? Nope. [Laughter] For 10 points, name this Gurinder Chadha film in
which the author of Oroonoko learns how to play
soccer. [Audience says "oh"] Luke? Bend it like Austen? No. [Laughter] Aphra Behnd It Like Beckham? There you go! [Applause] Alright.
Congratulations on surviving this packet, and
thank you for indulging us. One more action tossup for the road. 21. Partner optional.
A famous example of this
action may have been inspired by an earlier appearance in Mucedorus, and has often been
enacted with the help of shadows, puppets, or other substitutes for a thing that may have
initially been acquired from a certain London "pit". A man performs this action at the end of a
speech Alas, poor Yorick? No. [Laughter] in which he describes a nighttime visit from an
apparition of a white-robed woman who begs him to go to the geographically-dubious desert seacoast
of (*) Bohemia and give the name "Perdita" to a baby he is You got it! [Applause] That's the game! And the winning all-stars are Krypteia, with 180 points! Alright, the award ceremony is coming up. Please stick around.
[Awards continue at 56:15] Please have a seat, especially if you're in the
front. Alright. Please have a seat! Let's get started. Before I hand things over, we'll get the awards
started in a second here.
Before I hand things over, I want to thank you all for coming. I want
to thank the staff; they did a great job throughout this weekend, kept everything going,
and they were wonderful, ran this tournament very well. So thank you very much to everybody. [Applause] Huge special thanks for the set editor, Rob Carson.
[Applause] The events coordinator, who arranged everything
with the hotel and made sure all the staff got here, Bernadette Spencer. [Applause] And tournament director, Gaurav Kandlikar. Great
job. [Applause] Okay.
Thanks for sticking around everyone. We're
going to keep this quick. So procedures are going to be: if I call your
team, please come up, you will receive a plaque or a trophy, and medals, and you will go to my
right, your left for a photograph by Colin McNamara. First, I am going to announce the small school
winners.
Top 3. In first place was Southside, which has already
picked up their trophy and is no longer here. Hooray. The second place small school was Lehigh Valley,
so if you will please come up.
[Applause] The third place small school, which also left,
was Danville. [Applause] In junior varsity, our top team was Ladue, which
has picked up its trophy already. The second place JV team was Northview, which I
believe is still here. [Applause] Okay.
We're now going to start from 16th place.
All of these teams finished in the top 2 superplayoff brackets today. We're going to start
with 16 and go to 1. In 16th place was, from Texas, LASA. [Applause] In 15th place was Homestead.
[Applause] Congratulations. Congrats. Dorman came in 14th place; they have already
picked up their award. Canyon Crest, are you still here? Our 13th place
team.
[Applause] St. John's, 12th place. [Applause] Hunter, 11th place. [Applause] In 10th place is Adlai Stevenson A.
[Applause] 9th place was Naperville. [Applause] Congratulations. Yeah, you're welcome! Here is our top 8. These teams finished in the
top playoff bracket today.
In 8th place is Chattahoochee A. [Applause] They said that they were going to get their thing later. Okay. La Jolla was in 7th place.
[Applause] Congrats. Our 6th place team, which has left already, was
IMSA from Illinois. [Applause] Dublin Scioto will take the 5th place award. [Applause] Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, you're still here I
believe.
4Th place. [Applause] Third place this year was decided on that very
exciting match that we saw in this room not too long ago. Barrington ends this tournament as the
3rd place team. [Applause] In 2nd place, from California, is Westview.
Congratulations! [Applause] Okay.
Our championship team has come to PACE NSC
every year for the past 20 years. They've brought multiple teams for many of those years. So this year,
Detroit Catholic Central A wins the PACE NSC. [Applause] Okay.
That ends the NSC awards ceremony. There's
nothing else for us to say, I believe. Thanks for coming. It was really a lot of fun to direct this
tournament.
If you have lost anything, please check in at the info desk at the hotel. Or if you
find out something, like your buzzer was left behind or something, please email us and we'll
try to send it back. Announce next year! We hope to see you guys in Reston next year! Thank you all for coming. [Applause] [captioned by Ophir L.].
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