2002 University of Michigan Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tournament
SAMPLE EDITED PACKET
Questions by David Thorsley, Emily Moore, Adam Kemezis, Noel Erinjeri, Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Paul Litvak et al.

Tossups

1. One of the delegates was a peasant who was merely trying to find a ride to the train station, but was kidnapped by the delegation's leaders and forced to participate. When the first offer was rejected, it prompted a new German offensive, and the second offer was going to be rejected until Lenin threatened to resign in protest. For 10 points – identify this treaty, which ended Russia's participation in World War One.
Answer: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

2. The man who is named in the title of this painting was famous in his time for writing a treatise on monsters. He appears in the painting standing over the body of Aris Kindt, who had been hanged for armed robbery. Only two of the seven men watching him study the cadaver's forearm were actually physicians. For 10 points – identify this 1632 Rembrandt work.
Answer: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

3. Christy Cummings and Sheri Ann Cabot start a magazine called "American Bitch" at the end of this film. Gerry Fleck from Fern City, Florida literally has two left feet, while his wife Cookie has slept with an incredible number of men. Christopher Guest appears as Harlan Pepper, a North Carolina man with passions for nuts, ventriloquism, and his bloodhound. For 10 points – identify this 2000 film set at the Mayflower Kennel Club.
Answer: Best in Show

4. These extremely alkaline substances can be used to produce high yields of primary alcohols from formaldehyde, secondary alcohols from other aldehydes, and tertiary alcohols from ketones. Useful for the syntheses of many organic materials, identify – for 10 points – these compounds produced by the reaction of an organic halide and magnesium, named for a French chemist.
Answer: Grignard reagents

5. Banned by the Canadian government from 1884 to 1951, Thorstein Veblen described this event as an extreme form of conspicuous consumption. Held to celebrate births, deaths, and marriages, it was also a method to validate claims of social rank, most notably among the southern Kwakiutl (Quok-ee-uht-el) peoples. For 10 points – identify this ritual studied by Franz Boas, common to the natives of the Pacific Northwest.
Answer: potlatch
Do not accept: potluck

6. Banished to Egypt for writing about the influence of court officials on the promotion of army officers, he retuned to Rome after Domitian’s assassination. Under emperors Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian, he wrote sixteen surviving works attacking the corruption of Roman society and introduced phrases such as "bread and circuses" into the language. For 10 points – identify this author of the Satires.
Answer: Decimus Junius Juvenalis

7. The February 2001 presidential runoff in this country was decided by seventeen votes, with Pedro Rodrigues Pires edging Carlos de Carvahlo Viega. Along with Guinea-Bissau, it gained independence from Portugal in 1975. The 2001 election was only the second since universal suffrage was established by the 1992 constitution. For 10 points – identify this island nation off the west coast of Africa.
Answer: Cape Verde

8. His father supported Xerxes' army on its return to Asia and was rewarded with several Magi, who instructed him on astronomy and theology. An important influence on Epicurus, he introduced the concept of eidola, or images, through which he deduced sensation and thought, all while using the theory that he adopted from Leucippus. For 10 points – identify this philosopher from Abdera, known for his use of atomic theory.
Answer: Democritus

9. Hurler's syndrome is a genetic disorder affecting the metabolism of these parts of the cell. Materials are transported to these organelles by three main methods: endocytosis for materials from outside the cell, phagocytosis for large particles or bacteria, and autophagocytosis for removing old organelles from the cell. For 10 points – identify these organelles responsible for the digestion of macromolecules.
Answer: lysosomes

10. Developed in 1942 by Starke Hathaway and J.C. McKinley, a revised version was devised in 1989, and specific versions for adolescents and criminals have been created. Now consisting of 567 true-false questions, it classifies patients on ten clinical scales and three validity scales. For 10 points – identify this psychological diagnostic tool developed at the University of Minnesota.
Answer: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

11.The first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale, her 1897 book The Decoration of Houses was influential in the field of interior design. She then turned to fiction in the 1899 short story collection The Greater Inclination and the novel The Valley of Decision. Her fiction made her the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. For 10 points – identify this author of The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence.
Answer: Edith Wharton

12. His campaign promise to hold referenda on controversial issues such as abortion and the death penalty led to an online petition to change his first name to Doris. Representing the riding of Okanagan-Coquihalla (oh-ka-NOG-an-co-keh-HALL-ah), his party won 66 seats in November 2000, finishing a distant second to the ruling Liberal Party. For 10 points – identify this leader of the Canadian Alliance Party and official opposition leader in Canada.
Answer: Stockwell Day

13. Its second movement is written in 5/4 time and has been described as a "waltz with a limp." The third movement is a typical march finale, leading many to mistakenly applaud at its end. The fourth movement is dolorous, while the first contains a section of the Russian Orthodox requiem mass. For 10 points – identify this emotionally charged Tchaikovsky symphony.
Answer: Symphony No. 6 in B minor Op. 74
Accept: Symphony Pathétique

14. He was signed as a free agent by the Cardinals in 1974 and played pro baseball for four years before retiring due to knee injuries. The Cubs paid for him to attend law school at University of the Pacific, and his current career began when Mike Fischlin recruited him to negotiate his contract. For 10 points – identify this man whose clients include Kevin Brown, Rick Ankiel, and J.D. Drew, perhaps baseball's most notorious agent.
Answer: Scott Boras

15. He is beaten by Maurice after he refuses to pay an extra five dollars for the prostitute he hired, but didn't sleep with, at the Edmont Hotel. He then makes a date with Sally Hayes, which falls apart after he asks her to run away to Vermont with him. He then tries to buzz Jane Gallagher, who he hasn't heard about since he left Pencey Prep. For 10 points – identify this sixteen year-old who spends three days in New York in The Catcher in the Rye.
Answer: Holden Caulfield

16. After a stint teaching at Cornell Law School, he rose to prominence as the head of a 1905 inquiry into New York utility rates. The Republican nominee for president in 1916, he served as Secretary of State under Harding and Coolidge and also served on the International Court of Justice before returning to the Supreme Court. For 10 points – identify this man who served as Chief Justice from 1930 to 1941.
Answer: Charles Evans Hughes

17. These electrical devices can be grouped into either broadside or end-fire configurations. The first was designed in the 1880s by Heinrich Hertz to test Maxwell's theory that light is not the only type of atmospheric radiation. Various basic types include the slot array, pyramidal horn, parabolic reflector, and the dipole. For 10 points – identify these devices for directing incoming and outgoing radio waves.
Answer: antennas

18. This figure is calculated using the average of five indices: assessments of current business conditions, future business conditions, the current availability of jobs, the future availability of jobs, and future income prospects. In December 2000, its value of 128.3 had fallen 14 points since September, provoking fears of an economic slowdown. For 10 points – identify this economic indicator that measures the attitudes and expectations of the buying public.
Answer: consumer confidence index

19. He formed his own band consisting of Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison in 1960. In 1969, two years after his death from liver cancer, an African Orthodox Church in San Francisco has been named for this man because a group of his fans found God in his music. For 10 points – identify this jazz saxophonist who recorded Impressions and A Love Supreme.
Answer: John Coltrane

20. It is formed in the state of Kachin by the confluence of the Nmai and Mali rivers, and flows 1,350 miles from that point. After merging with the Chindwin River, it separates the Pegu and Arakan Mountains before flowing into the Andaman Sea. Due to monsoons, river ports such as Mandalay have both high and low water landing points. For 10 points – identify this river, the main waterway of Myanmar.
Answer: Irrawaddy River

21. According to the Iliad, his wife is Aglaea, one of the Graces. The parthenogenetic son of Hera, his palace was located on the isle of Lemnos. He was returned to Olympus on the back of a mule by Dionysus, who brought him there to persuade him to release Hera from the golden throne he had constructed. For 10 points – identify this lame husband of Aphrodite and patron of smiths and fire.
Answer: Hephaestus

22. Rivals to his throne were Alfonso X of Castile, who abandoned his claim at the persuasion of Pope Gregory X, and Otakar II of Bohemia, whom he defeated at the Battle of Dürnkrut. Taking the crown in 1273 after a 23-year interregnum, he gained control of Austria for his family, which ruled it into the 20th century. For 10 points – identify this first Holy Roman Emperor from the Habsburg dynasty.
Answer: Rudolf I

23. The intensity of the phenomenon is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength. It can be considered to be an elastic process since it does not alter the energy of the photons involved. Occurring when particles have a radius less than one tenth the wavelength of the radiation passing through them, identify – for 10 points – this dispersion of electromagnetic radiation that results in the sky being blue.
Answer: Rayleigh scattering (accept equivalents)

24. He ripped open his mother’s womb because Zurvan had decreed that his firstborn son would become king. With one of his names meaning "fiendish spirit," he created the dragon Azi Dahaka, which ravaged the earth until it was chained by Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda. For 10 points – identify this god of darkness and major figure in Zoroastrian theology.
Answer: Ahriman
Accept: Angra Mainyu

25. Mjollnir. Odin. Vlad the Impaler. Grendel. Anubis. Agrippa. Hammunaptra. Punjar. Juggernaut. Doom of Babylon. Black Widow. Rammstein. Blade Runner. Subject to Change Without Reason. Evil Fish Tank. The Aggressive Polygon. For 10 points – all of these are what type of combatant, which competes for the "Golden Nut" on a show on Comedy Central?
Answer: BattleBots

26. His early works The Place at Whitton and Three Cheers for the Paraclete were influenced by his time in a Roman Catholic seminary from 1953 to 1960. His later writing turned to works of historical fiction such as Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. His most famous work was criticized for being little more than reporting when it won him the Booker Prize in 1983. For 10 points – identify this Australian author of Schindler's Ark.
Answer: Thomas Keneally



2002 University of Michigan Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tournament
SAMPLE EDITED PACKET
Questions by David Thorsley, Emily Moore, Adam Kemezis, Noel Erinjeri, Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Paul Litvak et al.

Bonuses

1. Identify these works of Eugene Delacroix from descriptions for 10 points each.
A. (10) A bearded man lies apparently unconcerned on his bed while his concubines are being slaughtered around him.
Answer: The Death of Sardanapalus
B. (10) Two men are standing in a small boat, while the writhing souls of some Florentines attempt to climb into it.
Answer: Dante and Virgil in Hell
Accept: The Bark of Dante and Virgil
C. (10) Delacroix appears carrying a musket on the left side of the titular woman, who is raising the French tricolor in her right hand.
Answer: Liberty Leading the People

2. Answer the following about recent bank merger activity for 10 points each.
A. (10) This bank headquartered in Charlotte has been involved in both an April 2001 merger attempt and a May 2001 hostile takeover attempt.
Answer: Wachovia Corporation
B. (10) Also based in Charlotte, this bank is Wachovia's merger partner and the namesake of a Philadelphia arena.
Answer: First Union Corporation
C. (10) This Atlanta based bank attempted a 14.7 billion dollar takeover of Wachovia in response to the Wachovia-First Union merger proposal.
Answer: SunTrust Banks Incorporated

3. Answer these questions about a poem by John Keats for 10 points each.
A. (10) Believed to be based of Keats’ relationship with Fanny Brawne, this poem shares its name with a court poem by Alain Chartier.
Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
B. (10) Richard Ros’ translation of Chartier’s poem was, during Keats’ time, believed to have been made by this 14th century poet.
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
C. (10) The knight-at-arms in the first line of Keats’ original manuscript was referred to by these two words in the version first published in 1819.
Answer: wretched wight

4. Identify these famous ships from American relations with Britain and Canada for 10 points each.
A. (10) On September 23, 1779, John Paul Jones led the ship to victory over a squadron of five ships including The Countess of Scarborough and Serapis.
Answer: Bonhomme Richard
B. (10) An Upper Canadian militia seized this American-owned ship to prevent it from carrying supplies to rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie.
Answer: Caroline
C. (10) Before taking command of the Niagara, Oliver Hazard Perry was in command of this ship at the Battle of Lake Erie.
Answer: Lawrence

5. Identify these subatomic particles for the stated number of points.
A. (5) Postulated by Pauli and named by Fermi, these uncharged particles are not subject to the strong force. It was shown in 1998 that they had mass.
Answer: neutrino
B. (10) Composed of an even number of quarks and antiquarks, this type of bosons are subject to the strong force and were postulated in 1935 by Yukawa Hideki.
Answer: mesons
C. (15) The 1974 discovery of this type of meson, consisting of one bottom and one antibottom quark suggested the existence of the top quark, discovered in 1996.
Answer: upsilon particle

6. Identify these psychologists from descriptions for 10 points each.
A. (10) After undergoing analysis with Ferenczishe in Budapest she began to study kids at play, developing an object-relation view in works such as Envy and Gratitude and The Psychoanalysis of Children.
Answer: Melanie Klein
B. (10) Born with the name Rosenfeld, he developed his key ideas in his 1907 essay "The Artist" and his 1924 magnum opus The Trauma of Birth.
Answer: Otto Rank
C. (10) In works such as The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense and War and Children, she argued that repression was the key issue affecting children.
Answer: Anna Freud

7. Identify these landmarks in Norse mythology for 10 points each.
A. (10) This name is given to the realm of mankind.
Answer: Midgard
B. (10) This bridge, guarded by Heimdall, connects Midgard with Asgard, the land of the gods.
Answer: Bifrost
Accept: Asbru
C. (10) The giant Surt rules over this realm of fire located far to the south.
Answer: Muspellheim

8. Identify these properties related to random processes for 10 points each.
A. (10) This term describe a random process where the expected distribution at each time is that of a "bell curve."
Answer: Gaussian random process
B. (10) A process where the time between each arrival is distributed exponentially is named for this French mathematician.
Answer: Siméon-Denis Poisson
C. (10) A process displays this property when, given the present value of the process, the future values are independent of all past values.
Answer: Markovian property

9. 30-20-10-5. Identify the actor from roles.
(30) Joe Flynn in Ready to Wear, Gene Shepard in Short Cuts
(20) The President in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Larry Tucker in Fraternity Vacation
(10) Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, Norville Barnes in The Hudsucker Proxy
(5) Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham, Bob Roberts in Bob Roberts
Answer: Tim Robbins

10. Identify these works of Nathaniel Hawthorne from characters for 10 points each.
A. (10) Matthew Maule, a man executed for witchcraft, and Colonel Pyncheon
Answer: The House of the Seven Gables
B. (10) Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon, three American art students in Italy
Answer: The Marble Faun
C. (10) Coverdale, a bachelor based on Hawthorne himself, and Zenobia, based on Margaret Fuller
Answer: The Blithedale Romance

11. Identify these Roman emperors from descriptions for 10 points each.
A. (10) The last emperor in the year of the four emperors, his defeat of Vitellius made him the founder of the Flavian dynasty.
Answer: Titus Flavius Vespasianus
B. (10) Alleged to have prompted the murder of Caracalla in 217, this man who succeeded him was the first emperor to have not previously served in the Senate.
Answer: Marcus Opellius Macrinus
C. (10) Known as "the Apostate," he planned to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem in order to insult the Christian community, which he abandoned after declaring himself a pagan in 361.
Answer: Flavius Claudius Julianus

12. Identify the following regarding the kidneys for 10 points each.
A. (10) This is the basic specialized cell unit of the kidney, analogous to the neuron in the nervous system.
Answer: nephron
B. (10) This is the vein that carries filtered blood away from the kidneys
Answer: renal vein
C. (10) Name either of the two hormones that stimulates the reabsorption of water, one by stimulating sodium reabsorption and the other by directly increasing the nephron's permeability to water.
Answer: Anti-Diuretic Hormone
Accept: aldosterone

13. Identify these Friedrich Nietzsche works for 10 points each.
A. (10) An analysis of all of Nietzsche's previous works, it contains such chapter headings as "Why I Am So Clever" and "Why I Write Such Good Books."
Answer: Ecce Homo, Wie man wird, was man ist
Accept: Ecce Homo, or How One Becomes What One Is
B. (10) Nietzsche elaborates his criticisms on Christianity in this work that takes its title from a Wagner opera.
Answer: Die Götzen-Dämmerung
Accept: Twilight of the Idols
C. (10) The 1887 work presents Nietzsche's account of resentiment, by which a slave class comes to create a concept of evil distinct from that of the master.
Answer: Zur Genealogie der Moral
Accept: On the Genealogy of Morals

14. Answer these questions about the Huguenots for 10 points each.
A. (10) This attempt to kidnap Francis II in 1560 led to the execution of many Huguenot aristocrats.
Answer: Conspiracy of Amboise
B. (10) This queen's failed attempt to assassinate Gaspard de Coligny precipitated the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Answer: Catherine de Medici
C. (10) The eighth and final Huguenot war also takes this name from the names of its principal combatants.
Answer: War of the Three Henrys

15. Assigned to Bell Labs to determine the sources of interference to telephone communications, he was quickly able to pinpoint all of the sources except one. For 10 points each:
A. (10) Identify this engineer who first discovered extraterrestrial radio waves.
Answer: Karl Jansky
B. (10) Jansky determined that the source of the radio waves was in the direction of this Zodiac constellation, towards the center of the Milky Way.
Answer: Sagittarius
C. (10) Due to his discovery, the SI unit for this quantity is named the jansky.
Answer: radio-wave emission flux density
Accept: radio wave emission strength

16. Identify these Michael Chabon novels for 10 points each.
A. (10) The story of a weekend in the life of Professor Grady Tripp, it was made into a 2000 movie.
Answer: Wonder Boys
B. (10) While living in New York during World War II, the two title characters create a comic book character called the Escapist in this 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Answer: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay
C. (10) Chabon's first novel, this 1988 story tells of Art Bechstein's coming-of-age in the title city.
Answer: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

17. For 10 points each, identify these famous cathedrals:
A. (10) This Italian cathedral was designed by Donato Bramante and Michelangelo, though its distinctive Doric-Tuscan columns were the work of Bernini.
Answer: St. Peter's Basilica
B. (10) This neo-Gothic cathedral was built over a century according to the designs of Antonio Gaudi y Cornet. Located in Barcelona, Spain, it has numerous ornate and spindly towers.
Answer: Cathedral of La Sagrada Familia
Accept: Cathedral of the Sacred Family
C. (10) This cathedral, the world's largest, was built in only two years. Located in the Ivory Coast, the cathedral's 632-foot-tall dome has seating for 7,000.
Answer: The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

18. Identify the states in which the following state parks are found for 10 points each.
A. (10) St. Bernard, Fontainebleau, Lake Fausse Pointe
Answer: Louisiana
B. (10) Rosebud Battlefield, Missouri Headwaters, Hell Creek
Answer: Montana
C. (10) Stone Mountain, Cliffs of the Neuse, Mount Mitchell
Answer: North Carolina

19. Answer these questions related to a slave revolt for 10 points each.
A. (10) In 1831, after being sold to Joseph Travis, this slave launched a rebellion killing sixty white people in Southampton County, Virginia.
Answer: Nat Turner
B. (10) Turner planned to capture the armory in the town of Jerusalem and then retreat to this wetland on the southeastern coast of Virginia.
Answer: Great Dismal Swamp
C. (10) Turner's revolt was fictionalized in 1968 in The Confessions of Nat Turner by this author of Sophie's Choice.
Answer: William Styron

20. Identify the following things that have irritated the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights for the stated number of points.
A. (5) The Catholic League successfully got an ad pulled that featured a man bringing this Lipton product up to the altar to receive communion.
Answer: onion dip (accept equivalents)
B. (10) Despite the fact that their lead singer posed in the August 2001 issue of Playboy, their criticism was aimed toward the cover of their latest album, which features the band dressed as nuns.
Answer: Go-Go's
C. (15) Artist Renee Cox used herself as the model for the central character is this painting that depicts events the day before Jesus' crucifixion.
Answer: Yo Mama's Last Supper

21. Identify these economic goods for the stated number of points.
A. (5) For this type of good, demand increases with higher prices and falls with lower prices.
Answer: Giffen good
B. (10) Lighthouses are the classic example of this type of good, which can be used by everyone if it can be used by one person.
Answer: public good
C. (15) This is a good that the state decides is worth providing at a given level regardless of actual public demand, such as education.
Answer: merit good

22. Identify this 17th century French plays for 10 points each.
A. (10) This Corneille tragedy is based on the exploits of the eleventh century Spaniard Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar.
Answer: Le Cid
B. (10) Theseus’ wife declares her love for her stepson Hippolyte in this Racine play.
Answer: Phèdre
Accept: Phaedra
C. (10) Monsieur Jourdian attempts to improve himself by studying dancing and philosophy, but he is duped by Cléonte in this Molière play.
Answer: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Accept: The Would-Be Gentleman

23. 30-20-10. Identify the composer from works.
(30) The Looking-Glass Knight and The Friends of Salamanca
(20) The Devil's Palace of Desire and the Lady of the Lake songs
(10) Death and the Maiden, Trout Quintet
Answer: Franz Schubert

24. Identify these pieces of Depression-era legislation for 10 points each.
A. (10) Excepting agricultural and domestic laborers, this act entitled workers to protection under the new National Labor Relations Board.
Answer: Wagner Act
Prompt on: National Labor Relations Act of 1935
B. (10) Passed in 1933 in response to the role major banks had in driving up stock prices before the crash, this act was repealed in November 1999.
Answer: Glass-Steagall Act
C. (10) Granting members of labor unions "full freedom of association," this 1932 act outlawed contracts that forced workers to state that they would not join a union.
Answer: Norris-La Guardia Act

25. Answer the following regarding stereochemistry for 10 points each.
A. (10) The term for two molecules different only in configuration around a single carbon center, they come in mirror images, a "left-handed" and "right-handed" configuration.
Answer: enantiomers
B. (5/5) These are the letters used to designate whether a particular sample is left-handed or right-handed.
Answer: R and S
C. (10) This is the property exhibited by enantiomer pairs, defined as not being superimposable in its own mirror image.
Answer: chirality or chiral (ky-rell)

26. 30-20-10. Identify the book of the Bible from quotes.
(30) "I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skim worms destroy my body, yet in my flesh I shall see God."
(20) "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
(10) "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, 'There is a man child conceived.'"
Answer: Job