EFT 2017: A Collection of AtomsWritten by: Sameen Belal, Vasa Clarke, Alex Fregeau, Jack Mehr, Lawrence Simon, and (last but not least) Eric XuEdited by: Will Alston, Richard Yu, and James Lasker

Packet 9

Tossups

1. According to one philosopher, acknowledging the varieties of this concept and its superiority to heaven lets one avoid the “anti-language abyss.” This concept is called an “uncarved block” on which virtues are carved in a book whose difficult-to-translate opening line states that “the [this concept] that can be spoken is not the eternal [this concept].” According to a book titled for it, this concept can be fathomed via a “gateway” of eternal feminine called the “mysterious female.” A state of being described as (*) “non-action” is achievable by living in accordance with this concept. Harmony with this allows one to achieve a state of wu wei. It is often represented with a yin-yang symbol. For 10 points, Laozi [lao-tzuh] wrote about what concept, whose Chinese name roughly translates as “the way?”ANSWER: The Dao [or Tao; accept Dao De Jing or Tao Te Ching; prompt on way, path, road, or key] (the lead-in refers to the Zhuangzi) <WA, PhilO>

2. Whitelaw Reid became a leader in this industry after his predecessor went to Dr. Choate’s Sanitorium. A cartoon depicted a leader of this industry as the Scarecrow, calling him “The Wizard of Ooze.” Moguls in this industry had their reputations ruined during an 1899 strike by children who sold their product. An heiress to this industry was kidnapped by the (*) Symbionese Liberation Army. The Brass Check is a muckraking investigation into this industry by Upton Sinclair. Leaders in this industry were responsible for Valeriano Weyler acquiring the nickname “Butcher” and included a man who said “you furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” exemplifying this industry’s “yellow” variety. For 10 points, what industry’s moguls included William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer?ANSWER: newspaper [or journalism industry; prompt on publishing industry] <LS, AmHist>

3. This operatic character is generally considered to be based on Marie Duplessis, who was a lover of Franz Liszt in her last year. Before dying, this character gives a portrait of herself to a man and asks him to imagine her as his angel. In Act I, she sings a cabaletta aria explaining her inability to find true love after earlier being the main soprano in a type of German drinking song called a (*) brindisi. She sings the aria “sempre libera.” In a climactic scene, casino winnings from Flora’s party are thrown at this character’s feet after she lies and insists that she loves Baron Douphol. Before dying of tuberculosis, this character asks Alfredo Germont to always love her. For 10 points, name this title fallen woman of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata.ANSWER: Violetta Valery [accept La traviata or The fallen woman until “La traviata” is read] <WA, OAudArt>

4. This is probably the only untouchable number of its parity. This is the domination number for the Queen, meaning that it is the fewest number of queens necessary to attack every square on the chessboard. The cube for this dimension has 10 cubes of one lower dimension as a face. Gliders and boats have this many cells in the Game of Life. The units of the sphinx tiling have this many sides, but the regular polygon of this many sides is the (*) smallest to not tessellate the plane. This number is the shortest side of a right triangle with sides 12 and 13. It is also the hypotenuse of the smallest Pythagorean

triple. Regular polygons with this many sides have internal angles of 108 degrees. For 10 points, name the number of sides in a pentagon.ANSWER: five [or 5] <JL, Math>

5. This writer depicted a postmortem interview of sculptor Louise Nevelson in the play Occupant. This author wrote a play in which a “World City” in the Midwest is to be designed by a winner of the Pritzker Prize, who shares a passionate kiss with his teenage son Billy. In a play by this author, the “bergin [BERG-in] boy” accidentally killed both of his parents. Stevie brings Martin the corpse of an animal that he was having sex with in this author’s play The (*) Goat, or Who is Sylvia? This author wrote a play in which “get the guests” and “bringing up baby” are games proposed by George, a professor who asks a title question to his wife Martha. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?ANSWER: Edward (Franklin) Albee (III) <RY, Drama>

6. The creation of a League named for this region was orchestrated by Russia – with the help of leaders like Ivan Geshov – to pave over issues involving the separatist IMRO and help it gain warm-water ports. The Treaty of London ended a war named for this region by signing over all territory west of a line from Enos to Midia, as well as the sanjak of Novi Pazar, but failed to prevent the outbreak of a second “fratricidal war” named for this place that Nicholas II failed to arbitrate. (*) Otto von Bismarck prophetically quipped that “some damn thing” in this region was bound to spark conflict. Austria-Hungary allied with the Ottoman Empire in a war named for this region in 1912. For 10 points, what war-torn peninsula was home to the Black Hand that killed Franz Ferdinand?ANSWER: The Balkans [or Balkan peninsula; or Balkan League] <WA, ContHist>

7. This novel’s protagonist douses herself in cold water after envisioning being picked up by a man with strong arms in the short section “Winter Memories.” This novel opens with a boy crying because his cat runs up a telephone pole only to be rescued when his sister gets back from the doctor. A character in this novel flees to Mexico to escape his relationship with Marie, who is murdered under a mulberry tree by her husband Frank. That murder is discovered by the religious old man Crazy (*) Ivar who becomes a loyal servant of the protagonist after her father’s death on a plot of land known as The Divide. For 10 points, name this novel about Alexandra Bergson’s and other immigrant families’ adventures on the frontier written by Willa Cather.ANSWER: O Pioneers! <JM, LongFic>

8. Mo17 [M-O-seventeen], W22, and B73 are some of the most widely-used lines of this organism, some of whose genes are silenced by a gene discovered in it called “Mu killer.” This was the first organism demonstrated to have an Ac-Ds [A-C-D-S] system, consisting of an “activator” that allows a “dissociator” element to function, affecting the level of anthocyanin produced in this organism’s aleurone layer. After working on Neurospora, George Beadle studied hybrids of this organism and (*) teosinte [tee-oh-

SIN-tay]. Investigating the cause of this organism’s variegated color patterns allowed Barbara McClintock to discover transposons. For 10 points, what plant model organism is used in industry to make a “high-fructose” sweetener?ANSWER: maize [or corn; or Zea mays or Z. mays] <RY, Biology>

9. This man and his father both may have been the father of Leon Leenhoff, who appears in many of this artist’s works. A man’s unrequited interest in a lady is the subject of this man’s oft-parodied At Père Lathuille’s [pair la-TWEEL’s], where this man frequently dined alone. A girl in a blue-and-white dress stares at the title location in this artist’s The Railway, in which this artist’s frequent model

Victorine Meurent [murr-ON] looks at the viewer. A disinterested girl stands next to a (*) dish of oranges, potentially symbolizing prostitution, in a work by this artist set in a bar. Another piece by him shows two clothed men enjoying the title meal while ignoring the naked bathing woman in the background. For 10 points, name this Impressionist artist of A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and The Luncheon on the Grass.ANSWER: Edouard Manet <EX, Painting>

10. Charles Hamilton co-authored a book titled for a specific variety of this concept that introduced the use of the term “institutional racism.” This is also the surname of an author who analyzed American responses to international genocides in the book A Problem from Hell. A social constructivist approach to the “politics” of this is presented in Alexander Wendt’s book Anarchy is What States Make of It. This word also denotes the (*) states whose politics was described as a “tragedy” by John Mearsheimer. Joseph Nye defined a variety of this concept that emphasizes attraction over coercion, called its “soft” type. For 10 points, name this concept whose “absolute” form is said to “corrupt absolutely,” defined as an ability to influence others.ANSWER: power [accept Black Power or Samantha Power or power politics or Great Power] <WA, SocSci>

11. The full statement of the virial theorem is that the second time derivative of this quantity equals “2K plus W,” but in stationary systems, that derivative vanishes. An analogous quantity to this one for surface area is used in beam engineering and is used to generate Mohr’s circle. This non-vector quantity defines Poinsot’s [pwann-SOH’s] ellipsoid. When an object has three different values for this quantity, motion involving the middle one is unstable according to the (*) tennis racket theorem. This quantity is calculated by integrating r-squared dm over an object. This quantity does not change when an object is stretched along a principal axis. “m-r-squared” is added to this quantity when shifting to a parallel axis at a distance r from a known value. For 10 points, torque equals angular acceleration times what rotational analog of mass?ANSWER: moment of inertia [accept inertia tensor] <JL, Phys>

12. A work in this form that speaks of a “white doe on the green grass” with two golden horns between two rivers is imitated by another work in this form, which says “Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am” about a pursued lady that it compares to a hind. A work in this form, translated and expanded by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Troilus and Cressida, notes “If no love is, O God” and is numbered 102. A work in this form discusses “the heavy sighs which fed my heart” of the “time of my first youthful straying” after opening (*) “You, who hear the sound in scattered rhymes.” This form was popularized in England by Sir Thomas Wyatt, who translated into English works in it by a lover of Laura, such those from Il Canzoniere [eel can-zon-YEH-ray]. For 10 points, Petrarch names a type of what poetic form with fourteen lines?ANSWER: sonnets [accept Petrarchan sonnets] <WA, Poetry>

13. Gnaeus Scipio earned the cognomen Asina by losing a battle to a commander with this given name at Lipari Islands; that man was defeated at Mylae by the first force to use the corvus. According to Polybius, a man with this name known as “Monomachus” advised another with this name to accustom his men to cannibalism for a march that included fights against the Allobroges; after that march, the latter man with this name won a cavalry fight at Ticinus [tih-KEE-nus]. By placing weaker Iberians and Gauls at the center and (*) flanking with Numidian horsemen, a general with this name created a double envelopment against the forces of Paullus and Varro. Fabius Cunctator used delaying tactics against that

man, who won battles at Trebia and Trasimene. For 10 points, what name belonged to the Carthaginian victor of Cannae [CAN-eye] who crossed the Alps?ANSWER: Hannibal (Gisco, Monomachus, or Barca) <AF, Ancient>

14. The “French School” of playing this instrument produced players such as Marcel Moyse and Georges Barrère. A difficult standard concertino for this instrument was anecdotally written by its composer to make it difficult for an ex-lover studying under Paul Taffanel; that concertino was written by Cécile Chaminade [shah-min-ODD]. This instrument is featured in the “Badinerie” final movement of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2. (*) Gold examples of these instruments were used by Jean-Pierre Rampal and James Galway. A famous solo for it opens Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. This non-reeded woodwind instrument is usually played transversely. For 10 points, name this lower cousin of the piccolo.ANSWER: flute <EX, Music>

15. A book on this culture’s religion by Neil Price uses many of its “image stones” to help understand one of its deities who had over 240 names. Offshoots of this culture warn that people who throw stones may accidentally hit and anger the “hidden folk.” Realms imagined by this culture include a “mist world” and two realms for swarthy and light-skinned supernatural humanoids. A female shaman in this culture was called a (*) völva [VUHL-vah]. After Christianization, members of this culture believed that un-Christianized thurs lived in solitude, such as under bridges. Warriors in this culture who became possessed by supernatural fury were given the name “bear-skin” or berserk. For 10 points, what culture believed that humans live in Midgard?ANSWER: Norse culture [or Viking culture; or North Germanic culture; or Scandinavian culture; accept Norwegian or Icelandic culture; prompt on Germanic culture] <WA, Myth>

16. A frame tale is retold from the perspective of this character’s sister in the first novella of John Barth’s Chimera. This character’s father attempts to dissuade this character from a risky decision with a story about an ass and a bull. With a younger sibling, this character concocts a scheme to avoid being killed by a man who was cuckolded by a slave before meeting a woman with 98 rings. This character tells of a man who mixes up the names of grains and gets (*) trapped in a cave, since he forgets the phrase “Open sesame.” This character’s narrations end at dawn with cliffhangers, so her husband breaks his habit of killing his wives every night in order to hear them all out. For 10 points, name this woman who tells stories to King Sharyar in The Arabian Nights.ANSWER: Scheherezade [or Shahrazad] <WA, OtherLit>

17. He’s not Habakkuk, but this man made a prediction about stones crying out in the Lives of the Prophets. A related tradition describes how this person’s mother was the widow whose son was resurrected by Elijah. This person is afflicted by an east wind and a heavy sun as part of a lesson in which a worm ate the gourd that provided him shelter. After being questioned, this person identifies himself as a Hebrew to some men who had persuaded him to join them in (*) drawing lots. This man, who shamefully fled to Tarshish, was eventually convinced to go to Nineveh as he was ordered and foretell the city’s destruction. For 10 points, name this Old Testament prophet who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a whale.ANSWER: Jonah [or Yonah] <VC, Rel>

18. Mohamed el-Erian recently proposed a re-evaluation of this organization’s “Special Drawing Right.” In December 2016, this organization’s current head became the third in a row to be a convicted criminal after being found guilty for negligence handling a sportswear company’s deals; that leader of

this organization withdrew from an invitation to speak at the 2014 commencement of Smith College. This organization is traditionally headed by a (*) European, such as Rodrigo Rato, unlike a counterpart that is usually headed by an American and also provides “structural adjustment” packages. Its creation was proposed at the Bretton Woods conference, and it was formerly headed by Dominique Strauss-Kahn. For 10 points, Christine Lagarde heads what sister organization of the World Bank?ANSWER: IMF [or International Monetary Fund] <WA, Other>

19. This quantity may be determined by counting acoustic phonon modes below a frequency proportional to the cube root of the number density of a crystal. This quantity is the analogue of the resistance in the Ohm’s law interpretation of a DSC. The adiabatic index is the ratio of two values of this quantity that are typically three-halves R and five-halves R for a (*) monatomic gas at constant volume and pressure respectively. This quantity is determined by both the Einstein and Debye [duh-BYE] models. This quantity is 3R for a room temperature solid according to the Dulong–Petit law. A calorie is 4.184 joules because this quantity is 4.184 joules per kelvin for water. For 10 points, name this property, the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a material.ANSWER: heat capacity [or specific heat; do NOT accept or prompt on “heat”] <JL, Chem>

20. Repeated fractures of organizations of this type in Nepal have left two prominent ones, labeled “Unified” and “Centre.” At a 1935 meeting of organizations of this type, speeches were given by Wilhelm Pieck [peek] and Palmiro Togliatti [toll-YAH-tee]. Many organizations of this type operate via “democratic centralism.” Maurice Bishop led a short-lived organization of this type called the (*) New Jewel Movement in Grenada. Members of one organization of this type are called “Naxalites.” A peaceful organization of this type was created out of the defeated Spartacus League. Leaders of organizations of this type have historically met via Politburo Standing Committees. For 10 points, what kind of political party may be symbolized by a hammer and sickle?ANSWER: Communist Party [accept Marxist-Leninist party; accept Maoist party; accept People’s Democratic Party; accept vanguard party if someone actually buzzes with that; prompt on political parties; do not accept or prompt on “Socialist Party”] <WA, WorldHist>

IF THE GAME IS TIED AT THIS POINT, READ A QUESTION FROM THE TIEBREAKER PACKET. THEN, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE TIEBREAKER PACKET.

Bonuses

1. Answer the following about the goddess of discord, Eris, for 10 points each.[10] As the goddess of discord, Eris unsurprisingly hung out a lot with Ares, the Greek god of this phenomenon.ANSWER: war[10] At the wedding of these two individuals, Eris tossed an apple marked te kalliste or “to the fairest” and caused a brawl between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena over who was most beautiful.ANSWER: Peleus AND Thetis

[10] Eris is sometimes identified with this constant companion of Ares, a goddess of strife sometimes identified as the mother of Enyalius. Hesiod [HEZ-ee-id] gives this name to one of the Gray Sisters, along with Deio and Pemphredo.ANSWER: Enyo <WA, Myth>

2. Arata Endo’s design for a building in Koshien was heavily influenced by the design of this building that had walls composed of its country’s native oya stone. For 10 points each:[10] Name this building, constructed in its architect’s famous Maya Revival style, that famously survived the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.ANSWER: Imperial Hotel, Tokyo[10] The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was designed by this American pioneer of “organic architecture.” This leader of the Prairie School also designed the Fallingwater residence.ANSWER: Frank Lloyd Wright[10] According to Wright, this word encapsulates his vision of what the affordable middle-income residence should embody. A “historic district” in Pleasantville, New York, is also named after this term.ANSWER: Usonia [or Usonian] <SB, OVisArt>

3. The styx number can be used to count the number of electrons in bonds involving this element. For 10 points each:[10] Name this element that only has three valence electrons and has an atomic number of five.ANSWER: boron [or B][10] These rules, named for a British chemist, can classify boron hydrides into -nido, -arachno, -hypho, and other types based on their valence electron composition.ANSWER: Wade’s rules [or Wade–Mingos rules][10] BF3, or boron trifluoride, is a good example of one of these compounds because it contains an empty atomic orbital. These compounds can accept electrons unlike their counterpart.ANSWER: Lewis acids [prompt on acids] <SB, Chem>

4. A man remarks at how close he is to one of these features when he is drinking at the Farolito bar. For 10 points each:[10] Name these geographical features. They appear in the title of a novel in which Yvonne and Hugh set off into a forest to search for Hugh’s brother, who is obsessed with drinking mezcal.ANSWER: volcano [prompt on mountains; accept Under the Volcano][10] This English author wrote about Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul in Mexico who struggles with alcoholism, in the novel Under the Volcano.ANSWER: Malcolm Lowry[10] In Under the Volcano, Geoffrey despises Jacques Laruelle, first for having an affair with Yvonne, but also for keeping his book of Elizabethan plays. Laruelle wants to direct a film based on this man’s play Doctor Faustus.ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe <RY, LongFic>

5. Radio Caroline was founded to circumvent broadcasting monopolies maintained by this company in the 1960s. For 10 points each:[10] Name this royally chartered UK media company, whose motto is “Nation shall speak peace unto Nation.” Its services include the educational programs on Radio 4, and it runs the Proms concerts every year.ANSWER: BBC [or British Broadcasting Corporation]

[10] A current BBC journalist named Polly is the granddaughter of this British historian, who presented ideas from his The World and the West on the BBC in the 1950s. He wrote the twelve-volume A Study of History.ANSWER: Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee[10] The Hutton Inquiry, which investigated BBC journalism standards, was sparked by a combat death in this war. It was partly sparked by fake allegations that a world leader purchased yellowcake uranium from Niger.ANSWER: Iraq War [or Second Gulf War; prompt on Gulf War] <WA, BritHist>

6. Ahmed Deedat was given the King Faisal Award in 1986 for his extensive work as one of these people. For 10 points each:[10] Name these people who attempt to spread religions to new regions.ANSWER: missionaries [or missionary; accept but DO NOT REVEAL da’i][10] This Arabic name is given to Muslim missionary activity and proselytizing, such as that of Deedat. It literally means “invitation,” as it refers to inviting people to do good in the name of Allah.ANSWER: dawah[10] People who perform dawah often highlight the roles of early women in Islam, such as this last wife of Muhammad, and may deal with questions about her marriage to Muhammad at age six.ANSWER: Aisha <WA, Rel>

7. Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren co-edited a standard textbook titled for Understanding this subject. For 10 points each:[10] Name this subject that titles a poem that says it contains “a place for the genuine.” That poem hopes that this subject’s creations should be “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” and notes that “there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.”ANSWER: poetry [do not accept or prompt on any other answer][10] Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” calls some types of poets “literalists of” this faculty, borrowing a phrase that W. B. Yeats used to criticize William Blake. Samuel Taylor Coleridge contrasted this creative faculty with “fancy.”ANSWER: imagination [accept “literalists of the imagination”][10] Moore’s poem takes a quote from this author’s diaries expressing prejudice against “business documents and school-books.” This author quipped that all happy families were alike in his Anna Karenina.ANSWER: Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] <WA, OtherLit>

8. Achromat [AK-ro-mat] lenses are made of a concave lens that strongly shows this phenomenon and a convex lens that weakly shows this phenomenon to minimize the chromatic aberration caused by this phenomenon. For 10 points each:[10] Name this phenomenon, the variation of a material’s index of refraction with wavelength.ANSWER: dispersion[10] Dispersion is most apparent in these triangular optical devices whose decomposition of sunlight into a rainbow was legendarily used by Isaac Newton to develop his theory of optics.ANSWER: dispersive prism[10] Dispersion can be quantified with this number, the ratio of the differences indices of refraction of a material at three different Fraunhofer lines.ANSWER: Abbe [AH-buh] number [or V number; or constringence] <JL, Phys>

9. Answer the following about the geography, or terroir [tare-WAHR], of European wine. For 10 points each:

[10] Perhaps the most famous wine region in the entire world is this area east of Paris whose namesake sparkling wines are international symbols of status.ANSWER: Champagne[10] Marsala wine, mostly used in the US for cooking, is produced around its namesake city on this island. Its tallest mountain, also a center of wine production, is about 20 miles north of the city of Catania.ANSWER: Sicily [accept Sicilia][10] This country’s Tokaji [toh-KYE] region is known for high-quality dessert wines, once the favorite of Louis XIV. Other wine-producing regions in this country are found near its city of Pécs [paych] and around Lake Balaton.ANSWER: Hungary [accept Magyarország] <AF, Geo>

10. This man successfully argued the case Chambers v. Florida at age 32, fourteen years before he argued his most famous case that challenged the “separate but equal” doctrine. For 10 points each:[10] Name this first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Prior to being nominated by Lyndon Johnson, this man had served as Solicitor General and as the executive director of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund.ANSWER: Thurgood Marshall[10] Prior to serving as executive director of the Legal Defense Fund, Marshall worked as a lawyer in this city. Marshall is the namesake of a law library in this city that is located near its Inner Harbor neighborhood.ANSWER: Baltimore, Maryland[10] Clarence Thomas, who was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall, had his nomination hearing marred by sexual harassment allegations from this woman. Thomas referred to the media frenzy surrounding this woman’s testimony as a “high-tech lynching.”ANSWER: Anita Hill <LS, AmHist>

11. There are many different failure modes for materials. Answer some questions about them, for 10 points each.[10] Accumulation of cracks in metals via repeated bending is known via this term. This phenomenon can be accentuated by repeated thermal loading in motors.ANSWER: (elastic) fatigue[10] Fracture, one of the most common failure modes, is predominantly divided into two types: brittle and this other type. This also names the ability of materials to be drawn out into a wire.ANSWER: ductility [accept word forms like ductile][10] When these circuit elements reach a breakdown voltage, the dielectric inside of them ceases to be insulating and creates a short circuit. Their strength is proportional to the charge on one of their parallel plates divided by the potential across them.ANSWER: capacitor <JL, Engineering>

12. One poem opens “Good morning daddy! / Ain’t you heard? / The boogie-woogie rumble” of one of these things. For 10 points each:[10] Name these things. Questions asked about their fate include “Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?”ANSWER: dreams (deferred) [accept “What happens to a dream deferred?”][10] This Harlem Renaissance poet of “Weary Blues” asked “What happens to a dream deferred?”ANSWER: Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes][10] In Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son,” the speaker says “Life for me ain’t been” one of these objects. Instead of being one of these objects, her life has “had tacks in it / And splinters / And boards torn up.”

ANSWER: “crystal stair” [prompt on partial answer] <WA, Poetry>

13. The Zanj Rebellion was begun by people of this type from Sub-Saharan Africa in the late 9th century CE around Basra. For 10 points each:[10] Identify these people. The Mamluk Dynasty was founded by this type of people, who could be freed with a contract called a mukataba.ANSWER: slaves[10] These institutions, common throughout the Muslim world, were largely staffed by slaves, with Circassians being among the most preferred. The Valide Sultan and the Kizlar Agha, or “Chief Black Slave,” were the most important people in the Ottoman institution of this type.ANSWER: harem[10] This region, a former home of the Sultans of Oman, was a primary hub for the later Arab slave trade. Tippu Tip was a powerful slave trader who operated out of this region.ANSWER: Zanzibar <AF, WorldHist>

14. A depiction of this location by Joseph Stella shows a whirling cacophony of various colors surrounding the letters C-O-M, which stands for commedia dell’arte. For 10 points each:[10] Name this location whose excitement and motion was a common theme for turn-of-the-century American artists. In Annie Hall, Alvy Singer’s childhood home was located underneath a ride at this location.ANSWER: Coney Island [prompt on New York City or NYC][10] Joseph Stella’s Battle of Lights, Coney Island was a work in this style of art, whose manifesto was written by Filippo Marinetti. This Italian movement’s glorification of violence and speed was cut short by World War I.ANSWER: Futurism [accept word forms][10] A famous passage from the Futurist manifesto states that cars are “more beautiful than” this specific sculpture found at the Louvre.ANSWER: The Nike of Samothrace [or Winged Victory of Samothrace] <EX, Painting>

15. Candace West and Don Zimmerman proposed that this concept is a “routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction” in a widely-cited 1987 paper about “Doing” it. For 10 points each:[10] Name this concept that Judith Butler argues is performative.ANSWER: gender identity [prompt on identity][10] West and Zimmerman’s thesis is one of many arguing that gender is this kind of “construct,” meaning that it is only valid in the context of one’s given interpersonal milieu.ANSWER: social construct[10] This adjective describes a type of “masculinity” identified by R. W. Connell based on her studies of Australian high schoolers. Connell’s theory is rooted in that of Antonio Gramsci, in which this word’s noun form describes the predominance of bourgeois culture.ANSWER: hegemonic [or hegemony; accept hegemonic masculinity or cultural hegemony] <WA, PhilO>

16. Name these novels inspired by real-life painters, for 10 points each.[10] This Dan Brown novel doesn’t actually have much to do with its title painter’s art, but nonetheless has a picture of the Mona Lisa on its cover.ANSWER: The Da Vinci Code[10] This novel is directly based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Its protagonist, the painter Paul Strickland, moves to Tahiti and has a relationship with a local woman named Ata.ANSWER: The Moon and Sixpence

[10] This Tracy Chevalier historical fiction novel follows the 16-year-old Griet, who becomes a model for a Dutch artist after she becomes a maid to help pay her family’s bills.ANSWER: Girl with a Pearl Earring <WA, LongFic>

17. Olaparib is a drug approved for treating this disease, which it does by inhibiting the DNA repair protein PARP [parp]. For 10 points each:[10] Name this disease that can be screened for by the serum marker CA125 [C-A-one-twenty-five]. This type of cancer is most often of epithelial origin, but it can also be due to tumors like dysgerminomas.ANSWER: ovarian cancer [accept answers describing cancer in the ovaries][10] Mutations in the BRCA1 [BRACK-uh-“one”] gene result in a higher risk of both ovarian cancer and this type of cancer. It is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women.ANSWER: breast cancer[10] Though rare, male breast cancer does occur, and the strongest risk factor for it is this disease. People with this disease will unusually have Barr bodies in their cells.ANSWER: Klinefelter syndrome <RY, Biology>

18. A crowd of “knock-kneed and long-braided Lolitas” provoked the ire of audience members during this event, according to its piece’s composer. For 10 points each:[10] Name this real-life musical event. An apocryphal story about Camille Saint-Saëns [kuh-MEE san-SAWNS]

angrily storming out of this event has been disproven, as Saint-Saëns was not in attendance.ANSWER: the premiere of the Rite of Spring [accept Le Sacre de printemps in place of “Rite of Spring”][10] The premiere of the Rite of Spring’s riotous atmosphere has been blamed on Nijinsky’s choreography, rather than the modernist music written by this composer of Petrushka and The Firebird.ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky[10] A three-movement neoclassical Stravinsky choral symphony uses passages from this part of a larger work, which are accompanied by a namesake E minor triad voicing.ANSWER: Book of Psalms [accept Symphony of Psalms; prompt on Bible; do not accept any other Bible book] <EX, Music>

19. While he was safely in Avignon, Pope Clement VI granted remission of sins to all who died of this event. For 10 points each:[10] Name this event that interrupted the Hundred Years’ War by killing about a third of Europe’s population.ANSWER: Black Death [or bubonic plague in Europe, etc.][10] This woman decided that the height of the Black Death was the perfect time to make a pilgrimage to Rome; she survived, and lived out her life there. A later countrywoman, Queen Christina, said “I prefer to be counted among the sensible rather than the saints” and dismissed this woman’s revelations.ANSWER: Saint Bridget of Sweden [or Birgitta Birgersdotter][10] This man also didn’t think highly of Saint Bridget, and criticized teachings involving Bridget’s “little prayers.” This man wrote the treatise On the Jews and Their Lies.ANSWER: Martin Luther <WA, ContHist>

20. In the introduction to one of her works, this anthropologist described being glad at the ability to “collect Negro folklore” and compared anthropology to a spyglass. For 10 points each:[10] Name this anthropologist who analyzed how racial power structures gave white men “paramour rights” in the South in the book Mules and Men.ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston

[10] In 1975, Alice Walker revived Zora Neale Hurston’s reputation with an article in this feminist magazine, titled “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston.” Gloria Steinem founded this magazine.ANSWER: Ms. [mizz] magazine[10] A 1945 letter by Zora Neale Hurston to this other black academic described her desire for a cemetery for “illustrious Negro dead.” This sometime rival of Booker T. Washington wrote The Souls of Black Folk.ANSWER: W. E. B. du Bois [doo boyce] [or William Edward Burghardt du Bois] <WA, SocSci>