1. This country’s Lapua Movement succeeded in banning Communist activities, and a 1918 civil war saw Gustav Mannerheim’s government forces emerge victorious. The Continuation War, which saw this country aid Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, was a sequel to the Winter War in which the Soviet Union preemptively invaded this country. The 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe led to some “Accords” named after this country’s capital. For 10 points, name this country led by Tarja Halonen, whose major city is Helsinki.
ANSWER: Finland
2. In a namesake reaction, some of them can react with the bases of methyl ketones to create carboxylic acids. The heaviest example is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth, and the deficiency of another member is often the cause of a goiter. Normally featuring odd-numbered oxidation states,these elements all have an outer shell electron configuration of (NS2NP5). For 10 points, name these elements that lack one electron in their outer shell, examples of which include bromine, chlorine, and fluorine.
ANSWER: halogens [or Group 7A; or Group 17]
3. Skye Sweetnam ponders “maybe I should change my world” while contemplating this action, which “could be the cure.” The initiator of this action strikes after the singer lets his guard down, causing the singer to lament “why do I do these things I do to myself” in a Something Corporate song. This action’s recipient was the singer’s “experimental game” in another song, which notes that this action “felt so wrong, it felt so right,” and notes that it is accentuated by the recipient’s cherry Chapstick. For 10 points, name this activity performed and enjoyed in a Katy Perry song.
ANSWER: kissing a girl [accept equivalents and word forms; prompt on less specific answers]
4. One character in this story expresses his delight at a casserole and fails to notice that a tablecloth has been in use for three days. After a party, the main character is unable to find a cab until she reaches the Seine. Although they assure Madame Forestier that the title object is being repaired, the central characters must purchase a new one which takes a decade to pay off, although the original is a fake. For 10 points, name this short story about Matilde, who loses the title piece of jewelry at a ball, written by Guy de Maupassant.
ANSWER: “The Necklace” [or “La Parure”]
5. Cycads are some of the only plants to have them, and they are unique to eukaryotes. Like a longer structure, they have a 9+2 arrangement of constituent structures which make up the axoneme. The Fallopian tubes use them to conduct eggs from ovary to uterus and the trachea has a lining of them for cleaning purposes. Rotifers have a crown of them, which in some species makes them spin like wheels, and several of them are also found on paramecium. For 10 points, identify these short organelles which allow many eukaryotic cells to move.
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6. This character was given gold necklaces by Peitho, clothing and instruction on sewing by Athena, and speech by Hermes. Her name in fact refers to the gifts she received from all the gods. She was given as a wife to a man whose name means “afterthought,” Epimetheus, as a revenge for the theft of fire by Epimetheus’s brother Prometheus. For 10 points, name this primordial Greek woman who was only able to prevent the escape of hope after opening a jar given to her by Zeus that contained all the world’s evils.
ANSWER: Pandora
7. Juan Padilla founded the first settlement in what is now this state, and its notable political leaders have included the vice-president of Herbert Hoover, Charles Curtis, and Senator Nancy Kassebaum. The 1936 Republican presidential nominee, Alfred Landon, was from this state, where Bushwhackers massacred over two hundred people in 1863. Border Ruffians entered this state to support the Lecompton Constitution, and this state was the site of the Pottawatomie Massacre. For 10 points, name this state that bled in a fight over slavery in the mid-1850s.
ANSWER: Kansas
8. Much of his employment was in the artistic faculty of the foundling home Ospedale della Pietà. His innovations include the regular use of the ritornello form and standardizing the “fast, slow, fast” structure of the concerto. “The Hunt” and “Storm at Sea” are among the lesser works from his cycle The Contest Between Harmony and Invention, which also depicts such images as heat-induced fatigue and freezing rain in such movements as “La Primavera.” For 10 points, name this Italian composer of the calendar-themed “The Four Seasons.”
ANSWER: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
9. This poet wrote a collection with his brother entitled Poems by Two Brothers. One of his poems deals with a woman unable to leave her tower who weaves a tapestry inspired by a reflection in a mirror. In another of his poems, a classical hero resolves “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” In addition to “The Lady of Shallot” and “Ulysses,” the death of Arthur Hallem prompted this man to write In Memorium A.H.H. For 10 points, identify this poet, the author of “Crossing the Bar” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
10. This jazz performer’s first recorded solo is on the Dizzie Gillespie track “We Love to Boogie,” and his avant-garde recordings near the end of his career include Intertsellar Space and Stellar Regions. This man, who recorded Impressions, was part of Miles Davis’ first great quintet, and developed his fast “sheets of sound” technique on recordings like My Favorite Things. His first album of original recordings was Giant Steps. For ten points, identify this jazz saxophone player of A Love Supreme.
ANSWER: John Coltrane [or Trane]
11. This author criticized how the Bible is taught in his early work Daybreak, and tackled veracity in On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. He appended an “Attempt at Self-Criticism” to his first work, which divided the title concept into Apollonian and Dionysian aspects. This author of the The Birth of Tragedy claimed that “God is dead” in The Gay Science. For 10 points, name this German philosopher of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil.
ANSWER: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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12. This country’s highest peak, Mount Nyangani, is located in its Nyanga National Park. Despite such governmental operations as “Drive Out Trash” and “Roundup,” homelessness is a major problem in its cities, which include Chitungwiza and Bulawayo. Electric fences mark this country’s border with Botswana, while the more pleasant Victoria Falls are on its border with Zambia. For 10 points, name this landlocked South African country where fancy new 100-billion-dollar bills can buy you things in its capital, Harare.
Answer: Zimbabwe
13. This man signed the Treaty of Eternal Peace with Khosrow I, and sent a fleet to defeat the Ostrogoth king Witigis. The eunuch Narses was one of his trusted generals, and his two ministers were Peter Barsymes and John of Cappadocia. He attempted to quell the Monophysite controversy by imprisoning Pope Vigilius, and he fought the Green and Blue factions during the Nika revolt. For 10 points, name this Byzantine Emperor who oversaw the building of the Hagia Sophia; the husband of Theodora whose most well known general was Belisarius.
ANSWER: Justinian I
14. The Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix predicts the oscillations of one group of these, a behavior which gives them mass. The Koide formula gives a possibly serendipitous relationship between the masses of another group of them, while the Michel parameters give the distribution of decays that occur within that group. Particles from both groups are produced in beta decay. Incapable of interaction via the strong nuclear force, for 10 points, identify this class of fundamental particles which include the neutrino and the electron.
ANSWER: leptons
15. Older works in this language are referred to by their predominant letters, such as the “N Poem” and the “Great Poem on T.” A landmark work of nonfiction in this language was the memoir The Days, and it was also used for the novel Season of Migration to the North. It is the vernacular of the poet Adonis and of the author of Children of the Alley, Sugar Street, and Palace Walk. For 10 points, identify this tongue, whose most influential writings may be the records of certain sayings known as the hadith and the text said to be dictated by the angel Gabriel, the Quran.
ANSWER: Arabic
16. Ithiel Town commissioned this artist’s painting of a man looking at a pyramid, a Greek temple, and a Gothic cathedral, The Architect’s Dream. He was unable to finish The Cross of the World, but did complete two cycles of paintings, one based on Volney’s Ruins, the other depicting mankind as a figure journeying down a river. In addition to The Voyage of Life and The Course of Empire, he painted a storm passing over a bend in the Connecticut River in The Ox-Bow. For 10 points, name this American painter, the founder of the Hudson River School.
ANSWER: Thomas Cole
17. On the urging of his doctor Moses Hamon, this ruler issued a decree denouncing anti-Semitic blood libels. His admiral Barbarossa won the Battle of Preveza over the Holy League, and he defeated Louis II of Hungary to win the Battle of Mohacs. Due to the influence of his wife Roxelana, he had his longtime grand vizier Ibrahim Pasha murdered. The son of Selim the Grim, he twice unsuccessfully attempted to besiege Vienna. For 10 points, name this Ottoman sultan who ruled from 1520 to 1566, known as “the Magnificent.”
ANSWER: Suleiman I [or Suleiman the Magnificent or Suleiman the Lawgiver or Kanuni]
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18. Paul Samuelson illustrated this concept with a man who is both the best attorney and secretary in Chicago. First introduced in an essay by Robert Torrens, this concept is modeled by the Hecksher-Ohlin theorem. Another economist explained this concept in On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, which used the example of the trade between British cloth and Portuguese wine. For 10 points, name this theory developed by David Ricardo, which states that countries should export goods that have the lowest opportunity costs, unlike absolute advantage.
ANSWER: comparative advantage
19. The Huemul project was supposed to achieve a controlled version of this process, but met with little success. The Shiva and ultimately the Nova lasers attempted to contain this process, though more mainstream attempts include producing heat by inducing a current running through a toroidal magnetic field in a tokamak. It occurs in sufficiently large stars through the C-N-O cycle, and it no longer returns additional energy after iron. For 10 points, identify this phenomenon in which at sufficient temperatures, several small nuclei form a larger one.
ANSWER: nuclear fusion
20. In this novel, an intimate dinner party is ruined when one character’s prized wedding gift, an unused pickle dish, is broken. The unnamed narrator is intrigued about the “ruin of the man” when he first meets the title character at the post office, and later learns more about him from Harmon Gow and Ruth Varnum. The title character cheats on his wife Zeena with Mattie Silver, and ends up paralyzed from a failed suicide attempt. Set in Starkfield, for 10 points, name this novel about a man injured in a tragic sledding accident, written by Edith Wharton.
ANSWER: Ethan Frome
21. An apparatus named for Kugelrohr performs one type of it over short paths. One type of this process exploits Raoult’s law to increase or decrease the vapor pressure of the substance, and may be more useful than another type which produces better results when the number of theoretical plates are increased, but cannot separate azeotropes. Those are the “steam” and “fractional” varieties of this process. For 10 points, identify this lab procedure where pure vapors of a liquid are captured and condensed, which is used to obtain a pure liquid from a mixture.
ANSWER: distillation [do not accept specific types, like “fractional distillation”]
22. One character in this play steals a pen after he discovers that Bill Oliver has forgotten him, making his plan to sell sporting goods in Florida impossible. The title character becomes jealous when he hears that Bernard will argue a case before the Supreme Court, and his son recounts his visit to Boston, where he witnessed his father’s affair with an unnamed woman. The protagonist’s son, Biff, is far more skeptical of the American Dream than Happy. For 10 points, name this play which ends shortly after the suicide of the title character, Willy Loman, written by Arthur Miller.
ANSWER: Death of a Salesman
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