MFT Round 02
MFT Round 02
MFT Round 02
4. According to a presumably apocryphal story, one leader heard about the destruction of this city and
thought that his favorite chicken, who shared its name with this city, had died. Pope Vigilius sent shipments of
grain to aid this city, but they were intercepted by Totilas forces, which captured this city twice during the
Gothic War. Pope Leo IV ordered the construction of some walls in this city to protect it from Saracen
pirates, who attacked its port city of Ostia in 849. After the Battle of Allia, Brennus entered this city and famously
declared Woe to the vanquished! In 455, it was attacked by the Vandals under Genseric, shortly after being sacked
in 410 by the Visigoths under Alaric. For 10 points, name this capital of an empire based in Italy.
ANSWER: Rome
5. A character created by this author embarks on a trip to hear some New Years bells but ends up meeting
the love of his youth, who inspired him to write A Girl of Sixteen but is now in a lesbian relationship with her
artistic protege. This author drew on his experiences as a journalist to write a novel covering a six month long
game between an older man and a younger man that is broken open by the sealed move made on blacks 121st
play. This author of Beauty and Sadness used a symbol of healing to title a novel featuring the tea ceremony in
which Kikuji has an affair with Mrs. Ota. In another of his novels, Shimamura, an expert on Western ballet, has an
affair with a geisha named Komako. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Master of Go, Thousand
Cranes, and Snow Country.
ANSWER: Yasunari Kawabata
6. One side in this battle positioned its army along the Hagerstown Turnpike, though their lines of retreat
consisted only of the Botelers Ford over a river to their rear. One attack in this battle attempted to capture
the Dunker Church, leading to vicious fighting in close quarters in a field of corn. Prior to this battle, one side
received information about the others strategy by obtaining a copy of Special Order 191. The reinforcements of
A.P. Hill stopped an offensive on the southern flank of this battle that culminated in Ambrose Burnside capturing a
bridge that would later be renamed after him. Several Union charges in this battle targeted the Sunken Road, and the
indecisive attitude of George McClellan after it led to his dismissal. For 10 points, name this 1862 Civil War Battle
after which Lee was forced to withdraw from Maryland, known for being the bloodiest single day battle in American
history.
ANSWER: Battle of Antietam [or Battle of Sharpsburg]
7. One character in this play proclaims that his bride is but a sign and semblance of her honor before
leaving her at the altar. Another character in this play compares one half of his character to a savage bull
and laments that his horns signify that any woman who would marry him would be sure to commit adultery.
An officer in this play insists on having it be written that he is an ass after revealing that Borachio had been
paid by Don John to break up a marriage. In this play, Leonato is the governor of Messina, and Leonatos daughter
fakes her own death after she is wrongfully accused of infidelity in order to reveal the deception. It also includes the
bumbling constable Dogberry. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare comedy that ends with the double marriage of
Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick.
ANSWER: Much Ado About Nothing
8. For nearly a year, members of this organization were locked in debate over the so-called Singapore
Issues. This organizations next general council will be held in Bali in December 2013, and its current leader,
who hails from the country of Brazil, is Roberto Azevedo. For ten years, members of this organization have
been working on the Doha Development Round of talks, with agricultural subsidies being one point of dispute.
This group is currently reviewing a Russian recycling fee that Japan and the European Union claim is applied only
to imported vehicles. This organization succeeded the GATT, and its objectives include the elimination of protective
tariffs and barriers. For 10 points, name this group that seeks to promote global commerce through multi-country
initiatives.
S-21 prison camp and in the Killing Fields. This party led the deposition of Lon Nol, and its prominent members
included Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea. For 10 points, name this party that was led by Pol Pot and presided over a
genocide while ruling Cambodia during the late 1970s.
ANSWER: Khmer Rouge [or the Communist Party of Kampuchea; or the Communist Party of Cambodia]
14. One of this composers operas is based on Alfred de Mussets Namouna. He also completed Fromental
Halvys unfinished opera No. He imitated Donizettis Don Pasquale in an opera which ends with Odoardo
marrying Bettina. He wrote the aria Comme autrefois, in which Leila recalls happier times, for an opera
whose characters include a high priest of Brahma named Nourabad. In that opera, Nadir and Zurga sing the duet
Au fond du temple saint. The title character of his most famous opera compares love to a rebellious bird in an Act
1 habanera. In that opera, Escamillo sings an aria usually known as the Toreador Song. For 10 points, name this
composer of Don Procopio, The Pearl Fishers and Carmen.
ANSWER: Georges Bizet
15. In one poem by this author, a certain woman is described as being already loosened like long hair and
already root, and does not recognize her lover. Another of his poems begins by declaring Lord, it is time
before recalling the summers greatness. This poet wrote a collection of short poems which he referred to as
thing poems, or Dinggedichte. This author of Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes and Autumn Day wrote about an
animal who paces in cramped circles in a cage in one poem. One of his works begins Who, if I cried out, would
hear me among the angelic orders? This author of The Panther wrote a series of 55 poems dedicated to a
mythological musician, as well as a series of ten poems named after a castle near Trieste. For 10 points, name this
author of New Poems, Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies.
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke
16. This substance can be identified by testing for beta-2 transferrin. The protein content of this substance is
analyzed by Pandy's Test. The density of another substance relative to this substance is defined as baricity.
Arachnoid villi restrict it to flow one way. This substance is produced by ependymal cells of the choroid
plexus. Oligoclonal banding in this substance is an important diagnostic test for multiple sclerosis. When it is
collected from a patient, they are usually laid on their side in a fetal position and a very long needle is inserted
between two lumbar vertebrae. For 10 points, name this clear bodily fluid that protects the brain and is usually
known by a three letter acronym.
ANSWER: cerebrospinal fluid [or CSF]
17. This artists correspondence with Yayoi Kusama inspired Kusama to move to New York. This artist
depicted a ladder floating against a greenish sky in Ladder to the Moon. One painting by this artist is a
bottom-up view of a red-trunked tree underneath a starry sky. This artist of The Lawrence Tree experimented
with uncharacteristic subject matter in her depiction of the Radiator Building at night, but more characteristic
works include Sky Above Clouds IV and Blue and Green Music. Many of her works are landscapes depicting what
she called the White Place and the Black Place, which are both in the New Mexico desert. She married the
photographer Alfred Stieglitz. For 10 points, name this artist, known for her paintings of animal skulls and flowers.
ANSWER: Georgia OKeeffe
18. This ruler passed a law decreeing that each Jewish family could only have one son, and forced Jews to pay
a fee known as the malke-geld to keep their lands. This ruler ceded the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and
Guastalla to the Spanish Bourbons. This ruler employed Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz to institute
economic reforms, and sent Gerard van Swieten to investigate reports of vampires in Moravia. She ceded some
land in the Treaty of Breslau, which was signed in the aftermath of a loss at the Battle of Mollwitz. Her father
Charles VI tried to ensure that she would succeed him, in violation of the Salic law, by issuing the Pragmatic
Sanction. For 10 points, name this woman whose accession to the Habsburg throne sparked the War of the Austrian
Succession.
ANSWER: Maria Theresa
19. This thinker defined a scenario where a host treats a foreigner or other person as being in their proper
place without asking for reciprocity as absolute hospitality. One of this thinkers works is titled after an
image that shows Plato standing behind a seated Socrates. Another asserts that the present is dependent on
the past, which he calls hauntology. He called writing that impacts the soul of the reader while maintaining
the distinction between intention and conveyance arche-writing. This author of The Post Card and Specters of
Marx was inspired by Ferdinand de Saussures idea of signs to explore the importance of dichotomies in literary
works, thus developing an approach that would be used by Paul de Man. Among his better known works are Writing
and Difference and Of Grammatology. For 10 points, name this French philosopher and literary critic, the founder of
deconstruction.
ANSWER: Jacques Derrida
20. One of this authors characters kills the scam artist Birdsong after the death of his wife, Mannie, and is
eventually found hanging from a bell rope in a school. Another of this authors characters chastises his wife
for waiting up for him after participating in the mob that kills Will Mayes for allegedly having relations with
Minnie Cooper. In one story by this author, Edmonds receives a plantation after Isaac refuses his inheritance;
earlier, Boon Hogganbeck had befriended a dog named Lion and they successfully hunt an animal named Old Ben.
This author of Pantaloon in Black and Dry September wrote a story about a woman who spends many years
sleeping next to the corpse of her dead lover, Homer Barron. For 10 points, name this author who included The
Bear in Go Down, Moses and wrote A Rose for Emily.
ANSWER: William Faulkner
21. In one speech, this character displays his envy of the wretched slave who with a body filled and vacant
mind gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. A Welshman compares this character to Alexander
the Great, since they both killed their best friends and their birthplaces are similar. After disguising himself
by borrowing Erpinghams cloak, this character gets into an argument with a group of soldiers, including
Michael Williams. This character receives a gift of tennis balls from the Dauphin intended to mock his leisurely and
dissolute youth. His forces easily take Harfleur after he declares Once more unto the breach, but in a more famous
speech, he says The fewer men, the greater share of honor and addresses his soldiers as we few, we happy few,
we band of brothers. For 10 points, name this king who gives the St. Crispins Day speech before the Battle of
Agincourt in a Shakespeare play.
ANSWER: Henry V
Bonuses
1. This womans handmaid, Bilhah, is the mother of Dan and Naphtali. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this younger sister of Leah.
ANSWER: Rachel
[10] Rachel was the second wife of this patriarch, whose twelve sons became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of
Israel. His twin brother Esau sold him his birthright.
ANSWER: Jacob
[10] This father of Rachel and Leah made Jacob work for him for seven years so he could marry Rachel, but he
tricked him into marrying Leah instead and made him work seven more years before he could marry Rachel.
ANSWER: Laban
2. The most common cause of Burkitt's lymphoma is a translocation between chromosome 8 region 24, which
contains the gene that codes for this protein, and chromosome 14 region 32. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this protein that forms a heterodimer with Max, as do the Mad, Mnt, and Mga families.
ANSWER: c-Myc [or human v-myc homolog]
[10] The c-Myc gene is an example of an oncogene, which is a gene that has the potential to cause this disease when
mutated.
ANSWER: cancer
[10] The African variety of Burkitt's lymphoma is associated with this virus. This herpes virus and the
cytomegalovirus are the usual suspects behind mononucleosis.
ANSWER: Epstein-Barr virus [or EBV]
3. It was created by a merger of ventures controlled by Minor Keith and Andrew Preston. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this organization that prospered during its control by Sam Zemurray. It was accused of being the force
behind a massacre carried out by Cortes Vargas.
ANSWER: United Fruit Company
[10] One country where United Fruit was particularly influential was this one, where they encouraged the U.S.
government to launch operation PBSUCCESS against the government of Jacobo Arbenz.
ANSWER: Guatemala
[10] The United Fruit Company dealt primarily in this crop. OHenry coined a pejorative term to describe Latin
American puppet states that incorporates the name of this crop.
ANSWER: bananas [accept banana republic]
4. Vance Randolph studied the folklore of this region. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this region near the Ouachita Mountains, which takes up much of Missouri and northern Arkansas.
ANSWER: the Ozarks [accept the Ozark Mountains or the Ozark Plateau]
[10] The Ozarks also spill into the northeastern region of this state, whose second-largest city is Tulsa.
ANSWER: Oklahoma
[10] Paul Henning was inspired to create The Beverly Hillbillies by a camping trip near this Missouri city in the
Ozarks. A tourist center, it is known for its live music venues.
ANSWER: Branson
5. This character makes a living through embroidery, though her work is never used at weddings, and in one scene,
she walks through a forest always in the shadows while her daughter is bathed in sunlight. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this character who is acknowledged by her lover on a scaffold after that lover delivers an Election Day
Sermon, leading to that lovers death.
[10] Otto the Greats coronation by the pope is sometimes considered to be the start of this empire. Frederick
Barbarossa was one the Hohenstaufen rulers of this empire.
ANSWER: Holy Roman Empire
10. It was held that the phoenix would bring the ashes of its progenitor to this city. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Egyptian city, the center of worship of the Ennead. In particular, Ra was worshipped here, which is
why its name means city of the sun.
ANSWER: Heliopolis
[10] One of the chief gods of Heliopolis was this figure who was a representation of the evening sun and created Shu
and Tefnut by spitting them from his mouth after creating himself on a mound of earth.
ANSWER: Atum [or Atem; or Tem]
[10] In one part of the Book of the Dead, Atum and this god survive as serpents when the world is returned to water.
In a different story, the parts of this gods body were reassembled by his wife, Isis, so the two could have sex.
ANSWER: Osiris
11. According to this mans namesake paradox, the efficiency with which a resource is processed actually causes the
demand for that resource to increase. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this thinker who designed a logic piano and questioned Englands increasing reliance on a fuel source
with a finite supply in The Coal Question.
ANSWER: William Stanley Jevons
[10] Jevons was one of the first to elucidate a theory of this economic concept. Carl Menger felt that Jevons views
on this concept neglected the importance of its marginal variety, which is often said to be diminishing.
ANSWER: utility
[10] In utility theory, these graphical constructs connect bundles of goods with equal utility. They almost always
have negative slope, representing the tradeoffs inherent in consumption while under a budget constraint.
ANSWER: indifference curves
12. In one play by this author, the main character seeks Doloress help in getting pregnant in spite of her husband.
For 10 points each:
[10] Who is this Spanish author of Yerma and Blood Wedding?
ANSWER: Federico del Sagrado Corazn de Jess Garca Lorca
[10] Lorca also wrote this play, in which Adela and Martirio compete for Pepe el Romanos affections against their
oppressive mothers wishes.
ANSWER: The House of Bernarda Alba [accept La Casa de Bernarda Alba]
[10] Because she inherits the most money, this eldest daughter of Bernarda is the one Pepe wishes to marry.
ANSWER: Angustias
13. These events cause the stratigraphic column to consist of finer grained deposits at every point because they bring
deep water deposits landwards. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify these events, paired with regressions, in which the sea level rises relative to land.
ANSWER: marine transgressions
[10] A typical example of a deposit during a marine transgression is the Tonto Group, consisting of Muav Limestone
overlying Bring Angel Shale overlying Tapeats Sandstone, which is a geologic formation found in this deep canyon
carved out by the Colorado River.
ANSWER: Grand Canyon
[10] The Bass Formation of the Grand Canyon Supergroup contains these Precambrian fossils that were formed by
layers of calcium carbonate precipitating over mats of cyanobacteria.
ANSWER: stromatolites [or stromatoliths]
14. He used convex and concave curves in his San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, or Church of St. Charles of the Four
Fountains. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this architect also known for his Church of Saint Yves at La Sapienza, a rival of Bernini who committed
suicide in 1667.
ANSWER: Francesco Borromini
[10] Borrominis San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is found in this city, home to Nicola Salvis Trevi Fountain. An
enclave within this city contains St. Peters Basilica.
ANSWER: Rome
[10] The dome of St. Peters Basilica was designed by this artist, also known for crafting the base of an equestrian
statue of Marcus Aurelius and the staircase of the Laurentian Library.
ANSWER: Michelangelo Buonarroti
15. Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather were all ministers of this Christian denomination, some members of which
were admitted via the Half-Way Covenant. For 10 points each:
[10] Give this term for the denomination that believed that the Anglican Church was not radical enough. Members of
this denomination founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony and believed in many of the tenets of Calvinism.
ANSWER: Puritans
[10] This controversy centered on the free grace theology of John Cotton, and it resulted in the banishment of Henry
Vane and John Wheelwright from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after John Winthrop became governor.
ANSWER: Antinomian Controversy [prompt on Free Grace Controversy]
[10] Another person banished in the wake of the Antinomian Controversy was this daughter of Francis Marbury. On
the advice of Roger Williams, she settled in what is now Rhode Island.
ANSWER: Anne Hutchinson
16. Some thinkers have speculated this work may have been written by its author to help cope with his breakup with
Regine Olsen. For 10 points each:
[10] What is this text, which considers the teleological suspension of the ethical and discusses Abrahams
willingness to sacrifice Isaac?
ANSWER: Fear and Trembling [or Frygt og Baeven]
[10] Fear and Trembling is probably the best known work of this Danish philosopher, who also defined angst in his
Concept of Anxiety.
ANSWER: Soren Kierkegaard
[10] Kierkegaard dubbed Abraham one of these figures, in contrast to a similar figure of infinite resignation.
ANSWER: knights of faith [both underlined portions required; prompt on knight]
17. This theory can be used to formulate both the electroweak interaction and QCD, the latter of which is described
by the SU(3) group. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this gauge theory based on non-Abelian Lie groups. One of its namesakes received the Nobel Prize with
Lee for his work on the weak interaction.
ANSWER: Yang-Mills theory
[10] The application of Yang-Mills theory on the scale of these entities is still poorly understood. They consist of
protons and neutrons, and make up the center of atoms.
ANSWER: atomic nuclei
[10] Yang-Mills theory can be quantized using this physicist's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. He
also proposed the parton model.
ANSWER: Richard Feynman
18. Under the rule of this man, the Ukraine underwent a systematic famine called the Holodomor. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this Soviet leader who created the Doctors Plot in an attempt to create anti-Semitic tendencies and
oversaw the publication of Falsifiers of History. He ruled the Soviet Union during World War Two.
ANSWER: Josef Stalin
[10] Stalin appointed Lavrentiy Beria to lead the NKVD, which was this type of organization. Vladimir Lenins
Cheka was also this type of organization.
ANSWER: secret police forces [accept equivalents; accept state security forces; prompt on intelligence agencies]
[10] With the help of Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin adopted this policy which specified that the Soviet Union must focus
on internal development before trying to focus on the goal of spreading communism to the rest of the world.
ANSWER: socialism in one country [prompt on partial answer]
19. The name of the province of Arcadia was later adapted to refer to a utopia in harmony with nature. For 10 points
each:
[10] This author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead titled his drama in which Hannah Jarvis and Thomasina
Coverly visit the Sidley Park estate Arcadia.
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard
[10] In Stoppards Arcadia, one character jokes that the second word of this novels title is regurgitated, and its
first section is titled Et in Arcadia Ego. In it, several characters of the Marchmain family struggle with
Catholicism.
ANSWER: Brideshead Revisited
[10] Basilius is the duke of Arcadia in this authors five book New version of The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia,
which he wrote for his sister Mary.
ANSWER: Sir Philip Sidney
20. For 10 points each, answer some questions about American composers who depicted places in their music.
[10] This composer included four taxi horns in the instrumentation for his tone poem An American in Paris.
ANSWER: George (or Jacob) Gershwin
[10] This composer of Three Places in New England sought to capture the spirit of transcendentalism or some
such crap in his Concord Sonata.
ANSWER: Charles Ives
[10] Aaron Copland wrote this one-movement composition depicting a dance hall, incorporating themes from the
folk music of the title country.
ANSWER: El Saln Mxico
21. In this novel, Gabriel Ice runs the computer security firm hashslingerz.com. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel about Maxine Tarnow, who runs the fraud investigation agency Tail Em and Nail Em.
ANSWER: Bleeding Edge
[10] Bleeding Edge is the most recent novel by this American postmodernist who wrote Gravitys Rainbow.
ANSWER: Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
[10] In this first Pynchon novel, Benny Profane hangs out with the Whole Sick Crew and Herbert Stencil searches
for a mysterious entity.
ANSWER: V.