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{ "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40738b3d831d6a007066" }, "answer" : "{Babur} or {Babar} or {Baber} the {Tiger} (accept {Zahir-ud-Din Muhammed})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.2238204535097, "num" : 20, "question" : "This man had fought Muhammed Shaybani Khan at the battle of Sar-e Pol, which led to the loss of this man's father's lands of Fergana.  The year after Sar-e Pol, he captured Kabul, but repeated attempts to take Samarkand were unsuccessful.  This forced him to look elsewhere for territories, and he received requests from Alam Khan and Dawlat Khan to try a fifth invasion of the Dehli Sultanate.  This person defeated Rana Sanga after giving up liquor in the hopes of getting divine help, and that battle at Khanua destroyed the Rajputs.  Soon after that battle, the loss of Bihar led this man to attack and find victory at the battle of Ghagara.  FTP, name this man who earlier defeated Ibrahim Lodi at the battle of Panipat, the founder of the Mughal Empire in India.", "round" : "NNT_Packet_2.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009fc" }, "answer" : "The {Tin Drum} [or {Die Blechtrommel}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5146587609779, "num" : 22, "question" : "In this novel, the grocer Greff hangs himself in an ingenious manner that involves a counterweight of potatoes and a cacophony of noise. The protagonist is arrested after Gottfried von Vittlar's testimony, and one character in this novel dies because he falls in love with a ship's figurehead named Niobe. Another character dies by choking when he swallows a party pin. The protagonist's lovers include Sister Dorothea, whose severed finger he later finds, and Maria, who gives birth to his son Kurt. The protagonist of this novel can shatter glass with his voice and stops growing at the age of three. For 10 points, name this novel about Oskar Matzerath [MAHT-zer-aht] by Günter Grass.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd68b3d831d6a004b5c" }, "answer" : "the {wheel} (accept obvious equivalents; accept {*kwe-kwl-o})", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.21661280654371, "num" : 13, "question" : "The derivation of this word's Indo-European root is unique: reduplicating a zero-grade thematic noun; derivatives include the Tocharian for “army”. That this root was inherited in many daughter languages, along with the spread of the word for (*) “horse”, lends credence over the Anatolian Hypothesis to the Kurgan Hypothesis, since the latter civilization had this technology. For 10 points, name this object represented by the Hindu chakra, the Latin rota, and the Greek kyklos.", "round" : "08_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40558b3d831d6a006947" }, "answer" : "{United States} Secretary of {War}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1651316066273, "num" : 26, "question" : "In the Confederacy, LeRoy Walker was the first to occupy this position. William Belknap was the only man of this position to be impeached, and it was last held by Kenneth Clairborne Royall. The first man to hold this post was charged with transporting the artillery captured at Fort Ticonderoga, while another was protected by the Tenure of Office Act from removal by Andrew Johnson. For 10 points, name this position held by Edwin Stanton and Henry Knox, combined with the navy department in 1947 to form the Secretary of Defense.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40258b3d831d6a005de2" }, "answer" : "menorahs", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.953535888344, "num" : 18, "question" : "Bezalel made the first one and shaped parts of it to resemble blossoming flowers. On Mount Sinai, Moses was told to make this out of a single piece of gold, with an elevated center to symbolize the Sabbath. Five of them were on each side of the entrance to the sanctuary in the Temple of Solomon. The last one was apparently lost before a reproduction was displayed on the Arch of Titus. A similar object is used during the month of Kislev and has a place for a “shamash.” For 10 points, identify this symbol of Judaism, an eight-branched version of which is used during Hannukah.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 16.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a0048ec" }, "answer" : "{Zhou} Dynasty [prompt on any {specific periods} mentioned in the {question} before {Western}; do not accept or prompt on {them} afterwards]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9537000169511, "num" : 12, "question" : "This dynasty originated from the Wei River, and after a barbarian attack the capital moved from Xi'an to Loyang, ending this dynasty's Western period. This dynasty established a feudal society, although its Spring and Autumn period saw its degeneration, leading to the Warring States period that saw the rise of Legalism, Confucianism and Taoism. Use of iron began and the idea of the Mandate of Heaven developed in, for 10 points, which longest-lasting dynasty that was formed after the Shang and before the Qin?", "round" : "FKT Bellas.rtf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a006911" }, "answer" : "{Congo} River [accept {Zaire River} before it is read]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.8633800542448, "num" : 1, "question" : "This river's Inga Dam will soon produce double the output of the Three Gorges Dam, and it was independently explored by Diogo Cam and James Tuckey. This waterway has tributaries including the Inkisi, Sangha and Kasai rivers, while it reaches the ocean near Muanda. Forming Boyoma or Stanley Falls, this river flows through Kisangani and the Malebo Pool while its largest tributaries include the Lualaba and Ubangi. The city of Brazzaville lays on, for 10 points, which second-longest river in Africa, once known as the Zaire?", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7c8b3d831d6a003649" }, "answer" : "Fences", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.51132980315015, "num" : 20, "question" : "One character in this play admonishes his seven year old daughter for going out in the middle of the night to see if her garden grew.  That character has a metal plate in his head after suffering a World War II injury and occasionally believes himself to be the Archangel Gabriel. This play ends with one character announcing his intention to tell St. Peter to open the pearly gates and soundlessly blowing on a trumpet. Jim Bono advises the protagonist of this play against his affair with Alberta. That protagonist is married to Rose and discourages his son Cory from playing football because of his bitterness at being excluded from the major leagues after his fifteen year prison sentence. For 10 points, name this play about Troy Maxson, the sixth play in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.", "round" : "VCU.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a0037eb" }, "answer" : "{Ulysses} S. {Grant}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1527165055741, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man's administration settled the Alabama Claims in the Treaty of Washington. He appointed the Seneca Indian Ely S. Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. This president's veto of the Inflation Bill led to a return to the gold standard the next year in the Specie Resumption Act. His personal secretary, Orville Babcock, was implicated in the Whiskey Ring, and Oakes Ames sold shares to this man's vice president, Schuyler Colfax, in the Crédit Mobilier scandal. For 10 points, name this American general who obtained an unconditional surrender at Appomattox from Robert E. Lee.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a005211" }, "answer" : "{distributive} property [or {distribution}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2083587683737, "num" : 3, "question" : "For any functions circle and star, this property states that a circle quantity b star c equals quantity a circle b star quantity a circle c. This property is often used when one quantity does not have like terms. Applying this property is the opposite of factoring out common factors. For 10 points, give this property that says that three times quantity two x plus one equals six x plus three.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a00685c" }, "answer" : "{Phillis Wheatley}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.5430350378156, "num" : 23, "question" : "This poet wrote defenses of piety in “An Address to the Atheist” and “An Address to the Deist.” She wrote that “A monarch's smile can set his people free” in “To the King's Most Excellent Majesty” which celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and gained prominence with an elegy on the death of George Whitefield. Most of her poems were published in the book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, and she described her own situation in “On being brought from Africa to America.” For 10 points, name this early African-American poet.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb08b3d831d6a00063c" }, "answer" : "{Jimmy Carter} [or {James Earl Carter}, {Jr.}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6741130840965, "num" : 30, "question" : "When this man told his family that he was running for president, his mother responded \"President of what?\" This President initiated the SALT II talks and signed a treaty with Omar Torrijos (tor-REE-yos) that returned the Canal Zone to Panama. Minutes after this President left office, the Iran hostage crisis ended. This man was the main impulse behind Begin and Sadat signing the Camp David Accords. For 10 points, name this Georgia peanut farmer who was elected president in 1976 after defeating the incumbent, Gerald Ford.", "round" : "colonia-05.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003de5" }, "answer" : "malaria", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.3153519926127, "num" : 13, "question" : "TNF-alpha may contribute to the cerebral type of this disease as a result of up-regulation of ICAM-1. Deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase increases resistance to this disease, as do certain thalassemias. It causes the membranes of certain cells to become porous seconds before making them burst. Humans who are Duffy blood group negative are protected from one agent causing this disease that lacks redundancy in invasion pathways, P. vivax. Affected cells become deformed easily, leading to an outward diffusion of potassium that makes those cells less hospitable for P. falciparum in humans who are heterozygous for hemoglobin S. That heterozygosity, which also allows the spleen to preferentially destroy infected red blood cells, is sickle cell anemia. For 10 points, name this disease commonly treated with quinine which is caused by Plasmodium and transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40338b3d831d6a00616a" }, "answer" : "Deuteronomy", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.89778112689964, "num" : 19, "question" : "The Ki Teitzel and Ki Tavo represent two of the weekly reading portions prescribed for this book. Along with the Book of Numbers this text in Chapter twenty-two commands the wearing of twisted threads known as Tzitzit, and some suggest that its primary redaction occurred during the reforms of King Josiah. Chapter two of this notes that Zamzummims, or giants, once existed among the children of Ammon, but God killed them all, and it warns the Israelites not to harm the Ammonites. Chapter Six verse four of this states, \"Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our god, the Lord is one,\" which constitutes the Shema. Known as the Devarim in the Hebrew Bible and with a name derived from the Greek for \"second law,\" for 10 points, name this fifth book of the Old Testament.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 14.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a002145" }, "answer" : "{Titian} [accept {Tiziano Vecelli}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.4051359158475, "num" : 19, "question" : "This artist depicted statues of Moses and the Sybil in his dark Pieta, which features a tablet under a stone lion's head that shows the artist and his son Orazio praying to be spared from a plague. He painted a knight leading a captured Moor and Turk to the Virgin Mary, who sits atop a stairway in the Pesaro Madonna. This artist showed a man wrapped in snakes inspired by The Laocoon in the procession of a god whose chariot is pulled by cheetahs in Bacchus and Ariadne. In another work a kneeling servant rummages through a chest in the background while the title figure holds roses in her right hand as she reclines nude. For 10 points, name this Venetian artist who painted Sacred and Profane Love and Venus of Urbino.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Rice + Claremont.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a00662b" }, "answer" : "{Royall Tyler} (5)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.70819470891729, "num" : 3, "question" : "This author satirized the Yazoo River land speculation in his lost play The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon. This one-time Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court was the model for Jaffrey Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables. Doctor Updike Underhill loses a debate with Mollah over the relative merits of Christianity and Islam after being seized by Algerians in his picaresque novel The Algerine Captive. In another of his plays, Van Rough allows his daughter Maria to marry Captain Manly after  learning about the schemes of the foppish Billy Dimple. FTP, name this author of the first comedy performed in the United States of America, The ? Contrast.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c26" }, "answer" : "Pentecost", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.1809386671521, "num" : 18, "question" : "It is referred to in first Corinthians, chapter 16, and in Italy it is customary to scatter rose leaves from the ceilings of churches on this day.  It is celebrated in Eastern Europe with green branches.  Its antecedent feast, known as Shauvot, dates back to ancient times; its origin in the Catholic Church dates back to an occasion with a mighty wind, tongues of fire, and super-language powers.  For ten points, name this Christian feast, commemorating the arrival of the Holy Spirit and occurring fifty days after Easter.", "round" : "FHTE R2 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed68b3d831d6a000f55" }, "answer" : "{Oregon} Trail", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.1176632742863, "num" : 17, "question" : "This entity’s \"champion\" was Ezra Meeker, who placed markers along it. Francis Parkman wrote a history of this route. This path was first traveled by a family when used by Joel Walker. One thousand people were led on this route by Marcus Whitman in the \"Great Migration.\" This trail began at Independence, Missouri, where pioneers would take prairie schooners to prepare to travel along it. For 10 points, name this 2,170 mile long trail that went from Missouri to its namesake West Coast state.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 396, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a00715c" }, "answer" : "polymorphism", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1753941797651, "num" : 17, "question" : "(JG/CA) It had two main types, ad-hoc and parametric, and in C++ [see plus plus], this language fea- ture is implemented with template classes or functions. Associated with strongly-typed languages, a more subtle form of this is the use of one symbol to perform several similar operations, such as concatenation and addition, a technique called operator overloading. This property of object-oriented languages also shares its name with an unrelated property of computer viruses to evade detection by mutating their code without changing their function. Identify this property that allows different types of objects to respond to methods differently.", "round" : "r7tossups.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005028" }, "answer" : "{Amazon} River [or Rio {Amazonas}; or {Río Marañón}; or Rio {Solimões}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.659377050586, "num" : 26, "question" : "The city of Manaus (mah-NOW-us) marks the endpoint of large commercial shipping on this river. Francisco de Orellana (oh-ray-YAH-nuh) was one of the first people to explore this river; later, Alexander von Humboldt found that the Casiquiare (KA-see-kee-AH-ray) River connects it to the Orinoco. This waterway is the namesake of the largest species of river dolphin, has major tributaries called the Madeira and Rio Negro, and originates in the Peruvian Andes before flowing across northern Brazil. For 10 points, identify this South American river which, in volume of water and area of drainage, is the world's largest.", "round" : "4q1-12.pdf", "seen" : 403, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec38b3d831d6a000ad9" }, "answer" : "{Odin} [or {Wotan}; or {Woden}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.3952593875583, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one story, this god manages to get help from Baugi and Gunnlod in stealing from Suttung a special mead made from the blood of a man. This god decided to give up one of his eyes in order to take a drink from the well guarded by Mimir to increase his knowledge. Another attempt to gain knowledge involved this god (*) hanging himself for nine days from Yggdrasil to learn the secrets of the runes. For 10 points, name this Norse deity who wields the spear Gungnir, rides the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, and controls the ravens Hugin and Munin.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eac8b3d831d6a000545" }, "answer" : "{Smyrna} (accept {Izmir} before it is mentioned)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.92959865136072, "num" : 8, "question" : "This city was the first one to initiate the deification of the Roman Empire in the form of Roma, and in Christian history it was the birthplace of Saint Irenaeus as well as his teacher, the martyr Polycarp. It was the intended target of crusades sent by Pope Clement VI when it was part of the Emirate of Aydin. Destroyed by Alyattes of Lydia, this city was rebuilt on the hill called Pagos by the Diadochi Antigonus and Lysimachus. This city was given to Greece in the Treaty of Sevres but the Greeks were driven out in 1922 and the Armenian and Greek quarters were destroyed by fire. For 10 points, name this city that lies on the western coast of present-day Turkey and is now called Izmir, and is generally considered the hometown of Homer.", "round" : "2011 CO History Lafer Westbrook.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f74" }, "answer" : "{Graham Greene}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.08622142649256, "num" : 14, "question" : "This author created the bank manager Henry Pulling, who finds out his real mother is his traveling companion Augusta. One of his works features the dentist Mr. Tench, who discovers the protagonist's Latin devotional and hides it in an oven. This author of Travels With My Aunt wrote about a man who ultimately marries his secretary, Beatrice Severn after outwitting Captain Segura. This man created such characters as James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman turned fake spy, and an unnamed “whisky priest” who labors in a Mexican area where Catholicism is outlawed. For 10 points, name this English author of The Power and the Glory and Our Man in Havana.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 2 - Done.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a00730c" }, "answer" : "{Interpreter} of {Maladies} (Do not accept \"The {Interpreter} of {Maladies}\")", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.013486079406, "num" : 8, "question" : "One story in it is about Eliot, who is watched by Mrs. Sen after school. Another story is about Miranda, who goes with her married lover Dev to the Christian Science Center's Mapparium where he tells her \"You're sexy.\" The final story is about an immigrant boarding with the 103 year old Mrs. Croft after his marriage in Calcutta and is entitled \"The 3rd and Final Continent\". The title story is about a tour guide for the Das family who learns that Bobby is not Raj's (*) son, but the bastard son of a Punjab man. FTP name this collection of stories named for Mr. Kawasi's job translating Gujarati to a doctor, the 2000 Pulitzer prize winner by Jhumpa Lahiri.", "round" : "Round 3.rtf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdc8b3d831d6a004cb5" }, "answer" : "Cyclone {Catarina} [prompt on {crap} like \"The {Nameless Storm}\" since it was {later renamed Catarina}; accept {Hurricane Catarina}, {grudgingly}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 103.2294503583107, "num" : 10, "question" : "[CC] This phenomenon was originally called \"01T-ALPHA\" and \"50L-NONAME\" and was also known by some experts as \"Aldonça\" for a time before being given its more commonly known name. Its relatively low ceiling height has caused some debate about its classification and it formed similarly to a related phenomenon off Australia's East Coast. It made an unusual loop before it doubled-back for its final approach to land where it caused more than $25 million in damage largely because the Epagri/Ciram agency had never seen such a phenomenon before. Featured in Al Gore's \"An Inconvenient Truth\" even though it formed over cooler-than-average waters, it made landfall near the town of Torres in Rio Grande do Sul on March 28th 2004. For 30 points, identify this only cyclone in the South Atlantic to make landfall, named for the Brazilian province it struck.", "round" : "Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407b8b3d831d6a00724b" }, "answer" : "{Hezbollah} [or {Party} of {God}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1815170585178, "num" : 17, "question" : "Controlling the al-Manar television station, this group is connected to the cell that killed 241 American Marines in 1983 and was founded with assistance from another country's Revolutionary Guard. Led by Hassan Nasrallah, and given major funding by Iran, this group's 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldiers sparked a brief war between Israel and the country which it controls large parts of. For 10 points, name this Shiite organization which, in spring 2008, occupied Beirut and still controls large parts of Lebanon.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e04" }, "answer" : "William {Gilmore Simms}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.97783040255309, "num" : 4, "question" : "A play by this author sees Clarice Delancy, the niece of Mrs. Jervas, reject Robert Warren in favor of the ostensibly less well-off title character, a “Man of the People” named Norman Maurice. One of his title characters murders Emily Andrews in order to marry the rich Constance Claiborne and later confesses that murder to his Gothic double, the virtuous William Harding. The Spanish spy Dick Chorley appears in another of his novels, which also sees Gabriel Harrison defeat the forces of Sanutee after revealing himself to be Charles Craven, the new governor of (*) Carolina. For 10 points, name this South Carolinian author of Martin Faber and The Yemassee, whose other works include the historical novel The Partisan and a pro-Southern response to Uncle Tom's Cabin called The Sword and the Distaff.", "round" : "Round 06 - Michigan.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a00732b" }, "answer" : "{Klondike Gold Rush} (prompt on {Yukon Gold Rush})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9733506855555, "num" : 1, "question" : "The discovery that led to this event was registered under the name of George Cormack due to anti-Native American racism of the time, but the actual discovery was by Tagish First Nation member Skookum Jim Mason.  For two winters, famine threatened the area due to the influx of people, famously depicted by Charlie Chaplin eating a (*) shoe.  Later regulation by the Mounties forced incomers to bring a year's worth of supplies.  Dawson City became a boom town of over 37 times its current population, but under Sam Steele's command the Mounted Police was able to avert disorder.  FTP – name this late 19th Century mass migration for mineral prospecting along a Canadian River.", "round" : "Round 5.rtf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40338b3d831d6a006150" }, "answer" : "{Gerard Manley Hopkins}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.0391242741607, "num" : 13, "question" : " One of this poet's works addresses the title character by saying \"My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears;\" that character, a sick child, would eventually be \"powerful amidst peers\" at the \"random grim forge.\" That poem, \"Felix Randal,\" appeared in the same collection as one that calls the title month \"Mary's Month,\" entitled \"May Magnificat.\" Also the author of \"As Kingfishers Catch Fire,\" another poem asks why the title concept would \"lay a lionlimb against me?\" and or scan \"With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones?\" The title concept of a further poem \"over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.\"The author of \"Carrion Comfort\" and \"God's Grandeur,\" for 10 points, identify this poet who wrote about a \"dapple dawn-drawn falcon\" in his work \"The Windhover,\"", "round" : "THUNDER Round 13.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb48b3d831d6a000748" }, "answer" : "{forty-five} [or \"The {Forty-Five}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.334791519912, "num" : 23, "question" : "Radical groups of late 1700's England used this number as a symbol, as it was the issue number of the North Briton that caused the government to prosecute John Wilkes. Coincidentally, it was also the number of (+) Scottish members of the House of Commons by the 1707 Act of Union, and the last two digits of the year during which John Cope lost the Battle of Prestonpans. That battle was part of a larger campaign that ended with the leader of the rebellion fleeing, disguised as an Irish maid, after losing the Battle of (*) Culloden. For 10 points, give the number that colloquially names the Second Jacobite Uprising led by Bonnie Prince Charlie.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fef8b3d831d6a00510c" }, "answer" : "{Whiskey} Rebellion", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7533241703641, "num" : 30, "question" : "One figure targeted during this rebellion was the general John Neville, who was sent to oversee the collection of taxes. One man involved in putting down this rebellion was \"Light Horse Harry\" Lee, who had earlier served in the American Revolution. The militia forces gathered to put down this rebellion were led by the president at the time, George Washington, although no resistance was met. For 10 points, name this rebellion in western Pennsylvania that started after the United States government passed an excise (ECK-size) tax on a certain form of alcohol.", "round" : "4q2-04.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f718b3d831d6a003361" }, "answer" : "{Alan Sillitoe}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9870680577587, "num" : 8, "question" : "This author wrote about Adcock, the wireless operator for the Aldebaran, which is led by Captain Bennett on an expedition to find buried gold in Antarctica in the novel The Lost Flying Boat. The protagonist of another of this man's novels is beaten by Bill after seducing Bill's wife Winnie in the Peach Tree club. That man, Arthur Seaton, is the protagonist of this author's (*) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In this author's best-known work, the main character hides a cash box stolen from a bakery in a drainpipe, and the story ends when Smith slows down during a race and loses the Borstal Blue Ribbon Prize Cup. For 10 points, name this Angry Young Man who wrote The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e55" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Malthus}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.15851964079775, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one work, this thinker wrote that “the proper office of benevolence is to soften the partial evils arising from self-love, but it can never be substituted in its place.” He called for less reliance on foreign politics in The Grounds of an Opinion, while another work defines a certain concept as “the reward of present valour and wisdom as well as of past strength.” Elsewhere, he argued that “moral restraint” is the only feasible “preventative check,” but will not succeed without universal suffrage and education. This author of Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent used that work to present some “Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, Condorcet, and Other Writers,” arguing that means of subsistence increase by an arithmetic ratio doomed to lag behind the geometric ratio of population increase. For 10 points, name this British classical economist who wrote Essay on the Principal of Population.", "round" : "Editor's Round 1 (RR).docx", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a003763" }, "answer" : "{Song} Dynasty [or {Sung} Dynasty]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.32894802140072, "num" : 7, "question" : "During this dynasty, Quánzh?u replaced Gu?ngzh?u as the major seaport. The second emperor of this dynasty conquered Wú Yuè before capturing Tài yuán to end the Northern Hàn dynasty.The Chinese first used paper money and Zh? X? founded Neo-Confucianism during this dynasty, which also featured the first extensive use of the Imperial civil service to pick qualified bureaucrats and the reform minded chancellor Wáng ?nshí. Originally troubled by the Khitans under the Liáo, the Jurchens soon proved to be a much greater threat. The Jurchen J?n dynasty's sack of Biàn j?ng or K?if?ng forced the evacuation of the capital to Hángzh?u, which chronologically divides this dynasty into a Northern and a Southern part. For 10 points, name this dynasty founded by Tàiz? that followed the Táng Dynasty and was destroyed by the Mongols.", "round" : "MichiganB.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed58b3d831d6a000f1a" }, "answer" : "{Marcel Proust}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.570240243338, "num" : 20, "question" : "An essay by Samuel Beckett about this man describes him as \"completely detached from all moral considerations.\" Characters created by this author a great actress named Berma, an artist named Elstir, and a writer named Bergotte. He also created Albertine, whose disappearance is the subject of the sixth volume of his magnum opus. That work is a novel featuring characters such as Charles Swann which also features the episode of the Madeleine. For 10 points, name this author of Remembrance of Things Past.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a006478" }, "answer" : "The {Heart} is a {Lonely Hunter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.56097127660178, "num" : 3, "question" : "One character in this work has a sexual encounter with Harry Minowitz, and experiences a “terrible hurt” while listening to Eroica outside of a window. It also sees an impotent man take up sewing and using perfume after the death of his wife Alice, as well as Baby Wilson accidentally being shot by Spareribs' BB gun. Its protagonist's makeshift violin is mocked by Bill, while another character is disappointed by sons such as Hamilton, Karl Marx, and Willie. Other characters include Biff Brannon and a Marxist who works at a carnival, Jake Blount, who, along with Dr. Copeland and Mick Kelly, enjoy talking to a man who shoots himself after learning of the death of Spiros Antonapoulous. For 10 points, name this work about the deaf-mute John Singer by Carson McCullers.", "round" : "Packet_7.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d49" }, "answer" : "“{anyone lived} in a {pretty} how town”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.24241765425541, "num" : 12, "question" : "According to Richard Cureton, the end of this poem's first stanza “has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analyzed than any other single phrase in English literature.” Edith Everson claims that its two main characters “are the only ones in the community who are living in the proper sense.” When the title character dies, his lover “stooped to kiss his face.” This poem describes how “women and men … reaped their sowing and went their came,” and how the title character “sang his didn't” and “danced his did.” No-one is buried alongside the title character in, for 10 points, what E.E. Cummings poem, which follows the lives of the residents of a nameless town?", "round" : "Packet 06.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404a8b3d831d6a0066a8" }, "answer" : "{Erik Satie}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 423.0422889036126, "num" : 3, "question" : "His scores instruct that one of his works be repeated 840 times and that another be played “perpetually.” His other works include his Furniture Music, a song called Je te veux, and a Bureaucratic Sonatina. The program notes to one of this composer's works coined the term “surrealism;” that work was the scandalous ballet Parade. This man's most famous compositions, a set of three piano pieces published in 1898, were orchestrated by his friend Debussy and named after an ancient Greek festival. FTP, name this French pianist who wrote the “Gymnopedies.”", "round" : "HFT Championship 02 FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f138b3d831d6a001d4c" }, "answer" : "{Roger Federer}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.4583438041154, "num" : 8, "question" : "With partner Stanislas Wawrinka, this man won men's doubles at the Beijing Olympics. A backpedaling shot this man hit against Andre Agassi in the 2005 US Open was described as one of his namesake “Moments” in an article about this player “as Religious Experience” by David Foster Wallace. Martin del Potro was only the second person to beat this man in a Grand Slam finals appearance, and this man missed the US Open finals for the first time in six years after his loss to Novak Djokovic in the 2010 semifinals. For 10 points, name this Swiss tennis player who won five straight US Opens and Wimbledons but lost the French Open three straight years to Rafael Nadal.", "round" : "VCU.doc", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f728b3d831d6a00339a" }, "answer" : "{Dorothea Lange} [or {Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.4985284847207, "num" : 6, "question" : "This artist's work for the WRA includes a piece that features many girls holding their hands to their hearts, as well as one showing a crowd of people with luggage waiting for a bus and one showing a young boy sitting on some bags looking to the left. Those works, “Salute of Innocence,” “Interrupted Lives,” and “A Compassionate Eye,” chronicled events at Manzanar, a (*) Japanese internment camp. While working for the Farm Security Administration, this photographer took a picture in Nipoma, California that depicts Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children. For 10 points, name this female American photographer who captured the Great Depression in works like “Migrant Mother.”", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c26" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Beckett}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5513488478027, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of this author's works sees its title character ponder Mahood and Worm, and another features the title character on his sixty-ninth birthday listening to a recording of himself at thirty-nine. In addition to The Unnameable, part of a trilogy, and Krapp's Last Tape, this man wrote a play in which Nell and Nagg live in trash cans, Hamm can't stand, and Clov can't sit, and one in which Vladimir and Estragon consider hanging themselves and meet Lucky and Pozzo while performing the title action. For 10 points, name this author of Endgame and Waiting for Godot.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046b8" }, "answer" : "{Love} in the {Time} of {Cholera} [or {El amor en los tiempos del colera}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.34851374523715, "num" : 17, "question" : "At this novel's end, the Justice charges that the heroine's father had fleeced the government in two deals, one of which involved a young Joseph Conrad and the other of which involved separate shipments of right and left boots.  Earlier, one of this novel's protagonists gets a lover killed by painting “This pussy is mine” on her stomach but forgetting to remove it before her husband comes home.  That character also has an affair with 14-year-old America Vicuna, whose grades plummet and cause her suicide, though he never sleeps with Leona Cassiani, his secretary at the (*) riverboat company that he takes over from Uncle Leo. This novel's other primary male dies chasing his parrot up a tree, just after having discovered his chess partner Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had committed suicide. Dr. Juvenal Urbino's death allows the resumption, after fifty-one years, of the romance of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza in, for 10 points, what novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?", "round" : "Rd05.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a0037e1" }, "answer" : "the {Mughal} Dynasty", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.491095890291, "num" : 7, "question" : "One emperor of this dynasty created Din-I-Ilahi, a religious system that combined Zoroastrianism, Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism. The Afghan leader Sher Shah of Sur expelled the second emperor of this dynasty, Humayun. This dynasty temporarily repealed the traditional Jizya tax on non-Muslims until its ruler Au·rang·zeb took power. This dynasty's Shah Jahan drained the treasury with many costly wars and created the Taj Mahal for his dead wife. For 10 points, name this Indian dynasty ruled by Akbar the Great and Babur.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee88b3d831d6a001381" }, "answer" : "pH", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.38039582921192, "num" : 3, "question" : "A Harned [Har-ned] Cell is a device used for measuring this quantity, and other devices used to measure this quantity have an asymmtetry potential that arises due to the presence of an electrode. The attachment of a certain ion to a central nitrogen atom creates a positive charge on its adjacent nitrogen, which eventually leads to a distinctive change allowing its quantification. This quantity is related to the pKa according to the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, and buffers minimize changes in this quantity for a system. For 10 points, identify this quantity that is equal to the negative log base 10 of the hydrogen ion activity, which for water equals 7.", "round" : "Packet 8 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007347" }, "answer" : "{random access} memory or {RAM} (prompt on {memory} until \"{memory wall}\" is read)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2481786718126, "num" : 11, "question" : "Because of addressing issues on 32-bit operating systems, most computers can only support 4096 megabytes of it. The performance bottleneck caused by the growing disparity between its speed and the speed at which CPUs can perform, is referred to as the memory (*) wall. When there is not enough of it, swapping must be used. The static type stores information in flip-flops, while the dynamic type uses transistor gates. Most types are volatile, meaning the data is lost when the power is turned off. It is usually sold in modules known as sticks. FTP, name this type of computer storage, which allows the data to be read in any order.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff08b3d831d6a005177" }, "answer" : "derivative", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1863429590594, "num" : 9, "question" : "Faa Di Bruno's Formula gives an explicit formula for one type of this operation. Operations of this type for a vector function form the entries of the Jacobian matrix, and operations of this type form the entries of the gradient. L'Hospital's Rule uses a quotient of these operations to calculate limits. For composite functions, this operation is applied using the chain rule. This operation finds the slope of a curve's tangent line, and is defined as the \"limit as h goes to zero of 'f of x plus h' minus 'f of x', all over h.\" For 10 points, name this basic operation of calculus, the inverse of the integral.", "round" : "4q2-08.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048b9" }, "answer" : "Bryophytes", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7230192504358, "num" : 18, "question" : "When these organisms reproduce, they form a thin structure called the protonema. These organisms can be divided into two groups, one of which contains the antheridia and archegonia on the same body and are referred to as monoicous. Throughout most of their life cycle these organisms exist as a haploid gametophyte while during reproduction, the sporangium is encased in a stalk called a seta. This group, which includes genus Marchantia, contrasts with tracheophytes in their lack of xylem and phloem. For 10 points, name this group of land plants that are non vascular and non flowering and include liverworts and mosses.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 10 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a00017a" }, "answer" : "A {System} of {Logic}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 39.97830648813397, "num" : 18, "question" : "In the sixth chapter of the first part of this work, it is asserted that \"Individuals have no essences,\" since if man was a substance, it would inhere equally in Julius Caesar and John Thompson. Chapter 5 of its second part examines some opinions of Dr. Whewell, while Chapter 8 of part 3 examines four methods of experimental inquiry including those of agreement, difference, residues, and concomitant variations, and the following chapter contains examples of those methods, such as Liebig's theory of metallic poisons. The first chapter of this work explains why a theory of names is a necessary part of the titular concept, and its first part puts forth such a theory, as well as one of propositions, while this work's second part concludes with an examination of the doctrine of the Universal Postulate and William Hamilton's philosophy, and concerns itself with \"reasoning.\" Also containing such illuminating sections as \"Of Induction,\" \"Of Fallacies,\" and \"On the Logic of the Moral Sciences,\" for ten points, identify this exposition of reasoning, written by John Stuart Mill.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-OSUBerkeleyStateCollegeFinal.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004db1" }, "answer" : "{Harold Pinter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7279538623989, "num" : 20, "question" : "This author wrote a play with scenes in reverse chronology about Emma's affair with Jerry titled Betrayal and one that climaxes when a Buddha statue breaks before Davies is forced out of an apartment by Aston and Mick. In another play, the phrases “put the kettle on” and “light the kettle” are debated while two hitmen sit in a basement, until Ben realizes he was hired to kill Gus. This author wrote another play ending when Goldberg and McCann take away Stanley Webber. For 10 points, name this British dramatist of The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party.", "round" : "03 HFT.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c2e" }, "answer" : "monopoly", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.85497409245, "num" : 22, "question" : "In this market structure, the average revenue curve is equal to the demand curve, and thus the only way to increase revenue is to lower price. When the barriers to entry which create this structure manifest as extremely high infrastructure cost, this structure is said to be “natural;” examples include (*) water utilities and telecommunications. For 10 points, identify this microeconomic market structure in which a good has only one seller.", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c22" }, "answer" : "swords", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.8976447274908, "num" : 10, "question" : "Vietnamese king Le Loi was said to receive one of these objects enscribed with the words \"The Will of Heaven\" from a turtle. One of these objects was found in the body of an eight headed serpent killed by Susano'o. In the epic of Beowulf, Hrunting and Naegling are magic forms of this object. After the wounding of the owner of one of these objects, Bedivere casts that object into a (*) body of water where a hand emerged to catch it. That wounded owner had previously retrieved one of these objects from a stone. For 10 points, name this form of weapon, an example of which is King Arthur's Excaliber.", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f558b3d831d6a002cd2" }, "answer" : "clouds", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.1207018091809, "num" : 17, "question" : "Matveev developed a two-parameter model to predict which type of these objects will form. One model of the formation of these objects has been extended to organic seeds by Pandis, and they may form in response to orographic uplift. One process that occurs in these objects is named for Bergeron. The formation of these objects are studied in Köhler theory. Ice caps are a type of this object that form over nuclear detonations. These objects may have “overshooting tops” that, if they are present continuously, indicate that these objects are part of a supercell. Noctilucent examples may contain thin sodium and iron coats, leading to their unusually high tendency to reflect radar. Large-scale organizations of these entities include actinoform, open-cell, and closed-cell. Nacreous ones sequester nitric acid, altering nitrogen and chlorine cycles and damaging the ozone layer. For 10 points, name these objects studied in nephology, which come in forms like cirrus and cumulus.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a0046a6" }, "answer" : "“{Home Burial}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.07583829737268, "num" : 19, "question" : "The leaping of gravel in this work may be intended to evoke a sexual rhythm. One figure in this work is condemned for speculating on what “three foggy mornings and one rainy day” will do to the condition of a birch fence. The author of this poem said that the best part was the exclamation “don't, don't, don't, don't.” A monologue in this poem condemns \"friends\" who \"make pretence of following\" before concluding that \"the world's (*) evil.\" After pleading “don't go to someone else this time” with Amy, the husband in this poem pledges, “ I'll follow and bring you back by force. I will!” For 10 points, name this poem published in 1914's North of Boston in which a man wonders “Can't a man speak of his own child he's lost?” after looking through the window at his family graveyard, written by Robert Frost.", "round" : "Rd04.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40088b3d831d6a005716" }, "answer" : "s", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.187186243711, "num" : 12, "question" : "This letter denotes the lowest unfilled electron subshell in copper, and while a subshell denoted by this letter is filled in manganese, the 3d subshell is not. Palladium is unique in that it (*) lacks electrons in this subshell at the fifth energy level. This subshell corresponds to a second quantum number of zero, and is the only one that exists at the first energy level. For 10 points, name this spherical electron subshell, whose name is an abbreviation for its historical name, \"sharp.\"", "round" : "tourn8-13.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a004803" }, "answer" : "{Elizabeth} I [or {Virgin} Queen; or Good Queen {Bess}; or {Gloriana}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3611522552092, "num" : 16, "question" : "This ruler appointed John Whitgift to replace the anti-Erastianistic Edmund Grindal. Charles Neville and Thomas Percy led the Northern Rebellion against this ruler. The Regnis in Excelsis bull was issued by Pius V against this ruler. Nicholas Bacon, Robert Devereux, Robert Dudley, William Cecil, and Francis Walsingham protected this ruler from conspiracies like the Throckmorton, Ridolfi, and Babington plots. She delivered the Tilbury Speech before the Spanish Armada invaded. For 10 points, name this English queen, the daughter of Anne Boleyn, who was imprisoned by her sister Mary I and later executed her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 01 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bec" }, "answer" : "{Duke} of {Wellington} [or {Arthur Wellesley}, {Duke} of {Wellington}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5583441171329, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man's earliest political post was Governor of Seringapatam, to which he was appointed by his older brother, Lord Mornington. Under this man's government, the Test Act was repealed and the Catholic Emancipation Act was passed. He succeeded Castlereagh as Britain's delegate to the Congress of Vienna. He is the only man to have concurrently held the offices of (*) Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. For 10 points, name this politician, who was given a dukedom a year before he ended the Napoleonic Wars with a victory at Waterloo.", "round" : "tournament17-12.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e52" }, "answer" : "{James Fennimore Cooper}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.46405587252229, "num" : 22, "question" : "This author created the vainglorious Aristabalus Bragg in a work about the Effingham family's return to New York, Home as Found. He described the romance of Lucy Hardinge in Afloat and Ashore, a story that would be continued in Miles Wallingford.   He wrote of monkeys traveling in Europe and set another work in 16th Century Bavaria.  In addition to The Monikins and The Heidenmauer, he wrote about politics in A Letter to his Countrymen and The American Democrat, while his trilogy about the Anti-Rent War included the novel The Chainbearer.  Characters created by this man include Harvey Birch, in a story of Revolutionary War intrigue, as well as Judith Hutter, who appears in a series of novels that also features Cora Munro, the evil Magua, and the noble Uncas.  For 10 points, identify this author of The Spy who chronicled the adventures of  Natty Bumppo in the Leather-Stocking Tales.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 5).docx", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6b8b3d831d6a0031f4" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Tippecanoe} [or {Prophetstown}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7848093642388, "num" : 7, "question" : "This battle caused the collapse of the Red Stick Confederacy and took place when one of the leaders told his men that the Master of Life promised success and that bullets could not harm them. That leader, who changed his name from Lalawethika to Tenskwatawa, had set up a religious village three years before this battle took place. The other side, which approached the battle via the Wabash River, was headed by the Governor of Indiana. In this 1811 battle, the Shawnee brother of Tecumseh was defeated by troops led by future President William Henry Harrison. Name this battle that later became part of Harrison's campaign slogan.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e988b3d831d6a000120" }, "answer" : "{Jagiello} [accept {Jogaila} , accept {Wladyslaw II} ]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.5363449503202, "num" : 21, "question" : "Legends concerning this ruler's wife include a footprint she made in the hardened floor or a church, and she was often depicted wearing an apron of roses. This ruler made a treaty with his cousin in the Ostrow Agreement, and one conflict that arose over boundaries disputes during his rule was called the Hunger War, which was resolved by the Treaty of Menlo. This ruler was a son of Agirdas and a member of the Gediminid dynasty, and this ruler's first marriage was known as the Union of Krewo. This ruler was victorious in a battle, which was followed by the siege of Marienburg and led to the signing of the Peace of Thorn. That victory was fought alongside Vytautas the Great, the ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For 10 points, identify this victor at the 1410 Battle of Tannenberg, who married Queen Jadwiga and ruled Poland starting a namesake dynasty.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-HarvardFinal.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027d0" }, "answer" : "The {Castle} of {Otranto}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.30575746344402, "num" : 8, "question" : "This novel's preface ends with a poem that claims \"For sure thy smiles are Fame\" and is addressed to Lady Mary Coke. In its first chapter, a peasant is put underneath the casque of a court without food after being accused a necromancer. At one point, a portrait of the protagonist's grandfather gives out a long sigh, and at another point the Knight of the Gigantic Sabre arrives at the titular place. Central to the plot is how Alfonso the Good was poisoned years earlier, when he was ruler of the titular Italian polity. Inspired by its author's estate Strawberry Hill, it begins with Manfred's son Conrad being crushed by a gigantic helmet. For 10 points identify this Gothic novel written by Horace Walpole.", "round" : "Round 03 updated.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a003569" }, "answer" : "{Philosophical Investigations}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.95614063972607, "num" : 8, "question" : "This work claims that \"there is no general form of propositions\" and emphasizes the limitations of ostensive definitions. H.P. Grice has criticised this work's Part II discussion of \"seeing\" for confusing semantics and pragmatics, and that section uses the examples of a fork and an optical illusion.  Part I of this work consists of 693 brief paragraphs and opens with a quote from Aristotle's Confessions, and this book uses the metaphor of a \"beetle-in-a-box\" to argue against the concept of a private language.  Famous for its duckrabbit and a discussion of \"language games\", for 10 points, name this posthumous work by the author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein.", "round" : "Cheyne-Byrne.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a0051b1" }, "answer" : "{ruby} [accept {corundum} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4836914511397, "num" : 3, "question" : "This precious stone typically displays needle-like intrusions of rutile, and like common mimicks of diamond, this mineral is produced in large scales by the Verneuil process. Synthetic rods of this precious stone are used as a gain medium in some lasers. Its characteristic color comes from chromium, and its most valuable shade is called pidgeon's blood. For 10 points, name this mineral of Mohs hardness nine, the red form of corundum.", "round" : "4q2-10.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff98b3d831d6a005382" }, "answer" : "{lava} [do not accept \"{magma}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.4380546875764, "num" : 45, "question" : "This material completely surrounds lands known as \"kipuka.\" A landform called a tuya results when this substance is found beneath a glacier. This substance interacts with water to form the \"pillow\" type of it. When this substance is very liquid, it is known as pahoehoe (pa-HOY-hoy). When this material takes on a chunky consistency, it is known as aa (AH-ah). Composite, or \"strato\" cones, alternate between this emitting this material and expelling tephra and ash. For 10 points, name this type of molten rock, the above-ground counterpart of magma.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-science.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e6a" }, "answer" : "{Little Miss Sunshine}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.8029684233479, "num" : 10, "question" : "This film's soundtrack includes adaptations of the gypsy punk band DeVotchKa, and one figure's name is revealed only after his death as Edwin Hoover. An alternate ending on its DVD has the central family stealing a trophy as they depart the Redondo Suites. Pornography purchased by Steve Carell's character early on in the movie distracts a motorcycle cop from Grandpa's dead body when the family's yellow Volkswagen van is pulled over. For 10 points, name this 2006 film starring Abigail Breslin as Olive, an unlikely beauty pageant contestant.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a000918" }, "answer" : "{Robert Lee Frost}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7808787110261, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man evoked the myth of Adam and Eve in such poems as \"Kitty Hawk.\" Another poem describes how \"magnified apples appear and disappear,\" and a third claims that \"So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day.\" In addition to \"After Apple Picking\" and \"Nothing Gold Can Stay,\" this man wrote about woods that are \"lovely, dark, and (*) deep\" in a poem whose speaker has \"miles to go\" before he sleeps. For 10 points, name this author of \"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening\" who wrote in \"Mending Wall\" that \"good fences make good neighbors.\"", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a00717a" }, "answer" : "Steven Paul {Jobs} [accept {Steve Jobs}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.7052450176327, "num" : 13, "question" : "His first job in the industry for which he's famous was at Atari, from which he hoped to save money for a spiritual journey to the East. After a decade with his famous company, he was exiled, but continued to hold exactly one share of that company. He returned in 1996, replacing Gil Amelio as CEO, from NeXT Computer. Since then, he has remained with the company, which has enjoyed its greatest success, dominating the personal media player market. He himself has become a well-known presence at industry conferences, making epic speeches to introduce such products as the iPhone, and false rumors that he had cancer swirled in the fall of 2008. Identify this turtleneck-clad co-founder and chairman of Apple Computer.", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40478b3d831d6a00660d" }, "answer" : "{Calvinball} (1)", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.9326217831112, "num" : 15, "question" : "One participant in this activity requests that a bucket of ice-cold water be dumped on his head before warning another character about the \"pernicious poem place.\" The namesake of this activity asks another participant to harmonize on the \"rumma tum tums\" while singing its official song, which begins \"other kids' games are all such a bore!\" Entities encountered while playing this game include the bonus box, the \"perimeter of wisdom,\" and the \"invisible sector,\" and every player must wear a ? mask. This game's legal scores include BW-109 to YU-34 and Q to 12, and it usually includes flags, wickets, water balloons, and a soccer ball, although its only permanent rule is that it can't be played the same way twice. FTP, name this game created by Bill Watterson, whose arbitrary rules inspire both Wikipedia and Chip Beall.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a000a00" }, "answer" : "The {Tin Drum} [or {Die Blechtrommel}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9811731646769, "num" : 21, "question" : "In this novel, an Italian sleepwalker is killed off when an artillery bombards her at Normandy, and the protagonist is sent to jail for murder because of Vittlar's testimony. Jan Blonski has an affair with the protagonist's mother Agnes, whose husband Alfred commits suicide by swallowing a badge. The protagonist of this work decides to stop (*) growing at the age of three, when he chooses to start beating the title object. This novel is followed up by Cat and Mouse and Dog Years in its author's Danzig Trilogy. For 10 points name this novel about Oscar Matzerath, written by Gunter Grass.", "round" : "tourn8-03.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40558b3d831d6a006961" }, "answer" : "{Benito Mussolini} [prompt on {Il Duce} until mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9259949859698, "num" : 23, "question" : "Early in life, this leader edited the Socialist newspapers The Class Struggle. He ruled the short-lived Republic of Salo, and rose to power with the support of squadrismo. This leader instituted a tax on bachelors to encourage population growth, and appointed Cesare Mori prefect of Tripani in order to control the power of the Mafia. In 1935, he ordered an invasion of Ethiopia, and he took power after the March on Rome. For 10 points, name this dictator nicknamed Il Duce, who was deposed in World War II by the Allies after leading the Fascist Party in Italy.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072d9" }, "answer" : "{Karl Marx}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.2226586141624, "num" : 16, "question" : "He asserted that “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” in his discussion of France's 1851 coup d'etat, and another work took the form of a letter to the Eisenbach political party. In addition to The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and Critique of the Gotha Program he argued in one work that social relationships were being replaced with commodity fetishism and another begins with the line, “A (*) spectre is haunting Europe” and was co-written with Friedrich Engels. FTP, name this philosopher who penned Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto.", "round" : "Round 1.rtf", "seen" : 308, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc48b3d831d6a004758" }, "answer" : "{John Singleton Copley}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.93481963989325, "num" : 13, "question" : "He depicted General George Augustus Eliot on horseback during the Great Siege of Gibraltar in one work, while other works by this artist of The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar include portraits of James Warren, Nicholas Boylston, and Margaret Kemble Gage.  This artist depicted a black man with a scruffy goatee in his Head of a Man, and a small glass of water sits on a table with a small animal on a leash held by a character wearing a blue jacket and a gold vest in another of this man's works.  This artist of Boy With a Squirrel painted one more well known work in which a group of people in a small boat attempt to rescue a naked man from the ocean and an approaching predator, which is about to be harpooned by one character.  For 10 points—name this painter of Watson and the Shark, who also painted the most well known portrait of Paul Revere.", "round" : "2.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e23" }, "answer" : "{Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 423.0209142770618, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man's bronze Herm of St. Stephen is featured at the Cathedral Treasury in Zagreb, and another of his works depicts an angel carrying a crown of thorns. One of his late works depicts a woman on her deathbed in Beata Ludovico Albertoni; a better known work is the baldacchino for St. Peter's Basilica. His sculpture groups include The Rape of Prosperina in addition to Apollo and Daphne. Best known for a work in the Cornaro Chapel, for 10 points, name this Italian sculptor who showed arrows of light piercing a female mystic in his St. Theresa in Ecstasy.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004950" }, "answer" : "The {Acts} of the {Apostles}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.9928181970026, "num" : 8, "question" : "The Believers' Prayer is derived from a passage in this book, whose ninth chapter features the healing of Aeneas and Tabitha. The second book to begin with a dedication to Theophilus, its eighth chapter recounts the conversion of Simon Magnus by Phillip, while its seventh chapter tells the account of St. Stephen's stoning at the hands of Saul, who is later converted while on his way to Damascus. Centering on the deeds of St. Paul and St. Peter, for 10 points, identify this Biblical book that directly follows the Gospels and is named after the twelve closest followers of Jesus.", "round" : "FKT Jonathan Graham 2.rtf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9b8b3d831d6a003d8e" }, "answer" : "{Terra Nostra}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.86737275705672, "num" : 14, "question" : "One character mentioned in this novel was killed by a poisoned rosary, while another celebrated his own funeral every day of his reign. Another character refused to be touched by anyone other than her husband, which led to losing all of her limbs from lying outside after her husband died. Numerous characters appear in unusual circumstances with six toes on each foot and a red cross on their backs, including one baptized Iohannes Agrippa by Pollo on the instructions of a letter from Ludovico and Celestina. The first section of this novel describes El Senor's construction of a tomb for his ancestors and eventually himself, the last of his line. In the middle section, a young man goes on a voyage to the west with Pedro and is recognized as a god returning from his exile across the ocean by a people analogous to the Aztecs. For 10 points, name this novel which describes a parallel to the world's history, centered on Spain and Mexico and written by Carlos Fuentes.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 18, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a001a08" }, "answer" : "{Gunpowder Treason} Plot [prompt on “{blowing up} the {English Houses} of {Parliament}” or equivalents before mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8592855928, "num" : 14, "question" : "After this event, its planners moved from Warwick Castle to Holbeche house. Robert and Thomas Wintour were two planners of this event, and before it, Thomas Percy rented a room later occupied by “John Johnson.” This event failed when Francis Tresham’s letter to William Parker was [*] acquired by Robert Cecil. The group behind this event was led by Roger Catesby and sought to increase freedom for Catholics by assassinating James I. This plot is commemorated with fireworks and burnings-in-effigy on the fifth of November. For 10 points, name this attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament, centering on Guy Fawkes.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400a8b3d831d6a0057ab" }, "answer" : "{string quartet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.8779683127068, "num" : 6, "question" : "One collection of six works for this ensemble are named \"Sun\" for the design on their first published edition. A work of this kind, written in Spillville, Iowa, is nicknamed \"American\" and is by Anton Dvorak (duh-VOR-jack). One of these works makes use of the melody of \"Deutschland, Uber Alles\" and is not for piano, but is nicknamed \"The Emperor.\" Joseph (*) Haydn is not only called the \"Father of the Symphony,\" but also the \"Father of\" these works. For 10 points, name this ensemble, which consists of two violins, a viola, and a cello.", "round" : "tourn9-05.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed48b3d831d6a000ec2" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Waterloo}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3490481919143, "num" : 22, "question" : "This battle saw fighting at a farmhouse at Hougoumount and at the village of Plancenoit. The tide of this battle was turned following the arrival of Prussian forces under Gebhard von Blücher (BLUE-ker). This battle occurred at the end of the Hundred Days’ after one side’s commander had escaped exile from Elba. After defeat at this battle by the Duke of Wellington, that man was exiled again to St. Helena. For 10 points, name this decisive 1815 defeat in Belgium for Napoleon.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a0057e6" }, "answer" : "{oligarchy} [accept word forms]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2093551873695, "num" : 19, "question" : "Gaetano Mosca stated that all governments were facades for this type of government. A case study of Germany's labor-oriented Social Democratic party was used by Robert Michaels to show that, due to organizational needs, this type of government will always arise, in a theory called the \"iron law\" of this. This term is often used to describe the (*) Russian speculators who bought former state enterprises during the 1990s privatization. For 10 points, give this term which describes government by a small, non-aristocratic class.", "round" : "tourn9-07.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006048" }, "answer" : "{Hercules} or {Heracles} or if {someone thinking} they are {really smart} and is all {into Etruscan Hercle}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.93310154881328, "num" : 4, "question" : "The Etruscans believed themselves to be descendants of this deity through his son, Tyrrenhus. This son of Tinia and Uni was often depicted as Cubans  or reclining at table, which was memorialized in a statue  ot the west of the Divus Hadrianus. Temples to this figure throughout the Italic peninsula have led scholars to hypothesize that this deity was important as a patron of herdsman and transhumance. An oracle to Demophon demanded that this figure's daughter, Macaria, be sacrified. In addition to attacking Pylos and slaying all but one of Neleus' sons,, this figure slew all but one of the children of Laomdeon during his sack of Troy. This man's first two wives were Megara and Omphale and he had to the fight the river god, Achelous, in order to marry his third wife, Deinara. For ten points, name this legendary figure, the cousin of Eurystheus, who was given twelve labors.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d05" }, "answer" : "{American International Group} [accept {AIG}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.85959069198, "num" : 2, "question" : "In 2009, this company dropped a billion-dollar claim against its former CEO, Hank Greenberg, returning his pictures with company founder Cornelius Vander Starr. It also set the salary of Robert Benmosche (ben-mo-SHAY), its current head and the former CEO of MetLife, at seven million dollars, a year after Edward Liddy was paid one dollar for the same job. A report by Neil Barofsky stated that government money was funneled to this company's counterparties, such as Goldman Sachs, when it was rescued with a bailout that could cost taxpayers 182 billion dollars. Name this insurance underwriter whose Fortune 500 ranking fell from thirteen to 245 in 2009 and which is now eighty percent owned by the US government.", "round" : "finals 1 TU.pdf", "seen" : 566, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f588b3d831d6a002d8c" }, "answer" : "“{Politics} and the English {Language}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.3738954695873, "num" : 16, "question" : "Near the end of this essay, its author asks “Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism?” Near the beginning, its author quotes Harold Laski's Essay in Freedom of Expression and Lancelot Hogben's Interglossia. This work suggests that “the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.” It includes a verse from Ecclesiastes translated into “modern English of the worst sort,” and deplores the use of “dying metaphors” such as the hammer and the anvil. For 10 points, name this essay by George Orwell which links the first title entity to the decline of the second title entity.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006258" }, "answer" : "{Marduk} [or {Bel}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.66306900256313, "num" : 7, "question" : "One realm associated with this figure is generally believed to be the planet Jupiter, and was called Nibiru. His chariot was drawn by four horses named Trampler, Haste, Pitiless, and Killer, and this figure's father led Mummu by a nose-rope just before his birth. He built a palace called Esharra, and his weapons include the Abuba, Imhullu, and a net that Anu gave him. This figure killed Kingu, whose blood Ninhursag used to create the first human. His father is a water deity called Ea, and he earned the Tablets of Destiny after killing a dragon that represented the sea.  For 10 points, name this patron god of Babylon, the slayer of Tiamat.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Andrew Hart.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a00625a" }, "answer" : "the {Hanseatic League} [or {Hansa}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.79628903069533, "num" : 9, "question" : "Like another polity under Margaret, this polity was harassed by the pesky Likedeelers, who arose from the defeated Victual Brothers. This polity acquired a London steelyard in a deal brokered with Henry IV at Utrecht. It fought a war with the Netherlands that ended when Christopher of Batavia crushed a peasant uprising, leading to the Treaty of Copenhagen. It set up posts known as kontors, and this polity captured Visby, which led to the signing of the Treaty of Stralsund with Valdemar IV, granting it fifteen percent of Denmark's shipping profits. For 10 points, name this northern European trading alliance.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Andrew Hart.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f868b3d831d6a0038be" }, "answer" : "Le {Corbusier} [accept {Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.8175894839223, "num" : 19, "question" : "This designer of the Curuchet House developed a scale of proportions based on the golden ratio, his \"Modulor\" system. One of his works features ground-level supporting columns, a roof garden, and a circular driveway with the exact turning radius of a Citroën, in keeping with this man's \"five points\" of architecture put forth in his Towards a New Architecture. He believed that \"A house is a machine for living in,\" and pioneered the International Style. For 10 points, name this Swiss-French architect of the Notre Dame du Haut and the Villa Savoye.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f678b3d831d6a00312a" }, "answer" : "{Bull Run} [or Manassas early]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.841565216193, "num" : 8, "question" : "One battle at this site saw the losing commander court-martial Fitz John Porter for disobedience, after which the loser at a battle here was reassigned to fight the Dakota War in Minnesota. A representative from New York, Alfred Ely, was a civilian captured at a battle at this site. One battle here saw Bernard Bee coin a famous nickname. The retreat after the first battle of this site engulfed a group of Washington, D.C., civilians who had been picnicking while watching the battle. For 10 points, name this location in Virginia where the first major battle of the Civil War was fought and which the Confederates dubbed First Manassas.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0d8b3d831d6a001bfc" }, "answer" : "Palace of {Versailles} [or {Chateau} de {Versailles}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.04987084213644, "num" : 10, "question" : "A now-demolished addition to this structure housed a statue depicting Apollo surrounded by six nymphs, the product of a collaboration between Giradon and Regnaudin. Frescoes by Antoine Coypel and Charles de la Fosse adorn a chapel here, while a painting found here shows a man on horseback looking through a telescope as he hands a map to a companion. A controversial series of multicolored balloon-like sculptures was exhibited in this building by (*) Takashi Murakami, while Saturn is encircled by cupids and shellfish in a prominent fountain here. Its most famous gallery features a series of 17 arched windows, which enable a view of the gardens within the namesake objects. The triumph of Charles Le Brun, for 10 points, name this home to the Hall of Mirrors, a French palace built for Louis XIV.", "round" : "FINAL_UW A+Columbia_B.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005010" }, "answer" : "{Aaron Copland}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3403019437101, "num" : 2, "question" : "This composer's first symphony was originally for organ. Eugene Goossens commissioned a brass-and-percussion piece by this composer that he would later incorporate into the finale of his Third Symphony. One of this man's ballets contains the \"Hoe-Down\" movement. He composed a ballet choreographed by Martha Graham that incorporates the Shaker hymn \"Simple Gifts.\" For 10 points, name this American composer of Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man, and Appalachian Spring.", "round" : "4q1-12.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a005693" }, "answer" : "{prime} numbers [or {primes}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1675563729368, "num" : 7, "question" : "All four of Landau's \"unattackable\" problems concerned these entities. One of those problems, Legendre's conjecture, claims that for all positive integers n, one of them is found between n squared and quantity n plus one squared; another states that any even integer greater than two can be written as a sum of two of them and is known as the (*) Goldbach conjecture. Many encryption methods rely on multiplying two of them, and they can be found using the sieve of Eratosthenes. For 10 points, name these numbers whose only factors are one and themselves.", "round" : "tourn8-07.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef58b3d831d6a00165c" }, "answer" : "{prisoner’s dilemma}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 338.2763923066668, "num" : 20, "question" : "This scenario was used to model the evolution of reciprocal altruism in a 1971 paper by Robert Trivers. Proposed by Merril Flood and Melvin Dresher, this scenario tends to be defined by the conditions T greater than R greater than P greater than S, though related variants relax some of those conditions. A tournament of its iterated variant was proposed by Robert (*) Axelrod and won by Anatol Rapoport’s “tit for tat” strategy. For 10 points, name this zero-sum problem of game theory, whose title characters must agree either to stick to their story or to rat each other out.", "round" : "Packet 17 - TB 1.doc", "seen" : 221, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a001321" }, "answer" : "{Moses Maimonides} [or {Moses ben-Maimon}; or {RamBam}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.22941126604564, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of this thinker’s works claims that one should help poor people out of sadness rather than pity in a section that outlines this mans’ eight levels of giving, or Tzedakah. This man wrote that laws may take fourteen forms, or shorash, in The Book of Commandments. Another work by him examines the merkavah vision and criticizes the methods, but not the conclusions of the kalam scholars. This man developed a list of 13 essential aspects of his faith in his commentary on the halakah. Another book by this author of the Mishneh Torah was written for Joseph ben Judah and attempts to clarify the relationship between medieval philosophy and Jewish beliefs. For 10 points, name this Spanish thinker who wrote Guide for the Perplexed.", "round" : "Packet 2 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a0008e3" }, "answer" : "London", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.7925016514491, "num" : 20, "question" : "This city’s City Hall features a helical staircase and was designed by Norman Foster, and gardener Joseph Paxton designed the steel-and-glass Crystal Palace for its 1851 Great Exposition. It is home to the pedestrian Millennium Bridge, and its St. Paul’s Cathedral was designed by Sir Christoper Wren in the aftermath of its (*) Great Fire in 1666. For 10 points, name this city on the Thames River whose Westminster Palace features the clock tower known as Big Ben, the capital of Great Britain.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047dd" }, "answer" : "Kalevala", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.69216638221405, "num" : 20, "question" : "One character in this work becomes pregnant after eating a lingonberry and gives birth to an unnamed son who is later named king by Ukko.  Another character in this work is the brother of Untamo and later uses magic to change cows into bears before killing himself in a berserk rage.  In addition to Kullervo, one character in this work plays a kantele made from the jaw-bone of a giant fish and visits the belly of the ground giant Antero Vipunen, and that character, along with Lemminkäinen and Seppo Ilmarinen, later steals the Sampo from the people of Pohjola.  For 10 points—name this work, featuring the heroic shaman Väinämöinen, a compilation of Finnish folklore by Elias Lönnrot.", "round" : "8.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a006377" }, "answer" : "Wales", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.0493268542923, "num" : 21, "question" : "Early tribes in this region included the Silures and the Ordovices, and it was home to the Kingdom of Powys in the Middle Ages. The Treaty of Montgomery recognized the independence of this place, though it was overturned by the Treaty of Aberconwy, ending rule here by the House of Aberffraw. Offa's Dyke was built to protect against attacks from people here, and it is the location of Pembroke. One leader from here captured his enemy Edmund Mortimer at the battle of Bryn Glas, and allied with Harry Hotspur to revolt against Henry IV. For 10 points, name the country, home to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and Owain Glyndwr, with modern capital at Cardiff.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - MIT A + South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c7a" }, "answer" : "{Giambologna} (accept {Giovanni da Bologna} or {Jean Boulogne})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 60.27923745429143, "num" : 5, "question" : "This artist designed an artificial cave called the “Animal Grotto” filled with many bas-reliefs depicting beasts for the Villa di Castello. This man carved a giant crouching man whose exterior is covered in limestone for the gardens of the Villa di Pratolino. This artist of the Appennino designed the bronze St. Ranieri's Doors for the Cathedral of Pisa and featured lactating Nereids in the Fountain of Neptune. This artist exemplified his famous ideal of beauty in Venus of Urania and the Cesarini Venus. He remarkably carved three figures stacked on top of each other featuring a man ducking under a soldier who lifts a woman into the air in his depiction of The Rape of the Sabine Women. This sculptor best known work features a figure pointing upwards with his right index finger while standing above a cloud and holding a caduceus. For 10 points, name this Italian Mannerist sculptor who created The Flying Mercury.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f288b3d831d6a002212" }, "answer" : "Kalidasa", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.64158408576623, "num" : 15, "question" : "In one of this man's works, the armies of the title figure march all the way to the Amu Darya, where they defeat the Hepthalites, and then continue on to defeat the Kambojas. The title character of another of his works, which is written in a meter called “slow-stepper,” is sent to find “the supremest woman from the Creator's workshop gone” and is advised to disperse mountain monsters with “pelting hail” before passing through the Swan-gate on the way to Mount Kailasa. This author of The Dynasty of Raghu and a poem about a servant of Kubera wrote a play whose title character loses the signet ring that allows her husband Dushyanta to identify her. For 10 points, identify this Sanskrit-language author of “The Cloud Messenger” and The Recognition of Shakuntala.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Eden Prairie + Maryland B.pdf", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a00580e" }, "answer" : "the {bystander} effect [accept {Kitty Genovese effect} before \"{Kitty Genovese}\" is read]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 336.8165012453683, "num" : 13, "question" : "The Ringelmann effect is partly responsible for this phenomenon. It was first scientifically demonstrated in experiments involving a person with epilepst and smoke filling up a room, conducted by Darley and Latane. Good Samaritan Laws are aimed at reducing it. Winston Moseley killed its most famous (*) victim, Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death despite the presence of many neighbors. diffusion of responsibility leads to, for 10 points, what social phenomenon, that occurs when the presence of other people reduces helping behavior?", "round" : "tourn9-09.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e59" }, "answer" : "{Chinese mythology} [or equivalents as {long} as they {include} a {form} of {China}], accept {Taoism} or {Daoism}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.4085310145747, "num" : 1, "question" : "One figure in this mythological tradition cuts a leg off a tortoise to alleviate problems caused by a water deity's angered head smash of a pillar. In another story from this tradition, the clothes of seven fairies are hidden away by a mischievous cowherd. One of the Three Pure Ones in this tradition passes 3200 trials each lasting 3 million years, and a female deity in this myth system lives on the moon with a rabbit and is the consort of an archer deity who shot down nine of the ten suns. Featuring Eight Immortals, Pangu, the Jade Emperor, and an insufferable monkey, for 10 points, name this mythological tradition first codified during the Han dynasty.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 23 (mini).doc", "seen" : 453, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002451" }, "answer" : "{genetic linkage} algorithms", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.30040879873559, "num" : 5, "question" : "Algorithms for analyzing this property are attributed to Elston and Stewart and to Lander and Green, though the latter is limited to small pedigrees. The LOD score refers to the ratio of the probability that data arise due to a given value of this property to the probability that they arise due to this property being absent and is maximized in an algorithm for determining this property developed by Strachan and Read. Mapping functions to define distance in terms of the complement of this property were originated by Kosambi and by Haldane. Microsatellite tracking can be used to evaluate this property, which can also be evaluated by calculating recombination frequency. A unit of distance that refers to a one in one hundred chance that this property's complement occurs is called the centimorgan. This quality most often arises due to physical proximity on a gene. For 10 points, give this term that refers to the tendency of multiple loci to violate independent assortment and to instead be inherited together.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002138" }, "answer" : "{John Milton}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.69209560845047, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man wrote the words to a hymn beginning \"The Lord will come and not be slow\". In another sonnet, the nineteenth in a sequence, he wrote that \"God doth not need either man's work or his own gifts\".In one of his works, a wicked sorcerer betrays Lady Alice Egerton's trust, telling her that \"beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded\". In another, this author describes a \"two-handed engine\" in a pastoral elegy on the death of Edward King. He wrote a closet drama about a pained Old Testament Nazarite, Samson Agonistes, which was set in publication against his New Testament epic poem. The author of both Comus and \"Lycidas\", this is, for 10 points, which author who also wrote about the Fall of Lucifer in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Rice + Claremont.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004ef1" }, "answer" : "{Richard Wagner}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3909512644168, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one opera by this man, the title character's staff sprouts blossoms in forgiveness of his entering the Venusberg. Another opera by this man contains a mysterious knight in silver armor who returns Godfrey from his swan form to his sister Elsa before she dies, and has a “bridal chorus.” This man also composed a series of works revolving around an object forged by Alberich, which was first fully performed in Bayreuth. For 10 points, name this composer of Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, a German who most famously composed the “Ring Cycle.”", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404a8b3d831d6a006699" }, "answer" : "{deer} (accept {hart}, {stag}, and other equivalents)", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.5859746264759, "num" : 8, "question" : "In Hungarian folklore, the demon Ördög takes this form when in the underworld, though when on Earth he takes the form of a fox, and when Sigurd first wounds Fafnir, he claims to be this kind of creature. Four of these creatures dwell in the middle of Yggdrasil, while another of these creatures eats from the tree of laered and is named Eiktyrnir. That creature lives with Heidrun the goat on top of Valhalla. Artemis caused one hunter to be devoured by his own dogs by turning him into one of these creatures; that hunter was named Actaeon. The third labor of Hercules was to catch the Ceryneian variety of this animal. FTP, name this woodland creature whose young are called fauns.", "round" : "HFT Championship 01 FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 450, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006de0" }, "answer" : "{pressure} [accept {vapor pressure} until \"{Enthalpy}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4854969575536, "num" : 5, "question" : "One type of this quantity can be calculated by measuring the effusion through a Knudson cell; that quantity puts the negative sign in the cavitation number. Enthalpy can be described as a function of entropy and this quantity. Fugacity has the same units as this quantity, while another unit used to measure it is equal to 101,000 Newtons per meter squared. For 10 points, identify this physical quantity whose conjugate variable is volume and which is measured in Torrs or Pascals.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000c97" }, "answer" : "{nickel} [or Ni before it is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7215470366646, "num" : 2, "question" : "This metal is used with aluminum in a namesake catalyst for hydrogenating vegetable oils. That catalyst is named for Raney. The decay of the 56 isotope of this element into the 56 isotope of cobalt releases lots of energy in a type I supernova. This metal is processed by the Mond process. This metal is alloyed with iron in maraging (muh-RAGING) steel. This metal is used in conjunction with cadmium or hydrides in various batteries. This element has atomic number 28. For 10 points, name this metal with symbol Ni.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea48b3d831d6a0003a7" }, "answer" : "magnetic {reconnection} (accept {flux transfer event} before it is mentioned)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 50.06518000923097, "num" : 4, "question" : "This process is incorrectly predicted to occur slowly on a timescale proportional to the square root of the Lundquist number in the Sweet-Parker model. This process occurs approximately every eight minutes in the Earth’s magnetosphere, producing a portal through which solar wind enters in a flux transfer event. Kadomtsev proposed a cycle in which a tearing mode drives this process, producing sawtooth crashes in tokamaks. This process is preceded by the formation of a strong current sheet separating two regions threaded by anti-parallel fields, and it releases bursts of energy that are thought to generate auroras and solar flares. FTP, name this process of breaking and topologically rearranging magnetic field lines in a plasma.", "round" : "PACKET02Teitler.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a00461a" }, "answer" : "Baha'i", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.39866169518791, "num" : 1, "question" : "One writing of this religious group cautions those “that call themselves lovers of the Ancient Beauty” and encourages the pursuits of knowledge while condemning “sciences that begin with words and end with words”. Another set of writings of this group includes sections named for the titular objects, including those of (*) wonderment, contentment, and “true poverty and absolute nothingness.” In addition to the Seven Valleys and the six taraji, The Promise of World Peace was also written by an important figure in its early history, and an important observation of its followers is the Nineteen Day Feast. The “continental counselors” and the Hands of the Cause of God are organs of this religion, whose chief governing body is the Universal House of Justice. Shoghi Effendi led this group, an outgrowth of the Bab'ist sect, after the death of its founder, Nirza Hussein Ali Nuri. For 10 points, name this inclusive religion founded in the 19th century.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Geto Boyz Play Songs of Love.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f718b3d831d6a003392" }, "answer" : "{Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz} [or {Litwos}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9334081616253, "num" : 17, "question" : "This author constructed a medieval form of his native language for a novel about a man who falls in love with Danusia while returning with his uncle Macko from a war with the title group. A character known as “the small knight,” Micha?, is at the center of a series by this man that culminates with the book Fire in the Steppe. The best-known work by this author of The Teutonic Knights sees Ursus fight and defeat Croton and describes the (*) baptism of Chilo Chilonides by Paul. That novel also sees Tigellius suggest that Nero set Rome aflame and describes the conversion to Christianity of Marcus Vicinius, who falls in love with Lygia. For 10 points, identify this author of With Fire and Sword and Quo Vadis, a Nobel Laureate from Poland.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a005818" }, "answer" : "{Claude Lévi-Strauss}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.918309800094, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man often used myths of the Bororo as examples and discussed the development of etiquette from a free code to compulsory in his The Origin of Table Manners. That work appeared along with another that claims the transition from nature to culture comes through heating of food, this man's The (*) Raw and the Cooked. This man developed a school in his field through such works as The Elementary Structures of Kinship. For 10 points, name this writer of Mythologiques, a French anthropologist who wrote Structural Anthropology.", "round" : "tourn9-10.pdf", "seen" : 219, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dd3" }, "answer" : "{Labour} Party", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.282613075804, "num" : 12, "question" : "This party lost one election because of the forged Zinoviev Letter. One leader from this party implemented the Bevridge Report, and after the death of its leader John Smith, this party adopted the “Third Way” moderate ideology. The first Prime Minister from this party was Ramsay MacDonald, and in a later election this party defeated John Major. This party's largest opponent is currently led by David Cameron. For 10 points, name this British political party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the opponent of the Conservative Party whose name is designed to appeal to workers.", "round" : "05 HFT.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6f8b3d831d6a0032f4" }, "answer" : "{parallel} lines", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4985726880841, "num" : 16, "question" : "In hyperbolic geometry there are two forms of this geometric configuration, ultra and limiting. In Euclidean ge- ometry it is the degenerate conic section found by the limiting case as the focal distance goes to infinity while the verti- ces remain constant of a hyperbola. This degenerate conic can also be seen as the intersection of a plane and double cone when the vertex of the cone is moved to a point at infinity making the cone into a cylinder. In projective geome- try, this configuration cannot exist. Solutions in the coordinate plane to the equation y squared equals one provide an algebraic description to this configuration. This configuration also exists in the graph of an inconsistent system of two linear equations--that outcome arises when the two lines have the same slope. Identify this relationship between two lines in the same plane that never intersect.", "round" : "finals phase 1.pdf", "seen" : 271, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40418b3d831d6a00649e" }, "answer" : "{Martin Fierro}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.7158803131897, "num" : 1, "question" : "One character in this work is tutored by Vizcacha, who is buried with one hand sticking above the ground. This work ends with the protagonist averting a fight with Moreno and giving advice to his two sons and Picardia. After refusing to vote, the protagonist is conscripted into the army, only to desert with his friend Sergeant Cruz. Divided into “La ida” and “La vuelta,” this work is written in sextilla verse. The title payador uses a knife to kill an Indian before having a singing contest with a Negro, and protests against the government's exploitation of people living on the Pampas. FTP, name this poem by Jose Hernandez, a classic of gaucho literature.", "round" : "Packet_9.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a001a10" }, "answer" : "{Porgy} and {Bess}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9360613047611, "num" : 1, "question" : "This opera sees the singing of “Gone, Gone, Gone” after Robbins dies in a fight after winning a game of craps. Jake sings the lullaby “A Woman is a Sometime Thing,” and later in this opera, a man named Crown buys “happy dust” from a drug dealer. One of the title characters is a cripple who loves a woman to whom he sings [*] “you is my woman now,” and the most famous song in this opera is Clara’s lullaby to her baby. This opera takes place in Catfish Row and the lyrics to this opera were written by DuBose Heyward and the composer’s brother Ira. For 10 points, name this opera by George Gershwin which features the song “Summertime.”", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021e1" }, "answer" : "{glyph1197AD} [or {glyph1197icotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide}; accept {glyph1197ADH}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.43716006260365, "num" : 7, "question" : "Along with Hemin, this compound is needed to grow hemophilius influenzae in culture. It commonly serves as a donor for ADP-ribosyltransferase enzymes. This compound has a single absorption peak at 259 nm and gains a peak at 340 meters upon being converted to a related molecule. The ratio between it and that related molecule is around 700, and one class of molecules activated by it are histone deacetylases important in calorie restriction known as sirtuins. Its levels control the rate of glycolytic enzymes and the Krebs cycle as a general indicator of redox states in the cell. Its reduced form is good for ten electrons in the electron transport chain. For 10 points, name this oxidized electron carrier which is similar to NADP.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Carleton + Sandy Huang + WUSTL.pdf", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002863" }, "answer" : "the {Wife} of {Bath}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.86899958341382, "num" : 7, "question" : "This character is gap-toothed and has traveled to Rome and Jerusalem, and is deaf in one ear. After using a metaphor of golden and wooden vessels, this character explains that “advice is no commandment.” One of this person's associates owns a book called Valerie and Theophraste. Jankin, her much younger husband, hit her when she tore pages out of that book after which he agreed to give her control in their marriage. She and her best friend are both called Alison, and she laments, “Alas that ever love was sin!” She also relates a story about a knight who must find out what women want most. For 10 points, name this oft-married character from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.", "round" : "Round 12 updated.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea18b3d831d6a000311" }, "answer" : "{Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi} [or {Kaddafi}, it’s the {same thing}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.1852485131938, "num" : 1, "question" : "This man’s diplomats shot constable Yvonne Fletcher just outside his country’s embassy in London, resulting in a break in relations between his government and the U.K. This leader staged a coup when his predecessor was undergoing medical treatment in Turkey. He coined the term “Jamahiriya” to describe his government in the Green Book and his planes were involved in the Gulf of Sidra incidents. Telex messages relayed by agents of this successor of King Idris to his embassy in East Berlin resulted in his implication in the 1986 Berlin disco bombing, which led to the death of his infant daughter Hanna in ensuing airstrikes. More recently, he lambasted Switzerland for arresting his son Hannibal and welcomed back al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. A virgin bodyguard contingent protects, for 10 points, what ruler of Libya?", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - UCSD final.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406e8b3d831d6a006f64" }, "answer" : "{Sir Gawain} and the Green {Knight}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7601875902619, "num" : 18, "question" : "This work was written by the author of Patience and Cleanness. Its protagonist has a pentacle emblazoned upon his shield, and is forced to give his host multiple kisses as part of their bartering arrangement, for which he receives the spoils of the host's hunt. The host's wife gives that character a belt that will protect him from his opponent when he meets him in the Green Chapel. For 10 points, name this medieval British poem by the Pearl poet about a beheading contest between the title characters, named for a nephew of King Arthur and a colorful antagonist.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40048b3d831d6a005638" }, "answer" : "{Ray Bradbury}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1782159698196, "num" : 21, "question" : "In one of this author's novels, Charles Holloway uses a wax bullet to kill the Dust Witch, and Jim Nightshade is saved from a sinister merry-go-round. In another of this author's novels, the protagonist is disquieted by the death of Clarisse McClellan, and tries to memorize Bible verses before meeting Faber and murdering his boss Beatty. This author of (*) Something Wicked This Way Comes wrote a novel about a character who is pursued by the Mechanical Hound after deciding to stop burning books. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the fireman Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451.", "round" : "tourn8-02.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edc8b3d831d6a0010b5" }, "answer" : "{Mormons} [or {Mormonism}; or {Church} of {Jesus Christ} of {Latter-Day Saints}; or {LDS}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.8047546485905, "num" : 24, "question" : "Oliver Cowdery was a leader of this movement, whose Nauvoo legion perpetrated the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Martin Van Buren rejected the plea of their leader to overturn the Extermination Order that had been issued against them in Missouri. Their 1850s \"War\" with the U.S. is sometimes called Buchanan’s Blunder and came after they were driven from Illinois. 1844 saw the death of their founder, Joseph Smith. For 10 points, name this religious group brought by Brigham Young to Salt Lake City, Utah.", "round" : "25.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003b0a" }, "answer" : "Charlemagne", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.49374852981418, "num" : 13, "question" : "This king defeated Widukind, who led a guerilla war against this man in Saxony. He outlawed Jewish money-lending in his Capitulary for the Jews. In another war, this man defeated King Desiderius, his former father-in-law. This man ordered the beheading of 4,000 Saxons for practicing paganism in the Massacre of Verden. Important court scholars to this king included Alcuin of York. Biographers of this man include Einhard. He defeated the Lombards, who were threatening to seize Rome, thus earning the gratitude of Pope Leo III, who crowned him on Christmas Day in 800. For 10 points, name this King of the Franks known as “the Great.\"", "round" : "USF + Editors 6 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc98b3d831d6a00485c" }, "answer" : "Burrhus Frederic {Skinner}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 338.3046909237746, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of this psychologist's works centers around a tour given to Mary and Castle, and ends with Burris returning to the title place, which has only a four-hour workday and is run by Frazier. Another work by this psychologist advocates discarding one of the titular concepts as merely a reaction to “aversive control.” This psychologist invented a device designed to nurture a baby during its first two years called the Air Crib Baby Tender, and also advocated programmed learning. For 10 points, name this American psychologist who wrote The Behavior of Organisms, Walden Two, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, and who developed a namesake box.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 06 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7b8b3d831d6a0035e5" }, "answer" : "the {Dying Gaul} [or {Galata Morente}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.20095756929368, "num" : 6, "question" : "This piece of art was originally displayed with a work in which a kneeling robed woman has her arm grasped by the left arm of a figure who turns away as he stabs a dagger downward into his own chest. This work was rediscovered in the seventeenth century with the aforementioned Ludovisi Group. The leftmost figure in Thomas Eakins's The Swimming Hole mimics the pose of this work of art. The figure depicted in this work wears only a torc around his neck, and places his left arm on his right knee while supporting the weight of his torso on his right arm. For 10 points, name this work that was possibly sculpted by Epigonus of Pergamum, a statue that depicts a naked, perishing Celt.", "round" : "Minnesota Reunion Bowl.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007345" }, "answer" : "{Wassily} [{Vasily Vasileyevich}] {Kandinsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5053901602514, "num" : 9, "question" : "He depicted St. Cosmas and St. Demian in his glass painting All Saints Day, and Rose-Carol Long studied hidden iconography in his works such as Painting with a Green Center and Improvisation 33 [Orient] where she identified St. John the Divine. His later work like Tempered Élan are pictographic, and he compares humanity to a giant triangle in his (*) Concerning The Spiritual In Art. Three of his Compositions series were displayed in the Degenerate Art exhibit by the Nazis before their destruction. FTP name this Russian-born German artist who taught at the Bauhaus and was involved in The Blue Rider group, named for one of his paintings, to promote abstract art.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a0012ad" }, "answer" : "{Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4561067339964, "num" : 26, "question" : "In one of this man's novels, Sharik transforms into a man after an operation is performed by the doctor Philip Philipovich Preobrezhansky [pray-oh-breh-ZHAN-skee]. In another novel by this writer, one of the title characters writes a manuscript about the relationship between Jesus and Pontius Pilate. One character in that work by this author of The Heart of a Dog is always attended by his black cat Behemoth and is named Woland. For 10 points, name the Soviet author of a work which ends with the two title characters together in a sort of limbo, The Master and Margarita.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b46" }, "answer" : "Epistle to the {Romans}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.82382124988362, "num" : 16, "question" : "Verse 1:27 of this work features an account of God's wrath against a sinful humanity engaging in unnatural homosexual acts. It features the claim that the Jews will be saved and that “the wage of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life.” Catholics point to chapter two of this work as evidence of (*) works as necessary for salvation rather than faith alone, although it was essential for Martin Luther's formulation of faith alone This is also the title of the first work of the Swiss theologian Karl Barth. For 10 points, name this work transcribed by Tertius, the longest Pauline epistle, which comes after Acts in the New Testament and was addressed to members of a certain Italian city.", "round" : "FINAL_Chicago A.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007e8" }, "answer" : "{Medici} family", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4690533089451, "num" : 22, "question" : "One member of this family was killed by his cousin, Lorenzaccio, and that member of this family had earlier been forced to flee when the Piagnoni came to power. Another member of this family was responsible for sending out men like Johann (+) Tetzel to sell indulgences while serving as Leo X. Two brothers in this family were attacked and one killed during a mass on Easter as part of the Pazzi conspiracy against this family. Members of this family included the founder of its dynasty, (*) Cosimo the Elder, and the patron Lorenzo the Magnificent. For 10 points, name this Italian family that ruled for most of three centuries in Florence.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a005971" }, "answer" : "{Bal au moulin} de la {Galette}, {Monmartre} or Le {Moulin} de la {Galette} or {Ball} at the {Moulin} de la {Galette}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.36786278616637, "num" : 6, "question" : "Under the pseudonym Flor O'Squarr, one critic compared this painting to a Chinese princess in a Heine poem whose \"greatest pleasure in life was to tear up satin and silk.\" In a Picasso painting of the same name, a woman wearing a green hat with a yellow flower whispers while a woman with a sky blue cap smiles at nothing in particular. Georges Rivière propagated the idea that this painting was done entirely from memory, and at this painting's far left a woman in a sapphire dress turns away from a man in a black suit. A woman in a blue-and-yellow striped dress is Estelle, the sister of the artist's model Jeanne Samary, and at the right of the forefront a man writing with a pen sits next to a man with a toothpick. At left the Cuban painter Cardenas is seen wearing a bowler hat and dancing with the model Margot. For 10 points, name this painting of a bunch of people dancing in Montmartre, a work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. ", "round" : "KLEE - Round 1.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f7c" }, "answer" : "{Compson} family", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.3136435507331, "num" : 1, "question" : "One member of this family was taken as the mistress of a Nazi general in Vichy France, and that character had earlier married Sydney Head; in an earlier scene, that character muddies her underwear after she is slapped by her brother. One member of this family attempts to rescue an immigrant girl, for which he's charged with molestation, and that character commits suicide after he learns of his sister's marriage to a \"blackguard.\" Another one of them is castrated by Jason after he fondles a young girl, and that character is very close with his sister Caddy. For 10 points, identify this disgraced Southern family which includes Quentin, and Benjy, who appear in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 3 - Done.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404b8b3d831d6a0066e3" }, "answer" : "Guernica", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.965363320196, "num" : 2, "question" : "The bottom center of this painting depicts a flower growing from a broken sword hilt held by a dismembered arm, while a disembodied hand holds a lamp and light bulb at the top. Most of the figures in this painting about Operation Rügen are female because it depicts a market day, and its non-human figures include a screaming horse gazing toward a bull. Created in response to a Luftwaffe raid, it was not shown in its artist's home nation until 1981. FTP, name this black-and-while Pablo Picasso painting in memory of a Basque town bombed in the Spanish Civil War.", "round" : "HFT Round 03.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c31" }, "answer" : "{Henry's} Law", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0263518565335, "num" : 10, "question" : "The coefficient in this law is affected by temperature, even though it is a constant. One way to phrase it involves its fugacity, assuming it the solute involved is non-dissociative and diluted to a large extent. It is commonly used in geophysics, and the dimensionless form of it is calculated by the ratio of the concentration of the solvent and solute. For ten points, name this law that explains the fizz given off in soda by relating partial pressure to concentration of a dissolved gas.", "round" : "FHTE R3 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a004622" }, "answer" : "{Hydropathicity} [accept {Hydrophilicity} or {hydrophobicity} until “{loves}”; prompt {thereafter}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 50.64128910447471, "num" : 9, "question" : "The HINT program is a computational tool used to map this property of molecules using the “fragment” approach to assigning numerical values for this property developed by Hansch and Leo. One plot which is used to predict the antigenic sites of a protein uses this property, since it usually displays a local maximum at antigenic sites, That plot is called the Hopp-Woods plot, which used less frequently than the (*) Kyte-Doolittle plot. A global index of this property for a given molecule is called ILM, which is a function of the distance between a solute atom and the solvent atom, and in drug design, this property is described by the partition coefficient of a system. Most scales only take into account side chains of amino acids while calculating it. For 10 points, identify this property which describes the degree to which a given molecule loves or hates water.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Geto Boyz Play Songs of Love.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b10" }, "answer" : "{Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.93549445690587, "num" : 18, "question" : "This person's late career saw staging of two bureaucratic satires, The Bathhouse and The Bedbug, and publication of the travelogue My Discovery of America. This writer's earlier works “The Backbone Flute” and “Cloud in Trousers” reflect the aggressive style of (*) “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, to which manifesto he contributed. Love is the theme of this poet's “About This” and “I Love”. For 10 points— name this author of a lengthy elegy to Lenin, a Futurist poet of the Russian Revolution.", "round" : "05_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40938b3d831d6a0077d8" }, "answer" : "{Giants} in the {Earth}: A {Saga} of the {Prairie} or I de {dage}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.42491209902801, "num" : 8, "question" : "This novel's central couple begins to grow apart when the protagonist removes a set of stakes left by Irishmen. The family lives near Spring Creek, their children attend Henry Solum's school and, during an invasion of locusts, the main character's wife hides in a trunk. Precipitated by the arrival of a minister into town, the final descent into madness of Beret is accompanied by the belief that her son Peder Victorious will be her family's savior. Ironically, it is on a trip to bring that minister to the deathbed of his friend that the protagonist dies in a blizzard. FTP, name this novel that takes its name from the underground trolls perceived by the wife of Per Hansa; an examination of Norwegian pioneers in the Dakota Territory by Ole Rölvaag.", "round" : "Virginia Commonwealth.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f718b3d831d6a00338a" }, "answer" : "{Vichy government} of France [or the {French} State; or {État Français}; prompt on {France} before “{work}, {family}, {fatherland}” is read]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0221820962615, "num" : 9, "question" : "This state promulgated a compulsory labor policy, which women could evade by getting married, and three battleships controlled by this polity were destroyed at the Battle of Mers-el-Kebir. This state adopted the “wait and see” policy and was supported by Charles Maurras's royalist newspaper. Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle assassinated its admiral Jean Darlan, who had been promised a free hand in implementing its internal policies in North (*) Africa. It changed the national motto to “work, family, fatherland” after supplanting the Third Republic and was led by men such as Pierre Laval, who served as minister to its president, Philippe Pétain. For 10 points, name this collaborationist regime that ruled France as a Nazi puppet state.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a007746" }, "answer" : "{Wolff-Kishner} reduction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.01651423098519, "num" : 14, "question" : "In an October, 1997 JCE article, Parquet and Lin outlined a microwave-assisted version of this procedure that creates a reagent in situ by irradiation of isatin. This reaction is analogous to hydroxylamine-mediated oxime synthesis. It is sometimes cited as only its second step, which is usually catalyzed by an alkali ethoxide or potassium hydroxide, but that second step cannot proceed without an initial hydroxone formation by the carbonyl-containing reactants. It is now rarely performed since it requires extremely dangerous heating of hydrazine in the presence of ketones or aldehydes. FTP, name this organic reduction of ketones or aldehydes to corresponding alkanes, named for German and Russian chemists.", "round" : "George Washington.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5b8b3d831d6a002e22" }, "answer" : "{Emmett Till}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.78059889981523, "num" : 13, "question" : "A controversial 2004 documentary by Keith Beauchamp examines this figure's Untold Story. James Eastland helped release military documents showing this man's father was a murderer and rapist executed by the U.S. Army. U.S. Steel was threatened with a boycott for producing a fictionalized story of this man called “Noon on Doomsday.” In the essay “On Fear,” William Faulkner asks just what was so frightening about this figure. A Chicago resident, he was visiting a town called (*) Money when he met Carolyn Bryant. In her memoirs, Anne Moody describes how the death of this figure caused her to hate people for the first time. Mose Wright dramatically said “Thar he” to identify this man's killers in open court. This figure's mother insisted on an open casket funeral to display his horrific wounds. For 10 points, name this black teenager, whose brutal 1955 murder in Mississippi was one of the early key moments of the civil rights movement.", "round" : "Round 07 - Chicago B.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c15" }, "answer" : "{Guiseppe Verdi}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5635060966015, "num" : 18, "question" : "One of his arias is \"God, you could have lashed at me\" and he set Count Moor in Saxony in his opera The Bandits. After his first opera Oberto, he completed requiems for Manzoni and his compatriot Gioacchino Rossini.  This composer of The Force of Destiny and The Sicilian Vespers created Sparafucile and Gilda.  Beyond composing Don Carlos, he depicted Radames and the titular princess being buried alive.  For ten points, name this Italian composer of Don Carlos, Falstaff, Rigoletto, and Aida.", "round" : "FHTE R1 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec08b3d831d6a000a35" }, "answer" : "{Henry VII} of {England}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4070658694953, "num" : 13, "question" : "This monarch repealed the Titulus Regulus statute immediately after ascending to the throne. He defeated a rebellion led by the Earl of Lincoln at the Battle of Stoke. This king put down uprisings sparked by the pretenders Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel. He empowered the Star Chamber, and through the treaty of Medina del Campo, married his son Arthur to (*) Catherine of Aragon. For 10 points, name this English monarch who defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field to become the first Tudor king.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064d7" }, "answer" : "Ganesha", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.4110372059513, "num" : 18, "question" : "He outsmarted his brother Karttikeya to marry Buddhi and Siddhi, personifications of wisdom and prudence. He is usually shown carrying a mace, discus, shell, and water lily, and he was the scribe to whom Vyasa dictated the Mahabharata. He rides a rat, and one version of how he got his most distinctive feature involves his uncle Sani just looking at him, while another version has him guarding the bath of his mother Parvati and angering his father Shiva. For 10 points, name this Hindu god, the remover of obstacles who had his head replaced by that of an elephant.", "round" : "Round 1 - Vandy 1.doc", "seen" : 455, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef58b3d831d6a00168e" }, "answer" : "{Diego Velázquez}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.4227250840049, "num" : 1, "question" : "In one painting by this artist, two women prepare a meal of fish while, through a window, Jesus talks to two sisters. Besides Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, he painted a god dressed in orange with a wreath on his head giving bad news to a shirtless god working with metal. In a historical work by this artist, Justinus of Nassau hands a (*) key to a man with a lot of upright spears behind him. This artist of The Forge of Vulcan and The Surrender of Breda painted Cupid holding a mirror for a reclining nude in his Rokeby Venus. He is seen wearing a black outfit with a red cross on it behind an easel in another work, which features a midget and a dog in the foreground next to a princess. For 10 points, name this Spanish Baroque artist of Las Meninas.", "round" : "Packet 2 - Prelims 2.doc", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a00507a" }, "answer" : "{Frankenstein}; or, the {Modern Prometheus}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.9350666655228, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this novel, the professor Monsieur Waldman teaches chemistry to the main character, whose friend Henry comes to nurse him until Justine Moritz is accused of murder. That character's father went to Milan and brought back a girl Elizabeth Lavenza, who is later strangled on her wedding night. The author of the opening letters of this novel is an explorer named Robert Walton, who picked up the title character, Victor, in the Arctic. For 10 points, name this science fiction novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about an eight-foot-tall monster.", "round" : "4q1-15.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007344" }, "answer" : "{non-Euclidean} geometries (accept {response} of {hyperbolic geometry} before {while another has three})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.3355693931226, "num" : 8, "question" : "The Saccheri quadrilateral and the Lambert quadrilateral were among the first theorems on this topic. One form can be described by four models, while another has three. In one model, the cross-ratio is used to describe distances. They are useful for modeling space, since one type can describe the edges of the universe where no matter exists, and since the theory of relativity states that space is curved where there is matter. In another model, called the hyperspheric model, lines are modeled by great circles. They do not obey the parallel postulate, (*) since in the hyperbolic type there are infinitely many lines intersecting a point A not on a line L, and in the elliptical type all lines intersect. FTP, name these geometries that do not follow the precepts of an ancient Greek geometer.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e65" }, "answer" : "Phoenix", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.8497900420334, "num" : 11, "question" : "The Mystery Castle is located in this city, which was originally called Pumpkinville. The Superstition Mountains are east of this city, and the nearby city of Apache Junction is thought to contain the Lost Dutchman's gold mine. This metropolitan area is home to Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home, Taliesin West. Located near the confluence of the Salt River and the Gila River, this city is the seat of Maricopa County. Home to the US Airways Center and an airport called Sky Harbor, this Western city's metropolitan area contains Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, and Glendale. For 10 points, name this capital of Arizona.", "round" : "12 HFT.doc", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027c8" }, "answer" : "{George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.56779405288398, "num" : 15, "question" : "The Mirror and the Lamp claims that one of this philosopher's works is a bildungsroman. One work by this man posits “sense-certainty” instead of sense-data, and makes his first principle the “ethical rider.” That work by this man follows the titular construct as it progresses towards “absolute knowledge” including a trip through the master and slave struggle for recognition. In addition to writing Elements of the Philosophy of Right, this man formulated a way of improvement that comes about by moving between a thesis and an antithesis. For 10 points, name this German philosopher of The Phenomenology of Spirit who proposed a namesake dialectic.", "round" : "Round 02 updated.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046d7" }, "answer" : "\"{Notes Toward} a {Supreme} Fiction\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.41656400985084, "num" : 8, "question" : "This poem mentions a figure who \"needs nothing but deep space, forgets the golden centre\" and \"plucks on his strings to pluck abysmal glory\" while \"serenely gazing at the violet abyss.\" Another figure in this poem claims \"I am the spouse, divested of bright gold,/The spouse beyond emerald or amethyst\", to which Ozymandias responds \"the bride is never naked.\" Besides \"the angel in his clouds\" and Nanzia Nunzio, this poem speaks of \"Weather by Frans Hals/Brushed up by brushy winds in brushy clouds\" and its second section contrasts \"the wild orange trees\" which \"continued to bloom and to bear/ Long after the planter's death\" with \"the great statute of the General Du Puy\" which is \"rubbish in the end.\" This poem's first part demands \"Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest\" instead instructing that \"the sun must bear no name... but be in the difficulty of what it is to be.\" Divided into sections like (*) \"It Must Be Abstract\" and \"It Must Give Pleasure\", this poem opens \"Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea of this invention.\" Announcing that it is possible to \"To find the real,... The fiction of an absolute\", for 10 points, name this poem by Wallace Stevens, which aspires for the title concept.", "round" : "Rd07.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4f8b3d831d6a002b85" }, "answer" : "Champs-Élysées", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.5207200569566, "num" : 17, "question" : "A namesake palace located here was renovated by Joseph-Eugène Lacroix and was the setting of an orangutan escape. The Hôtel de Crillon is located here, and it served as the setting of the 1855 Universal Exposition. To its east is a locale once named the Place (*) Louis XV, while at its west is the Place Charles de Gaulle. However, it is more popular today for the collection of luxury showrooms that stretch from the  ? Tuilieres Palace on one side to the Arc de Triomphe on the other. For 10 points, name this historic Parisian street, the terminus of the final stage of the Tour de France.", "round" : "GM2 round4.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d35" }, "answer" : "the {Rolling Stones}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.1598376301117, "num" : 24, "question" : "They released their album Beggars Banquet with a plain white cover after a picture of a dirty restroom was nixed by the label. The title character of one of their songs “killed the czar and his ministers” and says “pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.” Another of their songs bemoans the distance of the title state even though “I try and I try and I try and I try.” For 10 points name this British invasion band of “Satisfaction,” composed partially of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.", "round" : "districts-08.pdf", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a002fff" }, "answer" : "{Kublai} Khan [or {Emperor Shih-tsu}; or {Setsen} Khan]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.1839917327743, "num" : 6, "question" : "A son-in-law of King Kartanagar used a force sent by this ruler to depose the usurper Jayakatwang; due to the failure of that force led by Yikomusu, this man was unable to make Java a vassal state. This man supported the rule of King Wonjong, and his daughter married Wonjong's son Chungnyol Wang, which increased his infuence over the Goryeos of Korea. He lost much of his naval possessions after a devastating incident at Hakata bay. He eliminated strongholds of the Song dynasty by 1279 CE, and his court at Dadu also hosted Marco Polo. The kamikaze winds prevented the invasion of Japan by, for 10 points, which grandson of Ghenghis Khan who founded the Yuan dynasty of China?", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 9 - Done.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064d8" }, "answer" : "{graviton} [prompt on \"{gravity wave}\" before \"{wave}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.6312742610462, "num" : 19, "question" : "One success of string theory, in which these are closed strings able to move between branes, is the fact that it resolves infinities that arise when combining these with the Standard Model at high energies.  With current technology, these cannot be directly observed, though the LIGO and VIRGO experiments are presently trying to observe their associated waves.  For 10 points, name this hypothetical particle with spin two, the carrier of the weakest of the four fundamental forces, gravity.", "round" : "Round 1 - Vandy 1.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c67" }, "answer" : "{Cry}, the {Beloved Country}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.0184996146709, "num" : 10, "question" : "One section of this work deals with a gold find and contrasts the Beresford's appeal to tradition with Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's call for a mining camp. The protagonist leaves Mrs. Lithebe's after Johannes and Matthew are acquitted. This novel begins when the protagonist receives ill-tidings in a letter from Theophilus (*) Msimangu revealing that Gertrude is sick. The protagonist of this work discovers that his son Absalom has shot Arthur Jarvis. For 10 points, name this novel about Stephen Kumalo by South African author Alan Paton.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40258b3d831d6a005de8" }, "answer" : "{Wole Soyinka}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.1685627377592, "num" : 1, "question" : "A character sings a song entitled “Don't Touch My Uniform” in his one-act play about Samba, entitled The Beatification of the Area Boy. Other plays by this author include A Play of Giants and Requiem for a Futurologist. One of this author's plays centers on Bero's denial of his culture, and in another, Baroka fights with Lankunle over the right to marry Sidi. Mr. Pilkins intervenes in the ritual suicide of Elesin Oba in another of this author's plays. For 10 points, identify this author of Madmen and Specialists, The Lion and the Jewel, and Death and the King's Horseman, a Nigerian.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 17.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001cd" }, "answer" : "{Duke} of {Guise}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.03293130197562, "num" : 4, "question" : "The final man to hold this position was nearly executed after joining the count de Soissons at the Battle of La Marfee. That holder of this position profited from Masaniello's rebellion by leading the short lived Neapolitan Republic in 1647. This position was created to reward a soldier who had suffered twenty-two wounds at the battle of Marignano, and each person who occupied it hailed from Lorraine. The second holder of this position fought bitterly with the Montmorency over the position of chief advisor to Francis II and Charles IX, and like his son was nicknamed Le Balafré or \"the Scarred\" for his military exploits. That son, the third holder of this position, was supported by the Day of the Barricades and set off the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre by assassinating Admiral Coligny. For 10 points, name this position held by the Catholic rival of Henry III and Henry of Navarre in the War of the Three Henries.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-VCUAandBFinal.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8c8b3d831d6a003a31" }, "answer" : "{Romulus Augustus} [accept: {Romulus Augustulus}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.55552445934154, "num" : 7, "question" : "Greek sources refer to this man as “Momylos,\" which means \"Little Disgrace,\" and his house may have been converted into the tomb of St. Severinus. Primary evidence for this ruler's existence may include a letter written by Cassiodorus that might discuss this man's pension. This leader was the son of General Orestes, a former secretary to Attila the Hun. In his highest position, he succeeded Julius Nepos and had his court in Ravenna. The enemy who defeated this man was consequently appointed an administrator by Emperor Zeno. That enemy was Odoacer. For 10 points, name this youth who briefly served as the last Roman Emperor.", "round" : "Editors 2 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40258b3d831d6a005ded" }, "answer" : "{Diphtheria} [accept {Corynebacterium diphtheria} until “{agent}” in the first clue]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9168481992092, "num" : 6, "question" : "HtaA and HtaB are proteins implicated in foreign hemin binding in the causative agent of this disease, which releases a toxin that ADP ribosylates a modified histidine residue in EF2, thus inhibiting translation. Bela Schlick developed a test for susceptibility to this disease, while Emil Behring and Emile Roux developed a serum therapy to counteract this disease. Caused by a Corynebacterium, it is most commonly associated with a gray or black coating at the back of the throat which causes difficulty in breathing and swallowing. For 10 points, identify this disease, whose name is denoted by D in the DPT vaccine.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 17.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e76" }, "answer" : "porphyrins", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.16084387246519, "num" : 14, "question" : "Dimeric arrays in which this molecule exists in zinc-bonded and free-base forms are capable of long-distance energy migration and have been used in artificial olfactory receptors.  Cationic manganese examples of these act as superoxide reductases.  One piece of evidence for the RNA world hypothesis is that bacteria and plants, but not humans, use glutamyl-tRNA in the C-5 pathway for the synthesis of the committed precursor of this family of compounds; in humans, glycine reacts with succinyl-CoA to form alpha-amino-beta-ketoadipate, which is decarboxylated to form the committed precursor D-aminolevulinate.  The addition of iron to one member of this family of compounds is catalyzed by ferrochelatase.  Defects in an early step in their biosynthesis can result in X-linked sideroblastic anemia.  For 10 points, name this family of chemicals with a metal-coordinating ring structure, examples of which include chlorophyll and heme.", "round" : "Editor's Round 2 (RR).docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a00555c" }, "answer" : "{Isabella} I of Castile [or {Isabella} of Castile; or {Isabella} the {Catholic}; or {Isabel} la {Catolica}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2829044456594, "num" : 11, "question" : "This woman was the mother of Henry VIII's first wife, the hard-to-divorce Catherine. This queen's private confessor forced Marranos (mah-RAHN-os) and Moriscos (more-EES-cos) to undergo an auto-da-fe (auto-dah-fey). She worked with her husband to capture (*) Grenada and complete the Reconquista (reh-con-KEE-stuh). Torquemada (TOR-kay-MAH-dah) revived the Inquisition under her rule, which also saw the unification of the two largest Spanish kingdoms. For 10 points, name this queen of Castile who created modern Spain by marrying the king of Aragon, Ferdinand.", "round" : "tourn11-07.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005dc6" }, "answer" : "the [{John Peter}] {Zenger Trial}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.3846899417694, "num" : 14, "question" : "This event was preceded by the firing of Lewis Morris and the request that Rip van Dam share his salary. Francis Harison produced a number of outlandash tributes that prompted James Alexander to found a new enterprise which became central to this event. Alexander and William Smith were disbarred for having the audacity to object to attempts to rig its outcome by agents of William Cosby, leading Philadelphian Andrew Hamilton to take the case. Centering on articles published in the Weekly Journal that attacked the Governor of New York, for 10 points, identify 1735 libel suit which was instrumental in establishing freedom of the press in North America.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 15.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a002551" }, "answer" : "Ornans (Haseeb)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.29057953739539, "num" : 13, "question" : "Scenes which depict this place include the \"Chateau\" of this place, and another depicts \"Grape-picking\" near this place. A white dog with a black head is the “Dog” of this place, and another work depicts a \"Huntsman training hounds near\" this place. A better known depiction of this place shows men seated around a table, listening to the artist's father play the violin. In addition to that depiction of an (*) “After Party” at this place, a pair of clergymen dressed in red appear in the most famous depiction of this place, which also shows the aforementioned dog and a crucifix being held up on the left across from a bunch of women with handkerchiefs. for 10 points, identify this French commune depicted in “A Burial” at this place by Gustave Courbet.", "round" : "Lully 9.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004240" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Dunes}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.9512242868077, "num" : 6, "question" : "The center of the defending forces in this battle was led by the Marquis of Caracena, while the cavalry on the right flank of the opposing forces was led by the Marquis de Crequy. The winning side featured Thomas Morgan, who had been made governor of Mardyke, which the winning forces had captured the previous year. This battle, which was fought near the Furnes canal, featured a charge by the left side of the winning forces led by William Lockhart, while the losing side's left flank was led by a French rebel, the Prince de Condé. The victorious forces were led by Turenne, and this battle would lead to the signing of the Peace of the Pyrenees the next year. For 10 points, name this victory for a French-English alliance over the Spanish, a 1658 battle fought near Dunkirk.", "round" : "r11- Stanford.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a00380f" }, "answer" : "{Franks} or {Frankish} people", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.876965503674, "num" : 12, "question" : "An early unifier of these people, whose groups included the Ripuarians and Chatti, converted to Christianity after the Battle of Tolbiac. Agnatic succession excluded females from inheriting fiefdoms, as codified in the Salic law governing these people. A succession of \"do-nothing\" kings governed these people following Dagobert I, and their country was divided into three parts in the Treaty of Verdun. Their Merovingian and Carolingian rulers included Clovis and Charles Martel. For 10 points, name this Germanic people whose rulers also included Charlemagne, the namesake of a country whose cities include Nice and Paris.", "round" : "Round 05.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a002650" }, "answer" : "opera", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2241.928254622268, "num" : 15, "question" : "The earliest example of this form of music, created by Jacopo Peri (“perry”), described the love between Apollo and Daphne by combining Greek-style tragedy and musical accompaniment. More recent stars in this discipline include Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. For 10 points, identify this art form that combines music and acting, which one might hear at La Scala in Milan.", "round" : "CMST_Round06.pdf", "seen" : 1509, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a002603" }, "answer" : "{Ra} [accept {Amon-Ra} or {Re} or {Amon-Re}; do not accept “{Amon}” by {itself}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 3082.081039303448, "num" : 19, "question" : "This figure once tried to destroy mankind by tearing out an eye, which turned into Hathor. At night, he brings light to the darkness of the underworld. The disk above this deity's head is called Aton. Apep is depicted in an eternal struggle with this god, whose primary center of worship was at Heliopolis. In the form of Atum, he is the figure who gives light and warmth. For 10 points, name this Egyptian sun deity.", "round" : "CMST_Round02.pdf", "seen" : 2066, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003dec" }, "answer" : "{Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.2358284231741, "num" : 21, "question" : "He borrowed a heavily syncopated section of one of his stage works for his “Ragtime for Eleven Instruments.” One of those instruments was the cimbalom, which he became fascinated with and used for his ballet Les Noces. He and George Balanchine were commissioned by the Ringling Brothers to compose a piece “For a Young Elephant” titled the Circus Polka. He composed a piece dubbed Fireworks as a wedding president for Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter, and he wrote a ballet in which Furbo pretends to resurrect the title Commedia dell'arte character. The title character of another of his ballet's has a namesake dissonant chord and is imprisoned by the Charlatan and stabbed by the Moor. Another of his ballets includes the “infernal dance” and sees Prince Ivan is helped by the title creature. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of the Petrushka and The Firebird.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052b7" }, "answer" : "{Stephen Joseph Harper}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.092675687978, "num" : 50, "question" : "This man's chief political opponent is proposing to reverse this person's defunding of the Council on Learning. Opposition leader Michael Ignatieff also denounced as \"a crazy way of running democracy\" this head of government's decision to petition Governor-General Michaelle Jean to prorogue Parliament. Since defeating Paul Martin in 2006, he has led a minority government as the head of the Conservative Party. For 10 points, name this current prime minister of Canada.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a00764a" }, "answer" : "The {Merry Wives} of {Windsor}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.07962209219113, "num" : 20, "question" : "A side plot of this work involves a Welsh clergyman and his rival, a French doctor, who believe that a local innkeeper dislikes their accents, prompting them to band together for revenge.  One man spends part of this play disguised as Mr. Brook, and beats another man disguised as the wise woman of Brentford; the latter appears in the final scene dressed as Herne the Hunter.  Fenton beats out Slender and Doctor Caius for the hand of Anne, the daughter of one of the title characters, who dump into the Thames a load of laundry containing Falstaff.  FTP name this Shakespeare comedy in which Falstaff courts Mistresses Ford and Page.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Rutgers A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa08b3d831d6a003eb8" }, "answer" : "{Eugène Delacroix}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.9933347967454, "num" : 10, "question" : "This artist depicted rifles, a rabbit, and a bird in Still Life with Lobsters, and in another painting a woman kneels on a slanted stone slab with her arms half-raised. This painter of Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi also painted a scene from the Inferno in Barque of Dante. The title king watches as his concubines are murdered in his Death of Sardanapalus. Another work of his shows a young boy with two pistols next to a bare-breasted woman waving a tricolor flag. For 10 points, name this French painter of Massacre at Chios and Liberty Leading the People.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a005530" }, "answer" : "{Ruth Fulton Benedict}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.9653061253484, "num" : 9, "question" : "This author cautioned against \"an American society gone awry, training individuals for roles they could not assume,\" in a work categorizing the Plains Indians as Dionysian and the Zuni as Apollonian. By using war propaganda and the diaries of captured soldiers, this woman categorized (*) Japanese national character without ever having visited the country. For 10 points, name this anthropologist who wrote Patterns of Culture and who described guilt versus shame cultures in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.", "round" : "tourn11-05.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd28b3d831d6a004a78" }, "answer" : "{matrix} or {matrices}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8868262835313, "num" : 1, "question" : "Certain types of these entities have characteristic functions, which can help in finding the eigenvalues and traces of these entities. Different ones represent unique linear transformations., and operations on them include “transpose.” One quantity associated with them can solve linear equations with Cramer's Rule; that quantity, the determinant, is equal to A times D minus B times C in a “square” one of these. For 10 points, name these rectangular arrays of numbers.", "round" : "round12.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc98b3d831d6a004877" }, "answer" : "Ragnarok", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.8353049522266, "num" : 12, "question" : "According to High, two figures from this event live on Idavoll, and they, along with others, will cast playing pieces in gold. One figure of this event will give a gift to Skirnir, and during this event, the son of Hvedrung will suffer a similar fate. Preceded by six consecutive winters, Lif and Lifthrasir will hide in a tree during this event. One side will arrive at Vigrid via Nagalfar, while the opposing side will be summoned upon hearing the Gjallerhorn, which will be blown by Heimdall. For 10 points, name this event at which Odin and the Aesir will die, the final battle in Norse mythology.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 07 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001d3" }, "answer" : "Richard {Wagner's anti-Semitism} [accept {logical} equivalents]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 35.26492139953189, "num" : 10, "question" : "This ideological position was lampooned by a commentator who wrote \"a vulture is almost an eagle\" and is often believed to be the reason for a reference to a Brothers Grimm tale during a rant against Beckmesser in one work by the holder of this orientation. The subject of the book The Darker Side of Genius is this attitude, which reached its zenith in an article that denounced the \"cold indifference\" of a \"peculiar blubber\" and the \"evil conscience of our modern civilization.\" That article, demonstrating this ideological orientation, compared certain people to worms on the body of art, demanded that those people \"go under like Ahauseurus,\" and was signed with the pseudonym \"K. Freigedank.\" For 10 points, identify this bias of a particular composer, which manifested in the 1850 New Journal of Music article about a certain characteristic \"in music,\" and leads to controversy whenever the overture from Tristan und Isolde is performed in Israel.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-VCUAandBFinal.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a00717b" }, "answer" : "{Whiskey Ring} scandal (accept \"{affair}\" or other reasonable equivalents for \"{scandal}\")", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1597039503977, "num" : 14, "question" : "(JG) This situation resulted in the indictments of over 200 people, and Thomas Nast commented on it with a picture of Uncle Sam looking at some wooden objects while a quotation from the man who broke it looms overhead. That man, secretary of the treasury Benjamin Bristow, made the discovery because he found that the government was missing a substantial portion of the revenue it was due. In fact, some of that money was being diverted to President Grant's reelection fund, allegedly at the direction of Grant's private secretary, Orville Babcock. However, Babcock was acquitted of diverting the IRS's revenue from spirit taxes. Name this scandal in the Grant administration concerning a tax on alcoholic beverage distill- ers.", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b7f" }, "answer" : "{Finn MacCool} or {Deinme} or {Fionn mac Cumhaill}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.5510955711361, "num" : 6, "question" : "As young man, this man promised the mother of Glonda that he would avenge the death of her son. In doing so, he killed Liath Luachra and obtained the crane bag. In another story about this man, he and eight other men defeated the dog-headed and cat-headed armies of the King of Ruadledth. By sticking a spear into his head to stay awake, this grandfather of Oscar was able to defeat the evil fairy Aileen of Tara. Fear Donrich turned one of this man's consorts, Sadhbh, into a deer and this man's two hounds were called Bran and Sceolan. With the help of Aengus, Diarmuid eloped with a woman, who was supposed to marry this figure, Grainne. This man gained the gift of prophecy when the he sucked the thumb that he had burned while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge for Finnegas. For ten points, name this legendary Irish warrior, the son of Cumhall and father of Oisin, the leader of the Fianna.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.docx", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a00345e" }, "answer" : "telomeres", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2234642782714, "num" : 3, "question" : "SIRT6 is a deacetylase that acts on these entities, to which that protein also localizes the Werner's syndrome protein. The telombin protein POT-1 protects these entities, and Flow-FISH is most commonly employed to analyze them in white blood cells. Klobutcher revealed these structures have a G overhang, and their remaining (*) length defines a cell's Hayflick limit. These structures, which consist of TTAGGG repeats, are lengthened continuously in many cancer cells. For 10 points, identify these sequences that cap the ends of chromosomes, whose shortening upon cell division is linked to aging.", "round" : "Round 23 Tie Breaker II.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007652" }, "answer" : "Alexander {Ypsilanti} (or {Ypsilantis} or {Hypsilanti}, etc.)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.9558974544052, "num" : 7, "question" : "One man by this name was twice made hospodar of Wallachia, the second time ending with his capture by Austria and imprisonment at Brno. His more famous grandson of the same name lost an arm at the Battle of Dresden, but came to lead the “Friendly Society” which displayed a flag depicting a phoenix rising from its ashes on the reverse. He called for his compatriots to take a stand at Jassy, but this former aide-de-camp to Alexander I and phanariot was left high and dry and crushed at Dragashan. FTP, name this hero in the Greek War for Independence, whose more successful brother Demetrios lent the family name to a Michigan town near Ann Arbor.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - UCLA A MIT A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001583" }, "answer" : "iconoclasm", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7067772326991, "num" : 5, "question" : "The man who implemented this policy defended it by claiming a recent eruption of the island of Thera\n showed God’s wrath. Artabasdus seized power to end this policy, but was overthrown and blinded when\n Constantine retook control. This policy was supported at the Council of Hieria, which prompted the Syrian\n monk John of Damascus to attack it. It was partially implemented to curtail the influence of Germanus, and\n it was defended by Empress Irene. It began when a cross was placed over the Chalke Gate at\n Constantinople. For 10 points, name this policy implemented by Leo III, in which pictures of saints were\n destroyed.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f228b3d831d6a0020b2" }, "answer" : "{Robert Lowell}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.74900472117588, "num" : 19, "question" : "This poet concludes \"We are all old-timers / each of us holds a locked razor\" in \"Waking in the Blue\". Another poem ends with the famous line \"The Lord survives the rainbow of His will\". The speaker of one poem discusses a hermit \"thirsting for / the hierarchic privacy / of Queen Victoria's century\" and he later encounters a figure that \"jabs her wedge-head in a cup / of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail / and will not scare.\" This poet included \"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket\" in his collection Lord Weary's Castle and wrote a poem that begins, \"The old South Boston Aquarium stands / in a Sahara of snow now,\" which is a meditation on St. Gaudens' statue of Colonel Shaw. For 10 points, name this Confessional poet who wrote \"Skunk Hour\" and \"For the Union Dead.\"", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a00200a" }, "answer" : "{Joseph-Maurice Ravel}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.60549293807708, "num" : 2, "question" : "This composer transcribed a forlane from another composer's Concerts Royaux, inspiring his six-part memorial of World War I soldiers. Pianist Ricardo Viñes debuted many of this man's pieces, including a Spanish dance that was inspired by his teacher, Gabriel Fauré. This composer arranged the most-performed version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and wrote The Tomb of Couperin and the Pavane for a Dead Princess. A constant ostinato rhythm in the snare drums characterizes another of his pieces. For 10 points, name this French composer of Boléro.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 6.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e3e" }, "answer" : "{Tanzania} [accept {Tanganyika} before mentioned, as {no clues refer only} to {Zanzibar}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9161131496076, "num" : 20, "question" : "Figures in this country's history include Bokero and Mkwawa, who drove the Maji Maji Rebellion against Karl Peters's Akida system. After uniting with the Afro-Shirazi party, one leader of this nation established extensive “villagization” and educational reforms in a policy of African socialism he dubbed “Ujamaa” and promulgated through the Arusha declaration. That leader accepted the ousted regime of another state, including Tito Okello and Milton Obote, eventually leading this country's president Julius Nyerere to overthrow Idi Amin. For 10 points, name this African country formed in 1964 from the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eda8b3d831d6a001030" }, "answer" : "{Ludwig Wittgenstein}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.021991455229, "num" : 23, "question" : "This thinker’s best-known work ends with the line “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.” He used several examples of language games in his Blue and Brown Books, while another of his works uses the thought experiment of a “beetle-in-a-box” to argue against the idea of a private language. That work, Philosophical Investigations, expands on many of the ideas this philosopher introduced in a work with a three-word Latin title. For 10 points, name this 20th century philosopher of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.", "round" : "21.pdf", "seen" : 312, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006e0a" }, "answer" : "{luminiferous ether} [or {luminiferous aether}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1154905697331, "num" : 5, "question" : "Larmor proved that Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction is a result of Lorentz transformations in a paper titled “[this] and Matter.” Stokes' “Silly Putty” Model describes it as a rigid solid for high frequency oscillations and a fluid for low frequency oscillations. Maxwell attempted to measure its effect on the Earth's motion, but its existence was disproved by an experiment that involved an interferometer, and was conducted by Michelson and Morley. For 10 points, name this hypothetical substance necessary for the transmission of light waves.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffd8b3d831d6a00546d" }, "answer" : "{Doctor Zhivago}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7282191531266, "num" : 3, "question" : "Misha Gordon witnesses a suicide at the beginning of this work, and that suicide victim's son is friends with Nicky Dudorov. One character in this novel takes on the name Strelnikov, meaning \"The Shooter,\" having been formerly known as (*) Pasha Antipov. Pasha is married to the woman seduced by Victor Komarovsky. That woman works as a nurse during World War I alongside the title character. Tanya is the daughter of Lara and the title character, Yury, in, for 10 points, what work that prominently features the Russian Revolution by Boris Pasternak.", "round" : "tourn10-11.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b61" }, "answer" : "{John Cage}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.9540800426621, "num" : 17, "question" : "This composer briefly became an Italian celebrity by successfully answering questions about mushrooms for five consecutive weeks on the game show Lascia O Raddoppia. He composed a piece divided into twenty-nine and five-eighths sections, each twenty-nine and five eighths measures long, by using eight-by-eight cell charts to determine the number of layers in each musical phrase. David Tudor premiered a large number of works by this composer, who attempted to portray the eight permanent emotions of Hindu aesthetics in his collection of twenty (*) Sonatas and Interludes. This longtime musical advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company pioneered aleatoric music in Music of Changes and invented the prepared piano. For 10 points, name this experimental twentieth century American composer of 4'33” [four minutes and thirty-three seconds].", "round" : "THUNDER Round 1.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7b8b3d831d6a003612" }, "answer" : "{C Elegans} or {Caenorhabditis elegans}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.015590316616, "num" : 8, "question" : "Sarin and Hobert used Illumina sequencing in these organisms instead of positional cloning to identify mutants in a forward screen, and mutagenesis in these organisms is usually carried out by adding EMS to their growth media. Their gonads can be microinjected in order to create knockout lines, and RNAi constructs can be fed to these organisms via E. Coli. Its development is partly controlled by the lin-4 miRNA, and mutants include dumpy, roller, and unc. They can shift into a dormant dauer state but usually go through the larval stages L1 through L4 before hitting maturity. Used by Horvitz to study apoptosis, these organisms were popularized by Brenner. Occuring as only hermaphrodites or males, every cell in the adult has been fate-mapped. For 10 points, name this common model organism, a nematode.", "round" : "Rice.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d7c" }, "answer" : "Pope {Benedict XVI} [accept {Joseph Alois Ratzinger} before mention]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 393.0536382610444, "num" : 12, "question" : "In 1969, this man became vice president of the University of Regensburg, and three years later he worked with Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac to create the journal Communio. He went to the International Mariological Congress in 1978 as the special envoy of (*) Pope John Paul I, one year after becoming Archbishop of Munich and Freising. In 2002, he became Dean of the College of Cardinals. For 10 points, give the papal name of Joseph Alois Ratzinger, who succeeded John Paul II in 2005.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 256, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00637f" }, "answer" : "yellow", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.21034637303092, "num" : 8, "question" : "This is the second word of the title of a song in which Donovan notes that he's “just mad about Saffron,” and it signifies industrial zoning in a certain Maxis series. This type of “kid” was the main character of Richard Outcault's Hogan's Alley, while this kind of fog \"rubs its back against the windowpanes\" in T.S. Eliot's \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,\" and tartrazine is known as this “No. 5.” A song of this title notes that “your skin and bones/turn into something beautiful” and asks the listener to “Look how” the stars “shine for you.” For 10 points, identify the hue that titles that 2000 Coldplay song, the color of Pikachu, tennis balls, Big Bird, and the sun.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40868b3d831d6a0074ef" }, "answer" : "The {Structure} of Scientific Revolutions [prompt on “{SSR}”]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.40583306062035, "num" : 12, "question" : "Stephen Toulmin criticized this book in 1972's Human Understanding, which instead proposed an “evolutionary model” of this book's titular phenomena. This work cites Leo Postman, Jerome Bruner, and N.R. Hanson to support the theory-dependence of observation, while Shigeru Nakayama convinced this work's author to write a postscript to this work in 1969, which responded to its early critics. Hartry Field published a 1973 article criticizing a concept first introduced in this book, known as the Semantic Incommensurability Thesis. The example of the duck-rabbit is used to explain the concept of World-Change. This book describes a process whereby impressive explanatory power will draw adherents to a body of theories, whose adoption will lead to anomalies and crises, which in turn lead to new revolutions in scientific thought. For ten points, name this 1962 book that introduced the concept of “paradigm shift”, an analysis of the history of breakthroughs in science by Thomas S. Kuhn.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f9c" }, "answer" : "John {Brown's raid} of {Harpers Ferry} (accept obvious equivalents)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1993119607214, "num" : 11, "question" : "The lead-up to this event featured military training at Springdale, Iowa, and a constitution adopted at Chatham in Canada. Its leader took up residence to scout out the region going by Isaac Smith, and organized his followers by issuing General Order No. I. After seizing the chief location, the participants were spotted by a train and two days later, they were surrounded by Marines under Robert E. Lee. This event was intended to spark a rebellion of slaves and free blacks, but nobody showed up, and seven participants were hanged. For 10 points, name this 1859 event which more or less sparked the Civil War, an abortive attempt to capture a Virginia arsenal led by John Brown.", "round" : "Packet 4.doc", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a000464" }, "answer" : "Ceyx", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 98.51899108220823, "num" : 12, "question" : "Heracles took refuge with this king when he defeated Laogoras, and drove the Dryopians out of this man's realm. Peleus befriended this man and stayed at his court until Psamathe sent a sea-wolf to attack his cattle. This figure’s warlike brother, Daedalion, was transformed into a hawk in his grief over Chione. In the Metamorphoses, Juno sends Iris to the land of Sleep to convince Morpheus to take this man’s shape. In one story, this son of Lucifer, or Eosphoros the morning star, enraged the gods by calling his wife “Hera” while she called him “Zeus.” This man drowns when his ship is destroyed on a voyage to the Oracle at Delphi. After death, this king of Trachis is transformed by the gods into a Halcyon bird with his wife. FTP, name this mythical king paired with his wife Alcyone.", "round" : "PACKET11Weiner.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a000616" }, "answer" : "{AIDS} [or {Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome} prompt on \" {HIV} \"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 395.3904732118826, "num" : 40, "question" : "Glycoprotein 120 is exposed on the surface of the envelop of the virus that causes this disease. A common tumor found in patients infected with the virus that causes this disease is Kaposi's Sarcoma. This disease is caused by a retrovirus that destroys CD4 plus T-cells. For 20 points, name this autoimmune deficiency disease.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1a8b3d831d6a001ed5" }, "answer" : "{Friedmann} Equation", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.34551104414277, "num" : 23, "question" : "A family of solutions to this equation scale with time to the two-thirds times one over the quantity “one plus w” power where w is equal to one-third for models involving optically thick conditions. One can derive an equation of state for a fluid pressure which can then be plugged into the first derivative of this equation to obtain a namesake acceleration equation. This equation typically includes four terms proportional to powers of redshift which represent matter, radiation, curvature and the cosmological constant and those terms are set equal to the square of the Hubble parameter. For 10 points, name this important equation in cosmology which describes the homogenous and isotropic expansion of space and can be derived using a quadruply-eponymous metric that takes its name from Lemaitre, Robertson, Walker and this equation's namesake.", "round" : "MD A Illinois B - Final.docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eff8b3d831d6a0018be" }, "answer" : "William {Makepeace Thackeray}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2267944628838, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one of this author's novels, the protagonist falls in love with Emily Fosteringay and Blanche Amory before finally proposing to his foster sister Laura. In another of his works, the title character falls in love with his cousin Beatrix but marries her mother Rachel, Lady Castlewood. This author of Pendennis and Henry Esmond wrote a sequel to the latter work about George and Henry Warrington, titled The Virginians. In his most famous novel, George Osborne is killed at the Battle of Waterloo and William Dobbin marries Amelia Sedley. For 10 points, name this creator of Becky Sharp and author of Vanity Fair.", "round" : "Round13.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a0006f0" }, "answer" : "{Peyton Farquhar} [or {Peyton Farquhar}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8872037085239, "num" : 4, "question" : "This character recalls being told of a “great quantity of driftwood” that would “burn like tow” by a Federal scout. This character evades musket balls and grapeshot by swimming with the current and reunites with his beautiful wife, but is ultimately revealed to have died by hanging. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edd8b3d831d6a001114" }, "answer" : "The {Big Bang Theory}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.3477701931261, "num" : 20, "question" : "An Indian character on this show has selective mutism, which only allows him to talk to women after consuming alcohol. That character is Rajesh Koothrapalli, while another character on this show uses the catchphrase “Bazinga!” On this show, the attractive waitress Penny lives across from Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, two awkward, but brilliant Caltech physicists. For 10 points, name this CBS sitcom.", "round" : "28.pdf", "seen" : 556, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a004fd0" }, "answer" : "{Scopes Monkey} Trial [or {State} v. {Scopes} in either order]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.35250769509, "num" : 2, "question" : "Epperson v. Arkansas and Edwards v. Aguillard were essentially follow-up cases to this event. This event was organized by George Rappleyea. This event focused specifically on a textbook authored by George Hunter. A violation of the Butler Act in Dayton led to this case. This Tennessee case was argued for by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. This trial was fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind. For 10 points, name this 1925 legal case, in which the namesake substitute teacher was charged with illicitly teaching evolution in school.", "round" : "4q1-10.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a63" }, "answer" : "{Catwoman} [accept the {Cat} or {Selina Kyle}, either part]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.224226370221, "num" : 15, "question" : "In an alternate world, this character was the mother of the Huntress. In a more recent storyline, she and the son of Slam Bradley conceived a daughter named Helena, while she herself may be the daughter of Carmine Falcone. An early story claimed she was a stewardess who turned to crime after developing amnesia, while a later reformation turned out to be forced on her by Zatanna. She killed Black Mask, although the murder was blamed on her friend Holly Robinson. This character has been played on the screen by Lee Meriwether, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Halle Berry. For 10 points, name this Batman character who uses feline motifs in her robberies.", "round" : "Editors 5 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff88b3d831d6a00533d" }, "answer" : "{Karel Capek}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.899440202862, "num" : 25, "question" : "In one work by this author, Captain van Toch discovers the title marine animals near Sumatra, which, under the Great Salamander, rebel against humans. Alquist is the only human spared in his most famous play, in which Primus and Helena become Adam and Eve figures after the pair is given souls. That work sees Helena Glory, a representative of the Humanity League, marry the protagonist, Harry Domin. For 10 points, what author of War with the Newts introduced the word that means \"labor\" in Czech, \"robot,\" in R.U.R. ?", "round" : "nasat-tryout-literature.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c38" }, "answer" : "{Arvo} Part", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 59.41041174624115, "num" : 19, "question" : "This composer was inspired by the journey of the Shroud of Turin to write La Sindone, and his pieces “Pilgrim Songs” and “Como Cierva Sedienta” are often grouped with his “Orient Occident.” This composer wrote Da Pacem Domine as a prayer piece for the Madrid bombing, while another work is dedicated to a friend's daughter who is leaving to study in London and is written with the tempo “peacefully, in an exalted and introspective manner” and features no time signature. Every instrument's part is divided into two (except for the viola) with one group playing a descending A-minor scale, while the other half plays notes from an A-minor chord in his Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten. In addition to writing the Berlin Mass and Fur Alina, this composer wrote a piece consisting of nine chord sequences separated by a percussion theme illustrating his “tintinnabuli” style that he also used in “Spiegel im Spiegel,” and he also wrote a work divided into movements titled “Ludus” and “Silentium” that exemplifies Holy Minimalism. For 10 points, name this name composer of Fratres and Tabula Rasa who was born in Estonia.", "round" : "Round 06.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dd1" }, "answer" : "{Chinese} [accept {Mandarin}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.4702181452885, "num" : 10, "question" : "One film in this language sees N.J. reconnect with his former lover, Sherry, and is titled A One and a Two, and a businessman returns to the bathhouse where his father and mentally retarded brother work in another film in this language, Shower. The most famous director to use this language told stories of an arranged marriage to a leper in Red Sorghum, a thirteen-year-old teacher in Not One Less, and a family's frustration with its government in To Live. For 10 points, identify this language also spoken in Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.", "round" : "05 HFT.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40308b3d831d6a0060ca" }, "answer" : "{Vendidad} [prompt on “{Avesta}” since it is a part of it]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.5352659500204, "num" : 2, "question" : "This text was compiled at the same time as a similar document known as the Nirangistan. This text instructs the reader to dig six gomez holes in order to perform the nine night-long barashnum ceremony, a type of ritual cleansing, and it claims that word, hand, sheep, ox, man, and field are the six types of contracts. This text consists of twenty-two dialogues called “Fargards”, and its name translates as “given against the demons”. It more notably includes instructions on how to operate a Tower of Silence or a Fire Temple. For ten points name this part of the Avesta, a code of religious and social rules that all Zoroastrians must follow.", "round" : "RoundFINALS.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c6b" }, "answer" : "{Rio} de {Janeiro} [prompt on {Rio}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 593.9079448601697, "num" : 14, "question" : "This city entirely contains Tijuca National Park, which boasts the largest urban forest in the world. This city's edges are home to the infamous slums known as favellas, which are far from its major attractions such as Maracanã Stadium. Its other points of interest include (*) Sugar Loaf Mountain and a giant statue atop Corcovado Mountain known as Christ the Redeemer. Also home to Copacabana beach, for 10 points, identify this second-largest city of Brazil, misnamed because Portuguese explorers mistook its harbor for an estuary.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 390, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bbc" }, "answer" : "“{Abraham Lincoln Walks} at {Midnight} in Springfield, Illinois”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.98838576185517, "num" : 7, "question" : "Written during World War I, it states “too many peasants fight, they know not why” and predicts that “the Workers Earth” will bring “long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea.” It begins by noting “it is portentous, and a thing of state” that the title event is happening “in our little town…near the old court-house.” (*) For 10 points, name this poem about a “bronzed, lank man” with “suit of ancient black” and a “high top-hat,” who is pacing through Springfield, Illinois according to Vachel Lindsay.", "round" : "13_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a0021ba" }, "answer" : "the {Goldberg} Variations", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.6614293451421, "num" : 10, "question" : "David Humphreys suggested that a “Cosmic Allegory” unifies this work, while Alan Street claims that it was written in defense of criticisms made by Johannes Scheibe. Its twenty-fifth section contains many chromatics and was nicknamed the “Black Pearl” by the person who recorded it first, while Jozef Koffler created an orchestral transcription for this work in 1938. Every third section in this work is a canon except the last, which contains two folk songs as a quodlibet. Revived by Wanda Landowski, it helped bring success to its 1955 performer, Glenn Gould. For 10 points, name this harpsichord collection consisting of an aria followed by thirty variations, published in 1741 by Johann Sebastian Bach.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Bellevue + Lawrence.pdf", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071cd" }, "answer" : "“The {Nose}” [or \"{Nos}\"]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2976658968255, "num" : 9, "question" : "Mrs. Podtochin is accused of witchcraft by the protagonist, who refused to marry her daughter, and he later tips a policeman that stops a stagecoach headed for Riga. The protagonist is offered money by a doctor to pickle the object that the barber Yakovlevich awakes and finds in his loaf of bread. That item spends time imitating a State Councillor before being chased down Nevsky Prospect. Kovalyov is relieved when the titular appendage returns to his face at the end of, for 10 points, what Nikolai Gogol short story?", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fab8b3d831d6a004161" }, "answer" : "{Brahms}' Fourth {Symphony} in {E minor}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.89094736822881, "num" : 21, "question" : "Hans von Bülow called this work a \"law unto itself,\" and the composer of this work claimed that he put the piece together from a couple of entr'actes. The recapitulation of the first movement begins with this work's only marking of 3 p's. In the opening of this work, the violins play only in descending thirds and ascending sixths, though the woodwinds imitate those figures as chords, while the piccolo and triangle only play in the allegro giocoso third movement. The aforementioned chains of falling thirds allude to the composer's song \"O Death,\" while the fourth movement of this work is a set of thirty-two variations on the cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, originally thought to be composed by J.S. Bach. For 10 points, identify this work by the composer of the Academic Festival Overture which followed three others of the same genre.", "round" : "r01- Brown.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee18b3d831d6a001205" }, "answer" : "{Dorothea Lange}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6906898180023, "num" : 28, "question" : "Along with Ansel Adams, this artist worked at Manzanar during World War II, and of this artist’s notable works shows Japanese children pledging allegiance to the flag prior to being interned. This artist depicted a huddled group of men, with one looking away, clasping his hands, and standing by an empty cup. This artist of “The White Angel Breadline” produced a photograph depicting Florence Owens Thompson, who worriedly sits with her children after fleeing the Dust Bowl. For 10 points, name this photographer, best known for her image “Migrant Mother.”", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a0009af" }, "answer" : "{dyes} [prompt on {stain}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4910648774821, "num" : 17, "question" : "Hans Kuhn pioneered using the free electron model to describe the notable feature of conjugated types of these objects, such as polymethines (\"poly\"-METH-eens). Examples of those types of systems include cyanine and azo compounds. Many of them are derived from aniline (ANN-uh-leen) and accridine (ACK-rid-een). Direct ones do not require fixing. The (*) Phoenicians produced one from sea snails called Tyrian, while indigo is a blue one. They are used for the biological staining procedures. For 10 points, name these substances used to color fabrics.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059d9" }, "answer" : "{Max Ernst}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.66817186004482, "num" : 10, "question" : "One of this artist's works consists of four canvases linked together in the same manner as the Isenheim altarpiece and is called Vox Angelica, and this painter published a \"novel\" consisting of 124 captioned pictures entitled The Woman with 100 Heads. Hats are linked together to form phallic pillars in his The Hat Makes the Man, and another work features Raphael wearing a beret while the artist himself sits on Fyodor Dostoevsky's knee. Besides A Friends' Reunion, he portrayed a headless nude mannequin stretching her hand out to a bull's head connected by a hose-like structure to the bulk of the title animal in another work. One of his paintings has a small wooden fence glued to the canvas as a figure on top of a building holds a red and blue disk, and he developed a technique which was inspired by looking at floorboards and uses a drawing tool to make a rubbing over the surface. For 10 points, name this painter of The Elephent Celebes and Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, a German surrealist who developed frattage and grottage.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f828b3d831d6a0037d4" }, "answer" : "Easter <LC>", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.5873029746581, "num" : 15, "question" : "Melito of Sardis and other Quartodecimans celebrated this holiday on a different date, but the First Council of Nicaea decreed that it should follow the 14th day of a certain ecclesiastical month. The Exsultet is intoned during this holiday's traditional Church service, during which a large candle is lit. Forty days before Ascension Thursday and fifty days before Pentecost, it ends the period of Lent and occurs two days after Good Friday, on a Sunday. For 10 points, name this Christian holiday honoring the resurrection of Jesus, associated with brightly colored eggs.", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a00731a" }, "answer" : "{Chasidism(also except Hasidim/Hasidut/Chasidic Jews})", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 393.0093201207928, "num" : 2, "question" : "This movement founded in the 18th century was opposed by a group whose name literally means those who oppose. Founded on the two principles of religious panentheism  and Devekus, communion between God and man, adherents are distinguished by their wearing of kolpiks and satin caftans.  Organized into dynasties, among them Ger and Belz, (*) they typically segregate themselves from secular civilization. Found primarily in Crown Heights or Israel, FTP  name this form of Orthodox Judaism originating with the Baal Shem Tov who count among its members, Chabad Lubatvich who can be found on college campuses worldwide.", "round" : "Round 4.rtf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40098b3d831d6a005749" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Poland} [or {Rzeczpospolita Polska}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.8889377622399, "num" : 21, "question" : "A novel from this country focuses on Dr. Pimko, who turns the kidnapped writer Johnnie into a young boy, and is called Ferdydurke. An author from this country wrote the historical novel The Teutonic Knights and a novel about Nero's arbiter Petronius, (*) Quo Vadis. The title character of Sophie's Choice is from this country, which was the birthplace of Isaac Bashevis Singer. For 10 points, name this country home to Witold Gombrowicz and Henryk Sienkiewicz, which is the setting of all novels about Auschwitz.", "round" : "tourn8-15.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40418b3d831d6a006492" }, "answer" : "{Robertson Davies}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.63552957004867, "num" : 9, "question" : "Along with Tyrone Guthrie, this author wrote a work named for a line spoken by the First Witch from Act IV Scene I of Macbeth, Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd. This author wrote that “The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past” in a collection of essays titled A Voice in the Attic. This author also wrote a novel beginning with Clement Hollier, Urquhart McVarish, and Simon Darcourt reading the will of a wealthy art dealer. Another of his works centers on a snowball throwing incident involving Ramsey and Percy “Boy” Staunton. He wrote a trilogy comprised of The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus, as well as a trilogy consisting of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. FTP, name this Canadian author of the Cornish and Deptford trilogies.", "round" : "Packet_8.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c21" }, "answer" : "{Klondike} Gold Rush [accept: {Yukon Gold Rush}; {don't require} “{gold rush}” as part of the answer after it is mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.59332423377782, "num" : 16, "question" : "During this event, order was maintained by the police commissioner Sam Steele, who enforced a rule requiring participants in this event to bring a certain amount of supplies. Lake Lindeman and Lake Bennett were important waterways used for transportation during this event, while a land route used during this event was nicknamed the “deadhorse trail”. This event was sparked by a discovery made by Skookum Jim. Participants in this event often arrived via Skagway and had to navigate the Whitehorse and Five Finger rapids on their way to Dawson City, where they would stake a claim and prospect for precious metals. For ten points, name this late 19th century gold rush in northwestern Canada.", "round" : "Round 05.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bc0" }, "answer" : "the {Astors}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.65271307108924, "num" : 11, "question" : "The children of John Chanler are known as the \"orphans\" of this family. One member was a prominent abolitionist who purchased a sizeable portion of Florida land where he cultivated and popularized the grapefruit. Another member was an early (*) trader of teas with China, and in the wake of the Jay Treaty he established American Fur. For 10 points, name this family, namesakes of an area in Queens and a Manhattan luxury hotel, members of whom coined “the 400” and died on the Titanic.", "round" : "13_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a002512" }, "answer" : "{Waltzes} of {Johann Strauss II} [prompt on \"{works} of {Strauss}\" or \"{waltzes}\"]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.66125869355164, "num" : 6, "question" : "A number of these works feature in an Erich Wolfgang Korngold work titled \"tales from\" their composer. \"Echoes of Rhadamanthus\" joins one of them composed for a Vesuvius benefit called \"Streams of Lava\" in a collection of \"garlands\" published by their composer's brother Eduard. Their composer's premiere at Dommayer's Casino featured ones such as \"Poems of the Senses\" and \"Wooers of Favor,\" while themes drawn from The Queen's Lace Handkerchief characterize (*) \"Roses from the South.\" Another follows the flute cadenza with a zither solo, characteristic of six of the Viennese ones. For 10 points, name these works, examples of which are \"Tales from the Vienna Woods\" and \"The Blue Danube,\" all of which are 3/4 dances by an Austrian composer.", "round" : "Lully 6.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a000704" }, "answer" : "{Wagner} Act", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.514237767784, "num" : 1, "question" : "A case named for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation upheld the constitutionality of this act, whose immediate predecessor, the NRA, was declared unconstitutional by Schechter Poultry v. U.S. Amended in 1947 by the Taft-Hartley Act, it established a three-member board for overseeing collective bargaining. For 10 points, name this 1935 act also called the National Labor Relations Act.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40648b3d831d6a006d00" }, "answer" : "{Joseph Stalin}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.9351899647153, "num" : 2, "question" : "Osip Mandelstam wrote that this man \"rolls...executions on his tongue like berries\" in a poem known as this man's \"epigram.\" He is fictionalized as \"Number One\" in a novel about the confession of Rubashov, Darkness at Noon. The Master and Margarita is set during the (*) reign of this leader, who is also represented as a character supported by Squealer that forces Snowball to leave Manor Farm. For 10 points, name this leader represented by Napoleon in Animal Farm, a Soviet dictator known for his many purges.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a006375" }, "answer" : "{Thus Spake Zarathustra} [or {Also sprach Zarathustra}; or {Thus Spoke Zarathustra}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.92190434085205, "num" : 19, "question" : "The beginning of this work discusses a town called The Motley Cow where one character gives a sermon “On the Despisers of the Body” claiming that the enlightened one knows that he is body and nothing more. Socrates is alluded to in the section “On the Flies of the Marketplace” and important themes include those of eternal recurrence and the will to power. Subtitled “A Book for All and None,” it begins when a prophet descends from the mountains to preach about the Ubermensch, and it reintroduced its author's earlier statement from The Gay Science, “God is dead.” For 10 points, name this philosophical work, named for a dualistic prophet, by Nietzsche.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - MIT A + South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40368b3d831d6a006220" }, "answer" : "{Much Ado} About {Nothing}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7847107334528, "num" : 14, "question" : "One character in this work remarks that “comparisons are odorous”, and one scene involves Margaret dressing up as one of the protagonists and pretending to be Borachio's lover, a deception that is believed by Don Pedro but revealed by Friar Francis. This subplot may have been inspired by the works of Matteo Bandello and is the result of machinations by Don John to trick Claudio into thinking that Hero is unfaithful to him. Better known is its account of “a kind of merry war” between two characters who can't decide whether they want to get married. For 10 points, name this Shakespearean comedy about Beatrice and Benedick.", "round" : "Missouri State Game 1 - sorted.docx", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "U. of Georgia CCC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a005051" }, "answer" : "{Commonwealth} of {Australia}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0499571093824, "num" : 3, "question" : "Edward Hargraves' discovery of gold in this country led to a rush that included the Eureka Stockade rebellion. One man from this country was captured during a shootout at the Glenrowan Inn, during which that man wore a makeshift suit of armor. That man, Ned Kelly, was a bushranger in this country, which came under British control after its Botany Bay was reached by the HMS Endeavour and James Cook. For 10 points, name this country once used as a penal colony, an island nation inhabited by the Aborigines.", "round" : "4q1-14.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efa8b3d831d6a001797" }, "answer" : "{Carl Gustav Jung}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.160295404261, "num" : 14, "question" : "One posthumous publication by this psychologist contained the image of a black snake who accompanied Salome and Eljiah; that Elijah figure would eventually transform into Philemon. He described a pairing of contrasexual opposites in another book. In addition to describing (*) syzygy, this psychologist described personality in terms of variations from two individual types, the introvert and the extrovert, and wrote about archetypes. For 10 points, name this author of Psychological Types who studied under Freud and proposed a universal memory accessible to the whole human race, the collective unconscious.", "round" : "Packet 7 - Playoffs 2.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002120" }, "answer" : "{Ralph Vaughan-Williams}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.8753106680233, "num" : 3, "question" : "This composer included the tenor saxophone in his sixth symphony whose final movement was inspired by the quote, \"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on\" from The Tempest. This composer borrowed a speech about the Crimean War pleading for peace in Dona nobis pacem, while the landscape of East Anglia inspired In the Fen Country. He used the poems \"Passage to India\" and \"On the Beach at Night Alone\" from Leaves of Grass in one symphony, while another piece was inspired by a George Meredith poem. This composer of The Lark Ascending adapted music for the film Scott of the Antarctic into his Sinfonia Antarctica. For 10 points, name this English composer of Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Minnesota B + Dartmouth A + Miami C.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffe8b3d831d6a0054a7" }, "answer" : "{sodium} [or Na]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5448087828699, "num" : 19, "question" : "This element, which Humphry Davy isolated by running current through the molten form of its hydroxide, produces the D-line of the Fraunhofer lines. It was formerly manufactured by the Castner process, and currently a cell with a carbon anode and iron cathode, the Downs cell, is used to manufacture it. (*) Baking soda is the bicarbonate of this element, which burns yellow in a flame test. For 10 points, name this element whose chloride is consumed as table salt, symbolized Na.", "round" : "tourn10-13.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f738b3d831d6a0033ff" }, "answer" : "The {Exorcist}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.249681705609, "num" : 8, "question" : "This film's protagonist is haunted over abandoning his terminally ill mother, and an early scene sees an astronaut menaced at a party with line “you're going to die up there.” Lee J. Cobb's character of Will Kinderman inspired an abysmal second sequel to this film, whose antagonist is often called Captain Howdy. Key effects in this film were achieved by building the main set inside a (*) freezer and employing a few cans of pea soup. Its antagonist, Pazuzu, faces off against a younger version of the title character, played by Stellan Skarsgard, in the 2005 prequel Dominion. That title figure warns Damien Karras that their foe will “mix lies with truth” before dying of a heart attack, and is portrayed by Max von Sydow. Father Merrin is dispatched to help Regan MacNeil in, for 10 points, what 1973 film about demonic possession?", "round" : "Round 19 Finals I.doc", "seen" : 571, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002110" }, "answer" : "{Hadrian} or {Publius Aelius Hadrianus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.26086288900115, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man was never actually named emperor by his predecessor, but rather by that predecessor's wife, Plotina. One of this man's first actions was to put down a possible rebellion led by Lucius Quietus. His namesake mausoleum later became known as the Castel Sant' Angelo. This man abandoned his predecessor's conquests in Mesopotamia for fear that they could not be defended. As well as rebuilding the Pantheon, this man built a namesake wall during his conquests in Great Britain. For 10 points, name this Roman Emperor, the successor to Trajan and predecessor to Antoninus Pius.", "round" : "Yale + Michigan - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407c8b3d831d6a007297" }, "answer" : "{Zorba} the {Greek}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6903880168684, "num" : 23, "question" : "A gift of a bottle of rosewater and Christmas cookies indicates one character's interest in this work's narrator, who opens this novel while reading Dante. Pavli's death is caused when the narrator drunkenly arrives at home of a widow, who is stoned and decapitated as a result. By the end of the novel, the title mine worker marries Madame Hortense, but she dies in his arms, so that man separates from the narrator and leaves Crete for the Balkans. For 10 points, name this novel about an enjoyer of life, by Nikos Kazantzakis.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a003429" }, "answer" : "“{Crossing Brooklyn Ferry}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5535748577677, "num" : 9, "question" : "This poem's fifth section opens by asking, “What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?” Later, its speaker claims, “I am he who knew what it was to be evil” after noting that “the dark threw its patches down upon me also.” Originally published as “Sun-Down Poem,” it is divided into nine sections and addressed to the “men and women of a generation,” with whom the speaker shares “the (*) similitudes of the past and those of the future.” This poem instructs readers to “furnish your parts toward the soul” and opens with the line “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!” For 10 points, name this Walt Whitman poem from Leaves of Grass that describes a passage from Manhattan over the East River.", "round" : "Round 20 Finals II.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a004623" }, "answer" : "{Locofocos} [prompt on {Equal Rights Party}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 41.24152435828, "num" : 10, "question" : "The later history of this party saw a resolution to have its members resign put forth by Dougherty and Riell, as well as the investigation of Edward Curtis. A long-time chairman of this party lost a mayoral race to Aaron Clark after having his votes split by John I Morgan. The Plain Dealer was created as a publication for this party, the views of which were also expressed in the Evening Post, and which split into Rump and (*) Buffalo factions. The New-York Herald referred to this party as \"Slamm Bang and Company,\" referring to a colleague of Moses Jacques, Levi D Slamm. Their Park meeting was cited as a cause of a flour riot, and William Leggett was among the leaders of this group, officially known as the Equal Rights Party. They ceased to be of national concern after the passing of the Independent Treasury Act, which fulfilled their extreme anti-elite financial goals. For 10 points, name this group opposed to Tamany Hall, a faction of Jacksonian Democrats named for when they were able to continue a meeting after the gas lights were put out by lighting matches.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Geto Boyz Play Songs of Love.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a00358b" }, "answer" : "{Tis Pity She's} a {Whore}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.30191413755529, "num" : 21, "question" : "One character in this play recites and criticizes Sannazaro's view that “Love's measure is extreme” before his lover criticizes her lover as “Madame Merchant”; that lover later conducts a masque shortly before drinking from a poisoned cup. Poggio cries for help when his master Bergetto is killed, while the attempts to bring Grimaldi to justice are thwarted by his noble  status. Philotis is sent off to a convent by Richardetto after the death of Hippolita. Friar Bonaventura flees after delivering a letter written in blood and Putana has her eyes torn out by the banditti summoned by Vasques, who attempts to avenge Soranzo. Seeing Giovanni kill his sister and lover Annabella, for 10 points, name this drama by John Ford. ", "round" : "Columbia A + Michigan A.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a006921" }, "answer" : "{Haber-Bosch} process", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5639587405603, "num" : 17, "question" : "Gerhard Ertl won the 2007 Nobel in chemistry partially for his work on this reaction, and one of the reactants is obtained by heating methane with steam to produce a syngas mixture. It is facilitated by the introduction of an iron oxide catalyst at low temperatures, and the product is continually removed, which forces the reaction to move towards completion according to the Le Chatelier principle. For 10 points, name this industrial process which uses three hydrogen molecules and one nitrogen molecule to produce two molecules of ammonia.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405a8b3d831d6a006ab1" }, "answer" : "Ragnarok", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 683.0083077417221, "num" : 11, "question" : "One figure involved in this event has no weapons when it starts because Skirnir won his sword. Following this event, two people who hid in Hodmimir's Forest wake up. Setting the stage for the peopling of the Earth by Lif and Lifthrasir, it is preceded by three consecutive winters. It begins after the last sounding of Gjallarhorn, and it includes Surt setting Yggdrassil on fire, and the deaths of Tyr, the Midgard Serpent, Fenrir, Odin, and Thor. For 10 points, name this event, the apocalyptic battle of all the gods at the end of Norse mythology.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 457, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c57" }, "answer" : "the {equilibrium} constant", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.6764295708854, "num" : 17, "question" : "The equation stating that the derivative of this quantity's natural logarithm is inversely proportional to heat and directly proportional the square of temperature is named after van't Hoff. By the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, pH is equal to the base ten logarithm of this quantity for a (*) half-dissociated acid. If two moles of A turn into three moles of B, then this quantity can be calculated as the concentration of B, cubed, over the concentration of A, squared. For 10 points, name this constant that equals one when the forward and reverse reaction rates are equal.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003ae0" }, "answer" : "Monk", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.4513636121992, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one episode of this show, the main character recalls getting a walke-talkie for Christmas during a plot where he is dubbed “The Man Who Shot Santa.” A recurring villain on this show was the incredibly obese Dale “The Whale” Biederbeck. The main character works with Randy Disher and Leland Stottlemeyer. The overarching plot on this show was the protagonist's quest to find who murdered his wife, Trudy. The titular character was originally aided by nurse Sharona, but beginning in season three, worked with Natalie Teeger. For 10 points, name this USA mystery series about the titular obsessive compulsive detective, played by Tony Shalhoub.", "round" : "UMN 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000de0" }, "answer" : "malaria", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3967261409853, "num" : 25, "question" : "The most common species of this disease is vivax, while the deadliest is falciparum. The sporozites of this disease become schizonts, which become merozites, which destroy red blood cells. Artemisinin (AR-tuh-MIS-uh-nin) has replaced quinine (KWHY-nine) as the preferred drug to treat this disease, which is characterized by recurrent fevers. Caused by Plasmodium protozoa, it is prevented by spraying DDT and hanging nets around beds. For 10 points, name this disease spread by mosquitoes.", "round" : "regionals-05.pdf", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a005579" }, "answer" : "{Fathers} and {Sons} [or {Fathers} and {Children}; or {Otcy} i {Deti}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6151688962709, "num" : 19, "question" : "The central character of this novel declares \"we want to smash other people\" and calls a chemist \"twenty times as useful as any poet.\" The protagonist of this work falls in love with a widow, Madame Odintsov (OH-deent-sohv), who finally kisses him on his deathbed before marrying a lawyer. The protagonist's protege, (*) Arkady Kirsanov (AHR-kah-dee KEER-sah-nohv), abandons revolution in this work to become a magistrate. For 10 points, name this novel, centering on the nihilist (NYE-uh-list) Bazarov (BAH-zah-rohv), and written by Ivan Turgenev (tur-GAIN-ev).", "round" : "tourn11-08.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40188b3d831d6a005adb" }, "answer" : "Le {Corbusier} [or {Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.05663176416419, "num" : 2, "question" : "In one text, this author described green as the symbol for the universe's primal matter, and wrote poems including one that claims of the human body “This is proportion!” This author of “The Poem of the Right Angle” designed the Curutchet House in Argentina. His buildings in the United States include Harvard University's Carpenter Center, and a building he co-designed with Oscar Niemeyer, the UN Headquarters. He described a house as “a machine for living,” helped plan the city of Chandrigarh, and wrote Towards a New Architecture. For 10 points, name this designer of the Villa Savoye and Notre Dame du Haut, a prominent Swiss-French architect.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 1.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004c02" }, "answer" : "{Cyrus II} or {Cyrus} the {Great}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4626669045538, "num" : 18, "question" : "Berosus argues that this man died while fighting Dahae archers, but he may have died against Queen Tomyris. Advised by Harpagus, he fought against Croesus at Thymbra and at Sardis, but this son of Mandane was also able to defeat Nabonidus, thus ending the Babylonian Empire. This ender of the Babylonian Captivity squared off against the Median and Lydian Empire, has a namesake Cylinder discussing how he pleased Marduk, For ten points, name this Achaemenid Empire founder that began the Persian Empire.", "round" : "FHTE Finals 2 -- Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb78b3d831d6a004423" }, "answer" : "{James Cook}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2957561912481, "num" : 17, "question" : "Early in life, he helped prepare Wolfe's attack on Quebec by mapping the estuary of the St. Lawrence River. He helped prevent scurvy by packing sauerkraut on his first voyage, a trip meant to observe the passage of Venus in front of the Sun from a particular location that was once known as George III. His second voyage was meant to determine the status of a land that he had previously studied in his first voyage and was once known as New Holland. However, he may be most well known for his third voyage, where it is believed he was thought to be the god Lono after landing at a group of islands he named the Sandwich Islands. FTP, name this explorer who commanded the Endeavour and Resolution, a 18th century British explorer who died in Hawaii after mapping much of New Zealand and Australia.", "round" : "Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e27" }, "answer" : "{Honore} de {Balzac}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.0907301811968, "num" : 13, "question" : "One of this author's novels contrasts David Sechard, who invents an improved printing press, with Lucien Rubempre, a poet who becomes a hack journalist. In another of this author's novels, the title character loves her cousin Charles, but instead marries the wealthy Monsieur de Bonfons. This author of Lost Illusions and Eugenie Grandet created the characters of Vautrin and Eugene de Rastignac in a massive series of over one hundred realistic novels. For 10 points, name this French author whose The Human Comedy includes Pere Goriot.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 246, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046c5" }, "answer" : "{Joris Karl Huysmans}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.50082312873564, "num" : 10, "question" : "This author's Becalmed centers on a couple's move from the hustle and bustle of the city to the country, while the struggles of the titular working class girls dominates this author's The Vatard Sisters.  This author described the odors emanating from a woman's under arms in the short story, The Gusset, which was included in his Parisian Sketches.  Some of this author's earlier work, beginning with the story of Jean Folantin's attempts at finding satisfaction, With the Flow, foreshadow his later spiritual works such as the study The Crowds of Lourdes (*) and the novel, The Cathedral.  Up to that point his best selling work had been a novel about a character named Durtal who investigates the evil Canon Docre's satanic ways.  That work, commonly translated as Down There, is less well known than an 1884 work that features rapturous descriptions of Moreau paintings, a tortoise with a golden shell, and sex with an acrobat.  For ten points identify, this creator of the ultimate aesthete, the Duc des Esseintes, in his masterpiece Against Nature.", "round" : "Rd06.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40028b3d831d6a0055ac" }, "answer" : "{John Brown}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2510414009448, "num" : 7, "question" : "Before being executed, this man stated, \"I did not wrong, but right.\" J. E. B. Stuart unsuccessfully attempted, under a flag of truce, to get this man to surrender. Two of this insurgent's twenty children were killed during his most famous operation, which was put down by United States Army Colonel (*) Robert E Lee. Earlier, this man executed five members of the Law and Order Party at Pottawatomie Creek. For 10 points, name this radical abolitionist who tried to spark a slave revolt by attacking the armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.", "round" : "tourn11-11.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40728b3d831d6a007059" }, "answer" : "Plasmas", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 396.0219257744029, "num" : 7, "question" : "Alfven waves occur in these substances, while longitudinal space charge waves experience Landau damping in them. They can be modeled with the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and they carry Birkeland currents. The screening out of electric fields by electrons occurs over a scale known as the Debye length, and examples include St. Elmo's Fire, lightning, and very small grains. For 10 points, name this state of matter, typically an ionized gas.", "round" : "NNT_Packet_2.doc", "seen" : 270, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a0028bb" }, "answer" : "{Immanuel Kant}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.4304657778703, "num" : 2, "question" : "This thinker created the idea of schema, or the way a pure, non-empirical concept is associated with the mental image of an object. In Perpetual Peace, he outlined a world without war based on constitutional republics. He served as a professor of the University of Königsberg and didn't write during his tenure there until he was awaken from his dogmatic slumber by David Hume. In his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, he outlined the categorical imperative. For 10 points, name this author of The Critique of Pure Reason, who broke the Age of Reason.", "round" : "FKT 2010 DuPont FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 318, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecc8b3d831d6a000ce1" }, "answer" : "Perseus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.4135377253406, "num" : 8, "question" : "This man's grandfather, Acrisius (uh-CRISS-ee-us), locked up this man’s mother in a bronze tower, although she was eventually impregnated by Zeus in the form of gold. This son of Danae (duh-NAY-uh) was able to obtain valuable information after stealing the one tooth and eye shared among the Graeae (GRAY-eye). This man rescued Andromeda and used winged sandals and the cap of Hades (HAY-dees) in another task. For 10 points, name this mythological hero who used a reflecting shield to kill Medusa.", "round" : "districts-06.pdf", "seen" : 448, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1a8b3d831d6a001eef" }, "answer" : "the {Second White Lotus} Rebellion [or {Chu?n ch? bái lián jiào q?} yì; or {Pai-lien chiao}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.74396912031807, "num" : 1, "question" : "Nine years after it was quashed, affiliates of its fomenters captured Hua during the Eight Trigrams Uprising. Several years before it, Wang Lun led a precursor to this revolt. Internal strife during it stemmed from the massive corruption of the Qianlong Emperor's favorite, Heshen, whose ouster at the hands of the Jiaqing Emperor helped put this rebellion down. The agitators of this uprising believed in the coming of the Maitreya and led a secret organization. It was centered in mountains between Hubei, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces. For 10 points, name this uprising against the Qing Dynasty, a rebellion that occurred from 1796 to 1804 and is named for a Buddhist society.", "round" : "MN A Chicago B - Final.docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f568b3d831d6a002d39" }, "answer" : "postmodernism", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.10603456059471, "num" : 17, "question" : "According to Brian McHale, this development of this literary movement was characterized by a shift from epistemology to ontology. One member of this movement wrote an essay describing the “used-upness of certain forms” in the movement preceding it, entitled “The Literature of Exhaustion.” This movement was criticized as suffering from a “crisis in historicity” in a work subtitled “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” by Frederic Jameson. It was famously defined as “incredulity towards metanarratives” in a work by Jean-François Lyotard about its namesake “condition.” For 10 points, name this literary movement practised by such authors as Robert Coover and John Barth, which was preceded by modernism.", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef78b3d831d6a00170a" }, "answer" : "{Talcott Parsons}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.7577484080102, "num" : 11, "question" : "This theorist denied that American exceptionalism was the nature of things, but defined it as a historical process, and in one of his works, he described its impact on victory in World War II. This author heavily borrowed from Ernst Mayr’s descriptions of “teleonomic processes” for one work, which sought to integrate sociology with all of the other social sciences. Themselves developer of the (*) AGIL paradigm and author of The Social System, for 10 points, name this man who reformulated Weberian theory into a voluntaristic system in his work The Structure of Social Action and who created symbolic interactionism.", "round" : "Packet 24 - All-Star.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e998b3d831d6a00016b" }, "answer" : "{thymus}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.48491631448269, "num" : 3, "question" : "Agnathans, which have a region of gill basket epithelia that expresses DLL-B, are the most basal organisms to possess an analogous structure to this organ. The expression of the AIRE transcription factor in medullar epithelial cells of these organs leads to the production of various proteins, including insulin and myelin basic protein. Concentric rings of epithelial cells in this organ are known as Hassall corpuscles. People with DiGeorge syndrome completely lack this organ. SCID or “nude” mice lack this organ and thus are incapable of rejecting tissue transplants due to compromised humoral immunity. In this tissue, cells expressing CD4 and/or CD8 that bind to self antigens are destroyed through negative selection. For 10 points, name this immunologically important organ located near the heart, the site of T-cell maturation.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-OSUBerkeleyStateCollegeFinal.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a005002" }, "answer" : "{Golgi apparatus} [or any reasonable synonyms for \"{apparatus},\" {e.g. Golgi body} or {Golgi entity}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7012499775738, "num" : 20, "question" : "This entity's functions include synthesizing sphingomyelin and adding sulfate groups to tyrosine. It creates clathrin-coated vesicles that send proteins to other parts of the cell. This organelle has cis and trans faces, and consists of stacked, flattened disks called cisternae. For 10 points, name this organelle, which is found near the endoplasmic reticulum, packages and sorts newly created proteins, and is named after an Italian scientist.", "round" : "4q1-11.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004e4" }, "answer" : "{Alvar Nuñez Cabeza} de {Vaca} (accept {Father Marcos} de {Niza} before {he} is mentioned)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.76289388397709, "num" : 12, "question" : "One of this explorer’s companions was later thrown into the fire by a group of hostiles after giving them death-symbolizing owl feathers while guiding Father Marcos. This explorer was banished to Africa after being deported from Paraguay by Domingo Martinez de Irala. He was accompanied by a black Moroccan slave named Estevanico. His major work is known as La Relacion, or Naufragios. He cured a group of Indians of smallpox by making the sign of the cross over them and was thus made a healer in their tribe. This man served as treasurer under Panfilo de Narvaez, but was one of only four survivors of the expedition. For 10 points, name this conquistador who took a barge from Florida across the Gulf of Mexico to Texas.", "round" : "2011 CO History Bollinger Cheyne.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef38b3d831d6a001611" }, "answer" : "{Ralph Vaughan Williams}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.0049819792621, "num" : 12, "question" : "This composer wrote a masque containing “Satan’s Dance of Triumph” that was based on engravings by Blake. This composer of Job included the song “Bredon Hill” in a song cycle based on A.E. Housman poems. His seventh symphony is an adaptation of his film score for Scott of the Antarctic. He wrote a tone poem about a (*) bird “lost on his aerial rings” in a poem by George Meredith. This man used two separate string orchestras and a string quartet for a “Jacobean Fantasy” based on a tune he included in an English hymnal. His second symphony references hansom cabs in its namesake city. For 10 points, name this British composer of The Lark Ascending, A London Symphony, and Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.", "round" : "Packet 14 - Superplayoffs 4.doc", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee88b3d831d6a001371" }, "answer" : "Friction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.10888288845308, "num" : 6, "question" : "Models for one form of this phenomenon suggest that asperity junctions are deformed in one regime, while all such junctions are broken in regimes where velocity becomes important. This phenomenon abnormally decreases as a function of velocity in the Stribeck effect, though the dynamics of the system change with the formation of a fluid film. Because it arises due to intermolecular forces, it is dependent to composition, though it is independent of the surface area of a body. Amontons’ first law states that it is directly proportional to the mass of the object. The coefficient of the static form of this is generally larger than the kinetic form. For 10 points, identify this force that resists motion.", "round" : "Packet 7 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40418b3d831d6a0064ad" }, "answer" : "Heathcliff [JM]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.94067920139059, "num" : 16, "question" : "This character's foster-brother throws an iron weight at him after this character forces a trade of horses. During the journey that brings this character to the central location of the novel he appears in, a whip and a fiddle promised to other children are respectively lost and smashed. He smashes a tureen of hot applesauce in the face of a boy in revenge for derisive comments about the length of his hair, and as an adult, he is punched in the throat by a rival he calls a “milk-blooded coward.” This mysteriously wealthy character teaches Hareton how to swear, and runs off with Isabella in order to gain power over her brother Edgar Linton. At the beginning of the novel he appears in, he is visited by a man renting Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood. FTP, name this orphaned gypsy whose passionate love for Catherine Earnshaw is the focus of Wutherine Heights.", "round" : "Packet_9.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405e8b3d831d6a006baa" }, "answer" : "{dipole} [accept {dipole moment} until “{separation distance};” prompt {thereafter}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7281197938136, "num" : 18, "question" : "Though they are not hydrogen bonds, the presence of these cause alkyl halides to have higher boiling points than regular alkanes, and a vector quantity associated with these is proportional to their separation distance. Homonouclear diatomics cannot be used in infrared spectroscopy since they do not have a permanent one of these, and ones induced instantaneously account for a weak form of intermolecular forces named for London. For 10 points, identify these pairs of oppositely charged particles, which exist permanently in polar molecules such as water.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef38b3d831d6a0015f5" }, "answer" : "{Secretary} of the {Interior}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.918655866757, "num" : 7, "question" : "One holder of this position arranged Marion Anderson’s famous concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A deputy to this position named J. Stevens Griles was implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Louis Glavis accused James R. Garfield’s replacement in this position of negligence due to that man’s improper handling of the Guggenheims’ attempts to secure interests in (*) Alaska. In addition to Harold Ickes and Richard Ballinger, a third holder of this position convinced Edward Denby to transfer two naval oil reserves to his department, then sold those reserves in the Teapot Dome Scandal. For 10 points, name this Cabinet position formerly held by Albert Fall and currently held by Ken Salazar, the head of a department that oversees the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service.", "round" : "Packet 13 - Superplayoffs 3.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a001015" }, "answer" : "{Gothic literature}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1663395112845, "num" : 27, "question" : "This genre is associated with Eliza Parsons, who wrote a novel in which Matilda Weimar ends up marrying a count. It is also associated with Charles Maturin, who wrote about a man who sells his soul to obtain longevity but is unable to find someone else willing to make the same deal to redeem himself in his novel Melmoth the Wanderer. Jane Austen satirized this genre in Northanger Abbey, while it is associated with the works of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe. For 10 points, name this genre exemplified by The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a00008f" }, "answer" : "{Vienna Secession} or the {Union} of {Austrian Artists} or {Vereinigung Bildener Kunstler Osterreichs} [prompt on “{Art Nouveau}” or “{Symbolism}”]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 36.67249864083715, "num" : 13, "question" : "After leaving this movement, one of its members went on to design a building whose square tower was topped by four male nudes, the Palais Stoclet. Another member of this artistic movement depicted a black-haired woman holding an hourglass on the cover of his Religious Calendar. A more famous member of this movement depicted a goddess holding a spear and an apple on which a woman stood with outstretched hands. Members of this artistic movement exhibited in a gallery topped by a golden-leafed dome and designed by a member of this movement, Josef Maria Olbrich. Founded in 1897 after the example of a similar movement in Munich by Josef Hoffman and Koloman Moser, among others, this movement’s most famous artist painted the aforementioned Pallas Athene and depicted a pregnant woman with pendulous breasts in a blue sarong and a man and a woman embracing under a sun and moon in his Beethoven Frieze. For 10 points, identify this artistic movement growing out of Art Nouveau and headed by Gustav Klimt in its namesake city.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors3Final.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b7d" }, "answer" : "{artificial languages} or {constructed languages} (prompt on “{languages}”)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.83825872908346, "num" : 22, "question" : "One of these was supposedly introduced to its creator, John Weilgart, by an elfin green alien, while another is the product of 30 years' work by John Quijada and has a simplified version called (*) Ilaksh. Besides aUI and Ithkuil, one of these arose out of a project by James Cooke Brown to test a certain hypothesis. An attempted universal one was created by Ludwig Zamenhof; its spinoffs include Ido. For 10 points, Lojban, Volapük, and Esperanto are examples of what kind of system of phonemes?", "round" : "09_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000b1d" }, "answer" : "{Richard Wright}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7548580507282, "num" : 15, "question" : "In an autobiographical novel, this author recalls working at an optical shop, where Olin manipulates him into boxing his coworker, Harrison. One of this author’s characters carries a drunken woman to her room, but accidentally smothers her to avoid being noticed by her blind mother. That character is (*) executed for killing Mary Dalton and his girlfriend Bessie. For 10 points, name this African-American author of Black Boy who created Bigger Thomas in Native Son.", "round" : "tournament17-03.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000df1" }, "answer" : "{Sherlock Holmes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2005379900802, "num" : 8, "question" : "This character discovers that John Openshaw was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in \"The Five Orange Pips.\" In another work, this man proves that Jack Stapleton has been conniving to obtain the title family's fortune. He often infuriates Inspector Lestrade and the other detectives of Scotland Yard. This protagonist of The Hound of the Baskervilles is the nemesis of Professor Moriarty. For 10 points, name this Arthur Conan Doyle creation, a detective who lives on Baker Street with his assistant, Dr. John Watson.", "round" : "regionals-06.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40898b3d831d6a00759a" }, "answer" : "{Black} Sea", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.6745686492417, "num" : 13, "question" : "Highly anoxic, this body of water's lower levels are almost completely lifeless due to the high concentration of hydrogen sulfide, and its water circulates through the Rim Current. The Karkinit Bay sits on its north, and islands in this body of water include Berezan and Fidonisi, while cities on its shores include Sochi and Constanta. Sitting on the Skifsky Platform, it is probably a residual basin of the Tethys Sea, while the two straits that connect it to other bodies of water are the Kerch Strait and the Bosporus, which connects it to the Sea of Marmara. Known to the ancient Greeks as \"Axenos,\" or \"Inhospitable,\" for ten points, idenitfy this body of water that borders, among others, Ukraine and Russia, and contains the Crimean Peninsula.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Chicago B Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 59, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f688b3d831d6a00313d" }, "answer" : "\"Ulysses\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.1358987214044, "num" : 4, "question" : "The speaker of this poem yearns \"to follow knowledge like a sinking star / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought\" and observes that though \"the long day wanes,\" \"'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.\" In the opening lines of this poem, the speaker voices his frustration at living \"By this still hearth / among these barren crags\" and doling \"Unequal laws unto a savage race.\" In the second stanza, the speaker introduces his son, who attempts to \"by slow prudence to make mild / A rugged people.\" The final stanza of this poem calls for mariners to join the speaker in his quest to \"sail beyond the sunset\" in \"One equal temper of heroic hearts.\" Ending with the speaker proclaiming that he is \"strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,\" for 10 points, name this Tennyson poem about an aged hero of a Greek epic.", "round" : "3.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a003771" }, "answer" : "{Miltiades} the {Younger}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.78830304043368, "num" : 21, "question" : "During one failed expedition, this man, on the advice of a woman named Timo, attempted to sneak into a city via a sanctuary to the goddess Kore and her mother. That incident happened during the siege of Paros. Earlier in his life, he conquered Lemnos after local Thracian tribes had made this man the tyrant of Chersonese. This man was tried for the Paros expedition and fined 50 talents, but died before he was able to pay that fine. That fine was paid by his son who defeated over 200 Phoenician ships at Eurymedon and was named Cimon. Although originally imprisoned for being a tyrant, this man's involvement in the Ionian Revolt against the Persians allowed him to be elected strategoi in 490BC. He also succeeded in convincing five other strategoi and Callimachus to attack the Persians directly instead of waiting for the Spartans. For 10 points, name this general who commanded the Greek forces at Marathon.", "round" : "MichiganB.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f078b3d831d6a001acb" }, "answer" : "{Thirteenth} Amendment", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4271869480145, "num" : 21, "question" : "This constitutional amendment was introduced by James Mitchell Ashley. Active enforcement of it ended in 1947, and in Jones v. Mayer, Potter Stewart ruled that Title 42, section 1982 of the US Code was a valid application of this amendment. This amendment bans [*] peonage except in cases of punishment for a crime, but it makes no mention of race with regard to its main subject. This amendment’s conditions replaced the Emancipation Proclamation. For 10 points, name this Constitutional amendment which bans involuntary servitude and slavery, the first of the “Reconstruction Amendments.”", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9a8b3d831d6a003d7d" }, "answer" : "{Zulus} Mythology", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 99.06357020908035, "num" : 19, "question" : "One creature from the mythology of these people is said to strangle people who sleep close to the ground; accordingly, they always slept on elevated beds. One character from their myths is a chameleon that changes from green to brown to mourn for a sloth. That chameleon had tried to bring immortality to mankind, but was too slow to complete its task. Their mythology also includes a dwarf with only half a body known as a Tikoloshe. Among their deities are one who presides over rain, agriculture, rainbows, and beer, as well as a goddess of rivers who is said to have murdered numerous people during times of flooding. Those figures, Mbaba Mwana Waresa and Mamlambo, join Unkulunkulu in their pantheon, which was created in a giant swamp known as Uthlanga. For 10 points, name this African mythology which Nandi may have told as bedtime stories to her son Shaka.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb48b3d831d6a000742" }, "answer" : "The {House} of {Lords} [or The {House} of {Lords Spiritual} and {Temporal} or The {House} of {Peers}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9182160487398, "num" : 17, "question" : "One proposal for reforming this entity was offered by the Wakeham Commission. The Salisbury Convention of 1945 limited this entity’s authority on matters that had already undergone a double reading. Chai Patel was among the people who were denied entry into this body as part of the (+) Cash for Honours scandal. The highest member of this body earns the right to use the Woolsack. Jack Straw wrote a 2008 White Paper on reforming this entity. Its membership would have been expanded had it not relinquished and abstained from blocking the 1832 (*) Reform Bill. A similar threat took place when it opposed the People’s Budget put forth by David Lloyd George. For 10 points, name this upper chamber of of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019ce" }, "answer" : "{regular} (accept {regular expressions} or {regular languages})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.14011742174625, "num" : 16, "question" : "According to the Myhill-Nerode Theorem, the set on which a given Myhil-Nerode relation is defined has this property if and only if that equivalence relation has finite index. That result often gives shorter proofs than arguments based on the pumping lemma for languages with this property, which can be proven using the pigeonhole principle and the fact that automata which recognize these kinds of languages have only finitely many states and no stack. The language consisting of all strings of some number of 0’s followed by the same number of 1’s notably does not have this property. Taking the empty set, empty string and the literal characters, and closing that set under the concatenation, alternation, and Kleene star operations gives the set of expressions of this type. For 10 points, give this term that also lends its name to a type of expression that the grep Unix command searches files for.", "round" : "Packet 12.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004fb1" }, "answer" : "Sydney", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.4889459004626, "num" : 3, "question" : "This city's central business district includes the neighborhood of Circular Quay (KEY), and popular beaches in this city include Manly and Bondi. This city surrounds the harbor of Port Jackson, which is spanned by the world's widest bridge. Another landmark in this city is a building located next to the Royal Botanic Gardens on Bennelong Point that was designed by Jørn Utzon, this city's namesake Opera House. For 10 points, name this capital of New South Wales, which is the largest city in Australia.", "round" : "4q1-09.pdf", "seen" : 393, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40838b3d831d6a007427" }, "answer" : "{Mansfield Park}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6080234881956, "num" : 17, "question" : "One character in this novel keeps slaves on his estate in Antigua, and the protagonist's brother is a sailor named William who is given a promotion by Henry Crawford in an attempt to ingratiate himself to the protagonist before eloping with Maria. Maria's parents are Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, the protagonist's uncle and aunt, whose son Edmund she marries at the end of this work. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen novel about Fanny Price's time living at the title estate.", "round" : "Round7Final.doc", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f788b3d831d6a003524" }, "answer" : "the {Heart} of {Prajnaparamita} Sutra or the {Heart} of {Perfect} Wisdom Sutra", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.36372341378592, "num" : 2, "question" : "The name by which this Prajnaparamita, or Perfection of Wisdom text, is now known originates in a 649 CE Chinese translation by Xuanzang, although it may have been composed in the first centry CE. Framing text attributes its 14 shlokas to Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who answers the monk Sariputra. Its conclusions, including the Four Noble Truths, build on the observation that form, feeling, will, thought, and consciousness are all sunyata, or emptiness. The mantra \"gone, gone, gone over, gone fully over. Awakened! So be it!\" ends, for 10 points, this work which, along with Diamond Sutra, is central to Mahayana Buddhism.", "round" : "Brown A + Missouri State.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a00646c" }, "answer" : "the {Republic} of {Senegal} [accept {Republique du Senegal}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.33743222826161, "num" : 11, "question" : "One author from this country wrote a play about Madior, who becomes the king of Cayor by sacrificing his wife Yacine Boubou. Another author from this country wrote an epistolary novel about the correspondence between Ramatoulaye and her friend Aissatou, So Long a Letter. In addition to Ibrahima Sall and Mariama Bâ, another author from this country wrote the novels God's Bits of Wood and Xala before directing films like Black Girl and Ceddo. This country's Thiaroye massacre was dramatized by Boubacar Boris Diop, and a poet from this country included “Snow in Paris,” “Totem,” and “Prayer to the Masks” in his first collection, Shadow Songs. The birthplace of Birago Diop and Ousmane Sembene, this another author from this country founded negritude along with Leon Damas and Aime Cesaire. FTP, name this African country home to Leopold Senghor.", "round" : "Packet_6.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f148b3d831d6a001d9a" }, "answer" : "{Robert Frost}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.68716936674901, "num" : 13, "question" : "This writer's encounter with Napoleon Guay led him to a work about Baptiste who repairs the speaker's tool in “The Ax-Helve,” while the pieces “Bravado” and “The Night Light” help make up a work collectively known as Five Nocturnes.  In another work, a speaker notes that he has hidden a “broken drinking goblet like the Grail” before telling his audience to “Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”  That work was published in the collection Steeple Bush and is entitled “Directive.”  He argued that a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom” in, “A Figure a Poem Makes,” an essay published in the 1939 edition of his Collected Poems, a volume that begins with such pieces as “A Line Storm Song” and “Home Burial,” works first published in the collections A Boy's Will and North of Boston.  For 10 points, identify this poet of such works as “Out, Out--,” and “Mending Wall.”", "round" : "Carleton UCLA - Final.docx", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb08b3d831d6a00428c" }, "answer" : "The \"{Waldstein}\" Sonata [or Sonata {No.} 21 in C major, {Op.} 53; accept either underlined part before it is mentioned]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.83644315460697, "num" : 11, "question" : "This work's second subject, in E major, introduces a moment of tranquility, but is soon overtaken by the rhythmic intensity of the main theme. In the finale, that main theme, a seven note melody, begins quieter, then transforms into ecstatic celebration, and is marked Rondo (Allegretto moderato). This work, which opens with a pulsating progression, originally included an Andante favori at the beginning of the final movement, but this was a replaced by a shorter Adagio introduction. Its composition was preceded by the composer's acquisition of an Erard fortepiano in 1803. For 10 points, identify this work in C major, Beethoven's Sonata 21, dedicated to and named for Count Ferdinand Ernst, the composer's then patron.", "round" : "r14- Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f488b3d831d6a0029f0" }, "answer" : "{Doppler} effect [or {Doppler shift}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8918530917726, "num" : 9, "question" : "The classical variety of this effect involves a ratio calculated by dividing wave velocity by source velocity plus wave velocity. This effect is utilized in radar guns to measure the speeds of cars and baseballs, and it explains the redshift in the light emitted by receding galaxies. For 10 points, name this effect in which the frequency of a wave changes when an observer is moving relative to the wave, exemplified by the change in pitch of a moving siren.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb18b3d831d6a000694" }, "answer" : "Grigori Alexandrovich {Potemkin}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.489399155369, "num" : 4, "question" : "George III refused to offer this self-styled \"Prince of Tauris\" the Order of the Garter. Alexander Yermolov failed to oust this man from favor, while he himself had ousted Alexander Vassilchikov from favor after distinguishing himself in the First Russo-Turkish War. For 10 points, name this confidant and lover of Catherine the Great, who apocryphally constructed sham villages for her visit to the Crimea.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40608b3d831d6a006bf7" }, "answer" : "The {Tale} of {Genji} [or {Genji monogatari}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.71429870883, "num" : 8, "question" : "After being snubbed by Utsusemi, the title character of this novel meet that woman's friend; later, he meets the beautiful Yugao. The title character's mother Kiritsubo dies after being neglected by her husband, who paid more attention to the concubine Lady Kokiden. The author of this novel is present in it as a child that the title character meets in the mountains. The title character marries Princess Aoi, who dies in childbirth. For 10 points, identify this long novel about the titular son of the Japanese emperor, written around 1000 CE by Murasaki Shikibu.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bca" }, "answer" : "{Ludwig von Mises}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.23645293153822, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man added to one famous work in his Planned Chaos, while another work charts the collapse of Germany and contains a section on “the delusion of World Planning”, Omnipotent Government. This author of The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality ‘s most famous work states that economic laws can be derived from individual(*) materialism and introduced praxeology. For 10 points, identify this Austrian economist whose Socialism and Human Action inspired the work of Fredrich Hayek.", "round" : "13_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a005608" }, "answer" : "{friction} force", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7128998641856, "num" : 15, "question" : "The static form of this force typically has a coefficient larger than the coefficient of the kinetic form of this force. Those coefficients are represented by the Greek letter mu (MEW). The kinetic coefficient is found by taking the value of this force over the value of the (*) normal force. This force works perpendicular to gravity and the normal force and in opposition to an applied force. For 10 points, name this force that occurs between two objects moving against one another, which causes objects to slow down as they move over a rough surface.", "round" : "tourn11-15.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a001483" }, "answer" : "{Henry David Thoreau}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6976283846889, "num" : 2, "question" : "This author wrote “Where’er Thou Sail’st Who Sailed with Me” to commemorate the death of his older\n brother John from lockjaw, though he quipped “My life has been the poem I would have writ” to explain\n his meager poetry output. The narrator of another work is tempted to kill and eat a woodchuck and\n reluctantly drinks some dirty water from the well of John Field in “Baker Farm.” He coined the term\n “Realometer” in another section of that work in which he quotes Cowper to proclaim, “I am monarch of all\n I survey.” This author's best-known work urges you to \"simplify, simplify, simplify\" and starts with\n sections titled \"Economy\" and “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.” For 10 points, identify this\n American author who described his stay in the woods in Walden.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f198b3d831d6a001ea8" }, "answer" : "{Du Fu} [or {Tu Fu}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.27347994921729, "num" : 22, "question" : "Romare Bearden's painting Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men is named for a poem by this author. This poet asked \"When shall I reach the top and hold all mountains in a single glance?\" in his poem \"A View of Taishan.\" In another of this author's poems, a soldier asserts that \"the frontier posts run with enough blood to fill an ocean / and the war-loving Emperor's dreams of conquest have still not ended\" after Xian-yang bridge is covered with dust kicked up by the title objects, which \"rumble and rattle.\" In his home country, this author is known by the epithets Sh?shèng and Sh?sh?, which translate to \"sage poet\" and \"poet historian.\" He wrote war poems such as \"A Song of Chariots\" after being captured by rebels during the An Lu-Shan rebellion. For 10 points, name this Confucian Tang Dynasty poet who wrote many poems about his friend Li Po.", "round" : "Editor's Round Tiebreak 2.docx", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032cd" }, "answer" : "John {Calvin}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.8697106873151, "num" : 15, "question" : "This person broke the knowledge of God down into six parts, ending with the unity of the divine essence, and the knowledge of man into two parts, the second of which is his nature and powers. Two people who helped him were William Farel and Martin Bucer. Over fifty years after he died, this man's followers organized the Canon of Dort, a reaction against the Arminian Remonstrance, which supported doctrines such as irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints, and total depravity. One of this man's students was John Knox, the founder of Presbyterianism. Additionally, his namesake beliefs led to a break with the Church of England by the Puritans who settled the United States. Name this author of Institutes of the Christian Religion who was born in France and became a leader in Geneva, Switzerland.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c3a" }, "answer" : "{Primavera} [or {Allegory} of Spring before last {four words} of {tossup}; prompt afterwards]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.29957419284619, "num" : 8, "question" : "Possible models for the left-most figure in this painting include Andrea del Verrocchio's David or Giuliano de Medici. That figure in red wears a curved sword on his sash and prods his caduceus into a cloud. Roses trail out of the mouth of a figure on the right of this painting, who struggles with a figure with blue robes and blue-gray skin. Those are this painting's depictions of Mercury, Chloris, and Zephyrus. At the top of the painting, Cupid takes aim towards the Graces, who dance center left. In the very center of this painting, Venus stands where the orange trees arch. For 10 points, name this painting by Sandro Botticelli, an allegorical representation of spring.", "round" : "Bellarmine and UCLA.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eda8b3d831d6a00103f" }, "answer" : "{Atlas} Mountains", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.4360921015032, "num" : 6, "question" : "The Maghribian wadis run out of these mountains, as do the Moulouya and Chelif rivers. Mount Siroua links this chain's High and Anti ranges. The Taza Pass breaks this chain between the Rif and the Middle range of this system. The World War II Battle of the Kasserine Pass took place in this mountain system. The highest point in this range is Mount Toubkal. For 10 points, name this North African mountain system.", "round" : "22.pdf", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005c00" }, "answer" : "On the {Road}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7054648427293, "num" : 10, "question" : "The narrator of this novel briefly lives in a tent with Terri but leaves due to the disapproval of her relatives. Galeta is abandoned when she runs out of money but reappears with Old Bull Lee, and another character and the narrator buy marijuana in Gregoria and continue adventuring until the narrator gets dysentery. That character marries Marylou, Camille, and Inez at various points. The narrator later falls in love with Laura and they leave for a concert with Remi Boncoeur at novel's end, abandoning Dean Moriarty. For 10 points, name this novel by Jack Kerouac narrated by Sal Paradise.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047f2" }, "answer" : "Fidelio", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.4722248474136, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one scene in this work, a group sings the song “O welche Lust” before remembering that they need to stay quiet or they could be caught, and that group would later sing “Leb wohl, du warmes Sonnenlicht” when they are discovered roaming free in the garden by a character who sings “Ha, welch ein Augenblick!” before telling another character to sound a trumpet when a minister arrives.  In addition to Pizarro, one scene in this work sees Marzelline sing “Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein”, in which she reveals that she is in love with the title character, who reveals himself at the end of this work to be the wife of Florestan.  For 10 points—name this opera about Leonore by Ludwig van Beethoven.", "round" : "9.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efb8b3d831d6a0017d1" }, "answer" : "Missouri ", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.8571389015764, "num" : 3, "question" : "This state's Three Rivers Area contains the city of Poplar Bluffs, and bodies of water in this state include Clearwater Lake, the St. Francis River, and Table Rock Lake. The Osage plain covers most of its western portion, and it contains the northernmost portion of the Mississippi embayment. This state’s tallest point is at Taum Sauk Mountain, and the Ozarks plateau lies in its southern half. Its namesake river runs through it before becoming its border with Nebraska, and the Mississippi River forms the boundary between this state and Illinois. For 10 points name this Midwestern state with capital Jefferson City and major cities like Kansas City and St. Louis.", "round" : "Round02.doc", "seen" : 399, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007638" }, "answer" : "{Q} cycle", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.10387462866493, "num" : 2, "question" : "In photosystem II, this process involves electron transfer to and within the cytochrome b/f complex.  In mitochondria, it sees the first donated electron reduce Cytochrome C while the second passes through cytochromes b566 (“b 566”) and b562 (“b 562”).  Assimilation of matrix protons into the radical molecule replenishes the reducing agent, ubiquinol.  Each ubiquinol oxidation is accompanied by the release of four protons into the intermembrane space, producing the pH gradient for chemiosmotic ATP synthesis.  FTP, identify this proton-motive cycle sharing its single-letter designation with a key coenzyme.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Rutgers A.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056e9" }, "answer" : "{Pastoral} Symphony [accept {Beethoven's Sixth Symphony} in {F-Major} before read; accept \"", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5017953612842, "num" : 9, "question" : "A coda in the final movement of this work is so long that it is colloquially known as the \"tail that wags the dog.\" Two cellos abandon the rest of the cellos to depict dripping water in its second section, and its third section depicts a peasants' dance. The second section of this work contains a cadenza in which the oboe, flute, and clarinet depict bird sounds in the setting (*) \"By a Brook.\" Other sections represent a \"Storm\" and a \"happy gathering of country folk.\" For 10 points, name this symphony that was originally titled \"Recollections of Country Life,\" the F-Major sixth symphony of Beethoven.", "round" : "tourn8-11.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405c8b3d831d6a006b1d" }, "answer" : "the {Ninety-Five Theses}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3822691149544, "num" : 8, "question" : "Erwin Iserloh claimed that their manner of promulgation was a story invented by Philip Melanchthon. The Archbishop Albert of Mainz forwarded them to Rome. They note Saint Lawrence's claim that the treasures of the Church were the Church's poor, and the twenty-ninth makes reference to the legend of Saints Severinus and Paschal. Chiefly concerned with the sale of indulgences, they were posted on a church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. For 10 points, name these opinions of Martin Luther that sparked the Protestant Reformation.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e3c" }, "answer" : "Beirut", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 122.8456109964754, "num" : 21, "question" : "Art tourism in this city includes the Agial Art Gallery and the Sursock Museum, which houses a noted collection of Japanese wood engravings. To the north of this city is a massive cave system known as the Jeita Grotto, which acts as a source for the Dog River. Another natural formation associated with this city, the Pigeon Rocks, are located off of its western coast, and may be viewed from the Corniche in its Raouché district. Situated to the east of the city of Zahle, its governmental buildings include the Grand Serail and its recently-renovated international airport named after Rafik Hariri. For 10 points, name this port city west of the Bekaa Valley, which currently serves as the capital of Lebanon.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 4).docx", "seen" : 83, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f828b3d831d6a0037d3" }, "answer" : "{Kublai} Khan or {Kuhbilai} Khan or {Kubla} Khan", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1034568161704, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man was elected by a kuriltai held at Shang-Tu, and defeated his rival to the throne, Arigboge. While paper money had been in use since the Sung dynasty, this man made it the sole currency in his nation. He divided his nation into four categories of nationalities, with han-jen and Man-tzu being inferior to the se-mu jen. This ruler succeeded his brother Mongke. Il Milione is partially an account of Marco Polo's experiences in this man's court. His descent from Genghis Khan has been disputed, but he did bring Mongol rule to a nation he unified. For 10 points, name this founder of the Yuan dynasty in China.", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f768b3d831d6a0034c6" }, "answer" : "{Hess's} law [accept {law} of {heat summation} or {enthalpy summation} until mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7111966628581, "num" : 12, "question" : "This law is used to determine entropy and free energy in the Bordwell thermodynamic cycle. As a consequence of this law, one can calculate lattice energy in the Born-Haber cycle. This law works because the quantity it concerns is the sum of internal energy and quantity pressure times volume and is thus a state function. As a result, this law allows for addition of the changes in that quantity for a series of stepwise reactions to determine the overall change in that quantity. For 10 points, name this law which states that adding the change in enthalpy of each step of a reaction yields the total change in enthalpy for the reaction.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4e8b3d831d6a002b41" }, "answer" : "{Corsica}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 101.924749833066, "num" : 12, "question" : "One military conflict on this island took place at the Golo River. The largest city on this island contains the “Field of Gold Airport” and this island served as the base of operations for World War II's Operation Dragoon. A 1760's “crisis” involving this island was discussed by James Boswell in a book and played a role in the collapse of the Duke of Grafton's government. That crisis effectively ended when the government was defeated at the Battle of Ponte Novo in which (*) Pascal Paoli's forces were defeated, forcing him to flee Ajaccio and paving the way for the French to annex this island, which they currently still possess. For 10 points, name this Mediterranean island, best known as the birthplace of Napoleon.", "round" : "GM2 round1.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eba8b3d831d6a0008aa" }, "answer" : "{Charlemagne} [or Charles the {Great}; or Charles le {Grand}; or {Carolus Magnus}; or {Karl der}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9251649382059, "num" : 9, "question" : "This ruler signed the Treaty of Heiligen with the Danish king Hemming. This leader defeated the Lombards in the Siege of Pavia. Scholars such as Alcuin of York engineered this man's namesake renaissance. This ruler lost the Battle of Roncevaux (ron-say-VOE) Pass, where his rearguard was led by Roland (roe-LON). He was the son of (*) Pepin the Short and the grandson of Charles Martel. For 10 points, name this Frankish king who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a0068b4" }, "answer" : "{Grant DeVolson Wood}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.4987964129541, "num" : 24, "question" : "Five people in a doorway look over the artist's shoulder in one painting by this man; another is a depiction of the George Washington cherry tree legend. In addition to painting Return from Bohemia and Parson Weems' Fable, this man co-founded the Stone City Art Colony during the Great Depression. His other paintings include Daughters of Revolution, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover. The painter of a work depicting Nan and dentist Byron McKeeby, for 10 points, name this Iowa native and artist of American Gothic.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f62" }, "answer" : "{photography} (accept {black-and-white photography} until “{sun setting}”)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.4041951710824, "num" : 12, "question" : "One work in this medium depicts a dying girl, Fading Away by Henry Peach Robinson, while another famous work shows the sun setting between trees over the title entity, Pond–Moonlight. In addition to Edward Steichen and Eadweard Muybridge, one group of artists working with this included members like Imogen Cunningham, Willard van Dyke, and a man famous for pictures of the Manzanar internment camp and Yellowstone Park. Also used to make Robert Mapplethorpe's portraits and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, for 10 points, name this medium used by Alfred Steiglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams, traditionally created in a darkroom from negatives.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4d8b3d831d6a002af6" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Neruda} [accept {Ricardo Neftalí Reyes} y {Basoalto}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6990503966808, "num" : 21, "question" : "In one work, this writer describes the title object as “a fresh, deep, inexhaustible sun” that “invades kitchens” and “takes over lunches.” That poem, “Tomato,” appears with “Maize,” “Salt,” and “A Large Tuna in the Market” in his Elemental Odes. In another poem, he observes that “the night is shattered” and thinks, [*] “Tonight I can write the saddest lines;” his 15-section chronicle of American history includes “The United Fruit Company” and “The Heights of Macchu Picchu.” For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f768b3d831d6a00348f" }, "answer" : "{raven} [accept {crow} until mentioned {due} to {conflation}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.7237333399244, "num" : 12, "question" : "Kutkh, a recurring figure in the myths of Kamchatka natives and the Chukchi people, takes the form of this animal. A story from Haida myth describes how one of these figures freed women from a chiton after freeing men from a clam; that story was depicted in a Bill Reid sculpture named for this figure “and the First Men.” The name of Bran the Blessed, a character from the Mabinogion, translates as this type of creature. Morrigan assumes this shape for some sexual encounters, and two of them leave (*) Hlidskjalf every morning, gather the news of the world, and return to Odin; those two are named “thought” and “memory,” or Hugin and Munin. For 10 points, identify this animal, a popular trickster figure among tribes of the Pacific Northwest, which is often conflated with its smaller relative, the crow.", "round" : "Round 25 Emergency.doc", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045be" }, "answer" : "{Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.10564191057347, "num" : 16, "question" : "This author discussed a return trip from New York to Le Havre in My Discovery of America. The speaker of one of his poems will \"delightfully retch in your face\" and is the \"sounds squanderer and words profligate.\" This author of \"Take That!\" published his first two poems in A Slap in the Face of Public Taste and wrote a play with a cast of six devils, seven saints, and seven pairs of the clean and unclean. A speaker of one of his poems will give a \"final, farewell (*) concert,\" and play his flute on his backbone, and in a delirious work set in Odessa, the speaker is spurned by the married Maria. In addition to Mystery-Bouffe, his plays include one in which a time machine brings the Phosphorescent Woman from 2030, The Bathhouse, and one in which the Director of the Zoo cages Ivan Prisypkin and the title insect. For 10 points, name this Russian Futurist author of \"A Cloud in Trousers\" and The Bedbug.", "round" : "Packet 07 - Incarcerated Scarfaces.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a0044aa" }, "answer" : "{LeChatlier's principle}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5133740550373, "num" : 13, "question" : "The namesake of this law also wrote a thesis on hydraulic mortars and determined the composition of plaster of Paris, while Paul Samuelson introduced an application of this chemical law to economics.  Knowing the pressure before and after is only important if either the reactants or the products are gaseous, and, if there are the same numbers of moles of gaseous molecules on both sides, there will be no predicted change.  An example is watching the color change in a syringe of NO2 and N2O4 as it is pulled, as NO2 is a brown gas and N2O4 is a colorless one.  It is applied in the Haber process when the ammonia that is produced is removed from the solution so that the reaction will produce more of it.  FTP, name this rule that states when a reaction is subjected to a stress it will shift to counteract that stress.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a004459" }, "answer" : "{Rhône} River", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.671630544588, "num" : 11, "question" : "The source of this river is a glacier on the south flank of the nearly twelve thousand foot Dammastock peak. From there it flows through the Gletsch Basin, Goms Valley, and Plain of the Valais into a major lake two hundred twenty-four square miles in area. Major tributaries of this river include the Durance, Isére, and the Saône. During the Tertiary Period, what is today the Rhine River flowed southward and was included in this river's drainage basin, but tectonic movements reversed its course. In France, this river flows westward to Lyon, before it turns southward through Avignon and Arles near its delta at the Gulf of Lyon. FTP, identify this river that flows through southern Switzerland, into Lake Geneva, and through southeastern France into the Mediterranean Sea.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002888" }, "answer" : "Tartuffe", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.00886193616316, "num" : 11, "question" : "This character delivers a monologue that ends “men like me burn with a hidden flame … she will find love without scandal.” In another scene, he refuses to see to look at another until she covers her bosom with a handkerchief because “the flesh is weak.” He is tricked into revealing his true seductive nature while one character hides under a table. He is arrested for revealing state secrets at the work's end. Although he is able to get Monsieur Loyale to read an eviction notice, his arrest leads to the good news that Valere and Mariane are getting married. For 10 points, identify this character who acts religiously hypocritical on Orgon's estate, a title character created by Moliere.", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe28b3d831d6a004e07" }, "answer" : "“{Dover Beach}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7442778465338, "num" : 1, "question" : "  The author of this poem notes that one entity \"was once, too, at the full and round's earth shore,\" but all that remains is the \"melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.\" This poem's speaker bemoans the illusion of “a land of dreams,/ So various, so beautiful, so new” and resolves, “love, let us be true to one another!” This poem notes that, \"Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean,\" referring to \"the eternal note of sadness.\" This poem begins with the line \"the sea is calm tonight.\" For 10 points, identify this poem that observes humanity is “here as on a darkling plain... where ignorant armies clash by night,” written by Matthew Arnold.", "round" : "08 HFT.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000b09" }, "answer" : "“To His {Coy Mistress}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8714611073956, "num" : 18, "question" : "In the final stanza of this poem, the speaker asks the addressee to roll all of their strength and sweetness \"up into one ball.\" Earlier, he describes finding rubies along the Ganges River and notes that before him lay \"deserts of vast eternity.\" The speaker of this poem would spend hundreds of years admiring the addressee's (*) body and wait for her \"till the conversion of the Jews,\" but unfortunately he hears \"time's winged chariot hurrying near.\" Beginning with the line \"Had we but world enough, and time,\" this is, for 10 points, what poem by Andrew Marvell?", "round" : "tournament17-02.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e988b3d831d6a000140" }, "answer" : "{methyl} group", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.21153115085326, "num" : 11, "question" : "Jensen and Jernelov discovered the biologically catalyzed transfer of this group to mercury, a reaction that can also be catalyzed abiotically by fulvic acid. Acidic fragmentation is followed by addition of this group, sometimes via the Haworth method, in a technique for determining the monosaccharide linkage patterns. In one reaction involving the transfer of this functional group, the C6 carbon of the substrate is attached by a cysteine thiolate, activating the C5 carbon as a resonance-stabilized carbanion that attacks the donor of this group; that reaction is catalyzed by thymidlyate synthase. Kuhn-Roth oxidation can be used to determine the number of these groups attached to a carbon atom. In vivo, S-adenosylmethionine is a common donor of this functional group. For 10 points, name this functional group which, when added to benzene, produces toluene.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-MichiganAFinal.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c83" }, "answer" : "A {Modest Proposal} For {Preventing} The Children of {Poor People} in {Ireland} From {Being}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6901315031573, "num" : 16, "question" : "Near this work's end, the author rejects such practical plans as \"using neither cloaths, nor household furniture, except which is our own.\" The author of this work calculates that his land holds \"two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders,\" from which he subtracts thirty thousand \"able to maintain their own children.\" The central plan of this work would \"greatly lessen the number of papists\" by having Irish one year olds be sold and eaten. For 10 points, name this satirical pamphlet by Jonathan Swift.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3b8b3d831d6a0026c5" }, "answer" : "{Michelson–Morley} experiment", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.31500142184086, "num" : 15, "question" : "A modification of this experiment led to the discovery of the Sagnac effect, and it had the same result as an experiment in which a capacitor was suspended by a wire. The results of this experiment led to the development of the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis. It used a device that separates a beam of light into two. That namesake interferometer floated in mercury. A significant fringe shift was not observed in this experiment, which set out to measure the velocity of the earth relative to the substance that supports the propagation of light. For 10 points, name this doubly-eponymous experiment performed in 1887 that disproved the existence of ether.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 10.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a001939" }, "answer" : "chariots", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.84847273421474, "num" : 13, "question" : "A ceremonial example of this item with bronze plates depicting Achilles receiving armor from his mother was unearthed in an Etruscan burial chamber dated to 530 BC and is now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The earliest finds of this item come from the Sintashta-Petrovka culture, found north of the Aral Sea and dated to around 2500 BC. The first text describing these items in the ancient Near East recounts how King Hattusili I used them against the Hurrians during the conquest of Hattusa, and a later Hurrian-Hittite text written by one Kikkuli of the Mitanni describes a conditioning regimen lasting 214 days. A late and unsuccessful use of these items is reported at the Battle of Gaugamela, where the Macedonian lines parted to let them through, whence they could be attacked from behind. For 10 points, what is this single-axled horse-drawn military device, deployed in great numbers at the Battle of Kadesh?", "round" : "Packet 03.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f878b3d831d6a003901" }, "answer" : "A. {J. Ayer}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.90063295932487, "num" : 4, "question" : "This thinker described “what he saw when he was dead” in “The Undiscovered Country,” and attempts to eviscerate Wittgenstein's private language argument in The Concept of a Person and Other Essays. Like Bertrand Russell, this thinker engaged the Jesuit priest Frederick Copelston in a series of BBC debates on the nature of religious language. In his magnum opus he obviates religious statements as meaningless since they are neither tautologies nor can they be empirically verified, which leads to him to a meta-ethical principle known as emotivism. For 10 points, name this British logical positivist philosopher, author of such works as The Problem of Knowledge and Language, Truth and Logic.", "round" : "Round by Editors 2.docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004235" }, "answer" : "{United Fruit} Company [or {United Brands} Company; accept {Chiquita} before it is mentioned; prompt on “{El Pulpo}” or the “{Octopus}” before they are read]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.49081606674008, "num" : 19, "question" : "Admiral Schley and Admiral Samson were part of this entity's group of ships known as the Great White Fleet. An 1871 contract signed by railroad magnate, Henry Meiggs, was seminal to the creation of this entity by Andrew Preston and Minor Keith. While working at Sullivan and Cromwell, John Foster Dulles represented this entity, which was later controlled by the likes of Eli Black and Carl Lindler. In 1928, this entity allegedly ordered the massacre of strikers, who demanded eight-hour days and six-day weeks, at Cienada. In order to protect the interest of this entity, which was popularly known as \"el pulpo\" or \"the octopus,\" the CIA authorized Operation PBSUCCESS in 1954 to help overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. For 10 points, name this company, now known as Chiquita, which dominated Central America in the early twentieth century.", "round" : "r10- Dartmouth-Truman State.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a00159c" }, "answer" : "telomeres\u000b<Kirsch>", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0871601051185, "num" : 7, "question" : "These structures are degraded at an abnormally high rate in sufferers of Werner syndrome. They can exist in stacks of formations stabilized by Hoogstein hydrogen bonding and the presence of sodium or potassium ions between formations, which are called G-quadruplexes. The majority of tumor cells demonstrate unusually high activity of the (*) reverse transcriptase that creates these structures. They are constructed of a series of TTAGGG repeats, and apoptosis or senescence results when they become too short. For 10 points, name these structures that temporarily solve the end-replication problem by protecting the exposed ends of chromosomes.", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406f8b3d831d6a006fab" }, "answer" : "Vlad", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1439651395194, "num" : 17, "question" : "The death of the fourth ruler of this name led to a power struggle between Mihnea the Evildoer and Radu the Great. The third ruler of this name was a hostage at the court of sultan Murad II. The second ruler of this name joined Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund's chivalric society, the Order of the Dragon. All of those figures served as voivode of Walachia, including the third, known as “Tepes” for his brutal methods of execution. For 10 points, “Dracula” and “The Impaler” were also nicknames given to kings of what name, who ruled in present-day Romania?", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f888b3d831d6a003956" }, "answer" : "Singapore", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.82274055061862, "num" : 14, "question" : "The worst disaster to ever occur in this port came in 1978, when the Greek tanker Spyros exploded while docked at this port. This port can be defended from the air via the Tengah Air Base, and in 1961 this city was devastated by the so-called “squatter fire”, a result of the highly flammable shelters that this port's homeless population used. Early in its history, this port was embroiled in a scandal over government sponsorship of gambling, which resulted in the dismissal of its second governor, Major Farquhar. Tengku Hussein, the Sultan of Johor, ceded the land on which this port was built. This port was founded to compete with Dutch-held Malacca by Sir Stamford Raffles. For ten points, name this independent city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula.", "round" : "Round by Jerry Vinokurov and Charles Hang.docx", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a00099c" }, "answer" : "The {Garden} of {Earthly Delights}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2674327532295, "num" : 21, "question" : "In this work, a cherry on a string attached to a stick is hung in front of a flying animal, while on the right, a pig is comically dressed in a nun’s outfit. A cave expelling many birds and a pink fountain can be seen on its left side, while in this work’s center people ride various animals around a circular lake. Although this work’s right panel depicts torture and the horrors of Hell, the majority of this painted work depicts a (*) paradise filled with extravagance in contrast with the simplicity of Eden. For 10 points, name this triptych by Hieronymus Bosch.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffa8b3d831d6a0053d6" }, "answer" : "Lake {Superior}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.3164738225751, "num" : 20, "question" : "This lake is home to the United States' first National Lakeshore. Islands in this lake include Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostle Islands, but the largest island in this lake is a national park named (*) Isle Royale. This lake is noted for its shipwrecks around Whitefish Point, including the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinking. The Ojibwe called this lake “big water,” and it is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. For 10 points, name this lake with ports of Duluth and Marquette, the largest of the Great Lakes.", "round" : "tourn10-03.pdf", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d0d" }, "answer" : "{William Dean Howells}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2025618867483, "num" : 10, "question" : "This man wrote a novel in which the title daughter of a labelmaker goes crazy. Besides Jana Wilcox, he wrote about Aristedes Homos, who invites Mr. Twelvemough to live in the titular utopia, inA Traveler From Altruria. He also wrote a novel in which Dryfoos funds Every Other Week, a magazine produced by Basil March. In his most famous work, Tom Corey is in a love triangle with Penelope and Irene, the daughters of the titular paint entrepreneur. Name this American realist who wrote A Modern Instance and A Hazard of New Fortunes, an editor of The Atlantic Monthly who penned The Rise of Silas Lapham.", "round" : "finals 1 TU.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40138b3d831d6a0059ab" }, "answer" : "{Abbas Kiarostami}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.28960378002375, "num" : 4, "question" : "This director offered two versions of the same scene where well-organized school children drink at a water fountain efficiently while chaotic school children take a long time to use the same fountain as part of his short film Orderly or Disorderly. In one of his films a small boy attempts to return his friend's notebook so he won't flunk out of school, while in another one of his movies Mr. Badii drives around in a cab hoping to find someone who will throw earth on his body after he commits suicide at the end of the night. A stonemason turned actor awkwardly proposes to the woman playing his leading lady while making a movie in his film Through the Olive Trees, which forms a trilogy along with Life, and Nothing More and Where is the Friend's Home? that investigates the effects of a 1990 earthquake on a rural village in this director's home country. For 10 points, name this director of the films A Taste of Cherry and the Koker Trilogy, who hails from Iran.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9c8b3d831d6a00020f" }, "answer" : "Francisco {Goya's Black} Paintings [or Las {Pinturas Negras}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.21894463989884, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of the title figures of one of these paintings peers through a magnifying glass; those three title characters are accompanied by a possibly-male figure with bound hands. Another of these paintings sees soldiers take aim at a group of horsemen as a red-clad woman and a frightened man, who points back at a huge mesa, pass by overhead. In addition to The Fates and Asmodea, or Fantastic Vision, they include a depiction of their artist's maid Leocadia and a version of Judith and Holofernes. Two men trapped knee-deep in a quagmire square off in one of them, Fight with Cudgels, while a crowd of women huddle together, staring in fear at a silhouetted goat-headed man in another of them, Witches' Sabbath. For 10 points, identify this series of paintings that includes Saturn Devouring his Son and was painted by Francisco Goya.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Brown and Michigan A final.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f648b3d831d6a003036" }, "answer" : "goblins", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7124427706003, "num" : 17, "question" : "In Howard's End , Helen Schlegel imagines these creatures \"marching across the universe\" during a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Tamoren is the chief of these creatures, who frighten the kingdom of Francelia, in a play by John Suckling. A poem about these creatures describes them with the lines \"One had a cat's face, / One whisked a tail, / One tramped at a rat's pace, / One crawled like a snail.\" In that poem, a dying girl is brought back to health by kissing and sucking the juices from her sister's lips, after their cry \"Come buy, come buy\" entices a girl to trade a lock of golden hair for their tantalizing fruit. For 10 points, name these mischievous creatures that tempt the sisters Laura and Lizzie by running a market in a poem by Christina Rosetti.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400b8b3d831d6a0057d6" }, "answer" : "{Watergate} Hotel", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9270610809326, "num" : 3, "question" : "One of the men involved in planning the crucial event at this location had previously devised Operation Intercept while working under Eugene Rossides. Bernard Barker was one of the five men arrested at this place. Rose Mary Woods claimed to have erased (*) eighteen and a half minutes of a conversation about the events that happened here, and Mark Felt was the source for much of what the public knew about the crime that took place at this hotel. For 10 points, a 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party's headquarters at what hotel caused a scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon?", "round" : "tourn9-07.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40538b3d831d6a0068c8" }, "answer" : "{Mansa Kankan Musa}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7460667549167, "num" : 15, "question" : "He commissioned Abu-Ishaq Ibrahim-es-Saheli to construct his royal palace and a great mosque called the Djingareyber Mosque. He initiated building projects in Niani and Gao and stabilized the empire his grandfather Sundiata established. He left the gold prices in Egypt deflated for long after his lavish stop there during his legendary Hajj. For 10 points, name this ruler who built up Timbuktu as a center of learning in his time as the ruler of the Mali.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004d7" }, "answer" : "Kingdom of {Wessex}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.59775604726747, "num" : 15, "question" : "The first event in this kingdom’s history which can be reasonably dated was the baptism of its king Cynegils. This kingdom considered to be founded by Cerdic and Cynric gained power under the reign of King Egbert. The most famous ruler of this kingdom established a law book with a hundred and twenty chapters known as the Doom book. That ruler of this kingdom ordered the construction of thirty fortified towns named burhs, but is better known for signing a treaty with Guthrum. The bishop chronicled the reign of that leader of this nation who won the Battle of Ethandun, forcing the Danes to surrender. For 10 points, name this kingdom once ruled by Alfred the Great.", "round" : "2011 CO History Blaszkiewicz Hang.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eab8b3d831d6a00052c" }, "answer" : "The {Bayonet Constitution} (or the {Hawaiian Constitution} of {1887)}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.40241191885434, "num" : 15, "question" : "This document has two amendments signed by President John Walker in 1892, although one that doubled representative salaries was never enacted. One stipulation allowed for the imprisonment of anyone guilty of “disrespect to the Legislature”, and another established a Noble as someone with $3000 in property, which counteracted the removal of wealth requirements from the 1864 constitution. It was designed to break the power of Premier Walter Gibson and spawned a failed counterrevolution led by Robert Wilcox. It denied voting rights to Asians and most of the native population, and allowed the king’s veto to be overridden by the legislature. For 10 Points, identify this document which weakened the position of King David Kalakaua, dictated by the Hawaiian League amid threats of violence.", "round" : "2011 CO History Gehring Larsen.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a0070e9" }, "answer" : "green", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8281727060676, "num" : 12, "question" : "(DR) This was the codename used by Americans for a Japanese Enigma machine. With an extra E on the end, it is the name of the English novelist who wrote Brighton Rock and The Quiet American. In an- other context, its types may include harlequin, kelly, and shamrock. It was also Rachel's last name on the show Friends, and it wasn't easy being this for Kermit the Frog. Identify this word used to represent a po- litical party and a color.", "round" : "r1tossups.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40468b3d831d6a0065f3" }, "answer" : "{Laser Standard} (2)", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.0495771735441, "num" : 9, "question" : "Brazil's Robert Scheidt took the gold medal in an event racing these in Athens in 2004.  A recently developed variation of it, created by Jo Richards, adds a trapeze and spinnaker and is known as a Vortex.  Performance Sailing manufactures a four person variation with a keel known as the SB3, while another two person variation of it makes use of variable sized hulls and lead weights to equalize weight differences between crews and is called the 4000.  The smallest incarnation of this craft is contains some 0.7 squared meters less sail than the similar Byte.  That version's pre-best lower mast on the smallest version of this reduces the sail area by 35% and is known as the ? 4.7.  A medium sized version of it will become a women's event at the 2008 Olympics, a boat known as a Radial.  FTP, identify this popular type of dinghy that shares its name with a part of a device used to ruin George's \"that's gotta hurt\" line at a screening of Blimp on the Puerto Rican Day episode of Seinfeld.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40028b3d831d6a005595" }, "answer" : "{cell membrane} [or {plasma membrane}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.875800229609, "num" : 5, "question" : "The components of this structure are rearranged by flippases (FLIP-aze-iz) and scramblases (SCRAM-blaze-iz). The sodium-potassium pump transports ions through it. The Davson-Danielli model of this structure was supplanted by the (*) fluid mosaic model, which characterizes it as a phospholipid (foss-foe-LIP-id) bilayer embedded with proteins and other molecules. For 10 points, name this semi-permeable structure which surrounds cells.", "round" : "tourn11-10.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a00774c" }, "answer" : "{Matsuo Basho}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.74157706252299, "num" : 20, "question" : "His Essay on the Unreal Dwelling focused on the artist's relationship to nature. Shriveled Chestnuts was collaboration with disciples while Winter Sun saw his emergence as a more lyrical poet. It is in travelogues like The Records of a Travel Worn Satchel and The Narrow Road to the Deep North where critics see his later life turning away from the style of sabi, or loneliness to karumi, or lightness; a concept that would dominate the short meditative form he made so prominent. FTP, identify this author named for the banana plant hut he once lived in; a master of the Haiku form.", "round" : "George Washington.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2c8b3d831d6a0022fe" }, "answer" : "{taqiyya} [or {taghiyeh}; prompt on {hiding}; or {concealment}; or equivalents]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.8771010190248, "num" : 19, "question" : "A “reconciliatory” type of this practice is permitted, but not obligatory, when one wishes to “soften the hearts” of the other side. This doctrine is invoked to derive that it is haram to kill a human being to save one's own life, since it is forbidden when it would lead to the death of an innocent person. It is permitted by a sura in Quran 3:28, and it can lead to a situation called hudna. This practice, which is similar to ketman, was taken up by a religion that does not allow converts, which allows members of the Druze to be very secretive about their beliefs. For 10 points, name this Shi'ite practice of hiding or concealing one's faith during times of imminent danger.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - zFINALS PACKET 1.pdf", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c1f" }, "answer" : "{Urine} (accept equivalents)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5969828353263, "num" : 10, "question" : "Its specific gravity is about 1.017; this is higher than water's because of dissolved substances, about 60% of which are inorganic.  About 119 out of 120 parts of it are reabsorbed into the bloodstream, leaving about 1.2 quarts per day in the average adult.  As blood passes through the glomeruli, blood pressure, as opposed by the osmotic pull of the plasma proteins, drives water and salts into the glomerular space at about 7.2 cubic inches per minute.  For ten points, name this fluid, typically acidic and colored yellow, filtered by the kidneys.", "round" : "FHTE R2 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 269, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a006078" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Bunker} Hill [accept {Battle} of {Breed's Hill} before it is read]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.35615600831806, "num" : 9, "question" : "Two weeks before this battle, the attacking force acquired three more generals with the arrival of the frigate Cerberus. Part of the defending force was led by Thomas Knowlton, who encouraged his men to take cover behind a rail fence. Men killed during this battle included a physician from the Committee of Correspondence, Joseph Warren, who appears in the painting of this battle by John Trumbull. Either of the defending leaders, William Prescott and Israel Putnam, may have issued the noted command “don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” For 10 points, William Howe's British forces sustained more than a thousand casualties in what June 1775 battle near Boston that was actually fought on Breed's Hill?", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Berkeley and Miami C final.doc", "seen" : 62, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2a8b3d831d6a002294" }, "answer" : "{Prague Spring} [or {Praska Jaro}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.23516491078772, "num" : 19, "question" : "The KAN was one organization founded by leaders of this movement, as were K-231 and a revival of Junák, a scouting organization. A meeting discussing this movement was held at Cierná-nad-Tisou. The end of this movement was protested by Jan Palach with self-immolation. Oldrich Cernik and Ota Šik were leaders of it, and Ludvík Vaculík wrote a manifesto supporting it, the “Two Thousand Words.” The aims of this movement were largely carried out by the Action Program. It was followed by a period of “normalization” under Gustav Husák. The policy of “socialism with a human face” was championed during this period by Alexander Dubcek, but it was soon ended by a Soviet crackdown. For 10 points, name this period of reform in 1968 Czechoslovakia.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Michigan State + South Carolina A.pdf", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a0036f9" }, "answer" : "Scipio", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.62518766568974, "num" : 7, "question" : "One man of this name defeated an army of Etruscans and Gauls at Volterra. The name comes from an Indo-European word for to cut, and in Latin denoted a staff of formal governmental authority.  Another was found dead after offending a crowd with his opinion on the justice of the deaths of his brothers-in-law.  He was given the command that earned him his own unique agnomen by asserting influence over the natives in the province his grandfather had ruled 60 years previously. Another man saved his own father's life by charging an encircling force at the Battle of Ticinus. After the defeat at the Battle of the Upper Baetis, that man won appointment to command an army, with which he won the Battle of Illipa, and gained control of Hispania for Rome. He went on to defeat the brother of the man responsible for the deaths of his father and uncle at the Battle of Zama. For 10 points, what is this family name shared by, among others, both the man who razed Carthage to the ground in the Third Punic War and the man who defeated Hannibal in the Second Punic War?", "round" : "Editors1.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001133" }, "answer" : "The Last of the {Mohicans}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.4001737695653, "num" : 19, "question" : "In a scene from this novel, a group of friends hide behind a waterfall, though in the ensuing action they suffer from the theft of much of their supplies. One comical character in this novel is David Gamut, a singer who at one point attempts to teach some beavers his gift of song. Another character agrees to set the rest of his captives free if Cora Munro will become his wife, but that man, Magua, is hunted down by Natty Bumppo, who works in conjunction with Uncas and Chingachook (\"Chicago\") at various points during this work. For 10 points, name this novel by James Fenimore Cooper, a part of the Leatherstocking Tales.", "round" : "29.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d99" }, "answer" : "Advent", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.6413925697561, "num" : 16, "question" : "Jesuit theologian Benterim claimed that a thirteenth-century law decreed that pictures should be covered during this time period, and its beginning is defined by the Sunday closest to the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle. Methodism holds that “Kingdomtide” precedes this event, and this event features a day when a pink candle is lit called Gaudete Sunday. For 10 points, name this Christian holiday, commonly symbolized by a wreath with one candle per week, four in all, which leads up to Christmas and which commonly features chocolate-filled calendars.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 13.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f588b3d831d6a002d82" }, "answer" : "{Amos Oz} [or {Amos Klausner}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.64649125700817, "num" : 6, "question" : "This author wrote a novella about the transformation of Guillaume of Touron and one about the death of an aging lecturer on Russian Jewry. Those novellas, Crusade and Late Love, were published together as Unto Death. The breakdown of Alex Gideon and Ilana Brandstatter's marriage is the subject of his novel Black Box. The Jerusalem native Hannah Gonen tells of her marriage to the titular character of this author's novel My Michael. In the essay “Between Right and Right,” he characterized the Israel-Palestine conflict as a real estate dispute; that essay was included in the collection How to Cure a Fanatic. For 10 points, name this Israeli author who is frequently a front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e35" }, "answer" : "{Pocahontas} [or {Matoaka}; or {Amonute}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0531807474326, "num" : 5, "question" : "This figure's father held the rank of mamanatowick, or foremost among the weroances, and Alexander Whitaker converted this figure to Christianity. Simon de Passe created the only known contemporary engraving of this figure, whose descendants were exempted from the anti-miscegenation law struck down by the Supreme Court in the Loving case. This figure, whose father was Powhatan, moved to London after marrying John Rolfe. For 10 points, name this Native American princess best known for her relationship with John Smith and the Jamestown colony.", "round" : "10 HFT.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40048b3d831d6a005641" }, "answer" : "{Bacon's} Rebellion", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8298135797959, "num" : 9, "question" : "During this event, the house of Arthur Allen was taken over and became known as its leaders \"Castle.\" The namesake of this event issued a \"Declaration of the People\" that called for the surrender of many members of the gentry. One cause of this event was disagreement over how to handle nearby Indians. Its members were largely (*) indentured servants, and this rebellion ended when its namesake died of dysentery after burning Jamestown. For 10 points, name this 1676 rebellion against governor William Berkeley in colonial Virginia.", "round" : "tourn8-03.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a002ff7" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.48902579955757, "num" : 19, "question" : "This author claimed that there is no right to hold a bird of prey accountable for being a bird of prey. Ernst Haeckel latched onto this philosopher's idea of the “world riddle.” A renowned translator and interpreter of this philosopher's works was Walter Kaufman. This thinker chastised his prior love of Wagner in an “attempt at self-criticism” appended to a work in which he contrasted the Dionysian and Apollonian aspects of the title art form. He described the “blond beast” in his treatment of ethics, On the Genealogy of Morals. For 10 points, name this philosopher who proclaimed “God is Dead” in The Gay Science and wrote The Birth of Tragedy.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 8 - Done.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00636c" }, "answer" : "All {Quiet} on the {Western Front} [or {Im Westen nichts Neues}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.17066310322843, "num" : 10, "question" : "One character in this work is mocked when Kat shouts “Change at Lohne” and attacks him with a bedcover when he is coming home from his favorite pub. One of the protagonist's friends mourns that he will never become head forester, and gives away his boots. Some of the main character's other friends include the locksmith Tjaden and the peat-digger Haie. The protagonist feels obligated to lie to Kemmerich's mother, and stabs Gerard Duval when they both hide in the same shell hole. The protagonist dies on an otherwise uneventful day. For 10 points, name this work about Paul Baumer's World War I experiences, written by Erich Maria Remarque.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - MIT A + South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40398b3d831d6a0062d3" }, "answer" : "{Bertrand Russell}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.59271315229125, "num" : 7, "question" : "One text by this thinker imagines the Catholic Church telling an inexperienced girl and a syphilitic man “you must endure celibacy or stay together,” and is found in its section “How the Churches Have Retarded Progress.” That work ends with a section called “What We Must Do” and expresses his decision on why he is not a Christian. Another notable work by this author, written with his teacher, attempted to express mathematics through axiomatic logic and introduces his namesake paradox regarding sets. For 10 points, name this 20th century British philosopher, the co-author of Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead.", "round" : "Round 08 updated.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00605b" }, "answer" : "Pohjola", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.02227985719219, "num" : 1, "question" : "After Virokannas fails to slay a steer in this place, a mysterious black man rises from the ocean and completes the task, giving the people of this place a hundred tubs of meat. This place is guarded by a gray dog named flop-ears, and landmarks here include Lovers Bay. One figure is carried to this place by an eagle after having his steed shot out from under him by a defeated rival. The lord of this place is beheaded by Lemminkainen during a wedding to which he was not invited, and an underground safe at this location is home to the magical mill of plenty. Ruled by the witch Louhi, for ten points name this farm from the Kalevala, home to the maiden of the north.", "round" : "Round5.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40058b3d831d6a00567e" }, "answer" : "{Clive Owen}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.8986565575469, "num" : 7, "question" : "This actor spoke the line \"Look at this. Look at what they make you give.\" while his character was dying in The Bourne Identity, a movie where he played rival assassin The Professor. He appeared as Walter Raleigh in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and protected Monica Belluci from (*)Paul Giamatti's Hertz as Smith in Shoot 'Em Up. For 10 points, name this British actor who portrayed Dalton Russell in Inside Man and Dwight McCarthy in Sin City before starring in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men.", "round" : "tourn8-06.pdf", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a55" }, "answer" : "topoisomerase", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.24530968815088, "num" : 1, "question" : "A diffuse, systemic form of scleroderma arises from the body forming antibodies against these enzymes, and quinolones are antibiotics that inhibit these enzymes in bacteria. Chemotherapy inhibitors of their first subgroup include camptothecins. These enzymes change a quantity equal to the combination of twist and writhe, and a bacterial example of the second type of these enzymes is called gyrase. For 10 points, name these enzymes whose two types are differentiated based on whether they cut one or both strands of the double helix, whose function is to change the linking number of DNA.", "round" : "Editors 5 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002738" }, "answer" : "{J. Alfred Prufrock}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.68851611320861, "num" : 9, "question" : "The title figure of this poem wears a “necktie rich and modest” with a “collar mounting firmly to [his] chin.” He has heard “the voices dying with a dying fall/Beneath the music from a farther room,” presumably alluding to social gatherings like the one he appears to choose not to attend. Afraid to “spit out all the butt-ends of [his] days and ways,” this title speaker despairs that he “should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” So goes, FTP, the “love song” of what title poetic character created by T.S. Eliot?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 4.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a006869" }, "answer" : "neurotransmitters", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8534599340055, "num" : 7, "question" : "Mesotetradextrine and mesoendodextrine are two components which assist them, and the vomiting center of the body contains high amounts of one of them. In addition to Substance P, another of these is produced by the substantia nigra, whose degeneration can lead to Parkinson's disease. Major inhibitory ones include glycine and GABA, while excitatory ones include serotonin and acetylcholine. For 10 points, name these chemicals used to signal between neurons in the synapse.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001597" }, "answer" : "The {Hapsburg-Lorraine} Family [or The House of {Hapsburg} or the House of {Habsburg}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0147916027345, "num" : 2, "question" : "One late ruler from this family had a morganatic marriage to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Different members of this family agreed to the secret Oñate Treaty of 1617, while a general serving this family, Charles Alexander, was defeated at Leuthen in the Seven Years War. A female member of this house switched allegiances to France in the 1756 “reversal of alliances” and was the wife of Francis Stephen. A monarch from this family known as “The Mad” died in (*) 1700, prompting a succession crisis. This house briefly held power over England when the Tudor queen Mary I married Phillip II of this house. Due to inbreeding, many members had a characteristic jaw. For 10 points, name this family, the long-time rulers of Austria.", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40188b3d831d6a005aaf" }, "answer" : "the {Sarbanes-Oxley Act} of 2002 [or Public Company {Accounting Reform} and {Investor Protection Act} of 2002; prompt on {Sox}; prompt on {Sarbox}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.28994848835282, "num" : 21, "question" : "A potential legal challenge to this law centers on its creation of the PCAOB, which has public responsibility but is appointed by members of an independent agency. This law lacks a so-called severability clause, so legal challenges to parts of it can overturn the whole law. The most contentious aspect of this law is section 404, which requires reportage of ICFR, or internal control of financial reporting, to the SEC-appointed Public Company Oversight Board. For 10 points, name this 2002 law passed in the wake of the WorldCom and Enron scandals, named for a Maryland Senator and an Ohio Representative, that institutes stiff regulations on accountants.", "round" : "MUT II - Illinois.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f468b3d831d6a00295b" }, "answer" : "The University of {Chicago}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 338.060741025256, "num" : 7, "question" : "At this school, sociologist George Herbert Mead developed symbolic interactionism. Ronald Coase and Freakonomics author Steven Levitt are at this university, in whose squash courts the first man-made nuclear fission occurred; another man developed the permanent income hypothesis and wrote Capitalism and Freedom here. For 10 points, Milton Friedman worked at what university with a famous free-market “school” of economists, located in the Windy City?", "round" : "Packet 11.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef98b3d831d6a001766" }, "answer" : "{Wystan Hugh Auden}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3357150901575, "num" : 11, "question" : "This poet wrote “When he cried, the little children died in the streets” in an ironic six-line poem about a dictator. The speaker of another poem by this author overhears a lover singing “I’ll love you ’til China and Africa meet.” In addition to “Epitaph on a Tyrant” and “As I Walked Out One Evening,” he wrote a work concluding “We must love one another and (*) die,” titled after the first day of World War II. Another of his poems begins “About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters” and goes on to use the example of “Breughel’s Icarus.” For 10 points, identify this Irish poet of “September 1, 1939” and “Musée des Beaux Arts.”", "round" : "Packet 5 - Prelims 5.doc", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fba8b3d831d6a0044e3" }, "answer" : "{George Wallace}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2442744581494, "num" : 10, "question" : "His campaign against Albert Brewer is often viewed as one of the dirtiest in American history. He served as a delegate at the 1948 Democratic Convention and made a failed run for governor in 1958, where he lost to John Patterson in the important primaries. He finally won the gubernatorial election in 1963 and had his wife Lurleen run as a surrogate so he could have a second term. He later ran for president of the United States on four different occasions, running with Curtis LeMay after surviving an assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer, and became the last third-party candidate to win electoral votes. FTP, name this former Alabama governor who said \"I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.\"", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee98b3d831d6a0013b5" }, "answer" : "{Rome}, {Italy} [accept {Vatican City} until “{Cecilia}”; prompt on it {thereafter}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.4038609485142, "num" : 18, "question" : "One building in this city includes the Ottaviano Mascarino and Cesare Nebbia designed Room of Cartographic Maps and Tower of the Winds and Stefano Maderno designed a statue depicting a fallen Santa Cecilia that inspired a later statue of Santa Viviana in this city. Six statues, including ones of Il Babuino and Pasquin, were often covered with anonymous political commentary in this city. The central panel of one fresco cycle in this city depicts a boy with tigers surrounded by drunk figures, and was painted by Annibale Caracci for Oduardo Farnese. Santa Maria Maggiore and San Giovanni Laterano are major churches in this city. Pope Sixtus V’s Villa Montalto stood on the Quirinal hill in, for 10 points, what Italian city?", "round" : "zFinals 1 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043d4" }, "answer" : "The {Artist's Studio}: A real allegory {summing up seven years} of {my artistic} and {moral life} [or The {Painter's Studio}: A real allegory {summing up seven years} of {my artistic} and {moral life}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.82944177463651, "num" : 4, "question" : "The center of this painting features a wooden doll posed as a crucified figure and a young boy, who stares at a landscape. A nude female model stands behind the central figure of this painting, who reaches his brush towards an easel. For 10 points, name this “real allegory” by Gustave Courbet named for his place of work.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Missouri State + Louisville (final).doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a00342a" }, "answer" : "{Blue} Mosque [accept {Sultan Ahmed Mosque} before mentioned]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3723598949146, "num" : 10, "question" : "The public kitchens built into this structure were destroyed in 1970 but soon restored and incorporated into the School of Industrial Art. An iron chain hangs at the entrance to this building's courtyard to force horseback riders to duck their heads. One of its most notable features resulted when its architect misheard the patron's request to include gold in the design, and the calligraphy on its interior is attributed to (*) Gubari. This building's central courtyard features a hexagonal fountain, and it is supported by huge pillars called the “elephant's feet.” One of the earliest buildings of its kind to have six minarets, it was designed by Sedefer Mehmed Aga at the request of Sultan Ahmed I. For 10 points, name this building in Istanbul nicknamed for the color of the tiles along its interior, the national mosque of Turkey.", "round" : "Round 20 Finals II.doc", "seen" : 274, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a0068bc" }, "answer" : "{George III}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1821325081401, "num" : 3, "question" : "A conspiracy to assassinate this man was formed by Bannister Truelock and nearly carried out by the religious fanatic James Hadfield, who shot him at Drury Lane Theater. The Marquis of Rockingham and the Duke of Grafton were two of the Prime Ministers during his reign. The husband of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, this man was treated by Francis Willis for a condition believed to be porphyria, which led to his son taking power in the Regency. For 10 points, name this British monarch during the Napoleonic Wars and the American Revolution.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002893" }, "answer" : "{Scott Joplin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.8457121003885, "num" : 3, "question" : "This native of Texarkana began composing in 1895 with works such as Please Say You Will and A Picture of Her Face. His 1910 opera about a slave on an Arkansas plantation was not performed until 1972, over 20 years after the composer's death. In addition to that opera, Treemonisha, other music by this composer also gained popularity in the 1970s, when works such as The Entertainer were included in the film The Sting. For ten points, identify this African-American ragtime musician who composed The Maple Leaf Rag.", "round" : "FKT 2010 David FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d57" }, "answer" : "{current} [or {current} density]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2048717751168, "num" : 24, "question" : "A more advanced form of this quantity is symbolized J and is called the density of this. In one case that density is equal to the permittivity of free space times the time derivative of the electric field. That case was introduced by Maxwell and is called the displacement of this quantity. One law states that its sum about at a junction is zero. It is measured by an ammeter (AM-ee-ter) and is equal to voltage divided by resistance according to Ohm's Law. This quantity is measured in amperes. For 10 points, name this rate of charge, which can be viewed as direct or alternating.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c68" }, "answer" : "“{Ruins} of a {Great House}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.01021204935387, "num" : 7, "question" : "In the fourth stanza the speaker declares “the world's green age then was a rotting lime / whose stench became the charnel galleon's text” before concluding the stanza “My eyes burned from the ashen prose of Donne.” Earlier the speaker muses, “Marble as Greece, like Faulkner's south in stone, / Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone” and the poem ends with the summation, “All in compassion ends / so differently from what the heart arranged.”This poem's epigram is taken from Thomas Browne's “Urn Burial,” while in the first stanza the speaker comments “A smell of dead limes quickens in the nose / The leprosy of the Empire” before bidding goodbye to the title location by saying ‘Farewell, green fields' / ‘Farwell, ye happy groves!' This poem begins by asserting that “Stones only, the disjecta membra” of the title residence “Remain to file the lizard's dragonish claws.” Published in the collection In a Green Night along with “A Far Cry From Africa,” for 10 points, name this poem about the remains of a by Derek Walcott.", "round" : "Round 09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f35" }, "answer" : "The Three {Musketeers} [or {Les Trois Mousquetaires}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.98292489070446, "num" : 20, "question" : "One character in this novel pisses off an innkeeper by trying to consume all his food and wine after barricading himself in a cellar with Grimaud, whom he had earlier taught hand signals. One character in this novel is haunted by an event in his past in which he discovered his wife was a common criminal and tried to hang her. The protagonist of this work is served by Planchet, who helps him recover a (*) diamond brooch that the Queen had given to the Duke of Buckingham. The protagonist of this novel inadvertently schedules three duels for the same day while chasing his nemesis the “Man from Meung,” who turns out to be the Comte de Rochefort, an ally of Milady de Winter and Richelieu. For 10 points, name this novel in which d'Artagnan joins a group with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40498b3d831d6a006676" }, "answer" : "{Steve Reich} (3)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.7154681679327, "num" : 15, "question" : "This author parodied the \"hammering\" theme from Das Rheingold to depict the construction of the Hindenberg in his Three Tales. One of this composer's operas is set at Machpelah, the burial site of Ishmael, Isaac, and Abraham. This composer set Ludwig Wittgenstein's statement \"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life\" to music in Proverb, and his first work looped a recording of Brother William saying \"It's gonna rain.\" He set four Jewish Psalms to music in Tehillim, and the Kronos Quartet commissioned his piece contrasting railway noises with sirens, Different Trains. A metallophone signals the changes between pulses in his work based on eleven simple chords, ? Music for 18 Musicians, and in another of his works, a percussion phrase of eight beats and four rests goes in and out of phase. FTP, name this minimalist composer of Drumming.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 8.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a006558" }, "answer" : "calcium", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.8474249735009, "num" : 20, "question" : "In nature, this element is prevalent in gypsum and dolomite, as well as a namesake birefringent mineral that marks the 3 on Mohs hardness scale. Its presence in biological cells can lead to the formation of inositol tri-phosphate and di-acyl-glycerol, and its influx into axons causes release of neuro-transmitters. It is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum of muscle cells, where it aids contraction by binding to troponin. For 10 points, name this element that needs vitamin D to be absorbed, which joins with phosphate to form the mineral basis of bone and is symbolized Ca.", "round" : "Round 4 - Vandy 3.doc", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a007212" }, "answer" : "{Fujita-Pearson} Scale [accept {F-Scale}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.4687345591374, "num" : 8, "question" : "The man who formulated this also advanced the ideas of microbursts and downbursts with Fernando Caracena. In February 2007, an “enhanced” version went into effect in the U.S., which involves 28 damage indicators from small barns or buildings to softwood trees. Many versions of this scale range from 0 to 5 or 6, with 6 leading to the inconceivable 300 mile per hour winds and 0 involving gale winds that simply damage signs. For 10 points, identify this scale which measures tornado intensity and is named for a Japanese researcher.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f77" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Agincourt}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7481429975014, "num" : 14, "question" : "The losers of this battle raided the victors' baggage trains from its namesake Castle. Among its casualties were the constable, 3 dukes, and 90 barons, while Charles d'Orléans was taken prisoner. Action began when the English abandoned their prepared positions, and rain had turned the newly ploughed fields into mud, while the field was hemmed in by forests on two sides. After a failed cavalry charge, the French sent in foot soldiers so tightly packed that most could not use their weapons well, then getting slaughtered by the English longbowmen. For 10 points, name this 1415 battle of the Hundred Years' War in which Henry V defeated a larger French army of Charles VI.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c1f" }, "answer" : "{Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1912376899272, "num" : 1, "question" : "This ruler aided plots to overthrow and assassinate Rómulo Betancourt, the President of Venezuela, and shortly before his death he executed the Mirabal sisters, who had opposed him. He gained power after the overthrow of Horacio Vázquez. The novel Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa describes the end of this man's reign, as well as his abuse of the wives of his advisors, and after his assassination Joaquín Balaguer was placed in power. Troops under this man used the pronunciation of the Spanish word for parsley to distinguish Haitian immigrants, who were then killed. For 10 points, name this dictator of the Dominican Republic.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002869" }, "answer" : "India", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.05971801024862, "num" : 13, "question" : " A novel set in this country sardonically calls its social structure “the Rooster Coop,” and is narrated by a driver who becomes an entrepreneur after cutting the throat of his master with a broken whiskey bottle. This country is the setting of The White Tiger, as well as the novels The Financial Expert and The Guide, which are set in its fictional town of Malgudi. A classic poem from this country depicts a fixed game of dice in which Yudhisthira loses his kingdom, leading to the Kurukshetra War. That poem is attributed to Vyasa, and describes the rivalry between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. For 10 points, name this country whose epic poets used Sanskrit to write the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.", "round" : "Round 12 updated.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025f8" }, "answer" : "{Lois Lowry} [or {Lois Ann Hammersberg}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2229.548777429387, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of this writer's stories follows Annemarie Johansen as she helps her friend Ellen escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark. A sequel to this author's most well-known book follows the weaver Kira, and that book ends with Jonah and Gabe fleeing the dystopian society they live in. For 10 points, identify this Newbery award winning author who wrote Number the Stars, Gathering Blue, and The Giver.", "round" : "CMST_Round02.pdf", "seen" : 1483, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a00768d" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Hungary} [accept {Magyarország} or {Magyar Köztársaság} before “{Magyars}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.6523839128203, "num" : 4, "question" : "This country's 1848 revolution was inspired by a speech by Lajos Kossuth (LA-joshe KO-shoot), but on October 6, 1849, its Prime Minister and its Thirteen Martyrs of Arad were executed. Its Andrew the Second was a leader of the Fifth Crusade, and this is the modern country most closely associated with the Árpád dynasty that ruled from the 9th through 14th centuries. It was ruled for several years by Miklos Horthy until he stood up to the Nazis during World War Two and by János Kádár (YA-noshe ka-dar) after he agreed to oppose Imre Nagy (IM-ray NOJ-ee) and the Revolution of 1956. Name this nation consisting mainly of Magyars that from 1867 to 1918 was part of a Dual Monarchy with Austria.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007340" }, "answer" : "{George Berkeley}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.7413367705885, "num" : 4, "question" : "He praised tar-water in his last work, Siris, while he attacked Newton's theory of fluxions in The Analyst.  He wrote a discussion between a figure who represents John Locke and another figure whose name translates to lover of spirit in one work, while in A Treatise Concerning (*) the Principles of Human Knowledge features his famous axiom esse est percipi.  FTP, name this Idealist philosopher who wrote Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonus and who is the namesake of a university town in California.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 310, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002842" }, "answer" : "{George Berkeley}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.38747544726357, "num" : 10, "question" : "One of this philosopher's works features a discourse on “occasion” which is a being that is inactive and is the source of our perception of the material world. He penned a work which suggests that the outside world is comprised of ideas rather than concrete objects, and that existence is derived from being perceived. Another work of this man features two philosophers discussing similar principles, such as the necessity of an all-perceiving God to existence.  For ten points, name this philosopher, a Bishop of the Anglican Church who wrote A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonus.", "round" : "Round 10 updated.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fba" }, "answer" : "Genoa", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.4396784300916, "num" : 8, "question" : "The Treaty of Ninfeo led to this city's establishment of a settlement at Pera in the Byzantine Empire. It defeated Pisa at the Battle of Meloria, and though it is not Venice, Simone Boccanegra was the first native of this city to be elected doge. This city ruled Kaffa in the Crimea, and in the 1768 Treaty of Versailles, ceded Corsica to the French. Andrea Doria was the most prominent doge of this Italian city- state. For 10 points, name this port on the Ligurian Sea, a major rival to Venice for Mediterranean supremacy and birthplace of Christopher Columbus.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f228b3d831d6a0020c3" }, "answer" : "{thermal equilibrium}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.83400959218852, "num" : 15, "question" : "According to van Leeuwen's theorem, when this state occurs in a magnetic system, all eddies must dissipate. As a consequence of ergodicity, the phase density of a system in this state is given by an arbitrary function of the Hamiltonian. In quantum mechanical systems, the existence of this condition is equivalent to the requirement that the time-derivative of the density matrix vanish. In addition to CP violation and the existence of processes that violate baryon number, the non-existence of this state is necessary for baryogenesis, according to the Sakharov conditions. The transitivity of this state is expressed by the so-called zeroth law of thermodynamics. For 10 points, identify this steady state of a thermodynamic system in which the mean value of the system's temperature does not change with time.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40568b3d831d6a0069a7" }, "answer" : "{Octavio Paz Lozano}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.6711099226959, "num" : 6, "question" : "In a poem by this man, the speaker regards autumn as a “blind giant” and a “faceless man” while sitting in a café with two friends. In addition to “Clear Night,” he wrote of a traveler who sees a holy man covered in ash in his poem “Vrindaban.” His literary criticism includes The Traps of Faith and The Bow and the Lyre, and he described the conjunctions of the planet Venus and the sun in an ancient Aztec calendar in his poem “Sun Stone.” Formerly his country's ambassador to India, for 10 points, name this Mexican poet of The Labyrinth of Solitude.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404f8b3d831d6a0067d7" }, "answer" : "{chelation} (or {chelates}; accept {chelation-control} after “{stereoselectivity}”)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.1599416346289, "num" : 18, "question" : "The streptomyces bacterium produces an antibiotic that can be deactivated by this process; that molecule, tetracycline, cannot be taken with milk or indigestion remedies containing zinc. In organic chemistry, stereoselectivity can be induced by the use of this process, particularly in the presence of esters and amides, a technique called this control. Virtually all biological molecules can do this, but some have specificity for a certain ion, like the porphyrin rings in hemoglobin, which do this to iron. FTP, name this term for the binding of several ligands to one metal ion.", "round" : "HFT Round 11 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005037" }, "answer" : "A {Clockwork Orange}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1854359905701, "num" : 9, "question" : "In this novel, a woman sings a fragment of a Gitterfenster opera in a bar, leading to a fight between Dim and the protagonist. This novel begins in the Korova Milkbar, where the protagonist and his droogs spend time speaking nadsat when the protagonist is not listening to Beethoven. After Dr. Brodsky administers the Ludovico Technique, the protagonist of this novel becomes powerless and flees to F. Alexander. For 10 points, name this novel about the ultraviolent Alex in a futuristic totalitarian state, by Anthony Burgess.", "round" : "4q1-13.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc48b3d831d6a00475b" }, "answer" : "{El Greco}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.05815606284887, "num" : 16, "question" : "He painted Mary being laid in a coffin while a large crowd watches breathlessly in his Dormition of the Virgin, and a balding man with a white ruffled collar makes up his Portrait of an Old Man, believed to be a self portrait by this painter.  He also painted one work in which the title character stands on a sickle-shaped moon as angels in the clouds and angry-looking guys on earth look on, and one in which a man is starting to carve something into a piece of wood while a guy in a green shirt takes Jesus' red cloak off.  This painter of The Assumption of the Virgin and The Disrobing of Christ painted a darkening landscape which goes from lush to barren and contains several ruined-looking walls, and depicted a guy in a funny Catholic hat helping to lay the body of the title character in his grave as a priest watches his ghost talk to Mary and Jesus in heaven.  For 10 points—name this painter of The Burial of Count Orgaz and View of Toldeo.", "round" : "2.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efc8b3d831d6a00181d" }, "answer" : "In {Search} of {Lost Time} or {Remembrance} of Things {Past} or À la {recherche du temps perdu}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4958043589722, "num" : 19, "question" : "In this work, the narrator is moved by the paintings of Elstir, and later falls in love with Albertine, who names this work's sixth section. One character in this work marries Madame de Forcheville while her daughter Gilberte marries the closet homosexual Robert de Saint-Loup, a member of the Guermantes. This novel’s narrator recalls memories of Combray upon eating a madeleine steeped in tea. In this work Odette de Crecy is married to Charles, the namesake of its first section, Swann's Way. For 10 points, name this enormous seven volume novel by Marcel Proust.", "round" : "Round05.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f718b3d831d6a003391" }, "answer" : "{Don't Ask}, {Don't Tell} [prompt on {homosexual service} in the {military} or equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0774693088606, "num" : 16, "question" : "The target of an unsuccessful 2005 campaign by Marty Meehan, this law partially reversed an amendment introduced by Robert Dellums and was influenced by the death of Allen Schindler. The Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights unsuccessfully used this law to challenge the Solomon Amendment, and in 2010, University of North Carolina student Sara Isaacson was billed for nearly $80,000 after violating this law. Charles (*) Moskos of Northwestern is credited with crafting this law, which sparked controversy in 2009 after Dan Choi became the fifty-ninth Arabic translator to violate it. Barack Obama's 2010 State of the Union address promised the repeal of, for 10 points, what policy established under Clinton to facilitate homosexual participation in the American military?", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40898b3d831d6a007593" }, "answer" : "{flowers} or {blossoms}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.59786152862944, "num" : 6, "question" : "In Japanese myth, Ninigi's wife Ko-no-Hana is their princess.  In Chinese myth, Han Xian Zi once read a prophetic poem on some of these.  In Aztec myth they were associated with the twin deities Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal, and in Welsh myth Gwydion and Math used some of these as the raw material for creating Blodeuedd.  Ovid tells of an Oceanid named Clytië who turned into one of these so she could follow Helios each day, and in Indian myth, Kama's five arrows of desire were tipped with them.  People who produced some of these upon dying include a youth beloved by Apollo and Zephyrus, and a youth beloved by Echo and himself.  FTP, name this type of plant life associated with Hyacinthus and Narcissus.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Chicago B Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 62, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404b8b3d831d6a00670b" }, "answer" : "Ethiopia", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.048330837395, "num" : 2, "question" : "Gondar became the capital of this country after its unification by King Fasilides. Its later rulers included Theodore II, who committed suicide after a British invasion, and Lij Yasu, who was deposed after converting to Islam. It abrogated the Treaty of Ucciali and defeated a force led by Oreste Baratieri in its Tigray Region at the Battle of Adawa. Its commander at Adawa, Emperor Menelik II, was a cousin of Ras Tafari, who became emperor under the name Haile Selassie. FTP, identify this landlocked East African country with capital at Addis Ababa.", "round" : "HFT Round 05.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a00720d" }, "answer" : "lions", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.2306454917416, "num" : 3, "question" : "This is the first name of the novelist who wrote Proud Destiny and Jud Suss. Muhammad Abdullah was known as the one of Kashmir, Emiliano Chamorro the one of Nicaragua, and Ranjit Singh the one of the Punjab. Bertel Thorvaldsen's sculpture of one outside Lucerne commemorates the Swiss Guards who died in the French Revolution. One holds a sword on the flag of Sri Lanka, and Rastafarians call Haile Selassie the one of Judah. For 10 points, all share their names with what predatorial African cat, who in The Wizard of Oz is \"cowardly\"?", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006274" }, "answer" : "{Kenneth Arrow}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.41606375621632, "num" : 14, "question" : "With Herve Raynaud, this man wrote about the axioms of diversity, symmetry, and positive responsiveness.  He is credited with developing the first learning-by-doing model, and he co-authored Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy with Gerard Debreu.  A type of risk aversion is named after Pratt and this man, and he developed a result similar to the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem which relies on independence of irrelevant alternatives and non-dictatorship.  For 10 points, name this author of Social Choice and Individual Values, who stated that some voting systems cannot fairly rank candidates in his namesake “Impossibility Theorem.”", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Brown.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a0001aa" }, "answer" : "{A Personal Matter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 30.69657550519332, "num" : 8, "question" : "At one point in this work, while the main character is drunk and with a former girlfriend, he hears an inner voice saying, “Butcher her and fuck the corpse!” While visiting his wife in the hospital, the main character of this novel brings her grapefruit, forgetting that she hates it, for which she scolds him, asking “do you ever think seriously of anyone but yourself?” Another character in this novel owns a scarlet MG sports car, and is part white because her grandfather had married a Russian girl from Vladivostok; that character encourages the main character to run away to Africa with her, but at the end of this novel he refuses to do so. While wandering with his mistress Himiko this novel’s main character encounters his old friend Kikuhiko, whom he had long ago betrayed and after whom he has named his child. For ten points, identify this novel in which Bird learns to live with his brain-damaged son, written by Kenzaburo Oe.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-UCLAASUIllinoisBCMUFinal.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000eb3" }, "answer" : "{Shays}’ Rebellion [or {Daniel Shays’s} Rebellion]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.570045895176, "num" : 5, "question" : "Sprigs of hemlock distinguished participants of this event, four of whom died while attempting to attack an arsenal guarded by William Shepard’s forces. Earlier, its participants, who were known as Regulators, had stopped several court hearings, including one in Springfield. Its aftermath saw John Hancock become Governor. This event demonstrated the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, leading to the drafting of the Constitution. For 10 points, name this 1786 rebellion of poor Massachusetts debtors led by its namesake farmer.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059bb" }, "answer" : "{Learning} From Las {Vegas}: The {Forgotten Symbolism} of {Architectural} Form", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.13599809189327, "num" : 20, "question" : "This work's appendix, an excerpt of an interview with Jesse Dukeminier, raises doubts as to the constitutionality of design review boards.  Earlier, it utilizes a series of Nolli maps and contrasts New Haven's \"irrelevant\" Crawford House with a building featuring a gilded antenna, its author's Guild House. Peter Blake's God's Own Junkyard provides the Long Island roadside stand with which modernism is identified in this work, since \"space, structure and program are submerged and distorted by an overall symbolic form\". Part One discusses advertising signage, artificial lighting, and (*) A&P parking lots, while Part Two, which makes a case for \"ugly and ordinary architecture\", proposes a blinking sign which says \"I AM A MONUMENT\", and introduces the concepts of the duck and the decorated shed. For 10 points, name this follow-up to Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, and Robert Venturi, which sought to extract lessons from the architecture of the titular city's casino-filled Strip.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a001286" }, "answer" : "Greek {tragedy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8938613720238, "num" : 21, "question" : "Works in this style required a chorus to sing a parodos and multiple stasima. This style may take its name from the goat skins worn by performers of dithyrambs. Book Six of Aristotle’s Poetics defines it as \"an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude.\" In an annual contest, three of this type of play were presented along with a satyr play. For 10 points, name this style of Greek drama contrasted with comedy.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b16" }, "answer" : "Geneva", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.79068312002346, "num" : 11, "question" : "A pivotal period in this city's history was prefaced by the abolishment of the Council of 60, which was caught between the Council of 200 and the “Little Council.” Henry II's Edict of Chateaubriand severely restricted this city's commercial efforts while simultaneously flooding it with impoverished immigrants. A series of moderately tense standoffs over playing cards dominated this city's politics under an administration backed by the Berthelier family, who had helped throw out the House of (*) Savoy. William Farrell facilitated the rise of one of this city's most notable leaders, who responded to the presence of the author of Two Books of Dialogues on the Trinity, Michael Servetus, by lighting him on fire for having dared to annotate copies of The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Noted for a period of intense austerity and religious fervor during the mid-1500s, for 10 points, name this Swiss city run by occasional violent menace John Calvin.", "round" : "Editors.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a000474" }, "answer" : "{Bottom} Quark [accept {Beauty} from {exceptionally European looking buzzes}, accept {B meson} before \"{would} have {made up} the {composite particle}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.32913555321284, "num" : 8, "question" : "Two major projects studying CP violation use this particle created in asymmetric positron-electron colliders, one of which is housed in PEP-II at SLAC and another of which is located at KEK. This particle would have made up the composite particle erroneously announced by Leon Lederman, whose team later announced the first resonnance containing the particle. Mesons containing this particle, such as various upsilon resonnances, are created in namesake factories by the BaBar and Belle projects, which probe CP violation and confirm predictions by Kobayashi and Maskawa requiring a third family in the CKM matrix. FTP, name this third generation quark, the second heaviest, which is paired with the top.", "round" : "PACKET12Jordan.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40828b3d831d6a00741b" }, "answer" : "{Sigmund Freud}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.1113809803501, "num" : 5, "question" : "This man examined the ETA Hoffmann story “The Sandman,” in which the title character comes at night to tear out children's eyes, as an example of the title concept of his 1921 essay “The Uncanny.” He contended that the title figure was truly an Egyptian distantly related to Akhenaten in his Moses and Monotheism, and he controversially posited the existence of a “death drive” in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Calling dreams “the royal road to the unconscious” was, for 10 points, what psychologist and author of Civilization and Its Discontents and The Interpretation of Dreams.", "round" : "Round7Final.doc", "seen" : 221, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f928b3d831d6a003bad" }, "answer" : "eigenvalues", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.81532139587216, "num" : 10, "question" : "One class of algorithms for finding these numbers constructs Krylov subspace in order to cut down on the number of iterations necessary; those algorithms include Arnold's method and the Lanczos iteration. In vibrational analysis, for a system with N degrees of freedom, these numbers are the natural frequencies of the system. Another popular method for finding them is based on finding the QR decomposition and putting the argument into Hessenberg Form. These entities algebraic multiplicity is greater than their geometric multiplicy, and for infinite-dimensional spaces, these numbers are easily found using the (*) spectral decomposition. They are the roots of the characteristic polynomial. When multiplying a matrix by one of their corresponding vectors, the result is one of these times that vector. For 10 points, name these values symbolized lambda, important in the theory of linear transformations.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 3.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f4b" }, "answer" : "{Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.4528561087791, "num" : 29, "question" : "Wilhelm Fitzhagen commissioned and rewrote this man's Rococo Variations. His first symphony is subtitled Winter Daydreams and his second is subtitled Little Russian. Van Cliburn won a 1958 competition by performing a work Rubinstein called \"unplayable\", his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor. A 5/4 \"limping waltz\" forms the second movement of his sixth symphony, subtitled Pathetique. The score of a work he wrote to commemorate the Battle of Borodino calls for cannon fire. For 10 points, identify this Russian composer of the 1812 Overture and the ballet Swan Lake.", "round" : "4q1-05.pdf", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1b8b3d831d6a001f35" }, "answer" : "The {Song} of the {Lark}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.36935865855776, "num" : 5, "question" : "The protagonist of this work becomes fatigued after being forced to leave Mrs. Lorch and move to the students' club to which Miss Adler introduces her, though that is her only way to get close to Bowers's studio.  The protagonist also spends time with the Nathanmeyer family during that section of the novel, “Stupid Faces,” which ends with her being invited to spend the summer with Henry Biltmer in a canyon full of Cliff-Dweller ruins.  The novel's first section describes such “friends of childhood” as Dr. Archie and Ray Kennedy, who help the protagonist escape the town of Moonstone and fulfill her artistic destiny.  For 10 points, name this novel about a singer named Thea Kronberg written by Willa Cather.", "round" : "Stanford - Final.docx", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004a8c" }, "answer" : "The {Pilgrim's Progress} From This {World} to That Which is to {Come}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3810426730197, "num" : 21, "question" : "In the first part of this novel, the title character stops at the Interpreter's House, where he learns about scripture, and is accompanied by Hopeful, while in the second part another protagonist is assisted by Great-Heart. This novel's protagonist must cross the River of Death, fights the demon Apollyon, and, with Faithful, travels to Vanity Fair on his journey. That protagonist is Christian, who appears in the author's dream. For 10 points, name this religious allegory by John Bunyan.", "round" : "round12.doc", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000ca6" }, "answer" : "{Death Valley}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.2663353444077, "num" : 17, "question" : "This location is the site of an evaporated glacial lake that was once over 80 miles long and 600 feet deep called Lake Manly. The highest point in this desert is located at Telescope Peak. The highest temperature in the Western hemisphere was recorded at Furnace Creek in this desert. Another point of interest located in this desert can be found in the Badwater Basin. For 10 points, name this American desert that contains the lowest point on land in the Western hemisphere, at 282 feet below sea level.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 399, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006ccc" }, "answer" : "{Knights Templar(s}) [or {Poor Knights} of {Christ} and the {Temple} of {Solomon}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1984649525024, "num" : 19, "question" : "The four classes within this group included the chaplains, servants, and sergeants. They also acted as secure transporters of gold, earning them the wealth needed to purchase Cyprus from Richard the Lion-Hearted. Founded by Hugh de Payens, they displayed a red cross on a white background. Pope Clement V was pressured to condemn them, leading to the burning of their (*) grandmaster Jacques de Molay, as part of a plot to seize their wealth by Philip the Fair of France. For 10 points, name this order which formed to protect Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 251, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa78b3d831d6a00407f" }, "answer" : "{Martin van Buren}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.11818779166788, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man's support for William H. Crawford's candidacy drew him his first electoral vote, from Georgia for the vice presidency. Charles Ogle accused this man of an overly-opulent lifestyle in the “Gold Spoon Oration,” and he refused to override Lilburn Boggs' “Extermination Order” against the Mormons in Missouri. This man's vice president caused a scandal in Washington by entering into a common law marriage with a mulatto slave, and this man twice sent Winfield Scott to New England to resolve border disputes in the Caroline Affair and the Aroostook War. Nominated as a presidential candidate later in life by the Free Soilers, for 10 points, name this president who got saddled with the Panic of 1837 shortly after arriving in office.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Maryland A + CWRU.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071d4" }, "answer" : "{José Daniel Ortega Saavedra}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3303892533295, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man defeated a party leadership challenge from Herty Lewites after being accused of sexual abuse by his stepdaughter. He ended the term of the Constitutional Liberal Party when he succeeded Enrique Bolanos in 2006, having lost three previous elections in the decade after he led the Junta of National Reconstruction. For 10 points, name this man who opposed the Somoza government of the 1970s and the Contras in the 1980s as the leader of the Sandinistas, and has used both revolution and election to become president of Nicaragua.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a004880" }, "answer" : "{Henry II}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4632861420978, "num" : 1, "question" : "The state of the exchequer during this ruler's reign was written about in the Dialogus de scaccario, and this ruler defeated Owain Gwynedd and began the conquest of Ireland by landing at Waterford. This ruler's advisers captured William the Lion at Alnwick, and this ruler defeated the former husband of his wife, Louis VII, at Verneuil. One conflict in this ruler's reign was made worse by the Constitutions of Clarendon. Coming to power as a result of an agreement with Stephen, the Treaty of Wallingford, for 10 points, name this English ruler who was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine and who quarreled with Thomas Beckett.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 08 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021f9" }, "answer" : "“{El Aleph}” [or “The {Aleph}”]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.81474624620751, "num" : 10, "question" : "In this work's postscript, the narrator notes the failure of his novel The Sharper's Cards and the considerable success of an acquaintance, who won a Second Prize award in literature. At one point, that prize winner calls the narrator for the first time in his life and invites him to his house, which is owned by landlords Zunino and Zungri. The narrator of this work visits that house every thirtieth of April, the birthday of his deceased lover, Beatriz Viterbo. At the end of this work, the narrator reveals that he believes the titular object is located in a mosque in Egypt, and not in the cellar of the house of poet Carlos Argentino Daneri. For 10 points, name this Jorge Luis Borges short story about an object that allows anyone to see all things, named for the first letter of the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Chicago A + LASA.pdf", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40648b3d831d6a006d1f" }, "answer" : "{Turkish} [or {Türkçe}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.8157919968944, "num" : 10, "question" : "Infinitive verbs in this language end in “mek” and, like in Japanese, can have double causative forms. This language demonstrates both labial and palatal vowel harmony. It is found in the southwestern or “O?uz” branch of its language subfamily, alongside such closely related languages as Gagauz. A member of the (*) Altaic family, this language was written in Arabic letters until 1928, when it was officially Romanized. For 10 points, name this language that was introduced to Anatolia by the Seljuks and is now spoken in Istanbul and Ankara.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b30" }, "answer" : "Emma", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.54299774067476, "num" : 3, "question" : "One character in this work has the unladylike habit of going to the post office in inclement weather. One scene in this novel sees the central characters journey to Box Hill, and one character in this novel mortifies the protagonist when she compares the estate of Maple Grove to Hartfield. The protagonist's oft-sick father is fond of calling married characters “poor.” One character in this work marries Robert Martin after failing to snag Mr. Elton, and Jane Fairfax, is secretly married to Frank Churchill in this work. This novel ends with the title character married to Mr. Knightley. For 10 points, name this novel featuring a certain Miss Woodhouse, by Jane Austen.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 5.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a00264e" }, "answer" : "{cholesterol}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 2884.256256767549, "num" : 13, "question" : "This compound is converted to Vitamin D in the presence of ultraviolet-B light. It is carried in the blood by lipoproteins (“LIPE-oh-PRO-teens”), with the “good” kind carried by high-density ones. The “bad” kind, carried by LDLs, can build up on arteries to form plaques. For 10 points, 300 milligrams per day is the recommended dietary allowance of what waxy substance, high levels of which place an individual at greater risk for heart disease?", "round" : "CMST_Round06.pdf", "seen" : 1925, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019b2" }, "answer" : "{Sam Shepard}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.90819818712771, "num" : 5, "question" : "In one of this author’s works, Jake explains to Frankie that he beat Beth because he believed that she was being unfaithful. A character in another of his works urinates on his sister’s 4-H charts, and in that same work, Slater kills Ella Tate with a car bomb as she tries to steal a car. At the end of one work by this author, Austin strangles Lee with a telephone cord, but Lee lives. In addition to writing A Lie of the Mind and Curse of the Starving Class, this author also wrote a play in which Father Dewis flirts with the matriarch of the central family, Halie, who had given birth to a baby six months after she and her husband stopped sleeping with each other; that baby was drowned by the patriarch, Dodge. For 10 points, name this American playwright of True West and Buried Child who played Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.", "round" : "Packet 11.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f208b3d831d6a00204a" }, "answer" : "the {cerebrum} [or {telencephalon}; do not accept or prompt on “{cerebellum}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.93021066254005, "num" : 22, "question" : "Parkinson's disease is a disorder of the substantia nigra, which is located in this brain structure's basal ganglia. Another subregion of this structure is the limbic system, which contains the amygdala and the olfactory bulb. The two major physical sections of this structure are divided by the corpus callosum. The name “gray matter” comes from the color of this structure's outermost layer. This structure, which is divided into hemispheres, controls voluntary action along with the cerebellum. For 10 points, name this area of the brain that has a namesake “cortex.”", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 8.pdf", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400e8b3d831d6a005880" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Eakins}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1844619347248, "num" : 14, "question" : "One work of this artist shows him conversing with Frederick H. Milliken on its right, while, in the center, a group of white-clad people surround an unconscious woman. This man depicted a group of six nude boys frolicking around in some water in his painting The (*) Swimming Hole. This painter also completed a work that shows a crowd of twenty-one students focused on the surgery in front of them. For 10 points, name this American artist, who depicted medical professors performing surgeries in his paintings The Agnew Clinic and The Gross Clinic.", "round" : "tourn9-14.pdf", "seen" : 275, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a00530b" }, "answer" : "First {English Civil} War [prompt on {English Revolution}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8477785284631, "num" : 13, "question" : "This conflict saw the appearance of the clubmen, vigilantes who sought to protect the public from its effects. The turning point of this conflict came with the indiscipline of the cavalry of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, allowing a victory at the Battle of Naseby for the New Model Army. This war led to the establishment of the Commonwealth, though its effects were overturned by the Restoration. For 10 points, name this conflict between Parliamentarians, or \"Roundheads\" and Royalists, or \"Cavaliers\" which resulted in the execution of King Charles I and the ascension of Oliver Cromwell.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-history.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c2f" }, "answer" : "{Robert Frost}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1311071526725, "num" : 23, "question" : "In a poem by this man, Mary and Warren discuss an unreliable farm hand named Silas. Another poem by this man, published in North of Boston, describes apple trees that will never “eat the cones” of pine trees. In one poem, this man described the world ending in either fire or ice. Another work states that “good fences make good neighbors.” This poet of (*) “Mending Wall” wrote a work in which the speaker chose a path that was “grassy and wanted wear” because it was the one “less traveled by.” For 10 points, name this American poet of “The Road Not Taken.”", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f928b3d831d6a003b94" }, "answer" : "The {Phenomenology} of {Spirit} [or {Phänomenologie des Geistes} [or The {Phenomenology} of {Mind}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.51690643234178, "num" : 6, "question" : "In The End of History, Francis Fukuyama argues that this work caused Christianity to become freedom in its penultimate form, citing the ideologies of historical groups like helots. One part of this work discusses the clash between Enlightenment and Superstition, suggesting that Notion knows that faith is opposed to pure insight. This work describes the “death struggle” between two participants, one of whom experiences fear; if either dies, the titular entity enters (*) “abstract negation.” Another section discusses how the remnants of the Greek and Roman Empires can be seen in modern Germany, illustrating the author's theory of “sublation” or Aufheben, which is expanded upon in the author's Lectures on the Philosophy of History. For 10 points, name this work by Hegel, which espouses the nature of history that follows a dialectical path.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 2.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f6d" }, "answer" : "Dubai", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 123.3507444120478, "num" : 10, "question" : "This city is the proposed location of Rem Koolhas's death star shaped convention center, a feature of his master plan for a Waterfront City here. Its Jumeira Beach is the location of the Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, and the glossy sheen of its 21st Century Tower is often blanketed with a giant advertisement. This city contains the world's tallest hotel in the Rose Tower, and one of its towers was built to resemble a (*) dhow's sail and has a heli-pad which hosted a tennis match between Andre Agassi and Roger Federer. This city is also home to artificial lagoons called The Palm Islands and the World Islands, and its mainland attractions include the Burj al-Arab and the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. For 10 points, name this largest of the United Arab Emirates.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40878b3d831d6a007507" }, "answer" : "Shields {WD, SK}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.710644191131, "num" : 15, "question" : "In Book V of the Iliad, Athena causes fire to shoot from the one of these belonging to Diomedes, and one which fell from heaven along with twelve decoys were the special charge of the Salian Priests in Rome. Tzetzes's Commentary on Lycophron states one of the most famous ones in Greek myth was made from part of the body of the giant Pallas after he tried to rape his celibate foster-daughter who usually carried it thereafter, and that it bore upon it the head of Medusa who was slain in part with the aid of a highly reflective one of these. One containing image of two cities and a dancing floor and another on which was a depiction an image of Ares engaged in battle belonged to Achilles and Heracles, respectively, the latter described in a poem by Hesiod. For ten points, name this hand-held protective device, a famous mythical example of which is the Aegis.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405a8b3d831d6a006a83" }, "answer" : "{Noccolo Paganini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 423.1088785917964, "num" : 9, "question" : "One man with this last name was the maestro di capella of Novara Cathedral who composed L'uomo contento and Christus. The more famous man with this name composed 14 variations for violin with a repeated guitar accompaniment entitled Carmagnola, as well as a collaboration with Panny on variations entitled La Tempesta. One of his works inspired a series of variations that incorporate the Dies Irae melody, a rhapsody by Rachmaninoff. For 10 points, name this composer of 24 caprices, the most renowned Italian violin virtuoso of the 1800s.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 287, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001aff" }, "answer" : "{Jean Piaget}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 336.9406471285038, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man claimed that “there are no innate ideas, in the Cartesian sense” in Biology and Knowledge and described intellectual development with his theory of “genetic epistemology.” This man used beakers of water to test children’s conception of conservation, and he described the understanding of the world through schema. He also tested children on whether things that can no longer be seen still exist, a concept known as “object permanence.” Formal operational and sensorimotor are two of the four stages of the four-stage cognitive development model created by, for 10 points, what Swiss child psychologist?", "round" : "Sample Packet.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee88b3d831d6a001382" }, "answer" : "{Gerald Rudolph Ford}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.12631298513151, "num" : 4, "question" : "This president’s press secretary resigned after he issued Proclamation 4311, a decision this man made after considering the case Burdick v. United States. The “Halloween Massacre” saw this man shake up his Cabinet by replacing Defense Secretary James Schlesinger with the youthful Donald Rumsfeld. His refusal to provide a federal bailout to New York City led to a local headline that read “[This Man] to City: Drop Dead.” This man promised to “Whip Inflation Now” and was president during the fall of Saigon. Earlier, he was the first man appointed Vice President under the 25th Amendment, replacing Spiro Agnew. For 10 points, name this President from Michigan who pardoned his immediate predecessor Richard Nixon.", "round" : "Packet 8 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 54, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00605f" }, "answer" : "Being {Transgendered} or equivalents that {implies} a figure who {underwent} a sex {change} (accept {specific changing gender} from {female} to {male} before *)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.73758223629557, "num" : 5, "question" : "According to Ovid, one figure who was bestowed this quality by Isis was the daughter of Ligdus and Telethusa, Iphis. During his visit to the underworld, Aeneas sees a figure walking with Laodamia, who had this quality. That figure was also invulnerable to weapons and but was crushed to death by trees in a battle with the Centaurs. That son of Elatus gained this quality after being raped by Poseidon. In addition to Caeneus, the most famous figure who had this quality was the son of Everes* and Chariclo. That figure, who also warned Odysseus not to harm the sacred cattle of Helios, gained this quality while traveling in Aracadia, when he struck a pair of copulating snakes on top of Mount Cyllene. This quality made him a suitable judge to settle a dispute between Zeus and Hera about whether men or women enjoyed sex more. For ten points, name this quality of Tiresias, where an individual assumes a sex different from the one that they were born with.", "round" : "Round5.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a00409f" }, "answer" : "urea", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.1997687779367, "num" : 15, "question" : "N-acetylglutamate regulates this compound's production by activating carbamoyl phosphate synthase, which  initializes its synthesis. Along with its analog, guanidinium, it is a strong protein denaturant, and other key steps in its synthesis include the conversion of ornithine to citrulline, which is then converted into arginine and this compound in its namesake cycle. Consisting of two amine groups linked by a carbonyl, this non-toxic compound derives from toxic ammonia in the liver and makes up most of the dry weight of urine. For 10 points, name this compound which clears most nitrogenous waste from the body and was first synthesized by Friedrich Wohler.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - OSU + Carleton A.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a001013" }, "answer" : "{Kennedy} family [or the {Kennedys}, etc]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.4298694715835, "num" : 24, "question" : "One member of this family described a scandal involving Mary Jo Kopechne in the memoir True Compass. Another was the SEC chairman under Franklin Roosevelt, where he restricted the same practices by which he had gained his legitimate fortune in the 1920s along with a liquor bootlegging business. Another member of this family was shot at the Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, four years after ending a lengthy term as Attorney General. For 10 points, identify this family whose leading member defeated Richard Nixon to become President in 1960 and was assassinated in 1963.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 563, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff48b3d831d6a00524c" }, "answer" : "{Philip Morris Glass}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2747019249946, "num" : 30, "question" : "A Latin-American influenced rhythm dominates his composer's Violin Concerto No. 1. One work by this composer first written as a single piece for twelve contrapuntal instrumental parts developed into the larger Music in Twelve Parts. This composer of Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra composed scores for The Hours and Notes on a Scandal also wrote an opera that features Knee Plays. For 10 points, name this American minimalist composer whose Portrait Trilogy includes Einstein on the Beach.", "round" : "4q2-14.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a004321" }, "answer" : "{Morgan} le {Fay} or {Morgen}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 98.43877817224711, "num" : 19, "question" : "In one tale, this figure frees the bound Manassen and helps him drown his captor in a fountain.Another story revolves around this figure's flight from Ontlake. Sometimes identified with Duke Lianour as the ruler of the Castle of Maidens, this figure was often mentioned in the company of nine relatives.Though Layamon attributed some of this figure's deeds to a character called Argante, Sicilian tales about visions off of the Calabrian Coast refer to this figure's more commonly used name. Sometimes identified as the parent of Yvain, it was this lover of Accolon who sent the Green Knight to Camelot. First introduced in Geoffrey's Vita Merlini, this figure had the ability to shape-shift and fly.After a fateful battle on the River Camlan, it is this ruler of the Isle of Apples who bears her half-brother's body away. For 10 points, identify this daughter of Ygraine and half-sister of King Arthur, a sorceress and queen of Avalon.", "round" : "r20- Editors 6.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000dc0" }, "answer" : "{Eudora Welty}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1262060988229, "num" : 27, "question" : "This woman wrote a story in which a shoe salesman named R. J. Bowman lives out his last hours in the house of a country family he doesn’t know. This author of “Death of a Traveling Salesman” described Phoenix Jackson’s trip for medicine in “A Worn Path.” In one of her novels, Laurel Hand cares for her dying father, Judge McKelva. For 10 points, name this author of the novel The Optimist’s Daughter and the story “Why I Live at the P.O.”", "round" : "regionals-04.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe48b3d831d6a004e82" }, "answer" : "Rhodes", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.7021320988424, "num" : 19, "question" : "This island's region of Kallithea contains Faliraki Bay. This island is located off of the coast of Caria, and the island of Karpathos is located to its west. The largest city in the southern part of this island is Lindos, and this island's capital contains well-preserved city walls built by the Knights Hospitalliers. That group is sometimes called the Order of St. John of this place. The largest of the Dodecanese Islands, for 10 points, identify this island of the Southeastern Aegean sea, which was noted in ancient times for its harbor which contained a statue of Helios, its so called “Colossus.”", "round" : "13 HFT.doc", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f688b3d831d6a003163" }, "answer" : "{Johannes} \"{Jan}\" {Vermeer}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2594803501852, "num" : 19, "question" : "In one work by this painter, an oriental rug is draped across the table at right, upon which rests a jug, and a downward-facing mirror reflects the central woman and some square tiles. Another work by this artist shows a painting of Moses on the wall, while the title character is clad in a green kimono and inspects a globe. He produced a painting that shows a bread-filled table on which rests a container that the title servant fills. Another of his paintings shows a woman wearing a blue turban, turning towards the viewer to expose the title piece of jewelry. For 10 points, name this painter of The Music Lesson, The Astronomer, The Milkmaid and Girl with the Pearl Earring, who also depicted the Dutch city where he was born in his landscape View of Delft.", "round" : "4.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b76" }, "answer" : "{Permian} period", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.12069129152223, "num" : 17, "question" : "During this period, Europe was covered by the inland, hypersaline Zechstein Sea and later stages of this period saw the rifting of the Cimmerian subcontinent northward, an event that formed the Neotethys Sea. This period saw the evolution of the fusulinids, an early variety of foraminiferous protozoa as well as the evolution of the first coelacanths. Another event during the middle years of this time is known as Olson's extinction after which saw the rise of therapsids such as Gorgonops. Dominant animal species during this period include pelycosaurs like the sail-backed Dimetrodon and the cynodonts, the clade that includes modern mammals. Following after the Carboniferous Period, FTP, identify this last geological period of the Paleozoic era whose boundary with the Triassic is marked by natural history's largest mass extinction.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 11.docx", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d6e" }, "answer" : "{Theodore von Karman}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.37448170604185, "num" : 15, "question" : "[AR]A set of boundary conditions which imposes a restriction that the wavefunction be periodic on a Bravais lattice is named for this physicist and Born. One equation derived from the Navier-Stokes equation for isotropic turbulence is named for this man and Haworth. For nose cone designs, the special case where C equals zero in the Haack series is known as this man's ogive. An approximate method for solving boundary layer equations for flow over something other than a simple flat plate, utilizes his eponymous Momentum Integral and was further developed by Pohlhausen. A doctoral student of Ludwig Prandtl, he discovered a phenomenon that contributed to the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, wherein the wake around a cylinder causes two alternating rows of his eponymous ?vortex street. For 10 points, name this Hungarian-American physicist whose namesake line establishes the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.", "round" : "Packet 9.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fce8b3d831d6a004961" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Houston} [accept {Sam Houston}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.395024158759, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man was taken out of action due to severe wounds while trying to scale a fort at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812. Raised by the Cherokees in his teenage years, he often fought for the rights of Native Americans, which led to the beating of Congressman William Stanbery. He was then forced to leave the country, moving to the then-Mexican territory of Texas, where he led Texan troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, giving Texas its independence. For 10 points, name this first president of the Republic of Texas, the namesake of its most populous city.", "round" : "FKT Jonathan Graham.rtf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a95" }, "answer" : "{Albert Camus}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8327159762848, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one work by this man, the life of an Arab is saved by Daru. This man’s story The Guest is part of his collection Exile and the Kingdom, and he wrote a novel in which the main character cannot forget how he failed to assist a drowning woman. Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a character in this man’s novel The Fall, and this man wrote a work in which the deaths of many rats in the streets of Oran force [*] Dr. Bernard Rieux to confront the titular outbreak. In one novel by this man, the protagonist befriends a pimp named Raymond before shooting an Arab. For 10 points, name this Algerian-born author of The Plague who featured Meursault in The Stranger.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40388b3d831d6a006296" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich Engels}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.81497768037952, "num" : 6, "question" : "He contrasted the lifestyle of “the fleet nomads of desert lands” with the intellectual ideas of Kotzebue and Schiller in his poem “The Bedouin,” and he critiqued Bruno Bauer and the Young Hegelians in a work he co-authored titled The Holy Family. During a trip to Manchester while working for a textile firm he took notes on the working class life that culminated into his first book, The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844, and his best known collaboration ends with the section “Private Accumulation” that talks about the “economic original sin” and critiques capitalism. For 10 points, name this philosopher, who edited Das Kapital after Karl Marx's death.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Cornell.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40498b3d831d6a006691" }, "answer" : "{Ame-no-Uzume no Mikoto} ({5})", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.95721065858379, "num" : 21, "question" : "This deity sliced open the mouth of the sea slug when it refused to swear loyalty to the gods. This deity was made the head of the Sarume Order after marrying Saruta-Hiko in order to aid the descent of Ninigi. According to the Kojiki, this goddess performed her most notable action next to a sakaki tree decorated with jewels. This goddess stood on an overturned tub and exposed her sacred genitals while performing a lewd, comic dance, which provoked so much laughter that another goddess was enticed to look into a mirror. For fifteen points, identify this Japanese goddess of mirth whose dancing caused Amaterasu to emerge from her cave.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 9.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb58b3d831d6a0043be" }, "answer" : "{Melencolia} I", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.37586881034076, "num" : 3, "question" : "Peter-Klaus Schuster claimed that its left and right sides represent fortune and virtue in a book that labels this work its artist's “Denkbild.” In this work, a coastal city can be seen in the distance through the rungs of a ladder, next to a small winged figure who holds a nail and sits on a grindstone. A ring of keys hangs from the belt of its central figure, who holds a compass and sits near a huge sphere and a curled-up dog. More prominent features include a large hourglass, a rainbow over a comet, a giant irregular polyhedron, and a magic square. For 10 points, name this engraving filled with symbols of alchemy, a work by Albrecht Durer about the saddest temperament.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Minnesota (final).doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043f1" }, "answer" : "{Republiek Suriname} or {Republic} of {Suriname}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.6552547982428, "num" : 11, "question" : "On its southern border lie the Tumuc-Humac Mountains as well as the Sipaliwini River, but this country has disputed ownership of land southwest of Kayser Mountains and the Courantyne River, which also forms its western border. In the northeast, bauxite mines populated the city of Moengo, near Albina; those cities, with Benzdorp, lie within the Marowijne district with the Maroni river to its east, while other large districts include Saramacca and Brokopondo, which contains Lake W.J. Blommenstein and the country's namesake river, as well as part of the Wilhelmina Range, home to the highest peak, Juliana Top. For 10 points, name this South American country with capital at Paramaribo on the Caribbean coast, formerly known as Dutch Guiana.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Orth-Bentley.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed68b3d831d6a000f3f" }, "answer" : "canon", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.2638437715359, "num" : 26, "question" : "When this word follows \"Pali,\" it refers to a collection of scriptures in Theravada Buddhism. In religion, it also refers to the books of the Bible officially recognized by the church. Harold Bloom wrote a book about the \"Western\" one which includes a list of major literary works. It is also represented in the Great Books of the Western World series. For 10 points, name this word which refers to a representative set of literary works.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b19" }, "answer" : "{Orpheus} in the {Underworld} [or {Orphée aux enfers}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.22059499635361, "num" : 14, "question" : "This work opens with “Qui suis-je? du Théâtre Antique,” introducing a mezzo-soprano commentator. One character in this opera complains about his charges in “Moi, je suis Aristée,” which contains optional falsetto notes, and later offers the solemn reflection “La mort m'apparaît souriante.” That man's servant constantly bitches about no longer being king of the Boetians after the central female character discovers that her sheep-tending lover (*) Aristee is actually the master of John Styx. This opera's title character disrupts a feast of the gods at the goading of Public Opinion despite the fact that both he and his wife absolutely hate each other. A lightning bolt startles the hell out of that title figure after the famed “Galop Infernal,” parodying a Gluck work in which he fatefully looks back at Eurydice. Famously featuring music for the can-can, for 10 points, name this Jacques Offenbach opera about a Greek Musician in Hades.", "round" : "Editors.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059e8" }, "answer" : "{Symphony} of {Psalms}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.38363425945863, "num" : 6, "question" : "This work's composer pasted a drawing of the Crucifixion into his notebook and wrote the words \"Adveniat regnum tuum.\" Its composer also claimed the 'human fugue' was illustrated by the uniting of two fugues on the words \"Et immisit in os meum canticum novum\", and that the second movement is an upside down \"pyramid of fugues.\" Composed twenty five years before its composer's thematically similar Canticum Sacrum, triplet notes in one part represent the horses and chariot of Elijah, while the first movement is dominated by the opening e minor chord which takes its name from this work. It ends with an \"Alleluia\", and its second movement is a setting of \"Expectans expectavi Dominum, et intendit mihi\" while the first opens \"Exaudi orationem meam.\" For 10 points, name this work which sets three of the title texts and celebrates its composer's belief in Orthodox Christianity, a work of Igor Stravinsky.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a002507" }, "answer" : "fracture", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.40625536986627, "num" : 21, "question" : "The Paris law of this process relates the intensity factor to the growth rate per load cycle of one quantity, and G.R. Irwin modeled this process using a plot called an R-curve. Depending on the symmetry involved, this process can be classified as opening mode, in-plane shearing mode, or anti-plane shearing mode, and the Charpy impact test measures the energy absorbed during this process. One criterion for this process in an infinite plate states that the energy release rate must exceed a critical value and is named for Griffith, and in ductile materials, this process produces cup and cone shapes and is preceded by necking. Driven by the propagation of cracks, for 10 points, identify this process by which a solid body breaks in two.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 60, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400b8b3d831d6a0057e1" }, "answer" : "{Alfred}, {Lord Tennyson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6515798284672, "num" : 14, "question" : "In one of his poems, he tells of a soldier who, upon encountering his childhood home, contrasts the progress of civilization with the \"Summer isles of Eden\" in the Orient land of his birth. Another one of his poems features a group of mariners who take comfort in their unity as they leave their worldly cares behind for an \"enchanted stem/ Laden with flower and fruit.\" In addition to \"Locksley Hall\" and \"The (*) Lotos-Eaters,\" he published a collection of poems after the death of his friend Arthur Hallam. For 10 points, name this British poet of In Memoriam, who immortalized the Battle of Balaclava in his work \"The Charge of the Light Brigade.\"", "round" : "tourn9-07.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000ddf" }, "answer" : "{Søren Aabye Kierkegaard}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.6238137618639, "num" : 24, "question" : "This thinker was the subject of ridicule by the newspaper The Corsair, and near the end of his life he attacked the bishop H.L. Martensen in several letters. This author of The Concept of Anxiety presented three forms of despair in his Sickness unto Death, which he wrote under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. He contrasts the aesthetic and ethical ways of life in his book Either/Or, while another work by him centers on Abraham’s decision to sacrifice his son Isaac. For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher of Fear and Trembling.", "round" : "regionals-05.pdf", "seen" : 310, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a67" }, "answer" : "{Vampire Weekend}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.1467376486398, "num" : 4, "question" : "The keyboardist of this band has a side project with vocalist Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot called Discovery, which released the album LP. This band’s name comes from a film made by the band members, which also inspired a song that urges the title character to get “out of Cape Cod tonight,” entitled “Walcott.” This band’s debut album includes one that describes a girl with a Louis Vuitton bag and describes Peter [*] Gabriel as unnatural, and their sophomore album Contra begins with the song “Horchata.” For 10 points, name this band made up of Columbia graduates, the indie group behind “A-Punk” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.”", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 566, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe48b3d831d6a004e89" }, "answer" : "{Hendrik Antoon Lorentz}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8562901674304, "num" : 5, "question" : "With a similarly named Danish mathematician, this physicist names an equation relating refractive index to polarizability, which in the context of dielectric is named for Clausius and Mossotti. He developed a mathematical description of boosts in Minkowski space, and he is the namesake of the sum of the force on a particle due to electric and magnetic fields. His attempts with FitzGerald to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment led to a namesake length contraction. For 10 points, name this Dutch physicist whose “transformations” describe spacetime in special relativity", "round" : "14 HFT (Finals 1).doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbd8b3d831d6a004584" }, "answer" : "{Georges Perec}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.40907048247755, "num" : 21, "question" : "This author wrote a mock scientific paper about throwing tomatoes at soprano singers to demonstrate the \"yelling reaction.\" A fictional autobiography by this author intersperses scenes of growing up in Vichy France with stories about a sports-obsessed island off the coast of Tierra del Fuego called W. One of this author's novels is narrated by Serge Valène, and concerns Gaspard Winckler's creation of a group of five hundred jigsaw puzzles that Percival Bartlebooth attempts to solve. In another of this author's novels, Olga Mavrokhordatos dies after discovering the Zahir in the pet fish of Douglas Haig Clifford, who also dies while investigating the disappearance of Anton Vowl. This author used the Knight's Tour to determine the order of chapters in his novel about the inhabitants of the fictional apartment block 11 Rue Simon-Crubellier. For 10 points, name this member of Oulipo who used constraints to write his novels A Void and Life: A User's Manual.", "round" : "Packet 04 - Ragged Dick and the Algerian Heroes.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003ee5" }, "answer" : "{kneeling} before {Zod}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 124.139869968174, "num" : 6, "question" : "An order to the rogue scientist Coats to perform this action was a pretext for beheading that man as punishment for creating a zombie virus. In one scene, the promise of a single person refusing to perform this action evokes the remark \"Who is this imbecile?\" shortly after a declaration that \"no one who leads so many could possibly\" do this \"so quickly.\" In Mallrats, Jay demands this action after hitting the mall cop LaFours with a baseball bat; fourteen years later, several conservative blogs referenced this action in coverage of (*) Barack Obama's visit to Japan. An attempt by a possessed character played by Michael Rosenbaum to make this happen leads to an emblem being used to exorcise its namesake general. The first person to request this action on film preceded the order with \"Come to me, son of Jor-El.\" For 10 points, identify this genuflection which is sought out by a Phantom Zone refugee in various Superman media.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 83, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee08b3d831d6a0011c7" }, "answer" : "{Willa Cather}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2498731950764, "num" : 34, "question" : "In one of this author’s novels, Doctor Archie watches Thea Kronborg’s opera performance. In addition to The Song of the Lark, this author wrote a novel in which Frank shoots the protagonist’s brother, Emil, for having an affair with his wife Marie. Besides that novel about Alexandra Bergson, she wrote a novel in which Jim Burden befriends the title Bohemian immigrant on the prairies. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia.", "round" : "33.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042af" }, "answer" : "{carbonyl} group [do not accept or prompt on “{aldehyde}” or “{ketone}” as {every} clue is about the {group itself} and not a {compound containing} it]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.55492748622783, "num" : 22, "question" : "This functional group is reduced in the Luche reaction. The Burgi-Dunitz angle is important in Anh's modification of the Felkin model, which involves the minimization of torsional strain of a transition state when molecules containing this functional group are nucleophilically attacked. If the desired product of a Meerwein-Pondorf-Verley reduction contains this functional group, then that reaction is known as the Oppenheimer oxidation. Molecules containing two of these functional groups are condensed in the Paal-Knorr synthesis, and one of its bonds is broken to form a betaine in the Wittig reaction. For 10 points, name this functional group that is attacked by a hydroxide ion in the Cannizzaro reaction and can be reduced to a hydroxyl group.", "round" : "r15- Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40188b3d831d6a005acf" }, "answer" : "{Markov chain} [prompt on {Markov Property}; or {state-dependent function}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.25269057182595, "num" : 11, "question" : "In 1970, Paul Cohen proved by induction that these constructs alone are insufficient to create an artificial intelligence that would pass the Turing test. When one of these constructs satisfies an additional property, it is named after Harris. A version of this construct in which results are completely independent is called the Bernoulli scheme. Examples include random-walk phenomena in physics and the rolling of dice to move pieces across a game-board. For 10 points, name this kind of stochastic process in which any future set of conditions is determined by and only by the present set of conditions, named for a Soviet mathematician.", "round" : "MUT II - Maryland.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c0d" }, "answer" : "Italy", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.6698244626168, "num" : 10, "question" : "One author from this country wrote \"On the Downfall of the World\" and \"On the Downfall of the Church.\" Another author from this country wrote about the title character preparing a report for Dr. S and initially smoking tons of cigarettes in childhood. Another author from this country wrote about Abu, which Casuabon uses to hatch conspiracy theories about hermetic cults. That author from this country also wrote about a murder mystery set in a monastery and William of Baskerville's attempts to solve it. For ten points, identify this home country of the author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.", "round" : "FHTE R1 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bd7" }, "answer" : "{Anne Jacqueline Hathaway}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.1589935519733, "num" : 10, "question" : "In June 2008, she ended her relationship with an Italian real estate developer, who was charged with federal wire fraud conspiracy. Opposite Christopher Gorham, she played Jean, a girl who waits for her boyfriend to return from a religious mission in Tonga, and in a different film this actress stars as a psychotherapist named Claire Summers that treats survivors of a recent plane crash. In 2002, she played love interest Madeline Bray in a film based on a comic novel by (*) Charles Dickens, and in 2005, she portrayed Lureen Newsome, a character that marries Jack Twist after he parts with Ennis del Mar. She received an Oscar nomination for her 2008 role as a woman released from drug rehab to attend the wedding of the titular sister in Rachel Getting Married. For 10 points, name this actress that came to prominence by playing Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 5.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a00604c" }, "answer" : "{Emanuel Swedenborg}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.50458805356175, "num" : 8, "question" : "This philosopher theorized that applying human reason to metaphysical problems would eventually lead to the elimination of belief in the soul and the pantheistic unification of God and nature.  This philosopher attacked the Nicene conception of the Trinity as three distinct persons, claiming that it had contaminated all future Churches with beliefs contradictory to the divinity and eternity of Christ.  The idea that each material object is a direct effect of a related spiritual object was the cornerstone of his theological correspondence theory, which he applied in a multi-volume line-by-line analysis of Genesis and Exodus.  FTP, name this author of Arcana Coelestia and Heaven and Hell, a mystic Scandinavian philosopher who claimed to interact with spirits and angels.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a005304" }, "answer" : "Council of {Trent}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1747521548532, "num" : 4, "question" : "This ecumenical council moved to Bologna under Pope Paul III. It reaffirmed the holiness of indulgences. The third phase of this meeting recommended that church music be intelligible and free of secular expression, drew up a list of banned books, and clarified Catholic doctrine. For 10 points, name the council begun in 1545, and held over the course of two decades, that denounced Protestants and sparked the Catholic Counter-Reformation.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-history.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006ce9" }, "answer" : "{Cyrus} [or {Cyrus} the Younger; or {Cyrus} II; or {Cyrus} the Great]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.200618339004, "num" : 2, "question" : "A satrap of this name fought a power struggle with Tissaphernes before dying at the Battle of Cunaxa as described in the Anabasis of Xenophon. That younger brother of Artaxerxes II was known as “the Younger,” while another man with this name fought against (*) Nabonidus and was King of Anshan. That man built Pasargadae after overthrowing the Medes, and was succeeded by his son Cambyses II, and eventually by Darius the Great. For 10 points, name the man who brought the Achaemenid Dynasty to power by founding the Persian Empire.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d19" }, "answer" : "{Wilfrid Sellars}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.85147774615324, "num" : 9, "question" : "[JM] This thinker's student Willem de Vries wrote a 2005 guide to his philosophy. This philosopher responded to Nelson Goodman's arguments about counterfactuals in the essay \"Counterfactuals, Dispositions and Causal Modalities,\" and compared words to chess pieces in \"Some Reflections on Language Games.\" This philosopher argued that \"characterizing an episode or a state as that of knowing\" means \"placing it in the logical space of reasons,\" and refuted the \"layer cake\" view of scientific theories in Science, Perception, and Reality. He considered the problem of understanding a pink ice cube in an essay distinguishing the \"manifest image\" from the title concept, \"Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man.\" Another of his essays compares the thoughts of a being who uses language to molecules inside a gas, by describing people who have mastered a \"Rylean language\" and a genius named Jones. For 10 points, name this American analytic philosopher who criticized foundationalism as the ? \"myth of the given\" in “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.”", "round" : "Packet 5.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009f6" }, "answer" : "{Puck} [or either underlined name of {Robin Goodfellow}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5732749325689, "num" : 19, "question" : "This character confesses to taking the “likeness of a roasted crab.” To help his king convince his queen to knight an Indian prince, he promises to “put a girdle about the Earth.” He jeopardizes a performance of Pyramus and Thisbe by turning Bottom’s head into an ass’s head. (*) Demetrius falls for Hermia after this servant of Oberon mistakenly squirts a flower’s love juice in his eyes. For 10 points, name this fairy who exclaims, “What fools these mortals be!” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffb8b3d831d6a005407" }, "answer" : "{Seattle}, {Washington}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.8836815659888, "num" : 6, "question" : "In the USA show The 4400, Jordan Collier takes over this city and renames it “Promise City.” This is the location of the Work Bench where Sam Oliver works in the CW show Reaper. Dark Angel was set in a futuristic version of this city, which is also home to the coffee shop (*) Café Nervosa and the radio station KACL on another show. Characters who reside in this city on another show include Richard Webber, Miranda Bailey, and Meredith Gray. For 10 points, name this setting of Frasier and Gray's Anatomy.", "round" : "tourn10-06.pdf", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c89" }, "answer" : "{Invisible Man} [do not accept or prompt on “The {Invisible Man}”]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6966335230973, "num" : 11, "question" : "In this novel, an exotic dancer has an American flag tattoo, and another character constructs an analogy wherein a jaybird is paralyzed by some yellow jackets. In a flashback, the narrator receives a briefcase from his grandfather. After an incident with Mr. Norton at the Golden Day, he goes to New York, where he works with Lucius Brockway at Liberty Paints. He masquerades as Rinehart, fights with Ras the Exhorter, and moves to a cellar that he lights with over a thousand light bulbs after being expelled by Dr. Bledsoe from college, joining the Brother-hood, and fighting in a “Battle Royal.” Name this novel about a nameless black protagonist, by Ralph Ellison.", "round" : "04 TU.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea38b3d831d6a00037b" }, "answer" : "Joseph {Brodsky}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 39.87080837646499, "num" : 19, "question" : "One poem by this man proclaims \"everything has its limit, including sorrow\" while another begins \"this is the house destroyed by Jack.\" A play by this author consists of a dialogue between prison inmates Publius and Tullius, who were jailed only because the laws of Tiberius require that three percent of the population be imprisoned. He writes about cicadas falling silent over empty lawn in his \"Lullaby of Cape Cod,\" while a title poem of his collection ends \"What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech.\" He analyzed poems of Frost and Hardy in his essay collection On Grief and Reason, and this author of the collection To Urania wrote that the stern art of poetry calls for words in perhaps his best-known work The End of a Beautiful Era. FTP, name this man who became U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991 after he fled to New York, after previously being exiled to Siberia in 1972.", "round" : "FINALS1.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec28b3d831d6a000a90" }, "answer" : "An {American Tragedy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5405994269531, "num" : 12, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel works as a bellboy in a hotel, where he meets Hortense Briggs. A child is killed by a stolen car in which the protagonist is travelling, leading the protagonist to escape Kansas City and move to Lycurgus, New York. The protagonist of this novel falls for Sondra Finchley despite being forced to marry another woman. Ultimately, (*) Clyde is convicted after murdering Roberta Alden on a canoe ride. For 10 points, name this novel by Theodore Dreiser.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004db" }, "answer" : "Klaus {Fuchs}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.20842347922735, "num" : 3, "question" : "At the onset of World War II, this man was placed into a camp on the Isle of Man, but was later granted British citizenship and allowed to work on what was labeled “Tube Alloys.” This man was known as an excellent babysitter to his fellow scientists but ran afoul of the Venona project while serving as the head of a division at the Harwell Research Establishment. His contact was “Raymond,” also known as Harry Gold, who would go on to testify against the Rosenbergs, although this man only received fourteen years for passing information onto what was classified as a “friendly nation.” For 10 points, name this German physicist who was convicted of supplying atomic bomb research from Los Alamos to the Soviet Union.", "round" : "2011 CO History Bollinger Cheyne.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fab8b3d831d6a00415b" }, "answer" : "{Julio Cortázar}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.45933408732526, "num" : 15, "question" : "In one of this author's short stories, a man scams a group of people out of an orange during a several-day-long traffic jam. He also wrote of a flight attendant who travels from Rome to Tehran and back three times each week and drowns off the remote island of Xiros while dreaming that he is there on vacation. Another of his stories is about a man who habitually visits the botanical garden in Paris until he switches minds with the creature he is observing there. This author of “The Axlotl” wrote of Roberto Michel, who photographs a disturbing seduction. In a novel by this author, Osip Gregorovius has an affair with a member of the Serpent Club, to the dismay of Horacio Oliveira. That book starts with a Table of Instructions, which allows readers to proceed from chapter one to fifty-six, or start on chapter seventy-three and skip around the entire book. For 10 points, name this author of “Blow-Up” and Hopscotch.", "round" : "r01- Brown.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f328b3d831d6a002496" }, "answer" : "{Robert Doisneau}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.90796139510348, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man described the setting for most of his works as “a theatre where you book your seat by wasting time”. One of this man's photographs is set in a “Black and White Café” and features a bride feeding her new husband a drink. Another photograph shows two women dressed in white dresses on a bridge overlooking the Saint-Martin River. A black dog lies down under Jacques (*) Prevert in another work, and this man depicted Simone de Beauvoir at the “Deux Magos”. A man in a beret carries a line of mechanical horses in front of the Eiffel tower in his work “Cavalry on the Champ-de-Mars”, while his best known photograph was taken in front of the Hotel de Ville. For 10 points, identify this French photographer who depicted many scenes of Paris, including a couple kissing on a street.", "round" : "Lully 10.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f228b3d831d6a0020ca" }, "answer" : "{Ezekiel}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.00696288701147, "num" : 1, "question" : "The first fragment of an apocryphal text attributed to this writer describes two men in a garden, one lame and one blind. Commentators have noted the significance of the number twenty-five in this figure's vision of a temple. The third chapter of this man's book describes how he found himself called \"to be a watchman for the people of Israel.\" This figure has a vision in which he sees the chariot of God pulled by creatures with four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox, and eagle. In one Islamic story about this figure, this man resurrected either four or nine thousand people by reassembling their skeletons with a whirlwind; that story, in Christianity, occurs in the valley of the dry bones. For 10 points, name this third major prophet, whose book comes before Daniel and after Lamentations.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405f8b3d831d6a006bb8" }, "answer" : "{George Wallace}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0703052324243, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man was the subject of the PBS documentary Settin' the Woods on Fire. He was succeeded as governor by his wife Lurleen, and he claimed that the only four letter words the students who protested against him didn't know were \"soap\" and \"work.\" He ran on the American Independent Party's ticket for president, and he was shot in Laurel, Maryland by Arthur Bremer. For 10 points, name this man who, as governor, stood in front of the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama in a symbolic gesture against integration.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402a8b3d831d6a005f5d" }, "answer" : "{Journey} to the {West} or {X?yóujì} (Prompt on {Monkey}) [{DU/KK}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7391245579347, "num" : 7, "question" : "In this work, a character who destroyed a valuable lamp and gets stabbed in the chest 100 times every seven days as punishment. That character, a fierce sand-demon, uses a double headed staff with a crescent moon and a spade on each end, and gets defeated by the wielder of a nine-tooth iron rake. The protagonist beat up the Army of Heaven with cloud travel, 72 transformations, and a 7.5 metric ton golden rod that changes size at will. For 10 points, name this work featuring Xuán Zàng's trip with three disciples, including the pig Zh? B?jiè and protagonist S?n Wùk?ng, to retrieve some Buddhist scriptures, a Chinese epic by Wú Chéng'?n, sometimes known as Monkey in English.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a002156" }, "answer" : "{dwarf} galaxies", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.45266622002237, "num" : 15, "question" : "NGC 6822, the first definitely determined extragalactic object, belongs to the irregular subclass of these objects. Shaplow and Baade's studies of the Sculptor constellation led to the discovery of the first spheroidal example of these objects, which are characterized by extremely low metallicity. Examples of these types of objects include the Ursa Minor galaxy, and NGC 205, an Andromeda companion. Twenty-two of the 41 local group galaxies are of this type, which also includes the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is labeled as one of these despite being brighter than most of them. Including the Milky Way's satellite Sagittarius elliptical galaxy and denoted \"dE\" of \"dIrr\" in the Hubble scheme, for 10 points, identify these types of galaxies so called because they have very low mass and luminosity.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - RPI A + Illinois B + Waterloo.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb58b3d831d6a000764" }, "answer" : "{Pequot} War", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 344.0019514767918, "num" : 5, "question" : "Important men in this conflict included John Oldham and John Endecott. The decisive action in this conflict was undertaken by John Mason when he burned an enclosure of women and children in the Mystic Massacre. Fought by Massachusetts against members of the namesake Native American tribe and ended by a treaty signed in Hartford, for 10 points, name this war fought in the 1630s.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40198b3d831d6a005add" }, "answer" : "Hades", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.39883910585195, "num" : 4, "question" : "This god's wife turned Leuce into a white poplar tree and Minthe into the mint plant.  One of his more famous possessions was crafted out of dogskin and sported a pair of wings, modeled after the helmet of Hermes, known for its ability to make its wearer invisible, and was awarded to him for his role in fighting the Titans and installing his brother as king of the gods.  He was also noted for hosting Theseus and Pirothous, who were attempting to steal his wife, and then binding them to their chairs with snakes.  For 10 points, name this god who captured Persephone and made her his wife, who was the god of wealth and the underworld.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 1.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a002681" }, "answer" : "{Speaker} of the {House} of {Representatives}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2303.8557504497, "num" : 5, "question" : "Frederick Muhlenberg was the first person to hold this office. This office is granted appointment power for select and conference committees. It confers the ability to schedule legislation for the floor and the person in this position controls the flow of debate. It is second in the line of presidential succession. For 10 points, what position was previously held by Dennis Hastert and is currently held by Nancy Pelosi?", "round" : "CMST_Round09.pdf", "seen" : 1539, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032cb" }, "answer" : "“The {Negro Speaks} of {Rivers}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.6716952344868, "num" : 13, "question" : "In this work, the narrator describes objects that are ancient and dusky, claiming that he has seen a “muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.” This poem was published when its writer was in his teens and was supposedly written in a few minutes as he passed from Illinois to his home state of Missouri. It mentions Abe Lincoln going to New Orleans and states, “My soul has grown deep.” The narrator also claims to have built a hut and “raised the pyramids,” and he knows about objects “older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” Identify this Langston Hughes poem about the Euphrates, Nile, Congo, and Mississippi.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001c9c" }, "answer" : "Symposium", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.43511106260121, "num" : 21, "question" : "One speaker in this work claims that Aeschylus has misinterpreted the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus. At the end of this work, Socrates argues that tragedy and comedy are of the same nature. One of its characters distinguishes between a heavenly, motherless goddess and a more vulgar one, the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Aristophanes says that man was originally androgynous in this work. Phaedrus comments on Alcestis dying for her husband, and Socrates relays Diotima's argument that Love is an intermediary and a philosopher. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue on the nature of love that takes place at a drinking party.", "round" : "Lisle and Maryland B.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073ab" }, "answer" : "The {Joker}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.2806547973305, "num" : 12, "question" : "His creation is attributed to either Bill Finger or Jerry Robinson, with the distinctive look based partly on the look of actor Conrad Veidt in one film. This man, perhaps originally Red Hood, is credited with killing Sarah Gordon and Jason Todd as well as permanently injuring Oracle, while another story sees his psychiatrist Harleen Quinzl falling in love with him and attempting to feed his arch-nemesis to piranhas. In television and movies, he's been played by Cesar Romero and Jack Nicholson. For 10 points name this fictional villain more recently played by Heath Ledger, a nemesis of the Batman.", "round" : "Round1Final.doc", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eed8b3d831d6a0014a0" }, "answer" : "preludes", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 423.1121129284147, "num" : 8, "question" : "Charles Alkan published a set of these pieces as his opus 31, which includes one nicknamed \"The Song\n of the Mad Woman on the Sea Shore.\" Jascha Heifetz popularized his own violin transcriptions of the three\n pieces written in this form by Gershwin. Examples of this form by Debussy include \"What the West Wind\n Has Seen\" and \"Footsteps in the Snow.\" Chopin's Opus 28 consists of twenty-four of these pieces,\n including the fourth in E-minor, which was played at his funeral, and the fifteenth, which is known as the\n \"Raindrop.\" Bach paired each of his twenty four fugues with one of these works in The Well-Tempered\n Clavier, and Rachmaninoff built his reputation on one in G minor and one in C sharp minor. For 10 points,\n name these brief piano pieces which are often prefaces to longer works.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f98" }, "answer" : "{Charles-Camille Saint-Saens}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.30766103626229, "num" : 8, "question" : "Zygmunt Stojowski quipped that this composer's second piano concerto “begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach.” One of his last compositions was a film score for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise. He dedicated to Franz Liszt his third symphony, which features an instrument mastered by Charles-Marie Widor. One of his works sets to music an Henri Cazalis poem that begins “Zig, Zig, Zig!” This composer used xylophones to mimic the rattling of bones in his Danse Macabre, which is similar to the “Fossils” movement of a work that also uses a slow can-can dance in the “Tortoises” movement. For 10 points, name this composer of The Carnival of the Animals.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 4 - Done.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002737" }, "answer" : "colloids", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.47406753827818, "num" : 8, "question" : "Crystals of this type include the close-packed silica formations that give rise to opal. These structures destabilize at voltages under the zeta potential in processes called coagulation and flocculation. Some of these structures scatter light in the Tyndall effect. A type of this structure exemplified by milk and mayonnaise is called an emulsion. For 10 points, name these stages intermediate between suspensions and solutions, where a dispersed phase is spread evenly throughout another.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 4.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a00250b" }, "answer" : "{Ilsa Lund} Laszlo [accept either underlined, prompt on {Laszlo}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.7708357556257, "num" : 18, "question" : "This character flips a coin and gives it to another character, saying that it's “a franc for your thoughts”. She says that its unfortunate that she's fallen in love “with the whole world crumbling”. The waiter Carl drives this character to a hotel, so that a character whom she last met at “La Belle Aurore” can enter a meeting. She tells one character that “You used to be a much better liar”, and is married to Victor (*) Laszlo. At the end of the film that she appears in, she is implored to get on a plane because she'll regret it, “soon, and for the rest of her life”, and before that, she asks Sam to play \"As Time Goes By\" again. For 10 points, identify this character who is the “kid” that Rick Blaine says “Here's looking at you” to in Casablanca.", "round" : "Lully 5.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a00195d" }, "answer" : "{Diadumenos} or {Diadem} Bearer (accept equivalents)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.7796294761356, "num" : 14, "question" : "The Esquiline Venus is sometimes considered a female version of this statue since it is performing a similar action.  One marble version of this statue features a cloak and quiver resting on its tree-stump support, suggesting that the central figure is Apollo.  That version, housed in the National Archaelogical Museum of Athens, is missing its forearms and hands. This statue stands in contrapposto, and the ball of his right foot barely rests on the base of the statue.  His head is turned to the right and tilted down as his arms are lifted up with the titular item in both hands as he ties it around his head, a pose meant to convey suitable modesty at a moment of glory.  Along with the spear bearer Doryphoros and the discus bearer Discophorus, it completes its creator’s Canon.  For 10 points, name this young victorious athlete by Polykleitos.", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a0015ab" }, "answer" : "{Vikram Seth}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1655608275905, "num" : 22, "question" : "This man wrote a poem in which a king ends up ordering himself hanged after his crown is knocked of by an arch. That poem, “The Tale of Melon City,” was included in the collection Mappings. He wrote about the love affair between a violinist and a pianist in An (*) Equal Music. His novel about four California yuppies, including the sculptor Janet Hayakawa and the religious Ed, was written in the same tetrameter sonnet form as Eugene Onegin. This author of The Golden Gate also wrote a massive novel about Rupa’s efforts to find the title character for Lata. For 10 points, name this Indian author of A Suitable Boy.", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a003889" }, "answer" : "collagen <LC>", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4720786227845, "num" : 8, "question" : "This protein is stained blue by Masson's trichrome, and its cleaved ends can act as a marker to estimate the rate of its synthesis. Deficiency of it results in osteo·genesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. Patients with scurvy cannot properly perform its synthesis, which requires a cofactor, vitamin C. About one sixth of it consists of proline and one third consists of glycine, which helps it form a stable triple helix. It can be processed to form gelatin. For 10 points, name this most abundant protein in mammals, a major component of tendons, cartilage, bones, and skin.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a64" }, "answer" : "{Sir} [or Saint] Thomas {More}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.66652655228972, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man ordered Richard Bayfield's burning at the stake, and also persecuted John Frith.  This man led a campaign against collaborators of William Tyndale while in his highest post, in which he was replaced by Thomas Audley after his failure to attend a certain wedding and his refusal to sign the Act of Supremacy. This man translated the first Pico della Mirandola biography into English, and established a friendship with Erasmus during Erasmus's visit to his country. For 10 points, name this patron saint of politicians and Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, who got his head chopped off in 1535 and wrote Utopia.", "round" : "MUT II - Eden Prairie.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f668b3d831d6a0030e4" }, "answer" : "the {Fourth} Crusade", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.288381145103, "num" : 7, "question" : "It was first organized at a tournament hosted by Thibaut of Champagne, although it had earlier been preached for by Fulk of Neuilly. Geoffrey de Villehardoin chronicled about this event, the aftermath of which saw the establishment of the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus. It was at the court of Philip of Swabia that the course of this event changed, although Enrico Dandolo was responsible for the plunder of Zara, a port under Hungarian control. Baldwin of Flanders, the ruler of the most important polity that emerged from it, was humiliated by the Bulgarians at the Battle of Adrianople in 1205. Its participants under Boniface of Montferrat gathered at Venice and originally intended to attack Egypt, but when Alexius Angelus sought help, their objective changed. For 10 points, what Crusade ended in a savage sacking of Constantinople?", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056d9" }, "answer" : "gills", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7792816828005, "num" : 14, "question" : "The larval dragon fly contains a trachaea on the rectum which serves as this structure. Spiracles often guide movement through this structure in some cartilagenous animals, and these structures are often covered by a bony osculum. These structures make use of the (*) countercurrent exchange system to transfer oxygen to the blood, and they are sometimes used to describe the pharyngeal slits that chordates are born with. For 10 points, name these respiratory structures that enable fish to breathe.", "round" : "tourn8-10.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064b8" }, "answer" : "{Robert Bridges}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.807320199674, "num" : 7, "question" : "[SJ] In one poem this man asked \"Why has thou nothing in thy face, thou idol of the human race?\" and in another he described how \"the packed pollution and remorse of Time... reenact the horrors of unhousehold crime.\" This author of \"Low Barometer\" and \"Eros\" claimed \"Thou art alone, fond lover\" in a poem remarking \"The evening darkens over\" and rebuked \"Joy's wisdom is attired splended for others' eyes if not for thee\" in \"Melancholia.\" He divided verse into accentual-syllabic, accentual, syllabic, and quantitative varieties in a study of Milton's prosody and he was also responsible for posthumously publishing the poems of his friend Gerard Manley Hopkins. he gained fame in his lifetime for a poem in four books beginning \"Man's Reason is in such insolvency to sense.\" For 10 points, name this author of The Testament of Beauty.", "round" : "Packet_of_Death.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a007203" }, "answer" : "{Copts} [or {Coptic Christians}; or {Coptic Orthodox} Church; prompt on {Egyptian Christians} or similar {descriptive} answers]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 342.936231209198, "num" : 16, "question" : "The 1443 Cantate Domino proposed to reunite this sect with the Roman Church but was struck down by this group's pope, John XI. A convert to this sect named Annianus dated the Creation to March 25, 5492 BC, and believed in “Paschal Cycles” of 532 years that mark off periods known in this religion as the Era of Grace and the Era of Martyrs. This group was founded by those who disagreed with the Council of Chalcedon, the Monophysites. Its largest current monastery is at Wadi Natrun, and its current pope is Shenouda III. For 10 points, name this Christian sect supposedly founded by St. Mark, based in Egypt.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffe8b3d831d6a0054d1" }, "answer" : "{Emily Dickinson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3143949739169, "num" : 19, "question" : "In one poem, this author compares one phenomenon's appearance on “winter afternoons” to “the weight of cathedral tunes.” In another poem, this author wrote “I'm (*) nobody, who are you?” This author of a poem about a “certain slant of light” described a “blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, between the light and me” in her poem “I heard a fly buzz when I died.” This poet was known for extensive use of slant rhyme in such works as “Because I could not stop for Death.” For 10 points, name this reclusive American poet nicknamed the Belle of Amherst.", "round" : "tourn10-15.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40348b3d831d6a0061a2" }, "answer" : "{Long Day's Journey} into {Night}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.84419516590424, "num" : 13, "question" : " One character in this play runs into furniture after a walk on the beach because his father refuses to waste money on electricity. Near the end of this play, one character sneers \"The Mad Scene: Enter Ophelia\" as her mother drags her wedding dress downstairs. The maid Cathleen celebrates the distraction of the characters in this work by drinking all of their liquor. After one character notes that she hates it when her son becomes all gloomy and morbid, he replies by noting \"It's pretty hard to have a dope fiend for a mother,\" referring to her morphine addition which she acquired after the birth of Edmund. A major argument in this play is about the illness of Edmund, who has tuberculosis, and is the son of James and Mary. For 10 points, identify this play about the dissolution of the Tyrone family, the masterwork of Eugene O'Neill.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 4 - Final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a0016ac" }, "answer" : "{Laurence Sterne}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3883019075729, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one work by this author, the father of the protagonist has a habit of winding up a clock at the beginning of every month. That protagonist has his nose flattened at childbirth by Dr. Slop. One work by this author satirizes Tobias Smollett as Smelfungus, was written largely as a response to Smollett’s Travels Through France and Italy, and sees the protagonist obtain a passport after he convinces an official that he is the court (*) jester from Hamlet. This author wrote another work featuring a man named Yorick, a parson who appears alongside the title character and Uncle Toby. For 10 points, name this author of A Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy.", "round" : "Packet 20 - TB 4.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009ec" }, "answer" : "{Robert Edward Lee}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.324204965029, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man acted as assistant to Andrew Talcott, helping to build Fort Calhoun and Fort Monroe. He found a flanking route at the Battle of Cerro Gordo during the Mexican-American War. This man took over Joseph Johnston's post after Johnston was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. This man won at the Battles of the (*) Wilderness and Cold Harbor, as well as Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He suffered losses at Antietam and Gettysburg. For 10 points, name this leader of the Confederate army.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40108b3d831d6a0058ff" }, "answer" : "{Jose Saramago}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5243565242272, "num" : 11, "question" : "In one of this man's works, a supplicant and a king's housekeeper exit through the door of decisions to search for the title place, while in another Tertuliano Afonso watches a video that stars someone who looks exactly like him. In addition to The Tale of the Unknown Island, and The [?] Double, this author wrote about a shepherd masquerading as the devil, and he titled a novel after a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa. In addition to The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, this author showed a doctor's wife feigning illness to comfort her husband and the girl with the dark glasses being subjected to pure white. Another novel describes a landmass being formed from the Iberian Peninsula. For ten points, name this author of The Stone Raft and Blindness, the only Portuguese author to date who has won the Nobel Prize.", "round" : "PLAYOFFS ROUND 3.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2b8b3d831d6a0022e6" }, "answer" : "the {Apology} [accept {Apologia}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.03623070623726, "num" : 17, "question" : "A speaker in this work claims that an Olympic charioteer offers only the guise of happiness while the speaker offers the reality; that speaker recalls speaking out against the illegality of trying a group of ten generals simultaneously. This work argues that a bad man cannot harm a better man. One speaker in this work recounts how Callias wants his sons to be taught by Evenus the Parian, who charges five minae. Socrates recounts how the Oracle at Delphi claimed no man was wiser than him, leading him to conclude his wisdom stems from acknowledging that he knows nothing. Socrates compares himself to a gadfly in stinging the state into action after Lycon, Anytus, and Meletus accuse him of corrupting the youth. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates defends himself at court.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - VCU + Duke.pdf", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004bd8" }, "answer" : "{Bessel} functions (accept {cylindrical harmonic functions} before mentioned)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.39489251165651, "num" : 9, "question" : "The Dixon-Ferrar formula can be used to relate their variations. When they are singular at the origin they are of the second kind and named after Neumann (*) or Weber; others are named for Hankel. Their zeros can be used to calculate the Rayleigh function and they are related to the motion of heat in a cylinder and the oscillations of a chain. For 10 points, name these cylindrical harmonic functions that solve their namesake German astronomer's second-order ordinary differential equation.", "round" : "TB11_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f158b3d831d6a001dcb" }, "answer" : "{Symphony} in {D minor} [accept {Franck's Symphony} before his name is read]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.72370148124173, "num" : 16, "question" : "At one point in this work, a third melody, initially played by the clarinet, appears, but is soon ended with a single harp arpeggio.  The first section, which is carried along by a three-note dotted figure that moves down by a semitone and then moves back up again, opens with a chromatic Lento introduction in cellos and basses that is eventually joined by another melody, sometimes known as the “faith” motif.”  Marked “Allegretto,” its second section, particularly the portion which contrasts plucked strings with the main melody in the English horn, initially disturbed many reviewers, who panned its 1889 premiere in Paris.  Composed in three rather than the usual four movements, this piece, its composer's Opus 48, is his only work in a particular format. For 10 points, identify this long orchestral work in a certain key by Cesar Franck.", "round" : "Editor's Round (Finals 1).docx", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004253" }, "answer" : "{Persian} [or {Farsi}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.58534120908007, "num" : 2, "question" : "One collection of poetry in this language states that “one grain of rice will make up each man's measure” and describes an unjust king's arrival to a shrine where the prophet John's body is contained. This language was used to write the book Advantages of Silence by the author ofThe Rose Garden. In a narrative poem written in this language, a stepson uses the trial by fire to escape from the lust of his stepmother. Another poet in this language wrote \"Our Death is our Wedding\" and \"A Star Without a Name,\" composed the epic Spiritual Couplets, and popularized the ghazal form. Landmarks in this language's medieval corpus include theDiwan by Sa'di. For 10 points, name this language used by Rumi, as well as by Ferdowsi for the Shah Nameh and an author who wrote about \"a loaf of bread\" and \"a jug of wine\" in the Rubiyat.", "round" : "r12- Rutgers.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069bc" }, "answer" : "{Jean Piaget}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.0041313746478, "num" : 5, "question" : "This psychologist published his work on the process of learning the consequences of an action in On Reflecting Abstraction. This psychologist noted the ability of some subjects to remember that an object was present after it was no longer visible, called “object permanence.” He posited that people arrange knowledge in schemas, and created a theory of development which begins at the sensorimotor stage and ends with the formal operational stage. For 10 points, identify this Swiss psychologist who theorized a four-stage model of cognitive development in children.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043e3" }, "answer" : "{Cavalleria Rusticana} [or {Rustic Chivalry}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.18883195728995, "num" : 19, "question" : "An opera of the this name by Domenico Monleone prompted a lawsuit from the composer of the more famous version. Villagers sing “Gli arancio olezzano” near the beginning of this work, whose protagonist sings an aria describing one character as “as lovely as the bright blossoms of spring.” This opera's aria “Vio lo sapete” contains Santuzza's confession of her adultery to Lucia, while the main character sings “Viva, il vino spumeggiante” to invite Alfio to drink with him. Alfio's refusal provokes a duel between him and Turridu. Based on a short story by Giovanni Verga, for 10 points, name this verismo opera by Pietro Mascagni often performed with Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Missouri State + Louisville (final).doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fbc" }, "answer" : "{simple harmonic oscillators} [accept {simple harmonic motion}; accept {SHO}; accept {SHM};", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4225228207652, "num" : 10, "question" : "These objects can be modeled using the second-degree differential equation a y double prime plus c y equals zero. In one common example of them, the small angle assumption, that sin theta equals theta, must be made to analytically solve the equation, while the other common example obeys Hooke's Law and requires a frictionless surface. For 10 points, the pendulum and mass-on-a-spring systems are examples of what type of system displaying periodic motion and constant amplitude?", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee78b3d831d6a001342" }, "answer" : "nucleophiles", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.60632947715931, "num" : 13, "question" : "Epoxides react with carbon ones of these compounds due to their increased ring strain to form alcohols, and carbonyl groups react with Grignard reagents because the Grignard reagent acts as one of these compounds. Their strength increases with increasing polarizability and decreases with increasing electronegativity, and these compounds can be interchangeably called Lewis bases. The conjugates of weak Lewis acids can act as strong ones of these compounds, and these compounds take the place of the leaving group on alkyl halides during SN1 and SN2 reactions. For 10 points, identify these compounds, whose name suggests that they love neutrons and protons.", "round" : "Packet 4 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f38" }, "answer" : "electric {charge}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1496336886194, "num" : 10, "question" : "The force experienced by a particle in a magnetic field is equal to this quantity times the cross product of its velocity and the magnetic field. The force experienced in an electric field is this quantity times the electric field. The electric flux out of a closed surface is equal to this value over the permittivity of free space by Gauss's Law. The time derivative of this quantity is current. For 10 points, give this property measured in coulombs.", "round" : "4q1-05.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40188b3d831d6a005ad3" }, "answer" : "{Hannah Arendt}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.60305991093628, "num" : 15, "question" : "This author critiqued Berthold Brecht in Men in Dark Times. “On Violence” and “Lying in Politics” were some of this author's posthumous essays in Crises of the Republic. This thinker postulated that the social realm had diverged from the public and private realms following Roman times in a work describing work, labor, and action as the vita activa, while another work begins by eschewing the need to philosophically “understand” the title entity as anything but the “most radical denial of freedom.” The author of The Human Condition, for 10 points, name coiner of the term “banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem who authored The Origins of Totalitarianism.", "round" : "MUT II - Maryland.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404f8b3d831d6a0067da" }, "answer" : "{Joan} of {Arc} (accept {Jean d'Arc})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2078551338054, "num" : 2, "question" : "Nicolas Bailly found no evidence against this military leader born in the Dutchy of Bar, who had captured Auxerre and Troyes and scored a victory over John Fastolf at Patay before being captured at the siege of Compiègne, but Bishop Pierre Cauchon proceeded with this leader's trial anyway. Before bringing Charles VII to Reims for his coronation, she inspired an unexpected victory at Orlèans. FTP, name this peasant girl burned at the stake for heresy after voices told her to expel the English and lead the French army during the Hundred Years War.", "round" : "HFT Round 11.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40328b3d831d6a00613c" }, "answer" : "{Anton Chekhov}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.76056846720167, "num" : 13, "question" : " In one short story by this author, a man decides to provide a sex education for his son by having him observe a newly married couple and a third man through a bulkhead peep hole. In addition to “At Sea,” this author wrote about Skvortsov, who was forced to chop wood by Lushkov, but refuses. This author of “The Beggar” wrote another short story in which Kuznichov and Egorushka attempt to cross the titular part of Russia, “The Steppe,” and one in which Yakov Ivanov is an undertaker who enjoys playing the titular “Rothschild's Fiddle.” Aliokhin and Burkin are wholly unsatisfied with Ivan's tale in a notable short story by this man, who also wrote one about Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who takes notice of a new arrival carrying a Pomeranian. For 10 points, name this author of “Gooseberries\" and \"The Lady with the Lapdog.\" ", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c5b" }, "answer" : "{William Shakespeare}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.56753290211782, "num" : 14, "question" : "This poet writes “[we] have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise” in a work that begins, “When in the chronicle of wasted time / I see descriptions of the fairest wights, / And beauty making beautiful old rhyme” In one work this poet famously asserts, “my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.” The speaker of another poem says the reader can see in him “that time of year” when yellow leaves “hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” This poet asserts that neither Mars nor “war's quick fire shall burn / The living record of your memory” in a poem that begins, “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.” The speaker of one of his poems comments, “Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines” and ends with the assertion, “So long as men can breath, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” “The Fair Youth” and “The Dark Lady,” for 10 points, are recurring figures in the poetry of this man who asked, “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day” in one of his sonnets.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40508b3d831d6a006813" }, "answer" : "{Sigmund Freud} or {Sigismund Schlomo Freud}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.9317976080347, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man introduced cocaine to Karl Koller as a cure for morphine addiction, and he first gained recognition for discovering the reproductive organs in eels. He wrote numerous letters to Wilhelm Fliess, and analyzed the Jewish religion in another work, Moses and Monotheism. He argued that structured society infringes upon individual desires in his Civilization and Its Discontents, and wrote a case study on Anna O., Studies on Hysteria.  He developed the ideas of the id, ego, and superego in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. For 10 points, name this Austrian psychoanalyst, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.", "round" : "Round02.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072bb" }, "answer" : "{Charles Sumner}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.5354849563445, "num" : 9, "question" : "He was condemned for an 1872 resolution calling for the names of battles between U.S. citizens not to be placed on the regimental colors of the United States army, and he helped defeat President Grant's proposal to annex Santo Domingo. He attacked certain \"myrmidons\" in a speech targeting Stephen Douglas, but it was his “Crime Against Kansas” speech, which attacked Andrew Butler, that led to his 1856 victimization on the Senate floor with a cane. For 10 points, name this Massachusetts senator who was assaulted by Preston Brooks.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a00264c" }, "answer" : "A {Midsummer Night's Dream}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2228.822100071702, "num" : 11, "question" : "In this play, Peter Quince's play entitled Pyramus and Thisbe (“PEER-uh-muss and THIZZ-bee”) enthralls Nick Bottom. This play depicts Demetrius initially deserting Helena in favor of Hermia. Titania's and Oberon's servant in this play is named Puck. The marriage between Hippolyta (“hip-POL-it- uh”) and Theseus happens in, for 10 points, what comedy depicting Athenian lovers and written by William Shakespeare?", "round" : "CMST_Round06.pdf", "seen" : 1490, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eef8b3d831d6a001529" }, "answer" : "{Great Salt} Lake", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.788016167935, "num" : 7, "question" : "This body of water was the site of the 1944 Bagley train wreck, which occurred on a bridge that is part of\n the Lucin Cutoff. This lake’s Gunnison Island is a breeding ground for the American White Pelican.\n “Castle Rock” overlooks its second largest island, Stansbury, which is connected to the mainland by a path.\n The largest island in this lake is home to a bison herd but is named for its population of pronghorns. This\n site of Antelope Island is fed by the Bear and Jordan Rivers and is the remnant of the prehistoric Lake\n Bonneville. For 10 points, name this lake which supports nothing larger than a brine shrimp, the largest\n lake in Utah.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 391, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea28b3d831d6a000357" }, "answer" : "Charles Sanders {Peirce}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 47.76496042567305, "num" : 5, "question" : "This thinker used an elliptic pattern to map a sphere as a square to create his “quincuncial map.” This philosopher wrote a work that examines whether a diamond in a cushion of cotton can be called hard. He outlined the index, the icon, and the symbol as three classifications to his theory of the triadic relationship between the interpretant, the sign, and the object. He juxtaposed the “Gospel of Greed” and the “Gospel of Belief” in his article “Evolutionary Love” and wrote a work that dismisses the “method of authority” and the “method of tenacity” in favor of the scientific method in an article in Popular Science Monthly. For 10 points name this author of “The Fixation of Belief” and “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”, one of the founders of Pragmatism.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - YaleB + Illinois A + Toronto final.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa08b3d831d6a003eb6" }, "answer" : "{Eugène Delacroix}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.5362541959621, "num" : 15, "question" : "This artist painted one of the title nomads attending to a brown horse at right as the title blue-robed poet reclines off left in Ovid Among the Scythians. A hand sticks out from the rubble at the foot of a despairing woman in his allegorical Greece Expiring on the Ruins of the Messolonghi. A turbaned figure on a rearing horse overlooks a field of dying people in his Massacre at Chios, while the title king watches calmly as one his slaves' throat is slit in his The Death of Sardanapalus. A little boy waves a pistol in the air as the title bare-breasted figure waves a French flag in this painter's most famous work. For 10 points, name this painter of Liberty Leading the People.", "round" : "Yale A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a002703" }, "answer" : "{John Milton}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.83100375509821, "num" : 17, "question" : "Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote an essay on this man after the discovery of his treatise De doctrina Christiana. One poem by this author begins \"Hence vain deluding joys,\" and another is an elegy on the death of Edward King. This man wrote a work named for a hill in Athens that argued for \"the liberty of unlicensed printing.\" This author of \"Il Penseroso\" and \"Lycidas\" wrote a work in which Satan declares \"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.\" For 10 points, name this blind English poet who wrote the pamphlet Areopagatica, and the epic poem Paradise Lost.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 13.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a0068ab" }, "answer" : "mantle", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3096973814536, "num" : 15, "question" : "The Chikyu Hakken mission is attempting to explore this region. This region contains such polymorphs of rocks as wadsleyite and ringwoodite, as well as the perovskite-structured pyroxene enstatite. The D'' [D double prime] region is found in its homogeneous lower portion, while a Low Velocity Zone extends several kilometers in this layer. A sudden increase in velocity occurs at the top of this region, known as the Moho discontinuity. For 10 points, name this layer of the Earth above the outer core and below the crust.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c38" }, "answer" : "“The {Overcoat}” [accept “The {Cloak}”; accept “{Shinel}”]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3649945831858, "num" : 9, "question" : "A sequel to this work by T. C. Boyle sees the protagonist fined for having a product made in Hong Kong, and this work's protagonist is often spotted near the Kalinkin Bridge. Its protagonist is on his way to a coworker's for tea when two men jump him and push him into a snowbank after stealing the title (*) object, which was made by Petrovich. The protagonist haunts St. Petersburg until a “certain important personage” gives him a warm garment. For 10 points, name this story in which Akakei Akakeiavich is robbed of the title jacket, by Nikolai Gogol.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f378b3d831d6a00259a" }, "answer" : "The {Dog Beneath} the {Skin}: or Where is Francis? [accept The {Doggie Beneath} the {Skin}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.04601919255219, "num" : 10, "question" : "In this work, the protagonist encounters a comedian who destroys a work of art every night; that night it's a lithograph by Rembrandt. One of the settings in this work is a lunatic asylum, where one of its members has a loud speaker for a face, while this play's encounters with immorality includes a visit to a homosexual bar called The Cosy Corner, as well as its main characters meeting the drug addict Sorbo Lamb. Its protagonist, from Pressan Ambo, wants to marry Iris (*) Crewe, but only if he can find her brother, which leads to him touring across war-torn Europe. For 10 points, name this play in which Alan Norman learns that Francis has been travelling with him the entire time using a costume of the title furry animal, written by Auden and Isherwood. [Ike]", "round" : "Round 03.pdf", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a0012f7" }, "answer" : "{Nicholas II}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.54715107986704, "num" : 13, "question" : "During this man’s reign, his Interior Minister, Pleve, and his uncle, a Grand Duke, were assassinated. A group of striking workers led by Father Gapon were fired upon by soldiers in the Bloody Sunday incident which occurred during his reign. During this man’s rule, his navy suffered a surprise attack at Port Arthur. Later, his minister, Sergei Witte, helped negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the unsuccessful conflict this man’s country fought with Japan. In response to revolutionary uprisings, this man issued the October Manifesto in 1905. His reign saw undue influence by the monk Rasputin. For 10 points, name this final emperor of Russia, who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.", "round" : "Packet 10 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eeb8b3d831d6a00142a" }, "answer" : "{Benvenuto Cellini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.483666138025, "num" : 5, "question" : "This artist created a model with a scimitar and broken lance which was to be the basis for a never\n realized fifty-four foot high statute of Mars. This man, along with his patron, helped restore the Etruscan \nChimera d’Arezzo. He created a marble crucifix for his own tomb but now resides in the Escorial. His\n portrait work includes a bust of Bindo Altoviti and one of Cosimo I. An antlered stag sticks out above a\n female nude in his bronze Nymph of Fontainbleau. One of his more famous bronze works shows one title\n figure holding a sword and the head of the other figure. For 10 points, name this sculptor and goldsmith\n who created a saltcellar for Francis I and Perseus With the Head of Medusa.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004db6" }, "answer" : "{George Walker Bush} [prompt on \"{Bush},\" do not accept \"{George H.W. Bush}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.723410131177, "num" : 4, "question" : "This president created a program to subsidize prescription drugs for seniors titled Medicare Part D. This president refused to apologize after a spy plane was forced to crash-land in China, and he appointed John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations. This president ordered Operation Enduring Freedom, which overthrew the government of Mullah Mohammad Omar. For 10 points, name this president, advised by Karl Rove, who ordered the invasion of Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11 and was succeeded by Barack Obama.", "round" : "04 HFT.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed48b3d831d6a000ef3" }, "answer" : "The {Hunchback} of {Notre Dame} [or {Notre-Dame} de {Paris}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.6523254958447, "num" : 10, "question" : "This novel ends with the opening of a tomb revealing the embracing skeletons of its two protagonists. One of its characters marries the poet Pierre Gringoire and owns the goat Djali. The villain of this novel stabs the Captain of the King's Archers, Phoebus, and is thrown off a tower by the title character, who is crowned Pope of Fools and made deaf by his job of ringing bells. For 10 points, name this Victor Hugo novel about the gypsy Esmerelda and the deformed Quasimodo.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a006059" }, "answer" : "{Ark} of the {Covenant} [accept: {Aron Habrit}; {Tabut al-Ahd}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.31043512769975, "num" : 21, "question" : "According to one account, this object was brought to Sena by the Buba tribe, after which it was placed on the Dumghe mountains. In the Koran, this object is described as bringing “Sakina”, or the peace of God. This object was once protected by the parochet and was wrapped in tachash skin, and it caused the cities of Gath, Ekron, and Ashdod to suffer plagues of hemorrhoids and mice. A statue of Dagon was found prostrate and broken near this object after this object was captured at the Battle of Ebenezer. Jeremiah may have buried this object on Mt. Nebo before Nebuchadnezzar sacked the First Temple, in whose Holy of Holies it was. For ten points, name this box that contained the Ten Commandments.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069c5" }, "answer" : "{Starcraft II} [do not prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.6050440010149, "num" : 14, "question" : "One new character in this game met his most famous associate at the brig in Camp McIntyre, while another who has “borne witness to the entropy of entire realities” will be returning. A yellow variant of a substance featured in this game's predecessors provides more resources, and a canceled feature is a black hole affecting aerial units. One race's new Corruptor and Roach units brought balance complaints, while the Phase Prism will change the mechanism of transportation for the Protoss. For 10 points, name this upcoming successor of Brood War.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 565, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000b20" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Panama} [or {República} de {Panamá}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.2655175849795, "num" : 18, "question" : "This nation's port cities include Cristobal and Almirante, while its main mountain range is alternately known as the Cordillera de Talamanca and the Serrania de Tabasara. Its most notable geographical feature utilizes the Miraflores and Gatun Lakes and features extensive (*) locks near both those bodies of water. For 10 points, name this Central American country that borders Colombia and is home to a namesake canal.", "round" : "tournament17-03.pdf", "seen" : 399, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a005225" }, "answer" : "utilitarianism", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 465.9432941121049, "num" : 23, "question" : "Thinkers associated with this ethical philosophy include Peter Singer and Herbert Spencer. This philosophy was founded by the author of A Fragment on Government who also created a felicific calculus, Jeremy Bentham. A book named for this philosophy discusses the Greatest-Happiness principle and was written by John Stuart Mill. For 10 points, name this ethical philosophy which holds that the worth of an act lies in the benefits it creates.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 312, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2f8b3d831d6a0023e9" }, "answer" : "{Wilfrid Laurier}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.43065657746047, "num" : 19, "question" : "While serving in the legislature, this man was supposed to have developed a rivalry with Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, though correspondence discovered later shows a secret alliance between the two and Joseph Tarte. During the Fisheries Embroglio, this man led a legislative movement questioning the arrest of foreign fisherman, calling it unfriendly and unmanly. During this man's frequent absences for the purposes of attending Imperial Conferences, his post was held by Richard Cartwright, who had also served as finance minister advocating free trade in this man's government. Notable legislative achievements during this man's premiership include a Naval Service Bill and increasing reciprocity with the US, a policy hated by Conservative Leader of the Opposition Robert Borden, and he came to power following a conflict over provisions in the British North America Act which governed the administration of certain educational institutions. Charles Tupper's failure to resolve the Manitoba Schools crisis led to this man's election as the first francophone prime minister as a Liberal from Quebec. FTP, identify this Prime Minister of Canada from 1896-1911", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 10 - A Blue Sky Out of the Oresteia.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a0055fc" }, "answer" : "{ATP} [or {adenosine 5-prime triphosphate}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1323073201347, "num" : 3, "question" : "The enzyme adenylate cyclase (aa-DEN-uh-late SIK-laze) produces a \"cyclic\" secondary messenger from this molecule. This molecule is produced by an enzyme with a characteristic \"gun barrel\" structure, in which an axle-like structure turns and adds a (*) phosphate group to another molecule. Glycolysis (gli-CAHL-uh-sis) results in the net creation of two of these molecules, which are also produced in oxidative phosphorylation (FOS-for-uh-LAY-shun). For 10 points, name this molecule referred to as the \"energy currency of the cell.\"", "round" : "tourn11-15.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003f9e" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Somme} [accept {Somme Offensive}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.02480972139165, "num" : 15, "question" : "This battle saw cavalry capture High Wood in the Battle of Bazentin Ridge. This battle began with the detonation of a 40,000 pound mine under the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt in the Battle of the Albert. Although not Tannenberg, on August 29th, the Germans put Hindenburg and Ludendorff in charge, leading to the Hindenburg Line. While artillery bombardment was not very effective against German bunkers, barbed wire was easily destroyed by the newly deployed Mark I. The allies were commanded by Ferdinand Foch and Douglas (*) Haig, and this battle also saw the first deployment of the tank. With the loss of over 350,000 British troops, for 10 points, name this costly 1916 World War I battle.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005cb6" }, "answer" : "{piezoelectric} ({pee-AY-zoh-“electric}”) effect [or {piezoelectricity}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.3045977849979, "num" : 18, "question" : "This effect is present in animal bones, possibly to regulate growth. It is analogous to the cause of hum in transformers, magnetostriction, while in medical imaging, the most common material used for this effect is lead zirconate titanate. Carbon nanotubes also respond to this effect, for which an especially high quality factor is possessed by quartz. This phenomenon's converse consists of an applied field causing a crystal's dimensions to change. Discovered by the Curie brothers, identify this effect wherein stress applied to a crystal creates an electric potential difference.", "round" : "06 TU.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edd8b3d831d6a001105" }, "answer" : "{popular sovereignty}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.962153741857, "num" : 5, "question" : "In the election of 1848, Lewis Cass ran on the platform of enforcing this policy, whose critics replaced its first word with the word \"squatter.\" Support for this policy was undermined by the violence of Border Ruffians, which caused the state that implemented this policy to be called \"bleeding.\" It became law after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and was heavily promoted by Stephen Douglas. For 10 points, name this pre-Civil War policy in which the settlers of a state determined whether it was slave or free.", "round" : "28.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a004fd8" }, "answer" : "Eastern {Orthodoxy} [or {Orthodox Christianity}; or {Greek Orthodoxy}; or {Orthodox Catholic} Church; do not accept", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.9468253855594, "num" : 10, "question" : "This denomination allows married men to become priests, but it does not ordain men whose wives were previously widowed or divorced. Member churches are considered “autocephalous” (OUGHT-oh-SEFF-uh-luss) in this denomination. It engages in religious governance through “metropolitans” and celebrates Christmas on January 7th. This church considers the Patriarch of Constantinople its primary cleric. For 10 points, identify this Christian group, which split from Roman Catholicism in the Great Schism of 1054 and predominates in Russia, Greece, and much of Eastern Europe.", "round" : "4q1-10.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1e8b3d831d6a001fbe" }, "answer" : "{polymers} [do not accept “{monomers}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.3621036761906, "num" : 13, "question" : "When these materials are modeled as “freely jointed” objects, they behave as rigid rods on the scale of the persistence length. Synthetic condensation, or “step growth,” is one classification of these materials. “Addition” or “chain- growth” varieties of these structures see no loss or gain of materials. Ziegler-Natta catalysts are useful in syntheses of these materials that use alkenes as a base unit. For 10 points, name these chemical molecules that are large chains of individual molecules, examples of which include polypropylene and polystyrene.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 2.pdf", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a003085" }, "answer" : "Jesus", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.6932652837131, "num" : 4, "question" : "An apocryphal story describes this figure harvesting a hundred bushels from a single grain. In one speech, he attacked people who \"hold on to the traditions of men,\" and his description of the end times is sometimes called the Olivet discourse. Abraham Lincoln quoted this man's assertion that \"a house divided cannot stand,\" and he withered a fig tree when it failed to provide him with fruit. One selection of this man's teachings is known as the Great Commission, and he gave a speech in the Upper Room. This man aided in the catching of 153 fish and was spotted on the Road to Emmaus after his death. For 10 points, name this religious figure who walked on water and was crucified.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f298b3d831d6a002250" }, "answer" : "Book of {Lamentations} [or {Eikha}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 48.84554583532736, "num" : 14, "question" : "An Ethiopian text called the Rest of the Words of Baruch combines this text with one similar to Fourth Baruch. This work's first chapter alludes to a woman's lovers, among all of which there are none to comfort her, which may refer to Egypt and Assyria. A later verse of this book accuses \"The Lord is like an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel.\" This work consists of five poems, each with a multiple of twenty-two lines, and the first four of which are acrostics. A reading of this work is followed by a reading of the Kinnot on Tisha B'Av. This work was written following the capture of Jehoiachin at Nebuchadnezzar's sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple. It is attributed to the prophet Jeremiah. For 10 points, name this Old Testament book that relates the sorrows of Israel.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Hannah and Andy.pdf", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40398b3d831d6a0062c2" }, "answer" : "{Magneto} [accept {Erik Lensherr} before {stated}; or {Erik Magnus}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.1417087418959, "num" : 8, "question" : "One version of this man was known as Enrique and served as the Grand Inquistor of Earth-311.  His Earth-9997 incarnation ruled a city in the Savage Land before being depowered by the removal of the Earth's vibranium.  He placed the Red Skull in “the long dark” with only ten gallons of water, and one version of him led the last resistance against the infected superheroes of the Marvel Zombies universe.  His most well-known incarnation was presumed dead after Cassandra Nova attacked Genosha with a fleet of Sentinels.  For 10 points, name this alter-ego of Erik Lensherr, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, master of magnetism, and frequent enemy of the X-Men?", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - EPHS.doc", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5c8b3d831d6a002e6d" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Croatia} [accept {Republika Hrvatska}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.76711709774099, "num" : 3, "question" : "Pirates in this modern day country based in Senj were forced to disband after causing a namesake war between the Habsburgs and Venetians. In addition to the Uskoks, forces mostly from this country defeated a much larger Ottoman force at Sisak, triggering the Long War, after the peace achieved following the defeat of force’s from this country at the Battle of Krbava Field. Although not Poland, it entered a pacta conventa with Coloman the Booklover of Hungary, which was nominally allowed for self-governance and a personal union with Hungary. Its major port was made a free city in the 1920 Treaty of Rapallo between Italy and Yugoslavia, even though Italians were the majority in that city. This country, which controls most of the Istrian Peninsula, possesses the city of Rijeka, which was once known as Fiume. For 10 points, name this country with capital at Zagreb.", "round" : "2011 CO History Droge Zeng.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e948b3d831d6a000025" }, "answer" : "{baptism}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 40.59232221078128, "num" : 12, "question" : "This practice had an analog in the cult of Cybele’s practice of taurobolium, and this practice is advocated by the Right Ginza in Mandeism, which follows this action with a sacred meal. A reference to this practice “for the dead,” is contained in 1 Corinthians 15:29, in which it is asked “if there is no resurrection, what will those do,” to whom this has happened. That practice may originate in the rituals of the Orphic cult, which carried out this action to prepare their dead for the underworld. According to the Arians and the Donatists, this action was only efficacious if performed by someone who was of pure intention and belonged to the church, while leaders like Conrad Grebel and Felix Mantz argued that only an adult could undergo this ritual and denied its usefulness to infants. This practice is generally considered the first sacrament in Catholicism. Taking its name from the Greek for “to immerse,” for ten points, identify this action which was performed for Jesus by John, and which involves annointment with water, symbolizing entry to the faith.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d6d" }, "answer" : "{Astrid Lindgren}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.22998793888837, "num" : 6, "question" : "This author wrote a satirical fairytale in response to having to pay a marginal tax rate of 102%, entitled “Pomperipossa in Monismania.” Birk Borkason befriends the title character in this author's fantasy novel Ronia the Robber's Daughter. Her series include one about the detective Bill Bergson and one about the six Bullerby siblings. She also created a character who can fly by pressing a button on his stomach, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, as well as an unusually strong ponytailed redhead who is “in the South Seas” in the title of one book. For 10 points, name this Swedish children's author who created Pippi Longstocking.", "round" : "Packet 08.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a001ff9" }, "answer" : "atomic {orbitals} [do not accept “{molecular orbitals}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.03075192472897, "num" : 7, "question" : "A rule for these regions states that ones with a smaller value for “N plus L,” which is equal to the number of “nodes” for one of these regions, will have lower energy. The topologies of these entities are described by the principle, subsidiary, magnetic, and spin quantum numbers. Lennard-Jones's LCAO method combines these entities linearly to derive their “molecular” counterparts. Combining two of them is called “hybridization.” They come in S, P, D, and F types. For 10 points, name these regions around an atomic nucleus in which electrons are found.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 5.pdf", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a00631f" }, "answer" : "{Alfred} the Great", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.13302692817524, "num" : 17, "question" : "When this ruler visited Rome at age five, Pope Leo IV dressed him in the robes and sword belt of a Roman consul.  He established a new legal code with the Book of Dooms, and at the Battle of Ashdown he defeated the forces of the man with whom he would later sign the Peace of Wedmore.  He personally translated from Latin works such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.  The fifth son of Aethelwulf, he defeated Guthrum's forces at Edington, pushing them back into Northumbria and East Anglia and retaking London in about 885.  For 10 points, name this king of Wessex, the only “Great” English king.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a003997" }, "answer" : "{Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.87140943552367, "num" : 1, "question" : "A Married Man's Story was unfinished at the point of the author's death. This author identified with the dying singing canary of her last work whereas at the end of another work, a dove's cry is mirrored in the shouts of the name Reggie as he leaves Anne. One of this writer's story concerns an older fat stranger who remarks that Lelia's pretty arms will eventually turn into “little short fat ones” during Her First Ball. Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding and The Sister of the Baroness are some stories in the New Age that would be published in 1911 in her first collection In a German Pension. For 10 points, name this writer from New Zealand who wrote The Fly, Miss Brill, and The Garden Party.", "round" : "Round by Ruthlumbia and South Carolina.docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b3a" }, "answer" : "{Orioles}' {closers} [accept {Baltimore closers}; prompt on {more general} answers, {including baseball players}, {pitchers}, {relievers}, and any {permutation} of those {words} with {Baltimore} or {Orioles}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.9279096126556, "num" : 13, "question" : "One person to hold this position presided over an event that was compared to “the Titanic sinking, the Pearl Harbor attacks, and 9/11 all rolled into one,” the “Mother's Day Massacre.” One man who held this position was swapped with John Maine for a man whose wife once threatened to have sex with the entire Mets' grounds crew. A recent holder of this position was inked by the Blue Jays following the 2005 season, and the current holder of this position came with Adam Jones from the Mariners in a deal for Erik Bedard. For 10 points, name this position held by B.J. Ryan, George Sherrill, and Chris Ray, often entrusted with ninth-inning leads at Camden Yards.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 5.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007614" }, "answer" : "The {Vision} After the {Sermon} or {Jacob Wrestling} with the {Angel}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.11118322890252, "num" : 8, "question" : "In a letter to the man who would go on to sell this work, its creator noted that his interest was \"religious atavism.\" Fred Kliener considered this work to be the first true symbolist painting, and a deer can be seen wandering across the canvas in the upper left, while a tree branch sets off the upper right as the stage for the main event. The artist described the setting of the event that gives this painting its alternate name as \"pure vermillion,\" while women in \"intensely black clothes\" and \"yellow-white bonnets\" look on. For ten points, identify this painting, in which Breton women observe combat between a divine being and a mortal, created by Paul Gauguin.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Oklahoma A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc98b3d831d6a004859" }, "answer" : "ferromagnetism", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.630596146686, "num" : 2, "question" : "The prevalent theory explaining this property explains its strongest state, saturation, by positing that all domains are oriented in the same direction as articulated by Pierre-Ernest Weiss. The anti- variety of this property is activated at a threshold named for Neel, and materials that exhibit this include Heusler alloys. An intensity decrease in this property after an external field has been removed and reapplied is called hysteresis, and materials lose this property at temperatures above the Curie point. Also occurring in gadolinium, cobalt, and nickel, for 10 points, name this type of magnetism named for its occurrence in iron.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 06 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4c8b3d831d6a002aea" }, "answer" : "{Henri Matisse}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6094106293749, "num" : 9, "question" : "The Museum of Modern Art displayed a painting by this man upside down for 47 days before some one noticed; besides La Bateau,  A picture frame, dark jug, and leaping statue appear on a tall draped desk in this artist's Woman Reading.  He depicted flowers in his Annelies, White Tulips, and Still Life with [*] Geraniums; he's also famous for paper cutouts and for founding an art movement including Andre Derain. Also known for painting a woman serving numerous fruits, The Red Room, he painted five figures holding arms in a circle in another work. For 10 points, name this painter of The Dance, Green Stripe, and Blue Nude, the leading French Fauvist.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407c8b3d831d6a007293" }, "answer" : "{nuclear} fission {reactors} or fission {reactors} [{grudgingly} accept {nuclear power plants}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6870900338981, "num" : 19, "question" : "Operation in these devices is governed by the multi-group equations, which give the scalar flux; the power density in one is given by the average binding energy release times the scalar flux times the cross-section for their namesake process. Some of these have hard, fast spectra and use liquid metal coolant, but more conventional moderation is with graphite or water. For 10 points, name these devices including PWR's, BWR's and breeders that split atoms of uranium, plutonium or thorium via fission to make electricity.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a00523a" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Iraq} [or {Al-Jumhhuriyah al-Iraqiyah}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.374226717744, "num" : 12, "question" : "In 1921, Percy Cox oversaw a plebiscite in this country which ratified Faysal I (FEISS-ul) as its king. In 1968, the Arif government of this country was overthrown by the Revolutionary Command Council. This country's government used chemical weapons against internal opposition at Halabja (huh-LAB-juh) in 1988, in fear that this nation's minorities might collaborate with this country's eastern neighbor. During rule by the Ba'ath Party, this country fought a 1980 to 1990 war with Iran. For 10 points, name this country whose invasion of Kuwait in 1990 sparked the first Persian Gulf War.", "round" : "4q2-14.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006e91" }, "answer" : "Lucius {Cornelius Sulla} Felix [accept {Felix} before mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1746651558206, "num" : 14, "question" : "He gained political power with the marriage to his fourth wife, Caecilia Metella, and he was replaced in the Asian command by Lucius Valerius Flaccus. He instituted the Lex Cornelia Majestatis, a treason law, and his victory at the Colline Gate solidified his power. During the invasion of Cimbri, he was transferred to the service of Quintus Lutatius Catulus, and in 88 BCE, he was placed in command in the war against Mithradates. For 10 points name this dictator of Rome and rival of Gaius Marius who assumed the name Felix.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b8a" }, "answer" : "the {Death} and the {Maiden quartet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.80077443714254, "num" : 9, "question" : "Foulds and Stein both expanded this work into a symphony.  Based on a Matthius Claudius poem, it starts with a sonata that moves through D minor, F major, and A minor and it ends with a sonata-rondo tarantella in 6/8 presto. The second movement of this work was (*) adapted from the composer's previously published song, giving the piece its name. Following the Rosamunde in the sequence of the composer's quartets, for 10 points, name this Schubert piece depicting some medieval iconography.", "round" : "10_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f52" }, "answer" : "{Declaration} of {Sentiments} and {Resolutions}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.12264148471877, "num" : 5, "question" : "This document claims that history proves mankind is \"more disposed to suffer… than to right [itself] by abolishing the forms to which [it is] accustomed.\" After quoting Blackstone that \"man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness,\" this document goes on to list twelve points, among which are that \"the equality of (*) human rights results necessarily from the fact of the identity of the race in capabilities and responsibilities\" and that a \"perverted application of the Scriptures\" has caused a certain group of people to be confined to \"corrupt customs.\" Its ninth point dealt with the issue of voting, and its one hundred signers included Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For 10 points, name this 1848 document, the product of the Seneca Falls Convention.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a003812" }, "answer" : "{Ra} or {Re}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.5350331515074, "num" : 15, "question" : "The all-black bull Mnevis was a manifestation of this deity, whose soul was represented by the Bennu bird. The grandfather of Geb and Nut, he fathered Tefnut and is either the husband or father of Hathor. In the form of a cat, he repeatedly slays an evil serpent. Riding a barge each night, he would defeat Apep, the demon of darkness, before turning back towards the east. He was sometimes combined with Atum, Horus, or Amun. For 10 points, name Egyptian sun god.", "round" : "Round 05.doc", "seen" : 455, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a0016bb" }, "answer" : "{Druze} [or {Durzi}; or {Duruz}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 393.1666718889028, "num" : 1, "question" : "Members of this community carried out the 1860 massacres at Dayr al-Qamr and Zahlah. One member of this group, Sultan al-Atrash, occupied Suwayda in 1925 and sparked the so-called “Great Revolt” against the French. Another leader of this community was Kamal Jumblatt, who was assassinated in 1977, likely on the orders of Hafiz al-Asad. Members of this community are the only non-(*) Jewish group widely represented in the Israel Defense Forces. This group traces its origins to the Persian Hamza ibn Ali, and to al-Hakim, a Fatimid Caliph who vanished in 1021. Represented by a five-pointed star, this is, for 10 points, what offshoot of Shi‘i Islam prominent in Israel, Syria, and Lebanon?", "round" : "Packet 21 - TB 5.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e948b3d831d6a00002b" }, "answer" : "{quadratic reciprocity} theorem [accept {Gauss} ’ {golden theorem} or {aureum theorema} before mention]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.73217258136719, "num" : 18, "question" : "Eisenstein gave a proof of this theorem which involves writing the sine of m times x over the sine of x, where m is an odd integer, in terms of the product of sine squared of x terms minus a correction factor. A consequence of this statement is the genus theorem, which states that the Diophantine equation “x squared plus y squared equals p” is solvable for prime p if p is congruent to 1 modulo 4. This theorem is often written by setting the Legendre symbol of p over q times the Legendre symbol of q over p equal to minus one raised to to the power “p minus one times q minus one over 4,” where p and q are distinct odd primes. For ten points, identify this theorem, sometimes called “Gauss’ golden theorem,” which states that the congruences “x squared congruent to q mod p” and “x square congruent to p mod q” are both solvable or unsolvable unless both p and q have remainder 3 when divided by 4.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec08b3d831d6a000a2a" }, "answer" : "{Long March} [or {Chang Zheng}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.63829009654, "num" : 2, "question" : "Several families of rockets have been named for this event, whose initial failures were due to Otto Braun's poor planning and the printing presses and typewriters included as essential equipment. Following the destruction of the (*) Jiangxi (jang-SHEE) Soviet, this event allowed the survivors to set up a base at Yanan, which was separated from Jiangxi by eighteen mountain ranges, twenty-four rivers, and a total of six thousand miles. For 10 points, identify this mass migration that concluded in 1936 with Mao Zedong leading a newly secure Chinese Communist Party.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f18" }, "answer" : "{Othello}, the Moor of Venice", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0571505299304, "num" : 10, "question" : "Act IV, scene i of this play sees its title character accuse another of crying crocodile tears after striking her, horrifying Lodovico. Early in it, the title character and his wife are accosted at the Sagittary by Roderigo and Brabantio, while later, this play's antagonist warns its protagonist against \"the green-eyed monster\" of jealousy. A handkerchief recovered by Emilia is used by one character to accuse Cassio of adultery in this play, set in Cyprus and Venice. For 10 points, name this play in which Iago tricks the title Moor into killing Desdemona, a work of Shakespeare.", "round" : "4q1-04.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a0002c5" }, "answer" : "The {Mayor} of {Casterbridge}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.28653673199005, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this work one character leaves her handwarmer in a barn after being rescued by the protagonist from a bull attack. While on trial for insulting a constable an elderly woman who sells porridge called “furmity” reveals an important action from the past. In this novel Nance Mockridge plans a parade featuring effigies of the main character and his mistress after Jopp reveals their affair, which shocks Lucetta Templeman into having a fatal seizure. In this novel Newson’s daughter Elizabeth-Jane romances her adoptive father’s rival in the grain business Donald Farfrae. The title character once got drunk and auctioned his wife for five guineas. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel about Michael Henchard.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Northwestern final.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003ee1" }, "answer" : "cholesterol", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.67892995406874, "num" : 2, "question" : "HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of this compound. Steps in its formation include the production of mevalonate, which is converted to activated isoprenes. Those isoprenes are condensed into squalene, which is then cyclized to form this compound. Mineralocorticoid hormones like aldosterone are synthesized from this compound. Its concentration in the bloodstream is lowered by (*) statins. This molecule maintains the fluidity of the plasma membrane at low temperatures. High concentrations of this compound in bile lead to gall stones. When this molecule is deposited in blood vessels, the resulting narrowing and hardening of their walls is called atherosclerosis. For 10 points, name this lipid often classified as either HDL or LDL, its “good” and “bad” varieties.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee18b3d831d6a001203" }, "answer" : "glycogen", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.510822302429, "num" : 26, "question" : "Patients with McArdle’s disease lack the enzymes needed to break down this material. The synthesis of this material makes use of a compound called UDPG along with an enzyme that creates branches along its linear framework; thus this material contains both 1,4 and 1,6 alpha glycosidic bonds. Marathon runners \"hit the wall\" when they deplete their supply of this material which is the animal analogue of plant starch. For 10 points, name this polymer of glucose found in the human body which is broken down by the hormone glucagon.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2c8b3d831d6a0022fd" }, "answer" : "{Dante Gabriel Rossetti}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.3852104160469, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man's large-lipped wife became the model for many of his works, including a painting in which she is cloaked in red as a red dove lands on a branch above her head, a rendition of Boccaccio's muse. This artist of A Vision of Fiammetta also painted a work in which a red dove clutches a yellow flower in its beak below a sundial on the hands of a praying woman who shuts her eyes and motions skyward. That painting by this artist is his depiction of Dante's lover as his own wife, Elizabeth Siddel. For 10 points, name this painter of the Beata Beatrix and writer of the sonnet sequence The House of Life and the poem The Blessed Damozel, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - zFINALS PACKET 1.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a00583a" }, "answer" : "{Les Miserables}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4088714395185, "num" : 12, "question" : "One character in this novel must choose to defend the father of a woman he loves or the protagonist of this work; another of its characters, Little Gavroche, is killed during a political riot. The protagonist of this work is required to carry a yellow passport to note that he is a (*) felon. The Bishop of Digne saves the main character's life by claiming he has given a candlestick as a gift. This novel's protagonist gives away Cosette when she marries Marius. For 10 points, name this Victor Hugo novel in which a loaf of bread is stolen by Jean Valjean.", "round" : "tourn9-11.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0b8b3d831d6a001ba0" }, "answer" : "Zoroastrianism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 393.0910294950008, "num" : 17, "question" : "This belief system's apocalypse is called Frashokereti, and one heresy in this belief system was called Zurvanism. Funerary rites in this religion include leaving the dead on raised platforms called towers of silence, and the primary conflict between good and evil in this religion is represented by the beings Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. For 10 points, name this religion named after a certain Persian prophet.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dc4" }, "answer" : "{speciation} [accept {allopatric speciation} before mentioned; prompt on {evolution}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2812821383122, "num" : 18, "question" : "The theory of punctuated equilibrium requires one form of this process to be less common than another; the latter form of this process was postulated by Ernst Mayr and is sometimes considered a subtype of the former. That form of this process occurs when a subgroup colonizes an area on the borders of the population's viable range, resulting in substantial genetic drift, and is called peripatric. The vicariant form of one type of this process occurs when a geologic event separates an extant population into two roughly equal groups; that type is called allopatric. For 10 points, name this process wherein two populations begin to reproduce separately, eventually isolating and forming new examples of a taxonomic classification more specific than genus.", "round" : "04 HFT.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407c8b3d831d6a00727b" }, "answer" : "Pan", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.9881478587631, "num" : 20, "question" : "Plutarch claims that Thamus proclaimed this figure's death in Palodes to much lamentation. This figure is sometimes credited with fathering Iambe with Echo, and his pursuit of the nymph Pitys saw her become a pine tree to escape this figure. Tmolus officiated a contest between this man and Apollo that ended with King Midas ruling in this character's favor, earning ass-ears as punishment. His attempted rape of Syrinx ended when she turned into a bunch of reeds. For 10 points, name this half-goat god of shepherds who played his namesake pipes.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 460, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7e8b3d831d6a00369e" }, "answer" : "{Percy Bysshe Shelley}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.09141123830341, "num" : 20, "question" : "This author wrote a novel in which the title character seeks revenge on his half-brother for the sins of their father by compelling him to commit suicide. In addition to Zastrozzi, he asserted the values “Love, Hope, and Self-Esteem” in one poem, and in another, he writes about the title landform “Power dwells apart in its tranquility // Remote, serene, and inaccessible” In addition to “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “Mont Blanc”, this man wrote a poem describing the titular being \"Wild Sprit, which art moving everywhere // Destroyer and preserver, hear, O hear!\", and in a poem that notes a \"wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command\" of an object that ironically invites viewers to \"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!\" For 10 points, name this English poet, author of \"Ode to the West Wind\" and \"Ozymandias.\"", "round" : "BSUNotreDame.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040c5" }, "answer" : "Shanghai", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.7848390263971, "num" : 12, "question" : "Parks in this city include one called Riverside Promenade which offers a view of a section of the city called the Bund that contains numerous buildings built by the British and French. This city's Century Park is its largest, located in Pudong, and other attractions include the Jade Buddha Temple which contains the Hall of the Kings of Heaven. A tea house is located in the center of a lake in this city located near the Yu Garden. This city is located just south of Hengsha Island and east of Lake Tai, the source of the Huangpu River which bisects this city, but more notable is this city's location on the delta of the Yangtze. For 10 points, name this Chinese port city located east of Nanjing on the East China Sea.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Rice + Michigan.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f5c" }, "answer" : "{Guy Montag} [accept either name]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.44142180099152, "num" : 15, "question" : "At the end of the novel he appears in, this character remembers that he had met his wife in Chicago, a fact he had previously forgotten. He receives a device known as “the green bullet,” which allows his friend to secretly talk to him, and due to an injured leg, he is almost run over by a car driven by children, whom this character suspects of killing his neighbor. Among his coworkers are the quiet Black and Stoneman, while other characters he encounters include his wife's friends (*) Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles, to whom he reads “Dover Beach.” In the chapter “Burning Bright,” he is told that he represents the “back-up copy” of the Book of Ecclesiastes by Granger.  Earlier, he kills his boss, Captain Beatty, prompting the Mechanical Hound to hunt him down. For 10 points, name this literary character, a fireman who burns books in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40198b3d831d6a005b18" }, "answer" : "{Eugene Ionesco} [or {Eugene Ionescu}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.66723106126301, "num" : 21, "question" : "This author wrote a work in which the fascist Mother Peep gives a speech as Edouard and the main character frantically search for a briefcase containing “evidence” about the title character, who lures victims like Dany to a pool by offering to show them a “picture of the Colonel.” Another of his plays sees The Martins pay a visit to The Smiths, and the Fire Chief plays a game of ding-dong ditch and remarks about the titular unseen character “who always wears her hair in the same way”. For 10 points, name this absurdist playwright of The Killer and The Bald Soprano, who also wrote a work in which everyone but Berengér become the titular animals, Rhinoceros.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 3.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a004914" }, "answer" : "{Soren Aabye Kierkegaard}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 465.9728623640258, "num" : 16, "question" : "He discusses the relations between Socratic recollection, Christian divinity, and the truth in his Philosophical Fragments, and examines the concept of despair and sin in his The Sickness Unto Death. In a more famous work, he examined the absolute duty to God as one of the three problemata that followed a Panegyric Upon Abraham, and in his most famous work he examined hedonism vs. ethics with the question How should we live?, a work he published under the pseudonym of Victor Eremita. For 10 points, identify this Danish philosopher and author of Fear and Trembling and Either/Or.", "round" : "FKT Editor 1.rtf", "seen" : 309, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e70" }, "answer" : "“The {Open Boat}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.9450679912698, "num" : 16, "question" : "One character in this work remembers the lamenting line “I never more shall see my own, my native land” from Caroline Norton's poem “Bingen on the Rhine.” This work ends with the statement “[when] the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice...they felt that they could be interpreters.” One character repeats the phrase “Funny they don't see us” before mistaking a man waving a coat from an omnibus for a member of a life crew in this story, which ends when Billie the oiler dies, while the cook, the correspondent, and the captain are rescued. For 10 points, name this story about four men trying to reach shore in the title vessel by Stephen Crane.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3b8b3d831d6a0026b9" }, "answer" : "Intelligence", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.31478568050079, "num" : 3, "question" : "One test for this concept involves 2-by-2 and 3-by-3 sets of patterns known as Raven's Progressive Matrices. One theory of this concept uses the method of Tetrad Differences to analytically prove the Two-Factor theory of this concept developed by Charles Spearman. Sternberg and Salter define it as Goal-directed adaptive behavior and Wechsler describes it as “aggregate global capacity of the individual to act.” Salovey and Mayer coined an emotional form of this concept, and the Flynn effect suggests that it has been increasing linearly since the earliest tests for it. For 10 points, name this concept often measured in quotient form, a test for which was famously developed at Stanford by Alfred Binet.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 10.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045db" }, "answer" : "{gods} of {thunder} [or {storm gods}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.6750162091106, "num" : 11, "question" : "One of these entities is a son of Anu named Teshub. In addition to being a god of death, the Aztec deity Xolotl (show-LOT-ul) is depicted as a god of this type. Another example of one of these figures is a deity in Hindu mythology who was cursed by Gautama and was named Indra. One of these figures battles with the serpent Jormungandr (YOUR-mun-gone-dur) and is the possessor of the hammer Mjolnir (MYOL-neer). For 10 points, name this type of god that includes the Norse god Thor.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 451, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d8f" }, "answer" : "{Anna Karenina}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9797578819562, "num" : 8, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel meets characters like Sappho Sholtz and Madame Stahl, who never leaves her bed in fear of showing her legs. One character in this novel is injured when his horse Frou- Frou trips while racing Gladiator. The protagonist of this novel has a son named Seryozha and a brother named Stepan Oblansky. A subplot in this novel concerns the sister of the title character, Kitty, who marries Konstantin Levin. For 10 points, name this novel about a woman who shacks up with Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train, written by Leo Tolstoy.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a0006e3" }, "answer" : "{Lady Chatterley’s Lover}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2623111272696, "num" : 14, "question" : "The title character of this novel is capable of shifting in and out of the Derbyshire accent that is characteristic of the neighboring coal miners. The main character has lovers such as the abstract painter Duncan Forbes, an Irish playwright named Michaelis, and the title character. Set at the Wragby estate owned by an (*) impotent, wheelchair-bound World War I veteran named Clifford, this novel details the torrid sexual affair of Clifford’s wife Constance with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this novel by D.H. Lawrence whose publication resulted in the obscenity lawsuit of Regina v. Penguin Books.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e78" }, "answer" : "{Mount Whitney}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.6691836512182, "num" : 3, "question" : "The astronomer James Keeler names a needle of this mountain, which was almost named Fisherman’s Peak after the profession of its first climbers. The town of Lone Pine can be found to its east in the Owens Valley. This southern terminus of the John Muir Trail is located in both the Inyo National Forest and the Sequoia National Park. The Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, is located a mere eighty-five miles from, for 10 points, what mountain in California, the highest in the contiguous United States?", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 387, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee98b3d831d6a0013bb" }, "answer" : "Pelops", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 97.89542662794702, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of this man’s sons killed an Elean named Iphitus, after which he fled to Tiryns and became Eurystheus’s herald. Another of his sons won the hand of Megareus’s daughter Euaechme by killing the Cythaeronian lion. This father of Copreus and Alcathous had an affair with the nymph Axioche which resulted in an illegitimate son named Chrysippus, who was eventually killed out of jealousy by this man’s twin sons Thyestes and Atreus. He once convinced a son of Hermes named Myrtilus to help sabotage the chariot of Oenomaus, allowing him to win the hand of Hippodamia. This man acquired an ivory shoulder after Demeter absentmindedly ate his original one. For 10 points, identify this king of Pisa, who as a boy was cooked and served to the gods by his father Tantalus.", "round" : "zFinals 2 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2c8b3d831d6a002311" }, "answer" : "{Gwendolyn Brooks}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.87866355595179, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one poem by this author, misidentification of the title characters' bodies leads the speaker to ask, “Who really gave two figs?” The speaker asks, “O mother, mother, where is happiness?” in this author's “the sonnet-ballad,” which is part of the appendix to a mock epic poem by this author. The protagonist's husband falls asleep while reading Sex in the Married Life while she reads Of Human Bondage in a novel by this author of two collections titled after “Bronzeville.” The sections “Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood,” “The Womanhood,” and “The Anniad” make up another collection by this author of Maud Martha, while a better-known poem concerns “The Pool Players/Seven at the Golden Shovel.” For 10 points, name this African-American author of Annie Allen best-known for “We Real Cool.”", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - zFINALS PACKET 2.pdf", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002a96" }, "answer" : "{Gibbs free} energy", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5954594993964, "num" : 7, "question" : "This quantity can be expressed as the Legendre transform of internal energy, and the partial derivative of this with respect to number of particles is chemical potential. Surface tension can be defined as this quantity per unit area. Used for isothermal and isobaric processes, unlike a similar quantity named for [*] Helmholtz, it is equal to the enthalpy minus the product of temperature and entropy. For 10 points, name this quantity which is negative for spontaneous reactions, whose change is symbolized delta-G.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 2 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002450" }, "answer" : "{Joseph} de {Maistre}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.50726678408682, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man identified his philosophy regarding the Masons in his Memoir to the Duke of Brunswick. One of his works draws on Origen's On First Principles to identify the ambivalence inherent in the expiatory virtue of “the effusion of blood,” though that work goes on to condemn the superstition surrounding its title concept. Besides Enlightenment on Sacrifice, this man defended a widely maligned institution in his Letters to a Russian Gentleman on the Spanish Inquisition. A series of debates between The Knight, The Count, and The Senator comprise one of his works, while the fourth part of another work begins by declaring every schismatical church a Protestant church. That work's second section deals with the title figure's relations with “his temporal sovereignties,” while the first section declares its subject infallible. For 10 points, name this ultramontane Savoyard who wrote the Saint Petersburg Dialogues and presented his Catholic apologetics in On the Pope.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a8b" }, "answer" : "{Roland Barthes}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.51337989442982, "num" : 13, "question" : "This writer borrowed Emile Benveniste's divide between the system of history represented by the aorist tense and the system of discourse in an essay that outlines the rise of the middle voice and questions the transitivity of a certain verb. Another of his works lays out a topos formed by the referential, symbolic, semic, proairetic, and hermeneutic codes. He may be best-known for an essay that claims that language “knows a subject, not a person” and advocates the advent of the “scriptor”. For 10 points, name this structuralist who analyzed Balzac's “Sarrasine” in his S/Z and who claimed that “the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author”.", "round" : "Finals 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40418b3d831d6a006498" }, "answer" : "“A & {P}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.85206337785348, "num" : 15, "question" : "This work's narrator compares a girl's breasts to “the two smoothest scoops of vanilla I had ever known,” and observes that his parents pour Schlitz “in tall glasses with 'They'll Do It Every Time' cartoons stenciled on” when guests visit. It compares customers to “house-slaves in pin curlers” and “sheep,” and includes a brief conversation between the narrator and Stokesie. Ending with the narrator realizing “how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter,” this short story climaxes with “Queenie” being chastised by Lengel for wearing a bathing suit to purchase herring snacks, which leads the narrator to quit the title establishment. FTP, name this short story about Sammy, who runs a cash register for the title supermarket, written by John Updike.", "round" : "Packet_8.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40768b3d831d6a007125" }, "answer" : "{Bush Doctrine}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.7177420745138, "num" : 17, "question" : "(JG) James Forrest of West Point wrote that this was important regardless of the risks and costs, and Robert Kaufman also defended it, stating that it would help avoid the possibility of a \"world island\". This two-word term probably was coined by Charles Krauthammer, who used it in January, 2001 before the most notable inciting event. At this point, the essence of this policy was a general unilateralism, but by the end of the year it had taken on more meanings. Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were key to the ad- vancement and influence it has had in justifying two wars. Identify this modern political theory that Sarah Palin doesn't know anything about, which states that preemptive invasion of potentially hostile countries is appropriate.", "round" : "r4tossups.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a00146d" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Neruda}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8416346323211, "num" : 3, "question" : "One poem by this author asks, \"who are you, who are you?\" and begins, \"Thinking, tangling shadows in\n the deep solitude.\" This poet wrote \"the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture\" in a poem that\n claims, \"love is so short, forgetting is so long.\" He repeated the line, \"Deserted like the wharves at dawn\" in\n a poem that claims, \"It is the hour of departure.\" He wrote the lines, \"'The night is shattered and the blue\n stars shiver in the distance.\" He began one poem with the line \"The memory of you emerges from the night\n around me.\" For 10 points, name this poet, whose poem that begins, \"Tonight I can write the saddest lines\"\n is found in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40338b3d831d6a00614b" }, "answer" : "State of {Franklin} [or {Frankland}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.17672756151296, "num" : 8, "question" : "This entity negotiated the Treaty of Dumplin Creek with Alexander Outlaw, which set its southern border as the Little River. Governor Esteban Miro sent gold to entice this entity, and James White attempted to place it under Spanish rule. This entity's first proposed constitution prohibited doctors, lawyers and priests from election to its legislature, and the economic system of this entity was bartering. William Cocke defended this entity from a force sent by Governor Richard Caswell, and John Tipton defeated the militia of its Governor John Sevier. Native American raids finally ended this entity, and it then returned to North Carolina, although it later became part of Tennessee. For 10 points, name this attempted US state named for a Founding Father from Pennsylvania.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 13.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406d8b3d831d6a006f32" }, "answer" : "{Kurt Vonnegut}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.520293738693, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one of this man's novels, the narrator is forced to shoot a dachshund \"immobilized by dropsical fat\" that belongs to Resi. Many of his short stories were collected in Bagombo Snuff Box, and he wrote a novel in which a race of furry, seal-like beings replaces humans after an apocalypse, Galapagos. This author also wrote a novel about Malachi Constant's journey to a moon of Saturn, and a novel about a man \"unstuck in time,\" Billy Pilgrim. For 10 points, name this author of The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1a8b3d831d6a001ede" }, "answer" : "chaos", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.95527884829789, "num" : 8, "question" : "It often arises near transverse homoclinic points, as in the Smale horseshoe. A Poincaré section or first-return map for this type of dynamics will exhibit a fractal structure. In examples such as the logistic map, as a parameter is increased a sequence of period doubling bifurcations characterized by the Feigenbaum constant leads to its onset. It is characterized by positive Lyapunov exponents, meaning that small errors in initial data grow quickly and make practical long-term predictions impossible. Devaney specified three requirements for it: topological transitivity, dense periodic orbits, and sensitivity to initial conditions. For 10 points, what is this physical phenomenon, exemplified by the weather, in which a deterministic system exhibits apparently random behavior?", "round" : "MI MN B - Final.docx", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe28b3d831d6a004e2a" }, "answer" : "{Inca} [accept equivalents that mention the {Inca people}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0268364811782, "num" : 15, "question" : "This culture's deities include the moon god Coniraya and the goddess Cavillace, who bore Coniraya's child after eating some fruit. Another god of this people creates rain by shaking his jug, which contains the Milky Way. The chief god of this people brought a flood called the Unu Pachakuti and disappeared after walking across sea foam, and his children included Pachamama, Mama Quilla, and the sun god Inti. For 10 points, identify this culture who worshipped the gods Ilyapa and Viracocha, and who considered Manco Capac to be the first king of Cuzco.", "round" : "09 HFT.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a00398d" }, "answer" : "Ukraine", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.27765485388227, "num" : 11, "question" : "This present-day country saw German hunting parties take two of three wild Equus przhevalskii from this country's Askanya Nova Natural Reserve during World War II. This country's Kakhovka Reservoir, which is located within the Kherson Oblast, created a deep water route that allowed ships to sail up its major river. This country contains steppes commonly referred to as Tavriya. This country's town of Henischesk is the northern border of the Arabat Spit, which also separates Syvash, or the Rotten Sea, from the Sea of Azov. This country is the home to the largest section of the Dnieiper River and is separated from Romania by the landlocked country of Moldova. For 10 points, name this second largest country in Eastern Europe, with some historical steps at Odessa.", "round" : "Round by Matt Weiner Eric Mukherjee Aaron Rosenberg and Editor.docx", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea78b3d831d6a00045c" }, "answer" : "John Emerich {Edward Dalberg-Acton} , 1st Baron Acton", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 39.34305376699194, "num" : 4, "question" : "In one work, this man claims that “it is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority” in showing how absolutism can come about even in a democracy. This author of “The History of Freedom in Antiquity” succeeded Cardinal Newman as editor of The Rambler. He coordinated the editing of the first Cambridge Modern History. He sided with his instructor Johann Dollinger against papal infallibility. His most famous argument appears in a letter in which he defends criticism of authority because “the person who authorizes the act shares the guilt of the person who commits it” and rejects the idea that “we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men.” This thinker wrote that letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton, who'd recently defended Popes Alexander VI and Sixtus IV. FTP, name this British historian and thinker who claimed that “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”", "round" : "PACKET11Weiner.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408a8b3d831d6a0075c3" }, "answer" : "{rotifera} or {rotifers}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.64488934003748, "num" : 11, "question" : "Species in this phylum with thin laminae are termed illoricate, and members of this phylum exhibit 9 different morphologies of trophi, small jaws that line the pharynx. Parthenogenesis and the ability to survive desiccation through cryptobiosis characterize class Bdelloidea [dell-OY-dia]. The namesake feature of these pseudocoelomates [soo-doh-SEE-lum-ates] is used for propulsion and for sending food past the trophi by generating a vortex of water. FTP, name this invertebrate phylum characterized by a corona of cilia whose beating led Leeuwenhoek to call them “wheel animalcules.”", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Harvard A Brown B.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404c8b3d831d6a006732" }, "answer" : "{Poincaré conjecture}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9616862013936, "num" : 2, "question" : "Its generalized version can in general be realized as a result of the h-cobordism theorem, but, as Milnor's exotic sphere demonstrates, it only applies to piecewise linear and topological manifolds in these cases. For three-manifolds, the proof follows from the categorization given by Thurston geometrization. This proof was recently finished when the finite time extinction of the Ricci flow was established. FTP, name this recently resolved problem in mathematics which states that every simply connected three-manifold is a sphere.", "round" : "HFT Round 07 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 269, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a002184" }, "answer" : "Rotifera", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.01346675818786, "num" : 19, "question" : "This phylum is unique in that its members do not exhibit growth or repair after embryonic development is complete. Characteristics of this phylum include chitin-containing trophi, which they use to grind up their food and which are contained in a pharyngeal organ called a mastax. One class in this phylum can survive extreme desiccation by leaving itself in a cysted state, known as cryptobiosis; that class is Bdelloidea. The largest class in this phylum is the Monogononta. This pseudocoelomate phylum gets its name from their crown of cilia that draws a vortex of water into their mouth. For 10 points, name this phylum of animals which has a name meaning \"wheel bearer\" in Latin.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - UCSD.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a00347b" }, "answer" : "{Benjamin Disraeli} [or {Viscount Beaconsfield}; or {Lord Beaconsfield}; or Earl {Hughenden}; or {Lord Hughenden}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1701489184052, "num" : 12, "question" : "During this man's first government, Robert Napier led a fiscally problematic campaign against Tewodros II in Ethiopia. A quote from this man inspired the name of the “One Nation” movement, a moderate faction of this man's political party. This man's government was criticized for not stopping the “Bulgarian Horrors” during a series of speeches known as the (*) Midlothian campaign, which also criticized his strong alliance with the Ottoman Empire over the Treaty of San Stefano. This man served as foreign minister to the Earl of Derby and represented Britain at the Congress of Berlin. Tancred and Vivian Grey are novels by, for 10 points, what rival of Gladstone, a Conservative prime minister of Jewish heritage?", "round" : "Round 24 Tie Breaker III.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069f8" }, "answer" : "Pascal", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0900814677589, "num" : 21, "question" : "Brian Kernighan's criticism of this language mentions how arrays of different lengths are considered different types, making operations on an arbitrary string impossible. Complex types can be defined in “record” blocks, and pointers are dereferenced with the carat. This language features a “repeat-until” loop. The program as a whole terminates with a period, and its main output function is “write.” Its object-oriented dialect called Delphi by Borland, for 10 points, name this programming language, named for a French mathematician with a famous wager.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064e1" }, "answer" : "{Bertolt Brecht} (or {Eugen Bertold Friedrich Brecht})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4557552637998, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man wrote about a town created by Begbick, Trinity Moses, and Willy the book-keeper in his Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny. He also wrote about a judge who orders Michael to be give to Grusha rather than his true mother. In another work, Anna Fierling sees the deaths of Elfil, Kattrin, and Swiss Cheese during the Thirty Years War, in his most famous work Peachum sentences Mack the Knife to death. For 10 points, identify this playwright who wrote Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera.", "round" : "Round 10 - UMN 3.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004acd" }, "answer" : "Kermit", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.9030625680927, "num" : 13, "question" : "A Brazilian River of this name was christened in honor of an adventurer who charted it in 1913.  His son shared this first name and received the National Security Medal for coordinating Operation Ajax. Another man with this first name appeared in David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game and a book about his getting (*) punched by Rudy Tomjanovich.  In a 1979 movie, a character with this name crooned \"The Rainbow Connection\".  For 10 points, give this name of the love interest of Miss Piggy.", "round" : "03_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000b95" }, "answer" : "{Anne Bradstreet}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8044609189965, "num" : 23, "question" : "In one poem, this author wrote that the value of the subject's love was worth \"more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.\" Another work by this poet looks at a place where once \"lay that store\" the poet \"counted best,\" which now (*) \"in ashes lie.\" She wrote that poem after her house caught fire. For 10 points, name this early American female poet of \"To My Dear and Loving Husband\" and \"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House\" who had her works published in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.", "round" : "tournament17-08.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048cc" }, "answer" : "{Tobacco Road}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8695587294641, "num" : 17, "question" : "In this novel, the harelipped character Ellie distracts another character from his turnips. Ellie is pursued by Lov who had tied his wife to their bed but that wife eventually freed herself and ran away later in this novel. In this novel, that wife was the fifteen year old daughter of the protagonist known as Pearl. In this novel, a black man and a grandmother are ran over by the evangelist Bessie and the sixteen year old Dude. A fire set for burning broomsedge leads to the death of Ada and Jester near the end of this novel. For 10 points, name this American novel describing a poor family from Georgia depicted as the Lester family by Erskine Caldwell.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 11 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000cc2" }, "answer" : "Venice", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5218772888184, "num" : 11, "question" : "During the Renaissance, this city was home to the printing press of Aldus Manutius, which printed the first European editions of major Greek classics. The majority of galleys for the Holy League at the Battle of Lepanto were provided by Spain and this city. Rulers of this city, such as Enrico Dandolo, annually threw a ring into the Adriatic to celebrate this city's symbolic marriage to the sea. For 10 points, name this northeast Italian city once ruled by doges, which is built on a series of canals.", "round" : "districts-05.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003f09" }, "answer" : "{Infinite Jest}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.98223866405897, "num" : 20, "question" : "Minor characters in this work include Marlon Bain, who suffers from OCD, and a teen who threatens to kill himself if he ever loses an athletic contest, Eric Clipperton.  A different character in this work killed himself by putting his head in a microwave oven.  Corporate sponsorship has resulted in years having names like Year of the Trial Size Dove Bar in this novel, and one character in this work used to be a burglar who now lives in the Ennet House.  The film which gives this novel its title takes its name from a comparison (*) Hamlet makes to Horatio, and its author has also written the novel The Broom of the System and the short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.  Some of the action in this novel takes place at the Enfield Tennis Academy, including many scenes with Hal Incandenza.  For 10 points, name this magnum opus of David Foster Wallace.", "round" : "Round 13 or Bentley.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a8a" }, "answer" : "dyneins", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.79004377312958, "num" : 1, "question" : "Like the ribosome biogenesis protein midasin, this protein contains on a single polypeptide six versions of the AAA ATPase domain. A 6-Angstrom resolution crystal structure of a portion of this protein by Carter et al. suggests a model for propagation of a conformational change of a linker region and down a coiled-coil “buttress” and a 15-nanometer-long stalk.This protein interacts with nuclear distribution protein E, and interacts through a complex containing p150Glued and Arp1with beta-III spectrin. One form of this protein is found in 96-nanometer repeats containing outer-arm and inner-arm versions of this protein along a structure that adopts a 9+2 arrangement of microtubules. For 10 points, name this motor protein that comes in cytoplasmic, intraflagellar transport, and axonemal varieties, and which moves toward the minus end of microtubules, unlike kinesins.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a005555" }, "answer" : "{reflection}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 395.465002567973, "num" : 4, "question" : "Johann Lambert names a model of the diffuse form of this phenomenon. None of this phenomenon occurs when the angle of incidence with a boundary is Brewster's angle. Its \"specular\" form involves only one (*) incoming and outgoing direction. Its \"total internal\" form occurs in fiber-optic materials and occurs at angles above the critical angle from the normal. Its \"retro\" form can be achieved by using three perpendicular mirrors. For 10 points, name this phenomenon, in which light hits a surface and rebounds in the other direction.", "round" : "tourn11-07.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a00731d" }, "answer" : "({Met-Rx}) {World's Strongest Man} (prompt on {Strongest Man}; do not accept {generic terms} like \"{strongman competitions}\")", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.702881927602, "num" : 5, "question" : "Ted van der Parre is the only Dutch winner of this annual competition, while former champions from Britain include Gary Taylor and Geoff Capes. Since hosting and winning in the first six years of this competition's existence, America has hosted only twice, in 1997 and 2007, and produced only one winner, in 2006. Events include Farmer's Walk and Keg (*) Toss, and former champions include Finns Janne Virtanen and Jouko Ahola, and Swede Magnus Samuelsson, the self-professed \"king of\" one of the signature events, the Atlas Stones. One commentator is 3-time champion Bill Kazmaier, while the three 4-time champions have been two Icelanders, Jn P‡ll Sigmarsson and Magn?s Ver Magn?sson, and the current champion, Mariusz Pudzianowski. FTP name this programming staple of ESPN2 that requires contestants to complete activities such as lifting barrels loaded with weights and pulling trains.", "round" : "Round 4.rtf", "seen" : 575, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a002000" }, "answer" : "{Alexander} the Great [or {Alexander} III of {Macedon}; or {Megas Alexandros}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.47963226679713, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man's death triggered the Lamian War. This man, who built a causeway to end a siege at Tyre, defeated King Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes. He was succeeded by a group of rival successors known as the Diadochi. One city he founded was the site of a World Wonder known as the Pharos. He commanded the left wing of his father's army while defeating the Sacred Band of Thebes at Chaeronea. Aristotle tutored this son of Philip II who defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battles of Gaugamela and Issus. For 10 points, name this “Great” Macedonian conqueror.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 5.pdf", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a003770" }, "answer" : "{Robert Walpole}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.92611700762063, "num" : 20, "question" : "Early in this man's political career, due to the efforts of the Earl of Oxford and Lord Bolingbroke, he was accused of corruption and sentenced to the Tower of London for six months. Very late in his career, he passed an act that forced all plays to be preapproved by the Lord Chamberlain; the Licensing Act was partly due to his portrayal as the despicable Mr. Peachum. One important supporter of this man had prevented her husband from dismissing this man; she was Queen Caroline. His influence decreased after starting a war due to a man's lost ear during a Spanish ship inspection. Earlier, this man restored confidence in the government finances after a certain company's stocks had crashed after rising from 128? to over 1000? in 8 months. For ten points, name this man who started the War of Jenkin's Ear and dealt with the South Sea Bubble, the first British Prime Minister.", "round" : "MichiganB.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024c7" }, "answer" : "{Don Carlo Gesualdo} [or {Gesualdo da} Venosa before \"{Venosa}\" is mentioned]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.58016315754503, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man extensively employed double counterpoint in Ancide sol la morte and Io pur respiro, while five and six voice settings of O vos omnes appear respectively in his Sacrarum Cantionum and Tenebrae Responsoria. Igor Stravinsky made two pilgrimages to this man's hometown and orchestrated his works for a ballet titled \"Monumentum Pro\" this man. His madrigals such as Beltá, poi che t'assenti and Moro, lasso were marked by an unusual use of chromaticism. He was also famous for making his servants beat him severely every day and for a marriage to Donna Maria d'Avalos that ended with his (*) brutal murder of her and her lover. For 10 points, name this thoroughly insane Prince of Venosa, a late Renaissance composer known for madrigals of extreme emotional intensity.", "round" : "Lully 2.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb98b3d831d6a00087e" }, "answer" : "{Eugene O'Neill}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7644555519801, "num" : 11, "question" : "One of this author's plays features Mildred Douglas, who is repulsed by Yank after seeing him speak crudely; that work ends with Yank likened to a gorilla in the zoo. In addition to The Hairy Ape, he wrote about the farmer Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, which was intended as the sequel to a play in which the sickly Edmund is the brother of Jamie, who is an alcoholic. Edmund and Jamie are the sons of Mary and James (*) Tyrone in that play, Long Day's Journey Into Night. For 10 points, name this American playwright of The Iceman Cometh.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eda8b3d831d6a001035" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Finland} [or {Suomi}; or {Suomen Tasavalta}; or {Republiken Finland}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.03500782419, "num" : 29, "question" : "A process named for this country was a Cold War term for the gradual increase of Communist influence across borders. \"Accords\" signed in this country's capital guaranteed human rights in the USSR. One long-serving president of this country was Urho Kekkonen. It fought the Continuation War with the Soviets, who had earlier breached its Mannerheim Line in the Winter War. For 10 points, identify this country that, since becoming independent from Sweden, has seen the growth of high-tech companies such as Nokia.", "round" : "21.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032c4" }, "answer" : "{Charles Ives}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.0094643358607, "num" : 6, "question" : "On and off for much of his life, this composer worked on, but did not complete, a symphony whose sections were labeled Past, Present, and Future; that was the Universe Symphony. This composer wrote two contemplations: one of them, in which the piano refers to the ragtime classic “Hello Ma Baby”, is Central Park in the Dark, while the other, in which four flutes respond to a trumpet, is The Unanswered Question. Another symphony by this composer, which in- cludes Old Folks Gatherin', is nicknamed The Camp Meeting. Another work by this composer invokes a Civil War Memorial, a Revolutionary War Memorial, and the Housatonic River. Name this American composer of Three Places in New England.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a00569a" }, "answer" : "The {Articles} of {Confederation} and {Perpetual Union}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3127290476114, "num" : 14, "question" : "This document predated the Fourteenth Amendment in its call for all non-vagabonds to enjoy the \"privileges and immunities\" of free citizens. It provided that colonels and all ranks below be appointed by legislatures, and this document ends with an invocation of the \"Great Governor of the World.\" It preapproves allowing its provisions to extend to (*) Canada, but its stance on militias was ambiguous and it did not allow Congress to directly assess taxes. For 10 points, name this document that established a \"league of friendship\" between the newly independent colonies of America.", "round" : "tourn8-07.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404d8b3d831d6a006778" }, "answer" : "{Korea} (do not accept either {North Korea} or {South Korea}; accept {Kingdom} of {Joeson} until the {March 1st Movement} is mentioned)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.6456696800888, "num" : 14, "question" : "This nation repelled an American invasion in 1871, but the March 1st Movement and the Donghak Peasant Rebellion were both crushed. It was the victim of the Treaty of Ganghwa, to which the US assented in the Taft-Katsura Agreement, while in the Treaty of Portsmouth Russia recognized Japan's claim to it. Later the site of negotiations at Panmunjon to end a war between Chinese forces that had crossed the Yalu and American forces that had landed at Inchon, this was, FTP, what peninsula divided at the 38th parallel that saw a war between 1950 and 1953?", "round" : "HFT Round 08.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004c8" }, "answer" : "Jan Christiaan {Smuts}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.901808089111, "num" : 15, "question" : "In 2005, F.S. Crafford wrote a biography of this man, and this man wrote a philosophically themed work called “Holism and Evolution.” In 1907, this man was appointed Minister of Education in his country by a man who he would later succeed in his most famous position, and James Hertzog’s tenure as prime minister was bookended by this man. This man who drafted the Covenant of the United Nations, helped negotiate the Treaty of Vereeniging, and was the namesake of the Johannesburg Airport between the years of 1952 and 1994. This man was eventually succeeded by Daniel Malan, the first prime Minister under the Apartheid regime. For 10 points, name this man who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1919-1924 and again from 1939-1948.", "round" : "2011 CO History Arthur Byrne.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a003700" }, "answer" : "{Eightfold Way}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.69380722171627, "num" : 14, "question" : "This theory derives from the isospin symmetry of nuclear interactions, with particle multiplets first identified as representations of the special unitary group of the third degree. This system resulted after the introduction of the quantum number for strangeness, S, which accounted for particles which are produced strongly but decay weakly in that only strong interactions conserved S. Since the strong nuclear force is the same for quarks of any flavor, symmetry results. Particles along the same line in this representation share the same value of S while those upon the same diagonal share the same charge, and in this system, a decuplet is generally represented as a triangle, and an octet as an octagon. For 10 points, what is this theory for organizing baryons and mesons proposed by Yuval Ne'eman and Murray Gell-Mann and named for a concept in Buddhism?", "round" : "Editors1.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdc8b3d831d6a004caf" }, "answer" : "Ligand", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.99006992252544, "num" : 4, "question" : "[EM] The Tolman cone angle describes the space that one of these objects occupies, and those with unclear oxidation states are referred to as non-innocent ones. Sometimes divided into inner-sphere and outer-sphere varieties, those that bind to each other across the long axis of a compound are referred to as trans-spanning ones. Hapticity is often required to describe their binding, and decrease in the parameter B due to the binding of these compounds is known as the nephelauxetic effect.  The spectrochemical series arranges them ? in terms of their ability to split energy between two sets of d-orbitals; this is described by a modification of crystal field theory named for these compounds. For 10 points, name these compounds with can be mono- or polydentate, a term used to describe the groups bound around a central metal atom in a coordination compound.", "round" : "Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40718b3d831d6a00700a" }, "answer" : "({Grigory}) {Potemkin}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4735703910702, "num" : 16, "question" : "A person of this name led the sieges of Ochakov and Bendery and built the Kherson arsenal. That person was the architect of the “Greek project,” which attempted to reconstitute the Byzantine Empire, and was said to have built sham “villages” to impress touring officials. A ship named for that man fired on Odessa while mutinying over maggot-laden meat during the Revolution of 1905. For 10 points, name this Russian statesman and lover of Catherine the Great, whose name was lent to a “battleship” that became the subject of a Sergei Eisenstein film.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405c8b3d831d6a006b08" }, "answer" : "neutrinos", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7985886058304, "num" : 10, "question" : "Cowan and Reines first provided experimental evidence for these particles in the Spectre Project. They are observed at Sudbury via the Cherenkov radiation they cause when they interact. They were found to oscillate between their three varieties at the Super-Kamiokande observatory, and these particles have very small mass and rarely interact with matter. For 10 points, name these particles that come in electron, muon, and tau varieties, and are leptons with no charge.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e84" }, "answer" : "Intel x86 Architecture (or Intel x86 {CPUs} or Intel x86 {Framework}; prompt on \"{Pentium}\" or \"{Intel Pentium}\" before \"{Celeron}\")", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.20013590087183, "num" : 6, "question" : "Extensions to this to make it better meet the Popek-Goldberg requirements include the Vanderpool project.  A modern extension to this can run in both Long and Legacy modes.  By default it disables the A20 line when started, which helps avoid crashes when running in Protected rather than Real mode.  A successor to MMX called SSE added SIMD support to this system.  The IOPL bit is present on systems of this type that are IA-32 compatible, while flags present on all of them include the Overflow and Carry flags.  The company that standardized it attempted to depart from it with the Itanium project, and rivals to it include ARM and PowerPC.  The platform on which the Celeron was built, for 10 points, name this 32 bit architecture powering Intel Pentium processors, which is slowly being supplanted by x64.", "round" : "Editor's Round Tiebreak 1.docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bd6" }, "answer" : "{Polarization} (word forms are {ok})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.24750361242332, "num" : 9, "question" : "The quadrupole anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background imparts this property upon it, which can be divided into curl-free and a gradient-free component, known as the E mode and the B mode. The TRISTAN instrument observed this property in the vacuum, which leads to the creation of virtual electron-positron pairs. The electric displacement field is equal to the permittivity times the electric field plus this quantity. An object that imparts this quantity has a fractional transmission of intensity equal to the square of the cosine of its axis. Dielectrics are particularly susceptible to acquiring this property, which comes in circular, linear, and elliptical types. Brewster names the angle at which light with this property is perfectly transmitted. For 10 points, name this property, which can refer to the separation of charge within a medium or the orientation of the oscillations of a wave .", "round" : "THUNDER Round 5.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eed8b3d831d6a0014b6" }, "answer" : "{Ascomycota} [or Sac Fungi before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7707290879916, "num" : 7, "question" : "The causative agent of Dutch elm disease belongs in this phylum, as does the causative agents of\n sporotrichosis, blastomycosis, and histoplasmosis. One organism in this phylum infects ants’ brains and\n grows out of their heads; that species is named Chordyceps. Candida albicans, a member of this phylum,\n causes yeast infections, and these organisms reproduceby plasmogamy followed by delayed fusion of the\n paired nuclei, though some reproduce asexually. This phylum gets its name from the fruiting bodies\n containing its spores. Like others in their kingdom, their bodies contain hyphae which form a mycelium,\n and familiar members include brewer’s yeast and baker’s yeast. For 10 points, name this phylum of fungi,\n sometimes called sac fungi.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007626" }, "answer" : "{Physics} ({Physica/Phusika})", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.63658877830021, "num" : 5, "question" : "Sarah Waterlow wrote a 1984 philosophical study on this work. The end of its most famous part uses the example of a wall, which comes about because stones sink to the bottom and wood floats to the top, or perhaps it comes about for protection. Prior to this, the work defines the ideas of luck and chance as those things which occur “for something” but only coincidentally, after discussing the four causes - the material, formal, efficient, and final causes - in Part 3 of Book 2. Book 1 gets straight to the main point discussing nature as a principle of change, and the final four of the eight total books all deal primarily with motion. FTP, name this work by Aristotle which deals with the development of a science, rather than mechanics or electromagnetics as its name might imply.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Princeton A UIUC B Midwest.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a004632" }, "answer" : "{Miguel} de {Unamuno}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.8184654302895, "num" : 4, "question" : "In one of this man's short stories, a racy storyteller befriends a man he calls “the Intruder” before dying at a banquet in the Union Coffeehouse, while in another, the protagonist becomes wary of progress after entering an unpopulated machine-run city. In addition to “Mechanopolis,” this man wrote about a physician who compiles the work All or Nothing while under the care of Dr. Atienza in “The Madness of Doctor Montarco.” In another work by this man, Eugenia runs off with Mauricio the day before she is to marry Augusto, and he wrote a short novel about the town Valverde de Lucerna and its secretly atheist priest. He expressed his cynicism in The Tragic Sense of Life, while a better-known novel centers on a man who writes his Confession and feels a strong relation to the biblical Cain. For 10 points, name this author of Niebla and Abel Sanchez, the founder of Spain's Generacion del 98.", "round" : "Packet 13 - Cheyne of Fools.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ee5" }, "answer" : "the {Titan} Symphony [accept {Mahler's Symphony no. 1} early]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.3353467243723, "num" : 18, "question" : "The composer of this work initially named its two divisions “A Chapter of Flowers” and “Days of Youth.” The second movement of this symphony is a German Ländler, and the third movement contains a dirge-like rendition of “Frere Jacques” in a funeral march. This piece was based on a literary work by Jean Paul Richter about a youth who escapes suffering, Blumine, and it was also inspired by an engraving of “The Huntsman's Funeral.” The first theme of this symphony comes from the second of its composers Songs of a Wayfarer. For 10 points, name this symphony by Mahler, his first, whose nickname evokes a race of mythological beings.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 8.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f3e" }, "answer" : "{Vincenzo Bellini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.45518877659924, "num" : 7, "question" : "This composer used a novel by Charles-Victor Prévost as the basis for his opera in which Arturo falls in love with the disguised-queen Alaide, while another of his operas sees Gualtiero survive a shipwreck on Sicily and find his lost love Imogene. In addition to The Stranger, he also incorporated the rivaling Guelphs and Ghibellines into his reworking of Romeo and Juliet entitled The Capulets and the Montagues. Known as the “Swan of Catania”, this composer of The (*) Pirate also created operas in which the Royalist Arturo becomes a criminal and Amina almost walks off a mill's bridge after she falls into a trance of somnambulism. This proponent of “bel canto” opera is best known for an opera in which the Roman proconsul Pollione dies in a funeral pyre with the titular Druid priestess. The Puritans and The Sleepwalker are operas by, for 10 points, what Italian composer of Norma?", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007669" }, "answer" : "{fall} of {Constantinople} (or {siege} of {Constantinople} or reasonable equivalents mentioning {Constantinople specifically being defeated/taken})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.64681731443852, "num" : 9, "question" : "This event was supposedly portended by the eruption of the Kuwae volcano, which caused a “magnificent red fire” in the sky. One source is a diary on it written by contemporary Nicolo Barbaro. The German engineer Johannes Grant was called in early, but the construction of the “Cutter of the Throat,” or Rumeli Hisan, restricted naval support, and a causeway of greased logs across the Galata ended supply shipments from Genoa. The injury of Giovanni Giustiniani demoralized the defenders holding the Blachernae Wall, as did the use of the Basilic, a 27-foot long cannon which blasted at the Theodosian walls. FTP, identify this 1453 event in which Constantine XI died in battle and Mehmed II took control of the Byzantine capital.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Vanderbilt A.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ee0" }, "answer" : "Echo", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.3558303662576, "num" : 13, "question" : "This figure's Slavic equivalent Ozwiena served the underworld god Peklenc. Philostratus claimed a bronze statue of her could be found at the shrine at Dodona. Children attributed to her include Iambe and Iynx; their father was said to be Pan. This Oread, or mountain nymph, fell in love with a son of Cephisus and Leirope who, in some stories, had been cursed by Nemesis, and who eventually turned into an eponymous flower. The unrequited lover of Narcissus, for 10 points, identify this nymph who was punished for distracting Hera by only being able to repeat what others said.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 8.doc", "seen" : 461, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005ca5" }, "answer" : "{Richard Bruce} “{Dick}” {Cheney}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7088398283813, "num" : 1, "question" : "As a congressman, this man argued that the President did not have to obey the Boland Amendment when he led the minority members of the committee that investigated the Iran-Contra affair. Almost assassinated at Bagram Air Base, he controversially chaired the Energy Task Force. This man succeeded Donald Rumsfeld as Gerald Ford's chief of staff, and his own assistants have included David Addington and “Scooter” Libby. This former Halliburton CEO was George H. W. Bush's Secretary of Defense. Name this man who shot a friend in the face during his time as Vice President under George W. Bush.", "round" : "06 TU.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc98b3d831d6a004854" }, "answer" : "{Ralph Waldo Emerson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.790534073254, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of this writer's works was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as the “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.” In that work, this writer states that the titular entity must become “Man Thinking” rather than “the parrot of other men's thinking.” In addition to the Phi Beta Kappa address, this writer also discussed himself as a “transparent eye-ball” that is “nothing” yet can “see all” and as “part or particle of God” and wrote that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” and “to be great is to be misunderstood.” For 10 points, name this writer who wrote “Nature,” “American Scholar,” and “Self-Reliance.”", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 05 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 247, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040e2" }, "answer" : "{Robert Alexander Schumann}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.13940635626204, "num" : 19, "question" : "This man wrote a cantata about a creature from Persian myth that tries to regain entrance into heaven. This composer wrote a set of variations on his imaginary friend Meta Abegg. This composer wrote his only cello concerto in A minor and dedicated to Frédéric Chopin his Kriesleriana. One composition by this man contains quotations of “Grandfather's Dance” and he quoted from that work in his later piece Carnaval. Of this man's four symphonies, the third opens powerfully like a fanfare in E-flat major and his first was written the year after he married Clara. For 10 points, name this German composer of the Spring and Rhenish symphonies.  ", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - RPI + MSU A.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f0c" }, "answer" : "{Aztec} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0746895216871, "num" : 30, "question" : "One leader of this empire created a means of gathering prisoners by fighting small flower wars with neighboring peoples. This empire became part of a triple alliance with Tlacopan and Texcoco through the work of Itzcoatl. A prophecy in which an eagle sitting on a cactus fed upon a snake was fulfilled near the site of its capital, Tenochtitlan. For 10 points, name this ancient civilization conquered when a man mistaken for Quetzalcoatl, Hernán Cortés, overthrew rulers like Montezuma II.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3f8b3d831d6a002783" }, "answer" : "{Marie Antoinette}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.22574841394089, "num" : 3, "question" : "Designed by this person, the Hameau de la Reine is a small retreat of faux farm buildings abutting the garden of the Petit Trianon, a refurbished chateau. A fifteenth child , scandal surrounded the rumor that it was seven years before this person's royal marriage was consummated, and that only after a lengthy intervention from her brother Joseph. Of her four children, one allegedly died in The Temple, the prison which was her home until just before her 38th birthday in 1793. For 10 points name this woman whose final words were an apology to the executioner for having accidentally stepped on his foot, who allegedly said of the peasants, “Let them eat cake!”", "round" : "DB 2010 round 8.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a00506e" }, "answer" : "{Ralph Waldo Emerson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.1163885470014, "num" : 33, "question" : "One of his works describes the experience of becoming a \"transparent eye-ball\" and in a poem set near a \"rude bridge that arched the flood\" he coined the term \"the shot heard round the world.\" This author of the poem \"The Concord Hymn\" and essays like \"The Oversoul\" and \"Nature\" stated that \"a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds\" in an essay that advocates avoiding consistency and conformity. For 10 points, name this American transcendentalist and author of \"Self-Reliance.\"", "round" : "4q1-14.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007645" }, "answer" : "{Susan Sontag}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.82984528061934, "num" : 15, "question" : "This author's critical work includes a discussion of Nathalie Sarraute's novel The Planetarium.  Walter Benjamin's essay on Nikolai Leskov, \"The Storyteller,\" is praised in her Under the Sign of Saturn. Her last novel was based on the life of the actress Helena Modjeska, and attracted controversy with claims that she plagiarized Willa Cather.  Max dies at the end of her story \"The Way We Live Now,\" and she discussed the work of Edward Weston, Lewis Hine, and Diane Arbus in On Photography.  She also wrote a novel about Emma Hamilton, The Volcano Lover, and an essay about Illness as Metaphor. FTP, identify this American author of \"Notes on 'Camp,'\" which was collected in Against Interpretation.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Rutgers A.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002459" }, "answer" : "At {Melville's Tomb}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.72997083561495, "num" : 13, "question" : "In a letter to Harriet Monroe, this poem's author acknowledged that it “may well be elliptical and actually obscure,” and answered her previous criticism of it by claiming that “as a poet I may... be more interested in the... illogical impingements of the connotations of words.” The word “monody” in the penultimate line of this poem may have been incorporated from a poem of that name by this poem's subject, and this poem's second stanza describes “the calyx of death's bounty giving back/ a scattered chapter, livid hieroglyph.” Samuel Hazo, the author of a book about this poem's author, argues that its third stanza, which describes a sea with “its lashes charmed and malice reconciled,” is stylistically connected to the poet's earlier works “Voyages,” and “Ave Maria,” while its last stanza claims that “Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive no farther tides.” Famous for its enigmatic assertion that the title figure “saw the dice of drowned men's bones bequeath an embassy,” for ten points, identify this Hart Crane poem, whose title refers to the resting place of the author of The Confidence Man.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054ef" }, "answer" : "{John Maxwell Coetzee}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2686833392363, "num" : 7, "question" : "In one novel by this author, the Magistrate attempts to return a crippled, blinded girl to her people following Colonel Joll's brutality. This author of Waiting for the Barbarians wrote about Lucy welcoming her father David Lurie to her home, after David loses his job as a professor for (*) seducing a student. For 10 points, name this South African author of Disgrace and a work about a harelipped gardener, Life & Times of Michael K.", "round" : "tourn11-02.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef88b3d831d6a001746" }, "answer" : "{Summa Theologica} [or {Aquinas’s Summa theologiae}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 467.0817074836232, "num" : 2, "question" : "This work defines “aeviternity” as the mean between time and eternity, since aeviternal things have beginning and no end. It also claims that heavenly bodies are moved by immaterial beings called “separate substances.” This work separates concupiscible passions from irascible ones, sets out natural law as the mentally-innate part of eternal law, and puts forward three conditions for (*) just war. This document written in objection-contrary-response format cites many authorities, referring to Aristotle only as “The Philosopher.” Its quinquae viae, or Five Ways, prove God’s existence. For 10 points, name this tome defending all of Christian doctrine, the masterwork of Saint Thomas Aquinas.", "round" : "Packet 4 - Prelims 4.doc", "seen" : 312, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001dfe" }, "answer" : "loas", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 98.22125480603427, "num" : 2, "question" : "Each of them is associated with a symbol known as a veve and their appearance causes a namesake \"crisis,\" which is marked by a state of utter exhaustion when these entities enter a govi and are said to \"mount a horse.\" These entities include Dinclinsin, who holds a whip and is renowned for his cruelty, while Limba is said to dwell in rocks and eat everyone he encounters.  They are said to be \"served with both hands\" when invoked by a bokor under certain conditions, or by a traditional houngan. They are divided into families including the Ghede, the Petro, and the Rada. For 10 points, name these entities exemplified by figures like Baron Samedi and Papa Legba, who serve as deities that possess Voodoo priests.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 2).docx", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9c8b3d831d6a00021a" }, "answer" : "electric {permittivity} (accept {relative permittivity} or the {dielectric constant} or {elecric susceptibility} before “{electric field}”)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.95212946645916, "num" : 15, "question" : "In plasmas above the highest resonant frequencies, this quantity is approximated by one minus the plasma frequency over the frequency of propagation. The assumption of causality connects the real and imaginary parts of this frequency-dependent quantity according to the Kramers-Kronig formalism, and it is related to the molar polarizability by the Clausius-Mossotti equation. The displacement D in a medium is equal to this quantity times the electric field, and for linear materials, the total energy stored in an electrostatic system is equal to this times one-half the integral over all space of the square of the electric field. A capacitor can store additional charge by inserting a dielectric to change this quantity. For 10 points, identify this quantity symbolized epsilon which quantifies the effect of an electric field on a medium.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Brown and Michigan A final.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a00301d" }, "answer" : "{Jan van Eyck}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.4471589087043, "num" : 15, "question" : "This artist wrote \"As I Can\" in Greek across the top of one of his frames. In the background of one painting by this artist, a man in a turban stands next to a man bent over a balcony looking down at a river. In that painting, an angel holds a crown above the title figure's head while the baby in her lap holds an orb with a cross. This painter of Madonna of Chancellor Rolin also painted a work in which scenes from the Passion are on ten medallions set around a mirror and a cherry tree is visible through a window. For 10 points, name this painter of Man in a Red Turban, who also depicted a single lit candle in a chandelier and a small dog in his painting of a couple in their bedchamber, The Arnolfini Wedding.", "round" : "1.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5b8b3d831d6a002e24" }, "answer" : "{Eadweard Muybridge} [accept {Edward James Muggeridge} or {Edward James Muygridge} or {Eduardo Santiago Muybridge}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.68960711220279, "num" : 15, "question" : "A series of works by this non-Velazquez artist inspired such Francis Bacon paintings as Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours. He once took a picture of himself sitting on the edge of Yosemite's Contemplation rock, positioned to push himself off, while works by this man in his more distinctive style include Boxing; Open Palm and Movement of the Hand; beating time. The aforementioned self-portrait was used as evidence of his insanity in an event which became the basis for an opera by Philip Glass and David Byrne, the trial at which he was acquitted of the (*) murder of his wife's lover Major Harry Larkyns. The work he is best known for was inspired by a request of Leland Stanford and required shortening the exposure time. For 10 points, name this inventor of the zoopraxiscope and photographer of Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, whose photographs of the horse Occident showed that all its legs were off the ground simultaneously while it ran.", "round" : "Round 07 - Chicago B.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f868b3d831d6a0038b1" }, "answer" : "{Peter} \"{Charlie Hustle}\" {Rose}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.9306691861711, "num" : 6, "question" : "Stan Musial's last hit went by the outstretched glove of this man, whose first major league hit came off Bob Friend. In 1966 he hit a career-high 16 home runs. This man reportedly got his nickname when Whitey Ford claimed that he “hustled” to catch uncatchable Mickey Mantle home runs. In the 1970 All-Star Game, this player barreled over Ray Fosse, ending the latter's career, while in 1978 he had a 44-game hitting streak. For 10 points, name this former Cincinnati Reds player, the all-time career leader in hits who was banned from baseball for gambling.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a0005fc" }, "answer" : "{fats} [or {fatty acids}; accept {adipose tissue} before mentioned; prompt on {lipidss}; accept {oil}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8421673967969, "num" : 10, "question" : "In addition to apoptosis, the CIDEA gene plays a role in the breakdown of these. The tissue associated with this is responsible for much of the body's thermogenesis. Leptin acts as an indicator of the level of this in the body. It is stored in tissue that can be brown or white. This is stored in adipose tissue. These are triglycerides, meaning they are lipids. Trans ones are associated with heart disease and they can be saturated or unsaturated. For 10 points, name this material that stores energy in the long term for humans and whose presence brings about an increase in weight.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004933" }, "answer" : "{X} chromosome", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5732753353659, "num" : 22, "question" : "They can be inactivated in a process called lyonization and form Barr bodies as a result. One mutation in it can cause over 200 repeats of the CGG sequence and results in a failure to express the FMR1 protein, leading to retardation. One disorder associated with this chromosome can cause webbed neck and horseshoe kidney, which was discovered by Ullrich and Turner. For 10 points, identify this sex chromosome that carries the gene for hemophilia and colorblindness.", "round" : "FKT Editor 2.rtf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffc8b3d831d6a005438" }, "answer" : "Of {Mice} and {Men}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.936062623281, "num" : 13, "question" : "Two characters in this work discuss whether or not a letter was written by an acquaintance named Bill Tenner. In it, the stable buck Crooks rails against books and is complimented on his horseshoe skills by Slim. Carlson finds his Luger missing after earlier suggesting using it to kill (*) Candy's sickly old dog. One of the central characters of this novella dreams of a rabbit farm and accidentally kills Curley's wife. For 10 points, name this work which takes its name from a Robert Burns poem, a John Steinbeck novella about George and Lenny.", "round" : "tourn10-08.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006050" }, "answer" : "{Raiden} [accept: {Raijin}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.99001544201747, "num" : 12, "question" : "According to 2007 ACF Nationals, this god has the power to make snakes OR children appear. One Chinese Buddhist story about this god identifies him with the dragon Lei Gong. In that story, this god and his counterpart, Feng She, were evil demons defeated by the Buddha's army of thirty-three gods. This god has a companion who leaves scratch marks on trees, and this god sometimes eats the navels of children. This god is depicted as large, red-skinned, and carrying a drum, while his brother and counterpart is depicted with a bag of winds. For ten points, name this Japanese god of thunder and lightening, a colleague of Fujin.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a006100" }, "answer" : "{Odin} [or {Wotan}; or {Woden}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.7512595832814, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one story, this god manages to get help from Baugi and Gunnlod in stealing from Suttung a special mead made from the blood of a man. This god decided to give up one of his eyes in order to take a drink from the well guarded by Mimir to increase his knowledge. Another attempt to gain knowledge involved this god (*) hanging himself for nine days from Yggdrasil to learn the secrets of the runes. For 10 points, name this Norse deity who wields the spear Gungnir, rides the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, and controls the ravens Hugin and Munin.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 450, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e66" }, "answer" : "{second law} of {thermodynamics} [accept {Boltzmann's H-theorem} before mention]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.3314617287833, "num" : 12, "question" : "The Clausius-Duhem inequality recasts this statement in the terms of continuum mechanics. Loschmidt's paradox is an objection to another formulation of this statement. That formulation states that the derivative of a function given as the sum over all microstates of that state's probability p times the natural log of p is always positive and is called Boltzmann's H-theorem. The suggestion that heat does not generally spontaneously flow from low -to high-temperature objects is the Clausius formation of this statement. Stating that entropy reaches a maximum at equilibrium, for 10 points, give this statement that an isolated system's entropy will tend to increase.", "round" : "12 HFT.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061fa" }, "answer" : "{Death} in {Venice}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.42336322949268, "num" : 17, "question" : "The protagonist of this work has to reutnr to his hotel after realizing that the train station has accidentally sent his baggage to Como, sparking in himself a period of self-reflection. While on a boat ride, the protagonist of this novel encounters a couple of clerks from Pola, although he also meets a man with make-up and hair dye that give him somewhat of a fright. Another scene in this novel occurs when the narrator smells disinfectant in a public square, which causes him to fear illness. The protagonist of this work dies of the plague after a young boy turns around and stares at him on a beach. That young boy is Tadzio, who is the object of pedophilic desire by Gustav van Aschenbach. For 10 points, name this novella by Thomas Mann.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 8 - Final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a005967" }, "answer" : "{Harold Pinter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7441388082224, "num" : 16, "question" : "This author that wrote about Bel's wife Andy referring to death as the \"new horizon\" in Moonlight brought the town of Combray to the stage in an adaptation of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. This author imagined Riley getting punched after the protagonist is visited by Sands in his play that sees Rose going blind. Another of this author's plays sees the title occupation being offered to Davies by Aston, even over Nick's objections. This author of The Room created a note that reads \"Soup of the Day. Liver and Onions. Jam Tart,\" that is read by a character who debates about “lighting the gas” and \"lighting the kettle\" in a play about Ben and Gus. For ten points name this author of The Caretaker who created two hitmen in his The Dumbwaiter.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 5.doc", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f07" }, "answer" : "{Articles} of {Confederation}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.52389942226, "num" : 25, "question" : "This document specified that Canada could choose at any time to join the United States. Under this charter, the government passed the Land Ordinance and the Northwest Ordinance, but had no power to tax. The Annapolis Convention was intended to revise this document. Instead, a subsequent meeting led to this document's replacement with a new charter that gave more powers to a central government. For 10 points, identify this framework of the United States government from 1781 until 1789, when it was replaced by the U.S. Constitution.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b30" }, "answer" : "Ares", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.64754328806885, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one story, this god's daughter Alcippe was sexually assaulted by Halirrhothius. That murder resulted in the first trial in history at a location later called the Rock of this god. In another tale, Otus and Ephialtes, the Aloadae, imprisoned this god in a bronze vessel for over a year, and he was freed from that imprisonment by Hermes. One of this god’s sons, Lycaon, was turned into a wolf as punishment for attempting to kill Zeus. Another of this god’s sons, Oenomaus, was killed when he flew off his chariot because a bronze bolt was replaced with a wax one. At Troy, Diomedes wounded this god with the help of Athena, and this god attempted to avenge the killing of his daughter Penthesileia by Achilles. In some legends, this god with Harmonia is considered to be the father of the Amazons. For 10 points, name this lover of Aphrodite, the Greek god of war.", "round" : "FINAL_ASU_B+RPI.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002bef" }, "answer" : "{Bell's theorem}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.69321071286686, "num" : 4, "question" : "One generalization of this statement bounds a sum of the correlations between a, b, a', and b' between two and negative two. An inequality-free form of this statement concerns only perfectly correlated states and was developed by Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger. Doubt was cast on the former generalization, named for Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and Holt, by the experiments of Alain Aspect, while the latter generalization of this statement, which attempts to explain wavefunction collapse when non-commuting variables are measured, is intended to explicitly distinguish entanglement and the possibility of hidden variables. For 10 points, name this statement, which suggests that no local hidden variables theory can reproduce all the results of quantum mechanics.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060d6" }, "answer" : "Hachiman", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 97.72162615810521, "num" : 14, "question" : "In one form, this god gave birth to Prince Nintoku. The largest shrine to this god is found in Fukagawa. This god's crest is a mitusdomoe, or three-headed swirling vortex. According to legend, this god was once born to Empress Jingu and thus incarnated as Emperor Ojin. This figure was the patron of the Minamoto clan as well as the lord of fishermen. Many figures in the Tale of the Heike pray for this figure to guide their arrows. Syncretized as a Bottisatva in addition to being a member of the Shinto pantheon, for ten points name this Japanese god of war.", "round" : "RoundFINALS.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400e8b3d831d6a005878" }, "answer" : "Strauss", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6855221136939, "num" : 6, "question" : "One composer with this last name collaborated with the librettist Hugo von Hofmansthal on the operas Adriane in Naxos and Elektra. Another composer with this last name wrote upbeat pieces like the \"Tritsch-Tratsch Polka\" and \"Wine, Women, and Song\". This last name is shared by the composer of (*) Tales from the Vienna Woods and the \"waltz king.\" For 10 points, give this last name shared by the composer of \"On the Beautiful Blue Danube.\"", "round" : "tourn9-14.pdf", "seen" : 288, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff98b3d831d6a005394" }, "answer" : "{prisoner's dilemma}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.844385383185, "num" : 1, "question" : "In a book subtitled \"the Puzzle of the Bomb,\" William Poundstone applied this construct to nuclear warfare. The iterated form of this construct was the subject of a tournament held by Robert Axelrod, which held that \"tit for tat\" was the best strategy for approaching it. The only Nash Equilibrium in the iterated form of this game is to defect every time. In the most common formulation of this game, players receive six months if both stay loyal but ten years if their partner enters a plea bargain. For 10 points, name this common situation in game theory.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-social-science.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002857" }, "answer" : "{John Coltrane}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.91855784179643, "num" : 13, "question" : "One of this musician's standards is a pun on the name of a Tadd Dameron composition, first appearing on the album Blue Train. He played at metronome markings as high as 310 on his album Impressions. Critic Ira Gitler used the phrase \"sheets of sound\" to describe his melodic style, and on one album, he included a poem in the liner notes and mimicked the word patterns on his instrument for the movement \"Psalm.\" His standards include \"Equinox\" and \"Naima,\" and he covered a song from The Sound of Music on the album My Favorite Things. For 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist who recorded the albums Giant Steps and A Love Supreme.", "round" : "Round 11 updated.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b2d" }, "answer" : "{JaMarcus Russell}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.6537873002235, "num" : 18, "question" : "In his first season as a college starter, this man passed to Early Doucet to complete a 35-31 comeback win over Arizona State. Teammates Dwayne Bowe, Craig Davis, and LaRon Landry also went in the first round of the draft where this player was taken (*) first overall. He missed one start due to injury in 2008, yielding to backup Andrew Walter against the Panthers. For 10 points, name this LSU product who plays for the Raiders.", "round" : "06_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 77, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea08b3d831d6a0002c7" }, "answer" : "{Manitoba}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 101.8089341688901, "num" : 14, "question" : "The best book published in either English or French in this polity is awarded the annual Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize. Just like a nearby province, which hosts Ogopogo, this place is home to a lake monster, that is named after this province. This province’s highest point, Mount Baldy, is found in its Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Here, the Assiniboine River meets the Red River system, which also includes the Nelson River. Tourists come to its city of Churchill to see polar bears migrate inland toward the shore of Hudson Bay, which borders the northeastern tip of this province. This easternmost of the “Prairie Provinces” borders Nunavut to the north, North Dakota and Minnesota to the south, and Saskatchewan to the west. For 10 points, name this home of Winnipeg.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Northwestern final.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a0023ad" }, "answer" : "{Pigeonhole} Principle [accept {Dirichlet's Box Principle} before “For {ten} points”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.40296702203341, "num" : 16, "question" : "This statement can be used to prove that a sequence of integers with general term xn where n = ab + 1 contains at least one monotonic sequence with a + 1 terms, a specific case of Dilworth's Lemma. In addition to the Erdos-Szekeres Theorem, this statement is used to prove a regularity test for a language involving the ability to insert an arbitrary number of characters into a string, the pumping lemma. This statement forms the basis of radix sort, while the Fubini principle states that, if there is an average of x packets in each one, at least one of this principle's namesake structures must have more than x items. For ten points, name this principle that informally states that given x containers and more than x objects to place into those containers, one container must have more than one object, which was first stated by Dirichlet.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 07 - The Way a Ghost Dissolves.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a004709" }, "answer" : "{André Brink} [accept {Imaginings} of {Sand} before it is read]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.24782627262175, "num" : 18, "question" : "When hooligans burn down an ostrich farm, injuring the elderly Ouma, Kristien must return from exile in this author's Imaginings of Sand. A filmmaker researches the Black Death in France in his The Wall of the Plague. This man's declaration that “an artist must be a spiritual saboteur” led to the banning of his journal Sixty-ite. He wrote a novel in which Gordon dies in police (*) custody after investigating the similar fate of his son, leading Ben to become a political crusader. A major novel of this author has no narrator or third-person voice and is composed solely of interlocking monologues by twenty characters. In that novel, after a dispute over the affections of Pamela, Galant kills Nicolaas and Ma Rose observess the rebellion against the van der Merwes. For 10 points, name this author of A Chain of Voices and A Dry White Season, who railed against Apartheid as a pre-eminent writer in Afrikaans.", "round" : "Rd09.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005be2" }, "answer" : "{Snell's} law [accept {Fermat's principle}, {Descartes}' {law}, or {law} of {refraction} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.3165109744295, "num" : 20, "question" : "This law is supported by the fact that far from a particular classical path, phase differences are negligible because other paths see destructive interference, also known as Fermat's principle. One quantity in the Fresnel equations must be derived from this law, which Descartes independently discovered as his law of sines. By setting the refracted angle equal to 90 degrees in the associated equation and solving for the incident angle, this law can calculate the conditions necessary to attain total internal reflection, which occurs at the critical angle. For 10 points, identify this law of refraction, stating that n1 sine of theta 1 equals n2 sine of theta 2, as derived by its namesake Dutch scientist.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9b8b3d831d6a003d9e" }, "answer" : "{French Horn Concerto}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.60118115693331, "num" : 8, "question" : "A variant of this type of composition was paired with a Concertino for Violin and Orchestra in Vissarion Shebalin's Opus 14. Another composition of this type in B-flat major is Reinhold Gliere's Opus 91 and was written for Valery Polekh. Both Franz Joseph Haydn and Leopold Mozart wrote one of these in E-flat major featuring two of the solo instruments. The most famous compositions of this type contain the composer's derogatory jokes directed at their soloist, Joseph Leutgeb. That set of four works, the first in D major and the other three in E-flat major, were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For 10 points, name this type of composition written for orchestra and a curvy brass instrument.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fad8b3d831d6a0041bf" }, "answer" : "{salat} or {salah} or {namaz} [prompt on {prayer}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 42.57454498880543, "num" : 21, "question" : "One version of this practice can be used to determine whether an action is good or evil and is called the Istikhaarah. A part of this practice involves standing up and is known as I'tidal, while another involves returning to the original position during the Tashahhud. The Khawf variety is employed during times of fear or on the battlefield and along with the ishraq, is categorized with the Nafl type. The Jumu'ah version is performed in large groups and replaces the afternoon dhuhr on its namesake day. The process of ghusl or wudu must be performed before engaging in this activity and it is performed in repeated cycles known as raka'ah. Typically performed on a musalla while facing a qibla, for 10 points, identify this pillar of Islam that involves a five times per day ritual prayer.", "round" : "r05- Illinois-Maryland.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef48b3d831d6a00161f" }, "answer" : "{caprices} by {Niccolò Paganini} [or {capriccios} by {Niccolò Paganini}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8742208164185, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of these works includes a descending chromatic scale in parallel thirds that sounds like laughter, leading it to be known as “The Devil’s Chuckle.” Three of these are marked Posato, or “sedate.” The ninth of these pieces alternates between imitations of a flute and a horn, representing a shepherdess and a hunter. The last of these pieces presents a twelve-bar theme and eleven variations, one of which includes (*) left-hand pizzicato, before a finale rife with arpeggios. That piece, in A minor, was used by Rachmaninoff in his Rhapsody on a Theme of their composer. For 10 points, name these 24 monstrously difficult works for solo violin composed by an Italian virtuoso who was supposedly possessed by the Devil.", "round" : "Packet 15 - Superplayoffs 5.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a00061a" }, "answer" : "{Madame Bovary}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 360.8290878992993, "num" : 10, "question" : "At the end of this novel, the protagonist's daughter, Berthe, must support herself by working in a cotton factory. In this novel, a man named Hippolite has his leg amputated after a botched operation. The protagonist of this novel drinks arsenic in order to avoid the shame of her husband discovering her (*) affairs with Leon and Rodolphe. This novel focuses on a woman bored with her marriage to a country doctor named Charles. For 10 points, name this novel about the adulteress Emma, written by Gustave Flaubert.", "round" : "tournament17-05.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff58b3d831d6a00529e" }, "answer" : "\"The {Overcoat}\" [or \"{Shinel}\"]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.1357191668357, "num" : 25, "question" : "The protagonist of this story stops drinking tea at night in order to save more money. After being mocked by fellow copyists, the protagonist of this story is helped by Petrovich to spend eighty rubles in St. Petersburg. The protagonist of this story dies of a fever while ranting about a Person of Consequence who berated him for asking about an item stolen after a party. Akaky Akakievich haunts St. Petersburg in continuing pursuit of a piece of clothing in this story. For 10 points, name this short story about that titular lost piece of winter clothing, written by Nikolai Gogol.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e9f" }, "answer" : "serotonin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0046270829625, "num" : 17, "question" : "This chemical is metabolized into HIAA, and receptor antagonists for this compound include mirtazipine and risperidone. It is collected in blood platelets and enterochromaffin cells of the GI tract, but the main source of it in the brain is the Raphe nucleus. This neurotransmitter is a precursor to melatonin and is synthesized from tryptophan by TPH and DCC. One class of drugs targets the monoamine oxidase that breaks down this neurotransmitter, which is also known as 5-HT. For 10 points, name this neurotransmitter, which modulates sleep and mood and whose reuptake is inhibited by one popular class of antidepressants.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f4d" }, "answer" : "{Henri René Albert Guy} de {Maupassant}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8430010273587, "num" : 31, "question" : "This author continually revised his horror novella about invisible vampires from Brazil as he gradually went insane from syphilis, producing three distinct versions of Le Horla. He wrote a story in which Rachel slashes to death an abusive German officer, “Mademoiselle Fifi.” In another story by this author, the prostitute Elizabeth Rousset must negotiate for a coach's passage during the Franco-Prussian War. For 10 points, name this author of “Ball of Fat” who also wrote of Mathilde Loisel's labors to replace some fake jewelry in “The Necklace.”", "round" : "4q1-05.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000dd1" }, "answer" : "keratin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.6308098041918, "num" : 10, "question" : "This protein is produced through a process called cornification, and it is consumed by the fungus that causes athlete's foot. A beta variety of this protein adds rigidity to the skin of reptiles and contributes to the resilience of porcupine quills and turtle shells. That property is the result of this protein containing an an amino acid that forms disulfide bridges with itself through permanent crosslinking, That cysteine-based composition has led to this protein's abundance in human skin, as well as other parts of the body. For 10 points, name this protein that also forms human hair and nails.", "round" : "regionals-05.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005c0a" }, "answer" : "Mayans", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.7169355908409, "num" : 20, "question" : "This people's mythology included an incident in which the wasps brocaded on a cloak given as a gift came alive, stinging the enemy chiefs. It also features the goddess Blood Moon, who became pregnant after her hand was spat upon by a severed head in a forked tree. Her offspring would later trick their bullying half-brothers into becoming monkeys and would defeat the crocodilian Zipacna and the pretender Seven Macaw before besting the lords of Xibalba in the ball game. Hunahpu and Xbalanque are the hero twins of this mythology, in which humans were made from corn. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican people whose myths are found in the Popol Vuh.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 451, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004da" }, "answer" : "{Constitutional Convention} (accept {Philadelphia Convention} until mentioned, accept {Federal Convention})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.37850791285746, "num" : 2, "question" : "A depiction of this event was produced by Howard Chandler Christy in the sail lot of the Washington Naval Yard because it was so large. Junius Brutus Stearns painted a series of works depicting the leader of this event. One of the oldest attendees was the oddly named Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, while another attendee, James Wilson, developed an infamous proposal. At the conclusion, one man predicted it “will astonish our enemies,” while a Virginian declined to go because he “smelt a rat.” For 10 points, identify this event presided over by George Washington in 1787 at Philadelphia which set up a system of government to replace the Articles of Confederation.", "round" : "2011 CO History Bollinger Cheyne.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2f8b3d831d6a0023b5" }, "answer" : "Sura {Al-Barqara} [or Sura {Number} 2; accept The {Cow}; or The {Calf}; or The {Heiffer}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 39.39746503671631, "num" : 7, "question" : "The story on which this section of a larger work is built is the solution of a murder following a dispute between Moses and his followers about a sacrifice. One particularly oft-repeated part of this section is the\u000bKursi or Throne Verse, which is commonly used as a prayer before sleep. This chapter contains the earliest discussion of the haughtiness of Iblis, but is mainly devoted to such practical matters as the terms of divorce and standards of financial reporting, the subject of its 282nd ayat, which is the longest in the book in which it appears. At 286 ayats, it is itself the longest section of that book. For 10 points, name this longest Sura of the Koran that gets its common name from the animal sacrificed by the Israelites.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 08 - This Civilising Love of Death.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a00584c" }, "answer" : "{Millikan Oil Drop} Experiment [or {Millikan} Experiment]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.4841630521695, "num" : 8, "question" : "The results of this experiment were disputed by Felix Ehrenhaft, who claimed to have gotten values that were a fraction of the minimum possible value. Since the scale of this experiment was on a very small level, Stokes' Law was invalid, which meant that the pressure had to be adjusted in order to find he effect of the viscosity of air. However, an error resulted in the final value to be off by about one percent. It used two (*) charged parallel metal plates, creating a potential difference, which was then adjusted such that the electric force perfectly counteracted the force of gravity on the titular substance. For 10 points, name this experiment that resulted in the discovery of the charge of the electron.", "round" : "tourn9-12.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e20" }, "answer" : "{Jerry Rice}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.5478149286937, "num" : 12, "question" : "With Willie Totten, he was part of a college tandem nicknamed “The Satellite Express” at Mississippi Valley State. Traded in the middle of the 2004-05 season from Oakland to Seattle, this man appeared on Dancing with the Stars, losing to Drew Lachey. He was the MVP of the 1996 Pro Bowl, for which he was selected for thirteen times. Also the MVP of Super Bowl XXIII, he played alongside Roger Craig and John Taylor for many years. While playing for the team he was most associated with, he caught passes from Jeff Garcia, Steve Young, and Joe Montana. For 10 points, name this legendary 49ers receiver.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 19.doc", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047f6" }, "answer" : "{stem} cells", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3710156234446, "num" : 3, "question" : "These entities have been extensively researched at the University of Wisconsin which contains the Thomson Lab and Kyoto University which contains the Yamanaka Lab. The former lab extracted these entities from teratoma tumors. Sources of extraction for these entities can be found in the olfactory bulbs and the hippocampus, which yield the neural varieties of these entities. The small intestine's villis are sources of extraction for the epithelial varieties of these cells. For 10 points, name these pluripotent cells with adult and embryonic varieties which have caused controversy over ethics in research due to disagreements over exactly when life begins.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 01 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047ef" }, "answer" : "The {Grapes} of {Wrath}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.86372345103882, "num" : 17, "question" : "One character in this work bursts into laughter upon seeing some of the fashions worn in Oklahoma City and later declares his intention to study radios before wandering off along the river.  That character, Connie, is married to the sister of the protagonist of this work, and that sister gives birth to a stillborn child before using her milk to nurse a starving man back to health at the end of this work.  This work opens with the protagonist getting out of prison and meeting Jim Casy.  For 10 points—name this work, containing such characters as Rose of Sharon and Tom Joad, a novel of the Great Depression by John Steinbeck.", "round" : "9.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a00006d" }, "answer" : "{Kargil} War [accept {Fourth Indo-Pakistani war} or obvious equivalents; prompt on partial answers like “{Indo-Pakistani war}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.13080105162226, "num" : 19, "question" : "The attackers who launched this conflict had correctly anticipated a reduction in the defense force for the winter and planned for their attack to seize control of National Highway 1A. The attackers in this conflict had partially planned it as retribution for the FCNA losing the Siachen Glacier to the other side in this war 15 years prior. This conflict was sparked when a division of the Northern Light Infantry crossed the Line of Control, and major fighting in this war occurred around the Tololing Heights, which overlook the Srinigar-Leh highway. The counter-attack in this conflict was codenamed “Operation Vijay,” and was so successful that Nawaz Sharif was forced to recall all of his country’s troops from the occupied areas. Notable in part for its possible risk of escalating into a nuclear action, for ten points, identify this conflict fought around a namesake region of Kashmir between Pakistan and India.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors1Final.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072b2" }, "answer" : "{Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.1240000559483, "num" : 23, "question" : "One interpretation of this thinker's work posits a “Rule-Following Paradox” and is titled “[This Man] on Rules and Private Language” by Saul Kripke. This philosopher's lecture notes contain sections that discuss only technical words used in construction, and posit a “family resemblance” between objects, and are dubbed the “Blue and Brown Books.” He theorized “language-games” in one work, and claimed “that which we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence” at the end of another. For 10 points, name this man who wrote the Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 309, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a0009c4" }, "answer" : "{birds} [or {aves}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7229259717279, "num" : 15, "question" : "The robust nucleus of the arcopallium in adults of this class was used to show that adult vertebrates could grow new neurons. Animals in this class have a sternal keel and a fused clavicle called a furcula. Modern members of this class are divided into Palaeognathae and Neognatha. Organs found in this class include the syrinx and the (*) gizzard. The earliest example of this class is Archaeopteryx. For 10 points, name this class of vertebrates that save for a few notable exceptions like the cassowary, are capable of flight.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a001565" }, "answer" : "{Robert Walpole}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.704331172863, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man was forced to lower taxes in response to the Gin Riots. He managed to convince his hawkish\n monarch not to engage in the War of the Polish Succession, and put the Lord Chamberlain in charge of\n censoring the theatre with the Licensing Act. After the death of his ally Queen Caroline, this man\n experienced a decline in popularity caused by events like the Porteous Riots and the Cartagena Disaster,\n which occurred during the War of Jenkins Ear. Through his posts of First Lord of the Treasury and\n Chancellor of the Exchequer, he controlled affairs during the reigns of George I and George II. For 10\n points, name this man often regarded as the first Prime Minister of England.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40168b3d831d6a005a2c" }, "answer" : "{Billie Holiday}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.57729030470363, "num" : 15, "question" : "This musician sang on the original recording of Harry Woods's song \"What a little moonlight can do,\" and Ray Ellis arranged the orchestration for this singer's final album. Her discography includes Songs for Distingue Lovers as well as the aforementioned Lady in Satin. This singer popularized Sam Lewis's english translation of a Hungarian song by Rezso Serres called \"Gloomy Sunday. \" She also popularized a song which attacked racism by describing \"blood on the leaves and blood at the root/ black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.\" Besides that version of \"Strange Fruit,\" she co-wrote several songs with Arthur Herzog Jr., including\"Don't Explain\" and one about someone \"that's got his own.\" For 10 points, name this jazz vocalist whose standards include \"God Bless the Child,\"and who was nicknamed \"Lady Day.\"", "round" : "KLEE - Round 9.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a00644d" }, "answer" : "{Jerusalem Delivered} [or La {Gerusalemme liberata}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.11125687649473, "num" : 20, "question" : "This work's narrator delivers a useful Ptolemaic astronomy lesson before Gildippe enters a donnybrook. Later, a devil named Astagorre speaks to the Fury Alecto about an attack on the Dane's troops in Thrace. The Wiseman of Ascalon admonishes another character for his romantic interlude with Armida, who was sent by Hydraotes to distract the Franks. In Canto III, Erminia points out the heroes to Aladine, admires Rinaldo, and conceals her secret passion for Tancred, who loves Clorinda even though she's a pagan. After Lesbin is slain in the ninth canto, Solyman flees the title location, although Ismen predicts the arrival of Saladin. For 10 points, name this epic poem about the recovery of the title city during the First Crusade, by Torquato Tasso.", "round" : "Packet_4.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1c8b3d831d6a001f58" }, "answer" : "{Juan} Manuel {José Domingo Ortiz} de {Rozas} y López de {Osornio} (or {Juan} Manuel de {Rosas})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.89761806768365, "num" : 19, "question" : "According to Charles Darwin, this man put himself in the stocks for violating his own rule forbidding wearing knives on Sundays. He signed the Convention of Barracas with the general who executed his predecessor Manuel Dorrego, allowing him to gain power for two terms, after which he began a campaign against indigenous tribes. Vicente López y Planes became interim leader after this man's loyal Regimiento Aquino failed to save him from defeat at the Battle of Caseros. This employer of the Mazorcas militia lost that battle to the forces of Urquiza. The May Brotherhood produced The Slaughter House and Amalia as literature against this ruler, who was satirized in a book subtitled Civilization and Barbarism about a similar caudillo named Facundo Quiroga. Echevarria and Sarmiento notably opposed, for 10 points, what conservative Argentine leader in power until 1852?", "round" : "UCSD - Final.docx", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002352" }, "answer" : "{Norman Foster}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.53157249488868, "num" : 10, "question" : "He designed a ramp separating two glass domes stained with faux petals for the recently completed Elephant House of the Copenhagen Zoo. A subterranean geodesic theatre named the Samuel Beckett Theatre Project was among the uncompleted designs born from his early collaboration with Buckminster Fuller. He built a zig zag glass tower on top of the preserved stone façade of a Joseph Urban building in New York's Hearst Tower. This architect and his wife joined Richard Rogers and his wife in the abortive Team 4 firm, and his unbuilt designs include a massive self-contained structure in a conically helical cell built on the water off of Tokyo and named the Millennium Tower. He alternated two rows of light glass with one of dark glass in the spiraling façade of his building at 30 St Mary Axe, which has been nicknamed The Gherkin by London residents. He memorialized German reunification with a glass dome at the heart of his Reichstag renovations. For 10 points, name this British architect of the wobbly Millennium Bridge and 1999 Pritzker Prize winner.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 03 - The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a005207" }, "answer" : "{kidney stones}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5249086667317, "num" : 25, "question" : "Lithotripsy is the method of choice for removing these objects, which contain small amounts of mucoprotein (MEW-ko-pro-teen). The largest of them are sometimes known as \"staghorn\" ones. About fifteen percent of them are composed of magnesium ammonium phosphate, but they are most commonly composed of calcium oxylate (OCKZ-uh-late) and calcium phosphate. They are most noticeable when they end up in the ureter, causing back and groin pain as they \"pass.\" For 10 points, name these hard objects that form in an organ used to filter blood.", "round" : "4q2-12.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f158b3d831d6a001db6" }, "answer" : "{Institutes} of the {Christian Religion} or {Institutio Christianae religionis}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.27902762359008, "num" : 19, "question" : "A tabular summary of this work in Delaune's Epitome provided the basis for the “Hundred Aphorisms.”  This work's third book contains a refutation of Osiander's doctrine of “essential righteousness,” arguing in part from the author's belief that justification comes from the secret or internal agency of the Holy Spirit.  Its first book singles out Servetus in its discussion of contemporary Anti-Trinitarians, and the various editions of this work include an address with a “Plea for the persecuted evangelicals,” written to Francis I.  In addition to the prefatory plea on behalf of the Huguenots, this work includes discussions of a group known as the elect to illustrate the author's concept of predestination.  For 10 points, name this major work of John Calvin.", "round" : "Chicago A - Final.docx", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e9b" }, "answer" : "{dogs} [accept {canines} or equivalents]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9661017411854, "num" : 13, "question" : "Velazquez depicted a white one on a chair in his portrait of Prince Felipe Prospero, and Frida Kahlo did a self-portrait with a tiny Itzcuintli one.  One appears in front of a canvas, between a young boy and a female nude in Courbet's Artist's Studio, while a spotted one appears near the shore of The Hay Wain.  One of these animals is depicted with stop-motion inspired leg movement in a Giacomo Balla Futurist painting showing its \"dynamism.\"  For 10 points, name this type of creature that C.M. Coolidge depicted in A Friend in Need playing poker.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eea8b3d831d6a0013d8" }, "answer" : "Rhodes", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0538480752148, "num" : 15, "question" : "A Burgundian force under Geoffroy de Thoisy helped fend off a 1444 Mamluk siege of this city.\n Bayezid II paid a bribe to have his brother Cem imprisoned in this city by Pierre d’Aubusson, who had\n earlier defended it from a 1480 Ottoman Siege. After being expelled from Jerusalem in the 14th century,\n the Knights of St. John made this their base, although were forced to find a new home after it was sacked in\n 1522 by Suleiman the Magnificent. In ancient times, its harbor was home to a wonder of the ancient world\n which was destroyed in a 226 BCE earthquake. For 10 points, name this Greek island city which was home\n to an ancient “colossus.”", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006520" }, "answer" : "{Kristallnacht} or {Night} of the {Broken Glass}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4726711937692, "num" : 6, "question" : "Prior to this event, a key individual received a troubling postcard from his cousin Berta after a government enacted some vague provisions from the Enabling Act.  It was preceded by concurring edicts that expelled citizens from two countries into a virtual no man's land on the boarder.  This offense prompted Hershel Greenspan to step into a Paris embassy and murder Ernst von Rath, whose death Goebbels managed to tie to a vast conspiracy.  That killing precipitated a massive campaign of property damage throughout Germany and Austria.  For 10 points, identify this event on the evening of November 9, 1938, in which countless Jewish homes, synagogues, and stores were attacked, resulting in lots of window damage?", "round" : "Round 2 - UMD 1.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a0070fb" }, "answer" : "{George Boole}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.964474971639, "num" : 11, "question" : "(JG) Schaefer's dichotomy theorem applies to his namesake satisfiability problem, an early NP- complete problem, and his namesake inequality relates probabilities of several events in metric spaces. The satisfiability problem examines whether variables can be assigned so as to make a certain formula evaluate to one. His now most-noted work originally did not garner much notice, but Claude Shannon's MIT master's thesis written 70 years later brought his namesake math into the forefront of the design of telephone relay systems. His branch of mathematics now includes DeMorgan's Laws and is often used with sets and bits. Identify this British creator of an algebra dealing with truth and falsehood and logical operations in which variables often can equal only zero or one.", "round" : "r2tossups.pdf", "seen" : 273, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef98b3d831d6a001785" }, "answer" : "{Franco-Prussian} War [or {Franco-German} War; accept {1870 War} until mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.3325216288213, "num" : 19, "question" : "The losers in this conflict put faith in a machine gun called the mitrailleuse, while the winning side used Krupp steel to improve their field rifles. The losing side in this conflict disastrously split up its army following a defeat at the Battle of Froeschwiller, also called the Battle of Worth. The pivotal battle in this conflict saw a failed attempt to relieve troops under Bazaine by Marshal Patrice (*) Mac-Mahon. Prior to the outbreak of this war, Prince Leopold would have succeeded Isabella II on the throne of Spain. The victor in this war had earlier defeated Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War, and this war was sparked by the Ems Telegram. It witnessed the Battle of Sedan and brought down the Second Empire. For 10 points, name this 1870 conflict between states led by Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck.", "round" : "Packet 6 - Playoffs 1.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a0012fe" }, "answer" : "{Australia} [do not accept {Tasmania} or {Van Diemen’s Land}, neither of which are {modern day countries}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.17750868876465, "num" : 1, "question" : "One person from this modern day nation was called “Trugernanner” and was protected by the efforts of George Augustus Robinson. Massacres committed in this country are the subject of the book Blood on the Wattle, part of the “black armband” school of historiography associated with this country. This present day nation saw a human chain sweep through it to corral its native population during the Black War. This country saw the overthrowing of Governor William Bligh during the Rum Rebellion. Many children of natives were seized by this country’s government as part of the “Stolen Generations.” This country was the site of a 1770 landing at Botany Bay by James Cook. For 10 points, name this country that saw early colonies at New South Wales and Queensland.", "round" : "Packet 12 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edd8b3d831d6a0010dd" }, "answer" : "{Edward Franklin Albee III}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7546859325375, "num" : 30, "question" : "In one play by this author, one character tells the story of \"The Mousie\" during the section \"Walpurgisnacht.\" This author created the characters of Peter and Jerry, who meet on a bench in Central Park. This author of Zoo Story wrote of Nick and Honey, who attend a dinner hosted by George and Martha, in a play whose title question refers to a British author. For 10 points, name this American playwright who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "round" : "26.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002c9d" }, "answer" : "{adiabatic} theorem", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.39656034810469, "num" : 3, "question" : "This theorem was extended to unbounded operators by Avron, Seiler, and Yaffe and to a segment of that operator's spectrum, rather than an isolated eigenvalue, by Nenciu. This theorem gives a small error term given by the exponential of negative 2pi times lambda, where lambda is a squared over h-bar times the magnitude of alpha and a is the half-distance between the unperturbed energies at the avoided crossing; that is the Lander-Zener formula and gives the probability of transitions not of this type. This theorem holds that the eigenstates of a quantum harmonic oscillator can change in time as the spring constant varies slowly. For 10 points, name this theorem of quantum mechanics that shares its name with a term describing processes in which monatomic ideal gases change such that pressure times volume to the five-thirds is constant, those with no heat transfer.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004aaf" }, "answer" : "{Joseph} of {Arimathea} [prompt on “{Joseph}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.52580592641607, "num" : 9, "question" : "The Romans called this figure “Nobilis Decurio” or the Minister of Mines, while Mark and Luke referred to him as a bouleutes, alluding to his membership in the Sanhedrin. In the Gospel of Nicodemus, he incurs the wrath of Jewish elders for asking Pilate for the (*) body of Christ. He earlier caught the blood of Christ in a cup. For 10 points, name this figure, later referred to as John of Glastonbury, who sent that cup, the Holy Grail, to England in a story expanded by Robert de Boron.", "round" : "02_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a002168" }, "answer" : "Tosca", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.48820722615346, "num" : 12, "question" : "In the first act of this opera, the aria \"Qual occhio al mondo\" comforts a woman's suspicions of another woman who has blue eyes. Earlier, those two women are compared in the tenor aria \"Recondita armonia\", while later a soprano grieves over her painful decision in \"Vissi d'arte\". The tenor sings \"E lucevan le stelle\" while writing a farewell letter to his lover in prison. During the second act the title character of this opera reveals the whereabouts of political revolutionary Angelotti to the police chief Scarpia, who reneges on the deal to prevent the execution of painter Mario Cavaradossi. For 10 points, name this opera ending when the titular opera diva jumps off the Castel Sant'Angelo, composed by Puccini.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Stanford.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007622" }, "answer" : "{potential} energy", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.10291867796332, "num" : 1, "question" : "Anfinsen's thermodynamic hypothesis uses the minimum of this quantity to predict protein structures, and in the Henon-Heiles equation, this quantity is given by “one half r-squared plus one-third r-cubed times sine of 3-theta.” The Jeans length gives the scale at which one form of this quantity will result in the stability of a gas cloud. For a dipole in an electric field, it is the negative dot product of the moment and the electric field.  The derivative of this quantity with respect to a position gives the force field, and for a spring, it is given by one-half times the spring constant times the displacement squared. For ten points, identify this quantity, the energy a system has by virtue of its configuration.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Princeton A UIUC B Midwest.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048dd" }, "answer" : "The {Fray}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.8954300947953, "num" : 14, "question" : "Three songs by this band have included “Hundred,” “Vienna,” and “Dead Wrong.” Another three songs by this band have included “Happiness,” “Where the Story Ends,” and “We Build Then We Break.” The drums in this band are played by Ben Wysocki and the rhythm guitar is played by Joe King. The lead guitarist of this band is named Dave Welsh and the lead vocalist is named Isaac Slade. In 2009, this band released an eponymous album with singles like “Never Say Never” and “You Found Me.” For 10 points, name this alternative rock band with other singles like “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and “How to Save a Life.”", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 12 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 580, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f028b3d831d6a001970" }, "answer" : "{King} of {Hungary} [accept: {Magyar Kiraly}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.98393146181479, "num" : 1, "question" : "When this title was created, it replaced the earlier title of “fejedelem” [FEY-ed-el-em]. The second holder of this title won the Battle of Menfo; that second holder was targeted by the Vatha and Samuel Aba rebellions and was nicknamed “the Venetian.” Another early holder of this title annexed a neighboring country via the “Pacta Conventa” treaty. Charles Robert of Anjou was the first foreigner to hold this title and received it by election rather than inheritance. Another holder of this title organized a band of mercenaries called the “Black Army.” Holders of this title are granted the style “your Apostolic Majesty,” and it was first held by members of the Arpad Dynasty. Holders of this title wore the Holy Crown of St. Stephen and included Matthias Corvinus. For ten points, name this title that involves reigning over a Danubian country with capital Budapest.", "round" : "Packet 07.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b78" }, "answer" : "{Hall} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2754947661888, "num" : 11, "question" : "In 2005, Rikken, Strohm and Wyder observed this effect in phonons, proving its existence for uncharged particles. This effect can be quantified via the van der Pauw technique, and the mechanism behind it is the Lorenz force. The “quantum” version of this effect is quantized in multiples of Planck's constant over the square of the charge on an electron. For 10 points, name this effect in which the application of an external magnetic field to a current-carrying conductor results in the generation of a voltage gradient.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3f8b3d831d6a0027af" }, "answer" : "The {Art} of {War}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.10770043730736, "num" : 7, "question" : "One part of this treatise notes “water has no constant shape,” just like how in the titular event there are no rules. At another point, the author discusses four useful locations, mountains, rivers, salt marshes and flat country land. Its tenth chapter discusses “the attack by fire,” and this treatise, which shares its name with a Niccolo Machiavelli one, closes with a discussion on five types of sources of information in its section “The Use of Spies.” It also discusses “The Nine Situations” and “The Terrain,” and its author's student Sun Bin followed it up with a similar work. For 10 points, identify this treatise written by Sun Tzu that discusses how to battle your opponents.", "round" : "Round 01 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402a8b3d831d6a005f45" }, "answer" : "The {Great Gatsby}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8007286624052, "num" : 2, "question" : "The protagonist of this work, a graduate of St. Olaf's College, promises to become rich when he fails to receive an inheritance from Dan Cody. The heroine, who wishes her daughter to remain stupid, is brought to tears by a collection of shirts. The narrator, because he is “five years too old to lie and call it honor,” breaks up with a girl who cheated in her first golf tournament. One antagonist attacks the title character's habit of calling people “old sport” and his connection with Meyer Wolfsheim. George Wilson commits a murder and Tom and Daisy Buchanan smash things up in, for 10 points, what novel narrated by Nick Carraway and written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?", "round" : "Packet 1.doc", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a00468d" }, "answer" : "“The {English Mail Coach}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.05277929245494, "num" : 14, "question" : "The narrator of this work speculates about being “number 10 or 12” among a woman's list of lovers, but then realizes that he is “number 199 plus 1.” Prior to that, this work observes that there are two possible causes of a “monstrous inaptitude for turning round,” either the length or breadth of the back, which make Fanny's father comparable to a crocodile. Between the epigraph from Paradise Lost and the text of one section, the word “tumultuosissimamente” appears, and that section goes on to reveal that the “secret word” is “Waterloo and recovered Christendom.” Opening with the claim that a Mr. Palmer, MP for Bath, had invented the title object, this essay contains a passage on “The Vision of Sudden Death” that recounts a driver falling asleep, in between “Going Down with Victory” and the concluding “Dream Fugue.” Recounting several near-crashes and the experience of riding the title (*) conveyance while high on opium, this work was originally intended as part of Suspiria de Profundis. For 10 points, identify this essay by Thomas de Quincey about a certain method of delivering correspondence.", "round" : "Rd03.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f928b3d831d6a003ba7" }, "answer" : " Mitochondria", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.59066937514581, "num" : 4, "question" : "The protein mutated in Friedrich's Ataxia, frataxin, localizes to this organelle. This organelle is stained by a series of rosamine derivatives sold by Invitrogen, named [this organelle]-“tracker”. Antibodies to proteins within it are present in 95% of primary billiary cirrhosis cases. Another dye that localizes here is nonyl acridine orange, which stains a bicyclic phospholipid called cardiolipin. The glycerol phosphate and malate-aspartate shuttles move reducing equivalents into it, and with the aid of the (*) carnitine shuttle it carries out beta-oxidation.  MELAS and ragged red fiber disease are caused by defects in it, as is Leber's Neuropathy. Its contains NADH dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, and ubiquinone, all components of the electron transport chain. Also containing ATP synthase and Krebs cycle enzymes, for 10 points, name this double-membraned organelle with a cristae and matrix.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 3.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40628b3d831d6a006c7a" }, "answer" : "{Yosemite} National Park", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.0810516702477, "num" : 6, "question" : "This region includes Tenaya Valley, and an old tradition here consisted of pushing a bonfire off a cliff in a namesake “firefall” on Glacier Point. This park is near a cliff of polygonal basalt columns, Devils Postpile National Monument, and it includes Bridalveil Fall. Its namesake (*) falls drop into the Merced River, and, like Sequoia National Park, its creation was instigated by John Muir. Its notable features include El Capitan and Half Dome. For 10 points, name this national park located in the Sierra Nevadas of eastern California.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 391, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a004339" }, "answer" : "{Vlasov} equations", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.37836131989025, "num" : 21, "question" : "Jean-Pierre Petit used an elliptic solution of this to derive the Friedmann equations in a paper on galactic dynamics. This was developed by its namesake when considering the implications of the experiments of Merrill and Webb on Boltzmann's equation. The name of Poisson is appended to this equation when considering the zero-magnetic field limit, a situation that occurs in double layers. Mathematically it consists of many statements that relate the distribution functions of ions and electrons which vary with momentum, position, and time. Applying in situations involving charged particles that undergo long-range Coulomb interaction, for 10 points, identify this system of equations that describes the dynamics of plasmas.", "round" : "r21- Editors 7.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bd1" }, "answer" : "{Franco-Prussian} War [or {Franco-German} War]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2208649914245, "num" : 17, "question" : "Léon Gambetta attempted to organize one side's defenses in this war, but fled in a hot air balloon. The Treaty of Frankfurt ended this war, in which the Battle of Sedan was fought. One cause of this war was the possibility of Leopold of Hohenzollern gaining the Spanish throne. Another cause of this war was an edited letter between the ambassador of one country in this war and Wilhelm I. That (*) Ems Dispatch was used to advance the goals of Otto von Bismarck. For 10 points, name this 1870-1871 war between two European nations that led to German unification.", "round" : "tournament17-11.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a002911" }, "answer" : "{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.4854594566859, "num" : 25, "question" : "In this man's third novel, he expounded on the theory of AB plus CD yields AD plus BC and applied laws of chemistry to human relationships; that novel was titled Elective Affinities. In another one of his works, Gretchen is saved by God while her lover, the titular character, made a deal with Mephistopheles, and in another work, the title character's love for Lotte, who marries Albert, turns into tragedy as he commits suicide in the end. For 10 points, identify this German author of Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Lei FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c3b" }, "answer" : "The {Satanic Verses}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.29945087735541, "num" : 9, "question" : "One character in this novel is left without a job after his producer Hal Valence cuts his role of Maxim Alien. Another character in this novel loves the mountaineer Alleluia Cone. A girl named Ayesha leads a pilgrimage which ends as people disappear intothe Arabian Sea. Other dream sequences  in this novelfeature a character called “Mahound.” Saladin Chamcha is detained on a beach for being an illegal immigrant after a plane explosion over the English Channel causes him and the Bollywood star Gibreel Farishta to take on the personas of the devil and the archangel Gabriel. For 10 points, name this novel which led to a fatwa against its author, Salman Rushdie.", "round" : "Bellarmine and UCLA.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046cd" }, "answer" : "{Dame Muriel Spark}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.37238664785401, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one of this author's stories, a girl named Needle is killed and buried in a haystack, while another focuses on Dafne's relationship with the title animal.   Besides \"Bang-Bang You're Dead\" and \"The Go-Away Bird\", Ben chases after Carmelita and Dora because of the literary reputations of their fathers in \"The Father's Daughters\", which found a sequel in \"Open to the Public.\" Fathers Baudouin and Maximilian are hired by Alexandra in a satire of the Watergate scandal set in a priory, and this author wrote of how Guy Leet, who had an affair with Charmian Colston, is denied Lisa Brooke's estate because she was blackmailed by Mrs. Pettigrew. Besides The Abbess of Crewe and (*) Memento Mori, this author created Meadows Meade, where Merle Coverdale and Dixie Morso work as typists in a novel which sees Dixie rejected by Humphrey Place at the urging of Dougal Douglas. Another of this author's novels sees the title character fall in love with Mr. Lloyd and teach girls such as Mary Macgregor, Rose Stanley, and Sandy Stranger. For 10 points, name this British author of The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.", "round" : "Rd06.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a00522a" }, "answer" : "{Kansas-Nebraska} Act", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.956789013464, "num" : 28, "question" : "A group influential to this act's passage was known as the F Street Mess. A future President gave the Peoria Speech in opposition to this legislation. The Lecompton Constitution was proposed to resolve an issue associated with this act. The Pottawatomie Massacre was committed by John Brown in reaction to this legislation's passage. This act repealed the Missouri Compromise. For 10 points, name this act created by Stephen Douglas, which allowed popular sovereignty to decide the fate of slavery in the two namesake territories.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a000992" }, "answer" : "{Korean} peninsula [or {Hangook bando}; or Choson {bando}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1190050416626, "num" : 11, "question" : "One tomb of a king from this region is named for the depiction of a eight-legged, \"Heavenly\" horse found there. The fourth king of one dynasty from this region developed an alphabet still used today. A general from this region used (*) turtle-ships to repel a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. Like China, it had a Three Kingdoms period, which was dominated by Baekje, Silla, and Goguryeo. The Choson Dynasty ruled it into the twentieth century, during which it was split into two countries. For 10 points, name this peninsula whose \"North\" and \"South\" are still at war.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e5d" }, "answer" : "{Emma Lazarus}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4099728865549, "num" : 3, "question" : "This author wrote about a genocide in Nordhausen in the play Dance to Death, which was later published in the poetry collection Songs of a Semite. This poet of “By the Waters of Babylon” asserts, “We stand and gaze around with tearful awe” at the titular “consecrated spot” in a poem written in response to Longfellow called “In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport.” For 10 points, name this Jewish poet who wrote about a figure who was “not like the brazen giant of Greek fame” in her poem asking Europe for its \"huddled masses,\" “The New Colossus.”", "round" : "12 HFT.doc", "seen" : 246, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a00432d" }, "answer" : "Sunrise", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.40963052283041, "num" : 9, "question" : "During a visit to Luna Park, its protagonist saves a drunken piglet from a gaming booth and ends up dancing. In another scene, the jilted antagonist circles a newspaper ad for the United States Real Estate Co. Its centerpiece is a tram scene, followed by a then-revolutionary chase through city traffic. The first film released using the Fox Movietone system, it featured a score by Hugo Riesenfeld that used a French horn during the climactic scenes revolving around a woman's disappearance in a boat. Its director's American debut, it was subtitled “A Song for Two Humans,” and follows the ups and downs of a relationship between archetypal figures played by George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor. For 10 points, identify this 1927 work which ends with the titular event cementing the reconciliation of the country man and the country woman, a film by F.W. Murnau.", "round" : "r21- Editors 7.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef38b3d831d6a00161b" }, "answer" : "Erskine {Caldwell}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 359.8781433978584, "num" : 22, "question" : "This man’s best-known work opens as a woman with a hare-lip rapes her brother-in-law while her father steals that man’s turnips. One of this man’s characters kidnaps an albino named Dave Dawson to find gold on his land. This man wrote about a family that ruins Bessie’s car while driving to (*) Augusta but fails to sell wood there. That family includes Lov and his fifteen-year-old wife Pearl, and those characters are incinerated after attempting to burn the broomsedge off their land. Besides writing about Ty Ty Walden in God’s Little Acre, this man documented the disasters befalling the sharecropping family of Jeeter Lester. For 10 points, name this Southern American author of Tobacco Road.", "round" : "Packet 14 - Superplayoffs 4.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d75" }, "answer" : "transcription", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7015412806068, "num" : 2, "question" : "Many proteins that control the rate of this process contain zinc finger domains. In some organisms, a structure named for Pribnow is the site of this process, which in prokaryotes begins when a holoenzyme forms from the binding of a sigma factor. In eukaryotes, its initiation is greatly aided by the acetylation of histones and often occurs at the TATA box. This process is followed by a step in which lariats form and introns are spliced out after polymerase has bound to and run along the template strand. For 10 points, identify this process through which a DNA template is turned into messenger RNA.", "round" : "01 HFT.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f008b3d831d6a001909" }, "answer" : "{Birth control} (accept {contraception} before “{abortion}” is read)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 66.69700794219969, "num" : 4, "question" : "In 1907, Nelly Roussel, a French proponent of this practice, sued the right-wing publisher Guy de Cassagnac for labeling her one of “these sorts of viragos” who “mount their pens like they mount a broom to go to a midnight orgy.” In most models of the demographic transition, the diffusion of this practice occurs in the third stage, after the death rate has already declined, but studies of France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show that some forms of this practice became widespread even before the Napoleonic Code outlawed primogeniture, partially explaining the shift away from a Malthusian equilibrium. Prolonged breastfeeding is one form of this practice, and as a corollary the use of wet nurses may be understood as a status symbol signifying the luxury of dispensing with this practice. For ten points, name this practice, forms of which include ortho-tri-cyclen, early withdrawal, and abortion.", "round" : "Packet 01.doc", "seen" : 55, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a0005ff" }, "answer" : "{Hercules} [or {Heracles}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.8350293370895, "num" : 13, "question" : "He was forced to wear women’s clothing while working for the Lydian queen Omphale. He accidentally killed his music teacher Linus, and killed his wife Megara in a fit of madness. He killed the giant Antaeus by lifting him off the ground. He scared away the Stymphalian birds and killed the Nemean Lion with his club. This figure rerouted some rivers to clean the Augean Stables as part of a series of tasks completed for Eurystheus. For 10 points, name this demigod son of Zeus known for his twelve labors.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 457, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c8c" }, "answer" : "Odin", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.0590988795739, "num" : 25, "question" : "This figure once masqueraded as Bolverk to gain access to a substance made after the murder of Kvasir (kuh-VAH-sear). One of this deity's sons will avenge his death at Ragnarok using a shoe. This possessor of the spear Gungnir rides an eight-legged horse who is the child of Loki. This god is attended to by Huginn and Muninn. The tribute that this god paid to be able to drink from Mimir's well means that he has only one eye. For 10 points, name this husband of Frigg, the chief god of the Norse pantheon.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a005084" }, "answer" : "a {nose}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.669415082084, "num" : 22, "question" : "The Buddhist monk Zenchi Naigu tries some quack techniques for changing the size of this item in a namesake story by Akutagawa Ryonosuke (ah-KOO-tuh-GAH-wuh ree-OH-no-SOO-kay). In another story, a man believes that Mrs. Podtochin (pah-TAH-chin) has taken revenge for a refusal to marry by cursing this object. This object becomes a State Councilor after being found in a loaf of bread by Ivan Yakovlevich (YAH-kohv-LAY-vich), but eventually returns to Platon Kovalyov (KOH-vull-yoff), in that story by Nikolai Gogol. For 10 points, identify this appendage which was unusually large on Cyrano de Bergerac and Pinocchio.", "round" : "4q1-15.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fce8b3d831d6a004963" }, "answer" : "{Gustav Mahler}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8771007973701, "num" : 5, "question" : "This composer's Symphony No. 1 has a third movement that contains Frère Jacques in an unusual minor key, giving it the air of a funeral march. His Symphony No. 6 originally had a second movement Scherzo and third movement Andante, but they were later swapped. Aside from his symphonies, he wrote such vocal works as Das klagende Lied and Kindertotenlieder, and he used translations of Chinese poetry in his Das Lied von der Erde. For 10 points, identify this Austrian composer of the Titan, Resurrection, and Tragic symphonies as well as the Symphony of a Thousand.", "round" : "FKT Jonathan Graham.rtf", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a000081" }, "answer" : "{Heavensgate}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 38.56222214666195, "num" : 19, "question" : "The final poem in this work, “Newcomer,” repeats the phrase “time for worship” before asking “Anna of the panel oblongs” to “protect me from them fucking angels.” In the introduction to this work, its author claimed that it was originally conceived as an Easter sequence, and the Christian imagery in this work includes repeated references to the poet as “prodigal,” as well as a stanza in which “John the Baptist [comes] with bowl of salt water, preaching the gambit: life without sin, without life.” That imagery is contained in this work’s second part, “Initiation,” while its third part describes a “lioness, crowned with moonlight,” and is entitled “Watermaid.” In the first part of this work, entitled “Passage,” the poet envisions himself naked, “leaning on an oilbean,” in front of “mother Idoto,” and later as a “watchman for the watchword,” at the title location. Published in the same year as its author’s Limits, this collection appeared in Black Orpheus in 1962, five years before its author would be killed fighting in Biafra. For ten points, identify this poetic cycle in five parts written by Christopher Okigbo.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors2Final.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40108b3d831d6a00590a" }, "answer" : "{William Carlos Williams}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7944758629892, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man noted “the tall, dried grasses, a goat stirs, with nozzle searching the ground,” in his “The Desolate Field,” and he chronicled “The Last Words of my English Grandmother.” In addition to saying “leaning a pyramid of sunlight,” in his “Overture to a Dance of Locomotives,” he asked “what sort of man was Fragonard,” in his poem that shares its name with a T.S. Eliot work, “Portrait of a Lady.” The title object is “like a butter cup, upon its branching stem,” in this author's “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” and he also wrote “unsignificantly off the coast, there was a splash unnoticed” in a poem found in his Pictures from Brueghel. This author also praised a city “under the Passaic Falls” and a certain thing glazed with rainwater. For ten points, name this poet of Paterson and “The Red Wheelbarrow.”", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 1.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052c2" }, "answer" : "refraction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2010876757558, "num" : 61, "question" : "A thermal inversion can cause rays to wrap around the earth in the infinite form of this phenomenon. That difference in temperature can also allow sound to travel farther due to this effect, such as sound traveling over a lake. This phenomenon is no longer observed once an angle of incidence reaches a critical angle and causes total internal reflection. One is the minimum value for the index associated with this effect; that index, denoted n, is equated with angles of incidence via Snell's Law. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a wave changes velocity upon entering a different medium.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ebf" }, "answer" : "{special relativity} [prompt on {relativity}; do not accept “{general relativity}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1433449427132, "num" : 3, "question" : "The Klein-Gordon equation is an extension of the Schrodinger equation incorporating this theory, calculations of which are simplified in Minkowski space. One of its consequences is the pole vaulter's paradox, where a running vaulter can fit a pole entirely within a barn smaller than the pole, and another considers that a man moving in a space ship will age more slowly than his twin at rest. For 10 points, identify this theory wherein one may change frames using Lorentz transformations to calculate length contraction, which suggests that observations of motion depend on the frame in which they are measured as proposed by Einstein.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f718b3d831d6a003374" }, "answer" : "The {Handmaid's Tale}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8079626248218, "num" : 7, "question" : "In one flashback in this novel, the protagonist's mother describes carrying a banner at a “Take Back the Night” march. Its protagonist rubs butter into her hands because she cannot obtain lotion and observes another character's blood-smeared face at the end of a Particicution. At Jezebel's, the protagonist finds her old friend Moira, a lesbian who donned the garb of an Aunt to escape from the (*) Red Center. The protagonist sleeps with Nick, a chauffeur who reveals that some of the Eyes are members of the revolutionary Mayday. The title figure of this novel serves Serena Joy and her husband, a Commander. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel set in Gilead, a work about Offred written by Margaret Atwood.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a0008fc" }, "answer" : "comets", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3234812265728, "num" : 22, "question" : "The LINEAR one of these objects showed evidence of spontaneous splitting. They have been shown to have CHON particles. The Kreutz Group of them are (*) sungrazers. These objects are often described using the Whipple model. Long period ones are believed to originate in the Oort Cloud. Their main body is called the nucleus, while the gases and dust make up the coma and tail. For 10 points, name these small icy bodies that have a highly elliptical orbit around the sun, famous examples of which include Hale-Bopp and one named for Halley.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a0019e9" }, "answer" : "{Charles} “{Charlie}” “Bird” {Parker}, {Jr.}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.8804495697841, "num" : 4, "question" : "With Miles Davis, this man composed “Donna Lee,” and this man created a composition based on Morgan Lewis’s “How High the Moon.” This man was part of Jay McShann’s band before playing with Earl Hines, and this man was often accompanied by the drummer Max Roach. During the “Savoy Sessions,” this man recorded a song based on Ray Noble’s “Cherokee,” entitled [*] “Ko-ko,” in addition to “Billie’s Bounce” and “Now’s the Time.” With Dizzy Gillespie, this man helped develop bebop. The performer behind “Yardbird Suite” and “Ornithology,” for 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist often known as “Bird.”", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a006661" }, "answer" : "Capital {Asset} Pricing Model ({5})", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.66897311774082, "num" : 15, "question" : "Ongoing research by Jagannathan and Wang follows up on Mayer's work on this model, assuming human capital in their measure of wealth, while Banz used a method similar to that of Black and Scholes to test whether firm size explained any residual variation. Fama and French developed a three factor model in place of it, and Richard Roll's critique of it noted that “the market portfolio is unobservable.” Stephen Ross developed Arbitrage Pricing Theory in place of this model, while Jensen's alpha is often used to measure the excess return a security provides as predicted using this model. All portfolios satisfying this model can be found on the Markowitz efficient frontier. Introduced by Lintner and Sharpe, for fifteen points, name this financial model which relies on the market risk premium and a financial instrument's beta to determine the appropriate rate of return.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c2c" }, "answer" : "{John Knox}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.26870134882628, "num" : 7, "question" : "In the so-called “Regent's Eulogy”, this man was said to have “never feared any flesh”. This man's most notable teacher was George Wishart. This man quoted from the Book of Jeremiah in his “Spare No Arrows” speech, which criticized church corruption. This man's Book of Discipline advocated democratic elections for church offices. This pastor of St. Giles Cathedral authored a tract titled First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, in which man argued that only men could inherit the throne, an attack on his enemy, the Catholic Queen Mary I. This man's ideas were adopted by the Covenanters and the Kirk. For ten points, name this Scottish Calvinist, the founder of Presbyterianism.", "round" : "Round 06.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007611" }, "answer" : "{Paraná} River", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.59575527557172, "num" : 5, "question" : "This river receives the water of the nearby Saladillo and Ludueña streams and contains the Ibicuy Islands near its outlet. Home to a series of former waterfalls known as Sete Quedas, this river runs through the opposite cities of Resistencia and Corrientes. Arising partly out of the Grande River, it contains the Yacyretá Dam and shares its name with the capital of the Entre Ríos province. Now crossed by the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, named for two major cities on its banks, it eventually merges with the Uruguay River to form the Río de la Plata. FTP, name this major South American river reminiscent of a carnivorous fish.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Oklahoma A.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcc8b3d831d6a00491b" }, "answer" : "{Margaret Mead}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 338.0274225268513, "num" : 23, "question" : "In one work, this author examines the tribes of Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli and studies the link between sexual characteristics and cultural conditioning. Besides Sex and Temperament in Three Societies, she wrote another work in which she tries to determine the source of disturbances that vex teenagers as being caused by the nature of adolescence or by civilization. Franz Boas, her advisor, wrote the foreword to that work. For 10 points, identify this American anthropologist and author of Coming of Age in Samoa.", "round" : "FKT Editor 1.rtf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ead8b3d831d6a0005b2" }, "answer" : "{Charles Ives}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 421.428046183195, "num" : 25, "question" : "This composer included movements inspired by Decoration Day and Thanksgiving in his Holiday Symphony, while his fourth symphony contains a section that incorporates the Watchman hymn. Ragtime influences can be seen in his composition Central Park in the Dark, a work which was grouped in the collection Two Contemplations with his piece The Unanswered Question. This composer of the Concord Sonata may be best known for a work that contains a movement named after \"The Housatonic at Stockbridge.\" For 10 points, name this American composer of Three Places in New England.", "round" : "colonia-02.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040f7" }, "answer" : "{Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí} i {Doménech}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.24463846278377, "num" : 19, "question" : "In homage to Watson and Crick, this man painted Galacidalacidesoxiribonucleicacid, part of his “nuclear mysticism” period that also included such works as Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus). He depicted several Venus de Milos wearing different colored skirts in The Hallucinogenic Toreador. He created a work titled after “the disintegration of” his most famous work, in addition to an optical illusion involving the title pachyderms, Swans Reflecting Elephants. For 10 points, name this Catalan surrealist who painted some melting watches in The Persistence of Memory.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - St. Anselm's + Truman State A.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4d8b3d831d6a002b23" }, "answer" : "Theseus  [IE]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.1193127036095, "num" : 3, "question" : "This figure's grandfather, Pittheus, founded Troezen. After defeating Periphetes, this figure used his club. This figure killed a pet of Phaea, the Crommyonian Sow, on a land journey to Athens. He was killed after being pushed from a cliff by Lycomedes, and he aided Pirithous in an attempted [*] abduction of Persephone. In one story involving this figure, a curse placed on this figure led him to raise a black sail, resulting in the death of his father. The individual who cursed this figure had earlier given him a ball of string before being abandoned on Naxos. For 10 points, identify this Athenian who was loved by Ariadne and slew the Minotaur.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 9 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 461, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b0b" }, "answer" : "{Kazuo Ishiguro}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.85891030821949, "num" : 13, "question" : "This author of “Waiting for J” and “Getting Poisoned” discussed pianist Ryder and painter Masuji Ono in (*) The Artist of the Floating World and The Unconsoled. A further work sees Karen take care of Ruth and Tommy, clones bred for their organs. Still another sees a character who works on his “bantering skills” and is devoted to his now-deceased master, that being a butler named Stevens. For ten points— identify this British novelist who wrote Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day.", "round" : "05_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa78b3d831d6a00406c" }, "answer" : "Pete {Sampras}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.6554485978559, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man lost to Alex Corretja in the 1998 Masters Cup despite being up three match points. This man was first discovered by pediatrician Peter Fischer, who was also his first pro coach. In a 2007 match in Macao, he subbed out for a ball boy after being aced three times in a row by Roger Federer, though this man went on to beat Federer in that third match of an Asian exhibition series. This player won the last ATP match of his career at the 2002 US Open, defeating Agassi in four sets to win the title, giving him his 14th Grand Slam, a singles record he would hold until Federer's 2009 win at Wimbledon. For 10 points, name this now-retired tennis player nicknamed “Pistol Pete”.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Furman + Claremont + Illinois + ULL.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea68b3d831d6a00040f" }, "answer" : "{Siswe Banzi} is {Dead}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.54559346423484, "num" : 7, "question" : "Towards the beginning of this work, a character relates that he once had a problem with cockroaches so big that he entered his place and one on the wall said to him \"who opened the door?\" - insecticide fails to kill them, but his cat Blackie kills them in one night. That character impersonates the foreman \"Baas Bradley\" and tells the anecdote of Henry Ford Jr. visiting the Ford Motor Factory. At one point, a photograph comes to life and dictates a letter that will accompany the photo to King William's Town. Outside of a bar known as Sky's Shebeen, two characters find a man in a dumpster with a passbook on him, which is a work-seeker's permit. The title figure heads back to the photography studio of Styles after taking that man's identity. Like its author's play The Island, it was written in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona, and first performed in 1972. FTP, name this Athol Fugard play which revolves around a certain deceased guy.", "round" : "PACKET07Byrne.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb08b3d831d6a00428a" }, "answer" : "{Schmalkaldic} War [or War of the {Schmalkaldic League}; accept anything {containing} the {words Schmalkaldic} or {League} of {Schmalkald}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.19948461442254, "num" : 9, "question" : "During this conflict, Duke Eric II of Calenberg lifted the siege of Bremen before being defeated in the Battle of Drakenberg. One leader achieved the political freedom to instigate this war through his peace with Francis I of France, and it began two years later when Duke Maurice of Albertine Saxony invaded Ernestine Saxony. This war was effectively decided by the Battle of Muhlberg, which saw the defeat of John Frederick I and Philip the Magnanimous. For 10 points, name this 1546 to 1547 war fought between the Catholic forces of Charles V and the Protestant forces of an entity including Brunswick, Madgeburg, and Hesse.", "round" : "r14- Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a0062f5" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich von Schiller}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.86919829971157, "num" : 17, "question" : "He described art as an expression of human drive in his On the Aesthetic Education of Man. In one of his plays Eboli offers false testimony to the Duke of Alva against the title character, who is distraught because his beloved, Elizabeth de Valois, has married his father Philip II, while another of his plays sees Davison punished by Elizabeth regarding the death warrant of the title figure. In addition to Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, he wrote about the struggles of two aristocratic siblings, Karl and Franz Moor. For 10 points, name this author of The Robbers, who wrote about the enemy of Gessler in William Tell and also wrote “Ode to Joy.”", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard A + New College.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003ae7" }, "answer" : "{Thomas} de {Quincey}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.60441164043732, "num" : 19, "question" : "This author asserts that while one may learn something new from a cookbook, reading Milton will result in higher capacity to sympathize with the infinite, which makes Milton an example of the “literature of power”. Another work by this author compares the sound of wheels during a funeral procession and a woman's sigh before fainting to the title event, which interrupts a moment in “the world of darkness” caused by a certain literary murder. This author of “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” also wrote the Gothic novel Klosterheim and a memoir about the “pains” and “pleasures” of a certain drug. For 10 points, name this author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.", "round" : "UMN 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40028b3d831d6a005599" }, "answer" : "{Catherine II} of Russia [or {Catherine} the {Great}; or {Yekaterina II}; or {Yekaterina Velikaya};", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1174930313136, "num" : 9, "question" : "During one trip by this leader, a series of fake villages were allegedly built to give a false sense of prosperity by Grigory Potemkin (GREE-goh-ree poh-TEM-kin). This ruler's army put down a revolt of Cossacks led by (*) Pugachev (poo-guh-CHOFF), who claimed to be this leader's dead husband, Peter III. This ruler took part in all three partitions of Poland. For 10 points, name this enlightened despot, who was born in Prussia but eventually came to rule as Empress of Russia.", "round" : "tourn11-10.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a000937" }, "answer" : "{Michael Faraday}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1470952264499, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this man’s namesake effect, a magnetic field rotates the plane of polarized light. This man was the first to produce sub-freezing temperatures in the laboratory, and he developed the laws of electrolysis. This man developed the idea of \"lines of force\" to describe electric and magnetic fields, and invented the first (*) dynamo. His namesake law states that the negative time rate of change of the magnetic flux through a closed loop equals the induced emf (E-M-F) in the loop. For 10 points, name this English physicist who demonstrated induction.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40658b3d831d6a006d53" }, "answer" : "{Moscow} [or {Moskva}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3231653883122, "num" : 16, "question" : "The Copper Riots occurred here in 1662, and Stenka Razin was killed in this city after leading a revolt south of here. Mathias Rust landed his airplane in this city, which was was burned by Tatars in 1571. It was removed as the seat of power in (*) 1712 after a rival city was constructed on the Baltic, and was evacuated after the Battle of Borodino. This city was the home of Boris Gudonov and the capital city during the rule of dictators like Khrushchev. For 10 points, name this city that has been the capital of Russia since 1918.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bf6" }, "answer" : "{polarization} [or word forms]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7588232257403, "num" : 10, "question" : "Malus's Law gives the intensity of a light ray after it is subjected to this process. This process is often performed in commercial products through the use of dichroic materials, and commonly comes in circular and linear types. It also occurs by reflection when the incident light ray comes in at Brewster's angle. (*) For 10 points, name this process by which a light ray's waves are made to oscillate in only one direction, which is commonly done using Polaroid filters.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403b8b3d831d6a006336" }, "answer" : "{Pallas Athena} [accept either; accept {Athene}, {Asana}, or {Cydonia}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.65022592828609, "num" : 19, "question" : "This figure allegedly heard the cries of Stheno and Euryale and imitated them on a reed, thus inventing the flute. She sent a plague to strike the Locrians and sent the storm which killed Ajax the Lesser after he raped Cassandra in her temple, while Erichthonius was born after Hephaestus attempted to rape her. This goddess gave the gift of prophecy to Tiresias, who she had earlier blinded for seeing her naked. She turned Medusa into a Gorgon and, after losing a weaving contest, turned Arachne into a spider. For 10 points, identify this goddess of wisdom and daughter of Metis, born from the head of her father Zeus, who won a contest with Poseidon for control of her namesake city.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Illinois B.doc", "seen" : 62, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000ea3" }, "answer" : "cholera", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9701264095493, "num" : 33, "question" : "The toxin associated with this disease causes G proteins to be constitutively active, and sufferers of cystic fibrosis may be less prone to this disease. One famous outbreak of this disease was preceded by outbreaks in Newcastle and Gateshead, and occurred in the Soho district. That epidemic of this disease is named after Broad Street, and was a case study in epidemiology as investigated by John Snow. For 10 points, name this disease that the aforementioned doctor discovered was transmitted by contaminated water.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a0036e0" }, "answer" : "The {Sun Also Rises}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.72526882542297, "num" : 2, "question" : "One character in this novel stops speaking to the protagonist after he introduces a nineteen-year-old to the main female figure; that nineteen-year-old manages to fend of the attack of another figure when he discovers them together (in contrast to the protagonist, who is knocked out), and Pedro Romero refuses to shake his hand afterwards. That man in this work took up boxing to deal with the problems of being a Jew at Princeton, and both him and the protagonist fail to sustain relationships with the main female figure, although Robert Cohn remains strongly attached, and the protagonist never really gets started, since Lady Brett Ashley desires a sexual relationship. For 10 points, what is this novel that stars the disaffected and impotent World War I veteran Jake Barnes, by Ernest Hemingway?", "round" : "Delaware.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffe8b3d831d6a0054be" }, "answer" : "{Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.3305960360449, "num" : 21, "question" : "This philosopher was criticized by Raymond Aron for the attempted union he tried to make in his essay \"Search for a Method.\" That essay of this thinker served as an introduction to a work continuing on a mold set by Kant, this philosopher's Critique of Dialectical Reason. This man coined a term for a form of (*) fakeness and self-deception called \"bad faith.\" In one work, this thinker contrasted the being-for-others, for-itself, and in-itself. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote Being and Nothingness, who was a French existentialist.", "round" : "tourn10-14.pdf", "seen" : 315, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a004341" }, "answer" : "{mountains} (accept \"{volcanoes}\" {due} to {ambiguities})", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.02167867356911, "num" : 6, "question" : "**In Persian mythology Tahmurath was defeated by Angra Mainyu near one of these known as Alburz, and O-yama-tsumi-no-mikoto was a deity of one of these objects, which was created after the cutting up of Kagutsuchi. In Mayan legend the hero twins killed the giant Zipacna with one of these, and in the Ramayana, Hanuman carried one of these called Dronagiri to Rama because a particular herb grew on it. The chain Gleipnir was made from the roots of one of these objects and Greek examples include Cylenne, Helicon, and Parnassus. For 10 points, name these geographical features which include the dwelling place of the Greek pantheon, Olympus.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Alabama A + VCU.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe58b3d831d6a004ee0" }, "answer" : "King {Midas}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.368877542438, "num" : 18, "question" : "One of this figure's secrets was revealed after his barber whispered into a hole in the ground. When this figure disagreed with Tmolus (tih-MOW-luss), by stating that Pan was a better musician than Apollo, this man was cursed with the ears of a donkey. This man obtained his most notable characteristic as a reward for his care of Silenus (sigh-LAY-nuss), but he rid himself of that ability by bathing in the river Patoclus (PAA-tow-cluss), after his ability killed his daughter and rendered his food inedible. For 10 points, name this Phrygian (FRIDGE-ee-uhn) king, to whom Dionysus (DYE-oh-NIGH-suss) gave the golden touch.", "round" : "4q1-02.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a0002b5" }, "answer" : "{Garbage collection} [prompt on “{automatic memory management}” before it is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.08292308147065, "num" : 18, "question" : "Seligmann and Garup fixed an algorithm by Hudson and Moss used for accomplishing this in the Mjølner BETA System.. Different approaches to this task make use of DRC and ZCT data structures. The train algorithm is used to carry out this technique, which may be classified as moving or non-moving. A common modern approach is tri-color marking. Approaches to this task may be compared on the basis of pause time; a generational implementation of it is used in Java. Broad classes of algorithms to do this task include mark and sweep and reference counting methods. This process helps prevent dangling pointers and double free bugs; it is used to reclaim un-needed memory. For 10 points, name this automatic memory management technique.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Maryland A and Boise State final.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0b8b3d831d6a001bb4" }, "answer" : "{Los Angeles} Police {Department}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 55.2530101602897, "num" : 2, "question" : "This group nearly reduced an apartment building room by room in Operation Hammer, timed to coincide with the Toshima funeral. Infamous prostitute Brenda Allen bankrolled members of this organization, which faced the Bloody Christmas scandal under William H. Parker. A turbulent period in which two members of this organization got into a fatal road rage incident and Rafael Perez did some nefarious things with six bags of Bisquick was detailed in a report prepared by future Secretary of State Warren Christopher describing the (*) CRASH initiative, which included the staggeringly illegal activities of David Mack and other members of Rampart. The Webster Commission investigated an incident triggered by this organization in which Korean shop-owners notably used assault rifles to protect their stores, while several members of this organization were imprisoned after being discovered on the payroll of Suge Knight and Death Row Records. Marquette Fry was assaulted by, for 10 points, what police force that contended with the Watts and Rodney King riots?", "round" : "FINAL_Penn.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a8c" }, "answer" : "{Boltzmann} transport equation", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.53177775046788, "num" : 14, "question" : "A common use of this equation is to derive the equation of change for mean values. Near equilibrium, the quantity of interest in this equation may be parametrized as deviating from the equilibrium state by a parameter phi. In that case, this equation reduces to an integral equation whose right hand side is an integral over volume and solid angle of the product of the change in phi, the equilibrium distribution, the perturbed distribution, and the velocity. One simplifying approximation useful in solving this equation is to assume that collisions serve to restore equilibrium; then one side of this equation can be written as the difference between the original and current distribution functions. In its most compact form, this equation sets the total derivative of a distribution equal to a collisional term, and if that collisional term is zero, this equation reduces to the Vlasov equation. For ten points, identify this equation which forms the basis of the theory of transport processes.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6f8b3d831d6a0032e9" }, "answer" : "{Fred Korematsu}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9470202531666, "num" : 5, "question" : "This person's original lawyer was Ernest Besig, and when a judge originally released him on bail, the court was sur- rounded by military police who arrested him again. In 1983, after showing that the military withheld evidence, the case against him was vacated, but it is still considered established law. Many years earlier, looking forward to his up- New Trier Scobol Solo 2010 Championship Match Phase I, page 2 of 5 coming marriage and wanting to continue his career as a welder, this man disobeyed Executive Order 9066, trying to change his name to Clyde Sarah when his family went to Tanforan. Name this former resident of Oakland, a native- born American whose attempt to avoid internment camps led to a Supreme Court case.", "round" : "finals phase 1.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004df4" }, "answer" : "{Franz Lizst}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.8902697039303, "num" : 3, "question" : "This composer may have adapted the overture of his chorale Les Quatre Elements for his tone poem Les Preludes. This composer's “Bagatelle without tonality” is sometimes included in a work whose first movement is subtitled “The Dance in the Village Inn” and borrows its program from Nicholas Lenau's Faust. In addition to The Mephisto Waltzes, he is best known for composing a set of nineteen piano works including pieces titled “Heroide Elegiaque” and “The Rakoczy March.” For 10 points, name this piano virtuoso who wrote the Hungarian Rhapsodies.  ", "round" : "07 HFT.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40048b3d831d6a005643" }, "answer" : "Spain", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.6255693628918, "num" : 11, "question" : "An architect from this country designed Turning Torso, and that man collaborated to produce L'Hemisferic , part of The City of Arts and Sciences. One building in this country features a floral dog designed by Jeff Koons. Home to Santiago Calatrava,(*) this country is also home to an unfinished church designed by the architect of the Casa Mila, Antonio Gaudi. For ten points, name this country home to a Frank Gehry designed branch of the Bilbao, as well as a pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe, whose other works of architecture include the Escorial, and the Prado.", "round" : "tourn8-03.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040cc" }, "answer" : "{William Lloyd Garrison}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.80268922378309, "num" : 19, "question" : "After this man met Benjamin Lundy he joined the immediatism movement, and he burned a copy of the Constitution on the Fourth of July because he believed it was an agreement with the devil. In Thoughts on African Colonization, this man condemned recolonization efforts and the Liberty Party split from this man after he lost support while campaigning against capital punishment, tobacco, and imprisonment for debt. Inspired by The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable to found a certain organization, for 10 points, name this abolitionist leader who called for \"no union with slave holders\" in The Liberator and also founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Rice + Michigan.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a00129d" }, "answer" : "{Main Street}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5610614442267, "num" : 10, "question" : "One character in this novel, Cy Bogart, earns the respect of his fellow townspeople by beating up the son of a local German-American farmer during wartime, though he later causes the teacher Fern Mullins to lose his job. Vida Sherman marries Raymond Wutherspoon in this novel, and the protagonist's maid, Bea Sorenson, marries Miles Bjornstam; Bea and her child later die of an illness. The protagonist decides to marry Will, a doctor, though she finds that his descriptions of Gopher Prairie fall short of her expectations. For 10 points, name this novel by Sinclair Lewis.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056d7" }, "answer" : "{Weimar Republic} [prompt on \"{Germany}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5633658594452, "num" : 12, "question" : "This government was satirized in a painting that shows a donkey standing on a table at which two corpulent men and four empty suits convene. It violated a multinational agreement when foreign minister Walther Rathenau signed the Treaty of Rapallo along with Georgy Chicherin of the Soviet Union. The inability of this government to pay war reperations led to (*) massive inflation and devaluation of the Papiermark, and this government failed under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg. For 10 points, name this German parliamentary government established after World War I whose collapse helped lead to the rise of Hitler.", "round" : "tourn8-10.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a001455" }, "answer" : "{requiem masses}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.530847919872, "num" : 2, "question" : "Andrew Lloyd Webber’s only complete classical composition is this type of work. John Rutter\n composed one which includes words from the Book of Common Prayer. Krzysztof Penderecki incorporated\n the hymn \"Swiety Boze\" into his \"Polish\" one, while Luigi Cherubini wrote one in C minor. Maurice\n Duruflé wrote one of these works for organ and orchestra ending with the movement \"In Paradisum,\"\n inspired by an earlier one composed by Gabriel Faure. The piece of this type by Benjamin Britten is set to\n lines from poems by Wilfrid Owen, and is known as the \"war\" one. Its sections include the gradual, the\n sequence, and the offertory. For 10 points, name this composition based on the Latin mass for the dead.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a006939" }, "answer" : "{Christopher Marlowe}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7150390776806, "num" : 12, "question" : "He fictionalized the role of the Duc du Guise in the Saint Bartholemew's Day Massacre in his play The Massacre at Paris, and Hamlet at one point discusses this author's Dido, Queen of Carthage. He digresses into a discussion of why scholars are poor in his version of the story of Hero and Leander, but he is better known for a play about a man who learns magic from Valdes and Cornelius and summons Helen of Troy. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote of a pact with Mephistopheles in the play Doctor Faustus.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc68b3d831d6a0047c1" }, "answer" : "{Man} at the {Crossroads}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.84662223095074, "num" : 13, "question" : "A baby pounds on a turtle in one section of this work, which also sees a black kid with a parrot on his lap stare at a picture of a human skull being projected on a screen.  In another section of this work, a handless statue of Zeus attempts to throw a thunderbolt at the central figure, and just above him, a massive army of bayonet-wielding men in gas masks stands opposite a multi-national army of men and women in camouflage uniforms carrying red flags.  Below that army, a headless statue sits peacefully and a group of bearded men hold onto a large red cloth with writing on it, and one of them looks over to the right-center of the painting, where Vladimir Lenin stares off into the distance.  For 10 points—name this mural by Diego Rivera.", "round" : "7.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048d2" }, "answer" : "{Lotte} in {Weimar}: The Beloved Returns [or {Lotte en Weimar}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.40169680840336, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this work’s final chapter, the main character goes to the theater to see Theodore Korner’s Rosamunde, after which she experiences an imaginary conversation with another character during her carriage ride home. In a literary debate with Doctor Reimer, who accuses a writer portraying, “unstable human beings,” this novel’s title character notes in Reimer “a certain rebellion,” against that writer’s greatness, and this novel’s fifth chapter consists entirely of the recollections of Adele Schopenhauer, the philosopher’s sister. This novel’s most notable chapter is its seventh, which comprises an interior monologue by a writer who rails against Pfaff’s attack on his color theory and notes that if he had died first, it would have been up to Schiller to finish Faust. For ten points, identify work in which a woman who inspired a character in The Sorrows of Young Werther journeys to the title city for a reunion with Goethe, a novel subtitled “The Beloved Returns,” and written by Thomas Mann.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors10Final.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff58b3d831d6a0052a4" }, "answer" : "firewalls", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8713765714783, "num" : 31, "question" : "One class of these are circuit gateways and they can be used to make a DMZ. An example of a stateful one is iptables and NAT can be configured to act like a very basic one. Application-Layer ones use knowledge about the content to make decisions. They protect against things like denial of service attacks. Common techniques include port blocking and packet filtering. Usually they must be configured to allow new trusted programs and services to access the internet. For 10 points, name these pieces of software or hardware that protect computers from network based attacks.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402d8b3d831d6a005fec" }, "answer" : "{George Berkeley}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.360808264697, "num" : 15, "question" : "This philosopher wrote about Newtonian dynamics and other science in De Motu. He argued that distance is determined by the viewer and that sight is really a process of thought in his Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision. One of his works is framed as conversations between one student who dislikes skeptics who deny a “material substance,” and another who claims that all matter is relative, culminating in the statement that “to be is to be perceived”. For 10 points, name this Irish bishop, an empiricist who wrote Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 304, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a0055f6" }, "answer" : "{Vincent Willem van Gogh}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.4863521100488, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man painted three depictions of his bedroom in a house he shared with Paul Gauguin. This painter depicted a mustachioed man in front of a pool table while other patrons huddle at tables in his The Night Café. He showed a woman pouring out four cups of coffee in a work that shows (*) peasants at the dinner table. Another work by this man shows a cedar tree and the church spire of Saint-Remy (sahn reh-MEE) jutting into the swirling sky. For 10 points, name this Dutch Post-Impressionist who painted The Potato Eaters and The Starry Night.", "round" : "tourn11-14.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f478b3d831d6a002984" }, "answer" : "{Paul von Hindenburg}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0575218545273, "num" : 6, "question" : "Preceded in one office by Friedrich Ebert, he had been retired for four years before Moltke the Younger recalled him. In command of the Eighth Army he won at Masurian Lakes, and earlier at Tannenberg with Erich Ludendorff. Elected President of Germany in 1925, he appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, and a craft named for him was intended to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. For 10 points, identify the namesake of a zeppelin that crashed and burned in 1937.", "round" : "Packet 13.doc", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e6f" }, "answer" : "{Doppler} effect or shift [accept {transverse Doppler effect} before “{transverse}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1631752671674, "num" : 15, "question" : "Rician fading, a stochastic process describing self-cancellation of radio waves, is partially caused by this phenomenon, a form of which was used to confirm time dilation by the Ives-Stillwell experiment. In a similar situation to that transverse form of this effect, a stationary observer experiences an event proportional to the square root of one plus beta over one minus beta, times the original wavelength in its relativistic version. For 10 points, name this effect, the shift in frequency of a wave for a moving source or observer, exemplified by ambulance sirens and the radar used to determine weather patterns.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00639c" }, "answer" : "aldehyde", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.17984728212468, "num" : 16, "question" : "One variety of them formed from secondary imines such as pyrimidine are named for Zincke. Two equivalents of these compounds yield a carboxylic acid and a primary alcohol in a disproportion reaction named for Cannizaro. They are characterized by an NMR shift of about 9 to 10 ppm, and their oxidation in the presence of a diamine-silver complex yields a “silver mirror” in the Tollens test. For 10 points, identify this functional group which features a carbon double bonded to an oxygen atom and single bonded to a hydrogen atom, exemplified by methanal and ethanal.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - UCLA A + Missouri State + J.S. Reynolds.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006acf" }, "answer" : "{Calvin-Benson} cycle", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1148994066752, "num" : 19, "question" : "It was elucidated at Berkeley by exposing Chlorella pyrenoidosa to a radioactive substance and killing its cells with boiling methanol. Noted for using sedheptulose-1,7-bisphosphate phosphatase, this process uses five molecules of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to regenerate the starting material. This process occurs in the stroma of chloroplasts, and is associated with the most abundant protein on Earth, rubisco. For 10 points, name this eponymous cycle that is part of the light independent reactions of photosynthesis.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a00368d" }, "answer" : "{Ypres} [prompt on “{Passchendaele}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.70762101281434, "num" : 3, "question" : "The Langemark war cemetery memorializes those who died during battles named for this place. An incident in which several German units were killed by a small force of experienced Boer War veterans occurred at a battle named for this polity and is called \"The Massacre of the Innocents of\" this place. A later battle at this place was led primarily to cripple German submarine warfare by capturing German port cities but proved inconclusive, in part because the area surrounding this city was located on reclaimed marshland which turned to thick mud after being repeatedly shelled, and it also marked the first use of poison gas on the Western Front. For 10 points, name this Belgian city, site of multiple World War I battles.", "round" : "BSUNotreDame.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003de1" }, "answer" : "Sita", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 51.56955864164047, "num" : 9, "question" : "The demoness Surpanakha had her nose and ears cut off as punishment for attacking this figure. This woman raised the twins Lava and Kusha alone after gossip among the citizens of Ayodhya drove her husband to cast her out. That husband won the right to marry her after he was the only man to successfully lift Shiva's bow. This princess of Mithila was the adopted daughter of Janaka, who found her in a furrow while plowing a field. She entered a burning pyre to prove her purity, after she voluntarily accompanied her husband and Lakshmana in a fourteen year exile. She once asked her husband to catch a golden deer which turned out to be Maricha in disguise. Subsequently, Hanuman jumped across the ocean to find her, and a bridge to Lanka was built to rescue, for 10 points, which figure kidnapped by Ravana, the wife of Rama.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b40" }, "answer" : "{gas-liquid} chromatography", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.43979905662127, "num" : 19, "question" : "N-alkenes can be used as a reference in the Kovats index which is useful in this technique, and the van Deemter equation was originally developed to explain the band broadening in this technique. It requires an inert carrier such as argon or carbon dioxide, and it can be followed up by passing the product through a large electric potential and burning them. The injection of the mixture can be done via a split or a splitless injector, and this process can used either a capillary column or a packed column. For 10 points, identify this procedure in which more volatile compounds travel more quickly through the stationary column, a type of chromatography.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 5.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ec2" }, "answer" : "{ultraviolet catastrophe} [prompt on {Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.165046666516, "num" : 6, "question" : "It arose from the combination of the statement that all modes of a system at equilibrium have an average energy of kT/2, suggested by the equipartition theorem, with the predictions of the Rayleigh-Jeans law. This suggested there was no peak wavelength on the associated intensity-wavelength curve according to classical mechanics, but Planck's introduction of quantized energies resolved this paradox. For 10 points, identify this prediction of classical mechanics asserting that an ideal black-body could emit infinite energy at sufficiently short wavelengths, which give this phenomenon its name.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edc8b3d831d6a0010c5" }, "answer" : "{Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.5248687504791, "num" : 6, "question" : "This leader passed the Acerbo laws and edited a socialist newspaper called Avanti!. He signed the Lateran Treaties with Pope Pius XI. On October 28th, he led a march to depose Victor Emmanuel III. This leader of the blackshirts invaded Ethiopia and formed the Pact of Steel with Hitler. For 10 points, name this fascist dictator who supposedly made the trains run on time during his time as leader of Italy during World War II.", "round" : "26.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a9a" }, "answer" : "{Second Boer} War [do not accept First {Boer War}; prompt on {South African War}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 55.33735694177449, "num" : 21, "question" : "One incident during this conflict saw Redvers H. Buller ordering troops into regions such as Colenso and the Stormberge mountains, only to see them soundly whipped in a period referred to as “Black Week.” After Bullers' replacement by Frederick S. Roberts, one side began a string of military victories which culminated in the defeat of Piet Cronje. A precipitating event of this conflict included the actions of Leander Jameson, while another issue of tension revolved around the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand region. The wrap up to this war saw Horatio Kitchener setting up concentration camps while fending off guerrilla attacks led by men like Jan Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts. For 10 points, identify this conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902 that pitted the British against the Dutch-descended Afrikaners in what is now South Africa.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 2 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcf8b3d831d6a0049c4" }, "answer" : "vitamin {C} [or {ascorbic acid}; or {L-ascorbate}; or {dehydroascorbic acid}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8301221120637, "num" : 15, "question" : "Before it was discovered by King and Szent-Gyorgyi in 1932, this molecule's importance was demonstrated in an experiment by James Lind in 1747. This substance is required for the synthesis of norepinephrine and carnitine, but most importantly, it hydroxylazes proline and lysine to produce collagen. Linus Pauling advocated for megadoses of, for 10 points, what vitamin which prevents scurvy and can be found in citrus fruits?", "round" : "round02.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f148b3d831d6a001d8c" }, "answer" : "{Mahler's 3rd} Symphony", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.85401756782085, "num" : 15, "question" : "In the first movement, an oboe call is answered by the 'life-will' motif in the basses, while in another movement, a soloist cries \"All joy wills eternity, wills deep eternity!.\" The first movement also features an offstage snare drum inspired by military bands. This work opens with 8 horns playing a unison theme derived from the finale of Brahms's First Symphony, and the composer removed the original last movement of this work but then brought it back as the last movement of his next symphony. Some of the movements of this work were originally titled \"Summer marches in\" and \"What the flowers in the meadow tell me.\" The fifth movement is a setting of the Wunderhorn song \"Three Angels were Singing,\" while the fourth is a setting of the \"Midnight Song\" from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. For 10 points, identify this massive six-movement symphony, its composer's longest, which followed the Resurrection.", "round" : "Brown A - Final.docx", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042c1" }, "answer" : "Treaty of {Verdun}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.32209487468936, "num" : 18, "question" : "One signer of this treaty crushed the Stellinga Uprising. One year after this treaty was signed, its central figures promised their continued cooperation in a meeting at Yutz. An alliance formed at the Oaths of Strasbourg led to the signing of this treaty, which was modified by the Treaty of Meersen. One signatory of this treaty was given land west of the Scheldt, Meuse, and Saône rivers. Signed two years after the Battle of Fontenay, this treaty gave another of its signees land from the North Sea to Italy, and created the divisions of East and West Francia. Signed by the sons of Louis the Pius, for 10 points, name this treaty which divided the Carolingian Empire among Louis the German, Charles the Bald, and Lothair in 843.", "round" : "r16- Magin.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa68b3d831d6a004030" }, "answer" : "{Robert Browning}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.58754590107128, "num" : 11, "question" : "This author wrote about an innocent silk-winder whose journey connects the sordid lives of four others in a poem that coined the phrase “God's in His heaven All's right with the world.” This author of Pippa Passes wrote a poem in which the title painter urges “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” This poet documented an Italian murder in his The Ring and the Book, and included “Rabbi Ben Ezra” among his dramatic monologues. One of this author's poems concerns a character who had a “heart too soon made glad,” and whose portrait by Fra Pandolf is “painted on the wall.” For 10 points, name this English poet of “My Last Duchess,” the husband of Elizabeth Barret.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - CMU + LASA A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbb8b3d831d6a00453a" }, "answer" : "Sir {Tristan} [or {Tristram} of {Lyonesse}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 98.67558322567493, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man rescues his beloved from a pack of 100 lust-crazed, club-wielding lepers after making a great leap from a chantry to escape his captors. He is the son of Blanchefleur and Rivalen, or of Isabelle and Meliodas, and he is accompanied on some of his adventures by his squire Governal and his brother-in-law Kaherdin. He successfully defies a demand for slaves, leaving a piece of his sword in the skull of King (*) Anguish's gigantic brother-in-law. His notched sword is later recognized by Anguish's daughter, but as he has just killed a dragon on her behalf she does not seek revenge for the death of her uncle Morholt. He also defeats a Saracen who converts to Christianity, Sir Palamedes, who rescues the maid Brangien and shares this man's love for the wife of his uncle Mark. For 10 points, name this Knight of the Round Table who loves Isolde the Fair.", "round" : "Packet 01 - Mike Sorice Sure Does Turn in His Questions Late.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004dac" }, "answer" : "{Magna Carta Libertatum} [prompt on {Great Charter} of {Freedoms}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.605896409601, "num" : 15, "question" : "Clause sixty-one of this document, known as the “Security Clause,” created the Great Council. This document was issued after a defeat at the Battle of Bouvines, and Pope Innocent III declared it null and void. An attempt to defy it led to the First Baron's War. This document introduced the concept of Habeas Corpus and was signed at Runnymede by a Plantagenet king on the insistence of his nobles. For 10 points, name this document signed by King John of England that granted rights and limited royal power in England. ", "round" : "03 HFT.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a00684c" }, "answer" : "{Oklahoma State} University [or {OSU}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.9452693862841, "num" : 7, "question" : "This school won the 1945 and 1946 NCAA basketball championships under Coach Henry Iba, and with players such as Pete Incaviglia and Robin Ventura, it made seven straight College World Series appearances. This school's annual football game against its chief rival is known as Bedlam, and its basketball court is named for Eddie Sutton. T. Boone Pickens has provided this school with record financial gifts for athletics, and notable alums include Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders. For 10 points name this Stillwater-based university, a rival of the Sooners.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020dd" }, "answer" : "{Hades} [or {Aidoneus}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.13691809261218, "num" : 20, "question" : "This figure once carried off a nymph named Leuke, who metamorphosed into a white poplar, becoming sacred to this god. This figure employs a doorman named Aiakos to hold the golden keys that unlocked the door to his palace, and he is in charge of the Oneroi, who bring dreams. This god was also involved in a love affair with Menthe, who became mint. Often depicted with a staff with a bird on the tip, this god is assisted in one of his tasks by men like Rhadymanthys and Minos. In order to help him slay the Medusa, this god lends Perseus his invisibility helmet. In a more famous myth, a pomegranate from this God's orchard ensures that his wife will have to return to him every year; that wife is Persephone. For 10 points, name this brother of Poseidon and Zeus, the Greek god of the dead.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 3.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407a8b3d831d6a007227" }, "answer" : "{bassoon}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 422.0710512481164, "num" : 7, "question" : "Though not a tuba, Wagner asked Wilhelm Heckel to extend its bell so it could reach a half-step below its normal range, to A1. This instrument solos in the “Tale of the Kalendar Prince” movement of Scherezade and plays the first melodies of the Allegro in The Sorcerer's Apprentice and “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” It also represents the grandfather in \"Peter and the Wolf.\" For 10 points, name this double-reed instrument that is much lower in range than the oboe.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a0023b0" }, "answer" : "Providence", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.3298574835062, "num" : 2, "question" : "One character in this film realizes that something in childhood has gone wrong, but that he can't spend the rest of his life attributing it to the “search for a moral language.” That character is called his own best friend by Sonia, whose life with him consists of establishing minimal friction; they tell each other “we would make love if we had the desire, and we would blow each other's brains out if we had a gun.” The protagonist is given the gifts of Hemingway's knife and the book The Scales of Time for his birthday. He later sees a man worrying about what is infinitely small and infinitely large and asking the barrister “Did you create hell all these years just to have something to write about?” Kevin Woodford is tried for murder, and later has an affair with Sonia, while Claude Langham, played by Dirk Bogarde, goes for his old flame, the slowly dying Helen. The alcoholic protagonist continues to refuse to die until he finishes who has been writing his treacherous family into his latest novel. An exploration of discontinuous perspective akin to the discontinuous time in the director's previous work, Last Year at Marienbad, for 10 points, name this film starring Sir John Gielgud as a dying writer, a work by Alain Resnais.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 08 - This Civilising Love of Death.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040f0" }, "answer" : "{Coriolis} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.7541487631388, "num" : 12, "question" : "In electrodynamics, this effect leads to the formation of an instantaneous voltage called the Christoffel voltage, and cyclostrophic flow sees zero contributions from friction and this effect. The ratio of net acceleration of a fluid to acceleration due to this effect is the Rossby number. Its acceleration is given by negative two times the cross product between the angular velocity of the system and the velocity of the particle. It is the cause of the rotation of sunspots and creates geostrophic winds. This effect generally manifests in the deflection of an object because of the Earth's rotation. For 10 points, name this effect that does not actually change the direction of water swirling in toilet bowls.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - St. Anselm's + Truman State A.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eff8b3d831d6a0018ce" }, "answer" : "{Paul Gauguin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5908648679033, "num" : 16, "question" : "One work by this artist shows a robed figure leaning against a column while a dark-skinned woman lies face down naked in bed. Another of his works shows the title event and its bonnet-wearing spectators against a flat red background. In addition to Spirit of the Dead Watching and Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel), this man depicted a blue statue representing \"the Beyond\" and several women representing the stages of life in a work painted in Tahiti. For 10 points, name this French Post-Impressionist painter of Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? and Yellow Christ.", "round" : "Round14.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f298b3d831d6a002271" }, "answer" : "{Sun Yat-sen} [or {Guofu}; or {Zhongshan}; or {Sun Zhongshan}; or {Sun Deming}; or {Sun Dixiang}; or {Sun}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.88465771195479, "num" : 5, "question" : "This pupil of James Cantlie wrote about one experience in his book Kidnapped in London. This man unsuccessfully worked with He Kai and Sir Henry Blake before forming the Revolutionary Alliance and adopting the alias Nakayama Shou. This man's ideas were influenced by Henry George, and he was a leader of the March 29 revolution. This creator of the United League and co-author of a manifesto with the Soviet diplomat Adolf Joffe favored democracy, nationalism, and the general welfare, which he called the \"Three Principles of the People.\" This man returned to his native country during the Wuhan revolution, and formed an uneasy alliance with Yuan Shi-kai. For 10 points, name this first party chairman of the Kuomintang and first provisional president of China.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Maryland A + Furman.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40188b3d831d6a005ab4" }, "answer" : "{Atlas Shrugged}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.14157054210082, "num" : 5, "question" : "People who disappear in this work include Midas Mulligan, Richard Haley and Ellis Watt. Quentin Daniels eventually joins them when he attempts to discover the secrets of a scientifically impossible motor. Wesley Mouch passes legislation to cripple industrialists such as Dan Conway in this work. Another of its characters, Ragnar Danneskjold, is a ship-plundering pirate. Francisco d'Anconia crashes the copper market when he learns his mines are to be nationalized. It begins with Eddie's revelation to James Taggart that the Rio Norte Line is going under. For 10 points, name this novel featuring Dagny Taggart, a novel by Ayn Rand that asks “who is John Galt?”", "round" : "MUT II - Iowa + Editors.doc", "seen" : 72, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002338" }, "answer" : "{George Caleb Bingham}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.96468205680139, "num" : 13, "question" : "One of this man's works shows a man in a golden robe with a rifle in the middle of a marsh. Besides depicting Leonidas Wetmore, his other famous portraits include those of Mrs. M. M Marmaduke and his close friend Major Sidney James Rollins. Unusual for his time, he used photographs and daguerrotypes to help create works like Stump Speaking, which joined The Verdict of the People in his “Election” series. His trip to Dusseldorf prompted works like the second of his “Jolly Boatmen” paintings, while he depicted a Native American in The Concealed Enemy, which showed the same body of water that appears in a rather murky painting featuring a bear cub on the left side of a boat containing two men, the elder of whom rows with a stick. For 10 points, name this artist of Fur Traders Descending the Missouri.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 02 - Great Unaffected Vampires.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e4c" }, "answer" : "{Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.0003067299258, "num" : 7, "question" : "R.R. Shoring reconstructed the destroyed manuscript for this man's symphonic poem Fate, and he wrote a suite in G for strings entitled “Mozartiana.” This composer wrote the “Characteristic Dances,” which he used in the opera “The Voyevod.” Another work by this composer includes a \"Spanish Dance\" and a \"Waltz of the Flowers,\" while an overture of his that quotes the French national anthem uses cannons. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of the Symphony Pathetique, the 1812 Overture, and The Nutcracker.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a003fe9" }, "answer" : "{Diego Velazquez}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5242360339034, "num" : 36, "question" : "A self portrait of this artist wearing a cross on his black tunic and holding a palette can be seen in one of his paintings. He included a cupid holding a mirror in his Rokeby Venus and painted the results of the siege of a Dutch town in The Surrender of Breda. This artist painted a girl stepping on a dog and a dwarf in a dress as the title attendants of the Infanta Margarita as court painter for Philip IV of Spain. For 20 points, name this Spanish painter of Las Meninas.", "round" : "colonia-06.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe88b3d831d6a004f76" }, "answer" : "{hydrogen peroxide} [or {dioxidane}; accept {H2O2} before read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.5154369086958, "num" : 8, "question" : "Acetanilide is often added to this substance to stabilize it. This compound can be a byproduct of the hydrolysis in ozonolysis. Along with an iron catalyst, it is present in Fenton's reagent. This inorganic compound can be used in the Baeyer-Villiger reaction. It can be used as a rocket fuel, and it the liver it is decomposed by catalase. This compound is a strong oxidizing agent and is useful in bleaching and killing microbes. For 10 points, name this compound with chemical formula H2O2.", "round" : "4q1-07.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f908b3d831d6a003b24" }, "answer" : "{Hadrian} or {Publius Aelius Hadrianus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.96454563364387, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man was never actually named emperor by his predecessor, but rather by that predecessor's wife, Plotina. One of this man's first actions was to put down a possible rebellion led by Lucius Quietus. His namesake mausoleum later became known as the Castel Sant' Angelo. This man abandoned his predecessor's conquests in Mesopotamia for fear that they could not be defended. As well as rebuilding the Pantheon, this man built a namesake wall during his conquests in Great Britain. For 10 points, name this Roman Emperor, the successor to Trajan and predecessor to Antoninus Pius.", "round" : "Yale + Michigan - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eeb8b3d831d6a001439" }, "answer" : "friction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7718349352945, "num" : 20, "question" : "For a solid-liquid suspension, Ralph Bagnold defined a \"dynamic\" version of this force and\n characterized its \"effective angle\" as the arctangent of the ratio of the normal and shear stresses. The\n Bilman-Sorine Model modifies the Dahl Model to account for this force's decrease with increasing velocity\n in the low-velocity regime, an effect discovered by Richard Stribeck. Counterintuitively, it is independent\n of cross-sectional area by Amontons' Second Law. Amontons' First Law, rediscovered by Charles\n Coulomb, states that the magnitude of this force is proportional to the normal force. For 10 points, name\n this force that retards the sliding of two surfaces across each other.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f028b3d831d6a0019a8" }, "answer" : "{Cimabue} (accept {Cenni Di Pepolo})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.841100333957, "num" : 11, "question" : "Vasari claimed that this artist neglected his classical studies in favor of watching the Gondi Chapel being frescoed. Dante compared Oderisi Da Grubbio to this artist who once “held the field.” One work by this artist shows two crowds of people flanking a crucifix; that work is now almost entirely blackened. This artist painted another crucifixion with small icons for the Basilica of Santa Croce; that work was badly damaged in the 1966 Arno flood. This artist painted a seated Madonna and Child flanked by four angels on each side, the Santa Trinita Madonna, technically surpassed by the Ognissanti Madonna, with which it now shares a room in the Uffizi. The comparison dramatizes Vasari’s observation that this artist was “overshadowed by a greater light,” namely, his most famous student. For ten points, name this artist who is thought to have taught Giotto.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060e3" }, "answer" : "Santiago", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.983378452016, "num" : 3, "question" : "Oakland has a minor league pitcher with this as his first name and Casilla as his last name. One player with this last name was traded alongside Juan Gonzalez in exchange for Carlos Guillen. While with the Blue Jays, one player with this last name was injured in a Florida car crash and missed the entire 1998 season. That player batted fifth behind Barry Bonds for the Giants in the 2002 postseason. More recently, a player with this last name has manned the middle infield for the Detroit Tigers. For ten points, give this last name of Tigers shortstop Ramon and veteran catcher Benito, also a name used to refer to the patron saint of Spain, James the Greater.", "round" : "RoundTRASH.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40238b3d831d6a005d58" }, "answer" : "{Benedict Arnold}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0282373868395, "num" : 24, "question" : "A group overseen by this figure was provided with bad maps by Reuben Colburn. Powder House Day commemorates an incident in which this man, allegedly backed by Jonathan Edwards, threatened New Haven leadership into giving him access to the local magazine. His greatest successes came at Valcour Island and Bemis Heights, where he won a showdown against Daniel Morgan, though a leg wound led Horatio Gates to take credit for his actions. For 10 points, the capture of John Andre led to the revelation that what general, despite his heroism with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga and at Saratoga, planned to surrender West Point to the British?", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 10.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fe9" }, "answer" : "{Escherichia coli}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5258147057612, "num" : 7, "question" : "This organism developed the ability to metabolize citrate in one experiment, and it has been used in recombinant form to produce usable human insulin. Seymour Benzer used this organism with a T4 phage to investigate gene structure, and conjugation was first observed in it by Edward Tatum. In 2001, a complete genetic sequence was made of this organism's O157:H7 strain. That type may cause bloody diarrhea and kidney failure if consumed. For 10 points, name this model organism, a bacterium sometimes found in the intestines.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b29" }, "answer" : "{Ganesha} [accept {Ganapati} or {Pillaiyar}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.91281917341985, "num" : 10, "question" : "In the second verse of this figure's sahasranama hymn is the name “buddha,” though it most likely does not refer to Siddhartha Gautama. This figure is sometimes depicted as having three wives representing prosperity, intelligence, and spirit. The Mudgala Purana is dedicated to the devotees of this deity, who are called (*) Ganapatyas. In the first of his incarnations described in the Purana, he takes the form of Vakratunda, the twisting trunk, an embodiment of Brahman in order to overcome the demon Matsaryasura, while his seventh and eighth incarnations correspond to Vishnu and Shiva. This deity is also notably worshiped by many followers of Jainism, and is known in Buddhism as Vinayaka. FTP, name this remover of obstacles, a Hindu deity with the head of an elephant.", "round" : "FINAL_ASU_B+RPI.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00605a" }, "answer" : "{John Wesley} [prompt on “{Wesley}”]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.00258535612375, "num" : 22, "question" : "Two books about this man were written by the historian Albert Outler. This theologian was deeply influenced by spending time with Moravian Christians while on a boat traveling to Georgia, where James Oglethorpe had invited him to found a church. This theologian used the four sources of scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to reach theological conclusions, which have been termed this man's “Quadrilateral”. This Arminian often clashed with his Calvinist colleague George Whitefield, though both used open-air preaching.  Often working in concert with his brother Charles, for ten points name this 18th century British evangelical theologian, the founder of Methodism.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40398b3d831d6a0062d7" }, "answer" : "{Italo Calvino}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.11122569441795, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of his protagonists refers to his sister as the “Dark Girl of Long Alley” and steals a gun from her Nazi lover to bury in a secret location. The title character of another work battles with the “fruit thieves,” dies by fastening himself to the anchor of a balloon, and refuses to eat his sister's snail soup. Those novels about Pin and Cosimo are The Baron in the Trees and The Path to the Nest of Spiders.  In another of his novels, Medardo of Terralba is split in half by a cannonball, and in another a plot about swapping suitcases devolves into a romance between Ludmilla and “The Reader.” For 10 points, name this author of The Cloven Viscount and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Georgia A + Pitt B.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a000500" }, "answer" : "the {California gold rush} (prompt on partial answer; accept {discovery} of {gold} in {California} or other equivalents; accept {Forty-Niner gold rush} before “{forty-niner}”)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.46492462325841, "num" : 8, "question" : "This event ruined plans for an agricultural utopia called New Helvetia. The Dame Shirley letters documented this event, which led to a certain area gaining the Chinese nickname “Gum San.” Poet Joaquin Miller documented this event’s effect on the native population in Life Amongst the Modocs. The Cliff House was constructed by an early participant, Star newspaper publisher Samuel Brannan, who took to the streets yelling about the American River shortly after this event began. So-called Argonauts participated in this event, which began after James W. Marshall alerted his boss about some residue in a lumber mill water wheel. For 10 points, name this event that was sparked by a discovery at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, leading bunch of forty-niners to flock to a certain state.", "round" : "2011 CO History Davis Hart.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002aac" }, "answer" : "{Tierra del Fuego}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.9915661204141, "num" : 9, "question" : "Its indigenous people include the Yaghan, whose language has one native speaker, and Robert Fitzroy brought four natives of this location back to England. Though not New York, one segment is sometimes called Staten Island, and its highest point is Monte [*] Darwin. Its west end, Isla Desolación, can receive 800% more rain than the east end, and Ushuaia, its largest city, is generally considered the southernmost city in the world. Containing the Beagle Channel, for 10 points, name this archipelago, bordered to the north by the Strait of Magellan, that is divided between Chile and Argentina and whose name means “Land of Fire.”", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 3 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 401, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eeb8b3d831d6a00144d" }, "answer" : "the {normal} vector [or {N}; or {unit normal} vector]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2751283440738, "num" : 17, "question" : "The flux of a vector field across a surface is given by the double integral, over the surface, of the vector\n field dotted with this quantity. The direction of this vector determines the orientation of a surface. For a\n plane, it can be found by taking the cross product of any two vectors in the plane; for a curve in space, it is\n equal to the derivative of the tangent vector. The direction of this vector, along with any point in the plane,\n defines the plane. For 10 points, name this vector, which is perpendicular to a surface.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00607c" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Adrianople} [or {Hadrianopolis}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.19386332132854, "num" : 21, "question" : "This battle it is described by Ammianus Marcellinus, whose surviving works don’t go past the year of this battle. The losing forces included such commanders as Richomeres and Bacurius the Iberian, and roces which engaged the Thervings and Greutungs without orders. It resulted after the losing leader rejected an armistice proposed by Fritigern and tried to conquer before Gratian’s reinforcements arrived. Theodosius I came to power after the death at this battle of the Eastern Emperor, who was abandoned by his guard and anonymously killed. For 10 points, name this disastrous battle for Valens that occurred in August 378 in present-day European Turkey.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - YaleB + Illinois A + Toronto final.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002860" }, "answer" : "{Spring} or {Well} or {Fountain}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.49379804497585, "num" : 4, "question" : "In Greek mythology, the Crinaeae inhabit these places, and Egeria, the wife of Numa Pompillius, turned into one of these after Numa's death. Apollo turned Castalia into one of these objects, which stands next to the Oracle at Delphi. After being chased by Alpheus, Arethusa was turned into one of these. One of these objects named for the nymph Pirene was a favorite spot of Pegasus, while Pegasus also created one of these sacred to the Muses known as the Hippocrene one. During the contest for the control of Athens, Poseidon gave the Athenians one of these objects, which they rejected. For 10 points, name these objects, another of which was the one “of Youth” searched for by Ponce de Leon, which are sources of underground water.", "round" : "Round 12 updated.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a000705" }, "answer" : "{Japanese} Navy [accept {Tokogawa navy} until \"{Yamamoto}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9274248359724, "num" : 2, "question" : "This navy sent an expedition to Mexico on the San Buena Ventura, a ship built by William Adams. This navy was instructed to only allow passage to ships abiding by the Red Seal system. This navy was crushed by Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his turtle ships during an abortive invasion of Korea. For 10 points, name this navy that was led by Admiral Yamamoto during World War II.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c18" }, "answer" : "{Metaphase} [prompt on {mitosis} until mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5146101035643, "num" : 14, "question" : "This process includes the Mad2 protein, which binds to Cdc20, an activator for the next stage after this process. A cell may not progress past this stage if there is not enough tension on spindle fibers. Colchicine is used to arrest this stage so that karyotypes can be made from it, since chromosomes are at their most coiled. Before passing the spindle checkpoint during it, each sister chromatid must be attached via a kinetochore to a spindle fiber. In it, chromosomes line up on the equatorial plate of the cell. For 10 points, name this middle stage of mitosis succeeded by anaphase.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a004fee" }, "answer" : "teeth", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8289584813174, "num" : 32, "question" : "Certain ridges in these structures are called lophs, and they are connected to the alveolar bone. Cells crucial in their development include ameloblasts. Different types of them include brachydonts and hypsodonts. The innermost part of these structures is known as the pulp. They are covered by a layer of hard enamel. For 10 points, name these structures in the mouth that help break up food.", "round" : "4q1-10.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fac8b3d831d6a004175" }, "answer" : "{Lajos Kossuth}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.74310077656992, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man opposed the economics-first program advocated by an earlier leader who wrote Stadium and Light. This man's followers secured the passage of certain acts that ended the noble exemption from taxation and the practice of extracting \"robot\" labor that are known variously as the March Laws or April Laws. A bust of this person can be found in United States Capitol with the subtitle \"Freedom Fighter,\" and he claimed to have learned English by studying Shakespeare in jail. This editor of the Pesti Hirlap proclaimed independence in Debrecen, but Viscount Canning had to negotiate this man's exile at Shumen in Ottoman-controlled Bulgaria following the defeat of the Revolutions of 1848. For 10 points, name this man who sought autonomy from the Hapsburgs, the national hero of Hungary.", "round" : "r02- Brandeis.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40718b3d831d6a007019" }, "answer" : "{orogeny} [accept word forms; accept equivalents like {mountain formation}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.142653957475, "num" : 7, "question" : "The namesake regions in which this process occurs are sometimes characterized by “nappe,” or a large displaced sheet of rock, and were co-theorized by Zwart and Pitcher. Hercynotype versions of this process take place in back-arc basins, and the Cordilleran type occurs with low geothermal gradient.  The alpinotype ones have the most rapid characteristic change, and specific “belts” where this activity occurs includes the Hudsonian and Nevadan ones in North America. For 10 points, name this process by which large areas of very high and rugged terrain is formed.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a000002" }, "answer" : "{radiative} transfer", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.02252748562023, "num" : 2, "question" : "Simulation of this process can be facilitated with the “on-the-spot” approximation for the local diffuse field. A general solution for the dispersion function in this process is the so-called H-function developed by Chandrasekhar. Angle cosines of plus and minus one over root 3 are commonly used in the two-stream approximation for this process, which can be extended to the Eddington approximation of near-isotropy at large depth. Its grey approximation assumes a frequency-independent opacity, and its fundamental equation sets the source function minues the intensity equal to the derivative of the intensity with respect to the optical depth. It occurs in a diffusive fashion as the dominant energy transport mechanism in non-convective regions of stars. For 10 points, name this process of absorption and emission into a beam of light passing through a medium.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edf8b3d831d6a001179" }, "answer" : "{William James}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.2474830588326, "num" : 23, "question" : "This thinker divided philosophers into “tough-minded” and “tender-minded” categories. In one essay, this man analyzed an argument over whether a man chasing a squirrel around a tree is going around the squirrel. This thinker defined truth as “what is useful” in a book subtitled, “A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking.” For 10 points, name this American philosopher, the author of Pragmatism and The Principles of Psychology.", "round" : "31.pdf", "seen" : 309, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f57" }, "answer" : "{Walden}, or Life in the Woods", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8453287833835, "num" : 9, "question" : "The author of this book attempts to \"brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning\" in order to wake his neighbors up. This book asserts that \"the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation\" in its first section, \"Economy.\" The narrator of this book claims that he \"went to the woods\" to \"live deliberately\" before describing the peaceful months spent at the title pond. For 10 points, name this description of \"Life in the Woods\" by Henry David Thoreau.", "round" : "4q1-06.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069c2" }, "answer" : "Hawai'i", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4998397035524, "num" : 11, "question" : "This kingdom was created after its first king won a battle known as \"the leaping of the mullet fish.\" The leader of the Committee of Safety, Lorrin Thurston, forced its leader to sign the Bayonet Constitution. It was officially annexed by the Newlands Resolution, and was first ruled by King Kamehameha I. Its only president, Sanford Dole, took power after Queen Lil'uokalani was deposed. Its current senators include Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka, and in 1959, it became the 50th state. For 10 points, name this state whose capital is Honolulu.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40298b3d831d6a005eee" }, "answer" : "The {Brothers Karamazov} [or {Bratya Karamazovy}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.1911520892754, "num" : 1, "question" : "One character in this novel has a dream in which he eats at the biblical wedding of Cana, which helps him overcome his anger at the quick decay of corpse of his mentor Father Zossima. Madame Khokhlakov obsessively tells one character to go to “the Mines” when he asks for a loan, which he needs to pursue his love Grushenka. Another character suffers from guilt-ridden dreams about the Devil that ruin his testimony in court where he hoped to prove Smerdyakov committed the murder his brother is accused of. For 10 points, name this novel in which Dmitri is falsely convicted for the murder of Fyodor, written by Dostoevsky.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 9.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a00504f" }, "answer" : "{Jack Kerouac} [or {Jean Louis Lebris} de {Kerouac}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1911726142279, "num" : 1, "question" : "This author wrote about a character who serves as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak, who accompanies the Buddhist Japhy Ryder. In another novel by this author of The Dharma Bums, one character is called the \"HOLY GOOF\" just after taking a marijuana-filled trip to a Mexico City bordello, and Carlo Marx is visited with Bull Lee in Denver by the central characters, one of who takes on a job as night watchman for merchant sailors in San Francisco. Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise travel across America by car in this man's best known novel. For 10 points, name this author of On The Road.", "round" : "4q1-14.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a00472c" }, "answer" : "{Robert Browning}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.4844754152, "num" : 11, "question" : "One poem by this author contains the lines, “Thinketh, it came of being ill at ease: He hated that He cannot change his cold, nor cure its ache”, and he wrote another poem which begins, “Gr-r-r—there go, my heart's abhorrence!  Water your damned flower-pots, do!”  This author of “Caliban Upon Setebos” and “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” wrote a poem in which the speaker claims, “I warily oped her lids: again laugh'd the blue eyes without a stain” after strangling the title character with “one long yellow string” made from her hair.  For 10 points—name this author of “Porphyria's Lover”, who wrote about a woman who “had a heart...too soon made glad” and was painted by Fra Pandolf in his poem “My Last Duchess”.", "round" : "1.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a004689" }, "answer" : "{Joe Turner's Come} and {Gone}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.96340108499862, "num" : 10, "question" : "One character in this work claims to see the ghost of Miss Mabel and  earlier confesses to not living up to a promise he made to his best friend Eugene. That character, Reuben, kisses a character whom he starts calling \"Spider.\" Early in this work, one character buries pigeons and pours their blood on top of the grave before he describes meeting a \"shiny man\" near Johnstown, learning that his nature is associated with \"binding.\" In another scene from this play, one character relates a vision where bones walk across a sea and is forced to leave by (*) Seth Holly, the owner of the boarding house where this play is set. That character, Herald Loomis, travels along with his daughter Zonia in search of his wife Martha, finding his \"song\" with Bynum's aid in, for 10 points, which play of the Pittsburgh cycle wherein Bynum recites a song about a legendary character who enslaves people into his plantation, written by August Wilson?", "round" : "Rd03.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efe8b3d831d6a0018a3" }, "answer" : "{William Somerset Maugham}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9855846124701, "num" : 13, "question" : "This author created a character who dies in a miscarriage caused by drinking, after being beaten by Jim Blakeston. One work by this author sees the Polish miner Kosti befriend a character who is in love with, but ultimately does not marry, Isabel Bradley. This author of Liza of Lambeth and creator of Larry Darrell in The Razor's Edge wrote a novel in which Sally, Thorpe Athelny's sister, marries the club-footed Philip Carey. He wrote a novel based on the life of Paul Gauguin, in which Charles Strickland moves to Tahiti. For 10 points, name this author of Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence.", "round" : "Round12.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a0065ab" }, "answer" : "{Myanmar} [or {Burma}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 593.9986161557026, "num" : 20, "question" : "This country is home to a city that was built by such kings as Anawratha and Kyanzittha. It owns such as islands as Ramree, Preparis, and Cheduba, and the city of Sagaing is near the point at which the Chindwin branches off from this country's longest river. Indented by the Gulf of Martaban, its Shan province is home to the Salween River, and the capital lies on the Sittang River and was renamed Naypyidaw after it was decided that the former capital, site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, was too susceptible to American naval invasion. For 10 points each, name this country, the site of cities such as Mandalay and Yangon, or Rangoon.", "round" : "Round 8 - UMD 3.doc", "seen" : 396, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f988b3d831d6a003cf2" }, "answer" : "{frictional} force", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5406795539893, "num" : 7, "question" : "When this is present in a harmonic oscillator damping can occur, while approximations used to model it assume that it is independent of contact area. On the molecular scale, this phenomenon is caused by deformation of irregularities in surfaces and subsequent heat loss. This force allows a wheel to roll without slipping and has a model named for Coulomb. That model for this force states that for a body at rest it is less than or equal to the normal force times a namesake coefficient, and it has static and kinetic varieties. For 10 points, name this force which opposes sliding motion between two surfaces.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed78b3d831d6a000fa3" }, "answer" : "The {Canterbury Tales} [accept \"The {Pardoner's Tale}\" before \"{another section}\"]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5737042198888, "num" : 33, "question" : "In one part of this work, three men set off to kill Death, but they are distracted when they find a large amount of money. At the end of another section of this work, a knight gives up his choice of having either a young and unfaithful wife or an old and faithful one. The plot of this work is set in motion when a group sets out together from the Tabard Inn in Southwark. For 10 points, name this collection of stories told by pilgrims such as the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath, which was written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006247" }, "answer" : "{acid rain}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5092112051789, "num" : 15, "question" : "One technique used to reduce the severity of this phenomenon is called FGD and uses a limestone slurry to create harmless compounds such as calcium sulfite. Increased aluminum content in soils is a byproduct of this phenomenon. A complementary phenomenon to this one is dry deposition, and it can be produced naturally when lightning splits certain nitrogen-containing compounds. Caused by excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, name this type of pollution in which the pH of precipitation is dangerously low.", "round" : "Missouri State Game 3 - sorted.docx", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "U. of Georgia CCC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40598b3d831d6a006a7a" }, "answer" : "{cryptography} [or {encryption}; accept word forms for either]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1725073952693, "num" : 22, "question" : "Damgard's development of “claw-free” Hash functions was an important contribution to this field and essential to many techniques in this field are properties of the discrete logarithm, which are applied in a method named for Diffie and Hellman. One of the best-known algorithms in this field relies on the difficulty of factoring the product of two large primes, a public-key algorithm called RSA. For 10 points, identify this study of concealing communication, exemplified by Vigenere and Caesar ciphers.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edb8b3d831d6a001091" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Johnson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.708641691599, "num" : 21, "question" : "This author noted that “when a man is tired of London he is tired of life.” He included fifty-two critical biographies in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. This man described one of his trips in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. This man’s life was the subject of an influential biography by James Boswell. This writer created a work which pioneered giving quotes as context for definitions. For 10 points, name this lexicographer and critic who authored A Dictionary of the English Language.", "round" : "24.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064cd" }, "answer" : "{crab} nebula [accept {just crab} after \"{nebula}\" is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1826427334454, "num" : 8, "question" : "Radiation from this object has recently been used to study the sun's corona and the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan as each transited it.  It is surrounded by a helium-rich torus, and near its center, a shock front is formed by its interaction with the equatorial wind produced by its identically named pulsar. First recorded by Jon Bevis, this object in the constellation Taurus was named from the shape of a drawing of it by the Earl of Rosse. For 10 points, name this object produced by a supernova seen in the year 1054, a nebula that is the first entry in Messier's catalogue.", "round" : "Round 1 - Vandy 1.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a004401" }, "answer" : "{Helen} of {Troy}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.98603541287594, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one account, this figure died after a group of handmaidens dressed as the Furies and hung her from a tree; in that account, she was driven from her home by Nicostratus and found refuge with Tlepolemus and Polyxo. In another story, Hermes created an image of this woman out of clouds while she took refuge in Egypt. Her daughter Hermione later married Neoptolemous, and this daughter of Tyndareus was rescued by the Dioscuri after Pirithous and Theseus attempted to kidnap her. Born from an egg laid by swan, FTP, name this husband of Menelaus and daughter of Zeus and Leda, who's kidnapping by Paris began the Trojan War.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Toronto - Yale.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f808b3d831d6a00373c" }, "answer" : "{Wolff-Kishner} reduction [or reaction]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.23199511878192, "num" : 10, "question" : "A synthesis of withasomnine makes use of a variant of this reaction to cleave bicyclic pyrazole rings. Parquet and Lin report the time taken by this reaction may be reduced by use of a microwave oven, and it requires the use of a polar, high-boiling solvent like ethylene glycol. One modification of this reaction puts all of the reagents in one pot; that one is named for Huang-Minlon. In its third step, a resonance-stabilized carbocation reacts with water to form a diazene, which is then deprotonated. After that step, the production of nitrogen gas keeps the reaction from reversing. Its first step involves the conversion of the primary reagent to a hydrazone by reaction with hydrazine. For 10 points, name this reaction that reduces ketones and aldehydes to alkanes, the basic analogue of the Clemmensen reduction.", "round" : "MarylandA.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003df9" }, "answer" : "{Louis XI} [accept {Louis XI}, the {Universal Spider}; accept {Spider King}; accept {Universal Spider}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.405452914536, "num" : 12, "question" : "This man renamed Arras Franchise to promote the wool industry, but failed, though he had earlier succeeded in starting the Lyons silk industry. Ruling from the Loire valley, especially Tours, he was once held captive at Peronne by his worst enemy and forced to repent for supposedly sponsoring an insurrection at Liege. This man signed the Treaty of Conflans to end the Siege of Paris. This man lost at the Battle of Montlhery despite his enemy routing because Charles, Count of Maine was a coward. This great friend of Francisco Sforza and the Chronicler Philip Commynes and enemy of Francis II of Brittany destroyed the feudal aristocracy. He preferred peace over war as seen by the Treaty of Picquiney, paying off the English under Edward IV. He fought against the League of the Public Weal, and had earlier fled to Philip the Good's court from his father Charles VII. But Philip's son, who died at Nancy, proved to be his most persistent foe. For 10 points, name this enemy of Charles the Bold, a French king known for his plotting.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a00739f" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Richardson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.879501397023, "num" : 21, "question" : "Show off your knowledge about some bitchiness between 18th-century English writers for 10 points each. Joseph Andrews and Shamela were parodies written to mock stylistic flaws in this author's incredibly long epistolary novel Pamela.", "round" : "Round10Final.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a00718e" }, "answer" : "Mars", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.525448028231, "num" : 14, "question" : "Recent data suggests that this body has experienced five volcanic events, occurring between 3.5 billion and 100 million years ago. One such eruption likely occurred from the Arsia Mons, a member of the Tharsis Montes which was named by Giovanni Schiaparelli. A better known feature is a shield volcano 27 kilometers high, whose lava residues were explored by the Express orbiter in 2004 and is the tallest known mountain in the solar system. For 10 points, name this home to Olympus Mons orbited by Phobos and Deimos, the fourth planet from the Sun.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a002646" }, "answer" : "{Gordon Brown}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2304.59534659097, "num" : 5, "question" : "The reaction to this man's recent promise of a zero percent increase in public spending led John Bercow to call for order. He became a member of the Shadow Cabinet in 1986. In 1994, he was rumored to be a candidate for the leadership of the Labour Party, but struck the Granita (“gruh-NEE-tuh”) Pact with man he would eventually succeed, Tony Blair. For 10 points, name this current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.", "round" : "CMST_Round06.pdf", "seen" : 1542, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061d6" }, "answer" : "Galvanization", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.51101063098758, "num" : 2, "question" : "The Sendzimir process is used to perform this action by using a small amount of aluminum to cut back on side production of alloys, and lead is used to imrpove the fluidity of the mixture and cutting back on excess dross production. It is commonly performed using the hip-dip, batch, or electroplating methods, and this process commonly reacts carbon dioxide with zinc oxide to create zinc carbonate, which is then deposited on the substrate in a crystalline geometry. For 10 points, name this process that commonly uses zinc oxide in order to create rust-resistant steel, named for an Italian chemist.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 7 - Final.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a003795" }, "answer" : "{Sir Gawain} and the {Green} Knight", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.81064690765925, "num" : 15, "question" : "The first and last alliterative lines of this work state that it takes place it after the siege of Troy, and Adam, Solomon, Samson, and David are listed as exemplars by one character in this work, who praises the idea of loving women, but not trusting them. One character in this work encourages his guests to try to get a hood placed on a spear, in a game which parallels this work's central plot. The two title characters of this work agree to exchange their winnings for three days, earning one many kisses, but the failure of one character to give up an enchanted belt results in that character receiving a cut on his neck, when the title characters meet again at a chapel to finish another game. Attributed to the Pearl Poet, this is, for 10 points, what work which features a beheading-game between a knight of the Round Table and a colorful warrior?", "round" : "RutgersNB.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c69" }, "answer" : "{Lady Gaga}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.3091120985337, "num" : 8, "question" : "One tattoo on this artist is a quote by a German poet, an author whose \"philosophy of solitude\" made him the favorite philosopher of this artist. In addition to that quote by Rilke on her arm, a song by this artist claims that she \"won't stop until that boy is mine,\" and that she will \"be your girl backstage at your show.\" In one music video released by this artist, she is bailed out of jail and proceeds to shoot everyone eating breakfast in a diner with her partner in crime, and another music video features dancers dressed in all white emerging from pods with read “monster.” A more recent single sees her claim that she \"wants your psycho your vertigo stick,\" and that song features the start of the chorus being sung in French as part of the bridge. In a song about this singer's bisexuality she claims that she is \"bluffin with her muffin\" and that Russian Roulette \"is not the same without a gun.\" For 10 points, name this often oddly dressed singer of \"Poker Face\" and \"Bad Romance,\" named for a Queen song.", "round" : "Round 09.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027c9" }, "answer" : "the {hydrogen atom}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.98929364350624, "num" : 1, "question" : "The radial part of the state vector for this system is given by a Laguerre polynomial while the angular portion is given by the spherical harmonics. Hyperfine splitting in it results in the 21-cm line, and solving this system requires separating the radial, angular, and azimuthal parts of the Schrodinger Equation. It produces series of lines such as the Paschen, Balmer, and Lyman series, whose energy is proportional to the difference of one over n-squared as given by the Rydberg formula. For 10 points, name this quantum mechanical system which is accurately described by the Bohr Model and consists of one proton and one neutron.", "round" : "Round 03 updated.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b24" }, "answer" : "Lady {Windermere's Fan}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.31815318600275, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this work, Mr. Dumby agrees with Lady Statfield that it has been a “quite delightful” season, only to immediately agree that the season was instead “dreadfully dull.” It opens as the main character is arranging a fresh bowl of roses, and later the Duchess of Berwick drives the protagonist to rip open a sealed checkbook, finding several large sums given to another woman. That protagonist of this work leaves a letter for her husband and leaves to escape with Lord Darlington, but Ms. Erlynne reveals herself to be Margaret's long lost mother. For 10 points, name this play by Oscar Wilde, whose title object is Margaret's birthday gift from her husband.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 4.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f648b3d831d6a003058" }, "answer" : "{Prague Spring} [or {Prazske jaro}; or {Prazska jar}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.5134381530806, "num" : 5, "question" : "This period was the subject of negotiations at Cierna. Those who fomented this period were angry over the lingering effects of the Slansky trials of sixteen years prior. It was preceded by the fourth congress of the Writers Union and it saw the publication of \"The Two Thousand Words.\" Events during this period included the self-immolation of Jan Palach and the creation of the Action Program. The beginning of this period saw the replacement of Antonin Novotny. It was followed by a period of \"normalization\" under Gustav Husák. This period saw the introduction of programs based around \"socialism with a human face\" and it was ended by a Soviet invasion. For 10 points, name this time period sparked by the 1968 reforms of Alexander Dub?ek in the Czechoslovak capital.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcf8b3d831d6a0049a7" }, "answer" : "Pennsylvania", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 593.8668002334889, "num" : 7, "question" : "This state's northeastern corner contains the Endless Mountains, and this state's Laurel Highlands contain its highest point, Mount Davis. Wilkes-Barre is on the Susquehanna River in this state, and major cities include the Lehigh Valley's Allentown and Erie. Lancaster County is home to this state's namesake “Dutch”. For 10 points, name this state with capital at Harrisburg, home of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia", "round" : "round01.doc", "seen" : 392, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052e7" }, "answer" : "{James Augustine Aloysius Joyce}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.8547818511724, "num" : 98, "question" : "In one of this author's short stories, Mahony meets a \"queer old josser.\" The narrator of another of one of his novels becomes fixated with the word \"paralysis\" after the death of Father Flynn. This author of \"Araby\" and \"The Sisters\" wrote about Morkans' annual dance and Michael Furey's tragic death in a story about Gabriel Conroy. That work, \"The Dead,\" is the final piece in the short story collection Dubliners. For 10 points, Stephen Dedalus appears in both A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses by what Irish author?", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a00494c" }, "answer" : "{Henry Fielding}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.930504133692, "num" : 4, "question" : "This author contrasted Mr. and Mrs. Heartfree with the title great man in a satirical novel about the life of a notorious criminal, Jonathan Wild. His first play was 1728's Love in Several Masques, which he followed up with 1731's The Tragedy of Tradegies. His most famous work profiles a foundling discovered on the land of Squire Allworthy, who begins a relationship with a neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. For ten points, identify this English novelist of Amelia and Tom Jones.", "round" : "FKT Jonathan Graham 2.rtf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027d8" }, "answer" : "George {III}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.53578907880001, "num" : 16, "question" : "This person wrote several articles under the pen name of Ralph Robinson. Margaret Nicholson was among the attempted assassins of this person, who appointed John Stuart, the Earl of Bute, as Prime Minister. This monarch, mocked by John Wilkes, later refused to support a repeal of the Papists Act as desired by Lord George Gordon. In a conflict which took place during the ministry of Lord North, this king was described as having “affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.” Porphyria is speculated to have caused his famous madness. For 10 points, name this king of England whose reign saw the Napoleonic Wars and the American Revolution.", "round" : "Round 03 updated.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40338b3d831d6a006164" }, "answer" : "{Derek Walcott}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.77783129480667, "num" : 13, "question" : "Along with Paul Simon, this writer based a play on the murderer Salvador Agron entitled The Capeman. This author suggests that you \"feat on your life\" at the end of a poem in which you sit down to a mirror and greet yourself with elation, \"Love After Love.\" In another play by this author, the prologue begins with Corporal Lestrade bringing in the protagonist, to whom a white woman sang and who is named Makak. In one of this man's poems, Kikuyu flies batten on a bloody pelt and the narrator asks \"How can I turn\" from the titular place \"and live?\" That poem is \"A Far Cry from Africa,\" while a woman named Helen walks down the shore singing \"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away\" in a modern adapation of an ancient epic set in this author's native St. Lucia. For 10 points, name this author of Dream on Monkey Mountain and Omeros.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 14.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea78b3d831d6a000446" }, "answer" : "{Time Reversal} Operator [accept equivalents, prompt on {CP} or {Charge Parity} before \"{CP}\" is mentioned, prompt on \"{T},\" prompt on \"{Wigner's}\" {operator} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.0266619885806, "num" : 2, "question" : "Kramer's degeneracy theorem uses the effects of this operator on the electric field to show that systems with an odd number of electrons must remain doubly degenerate in the absense of a magnetic field. DORT makes use of this operator in scattering problems, while Wigner's theorem is typically used to conclude this operator is anti-unitary and so this is sometimes named for Wigner. Because it is non-increasing, Boltzmann's H-theorem would preclude the existance of this operator. Another result on this operator states that a process that lacks a certain symmetry cannot be made from processes that have it; that objection is named for Loschmidt. In any Lorentz invariant theory the symmetry of this operation is equivalent to the symmetries of charge and parity acting together according to the CPT theorem. FTP, name this process which could make a broken wineglass spontaneously reform.", "round" : "PACKET10Ray.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fba8b3d831d6a0044c8" }, "answer" : "{Rosetta Stone}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.1334746333305, "num" : 3, "question" : "Early analyses were attempted by Silvestre de Sacy and Johan David Akerblad. It states that priests \"should not pay their tax on becoming priests\" and \"renounced the two-thirds share of linen of the fine linen that used to be made in the temples for the Treasury\". Discovered in the town of Rashid, it discusses a desire to improve conditions for the people and the gratitude exclaimed by the priests. Thomas Young made a more successful attempt at deciphering, but it would take the efforts of French linguist Jean Francois Champollion to finish it, using the demotic script as a guide. Chiefly concerned with King Ptolemy V and discovered by Napoleon's Egyptian expedition, FTP, what item allowed comprehension of Egyptian hieroglyphics?", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006528" }, "answer" : "{Henry's} Law", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5579733897467, "num" : 14, "question" : "This law uses Boltzmann's constant when it is employed to analyze melt inclusions in geophysics.  It improves on another law for non-ideal solutions at low concentrations by replacing p star with k, its namesake constant that is affected by temperature in addition to the type of solvent and solute used.  One representation of this law is as e to the k p equals e to the c, but it is more commonly stated as c equals p k.  The mechanism by which deep sea divers experience the bends can be explained by, For 10 points, what chemical law named for an English chemist that states that \"the amount of gas dissolved by a liquid is proportional to the partial pressure of the gas upon the liquid?”", "round" : "Round 2 - UMD 1.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5c8b3d831d6a002e5f" }, "answer" : "{Hermes} [or {Mercury}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 99.70746412151493, "num" : 10, "question" : "The Homeric Hymn to this figure describes how he and a foe both encounter a man tilling his fields on the grassy plain of Onchestus. He fathered the founder of Cydonia with Minos's daughter Acacallis, while his dalliance with a naiad often thought to be equivalent to Muta or Tacita made him the father of the Lares. This figure, who changed the Minyades into bats, was forced to kill Hierax with a stone in one story. Envy's poison once caused Aglaurus to occupy a threshhold in an attempt to prevent this figure from marrying Herse. Another of his adventures saw him thwart (*) Circe's magic by giving the herb moly to Odysseus. This killer of Argus Panoptes was also the father of the master thief Autolycus. He was born on Mount Cyllene, where one day later he invented the lyre. For 10 points, name this son of Maia who wore a winged hat and winged sandals in his role as messenger of the Greek gods.", "round" : "Round 10 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009ee" }, "answer" : "{Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.4458700744436, "num" : 11, "question" : "This commander failed to capture Tobruk from Allied forces but he decisively defeated Allied forces at the Battle of Kasserine Pass. Later, he was transferred to improve the Atlantic Wall and was in charge of the area during the invasion at Normandy. Earlier, he had lost a battle that took place north of the Qattara Depression and ended German hopes of capturing the (*) Suez Canal. For 10 points, name this \"Desert Fox,\" the German commander of the Afrikakorps who lost to Bernard Montgomery at the Battle of El Alemein during the North African theater of World War II.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a000628" }, "answer" : "{Inca} Empire [or {Incans}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2717730021104, "num" : 10, "question" : "This civilization used runners called chasquis (CHAHS-kees) who sent messages via strings of beads called quipu (KEE-poo). The Aymara are one modern-day group that descends from these peoples. This civilization built Machu Picchu. The last leader of this empire, Atahualpa (aht-ah-HWAHL-puh), was overthrown by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro. For 10 points, name this pre-Columbian civilization that was centered in Cuzco, which was located in modern-day Peru.", "round" : "colonia-05.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1c8b3d831d6a001f49" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Reid}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.01499077188782, "num" : 3, "question" : "This thinker posited that self-consciousness about deliberating whether or not to do something evidences the existence of moral liberty.  His first publication argued against the ability to measure virtue and was titled “An Essay on Quantity.”  This philosopher's core beliefs were initially popularized in the Essay on Truth, a simplified take on his ideas by James Beattie.  One of his final works, which included such chapters as “The Sense of Duty,” contrasted “speculative power” with “active power.”  This student of George Turnbull, rejected the empiricist reliance on ideas as the basis of knowledge, instead he argued that sensations of an object's primary qualities offer up natural signs to the mind, which are interpreted like words.  For 10 points, identify this philosopher whose works include Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man and Enquiry Into the Mind on the Principles of Common Sense.", "round" : "UCSD - Final.docx", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bc2" }, "answer" : "adagio", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.52636424242519, "num" : 10, "question" : "Guiseppi Sarti attacked Mozart's Dissonance string quartet as “barbarous” for its opening twenty-two measures in this tempo. J.S. Bach composed a piece for organ known today as his toccata, this tempo marking, and fugue in C major. Mozart's only piano movement in B minor is written for this tempo, and forms the entirety of his K540. This is the tempo of a piece in G minor arranged by Remo Giazotto, although it is often attributed to Tomaso (*) Albinoni. Another piece with this tempo marking has become associated with funerals because it was played on the radio after the deaths of Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. For 10 points, name this slow tempo marking, Italian for “at ease,” which is the tempo of a work by Samuel Barber “for strings.”", "round" : "THUNDER Round 4.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa68b3d831d6a004045" }, "answer" : "({John}) {Gutzon} de la {Mothe Borglum}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.9145293678157, "num" : 10, "question" : "This sculptor created a winged figure standing on a globe as a memorial for the Aviator James R. McConnell. This man's first major work was the bronze Mares of Diomedes, which he followed up with an equestrian statue of Philip Sheridan. This sculptor created a marble bust of Abraham Lincoln for the Capitol Rotunda and abandoned a project in which Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson were carved into Stone Mountain. His best known work was finished by his son Lincoln and contains an enterable Hall of Records above a massive pile of granite remains. For 10 points, name this sculptor who designed Mount Rushmore.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Duke A + Harvard Zhao.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff58b3d831d6a005283" }, "answer" : "{Schmalkaldic} League", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7539762991946, "num" : 21, "question" : "The chief English ambassadors to this entity were Christopher Mont, Edward Foxe, and Nicholas Heath. William Paget and Robert Barnes talked with this group about a common opposition to the Hapsburgs, and considered paying one hundred thousand crowns in return for English membership in this entity. Led by Philip of Hesse and and John Frederick of Saxtony, it eventually lost at Mulhberg to Spanish soldiers led by Charles V. Thomas Cromwell encouraged Henry VIII to support this entity, leading the king to marry Anne of Cleves. Founded at a namesake Thuringian town in 1530, for 10 points, name this group of German protestant states during the Reformation who formed an alliance modeled after the Swabian League.", "round" : "nasat-sample-01.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a002500" }, "answer" : "{Orfeo ed Euridice} [or {Orpheus} and {Eurydice}; or {Orpheé et Eurydice}, {even though} the {clues refer} to the {Italian version}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.91271391883492, "num" : 3, "question" : "At the beginning of this opera, a chorus laments the death of a woman by singing “Ah, se intorno a quest’urna funesta.” One character in this opera moves her lover by panicking in the aria “Che fiero momento.” This opera ends with the its main characters, nymphs, and shepherds singing “Trionfi Amore!” in the Temple of Love. Its second act includes a scene set in the Elysian fields, which begins with the “Dance of the Blessed Spirits.” The first of its composer’s operas to break from the artificial complexity of opera seria, it ends with Amor restoring one of the title characters to life after her lover turns to embrace her. For 10 points, name this opera about a Greek musician who goes to the underworld and his wife, composed by Christoph Gluck.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f238b3d831d6a0020e5" }, "answer" : "\"{Gin} and {Juice}\"", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.6932871474419, "num" : 7, "question" : "A recent television appearance saw the artist behind this song praise its simplicity while introducing David Beckham to the Chicken and Waffles breakfast experience, while this song's video leads Beavis to claim that he used to go to the Compton Swap Meet with the singer. That video features an extended intro where the purported father of one of the singers tells the singer \"don't be messin' with the 8 track\". The singer complains that \"Every body got their cups, but they ain't chipped in\", while the role of the singer's younger brother in this track's video is played by Lil Bow Wow, who had been discovered by the singer a year earlier. Its chorus sees the singer claim that he is \"Laid back with my mind on my money, and my money on my mind\", perhaps because of his resounding affinity for Tanqueray. For 10 points, name this 1994 track off Doggystyle, a hit for Snoop Dogg.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Illinois A + USC.doc", "seen" : 76, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee08b3d831d6a00118d" }, "answer" : "Greek", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.3925105470698, "num" : 9, "question" : "The Suda was an early encyclopedia written in this language. One version of this language, dubbed Koine, was prevalent during classical times, and it was in that version that the Septuagint version of the Bible was written. Its Dimotiki type is currently used in the modern day nation that bears its name, while, in Medieval times, its Byzantine form was widely used. For 10 points, name this language spoken in Athens.", "round" : "32.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40328b3d831d6a00613f" }, "answer" : "{Thedor Wesengrund Adorno}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.10259271226823, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man claimed that the United States was dominated by what he termed as \"the music of slaves\" in his essay \"On Jazz.\" This man claimed that the way humans talk is a major societal fallacy in his work \"The Jargon of Authenticity.\" One of his works claims that  \"Life does not live,\" and that toys are subjugating; that book seeks to explain how to live correctly and is titled Minima Moralia. At the beginning of one of his works, this man claims that philosophy is still necessary because the time to realise it was missed. That work is Negative Dialectics, but in a better-known work, this philosopher wrote about the homogenizing effects of pop culture and claimed that high art and culture was threatened by the tyranny of identity.  For ten points, identify this philosopher, a member of the Frankfurt school, who along with Max Horkheimer wrote The Dialectics of Enlightenment.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff08b3d831d6a00515a" }, "answer" : "retina", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4165254188702, "num" : 12, "question" : "Amacrine (AM-uh-krin) cells in this structure regulate nervous input to ganglion (\"GANG\"-lee-on) cells, and this structure's namesake pigmentosa (PIG-men-TOE-suh) causes tunnel vision and night blindness. This seven-layered structure has a sensitive fovea (FO-vee-uh) in its macular (MACK-you-lur) region. This structure contains photoreceptor (FO-toe-ree-SEP-tur) cells like rods and cones, and it converts light to nervous signals sent through the optic nerve. For 10 points, name this structure that lies along the back of the eye.", "round" : "4q2-07.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d1c" }, "answer" : "“{Bartleby}, the {Scrivener}: A Story of Wall Street”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.207496551564, "num" : 6, "question" : "The narrator of this work returns home from Trinity Church to find that his key won't work because the title character is inside. One of the title character's coworkers only makes mistakes in the afternoon, and another coworker is so-named because he brings a specific flavor of cake. The title character, who used to work at the Dead Letters Office, is imprisoned and dies of starvation, prompting the narrator, called “the lawyer,” to cry, “Ah, humanity!” Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut are all characters who appear in this work whose title character always says, “I would prefer not to.” Name this “Story of Wall Street,” a short story by Herman Melville.", "round" : "finals 2 TU.pdf", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d37" }, "answer" : "{optical aberrations}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7684501961339, "num" : 14, "question" : "The Strehl ratio gives the ratio of the Gaussian point with this phenomenon present to the point without it, and, with additional terms, Zernike polynomials can be used to test for them. Tilt and piston are two types, and another form may result from a low Abbe number or if the refractive index varies for different wavelengths. One of the simpler cases may result if the shape of a lens is not consistent. For 10 points, identify these phenomena, the deviations from a predicted image which can come in spherical or chromatic varieties.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 1.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d9c" }, "answer" : "{Dunkirk} Evacuation [accept {Operation Dynamo} before mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.8531194976531, "num" : 19, "question" : "This action was overseen by Bertram Ramsey from Dover Castle, and after it, plans were made for Operation Rutter, which eventually became the disastrous Dieppe Raid. In the wake of this action, the promise to “outlive the menace of tyranny...if necessary alone” was made in a speech that also promised “we shall fight on the beaches,” though Churchill also cautioned that “wars are not won by” actions similar to this one. For 10 points, name this operation, codenamed Dynamo, a mass evacuation from the namesake French port that miraculously saved a vast portion of the British army from the advancing Germans in 1940.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 13.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060d3" }, "answer" : "{Conchobar mac Nessa} [accept: {Connor mac Nessa}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.42328186728992, "num" : 11, "question" : "Instead of slaying this man, one figure slices off the tops of three hills. This man died a highly ironic death at the hands of Conall Cernach, who shot the brain of Mesgegra at this man's head from a slingshot. This man, who dwelt at Emain Macha, killed Naoise and dispatched the messenger Fergus so that he can marry a beautiful woman he ordered raised in seclusion, Deirdre of the Sorrows. The most notable hero in this man's retinue received his name after slaying a hound of Chullain. For ten points, name this Irish King from the Ulster Cycle.", "round" : "RoundFINALS.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd18b3d831d6a004a29" }, "answer" : "{Stoics} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.2130783649627, "num" : 3, "question" : "One of this group's central beliefs was that truth can be distinguished logically from fallacy, and another tenet was that of “pneuma,” or the breath of life. Like Plato, they considered the four cardinal virtues to be wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance. Its members included Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius, and its founder, Zeno of Citium. For 10 points, name this group of Greek philosophers who advocated high levels of personal discipline over material wealth.", "round" : "round08.doc", "seen" : 313, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404e8b3d831d6a0067cc" }, "answer" : "{jumping} the {shark}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.3647297730204, "num" : 7, "question" : "This action was proposed by a Jack Benny lookalike and resulted in embarrassment for the “California Kid,” who did not complete it. A parody of it occurred on a dock in the “Motherboy XXX” episode of Arrested Development, a moment less dangerous than the one to which Potsie agreed on behalf of his friend during a trip to Hollywood. Performed wearing a leather jacket and with Richie Cunningham driving the boat, this is, FTP, what stunt performed on Happy Days by Fonzie that has come to mean the moment when a television show's quality begins to decline?", "round" : "HFT Round 11 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 560, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bcf" }, "answer" : "{Fibonacci} numbers [or {Fibonacci} sequence]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1091961194761, "num" : 15, "question" : "These numbers can be expressed using Binet's formula with a multiplier of one. Four of these numbers make up a Q-matrix. They were first described as the solution to a problem involving multiplying rabbits in the book Liber Abaci. Like Lucas numbers, these numbers share a recurrence relation, namely that the nth of these numbers is the (*) sum of the previous two. For 10 points, name these numbers found in a sequence beginning 1, 1, 2, 3, 5.", "round" : "tournament17-11.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe58b3d831d6a004ec8" }, "answer" : "{alveoli} [or {alveolus}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.9826315215323, "num" : 26, "question" : "These structures feature Kohn's pores, and are lined with the surfactant DPPC. Infections of these structures with fluids results in pneumonia. The most prominent structures with this name end a path from the bronchi through the bronchioles. The breakdown of elastin in the walls of these structures characterizes emphysema. For 10 points, name these sacs responsible for gas exchange in the lungs.", "round" : "4q1-01.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071d2" }, "answer" : "{Stern-Gerlach} experiment", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2983354607131, "num" : 14, "question" : "In this experiment, sulfur from cigar smoke in the laboratory helped in easy visualization of the spots on the detectors. A variation of this experiment used sodium atoms and a time varying radio-frequency B field, resulting in oscillations named for its performer, I. I. Rabi. In its original setup, a beam of silver atoms split into two distinct beams when it was fired through an inhomogenous magnetic field. For 10 points, name this experiment which confirmed the quantization of intrinsic angular momentum, or spin.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406d8b3d831d6a006f21" }, "answer" : "cats", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.256449453067, "num" : 23, "question" : "One of these narrates a Natsume Soseki novel in which characters like Waverhouse mock his master Kushami. One of these creatures appears in the title of a novel about the fictional religion of Bokononism, which ends with the world being destroyed by ice-nine. In addition to that novel about this creature's cradle, another one of these animals alerts police to the location of a murdered woman in an Egdar Allen Poe story about a \"black\" one. For 10 points, name this animal, which appears in the title of a Tennessee Williams play \"on a hot tin roof.\"", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a002016" }, "answer" : "{Cleopatra VII Philopator}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.48599667963572, "num" : 14, "question" : "This ruler earned the enmity of the Gabiniani while warring with a younger brother who ordered the beheading of Pompey. This leader had a sister named Arsinoe who was killed on the steps of a temple in Ephesus. Drinking pearls dissolved in vinegar apocryphally won a bet for this ruler, whose short-lived successor was Caesarion. Along with a Roman lover, this member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty committed suicide after losing the battle of Actium. For 10 points, name this last Egyptian pharaoh, a woman who famously loved Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 6.pdf", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40478b3d831d6a006606" }, "answer" : "{Xolotl} (4)", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.9026085913647, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one story, this god turned into a tiny salamander and hid in water after his refusal to sacrifice himself prevented the sun from moving. In another story, this god kidnapped Xochiquetzal, made her eat forbidden fruit, and ravished her. Represented as either a skeleton or a man with a dog's head, this god of lightning guides the sun through the underworld every night, and takes the dead to ? Mictlan. The sibling of this god created a new race of humans by dropping his blood on the fragments of the bone of life. FTP, identify this psychopomp, the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a00521e" }, "answer" : "guitar", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.7390104648657, "num" : 16, "question" : "Grobert of Mirecourt invented a version of this instrument for one composer, who composed 43 Ghiribizzi for it. Ginastera's opus 47 is his only musical work for this instrument, which is accompanied by an orchestra in the monumental Concierto de Aranjuez. This instrument is closely related to the vihuela and hit a golden age between 1780 and 1850. Heavier than its baroque and flamenco counterparts, this instrument that is similar to the mandolin and lute is notably six-stringed. For 10 points, name this classical instrument popular in Spanish music.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efc8b3d831d6a001831" }, "answer" : "The Tragedy of {Macbeth}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3661826932802, "num" : 19, "question" : "Thomas de Quincey wrote an essay about the event that opens this play's Act II, Scene 3. After Malcolm and Donalbain flee, the title character hires three men to kill Fleance, but he escapes. This play’s \"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow\" soliloquy is delivered after the main female character’s commits suicide, having earlier tried to wash out a \"damned spot.\" While an army disguised as Birnam Wood approaches Dunsinane, the title character is defeated by Macduff. For 10 points, name this Shakespeare tragedy in which the title character kills Duncan and becomes king of Scotland.", "round" : "Round06.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2c8b3d831d6a002327" }, "answer" : "Paradiso", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.88881192076951, "num" : 16, "question" : "In this novel's eighth chapter, Leregas is expelled from school for stacking books on top of his erect penis and masturbating in class. This novel's seventh chapter ends with the protagonist's Uncle Alberto dying when his taxi smashes into a train. In its first chapter, the servant Baldovina is terrified by the orange, bloody urine of the protagonist, who suffers from severe asthma. During this novel, the suicide of Baena Albornoz touches off a long discussion of homosexuality among the protagonist and his friends Ricardo Fronesis and Eugenio Foción. This novel ends with the protagonist's poetic imagination being sparked by a poem written by Oppiano Licario. Focusing on the development of José Cemí, and set during the pre-Castro rule of Cuba, for 10 points, name this 1966 novel, the masterpiece of Jose Lezama Lima. ", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 01 - The Solid Scholars.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a0037e6" }, "answer" : "{Louis XIV} of France", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.297580339713, "num" : 12, "question" : "This ruler mandated the baptism of slaves and banished Jews with his Code Noir, and built a retirement home for injured war veterans. This man's reign saw uprisings ended by the Peace of Rueil, the two Frondes. He closed down Protestant schools and revoked the Edict of Nantes by issuing the Edict of Fountainbleau, and fought for nine years against the League of Augsburg. He was advised by finance minister Colbert and Cardinal Mazarin, and had built the palace of Versailles. For 10 points, name this long-ruling \"Sun King\" of France.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec68b3d831d6a000b89" }, "answer" : "{Ohio} River", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.9965799455531, "num" : 11, "question" : "The Treaty of Fort Stanwix involved acquisition of land south of this river. In the late 1700’s, this river was the southern boundary of the Northwest Territory. The mouth of this river is located in Cairo, Illinois and this river flows through such cities as Wheeling and Evansville. The (*) Wabash is one of the largest tributaries of this river. In the heart of Pittsburgh, this river is formed by the joining of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers. For 10 points, name this river which as its name suggests forms the southern border of a state with capital at Columbus.", "round" : "tournament17-08.pdf", "seen" : 391, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004243" }, "answer" : "{cooperativity} [prompt on early “{allostery}” or similar answers]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.76690527261235, "num" : 9, "question" : "Avidity is a form of this concept resulting from polyvalency, and Levinthal's paradox assumes that one process governed by it proceeds via a sequential rather than parallel mechanism. The KNF model describes a sequential induced fit pattern for it, which accounts for the negative form of this phenomenon, while the WMC model proposes molecules changing conformation from a T-state to an R-state. It is quantified by the Hill coefficient, which for myoglobin is 1.0 and for hemoglobin is 2.8. It is typically exemplified by deoxyhemglobin's weaker affinity for oxygen versus oxyhemoglobin. For 10 points, name this type of allostery in which the binding of a ligand to a molecule affects the affinity of subsequent ligands to that molecule.", "round" : "r11- Stanford.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004bfd" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich von Schiller}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2928998374846, "num" : 13, "question" : "His first play involves the protagonist, Karl Moor, being disowned by his father the Duke on the advice of his villainous younger brother Franz, after which he commits himself to a life of crime against the established social order. That work, Die Räuber, reflects the author's resentment against his father's employer, Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, who he viewed as a petty tyrant. His first experiment with blank verse was 1787's Don Carlos, which centered on the conflict between the title character and his father over the latter's third wife. Also a noted historian, he was given a professorship at the University of Jena, where he produced his most famous drama, Wallenstein. For ten points, name this German romantic poet and author of An Die Freude (Ode to Joy).", "round" : "FHTE Finals 2 -- Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e71" }, "answer" : "{Ludwig Boltzmann}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3466169482563, "num" : 2, "question" : "Vlasov's equation is a special case of an equation named after this man in which collisions are neglected, while another equation named after this man describes “almost rigid motion.” An equation inscribed on his tombstone reads “S = k log W”, where k is his namesake constant. A law stating that the energy radiated by a black body is proportional to the fourth power of temperature is named for Stefan and this man. For 10 points, name this Austrian scientist, one of the founders of statistical mechanics.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bdc" }, "answer" : "War of the {Spanish Succession}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9815880656242, "num" : 5, "question" : "The treaty ending this war required the dismantling of French fortifications at Dunkirk, and ceded Savoy and Nice to Victor Amadeus II. The main treaty ending this war was supplemented by the treaties of Rastadt and Baden. Its corresponding war in America was known as Queen Anne's War. The Duke of Marlborough won the Battle of Blenheim (BLEN-em) during this war. This war started after (*) Charles II died and left his throne to a member of the House of Bourbon. For 10 points, name this early eighteenth century war that was ended by the Peace of Utrecht.", "round" : "tournament17-12.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ead8b3d831d6a0005b7" }, "answer" : "{East Germany} [or {German Democratic Republic}; or {GDR}; or {Ostdeutschland}; or {Deutsche}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6515611442737, "num" : 30, "question" : "One policy pursued at one point in the history of this country was the New Course. The New Economic System in this country was replaced by a policy abbreviated as the ESS, which was instituted under Walter Ulbricht. One car produced in this country was the Trabant. This country was led for nearly twenty years by Erich Honecker, who had earlier been in charge of the building of a barrier in this country's capital. For 10 points, name this no longer existent, socialist country whose capital was divided in 1961 by the creation of the Berlin Wall.", "round" : "colonia-02.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a0075f7" }, "answer" : "{Al Borland} (either name, accept {pronunciation} as “{Borlin}” {too})", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.5839346437715, "num" : 21, "question" : "He attended Gilmore High School where he was a fencing champion in 1976, and from there he joined the Navy but had his hopes dashed when he was only stationed in Fallon, Nevada. An early girlfriend of his was Greta Post, and he was later engaged to the orthodontist Ilene Markham, played by Sherry Hursey, but they split up at the wedding and he finally married Trudy in the series finale. This came just after the death of his mother Alma, who had been quite a large presence in his life. At one point, he's suspected of carrying on an unlikely affair with Heidi, but that's soon proven untrue. FTP, name this pudgy flannel-wearing sidekick played by Richard Karn, Tim Taylor's able assistant on “Tool Time.”", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Michigan A Dartmouth B.doc", "seen" : 81, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e13" }, "answer" : "{ylide} [prompt on {zwitterion}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.18138647149317, "num" : 19, "question" : "One of these compounds formed from a deprotonated thiazolium salt can replace cyanide as a catalyst in a reaction which adds aldehydes to a,?-unsaturated compounds. One of these compounds formed from carbon tetrabromide reacts to form a dibromoalkene intermediate before reacting with butyllithium to form an alkyne from an aldehyde. In addition to being used in the Stetter reation, they are also used in a reaction which produces cyclopropanes from enones and (*) epoxides from ketones. Since they don't need to be isolated during their most famous application, they are produced in situ using such deprotonating agents as NaHMDS. In that scheme, one of these reacts with a carbonyl to form a 4-membered ring which opens to produce a (Z)-alkene. For 10 points, name this functional group in which adjacent atoms feature positive and negative charges, exemplified by a sulfonium variety used in the Corey-Chaikovsky reaction and a phosphonium variety used in the Corey-Fuchs and Wittig Reactions.", "round" : "Round 06 - Michigan.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40108b3d831d6a005908" }, "answer" : "{songs} (accept {chants} before {Habersham})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.1251678096597, "num" : 1, "question" : "One work whose title contains this poetic formo describes a man wanting to scratch humans to make them bleed, but then helping them so that they think he is a hero. In addition Lautreamont's these of Maldoror, another poem with this form in its title begins “Out of the hills of Habersham,” while yet another states “I think I shall never see a billboard as lovely as a tree.” In addition to Ogden Nash's one about “an Open Road,” and Sidney Lanier's one about the Chattahoochee, this term appears in the title of a work that features “a barbaric yawp,” and it also appears in the titles of books about Thea Kronburg and Gary Gilmore. For ten points, Walt Whitman wrote of himself with what poetic form that belonged to an executioner in a Norman Mailer novel?", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 1.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a006388" }, "answer" : "Cnidarians", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.73276830138639, "num" : 17, "question" : "One group of species in this phylum became hermatypic during the Middle Triassic, and palytoxin was first isolated from a species in this phylum. The order Rhyzostomea includes organisms with mouths found along their arms, such as the Cassiopeia. Members of one class possess a tissue called the velarium which aids in locomotion, and the largest class in this phylum includes sea pansies and sea fans and is called Anthozoa. Members of this phylum possess a structure called the operculum, within which nematocysts are found, and members go through both polyp and medusa stages. For 10 points, name this phylum which includes anemones, hydras, and jellyfish.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039ba" }, "answer" : "Peru", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.28707087412477, "num" : 16, "question" : "Eloy Burga's return to this nation sparked conflict with the Pizarro-Rubia casta, partially caused by the discontent Antero Aspillaga, who was cast down by the Partido Civil in favor of Guillermo Billinghurst. Billinghurst was in turn overthrown by the coup of Manuel Prado and Oscar Benavides, and major political parties in this nation's history include the AP of Fernando Belaunde Terry and Victor Raul Haya de la Torre's APRA. This nation was home to the La Cantuta Massacre under a leader who also instituted anti-terrorist policies against the followers of a man calling himself President Gonzalo. For 10 points, name this country, home to the human rights abuses of both the Shining Path and Alberto Fujimori.", "round" : "Round by Shantanu Jha and Chris Ray.docx", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40628b3d831d6a006c92" }, "answer" : "{James Augustine Aloysius Joyce}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5029441162478, "num" : 7, "question" : "In a play by this man, Bertha turns to Robert Hand after feeling neglected by the writer Richard Rowan. One of his stories focuses on the death of the priest Father Flynn, and another of his stories concerns a party hosted by Julia and Kate Morkan at which Greta reveals her love for the (*) dead Michael Furey. In addition to that story about Gabriel Conroy, he wrote a novel which takes place on June 16, 1904, and follows Leopold Bloom's journey through Dublin. For 10 points, name this author of Exiles, Dubliners, and Ulysses.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebd8b3d831d6a000960" }, "answer" : "{Langston Hughes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9089952586219, "num" : 7, "question" : "This author described the “false patriotic wreath” in a country populated with “humble, hungry, mean” people in “Let America be America Again.” In another poem by this writer, the speaker recalls how he has “built my hut near the Congo” and “bathed in the Euphrates.” In another of his poems, a Negro “did a lazy sway” while playing the title (*) tune. For 10 points, name this author of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “The Weary Blues,” a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a0026fc" }, "answer" : "{Marquis} de {Sade}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.50303402193822, "num" : 9, "question" : "One play by this author depicts the training of 15-year-old Eugenie as a certain type of revolutionary, with the prologue urging the reader to indulge in the acts depicted in the play in order to become truly anti-monarchical. Besides Philosophy in the Bedroom, another work by this author is divided into four “months,” with the first focusing on so-called “simple passions,” and the others moving into more and more extreme forms of sexual brutality, ending in the sexual murders of a number of children. That work was written in tiny script on a scroll of paper while its author was imprisoned in the Bastille. Author of 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, FTP who is this French writer whose outlandish depictions of sexual theatrics led Krafft-Ebbing to use his name as a descriptor for sexual pleasure taken from the pain of others?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 13.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eee8b3d831d6a0014f3" }, "answer" : "{Lajos Kossuth}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0874428648967, "num" : 22, "question" : "This man spent part of his later life advocating a \"Danubian federation\" which would include Romania,\n Serbia, and Croatia. He first became politically active by distributing handwritten letters describing the\n proceedings of the “long Diet,” and his later career included opposition to the Augsleich in the Cassandra\n letter. He became a national leader following a Croatian invasion and the fall of the Batthyany government,\n and after his own deposition, learned English from reading Shakespeare. For 10 points, name this\n beneficiary of the revolutions of 1848, who led the nationalists of Hungary.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eac8b3d831d6a000544" }, "answer" : "{Aung San}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.26015569525771, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man published the article “Hell Hound at Large” that set off a major1936 University strike. David Vivian, a British army officer, was arrested for his role in this man's death but escaped during the uprising of the Karen. This man was the leader of the Thirty Comrades, who originally intended to ally with the Chinese Communists but, after meeting a man nicknamed “Commander Thunderbolt”, entered the service of Japan. This man served as minister of defense in the puppet government of Ba Maw and his most important action took place at the Panglong Conference. The leader of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, he was assassinated in 1947 by troops led by U Saw. For 10 points name this father of both Burmese independence and a certain Nobel Peace prize winner.", "round" : "2011 CO History Lafer Westbrook.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffc8b3d831d6a005424" }, "answer" : "{atmospheric pressure} [prompt on {pressure}; prompt on {air pressure}; accept {barometric}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1356728903484, "num" : 14, "question" : "There are two formulas for calculating this quantity, which are used depending on whether the lapse rate is zero. When density depends on both it and temperature, a type of instability occurs that can form cyclones. Most aircraft altimeters measure height based on (*) changes in this value as the craft ascends. On a weather map, this quantity is constant on lines called isobars. Extremely low values of this quantity define tropical cyclones. For 10 points, name this quantity that is typically 760 torr at sea level, and which is measured with a barometer.", "round" : "tourn10-07.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a00062d" }, "answer" : "{Scotland}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.3874045009725, "num" : 15, "question" : "This country was known as the Kingdom of Alba for much of the Middle Ages. Its ancient alliance with France was known as the \"Auld Alliance.\" It was known as Caledonia to the Romans, and it was on the losing side at the Battle of Culloden in the last of the Jacobite Rebellions. It won independence at the Battle of Bannockburn under Robert the Bruce after an unsuccessful rebellion led by William Wallace. For 10 points, name this component of the United Kingdom found north of England with a capital at Edinburgh.", "round" : "colonia-05.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a00421f" }, "answer" : "Cleisthenes", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.38805185235105, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man's grandfather of the same name was the ruler of Sicyon and fought in the first Sacred War. His most important rival had him expelled with the help of Cleomenes I of Sparta, but this person was recalled after that rival, Isagoras, tried to dissolve the main governmental institutions of Athens. He increased the size of the Boule to five hundred and the number of tribes from four to ten. Little is known about his life after the introduction of his reforms, which he called the isonomia, and it has been theorized that his seeking aid from the Persians let him to be ostracized, a practice that he likely created. For 10 points, name this reformer who overthrew Pisistratus's son Hippias and established the deme system in Athens.", "round" : "r09- UCLA-South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006ec0" }, "answer" : "Hungary", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1486224380787, "num" : 19, "question" : "Gyorgy Dozsa led a rebellion here in 1514 which was put down by Janos Sapolyai, and its early capitals include Fehervar and Esztergom. This nation was ruled by the Arpad Dynasty for three hundred years, during which the Battle of Mohi was lost to Batu Khan by Bela IV. Other battles lost by it include one under the leadership of Pal Tomori and Louis II, and another to Otto the Great. Military losses, including the battles of Lechfeld and Mohacs, are staples of the history of, for 10 points, which Central European nation whose people are Magyars.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8c8b3d831d6a003a1c" }, "answer" : "The {Bacchae} [or The {Bacchantes}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.25832933383062, "num" : 7, "question" : "This play's chorus refers to a character \"sprung of a dragon\" who is \"a savage monster in his very mien... like some murderous giant pitted against heaven\" before they summon an earthquake and raze his palace. A tree is bent down to allow that character to sit atop the forest, and he had earlier demanded the cutting of another character's sacred locks. Tiresias' criticisms of those who refuse to engage in the rites prevents his demise, while Cadmus is presented with the head of his grandson by his daughter Agave, who joined the maenads in ripping him apart. For 10 points, name this play which ends with Dionysus' vengeance on Pentheus and the royal family of Thebes, a work of Euripides.", "round" : "Editors 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40838b3d831d6a00743a" }, "answer" : "{National Road} or {Cumberland Road}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2594875935466, "num" : 15, "question" : "Albert Gallatin's 1802 letter provided the method for the funding of this project, exempting federal land sales from taxes but setting aside some proceeds for its creation. The bill creating it specified a 66-foot right of way, with twenty feet surfaced with stone covered in gravel. Its first section terminated at the Ohio River at Wheeling in what's now West Virginia. Originating at a Maryland town providing its nickname and ending in Vandalia, Illinois, for 10 points, what is this first federally funded American roadway?", "round" : "Round8Final.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a04" }, "answer" : "{John Philip Sousa}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.7146380960476, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of this composer's pieces is said to have gotten its name from the firework-like effects of the drums in its score, and in addition to “The Thunderer,” this man composed a piece in 6/8 time for the Washington Post. In his most famous form, he composed “Semper Fidelis” for the US Marine Corps and a piece entitled “U.S. Field Artillery” that is based on the “Caisson Song.” For 10 points, name this American composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever” known as the “March King.”", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a002518" }, "answer" : "{Zaha Hadid}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.79463384975679, "num" : 12, "question" : "This artist used the evolution of dynamic fluid grids to emulate the skin of a crocodile while designing some shoes for Lacoste, while work in Korea includes a modernist tea service as well as the design for the Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Park. Other current projects include the \"Betile,\" also known as the Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum in Cagliari, while concrete stilts allow cars and pedestrians to pass under the Phaeno Science Center. This student of Rem Koolhaas made a first venture in America with Cincinatti's Rosenthal Centre and two years later completed Leipzig's (*) BMW Central Building. For 10 points, name this deconstructivist architect of Iraqi origin, the first female Pritzker winner.", "round" : "Lully 6.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edc8b3d831d6a0010a0" }, "answer" : "{Charlemagne} [or {Charles} I; or {Charles} the {Great}; or {Charles} le {Grand}; or {Karl der Grosse}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4298894405364, "num" : 2, "question" : "This ruler's campaign against the Saxons included a series of wars against King Widukind and a possible massacre of a group of Pagan reverts, the Massacre of Verden. His empire sustained a loss at the Battle of Trsat, including the death of his general Eric of Friuli. He was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III in St. Peter's Basilica, though he made his capital at Aachen. Succeeded by his son Louis the Pious, his lands were further divided by his grandchildren via the Treaty of Verdun. For 10 points, name this early Holy Roman Emperor.", "round" : "25.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005eca" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Wilderness}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3467273893766, "num" : 14, "question" : "In this battle, John Gordon and Richard Ewell advanced across Saunders Field toward one side's headquarters. Longstreet and A.P. Hill were dispatched to Brock road, where Longstreet was wounded by friendly fire, taking him out of action in the ensuing Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. Taking place a few miles from Chancellorsville, it marked the first success for Grant's strategy of attrition, as the Union avoided retreating to DC. Conferring an alternate name to the Overland Campaign which it began, for 10 points, name 1864 Virginia battle, named for the tangled woods in which it was fought.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403d8b3d831d6a0063b9" }, "answer" : "Daniel {Webster}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 344.5179554508068, "num" : 1, "question" : "He was charged as the pensioned agent of the manufacturing interest by Congressional Democrats due to the fact that his income was supplemented by a pension fund controlled by various businesses. He opposed the Mexican War, going so far as to vote against the Wilmot Proviso on the grounds that it accepted conquered territory. Also a respected litigator, he defended beleaguered farmer Jabez Stone from Satan in Stephen Vincent Benéts fictional account and established the inviolability of contracts and the immunity of the federal government from state taxes in Dartmouth v. New Hampshire and McCulloch v. Maryland, respectively. For ten points, name this famous Massachusetts statesman whose Second Reply to Hayne is considered one of the great examples of American oratory.", "round" : "FHTE R1 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006acc" }, "answer" : "London", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.3926871190779, "num" : 16, "question" : "The tallest building in this city has three chevrons in a hexagonal logo built on its roof and is called Tower 42. A seventy-two story building resembling a shard of glass is approved for construction in this city, which also contains the gherkin-shaped Swiss Re Building. This city has notable Georgian houses, and contains a column topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. For 10 points, identify this city, which has many buildings designed by Christopher Wren, in addition to Big Ben and a notable Tower.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a0068a4" }, "answer" : "{Hank Morgan} [either or {both} names; accept A {Connecticut Yankee} in {King Arthur's Court}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.2372939037159, "num" : 8, "question" : "His protégé is Amyas le Poulet, and La Cote Male Taile is one of his soap missionaries, who uses the slogan “Patronized by the Elect.” After the blacksmith Dowley complains about wages, this man explains the concept of real wages to a perplexed audience, and the common people call him The Boss. Early in the novel in which he appears, he is saved by a solar eclipse, and after getting hit in the head with a crowbar, he is transported to Camelot. For 10 points identify this character, the protagonist of a Mark Twain novel who is transported to King Arthur's court.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001e3" }, "answer" : "{Poland}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 31.18629100965336, "num" : 5, "question" : "One author from this country wrote of Joszef’s visit to his father at the title institution run by Doctor Gotard in the title short story of his collection, The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass. A dramatist from this country wrote a play about the poet Alexander Walpurg, entitled The Madman and the Nun. This nation was home to the author of the novel The Valley of Issa, as well as a work which gives disguised portraits of real-life intellectuals who were destroyed by Communism, including characters dubbed Beta, the Disappointed Lover, and Gamma, the slaver of History. In addition to being the home of the author of the story, “The Street of Crocodiles,” Bruno Schulz, this nation was also home to an author who wrote about Johnny’s return to adolescence at the insistence of Professor Pimko in his novel Ferdydurke. Yet another author from this country wrote about the romance between Marcus Vicinius and Ligia, as Nero orders Rome to burn in his most famous novel. For 10 points, name this home country of Witold Gombrowicz, as well as the author of The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz, and the author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-YaleFinal.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a0035a9" }, "answer" : "{Kakfa} on the {Shore}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.9757630652748, "num" : 8, "question" : "The author of this novel explained its creation by stating “there seems to be a potential danger in symbolism,” leading him to prefer similes and metaphors instead. The protagonist is warned about leaving a labyrinth and entering a new labyrinth when taken to Kochi Forest after having read about Adolf Eichmann in a mountain cabin while evading police. Characters in this work include a man trying to make a flute out of the souls of kitties, Johnny Walker, and a figure who is the pimp Colonel Sanders. The protagonist spends time at Miss Saeki's library after the titular fifteen year old, Mr. Tamura, runs away from home in avoidance of an Oedipal curse. For 10 points, the author of “The Hunter Gracchus” and “In the Penal Colony” provides the title to what Haruki Murakami novel?", "round" : "Illinois A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f728b3d831d6a003398" }, "answer" : "{Svante Arrhenius}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2872365280055, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man contested Paul Ehrlich's side chain theory of immunology, and he showed that air temperature varies arithmetically with a geometric increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. The modern form of a function named for this man is represented in transition state theory by the Eyring-Polanyi equation and includes a constant equal to the product of the (*) steric factor and collision rate; that factor is called the “pre-exponential factor” and is denoted with a capital A. For 10 points, name this Swedish scientist whose namesake equation computes the reaction rate for a given temperature and activation energy.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000eb4" }, "answer" : "{passive} voice", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.901023009792, "num" : 6, "question" : "The words \"ba\" and \"bei\" mark this construction in Mandarin Chinese. In French, one forms this construction using forms of \"etre\" plus a participle. In Latin, the endings normally used for this construction are the only ones available to deponent verbs. English sentences containing this verb pattern include \"the dog was fed\" and \"the house is being built.\" For 10 points, identify this grammatical voice, the opposite of the active.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040c9" }, "answer" : "Loki ", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.13627975690179, "num" : 16, "question" : "The Voluspa states that this figure and his wife lie “under a grove of hot springs,” and later refers to him as the brother of Byleist. This figure killed a man in the form of an otter, paying the weregild for that death with gold stolen from Andvari.  This killer of Fimafeng was punished with the death of his son Narfi, whose entrails were used to bind him to a tree.  This god writhes in agony as a snake drips venom on his face, which occurs whenever Sigyn has to empty the poison bowl. This god arms Hoder with a sharpened sprig of mistletoe, which is used to kill Balder. The father of Hel, for 10 points, name this trickster god of Norse mythology.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Rice + Michigan.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea28b3d831d6a00033b" }, "answer" : "{preacher} [or {pastor}, or {evangelist}, or other equivalents]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.15257649775594, "num" : 21, "question" : "In James Baldwin’s Just Above my Head, Julia Miller enters this profession at the age of seven. In William Gass’ Omensetter’s Luck, a man of this profession named Jethro Furber opposes but ultimately saves the title character from a murder charge. In Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, a man of this profession named Reginald Bacon exploits the central incident. In another novel, a man of this profession echoes his rival Asa Hawkes by blinding himself after taking Enoch Emery as his apprentice. Hazel Motes holds this position in O’Connor’s Wise Blood, while other people to hold this profession include Frank Shallard and Sharon Falconer, who interact with Elmer Gantry. For 10 points, name this pulpit-based profession.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - VCU final.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408f8b3d831d6a007718" }, "answer" : "{Peterloo} Massacre", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.72890819725581, "num" : 12, "question" : "A few minutes before William Fildes was killed, Charles Ethelston took action from Mr. Buxton's house. A year after it took place, Arthur Thistlewood led a group that planned an attack on a party at Lord Harrowby's house, though they were arrested at their house in Cato Street before anyone could be killed. The Earl of Liverpool's government responded to it by passing the repressive Six Acts. It took place on August 16, when an attempt to arrest Henry Hunt went awry and eleven people were killed. FTP, name this event in Manchester at which a crowd gathered to hear a lecture on Parliamentary reform was attacked, a “massacre” of 1819.", "round" : "Chicago B - Harvard B.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f668b3d831d6a0030da" }, "answer" : "{Scenes} from the {Massacre} of {Chios} [or {Scenes} from the {Massacre} at {Chios}, or {Scene des}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.0672260895371, "num" : 20, "question" : "The artist of this painting is said to have repainted its background in richer colors after seeing John Constable's The Haywain, which debuted in the same Salon. In the background of this work, a series of white buildings on a hill give way to the sea under an orange sky. On the right of this painting's foreground, a standing woman obscures her face with her right arm while grappling with the ropes that bind her. Behind the main figures of this painting, a turbaned gunman stands in the shadows and a soldier on a rearing horse draws his saber. It was its artist's second submission to the salon, after The Barque of Dante. For 10 points, name this painting that depicts the slaughter of Greek residents of the namesake island by Turkish oppressors, by Eugene Delacroix.", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecc8b3d831d6a000d00" }, "answer" : "Osiris", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.8469290926587, "num" : 5, "question" : "This god briefly regained life after his wife transformed into a kite to wave air into him. During the Middle Kingdom the god Ptah became assimilated with this god, and this god’s son is typically depicted with the head of a falcon. Along with his brother the god of chaos this god was one of two sons of Geb and Nut and this god was also the father of Horus and husband of Isis. This god was killed by his brother Seth, who chopped up his body into many pieces. For 10 points, name this Egyptian god of the underworld.", "round" : "districts-07.pdf", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40388b3d831d6a006289" }, "answer" : "{Li Po} [accept {Li Bai}, {Li Bo}, or {Li Tai-bo}; {might} as {well} accept {Rihaku too}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.82460339204408, "num" : 14, "question" : "One work by this man opens by describing “seafarers” who “tell of the Eastern isle of bliss.” In another poem by this man, the sounds of a flute on a spring night inspire recollections of the gardens of home.  In a third work, he noted that he was glad to “make the moon and my shadow into friends.” The addressee of another of his works went to “the river of swirling eddies” when the title figure was sixteen, and he asked “Which was the real—the butterfly or the man?” in “Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly.” Mahler adapted his Chinese Flute into Das Lied von der Erde. For 10 points, name this Tang Dynasty poet of “The River Merchant's Wife,” a close friend to fellow poet Du Fu.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Caltech + Langston.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efd8b3d831d6a00185c" }, "answer" : "{Leo Tolstoy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6434444319457, "num" : 2, "question" : "This author wrote a short story in which Simon takes in a freezing man, Michael, as his apprentice shoemaker. This author of “What Men Live By” wrote about a government clerk who imagines himself stuffed into a bag and later finds solace in Gerasim while accepting his mortality. In another work, this author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich wrote about Kitty’s marriage to Konstantin Levin and the title character’s relationship with Vronsky, ending in her suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.", "round" : "Round09.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eac8b3d831d6a000562" }, "answer" : "{German South-West Africa} (or {Deutsch-Südwestafrika} )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.43925882084295, "num" : 5, "question" : "This colony got its started when a merchant got some land from local chief Joseph Fredericks after landing at Angra Pequeña Bay. One group from this territory destroyed a railway bridge at Okhandja and lost the Battle of Hamakari, after which they were forced to flee this location on the “Trail of Bones”. General Lothar von Trotha won the aforementioned battle. Walvis Bay was an enclave in this territory. During World War I, this territory was attacked at Ramansdrift in an offensive leading to the ultimate end of this colony once it was given as a mandate to its eastern neighbor. After Hendrik Witbooi’s unsuccessful rebellion in this territory, its Nama and Herero peoples were savagely killed by this colony’s rulers. Starting in 1890, this territory touched the Zambezi thanks to a strip of land ceded to it named after Chancellor Georg von Caprivi. Including the city of Windhoek, for 10 points, name this colony which lasted from 1884 to 1915, the predecessor of modern-day Namibia which was controlled from Berlin.", "round" : "2011 CO History Tabachnick Weiner.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c3f" }, "answer" : "Syriana", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.3026283928193, "num" : 5, "question" : "This movie was based off of Robert Baer's See No Evil. It sees Dean Whiting and Bennet Holliday undergo the merging of a company fronted by Janus. Its characters include a Matt Damon played character whose son died by electrocution, and Bob Barnes that has his fingernails ripped off, who is saved by Hezbollah. The merger of Connex and Killeen is depicted in this hyperlink cinema movie that got George Clooney an Oscar. For ten points, name this movie which shows the CIA killing Prince Nasir to get the US oil they need.", "round" : "FHTE R4 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 569, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056e1" }, "answer" : "{Alexander Calder}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9454038769472, "num" : 1, "question" : "This artist designed toys such as a red fish with sharp teeth on rollers in his early years. This artist of the sculptures Snake and the Cross and Swizzle Sticks designed a sculpture in which a white sphere sits next to a wood stump designed to represent the rock of Gibraltar. This artist designed Bent Propeller for the World Trade Center, and pioneered a form of sculpture in works like La Spirale and (*) Lobster Trap and Fish Tail. For 10 points, name this American artist who designed moving sculptures called mobiles.", "round" : "tourn8-11.pdf", "seen" : 273, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408e8b3d831d6a0076b4" }, "answer" : "{Blade Runner}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.916017486481, "num" : 19, "question" : "This film's protagonist is able to find Zhora due to her use of a synthetic snake, a scale from which he locates in a bathtub. A vision of an origami unicorn in its director's cut is a crucial clue regarding his nature omitted from the original. At its beginning, Leon is unable to answer a question about his mother and attacks Holden while, near its end, Gaff notes “It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?” of the protagonist's love interest, Rachel, who almost passes the Voight-Kampff test. FTP, name this film by Ridley Scott based on Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and featuring Harrison Ford as Deckard, one of the title replicant hunters.", "round" : "ACF Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eba8b3d831d6a0008b8" }, "answer" : "{Frank Lloyd Wright}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.316093735164, "num" : 23, "question" : "This man called the kitchen the “workspace”, and placed the automobile at the center of his “Usonian” designs. One building designed by this man uses a brick façade to emphasize a series of overlapping horizontal surfaces. In addition to the Robie House and other Prairie Style works, he used the Mayan revival style in a work which survived a 1923 earthquake, and extended cantilevered floors over (*) Bear Run in a Pennsylvania house built for Edgar Kaufmann. For 10 points, name this American architect of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and Fallingwater.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e80" }, "answer" : "{Washington Irving} [or {Jonathan Oldstyle}; or {Geoffrey Crayon}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6366602459457, "num" : 17, "question" : "He wrote about Gottfried Wolfgang, who studies at the Sorbonne during the Reign of Terror, in “Adventure of the German Student.” Old Scratch meets a miser, who he tries to make a bargain with to reveal the place of Captain Kidd's treasure in his “The Devil and Tom Walker.” For 10 points, name this author of Tales of the Alhambra who wrote about Brom Bones trying to scare off a teacher who loves Katrina von Tassel named Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 246, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faa8b3d831d6a004120" }, "answer" : "{Eugene Ionesco}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.27789283194579, "num" : 19, "question" : "The switchboard operator Madelaine argues with her husband about how to get rid of a constantly growing corpse in the next room in this author's play Amédée. The title character lures people to their death by offering to show them “a picture of the colonel” in his The Killer. The Orator is a deaf mute who is left alone after the Old Man and Old Woman jump out windows in this author's play The Chairs. This author used the recurring character of Berenger in Exit the King and a play in which Berenger's girlfriend Daisy and the rest of the world transform into the title horned animals. For 10 points, name this Romanian-French playwright whose absurdist works include The Bald Soprano and Rhinoceros.  ", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - UCLA B.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c81" }, "answer" : "“The {Emperor} of {Ice Cream}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.30489000165835, "num" : 16, "question" : "In this poem, “three glass knobs” are missing from a drawer, and the narrator notes that boys that should “bring flowers” in “last month's newspapers” and “wenches [that] dawdle” in typical dresses. This work asks for guests who have come to see the “cold” and “dumb” woman who once “embroidered fantails” on the sheet that now covers her face but neglects to hide “her [protruding] horny feet.” Calling for the title figure to “whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds,” for 10 points, identify this poem in which the narrator calls for the “roller of big cigars,” and declares, “Let be be finale of seem,” written by Wallace Stevens.", "round" : "Dorman and Arizona State F.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051d8" }, "answer" : "\"{Flight} of the {Bumblebee}\"", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2962258183397, "num" : 10, "question" : "This piece, which is taken from an opera, is in the same act as the introduction of the thirty-three bogatyrs [BOW-guh-teers] and the Swan-Bird's admonishment. A two-octave chromatic descent characterizes this work written in A-minor, and is almost exclusively sixteenth notes. In the middle of this piece, a pizzicato A minor arpeggio takes over, and the already fast chromatic motions around E increase in octave. This piece uses a solo violin to depict Prince Guidon, [GWEE-don] the protagonist of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, who becomes a stinging insect. For 10 points, name this most famous work by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002845" }, "answer" : "{Night Café}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.19784139445983, "num" : 13, "question" : "In response to this painting, Paul Gauguin painted this place as the background to his portrait of Madame Ginoux. Three lamps provide light to the titular place and a bouquet of flowers can be seen on a yellow bar in the back of this painting. Above that bar is a clock that reads 12:15. A couple can be seen in the back left of the painting and they are located behind a man who is drinking alone. A painting of a fireplace can be seen on the right side of this painting right above two figures that sit at a table. A man in yellow stands next to a pool table in the center of, for 10 points, what work depicting the titular establishment in Arles, a work by Vincent van Gogh.", "round" : "Round 10 updated.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40398b3d831d6a0062c1" }, "answer" : "{Marcus Licinius Crassus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.28899210691452, "num" : 7, "question" : "He fled to Hispania after his father committed suicide, and he later commanded the right wing of the Sullan forces at the Battle of the Colline Gate.  He refused the help of the king of Armenia on a notable campaign, which culminated when his testudo, or tortoise formation, was decimated by the enemy's horse archers.  That campaign, which he undertook after his defeat of Spartacus and appointment as governor of Syria, was his invasion of Parthia, during which he was killed after his defeat at Carrhae.  For 10 points, name this Roman politician known for his wealth and association with Pompey and Caesar in the first triumvirate.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - EPHS.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40328b3d831d6a00611c" }, "answer" : "{Kvasir's remains} ({logical} equivalents {ok}, {just Kvasir} is {ok}) or Mead of {Poetry}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.94934274279512, "num" : 18, "question" : "This substance was guarded by a figure who agreed to give up a small quantity of it for three nights of sex, and the person who eventually obtained it tricked nine slaves into slashing each other to death. It changed hands after a giant was tricked into stepping into a boat which was capsized and a millstone was dropped on his wife's head, and it was stored in Bon, Son and Odrerir before being placed in Hintborg by the brother of Baugi. A figure who disguised himself as Bolverk eventually stole it from Suttung, whose daugther Gunnlod was guarding it. Created from the figure created by spitting into a cauldron, for 10 points, name this substance, a mead created after Fjalar and Galar killed a certain Norse god.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 10 - Final.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00608d" }, "answer" : "The {Bab} [accept: {Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.19774111849256, "num" : 7, "question" : "Late in his life, this man wrote the “Book of Names” and the “Book of Five Grades”, but he more notably wrote two texts in two different languages called the “Bayans”. The authority of this man was first recognized by members of the Shaykhi movement, specifically Siyyid Kazim and Mulla Husayn, and other followers of this man started the Nayriz and Zanjan uprisings. A text titled “Gems of Divine Mysteries” explains how this man was the Mahdi, and he is also considered Elijah and John the Baptist. He adopted a name meaning “the gate” and foretold the messianic coming of a Promised One, who turned out to be one of his followers. For ten points, name this first major figure of the Bahai faith, the predecessor of Baha'ullah.", "round" : "Round7.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e84" }, "answer" : "{Hess's} law [prompt on {conservation} of {energy}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0084190522321, "num" : 13, "question" : "A 2008 paper saw improved accuracy on the Shafizadeh model when this law was applied to Sri Lankan waste disposal in determining biomass yield, and its formulator notably showed that the oxidation of sugars leads to saccharic acids. This law holds because the quantity it concerns equals the sum of internal energy and pressure times volume, two state functions, meaning that quantity is path-independent, and when applied, this law necessitates that reversal of reactions leads to a change in sign. For 10 points, identify this law, which holds that the enthalpy change of a reaction may be calculated from the enthalpies of a series of intermediate reactions.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 4.doc", "seen" : 255, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000c98" }, "answer" : "{Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5052709265146, "num" : 3, "question" : "One work by this man details the terminal illness of a man who injures himself while hanging curtains, and is called The Death of Ivan Ilyich. In addition to writing a novella whose protagonist kills his wife after she performs the title musical piece with her lover, The Kreutzer Sonata, this author wrote a novel whose protagonist has a relationship with Count Vronsky before killing herself by jumping in front of a train. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a000ff3" }, "answer" : "seeds", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6312739988789, "num" : 21, "question" : "Some of these structures, such as those belonging to organisms in desert environments, undergo a namesake “hibernation,” which is not to be confused with a related phenomenon in which they require light or heat to break out of their dormancy. These structures sometimes contain radicles and hypocotyls, and in many cases possess a namesake hard “coat.” Usually dispersed by water, wind, and animals who consume them, these plant structures contain either one or two cotyledons. For 10 points, identify this embryo-containing plant structure found in certain fruits.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40598b3d831d6a006a54" }, "answer" : "{correlation} coefficient", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2344061119947, "num" : 6, "question" : "One measure of this is Kendall's tau, and one form of this can be used to estimate the periodicity of a signal. A rank-order version coefficient for this is named for Spearman, though a statistic introduced by Francis Galton, Pearson's r coefficient, is the most widely used. When r equals negative one, this is said to be completely negative; this is completely positive when r equals one. For 10 points, name this measure of association between two variables, which often implies but does not equal causation.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ea3" }, "answer" : "{molecular orbital} theory [accept {atomic orbitals} before “{Fock}”; prompt on {MO} or {orbitals}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2253742758185, "num" : 21, "question" : "The Roothan equations are an alternative to the most common method of describing these entities using a non-orthonormal basis. They are eigenvalues of the Fock operator in the Hartree-Fock method for determining them. A way of mathematically describing these entities is by linearly combining their substituent atomic parts in the LCAO method, and they are often visualized by van der Waals surfaces. Coming in bonding and anti-bonding forms, for 10 points, identify these constructs specifying regions of electron density in combinations of atoms, the namesakes of the primary alternative to VSEPR (VES-per) theory.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 269, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fad8b3d831d6a0041cd" }, "answer" : "{Debye-Hückel equation/theory}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.22489958978258, "num" : 11, "question" : "An approximation of it named for Russell uses the TDS value to determine one of its parameters via the Langelier approximation, while one constant that appears in it has units of moles per kilogram to the one half power, according the Bates-Guggenheim convention. Along with Guggenheim, Scatchard and Bronsted improved upon this model by developing the SIT theory, and that model has a better fit than a modification of it named for Davies. This relationship assumes the existence of only long-range interactions, and it was extended to account for Brownian motion by Lars Onsager. It assumes that the solvent is structure-less and that the solution is dilute, and the theory behind it implies that the electrostatic potential falls off exponentially when r is greater than the atomic radius due to screening by counter ions. For 10 points, identify this equation which is used to calculate the activity coefficients, and is named for a German and a Dutch scientist.", "round" : "r06- Minnesota A.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064db" }, "answer" : "{South Africa}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6878067136277, "num" : 1, "question" : "One work set in this country opens with Piet's fascination for the titular plants, while another work set in this country focuses on a luncheon organized by Frances Taver, who introduces Robert Ceretti to local residents. In addition to A Lesson From Aloes and “Open House,” this country is also home to the writer of Waiting for Barbarians and Foe and it is also the setting for the works in which Steven Kumalo's son Absalom murders the white man Jarvis. For 10 points, identify this country home to Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, and is the setting of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country.", "round" : "Round 10 - UMN 3.doc", "seen" : 249, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046c2" }, "answer" : "“The {Blessed Damozel}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.13245536619797, "num" : 7, "question" : "This work describes the moon “curled”  “like a little feather” and a bar made warm by a bosom.  It tells of “five handmaidens” named Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys, who weave a golden thread for the newly “born” and alludes to Revelation in its description of a “living mystic tree” which contains a dove under whose shadow the title figure and the addressee will lie.  The phrase “we two” is repeated five times, but by the end of this work, the speaker's hope for a reunion is tempered as the title figure “laid her face between her hands.”  This work, which was originally published in The Germ, takes its theme from La Vita Nuova, and ends with the line “And wept (I heard her tears).”  For ten points, identify this work about a woman who gazes down from heaven upon her earthly love, a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.", "round" : "Rd06.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a001955" }, "answer" : "Nigeria", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 55.28336221468635, "num" : 6, "question" : "This country held a democratic presidential election in 1993 that was won by M.K.O. Abiola, but the election was annulled by the outgoing military regime of Ibrahim Babangida, which had presided over a structural adjustment program in the late 1980s that resulted in this country’s becoming a net food importer. Shortly thereafter, a coup brought another military regime to power, and its rule through the 1990s saw the rise of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, which protested environmental devastation and the expropriation of oil by the central government. The military dictator, Sani Abacha, had the movement’s leader Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in 1995. After the return to civilian control, this country was ruled by Olusegun Obasanjo in the 2000s. For ten points, name this populous West African nation, now ruled by the first President from the Niger Delta, Goodluck Jonathan.", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fba8b3d831d6a0044e2" }, "answer" : "{Ural Mountains} ({also} accept {Uralsky Khrebet})", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 593.9832995568868, "num" : 9, "question" : "The northern terminus of this mountain range is the minor Pay-Khoy Ridge, and its southernmost extension is a region of uplands known as the Mughalzhar Hills. The most numerous indigenous group in this mountain range is the Bashkir people, while other minor groups include the Nenets, Mansi, and Khanty peoples. The northern region of this range includes the chain's highest peaks, including Mount Narodnaya. Almost the entire eastern slope of this mountain range is drained by the Ob river system, and a major river on the western slope is the Kama, a tributary of the Volga. Near its southernmost extent, this chain is drained by its namesake river, which flows into the Caspian Sea. FTP, name this mountain range in west-central Russia that forms a major part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054fe" }, "answer" : "{Abraham Harold Maslow}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.8024691306055, "num" : 1, "question" : "This psychologist referred to his brand of psychology as a \"third force\" apart from Freudianism and behaviorism. This man elaborated on a concept first proposed in The Organism by Kurt Goldstein. In Towards a Psychology of Being, he put forth a concept of human (*) motivation divided into five levels, including safety, esteem, and self-actualization. For 10 points, identify this psychologist who developed a namesake \"hierarchy of needs.\"", "round" : "tourn11-03.pdf", "seen" : 221, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c49" }, "answer" : "{Robinson Crusoe} [accept either; accept {Cruso}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.469652597094, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one novel, this man's former companion learns how to write the letter “o” from a woman who was once this man's lover. In that novel, he is accompanied by a woman who is looking for her lost daughter and dies homesick aboard a vessel commanded by Captain Smith. A torrent of water escapes from his tongueless (*) companion's mouth at the end of a novel about this man that sees him become Susan Barton's lover, J.M. Coetzee's Foe. For 10 points, name this man who was marooned with Friday, the title castaway of a novel by Daniel DeFoe.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a000ff2" }, "answer" : "the {Reichstag}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.8036151384003, "num" : 20, "question" : "Yevgeny Khaldey took the photograph of a Soviet soldier raising the red flag over this building in 1945. One man put on trial for attempting to destroy this building was the future Bulgarian dictator Georgi Dimitrov. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was convicted of arson at the same trial, though many believe that Karl Ernst and Hermann Goering actually set fire to this structure. The Enabling Act gave dictatorial powers to Adolf Hitler following the mysterious 1933 burning of, for 10 points, what meeting-place of the German Parliament?", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401c8b3d831d6a005bc1" }, "answer" : "{Founder} Effect [prompt on {Genetic Drift}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.8664797870442, "num" : 7, "question" : "One disease associated with this effect causes dwarfism, polydactyly, and occasional heart abnormalities, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, and this effect has been blamed for an increased proportion of Huntingon's among Afrikaners. Examples of populations displaying it are the Pennsylvania Dutch and Martha's Vineyard. It often results in a non-random sample of genes and causes results similar to bottlenecking. For 10 points, name this effect causing reduced genetic variation which arises from a colony being settled by a small portion of the original population.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40748b3d831d6a0070c3" }, "answer" : "{Kami} (take Japanese spirits or Shinto spirits or anything like that until they are mentioned)", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.671021473594, "num" : 13, "question" : "One member of this group was killed by another after spitting a fish and coughing up rice.  One of them is depicted as a dark demon wearing leopard skin carrying a bag and another is associated with white foxes. Another is a dragon residing in a palace of red and white coral, while yet another is said to eat bellybuttons and take away navels. Besides Fujin, Inari, and Ryujin, one member of this group associated with storms slew Yamata-no-Orochi and was disliked by his sister Amaterasu. For 10 points, name this group of Japanese spirits worshipped in Shinto.", "round" : "NNT_Packet_8.doc", "seen" : 452, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a007360" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Long} Island", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4166842363775, "num" : 16, "question" : "The final tactical withdrawal from this battle was conducted under the direction of John Glover, whose Marbleheaders did not complete the operation by sunrise as planned, but were luckily saved by a heavy fog.  During the previous day, Israel Putnam's force was engaged with Henry Clinton, but a force led by William Howe marched through the lightly-defended Jamaica Pass to turn Putnam's flank, (*)forcing the Americans to fall back.  With over 2,000 casualties, compared to the British 400, Washington ordered a surprise night retreat across the East River to Manhattan.  FTP – Name this first Revolutionary Battle after the Declaration of Independence on an island in New York.", "round" : "Round 8.rtf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f808b3d831d6a003759" }, "answer" : "{Maya Lin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.14435515110381, "num" : 18, "question" : "A barn was raised off the ground to create the Langston Hughes Library, designed by this architect, who also designed a house on the edge of an aspen forest made of wooden boxes. One ongoing project by this architect includes a completed section at Cape Disappointment, and is known as the Confluence Project. Another work by this architect is a round black stone water table, located in Montgomery, Alabama, inspired by the quote that \"We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied 'until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.\"Most famously, she designed a V-shaped black granite wall, which was built into the ground and inscribed with 58,000 names. For 10 points, name this architect who designed the Civil Rights Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ", "round" : "MichiganA.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bb3" }, "answer" : "{Ising} model", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.4547614979092, "num" : 24, "question" : "A problem associated with this model asks for the number of color patterns for a rectangular grid of red and green unit squares given a prescribed number of boundary edges. Unlike in the (*) Heisenberg model, spin direction is fixed and the spin variable can only assume two values. When the interaction between neighboring spins favors anti-parallel alignment, the ordered state is anti-ferromagnetic instead of ferromagnetic. For 10 points, name this model of statistical mechanics.", "round" : "12_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a005509" }, "answer" : "{Hernán Cortés} de {Monroy} y {Pizarro} [or {Hernando Cortés}; or {Fernando Cortés}; do not accept or", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.386213534046, "num" : 12, "question" : "This man's dispute with Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (SWAY-ar) led him to hastily construct the city of Veracruz and name himself governor, so that he could not be recalled to Cuba. This man employed a translator known as \"La Malinche\" (ma-LEEN-chay). His rearguard was massacred on a causeway across Lake (*) Texcoco during the \"Noche Triste.\" He was the first European to see Tenochtitlán (ten-oak-teet-LON), and he conquered an empire led by Montezuma II. For 10 points, name this conquistador who founded Mexico City and conquered the Aztecs.", "round" : "tourn11-03.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5d8b3d831d6a002eb2" }, "answer" : "{Mark Helprin} [accept {Digital Barbarism}: A {Writer's Manifesto} before “{this author}” is read]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.98623428517021, "num" : 9, "question" : "Lawrence Lessig's essay “The Solipsist and the Internet” heavily criticized this author's “writer's manifesto” Digital Barbarism. The protagonist of one of his novels is bedeviled by the dwarf Orfeo Quatta but is nonetheless inspired by Raphael's portrait of Bindo Altoviti and Giorgione's The Tempest. That man, Alessandro Giuliani, tells his life story to Nicolo Sambucca in this man's A Soldier of the Great War. This writer of Bob Dole's 1996 resignation speech also wrote of an American adventurer living in Brazil and calling himself Oscar Progresso in his novel Memoir from an (*) Antproof Case, while his most recent novel is 2005's Freddy and Fredericka. Characters in his most famous novel include the bridge-builder Jackson Mead, who seeks to “stop time and bring back the dead”. That novel's protagonist falls in love with Beverly Penn and is accompanied by the flying white horse Athansor. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote about the child-resurrecting thief Peter Lake in his 1983 novel Winter's Tale.", "round" : "zFinals 2 - DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003658" }, "answer" : "{Laocoön Group} or {Gruppo del Laocoonte} or {Laocoön} and His {Sons}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.17579547245987, "num" : 14, "question" : "A Niccolo Boldini engraving demonstrates that Titian created a painting which replaced the figures in this work with monkeys. A William Blake print surrounded this work with multilingual graffiti and argued this work was copied from Cherubim at Solomon's Temple. The Louvre contains a casting supervised by Primaticcio, while the Uffizi contains Bandinelli's version. Ludwig Pollak found part of the missing marble arm, and it is made of seven pieces of marble, contra Pliny, who claimed it was made from a single slab and was found at the palace of Emperor Titus. Pliny also claims it was created by Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polyclitus. For 10 points, name this sculptural work, which depicts three men being strangled by snakes.", "round" : "Yale A + Chicago B.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a00553e" }, "answer" : "{Silent Spring}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8928121664561, "num" : 2, "question" : "The first chapter of this book is entitled \"A Fable for Tomorrow\" and tells of a harmonious town suddenly hit with a \"strange blight.\" A parody of this book is \"The Desolate Year,\" which imagined a world where insects ran amok. That parody of this work was produced by the (*) Monsanto Corporation, which, along with other companies, objected to this book's criticism of the pesticide DDT. For 10 points, name this landmark environmentalist book written by Rachel Carson.", "round" : "tourn11-06.pdf", "seen" : 256, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efa8b3d831d6a0017c5" }, "answer" : "{Benjamin West}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.241510830354, "num" : 17, "question" : "This artist painted a man in a crown and full armor limply pointing his finger in his version of The Burghers of Calais. A figure in a green vest kneels while the title man has his hands splayed out in a historically inaccurate painting by this man set under an elm tree at (*) Shackamaxon. This artist depicted the title figure crowned in the center as sparks of light emanate from his clenched fists in one work. In another of his works, a Native American sits on the left as a man in blue tries to stanch the bleeding of the title figure in red. That work describes an incident from the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the French and Indian War. For 10 points, name this artist of The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, Death on a Pale Horse, and The Death of General Wolfe.", "round" : "Packet 9 - Playoffs 4.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a21" }, "answer" : "{neutrons}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 394.2836801004596, "num" : 16, "question" : "These particles were used in a spectroscopy technique pioneered by Bertram Brockhouse, and Bruce Cork discovered their antiparticles while at LBNL. Formed by beta-plus decay or electron capture, these particles contain one up-quark and two down-quarks. Slow-moving ones can strike an atom to initiate a fission reaction. For 10 points, name these particles, first discovered by James Chadwick, that are located in the atomic nucleus and lack charge.", "round" : "Packet 9.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001cc2" }, "answer" : "Thor", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.94015070935711, "num" : 17, "question" : "This god fathered Magni by the giantess Jarnsaxa. This god threatened to kill Loki after he had cut off the hair of this god's wife. His chariot is pulled by Tanngnjost and Tanngrisni, two goats, and he lives in Bilskirnir. In Jotunheim, this man was challenged, and failed, to lift the cat of the king of the Frost Giants, Utgard-Loki. He reduced the giant Hrungnir to rubble. At Ragnarok, this figure and Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent, will kill each other. On one occasion, this god dressed up as Freya and killed Thrym, who had stolen his prized possession. The husband of Sif, for 10 points, name this owner of the hammer Mjollnir, the Norse god of thunder.", "round" : "Northwestern and Cornell.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a00692c" }, "answer" : "Salome", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2602316795383, "num" : 28, "question" : "In the opening scene of this work, a Page is disgusted by one character's apostrophizing of another. That character is easily swayed by another's promise of a smile; however, Narroboth commits suicide when the title character begs for a kiss. The sound of wings beating is heard by one character who later sings Tanz für mich, and the title character makes love to Jochanaan's head. Adapted from a play by Oscar Wilde about Herodias, a title daughter who performs the Dance of the Seven Veils, and John the Baptist, for 10 points, name this Richard Strauss opera.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40368b3d831d6a00622b" }, "answer" : "{Spoon River Anthology}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.0593630247749, "num" : 6, "question" : "One character in this work condemns “you liberals, and navigators into realms intellectual” and defends “we…getters and hoarders of gold.” Another character in this work learned to read while in prison for shooting Marshall Logan, and Kinsey Keene prosecutes the prominent banker Thomas Rhodes. This work that includes the aforementioned section about Jack McGuire also includes a poem about a character who “got a job in the canning works” after he “found religion”, Butch Weldy. Set in a town based on Petersburg and Lewisville, Illinois, for 10 points, name this collection of poetry written by Edgar Lee Masters.", "round" : "Missouri State Game 2 - sorted.docx", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "U. of Georgia CCC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a0015a8" }, "answer" : "{Ethics} [or {Ethika}; or {Ethikon}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.0866899252869, "num" : 19, "question" : "One work titled for this concept describes the property kalokagathaia; that work begins by refusing to agree with a poem by Theognis and was once believed to be by a Rhodesian student named Eudemus. Another work on this concept distinguishes one general form and many particular forms of justice in its fifth book. That work’s last chapter advocates political life if the ideal (*) contemplative life is unattainable, and earlier advocates for eudaimonia, or happiness, as derived from virtues which are themselves the mean between two extremes. For 10 points, name this concept in the titles of Eudemian and Nicomachean works by Aristotle, which is closely related to morals.", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 304, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405a8b3d831d6a006aa6" }, "answer" : "{Parkinson's} disease", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4761024697218, "num" : 22, "question" : "Earlier surgical treatments for this conditions involved pallidotomy and thalamotomy, while newer treatments for it can be supplemented by drugs which inhibit monoamine oxidase-B. It is caused by the degeneration of the neurons of the substantia nigra, which decreases the production of dopamine, and L-dopa is most commonly used to treat its symptoms. First described by its namesake British scientist in 1817, for 10 points, identify this disease characterized by tremors and slowness of movement, also called the “shaking palsy.”", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d27" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Bulge} [or {Ardennes} Offensive ]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7707701050676, "num" : 10, "question" : "During this battle, part of the 1st Panzer Division murdered 84 American POWs, which is known as the Malmedy Massacre. The resistance at Bastogne and the eventual arrival of Patton's Third Army from the south resulted in an Allied victory at this battle. The German code name for the offensive during this fight was the \"Watch on the Rhine.\" Begun in December 1944, for 10 points, name this battle of World War II so named because of the large incursion into Allied lines.", "round" : "districts-08.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a0057e8" }, "answer" : "{Francis Bret Harte}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5327357638162, "num" : 21, "question" : "One work by this author was interpreted as mocking Chinese immigrants by the Irish middle class readers it was actually mocking. A short story by this author sees Thomas drown when a mine camp is hit by a flash flood. This editor of The Overland Monthly also wrote a work telling of a gambler who is found dead along with the rest of a group of (*) exiles. For 10 points, name this author of \"The Heathen Chinee,\" \"The Luck of Roaring Camp,\" and \"The Outcasts of Poker Flat.\"", "round" : "tourn9-07.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a003766" }, "answer" : "{Santiago Nasar} [accept either name]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.13007926708087, "num" : 10, "question" : "At the end of the novel he appears in, his fiancé angrily hands him a box of love letters and locks herself in a bathroom. His practice of storing his gun unloaded was inherited from his father Ibrahim and he is warned by the cook Victoria to stay away from her daughter Divina Flor. He had spent the night before the first chapter begins by celebrating the marriage of Bayardo San Roman and Angela, who is returned to her mother when it is discovered that she is not a virgin. This prompts Angela's twin brothers, Pablo and Pedro, to wait for this character outside a milk stand. After he returns from seeing the bishop at the docks, he is accidentally locked out of his house and is confronted by the twins holding pig knifes. For 10 points, name this character who is stabbed to death in Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold.", "round" : "MichiganB.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe88b3d831d6a004f6e" }, "answer" : "{Marcel Duchamp}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.4850489820819, "num" : 32, "question" : "This artist created a panel divided into \"The Bride's Domain\" and \"The Bachelor's Domain\" in his The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. His \"Prelude to a Broken Arm\" was simply a snow shovel, and this artist added a mustache to the Mona Lisa under the title LHOOQ. This artist's other \"Readymades\" include a urinal inscribed with the name \"R. Mutt\" and displayed under the title Fountain. This artist riled up controversy at the Armory Show with his cubist inspired Nude Descending a Staircase. For 10 points, name this French proponent of Dada.", "round" : "4q1-06.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000c94" }, "answer" : "{Swan Lake} [{Lebedinoje ozero}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.4955000833143, "num" : 33, "question" : "Riccardo Drigo revised the score of this work, adding in parts of the composer’s Eighteen Pieces for Piano. Julius Reisinger did the original choreography for this work, but performances today are based on the work of Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa. Prince Siegfried confesses his love to the wrong woman in this ballet, which also features the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. For 10 points, name this ballet by Tchaikovsky, in which Odette has been transformed into one of the title birds.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000eac" }, "answer" : "{Japanese} [or {Nihongo}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 336.7505473655183, "num" : 26, "question" : "One way to write this language was invented by women, who were not permitted to use the existing syllabary. Another form of writing for this language is used chiefly for proper names and foreign words. The last of its three major writing systems uses characters borrowed from Confucian classics. For 10 points, hiragana (HEAR-ah-GAH-nah), katakana (KAH-tah-KA-nah), and kanji (KAHN-jee) are the chief writing systems of what language, which is spoken in Osaka and Tokyo?", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a001285" }, "answer" : "stars", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1799099226482, "num" : 20, "question" : "These bodies form through a process that begins with ambipolar diffusion, which leads to cloud collapse. During the formation of these bodies, they go through the Hayashi and sometimes the Henyey track. The Pillars of Creation are a region in which many of these bodies form. These bodies can be grouped by population depending on their metallicity. Their life cycles follow the Main Sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. For 10 points, name these bodies that include Alpha Centauri and the sun.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef88b3d831d6a001740" }, "answer" : "{Winslow Homer}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9611199800856, "num" : 19, "question" : "This artist painted works like The Herring Net and West Point from his studio in Prout’s Neck. An unconscious figure is rescued on a zip line in one work, and a solitary farmer holds a scythe in front of a sea of wheat in another. This artist of The Life Line and The Veteran in a New Field painted four men with hats looking left on a tilting sailboat called the Gloucester. A group of boys link arms in front of a farmhouse playing the title game in (*) Snap the Whip. One painting by this artist of Breezing Up sees a dark-skinned man resting on a boat as sharks surround him. For 10 points, name this American painter of The Gulf Stream.", "round" : "Packet 3 - Prelims 3.doc", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a007172" }, "answer" : "{Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7699398337863, "num" : 4, "question" : "(MS) One piece by this composer began as a thirteen-composer collaboration for which he wrote a \"Libera me\" [LEE bare uh MAY] and was dedicated to Rossini, but that Requiem was initially performed at the funeral of Manzoni. One familiar theme by him is \"Va', pensiero\" [VAH pen-see-AIR-oh] for a chorus of Jews, while another is the aria \"La donna é mobile\" [la don-uh eh MOH-bee-lay] for the Duke of Mantua; those songs are from his operas Nabucco and Rigoletto, respectively. Name this Italian com- poser best known for La traviata and Aida [i EE duh].", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a005193" }, "answer" : "{pointer} variable", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3197538598906, "num" : 5, "question" : "A \"wild\" one is one that has not been given a specific value. Its functionality can be duplicated with a one-dimensional array. When one is \"double indirect,\" it means there are two of these before the actual data can be found. They are crucial in the creation of linked lists. Arithmetic with them involves moving up and down a number of bytes depending on the data type being referenced. For 10 points, name this type of variable whose value is a memory address.", "round" : "4q2-09.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c2b" }, "answer" : "Plato", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.1960221473128, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man was invited by Dion to teach the younger Dionysus, and his imprisonment was discussed in his Seventh Letter. A work of his discusses the pure earth in a pure heaven where gems lie like ordinary stones and a man who visits celestial spheres and the celestial plane after leaving Ur. This philosopher discusses the aesthetic qualities of the golden ratio in Timaeus. The formulator of the \"Analogy of the Divided Line,\" for ten points, name this philosopher whose Symposium discussed love.", "round" : "FHTE R3 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 308, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a00734b" }, "answer" : "{Boadicea} or {Boudica}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8307798381429, "num" : 15, "question" : "Tacitus described this warrior's final battle in the Midlands of England and Cassius Dio wrote that this loser to Paulinus had waist-long red hair. A statue by Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament in London depicts this ruler and daughters riding a chariot. When King Prasutagus died and the Romans took her (*) entire estate in addition to raping her daughters, she became determined to lead a revolt, and led 120,000 people to Camulodunum where a statue of Claudius had been erected at the expense of the British. FTP, name this warrior queen of the Iceni who famously led a rebellion of the Iceni and Trinivantes against Roman rule in Britain in 61 AD.", "round" : "Round 7.rtf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006eb2" }, "answer" : "{Caravaggio} [or {Michelangelo Merisi}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 423.0026582174469, "num" : 5, "question" : "He depicted a boy behind a flower vase in his Boy Bitten By A Lizard, and he painted a woman breastfeeding a man while four angels look down in his Seven Acts of Mercy. In one work this artist modeled Levi off a figure in his Cardsharps, and in another work, the rear of a donkey is prevalent, and a man is being blinded on the way to Damascus. In addition to The Conversion of St. Paul, this man showed a seated Jesus holding his hand over a bird. For 10 points, name this user of chiaroscuro who painted The Supper at Emmaus and The Calling of St. Matthew.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006240" }, "answer" : "{lanthanide series} or {lanthanides}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3023155676202, "num" : 8, "question" : "The mineral monazite consists of phosphates of several of these elements. A mixture of these elements called misch metal is used to purify steel, and an alloy of one of these elements with cobalt produces the strongest known permanent magnetic force. A slightly larger group consists of these elements as well as scandium and yttrium, the rare earth metals, and cerium is the most abundant of these elements in nature. Their namesake contraction, or unexpected decrease in ionic radius, is due the poor shielding of 4f electrons. Including samarium and gadolinium, for 10 points, name these metals of atomic numbers 57 through 71, grouped just above the actinides on the periodic table.", "round" : "Missouri State Game 3 - sorted.docx", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "U. of Georgia CCC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eae8b3d831d6a0005ec" }, "answer" : "“The {Legend} of {Sleepy Hollow}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.3639087688644, "num" : 42, "question" : "This story describes a school which thieves might access easily but not be able to escape, an idea taken “from the mystery of an eelpot” by architect Yost Van Houten. This story describes a figure’s dancing attracting the attention of all the blacks at a party hosted by Old Baltus Van Tassel. After that party, the protagonist is run out of town by the ghost of a Hessian, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones. For 20 points, identify this story from the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving.", "round" : "colonia-03.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045ee" }, "answer" : "The {Bone People}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.95414108177647, "num" : 21, "question" : "One character in this novel wins a bar fight through intimidation by catching a fly and flinging it at a drunkard, and another character is restored to health by a man known as “The Keeper” after trying to commit suicide. Another character's anger over the death of the pedophile Binny Daniels leads him to smash the protagonist's guitar and break the window of every shop in town. The protagonist has regular conversations with a coffee grinder in a house known as “the Tower” and receives a letter from an Irish Earl confirming that a necklace she was given is actually a rosary. At the beginning of this novel, the protagonist finds a sandal with a hole pierced through its sole that belongs to a mysteriously (*) mute boy, who earlier had washed ashore after a shipwreck. That boy, Simon, is beaten periodically by his surrogate father, Joe Gillayley. For 10 points, name this novel about Kerewin Holmes, a part-Maori painter, by Keri Hulme.", "round" : "Packet 09 - In Vinokurov Veritas.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039c3" }, "answer" : "{Mach} number", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.98477637022734, "num" : 5, "question" : "The actual pressure coefficient is equal to the low velocity pressure coefficient divided by the square root of one minus this value squared according to the Prandtl-Glauert rule. When the local value of this approaches unity, the freestream value of it, is termed critical. When this number is equal to one at a nozzle, choked flow can occur and when it's less than 0.3, the flow is considered incompressible. This is equal to the velocity of the flow divided by the square root of the product of RT and the ratio of the specific heats at constant pressure and volume respectively. That denominator simplifies to the speed of sound in the medium, meaning this value is the ratio of velocity to the speed of sound. For 10 points, name this number that is greater than one for supersonic velocities.", "round" : "Round by Will Butler Evan Adams and Matt Bollinger.docx", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d11" }, "answer" : "Firefly", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.2738382122479, "num" : 14, "question" : "Multiple series of comic books have been produced based on this TV series, including the mini-series Better Days and Those Left Behind. In the film based on it, David Krumholtz of Numb3rsfame plays a hacker and information broker named Mr. Universe. The backstory to this show features a civil war which saw Alliance forces defeat the Independents, leading to a mostly Sino-American civilization. The show follows some characters who fought on the losing side of that war, as well as others, including one who is constantly pursued by men from the Blue Sun Corporation. Featuring characters like Zoe Washburne, River Tam, and Captain Malcolm Reynolds, identify this short-lived Joss Whedon TV show which followed a titular class of space ship, the Serenity.", "round" : "finals 1 TU.pdf", "seen" : 566, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a007395" }, "answer" : "{chelates} [accept word forms, {such} as \"{chelating agents}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5628761490806, "num" : 11, "question" : "Alcaligin is one of these found in bacteria that contains three hydroxamic acid groups, and is known as a siderophore. Its namesake effect can be seen in the reaction between 3 moles of ethylenediamine, 1 mol of a nickel ion, and 6 moles of ammonia, and is related to the macrocyclic effect. Arguably the most famous example of these has a charge of negative four, features six donor atoms, and is often used in treating heavy-metal poisoning. EDTA is an example of, for 10 points, what type of complex ion in which a metal ion is bonded to a ligand?", "round" : "Round10Final.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e958b3d831d6a00006e" }, "answer" : "The {White Tiger}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 31.22412310214713, "num" : 20, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel siphons gas from his employer in order to pay for a Ukrainian prostitute with long blond hair, only to be outraged when he discovers that her hair is dyed. Its protagonist takes over the position of Ram Presad by exposing him as a secret Muslim, and is forced to massage the feet of his aged employer as part of his duties. This novel is punctuated by the repeated exclamation of \"what a fucking joke\" by Pinky Madam, the American-born wife of the protagonist's master. Framed as a series of seven letters to Wen Jiabao, this novel recounts how its main character escaped the \"darkness\" of Laxmangarh by stealing a red bag stuffed with rupees after using a broken whiskey bottle to kill Mr. Ashok. Its narrator resolves to commit that murder after imagining the title animal disappearing from its cage. For ten points, name this novel about the rise of Balram Halwai, which won the 2008 Booker Prize for its author, Aravind Adiga.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors1Final.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40768b3d831d6a00713c" }, "answer" : "{Bernoulli} effect (accept {clear knowledge} equivalents for \"{effect}\")", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2201193964574, "num" : 2, "question" : "(JG) When this theory was originally presented it was poorly explained, so the author's father reworked the theory significantly, after which d'Alembert and Prandtl worked on it further. A 1980s storage drive by Iomega used this effect, and it is measured with the Venturi tube. Boomerangs are thrown parallel to the ground to exploit this effect, which also causes shower curtains to be pulled inwards rather than bil- lowed outwards, and helps baseballs break downwards. It is unnecessary for the applications it is most closely associated with, since Newton's Laws can also be used to explain the behavior of aerofoils and the lift effect. Name this law about ideal fluids that relates their flow rate and the pressure they exert, named for a Swiss mathematician.", "round" : "r6tossups.pdf", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c71" }, "answer" : "{Baruch Spinoza} [or {Benedictus Spinoza}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.709117640974, "num" : 21, "question" : "This thinker objected to Descartes's ideas about the transcendence of God and the existence of human free will in his explanation of Principles of Philosophy. One of his works begins with definitions, axioms, and fifteen propositions about the nature of God, the only substance in the universe. In another, he denies that Moses wrote the entire Torah, and insists on a close, critical reading of Scripture in distinguishing between Jewish divine and ceremonial law. For 10 points, name this author of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus who was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam before writing Ethics.", "round" : "Claremont and Michigan.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f9b" }, "answer" : "{ozone} (prompt on {O3} until “{triatomic}” is read)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2502633335534, "num" : 10, "question" : "In the Criegee mechanism, this compound reacts through a 1,3-dipolar cyclo·addition to cleave double bonds in alkenes. Sydney Chapman discovered the process by which this continuously regenerates. Discovered by Christian Friedrich Schönbein in 1840, it gives a thunderstorm its distinctive smell. It converts electromagnetic radiation into heat energy in a reaction catalyzed by hydroxyl and chloro·fluoro·carbons. At ground level, it is a pollutant and respiratory irritant, but it occurs in high concentrations in the stratosphere, where it absorbs UV rays. For 10 points, name this triatomic form of oxygen, which has a namesake “layer” in the atmosphere.", "round" : "Packet 4.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee78b3d831d6a001352" }, "answer" : "{Rene Descartes}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.78345413156785, "num" : 10, "question" : "In his last published work, this philosopher argued that emotions arise out of the movement of what he termed “animal spirits” in different combinations. That work was his The Passions of the Soul. This philosopher illustrated how the senses can be deceiving by using the analogy of a piece of wax. He argued that because sensory perceptions are involuntary, they must come from an external world in a work in which he began by assuming that an “Evil Demon” was creating his perceptions.  For 10 points, name the French skeptical philosopher who championed mind-body dualism and wrote Discourse on Method and the Meditations on First Philosophy.", "round" : "Packet 5 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a00467e" }, "answer" : "{Ebenezer Scrooge}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.92599422810599, "num" : 19, "question" : "When this character complains that the Sunday Observance bills prevent the poor from eating once a week, he hears in response that its sponsors “are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.” The only person who feels emotion at his death is Caroline, who sees it as an opportunity to delay paying debts; meanwhile, the laundress Mrs. Dilber agrees with the fence Joe Hoggs that if he didn't want to have his things looted after death, he should've been “natural” while alive. Though Dick Wilkins is his friend in youth, the eventual husband of his one-time fiancée Belle notes that he becomes alone in the world after his partner's death. He is described as a savage and unpleasant animal in a guessing game by his nephew (*) Fred, though he is later toasted for providing holiday merriment. At another dinner, his employee's toast to him casts a shadow over children Peter, Martha, Belinda, and Tim, though he finally becomes like a “second father” to the latter after raising that employee's salary when he comes in late on the 26th. For 10 points, name this colleague of Old Fezziwig and Jacob Marley from “A Christmas Carol.”", "round" : "Rd02.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001e15" }, "answer" : "{Edward Steichen}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.8309123060666, "num" : 4, "question" : "Marcel Duchamp poses for this man in the painting Sunday Afternoon in the Country by Florine Stettheimer, though a much clearer portrait is seen in Fred Holland Day's 1901 picture of him. His Road to Victory and Power in the Pacific exhibitions helped memorialize the Pacific campaign in World War II, and he won an Oscar for his propaganda documentary for the navy entitled The Fighting Lady.  His work in other genres included a 1905 iconic atmospheric depiction of the Flatiron Building, as well as a large-scale 1955 exhibition with an accompanying book and introduction by his brother-in-law Carl Sandburg. For 10 points, name this man who organized the Family of Man exhibit at MOMA, a photographer who co-founded the Photo Secession movement with Alfred Steiglitz.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 3).docx", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a003986" }, "answer" : "{MAP Kinases} [or {Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.08902491815388, "num" : 3, "question" : "The pyridyl nitrogen of one inhibitor of this class of molecules forms a hydrogen bond with the main chain amido nitrogen of residue 109, which is found in the ATP pocket. That inhibitor is pyridine-imidazole, and these enzymes are activated by dual phosphorylation of conserved threonine and tyrosine residues in the activation loop. In 2003, the pyridol-pyrimidine class of these molecule's inhibitors were shown to have a previously unseen degree of specificity for the alpha isoform of one class of this molecule, which is activated by lipopolysaccharide. For 10 points, name this enzyme whose JNK and p38 classes respond to stress stimuli, and which has a namesake cascade.", "round" : "Round by Matt Weiner Eric Mukherjee Aaron Rosenberg and Editor.docx", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c3d" }, "answer" : "{O. Henry} [or {William Sydney Porter}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8519300264306, "num" : 16, "question" : "This author's time in Honduras after fleeing an embezzlement conviction provided material for his collection Cabbages and Kings, and Ward McAllister's assertion that there were only four hundred people in New York City who were worth noticing prompted this man to write the collection The Four Million. This man wrote about Della Young's selling of her hair to buy a watch chain for her husband and James Young's selling his watch to buy combs for his wife. For 10 points, name this short story writer of \"The Gift of the Magi.\"", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c64" }, "answer" : "“I {can't believe} it's not {butter!}”", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.962996518705, "num" : 7, "question" : "This phrase is featured on the website tasteyoulove.com, and Fabio says this phrase while dressed as Tarzan in TV commercials. At the “Adult Learning Annex,” Homer Simpson claims that his only skill is the ability to distinguish a product named for this phrase from its authentic counterpart. Peter Griffin notes that he will run for mayor of Quahog in the next episode after saying this phrase a (*) second time in the episode in which Meg is sold to Mort Goldman. For 10 points, name this double- negative phrase, the exclamatory name of a brand of margarine.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a00195f" }, "answer" : "{bathers} [or {baigneuses}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.52105330512859, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one painting of these figures, only one of them faces the front of the painting while two others are looking over their left shoulders; that painting is by Gauguin. One of these figures is depicted sitting on a bed while wearing a turban and draping a sheet over her left arm, and that figure is notably copied into the artist’s painting of many of them in a harem. One depiction of these figures shows them in two symmetrical groupings relaxing between arching trees. In addition to the “Valpinçon” one painted by Ingres and the “Large” ones depicted by Cezanne, one of these figures cups his hands in front of his mouth and wears an orange hat while one in the center sits near his shoes and a straw hat on the bank of the Seine. For 10 points, name these figures that are depicted “at Asnieres” by Seurat.", "round" : "Packet 05.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d63" }, "answer" : "{David Ricardo}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.354649710469, "num" : 9, "question" : "Robert Barro named this man's equivalence theorem, which states government deficits are anticipated by individuals who increase their saving. Piero Sraffa is one member of the school named for this man, who illustrated one of his theories using (*) Portuguese wine and English cloth. He argued for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and his works include The High Price of Bullion and Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. For 10 points, name this British economist who proposed the iron law of wages and developed the theory of comparative advantage.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a00489d" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Hardy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9841595699544, "num" : 10, "question" : "This writer depicted Giles Winterborne's love for Edgar Fitzpier's wife Grace Medbury in the novel entitled The Woodlanders. Richard marries Sue Bridehead twice while Arabella Donn tricks the titular protagonist into marriage twice in one work by this writer. In another work by this writer, Donald Farfrae marries Elizabeth-Jane who is related to Susan and Michael Henchard. In another work by this writer, Sorrow is born as a result of the fornication between Alec and the titular protagonist who is married to Angel Clare. For 10 points, name this English writer who wrote Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 09 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea58b3d831d6a0003d7" }, "answer" : "{Les Preludes}: {Poeme symphonique No.} 3 [or The {Preludes}: Symphonic Poem {No.} 3]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.7994765623007, "num" : 11, "question" : "This piece was originally conceived as the overture to a choral work called The Four Elements. In this work’s 12/8 “Andante maestoso” sections, the upper woodwinds and trumpets twice play a first-inversion minor arpeggio, whose root is harmonized as the third of a major chord. “The calm serenity of life in the fields” after a storm depicted in this work is described in its program, which was inspired by the Poetic Meditations of Lamartine. In the “Allegro Marziale” section, the melody of an earlier horn solo is transformed into a march-like phrase that goes E-E-D-G, E-C-A-C-D-E. Each of this work’s first two measures consists of a pizzicato C on the third beat, after which this work’s ubiquitous motive C-B-E is first introduced. FTP, name this symphonic poem by Liszt, whose title suggests a series of beginnings.", "round" : "PACKET04Editors.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40348b3d831d6a006195" }, "answer" : "The {Potato Eaters}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 59.54913109308109, "num" : 21, "question" : "This painting was inspired by a similar work created by Jozef Israëls. The artist of this work abandoned academic flesh tones to paint the main figures' skin dark ochre. According to HP Bremmer, the closeness of four mugs in this painting demonstrates the closeness of the central family it depicts. The only source of light in this painting comes from a single lit oil lamp hanging from the ceiling. The artist of this painting deliberately chose gnarled and ugly models for the five figures it depicts, who sit around a wooden table at dinner. For 10 points, name this 1885 painting that portrays poor Dutch peasants consuming the title vegetables, painted by Vincent van Gogh.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 3 - Final.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006e12" }, "answer" : "{William Golding}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8350896192715, "num" : 13, "question" : "This author wrote about Reverend Colley and Edmund Talbot in Rites of Passage, and he wrote about the discovery of a corpse that still has on its sea boots, revealing that the titular naval lieutenant's struggles to survive on a barren rock were hallucinations. In addition to Pincher Martin, this man wrote a novel in which Simon discovers the body of an airman that had been mistaken for “the beast,” and Ralph attempts to keep order with a conch shell. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about boys stranded on an island in Lord of the Flies.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f778b3d831d6a00350e" }, "answer" : "The {School} of {Athens} [or {Scuola di Atene}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.463053240208, "num" : 19, "question" : "Decor in the foreground of this work includes a carved marble garland interrupted by bull skulls and reliefs depicting various classical scenes. This work depicts two large statues of Apollo and Athena and can be found alongside its artist's depiction of a theological argument underneath the choirs of heaven, (*) La Disputa. A lone figure is sprawled across some stairs at the center of this work found in the Stanza Della Segnatura, whose depiction of a man resting on his hand may have been based on Michaelangelo. Its center features the texts Timaeus and the Nichomachean Ethics, respectively held by Plato and Aristotle. For 10 points, name this depiction of ancient thinkers in the titular Greek city, painted by Raphael.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406c8b3d831d6a006ece" }, "answer" : "The {Pearl}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8318029681686, "num" : 12, "question" : "A discovery of an object in this work is called \"a little pat on the back by God, or the gods, or both.\" The protagonist of this novel thinks of Song of Evil and Song of the Family while watching a scorpion. One character warns another to throw the titular object \"back into the sea, or it will destroy us,\" but the protagonist's refusal results in the death of his baby son, Coyotito. For 10 points, name this novella in which Juana and Kito's lives are ruined by his discovery of the titular jewel, written by John Steinbeck.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003fa6" }, "answer" : "{Seamus Heaney}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.61365027260035, "num" : 1, "question" : "One poem by this author describes a wall inscribed with the phrase “PARAS THIRTEEN, BOGSIDE NIL” and is an elegy for a man who “drank like a fish” before he was “blown to bits.” He included the image of a “four foot box, a foot for every year” in a poem narrated by a student who “sat all morning in the college sick bay counting bells knelling classes to a close.” This author of “Casualty” wrote of a student of Miss Walls who collects “jampotfulls” of (*) “frogspawn” in another poem. He wrote that “my squat pen rests” “between my finger and my thumb” in a poem that compares his profession to his father's labor in the bogs. For 10 points, name this poet who included “Mid-Term Break” and “Digging” in his collection The Death of a Naturalist, an Irish Nobel winner who translated Beowulf.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a006387" }, "answer" : "Book of {Ecclesiastes} [accept {Qoheleth} early; do not accept {Ecclesiasticus}; prompt on: the {Preacher}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.15348234726116, "num" : 16, "question" : "Its name may be compared to the Arabic word “rawiyyah,” and it repeatedly uses the term “hevel.” In matters of friendship, this book claims that “a new friend is as a new wine: when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.” Its closing section, “Advice for the Young,” advises the reader to “Rejoice…in thy youth.” Its author states that “the heart of the foolish is in the house of mirth,” and notes that there is no new thing “under the sun.” After the author introduces himself as Qoheleth and declares he is a son of David, he realizes that “Vanity of vanities...all is vanity.” For 10 points, name this Old Testament book following Proverbs that claims “to everything there is a season.”", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a00322c" }, "answer" : "{Xerxes} I [prompt on partial answer; prompt on {Xerxes} of {Persia}; accept {Xerxes} the {Great}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 342.9781712912954, "num" : 6, "question" : "This leader's brother, who was killed at the Battle of Pampremis by Inaros, put down rebellions in Egypt. This King was assassinated after twenty years in power, and historians argue about whether the murder was plotted by his sons and committed by Artabanus. His name is carved into the entrances of The Gate of All Nations in Persepolis, which he continued to develop upon work started by his grandfather Cyrus the Great and his father Darius the First. Name this Persian who fought the Greeks at the Battles of Salamis and Thermopylae.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000dbe" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Panama} [or {República} de {Panamá}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.447980311932, "num" : 25, "question" : "This nation's port cities include Cristobal and Almirante, while its main mountain range is alternately known as the Cordillera de Talamanca and the Serrania de Tabasara. Its most notable geographical feature utilizes the Miraflores and Gatun Lakes and features extensive locks near both those bodies of water. For 10 points, name this Central American country that borders Colombia and is home to a namesake canal.", "round" : "regionals-04.pdf", "seen" : 400, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a0073a5" }, "answer" : "{Magna Carta}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9898068776819, "num" : 6, "question" : "It seeked the removal of fish-weirs from major waterways, and the first section deals with a dispute over the independence of Steven Langston. Its clause 12 states that a levy to raise ransom money for the king known as “scutage”, to knight his eldest son or marry off his eldest daughter, cannot be imposed without the “common counsel of the realm.” Its clause 61 states that the Great Council can foreswear allegiance to the monarch in some cases, leading its signatory to renounce it, an act culminating in the Baron's War. Also codifying the already-extant expectations of habeas corpus and signed at Runnymede, this is, for 10 points, what document limiting the tyranny of the English monarch, signed by King John in 1215?", "round" : "Round1Final.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a004006" }, "answer" : "inflation", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.74954434018582, "num" : 11, "question" : "The term “shoe leather cost” refers to the cost of trying to counterbalance this phenomenon. The Mundell-Tobin effect arises as a result of it. Keynesians have argued that it can causes labor markets to reach equilibrium faster. Andrew Jackson's Specie Circular was implemented in order to mitigate it. It has notably affected the Hungarian pengo, the Weimar mark, and, most recently, the Zimbabwean dollar. For 10 points, name this phenomenon which occurs when the money supply increases faster than the rate of economic growth.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Caltech + Dartmouth A.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb48b3d831d6a004377" }, "answer" : "“{Dulce et Decorum Est}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.79424448427744, "num" : 18, "question" : "This poem was written in response to a poem which asks, “Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid? / And who thinks he'd rather sit tight?” titled “Who's for the game.” It mentions men who “marched asleep” towards their “distant rest” before “All went lame; all blind.” In its second stanza, an “ecstasy of fumbling” precedes the sight of a man “yelling and stumbling” through “thick green light” and “flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.” In this poem's third stanza, the speaker claims that “If you could hear…the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,” then “My friend, you would not tell…The old Lie” of the title. For 10 points, name this poem about a gas attack on retreating infantrymen by Wilfred Owen, whose title is a quotation from Horace.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - CMU.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40478b3d831d6a006618" }, "answer" : "{Epirus} [accept {Pindo} or {Pindus} until “{Ottoman}”] ({5})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.09351338585839, "num" : 5, "question" : "One ruler in this region fled with his fascist puppet chum Tomislav II of Croatia to Argentina after World War II. That man became Julius I in a fascist state whose first ruler was the Aroumanian Alcibiades I of Samarina, which he ruled from Aminciu. That state's end was signified when one of its leaders, Rapoutikas, was carried from town to town on a donkey. The Republic of Koritsa was founded here, and one Ottoman ruler of this area sledgehammered the bones of the klepht Katsandonis. John Cam Hobhouse, a traveling companion of Lord Byron, noted that that ruler, Ali Pasha, possibly suffered from an anal fissure due to his eager receptiveness. The founder of a polity of this name attacked Boniface of Montferrat's Kingdom of Thessalonica in 1210 and Theodore Dukas captured that city after capturing Peter of Courtenay, but lost at Klokotnitsa to the Bulgarians. FTP, name this region of ? northern Greece, home to a 13th century Despotate and Olympias and the king Pyrrhus.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 4.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec08b3d831d6a000a0d" }, "answer" : "{Teapot Dome} scandal", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.6075345529243, "num" : 19, "question" : "Investigation into this event was led by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. This incident became possible after a request was made by Edwin Denby, which allowed for Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair to lease lands transferred from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the (*) Interior. Those leases made without competitive bidding were orchestrated by Albert Fall and included Elk Hills and the namesake location. For 10 points, name this scandal involving oil fields that occurred during the presidency of Warren G. Harding.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006ad1" }, "answer" : "factorial", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.313155973563, "num" : 21, "question" : "For a symmetric group of degree n, this function gives the order of the permutation group, and the Pochammer symbol is a rising type of this function. The Taylor approximation for e to the x contains this function in the denominator of each term. One approximation of it often used to calculate entropy is named after Stirling, while it can be generalized to complex numbers using the gamma function. For 10 points, identify this function which for a natural number n gives the product of all natural numbers from 1 to n and is represented by an exclamation mark.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3e8b3d831d6a002749" }, "answer" : "{Georges Seurat}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.79738358408213, "num" : 6, "question" : "This artist was influenced by Charles Blanc and Ogden Rood. A woman in yellow performs horseback aerobatics in his The Circus. This artist preferred the word divisionism for his style, which was also used by Paul Signac [sen-YAK]. He painted Bathers at Asnieres [ah-NYER], and another work depicts a crowd of people on an island in the Seine [SEYN], including several women with parasols, and a woman holding a monkey on a leash. For 10 points, name this artist associated with pointillism who painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 5.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028fd" }, "answer" : "{Frank Lloyd Wright}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.6639100150205, "num" : 19, "question" : "A cooper roof and hexagonal red-cypress skylights are features of this man's Kentuck Knob. The R. W.  Lindholm Service Station shows some aspects of the the hypothetical Broadacre City that was proposed in his The Dissapperaing City. Dendriform, or tree-like, columns were used in his Great Workroom of the Johnson Wax Headquarters. A proponent of the Usonian home and Prarie Style, for 10 points, what architect designed the Robie House, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and Fallingwater?", "round" : "FKT 2010 Joe FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051d0" }, "answer" : "{Mishima Yukio}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 361.2701003337279, "num" : 2, "question" : "This writer used a Rococo-style stageset in his play centered on the Night of the Long Knives, My Friend Hitler. A boy kills his mother's lover in this author's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. The stammering protagonist of another work by this man is traumatized when his friend Tsurukawa commits suicide. In addition to Mizoguchi, this writer created a character that is reincarnated in books like Runaway Horses and Spring Snow, part of this man's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. For 10 points, what seppuku-committing author wrote The Temple of Golden Pavilion?", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000cb1" }, "answer" : "{stream} of {consciousness} [or {stream} of {thought}; or {interior monologue}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1647997393739, "num" : 28, "question" : "William James elucidated this concept in the ninth chapter of his work The Principles of Psychology in opposition to the concept of a series of ideas. The French writer Edouard Dujardin (doo-zhar-DEHN) first used this mode of narration, which was also used in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. For 10 points, name this form of narrating a work of literature that shows the thoughts of a character as they flow.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a000011" }, "answer" : "{Jacques-Louis David}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 35.35556208062917, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one portrait by this artist, a man in black looks up at his wife leaning on him, while glass chemistry instruments stand on a red tablecloth and lie on the floor nearby. On the left of one of his paintings, a bowl rests on top of a tall, spindly stand. That work depicts a woman with a black headband reclining on an orange and blue sofa with her white dress reaching the floor and looking over her back, which is facing the viewer. Another of his paintings depicts a woman in white with her arms outstretched between two mostly nude men brandishing shields and weapons, and was created while he was imprisoned in Luxembourg Palace. This artist of Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and his Wife and Portrait of Madame Récamier mined Roman history for a work showing three brothers reaching out to a man holding three swords. For 10 points, name this French neoclassical painter of The Intervention of the Sabine Women and The Oath of the Horatii.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024a7" }, "answer" : "{Benevenuto Cellini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.53858561581001, "num" : 13, "question" : "His work for the Porte Dorée was initially planned to be a pair of Satyrs, and he included Saints Cosima and Damian on the reverse side of a bust of Alessandro de Medici. His lost works include adornments for a prayer book given to Charles V by Pope Paul III, and among his rivals was Pompeo de' Capitaneis. Attempts to increase his standing include a competition with Giovanni Bernardi and a medal of Pope Clement VII. Bartolommeo Bandinelli called this man a (*) \"filthy sodomite\", and he had to receive pardonment from cardinals following events such as his mudering of his brother's killer. He sculpted the aforementioned work which has a stag with large antlers at its center, as well as a work which includes Neptune and Ceres; that work was done in gold for Francis I. for 10 points, identify this artist of the Nymph of Fontainebleau and the Saltcellar.", "round" : "Lully 11.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed18b3d831d6a000e3b" }, "answer" : "{Pauli exclusion principle}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0477309175767, "num" : 14, "question" : "The term raised to the negative twelfth power in the Lennard-Jones potential accounts for this rule. White dwarfs exhibit electron degeneracy pressure, a factor limiting how much they can compress based on this rule. In general, this rule applies to half-spin particles called fermions meaning two particles can occupy the same region if and only if they have opposing spins. For 10 points, name this rule of quantum mechanics typically stated as no two electrons can have the same four quantum numbers.", "round" : "regionals-08.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a007300" }, "answer" : "{Carmina Burana}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1493761497549, "num" : 15, "question" : "The composer intended it and its two successors, Songs of Catullus and Triumph of Aphrodite, to be accompanied by dancers and scenery, but usually only the music is performed. The penultimate song equates Venus with two medieval heroines, Blanzifor and Helena, and is in Latin, as is the rest of the work, except for most of Part I, which is in Low German. That section, Uf Dem Anger, uses folk melodies from the composer's native Bavaria. Part II consists of a bunch of (*) drunk monks having fun in a pub, and is, as such, named In Taberna. The work begins and ends with an evocation of a goddess \"in a state of change like the moon\", O Fortuna. FTP name this collection of 26 medieval songs set to music by Carl Orff.", "round" : "Round 2.rtf", "seen" : 275, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef58b3d831d6a001663" }, "answer" : "{Raphael Sanzio da Urbino} [or {Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino}; accept either]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1631820341572, "num" : 4, "question" : "This artist painted a horseman catching a man attempting to steal a pot of gold coins in his The Expulsion of Heliodorus From the Temple. Green wallpaper is in the background of a work that shows a sad-looking pope clutching a handkerchief, this artist’s Portrait of Pope Julius II. Two bored-looking cherubs lean on an altar below St. Barbara and the namesake saint in this man’s (*) Sistine Madonna. In another work, statues of Apollo and Minerva stand above figures including one at the front writing on a marble block. He painted The Parnassus and The Disputation of the Sacrament in the Stanza della Segnatura, which contains the aforementioned painting showing Plato and Aristotle talking in the center. For 10 points, name this painter of The School of Athens.", "round" : "Packet 18 - TB 2.doc", "seen" : 274, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003ee6" }, "answer" : "dinosaurs", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.10921623767354, "num" : 7, "question" : "One character in Vasilij Aksenov's novel The Burn creates a gigantic statue of one of these animals titled “Humility.” In a Margaret Atwood novel, Nate's lover Lesje is obsessed with them. In a story sometimes considered the shortest published, Augusto Monterroso wrote about one of these animals that awoke and was still there. In Cosmicomics, Qfwfq fights with Zahn and falls for Fern-flower when the New Ones don't realize he is one of these animals. Robert Lowell's “For the Union Dead” describes the yellow (*) steam shovels that “gouge their underworld garage” as these. The reporter Edward Malone joins Lord John Roxton and Professor Challenger to journey to a plateau inhabited by these animals in an Arthur Conan Doyle novel. For 10 points, name these extinct residents of The Lost World.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
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