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{ "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004eee" }, "answer" : "{Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart} [or {Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2601785319857, "num" : 32, "question" : "This composer wrote about Konstanze's (con-STANZ-ehz) rescue from a Turkish harem in The Abduction from the Seraglio (seh-RAH-glee-oh). Another of his operas sees Ferrando and Guglielmo (goo-glee-EHL-moh) test the loyalty of their fiancées. Like his other works, the operas of this composer of Cosi Fan Tutte (COSS-ee fawn TOO-tay) are given Köchel (KERR-kul) numbers. For 10 points, name this composer of an opera about a notorious seducer, Don Giovanni, as well as The Magic Flute.", "round" : "4q1-02.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc88b3d831d6a00483d" }, "answer" : "Book of {Revelation} [or {Revelation} to John; or Apocalypse of John; or {Revelation} of {Jesus Christ}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.636024877429, "num" : 14, "question" : "Caius of Rome attributed this work to the heresiarch named Cerinthus. This work's second and third chapters consist of short epistles to the seven churches of Asia, and its final section describes the release of the great dragon after the millennial reign and its short-lived control of Gog and Magog. This work was supposedly written on the island of Patmos by the John the Apostle. This Biblical book includes the murder of the great harlot representing Babylon and the opening of the seven seals. For 10 points, name this final book of the New Testament depicting Conquest, War, Famine, and Death as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 04 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 256, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffb8b3d831d6a0053e0" }, "answer" : "{Hundred Years}' War", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6875009825454, "num" : 9, "question" : "One naval battle during this war involved the destruction of a force under Hugues Quiéret (hue-GUH key-EHR-eh) and Nicolas Béhuchet. John the Blind of Bohemia died in a battle during this war in which one prince 'won his spurs.' Another battle in this war saw the victorious side use (*) longbows and mud to win. This war began with the death of Philip IV and Edward III's claim to another throne. For 10 points, name this war which had the Battles of Sluys, Crecy, and Agincourt, by which the English were essentially removed from mainland France.", "round" : "tourn10-04.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a004605" }, "answer" : "{David Rosenhan}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.75913333809002, "num" : 1, "question" : "Along with Sara Eisner and Robert Robinson, he conducted an experiment that supported the practice of jurors taking notes during a trial. Along with Martin Seligman, he included factors like observer discomfort, suffering, and maladaptiveness in his seven features of abnormality. The follow-up to this psychologist's most notable experiment involved a certain institution identifying 41 confederates out of a possible zero. That experiment, which bears his name, featured several patients being described as \"in remission\" after their release from a hospital and was detected by patients in mental treatment facilities, but not the staff thereof. For 10 points name this Stanford psychologist whose namesake experiment involved sending normal people into mental hospitals and who published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” as a result.", "round" : "Packet 11 - Babes in Goochland.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ec3" }, "answer" : "{Harald} [or {Harold}; prompt on “{Fairhair}” before “{Denmark}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6756421062165, "num" : 7, "question" : "One ruler with this name was the son of Halfdan the Black, who pledged he would neither wash nor shave his hair until he had unified his country, which he accomplished after beating Kjotve the Rich of Agder. A king of Denmark with this name was deposed by his son Sweyn Forkbeard, while another joined the Varangian guard and became the “scourge of Bulgaria” before falling at Stamford Bridge. Kings with this name earned the epithets “Bluetooth” and “Hardrade,” as well as “Harefoot” and “Godwinson” in England. For 10 points, identify this name sported by the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, who lost at Hastings to William the Conqueror.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8b8b3d831d6a003a08" }, "answer" : "{Decembrist Revolt}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.68928311602212, "num" : 8, "question" : "Count Miloradovich was murdered while attempting to negotiate with leaders of this event. Lieutenant Panov led an unsuccessful assault on the place during this event. This event was planned by the Union of Salvation. Pavel Pestel and Prince Troubetzkoy led this event's southern and northern factions. The northern leaders were attacked by artillery and forced to flee to the icy Neva River. For 10 points, name this 1825 Russian rebellion whose participants demanded a constitution, in which numerous army officers pledged allegiance to Constantine instead of Nicholas I during a certain month.", "round" : "Dunbar + UMN - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fa7" }, "answer" : "{angiosperms} or {anthophyta} or {magnoliophyta} (prompt on “{flowering plants}” before mentioned)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1703881947324, "num" : 4, "question" : "Genetic evidence from the basal types of these organisms suggest that the genus Amborella is sister to all species within this division. They have small male and female gametophytes, allowing faster life cycles. Double fertilization leads to the production of an endosperm, a tissue within the seed that provides the embryo with nutrition. Self-fertilization is prevented by having ovaries enclosed in a carpel, which later develops into fruit. They have a specialized reproductive structure consisting of pistils and stamens, unlike the other extant division of seed plants. For 10 points, name this division containing flowering plants, contrasted with gymnosperms.", "round" : "Packet 5.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9d8b3d831d6a003e1c" }, "answer" : "The {Essence} of {Christianity}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 51.00070328242145, "num" : 3, "question" : "This work argues that, since \"that which man excludes from heaven he excludes from his true nature\" and \"in heaven there is no marriage,\" celibacy is inherent to the nature of faith. The same section in which that argument appears, \"Celibacy and Monachism,\" also discusses how \"The idea of man as a species, and with it the significance of the life of the species, of humanity as a whole, vanished.\" Its second chapter, which discusses \"God as a Being of the Understanding,\" proclaims that \"Religion is the disuniting of man from himself\" and elaborates on how man and God are opposites. Its second section contains chapters on contradictions in the existence, revelation, and nature of God. Forming the basis for many of Karl Marx's views on religion, for 10 points, name this work of Ludwig Feuerbach that outlined his opinion of a certain faith founded by Jesus.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1b8b3d831d6a001f1a" }, "answer" : "Valmiki  ", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.34055811702274, "num" : 24, "question" : "This man once cursed a hunter for killing a bird after hearing the cry of its mate. He was originally a highway robber who gave up crime after his family didn't want to be tormented for his sins. He derived his name from the anthill that grew around him during his one thousand years of meditation, after which he meets Narada, a son of Brahma, by a riverbank. In the presence of the sage Bharadwaja, this man composed the first shloka.  This man served as the tutor to Kusha and Lava, who were born after their mother was exiled from Ayodhya for supposed infidelity during her time as a captive of Ravana. For 10 points, name this sage who recorded the story of the love of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana.", "round" : "Penn Illinois A - Final.docx", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5c8b3d831d6a002e74" }, "answer" : "{William} of {Baskerville}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.04044434730895, "num" : 10, "question" : "At the beginning of the work this character appears in, he is described as having clumps of yellowish hair protruding from his ears and is said to be fond of chewing on herbs, which may explain his frequent moments of inertia. Near the end of the work, he calls an opponent “the Devil” because he is “faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.” This character's old job has been taken over by Bernard Gui, who persecutes Salvatore and Remigio. This character eventually confronts an old man who hates (*) laughter and has used poisoned pages to conceal Aristotle's writing on comedy. This opponent of Jorge of Burgos is accompanied by the narrator of the book he appears in, a novice named Adso of Melk. For 10 points, name this Franciscan who investigates the murder of monks in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.", "round" : "Round 11 - Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd98b3d831d6a004be9" }, "answer" : "{Dresden}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 594.7673220629804, "num" : 13, "question" : "This city contains the largest civilian cemetery in the world and its Chilehaus is a World Heritage Site designed by Fritz Hoger. Wandsbek and Altona are two of this city's is seven boroughs, and it is home to the aforementioned Ohlsdorf Cemetary and two artificial lakes, the Inner and Outer Alster. This city is the namesake of one of the Wadden Sea National Parks, and the island of Neuwerk belongs to this city. It is located at the confluence of the Billie and the Elbe. For ten points, identify this city that is Europe's second largest port and the namesake of edible round patties of meat.", "round" : "FHTE Finals 1 -- Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 400, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc08b3d831d6a00465d" }, "answer" : "{Ambrose Bierce}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.2333090074826, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of his works opens with a “worldly” man reading a ledger and seven other men all lying around a table in reach of a dead man in the section “One Does Not Always Eat What is on the Table.” That story by this author contains a section narrated by an author to a coroner and another excerpted from the diary of Hugh Morgan, the hunter of the titular creature. This author described the Halcrow brothers and Captain Downing Madwell in one and the Searing brothers in another story, Coup de Grâce and One of the Missing. In addition to a collection subtitled Being the Fables of Zambri the Parse and titled (*) Cobwebs, this author of the story The Damned Thing wrote another in which “the child” starts playing along with the soldiers of the titular battle, Chickamauga, collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. For 10 points, name this American author, who described Peyton Farquhar in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.", "round" : "Rd01.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c44" }, "answer" : "{Margaret Sanger}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9299878748134, "num" : 10, "question" : "This reformer's work includes writing about a plan to have Congress adopt Wilson's 14 points and having them study the problems of population. She witnessed Sadie Sachs's death, and got John Rock and Gregory Pincus  funding to develop a hormonal pill. However this author of Family Limitations violated an act named for the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Anthony Comstock, and founded the American Birth Control League. For ten points, name this woman who founded Planned Parenting and advocated birth control as a form of negative eugenics.", "round" : "FHTE R4 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed98b3d831d6a000ff1" }, "answer" : "contracts", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.7913809590973, "num" : 18, "question" : "The adhesion types of these entities are often entered into without negotiation. Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerns these entities, and the mailbox rule makes some of them effective when a letter is posted. Specific performance is not a remedy for the violation of these at common law, and in order to be enforceable, these entities must be supported by consideration. For 10 points, name these agreements between parties that create duties to do something which are often signed by athletes and singers.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef28b3d831d6a0015d7" }, "answer" : "{Edwin Powell Hubble}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.611829784466, "num" : 23, "question" : "His observations of Cepheid variables in what was then called the Andromeda Nebula demonstrated that that object was too distant to lie within the Milky Way; in addition to suggesting that other galaxies must exist, he introduced a method to classify them featuring a diagram often displayed like a (*) tuning fork. His most prominent contribution arose out of work with Milton Humason, though the constant of proportionality was originally over seven times higher than its present value. For 10 points, name this astronomer who in his namesake law gives recession velocity as about seventy kilometers per second per megaparsec times distance.", "round" : "Packet 11 - Superplayoffs 1.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f828b3d831d6a0037b6" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Mexico}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0221730230842, "num" : 6, "question" : "This nation fought against France in the Pastry War. Its revolutionaries were defeated in the Battles of Calderon Bridge before it gained independence under the Army of Three Guarantees. Lázaro Cárdenas carried out reforms in this nation as a member of a party founded by Plutarco Calles, the PNR. Its first ruler was Agustín de Iturbide, who came to power after an independence movement sparked by the Cry of Dolores, issued by Miguel Hidalgo. Its Revolution featured populist armies led by Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, and began when Francisco Madero overthrew Porfirio Díaz. For 10 points, name this nation led by Antonio de Santa Anna to war against the U.S.", "round" : "Round 01.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40028b3d831d6a005598" }, "answer" : "Pandora", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 683.0042757634073, "num" : 8, "question" : "This woman was given flowers by the Horae (HOR-eye), gold necklaces by the Charities, and the ability to weave and sew by Athena. Her only child was a survivor of the catastrophic Flood named Pyrrha (PEER-uh). This wife of (*) Epimetheus committed a notorious action that was conceived by Zeus as a punishment to mankind for accepting fire from Prometheus. That action left hope, even as the spirits of evil filled the world. For 10 points, identify this woman in Greek mythology, who removed the lid of a namesake \"box.\"", "round" : "tourn11-10.pdf", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fce8b3d831d6a00498e" }, "answer" : "Nighthawks", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.6495480576996, "num" : 5, "question" : "A cash register can be seen in a storefront on the far left side of this painting, whose only woman was modeled after the artist's wife, Jo. That woman wears a bright red dress, while hats are being worn by the other three figures, who also lack overcoats, an indication of warm weather. Two large coffee urns sit next to the only door seen inside of the main building, which has no apparent exit. Also seen in this work is an advertisement for Phillies cigars, which rests above the all-night diner portrayed in, for 10 points, what masterpiece of Edward Hopper?", "round" : "FKT Steven Wellstead.rtf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a00236c" }, "answer" : "{Self Portrait} with {Seven Fingers}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.81993663101457, "num" : 15, "question" : "Two years after creating this painting, its artist created a very similar work depicting a Janus headed figure partially looking at a cat on a window sill.  In the original, a couple is being driven in a small yellow carriage in the background of this work, while above them a tiny man in blue holds on to a parachute.  Executed in the same year as other large figure paintings like Half Past Three (The Poet) and The Soldier Drinks, its central figure wears a white tuxedo with a flower painted over his right breast, and through the window in the top left the viewer can see a night scene of Paris dominated by a large Eiffel Tower.  The main figure in this work can be seen gesturing at a canvas depicting a red goat, and the top right of this work contains a thought bubble of the artist's native Vitebsk.  For 10 points, name this painting by Marc Chagall, named for the number of digits on the artist's left hand.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 04 - The First Citizens of Contingency.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040d1" }, "answer" : "ribosome", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.51995904394425, "num" : 2, "question" : "Chloramphenicol stalls the activity of this structure, while reversal of its primary function is enabled by LepA. That function is carried out using the GTPase activity of EF-G. One of its main substrates is assembled using the enzyme aaRS, and in prokaryotes, its 16S portion attaches to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. Designated 70S or 80S, this organelle transfers a nascent peptide from its P-site to its A-site where aminoacyl-tRNA accepts the polymerizing protein chain. The tRNAs then exit from its E-site. Coming in free and bound varieties, for 10 points, name this organelle sometimes found on rough ER that contains two subunits and is the site of protein synthesis.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - RPI + MSU A.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003cb3" }, "answer" : "{thyroid} gland", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6411454854533, "num" : 21, "question" : "An autoimmune disease involving antibodies against this structure's namesake peroxidase causes destruction of its follicles and is named for Hashimoto. Most of it is located below the cricoid cartilage, but it also extends up the sides. PTH opposes the action of one of the hormones it produces, and iodine and tyrosine are required to produce two others. Deficiency of those two hormones, which are named for it, is known as cretinism in young children. The third hormone, calcitonin, is involved in blood calcium homeostasis. For 10 points, name this butterfly-shaped gland in the lower neck which is enlarged in Graves' disease, creating goiter.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a0046f3" }, "answer" : "{Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.37536144279875, "num" : 16, "question" : "This author introduced the principle that if you can tell the color of a woman's hair, she's not wearing a chic enough hat, in her story “The Salesman.”  In one of her novels, Alain leaves Camille after the she pushes his cat Saha off a balcony.  A sequel by her sees its title character commit suicide in front of his old photos after The Pal leaves town; the preceding novel began with its protagonists fighting over a pearl necklace before seeing 18-year-old (*) Edmée marries Fred Peloux, infuriating Léa.  The matriarch of her most famous book proclaims “We never marry in our family,” although her granddaughter eventually marries the cultured Gaston.  For 10 points, name this author who chronicled the Parisian demi-monde in the Claudine novels, as well as in Chéri and Gigi. ", "round" : "Rd08.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004ad" }, "answer" : "{gyres} [prompt on {oceanic currents} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.9057254565414, "num" : 8, "question" : "Latif and Barnett connected variations in climate to interactions between the Aleutian low-pressure system and one of these. Henry Stommel explained the dynamics of their boundaries. They can form Taylor caps near the surface. Circulation is often studied using a “double” model of these. Subtropical ones have a thicker thermocline than tropical ones. They intensify on their western boundary as can be seen in the Kuroshio boundary. One of these in the North Pacific creates an enormous garbage patch. Ekman transport moves water into their centers. They are caused by the Coriolis force acting on currents driven by large scale wind patterns. FTP, name these large rotating currents in oceans.", "round" : "PACKET15Carson.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003cab" }, "answer" : "{Jane Eyre}, an {Autobiography}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.0043129213154, "num" : 13, "question" : "This work's protagonist places a marble tombstone over the grave of a girl who died fifteen years prior. In one section, a clergyman proclaims that students at Lowood must cut their hair to \"mortify in [them] the lusts of the flesh\", and in another the title character has her fortune read by a gypsy who is actually her employer in disguise. Earlier, she panics after being sent to the Red Room by Mrs. Reed. The protagonist later returns to Thornfield Manor after thinking she hears the voice of a character already married to Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Brontë.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406d8b3d831d6a006f23" }, "answer" : "{Luigi Pirandello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8504794426262, "num" : 1, "question" : "In one of this author's plays, the audience receives a handbill upon entering the theater that states the number of acts cannot be specified because of potential incidents that may arise during its performance. In addition to Each in His Own Way, he wrote a play about a man who claims to be a Holy Roman Emperor after falling off his horse on the way to a ball, Henry IV. In one of his plays, a rehearsal of Mixing it Up is interrupted by the Father, the Mother, the Stepdaughter, the Son, and the Boy. For 10 points, name this Italian playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb78b3d831d6a004412" }, "answer" : "{B} cells", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.23108870605938, "num" : 20, "question" : "These cells are infected in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. Belimumab is used to inhibit the growth of these cells, which express TNF receptor superfamily 17 genes when mature and requires Pax5 expression for differentiation. These cells express CD20 throughout their lifetimes, and use somatic hypermutation in one important process, which also sees a recombination between V, D and J exons of a certain gene cluster. They are partitioned into plasma and memory types, and are usually activated by helper-T cells in response to an infection. Usually produced in the bone marrow, FTP, name these antibody-producing lymphocytes, the basis for humoral immunity.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Toronto - Yale.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eee8b3d831d6a0014db" }, "answer" : "{strange} quark [prompt on {quark} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.7937696978915, "num" : 21, "question" : "One particle composed of three of these entities can decay into a neutral pion and a xi minus baryon.\n This particle is a defining feature of the hyperons. This particle defines a certain quantity which was first\n discovered during a 1947 cosmic collision in which the lifetime was 13 orders of magnitude larger than\n expected, an observation caused by lambda baryons. That property is preserved in strong and\n electromagnetic interactions but not weak interactions. Omega minus baryons have three of these particles,\n which are also found in a particle which saw the first observed CP violation called the kaon. For 10 points,\n name this second generation quark typically paired with the charm quark.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405f8b3d831d6a006be3" }, "answer" : "auxins", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.8286481203977, "num" : 10, "question" : "It was recently discovered that the F-box protein from the complex SCFTIR1 is a receptor for them. PIN proteins regulate their efflux, and they cause miscarriages and leukemia, as evinced by 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, two of them in Agent Orange. Also responsible for parthenocarpy, they activate expansins in one of their main functions. In low concentrations, they can delay flower senescence. Featuring prominently in the acid growth hypothesis, and competing with cytokinins in apical dominance, for 10 points, name this class of plant growth hormones.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f308b3d831d6a002416" }, "answer" : "{Kebra Nagast} or the {Book} of the {Glory} of Kings", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.11685075075366, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of the last chapters of this work contains prophecies from both Habakkuk and Hosea regarding the sins of a certain people, and is titled \"Concerning the wickedness of the iniquitous Jews.\" The last chapter of this work contains more talk of Jew-killing as well as outlining a scenario where a king's youngest son will be asked to choose between a chariot and the throne. This work also details the acquisition of a certain sacred object which was reputed to rest in the Church of St. Mary of Zion, while earlier sections of this work deal with the stories of Adam, Seth, Noah, and Abraham, as well as the \"meeting of 318,\" amongst the \"Orthodox Fathers.\" More famously, this work relates the meeting of the Queen of Sheba with King Solomon, who gave her the Ten Commandments, as well as the bringing of the Ark of the Covenant to a certain polity by Menelik I. Written in the Ge'ez language, for ten points, identify this work which contains the genealogy of the Aksumite rulers of Ethiopia.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 13 - Speculative Hipsters.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef98b3d831d6a001768" }, "answer" : "{speeches} of {Dr. Martin Luther King}, {Jr.} [accept equivalents like {public addresses} of {Martin Luther King}, {Jr.}; prompt on partial answer; prompt on “{civil rights speeches}” before “{final}” is read]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.678544057766, "num" : 13, "question" : "One of these works by this man attacks “normalcy” and strives to “transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows” in a short period of time, and another tells America, like Nicodemus, “your whole structure must be changed.” Besides “Where Do We Go From Here?” and “How Long, Not Long,” another of these works talks about a “great American … (*) five score years ago” and hopes for an “oasis of freedom and justice” to spring up in Mississippi. The final one of these works was titled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” and was given they day before the deliverer was killed by James Earl Ray. For 10 points, name these works presented by a noted Civil Rights leader, the most famous of which contained the phrase, “I Have a Dream.”", "round" : "Packet 5 - Prelims 5.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404d8b3d831d6a00675a" }, "answer" : "{Beethoven's} Symphony No. 5 in C minor", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.6080507258885, "num" : 3, "question" : "Its third movement's cello theme was inspired by Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and is later echoed loudly by horns.  Its slow second movement contains triplet arpeggios in the violas as clarinets and bassoons provide harmony.  Its final movement's development is interrupted by the theme from the scherzo, and its extremely long coda ends in a presto tempo with 29 bars of fortissimo chords.  It is written in a key its composer considered “stormy and heroic,” C minor, and the rhythm of the “fate motif” appears several times throughout it.  Known for that “short-short-short-long” opening motif, FTP, name this symphony completed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven.", "round" : "HFT Round 08 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40508b3d831d6a006847" }, "answer" : "resistors", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.9028604284395, "num" : 2, "question" : "One type of these which is able to store information even when current does not pass through it was a breakthrough application developed by HP labs, and they can be found in parallel with the signals as opposed to capacitors in high pass filters. Their namesake property decreases with increasing area of cross section; that property is directly proportional to length, and increases with increasing temperatures. For 10 points, identify these circuit components, whose namesake property is equal to voltage divided by current according to Ohm's law.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a003235" }, "answer" : "{Amartya Sen}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 338.4431672910694, "num" : 15, "question" : "This person was once asked whether he had heard about a course being taught by Kenneth Arrow, John Rawls, and some unknown guy by somebody who did not realize that this person was the other teacher. This writer was con- cerned with evaluating a person's ability to achieve various functions, which he called the human capabilities approach. He asked the questions “Why Equality?” and “What Equality?” in his work Inequality Re-examined. Arrow and Rawls helped him organize his work on social choice theory titled Collective Choice and Social Welfare. In 1998, this person was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to welfare economics. Name this economist who also wrote the book Development as Freedom and the essay collection The Argumentative Indian.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef48b3d831d6a001635" }, "answer" : "{Bedrich Smetana}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9673909994308, "num" : 4, "question" : "This composer included “Innocence” and “Idyll” in his set of eight “Bagatelles and Impromptus.” One of this man’s works includes a section titled “From” his native land’s “Meadows and Forests” and another depicting a retreat into the mountain Blaník after a battle at (*) Tábor. Towards the end of his first string quartet, the music breaks off and is replaced by a low tremolo and a long piercing note by the violin; that gesture represents this composer’s hearing loss. A section of one of his works, based on the same folk tune as the Israeli national anthem, depicts the title river which runs through Prague, the Vltava or Moldau. For 10 points, name this composer of the string quartet “From My Life” and the Bohemian nationalist cycle Má Vlast.", "round" : "Packet 16 - Superplayoffs 6.doc", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f868b3d831d6a0038a6" }, "answer" : "{George Carlin} [accept {Jack Burns} before \"{lip crud}\"]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.8255135254003, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man satirized the Beat generation in his vignette \"The Cool World of Herb Coolhouse,\" and advocated housing the homeless on golf courses. He discusses \"lip crud\" in 1992's Jammin' in New York, and included DJ Wonderful Wino on FM & AM. His books include Brain Droppings and Napalm and Silly Putty, and one which shows him sitting at the Last Supper on its cover, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, in which he cut down the Ten Commandments to two. Known for his black humor and atheism, for 10 points, name this comedian who created the \"seven dirty words.\"", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 565, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f838b3d831d6a0037ff" }, "answer" : "Aeneas <MT/LC>", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.5830520070158, "num" : 17, "question" : "This figure oversaw a boxing match between Dares and Entellus. Nursed by Caieta, he took the Lares and Penates with him, and encountered Dedalus carving reliefs on a column. He visited his father's spirit with the help of the Cumaean Sibyl. He became separated from Creusa while escaping with his son Ascanius and father Anchises, and his second wife Lavinia was the daughter of Latinus. This Trojan prince spurned the queen of Carthage, Dido, and his journey ended in the founding of Rome. For 10 points, name this subject of an epic poem by Vergil.", "round" : "Round 04.doc", "seen" : 458, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003693" }, "answer" : "Arizona", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.27528763376176, "num" : 9, "question" : "One district in this state is represented by a Democrat who in 2008 won the seat vacated by the indicted Rick Renzi, Ann Kirkpatrick. Another Representative from this state “hosts” a namesake “Hour” at the end of spending debates, in which he asks House members to come to the floor and justify their earmarks, while another Representative compared recent reform to “Soviet-style gulag health care”; those men are Jeff Flake and John Shadegg. This state's two Senators include a man who filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court with Lindsey Graham in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and who is the current Senate Minority Whip, and a man who was part of the Keating Five and rode on the Straight Talk Express. For 10 points, what is this US state, represented in the Senate by Jon Kyl and the 2008 Republican nominee for President, John McCain?", "round" : "BSUNotreDame.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a000701" }, "answer" : "{Brian Mulroney}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0268562282436, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man twice ran for leader of his political party, both times against Joe Clark. This man won an election against John Turner by using the phrase “You had an option, sir” in a debate. This man negotiated the unsuccessful (+) Charlottetown and Meech Lake Accords, which were attempts to have his country’s constitution ratified by Quebec. This Canadian Prime Minister was succeeded by (*) Kim Campbell, the first woman to hold the job. While in office, this man enjoyed good relations with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. For 10 points, name this Conservative Prime Minister of Canada during the 1980’s.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcf8b3d831d6a0049a8" }, "answer" : "{Adam Smith}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.0264393063262, "num" : 8, "question" : "“The History of Astronomy” is one of his Essays on Philosophical Subjects, and another work by this man talks about “different progress of opulence” and “the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock” and includes a parable about a butcher, baker, and brewer, whose self-interests promote general welfare. This man also defined a metaphor for the self-regulating nature of free markets. For 10 points, name this Scot who created the “invisible hand,” the author of The Wealth of Nations.", "round" : "round01.doc", "seen" : 220, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4d8b3d831d6a002b18" }, "answer" : "{Magna Carta Libertatum}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6179728801362, "num" : 13, "question" : "This work mentions Engelard and Guy of Cignone by name. The tenth and eleventh sections of this document concern the death of one who dies owing money to a Jew, while it demanded the removal of all fish-weir traps from rivers in its thirty-third section. Devised after the battle of [*] Bouvines, it prohibited the use of scutage without consent. Its main signatory was coerced at Runymede, and this document is known for establishing the concept of habeas corpus. For 10 points, name this 1215 document signed by King John, which guaranteed certain rights for British nobles.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 8 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f588b3d831d6a002da4" }, "answer" : "The {Blood Knot}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.6197529246565, "num" : 19, "question" : "One character in this work declares “You get right inside a man when you can wrap up in the smell of him” after solemnly reading Genesis 4:10. Another character notes that her hobby of the year is historical films but she is willing to return to last year's hobby of autograph hunting.  That character causes conflict by noting the appearance of her brother's foot in a photograph and explaining that he is a policeman. In another scene, two characters imagine being surrounded by a flock of butterflies after driving a car up a hill. One character purchases a (*) suit to impress a woman, but asks his companion to wear it in his stead; that scene sees charged role-playing between the two characters, leading one to call the other a “swartgat.”  For 10 points, name this play in which the anticipated arrival of Ethel Lange causes Zachariah and Morris to confront their racial appearances, a work of Athol Fugard.", "round" : "Round 01 - Chicago A.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a00663c" }, "answer" : "The {Lost Honor} of {Katharina Blum} or {How Violence Can Develop} and {Where} it {Can Lead} [or {Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann}] (5)", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.2077662027441, "num" : 20, "question" : "Much like many noted quizbowl hobos, a lawyer in this work starts emitting body odors after agreeing to represent the protagonist as a defense attorney. Other characters include Konrad Beiters, whose pistol is used at this work's climax, and Alois Straubleder, who is known to be a \"gentleman visitor.\" The protagonist hooks up with a character at Else Woltersheim's party, and allows him to escape from her Elegant Riverside apartment. Towards this novel's end, Werner Totges asks the title character for a \"bang,\" and she responds by shooting him, possibly in revenge for the scandalous articles published about her involvement in ? Ludwig Gotten's case. FTP, name this novel whose title character is disgraced by the German tabloid Zeitung, a work by Heinrich Boll.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40448b3d831d6a006536" }, "answer" : "{Ralph Nader}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9811848138925, "num" : 7, "question" : "He wrote the introduction to Mike Gravel's book Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change. His running mates have included Native American Winona LaDuke and now San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez. A 1965 book by this man pressured automobile companies to introduce improved safety measures in their products. That book, Unsafe At Any Speed, was accompanied by his lawsuit against General Motors. For 10 points, name this consumer and environmental advocate who, in February, announced his fifth Presidential campaign.", "round" : "Round 3 - Vandy 2.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b18" }, "answer" : "The {Amazing Adventures} of {Kavalier} and {Clay}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.58467518165708, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one scene in this novel, one of the protagonists chains himself to a desk so he continue working during a bomb scare despite the protestations of Al Smith. That fake bomb was part of an escalating feud between that protagonist and a fan of and advocate against his work, Carl Ebling. Later in this novel, the same protagonist creates a two thousand page work about a certain mythical creature, which he once shipped out of (*) Prague with his autoliberation teacher, Max Kornblum. During the naval service of one of the protagonists, the other one marries his girlfriend, Rosa Saks. Rosa was the inspiration of the character Luna Moth, who was second only to The Escapist in popularity at Empire Comics. For 10 points, name this novel about Jewish boys Sammy and Josef, a work of Michael Chabon.", "round" : "Editors.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eed8b3d831d6a0014c5" }, "answer" : "{Hanseatic} League or {Hansa}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8011572535616, "num" : 22, "question" : "This organization was a party to the treaty of Tongsberg, where it resolved a conflict with Eric the\n Priest-Hater. It originally encouraged the privateering activities of the Victual Brothers. At the city of\n Novgorod, this group established a kontor, while a similar post was at the Steelyard in London. As this\n group's power waned, its sphere of influence was limited to its capital, Lubeck. For 10 points, name this\n Northern European trading league established during the late Middle Ages.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a00462b" }, "answer" : "{Everything} That {Rises Must Converge}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.75280663510784, "num" : 18, "question" : "While standing in a doorway one of this work's character is compared to \"Saint Sebastian waiting for the arrows,\" and that character removes his tie after feeling frustration “creep down his neck like a hot hand.” Another character in this work nostalgically recalls Caroline, her nurse as a child, who raised her in a house owned by the Godhighs. A character dressed in a plaid suit and Tyrolean hat causes the climactic event of this work, which begins with a discussion of whether a ridiculous purple and green lady's hat should be returned to the store. That hat is later seen on Carver's mother, who takes exception when the narrator's mother attempts to give the boy a penny and clocks her with her pocketbook. For 10 points name this story in which Julian and his mother ride an integrated bus, the title work of a collection by Flannery O'Connor.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Geto Boyz Play Songs of Love.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a00504e" }, "answer" : "{silicon} [accept {Si} before it is read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8466724432074, "num" : 32, "question" : "A common method for calibration in NMR uses the tetramethyl compound of this element. Types of minerals that contain this element bonded to oxygen are known as pyroxenes and olivine. It is used to make a protective shell by diatoms (DYE-uh-tomz). N and P type substances can be made by adding arsenic and gallium to it in a process known as doping. Its dioxide is found in quartz, and this element is useful for making the semiconductors used in computer chips. For 10 points, name this element with atomic number 14 and symbol Si.", "round" : "4q1-13.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdd8b3d831d6a004cca" }, "answer" : "{Andreev} reflection", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.7866687073838, "num" : 11, "question" : "[GK/EM] One equation describing the probabilities of this process uses a one dimensional plane wave and a delta-function barrier, called the Blonder-Tinkam-Kapwijk model. Beenakker's formula relates the probability of this effect to the transparency, and he also showed that this effect is forbidden in half-metals. The suppression of this process is measured in a type of point contact spectroscopy named for it which is used to calculate spin polarization, and a \"crossed\" version of this effect competes against elastic co-tunnelling. SNS structures show multiple instances of this effect, leading to namesake bound states, while his effect requires the energy of the electron to be higher than the Fermi energy It occurs by transforming current to supercurrent and creates a Cooper Pair. For 20 points, identify this effect in which a hole is created, a type of reflection observed at the interface of a metal and superconductor, named for a Russian.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bf0" }, "answer" : "hemoglobin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0315436692908, "num" : 2, "question" : "Max Perutz proposed the mechanism for the action of this protein regulated by the compound 2-3 BPG. According to the Bohr effect, the properties of this protein changes according to the pH. The central active site of this protein contains a ring structure called a porphyrin which has a central iron atom. Carbon monoxide is toxic because of its ability to bind to this protein. A mutation in the gene for this protein found in (*) erythrocytes (UR-ith-rah-sites) causes sickle cell anemia. For 10 points, name this protein found in red blood cells used to transport oxygen.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f06" }, "answer" : "The {Awakening}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8639973255341, "num" : 24, "question" : "One character in this work \"plays attendant\" to one married woman annually, and metaphorical characters in this novel include The Two Lovers and The Lady in Black. The protagonist of this novel satisfies herself carnally with Alcée Arobin and ignores the advice of Doctor Mandelet, deepening her love for the alluring Robert Lebrun. Set in Grand Isle, this novel ends with the drowning of dissatisfied New Orleans housewife Edna Pontellier. For 10 points, name this novel by Kate Chopin.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006ea3" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Albania}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6168760091532, "num" : 11, "question" : "A national hero of this country was biographed by Marin Barleti, and was known as the dragon of this place for his battles against the Hungarians and the Ottomans. Three hundred years after Skanderbeg, one leader from this place accepted Italian intervention in the 1930s only to be invaded by Mussolini in 1939. After the Italian replacement of King Zog, this country was ruled for forty years by Enver Hoxha. For 10 points, name this country that borders Greece and Macedonia, and has its capital at Tirana.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a0052ef" }, "answer" : "The Four {Seasons} [or Le {Quattro Stagioni}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.6633079426828, "num" : 10, "question" : "The first section of this work was reused in its composer's Juditha Triumphans. That F major movement represents a hunt. It was originally published as part of its composer's Opus 8, entitled \"The Contest between Harmony and Invention.\" The second part of this work concludes with a thunderstorm, and the first depicts bird in the first movement, according to its accompanying sonnets. For 10 points, name this set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi representing different times of year.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-arts.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f418b3d831d6a002833" }, "answer" : "{p orbital} (prompt on {orbitals}, {atomic orbitals}, {molecular orbitals}, etc)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.44776117056608, "num" : 9, "question" : "The band structure of graphene originates from the dispersion of these constructs across the honeycomb structure, and these entities have angular momentum of h-bar. The angular wavefunction of these entities is quantity 3 divided by four pi to the one-half power, and they contain n minus 2 radial nodes and a single angular node. Carbenes have an empty one, a series of overlapping ones is responsible for the delocalization in both conjugated and aromatic systems. Their azimuthal quantum number is equal to 1, and for each principal quantum number there exist three mutually perpendicular ones of these. They overlap to form pi bonds, look like dumbbells with no density at the origin, they can hold 6 total electrons. For 10 points, name these atomic orbitals that are more energetic than s orbitals and less energetic than d orbitals.", "round" : "Round 09 updated.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eba8b3d831d6a0008d8" }, "answer" : "ferromagnetism", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9649345159996, "num" : 9, "question" : "Materials with this property can produce a series of audible clicks in the presence of an increasing magnetic field, via the Barkhausen (\"BARK\"-how-zen) Effect. Pierre-Ernest Weiss explained this property by proposing the existence of domains, which are all (*) aligned in this property. This property no longer exists above the Curie temperature, and materials with this property provide the canonical examples of hysteresis (HISS-tur-EE-sis). For 10 points, identify this type of magnetism most commonly exhibited by iron.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a00557a" }, "answer" : "{George III} [prompt on {George}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.01976898266, "num" : 20, "question" : "This monarch's plans to lead the army proved unnecessary due to the Battle of Trafalgar. This leader made Charles Townshend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, causing the passage of the (*) Intolerable Acts, and also oversaw the passage of a law taxing documents, the Stamp Act. Such actions caused this leader to be accused of plundering the seas and burning the towns in the Declaration of Independence. For 10 points, name this King of England during the American Revolution.", "round" : "tourn11-08.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e46" }, "answer" : "{Svante Arrhenius}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.3896710218396, "num" : 25, "question" : "In the late 1800’s, this scientist claimed that the geometric rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was directly proportional to a linear rise of the Earth’s temperature. This man developed an equation that can be extended to transition state theory with the Eyring-Polanyi (EYE-RING POLE-ahn-YEE) equation. That equation based on collision theory contains a term called the pre-exponential factor and relates the rate constant to the activation energy and temperature in chemical kinetics. For 10 points, name this Swedish chemist who names an acid-base theory in which an acid is an electron acceptor.", "round" : "regionals-08.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f218b3d831d6a002070" }, "answer" : "entropy", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.29205452091992, "num" : 16, "question" : "For an ideal gas, this quantity is equal to the number of moles times Boltzmann's constant, times the sum of five halves and the natural log of the quantity one over moles times volume divided by the cube of the thermal wavelength. For molecules in a solid, this quantity can be expressed as one over temperature times the difference between internal energy and zero point energy, plus the natural log of the rotational partition function times the product of moles and Boltzmann's constant. This quantity is also equal to the enthalpy minus Gibbs free energy, all over temperature. It is always increasing by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. For 10 points, give this thermodynamic quantity symbolized S, which measures the amount of disorder in a system.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Brown + VCU + Oklahoma.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d08" }, "answer" : "{Robert Southey}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.23178197955713, "num" : 12, "question" : "[AR] This author translated Rodriguez de Montalvo's arrangement of the legend of Amadis de Gaula. Thomas Love Peacock's novel Melincourt satirizes this author as Mr. Feathernest. One narrative poem by this author opens with the funeral of Arvalan, the son of the title Indian rajah, while in a ballad by this author, Sir Ralph the Rover cuts a bell off a place where the \"Devil below was ringing his knell\" near the firth of Fray. This author was expelled from Westminster for starting a school publication which criticized flogging called The Flagellant. This author of \"The Inchcape Rock\" and \"The Curse of Kehama\" wrote a poem in which Peterkin asks old Kaspar what good came of the title event, leading him to reply \"Why that I cannot tell, said he / But 'twas a famous victory.\" This author included an extended attack on \"those monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety\" in a poem referring to ? Lord Byron as leader of a \"Satanic school\" of poetry, causing Byron to parody this author in The Vision of Judgement. Along with Coleridge, he co-planned an egalitarian commune called the Pantisocracy. For 10 points, name this Lake poet, the author of The Battle of Blenheim and Thalaba the Destroyer. ", "round" : "Packet 4.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fda8b3d831d6a004c33" }, "answer" : "{Peter} I (the Great) (accept either the {regnal number} or the {appellation}, prompt on {Peter alone})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.630021139048, "num" : 12, "question" : "He set up a Holy Synod to lead the church and recruited foreigners for the army, enabling increased professionalism in it.  He faced down the Old Believers and a rebellion led by Stenka Razin.  His establishment of chattel slavery enabled the industrialization of the country as it provided laborers for the new factories, which he started after a grand tour of Europe.  For ten points, name this Romanov, succeeded by Catherine the Great, who worked to modernize Russia during his rule from 1696 to 1725.", "round" : "FHTE R3 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000c01" }, "answer" : "{Les Fleurs du Mal} [or The {Flowers} of {Evil}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5462972330861, "num" : 22, "question" : "The posthumous edition of this work included a poem dedicated to Theodore de Banville. One poem in this collection demonstrates synaesthesia by comparing perfumes to the sound of oboes. That poem, \"Correspondences,\" appears in the same section as \"The Sick Muse\" and \"The Albatross.\" It includes sections entitled \"Wine,\" \"Revolt,\" and \"Death,\" as well as (*) \"Spleen and Ideal.\" The preface to this work addresses the reader as \"Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother!\" For 10 points, name this poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d81" }, "answer" : "wrist", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9631325451192, "num" : 32, "question" : "The triangular fibrocartilage (FYE-bro-KAR-til-age) complex provides cushion at one end of this joint. The eight bones located at this joint include the trapezoid, trapezium, and scaphoid (SCAFF-oyd). Ligaments at this joint include the ulnar and radial collateral ligaments, and the median nerve that goes through it can become compressed through repetitive motions such as typing in carpal tunnel syndrome. For 10 points, name this joint that connects the arm to the hand.", "round" : "regionals-02.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009e4" }, "answer" : "{Guy Fawkes} [or {Guido Fawkes}; prompt on {John Johnson} before mention]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5576288152952, "num" : 1, "question" : "This soldier served under William Stanley in Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands and fought for Spain in the Eighty Years' War. This man's name was discovered by Robert Cecil, who led a network of spies. A collaborator with Robert Catesby, this figure used an unoccupied room belonging to John Whynniard for one action. He then gave the name \"John Johnson\" and was taken to the Star Chamber and the Tower of London before being (*) executed. For 10 points, name this man whose effigy is burned on the fifth of November and who was involved in the Gunpowder Plot.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402d8b3d831d6a005fe8" }, "answer" : "One {Flew Over} the {Cuckoo's Nest}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6468619466759, "num" : 11, "question" : "One character in this novel, George Sorensen, always washes his hands in the water fountain, and after being caught sleeping with the prostitute Candy Starr, another character slits his own throat. The character who compares a meeting to a “pecking party” arranges for Billy Bibbit to lose his virginity to Candy. He tries to undermine “The Combine” and becomes lobotomized. Chief Bromden suffocates Randle McMurphy out of compassion in, for 10 points, what novel about an Oregon mental hospital by Ken Kesey?", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003676" }, "answer" : "{Polymerase Chain Reaction}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.2178666749969, "num" : 4, "question" : "The methylation-specific form of this procedure is used on CpG islands. Its touchdown variant utilizes a gradual lowering of the temperature, and cDNA is generated from RNA in the RT version of this procedure. Typically requiring dNTPs, magnesium ions, and primers, it takes advantage of the ability of its namesake Thermus aquaticus enzyme to withstand high temperatures. Taking place through denaturation, annealing, and elongation steps, this procedure typically takes 20 to 40 thermal cycles, each of which doubles the amount of DNA present. For 10 points, name this lab technique used to amplify short pieces of DNA.", "round" : "Round09.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edc8b3d831d6a0010da" }, "answer" : "{Indiana} University [or {Hoosiers}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.3618824393488, "num" : 27, "question" : "Intramural teams from this university are the chief competitors against the Cutters in the 1981 film Breaking Away. This school's football team was coached by Lee Corso to a victory in the 1979 Holiday Bowl, and Antwaan Randle El played quarterback here. Isiah Thomas played in this school's most famous sport, whose coach threw a chair across the court in a game against in-state rival Purdue. For 10 points, name this Midwestern state university whose basketball team was coached by Bobby Knight.", "round" : "26.pdf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a00584d" }, "answer" : "{Salman Rushdie}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.245565473102, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man incorporated characters created by other authors, including Fitzgerald's T.J. Eckleburg, Heller's Yossarian, and Roth's Nathan Zuckerman, into his novel about Ormus Cama and Vina Apsara's rock band VTO, The (*) Ground Beneath Her Feet. The large-eared Aadam (ah-dahm) and \"Parvati the witch\" are among the title group of another novel by this author, which partially takes place at Mary Pereira's pickle factory and features Saleem Sinai trying to lead all the people born as India achieved independence. For 10 points, name this author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses.", "round" : "tourn9-12.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a007170" }, "answer" : "{August Strindberg}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0589438236784, "num" : 2, "question" : "(DR) Early in his career, he wrote a novel about Arvid Falk titled The Red Room. Soon after that, he wrote a play set in the 16th century, titled Master Olof. His most famous play is about a woman who has broken off her engagement and features a religious cook named Kristin. This writer had three horrible marriages, and many critics claim that his portrayals of women were affected by them. Name this Swed- ish writer of Miss Julie.", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001c97" }, "answer" : "{Justinian} I [or {Flavius Justinianus}; or {Petrus Sabbatius}; prompt on {Justinian}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.31298474478535, "num" : 16, "question" : "This ruler sent an army to support a deposed leader of the Vandals named Hilderic against the usurper Gelimer. A treaty signed by this leader was broken eight years later by Khosrow I despite that treaty being named the Eternal Peace. This ruler briefly dismissed his advisors John of Cappadocia and Tribonian in the face of a revolt that attempted to name Hypatius emperor. That uprising against this man led by members of the Green and Blue factions was the Nika revolt. Procopius wrote a Secret History of this man's rule. For 10 points, name this husband of Theodora served by the general Belisarius, who updated the laws of the Byzantine Empire in his namesake code.", "round" : "Lisle and Maryland B.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004248" }, "answer" : "{Akutagawa Ryunosuke}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.64589377795346, "num" : 14, "question" : "He wrote about a girl on a train who throws some of the title fruit to three boys in his story “Tangerines,” while he wrote about two battleships being repaired in “Three Windows.\" One of his works opens on the second floor of a bookstore, where the protagonist observes that “Life cannot compare to a single line of Baudelaire.” That work, which consists of fifty-one brief aphoristic discussions of episodes in the author's life, is called A Fool's Life, while his other late works include the film script Temptation and the critical Literary, All Too Literary. He defended his use of the watakushi-shosetsu form in his non-fiction, and his stories include one about a painter who sees his daughter burnt in a carriage and a criminal who attempts to escape from the underworld on a spider's thread. For 10 points, name this author of \"Hell Screen\" and \"The Nose,\" who described a woman stealing hair from corpses and a rape and murder that change depending on point of view in his \"In a Grove\" and \"Rashomon.\"", "round" : "r11- Stanford.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406b8b3d831d6a006ea6" }, "answer" : "the {Red Hot Chili Peppers}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.4407255353872, "num" : 14, "question" : "Andy Gill produced their first album, which included the song \"True Men Don't Kill Coyotes.\" One of their songs, \"Good Time Boys,\" ends with the repeating word \"Rockinfreakapotamus,\" and was released after the death of their guitarist Hillel Slovak. One song by this group from \"Blood Sugar Sex Magik\" contains the lyrics \"At least I have her love / The city who loves me / Lonely as I am / Together we cry.\" Anthony Kiedis and Michael Balzary, who is better known as Flea, is an original member of, for 10 points, what band whose songs include \"Under the Bridge\" and \"Dani California.\"", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 571, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2a8b3d831d6a0022b5" }, "answer" : "{Uncle Tom}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.10157821886241, "num" : 10, "question" : "This character dies alone “without the benefit of fire” in a “New York London” winter in the Kamau Brathwaite poem “Didn't He Ramble.” This character learns about the death of Prue's child due to her milk drying up. A lock of hair tied around this character's neck is thrown into the fire after it twines around the finger of another character. During a trip to Lake Pontchartrain, this character is asked where new Jerusalem is by a character whom he had saved from drowning. George Shelby arrives too late to save this character, who refuses to reveal the details of Cassy and Emmeline's escape and dies at the hands of Simon Legree. For 10 points, name this martyr-like title character of an 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, a pious slave who lived in a titular cabin.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - UCSD + Penn.pdf", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f2c" }, "answer" : "{Russian Empire} and {Kingdom} of {Poland} [for “{Russia},” accept {Rossiyskaya Imperiya}; for “{Poland},” accept any of the {following}: {Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth}; or {Union} of {Lublin}; or {Polska}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.71120062517002, "num" : 5, "question" : "Two answers required. One of these two nations intervened in the other after the Tarnogrod Confederation agitated for a “silent” legislative session. They fought the Battle of Klushino when the king of one of them, Sigismund III, invaded the other, in a war concluded at the Peace of Deulino. A war between them saw supporters of one found the Bar Confederation. Another war between these two nations was known as the “Deluge” in one of them. A successor state to one of these nations perpetrated the Katyn Forest Masscre on citizens of the other. For 10 points, name these two countries, one of which was led by Catherine the Great when it partitioned the other.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Finals 1 [DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS] - Done.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a0006f1" }, "answer" : "{Carthage}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 344.0634258822538, "num" : 5, "question" : "One of this empire's armies that was sent as reinforcements lost to Gaius Nero and was led by Hasdrubal. Cato the Elder frequently used this empire's name with the words \"delenda est,\" and it was destroyed in its third war with Rome. For 10 points, name this empire based around a North African city whose generals included Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal during its fighting in the Punic Wars.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a00261d" }, "answer" : "The {Parthenon}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2241.446697160136, "num" : 4, "question" : "Friezes removed from this building in 1812 are now housed in the British museum and are known as the Elgin Marbles. This building housed a statue that holds Nike in her right hand; that statue was created by Phidias (“FID-ee-us”) and is a cult statue dedicated to Athena. For 10 points, name this temple with Doric columns on the Acropolis in Athens.", "round" : "CMST_Round04.pdf", "seen" : 1490, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eee8b3d831d6a0014c9" }, "answer" : "{broken windows} theory", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.7501722543966, "num" : 3, "question" : "Bernard Harcourt reanalyzed Wesley Skogan’s support of this theory to cast doubt on it in his Illusion of\n Order. Robert Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush used their study of neighborhoods in Chicago to lend\n support to this theory. This theory gained support after one of its proponents, William Bratton, became the\n Police Commissioner of New York. This theory was first developed in a 1982 Atlantic Monthly article\n written by George Kelling and James Q. Wilson. For 10 points, name this sociological theory that contends\n that graffiti and the title phenomenon can be indirectly linked to the prevalence of more serious crimes.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f698b3d831d6a003193" }, "answer" : "Of {Human Bondage}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6471851256211, "num" : 21, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel becomes impoverished after Macalister unwisely convinces him to invest in a South African mine during the Boer War. A female character in this novel gives birth to the baby of Emil Miller and cheats on the protagonist with Harry Griffiths before destroying the protagonist's possessions in a fit of rage. Its protagonist studies art with Frederick Lawson in Paris, and studies to become a doctor at St. Luke's Hospital, where he meets the father of his future wife Sally, Thorpe Athelney. The second half of this novel describes the protagonist's destructive relationship with the waitress Mildred Pierce. For 10 points, name this novel about the club-footed Philip Carey, written by William Somerset Maugham.", "round" : "6.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a00266a" }, "answer" : "{Lord} of the {Flies}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2228.937548382673, "num" : 2, "question" : "In this novel, a dead parachutist is discovered by the strange introverted character Simon. Sam and Eric are the last followers of one character in this novel. Late in this novel, Roger uses a boulder to kill the overweight intellectual named Piggy. The violent Jack Merridew feuds with the civilized Ralph in, for 10 points, what English novel written by William Golding?", "round" : "CMST_Round08.pdf", "seen" : 1465, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40058b3d831d6a00566b" }, "answer" : "{Francisco José} de {Goya} y {Lucientes}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.5475877488498, "num" : 9, "question" : "This artist portrayed the power of irrationality in his painting of a sleeping man surrounded by bats and owls. This artist included that work, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, in his series of Capriccios. He painted a man in a white shirt standing with his arms raised in the air while facing a line of French (*) soldiers about to fire, and his depiction of Saturn Devouring His Son is part of his Black Paintings. For ten points, name this Spanish artist of The Nude Maja and The Third of May, 1808.", "round" : "tourn8-05.pdf", "seen" : 275, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004bc1" }, "answer" : "The {War} of the End of the {World} or La {guerra del fin del mundo}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.11221595178358, "num" : 12, "question" : "In this novel, the Scottish phrenologist Galileo Gall inadvertently becomes a gun smuggler. One character's lost glasses symbolize his unreliable reporting. That character, The Nearsighted Journalist,  represents (*) Euclides da Cunha, whose historical tract Os sertoes was the basis for much of this work. It studies the Canudos community led by the Republic-hating Antonio Conselhiero, known as “The Counselor.” For 10 points, name this Mario Vargas Llosa novel about the Brazilian government's clash with a millenarian sect.", "round" : "13_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000ba2" }, "answer" : "{Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway} [or {Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.41117471084, "num" : 14, "question" : "While in a flower shop, this woman hears the backfiring of a car that she believes may be carrying the queen; that event occurs shortly after this woman meets Hugh Whitbread. Later, this woman hears of the suicide of a man who jumps out of a window, Septimus Smith. She is visited by (*) Peter Walsh and Sally Seton, making her reconsider her decision to marry Richard. For 10 points, name this party hostess and title character of a stream of consciousness novel by Virginia Woolf.", "round" : "tournament17-09.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004fcd" }, "answer" : "{Dionysus} [prompt on {Bacchus}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.2468650266528, "num" : 31, "question" : "The Athenian painter Exekias depicted a scene in which pirates who had kidnapped this god were turned into dolphins. Pentheus was punished for refusing to acknowledge this god by being torn apart by a group of maenads [\"ME-nads\"], wild female followers of this god. Hestia gave up a throne on Mount Olympus to this god. This god married a Cretan princess abandoned on Naxos, Ariadne. For 10 points, name this son of Zeus and Semele (SEH-meh-lee), the Greek god of wine.", "round" : "4q1-09.pdf", "seen" : 450, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb08b3d831d6a00428e" }, "answer" : "{Dom Pedro II} de {Alcantara} [{there's} a {bunch} of other names after this, but I {don't reasonably expect anyone} to {give them}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.18621512898244, "num" : 13, "question" : "Though he is not from the eighteenth century, this man was mocked in periodicals such as The Mosquito and The Meddler. An unsuccessful revolt against Decree 798 and other parts of his attempt to take a national census is sometimes known as the “war of the wasps,” and peasants destroyed scales to protest this man's new system of weights and measures in the “Smash the Kilos” revolt. This man's fight over whether bishops could expel freemasons from their churches is known as the “Religious Question,” and his son-in-law, the Count d'Eu, was derisively known as “The Frenchman.” Abraham Lincoln is said to have remarked that this man was the only one he trusted to arbitrate the U.S. Civil War. He eliminated the practice of kissing the royal hand upon returning from a trip to Europe, during which his daughter Isabel enacted the Law of the Free Womb, which freed children of slaves in his country. For 10 points, name this man who was overthrown by Manuel Deodoro de Fonseca in 1889, thus becoming the last emperor of Brazil.", "round" : "r14- Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a003474" }, "answer" : "{nuclear fission} [accept {chain reaction} before “{neutron}”; prompt {thereafter}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2019276404753, "num" : 5, "question" : "With respect to this process, a “dollar” is the separation between states of prompt and delayed criticality. Tin appears to be the lightest element in which this process can be induced by gamma rays, and this process is spontaneous if the ratio Z squared over A is greater than or equal to forty-five. This process can be modeled by the six- or four-factor formula, both of which gives the effective (*) neutron multiplication factor. Reactors for this process are “poisoned” by the presence of elements like xenon. This process, which occurs in nuclei heavier than nickel-62, releases an amount of energy equal to the difference of product minus reactant binding energy. For 10 points, name this process by which a nucleus is split apart, often used on uranium-235.", "round" : "Round 24 Tie Breaker III.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025eb" }, "answer" : "Ohio", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2304.667822903953, "num" : 15, "question" : "One senator from this state was the only one not to cast a vote on the December 24th Senate Health Care Bill. That man, George Voinovich (“VOY-no-vitch”), earned his first major political post by defeating Dennis Kucinich (“koo-SIN-itch”). Other political figures from this state include retired Senator John Glenn and current Governor Ted Strickland. For 10 points, what swing state of the 2004 election has its capital at Columbus?", "round" : "CMST_Round01.pdf", "seen" : 1538, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe48b3d831d6a004e79" }, "answer" : "{Voodoo} [or {Vodun}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.9713066171389, "num" : 10, "question" : "Novices in this religion are called “kossale” and are confirmed through the “kanzo” initiation. Its adherents believe in a group of serpents called Simbi and and a figure named Erzulie, the spirit of love. This religion worships at a temple called the “Hounfour,” which houses its priestesses, called “mambos,” and its priests, referred to as “houngans.” Its practitioners believe in the supreme god Bondye. This religion holds that Papa Legba waits at the crossroads, allowing people access to the Guinee spirit world. For 10 points, name this religion whose adherents believe in “loa” spirits and which is practiced in Haiti.", "round" : "13 HFT.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edc8b3d831d6a0010ac" }, "answer" : "{Charles Augustus Lindbergh}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6662550496403, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man invented the first artificial heart for the French surgeon, Alexis Carrel. This man received $25,000 from Raymond Orteig for performing his most famous action. Possibly due to his Nazi sympathies, this man became the foremost spokesman for the America First Committee. Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the heavily-publicized murder-kidnapping of this man’s child. For 10 points, name this pilot of the Spirit of St. Louis who was the first man to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.", "round" : "25.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f468b3d831d6a00296f" }, "answer" : "{Richard Wagner}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7635517348535, "num" : 6, "question" : "In one opera by this composer, Eva eventually goes to Walther, who becomes one of the title Mastersingers of Nuremberg. In another of his operas, the hero eventually saves Elsa. He composed Lohengrin and an opera that sees Sigfried rescue Brunnhilde from a ring of magic fire. That cycle contains Gotterdammerung  and a opera containing the Ride of The Valkyries. For 10 points, name this composer of the Ring cycle.", "round" : "Packet 12.doc", "seen" : 287, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3f8b3d831d6a002797" }, "answer" : "{Dante Gabriel Rossetti}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.69548477977514, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man's large-lipped wife became the model for many of his works, including a painting in which she is cloaked in red as a red dove lands on a branch above her head, a rendition of Boccaccio's muse. This artist of A Vision of Fiammetta also painted a work in which a red dove clutches a yellow flower in its beak below a sundial on the hands of a praying woman who shuts her eyes and motions skyward. That painting by this artist is his depiction of Dante's lover as his own wife, Elizabeth Siddel. For 10 points, name this painter of the Beata Beatrix and writer of the sonnet sequence The House of Life and the poem The Blessed Damozel, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - zFINALS PACKET 1.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027ea" }, "answer" : "Thoth", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.80132442712784, "num" : 17, "question" : "He gained popularity when a cult of Khnum worshipped him, which later claimed that it was he who laid the golden cosmic egg that created the world. Some sources claim that this deity has a consort called Astennu, who stood by a lake of fire. This god's epithets include \"thrice great\" which led to his conflation with Hermes Trismegestus. As part of his most notable role, he was said to be the \"tongue of Ra,\" and he once gambled with the moon to get extra light. This deity is always depicted with a crescent moon headdress, but his head is often depicted in either the form of a baboon or ibis. For 10 points, identify the Egyptian inventor of writing, the god of wisdom.", "round" : "Round 04 updated.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f308b3d831d6a0023fd" }, "answer" : "{follicle-stimulating} hormone [or {FSH}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.76997502497397, "num" : 19, "question" : "This hormone has been found to stimulate the release of TNF and promote osteoclast and osteoblast formation, and it is secreted in lower levels in patients with Stein-Leventhal syndrome. Binding to one form of its receptors can imitate growth signals to trigger ovarian cancer cell proliferation. Decreased production of inhibin or increased production of activin can increase levels of this hormone, whose release is stimulated by a hormone that isn't produced in patients with Kalmann syndrome. Binding its receptors in Sertoli cells increases the production of androgen-binding protein, and this hormone, whose release is stimulated by the hypothalamic hormone GnRH, serves as a survival factor for what will become the dominant ovum in an ovary. For 10 points, name this gonadotropin that, like luteinizing hormone, is created in the anterior pituitary gland and that plays an important role in the maturation of ova and sperm.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 11 - A Tall Man Executes a Jig.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a0d" }, "answer" : "{Aleksandr Sergetevich Pushkin}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1439048547763, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one of this author's poems, he wrote of how the protagonist goes insane after a flood which kills Parasha and is chased by a statue of Peter the Great. This author of The Bronze Horseman wrote about a character who rejects Tatiana for not being worldly enough and kills Lensky in a duel over Olga. Another of this man's plays portrays a Tsar before the Time of Troubles. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov.", "round" : "Packet 8.doc", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e08" }, "answer" : "{Iguanodon} bernissartensis", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.46150281955488, "num" : 8, "question" : "One former member of this genus, the species seelyi, was later reclassified in the genus Dollodon, while another former member, the species atherfieldensis, is now recognized as a creature named for this creature's discoverer. Its current neotype, the species bernissartensis, got its name from the coal mines in Bernissart, Belgium, that contained many complete specimens of it. The Te Papa museum in New Zealand is home to the first discovered fossil of this creature, a clearly herbivorous tooth recovered from a limestone quarry in Sussex. David Norman discovered that the ossified tendons in its tail made the quadrupedal and tripodal positions assigned to it by Richard Owen physically impossible, while its most notable physical feature, a large (*) thumb spike, was originally placed on its nose by its discoverer, Gideon Mantell. It was the second dinosaur to be formally named, after Megalosaurus. For 10 points, identify this dinosaur named for the resemblance of its teeth to those of a certain lizard.", "round" : "Round 06 - Michigan.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f868b3d831d6a0038c2" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Iceland}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9640425762627, "num" : 2, "question" : "A 1627 raid on this country saw Barbary pirates sell 242 of its inhabitants into slavery in the Turkish Abductions. Visited in the 8th century by Irish papars, the 13th century saw a period of civil war in this country between Kolbeinn and Gissur Thorvaldsson, the Sturlung Era. Afterwards it lost its independence via the signing of the Old Covenant. Jon Sigurdsson led this nation to full independence in 1944. A 10th century parliament in this nation was called the Althing. For 10 points, name this European island nation with capital Reykjavík.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40138b3d831d6a0059ac" }, "answer" : "{Louis XIV}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.48431182513013, "num" : 5, "question" : "Henry Gissey depicted this man wearing gold and taking a ballet pose in a painting of him as Apollo. St. Martin's Abbey and the spire of St. Brice can be seen in a depiction of this man's army camp in a painting by Adam Fran van der Meulen, and his army is seen crossing the Rhine in a painting by Joseph Parrocel. His family surround him as mythological characters in a depiction by Jean Nocret and he was the subject of various busts and sculptures by Antoine Coysevox. His visits to Gobelins factory as well as his resolution of his war with the Dutch were painted by Charles Le Brun, who also painted this man's apotheosis. Another depiction of this man shows him surrounded by a canopy of red and gold, while he wears an ermine lined robe of dark blue, decorated with the golden fleur de lis of the Bourbon family. The subject of various portraits by Hyacinthe Rigaud, for 10 points, name this King of France. ", "round" : "KLEE - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f49" }, "answer" : "harp", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.79797088867053, "num" : 18, "question" : "Debussy wrote a sonata for flute, viola, and this instrument, and the violas are divided into two sections during the second movement of Mozart's concerto for this flute and this instrument. One notably challenging part for this instrument is found in Symphonie Fantastique, and the second movement of that piece contains crescendoing measures of rising triplets played on this instrument near the beginning. At the start of (*) Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, it is strummed 12 times to symbolize a clock tolling midnight. This instrument is closely related to a zither, which has strings across the soundbox rather than attached to it at an angle, and by definition this instrument has either two or three sides. For 10 points, name this instrument which often has 47 strings", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a003888" }, "answer" : "The {Arnolfini} Wedding or Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife [accept equivalents]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 422.5142386776861, "num" : 7, "question" : "In this painting, a figure of St. Margaret emerging from the belly of a dragon is carved into a wooden chair. A cherry tree is visible outside the window. A rosary and brush are seen in the background, and above hangs a brass chandelier with a single lit candle. A pair of wooden clogs and a brown dog are near the bottom of this painting, which also features a convex mirror showing the artist and a priest. The man wears a fur-trimmed coat while the woman wears a green dress. For 10 points, name this portrait of an Italian merchant and his wife, by Jan van Eyck.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a00398e" }, "answer" : "{RT-PCR} [or {Real time} PCR or {Quantitative} PCR or {qPCR} or any combination of those {two}, prompt on {PCR}; or {quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.31325732544065, "num" : 12, "question" : "David Whitcomb developed Scorpion molecules for use in this assay, which can also use a reporter that has a FAM fluorescent reporter tethered to a TAMRA or MGB quencher. Dimers can be detected by adding a dissociation stage at the end of this assay and searching for spurious peaks. A common method of analyzing the data in this assay is the REST software, or if efficiency is set to 1 the delta-delta Ct method is sufficient. GAPDH or Hexokinase are commonly used housekeeping genes in this assay, which also employs either Taqman probes or SYBR green fluorescent dye. Operating on the assumption that a more abundant DNA molecule will amplify more quickly, for 10 points, name this variation of PCR often used in gene expression studies, which is capable of assaying for the amount of transcript or sequence in a sample.", "round" : "Round by Matt Weiner Eric Mukherjee Aaron Rosenberg and Editor.docx", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f138b3d831d6a001d38" }, "answer" : "{Don Quixote}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.52872416260652, "num" : 9, "question" : "At one point in this work, two characters approach an empty boat and imagine themselves traveling two-thousand miles. At another point in this work, Countess Trifaldi tells the central character to board a flying wooden horse. One character in this work is named Samson Carrasco and disguises himself as the Knight of the White Moon to challenge the title character to a duel. This novel focuses on a man in search of his love Dulcinea who rides the steed Rocinante and attacks windmills, believing them to be giants. For 10 points, identify this novel featuring Sancho Panza and the title man of La Mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes.", "round" : "UNC and Rutgers-Camden and Wisconsin.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400a8b3d831d6a005793" }, "answer" : "{Fidel Castro}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.4094333893154, "num" : 5, "question" : "This ruler seized power from the provisional government of Manuel Urrutia. Before his success, this man retreated into the Sierra Maestra following the failure of the Granma expedition. This man led the 26th of July Movement and a desperate attack on the Mocanda barracks. This man was responsible for exiling convicts, the mentally ill, and political dissidents from his country in 1980's (*) Mariel Boatlift. He ousted Fulgencia Batista from power in 1959, and in 2008, he handed control to his brother Raul. For 10 points, name this longtime Communist dictator of Cuba.", "round" : "tourn9-04.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005c8e" }, "answer" : "{Robert} I [or {Robert} the {Bruce}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1272570432629, "num" : 16, "question" : "Soon after his coronation, this king was defeated at Methven and Strathfillan, causing him to flee to Rathlin Island. Though his brothers Nigel, Thomas, and Alexander were drawn and quartered, his brother Edward at one point became King of Ireland. After the death of King Edward I of England, this leader was successful at Glen Trool, Pass of Brander, and Bannockburn, allowing him to hold Parliament in St. Andrews and ultimately gain recognition from Pope John XXII and Edward III. Name this Scottish king who secured Scotland's independence.", "round" : "04 TU.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025de" }, "answer" : "levers", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2884.900009128265, "num" : 2, "question" : "The “law of” these objects states that the torque (“tork”) on one side is equal to the torque on the other side. These objects can be classified as first class, second class, or third class depending on the location of the fulcrum. For 10 points, name these simple machines, familiar examples of which include a wheelbarrow and see-saw.", "round" : "CMST_Round01.pdf", "seen" : 1938, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001ada" }, "answer" : "{amino acids}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 396.0475210535805, "num" : 15, "question" : "These compounds are synthesized from aldehydes or ketones in the Strecker synthesis. These compounds’ various conformations can be visualized with a Ramachandran plot. Their base structure consists of an NH3+ group, a COO- group, and an R group. The simplest one has an R group consisting only of a hydrogen atom, [*] glycine, and other examples of these compounds include arginine and tryptophan. These compounds are divided into essential and nonessential groups, and they form peptide bonds with each other to form proteins. For 10 points, name these molecules that contain both an amine and carboxylic acid group.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c4e" }, "answer" : "{Klein-Nishina formula}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.61409084964544, "num" : 1, "question" : "The total radiative loss rate predicted by this equation exhibits drops proportional to gamma squared, with which namesake “steps” are associated; those steps are sudden increases in the equilibrium spectrum of certain cosmic ray particles. Chao's experiments to test this equation, which seemed to find deviations in heavy elements, were later found to have been early evidence of pair production and annihilation. A primitive and incorrect form of this equation derived separately by Dirac and by Gordon omitted its final two terms since it neglected spin. This equation's classical precursor gives sigma as eight thirds pi times the square of quantity e squared over m c squared and was developed by J. J. Thomson. The differential form of this equation contains terms cubic, quadratic, and linear in the ratio of before and after photon energy. For 10 points, name this early result of quantum electrodynamics, which gives the differential cross section of photon scattering from a free electron.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405e8b3d831d6a006b95" }, "answer" : "{William Tecumseh Sherman}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.245429769624, "num" : 18, "question" : "After failing as a banker, this man became superintendent of a Louisiana military academy with the help of his friends Braxton Bragg and P.G.T. Beauregard, and his former adversary Joseph Johnston was a pallbearer at his funeral. Regarding running for president, he stated that he would not run if nominated or serve if elected, and he presented Savannah as a Christmas present to Abraham Lincoln in 1865. For 10 points, name this Civil War general who decided to \"make Georgia howl\" in his March to the Sea.", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c29" }, "answer" : "{George Catlett Marshall}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.2765821903013, "num" : 17, "question" : "After World War II, this man was sent to China to try to reach an agreement between Communist and Nationalist forces. One program created by this man was announced during a speech at Harvard and led to the creation of the OECD. This man was chief of staff of the U.S. army during World War II. He developed a program which was a follow up to the U.S. policy of (*) supplying Turkey and Greece with economic aid. For 10 points, name this Secretary of State under Harry Truman who names a plan that delivered American humanitarian aid to Europe following World War II.", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efc8b3d831d6a00180e" }, "answer" : "Calvinism <MAG>", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.2903235447593, "num" : 4, "question" : "Jacobus Arminius rejected some of this religion’s main points at the Council of Dort, setting the basis for the split between this religion and Methodism. In Scotland, this religion developed into John Knox’s Presbyterianism. Huldrych Zwingli influenced the early stages of this religion, whose reformation happened in Switzerland after the Lutheran Reformation. For 10 points, name this branch of Christianity whose five major tenets were outlined in its founder’s Institutes of the Christian Religion and include total depravity and predestination.", "round" : "Round05.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c35" }, "answer" : "derivatives", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.84725020965561, "num" : 3, "question" : "A generalization of these operations to mappings between Banach spaces is named for Fréchet. Higher order ones can be calculated by Faa di Bruno's Formula, and they do not exist for any point on the Weierstrass Function. The entries of the Jacobian matrix are first order examples of these, as are the components of the gradient. When there are multiple variables, partial ones are used. This mathematical concept can be defined using limits. When there is a composition of functions, the chain rule can be used to compute them. For 10 points, name this operation that describes the change of a function as its input changes and which is the opposite of an integral.", "round" : "Bellarmine and UCLA.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed88b3d831d6a000fb3" }, "answer" : "{noble gases} [or {inert gases}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.553774777567, "num" : 16, "question" : "The heaviest element in this group was synthesized by bombarding californium with calcium. The textbook example of a molecule with square planar geometry involves four fluorines bound to an element in this group. Ununoctium is technically a member of this group, which contains an element that potassium decays into, making it a viable alternative to carbon-14 dating. The most common element in this group is found in 0.94% of the atmosphere. For 10 points, identify this group with a full octet that contains xenon, radon, helium, and argon.", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5d8b3d831d6a002eab" }, "answer" : "homotopy", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.07136512151919, "num" : 2, "question" : "A mapping from a total space of a fiber bundle to a paracompact base satisfies the “lifting” property of this type. A homomorphism exists between homology groups and groups with this property, according to Hurewicz's theorem. When inclusion maps of two manifolds into a simply-connected cobordism have this property, the maps are said to have an (*) equivalence relation of this type. All functions in a topological space that contain the same points belong to an equivalence class of this type, and the fundamental group is the simplest group of this type. For 10 points, identify this term which describes two objects which can be continuously transformed into each other.", "round" : "zFinals 2 - DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a003075" }, "answer" : "Purim", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.8546384684741, "num" : 11, "question" : "This holiday is often celebrated with comic plays and puppet shows called its namesake “speils.” This holiday can also involve singing the song “Shoshanat Yaakov” and eating Fazuelos. Many celebrants of this holiday also share gift baskets called “Misloach manot.” Another custom of this holiday is shaking a gragger during the reading of a story that includes the demotion of Vashti and the construction of giant gallows. This holiday, which is held on the fourteenth of Adar, celebrates the heroism of Mordecai and the death of the evil Haman. For 10 points, name this Jewish holiday which and celebrates the story of Esther.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb58b3d831d6a000783" }, "answer" : "{Stonewall} Riots", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 342.9596107648686, "num" : 13, "question" : "Martha Shelley and Marty Robinson organized marches after this event which took place three years after a similar incident at Compton’s Cafeteria. Seymour Pine led one group during this event which saw the arrest of folk singer Dave van Ronk. In the aftermath of this event, described as the “hairpin drop heard round the world”, rallies were held by both the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society. It started following a police raid on the namesake bar, leading to a series of clashes with the police in (*) Greenwich Village. For 10 points, name this series of 1969 riots in New York City, a major event in the early gay rights movement.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffd8b3d831d6a005478" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Mann}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5795977178495, "num" : 14, "question" : "In one work by this writer, the main character takes a ship along with a man with dyed hair and rouged cheeks. That main character in a work by him eats overripe strawberries and becomes infatuated with the (*) Polish boy Tadzio. In a novel by this author, a duel takes place during which Naphta commits suicide after Settembrini will not shoot at him. That work is set in a Swiss sanatorium. Gustav von Aschenbach and Hans Castorp are characters created by, for 10 points, which German author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain?", "round" : "tourn10-11.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f418b3d831d6a00282a" }, "answer" : "{St Paul's} Cathedral", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.86004337924533, "num" : 15, "question" : "A bust of Skagerrak hero John Gellicoe can be found here as well as seven sculptures of Francis Bird. Its designer wanted to align the facade of this building with Easter Day, and he won out using a \"Great Model\" for this building beating out John Webb and Roger Pratt. One of its chapels is nicknamed the “Chapel of All Souls” and is where John Donne is buried. It is currently the fifth building at its present day location, as Ethelred the Unready's was destroyed in 1087 and another incarnation had a west wing designed by Inigo Jones. Located on Ludgate hill, for 10 points, identify this London cathedral designed by Christopher Wren.", "round" : "Round 08 updated.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b48" }, "answer" : "{Fear} and {Trembling} [or {Frygt og Bæven}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.23706592922099, "num" : 6, "question" : "This work's preface applauds Descartes for not making it “obligatory for every man to doubt,” and one section of this work tells of a man who would rather his child think him a monster than lose faith in God. Another part of this work contrasts the easy path of Knight of Infinite Resignation with the difficult one of Knight of Faith, and questions whether one has an absolute duty to obey God in the second problema. It takes its title from Phillipians 2:21 and discusses the teleological suspension of the ethical of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For 10 points, name this work ostensibly written by Johannes de Silentio, about authentic religiousity, actually by Søren Kierkegaard.", "round" : "MUT II - Missouri + Editors.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a0012a3" }, "answer" : "{Louisiana} Purchase", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3880714050028, "num" : 2, "question" : "This agreement was called \"the noblest work of our whole lives\" by one of its negotiators, Robert Livingston. Its boundaries were in dispute as a result of the lack of specificity of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso between Spain and France. It was opposed by Talleyrand in France and the Federalist Party in the United States. This agreement led to the Lewis and Clark expedition, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired territory. For 10 points, name this 1803 purchase in which the United States acquired land from France.", "round" : "colonia-01.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c5c" }, "answer" : "{delta}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 395.6741640483961, "num" : 11, "question" : "This letter is used to denote the class of baryons composed only of up and down quarks. In math, it symbolizes functions named for Kronecker and Dirac. When accompanied by a plus or minus sign, it denotes the positive and negative ends of a polar bond, respectively. It also represents the discriminant of a quadratic, as well as denoting the change in a function in calculus. For 10 points, name this Greek letter which also refers to sediment deposited at the mouth of a river.", "round" : "districts-02.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0d8b3d831d6a001c25" }, "answer" : "{Threads} [prompt on \"{process}\" until mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.20608940138482, "num" : 9, "question" : "Virtual machines may make use of a green variety of these constructs, while misordering of these can cause priority inversion. An Intel technology to implement these transparently in hardware was first introduced in the Xeon, and lC-slowing of these constructs can mimic \"barrel\" devices that use them. Instances of these that access I/O may be blocking, so that these are manipulated by a scheduler. These constructs are necessary to take advantage of (*) multi-core CPUs and to switch between them the OS must context switch. Many of these implement semaphores to avoid race conditions. For 10 points, name sub-processes created by a fork command that can run concurrently.", "round" : "FINAL_WillZafar.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40558b3d831d6a006968" }, "answer" : "{Venus} [do not accept or prompt on {Aphrodite}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.526990880724, "num" : 1, "question" : "Marcus Terentius Varro showed that this deity was not worshipped in old records. One temple to this god worships a “dies meretricum” in honor of prostitutes, and as Verticordia she protected chastity. Julius Caesar built a temple worshipping her as a “begetting mother” and claimed descent from her through Aeneas. She was totally lacking of original myths, and absorbed the traits of the Greek goddess who had an affair with Adonis. The wife of Vulcan and mother of Cupid, for 10 points, name this Roman goddess of love.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40388b3d831d6a0062a5" }, "answer" : "{Macedon} [do not accept “{Macedonia}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.41570167522877, "num" : 21, "question" : "One of its rulers traded blows with the Aetolian League before signing the Treaty of Phoenice, in which he renounced an alliance formed with Hannibal after Cannae.  Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeated another of its rulers at Pydna after his aforementioned father had lost at Cynoscephalae.  Another ruler of it introduced the sarissa, a twenty foot pike, which allowed him to win at Crocus Field and Chaeronea before being killed by his bodyguard Pausanias.  His son would expand this place's control at battles like Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela, where he defeated Darius III and conquered Persia.  For 10 points, name this kingdom home to Phillip II and Alexander the Great.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Cornell.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8c8b3d831d6a003a2d" }, "answer" : "{Simon Peter} [or {Simon Cephas}; or {Petros}; or {Kephas}; prompt on {Simon}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.4450600608252, "num" : 3, "question" : "This figure healed a paralyzed man named Aeneas in Lydda, and in Joppa, he resurrected the dressmaker Dorcas. In Galatians, Paul tells of rebuking this man in Antioch for insisting on the circumcision of Gentiles. This man requested that Jesus wash his face and hands as well as his feet, and in Matthew, he momentarily walks on water. This man was called by Jesus along with his brother Andrew while fishing, and after Jesus' arrest, this apostle denied him three times. For 10 points, name this leader of the Apostles, the first Pope who has a namesake Basilica in the Vatican.", "round" : "Editors 2 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a00288f" }, "answer" : "{Standard Deviation}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.4562609847635, "num" : 18, "question" : "An approximate unbiased estimator for this quantity is given by a \"one over n minus 1.5\" estimator. It is invariant to change of location and scales directly with change of scale. Chebyshev's inequality links the distribution function to this quantity for arbitrary distributions, and the stronger \"empirical rule\" can be used for normally distributed data. Unlike a related measure of dispersion, it takes the same units as the data it describes. For ten points, identify this quantity that for discrete distributions is the root-mean-square distance of values from the mean, the square root of the variance.", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb98b3d831d6a00086f" }, "answer" : "{greatest common divisor} [or {GCD}; or {greatest common denominator}; or {greatest common}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1802566424013, "num" : 19, "question" : "Bézout's Identity means that for integers a and b, there exist integers u and v such that au plus bv equals this value for a and b. It can be computed using an algorithm that is based on the fact that this of a and b is equal to that of b and the (*) remainder of a divided by b. That algorithm is named for Euclid. If two integers are relatively prime, then this value for those two integers is one. For 10 points, name this value that is the largest factor shared by two numbers, which for the example of 12 and 18 is 6.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c4e" }, "answer" : "hemoglobin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.25380700803362, "num" : 7, "question" : "This protein's namesake prosthetic group is synthesized in a pathway that includes 5-aminolevulinic acid as an intermediate.  2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate alters its binding ability, but has less interaction with a version of this protein using zeta and epsilon chains. That form is found in the embryo, and separate versions of this protein are expressed in the fetus and in adults. When the glutamic acid at position six of this protein is changed to a valine, a disorder that results in increased malarial resistance occurs. This protein is a tetramer, and defects in this protein yield thalassemia and sickle cell anemia.  For 10 points, name this protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen.", "round" : "Chipola.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec58b3d831d6a000b2b" }, "answer" : "{Vincent van Gogh}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9693979651202, "num" : 6, "question" : "This artist painted a blue-clad man on a wooden chair holding his head in his hands in At Eternity’s Gate. He painted two chairs and a night table next to a bed in his depiction of his bedroom at the Yellow House, where he lived with Gauguin for a time. This artist painted a pool table at the center of his (*) The Night Café. This artist of several portraits of Dr. Gachet painted several depictions of the view from his asylum in Arles. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist who painted swirling celestial figures in Starry Night.", "round" : "tournament17-04.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8f8b3d831d6a003af3" }, "answer" : "{Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.08912294637412, "num" : 11, "question" : "This composer depicted laughter in the final “Precipitosissimo” section of a solo piano work that also features movements marked “Tempestuoso” and “Smanioso”. He transformed his ballet Ala i Lolli into a suite that opens with the “Invocation to Veles and Ala” and features the “Dance of the Pagan Monsters”. This composer of Sarcasms included a theme for cornet in the “wedding” movement of a work that also features a sleigh-bell-backed troika. For 10 points, identify this composer of the Scythian Suite and the Lieutenant Kijé Suite who used timpani and bass drums to represent gunshots and strings to represent the titular Young Pioneer of his Peter and the Wolf.", "round" : "USC + Editors 4 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec68b3d831d6a000b83" }, "answer" : "{weak} force [or {weak} interaction]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.245732946787, "num" : 5, "question" : "This interaction is described by an extension of the GIM mechanism, the CKM matrix, and an experiment by Chien-Shiung Wu showed that this interaction violates parity. It is mediated by heavy (*) W and Z bosons and is capable of changing flavor, and one property of this interaction was posited by Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg. That property is this force's interaction with the electromagnetic force. For 10 points, name this physical force that is not as powerful as the strong force.", "round" : "tournament17-08.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fba8b3d831d6a0044f3" }, "answer" : "{Radical Republicans} (prompt on {Republican})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8948256382719, "num" : 6, "question" : "Members of cabinet from this group included William Fessenden, James Speed and Lyman Trumbull. They were infuriated by the veto of the Wade-Davis Act and nearly succeeded in nominating John Fremont for president. Another of its members was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks while their leader was a Pennsylvania congressmen who secured the repeal of the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution. One of their actions occurred after the firing of Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act.  Known for advocating a complete abolition of slavery and equal status for freed slaves this is, FTP, what branch of an American political party, led by Thaddeus Stevens, who attempted to impeach Andrew Johnson.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee18b3d831d6a0011df" }, "answer" : "{Pierre} de {Fermat}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.3314983947203, "num" : 24, "question" : "The Euler totient theorem generalizes a theorem by this man, while another statement by this man can be proved using the Taniyama conjecture regarding elliptic curves. Snell’s law can be derived from his principle that the path taken by a ray of light is the one which can be traveled in the least amount of time, while a statement he proposed was only recently proven by Andrew Wiles in the 1990’s. For 10 points, name this French mathematician who stated that there are no integers n greater than 2 which satisfies the equation a to the n plus b to the n equals c to the n, known as his last theorem.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f678b3d831d6a003117" }, "answer" : "{Gabriela Mistral} [or {Lucila} de {María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5731981487479, "num" : 12, "question" : "This author's extensive correspondence with Victoria Ocampo has been published as This America of Ours. This author described \"two suffering little gems\" \"bruised all over by pebbles\" in a poem about \"a child's tiny feet.\" The narrator of another poem by this author \"leave[s] singing my lovely revenge\" after \"lower[ing] your body to the sunny, poor earth\" \"from the icy niche where men placed you.\" This poet wrote \"To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,' his name is today” in a poem influenced by her time as an educator, which caused her to be known as \"the mother of the nation\" in her home country. This poet's grief for the suicide of railway worker Romelio Ureta influenced the title of her collection Desolation. For 10 points, name this poet of the Sonnets of Death, a female poet from Chile.", "round" : "2.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f998b3d831d6a003d3c" }, "answer" : "{Mies van der Rohe}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5310959240887, "num" : 18, "question" : "An partly translucent onyx wall appears in this man's Willa Tugendhat, and this architect constructed a work using materials like marble and travertine for the International Exposition. In addition to the Barcelona Pavilion, he used floor-to-ceiling glass and painted white steel to frame two slabs in his Farnsworth House, and this architect worked on a structure across from the Lever House with a bronze curtain wall, a building containing the Four Seasons Restaurant. For 10 points, name this last director of the Bauhaus who stated that \"less is more\" and collaborated with Philip Johnson on the Seagram Building.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004ea" }, "answer" : "Srivijaya", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.48476805328391, "num" : 2, "question" : "Muaro Jambi was one of this empire’s major centers, and Yavadvipa may have been an early name for this empire used in some chronicles. A king of this empire named Sanfotsi sent tribute to China, while four stone inscriptions including ones at Kedukan Buki and Talang Tuwo from the 7th century describe raids against a nearby island. This empire was eventually succeeded by the Majapahits. One of its emperors, Indravarman, sent embassies to the Umayyads to learn Islam, but later attacks by the Chola weakened its ports and siltation of the Muri River cut off easy access to its capital, Palembang. Parts of Borneo and Malaysia were included in, for 10 points, what empire that ruled from the 7th through 13th centuries from its base in Sumatra?", "round" : "2011 CO History Chiego Haddad-Fonda.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004937" }, "answer" : "1944", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6576197096147, "num" : 4, "question" : "The presidential election of this year featured the formation of The Texas Regulars, a political party designed to deny the incumbent President a majority of the Electoral College. Norman Thomas and Claude Watson were the candidates of the Socialist and Prohibition parties, while Robert Taft supported John Bricker for the Republican nomination, but Bricker later only served as the vice presidential candidate. For 10 points, identify this election in which Republican Thomas Dewey lost to incumbent Franklin Roosevelt, who was running for his fourth term.", "round" : "FKT Editor 3.rtf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40628b3d831d6a006caa" }, "answer" : "{radiation} [accept {Cherenkov radiation} before “{Cherenkov}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0726199313067, "num" : 8, "question" : "Its power to the square of charge acceleration in relativistic systems is given by its namesake Larmor formula. A blue cone of light appears as a particle goes supra-luminal in the Cherenkov variety of it, while the amount of energy emitted by an object due to it is proportional to the (*) fourth power of absolute temperature via Stefan's Law. Also coming in an electromagnetic variety, it can propagate through the vaucum of space. For 10 points, identify this type of energy transfer often contrasted with conduction and convection.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a00090e" }, "answer" : "ethics", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.4000355876051, "num" : 17, "question" : "An 1874 book by Henry Sidgwick purports to describe \"the methods\" of these, and Simone de Beauvoir wrote a short treatise about those \"of ambiguity.\" G.E. Moore's best known work also references them, while a philosophical work titled after them contains the section \"Of Human Bondage\" and is laid out as a series of (*) geometric axioms; that work was written by Baruch Spinoza. For 10 points, give this term that describes the branch of philosophy that deals with the existence of morality.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 308, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004ab5" }, "answer" : "{birefringence} (or {double} refraction)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.59763860143721, "num" : 15, "question" : "It can occur in crystals lacking a center of symmetry via the Pockels effect. Nicol and Wollaston prisms utilize this property through the application of (*) calcite. When an electric field is applied to an anisotropic transparent substance, it occurs through the Kerr effect and it arises in materials possessing two different indices of refraction. For 10 points, identify this optical phenomenon that divides unpolarized light into an ordinary and an extraordinary ray traveling in different directions.", "round" : "02_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002454" }, "answer" : "Felix {Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.84903423092328, "num" : 8, "question" : "After his arrest for involvement with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, this man founded the SDKPiL in Warsaw in 1899. During the October Revolution of 1917, this man controlled security at the Bolshevik headquarters in the Smolny Institute, and as chair of the Supreme Economic Council, this man was aligned with Bukharin in his support for the New Economic Policy. Along with E.A. Preobrazhenskii and M.K. Muralov, this man was part of a triumvirate that headed the first Central Control Commission of the Bolshevik party, which was responsible for party discipline. This man organized the first Russian concentration camps and in 1991, pro-democracy demonstrator tore down a statue of this man that stood outside the headquarters of the KGB, a the successor organization to the one headed by this man. For ten points, identify this Bolshevik, the first head of the Cheka whose notorious cruelty earned him the sobriquet “Iron Felix.”", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407f8b3d831d6a00735e" }, "answer" : "{Bertrand Russell}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.6118036359549, "num" : 14, "question" : "He delivered the first Reith Lecture, which was converted into the book Authority and the Individual. In an essay of his he proposed the concept of a tiny celestial teapot that is floating between Mars and the Earth in an attempt to demonstrate that God is a fairy tale like Santa Claus. His most famous work on Religion was Why I am Not (*) A Christian, while criticisms of his most important work involve the axiom of infinity and his namesake paradox, which involves the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Co-writer of an influential 3-volume work in logic with Alfred North Whitehead this is FTP what British winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature who helped write Principia Mathemtica.", "round" : "Round 8.rtf", "seen" : 315, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec18b3d831d6a000a5b" }, "answer" : "{Atacama} Desert [or {Desierto} de {Atacama}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.6228867599275, "num" : 5, "question" : "This region experiences a type of fog that is known as camanchaca. The main river that passes through this area is the Loa River. This region is bound on the west by the Cordillera de la (*) Costa and on the east by the Cordillera Domeyko. For 10 points, name this location often considered to be the driest on the Earth, which runs alongside the Andes Mountains and is a desert located in northern Chile.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 392, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fac8b3d831d6a00416d" }, "answer" : "{Claude McKay}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.26212615193799, "num" : 9, "question" : "The introduction to this man's collected poems praises him for expressing hatred while being \"clean\" and \"neither mean nor spiteful.\" That introduction laments \"no white man can do more than express his humiliated sympathy\" and was written by the philosopher John Dewey. This poet of “George William Gordon to the Oppressed Natives” wrote a sonnet on race riots which proclaims \"like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack\" and says that the title action will not be performed \"like hogs,\" entitled \"If We Must Die.\" Ray and Latnah are among the ocean-loving denizens of The Ditch who welcome Lincoln Agrippa Daily to Marseilles in one novel by this author. In another of his novels, the prostitute Felice refuses payment and Congo Rose enjoys being slapped, leading Jake Brown to choose life with the former. This author of Banjo also wrote about the goat rapist Harold Newton Day and the Christian convert Hopping Dick Delgado, both of whom are passed over in favor of the laborer Juban by Tabitha Plant. For 10 points, name this author of Home to Harlem and Banana Bottom, a Jamaica-born Harlem Renaissance author.", "round" : "r02- Brandeis.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007650" }, "answer" : "{Hammerklavier} or {Beethoven's} Piano Sonata No. 29", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.16992105194367, "num" : 5, "question" : "It was the inspiration for the later Piano Sonata No. 2 of Boulez, who elaborated on its contrapuntal form.  The first movement of the piece, Allegro, introduces fortissimo B-flat chords, and the very short Scherzo parodies the first.  The third movement, one of the longest of any solo piece up to the time, is an Adagio sostenuto that is said to have inspired much Romantic-era music.  The final movement, marked Allegro risoluto, begins with contrapuntal meanderings before breaking out into a full fugue similar to its composer's Grosse Fuge. FTP, name this piano sonata by Beethoven whose name describes both the instrument and the piece's difficulty.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - UCLA A MIT A.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fae8b3d831d6a0041fe" }, "answer" : "{South Sea Bubble}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.69651596667245, "num" : 12, "question" : "It eventually forced the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, Charles Spencer, out of office. This event inspired the street ballad “Every fool aspired to be a knave” and drew comparison to the Trojan Horse by the second Earl Cowper. It involved a rumor of Earl Stanhope's reception of overtures. James Craggs and his son John were both tried for this event, and through a Parliamentary inquiry, John Aislabie was expelled for his involvement with it. Madam von Platen and the Duchess of Kendal's bribe-taking helped pass a measure by which the entity responsible for it assumed the British national debt. That entity, established by Robert Harley, excited Exchange Alley investors with its promise of abundant wealth with zero taxes from Philip V, despite being limited to one vessel after the Treaty of Utrecht. For 10 points, name this 1720 British speculation crisis.", "round" : "r08- Missouri State-UCSD.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c6b" }, "answer" : "{voltaic} cell [or {galvanic} cell; prompt on \"{battery}\" before \"{proton}\"; prompt on \"{electrochemical cell}\" or \"{cell}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8407336955424, "num" : 12, "question" : "A decrease in the ability of this device to operate due to the accumulation of a product is known as polarization. Primary ones are not reversible, while one reversible secondary example uses lead and lead sulfate. The reduction of a proton to hydrogen gas is a standard used to measure the favorability of reactions in this device, and one that reacts copper with copper(II) sulfate [copper two sulfate] is named for Daniell. In order to compensate for the charge imbalance within these objects, a soluble salt such as potassium nitrate is used in a salt bridge. For 10 points, name this kind of cell in which a chemical reaction produces electricity, contrasted with an electrolytic cell.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a007164" }, "answer" : "{shabbat} [{shah BAHT}] (accept answers {such} as {shabbos} [{SHAH bus}] with the {t pronounced}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.5967912781052, "num" : 7, "question" : "(JG) Do not give an answer in English. An eruv [AIR oov] can be constructed for purposes related to this, whose desecration is the worst possible crime. Observant individuals refrain from what is called muktzah [MOOK tzah], thirty-nine specified activities, and are called shomer [SHOH mair] this. Songs are sung in the kabbalat [kah buh LAT] service the evening before, including \"Yedid Nefesh\" [yeh-DEED NEH-fesh] and \"L'cha Dodi\" [lih-KHAH doh-DEE], which anthropomorphizes it as a bride. It ends with rituals including spices and a candle with several wicks, havdalah [hahv DAH lah], and Yom Kippur [YOHM kee POOR] is a special case of this day. Give the Hebrew name for this holiday that begins at sundown on Friday nights and is celebrated every Saturday, the Jewish sabbath.", "round" : "r8tossups.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40588b3d831d6a006a29" }, "answer" : "{cilia} [or {cilium}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3444852915127, "num" : 5, "question" : "Cycads are some of the only plants to have them, and they are unique to eukaryotes. Like a longer structure, they have a 9+2 arrangement of constituent structures which make up the axoneme. The Fallopian tubes use them to conduct eggs from ovary to uterus and the trachea has a lining of them for cleaning purposes. Rotifers have a crown of them, which in some species makes them spin like wheels, and several of them are also found on paramecium. For 10 points, identify these short organelles which allow many eukaryotic cells to move.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a00639b" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Plains} of {Abraham} [or Battle of the {Heights} of {Abraham}; prompt on {Battle} of {Quebec}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.93521481426433, "num" : 15, "question" : "The night before this battle, the victors were able to land behind and take Vergor's camp at the L'Anse-au-Foulon, bypassing forces led by Levis and Vaudreuil.  The battle itself lasted less than an hour, with two extremely effective musket volleys devastating the advancing French line.  Afterwards, the French retreated over the St. Charles River to regroup under Bougainville, leaving the victors free to besiege the city.  It resulted in the death of both commanders: for the French, the Marquis de Montcalm, and for the British, James Wolfe.  For 10 points, name this battle of the French and Indian War which occurred on a plateau near Quebec.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - UCLA A + Missouri State + J.S. Reynolds.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a0056ad" }, "answer" : "Scotland", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6802486989181, "num" : 12, "question" : "This country fought Norway in the Battle of Largs under King Alexander III. It's centuries old pact with France was known as the Auld Alliance. Mary of Guise married one king of this country who died just after losing the battle of Solway Moss. This country's reformation was pioneered by the galley slave and (*) Presbyterianism founder John Knox. England's Stuart dynasty began when James VI of this country became James I of England. For 10 points, name this formerly independent British country found to the north of England.", "round" : "tourn8-08.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe78b3d831d6a004f45" }, "answer" : "{Fibonacci} sequence [or {Fibonacci} numbers]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9684661489446, "num" : 23, "question" : "Two identities involving this type of number are named for Cassini and Catalan, and these numbers were used to prove that no general formula exists to solve Diophantine equations. The ratio of successive terms of this sequence of numbers approaches one plus root five divided by two, or the golden ratio, and it was first studied as a model of the population growth of rabbits. For 10 points, name this sequence of numbers in which each number is equal to the sum of the previous two, beginning one, one, two, three.", "round" : "4q1-05.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f328b3d831d6a002480" }, "answer" : "{Marc Chagall} [accept {Movsha Shagal}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.98987370915711, "num" : 12, "question" : "He began one of his works with a declaration that \"The first thing I ever saw was a trough\" in a chapter titled \"Fire in the City\". André Malraux received much opposition following his commissioning of this artist to paint a certain ceiling. A bearded figure with a large white cloak over him is seated on the ground as he grasps a red rug in one of his works, while a frowning woman holds a small red figure as she stands over a nude woman on a bed with a red canopy in another. This painter of (*) Solitude and Birth used a play on words in using the term \"HaNotzri\" on a crossbar in one of his works which includes a soldier beneath which are objects from a pillaged synagogue. For 10 points, identify this author of the autobiographical My Life and painter of the ceiling of the Paris Opera House and White Crucifixion.", "round" : "Lully 1.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a006576" }, "answer" : "{Hydrogen} Bonds", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.961676991079, "num" : 9, "question" : "A capital letter is used to denote these stabilizing agents in the Zimm-Bragg model, and high-pressure formic acid has exhibited their symmetric variety. The presence of these entities in the coiled coil of the quaternary structure of collagen gives the protein its tensile strength. Occasionally appearing in bifurcated form, they are used in “smart rubber” and usually occur with Fluorine, oxygen, or nitrogen and their namesake. Weaker than covalent forces, these dipole-dipole bonds often cause materials to have high boiling points. For 10 points, identify these bonds, famously present in water and named for the lightest element.", "round" : "Round 6 - UMD 2.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f558b3d831d6a002ceb" }, "answer" : "“{Lost} in Translation”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.08634211309254, "num" : 1, "question" : "At one point in this poem, the speaker describes a fictitious painting by “a minor lion attending on Gérôme.” It opens by describing an empty card table, and later the speaker notes that “here under the table all along were those missing feet” before saying, “it's done.” The speaker's governess speaks German and French, and is referred to as “Mademoiselle.” The speaker describes his search for a German translation of Paul Valéry's “Palme.” For 10 points, name this poem in which a child waits for a jigsaw puzzle to arrive, written by the author of The Changing Light of Sandover, James Merrill.", "round" : "Packet 02.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0a8b3d831d6a001b7e" }, "answer" : "{cytochrome c}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.93576347175986, "num" : 10, "question" : "This molecule accepts electrons from an enzyme that contains an iron-sulfur subunit known as a Rieske protein. This molecule acts as an electron donor to the P960 chlorophyll pair in some forms of bacterial photosynthesis, and interactions with it and its peroxidase play a prominent role in peroxide scavenging. A protein with a similar role to this one is the Diablo homolog, also known as SMAC. This molecule is released when proteins such as BID and Bax open up an oligomeric pore in the membrane of a certain organelle. (*) Cyanide poisoning functions by preventing this molecule's oxidase from reducing oxygen to water. In apoptosis, this protein combines with Apaf-1 to form the apoptosome heptamer. For ten points, name this iron-containing protein that passes electrons between complex III and complex IV in the electron transport chain.", "round" : "FINAL_Laferbrook.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c9f" }, "answer" : "{Francisco Franco Bahamonde}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8318443291354, "num" : 1, "question" : "As an officer during the Rif War, he led the Regiment of Foreigners against Moroccan tribes. The left-leaning government in 1936 banished him to the Canary Islands, where he began to plot a coup. Due to demands for land which Hitler considered excessive, his country maintained a policy of neutrality throughout World War II. In 1959, he yielded to IMF and Opus Dei demands for a free market economic policy, which contributed to a 14-year economic boom called the Spanish Miracle. For 10 points, name this leader of the victorious Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the military dictator of Spain from 1936 to 1975.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a0030a5" }, "answer" : "the {fundamental} theorem of {algebra} [prompt on {FTA}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2587037466001, "num" : 13, "question" : "The so-called lemma of d'Alembert [DAH-lum-ber] is an incomplete proof of this statement that can be completed using the Weierstrass extreme value theorem. A more direct proof of it uses Rouché's theorem to show that a function with a known number of the values in question has the same number as the function of interest. One corollary of this statement is that every polynomial with only real roots can be written a linear combination of linear and quadratic terms. For 10 points, name this theorem that states that every polynomial over the complex numbers has at least one root, the basic result in an important branch of mathematics.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401c8b3d831d6a005b92" }, "answer" : "{Sandro Botticelli} [or {Alessandro Botticelli}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1350693565328, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one of this man's paintings, a nearly-ethereal golden crown is being placed on the Virgin Mary's head by two angels, and this man also painted Saint Augustine meditating in a studio full of books, globes, and drawers. This artist of Madonna of the Magnificat also created a work in which the three Graces dance in a forest while Zephyr grabs Chloris, who stands with Flora. This artist also depicted the central figure of that painting rising from the sea on a giant shell in another work. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance artist of Primavera and The Birth of Venus.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40328b3d831d6a00613b" }, "answer" : "{Most Serene Republic} of {Venice} [or {Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.35085348598659, "num" : 12, "question" : "This state made an alliance with the Kingdom of Jerusalem through the Pactum Warmundi, and the oldest history of it is provided by John the Deacon. This entity's dissolution was confirmed in the Peace of Leoben, and it had earlier defeated one of its rivals in the War of Chioggia. Pope Julius II initially organized the League of Cambrai to combat the power of this state, although it later fought alongside the papacy in the Battle of Lepanto. This polity's blind leader Enrico Dandolo had his rivals attacked in the Siege of Zara, and also diverted the Fourth Crusade in an attack on Constantinople. Ruled by a Doge, for 10 points, name this rival of Genoa, a maritime power in northeastern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046ca" }, "answer" : "{Flann O'Brian} [accept {Brian O'Nolan} or {Myles na gCopaleen} before they are read]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.78185976529494, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man used a pen name taken from Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Lawn to maintain a satirical column called “The Cruiskeen Lawn”; that pen name is also attached to a novel in which encounters like that with the odiferous pig Ambrose convince Bonaparte O'Coonassa to abandon his quest for peasant authenticity . He also wrote a novel in which a student attempts to kill and rob Mr. Mathers and ends up traveling to a land that places extreme importance in bicycles; that man is infatuated with the philosophy of the hero of a later novel, (*) The Dalkey Archive's de Selby. In his first novel, another university student writes a novel at the Red Swan Hotel about western writers Dermot Trellis and Tracy, who gather together that novel's other characters to try to kill their creator. For 10 points, name this pen name of the man also known as Myles na gCopaleen, born Brian O'Nolan, who wrote The Poor Mouth, The Third Policeman, and At-Swim Two Birds.", "round" : "Rd06.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c77" }, "answer" : "{Cry}, the {Beloved Country}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.5884971308988, "num" : 12, "question" : "At the end of this novel, one character admonishes the townspeople to stop treating cattle as currency, and another character donates milk to all the children in the village. Earlier, Tomlinson and Dubula organize a bus boycott. A lawyer named Mr. Carmichael takes on a robbery case pro deo and helps get Johannes Parfuri and Matthew acquitted. The protagonist leaves Ndotsheni after receiving a letter from Theophilus Msimangu that concerns the illness of Gertrude. After traveling to Johannesburg, the protagonist learns about the murder of Arthur Jarvis. Name this novel in which Absalom, the son of Stephen Kumalo, is hanged, a work by Alan Paton.", "round" : "03 TU.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a00738e" }, "answer" : "{Death} of a {Salesman}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5841387817636, "num" : 4, "question" : "The stage directions for this play call for soft flute music to be played at the entrance of the protagonist, a motif meant to evoke his father, a flute maker. He expresses optimism about his sons' desire to get involved in the sales of sporting goods, a scheme dubbed the “Florida idea.” Through flashbacks we learn that the protagonist mocked his neighbor's son, Bernard, for studying so much and not being “well liked,” though now Bernard is a successful lawyer, and one of only a few who attend the protagonist's funeral after his suicide. Showcasing the frustrated life of Willy Loman, for 10 points, name this play by Arthur Miller.", "round" : "Round10Final.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002717" }, "answer" : "pressure", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.53805762971751, "num" : 17, "question" : "This quantity for photons is equal to the power flux density over the speed of light. For an ideal gas, the specific heat at constant volume is equal to R less than the specific heat holding this quantity constant. Also for an ideal gas, this quantity, all else equal, is proportional to temperature and inversely proportional to volume. For 10 points, name this quantity defined as the ratio of the magnitude of a force over the area over which it is exerted, often measured in torr or atmospheres.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 2.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f808b3d831d6a003723" }, "answer" : "{Marbury} v. {Madison}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.15550771681592, "num" : 6, "question" : "Calder v. Bull extended the results of this case to the states, and it was first applied in Little v. Barreme, also known as the “Flying Fish” case. Cases arising from the decision of this case include one about the President's power to seize control of steel mills during a war, Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer, and one about the extent of executive privilege, United States v. Nixon. The author of the majority opinion wrote “an act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void,” as the Court ruled in favor of the plantiff's right to his commission as an appeals judge, but against the right of the Court to force its delivery by the Secretary of State. For 10 points, identify this Supreme Court case that saw the first use of the doctrine of judicial review.", "round" : "Illinois.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f418b3d831d6a00283c" }, "answer" : "\"{Ode} on a {Grecian Urn}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.47070824517868, "num" : 4, "question" : "Its third and fourth stanzas describe \"all breathing human passion\" and a \"mountain-built with peaceful citadel.\" One stanza in this poem closes by describing a \"heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd / a burning forehead and a parching tongue,\" while the stanza after that one describes a \"heifer lowing at the skies,  / and all her silken flanks with garlands drest.\" The last stanza begins by calling the titular object a \"fair attitude\" and an \"Attic shape,\" while the second line calls it \"foster-child of Silence and slow Time.\" For 10 points, name this poem that begins \"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness\" and closes with \"beauty is truth, truth beauty,\" a poem about an artifact by John Keats.", "round" : "Round 10 updated.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c70" }, "answer" : "{Tay-Sachs} disease", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5117750866339, "num" : 17, "question" : "Its late-onset form, called LOTS, is not fatal, but its infantile and juvenile varieties are. Its symptoms resemble Sandhoff disease, but it is caused by a mutation on chromosome 15 rather than 5. Reduced activity of the enzyme hexosaminidinase A, caused by a mutation in the HEXA gene, leads to accumulation of the ganglioside GM2 in the brain's neurons. This autosomal recessive disease causes the appearance of a cherry-red spot on the retina. Other symptoms include an inability to swallow as well as blindness, deafness, and paralysis. For 10 points, name this lysosomal storage disorder which is usually fatal by age 5 and is most common in Ashkenazi Jewish populations.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a000176" }, "answer" : "{Bacon's} Rebellion", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.10775833926164, "num" : 14, "question" : "One contemporary observer of this event wrote that “I am sorry at my heart, that lice and flux should do the hangman's part.” A violent act during this event was a march into the Great Dragon Swamp made by a man who perpetrated a massacre against the Occaneechees. It began with a conflict between Giles Brent and some Doegs that shortly spread to the Susquehannocks; its leader did not care, because he believed in war “against all Indians in general for that they were all enemies.” That leader also criticized the monopoly over the beaver trade in his “Declaration of the People.” Residents of New Kent county discontented with the conditions of tobacco farming provided much of the manpower for this attempt to overthrow the Green Spring faction of Governor William Berkeley. For 10 points, name this 1676 uprising that led to the burning of Jamestown.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-OSUBerkeleyStateCollegeFinal.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069e9" }, "answer" : "{pH} [prompt on {acidity} or {basicity} or equivalents]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3568322730716, "num" : 6, "question" : "Chitosan is a polysaccharide used effectively in bandages and ineffectively as a weight loss miracle because it swells as this quantity increases. Instruments used to measure it sometime account for its variation due to temperature, and those instruments generate a current at an electrode with high resistivity. The physiological one is fairly constant since deviations can denature enzymes. For ten points, give the term for this quantity, the negative base-ten logarithm of a solution's concentration of hydronium ions.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40138b3d831d6a0059a1" }, "answer" : "{Camille Saint-Seans}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.68968320009299, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man's song settings include Tournoiement (Songe d'opium) and La Splendeur vide, which are collected amongst his Mélodies persane. One work in E-flat major follows the Intermède with a gavotte and the central part of the second movement of one of his works is marked Allegretto and is preceded and followed by sections marked ad libitum. In addition to his string septet and his Oboe Sonata, one of his concertos has the marking leggiaramente in the Allegro scherzando movement, and has a first movement which gives the soloist an ad libitum cadenza and draws from Bach fantasias. Another concerto for the same instrument was inspired by a Nubian love song. Besides his Egyptian concerto and his second piano concerto in G minor, he composed two cello concertos, the first in A minor. Another work features some glissandi on a glass harmonica as well as a movement depicting pianists practicing their scales, and he twice used the xylophone to depict rattling bones, once in a work which opens with a harp playing a D note twelve times, signifying the clock striking midnight. For 10 points, name this composer of The Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060fa" }, "answer" : "{Gaetano Donizetti}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.11849078396335, "num" : 4, "question" : "During a performance at age 14 this composer improvised a waltz while singing, “I have a vast mind, a quick talent, and ready imagination – I am a thunderbolt at composing.” The aria “Fra l'erbe cosparse” popularized one of his early operas, and he gained early fame in Rome with the opera Zoraida di Granata. A later opera by this man features the well-known duet “Sul suo capo aggravi un Dio,” while “Com'e Bello” is a highlight of his Lucrezia Borgia. Another of this man's operas contains the sextet “Chi mi frena in tal momento,” while a string of nine high C's complicates the aria “Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête,” sung in another opera by Tonio to Marie. Also known for Anna Bolena and Don Pasquale, this is, for 10 points, what composer of The Daughter of the Regiment and an opera containing a notable “mad scene,” Lucia di Lammermoor.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 1 - Final.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef38b3d831d6a00160c" }, "answer" : "{Hugo Chavez}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6792382372078, "num" : 7, "question" : "In June 2010, this man and Bashar al-Asad formed the “Movement of Free Allies.” This man has championed the so-called Bank of the South. He secured Russian help to build the first nuclear power plant in his country in October 2010 and in April 2011 offered to negotiate between Libya’s Transitional Council and Muammar Qaddafi. His September 2006 speech at the United Nations referred to George W. Bush as (*) “the devil,” but just seven months earlier he had offered discounted heating oil to poor Americans. His United Socialist Party pushed through a referendum to eliminate term limits in 2009, allowing his Bolivarian Revolution to continue indefinitely. For 10 points, name this president of Venezuela.", "round" : "Packet 14 - Superplayoffs 4.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f738b3d831d6a003408" }, "answer" : "{cosine}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 395.5513521148823, "num" : 17, "question" : "Malus' law gives the transmitted intensity of polarized light as the square of this function of the polarizer's angle relative to the incoming light. In Compton scattering, the wavelength shift is proportional to 1 minus this function of the scattering angle. The intensity observed from a Lambertian surface is proportional to this function of the angle between the observer and the surface normal. This function's hyperbolic version describes the shape of a freely hanging chain supported at both ends and subject to a uniform gravitational force. The dot product of two vectors is given by the product of their magnitudes times this function of the angle between them. For 10 points, identify this trigonometric function whose square plus the square of the sine is always 1.", "round" : "Round 19 Finals I.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbd8b3d831d6a004588" }, "answer" : "Thebes", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 99.1638356957119, "num" : 4, "question" : "One queen of this place married Epopeus after she was seduced by Zeus and was given as a slave to Dirce by her father Nycteus. Another daughter of a king of this city gave birth to Mopsus and was forced to oversee the oracle of Apollo at Colophon. In addition to Antiope, a general of this city's army, originally from Tiryns, fled here after killing his father-in-law Electryon over a dispute about some cattle. Megareus sacrificed himself in order to save this city, and (*) Amphiaraus was tricked into going to war against this city after he was given a necklace belonging to Harmonia. Amphion and Zetheus are said to have built this city's walls, and its founder was told by the oracle of Delphi to follow a cow to its current site; that founder, along with his brothers Phoenix and Cilix, had been told by their father Agenor not to come home until their sister Europa was found. Melanippus was among the defenders of this city against an army led by Polynices. For 10 points, name this Greek city-state founded by Cadmus.", "round" : "Packet 05 - Beiyang Army_ROMola.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6d8b3d831d6a003288" }, "answer" : "{Stars} and {Stripes Forever}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.8742582951672, "num" : 3, "question" : "After strains in E flat and a trio in A flat, this song contains a twenty-four bar breakstrain. Written on board the Teutonic after the death of David Blakely, this song was debuted in Philadelphia in 1897. The lyrics of this song claim it is about “The gem of the land and the sea” and state “Sing out for liberty and light.” It contains a famous obbligato traditionally played by an odd number of piccolos which are then counterpointed by trombones, and it has been des- ignated the official march of the United States. Name this piece which often is performed after the 1812 Overture on the 4th of July written by John Philip Sousa.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e57" }, "answer" : "{Pather Panchali} (or The {Song} of the {Little Road} or The {Lament} of the {Path})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.09475016896613, "num" : 5, "question" : "After seeing a 15 to 20 minute silent rough cut of this film John Huston recommended it for release in the U.S. Initially filming took place only on Sunday's due to the director's job at an ad agency, though this changed during this work's three year production. In the final climactic scene the mother's weeping is emphasized by the high notes of the tarshahnai and follows the return of her husband. Happier scenes include the family's two children following the sweet seller through their town and their running through a flower field while chasing a train. The elderly Indir's death is assumed to be inevitable, but the death of Sarabjaya and Harihar's daughter causes them to leave their village by the end of this film, the first of a trilogy.  For 10 points, name this work which introduced the young Bengali boy Apu, the first film by Satyajit Ray.", "round" : "Editor's Round 1 (RR).docx", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f898b3d831d6a003969" }, "answer" : "{Brideshead Revisited}, The {Sacred} and {Profane Memories} of {Captain} Charles Ryder", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.35481814062223, "num" : 13, "question" : "The introduction to the latest Random House edition of this text was written by the recently deceased critic Frank Kermode. One character in this work named her horse Beelzebub because “if you can ride the devil, you can ride anything.” A search for Effie at the Old Hundredth lands “Boy” Mulcaster in jail, and he is bailed out by the Canadian Rex Mottram, Julia's fiancé. Julia's brother first met the protagonist one night at Oxford by throwing up in his window, a precursor to his severe alcoholism later on. The novel opens as that protagonist, an architectural painter and soldier, unexpectedly catches sight of the titular estate. For 10 points, name this work narrated by Charles Ryder, a novel by Evelyn Waugh.", "round" : "Round by Maryland Blind.docx", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ead8b3d831d6a0005af" }, "answer" : "cancer", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 394.6682472510729, "num" : 22, "question" : "A double mutation of the gene Rb may lead to this phenomena occurring in the eye, and a regulator of a process associated with this disease is PUMA, whose expression is induced by the protein p53. That protein may initiate apoptosis, the programmed cell death whose absence is responsible for the proliferation of this disease, and manifestations of this disease can be classified as either benign or malignant. For 10 points, name this disease characterized by the growth of tumors.", "round" : "colonia-02.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40748b3d831d6a0070b9" }, "answer" : "{John Constable}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.7628593656701, "num" : 3, "question" : "Edited letters by this artist were published by Charles Robert Leslie. his early works include one inspired by Claude Lorrain, Dedham Vale: Morning, and a painting of a subject that would appear in a later work, Flatford Mill. Other frequent subjects included Salisbury Cathedral, and his paintings set in the River Stour valley include The White Horse and a painting that depicts Willy Lott's cottage and the titular cart. For 10 points, name this English landscape painter, whose best-known work is The Hay Wain.", "round" : "NNT_Packet_8.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002a88" }, "answer" : "{Basques} [accept {Euskadi} but not “{Euskara}” since that is the {language's} name]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8887791361194, "num" : 14, "question" : "Members of this ethnicity founded a ninth-century nation called Banu Qasi, and immigrants from them started an annual festival in Winnemucca, Nevada. In one conflict, this group supported the Carlists, and their historical presence at the 778 [*] Battle of Roncesvalles led to the defeat of Roland's army. A militant organization claiming to represent them, called ETA, has killed over 800 people, and an oak stump revered by them survived the 1937 bombing of Guernica. For 10 points, name this ethnic group from northern Spain whose language has no known relatives.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 13 [Finals 2] COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001ae6" }, "answer" : "{prime} [or {primality}; accept {prime numbers}; accept {primes}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6503841853701, "num" : 6, "question" : "This property is tested for by Proth’s theorem, and GIMPS is searching for numbers with this property. A theorem about this property states that the distribution of numbers with it is approximately n over log n, and numbers with it separated by two are called “twins.” Other kinds of these numbers are named for [*] Fermat and Mersenne, and Goldbach’s conjeture states that every even integer greater than two can be written as the sum of two numbers with this property. Euler proved that there are infinitely numbers with this property, which can be found with the Sieve of Eratosthenes. For 10 points, name this property of numbers whose only factors are one and themselves.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee38b3d831d6a00126e" }, "answer" : "{James Abbott MacNeil Whistler}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3595489321742, "num" : 31, "question" : "A painting of a foggy bridge with fireworks in the background by this artist was depicted artificially high and is styled after a Hokusai painting. Another painting in the same series by this artist depicts fireworks at Cremorne Gardens. That series of Nocturnes was derided by critic John Ruskin as this artist “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.” A woman stands on an animal skin carpet in a work painted by this advocate of “art for art’s sake.” For 10 points, name this artist of musically titled works such as his Symphony in White No. 1 and an Arrangement in Grey and Black, a portrait of his mother.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb68b3d831d6a0007c4" }, "answer" : "{tumor necrosis} factor {alpha} (accept “{cachexin}” or “{cachectin}” early; do not prompt on or accept {tumor necrosis factor beta} or {TNF-beta}; {don’t} accept {TGF}, which is {something else altogether})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.02750231977552, "num" : 10, "question" : "The dynamics of this molecule’s receptors are described by the ligand-passing model, and it is cleaved by the metallopeptidase ADAM17. This molecule induces externalization of granules and surface expression of P-selectin in Weibel-Palade bodies. It was discovered as a suppressor of lipoprotein lipase and as a factor involved in triglyceridemia, leading to its alternative name of cachexin. Infliximab, a monoclonal antibody against this protein, was developed by Mark Feldmann and colleagues, who studied the signalling cascade of this protein in rheumatoid arthritis. Like FAS, this molecule’s receptor associates with TRADD upon ligand binding, causing either survival through derepression of NF-kappa-B or, alternatively, caspase-8-mediated apoptosis. Systemic release of this molecule leads to intravascular blood clotting, increased vascule permeability, and other symptoms of septic shock. For 10 points, name this pro-inflammatory cytokine secreted primarily by macrophages and mast cells.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors10Final.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f8f" }, "answer" : "{Chromium} (accept {Cr} before mentioned, prompt on “{chrome}”) [{SJ/DU}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.7245039152913, "num" : 18, "question" : "One substance containing this element catalyzes the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to carboxylic acids and ketones, and is called the Jones reagent. Uvarovite garnet contains this element, and stichtite is an alteration product from serpentine that bears this element. With potassium, its hexavalent ion forms a potent oxidizing agent, sometimes used to clean glassware. Two atoms of this element can form a quintuple covalent bond. Stainless steel contains this element, and metal things are plated with it to make them shiny. For 10 points, name this namesake of some green and yellow pigments, with atomic number 24 and symbol Cr.", "round" : "Packet 3.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a00595b" }, "answer" : "{Isak Dinesen} or {Karen Blixen}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.8043023166247, "num" : 4, "question" : "This author wrote about a court painter who seeks to ruin the image of the titular subject by messing up his depiction of her in a story centering on Cazotte in the novel Ehrengard. This author wrote about the wealthy Jew Marcus Cocoza assisting an opera singer who lost her voice in a theatre fire, Pellegrine Leoni, in a short story collection whose first story sees four people trapped in a farmhouse marrying each other after Calypso and Hamilcar tell each other tales. This author also wrote about a woman haunted by a monkey's spirit planning for the assault of Athena Hopballehus. In addition to \"The Dreamers\" and \"The Deluge at Norderney,\" both in  7 Gothic Tales, this author described Emmanuelson getting a loan from Denys Finch-Hatton's friend before selling a coffee plantation in Kenya. For ten points, name this author of Out of Africa.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 5.doc", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a00658d" }, "answer" : "{Johan August Strindberg}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.737581836991, "num" : 11, "question" : "The artist Axel and his feminist-artist wife Bertha live together as compatriots and not lovers in this author's Comrades.  Another Axel, this one a librarian, first desires the Baroness then longs for his friend Gustav's wife Marie in this author's Confessions of a Fool.  A group of intellectuals, including Olle Montanus, Sellen, and Lundell, gather to talk in the titular location in his The Red Room, while Bocklin's Isle of the Dead appears after Jacob Hummel and the Student, Arkenholz, find a parrot-talking mummy in a closet in this author's Ghost Sonata.  For 10 points, name this author of A Dream Play who wrote about a suicidal woman and her love Jean in Miss Julie.", "round" : "Round 7 - UMN 1.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a00718d" }, "answer" : "{Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0527239686344, "num" : 13, "question" : "In 1928, he took charge of purging the Moscow party of anti-Stalinist elements, and from 1930 through 1941, he was chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Two years before hs 1986 death, Konstantin Chernenko invited him to rejoin the Communist Party; forty years earlier, he had rejected Soviet participation in the Marshall Plan, but was exiled to Mongolia a few years later. For 10 points, name this Soviet diplomat, who engineered a 1939 pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop and is the namesake of certain bottles of flammable liquid.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005c8b" }, "answer" : "{Prince Edward} Island [accept {St. John's Island} before it is mentioned]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.284832989797, "num" : 13, "question" : "Nicknamed the Million-Acre Farm and the Birthplace of Confederation, this polity was originally known as St. John's Island. This polity's eastern half contains the cities of Miminegash, Tignish, and its second-largest city, Summerside. Its only connection to the mainland is the Confederation Bridge, spanning the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait. This island's capital and the suburbs of Cornwall and Stratford form the polity's main urban area. Situated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it is located north of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Name this island with capital at Charlottetown, the smallest province of Canada.", "round" : "04 TU.pdf", "seen" : 391, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a002519" }, "answer" : "{Tracey Emin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.78840506705455, "num" : 13, "question" : "This artist managed to sell a blanket called Star Trek Voyager for £800,000 and in January 2010 collaborated with Paula Rego and Mat Collinshaw installing the neon words \"foundlings and fledglings are the angels of this earth\" at the Foundling's Museum. Other neon works include the purple Legs I, while a grandparent's furniture provided the basis for There's a Lot of Money in Chairs. This artist was among the first represented by Jay Jopling at the (*) White Cube gallery and created a work that was kept in a silver room on a Persian rug by its owner, who had organized the Sensation exhibition at which it debuted. For 10 points, name this artist who sewed 102 names into a work owned by Charles Saatchi, known as the Young British Artist who created Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1965.", "round" : "Lully 6.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001151" }, "answer" : "abortion", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.6450323590543, "num" : 19, "question" : "The 1989 Webster case dealt with this issue in that it upheld a Missouri state law that contained provisions prohibiting the use of governmental funds directed towards it. This issue was also at the heart of the 1992 Casey case, which upheld several restrictions in a Pennsylvania state law dealing with it. A version of it was at the center of the more recent case of Gonzalez v. Carhart. The companion case to the case that legalized this action was Doe v. Bolton. For 10 points, name this practice that was upheld through the Supreme Court case of Roe V. Wade.", "round" : "30.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eab8b3d831d6a00052d" }, "answer" : "{José Protacio Rizal Mercado Alonzo} y {Realonda}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.22449171496555, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man’s fiction, along with that Balagtas, Lizardi, and Kartodikromo, discussed in the “Cultural Roots” chapter of Imagined Communities. The Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling created this man’s monument, a 12m obelisk with a rounded base and bronze sculptures of the man himself. The author of the essay Demanche des Rameaux criticizing the Catholic church, he contributed to the Spanish newspaper La Solidaridad as an advocate of the Propaganda movement and asked for his people’s representation in the Cortes Generales. Exiled to Dapitan for his role in an aborted 1892 rebellion, he was later executed for presumed links to the secret society Katipunan. Having written the poem Ultima Adios while in prison, For 10 Points, name this Philippine nationalist figure, the author of Noli Me Tangere.", "round" : "2011 CO History Gehring Larsen.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b67" }, "answer" : "{Daoism} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 393.2055074605159, "num" : 16, "question" : "One scholar of this faith turned down a civil service position by comparing himself to a sacred turtle that would be better off dragging its tail through the mud than having its bones venerated. That scholar was Zhuangzi, and deities of this faith include the Three Purities, among who is the Jade Emperor, and the Eight Immortals. Concepts important to this religion include ch'i, de, or power, and wu wei, action through inaction, and the yin-yang is associated with it. For 10 points, name this Chinese religion whose text, translated “The Way and its Power,” is attributed to its founder, Laozi.", "round" : "Finals.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c62" }, "answer" : "{ATP} [or {adenosine 5? triphosphate}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.1918769616168, "num" : 10, "question" : "The synthesis of this molecule is described by the Boyer model, and takes place by beta units switching between “tight” and “loose” configurations in its namesake enzyme, which consists of a knob, rod, and rotor. It is produced especially quickly in cells with myoglobin. Its most important function can be catalyzed by polynucleotide kinase, and involves the breaking of one phosphate bond to release energy. Name this molecule produced in the Krebs cycle, the “energy currency” of cells.", "round" : "02 TU.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40008b3d831d6a005519" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Tours} [or Battle of {Poitiers}; or Battle of the {Court} of the {Martyrs}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0012020734139, "num" : 7, "question" : "The victor of this battle was able to deal with an uphill cavalry charge with no cavalry of his own. This battle ended when the winner surrounded the forces of Abd el-Rahman (ROCH-mon). The winner of this battle earned the nickname \"the (*) hammer\" while fighting for the Merovingians (mer-oh-VIN-jee-unz) in 732. For 10 points, name this battle at which Charles Martel halted the advance of Islam into France.", "round" : "tourn11-04.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a006103" }, "answer" : "{François-Auguste-René Rodin} ({roh-DAN})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5552796372212, "num" : 5, "question" : "This artist’s depiction of the god Iris is missing both an arm and a head and was incorporated into The Apotheosis of Victor Hugo. Romantically involved with the sculptor Camille Claudel, he also created a monument to the martyrs of a French city besieged during the Hundred Years' War, The Burghers of Calais (kuh-LAY). This sculptor’s The Gates of Hell includes miniature versions of The Kiss and a sculpture of Dante resting his chin on a clenched fist. For 10 points, name this French sculptor of The Thinker.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 273, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eae8b3d831d6a0005bd" }, "answer" : "{Fidel Castro Ruz}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2326059453189, "num" : 40, "question" : "This leader was targeted by Operation Verano, which ended after his forces won the Battle of Yaguajay (yah-goo-AH-hay). In honor of the date of his failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, this man named his revolutionary movement after the Twenty-Sixth of July. This leader overthrew Fulgencio Batista (fool-HEN-see-oo buh-TEES-tuh) and was the target of the Bay of Pigs Invasion. For 20 points, name this man became ill in 2006, leading him to transfer his duties to his younger brother Raúl.", "round" : "colonia-02.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1a8b3d831d6a001eda" }, "answer" : "{urea} cycle", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.09918241621926, "num" : 4, "question" : "Valproate, or Depakote, can cause encephalopathy in individuals in which this pathway is defective, and CSPI deficiency is a particularly severe disorder affecting this pathway. Disorders in this pathway may be treated with sodium phenylbutyrate, which is metabolized to phenylacetate in the body.  One enzyme in this pathway is an isomer of an enzyme that makes up part of the CAD complex in pyrimidine biosynthesis; that enzyme is allosterically regulated by N-acetylglutamate and is called CPS-I. In one step in this pathway, carbamyl phosphate is combined with ornithine to produce citrulline. Originally discovered by  Henseleit and Krebs, for 10 points, name this cycle which is used to remove nitrogen from unneeded amino acids from the body. ", "round" : "MI MN B - Final.docx", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a003022" }, "answer" : "{Henry Lewis Stimson}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6900385830086, "num" : 20, "question" : "This man closed the Black Chamber, of which he said \"gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail.\" He lost to John Alden Dix in the 1910 New York gubernatorial election and served as the chair of the U.S. delegation to the London Naval Conference in 1930. He succeeded Leonard Wood as Governor-General of the Philippines and named a statement that said the United States will not recognize any territorial change brought about from aggressive action. For 10 points, name this man who named a U.S. foreign policy doctrine issued after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and served as Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of war during World War Two.", "round" : "1.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4b8b3d831d6a002aa7" }, "answer" : "{Norman Rockwell}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3973502989393, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of this artist's works features a black girl being escorted past a griffitied racial slur by four federal marshals. Besides The Problem We All Live With, he depicted a boy and his reluctant father before he attends college, and painted three [*] partially-clothed boys running to the left with a black and brown dog in Breaking Home Ties and No Swimming. He showed himself looking in a mirror and painting himself in Triple Self Portrait. Also known for \"Rosie the Riveter\", for 10 points, name this artist of the Four Freedoms series, who created cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 3 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a00253b" }, "answer" : "Les {Troyens} or The {Trojans}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.94300055131316, "num" : 10, "question" : "The duet “Errante sur tes pas” was added years after this work's original composition. In the first act, a mezzo-soprano sings of how death is granted in the eternal night in “Malheureux roi” after singing “Les Grecs ont disparu.” The first act closes with the same mezzo-soprano singing the aria “Non, je verrai pas,” while act IV features three ballets to accompany one character's defeat of Iarbas. Act IV also contains the love duet “Nuit d'Ivresse” and ends with Mercure hitting one character's shield three times and shouting “Italie!” The (*) “Royal Hunt and Storm” is frequently excerpted from this work, which has a second act that ends with the death of Cassandre, though the third act opens at Didon's palace, where Enée arrives. For 10 points, identify this Hector Berlioz opera, which is named for people who got duped by a wooden horse.", "round" : "Lully 8.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001138" }, "answer" : "{European} Union [or {EU}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9937674931716, "num" : 26, "question" : "Precursors to this alliance were headed by the Hallstein and Armand Commissions. Some of this alliance's origins can be traced to the support of Alcide de Gasperi and Jean Monnet at the 1957 Treaties of Rome. The debt and deficit convergence criteria set by this organization have recently been tested by Greece and Ireland and were set by the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht. For 10 points, name this union consisting of such states as Germany and France.", "round" : "29.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403e8b3d831d6a0063fc" }, "answer" : "{Jorge Luis Borges}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.74521384947001, "num" : 19, "question" : "He analyzed the different ways to make metaphors between the stars and eyes in his 1967 Norton lectures, This Craft of Verse. He imagined meeting a twenty-years-younger version of himself in “August 23, 1983,” and claimed the bullet that killed J.F.K. was “the stone that Cain hurled at Abel” in the “Museum” section of The Maker, which also contains a work about two similar figures ending “I am not sure which of us it is that's writing this page.” He also compiled The Book of Imaginary Beings, and wrote a detective story ending with Red Scharlach killing Erik Lonnrot, \"Death and the Compass.\" His creations include a mysterious Company that arranges an infinitely-regressive set of lotteries; Ireneo, who fails to reduce his perfect memory to 70,000 recollections; and a man who does not wish to “copy,” but rather compose, the Quixote. For 10 points, name this creator of Funes the Memorious, Pierre Menard, and the Library of Babel.", "round" : "Packet_10.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a0046f7" }, "answer" : "{Leigh Hunt} [or {James Henry Leigh Hunt}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.41971642803401, "num" : 20, "question" : "The title figure of one poem by this man refers to the reader as a “breather of unbreathable sword-sharp air” and as an “Amazing monster!” that made that figure's race “forever stare”. In the second canto of another of his poems, he describes a figure as “the very poetry of nature” as that figure, Paolo Malatesta, arrives at Francesca's wedding. In addition to “A Fish Answers” and The Story of (*) Rimini, this author published the Liberal with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, founded the Examiner, and wrote Solomon's Ring. A poem by this man asks “Time, you thief” to “Say that health and wealth have missed me” as long as the title action is mentioned, while another of his poems describes “An angel writing in a book of gold” and wishes that the title figure's tribe may increase. For 10 points, identify this British author of “Jenny Kiss'd Me” and “Abou ben Adhem”.", "round" : "Rd08.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f45" }, "answer" : "{Friedrich von Hayek}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.36423376505263, "num" : 14, "question" : "This thinker postulated the genetic, the intellectual, and the subconscious as \"The Three Sources of Human Values\" in a lecture that argued that subconscious sources are neither rational nor intuitive but lead to success within the communities that practice them, thus explaining their prevalence in modern society. He expanded that lecture in his final book that attacked the notion that individuals can create whatever society they wish; that text, heavily edited by William Bartley after his death, is The Fatal Conceit. He distinguished between societies he termed \"cosmos\" and \"taxis\" in (*) Law, Legislation, and Liberty, while in his earlier text The Constitution of Liberty he included his essay \"Why I am not a Conservative.\" For 10 points, name this economist who described the path societies take to communism and fascism in The Road to Serfdom.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a0028be" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Woodrow Wilson}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3913394424599, "num" : 6, "question" : "During his tenure, the Federal Trade Commission was created, and the Federal Farm Loan Act was passed, as was the Clayton Antitrust Act. During this man's presidency, woman's suffrage was achieved and the Federal Reserve was created. He tried to make the world safe for democracy at Versailles with his Fourteen Points. For 10 points, name this President of the United States from 1912-1920, who served while America was involved in World War I.", "round" : "FKT 2010 DuPont FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eda8b3d831d6a00103d" }, "answer" : "{taxation}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 338.1862599062733, "num" : 4, "question" : "The \"Pigouvian\" type of these things are used to correct negative externalities. Their rate is plotted on the x axis of the Laffer curve. The rate of progressive ones rise with increasing value of the target. Some politicians and economists propose reforming these in the U.S. by levying a flat one. The 16th amendment allows the federal government to impose an income one. For 10 points, name these economically entities used by governments to raise money.", "round" : "22.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a00324f" }, "answer" : "“The {Fall} of the House of {Usher}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3269848024938, "num" : 3, "question" : "In this story, the narrator remembers a song titled “The Haunted Palace” performed by his childhood friend, and the narrator reads the story “Mad Trist”. That friend lives in a residence with a fissure in the front going all the way from the top to the bottom. When Madeline dies, she is buried beneath the house, and the narrator learns that she is a twin with his friend Roderick. There are two versions of this story, since it was edited before being included in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Name this short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the end of a family.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a00690b" }, "answer" : "the {founding} of {Rome} [accept obvious equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1147201517597, "num" : 24, "question" : "In a less-often-told version of this event, Iulus was said to be the one responsible. Several kings of Alba Longa ruled southeast of where it occurred, and it was followed by the abduction of the Sabine women. The best known account states that it occurred after one figure saw twelve vultures and later dug a trench, over which Remus leapt and was killed. Accomplished by Romulus, for 10 points, name this establishment of the nexus of a Mediterranean empire.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40748b3d831d6a0070a1" }, "answer" : "The {Jungle Book} [do not accept The {Second Jungle Book}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6513830765616, "num" : 19, "question" : "A chapter in the first one purports to be a “sort of very sad seal National Anthem,” which celebrates the “beaches of Lukannon,” while in the second one a pack of dhole is defeated with the aid of an ordinarily hostile python in the story “Red Dog.” At the end of that story, Akela dies and instructs the protagonist to “go back to thy people.  Go to Man.”  In another story in this collection, a tailor-bird helps to defend Teddy from Karait, and in another, the title mongoose helps to kill Nag and defeats Nagaina. “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” appears in,  for 10 points, what collections of stories about animals by Rudyard Kipling?", "round" : "NNT_Packet_6.doc", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a0001ac" }, "answer" : "{Orion} (or {Orion Crew Exploration} Vehicle)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.74863956961781, "num" : 10, "question" : "A vehicle of this name will have functional testing of its STORRM risk mitigation hardware during the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The constellation of this name is home to the prototype star for very high accretion rate, very luminous outburst episode pre-main sequence stars; that prototype is this constellation's star FU. Another star in this constellation was the target of interferometric observations by Michelson that yielded the first measurement of the angular diameter of a star other than the Sun. Innovative safety and life support systems allow missions up to six months long on the \"next generation\" manned space vehicle of this name. This constellation is home to Barnard's Loop, which is part of its namesake Molecular Cloud Complex that also includes the Horsehead Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster. An asterism consisting of Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak can be found in, for 10 points, what constellation whose brightest stars are Rigel and Betelgeuse?", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-UCLAASUIllinoisBCMUFinal.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0e8b3d831d6a001c44" }, "answer" : "{John Coltrane}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.10651492211036, "num" : 18, "question" : "This artist added Pharoah Sanders and Rasheed Ali to his usual quartet for the album Meditations. His collaborations with bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy include the album Africa/Brass, which contains a reworking of “Greensleeves” by this artist's long-time pianist, McCoy Tyner.  One of his albums contains a track named for the bassist Paul Chambers, “Mr. P.C.”, and the ballad, “Naima.” Sections titled “Acknowledgment” and “Pursuance” form parts of a later spiritual album. For 10 points, name this tenor saxophonist whose notey, arpeggiated style was described as “sheets of sound” and can be found on the albums Giant Steps and A Love Supreme. ", "round" : "Bellarmine and UCLA.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000da7" }, "answer" : "diffusion", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.452618887648, "num" : 2, "question" : "The cage effect partially describes the relationship between the reaction rate and the rate at which this process occurs; those reactions are limited not by activation but by this process. It is roughly inversely proportional to the square root of molar mass. This process is modeled by Fick's Laws, which involve the spatial derivatives of concentration. When water undergoes this process, it is called osmosis. For 10 points, name this net mass movement of solute from higher concentrations to lower concentrations.", "round" : "regionals-04.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404e8b3d831d6a0067b9" }, "answer" : "{Cepheid variables}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5402753211092, "num" : 6, "question" : "Polaris is one of these stars, while another particularly noticeable one is Eta Aquilae, of unknown metallicity. The assumption that metallicity does not affect them is essential to their usefulness. They are used as standard candles because of their consistent period-luminosity relationship; the former varies between three and thirty days, the latter between eight hundred and ten thousand solar. W Virginis stars are sometimes called the “type II” of these entities. FTP, identify this class of stars, named after the delta star of the constellation named for an ancient king.", "round" : "HFT Round 10.doc", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a001330" }, "answer" : "{Quakers} [accept {Religious Society} of {Friends} before mentioned]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 49.49160560383461, "num" : 14, "question" : "One early division in this faith was sparked by Elias Hicks in reaction to the evangelical nature of the Second Great Awakening and presaged the development of the conservative Wilburite factions of this faith in Iowa, North Carolina, and Ohio. Many congregations in this faith teach children at “First Day” School, a term from their depaganized “plain calendar.” While every Yearly Meeting of this faith may espouse different ideals, most members of this sect believe they possess the “inner light” of God. The traditional service of this church is unprogrammed and allows anyone to speak if they desire. Historically known for their pacifism and plain dress For 10 points, identify this Christian religion, founded by George Fox, once whose members identify themselves as “friends”.", "round" : "Packet 3 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b6e" }, "answer" : "{Sir Walter Scott}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.507410887396, "num" : 1, "question" : "One of this man's novels concerns the secret marriage of Amy Robsart to Robert Dudley, and in another novel, Jeanie Deans attains a pardon for her sister and a better farm for her father. In another novel, Frank Osbaldistone is helped by the title outlaw. In his most famous novel, the Black Knight turns out to be Richard the Lionheart, and Robin Hood helps lay siege to a castle to rescue Rowena. For 10 points, name this Scottish novelist of Kenilworth, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc08b3d831d6a004661" }, "answer" : "{William Gaddis}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.50142312445677, "num" : 11, "question" : "In one of this author's novels, the titular character plays the role of Alberich from Wagner's Ring Cycle while being instructed in music by the later composer of cello solo work who helps him sell Air Force picnic forks to the army and earns enough money to buy a New England mill town. In addition to that work in which Jack Gibbs is a science teacher, another of this man's works features a fake doctor operating on the appendicitis of the mother of a man who changes his name to Stephen, Frank Sinisterra as well as a former Jesuit critic Valentine, a playwright Otto Pivner and Rectall Brown, an art collector. In addition to (*) Agape Agapé, this author, in a work including Reverend Ude, wrote about the phone interrupting the life of Bibbs and Paul Booth and an old house built in the titular style in his Carpenter's Gothic. For 10 points, name this American author, who created Edward Bast and Wyatt Gwyon in his novels JR and The Recognitions.", "round" : "Rd01.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a007657" }, "answer" : "{Mere Christianity}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 119.9236408013385, "num" : 12, "question" : "It notes that \"a mother teaches her baby to talk by talking to it as if it understood long before it really does\" in describing the pretension that is needed to make the pretence into a reality.  It remarks that \"the only person who could repent perfectly is a perfect person,\" and he wouldn't need it, in a section that follows the \"shocking alternative.\" This leads the author to propose his so-called \"Trilemma,\" which rejects the \"moral teacher\" stance by claiming that Jesus must have been the son of God, a liar, or a lunatic. Using the moral law to establish the existence of God in \"The Rival Conceptions of God,\" it calls the world \"enemy-occupied territory\" in \"The Invasion.\" For ten points name this work originally broadcast on the BBC during World War II, written by C. S. Lewis and dealing with a certain religion.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - UCLA A MIT A.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eee8b3d831d6a0014d5" }, "answer" : "{Samuel Houston} [accept {Sam Houston}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1411257099826, "num" : 15, "question" : "Alexis de Tocqueville interviewed this man when he ran a trading post among his friends, the Cherokee Indians. After Congressman William Stanbery accused him of defrauding the Indians under the Jackson administration, he became so incensed that he beat Stanbery and hired Francis Scott Key as his lawyer. This man, nicknamed \"Big Drunk,\" governed Tennessee in the 1820s, and he was evicted as governor of another state after refusing to swear loyalty to the Confederacy. He preceded Mirabeau Lamar as President of a country that gained independence after he won the Battle of San Jacinto. For 10 points, name this first President of the Republic of Texas.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a00769c" }, "answer" : "{Louis XIII} (accept {Louis} the {Just} or {Louis} le {Juste}; prompt on {Louis})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.34072902682237, "num" : 18, "question" : "The first seven years of his reign were dominated by the Italian adventurer, Concino Concini, who was shot to death by the royal guard on the order of Charles de Luynes and this man. His later reign saw the conspiracy against him by “les Importants” and the duchess de Chevreuse as well as the plotting of a favorite, the marquis de Cinq-Mars, with the Spanish court. Francis Bassompierre and this man's brother, Gaston of Orleans, were exiled from Paris in the incident known as the “Day of the Dupes,” echoing the exile of his wife, Anne of Austria, ten years earlier. FTP, name this man, the son of Marie de Medici and Henry IV, who made France the greatest continental power in Europe with the help of his favorite minister, Cardinal Richelieu.", "round" : "ACF Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019e4" }, "answer" : "determinant", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5527324175928, "num" : 20, "question" : "This quantity can be used to compute the hypervolume of a simplex with its Cayley-Menger variety, and Hadamard’s inequality attempts to find the largest possible value of this quantity, which can also be calculated with the rule of Sarrus. Linear independence of a function can be determined using the Wronskian type of this value, while eigenvalues can be computed by setting it to zero. [*] Cramer’s rule uses this value to find the solution of a system of equations. This value can be found with minor expansion and when this value is zero, the matrix in question is singular. For 10 points, name this quantity that for a two-by-two matrix is a d minus b c.", "round" : "Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fae" }, "answer" : "Yahoo! [TC]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.2207884190138, "num" : 11, "question" : "This company was embroiled in controversy over the imprisonment of dissidents Shi Tao and Li Zhi, since it released previously confidential information to Chinese officials. CEO Terry Semel stepped down in June 2007 in favor of the company co-founder, who appointed Susan Decker as president. By 2005, this company had acquired Oddpost to add an Ajax interface to its email service, and had purchased Upcoming.org and Flickr. Founded by Stanford grad students David Filo and Jerry Yang, for ten points, name this internet company which in 2008 was the target of a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft, which probably did not cause its shareholders to yodel.", "round" : "Packet 5.doc", "seen" : 555, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a0044a7" }, "answer" : "{Ohm's} Law", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6245867700782, "num" : 10, "question" : "A counterpart to it involves reluctance and is known as Hopkinson's Law. It can be applied to hydraulics in describing the relationship between pressure and flow rate. The continuum form of this law can be combined with the integral of the electric field and the cross-section area to get another form. Another version of this law expresses two of the values in root mean square form and switches another of the terms for impedance. Modified versions of this law include one that has a term for self-inductance and another that can be used to calculate the electromotive force. FTP, name this law that states that voltage is equal to the product of current and resistance.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001154" }, "answer" : "{Chelsea F.C.}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.6839308645576, "num" : 22, "question" : "One of this team's previous coaches is likely to be fired from West Ham before the end of the current season. Avram Grant had been a personal friend of this team's owner Roman Abramovich and took over this club after the departure of Jose Mourinho, who had taken this team to an FA Cup trophy the season before in 2007. Currently starring such internationals as Michael Essien and the goalie Peter Cech, for 10 points, name this English Premier League team which also stars Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba a London team known as \"The Blues.\"", "round" : "30.pdf", "seen" : 560, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f488b3d831d6a0029e1" }, "answer" : "{Theodore} “{Teddy}” {Roosevelt} [prompt on “{Roosevelt}” or “{TR}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 342.9623118429445, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man signed the Elkins Act, fining railroads for offering rebates. One of his policies, including the “three Cs” of Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection, and Conservation, was called the Square Deal. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to organize the Rough Riders, and 45 trusts were “busted” in his tenure. Known for running for the Bull Moose party in 1912 and losing, for 10 points, name this Republican, the president before William Howard Taft.", "round" : "Packet 6.doc", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004a7" }, "answer" : "John Edward {Masefield}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 30.76887404173613, "num" : 2, "question" : "One of this author’s poems stars a man who turns his life around and asks the “dear lily of delight” to “spring my heart again / that I may flower to men” after getting dressed down by both Jimmy Jaggard’s mother and the Quaker temperance advocate Miss Bourne. That poem by this man stars a man who runs around town claiming to be Satan after defeating Billy Myers in a boxing match. Sixteen years after writing about Saul Kane in “The Everlasting Mercy”, he wrote two children’s books starring Kay Harker, namely The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights. In his best-known poem, he noted that “the call of the running tide / is a wild call and clear call that may not be denied” and stated that “All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” That poem opens with the line “I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky”. FTP, name this English Poet Laureate who wrote “Sea-Fever”.", "round" : "PACKET15Carson.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40368b3d831d6a006228" }, "answer" : "the {Federalist Papers}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.8170600908343, "num" : 3, "question" : "One of these works asserts that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition” and calls government “the greatest of all reflections on human nature”, and another proposes “two methods of removing the causes of faction”. William Duer publicly defended these writings, while attacks on them, including “Brutus”, written by Robert Yates. The best known of these documents argues that republican government should not be limited to small states, and most of them were published by the Independent Journal under the pseudonym “Publius”. Written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, for 10 points, name this series of open letters in support of the Constitution.", "round" : "Missouri State Game 2 - sorted.docx", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "U. of Georgia CCC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002de6" }, "answer" : "the {Palace} of {Versailles} [or the {Château} de {Versailles}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.35876158624887, "num" : 16, "question" : "In autumn 2009, this site hosted a single-artist exhibition that featured a statue of Tadao Ando in a boxer's pose as part of The Architects. A September 2008 single-artist exhibition at this site featured an 11-ton sculpture of a rocking horse dinosaur known as Split-Rocker and the porcelain sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles. A current exhibition at this site features the Oval Buddha Silver in one room, while a white sculpture of a deformed frog with a huge horn on its head points up towards (*) Lemoyne's ceiling painting in this location's Hercules Salon. Xavier Veilhan placed a sculpture of Yuri Gagarin in its Marble Hall, while Jeff Koons hung the red aluminum Lobster in its Salon of Mars. For 10 points, name this site, currently home to a Takashi Murakami exhibition that has drawn ire for displaying such works as the manga-inspired Miss Ko2 just outside of its Hall of Mirrors.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400a8b3d831d6a005799" }, "answer" : "{South Dakota}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.3168611142319, "num" : 11, "question" : "The grave of Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy is located atop this state's highest point. This state is home to two major cave systems, Jewel Cave and Wind Cave, as well as a work of art started by Korczak Zió?kowski and the Homestake Mine. Lakes Oahe, Sharpe, and Francis Case are located on the Missouri River in this state, which is the home of the (*) Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Rapid City is the fastest-growing city, though Sioux Falls is its largest city. For 10 points, what is this state that contains the Badlands and Mount Rushmore?", "round" : "tourn9-04.pdf", "seen" : 397, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005bdf" }, "answer" : "{Hedda Gabler}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3410557552706, "num" : 17, "question" : "One character in this work dies in a brawl at Mademoiselle Diana's, leading to a threat of investigation by a man who had earlier accompanied the title character's husband to a bachelor party. The title character insists on a lengthy honeymoon and feels threatened when books written by the lover of Thea reduce her husband's chance at a professorship. The title character destroys the manuscript of Eilert Lovberg before committing suicide with one of her father's pistols to avoid scandal. For 10 points, name this play by Henrik Ibsen whose title character is the wife of George Tessman.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a006451" }, "answer" : "seven [JM]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.43631401960738, "num" : 4, "question" : "The only novel by Aleksis Kivi focuses on the lives of this many brothers, and Julio Jurenito has this many disciples in a work by Ilya Ehrenburg. At school, Gimpel the Fool was given this many nicknames, and a poem with this number in its title begins “A simple child / That lightly draws its breath / And feels its life in every limb / What should it know of death?” Stories about A.V. Laider and Enoch Soames are contained in a collection named for this many men by Max Beerbohm, and a critical work by William Empson identifies this many types of ambiguity. This number appears in the title of a play about the funeral of Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, and “The Deluge at Norderney” and “The Supper at Elsinore” are contained in an Isak Dinesen collection of this many Gothic Tales. The number of books in Omeros as well as the number of novels in In Search of Lost Time, FTP, name this number of warriors led by Polynices \"against Thebes\" in a play by Aeschylus.", "round" : "Packet_5.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40468b3d831d6a0065e0" }, "answer" : "{Kim Jong-Il} [prompt on {Kim}, accept {Kim Il-Sung}, the “{Great Juche Ideal}” until \"{38-under}\" and other things {credited} with {writing this crap-both Father} and {Son} are {credited} with {writing every operatic work}] ({1})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.21037778919563, "num" : 11, "question" : "In his major work of operatic criticism, this composer complained that other composers did not “interweave dance and story very closely.” One of this composer's operas follows the Kotpun family, who are separated from each other even in dreams, and includes arias such as “Balloonflower” and “The Soldier Lives Near the General.” That opera, The Flower Girl, features a chorus which laments that peasants are only harvesting “sorrow and grief.” Though works such as I Will Remain Loyal and Avenge the Punitive Expedition met with little fanfare, he gained more renown for an opera about the founding of a women's association, Sea of Blood, which also harangues the audience about the ? Japanese invasion. FTP, name this composer who once shot a 38-under-par 34 with 11 aces at Pyongyang CC, the current ruler of North Korea.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 10.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a000191" }, "answer" : "{Second Anglo-Boer} War [or South African War before {South Africa} is read; or {Tweede Boereoorlog} , or {Tweede Vryheidsoorlog} ]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 56.13874039822255, "num" : 17, "question" : "This conflict saw William Penn Symons die at the Battle of Talana Hill, after which one general gave up his position at Dundee. During this war, six hundred of General Gatacre’s men were captured in the Battle of Stormberg. Guns named “the Wolf” and “Lord Nelson” were used by Robert Baden-Powell at the siege of Mafeking during this war, whose other sieges included Kimberley and Ladysmith. This conflict was precipitated by a failed conference between Alfred Milner and Paul Kruger at Bloemfontein. One side was commanded by Horatio Kitchener, and the other consisted of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. For 10 points, name this conflict between the British and the namesake South African “farmers”.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Cornell and Kansas State A final.doc", "seen" : 49, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fee8b3d831d6a0050e9" }, "answer" : "{King Arthur}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.045398092363, "num" : 27, "question" : "This leader, who was born at Tintagel Castle, was raised by Ector because he was conceived out of wedlock. He left for the Isle of Avalon to heal his wounds after fighting his son Mordred at the Battle of Camlan. After his struggle against Carmelide, he married that king's daughter Guinevere despite Merlin's warnings. For 10 points, Camelot belonged to what son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon, who wielded the sword Excalibur and led the Knights of the Round Table?", "round" : "4q2-03.pdf", "seen" : 453, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebe8b3d831d6a000998" }, "answer" : "{John Boehner}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7989992923103, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man's first political office was on the board of trustees of Union Township, and in 2006, he authored the Pension Protection Act of 2006. This man was criticized by some members of his own party for reaching a compromise on the (*) extension of Bush-era tax cuts with President Obama, and attained his current office by replacing Nancy Pelosi after the November midterm elections. For 10 points, name this Republican Representative from Ohio, the current Speaker of the House.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a004313" }, "answer" : "“Entropy”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.97723466367461, "num" : 5, "question" : "One character in this work almost drowns in a shower when she sits on the drain, and another is left by his wife because he compares humans to computers. Other events include the Duke di Angelis quartet deciding to play a piece without instruments and the break-in of sailors who believe that the apartment is a brothel. Upstairs, another character dictates a theory to Aubade while cradling a dying bird in his hands. Describing a lease-breaking party thrown by Meatball Mulligan, for 10 points, name this work in which the thermometer always reads thirty-seven degrees and Callisto envisions a “heat-death for his culture,” a short story by Thomas Pynchon.", "round" : "r20- Editors 6.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004ddf" }, "answer" : "{Sri Lanka}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.948323568562, "num" : 3, "question" : "This island's longest river, the Mahaweli, empties into the sea near the city of Trincomalee, and a series of shoals connecting this island to the mainland is called Adam's Bridge.This country's north contains the Jaffna Peninsula and bodies of water surrounding this island include the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Straight. Known in previous times as Serendib and Ceylon, for 10 points, identify this tea-producing island nation located in the Bay of Bengal, which is home to the Tamil Tigers guerrilla group and has its capital at Colombo.", "round" : "06 HFT.doc", "seen" : 401, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d40" }, "answer" : "{ultraviolet light} [accept {UV}; accept {UVA} until “{form}”] do not accept “{sunlight}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.783823371632, "num" : 23, "question" : "Avobenzone is one of the best-known retardants of this entity. One form of it causes thymine dimers to form in DNA, and it is often used on ethidium bromide-stained gels following electrophoresis. Its B form causes the release of melanin from melanocytes in humans to produce a tan color and slow this entity's effects. Thus, many products aiming to block it utilize melanin derivatives. For 10 points, name this part of the spectrum just shorter than visible with wavelengths 10 to 400 nanometers, a part of sunlight causing sunburns, which is blocked by the ozone layer.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 1.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffc8b3d831d6a00544e" }, "answer" : "{O. Henry} [or: {William Sydney Porter}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6555912168697, "num" : 14, "question" : "He's not Jann Wenner, but he founded a magazine called The Rolling Stone in Austin, Texas. One of his title objects is negative two hundred fifty dollars, and he refers to the population of New York in his title The Four Million. His stories include the tale of a (*) kidnapped young boy and his return, and a young couple who sold their most prized possessions to buy each other's Christmas presents. For 10 points, name this American short-story author of The Ransom of Red Chief and The Gift of the Magi.", "round" : "tourn10-09.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec18b3d831d6a000a5f" }, "answer" : "{John Keats}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8205172996969, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man discussed language chained by \"dull rhymes\" and \"bound with garlands of her own\" in his poem \"On the Sonnet.\" This man also wrote a poem about a superstition in which young maidens \"supperless to bed ... must retire.\" In that poem, Angela allows Porphyro to visit Madeline on the title night, the Eve of St. Agnes. In one of his poems, the title object has the ability to \"tease us out of thought,\" and that poem concludes that (*) \"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.\" For 10 points, name this British poet of \"Ode on a Grecian Urn.\"", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c2c" }, "answer" : "{recursion} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4048322483432, "num" : 14, "question" : "Determining a relation of this type is the first step in finding generating functions, and one non-primitive function of this type is the Ackermann function. In computer science, the divide and conquer algorithm solves a problem by forming two problems of half the size and solving each half-problem via this method. This method can be used to generate the factorial because the factorial is n times the factorial of n-1, and the Fibonacci sequence is also defined as this type of sequence because its terms are found from previous terms in the sequence. For 10 points, identify this method, which defines a function's values based on its previous values.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa08b3d831d6a003eb0" }, "answer" : "{calcium} ions [accept {Ca2+} or {Ca++}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.84743175795302, "num" : 19, "question" : "This substance binds to synaptotagmin to stimulate the SNARE-mediated fusion of synaptic vesicles to the cell membrane.  Along with heat, bacterial cells are treated with its chloride to make them competent, allowing the uptake of free plasmids.  In the slow mechanism for blocking polyspermy of sea urchins, the fusion of the first sperm triggers an increase in cytoplasmic concentrations of this (*) ion that allows the vitelline layer to block subsequent sperm.  It causes a conformational change in troponin C after this ion is released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, opening up binding sites on myosin. For 10 points, name this ion important in muscle contraction which, which along with phosphate ions, forms hydroxyapatite, the primary mineral in bone.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004d85" }, "answer" : "One {Hundred Years} of {Solitude} [or {Cien Años} de {Soledad}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8851002953016, "num" : 18, "question" : "One character in this novel has a habit of eating earth and is courted by Pietro Crespi. This novel features a gypsy exhibiting inventions such as magical irons and the magnifying glass. In this book's first chapter a man recalls the first time his father took him to see ice in a circus tent. Melquiades appears in this novel in which another character weaves a funeral shroud for Rebeca who ultimately marries Jose Arcadio. In this novel Amaranta helps the matriarch Ursula during the thirty-two rebellions led by Colonel Aureliano. For 10 points, name this novel set in Macondo centering on the Buendia family, written by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.", "round" : "01 HFT.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8b8b3d831d6a0039fe" }, "answer" : "{Leon Trotsky} [or {Lev Davidovich Bronshtein}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.18763267924078, "num" : 19, "question" : "During one set of peace negotiations, this man advocated a position of “no war, no peace,” and after his policy was not listened to, he resigned in favor of Georgy Chicherin. This man's namesake ideology rejects the idea of historical stages and “socialism within one country” in favor of permanent revolution. During this man's exile in Coyoacan, he was attacked by Ramon Mercader with an ice pick. This man was tasked with forming and leading the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. For 10 points, name this early Bolshevik who was ordered assassinated by Joseph Stalin.", "round" : "Carleton + UIUC B + Brown - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f588b3d831d6a002d88" }, "answer" : "{Azul…} [or {Blue…}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.92156184883788, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one poem in this collection, the speaker sees the planet Venus as an “oriental queen” and addresses her as “fair-haired queen.” The final section of this work includes sonnets about Walt Whitman and Leconte de Lisle. It opens with a series of short stories, including one about a poet who is charged with the task of grinding out tunes on a music box, “The Bourgeois King.” This work's section “The Lyric Year” opens with one poem for each of the four seasons, including “Primaveral” and “Estival.” It was its author's first book of poetry, published seventeen years before the poem “To Roosevelt.” For 10 points, name this seminal work of modernismo by Rubén Darío.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb28b3d831d6a004305" }, "answer" : "{Death} and the {King's Horseman}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.82857417198829, "num" : 15, "question" : "The second section opens with a couple dancing the tango before they are interrupted by the entry of the Sergeant. The image of a new plantain shoot withering to give sap to an older part of the plant foretells the passing of a young man, who returned from studying medicine in England to see that a certain ritual is carried out. Based on a 1946 event, during the final scene, an aristocratic woman and her husband, the meddling District Officer, are confronted by the “mother of the market” and asked about the honor of the white man.Its publication featured an Author's Note that warned against reducing the conflict to a “clash of cultures” as previous critics had done with the author's novel Season of Anomy. Set in Oyo, it ends when the title figure, ashamed at his earlier cowardice and the loss of his son Olunde, strangles himself, thus fulfilling the royal custom. For 10 points, identify this work about the struggles of Elesin Oba, who, as chief of the monarch's stables, is expected to commit suicide, a play by Wole Soyinka.", "round" : "r19- Editors 5.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f738b3d831d6a0033e4" }, "answer" : "{Michel Foucault} [or {Paul-Michel Foucault}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.988641825039, "num" : 1, "question" : "One essay by this thinker claims that the title figure exists not as interpretive guide but as structural “function” within a work that indicates status. In one work, this writer of “What is an Author?” traced the historical development of the conditions under which sets of “statements” create networks of meaning. That book, The Archeology of Knowledge, built heavily on a work discussing epistime that opens with an examination of (*) Las Meninas, The Order of Things. This thinker describes the dissociation of identity and disease through the “medical gaze” in one work, while another examines the shift from public torture to “gentler” institutions like Bentham's Panopticon. For 10 points, name this French author of The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish.", "round" : "Round 18.doc", "seen" : 307, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc58b3d831d6a004785" }, "answer" : "{Robert Herrick}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.10632999660447, "num" : 17, "question" : "There, where my Julia's lips do smile\", while another poem by this author contains the lines, \"A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part\".  This author of \"Cherry-ripe\" and \"Delight in Disorder\" wrote \"how sweetly flows that liquefaction of her clothes\" in a poem entitled \"Upon Julia's Clothes\", while a more well-known poem by this author claims \"That age is best which is the first\" and \"The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, the higher he's a-getting\", and begins with the line, \"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may\".  For 10 points—name this author of \"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time\".", "round" : "4.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f648b3d831d6a00304b" }, "answer" : "{Ben Jonson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3042359207757, "num" : 15, "question" : "This author wrote a satirical poem accusing rhyming poetry of \"wresting words from their true calling\" and \"propping verse for fear of falling.\" This author of \"A fit of rhyme against rhyme\" wrote a play that ends with its characters being invited to dinner by Adam Overdo, who visits the title event along with Winwife and Littlewit. One of this playwright's title characters jumps out of his bed and attempts to seduce the wife of Corvino by singing \"Come, my Celia, let us prove / While we may, the sports of love.\" In another of this author's plays, characters like Abel Drugger and Sir Epicure Mammon are cheated by the team of Dol Common, Subtle, and Face. For 10 points, name this Elizabethan playwright of Bartholomew Fair, Volpone, and The Alchemist.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b70" }, "answer" : "{Karlheinz Stockhausen}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.97351535665803, "num" : 9, "question" : "One of his piano solos, where the soloist must whisper and make voiceless calls, is an early version of his Lucifer's Dream. Another work contains prayer gestures and was packaged with a Lecture on [the sound] HU, Inori. One scene from his (*) Licht cycle of 7 operas for the days of the week required four of the title objects on loan from the Austrian army. For 10 points, name this composer of some avant-garde Klavierstücke and the Helicopter String Quartet.", "round" : "09_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f308b3d831d6a0023f6" }, "answer" : "{National} Labor {Relations Board}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.37589205568656, "num" : 12, "question" : "One early member of this entity was Harry Millis and he feuded with members such as Edwin Smith and J. Warren Madden over leftists in this entity. This entity was investigated by a committee led by Virginia Congressman Howard Smith in 1939 and a predecessor to this organization was created through Public Resolution 44. The constitutionality of this organization was upheld in a case that grew out of a complaint launched by the Beaver Valley Lodge No. 200 and which had been sustained by this organization against a Pittsburgh-based corporation, the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. The act that created this organization has since been notably amended by the Landrum-Griffin Act as well as by a piece of legislation that outlawed closed shops and allowed for an emergency presidential injunction, the Taft-Hartley Act. For 10 points, name this administrative body that was created by the Wagner Act that remedies unfair labor practices.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 11 - A Tall Man Executes a Jig.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061fe" }, "answer" : "{Danse Macabre}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.52578147291206, "num" : 21, "question" : "The first version of this piece was a setting of the Henri Cazalis poem on which it is based, but it is the orchestral version that is most often performed today. The final section of this piece begins with an oboe playing a figure based on an E-flat major chord, to represent a rooster crowing at dawn. The piece opens with a harp striking the note D twelve times to represent a clock chiming midnight, which is followed by the entrance of the solo violin, whose scordatura tuning allows it to play an A-Eb tritone, or “Devil's Chord”, on open strings. This piece marks the first use of the xylophone in Western music to represent dancing skeletons; and the composer would quote this device and its associated melody in the “Fossils” movement of one of his later pieces. For 10 points, this is what symphonic poem by Camille Saint-Saens, depicting the dance of the dead?", "round" : "THUNDER Round 8 - Final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc88b3d831d6a004812" }, "answer" : "{Edouard Manet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.1353018202353, "num" : 11, "question" : "A blue outfitted man smokes a pipe while being served beer by the titular subject in this artist's work The Waitress. This artist depicted a red outfitted boy playing a musical instrument in The Fifer. This artist depicted Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire in Music in the Tuileries. Bass Pale Ale and a barmaid are depicted in this artist's work A Bar at the Folies-Bergere. He depicted a nude Victorine Meurent in one work and in another work he once again depicted a nude Victorine Meurent in addition to his nude wife Suzanne Leenhoff. For 10 points, name this French painter who painted Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 02 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f908b3d831d6a003b43" }, "answer" : "Greek", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.42212342657149, "num" : 7, "question" : "A landmark study by Humbert has traced the non-usage of the dative case in this language during the medieval era, that medieval form of this language was used to inscribe a column found in Chatalar. The ancient form of this language confined the “free” word accent to its last syllable. The Balkan Sprachbund during the late Dark Ages mainly used Albanian and this other language. Pronouncing this language during that time period is illustrated by the Suda. When a word begins with a vowel in this language, you either form a (*) spiritus lenis or a spiritus asper to pronounce that word. For forming superlative adjectives in this language, appending “tatos” to adjectives will do just fine. For 10 points, identify this language, whose medieval version is called Byzantine, and whose ancient version was used by Pindar and Sapphro.", "round" : "THUNDER Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404d8b3d831d6a00676b" }, "answer" : "the {Fourteen} Points", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2763624177314, "num" : 20, "question" : "K. Wellington Koo wrote that “little has been heard” of these after Shandong was given to the Japanese. The draft of them produced by the Inquiry led by Col. Edward House omitted all mention of colonialism, whose addition helped George Creel publicize them. They demanded the opening of the Dardanelles, adjustment of Italy's frontier, independence for Poland, and restoration of Belgium, while the final one sought an “association of nations” to prevent war. FTP, identify these enumerated conditions for ending World War I championed by Woodrow Wilson.", "round" : "HFT Round 08 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3e8b3d831d6a002778" }, "answer" : "{St. Luke}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 49.67896436783485, "num" : 13, "question" : "Along with the Gospel of Matthew, this writer's namesake work is believed to have drawn from the hypothetical Q document.  That work by this author tells the story of Elizabeth and Zachariah, the latter of whom was struck dumb until he agreed to name his son John, who later became John the Baptist. This author also traced Jesus's life back to Adam in that work, the longest of its kind as well as the only one to have a formal introduction. This author is also believed to have written Acts of the Apostles. For 10 points, name this doctor who wrote in Greek the third book of the New Testament, his namesake Gospel.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 7 (WUSTL).doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a0036d2" }, "answer" : "{Von Neumann} architecture [or {Stored-program computer}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.99259527004324, "num" : 9, "question" : "One way to combat this structure's namesake problem, first identified by John Backus as “pushing words back and forth” is to have separate pathways and storage for instructions and data; this fix is named for the institution that designed the Mark I implementing it, Harvard University. That namesake bottleneck results due to speed limitations of transfer between storage and processing. Designed as an alternative to fixed computing, name this computing architecture that involves a memory unit to store instructions and data, an arithmetic logic unit to perform operations, a control unit, and input/output units, and is, for 10 points, the basis of most modern-day computers.", "round" : "ColumbiaC.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4c8b3d831d6a002af1" }, "answer" : "{Master Chief Petty Officer} John-117 [accept {Sierra-117}, {Spartan-117}, or {John-117} before “{John-117}” is read]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.7250941516832, "num" : 16, "question" : "This character, voiced by Steve Downes, has won every military medal offered except for the prisoner of war medallion. A strike by Longbow Interceptors allows this character to return a bomb to its sender, after which he goes to fight in the East African protectorate of [*] New Mombassa. He then goes to Installation 04 aboard In Amber Clad, after following the Prophet of Regret's carrier. A survivor of the Spartan program, for 10 points, name this MJOLNIR wearing supersoldier called John-117, the protagonist of the Halo series.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 6 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1d8b3d831d6a001fae" }, "answer" : "{Tamerlane} [or {Timur} the {Lame}; or {Timur e-Leng}; or {Tamburlaine}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 56.11221306305379, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man defeated the Golden Horde at the Terek River and the Kondurcha River, where he clashed with his rival, Tokhtamysh. He died during a campaign against the Ming dynasty in China. He ordered the massacre of the inhabitants of Isfahan after they revolted against his rule. His son Shah Rukh helped him to defeat and capture Bayezid I at the battle of Ankara. This brutal conqueror allegedly made pyramids out of his enemy's skulls. For 10 points, name this great-great grandfather of Babur, a crippled Central Asian warlord who ruled from Samarkand.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 10.pdf", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f808b3d831d6a00373f" }, "answer" : "{Carlos Fuentes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.62078087264672, "num" : 13, "question" : "This author wrote one short story about a demonic statuette, and another about a general whose grandson “takes over” for him with the prostitute Judith. In addition to Chac-Mool and Mother's Day, included in the collection Burnt Water, he wrote a novella in which the second person narrator falls in love with the projected younger self of his employer. In addition to Aura, the narrator of his first novel is an aspect of the god of war, and his third novel followed a group travelling from Mexico City to Veracruz; those are Where the Air is Clear and A Change of Skin. Another work sees both Phillip II construct El Escorial, as well as the cataclysmic twentieth century, while his most famous work is a recollection of a corrupt politician on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz.", "round" : "MarylandA.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a007387" }, "answer" : "{Karel Capek}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.4978111248929, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one of his plays, the opera singer Emilia Marty procures a formula that allows her to live for three hundred years. Another of his works depicts the destruction of much of Earth's landmass to create more shoreline and the creation of the Salamander Syndicate by the title amphibians. In addition to Makropulous Affiar and War with the Newts, this man authored a play in which Dr. Gall is convinced by Helena to give the title beings souls. For 10 points, name this author who coined the term robot with his R.U.R.", "round" : "FINALS.rtf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fad8b3d831d6a0041ac" }, "answer" : "{hydrogen peroxide} [accept {H2O2} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.62385881808586, "num" : 2, "question" : "One process for creating this compound involves using gold-palladium nanoparticles on a high surface-area carbon. Another method for synthesizing this compound involves the deprotonation of hydroxy groups on anthracene to ketones and is named for Riedl and Pfleiderer. Generation of this compound in the thyroid requires the presence of calcium ions if NADPH is used, but not if NADH is used. Along with a divalent iron salt, this compound is used in the Ruff degradation, and the Baeyer-Villeger reaction occurs in a solution of this compound and a Lewis acid. Alcohols can be synthesized from alkenes by using this compound in the second step of hydroboration. For 10 points, name this compound broken down in cells by the enzyme catalase, a potent oxidizing agent with formula H2O2.", "round" : "r05- Illinois-Maryland.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40418b3d831d6a00647e" }, "answer" : "{Lady Gregory} [{Isabella Augusta Persee}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.96110562351532, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one of this author's works, a king found hiding in a barrel is unable to be restored by Patrick Sarsfield.  While in Egypt, this author wrote a pamphlet supporting Ahmad Bey's nationalist revolt against the Khedives, Arabi and His Household. A one-act play by this author consists of dialogue between two women named Mary, the wife and mother of the recently executed Denis Cahel. This author of plays such as The Gaol Gate, The Deliverer, and Hyancinth Halvey commented “It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't,” in response to a riot that broke out during Synge's Playboy of the Western World. She collected folktales in works like Cuchulainn of Muirthemne and The Kiltartan Wonder Book, and her home at Coole Park served as a venue for the Irish Literary Revival. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright who, along with Yeats, cofounded the Abbey Theatre.", "round" : "Packet_7.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000e7e" }, "answer" : "{Semitic} languages [accept {Afro-Asiatic} before “{subfamily}” is read]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.4028758973349, "num" : 18, "question" : "Many languages in this group use a tri-consonantal root, in which vowels around and between consonants change to mark word inflection, but consonants within the word remain the same. Languages in this subfamily include Ge’ez, Amharic, and other tongues spoken in Ethiopia, as well as an ancient language likely spoken by Jesus and his contemporaries, Aramaic. For 10 points, identify this group within the Afro-Asiatic family that also includes the contemporary Middle Eastern languages Arabic and Hebrew.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073d9" }, "answer" : "{Napoleon Bonaparte} [or {Napoleon} I; prompt on “{Napoleon}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1252693058923, "num" : 18, "question" : "Victorious at four battles during the Six Days Campaign, this man came to prominence as an artillery commander at the Siege of Toulon, and he helped put down the Thirteen Vendemiaire. He abandoned his troops in Egypt after crushing the Mameluks at the Battle of the Pyramids, and after coming to power in the 18th Brumaire, he instituted the Continental System. For 10 points, name this man who unsuccessfuly invaded Russia and led for 100 days after escaping Elba, a 19th century Emperor of France.", "round" : "Round3Final.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a005319" }, "answer" : "Republic of the {Philippines} [or {Republika ng Pilipinas}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0017445415724, "num" : 33, "question" : "This country was home to the revolutionary Katipunan organization. In the 1880s, overseas students from this country led by Jose (HO say) Rizal formed the nationalist Propaganda Movement. Former actor Joseph Estrada became president here in 1998 before being pardoned for a life sentence on corruption charges. Another president of this country was arrested by the United States for collaborating with the Japanese in World War II. Led by Corazon Aquino (ah KEE noh) and Ferdinand Marcos, for 10 points, name this Pacific nation whose independence from Spain was led by Emilio Aguinaldo (ah GWI nal do).", "round" : "nasat-tryout-history.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021cb" }, "answer" : "Invictus", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.2336984742433, "num" : 6, "question" : "One character in this work tells her father that her mother intended to throw out a bracelet if she left it behind at his house. Before this work's climactic scene, a pilot dives his plane at the ground only to pull up and display a good luck message on its bottom. In one scene in this work, which was adapted from John Carlin's Playing the Enemy, a group of kids mob Chester Williams. One of its protagonists visits Robben Island, during which time he hears this movie's namesake poem. In this movie, Zak Feaunati and Scott Eastwood play Jonah Lomu and Joel Stransky, the latter of whom scores a deciding drop-goal. For 10 points, name this 2009 film that stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela, and depicts South Africa's victory in the Rugby World Cup.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Brown + Illinois B.pdf", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcf8b3d831d6a0049d2" }, "answer" : "{Richard Wagner}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7792037592735, "num" : 8, "question" : "This designer of the Bayreuth [BYE-royt] Festival Theater included the “Liebestod” aria in Tristan and Isolde, and he composed a wedding march for Lohengrin. His four-part opera cycle follows Siegfried and Brunnhilde, beginning with The Rhine Gold and ending with Gotterdamerung, or Twilight of the Gods. For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer of The Ring of the Nibelung, which includes the “Ride of the Valkyries”.", "round" : "round03.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb68b3d831d6a0007ba" }, "answer" : "{Edouard Manet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.282470503822, "num" : 22, "question" : "This artist painted a work which shows a group called the Communards being killed and is called The Barricade. Another work by this man shows a confrontation off the coast of Cherbourg involving a ship commanded by Raphael Semmes during the American Civil War. In addition to (+) Battle of the Kearsage and Alabama and Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, this artist painted a work in which a black cat stands to the right of a naked woman who lays down on a bed while she is attended to by a (*) black maid. For 10 points, name this French artist of Olympia and The Luncheon on the Grass.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028d2" }, "answer" : "The {Beats} [{also} accept {Beat Generation}, the {Beatniks}, or anything that {resembles} \"{Beat}\"]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6485822796822, "num" : 23, "question" : "One author from this movement wrote about Agent Lee's investigations of the Nova Gang in The Ticket That Exploded. Another author from this movement claims he spotted Walt Whitman \"eying the grocery boys\" in A Supermarket in California. Those authors, William S. Burroughs and Allan Ginsburg, were represented by Old Bull Lee and Carlo Marx in the most famous work to come from this movement. For 10 points, name this 1950s literary movement most associated with Jack Kerouac's On The Road.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Jarret FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a000008" }, "answer" : "{Robinson annulation} [prompt on an incomplete answer like {Robinson reaction} , accept “ {Aldol} condensation ” until the words “ {Wichterle} modification ”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 48.92921614018269, "num" : 8, "question" : "The Wiechert and Parrish groups pioneered the use of S-proline as a catalyst in this reaction. One reagent is replaced by 1,3-dichloro-cis-2-butene in the Wichterle modification, and this reaction’s second step may be replaced with a Dieckmann condensation in a similar reaction named for Hauser. Though five stereogenic centers are generated during this reaction, only three are retained as end products as two are lost during dehydration. The original racemic Wieland-Miescher ketone is principally produced in this reaction, and an alpha-trimethlysilyl variant of one of its starting reactant can be used to prevent the side reaction of base-catalyzed polymerization of that reactant, methyl vinyl ketone. This reaction results in the formation of a bicyclic alpha-beta-unsaturated ketone. For 10 points, name this reaction consisting of a Michael addition followed by an aldol condensation.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb58b3d831d6a0043b4" }, "answer" : "Zapotecs", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.2640353392344, "num" : 15, "question" : "These people collected outstanding debts from their neighbors at weddings as part of their gozana exchange. The last great king of these people withstood a long siege from this people's mountain stronghold of Giengola. They had ruins at Yagul, and are often credited with developing the 52-year religious calendar eventually used throughout their region.  They inhabited a city sometimes referred to as Danipaguache, meaning \"Sacred Mountain.\" They worshiped the rain god Cocijo, and reached their peak between 300 and 700 CE, when their terraced hilltop city of Monte Albán began to decline. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican people who preceded the Mixtecs as the dominant civilization in Oaxaca.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Dartmouth B + Iowa.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee08b3d831d6a0011b0" }, "answer" : "{Pablo Ruiz Picasso}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2530613816343, "num" : 11, "question" : "In November of 2010, a retired electrician was arrested shortly after his collection of 271 of this artist's paintings was found to be authentic. This painter depicted a naked couple in La Vie (VEE) and a cross-legged, hunched figure holding an instrument in The Old Guitarist, both painted during his Blue Period. A disconnected horse is at the center of another work painted in response to the bombing of the titular Basque city. 1937’s Guernica was painted by, for 10 points, what Spanish artist who worked with Georges Braque to pioneer the Cubist art movement?", "round" : "33.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffb8b3d831d6a0053f6" }, "answer" : "{Justinian} I [or {Justinian} the Great; prompt on {Justinian}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1126205516048, "num" : 10, "question" : "This ruler's Syrian treasurer Peter Barsymes speculated recklessly on grains and set up a silk monopoly. His general Mundus helped put down a rebellion led by Hypatius that began at the (*) Hippodrome. Tribonian revised this man's namesake legal code, and Procopius wrote a Secret History in which he attacked this ruler's empress as a tyrannical harlot. He sent Narses and Belisarius to put down the Nika Riots and constructed the Hagia Sophia. For 10 points, name this husband of Theodora, a Byzantine emperor known as \"the Great.\"", "round" : "tourn10-05.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a8c" }, "answer" : "{Ben Jonson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.59048325545155, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man was the first to translate John Barclay's poem Argenis, and the title character of one of his works is revealed to be a man by Dauphine, after Morose marries the title character. This author of Epicene and collaborated with John Marston and George Chapman on Eastward Ho! He also wrote about Littlewit, Winwife, and Dame Purecraft attending the title event, while the title character of another work attempts to convince Corbaccio and Corvino of his impending death. In his best known work, Sir Pertinax Surly sees through the opreations of Doctor Subtle and Face, who dupe people such as Epicure Mammon. For 10 points, identify this author of Bartholomew Fair, Volpone and The Alchemist.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 2 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f6d" }, "answer" : "Sikhism [DU]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.7466449735221, "num" : 4, "question" : "An analogous event to baptism in this religion involves reciting the five Banis and drinking water and sugar stirred in an iron bowl. The continuous reading of its holy text, lasting about 48 hours, is the Akhand Path; with hymns Japji and Mul Mantra, that text was compiled by Arjan. The founder of this religion, followed by Bhai Gurdas, was inspired by his three days in the river Bein. Its most important shrine, attacked in Operation Blue Star, is Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, and most of its 23 million followers are concentrated in Punjab. For 10 points, name this religion whose holy text is the Adi Granth, founded by Guru Nanak.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f758b3d831d6a003457" }, "answer" : "{Blaise Pascal}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 466.0891058587003, "num" : 15, "question" : "This philosopher claimed man was the exact point between infinity and nothingness, equally capable of perceiving either. This thinker disputed the idea that a man could adopt a “probable opinion” based on the authority of a priest in a work that condemned casuistry. That work was written to defend Antoine Arnauld from attacks by the Sorbonne. This author of the pro-(*) Jansenist tract Provincial Letters underwent a “Night of Fire,” after which he wrote a work asserting that belief in God was logically justified because the consequences of belief are low and the benefits high, in contrast to the high consequences of disbelief. For 10 points, name this French author of the Pensées, which contain his namesake “Wager.”", "round" : "Round 22 Tie Breaker I.doc", "seen" : 317, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5e8b3d831d6a002edc" }, "answer" : "blood {clotting} [accept {coagulation}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3681788437534, "num" : 5, "question" : "Von Willebrand disease affects this process, while a sex-linked disorder of it prohibits the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin strands; that conversion usually occurs in the process's namesake “cascade.” This process is called thrombosis when it occurs inside an uninjured blood vessel, and when it occurs outside the body it usually results in a scab. For 10 points, name this process hindered by hemophilia in which platelets bind together to prevent blood loss.", "round" : "Packet 11.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f138b3d831d6a001d53" }, "answer" : "{Richard Milhous Nixon}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.49410607083701, "num" : 15, "question" : "This President signed the Clean Air Act, which was then administered by his creation, the Environmental Protection Agency. This man earlier achieved national prominence for his role in the Alger Hiss case. While running for Vice President, this man claimed that the only political gift he accepted was a cocker spaniel named Checkers. This Vice President to Eisenhower started the strategy of Vietnamization. This man was the subject of an investigation aided by Mark Felt, which saw Woodward and Bernstein investigate this man's role in the break-in to a Washington hotel. For 10 points, name this President who resigned in response to the Watergate scandal.", "round" : "VCU.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a005008" }, "answer" : "{Henry Alfred Wolfgang Kissinger}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2380515348632, "num" : 27, "question" : "This man drew criticism for his favoring of Pakistan during the Bangladeshi war of independence, and he served as a foreign policy advisor to Nelson Rockefeller during Rockefeller's failed 1968 presidential run. This man engaged in secret talks prior to the Shanghai Communiqué, and he prematurely stated, \"Peace is at hand,\" during negotiations with Le Duc Tho during the Paris Peace Conference, for which he was to earn a Nobel Peace Prize. A pioneer of the détente policy, for 10 points name this man who served as secretary of state under presidents Ford and Nixon.", "round" : "4q1-11.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40368b3d831d6a006212" }, "answer" : "{Something Wicked} This {Way Comes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.77724703797139, "num" : 20, "question" : " Some critical work on this novel focuses on its use of the term \"autumn people\" to denote a type of people that fail to die, and thus, be reborn. One character in this novel becomes lost in a maze filled with mirrors that continually show her reflections of her youth. The lightning rod peddler Tom Fury appears at the beginning of this nvoel to announce the arrival of a new evil in the town, while Miss Foley betrays the two protagonists of this novel to their enemies for eternal youth. Charles is a janitor at a library in this novel, in which a battle occurs against learning in that library. Some of the events of this novel take place at a place with attractions like a man with a body completely covered in tattoos, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show. For 10 points, identify this work about Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, a work by Ray Bradbury.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 9 - Final.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a0046b2" }, "answer" : "{Jean-Paul Sartre}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.27572300471366, "num" : 11, "question" : "With Jorge Semprun, he argued against the “new novel” in the “What Can Literature Do?” debate.  Earlier, he claimed that the absurdity and lack of syntactic causality employed by Meursault yields a Voltairean effect in his “Commentary on The Stranger,” and he refused to address poetic Beauty, favoring anti-Freduain psychoanalysis, in his book-length essay on Baudelaire. This founder of the journal Modern Times also lionized the author of Our Lady of the Flowers in (*) Saint Genet and claimed that “reading is directed creation,” because the public can change anything it reads due to a writer's being “outside language,” in his “What is Literature?”, which applied to art a philosophyy that he had previously declared “is a humanism” based on the idea that “existence precedes essence.” For 10 points, name this French critic who also composed Dirty Hands, “The Wall,” Nausea, and Being and Nothingness.", "round" : "Rd05.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a0048a4" }, "answer" : "Edict of {Nantes}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3429067060351, "num" : 17, "question" : "In the 8th article of this document, the monarch calls for all subjects to still pay the tithe in order to gain possible compensation for “damages caused over time.” The Peace of Alais would later result from this document which was the cause of the Battle of La Rochelle. The compensation that was mentioned in this document was that the dissenters owed over 200,000 ecus in order to pay for any religious freedom granted by the later Edict of Fontainebleu issued by Louis XIV which revoked this document. For 10 points, name this document signed by Henry IV that gave Huguenots limited religious freedom in the country of France.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 09 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004ee7" }, "answer" : "{Doppler} effect [or {Doppler} shift; do not accept \"{red shift}\" or \"{blue shift}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7578266637866, "num" : 25, "question" : "Hippolyte Fizeau discovered this effect independently from its namesake in 1848. In spectral lines, this effect causes a namesake \"broadening.\" In astronomy, it can be used to calculate radial velocities of neighboring galaxies. When two astronomical objects are moving away from each other, this effect produces red shift. Its applications include sonar and radar. For 10 points, name this effect in which the apparent frequency of a wave changes with the relative velocity of the observer to the source.", "round" : "4q1-02.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f908b3d831d6a003b26" }, "answer" : "{Ra} [Accept {Re} or {Amun-Ra} or {Atum-Ra}; prompt on {Atum due} to {lots} of {confusion}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.92654889146797, "num" : 6, "question" : "In one myth, this god ordered messengers to gather red ochre from the isle of Elephantine. His retinue often included the goddess of perception, Sia, and either he or Thoth often hung out with the deification of Atum’s first word, Hu. This owner of Mesektet and Mandjet was associated with Mnevis, a bull, while his soul was represented by a Bennu bird. He used beer mixed with pomegranate juice to calm Sekhmet, and he is genrally considered the father of Shu and Tefnut. Either Bast or Set helped ward off the attacks of the serpent Apep, who attacked this god during his nightly trip through Duat. For 10 points, identify this deity who was often syncretized with figures like Atum and Amun, the Egyptian god of the sun.", "round" : "Packet 10 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc98b3d831d6a00485e" }, "answer" : "{Michael Dwayne Vick}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.4172780448571, "num" : 7, "question" : "In 2005, this football player was sued for giving genital herpes to Sonya Elliot who alleged that he received treatment under the pseudonym Ron Mexico. From 1996 to 1998, Tommy Reamon coached this quarterback at Warwick High School. Sports Illustrated named him Mr. Electric despite his loss to Florida State in the 1999 BCS National Championship Game. He threw footballs to Peerless Price and Alge Crumpler before being suspended by the NFL in 2007. A standout at Virginia Tech and a star player for the Atlanta Falcons, for 10 points, name this mobile quarterback who used to conduct dogfights but now plays for the Philadelphia Eagles.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 06 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 567, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe08b3d831d6a004db3" }, "answer" : "{distillation} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.4437591868918, "num" : 1, "question" : "A device for accomplishing one form of this process uses a pressure-equalized addition funnel instead of a revolving stand of test tubes. The ideal number of plates for one form of this is given by the Fenske equation and may be found graphically with the McCabe-Thiele method. That aforementioned device, called Perkin's triangle, permitted the vacuum form of this process. Its extractive form features the addition of a separation solvent to break azeotropes, and its fractional form is used for separations of less than twenty-five Kelvin. For 10 points, name this process for separating mixtures of liquids with different boiling points.", "round" : "04 HFT.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a0051fd" }, "answer" : "Mongolia", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.6790170166641, "num" : 15, "question" : "Khuiten Peak is part of the Five Saints Peaks in this nation's section of the Altay Mountains, which form part of the northwestern boundary of this nation. Lake Khovsgol lies near this nation's Khangai Mountains and drains north into the Selenge River. The northern range of the wild Bactrian camel lies in this country, which lies north of Xinjiang and south of Tuva and which also contains the cold Gobi Desert. For 10 points, name this country of steppes with a capital at Ulan Bator that is landlocked between China and Russia.", "round" : "4q2-12.pdf", "seen" : 400, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f398b3d831d6a002625" }, "answer" : "{fault}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 2884.765928086126, "num" : 12, "question" : "Two of these entities are responsible for the Great Rift Valley located in East Africa. Subduction zones are found along them. Several of them are responsible for the area of volcanic activity known as the Ring of Fire, though movement along them more famously causes earthquakes. For 10 points, identify these gaps in the Earth's crust, which include one in California called the San Andreas.", "round" : "CMST_Round04.pdf", "seen" : 1933, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f488b3d831d6a0029ed" }, "answer" : "{Federative Republic} of {Brazil} [accept {Republica Federativa} do {Brasil}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5411979076453, "num" : 6, "question" : "The Cry of Ipiranga declared this country's independence, and its Golden Law freed slaves under Dom Pedro II. Juscelino Kubitschek began to build its capital, designed largely by Oscar Niemeyer. It joined with Argentina and Uruguay in the War of the Triple Alliance, and explorer Pedro Cabral sighted this country where Getulio Vargas later ran the Estado Novo. For 10 points, name this country once colonized by Portugal, with major city Rio de Janiero.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3e8b3d831d6a002760" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Mann}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.25976658798754, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one novella by this author, a hypnotist by the name of Cipolla is eventually assassinated by the title character who hails from the small Italian town of Torre di Venere while another work by this author sees the decline of a prominent aristocratic family composed of members such as Johann who founded the titular wheat and grain wholesale firm. In a different work, a merchant by the name of Hans Castorp visits a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps while in another work, a middle aged author named Gustav von Aschenbach makes a trip to the titular Italian city. For 10 points, identify this German author of such works as Mario and the Magician, Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Death in Venice.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 6.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efe8b3d831d6a00187e" }, "answer" : "The {Medium}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.51791663002223, "num" : 1, "question" : "One character in this work tells a story about a “silly little fountain” to Doodly’s mother, who is confused at the mention of a locket. “Up in the sky, someone is playing a trombone and a guitar,” according to this opera’s one-sided love duet. The title character sends everyone home after a character laughs for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau. A voice from offstage interrupts a song about a black swan that's accompanied by an onstage tambourine. Two different characters sing the chromatically descending phrase “Mother, mother, are you there?” in this work, which also includes “Monica’s Waltz.” The title character ends this opera by “hoarsely whispering” “Was it you?” after drunkenly shooting Toby. She reveals her “frauds” to her customers, only to have them argue that her services are real. FTP, name this two-act opera about Madame Flora, the title spiritualist, which was composed by Gian Carlo Menotti.", "round" : "PACKET12Jordan.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f878b3d831d6a003920" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Metaurus} River", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.51653702906333, "num" : 16, "question" : "The prelude to this battle saw an aiding army make significant progress, outmaneuvering Publius Scipio in Hispania, and arriving in Gaul later that year. Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius were sent to engage the armies later that spring. Initially cautious, the interception and foiling of the plot to merge the armies together set the stage for the main conflict. Realizing that the two consuls had merged themselves, Hasdrubal had prepared to retreat, yet his guides betrayed him and he was left to search futilely along the banks of the namesake river for an exit. Forced to face the consuls in battle, Hasdrubal held ground until Marcus Livius crashed and broke the Iberian flank. For 10 points, name this 207 BC battle a decisive Roman victory in the Second Punic War, in which Hasdrubal Barca met his inglorious and headless end.", "round" : "Round by Editors 3.docx", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff28b3d831d6a0051d7" }, "answer" : "{Maximilien François Marie Isidore} de {Robespierre}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1125515650493, "num" : 9, "question" : "The author of Report on Degrading Punishments, this man was given the nickname \"Monkey of Mirabeau's\" by the royalist press. This man opposed Jacques-Rene Hebert's Church of Reason. This leader unsuccessfully attempted suicide at the Hotel de Ville. This man was nicknamed \"the Incorruptible.\" For 10 points, name this leader of the Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, who was overthrown in the Thermidorian Reaction and guillotined.", "round" : "4q2-11.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002deb" }, "answer" : "Butcher", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.23307396075688, "num" : 21, "question" : "This surname is held by a scientist who, along with Augustus Oemler Jr., discovered that the fraction of blue galaxies in clusters increases with redshift. One historical figure with this nickname is rumored to have written the phrase \"No Quarter\" on the back of a playing card, the nine of diamonds, leading to a certain curse. That man surrendered at the Convention of Kloster-Zeven after winning his most famous victory, for which he became the dedicatee of Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus. Another military man who held this sobriquet was appointed to replace Arsenio (*) Martinez Campos as governor after rising to fame as a general during the Ten Years War. That man was Valeriano Weyler, while the previous figure, who gained this name at the Battle of Culloden Moor, was the Duke of Cumberland. For 10 points, give this name which also refers to an occupation held by a man who spent some time in a tub with a baker and a candlestick-maker.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d4d" }, "answer" : "{El Señor Presidente} [or The {President}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.59223060822114, "num" : 16, "question" : "One character in this novel has quicklime smeared on her breasts, causing her child to die of starvation. A character in this novel whose name resembles a Spanish phrase meaning “filthy vomit,” Lucio Vasquez, shoots a character known as the Zany, who had earlier killed a colonel for taunting him with the word “mother.” The lawyer Abel Carvajal is blamed for the Zany's crime along with General Eusebio Canales, whose daughter ends up marrying this novel's protagonist. That protagonist is a man who is frequently described as being “as beautiful and wicked as Satan,” Miguel Angel Face. The title character of this novel is a caricature of Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who ruled Guatemala from 1898 to 1920. For 10 points, name this dictator novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias.", "round" : "Packet 06.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a003024" }, "answer" : "{Leonhard Paul Euler} [{OIL-er}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.7621977850795, "num" : 22, "question" : "This mathematician proved the product sum identity for a real-number analogue of the Riemann zeta function and used its divergence at a value of one to show that there are infinitely many primes. As n goes to infinity, the difference between the nth harmonic number and the natural log of n goes to a constant of which he is the first namesake and that is symbolized gamma. For a polyhedron, the number of vertices minus number of edges plus number of faces is equal to his namesake characteristic, chi [rhymes with \"eye\"]. He inaugurated graph theory by solving the Seven Bridges of Königsberg [KER-nigs-bairg] problem. For 10 points, name this prolific mathematician who discovered a constant equal to about 2.718, the usual symbol for which is his last initial.", "round" : "1.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40498b3d831d6a006665" }, "answer" : "{Philoctetes} (3)", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 96.98912985017523, "num" : 19, "question" : "He fought a war with Euneus and received thereafter a portion of land he called Akesa. He died after allying with Rhodians, having established the cities of Petelia and Crimissa. Pylius, Podalirius, and Machaon are among men believed to have helped this man, who may have been beset during a sacrifice to Apollo Sminthius. This son of Demonassa and Poeas is sometimes said to have performed a task alternately attributed to Hyllus or Morsimus, receiving a gift after setting fire to a pile on Mount Oeta. Possibly punished for not returning the love of the nymph Chryse, ?  Odysseus and Diomedes came to him and he was eventually cured of a wound possibly by Asclepius himself. Exiled on Lemnos, he killed Paris with his most notable possessions, the arrows of Heracles. FTP, name this figure from the Iliad.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a007731" }, "answer" : "Love in the {Time} of {Cholera} or {El amor en los tiempos del cólera}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.47172274906188, "num" : 15, "question" : "The husband's affair with Barbara Lynch and his mother forcing his wife to eat eggplant and take harp lessons were some of the causes of the marital problems of the central couple in this novel. The action culminates aboard the aptly named New Fidelity, where the now seventy-two-year-old wife consummates her relationship with a seventy-six-year-old lost love. This reunion is made possible indirectly by the suicide of Jeremiah which, in turn, leads to the husband's accidental death after he falls from a mango tree while trying to recover a lost parrot. FTP, name this book centering on Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, and Juvenal Urbino; a novel in which, in order to have sex without scandal, two seventy-year-olds raise a quarantine flag; a work by Gabriela Garcia Marquez.", "round" : "Florida State - Harvard A - Yale.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001123" }, "answer" : "{Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn} [accept either underlined name]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1111690467224, "num" : 3, "question" : "He’s not Jacque Louis-David (dah-VEED), but this man painted some men taking an oath by crossing their swords with a one-eyed Batavian chieftain in his The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis. He also painted a Babylonian king watching as a disembodied hand writes illuminated Hebrew letters upon a wall. Other works by this painter of Belshazzar’s Feast show a cadaver being cut open by Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and the shooting company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq. For 10 points, name this Dutchman who painted The Anatomy Lesson and The Night Watch.", "round" : "29.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f948b3d831d6a003c2f" }, "answer" : "{Spin-orbit} coupling or {spin-orbit} interaction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.48682289780118, "num" : 15, "question" : "The X-ray photoelectron spectrum of palladium has two peaks due to this effect. This effect was documented in a Jahn-Teller lattice by Kugel and Khomskii, and increasing the strength of this phenomenon allows intersystem crossing. Two-dimensional semiconductors with high values of this interaction give rise to the quantum spin Hall effect. The Lande interval rule states that if this interaction is weak, the components of this interaction have split energy levels. Its interaction energy is equal to the sum of the energy of Thomas precession and the Larmor energy, and this effect creates a 2J+1 degeneracy. It can be considered an internal version of the Zeeman effect, and can be divided into JJ and Russell-Saunders coupling depending on the size of the atom involved. For 10 points, name this interaction, a coupling between the magnetic field of a nucleus and the spin of an electron circling it.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 9.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a00062a" }, "answer" : "The 1812 {Overture} [or The Year 1812: {Festival Overture}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2657411245164, "num" : 12, "question" : "This piece was commissioned for the consecration ceremony of the new Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The central conflict depicted in this composition is represented when the melody of the \"Marseillaise\" (mar-say-EHZ) overtakes \"God Preserve Thy People.\" After the final quoting of \"God Save the Tsar,\" cannons are set off to celebrate the triumph of Russia's army over Napoleon's invasion force during the title year of, for 10 points, what bombastic musical piece by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, that is often played at American celebrations of July 4th?", "round" : "colonia-05.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a006632" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Pichincha} (5)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 56.56735689961351, "num" : 10, "question" : "The tide of this battle turned when forces under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Mackintosh surprised a squadron led by Colonel Valdez. Before this battle, the winning commander tried to provoke attacks at Turubamba and Chillogallo. It began with a surprise attack on the Cazadores del Paya Battalion, and went poorly for the defenders when the Yaguachi Battalion of Colonel Morales and the Alto Magdalena Battalion of Colonel Cordova failed to outflank the attackers. However, the reserve Albión Battalion caused heavy casualties for the Aragón Battalion of Melchor Aymerich. Fought on a namesake volcano, this May 24, 1822 battle enabled a country later led by Gabriel Garcia Moreno to join Gran Colombia. FTP, name this victory for Antonio Jose de Sucre which led to ? Ecuador's independence from Spain.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000be6" }, "answer" : "{Android} OS", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.108697087504, "num" : 15, "question" : "Andy Rubin is one of the key people behind this software platform. The virtual machine for this software is known as Dalvik and a previous flagship implementation was Nexus One. Releases of this software have been named after deserts such as Eclair and Froyo. Its main competitor is iOS (eye os), and this operating system is featured in a similarly named (*) Motorola product that \"does.\" For 10 points, name this operating system, bought by Google in 2005, which is found on many smartphones and features a green robot logo.", "round" : "tournament17-12.pdf", "seen" : 563, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a006304" }, "answer" : "{William Gladstone}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.23466076678596, "num" : 11, "question" : "His government saw the passage of the Army Enlistment Act as part of the Cardwell Reforms as well as Forster's Education Act.  He quarreled with the Vatican over the subject of papal infallibility, and wrote the pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors and the Questions of the East as part of his Midlothian campaign. He lost the support of the Liberal Unionists to Lord Salisbury, and he was publicly blamed for the death of General Gordon.  He abandoned Charles Parnell, whom he had earlier supported as part of his plan for Irish Home Rule. For 10 points, name this “Grand Old Man” and four time British prime minister, the Liberal rival of Benjamin Disraeli.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard B.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f588b3d831d6a002d87" }, "answer" : "{Joy Kogawa}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.61677403515205, "num" : 11, "question" : "This author wrote “there are words to whisper by a loose brick” and “there's a way around, over, or through” in her poem “Where There's a Wall.” Her poetry collections include The Splintered Moon and Jericho Road, but her best known poem is perhaps “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation?” In 2005, she published Emily Kato, a rewriting of her novel Itsuka, which was a sequel to her most famous work. The protagonist of that work reconstructs her childhood from letters sent to her by her aunt Emily while she is caring for the title character, her aunt Aya. For 10 points, name this Japanese-Canadian author who wrote Obasan.", "round" : "Packet 10.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed68b3d831d6a000f50" }, "answer" : "distillation", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5447624293156, "num" : 11, "question" : "One type of this process employs a band of Teflon that spins, and compounds that can defy this process are called azeotropes. A type of this process used on components that vary from each other in a certain property by 25 degrees is called the \"fractional\" type, and a principle law that governs this process is Raoult's law. For 10 points, name this physical process used in chemistry whereby components of a mixture are separated based on their boiling points.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006249" }, "answer" : "{airplane bombings} [accept {aircraft} for {airplane}; accept other answers {involving} the {detonation} of {explosive substances} on {civilian planes}; accept {trials} for {airplane bombings} until “{assault} a {motorcade}” is read]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.5216221329756, "num" : 6, "question" : "One of these events forced the hiring of Charles Cox by Kennecott Copper Corporation, whose executive structure had been ruined. That one resulted in the hanging of Marguerite Pitre and was carried out by Albert Guay, who was tubercular when he was executed in Montreal. Twenty-one years after another of these events, it was discovered that Inderjit Singh Reyat had perjured himself. A group in the Philippines planned to assault a motorcade on World Youth Day 1995 to divert attention from a failed set of these events, known as Oplan Bojinka. Another example resulted in the conviction of Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera of the Medellin cartel and affected the net worth of the Avianca company. Yet another one was preceded by a letter of warning to the FBI involving a man in Helsinki; its perpetrator, who was recently released to die of cancer at home, was Abelbaset al-Megrahi. For 10 points, name these violent events, one of which occurred - allegedly on the orders of Qaddafi - over Lockerbie, Scotland on Pan Am Flight 103.", "round" : "PACKET13Gioia.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019d2" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Agincourt} [or Battle of {Azincourt}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3367154716979, "num" : 2, "question" : "One tactic in this battle was inspired by the Battle of Nicopolis, where infantrymen dug palings into the ground to drive off cavalry. Sir Thomas Erpingham led troops in this battle against the Count of Vendome and the Duke of Bourbon. Humphrey, the Duke of Gloucester, was wounded in this battle, which saw French armored troops led by Charles d’Albret get [*] stuck in the mud while English longbowmen picked them off. Leading to the Treaty of Troyes, for 10 points, name this battle fought on St. Crispin’s day, 1415, that saw the French routed by England’s Henry V in the Hundred Years’ War.", "round" : "Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407e8b3d831d6a007326" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Lepanto} (accept {Naupaktas} before mentioned)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6179569659289, "num" : 14, "question" : "The Messinians were driven out of here by the Spartans after the battle of Aegispotami, and its first bishop took part in the council of Ephesus. Pope Pius the 5th was canonized for an outburst he made predicting the outcome of a conflict here, and after it Sokullu rebuilt his country's navy. Uluc Ali Pasha led one side here, (*) while forces of Spanish, Venice, and the papal States were led by Don John of Austria. Fought off the coast of Naupaktos, which had been controlled by the Ottomans, it was the first time a Christian fleet defeated the Turks. FTP name this city that is the name of a famous 1571 battle. ", "round" : "Round 4.rtf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a7b" }, "answer" : "{Aaron Burr}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.58212575456128, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man rallied a Yale student militia to defend a British assault on New Haven. This man asked for monetary assistance from the Marqués de Casa Irujo and mustered his forces on Blennerhassett Island. Eventually, he informed General James Wilkinson of his plan to invade Mexico. Acquitted of treason at his trial, this man had earlier presided over the impeachment of Samuel Chase. He enlisted Tammany Hall to win Thomas Jefferson the state of New York in 1800 and received an equal number of electoral votes in the election, forcing the House to choose a winner. For 10 points, name this Vice-President who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.", "round" : "EPHS + OSU - T Party 2010 (1).doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a00430e" }, "answer" : "The {Old Gringo}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.93933961773291, "num" : 24, "question" : "In one section of this novel, a commander has to hang his friend for stealing coins from a derailed train, while, in another, a woman described as having \"a moon face\" helps a man trapped in a cellar with two vicious dogs to escape. It begins with a different women reminiscing about her decision to return to Washington, D.C., and that woman had originally fled her previous existence after her beau, Mr. Delaney, was found guilty of fraud and crossed the border. The second chapter depicts the exhumation of a man who'd traveled with a copy of Don Quixote and a Colt .44 to join men like Colonel Frutos Garcia in their struggle. Much of the novel revolves around a love triangle between the teacher, Harriet Winslow, the General, Tomas Arroyo, and the title figure, who consistently reflects on the war stories he has written in the past. Inspired by its author's interest in his real life subject's disappearance during the Civil War, it was composed after Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz. For 10 points, identify this novel whose potentially pejorative title refers to Ambrose Bierce, a work by Carlos Fuentes.", "round" : "r19- Editors 5.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077b0" }, "answer" : "{Mach} number", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.84503507334739, "num" : 11, "question" : "For a small body moving in an otherwise quiescent fluid, the inclination of the boundary between the zones of silence and action is the arcsine of one over this property of the flow. This parameter arises in the boundary layer equation from the natural scaling of the dependent variable and a necessary condition for potential flow is that this parameter be much smaller than unity. Since this dimensionless parameter is the ratio of the effects of inertial and elastic forces, flows are incompressible when it is small. FTP, identify the dimensionless number that is the ratio of the speed of an object in a fluid medium to the speed of sound in that medium.", "round" : "Princeton A - Texas A&M.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404c8b3d831d6a006731" }, "answer" : "{Livy} (or {Titus Livius})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1671965094283, "num" : 1, "question" : "Scholars argued over whether this man read Pictor and Piso as well as later Annalists, and Asinius Pollio criticized this man for patavinitas, or “rusticness.” His work helped Flavius Josephus write The Jewish War, and he differed with Polybius on whether Hannibal could see Italy from the pass. Much of his lost work was summarized in the Periochae, and his 35 extant books cover the early republic and the Second Punic War. FTP, identify this Golden Age author of Ab Urbe Condita, a 142-volume chronicle “from the founding of the city” of Rome.", "round" : "HFT Round 07 ADV FINISHED.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dc8" }, "answer" : "{Harry} “{Rabbit}” {Angstrom} [accept either]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.8105739816091, "num" : 1, "question" : "This character visits former lover Thelma Harrison while on the Gulf Coast of Florida. His son Nelson embezzles money from Springer Motors to fuel his cocaine addiction. This character once had a job demonstrating a kitchen appliance called the MagiPeel. This character's wife has an affair with Charlie Stavros, and after this character's death his wife Janice marries his rival from high school, Ronnie. A former basketball star of Mount Judge High school, for 10 points, identify this character who is “rich” and “at rest” in a series of novels by John Updike.", "round" : "05 HFT.doc", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f698b3d831d6a0031ae" }, "answer" : "friction", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.7169988860842, "num" : 2, "question" : "Systems affected by this phenomenon exhibit spring-like motion over very small distances in the Dahl effect. Its magnitude unexpectedly decreases at near-zero velocities in the Stribeck Effect. More commonly, it is described by the Coulomb model, which includes Amontons' laws, the first of which states that this force is independent of the contact area and the second of which claims that its magnitude is proportional to that of the normal force. The coefficient associated with this force is denoted by mu and is higher for the static type than the kinetic type. For 10 points, name this force that retards the motion of an object moving along a surface.", "round" : "8.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a0074b0" }, "answer" : "God of {War}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.64058757410385, "num" : 12, "question" : "In addition to being the patron of coppersmiths, the god Hadur held this role in Hungarian paganism. Among the Fijians, Samulayo serves this role. The Maori god with this role is said to have angered the wind god, who punished him by creating the hurricanes that plague mankind to this day. Apart from Tumatauenga, this role was held by the goddess Ankt in Egyptian mythology, and sometimes by the goddess who spat out Apophis, Nieth. The forest god Cocidius and his associate Belatu-Cadros held this role among the insular Celts, while Camulus held this role among the Gauls. The Aztec god with this role was born after his mother was impregnated with a ball of feathers. Greek goddesses with this role include Enyo. The Hindu deity with this role rides a peacock and is sometimes called Subrahmanya or Karttikeya. For ten points, name this role shared by Murugan, Huitzilopochtli, and Ares.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 65, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee48b3d831d6a00129f" }, "answer" : "{Epistle} of {Paul} to the {Romans}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 393.053509764839, "num" : 12, "question" : "This was the book John Wesley was reading when he felt his heart “strangely warmed.” The writer of this book states that “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come” can separate us from the love of God. This book questions “if God is for us, who is against us?” and states that “the wages of sin is death.” This book is found after Acts and is the first and longest of the Pauline Epistles. For 10 points, name this letter written to the church of a large Italian city.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f428b3d831d6a002844" }, "answer" : "{Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus} I or {Justinian} the Great", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.69097670540214, "num" : 12, "question" : "The scholars Theophilus and Dorotheus were commissioned during the reign of this man to write the Instituones section of one work. The unwilling Hypatius was nearly made emperor during one event under this man's reign. That revolt under this ruler featured mobs who wanted Tribonian and John the Cappodoccian dismissed from office and saw the mob-like Blues and the Greens erupt into violence in the hippodrome. This man's buildings and campaign against the Goths were the subject of two long historical works by Procopius, whose reign was sharply critiqued in the Secret History. For 10 points, identify this husband of Theodora, known for employing Belisarius and his great law code.", "round" : "Round 10 updated.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f908b3d831d6a003b44" }, "answer" : "{Hilbert's Third} Problem (accept anything {involving cutting up} a {polyhedron} and {reassembling} it {into another} one)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.45136202950962, "num" : 8, "question" : "The person who solved this problem went on to propose an algorithm to solve the word problem for groups, and also showed that if an ordered pair on a plane is selected from the hyperreal numbers, the parallel postulate doesn't hold. Dupont and Sah used the central relation of this problem to derive a few results in K-theory,  and algebraic K-theory was partly developed due to this problem's solution. The solution of this problem relied on the lemma that if the cosine of alpha is equal to one-third, then alpha divided by pi is irrational. Sydler's theorem gives cases in which the answer to this problem is “yes”, and the Bolyai-Gerwin theorem  solves the equivalent problem in two dimensions. An important quantity used to solve this problem is an element of the tensor product of R with the quotient space R divided by Q pi. That quantity is the Dehn invariant, which is equal for two figures if and only if they are scissors-congruent and have the same volume.  For 10 points, name this problem, which asks whether a polyhedron can be cut up and reassembled into any other polyhedron of equal volume.", "round" : "THUNDER Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40138b3d831d6a005985" }, "answer" : "The {Madrigals} of {Claudio Monteverdi}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 36.55074135190807, "num" : 6, "question" : "One collection of these works was originally labeled \"Concerto\" and features two \"love letters\" to be acted as well as sung, \"Se i languidi miei sguardi\" and \"Se pur destina e vole.\" Gary Tomlinson claimed that \"affective dissonance\" drawn from Marenzio is found in \"Baci soavi e cari.\" In the preface to the fifth collection of these works, their composer coined the term \"seconda pratica\" in responding to Giovanni Artusi's arguments against the transition from polyphonic to monodic style.  The fifth collection contains \"Cruda Amarilli\" and \"O Mirtillo\", both drawn from monologues in Guarini's Il Pastor Fido. The most famous volume of them contains \"Or che'l cielo\" and \"Lamento della ninfa\", was dedicated to Ferdinand III Hapsburg, and is titled for \"war and love.\" That eighth collection was composed during its composer's time at St. Mark's in Venice. For 10 points, name this group of nine books of musical settings of secular texts by the man who composed L'incoronazione di Poppea.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 10.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a00214e" }, "answer" : "\"{Benito Cereno}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.97689545154572, "num" : 7, "question" : "At the end of this work, one character's head is described as being a \"hive of subtlety\". Earlier in this work, Atufal is brought before the narrator to see if he will beg for forgiveness, and one character shaves another, using the Spanish flag as a bib. Later the narrator sees that the skeletal remains of Alexandro Aranda are paired with a mocking \"follow your leader\" painted on the bow of the San Dominick. In this work, the captain of the Bachelor's Delight tries to help a ship stranded in the harbor of St. Maria. Collected in The Piazza Tales, for 10 points, name this novella in which Amasa Delano discovers the slave Babo has taken control of the title character's ship, written by Herbert Melville.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - RPI A + Illinois B + Waterloo.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a003ff3" }, "answer" : "{David Ricardo}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.79278960288502, "num" : 13, "question" : "This economist asked “What need of a House of Commons or of a House of Lords?” in Observations on Parliamentary Reform. His namesake equivalence was popularized by Robert J. Barro. One of his works, subtitled “A Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes,” argues for the adoption of a metallic currency and is titled The High Price of Bullion. His most famous work sets out a theory of rent which was criticized by Malthus, as well as introducing the idea of comparative value. For 10 points, name this economist who wrote Principles of Political Economy and Taxation and espoused the Iron Law of Wages.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Brandeis + UCLA A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003ee3" }, "answer" : "{Gustave Courbet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.12031967123039, "num" : 4, "question" : "This artist painted himself holding a cello in an early self-portrait and depicted himself behind bars in Self-Portrait at St. Pelagie, based on a real sentence he incurred for being the President of the Arts Commission for the Paris Commune. He painted a golden hair comb at the feet of two embracing women in The Sleepers. After three of his paintings were rejected from the 1855 Universal Exhibition, this artist held his own private pavilion, in which he displayed a painting that includes (*) Proudhon and Baudelaire and is divided in half by a giant canvas and a nude model. He drew both praise and condemnation for his painting of an ordinary provincial funeral. For 10 points, name this foremost member of the French realists who painted The Artist's Studio and The Burial at Ornans.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd58b3d831d6a004b0d" }, "answer" : "{Cao Daism}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.72042213380337, "num" : 15, "question" : "One leader of this group was expelled after its army was disbanded with the 1955 assassination of Th?. This group's godhead is symbolized by a left eye on a sphere and its theology posits three periods, each of which sees teaching by Buddhas, then Sages, then (*) Saints. Founded after a 1919 séance, this religion is headed from Tay Ninh by a Giáo Hoàng or Pope and some of its sects venerate Pericles, Victor Hugo, and Sun Yat-sen. For 10 points— name this syncretic religion of Vietnam.", "round" : "05_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e60" }, "answer" : "{Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0822979356162, "num" : 9, "question" : "This man led a failed coup against former President Carlos Perez in his early career. In 2005, he criminalized libel against government officials; in 2009, he had his country’s constitution amended to eliminate term limits. In 2005, he announced a program to provide cheap heating fuel to poor U.S. citizens. In a 2006 speech at the United Nations, he referred to the President Bush as the devil. For 10 points, name this president of Venezuela.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa78b3d831d6a004058" }, "answer" : "{Kawabata Yasunari}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.69437434966676, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one novel by this author, the foundling daughter of a dress shop owner discovers her identical twin, confusing the weaver Hideo. This author also wrote a novel in which Uragami reports on a six month long match between the materialistic Otake and the spiritual Shusai. This author of The Old Capital wrote a novel in which the protagonist has a fling with his father's mistress Mrs. Ota. In addition to writing The Master of Go, this author wrote a novel in which the self appointed western ballet expert Shimamura has an affair with the geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Thousand Cranes and Snow Country.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Dunbar + University of Minnesota A.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403d8b3d831d6a0063c1" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Coral Sea}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.97541203116998, "num" : 11, "question" : "Prior to this battle, the Hornet and Enterprise were sent on a surprise bombing mission, leaving them out of the US fleet.  The other side in this battle wished to secure the island of Tulagi and its harbor.  On May 7, the first major day of battle, the Kikuzuki and the Shoho were both destroyed, and the next day the Shokaku was forced to retreat.  The Yorktown escaped major damage from the Japanese attack, but the Lexington was destroyed.  For 10 points, name this battle fought over control of Port Moresby, a 1942 naval battle that notably featured no ship-to-ship combat, fought in a namesake body of water that is home to the Great Barrier Reef.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Yale A + Michigan.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2b8b3d831d6a0022de" }, "answer" : "{Peterloo Massacre} [or {Battle} of {Peterloo}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.65980739658698, "num" : 9, "question" : "Following this event, Francis Philips led a group that met at the Star Inn to praise it, and it took place two years after the Blanketeers March. Military drills at Tandle Hill preceeded this event. Its aftermath saw the arrest of reporter John Tyas under The Basphemous and Seditious Libels Act. This event's outcome was reported by James Wroe and Richard Carlile. The Training Prevention Act and the Seizure of Arms Act were among the Six Acts passed by parliament in response to this event. Occurring at a meeting presided over by Henry “Orator” Hunt, it resulted in the death of eleven people. For 10 points, name this 1819 event in Manchester where a group of protestors was violently dispersed, which takes its name from the bastardization of a Napoleonic defeat.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - VCU + Duke.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f088b3d831d6a001b08" }, "answer" : "{Philip II} [or {Philip} the {Prudent}; or {Felipe II}; or {Felipe El Prudente}; or {Philip} I of {Portugal} or {Felipe} I of {Portugal}; prompt on “{Philip}” or “{Felipe}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.868448009016, "num" : 20, "question" : "This leader was rebuffed by the Act of Abjuration and had William the Silent killed. He had to expel the Moriscos from Grenada because of their namesake revolt. The debt this man’s country incurred from imported bullion led him to declare his country’s first bankruptcy. He sent his half-brother, Don Juan of Austria, to end Ottoman domination of the Mediterranean at the Battle of Lepanto. This man’s greatest military operation failed because the Duke of Parma encountered storms en route to England. Elizabeth I routed his Spanish Armada. For 10 points, name this son of Charles V, ruler of Spanish Empire at greatest extent.", "round" : "Sample Packet.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a0046f8" }, "answer" : "A {Streetcar} Named {Desire}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.87830306682736, "num" : 21, "question" : "An early passage in this work describes warehouses that have “faint redolences of bananas and coffee” and describes how “You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river”. One character claims that Poe would call the surroundings of this work's setting “the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir” but is reminded that “those are the L&N tracks”. Later, another passage describes the “animal joy” of a character who “bears [the] emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer”; that character later insists that he is “one hundred percent (*) American” and “not a Polack”. The stage directions of this work often mention musical pieces like “Varsouviana” and “The Blue Piano”, the latter of which is played \"around the corner\" from its setting in Elysian Fields. This play's central character moved to the Flamingo after losing the estate of Belle Reve and claims to be marrying Shep Huntleigh, but is eventually taken away to an asylum after claiming to always depend “on the kindness of strangers”. For 10 points, identify this play in which Stella and Stanley Kowalski host Blanche DuBois, a work of Tennessee Williams.", "round" : "Rd08.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f948b3d831d6a003c26" }, "answer" : "{Much Ado} About {Nothing}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.16194979310967, "num" : 6, "question" : "One character in this play thinks that a villain is named Deformed and alludes to a “worm-eaten tapestry” in which Hercules's codpiece is as big as his club. Another character promises to “eat all of his killing,” referring to the casualties inflicted in battle by her eventual lover. That lover muses that instead of the sign “Here is a good horse to hire,” there should be a sign pointing to him as a married man, should marriage come to pass. This play contains a ghost character in the role of Innogen, whose husband hears the fanciful tale of the (*) Watch, who is supervised by Verges. Another character seduces Margaret in the guise of Hero, who is besmirched by the “Bastard Prince” Don John. Leonato governs Messina, whose constables are led by Dogberry in this play that ends with a fickle couple finally confessing their love. For 10 points, identify this Shakespeare play about Beatrice and Benedick.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 9.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a004fff" }, "answer" : "phloem", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.6433367272839, "num" : 17, "question" : "Ernst Munch used the pressure flow hypothesis to explain movement of substances in this tissue. This tissue is composed of companion cells, which aid elongated cells with nuclei, the sieve-tube members. Movement in this tissue is bidirectional, but always goes from sugar sources to sugar sinks. It is formed on the outside of the vascular cambium, and transports food throughout a plant. For 10 points, name this tissue of vascular plants, which is contrasted with xylem.", "round" : "4q1-11.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004abe" }, "answer" : "{Theodore Lyman}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.25668383250013, "num" : 24, "question" : "Lines separated from their parent lines by large spectral distances are known as his spectral ghosts. His namesake clouds generate absorption lines in quasar emission spectra at large redshifts that are known as his alpha (*) forest. The Rydberg equation can be used to calculate his alpha transition and namesake limit. For 10 points, electron transitions involving the first principle quantum number result in the emission of what scientist's namesake ultraviolet spectral series for hydrogen?", "round" : "02_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405e8b3d831d6a006ba4" }, "answer" : "{Alan Stewart Paton}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7568721999414, "num" : 12, "question" : "This author wrote about a policeman named Pieter who violates the Immorality Act in having an affair with Stephanie in one of his novels. Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill collaborated on the musical Lost in the Stars, an adaptation of his best-known novel. In addition to writing Too Late the Phalarope and Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful, he wrote a novel in which Gertrude is a prostitute and Absalom kills Mr. Jarvis's son. For 10 points, name this author of a novel about Stephen Kumalo, Cry, the Beloved Country.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF2.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002be2" }, "answer" : "aspiration", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.2545424241107, "num" : 10, "question" : "Swati employs one form of this feature on a noun prefix syllable to express the copula; that form of this feature can take the form of glottal friction and appears in Icelandic and Faroese after stressed vowels but before plosives. Words in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit with two consecutive consonants with this feature lost the first example. This feature, when voiced, is depicted in IPA with two subscripted dots and is called “murmur,” and labial, dental, and velar stops with this feature became voiced in Proto-Germanic. For 10 points, name this feature depicted as a superscript h in IPA, the release of air following an obstruent.", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fae8b3d831d6a004212" }, "answer" : "{Gauss}' law [of {electricity}; do not accept “{Gauss's law} of {magnetism}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.63381070061587, "num" : 8, "question" : "Rossi and Testa noticed an inconsistency between it and the canonical commutation relations, and a pure-glue form of it was implemented to apply to both gluons and quarks by Chen and Belloni. In theories of quantum gravity, this law implies that the total energy-momentum density at every point in space vanishes, and it is non-linear in QCD, while in QED it can be implemented by choosing wave functions that are dependent only on the transverse parts of the vector potential. In its gravitational form, it can be re-written as the Poisson equation by replacing the gravitational field with the gravitational potential. It can be used to demonstrate the safety of a Faraday cage, and in the case of stationary charges it is equivalent to Coulomb's law. The first of Maxwell's equations, for 10 points, name this physical law that states the total electric flux out of a closed surface is equal to the charge divided by the permittivity.", "round" : "r09- UCLA-South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5b8b3d831d6a002e4c" }, "answer" : "{Louis Isadore Kahn} [or {Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.19596910802647, "num" : 13, "question" : "This architect, in a collaboration with the Montgomery & Bishop firm and Margaret and Harry Duncan, designed the first racially integrated neighborhood in Philadelphia, Greenbelt Knoll. He used a question mark as the basic structure for Rochester, New York's First Unitarian Church, while another of his buildings features triangles and rectangles engraved on its walls and is surrounded on three sides by an artificial lake. This first major work of the designer of the Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban National Assembly Building in (*) Bangladesh was the Yale University Art Gallery, a style he would return to for the circular openings in the atrium of the Phillips Exeter Academy Library. He used sixteen parallel vaults divided into three wings in the design for Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum. For 10 points, identify this designer of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, an Estonian-born Jewish architect.", "round" : "Round 09 - UCSD.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000c91" }, "answer" : "{capital punishment} [or {death penalty}; or {execution}; or any {specific method} of {capital}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.5194773569237, "num" : 30, "question" : "Roper v. Simmons established age limits for this practice. In one case concerning it, a 5-4 majority found it \"wantonly and freakishly imposed\" after a writ of certiorari (sur-shee-uh-RAIR-ree) was granted to a defendant named Furman. After that case was overturned by Gregg v. Georgia, this practice was applied to Gary Gilmore. For 10 points, name this practice by which chairs named Old Sparky or lethal injections are used to end the lives of convicted murderers.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000b99" }, "answer" : "gallbladder", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1405454678461, "num" : 4, "question" : "The entire mass of this organ is sometimes referred to as the corpus vesicae fellae. The Sphincter of Oddi and the hormone CCK control the release of products from the pancreas and this organ. One of the main causes of jaundice is the creation of a certain \"stone\" in this organ. This organ is removed during a cholecystectomy and stores a product that is released into the (*) duodenum of the small intestine during digestion. For 10 points, name this organ that stores bile produced by the liver.", "round" : "tournament17-09.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe88b3d831d6a004f77" }, "answer" : "{Cry}, the {Beloved Country}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.7836368670687, "num" : 9, "question" : "Mr. Mafolo helps the protagonist of this novel when a young man walks away with the money he paid to buy a ticket. The novel begins when the protagonist receives a letter from Msimangu asking him to help his sick sister Gertrude, whom he finds working as a prostitute. The protagonist's son impregnates and marries \"The Girl\" before being sentenced to death for killing Arthur Jarvis, whose father James befriends the preacher Stephen Kumalo. For 10 points, name this novel about racial injustice in South Africa, the best known work of Alan Paton.", "round" : "4q1-07.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fee8b3d831d6a0050d4" }, "answer" : "{William Carlos Williams}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.1050368768629, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man's works include a long poetic description of a New Jersy town, Paterson. He wrote about an item \"glazed with rain water beside the white chickens\" in a poem in which \"so much depends upon\" that titular object, and in another of his poems, the speaker apologizes for \"eating all the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast.\" For 10 points, name this poet and physician who wrote \"The Red Wheelbarrow\" and \"This Is Just To Say.\"", "round" : "4q2-03.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a006311" }, "answer" : "{Stanley Milgram}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.26387049630284, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man explored what effect skyscrapers have on urban life in “Vertical City,” and he studied people who communicate by repeating radioed messages, cyranoids.  He studied the responses to people cutting into lines or asking for someone to give up their seat on the subway, and he asked people to send packages to those most likely to know the target in his small world experiment.  Variations on his most famous experiment showed higher stress rates in women, though they were just as likely to continue operating the machine.  For 10 points, name this man who had people administer electric shocks in his obedience experiment.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f508b3d831d6a002bcb" }, "answer" : "{Miklos Horthy} [accept: {Nicholas von Horthy}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.71364025212824, "num" : 7, "question" : "This man first came to power as an intended figurehead for the so-called “ABC Government”, whose name was an acronym for the three counts who led it. This man gave the “Arraignment Speech” in front of the Gellert Hotel, excoriating his countrymen for supporting Communism, and he was supported by the Smallholders Party. During Operation Panzerfaust, this man's son was rolled up in a carpet by Otto Skorzeny. Via that Nazi intervention, this man lost power to Ferenc Szalasi and the fascist Arrow Cross Party. Earlier, this man fought at the Battle of the Otranto Straight while serving in the Austrian navy. For ten points, name this admiral who ruled Hungary from 1920-1944.", "round" : "Round 01.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa68b3d831d6a00402e" }, "answer" : "{Ronald Wilson Reagan}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.34460640768521, "num" : 8, "question" : "This deliverer of the “surly bonds of earth” speech was president during the Beirut Barracks bombing. After the failed nomination of Douglas Ginsburg, he appointed Anthony Kennedy to the Supreme Court. His Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, stated “I am in control here” after John Hinckley attempted to assassinate this president. His Defense Secretary, Casper Weinberger, helped to funnel arms to Nicaraguan rebels during the Iran-Contra scandal. For 10 points, name this man who urged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” as president from 1980 to ‘88.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 8.pdf", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a00766b" }, "answer" : "{John Russell}, {1st Earl} of {Russell}, {Viscount Amberley} of {Amberley} and {Ardsalla}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.76761568943039, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man's first administration saw the passage of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, and as home secretary under Lord Melbourne he was responsible for reducing the number of capital offenses. His 1845 stance in favor of total free trade forced his opponent Robert Peel to follow him, and as foreign secretary, he proposed mediating the American Civil War, only to be denied by the man whose recognition of Napoleon III had caused the collapse of this man's first ministry. He spoke in 1817 in opposition to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, but it was as paymaster under Charles Grey, in which capacity he fought for the rights of English Dissenters and Irish Catholics, that he saw his greatest success. FTP, name this liberal Whig, the driving force behind the Reform Bill of 1832 and Prime Minister from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Vanderbilt A.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f2a" }, "answer" : "{cows} [accept {cattle}, {bulls}, or other {clear knowledge} equivalents]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 99.19595613703132, "num" : 9, "question" : "Ba'al is sometimes depicted as one of these animals. One of these creatures worshipped in Memphis was originally called the Herald of Ptah, and was later identified as a god of the dead, Apis. In Hindu myth, one which emerged during the churning of the ocean was named Surabhi. One appearing briefly in the Prose Edda is (*) Audhumla. The steed of Shiva is one of these animals named Nandi, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu killed one \"of heaven.\" As an infant, Hermes stole some of these belonging to Apollo, while others belonging to Geryon were stolen by Heracles. This animal is used to depict the Egyptian goddess of love and fertility, Hathor. Pasiphae mated with this type of creature which, for 10 points, forms the head of the resulting offspring, the Minotaur.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a003869" }, "answer" : "Jainism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.6236338166054, "num" : 7, "question" : "The Kapla is the biography of this religion’s founder. Books called the Cheda contain rules for monks in\n this religion. The most important texts in this religion are the Agamas. Vision, knowledge, and conduct are\n the so-called “triple gems” of this religion. Each of this religion’s prophets was smaller than the one that\n came before him; these prophets are called the 24 bridge-makers, or Tirthankars, the most recent of which\n was this religion’s founder, Mahavira. Because of this religion’s principle of ahimsa, some members wear\n masks to avoid accidentally inhaling and killing insects. For 10 points, name this Indian religion committed\n to non-violence.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e1b" }, "answer" : "{Henry James} [prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.32750124111771, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man wrote a short story in which a character says he could not have worn his “charming monocle” downtown and compares himself to a man missing two fingers but who makes a million a year. In one of his stories, Alice Staverton loves Spencer Brydon, who has a supernatural encounter while revisiting the title house. Another of his stories ends with the protagonist bitterly flinging himself upon the (*) tomb of a woman he realizes had truly lived named May Bertram. In that story, John Marcher refuses to marry because he is irrationally afraid of suffering a great catastrophe, which he compares to the title creature. This author of The Jolly Corner and The Beast in the Jungle wrote a novella in which Winterbourne pursues the title character, who ultimately dies of fever after visiting the Coliseum. For 10 points, name this American author of Daisy Miller.", "round" : "Round 07 - Chicago B.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a00408e" }, "answer" : "{Hanukkah} [or {Chanukah}; prompt on {Festival} of {Lights}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.21204527257942, "num" : 19, "question" : "The Al ha-Nissim addition is made to the hoda'ah benediction in the prayer service for this holiday, which includes the reading of Zechariah 2:14-4:7. The final moments of this holiday include the reading of the verse “This was the dedication of the altar” on its final day, which is known as Zot. The medieval German hymn Ma'oz Tzur is sung during this holiday, which sees the wide consumption of latkes. This holiday was borne from a struggle against Antiochus and included an incident in which a container of oil kept a menorah burning for eight days. Gelt is distributed and dreidel is played on, for 10 points, what winter Jewish holiday?", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Maryland A + CWRU.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd08b3d831d6a0049dd" }, "answer" : "Nirvana", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.2731724532787, "num" : 19, "question" : "In one song by this band, the lead singer says that he will “distill the life inside of me” with “Pennyroyal Tea”. In another song by this band, the singer swears, \"[he doesn't] have a gun, \"while a third tells the listener to “load up on guns and bring your friends.” Songs like “Come As You Are” appear on this band's most famous album whose cover shows a baby swimming, and is called Nevermind. For 10 points, name this grunge band responsible for \"Smells Like Teen Spirit,\" fronted by Kurt Cobain.", "round" : "round03.doc", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40108b3d831d6a0058ec" }, "answer" : "A Good {Man} is {Hard} to {Find}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4287579800002, "num" : 12, "question" : "One character in this work recalls a time wherein dirt roads limit a full day's journey to 30 miles, while two characters play a game featuring a guess on the shape of clouds. Another character apologizes to ladies for not having his [?] shirt on, and that character is told to be “one of my babies…one of my own children,” by a character who “would have been a good woman…if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” The central event is precipitated because of Pitty Sing, a cat in a basket. After stopping at Red Sammy's, a car accident causes John Wesley and June Star to be killed by Hiram and Bobby Lee, while the Grandmother is slain by the Misfit. For ten points, name this Flannery O'Connor short story.", "round" : "PLAYOFFS ROUND 2.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f568b3d831d6a002d04" }, "answer" : "{George Berkeley}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 466.3223008764908, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man opposed the adoption of the sumptuary laws, and stated that spatial depth is by itself invisible in one essay. He countered Shaftesbury and other philosophers in the Alciphron, criticized Newton's philosophy in The Analyst, and put forth his theories of motion in De Motu. This man wrote the aforementioned Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, and also coined the phrase “Esse et percipi,” or \"to be is to be perceived.\" For 10 points, name this Irish philosopher of Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.", "round" : "Round12.doc", "seen" : 313, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a0045fd" }, "answer" : "Breckenridge", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.30501444195396, "num" : 14, "question" : "One politician with this last name served in his state's Ninth Cavalry Division in the Confederacy under John Morgan and was attacked by James Wood for advocating a six-day work week. Another politician with this name served Lindley Garrison in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet and was the attorney of Charles Lindbergh. Another man with this name ran against John M. Clayton in Arkansas, and was Minister to Russia before serving on the Dawes Commission. All of them are descendants from a man with this last name that succeeded Levi Lincoln as Thomas Jefferson's second (*) attorney general. The best known politician with this name commanded the Orphan Brigade, and was the final Confederate Secretary of War. That politician also formed an electoral ticket with Joseph Lane after serving as Vice President to James Buchanan. For 10 points, give this surname of some Kentucky politicians, most notably the Southern Democrat nominee who finished second in electoral voting in 1860.", "round" : "Packet 10 - Gentlemen from Sangala.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9f8b3d831d6a003e8c" }, "answer" : "{Jean-Francois Millet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.84861150570214, "num" : 5, "question" : "This artist first came to prominence in the salon with his Oedipus Taken down from the Tree. He painted a girl with a basket on her head and a boy carrying a bent three pronged pitchfork in his The Walk to Work. This artist depicted ladders leaned up against giant stacks of grain in the background of a lunching group in his painting of Ruth and Boaz. The contrast between the sale of one of this man's paintings and the poverty of his heirs was one of the main grounds for the creation of the droit de suite tax in the 1920s. That painting includes a pitchfork stuck into the ground and a wheelbarrow behind the bowed figures of two peasants and was originally called Prayer for the Potato Crop. Another of his paintings depicts three women bending down to collect scraps of grain from a field. For 10 points, name this Barbizon painter of The Angelus and The Gleaners.", "round" : "The Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c77" }, "answer" : "An {Inquiry into} the {Nature} and {Causes} of the {Wealth} of {Nations}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.8059368045069, "num" : 3, "question" : "This work's last section, \"Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth\", discusses taxation and explains why debts from wars are unlikely to be paid off. Book Four of this work, \"Of Systems of Political Economy\", attacks mercantilism and specifically protectionist tariffs. Its first section compares agricultural societies to industrial ones, and studies pin manufacturing to illustrate ways in which the division of labor can increase industrial productivity. This book uses the concept of an \"invisible hand\" to explain individuals acting in their own self-interests. For 10 points, name this 1776 work advocating laissez-faire economics, written by Adam Smith.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004e6" }, "answer" : "{Completion} of {Transcontinental Railroad} (accept {Laying} of {Golden Spike}, accept {Completion} of {Overland Route}, accept {Completion} of {Pacific Railroad}, accept {Meeting} of {Central Pacific} and {Union Pacific}, accept Last {Spike}, accept {logical} equivalents)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.44831080990843, "num" : 14, "question" : "This event was depicted in the most famous non landscape work of Thomas Hill, while a notable photograph by Andrew Russell depicts a man cheerfully holding up a bottle of champagne. A key object utilized in this event was the brainchild of businessman David Hewes and contained the words “May God continue the unity of our country.” Other props at this event were objects called No. 119 and the Jupiter, while the primary object was utilized by Leland Stanford. A common myth states that Chinese laborers were not allowed to be in attendance. For 10 points, identify this event of May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit that was a revolutionary event in cross-country transportation.", "round" : "2011 CO History Bollinger Cheyne.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebd8b3d831d6a00098a" }, "answer" : "{Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7102143377997, "num" : 3, "question" : "This poet wrote that \"Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul\" in the poem \"A Psalm of Life.\" His poem \"Mezzo Cammin\" was inspired by his translation of the Divine Comedy. He wrote an epic poem in which Gabriel Lajeunesse loves the title character, who is expelled along with the rest of the Acadians. This author of (*) Evangeline also wrote an epic poem whose title character is the lover of Minnehaha. For 10 points, name this poet of The Song of Hiawatha and \"Paul Revere's Ride.\"", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40388b3d831d6a0062a0" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Cuba}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 101.7093524201773, "num" : 16, "question" : "The “Salt Pan” is a section of the Cienaga de Zapatas Park, which is located in its Matanzas province. The longest river in this country partly forms the border between the Holguin and Granma provinces after originating in the Sierra Maestra, and the chain of islands extending from its Hicasos peninsula to the Nuevitas bay is called the Sabana-Camaguey archipelago. Isla de la Juventud is located south of the Gulf of Batabano off the Caribbean coast of this country, whose cities include Pinar del Rio and Santiago. Located south of the Straits of Florida, for 10 points, identify this country whose easternmost province is Guantanamo and whose capital is Havana.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Cornell.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0c8b3d831d6a001bbf" }, "answer" : "{Publius Ovidius Naso}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.2130671213381, "num" : 13, "question" : "This author’s depiction of women in one work was detailed by E.W. Leach, who argued that this author “is less interested in the finer aspects of love-longing than in his witty comparison between animal and woman.” In that work, this author compared himself to the navigator of the Haemonian ship, Tiphys, and the driver of Achilles’ chariot, Automedon. In addition to Ibis, this poet authored a work, which is comprised of letters between women like (*) Penelope and Hypermnestra and their lovers as well as another work, which detailed the festivals of the Roman calendar. This author of Heroides and Fasti spent time in exile near the Black Sea and also composed a work that described the stories of Actaeon and Apollo and Daphne. FTP, name this Roman poet, who authored works like Amores, Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses.", "round" : "FINAL_Penn.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd28b3d831d6a004a4f" }, "answer" : "{Donatello} (or {Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1749521289021, "num" : 1, "question" : "He created a relief with Herod being shown the head of John the Baptist that contained round arches and a equestrian satue of Gamelatta. This sculptor also created a flat relief of a knight killing a dragon set below a statue of that knigt. In addition to his St. George, he created a wooden scupturer of a woman with hollow cheeks and statue where a boy is standing with a foot on the head of Goliath. For 10 points, name this sculptor of a Mary Madgalene and a bronze, pre-pubescent David.", "round" : "Round10.doc", "seen" : 274, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a7f" }, "answer" : "\"The {Library} of {Babel}\" or La {Biblioteca} de {Babel}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.14901826996356, "num" : 1, "question" : "This work's narrator mentions how Letizia Alvarez de Toledo believes the title entity is useless and that his colleagues have been decimated by pulmonary disease and suicide. This work mentions pilgrims who \"proffered dark curses, strangled each other on divine stairways\" while searching for the Vindications. The narrator states the best item in his possession is The Combined Thunderclap after discussing the search for \"the Man of the Book.\" It establishes the axiom that \"the orthographical symbols are twenty five in number\" in the title location. For 10 points, name this work which posits a location made of an indefinite number of hexagons, a work of Jorge Luis Borges.", "round" : "Finals 1 - T Party 2010.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405c8b3d831d6a006b31" }, "answer" : "{Bronis?aw Malinowski}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.7396871072706, "num" : 18, "question" : "This man suggested that “Baloma” spirits play a key role in conception ideologies and explain matrilineal descent systems while disproving the universality of the Oedipus Complex. This author of Sex and Repression in Savage Society described building and launching canoes in a work that explains the [*] exchange of trinkets as “half-commerical and half-ceremonial.” This man described the kula ring of the Trobriand Islands in a work followed by his Coral Gardens and their Magic. For 10 points name this Polish functionalist anthropologist, the author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 220, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e8b" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Hart Benton}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 125.1642854809761, "num" : 14, "question" : "Though known for his canvases he did create numerous lithographs, including Letter From Overseas and Wreck of the 97.  For his oils he built detailed maquettes, or clay models, but he only did so after abandoning the Synchromist style of his former schoolmate Stanton Macdonald-Wright.  Controversy surrounded the red nail polish and stark nudity of the titular woman in his Susannah and the Elders and the leering old farmer in his Persephone. It was for his cycles of paintings that he was celebrated, such as his war series Year in Peril or his group of panels The Arts of Life in America.  More popular were his group of Indiana Murals and his Social History of Missouri.  For 10 points, name this American Regionalist painter, a one-time teacher of Jackson Pollock and namesake and great nephew of a 19th-century Missouri senator nicknamed “Old Bullion.”", "round" : "Editor's Round Tiebreak 1.docx", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048c1" }, "answer" : "{Coming} of Age in {Samoa}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.3412819178775, "num" : 6, "question" : "A critic of this work, Derek Freeman, wrote about the unreliability of this work's writer's previous case studies in his namesake, “Unmaking and Making of An Anthropological Myth.” Sections in this work include “Maturity and Old Age” and “Education for Choice” and uses particular studies of people such as the Lola, Mala, and Siva. This work explains the existence of the taupou system, which is one of institutionalized virginity for young women of high rank. The study revolved around the lives of sixty-eight young women living on the island of Tau. For 10 points, name this work by Margaret Mead.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 11 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f478b3d831d6a002989" }, "answer" : "{antibodies} [accept {immunoglobins} until mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1641095210798, "num" : 11, "question" : "These molecules' variable regions use induced fit to bind to epitopes. Human types of them include E, involved in allergic reactions, and M, a pentamer produced in response to mismatched blood transfusions. Autoimmune diseases occur when they mistakenly attack self, rather than foreign, molecules. They are produced by B cells and are also known as immunoglobins. For 10 points, name these proteins in the immune system that defend against antigens.", "round" : "Packet 13.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5f8b3d831d6a002f08" }, "answer" : "{Louis IX} [or {Saint Louis}; prompt on {Louis}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.18287248164415, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man angered Isabella de l'Anguileme when he named his brother as the Comte de Poitou. He won a battle against Henry III and the Comte de la Marche before negotiating a truce with Hugh of Lusignan at Taillebourg Bridge. John of Ibelin helped this man to push Fakhr ad-Din to Damietta in his most famous initiative, which later saw the arrival of Alfonso of Poitou at Cairo. He was captured at the Battle of Farsikur during a war that he fought alongside his brother, Robert of Artois. This son of Blanche of Castille and was the leader of the Seventh Crusade. For 10 points, name this ruler from 1226 to 1270, the only French king to be canonized.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Gaurav - Done.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd08b3d831d6a0049f6" }, "answer" : "Battle of the {Little Bighorn} [accept {Battle} of the {Greasy Grass} early]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 342.9314741580747, "num" : 6, "question" : "Before this battle, Alfred Terry led troops up the Yellowstone River in an effort to trap his opponents between him and a colleague. At this battle, also known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, Marcus Terry attacked prematurely and was forced to retreat and wait for Frederick William Benteen's reinforcements. At this battle, the Seventh Cavalry was massacred by Sitting Bull's Sioux Indians. For 10 points, identify this 1876 battle, also known as George Custer's Last Stand.", "round" : "round05.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40308b3d831d6a0060a4" }, "answer" : "Porphyry", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.06296893069521, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one work usually attributed to this philosopher, the term hyparxis is identified with existence as the first principle of a triad which includes life and intelligence.  In another work, the civic, purgative, and contemplative types of virtue are considered along with paradigmatic virtue, which corresponds to a virtue's Platonic Form.  In addition to Commentary on Parmenides, this opponent of Iamblichus wrote a work rejecting Cronius's theory that the titular location did not exist and interprets its structure symbolically while analyzing The Odyssey as allegorically depicting the history of the human soul.  Another work by this philosopher discusses the Aristotelian concepts of genus, species, differentia, property, and accident as an introduction to the Categories.  The author of Sententiae, The Cave of the Nymphs and the Isagoge, for 10 points, name this Neoplatonist who edited his teacher Plotinus' Enneads. ", "round" : "Round8.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a00169c" }, "answer" : "{John Steinbeck}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2112303993199, "num" : 15, "question" : "In one short story by this man, a traveling tinker mends two of Eliza’s pans, but breaks her heart by discarding the flowers she gives him. This author of “Chrysanthemums” also wrote a novella in which an old man named Gitano arrives at the protagonist's farm and Gabilan is cared for by Jody. This man wrote a novel in which the Chinese housekeeper (*) Lee tries to warn Adam not to name his sons Caleb and Aron. Another novella by this author of The Red Pony sees one character reveal his dreams to Crooks and Candy. In that work by this author of East of Eden, George is forced to shoot Lennie. For 10 points, name this author of Of Mice and Men.", "round" : "Packet 2 - Prelims 2.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa18b3d831d6a003f0e" }, "answer" : "{John Philip Sousa}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.85650268802419, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man never used instruments while composing, preferring to play music out in his head with what he called his “brain-band.” He first came to the public eye after Harry Coleman helped publicize his piece “The Gladiator.” He wrote a comic opera in which the Marquis de Lavarre plans to marry the title character and leave her a widow as he is condemned to fight the Spanish army alone. This composer of Désirée wrote a piece intended to be played during the (*) Transit of Venus. This composer wrote about the Spanish viceroy Don Enrico Medigua disguising himself as the title rebel in El Capitan, and titled pieces after the Washington Post and the Liberty Bell. For 10 points, name this composer of Stars and Stripes Forever, who is nicknamed The March King", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbc8b3d831d6a004548" }, "answer" : "The {Anarchy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.87132714129984, "num" : 2, "question" : "One prominent figure of this conflict raided the lands around Ely from a base at Ramsey Abbey during it, and it featured Ranulf de Gernon in addition to the aforementioned Geoffrey de Mandeville. One important ecclesiastic in this conflict was Thurstan, Archbishop of York, who, with negotiations at Roxburgh and the organization of the force that won the (*) Battle of the Standard, staved off the invasion of David I, while another, Henry of Winchester, secured papal support for his brother in this conflict. One figure in this conflict was exchanged for Robert of Gloucester after the former had been captured at the Battle of Lincoln. It was ended by the Treaty of Wallingford, which established the succession in favor of Henry Curtmantle, and it began after the death of William Adelin in the wreck of the White Ship. For 10 points, name this English civil war that resulted in the creation of the House of Plantagenet, fought between Empress Matilda and Stephen of Blois.", "round" : "Packet 02 - Rusk and Romanians.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401f8b3d831d6a005c51" }, "answer" : "{Cat} on a {Hot Tin Roof}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4616298929323, "num" : 11, "question" : "In this work, one character is accused of playing in “the cut-glass punch bowl” and is referred to a rehab center, Rainbow Hill. Another character recounts a story about a couple who went to the zoo with their son, only to see two aroused elephants. A servant named Sookie is seen as Dr. Baugh and Reverend Tooker deliver some bad news. This play tells the story of a Southern family that features the sexually frustrated Maggie and Brick Pollitt. Name this work that also concerns the cancer-plagued Big Daddy, a work by Tennessee Williams in which Maggie claims that there is nothing more determined than the title animal.", "round" : "01 TU.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9b8b3d831d6a0001d1" }, "answer" : "Manchester", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.63887024689465, "num" : 8, "question" : "The Woolf Report suggested prison reforms after this city's Strangeways Prison endured a 25 day prison riot. William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien were nicknamed this city's \"martyrs\" after being executed for killing a police officer here. In 1817, this city was marched on by a group of weavers calling themselves the Blanketeers. When this city's growth was checked in the 18th century, Francis Egerton completed the Bridgewater Canal to connect it to the Worsley coal mines. This city became known as Cottonopolis because of its textile growth during the Industrial Revolution, and its working class was examined in a Frederich Engels text. One event near this city, built on the site of the Roman settlement of Macunium, was prompted by the speech of Henry Hunt and prompted the passage of the Six Acts. For 10 points, name this site of the Peterloo Massacre and second largest city in England.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-VCUAandBFinal.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3edf8b3d831d6a00116d" }, "answer" : "{Jack Kerouac} [or {Jean Louis Lebris} de {Kerouac}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.2082570118363, "num" : 11, "question" : "?This writer explained his avoidance of a seventeen-syllable rule \"because American speech is bursting to pop\" in a preface to his \"American Haiku.\" He wrote a novel about a man who gets a job as a fire lookout on a mountain from Japhy Ryder. Another character in that novel, Cody Pomeray, represents Neal Cassady, who is likewise present in another of this author’s novels as the narrator’s companion in a journey to see Old Bull Lee in New Orleans. For 10 points, name this author who created Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise in On the Road.", "round" : "31.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e8d" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Aquinas} [accept {Tommaso d'Aquino}; prompt on {Doctor Angelicus}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 467.0976144182496, "num" : 22, "question" : "This author dubbed Averroes “The Commentator,” and he authored the tracts “On Kingship” and “On Being and Essence” in addition to a work against Averroes, On There Being only One Intellect. One of this author's works contrasts two types of truths, those accessible to human intellect, and those like the sacraments for which reason does not stand. He claimed that there must exist an “unmoved mover” in his magnum opus. For 10 points, name this “Doctor Angelicus,” the author of Summa Contra Gentiles who outlined five proofs of God's existence in his unfinished masterpiece, Summa Theologica.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 4.doc", "seen" : 309, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042a6" }, "answer" : "{Rachmaninoff's Concertos} for {Piano}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.46991351153702, "num" : 13, "question" : "One of these works finishes with a movement marked Alla breve that is preceded by a brief cadenza. Another, written while its composer was still a student, opens with portentous horn declarations and a cascade of chords meant to evoke the pealing of bells. Yet another one of them is prefaced by eight stark chords at the beginning and includes a soaring second theme in E flat. That piece, which featured an “Oriental” second subject later popularized by the song “Full Moon and Empty Arms,” was completed soon after the composer began visiting the hypnotist Nikolas Dahl. Although the first one remained unfinished, by 1909 the third and final one had been completed. For 10 points, identify this set of works for a certain instrument by the composer of The Isle of the Dead.", "round" : "r15- Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2c8b3d831d6a00232d" }, "answer" : "{Elizabeth Costello}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.89561601611786, "num" : 2, "question" : "In one novel in which this character appears she sets the main character up with a blind nymphomaniac named Marianna. In another work, she discusses an experiment involving an ape named Sultan who is forced to find ways to obtain out of reach bananas and champions the “fullness of being” in animals' lives in a debate with Thomas O'Hearne, a philosophy professor at Appleton College. The final chapter of the best-known novel in which this character appears recreates Hugo von Hofmannsthal's “Letter of Lord Chandos to Lord Bacon” and follows an episode in a Kafkaesque prison camp in which she survives judgment by likening herself to a frog. Also appearing in The Lives of Animals and Slow Man, this character is likened to Doris Lessing for her novel The House on Eccles Street, a retelling of Ulysses from Molly Bloom's perspective, in the novel of which she is the title character. For 10 points name this Australian author who appears in three works by J.M. Coetzee.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 02 - Great Unaffected Vampires.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f78" }, "answer" : "{Athol} Harold {Lannigan Fugard}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0758159975521, "num" : 15, "question" : "In one of this author's plays, set in New Bethesda, pastor Marius Byleveld attempts to put Miss Helen in an elderly home, while another features the troubles of Willie Seopolo. In addition to The Road to Mecca and No-Good Friday, his only novel is about a gang leader who kidnaps a baby, Tsotsi. One of his plays is set in the St. George's Park Tea Room owned by the father of Hally, where Sam and Willie work. Another play features two men who wish to buy a farm while living in a shack in Port Elizabeth, joined by the titular entity, half-brothers Zach and Morris. For 10 points, name this South African playwright of Blood Knot and “MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the Boys.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a0044be" }, "answer" : "{Michelson-Morley} experiment", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5292568479199, "num" : 13, "question" : "Recent performances of it included one using cryogenic optical resonators and another performed by Charles Townes using a maser. The development of the Fizeau-Foucalt apparatus occurred before this experiment was performed but did not provide accurate enough measurements. Its results would lead to the development of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction and the data was collected by observing interference fringes. The experiment consisted of a device with a light source, a silver glass and two mirrors and attempted to show that light moved at different speeds in different directions. FTP, identify this 1887 experiment that used an interferometer and would ultimately disprove the existence of luminiferous ether.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069f9" }, "answer" : "Grendel", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.867996748304, "num" : 22, "question" : "In one work, this character is enthralled by the songs of The Shaper, and gets philosophical insight from a dragon. In another, he is “the shape of a man” but “bigger than any man,” and his mother is impervious to the sword Hrunting. He is the spawn of Cain, and his head requires four men to carry it after he is killed by a Geatish warrior who frees the mead hall Heorot from this character's deadly attacks. For 10 points, name this monster, the antagonist of Beowulf.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006022" }, "answer" : "{Odin} [accept: {Wotan}; {Wodin}; {Othin}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.18364259623922, "num" : 10, "question" : "According to Snorri, this figure founded the city of Sigtun. After the ten-year old boy Agnar brought this figure a drink, this figure correctly predicted that Agnar would long reign as King of the Goths. This figure can be identified because dogs do not attack him, and he drinks in the hall of Sokkvabekk. After refusing to believe that King Geirroth tortures his guests, this figure visits Geirroth, only to be tortured between two fires. This god wins the head of the giant Vafthruthnir in a trivia contest and his abode is build from spears and shields and is called Gladsheim. This owner of Freki and Geri also owns Draupnir and Gungnir and notably possesses the wisdom of Mimir. For ten points, name this one-eyed ruler of the Norse gods.", "round" : "Round2.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003cdd" }, "answer" : "{Solomon Asch conformity} experiment [prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.4776859723497, "num" : 6, "question" : "Variations on this experiment found a change in participants' behavior when a dissenting confederate was present. It differed from earlier experiments on its subject by having an objectively correct answer. Subjects could be divided into independents and yielders, with the yielders having either distorted perception, judgement, or action. In the original version, subjects were told that they would be given a vision test and were asked questions about cards with various lines, but most of them gave the same incorrect answer as the confederates in their group. For 10 points, name this experiment in social psychology which showed that participants usually deferred to the majority opinion.", "round" : "Round 4.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d9a" }, "answer" : "{Eero Saarinen}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.382626461098, "num" : 18, "question" : "This architect designed the CBS Building in New York City, his only skyscraper, but contrasted its verticality with the horizontal, rectangular style of John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois and General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. Today, he is remembered for the curvy, futuristic TWA Terminal in New York, the swooping roof and mobile lounges of the main terminal of Dulles Airport, and a 630 foot tall structure on the banks of the Mississippi River. Name this Finnish-born architect who designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.", "round" : "04 TU.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8d8b3d831d6a003a7c" }, "answer" : "{Derek Walcott}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.06552927009761, "num" : 19, "question" : "One of his poems notes that \"Numb Antony\" \"lies like a copper palm\" by a \"hot sea and a river\" and another poem claims “the great hexameters come to the conclusions of exhausted surf” and that “the classics can console/But not enough.” In one work by this poet of “Egypt Tobago” and “Sea Grapes”, Basil forces the corporal to admit his love of Africa and Mostique tells Makak to profit from his healing powers. Another of his plays sees Ma Kilman heal Philoctete and centers around Achille and Omeros, who are fisherman living on St. Lucia. For 10 points, name this Carribean-born author of Dream on Monkey Mountain and Omeros.", "round" : "EPHS + OSU - T Party 2010 (1).doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "T-Party", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4f8b3d831d6a002b92" }, "answer" : "Lake {Kivu}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.1608264374081, "num" : 9, "question" : "Methane reserves recently extracted from this lake were used to power a brewery in the town of Gisenyi. Like Lake Monoun and Lake Nyos, this lake is susceptible to limnic eruptions. Such an eruption could be caused in the future by eruption of nearby Mount Nyiragongo. Cities on this lake include (*) Goma, which became a major refugee camp in the 1990s. Although this lake is part of the Albertine Rift, it lies south of Lake Edward and Lake Albert. For 15 points, name this lake shared between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.", "round" : "GM2 round5.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e18" }, "answer" : "{Joseph Maurice Ravel}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.7295854133554, "num" : 19, "question" : "He submitted a fugue that contained parallel fifths and ended on a chord with a major seventh, which led to him being eliminated from contention for the Prix de Rome. One work by this composer describes fin de siècle decadence, and is entitled La Valse. Another of his works, Piano Concerto for Land Hand, was written for Paul Wittgenstein. This composer of a Pavane for a Dead Princess composed a work that has a snare drum ostinato and features numerous instruments playing the same theme repeatedly. For 10 points, name this composer of Bolero.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 286, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f528b3d831d6a002c50" }, "answer" : "{Green Mountain Boys}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.71721603628248, "num" : 3, "question" : "This organization beat up Benjamin Hough using their traditional weapon, the blue beech goad. Leaders of this organization included Pegleg Sunderland. This organization's first major martyr was William French, who was killed while storming a courthouse in which members of this group were being tried. This group was first formed to oppose New York's attempt to control their home state. Remember Baker and Seth Warner were other leaders of this group, which took orders from Governor Chittenden. In their most famous deed, this organization captured Ft. Ticonderoga. For ten points, name this militia led by Ethan Allen, which hails from Vermont.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054e8" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Hardy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3176688908133, "num" : 21, "question" : "This author wrote \"we thought it was the Judgment day\" during \"that night your great guns, unawares, shook all our coffins as we lay\" in his poem \"Channel Firing.\" Boldwood shoots and kills Sergeant Troy in this man's novel about Bathsheba Everdene, set in (*) Wessex. In another of this author's novels, the title character leaves after Richard Newson returns to claim his daughter, Elizabeth-Jane. For 10 points, what author of Far From the Madding Crowd wrote about Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge?", "round" : "tourn11-01.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f058b3d831d6a001a3b" }, "answer" : "{photoelectric} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.059091367526, "num" : 2, "question" : "This phenomenon’s namesake spectroscopy can be used to determine the binding energy of a material. This effect experiences no detectable time lag due to ambient radiation. The work function over Planck’s constant equals the threshold frequency of this effect. The use of induction coils with spark gaps bombarded by ultraviolet light allowed [*] Heinrich Hertz to discover this effect. According to Lenard, the kinetic energy of the resulting particles is intensity-independent and varies with the wavelength of the incident radiation in this effect. For 10 points, name this effect by which photons hitting a surface cause emission of electrons, the explanation of which won Einstein his Nobel Prize.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403c8b3d831d6a006385" }, "answer" : "“The {Lady} of {Shalott}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.81327324127778, "num" : 14, "question" : "In this poem's eighth stanza, a “funeral with plumes and lights” travels “through the silent nights,” and the poem earlier discusses a place of “Four grey walls and four grey towers” that “overlook a space of flowers / And the silent isle.”  The title character proclaims that she is “half sick of shadows”, and only the “reapers…among the bearded barley” are able to hear her, though she longs to meet a man who sings “Tirra lira.” The title character cries “The curse is upon me” after her “mirror cracked from side to side” after she stops weaving when she sees “bold Sir Lancelot.” For 10 points, name this poem about a woman who is trapped in a castle near Camelot, by Tennyson.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Penn + ULL.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f648b3d831d6a003050" }, "answer" : "Praxiteles", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.286597950384, "num" : 20, "question" : "The missing arm of a work by this sculptor may have clutched a bunch of grapes. Two works attributed to this artist are the disembodied Leconfield Head and Aberdeen Head. He depicted a goddess draping a robe over an urn with her left hand while covering her genitals with her right. Another work by this sculptor depicts an animal on a tree-trunk, about to be smote by a god's outstretched right hand. This sculptor of the bathing Aphrodite of Cnidos (NYE-dus) and lizard-killing Apollo Sauroktonos created a sculpture of the messenger of the gods holding a young god. For 10 points, name this Greek sculptor of Hermes Bearing the Infant Dionysus.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a00159a" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {South Africa}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0043032721151, "num" : 5, "question" : "One ruler of this country was assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas, and it passed the Population Registration Act in 1950. This country was offered nuclear weapons by Israel according to a 2010 book by Sasha Polakow-Suransky. Torch Commando was a group that protested disenfranchisement in this country in the 1950s, while (*) Umkhonto we Sizwe, responsible for the Church Street bombing, was a more militant group once partly based at Rivonia Farm in this country. Prime ministers of this country included Henrik Verwoerd and John Vorster, who dealt with the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprising, respectively. F.W. de Klerk eventually ruled, for 10 points, what country home to the African National Congress and apartheid?", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 221, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40658b3d831d6a006d23" }, "answer" : "“{O Captain! My Captain!}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8521008144598, "num" : 14, "question" : "The narrator of this poem implores the title character to “rise up” because “bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths” and the “shores a-crowding” are done in his honor. He implores the title character to “rise up and hear the bells,” but that request is ignored because although “the ship has weather'd every rack, and the prize we (*) sought is won,” the title character “has no pulse nor will.” For 10 points, name this poem that puts the accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln in nautical terms, an elegy by Walt Whitman with two exclamation points in the title.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbb8b3d831d6a00450f" }, "answer" : "qualia", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.52677081967704, "num" : 14, "question" : "Gary Drescher wrote an article relating these things to gensyms in LISP, while J.B. Maund wrote about ways to \"dual code\" these by describing them on more than one level. Ramachandran and Hirstein developed three laws of them, later adding a fourth, including the importance of their relation to attention. In an article titled after the \"epiphenomenal\" type of these things, Frank Jackson offered a knowledge argument of them that ends by refuting physicalism entirely. Daniel Dennett wrote an article about \"Quining\" these things, which claims that they fail in practical application. These concepts were most notably discussed in a paper which claimed that there was a quality to all experiences missing in reductive science, Thomas Nagle's What is it Like to Be a Bat?, and philosophical zombies are identical to humans except that they lack these. For ten points, identify these concepts from the philosophy of mind which refer to the subjective qualities that characterize conscious experiences, from the Latin word for \"what kind?\" ", "round" : "2009 Chicago Open - Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f478b3d831d6a0029a5" }, "answer" : "{Escherichia coli} [accept {e. coli}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8651622732635, "num" : 18, "question" : "In experiments led by Richard Lenski, this organism evolved to metabolize citrate, while wild-type strains' inability to do so can be used to differentiate them from Salmonella. It is targeted by the T4 bacteriophage, and one early application of recombinant DNA enabled it to produce human insulin. This organism's O157:H7 strain is often the cause of food poisoning. For 10 points, name this Gram-negative intestinal bacterium commonly used as a model organism.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006df1" }, "answer" : "cosine", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0316983945668, "num" : 1, "question" : "This function's hyperbolic version is given by “e to the x plus e to the negative x, all over 2,” which can be used to describe catenaries. The first two terms of its Taylor series are “1 minus x squared over 2,” and the natural log of this function is found in the integral of the tangent. Its namesake law states “c squared equals a squared plus b squared minus 2ab” times this function applied to gamma. The dot product is defined in terms of, for 10 points, what trigonometric function that is the reciprocal of the secant, and is given by adjacent over hypotenuse.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032ac" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Britain}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6970208999701, "num" : 1, "question" : "About six weeks after skirmishes began in this battle, it was stepped up on what the Germans called Adlertag, or Eagle Day. Germany's enemies considered it successful because it led to the cancellation of Operation Sealion. The military commander in charge of it, who was soon fired because of disagreements with the Prime Minister, was Hugh Dowding. That Prime Minister, who said of this battle that, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” was Winston Churchill. Identify this attempt by Hermann Göring and the German Luftwaffe to destroy the Royal Air Force in 1940.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea48b3d831d6a000398" }, "answer" : "{Nicopolis} (or {Nikopol} )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.61506303050555, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one battle by this name, the losing force escaped annihilation only because the winning commander recognized the banner of his brother-in-law Nikolai Gojranski, and did not want to harm him. The losing side in that battle was meant to be commanded by Mircea the Elder, who refused to help after his command was objected to. It was fought at the city which had been the capital of Ivan Shishman, before he was expelled three years earlier. Another city by this name was founded on the Ambracian Gulf after the Battle of Actium by Augustus, and Paul directed Titus to visit him there in his Epistle to Titus. The previous battle saw a reckless charge by John the Fearless into the akinji and timariot soldiers of the opposing commander, who was known as \"the Thunderbolt.\" That battle is often called the last Crusade. FTP, name that 1396 battle in Bulgaria, a name shared by several cities which take their name from the Greek for \"city of victory.\"", "round" : "PACKET01MikeTeam.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d6a" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Senegal}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.33192894188687, "num" : 3, "question" : "One writer from this country wrote about Salie and her brother Madicke in The Belly of the Atlantic, and another writer from this country wrote Scarlet Song as well as a novel written in the form of a letter from Ramatoulaye to Aissatou, So Long a Letter. Aside from Fatou Diome and Mariama Bâ, authors from this country include one who wrote Xala, which he later adapted into a film, as well as a novel about a railroad strike, God's Bits of Wood. That author, Ousmane Sembène, is not as famous as a poet from this country, who, along with Aimé Césaire, created the concept of Négritude. For 10 points, name this country which was home to Léopold Senghor.", "round" : "Packet 08.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fac8b3d831d6a0041a3" }, "answer" : "The {Anatomy Lesson} of {Doctor Nicolaes Tulp}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.17866650735959, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of the men in this work holds a list in his left hand and sits beside another gentleman who is standing in front of a broadsheet that bears the artist's signature and the date of its composition. Painted during the artist's time at Uylenburgh's workshop, it depicts an event that took place on January 31 of the same year that another figure in this work was punished for committing armed robbery. Its namesake was well known in his time for publishing a work describing the then unknown symptoms of Beri-Beri. That subject is surrounded by a group of black-clad onlookers, wears a large floppy hat, and holds a pair of forceps over the flayed arm of a man stretched out on a table. For 10 points, identify this 1632 work commissioned by the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, a work by Rembrandt.", "round" : "r04- VCU.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bf9" }, "answer" : "{William Hogarth}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.7991005869117, "num" : 14, "question" : "This artist proposed an S-shaped \"line of beauty,\" which can be seen in his self-portrait The Painter and his Pug. He depicted the fates of two apprentices in a series of engravings titled Industry and Idleness. Another of his series includes such works as The Tête à Tête (TET ah TET) and warns against the dangers of money. This British satirist of (*) Marriage à-la-mode is better known for another series of paintings chronicling Tom’s descent into Bedlam. For 10 points, name this artist of A Rake's Progress.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003be4" }, "answer" : "{Etruscans} or {Rasenna} or {Tyrrhenoi}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.44024265278131, "num" : 2, "question" : "These people may have played a funerary game called Phersu, where an irritated wild dog attacked a tied-up man. This civilization created the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, which depicted a husband and wife reclining at a banquet table. An important architect of this people was Vulca and its religion was allegedly founded by Tages. One female from this civilization prophesied that her husband would become king after seeing an eagle snatch a hat from his head. The naval hegemony of this polity was limited after the Battle of Alalia and they suffered a major defeat at the hands of Hiero at the Battle of Cumae. One leader of this people, Lars Porsenna, tried and failed to conquer this civilization's greatest rival, whose domination over these people began with the sack of Veii by Camillus. Tanaquil and Tarquin the Proud were, for ten points, leaders of what civilization, which worshipped Charun and Tinia.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001cbc" }, "answer" : "V. {S. Naipaul} [accept {SirVidiadhar Surajpraad Naipaul}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.05835505854338, "num" : 11, "question" : "This author wrote a novel in which Ganesh Ramsumair cures illnesses with his back rubs. In another of this author's works, a child observes a carpenter named Mr. Popo who never finishes his projects and a poet named B. Wordsworth who never finishes his poetry. In addition to writing The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street, this author wrote a novel in which Big Man rules an unnamed African country inhabited by a shop owner named Salim. He wrote about Shama marrying a journalist named Mohun, who has six fingers and grows up with the Tulsis. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas.", "round" : "Northwestern and Cornell.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a007694" }, "answer" : "{Seebeck} effect (accept {thermocouple effect} before it's mentioned)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.43523231754079, "num" : 10, "question" : "The flux-flow coefficient for this effect in type II superconductors is directly proportional to the Hall effect coefficient. The basic equations involving it were formulated by Lord Kelvin and are now considered a special case of the generalized Onsager relations. One source of it is phonon-electron collision, or drag, in the material, which can be estimated from the lattice heat capacity, and the other source, charge carrier diffusion, from Mott theory. When its coefficient is multiplied by the Thomson coefficient, the Peltier coefficient is produced. FTP, name this effect where a potential difference is created by a temperature gradient, utilized in thermocouples.", "round" : "ACF Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021cf" }, "answer" : "Syracuse", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.96903142286465, "num" : 10, "question" : "The citadel of this city was known as the Island. Its approach was defended by fortifications on the Epipolae Plateau. A man considered a savior of this city defeated Hicetes and had earlier killed his brother Timophanes. A ruler of this city besieged Motya and captured Rhegium. Timoleon fought to free this city, which won the Battle of Himera under the tyrant Gelon. The Spartan general Gyllipus defended this city from Athenians under Nicias during an expedition in the Peloponnesian War, and it was originally a Corinthian colony. It was also ruled by two tyrants named Dionysius. After the death of its ruler Hieron II, it was captured by Marcus Claudius Marcellus, whose forces killed its resident, Archimedes. For 10 points, name this important Greek city located on Sicily.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Brown + Illinois B.pdf", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc28b3d831d6a0046b9" }, "answer" : "{Constantine Petrou Cavafy} [accept {Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.02904675598256, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one work by this author, Vacuous Julian is said to be a \"silly ass\" for declaring \"I read, I understood,/I condemned\" religion, while in another poem, this author depicts lovers who aim \"to touch hands/on top of the handkerchiefs... quickly and furtively so the shopkeeper\" wouldn't see in another. This author of \"You Didn't Understand\" and \"He Asked About the Quality -\" describes \"the body's lines. The red lips. Sensual limbs\" of his \"figures of love\" that he met secretly in \"I've Looked So Much.....\". This man tells of the titular phrase \"which Luican heard in his sleep\" in \"That's the Man\", and the titular character is told to \"go firmly to the window...and say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing\" in his \"The God Abandons Antony\". In another work, this author implores the reader to keep the titular place \"always on your mind\" since \"arriving there is what you're destined for\" and to not be afraid of \"Laistrygonians, Cyclops/angry Poseidon\". This author of (*) \"Ithaka\" also wrote a work in which \"two consuls and praetors\" hold \"elegant canes/beautifully worked in silver and gold\" to impress the titular group who are \"a kind of solution\" and asks \"What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?\". For 10 points, identify this Greek poet, author of \"Waiting for the Barbarians\".", "round" : "Rd05.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fab8b3d831d6a004153" }, "answer" : "\"The {Congo}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.20300012384541, "num" : 7, "question" : "Rachel DuPlessis argues that the rhythm of this poem subverts its own intellectual claim, even though the poet regarded the third section as hopeful. One group of people described in this poem have \"bells on their ankles\" and \"pearls in their hair,\" while another part is intended to be read with \"slow philosophic calm.\" The first part of this work relates how demons cut off the hands of a certain emperor's ghost in hell, and another section tells of a dance by \"cake-walk princes.\" This work was inspired by the story of Ray Eldred as related by the author's pastor F.W. Burnham, and the speaker of this work sees the subject \"cutting through... with a golden track.\" Parts of this poem were intended to be sung to the melody of \"Hark, ten thousand harps and voices,\" and this poem ends with a drawn-out whisper of \"Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.\" Imitating chant with lines like \"Boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,\" for 10 points, name this 'Study of the Negro Race' depicting the title river, a poem by Vachel Lindsay.", "round" : "r01- Brown.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea18b3d831d6a000307" }, "answer" : "“The {Black Cat} ”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 45.52224594657309, "num" : 13, "question" : "The narrator of this work finds a disturbing entity sleeping on barrels of rum and gin, who has an indefinite white mark that later comes to resemble the gallows. In this story the curtains of the protagonist’s bed catch fire and burn down his whole house, except for a single wall that became embedded with a bas relief during the fire. The narrator mistreats his pet rabbits and monkey before he uses a pocket-knife to gouge out the left eye of another animal. At the end of this story the police are lead to break down a mortar wall where they discover the narrator’s murdered wife after hearing the title creature’s cry. For 10 points, name this story in which the narrator hangs Pluto, the titular feline, a work by Edgar Allan Poe.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - State College and Yale C final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40338b3d831d6a006149" }, "answer" : "{Turtle} or {Tortoise}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.23792196763679, "num" : 6, "question" : "Ea was identified with one of these creatures on Kassite tablets. Nu Gua uses the legs of one of these figures to hold up the sky, and the guardian of the north, Genbu, takes this shape. The Minogame is one of these creatures with a feathery tail. A figure who refused to attend Hera and Zeus' wedding was turned into one of these and was named Chelone, and Sciron pushed travellers off a cliff that contained a giant one of these creatures at the bottom. The I Ching was composed from trigrams printed on one of these creatures,  Kurma and Akupara are examples of them in Hinduism, the latter of which carries the world on its back. For 10 points, name these creatures, one of whose shells was used to create the first lyre by Hermes.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 13.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40238b3d831d6a005d66" }, "answer" : "Italy\u000b<Hart>", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6031370679848, "num" : 11, "question" : "One architect from this country designed a the top-heavy Velasca Tower.  In addition to Ernesto Rogers, another architect from this country is constructing the Arizona town of Arcosanti based on his town-planning concept of arcologies.  Another architect from this country designed Tokyo's Kansai International Airport as well as a collaboration with Richard and Sue Rogers, Edmund Happold, and Peter Rice that features an external tubular walkway.  For 10 points, name this home country of Paolo Soleri, and the co-architect of the Pompidou Center, Renzo Piano.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 11.doc", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6a8b3d831d6a0031d4" }, "answer" : "{phenylalanine} [prompt on {Phe} and {F}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.306779907085, "num" : 17, "question" : "A namesake ammonialyase of this amino acid converts it into cinnamate, and Seymour Kaufman first discovered the importance of the coenzyme tetrahydrobiopterin in this amino acid's hydroxylase. Nirenberg and Matthaei began decoding the genetic code by finding that the codon UUU encoded this amino acid. With aspartic acid it makes Aspartame. Chorismate mutase catalyzes the formation of prephenate, a precursor to both tyrosine and this other amino acid. Failure to convert this amino acid into tyrosine results in a buildup of phenylpyruvic acid in the metabolic disorder PKU. For 10 points, name this amino acid abbreviated Phe.", "round" : "9.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbc8b3d831d6a00454c" }, "answer" : "\"{Sunday Morning}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.10415211236104, "num" : 6, "question" : "The third stanza of this poem notes that \"no mother suckled Jove\" and asks if our blood, \"comingling and virginal with heaven\" will \"fail, or shall it come to be the blood of paradise?\"  A figure in this poem notes that she is content when birds \"test the misty reality of fields before they fly\".  This poem ends when pigeons sink \"downward to darkness, (*) on extended wings,\" and it notes that \"The tomb in Palestine is not the porch of spirits lingering.\" The seventh of its eight stanzas centers on a ring of sun-worshipers who “shall know well the heavenly fellowship/ Of men that perish,” and this poem asks in another section \"What is divinity if it can come/ Only in silent shadows and in dreams?\" The female figure described in the work is told “Death is the mother of beauty,” and is persuaded to prefer “Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair” to the “Dominion of the blood and sepulchre.\"  Championing the “Complacencies of the peignoir,” for 10 points, name this poem which appeared in Harmonium, a work by Wallace Stevens.", "round" : "Packet 02 - Rusk and Romanians.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f728b3d831d6a0033c2" }, "answer" : "{Sir Lancelot du Lac} [or {Launcelot}; or the {White} Knight]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.8151078503579, "num" : 6, "question" : "This character discovered his true name under a metal slab after chasing off the Copper Knight and taking over the castle of Joyous Guard. This man, who once talked Galehaut into surrendering, defeated a pair of illusory lions by crossing the Sword Bridge to the land of Gorre after earlier gaining a nickname by jumping into a dwarf-driven cart. He defeated Claudas to recover the kingdom of his father, King (*) Ban of Medwick, and slew Meleagant in a duel. This cousin of Bors and Lionel embarks on the Grail Quest along with Perceval and his son by Elaine of Corbenic, Galahad. For 10 points, name this knight who carried on a long affair with Guinevere, the greatest Knight of the Round Table.", "round" : "Round 16.doc", "seen" : 449, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef88b3d831d6a001723" }, "answer" : "{women’s suffrage} movement [or {suffragette} movement; or the movement to {provide women} the {right} to {vote} or equivalents; prompt on {more general} answers like {women’s rights} or {women’s liberation}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1210106308572, "num" : 13, "question" : "A call for pacifism by members of this movement was made with the Open Christmas Letter addressed to Austrians and Germans. A league prominent in this movement was founded by a person who was arrested, released, and re-arrested 12 times under the “Cat and Mouse Act” for advocating violent protests. Others involved in this movement went to Exeter Hall in 1907 in the Mud March. An early victory for this movement was achieved thanks to individuals like Kate Sheppard in (*) New Zealand. An 1867 Parliamentary petition advocating this cause was presented by J. S. Mill, a man who had written an article on the “subjugation” of the people the petition concerned. For 10 points, name this cause led in the United Kingdom by Emmeline Pankhurst, which effectively doubled the voting population.", "round" : "Packet 25 - Emergency.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee58b3d831d6a0012d8" }, "answer" : "{Karl Heinrich Marx}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.99382194504142, "num" : 1, "question" : "One work by this thinker claimed that everyone receives from society what he gives it; that work introduces the lower and higher phases of a certain philosophy. Another work by this man distinguishes between the civil base and the political superstructure of society. He claimed that the focus of new materialism was human society in a work that criticized the contemplative philosophy of the author of The Essence of Christianity. He claimed that society has developed a fetish for commodities and holds exchange value above labor and use value, and he distinguished his thought from French socialism in a work that urged the workers of the world to unite. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who collaborated with Engels on works like The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.", "round" : "Packet 1 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9d8b3d831d6a000222" }, "answer" : "{Eids}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 48.41312441066839, "num" : 23, "question" : "One holiday of this type occurs on the tenth of Dhu al-Hijjah and remembers Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac. For 10 points each” [01] Identify this kind of Islamic holiday, another of which is celebrated by donating barley or dates to the poor and includes the first daytime eating in thirty days’ time.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Brown and Michigan A final.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004c1" }, "answer" : "Pakistan", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.9934772499837, "num" : 8, "question" : "This country’s space agency, founded in 1961, is named SUPARCO. Prime Minister Junejo of this country was dismissed from his job for signing the Geneva Accords. This country’s chief executive was picked by an electoral college of 80,000 people during a period called “Basic Democracy”. Ordinance XX [twenty] was a law oppressing this country’s largest religious minority, the Ahmadis, who are not allowed to call themselves muslims in this country. In response to the Awami League, this country launched Operation Searchlight. Dictators of this country have included Muhammad Zia in the 80’s, Ayub Khan in the 50’s and 60’s, and most recently a general from the Kargil War, Pervez Musharraf. For 10 points, name this neighbor of India, with capital Islamabad.", "round" : "2011 CO History Arthur Byrne.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e7d" }, "answer" : "{Ian Smith}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.48722425405867, "num" : 22, "question" : "A few key officials in this ruler's government included Chief Justice Hector MacDonald and General Peter Walls, both of whom are criticized as turncoats in this man's memoirs entitled The Great Betrayal and Bitter Harvest. He rose to his highest office by replacing Winston Field and afterwards was faced with a period of opposition called the Second Chimurenga. His tenure ended with the Internal Settlement, under which he was replaced by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, and soon after, he was definitively removed by the Lancaster House Conference. These events occurred fifteen years after he made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, drawing sanctions from  and the United Nations. For 10 points, name this leader of the Rhodesian Front, the longtime head of the white minority government in Rhodesia.", "round" : "Editor's Round 2 (RR).docx", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a94" }, "answer" : "{Vilfredo Pareto}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.03750377590768, "num" : 15, "question" : "Lawrence Henderson established a group named for this man at Harvard University in 1932, which counted George Homans and Talcott Parsons among its members, while M. J. Farrell developed a principle of data analysis that is named for this man and Tjalling Koopmans. The first theorem of welfare guarantees that every competitive equilibrium outcome will satisfy the condition named for him, and a more generic interpretation of that condition, which factors in compensation between parties, is named for Hicks and Kaldor. A rule which states that 80% of the effects can be attributed to 20% of the causes is known as his \"80-20\" principle. For 10 points, identify this economist, the author of Mind and Society who lends his names to a condition where no agent can be made better off without making another agent worse off.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 2 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fed8b3d831d6a0050b1" }, "answer" : "{noble gases} [or Group 18; or Group {VIIIA} ({eight-A}); or {inert gases} before \"{inertness}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.2232100779656, "num" : 3, "question" : "Neil Bartlett created the hexafluoroplatinate (HEX-uh-FLOOR-oh-PLAT-in-ate) of one element in this family, which was the first compound using a member of this family to violate the octet rule. The only known radioactive element in this family is the leading cause of lung cancer to non-smokers. These elements are defined as having a full electron shell, leading to their relative inertness. For 10 points, name this group found at the extreme right of the Periodic Table, which includes xenon and radon.", "round" : "4q2-02.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff78b3d831d6a005318" }, "answer" : "{Benjamin Harrison} ", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.640309022041, "num" : 32, "question" : "This President was nicknamed \"Ice Veins\" for his cold personality, and his cabinet included the inventor of the department store, Postmaster-General John Wanamaker. This President signed a controversial bill that gave disability pensions to veterans even if their injury was not from combat. He worked with the \"Billion Dollar Congress\" and signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and the McKinley Tariff. For 10 points, name this President who served between Grover Cleveland's two terms, the grandson of William Henry Harrison.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-history.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071d6" }, "answer" : "Providence", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.8134486328345, "num" : 18, "question" : "This city includes a historical exhibit around the dock that spurred its growth, Tillinghast Wharf. The county of the same name includes Cranston, Woonsocket, and this city, which is divided from a similarly named city by the Seekonk River. Home to the largest bell ever cast by Paul Revere, this location of its state's noted School of Design overlooks Narragansett Bay. For 10 points, name this city which spent forty-four years as the co-capital of its state with Newport, but since 1900 has been the sole seat of government for Rhode Island.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 396, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a0051fb" }, "answer" : "vectors", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1995365081821, "num" : 13, "question" : "In the study of graphics, an object with this name functions as the complement to a raster. The Cauch-Schwarz inequality concerns the multiplication of two of these objects. The triangle inequality concerns the addition of these objects. These objects sum is found by the parallelogram rule. These generalizations of numbers are the inputs of a cross product and a dot product, and many of them feature x,y, and z components. For 10 points, name these quantities with a magnitude and direction, distinguished from scalars.", "round" : "4q2-12.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a73" }, "answer" : "{Johannes Kepler}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7246594999451, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man hypothesized that the six known planets at the time moved around the sun in orbits that were distinct Platonic solids in his first major work, Mysterium Cosmographicum, and he created a catalogue of stars and planets called the Rudolphine Tables. This man derived a law stating that the square of the orbital period of a [*] planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis. This man came to the conclusion that the sun was at the focus of Earth’s elliptical orbit by using his mentor Tycho Brahe’s notes. For 10 points, which German astronomer formulated three namesake laws of planetary motion?", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef48b3d831d6a001651" }, "answer" : "{Sonnets} from the {Portuguese}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5958814914339, "num" : 9, "question" : "One poem in this collection recalls how the addressee “stole betwixt” the speaker “and the dreadful outer brink” and begins “The face of all the world is changed, I think.” In its first poem, the speaker describes being drawn “backward by the hair” by a “mystic Shape” misidentified as Death. This collection’s title refers to the (*) pet name of the author, who was nicknamed for her dark complexion. Its first poem begins “I thought once how Theocritus had sung,” and its title refers to the author’s poem “Catarina to Camoens.” The forty-third and penultimate begins “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” For 10 points, name this collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.", "round" : "Packet 17 - TB 1.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e7e" }, "answer" : "psoriasis", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.15976888267323, "num" : 23, "question" : "Autoimmune etiology for this disease is based on an association with HLA Cw6.  Calcipotriol and dithranol are largely outdated treatment modalities unlike Ingram's regimen which can cure up to 80% of cases.  Among the pathological types of this disease are guttate and pustular, and there can be an associated arthropathy explaining the use of TNF-alpha blockers in combating it.  However, the first line therapy is the use of PUVA or psoralens with ultraviolet A. Its typical manifestations can be seen on flexor surfaces, palms, with nail involvement, and the scalp where it is sometimes confused with seborrhoeic dermatitis.  For 10 points, name this condition characterized by erythematous plaques with silvery scales, a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin.", "round" : "Editor's Round 2 (RR).docx", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f708b3d831d6a003345" }, "answer" : "{Neo-Assyrian} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.0737155221868, "num" : 21, "question" : "Psamtik was a puppet ruler installed in Egypt by a monarch of this empire, who also put down rebellions from the Ethiopian kings Taharqa and Tanutamon.  Zakutu probably helped install the frequently ailing Esarhaddon on its throne. This empire's final defeat came when Harran fell, an act precipitated by the civil war that broke out between Sin-shar-ishkun and (*) Ashur-etel-ilani.  Those rivals were the twin sons of a man who campaigned against the Elamites and created a large library in its capital. Ashurbanipal revived the prominence of this empire after its slip into mediocrity following the death of Tiglath-Pileser I. Defeated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, for 10 points, name this ancient empire with capital at Nineveh.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a84" }, "answer" : "{magnetic field} of the {earth} [or {geomagnetic field}; accept obvious equivalents]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.9603264005389, "num" : 20, "question" : "The Glatzmaier-Roberts model can be used to explain events that affect it, and VADM and VDM values are often used to study its behavior. Certain data sets from Columbia river basalt flows from the Steens Mountains notably show evidence for its erratic behavior. The South Atlantic Anomaly is the location where it has its lowest intensity and the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary about marks the last inversion of it, which occurred 800,000 years ago. It helps deflect solar wind, and causes Van Allen belts to stay together. Thought to arise due to the motion of molten iron in the earth's core, for 10 points, identify this thing which makes your compass point northward.", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 1 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 70, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f6b" }, "answer" : "{Mark Twain} (or {Samuel Clemens})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6995325016323, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of his short stories sees cranberry farmer Sandy McWilliams explain heaven to Capt. Elias Stormfield, while in one of his novels the orphan Laura is adopted by the Hawkins family before killing Col. Selby. In another of his works, the title character proves that Chambers and Tom Driscoll were switched at birth. In addition to co-authoring The Gilded Age and writing Pudd'nhead Wilson, in one of his novels Miles Hendon helps Edward take his rightful position from Tom Canty. FTP, name this author of The Prince and Pauper who also created Huckleberry Finn.", "round" : "HFT Round 02.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b5e" }, "answer" : "“{Donation} of {Constantine}” [or “{Donatio Constantini}”; or “{Constitutum Constantini}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9162195983808, "num" : 8, "question" : "This document claimed that the person to whom it was addressed had refused a golden crown in favor of a phrygium. The creator of this document claims to have served as that addressee's groom and to have met with the addressee while accompanied by his high ranking satraps. The namesake of this document claims to be moving to the east and leaving his lands to its addressee, Sylvester I. This document's veracity was attacked by Nicolas of Cusa and Lorenzo Valla. For 10 points, name this forgery in which the first Christian Roman emperor allegedly gave land in Italy and other authority to the pope and Catholic Church.", "round" : "1.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a000487" }, "answer" : "{generalized force} [prompt on {virtual work} before it’s mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 50.34522853884846, "num" : 8, "question" : "This quantity is generally independent of constraints on a system’s motion, a fact that d’Alembert used in the original formulation of his namesake principle. The virtual work on a body is given by the vector of variations in the Lagrangian coordinates dotted with this quantity; that’s because this quantity’s nth component is the applied force on the system dotted into the partial derivative of the displacement with respect to the nth generalized coordinate. FTP, name this derived vector quantity of Lagrangian mechanics, usually denoted by a capital-Q and given by the gradient of the virtual work with respect to the generalized coordinates.", "round" : "PACKET13Gioia.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9f8b3d831d6a003e89" }, "answer" : "{Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.5340041811578, "num" : 2, "question" : "This writer described how “columns of leaves/burn and stir” next to the title object of a poem that opens with the exhortation “Now is the time for fire!” A character in another of his poems “balanced/the good gifts of the earth and united distant with near” and muses “Say, where is Athens?” Another of his poems wonders what the purpose of night is, save “holy drunkenness” and “frenzied oblivion,” and wonders “who wants poets at all in lean years?” This author of “The Archipelago” wrote a drama in which Hermocrates and Kritias, the ruler of Agrigentum, impel a philosopher to prove his godhood. Along with “Bread and Wine,” and that unfinished drama, The Death of Empedocles, this Hellenophile adapted his letters to Bellarmin and Diotima into an influential novel. For 10 points, name this Romantic author of “The Ister” and Hyperion, the favorite German poet of Nietzsche and Heidegger alike.", "round" : "The Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f11" }, "answer" : "{Emily Elizabeth Dickinson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5416184086353, "num" : 3, "question" : "This author claimed to be \"Done with the compass - Done with the chart!\" in \"Wild Nights - Wild Nights!\" and described feeling \"zero at the bone\" after meeting a snake in \"A narrow fellow in the grass\". In another poem, she called herself \"inebriate of air\" after describing how she used \"Tankards scooped in Pearl\" to \"taste a liquor never brewed\". A poem by this author of \"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died\" notes that the title figure \"kindly stopped for me\". For 10 points, identify this \"Belle of Amherst\", the author of \"Because I could not stop for Death\".", "round" : "4q1-04.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002be3" }, "answer" : "Sardinia", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.6644694614224, "num" : 11, "question" : "One type of building found on this island are the conical “nuraghe,” which can be found at the archeological site of Barumini, and the Maddalena Archipelago is located between this island and its northern neighbor. This island contains a plain called the “Nurra” which stretches to the Gulf of Asinara, and its city of Olbia is located on its so called “Emerald Coast.” This island contains a type of vegetation known as “Macchia,” and this island's Tirso River empties into its namesake gulf. Its highest point is called “La Marmora” and is located in its Gennargentu Mountains, and this island is bounded to the north by the Strait of Bonifacio. Containing cities such as Oristano and Sassari and having capital at Cagliari, for 10 points, identify this Italian island located west of the Tyrrhenian Sea which is often paired with its northern neighbor Corsica.", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 67, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064d3" }, "answer" : "{Embargo} Act", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8729329367634, "num" : 14, "question" : "Albert Gallatin was skeptical of this act from the beginning, saying that “government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated.” A lesser-known element of it was the requirement that ships post a bond equal to the value of the cargo they carried. This law was revealed to be devastating to American shipping, without forcing the expected change in the Orders in Council. It was repealed just days before Thomas Jefferson left office, to be replaced by the equally ineffective Non-Intercourse Act. For 10 points, name this 1807 law which forbid Americans from trading with either France or Great Britain.", "round" : "Round 1 - Vandy 1.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a003587" }, "answer" : "{Kalmar Union} [accept {Sweden} until “{constituents}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.52658971841447, "num" : 17, "question" : "Though it is not France, this polity was co-ruled by a man who assumed the name Charles VIII and was put down when trying to take full control of one of its constituents. This polity captured Flensburg after fighting for control over the Oresund with its chief rival. Its power was challenged with lower class uprisings led by Engelbrecht Engelbrechtson and had to be reinstated in an event led by Jorgen Holmuth whose targets were supporters of Sten Sture the Younger. That event, the Stockholm Bloodbath, occurred during Christian II's authority over this confederation. Its creation was solidified by the Coronation Letter establishing a hereditary monarchy begun by Eric of Pomerania. Engineered by Queen Margaret I in 1397, for 10 points, name this Scandinavian confederation of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark ", "round" : "Columbia A + Michigan A.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028c6" }, "answer" : "{colligative} properties", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.9778742427007, "num" : 14, "question" : "Raoult's law describes one of these properties. Osmotic pressure, another of these properties, was discovered by a Dutch chemist J. H. Van't Hoff, whose namesake factor, symbolized i, is also found in the equations that use two more of these properties, freezing point depression, and boiling point elevation. For 10 points, name these properties of solutions which only depend on the number, not the type, of solute particles.", "round" : "FKT 2010 DuPont FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb48b3d831d6a00072a" }, "answer" : "{Carnival} of {Venice} [accept obvious equivalents that {indicate Carnival} is {taking place} in", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1996858166531, "num" : 16, "question" : "This event was organized by six groups of aristocrats called the “Sock Circles.” One of its attractions was the “Flight of the Angel,” in which a Turkish acrobat did a tightrope walk from St. Mark’s Tower to the palace. Begun after the 1162 defeat of Ulrich II by (*) Doge Vital Michiel, it occurs in St. Mark’s Square and sees participants wear the bauta, a white mask, as well as feathers, black capes, and tri-corner hats. For 10 points, name this festival in which residents of a floating Italian city celebrate Fat Tuesday.", "round" : "08.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a002704" }, "answer" : "{red blood} cells [or {RBCs}; or {erythrocytes}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.23150979587808, "num" : 18, "question" : "Fragments of nuclear chromatin in these entities are known as Howell-Jolly bodies, and their membranes are a location of the Band 3 protein. Antibodies attached to their surface can be detected in the direct Coombs test. Polycythemia [POL-ee-si-THEE-me-ah] is a condition in which there is a higher than normal concentration of these cells, whose flexible shape is due to spectrin. These cells lack a nucleus in humans, and their shape is affected in sickle-cell disease. For 10 points, name these disk-shaped cells that contain hemoglobin and transport oxygen.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 13.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000dde" }, "answer" : "schizophrenia", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4617274829187, "num" : 23, "question" : "One drug used to treat this condition is Clozapine, which is combined with estradiol in treatments for postmenopausal women with this condition. One type of this disease is the hebephrenic type, and the catatonic type of this disease leads to sufferers becoming nearly immobile. Sufferers of this disorder frequently hallucinate and have delusions of grandeur. For 10 points, name this mental disease which can come in a “paranoid” type and whose sufferers will often talk out loud to themselves.", "round" : "regionals-05.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a006895" }, "answer" : "{Great Society}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.31530512264, "num" : 22, "question" : "One part of this initiative was the creation of the Department of Transportation and this also led to the creation of the Center for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. The Elementary and Secondary Transportation Act set the precedent of national funding for public schools and this program created the Head Start preschool system. Other reforms under this sweeping moniker include Food Stamps, Medicare, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For 10 points name this set of domestic reforms initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 221, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40108b3d831d6a0058d9" }, "answer" : "Evangeline", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8679734419566, "num" : 13, "question" : "The final image in this poem is “the wail of the forest” after mentioning the deep-voiced neighboring ocean. One character compares a fever to wearing a spider in a nutshell around a neck, while another character tells a tale about a man disappearing after following his phantom lover into the woods, [?] Lilinau.  The end sees two characters buried in nameless graves because although one of them searched for the other at a Jesuit mission, no word of him was found at the Saginaw River before becoming a Sister of Mercy. One character goes into hiding because the town of Grand-Pre was burned, while Baptist Leblanc helps out the title character, whose father had died and been buried by Father Felician. For ten points, name this tale set in Acadie in which Gabriel Lajuenesse courts the daughter of Benedict Bellafontaine, written Henry Longfellow.", "round" : "PLAYOFFS ROUND 1.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a000948" }, "answer" : "{Claude Monet}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.834506462561, "num" : 6, "question" : "This artist painted  Still Life: Piece of Beef and he depicted a scene with many people holding French flags out of buildings in The Rue Montorgueil. This man did several series of paintings on the same structures at different times and days, such as the Houses of Parliament and the Rouen Cathedral. He also did many depictions of Haystacks and (*) Water Lilies. For 10 points, name this French painter of Impression: Sunrise, a painting which gave its name to the Impressionist movement.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 290, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a00060a" }, "answer" : "{noble gases} [or inert {gases} before mentioned; or {Group VIIIA} ({eight-A}); or {Group 18}; prompt", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5160705021117, "num" : 24, "question" : "One element in this family was originally isolated by heating clevite, while the first isolated element in this family was discovered when Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay noted that a sample of pure nitrogen air was too heavy to be just nitrogen. Neil Bartlett was the first chemist to make a compound containing one of these elements, which had previously been thought to be “inert.” For 10 points, name this family of elements that includes xenon, argon, krypton, and helium, which is found at the extreme right of the periodic table.", "round" : "colonia-04.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a00385b" }, "answer" : "{Philip Glass}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.4825755171477, "num" : 4, "question" : "One piece by this composer tells of a modest lady who \"blindfolds herself when taking a bath,\" and includes numerous repetitions of the word \"circle\" as well as random strings of numbers. Another of his operas has three acts titled after Tolstoy, Tagore, and King. \"Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket,\" \"Mr. Bojangles,\" and five knee plays are movements in this composer's opera paying homage to a physicist, part of his \"Portrait Trilogy.\" For 10 points, name this American minimalist composer of Satyagraha, Akhenaten, and Einstein on the Beach.", "round" : "Round 09.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc68b3d831d6a0047cc" }, "answer" : "{T.S. Eliot} [accept “The {Hollow Men}” before “{this man}”]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.18229010282084, "num" : 3, "question" : "The lines \"the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here in this valley of dying stars\" open the fourth section of one of this man's works, which also contains the lines \"here the stone images are raised, here they receive the supplication of a dead man's hand\" and describes \"eyes I dare not meet in dreams\".  In another work by this man, the title character laments, \"I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas\" and asserts that he is “not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be\" before asking, \"do I dare eat a peach?\"  That work by this author begins with an epigraph referring to Dante's meeting with Guido da Montefeltro in the Inferno, while another work by this man begins by simply noting, \"Mistah Kurtz- he dead\".  For 10 points—name this author of \"The Hollow Men\" and \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\".", "round" : "8.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4a8b3d831d6a002a75" }, "answer" : "{Krebs} cycle [accept {citric acid cycle} until read]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1353147733025, "num" : 17, "question" : "This process can be regulated by calcium's activation of isocitrate dehydrogenase. In its third step, two molecules of carbon dioxide leave to form alpha-ketoglutarate. At the beginning of this process, two molecules of carbon dioxide are stripped to form an [*] acetaldehyde intermediate, which later becomes acetyl-CoA, and the last step of this process uses FAD to transform two molecules of fumarate to malate. Beginning with two molecules of pyruvate and producing NADH, for 10 points, identify this component of cell respiration between glycolysis and electron transport, sometimes known as the citric acid cycle.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 12 [Finals 1] COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f208b3d831d6a00204f" }, "answer" : "the {Mona Lisa} [or La {Gioconda}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.32196054630913, "num" : 5, "question" : "This painting was re-imagined to include the phrase “Federal Reserve Note” in Jean-Michel Basquiat's version of it as a dollar bill. Andy Warhol's Thirty are Better than One features thirty copies of this painting. The bases of two columns can be seen on this painting's left and right. Marcel Duchamp added a mustache and goatee to this painting in his L.H.O.O.Q. Its subject appears to have no eyebrows, and sits with her hands folded in front of a winding road and a distant landscape. For 10 points, name this portrait with an enigmatic smile, painted by Leonardo da Vinci.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 9.pdf", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed18b3d831d6a000e31" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Poland} [or {Rzeczpospolita Polska}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.2756144623272, "num" : 4, "question" : "The Bar Confederation fought for the independence of this nation. The thirteenth of the Fourteen Points called for this country's establishment and its access to the sea. The Piasts were one line of kings from this nation, which was home to a parliament called the Sejm (\"SAME\"). This thrice-partitioned nation was the birthplace of Pope John Paul II. For 10 points, name this country whose first post-communist president was Lech Walesa, who started the Solidarity union in this nation's Gdansk shipyards.", "round" : "regionals-08.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042b9" }, "answer" : "Andromeda", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 98.38561997027136, "num" : 10, "question" : "According to Pausanias, one of this woman's daughters married Oebalus after the death of her first husband Perieres, making that daughter the first woman to marry a second time. One of this woman's sons exiled Amphitryon from Mycenae for killing Electryon. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, this woman's husband fought and defeated Thescelus and Ampyx during his battle for the right to marry her. This mother of Sthenelos and Gorgophone was betrothed to Phineus, but instead married a man who killed Cetus. After consulting the oracle of Ammon, her father Cepheus agreed to respond to a threatening flood-tide by abandoning her in Jaffa. Her mother boasted that she was the most beautiful of all the Nereids, causing this Ethiopian princess to be chained to a rock. For 10 points, name this daughter of Cassiopeia, who was rescued by the hero who slew the Gorgon, Perseus.", "round" : "r16- Magin.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fed8b3d831d6a0050b8" }, "answer" : "{pea} plants [or {Pisum sativum_}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4780829192605, "num" : 10, "question" : "The Le gene in these organisms affects their response to gibberellins (GIBB-ur-ELL-ins) and thus their height. Commonly studied traits in them include axial or terminal buds, inflated or constricted pods, and purple or white flowers. These plants were first used as a model organism by a monk whose studies led to the development of the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment. For 10 points, name this plant that allowed Mendel to develop his namesake model of inheritance.", "round" : "4q2-02.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f178b3d831d6a001e5d" }, "answer" : "{St. Sebastian} or {San Sebastiano}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.87058558966964, "num" : 11, "question" : "Ana Maria Pacheco's “Studies of” this figure are large scale drawings, whereas her Dark Night of the Soul is a wood sculpture inspired by the Pollaiuolo brothers' sculpture depicting his death. In 1915 Egon Schiele painted a self-portrait of himself as this man, and Bellini created a triptych on his life. Il Sodoma's version of him is the painter's masterpiece, and he was also the subject of six paintings by Anthony van Dyck, some of which replaced his face with van Dyck's. Ribera and de la Tour's depictions of him both feature him being tended to by Irene, whereas Perugino, like many others, painted him “bound to a column.” For 10 points, Andrea Mantegna's portrayals show the typical scene of arrows piercing the body and martyrdom of what Christian saint?", "round" : "Editor's Round 1 (RR).docx", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eae8b3d831d6a0005e9" }, "answer" : "Walden", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 359.9800336619373, "num" : 39, "question" : "In this work's longest chapter, which includes Thomas Carew's poem \"The Pretensions of Poverty,\" its author describes in great detail the cost and building supplies of his home. It notes that if someone is out of step with his companions it is because he hears a \"different drummer,\" and it describes the author's solitude in radically reduced conditions. Subtitled \"Life in the Woods,\" for 20 points, what is this work by Henry David Thoreau named for the pond near which he stayed?", "round" : "colonia-03.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffe8b3d831d6a00549b" }, "answer" : "{Hermann Hesse}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8266077295411, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of this author's protagonists dies when following his student Tito on a swim after leaving Castalia. The protagonist of another novel by this author learns the ways of wealth from Kamaswami and the ways of love from (*) Kamala, who dies when she is bitten by a snake. In another novel by this author, the saxophonist Pablo shows The Magic Theatre to the protagonist. This author of The Glass Bead Game wrote about a character who finds peace with a ferryman in Siddhartha. For 10 points, name this German author of Steppenwolf.", "round" : "tourn10-13.pdf", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc08b3d831d6a004671" }, "answer" : "{Heinrich Theodor Boll}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.60778678837232, "num" : 6, "question" : "One of his stories describes a well-educated man who opts to work as a person who announces the title phrase in the railway. A prominent work of satire written by him is narrated through the perspective of Aunt Milla's nephew and describes the decay of Uncle Franz. In addition to \"This is Tibten\" and \"Christmas Not Just Once a Year,\" one of his title characters spends a night with a girl in a haystack in his story \"Kumpel.\"The protagonist of one of his stories recognizes the title inscription on a blackboard after confirming that he has been brought to his school, but silently whispers \"Milk\" after he discovers that his limbs have been amputated. In addition to \"Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We…,\" his stories \"That Time We Were in Odessa\" and \"Children Are Civilians Too\" describe the experiences of soldiers in World War II, exemplifying his style of (*)\"Rubble literature.\" He also wrote a novel about a woman who becomes a target of media sensationalism, causing her to kill Werner Totges. For 10 points, identify this author who wrote The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.", "round" : "Rd02.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef58b3d831d6a001685" }, "answer" : "The {Seven Samurai} [or {Shichinin no Samurai} ]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 848.3217968433164, "num" : 15, "question" : "Near the end of this film, some characters argue that there should be efforts to “understand the young people,” just after an affair is revealed. One scene sees the title characters become angry after learning that the central locale used to kill those of their kind and then shameful after one of them reveals that he had originally been a farmer. A wall of (*) spears is erected to keep out this film’s antagonists, although over half of the title group is killed by musket-wielders, including Kikuchiyo. Shino has an affair with Katsushiro, one of the survivors of the big battle of this film. Opening with the assembly of the title group by the veteran Kanbei in order to protect villagers from bandits, for 10 points, identify this masterwork of Akira Kurosawa.", "round" : "Packet 19 - TB 3.doc", "seen" : 565, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025d1" }, "answer" : "{Joe Orton}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.97557561588474, "num" : 8, "question" : "The co-author of the novel Lord Cucumber, as one of his play ends, the central couple grieve over their goldfish killed by a gunshot that came from the same gun used to kill Wilson after he asked Joyce - Mike's wife, for it. As a different one of his plays begins, we learn that McMahon had seven previous husbands while talking to her brother Hal while the body of Mrs. McLeavy is shown on stage. Another of his plays sees Dr. Rance come to Dr. Prentice's office, who is sexually harassing Geraldine Barclay during an interview. In addition to writing The (*) Ruffian on the Stair and adapting Eurpides's The Bacchae as The Erpingham Camp, he was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. For 10 points, name this dramatist of What the Butler Saw and Loot. [Ike]", "round" : "Round 06.pdf", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e6f" }, "answer" : "{Sinclair Lewis}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1214060606434, "num" : 12, "question" : "This author wrote a novel in which the United States is ruled by the tyrannical Buzz Windrip. In another novel by this author of It Can't Happen Here, the shooting of Zilla by her husband Paul Riesling causes Myra’s husband to resent his middle-class lifestyle. This man created the fictional city of Zenith, Winnemac, the home of the minister Elmer Gantry. In another of his novels, Erik Valborg has an affair with Carol Kennicott, who grows dissatisfied with Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. For 10 points, name this author of Main Street and Babbitt.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40538b3d831d6a0068e6" }, "answer" : "{FARC} [or {RAFC} or {Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias} de Colombia or {Revolutionary Armed}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6037306196522, "num" : 16, "question" : "This group attempted to establish the Political Union party, whose 1990 presidential candidate Bernardo Ossa was murdered along with three thousand other party members. This organization's founder Manuel Marulanda died in March 2008, and in June, it was asked to perform a “humanitarian gesture” and free its hostages, after computer equipment linking it to Hugo Chavez was found. For 10 points, identify this rebel organization that seeks to install a Marxist regime in Colombia and is responsible for much of the cocaine trade from that country.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1a8b3d831d6a001efa" }, "answer" : "the {Keeling} curve [prompt on “{CO2 concentration}” or similar]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.04974626214243, "num" : 13, "question" : "The measurements for it use a nondispersive infrared gas analyzer. Short-term measurements preceding it were taken in Pasadena and Big Sur, but this curve gives continuous observations since 1958. It shows a dip each year in summer, due to drawdown by photosynthesis, with annual variation of about 5 parts per million by volume. Observations for it are taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Initially it showed a concentration of about 315 ppmv, but the newest points on the curve are above 390 ppmv. The main cause of this rising trend is the burning of fossil fuels. It is discussed in An Inconvenient Truth as evidence for global warming. For 10 points, what is this graph, named for a scientist from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, that shows atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide?", "round" : "MN A Chicago B - Final.docx", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e968b3d831d6a00009f" }, "answer" : "{replicative origins} or {initiation origins} or {initiation sites} [prompt on anything that {indicates} that the {player} is {talking} about {sites where DNA replication begins}]; do not accept {crossovers} at any point [{there exists crossover interference}, but the {proteins} mentioned {aren’t involved} in it and {there aren’t active} and {passive} forms of it]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 49.21551804826595, "num" : 11, "question" : "DePamphilis’s “Jesuit model” describes these entities, and Chk1 and RNR promote an active form of “interference” involving them. A well-studied example in yeast contains an A consensus domain and three B elements and binds to Cdc18, while all of these structures containe DUEs (D-U-Es). In eukaryotes, “licensing” is attained when this structure binds the MCM complex. In eukaryotes, they can be inhibited by binding Mer1-Rad53 complexes or geminin, while in bacteria, the cell membrane protein SeqA renders these structures inactive when they are hemimethylated. Examples of these structures include ColE and ARS. These structures determine the compatibility group identity and copy number of plasmids, and regulatory mechanisms governing these structures ensure that they fire only once per cell cycle. For 10 points, name these DNA sequences from which chromosome replication commences.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors4Final.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002889" }, "answer" : "Election of 1912", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.51885115168989, "num" : 12, "question" : "This election saw the second successful nomination of Eugene Chafin by the Prohibition, and all major parties temporarily suspended their campaigns after one candidate was shot in the chest near a Chicago hotel. This election was the fourth time that Eugene Debs ran for the Socialists. Under the advice of Louis Brandeis, the winning party launched a “New Freedom” campaign. The incumbent in this race was impeded by the effects of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and Ballinger-Pinchot scandal, leading the progressives and Theodore Roosevelt to form the Bull Moose Party. For 10 points, identify this election in which William Howard Taft was knocked out of the presidency by Woodrow Wilson.", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eba8b3d831d6a0008a7" }, "answer" : "{Stephen Crane}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7506676106714, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man’s experience covering the Greco-Turkish War formed the basis for his novel Active Service. Another of his novels sees the title character date the bartender Pete, but eventually turn to prostitution. In one of his short stories, Billie the oiler is found dead after trying to swim ashore. This author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and “The Open (*) Boat” is best known for writing about the 304th New York regiment, whose members include Jim Conklin and Henry Fleming. For 10 points, name this American author of The Red Badge of Courage.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f818b3d831d6a00376c" }, "answer" : "Ganymede ", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.41007663146593, "num" : 16, "question" : "When depicted in art, this figure was often paired with a hoop or a rooster, a gift from his most famous lover. Some sources postulate that his father was not the son of Erichthonius of Dardania, but rather Laomedon, making this figure the brother of Tithonus and Priam. It is usually agreed, however, that he was the son of Tros, who was given a golden vine and two divine horses for his mourning. One variant of the popular story involving him includes Eos abducting Tithonus and him and both obtaining eternal life, but Tithonus was unfortunate and did not receive eternal youth. The more popular variant, however, is that he was on Mount Ida when he was abducted by an eagle and taken to Mount Olympus, where he replaced Hebe. For 10 points, name this youth from Greek mythology whose beauty was so pure that he was chosen by Zeus to be a cupbearer for the gods.", "round" : "MichiganB.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebc8b3d831d6a000929" }, "answer" : "{Notre-Dame} de {Paris} [or The {Hunchback} of {Notre-Dame}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8297404523473, "num" : 21, "question" : "At one point, this work diverges from the plot to spend an entire chapter explaining the meaning of the sentence, \"This will kill that,\" with \"this\" referring to the printing press. The antagonist of this work arranges with Jehan to view a love scene between two characters before stabbing the male and blaming it on the female. That antagonist, Claude (*) Frollo, is pushed off the title edifice by another character who witnesses him celebrating Esmeralda's death. For 10 points, name this work by Victor Hugo about Quasimodo, a bell-ringer in Paris's most famous cathedral.", "round" : "11.pdf", "seen" : 238, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ead8b3d831d6a00058e" }, "answer" : "The {Grapes} of {Wrath}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 360.5984681644477, "num" : 37, "question" : "One character in this novel beats Herb to death with a shovel. That character, Connie Rivers, later marries a character who delivers a stillborn baby, Rose of Sharon. Grampa and Granma both die during a journey which takes place in this novel, in which a family whose members include Tom, Ma, and Pa tries to escape the Dust Bowl. For 20 points, name this novel about the Joads' journey from Oklahoma to California.", "round" : "colonia-01.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efb8b3d831d6a0017fe" }, "answer" : "Charizard <PM>", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.9695464124437, "num" : 8, "question" : "This Pokémon saved Ash in the episode “Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon,” and a mechanical one of these appeared in the episode “Island of the Giant Pokémon.” Its original trading card was capable of dealing 100 damage with a single attack and was widely considered overpowered. In the anime, this Pokémon was considered untrainable but was also one of Ash's strongest Pokémon, as it defeated Blaine's Magmar and even Gary's Blastoise. In the video games, this Pokémon is the only starter Pokemon that could learn Fly. For 10 points, name this Fire/Flying Pokémon that evolves from Charmeleon.", "round" : "Round04.doc", "seen" : 325, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef38b3d831d6a0015e5" }, "answer" : "{Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus} [prompt on {Gracchus}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0878706085496, "num" : 14, "question" : "Early in his career, this man served as a quaestor under the consul Gaius Hostilius Mancinus in Spain. Later, he gained political support from Publius Mucius Scaevola and the Claudians, although he faced opposition from a senator named Scipio Nasica. This man renewed his most prominent scheme upon the death of Attalus III of Pergamum and was the (*) eldest son of Cornelia Africana. This politician broke with precedent and twice tried to be elected tribune. He also used the People’s Assembly to impeach Octavius, the chief senatorial opponent of his Lex Sempronia Agraria, a bill that would have revived the policy of redistributing publicly acquired lands. For 10 points, name this man who advocated for agrarian reform during the Roman Republic, the elder brother of Gaius.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Superplayoffs 2.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa28b3d831d6a003f37" }, "answer" : "{Cat's Cradle}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.14473311486654, "num" : 22, "question" : "The narrator of this novel lends his apartment to a poet named Sherman Krebbs, who kills the narrator's cat. The narrator earlier had a conversation with a prostitute named Sandra and talked about the meaning of research with Asa Breed in Illium, New York. Another scene in this novel sees (*) Newt Honikker travel to a Carribean island for the wedding of his brother Frank, whose father helped develop the atomic bomb. Other features of this novel include the words “wampeter” and “karass,” which are part of a religion whose members touch the soles of their feet together for spiritual pleasure. The dictator Papa Monzano, and later many other inhabitants of the island of San Lorenzo, commit suicide near the novel's end by using a substance that turns water into a solid. The material ice-nine and the religion of Bokononism play a central role in, for 10 points, what novel by Kurt Vonnegut?", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec08b3d831d6a000a1a" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Poland} [or {Rzeczpospolita Polska}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0101010729559, "num" : 9, "question" : "This nation saw a massacre of its citizens at Volhynia. After the rule of Edward Gierek, an agreement in this country led to the formation of an independent trade union led by a former electrician. That trade union in this country was formed in Gdansk and called Solidarity. An invasion of this country occurred one week after two other countries agreed to the (*) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. For 10 points, name this nation whose 1939 invasion marked the start of World War II when it was attacked on both fronts by Germany and Russia.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40838b3d831d6a00742e" }, "answer" : "{Alien} and {Sedition} Acts [accept {just} “{Alien Act}” before the word “{convicted}” is read]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1596469588112, "num" : 3, "question" : "Secretary of State Timothy Pickering recommended over a dozen warrants for violation this legislation to the President, though only two were signed, expelling two journalists who had criticized the laws themselves. Matthew Lyon of Vermont was convicted of violating one part of this legislation for publishing a letter by Joel Barlow accusing John Adams of giving a bullying speech, and only 11 people were convicted under these acts, to which James Madison and Thomas Jefferson responded with the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. For 10 points, what were these four pieces of 1798 law usually named for two primary parts, one promising expulsion of foreign enemies and the other outlawing speech dangerous to the nation?", "round" : "Round8Final.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d2c" }, "answer" : "{Irish Potato Famine}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3556952832732, "num" : 15, "question" : "People escaping during this event utilized the McCorkell Line to seek passage to Canada and US. In the country where this took place, it is referred to as \"an Gorta Mor\" or \"an Drochshaol.\" One response to this event was Robert Peel's decision to repeal the Corn Laws. Thought to be caused an oomycete known as Phytophthora infestans, this event resulted in approximately a million deaths. For 10 points, name this massive dying caused by a blight, which affected a particular crop in the 1840's and 50's in Ireland.", "round" : "districts-08.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061f2" }, "answer" : "{David Hume}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.6257321164012, "num" : 18, "question" : "This thinker created Pamphilus, who narrates a work that consists of a conversation between Cleanthes, Philo, and Demea. This philosopher used the patterns of snow crystals to argue that the design of the universe does not necessarily mean that there was a divine creator. This author of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion devised the “Missing Shade of Blue” in a work that outlines four arguments against the existence of miracles. For 10 points, name this Scottish Enlightenment thinker, the empiricist author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 9.pdf", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a003883" }, "answer" : "{sea} or {ocean deities} [accept equivalents, prompt on {water}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 681.9214268766809, "num" : 2, "question" : "A goblet of wine filling six tubs was sent to a deity of this domain, Repun Kamui. In Norse myth, the figure governing this domain was married to Rán, and his daughters were the billow maidens. Orochi was slain by the Shinto god of this domain. One god of this entity was a patron of horse-racing. That god's Greek counterpart was accompanied by Galatea, Thetis, and other Nereids, and hindered Odysseus' journey home. For 10 points, name this aquatic domain of Neptune and Poseidon.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 452, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a0044b3" }, "answer" : "David {Hume}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 466.0750146145001, "num" : 2, "question" : "This philosopher's essay On Miracles is frequently published separately from a longer work in which it appears. This philosopher wrote about the discussion of three fictional characters about faith in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Like Adam Smith, this philosopher advocated a sentimental theory of ethics, and he also described the problem of deriving an “ought” from an “is” in one work. FTP, identify this philosopher who wrote an attempt to introduce scientific reasoning into moral theory in his A Treatise of Human Nature, which was reworked partially into An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 305, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb98b3d831d6a000895" }, "answer" : "{Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9019591629039, "num" : 11, "question" : "A grave that is only six feet long ultimately turns out to answer the title question in this author’s short story “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” A man named Olenin leaves for the Caucasus in his novel The Cossacks. In another work by this author, the title civil servant reflects back on his life after suffering a fatal fall installing curtains in his apartment. This author of The Death of Ivan (*) Ilyich wrote a work in which the lover of Count Vronsky commits suicide on a railway. For 10 points, name this author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f728b3d831d6a0033a1" }, "answer" : "data {compression} [accept {lossless data compression} before “{MPEG}” is read; prompt on {coding} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7052503514569, "num" : 13, "question" : "Benchmarks for these operations include the Calgary and Cambridge corpuses, tests in which the PAQ algorithm performs efficiently but slowly. Fractals are used in one method of doing this with images, while a more notable method improves on an algorithm developed by Shannon and Fano. A dictionary is created to perform this action in a method named for Lempel, Ziv and Welch, which contrasts with the prefix code used in (*) Huffman coding. A destructive form of it is used in the MPEG format; that is the “lossy” version of this process. For 10 points, identify this process of shrinking data, exemplified by RAR and ZIP formats.", "round" : "Round 14.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004936" }, "answer" : "{Watson} and the {Shark}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.5744758259971, "num" : 3, "question" : "This painting sees a man in blue striped shirt looking back at the titular animal through the legs of another character. The Morro Castle is seen in the background, although the artist had never visited the setting of this painting. An African-American man is seen holding a piece of rope out to the titular character, whose right foot is not seen. Based on a real 1749 event, this work profiles the efforts of a small boat to rescue an unfortunate 14-year-old orphan from the water. For 10 points, identify this work that is supposedly set in Havana Harbor, a painting by John Singleton Copley.", "round" : "FKT Editor 3.rtf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048cd" }, "answer" : "{Gunpowder} Plot", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1583168397192, "num" : 18, "question" : "Richard Walsh ended the Midlands rebellion in the aftermath of this event, which also saw the execution of Henry Garnett. Originally centered around the Whynniard House, this event included a man known as Johnson who had served at the siege of Calais. Thomas Knyvett ended this event, which also saw the purchase of the Bright cellar by Thomas Percy. Francis Tresham's letter to his brother-in-law, Lord Monteagle, caused this plot to be uncovered. Robert Catesby led, for 10 points, this conspiracy to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605 that included Guy Fawkes.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 11 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed08b3d831d6a000df8" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Hastings}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1036238647066, "num" : 15, "question" : "This battle was preceded by the landing at Pevesney, and it took place at Senlac Hill. This battle was preceded by the defeat of Harald Hardrata at Stamford Bridge. According to the Bayeux Tapestry, one commander at this battle died after getting struck in the eye by an arrow. Two months after this battle, the victor was crowned king in London. For 10 points, name this 1066 battle in which the forces of Harold II were defeated by the Norman forces under William the Conqueror.", "round" : "regionals-06.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004254" }, "answer" : "{Paolo Veronese} [accept {Paolo Caliari}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.77474708668888, "num" : 3, "question" : "This artist's later work included a series of seven allegorical female figures, including Temperance Triumphing Over Vice and Charity, all of which were drawn in brown ink on gray paper. This artist's Lamentation depicts a foreshortened, seated Christ being held by a man in red. In another work by this man, a putti tries to steady a large gray horse as a fully clothed Mars tries to resist a nude Venus' advances. Even though he worked with Palladio on a commission by the Barbaro family to fresco the Villa Maser, his greatest commissions were executed in Venice and include Age and Youth, for the ducal palace, and a pair of large banquet scenes. One of those scenes depicts Christ in Galilee at a wedding, while the other was produced for the monastery of Santi Giovanni, but resulted in a charge of heresy. For 10 points, identify this painter of Marriage at Cana and Feast in the House of Levi.", "round" : "r12- Rutgers.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40878b3d831d6a007517" }, "answer" : "{Rashi} [accept: {Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki}; {Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak}; {Rabbi Shlomo bar Yitzchak}; {Rabban shel Yisrael}; {Rabbenu sheYichyeh}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.18865933571942, "num" : 10, "question" : "This man wrote that the Torah should have begun with the commandment to observe the new moon.  A legend about the birth of this man tells that his father threw a jewel into a river rather than sell it to a Bishop who wanted it for an ornamental cross.  It is claimed by some that the Tosafot are strictly expansions to a commentary by this man, and much of the Tosafot were written by this man's sons-in-law and grandsons.  He studied under Yaakov ben-Yakar in Worms before returning to his hometown of Troyes. This man's most famous work is printed in a script named for him and can be found on the side of the page closest to the binding in the text he wrote about. For ten points, name this 11th century French rabbi who wrote a seminal early commentary on the Talmud.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403d8b3d831d6a0063a2" }, "answer" : "{cars} [or {automobiles}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.69636794133112, "num" : 1, "question" : "Sonny and his wife fix one of these objects belonging to the title character of a Eudora Welty short story. Boon steals one of these belonging to Lucius's grandfather, which Ned McCaslin later trades away in The Reivers. Madeleine and Valentine Gersbach lock June in one later responsible for the title character's injuries in Herzog, while the husband of Fran Voelker makes his money from selling these in the novel Dodsworth. Dwayne Hoover owns a place that sells one type of them in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, and one mishandled by Daisy Buchanan causes Myrtle Wilson's death. For 10 points, Willy Loman commits suicide using this vehicle.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - UCSD + Princeton A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e42" }, "answer" : "Greece", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.570785921067, "num" : 4, "question" : "A number of this country's military officers were jailed in a coup called the Aspida affair, part of a time of political crisis sometimes known as the \"July events\". Other violent times in its history include the assassination attempt on its queen Amalia of Oldenburg, years after this country had witnessed the Don Pacifico Affair, which greatly weakened the standing of its king Otto I. Its independence movement originated at Jassy and centered around a secret society formed by Alexander Ypsilanti known as the Friendly Association, or Philike Hetairia. For 10 points, name this country which in ancient times consisted of city-states like Corinth and Sparta.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 20 (mini).doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b7f" }, "answer" : "{Carlos Fuentes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3758304324001, "num" : 1, "question" : "In one novel by this author, Norma is loved by the aspiring poet turned successful screenwriter Rodrigo, as well as a banker who loses all of his money, Federico. The title character of another work by this author of Where the Air is Clear carries a copy of Don Quixote in his saddlebags and is shot by Arroyo. Catalina and Regina are among the women remembered by one of this man's title characters, while Harriet Winslow claims the body of another, Ambrose Bierce. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 243, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a0070e6" }, "answer" : "Le {Sacre du printemps}, ballet in {2} parts for {orchestra} or The {Rite} of {Spring}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9357420383022, "num" : 9, "question" : "(MS) Lawrence Morton's analysis of this work uncovered the unacknowledged influence of Jusz- kiewicz's Melodje ludowe litewskie, while more explicit direction was provided by folklorist Nicholas Roerich. The proper beginning of this work sees crashing, xylophone-tinged accents play over a repeated chopping string bitonal chord in two-four, which is cut off by the same high-register bassoon theme that plays solo at the very start. Its two parts are \"Adoration of the Earth\" and \"The Sacrifice,\" at the end of which a young woman dances herself to death. Name this work depicting an imaginative reconstruction of a ritual from pagan Russia, a ballet of Igor Stravinsky that touched off a riot at its premiere.", "round" : "r1tossups.pdf", "seen" : 283, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a00201b" }, "answer" : "{Henrik Ibsen}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.31640851870179, "num" : 19, "question" : "One character that this author created is writing a text on the “Domestic Industries in the Brabant in the Middle Ages.” Another character created by this author is Dr. Rank, who has tuberculosis of the spine. He created a woman who tells Løvborg to “die beautifully” and is blackmailed by Judge Brack. In another work, this playwright wrote about the banker Krogstad, whose return of incriminating documents prompts Nora Helmer to walk out on her husband Torvald. For 10 points, name this author of Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House, a Norwegian playwright.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 6.pdf", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6d8b3d831d6a003284" }, "answer" : "{Winfield Scott}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1968905427493, "num" : 18, "question" : "This general led Abraham Eustis and William Lindsay on a failed campaign during the Second Seminole War. A few years later, this leader was supposed to replace Henry Atkinson, but, due to an outbreak of cholera (KHA-luh- ruh), half of his troops died on the way to the Black Hawk War, which was won before this man arrived. Shortly be- fore retiring, this leader proposed blockading the South and sending troops up the Mississippi River in what became known as the Anaconda Plan. His biggest successes, achieved while future generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee served under him, came at the Battles of Cerro (SEH-row) Gordo and Chapultepec (chuh-PULL-tuh-peck). Af- ter his successes in the Mexican-American War, this man unsuccessfully ran for President in 1852. Name this general nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers”.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 222, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb78b3d831d6a0007ef" }, "answer" : "{patent medicines}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5517827754375, "num" : 6, "question" : "Notable examples of these items were created by Lydia Pinkham and Clark Stanley. Angostura bitters were originally sold as one of them, and their active ingredients were generally alcohol, cocaine, and heroin rather than the herbs prominently featured in their advertisements. For 10 points, give the general term for these preparations, such as Snake Oil Liniment, which boasted outrageous curative powers but were normally fraudulent.", "round" : "17.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400f8b3d831d6a0058b9" }, "answer" : "{Noel Coward}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4980573896319, "num" : 25, "question" : "In this author's last play, Bryan Snow attempts to rewrite Dark Heritage to soothe Marion Blake's co-star, Lorraine Barry's desires. Another play by this author is about a tabloid journalist collecting information on May Davenport and Lotta Bainbridge. In addition to Star Quality and Waiting in the Wings, this author wrote a play about the members of [?] Sloane Square coming to a pub and discussing patriotism to Germany after it won the Battle of Britain, Peace In Our Time. However he is best known for writing about the bike-riding Madamemoiselle Arcati, a psychic who delivers a prophecy to Charles Condomine, and another play about Simon, Sorel, David and Judith each inviting a guest to the Bliss family residence. For ten points, identify this playwright of Hay Fever and Blithe Spirit.", "round" : "FINALS.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8e8b3d831d6a003ac7" }, "answer" : "{Yasunari Kawabata}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.67123119393364, "num" : 20, "question" : "In one work by this author, a woman detaches her right arm and gives it to the narrator to keep for a night. In one of his novels, the patriarch of the Ogata family reconsiders his relationship with his philandering son Shuichi. In another, Kikuji has an affair with Mrs. Ota, a former mistress of his dead father. He also wrote a novel which centers on a match between Otake and Shusai, and one in which Shimamura has an affair with the geisha Komako while visiting the titular region of Japan. For 10 points, name this first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who wrote The Sound of the Mountain, Thousand Cranes, The Master of Go, and Snow Country.", "round" : "Packet 03.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9b8b3d831d6a003da9" }, "answer" : "{Just what} is it that {makes today's homes so different}, {so appealing?}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.39740425930358, "num" : 19, "question" : "A woman cleaning the top of a staircase can be seen on the left side of this work, which also depicts either a slice of pie or cake near its center. It was largely influenced by the research of Magda Cordell and its artist's wife Terry O'Riley, although in 2006 its conception was thought to be the work of John McHale. This work's left side also features the Warners' Theater and Irwin Koszewski, better known by his nickname “Zabo.” The cover of a Young Romance comic book hangs on the back wall in this work, which also contains an advertisement for The Jazz Singer. Tomorrow's Man and Ladies Home Journal are two of the many magazines that were used to create this work, whose most prominent figures are a woman wearing a lampshade and a body builder holding a Tootsie Pop. For 10 points, name this collage by English Pop-Artist Richard Hamilton.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40908b3d831d6a007726" }, "answer" : "{learned helplessness}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.78223240217194, "num" : 4, "question" : "Research on levels of norepinephrine in the brain indicate that the motor activation deficit hypothesis may be more suitable than this theory, which arose in the late 1970's within the framework of attribution theory. The classic experiment in which it was first elucidated involved dogs who were shocked in one scenario and then were able to avoid the shock in a subsequent scenario. The theory opposes the hypothesis of operant conditioning as, in it, instead of learning to avoid negative stimuli, the dogs were “programmed” to recognize reinforcers as uncontrollable and, hence, did not avoid the shocks. FTP name this theory posited by Martin Seligman; a theory of depression where the patient acquires a debilitating inability to avoid trauma.", "round" : "Florida State - Harvard A - Yale.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f8d" }, "answer" : "Morocco [DU]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5187389696948, "num" : 16, "question" : "El Badi Palace in this present-day nation was commissioned by Ahmad al-Mansur, a ruler of the Saadi Dynasty. That palace is in a city which the victor of the Battle of Zallaka, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, founded: Marrakech, the second capital of the Almoravids. The 1975 Green March by this nation forced Spain to cede territories, long after it was made a European protectorate through the Treaty of Fez. The appearance of Panther in Agadir caused a diplomatic crisis in this nation, while an earlier incident occurred in 1905, when Wilhelm II visited Tangier, necessitating the Algeciras Conference. For 10 points, what nation, currently ruled by Mohammed VI of the Alaouite Dynasty, has its capital at Rabat?", "round" : "Packet 3.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d2c" }, "answer" : "The {Lion} and the {Jewel}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.71895517245866, "num" : 8, "question" : "[GK] One character in this play is called a \"brabararian\" and steals money from another character's pocket to extract a special performance from some musicians. Another character removes her husband's armpit hair so rashly that her husband bleeds. In one scene of this play, one of the title characters pretends he is driving a car with girls lying down serving as the wheels, and pinches a girl's buttocks as he pretends to check the tire pressure. That character reminds the audience how another title character impeded progress by bribing an official to change the course of a railroad. The first title character tells his love interest about his dream of printing stamps featuring his photograph of her as she raises her arms towards the sun. That photograph makes her famous outside of her town of ? Ilujinle. For 10 points, name this play in which Sidi chooses to marry the old chief Baroka rather than the young but timid Lakunle, written by Wole Soyinka.", "round" : "Packet 6.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a001308" }, "answer" : "{nephrons} [Prompt on {kidneys} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.16198067646474, "num" : 11, "question" : "Channels in this structure are affected in Liddle’s syndrome, and homozygotes for mutants for a protein found in these structures may develop diabetes insipidus. The squamous cells of one location in these structures are contrasted with the cuboidal epithelial cells of the proximal and distal convoluted tubules, and a capillary network in these structures is surrounded by Bowan’s capsules. Vassopresin triggers the insertion of aquaporin 2 proteins membranes of cells in these structures. Cells in the ascending limb, which is found after the Loop of Henle in these structures have an abundance of sodium potassium pumps but are not permeable to water. For 10 points, name these functional units of kidneys.", "round" : "Packet 12 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40648b3d831d6a006d09" }, "answer" : "{Grant Wood}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2512606538367, "num" : 11, "question" : "This artist depicted a man in round glasses painting while others look to the floor in his Return from Bohemia and a group of three women standing in front of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware in his Daughters of Revolution. This artist created landscapes such as (*) Young Corn, Fall Plowing, and Spring Turning, and designed a stained-glass window in Cedar Rapids. He may be best remembered for depicting his sister and dentist standing in front of a barn. For 10 points, name this creator of American Gothic.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f408b3d831d6a0027db" }, "answer" : "Rhodopsin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.48141695419326, "num" : 2, "question" : "Georg Nagel isolated one of these proteins from Chlamydomonas which is linked to a nonspecific cation channel. Deisseroth's group switched out the intracellular domain of one of these proteins with an adrenergic receptor, creating OptoXR. Those proteins, known as the “channel-“ type, are commonly used in optogenetics, while the “bacterio” type is used as a proton pump. This protein, when activated, decreases the concentration of cyclic GMP via the activation of transducin. Its cofactor changes into an all-trans state upon activation of this protein; that cofactor originally adopts an 11-cis confirmation and is known as retinal. For 10 points, name this transmembrane protein found in photoreceptor cells, responsible for converting light energy to cellular signals.", "round" : "Round 04 updated.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f668b3d831d6a0030b2" }, "answer" : "{Charles Ives}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.9981487367767, "num" : 3, "question" : "The second movement of this composer's fourth violin sonata depicts boys throwing rocks into a creek in a section marked Allegro conslugarocko. He mocked James Henderson's book What is Good Music? by writing his Three Page Sonata. One of this composer's works includes movements about a boy who falls asleep and dreams about encountering soldiers and a statue commemorating the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts regiment; those movements are titled \"Putnam's Camp\" and \"The St. Gaudens' in Boston Common.\" This composer's second piano sonata is divided into movements called \"Emerson,\" \"Hawthorne,\" \"The Alcotts,\" and \"Thoreau.\" For 10 points, name this American modernist composer of Three Places in New England and the Concord Sonata.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a0036f4" }, "answer" : "{Herman Hesse}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.44954708241858, "num" : 2, "question" : "In one short story by this author, the protagonist is shown the ravages of war by a dark bird to demonstrate the true evils of the world. That boy's quest for flowers for the burial of the dead is ultimately successful in “Strange News from Another Star”, the title story in a collection by this writer. In contrast, the protagonist of another work fails, along with the other members of The League, in the title quest after the disappearance of Leo, and the protagonist of yet another novel drowns in a river after being expelled from a seminary, as Hans Giebenrath, despite his education, failed to develop personally. In addition to Journey to the East and Beneath the Wheel, this writer also wrote novels in which the high-born title character ends up as a ferryman, and Hermine teaches Harry Haller to dance. For 10 points, identify this German author of Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.", "round" : "Editors1.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a0019ed" }, "answer" : "{Philip Milton Roth}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5577747803181, "num" : 8, "question" : "This man wrote a collection that includes short stories like “Defender of the Faith” and “Eli the Fanatic.” This author of Goodbye, Columbus wrote a novel in which Charles Lindbergh is elected president of the United States. This writer of The Plot Against America wrote a novel in which Coleman Silk turns out to be [*] black, not white, and another novel in which the title character calls women names like “The Pilgrim” and “The Monkey.” For 10 points, name this Jewish-American creator of Nathan Zuckerman and author of The Human Stain and Portnoy’s Complaint.", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a007685" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Hungary} [or {Magyarorszag}; or {Magyar Koztarsasag}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.545533461729, "num" : 16, "question" : "This country lost much of its territory in the Treaty of Trianon. Members of this country's Arpad dynasty include Stephen I, its first king. During this nation's communist period, it was led by János Kádár (YA-nos KA-dar). This country saw reforms that led to \"Goulash Communism.\" Through the Ausgleich (OWS-glaik) of 1867, this country spent the later half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as part of a dual monarchy with Austria. For 10 points, name this country with capital at Budapest.", "round" : "colonia-01.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404b8b3d831d6a0066ec" }, "answer" : "{exponential} function ({accecpt} y = {e} to the {x} after “reals” is read)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.2681906365324, "num" : 11, "question" : "It provides a map to any Lie group from its corresponding Lie algebra. Its matrix form may be used to give solutions to systems of linear differential equations, while for the reals it is the unique Lebesgue measurable function f that satisfies f(x+y) = f(x) f(y). Its MacLaurin coefficients are equal to one, and it is the only function that is its own derivative. Euler's identity shows that its value at pi i is negative one, while its inverse is the natural logarithm. FTP, name this function whose value at positive integers is the product of several copies of Euler's constant.", "round" : "HFT Round 03.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a00244d" }, "answer" : "The {Shipyard} or {El astillero}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.20560131059028, "num" : 1, "question" : "A parenthetical alternate ending to this novel imagines that its main character died of pneumonia in Rosario. A minor character in this novel, Dr. Diaz Grey, appears in a previous novel by the same author entitled A Brief Life, while this work's main character reappears in a future novel entitled Body Snatcher. One character in this novel has forged stock certificates for 10,000 pesos and sold the forgeries, which leads a character named Galvez to say that he could put the owner of the title business in jail whenever he wants. This novel's main character is assisted by the technical manager Kunz, and pursues both Maria, the pregnant wife of Galvez, and Angelica Ines, the daughter of his employer Jeremias Petrus, who had forged the aforementioned certificates. Set, like many of its author's works, in the fictional town of Santa Maria, for ten points, identify this novel in which Larsen returns to Santa Maria to become general manager of the titular maritime enterprise, probably the most famous work of Juan Carlos Onetti.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 16 - Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a005850" }, "answer" : "{Frederick II} [or {Frederick} the {Great}; prompt on {Frederick}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4862184582744, "num" : 12, "question" : "This author of the idealistic tract Anti-Machiavel oversaw the construction of his Sans Souci residence near Potsdam. This man's father forced him to watch the execution of this man's friend Hermann von Katte after attempting to escape the royal court. This king's forces overran (*) Silesia after his victory at Mollwitz during the War of the Austrian Succession. For 10 points, name this \"enlightened despot\" who was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.", "round" : "tourn9-12.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052ca" }, "answer" : "{Matsuo Basho} [or {Matsuo Kinsaku}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1580861846451, "num" : 69, "question" : "Just before his death, this writer wrote about dreams running around withered fields after falling sick on a journey. He also envisioned the broken dreams of soldiers while watching summer grasses. This man was accompanied by Sora on a journey that produced his Narrow Road to the Deep North. One of his works involves a frog's jump into an old pond. This writer's works are rich in \"season words.\" For 10 points, what Edo-period writer is considered the master of the seventeen-syllable haiku?", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb88b3d831d6a000859" }, "answer" : "{Fenrir} [or the {Fenris} wolf]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.1803166102618, "num" : 20, "question" : "This creature was able to break free from restraints named Leyding and Dromi, leading to the construction of Gleipnir, a harness that this creature thought it could escape from because it was thin and soft. However, when he found that he could not break it, he bit down on the hand of (*) Tyr. At Ragnarok, he will be freed from his tether with fiery gazes and breath and will kill Odin only to be killed by Odin's son, Vidar. For 10 points, name this offspring of Loki, a creature from Norse myth notable for being a giant wolf.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a00001b" }, "answer" : "{Kongi’s Harvest}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 31.24331022226251, "num" : 2, "question" : "One character in this work praises “only ideograms in algebraic quantums,” while another character declares that he loves “to have [his] hairs / Ruffled well below the navel.” The Right and Left Ears of State are the intelligence service for the Organizing Secretary of this work’s title character. This work opens with a “Hemlock” section, features a national anthem that is sardonically revised to begin “Ism to ism for ism is ism,” and closes with a “Hangover.” The title character in this work is opposed by Daodu, who is the nephew of a chieftain and runs a farm commune. This play concludes with the title character gaping in terror at the decapitated head of Segi’s father during the Festival of the New Yam. For 10 points, name this play in which the title dictator of the land of Isma opposes the traditional chief Oba Danlola, a work of Wole Soyinka.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-ChicagoAFinal.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a00691d" }, "answer" : "{Measure} for {Measure}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9632022383157, "num" : 13, "question" : "Minor characters in this play include the executioner Abhorson and the prisoner Barnardine, who is given clemency in the end. Comic relief is provided by the bachelor Lucio and the buffoonish constable Elbow. The protagonist of this play emerges from a nunnery when her brother Claudio is sentenced to death for impregnating his fiancée Juliet. This is ordered by the tyrannical Angelo who rules Venice while the Duke is disguised as a friar. For 10 points, name this play about Isabella, by William Shakespeare.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40528b3d831d6a0068a1" }, "answer" : "Theseus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.3910640226677, "num" : 5, "question" : "Cimon received a command to retrieve this man's bones from Scyros, where he fled during an uprising led by Menestheus. A man who met him trying to steal his cattle, Pirithous, aided him in stealing Helen, and they were both imprisoned in Hades for trying to capture Persephone. He killed a man who tore people apart by tying them to pine trees and a man who cut or stretched people to fit his bed. He also received twine from Ariadne so he would not get lost in the labyrinth. For 10 points, name this Athenian king who killed Sinis, Procrustes, and the Minotaur.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 453, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006045" }, "answer" : "{Eros} and Civilization", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.46740876603872, "num" : 1, "question" : "A preface later added to this work claims this work's original tone was fundamentally optimistic, geared to \"learn the gay science\". It considers a new image of life after discussing the preservation of the \"archaic past\" in a section on \"Phantasy and Utopia\", and this work places Prometheus opposite both Narcissus and Orpheus. It discusses the \"transformation of work into play\", and posits a distinction between alienated labour and the reality principle in the second chapter as well as the reactionary character of the superego in its second chapter, \"The Origin of the Repressed Individual.\" It ends with a chapter juxtaposing its first title concept with thanatos, and argues our libidinous desires are suppressed by the second title concept. Drawing on Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, for 10 points, name this work by Herbert Marcuse.", "round" : "Round4.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40778b3d831d6a007174" }, "answer" : "{Meiji restoration}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5544924675487, "num" : 6, "question" : "(AS/JG) This led to a Charter Oath with five articles, the last of which stated that knowledge would be sought throughout the world. The leader put in charge was a teenager who ruled for the next forty-five years. It was facilitated by the formation of the Satcho alliance and its victory in the Boshin War. The catalyst for this event was the arrival of the Saratoga and the Susquehanna along with two other ships at Uraga Harbor, the so-called \"Black Ships\" commanded by Matthew Perry. This event led to a program of land reform and abolition of the old feudal system, including the Samurai class. Name this group of events in Japanese history in which oligarchs overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate to make way for a new emperor.", "round" : "r9tossups.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f668b3d831d6a0030b8" }, "answer" : "{Israeli} Air Force", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8934878432192, "num" : 9, "question" : "This air force captured and transported an enemy P-12 radar in Operation Rooster during the so-called War of Attrition that took place after the failure of the Jarring Mission. One of its early casualties was the American volunteer Bob Vickman and this air force succeeded in destroying over four hundred of its opponent's grounded craft in Operation Focus. This force bombed a nuclear reactor at Osirak during Operation Opera. It destroyed eleven Ugandan aircraft and transported Special Forces enroute to freeing over two hundred hostages in a raid on Entebbe. For 10 points, name this air force which has distinguished itself during the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War.", "round" : "16.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405b8b3d831d6a006ad7" }, "answer" : "{cochlear} implant [accept {rough} equivalents; do not accept “{hearing aid}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5705390977673, "num" : 5, "question" : "In the 1970s, the Bilger report contradicted the NIH's wishes to disband all research related to this technology, and in the 1980s the NIH gave a grant to Australia's Graham Clark to further develop the multi-channel version of this device. It can be traced back to Volta's description of sensations evoked by electrically stimulating his ears, and current manufacturers include Med-El and Advanced Bionics. Sometimes called the “bionic ear”, for 10 points, name this device that restores hearing to deaf people, an implant in the part of the ear containing hair cells.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f328b3d831d6a002477" }, "answer" : "{Hermes} with the {Infant Dionysus} [{also} accept {Hermes} and {Dionysus}, {Hermes Bearing} the {Infant Dionysus}, {Hermes Carrying} the {Infant Dionysus}, {Hermes} of {Praxiteles}, {Hermes} of {Olympia}, or other {clear-knowledge} equivalents that {involve Hermes}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 35.60850536962971, "num" : 3, "question" : "A similarly-titled painting by Arthur Davies depicts a nude woman on the left stretching to the left as swans surround the central figures. Similar versions of this work can be seen in the Boboli garden in Florence, as well as on a coin of Pheneus of Arcadia. An article by Eugenie Sellers attempted to prove that this work was actually created by Cephistodotus, despite the fact that the creator's namesake \"curve\" is identified in the work. The gazes of the figures in this sculpture are perpendicular, and the cloak of the figure on the left is draped over his right arm, and his (*) sandal bears a Heraclean knot. The smaller figure on the right leans over to grasp at some grapes, dangled by the Greek messenger god. For ten points, identify this sculpture of that god and the young Greek god of wine, a work by Praxiteles.", "round" : "Lully 1.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a0035a5" }, "answer" : "{Willem} de {Kooning}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.27391928620636, "num" : 4, "question" : "A series of twelve sculptures by this man was started when he visited Herzl Emanuel's bronze factory. Those works, titled his Heads, were carved out of clay with which he created “paintings in three dimensions.” Another painting features some red in the lower left hand corner, a house like figure in the upper left, a man in the center and is titled Black Friday. His most famous series of works is a six painting collection inspired by Mesopotamian fertility idols.  The first of those depicts the titular entity with a threatening stare and grin while another depicts the titular entity with Bicycle. For 10 points, identify this painter of the Woman Series, who was a main member of the abstract impressionism movement.", "round" : "Illinois A.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb78b3d831d6a004403" }, "answer" : "Torus", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.18498028954491, "num" : 5, "question" : "**Applying an inversion to this figure gives the Dupin cyclide, and the systole and area of one of these figures is related by Loewner's inequality. The Weyl group can be defined as the normalizer of a group isomorphic to one of these figures, modulo the centralizer of said group. A compact Lie Group has a maximal one of these, and the standard one of these requires seven colors to color according to the Heawood conjecture. Double and triple ones of these have more than one handle, and N-dimensional ones are the direct product of a circle with itself n times. FTP, name this shape important in topology which is homeomorphic to the coffee cup and is shaped like a donut.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Toronto - Yale.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064f1" }, "answer" : "{tight} end", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.3786999494769, "num" : 1, "question" : "A man who plays this position had a breakout 2004 that saw him gain 460 yards through five weeks with the 49ers; his name is Eric Johnson.  Highly drafted players at this position include Greg “G-reg” Olsen, Leonard Pope, and Vernon Davis.  Whichever side players of this position line up on is dubbed the “strong side,” and current players at this position include Kellen Winslow, Jason Witten, and Todd Heap.  For 10 points, name this position played by Mike Ditka, Jeremy Shockey, and Antonio Gates.", "round" : "Round 11 - UMN 4.doc", "seen" : 564, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40788b3d831d6a0071b3" }, "answer" : "{Finland} [or {Suomi}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.493671600474, "num" : 4, "question" : "Soldiers from this country carried out the Aunus expedition, and supporters of Fascism in this country led the Lapua Movement. This country's VKT line helped them win the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, and this country's brief civil war saw the battles of Vilppula and Tampere. It fought the Continuation War after losing its second-largest city, Viipuri, in the 1939 Winter War. For 10 points, name this Scandinavian country where a 1975 accord guaranteeing civil rights in Communist states was signed in its capital, Helsinki.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ea8" }, "answer" : "{Asch conformity} experiment [prompt on {conformity} before mentioned]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.4859510394745, "num" : 4, "question" : "A 2005 variation on this experiment used functional MRI and 3-dimensional objects, noting that the part of the brain keen on perception was most active in its subjects. This experiment was itself a follow-up to Sharif's autokinetic effect study and found that a “true partner” superseded a “compromise partner.” Seven confederates were used in most iterations, though the results held for as few as three and found that a third of people agreed with the confederates' consensus on an answer. For 10 points, identify this experiment asking people to verbally match two obviously equal-length lines, finding that the pressures to conform are often too much.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f968b3d831d6a003c75" }, "answer" : "Miriam", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.000777148176, "num" : 1, "question" : "Josephus identified her as Hur's wife, but other texts place her as his mother. She objected to her brother's marriage to a Cushite, causing God to turn her \"white as snow\". After the Israelites escaped from Egypt, she led the Hebrew women in a song of rejoicing, said to be the oldest part of the Bible. The daughter of Amram, she hid her brother in a river, and suggested their mother Yocheved to be his nurse when he was found in the bulrushes by the daughter of the Pharaoh. For 10 points, name this Jewish woman, whose namesake well accompanied the Israelites in the desert and who was the elder sister of Aaron and Moses.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f768b3d831d6a003493" }, "answer" : "{John Singer Sargent}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.9472082916181, "num" : 16, "question" : "A series of murals by this man beginning with Frieze of Prophets and ending with the double panels Church and Synagogue notably features the gilded Dogma of Redemption; those murals for the Boston Public Library comprise his Triumph of Religion. One of his works features a line of blindfolded figures stumbling toward a platform, while in another a dancer holds up the hem of her white dress as she twirls. This artist of (*) Gassed and El Jaleo painted another work in which one of the title characters leans against a giant Japanese vase while another plays with a doll on a rug in the foreground, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. Another of his works sparked a scandal at the Salon due to the provocative pose of Madame Gautreau. For 10 points, name this painter of Madame X.", "round" : "Round 25 Emergency.doc", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40458b3d831d6a0065b3" }, "answer" : "Theseus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 683.1122714157682, "num" : 7, "question" : "This figure instituted such festivals as the Oschophoria and the Pyanepsia during his rule, which he gained after slaying the sons of Pallas. During a visit to the underworld, his friend Pirithous became stuck to a chair. He slew the Crommyonian sow, as well as a variety of jerks including Sciron, Periphetes, Sinis, and Procrustes, after finding his father Aegeus's sword and sandals. He went to Crete as part of an offering of 14 youths, and mastered the labyrinth with the help of Ariadne, who he later left on Naxos. For 10 points, identify this father of Hippolytus, King of Athens, and slayer of the Minotaur.", "round" : "Round 9 - UMN 2.doc", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2e8b3d831d6a002380" }, "answer" : "{Sefer ha-zohar} [accept The {Book} of {Splendor} before mention]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.40400099614635, "num" : 15, "question" : "Two chapters of this work consist of a debate between a merchant and a scholar regarding the location of the foundation stone, while another section of this work introduces the idea of ten regions of divine emanation. The later sections of this work include a series of 70 interpretations of the first word of Genesis, while its last section, entitled The Faithful Shepherd, interprets the rationale for the commandments. Major interpreters of this work, the name of which means Book of Splendor, included Isaac Luria, and the most famous section of this work is probably its first, which is called The Hidden Midrash. Containing many meditations on the divine name as well as the ten sefirot, this work was most likely composed by Mosheh de Leon in the 13th century, though tradition credits its writing to Shimon bar Yohai. Strongly influenced by Gnosticism and written in Aramaic rather than Hebrew, for ten points, identify this mystical work, the primary text of the Qabbalah.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 05 - The Great Slime Kings.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0a8b3d831d6a001b77" }, "answer" : "The {Flying Dutchman} (or Der {fliegende Hollander})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.87023324356414, "num" : 3, "question" : "This opera's composer transferred the setting from Scotland after the libretto of Eugene Scribe was used to produce an inferior work by Pierre-Louis Dietsch, while Heinrich Marschner's opera Der Vampyr was a major influence on this opera's central romance. Arias in this opera include “Willst Jenes Tags du Nicht,” sung by the huntsman Erik to his former love, the female protagonist, and (*) “Die Frist is Um”, in which the title character yearns for death. Notable sections of this opera include the Spinners' Chorus in Act II, which takes place in the house of Senta, and the Sailor's Chorus in Act III. For 10 points, name this 1843 opera that sees a curse broken after a deal is brokered with Captain Daland, an early work of Wagner about the captain of a cursed ship.", "round" : "FINAL_Laferbrook.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6b8b3d831d6a003214" }, "answer" : "Uganda", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1068072014023, "num" : 1, "question" : "The first postcolonial President of this country was Mutesa II thanks to its monarchist party Kabaka Yekka, but he was exiled to Britain a few years after Britain granted this nation its independence. The next President wrote a Social- ist pamphlet titled The Common Man's Charter, and his order to arrest the Army Chief led to a coup when that Presi- dent was in Singapore. The next leader of this country expelled most Asians, declared himself Conqueror of the Brit- ish Empire, allowed Palestinian hijackers to use Entebbe (en-TEB-bee) Airport, and attempted to invade Tanzania (tan-za-NEE-uh). Eventually, Yoweri Museveni (moo-say-VEH-nee) brought stability to this country. Name this East African nation that has been ruled by Milton Obote (o-BOA-tay) and Idi Amin (EE-dee ah-MEEN) whose capital is Kampala.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4e8b3d831d6a002b44" }, "answer" : "{Antietam National} Battlefield", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 101.6939488567878, "num" : 15, "question" : "Hauser Ridge and Nicodemus Heights overlook this site on the west, from which one may view the Poffenberger Farm. The Middle Bridge at this site leads to Porterstown while the Smoketown Road borders the northeastern side of this site. The Mumma and Roulette Farms are located just south of the (*) East Woods at this site while a monument to the Georgians near a quarry overlooks a body of water crossed by Snavely's Ford and the Rohrbach ?  Bridge. Miller's Cornfield is located just north of Dunkard Church at, for 10 points, what site controversially overlooked by a tall observation tower, a Maryland Civil War battlefield?", "round" : "GM2 round1.doc", "seen" : 68, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d3b" }, "answer" : "The {Family} of {Man}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.48230295325629, "num" : 3, "question" : "[JM] This work depicts lovers lying in a field next to Molly Bloom's lines \"and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.\" It ends with a depiction of two small children walking through a forest accompanied by the words \"A world to be born under your footsteps.\" Permanently housed in a museum in Clervaux, it includes the phrase \"We two form a multitude\" next to depictions of couples, and juxtaposes a child adding one and two with an image of Albert Einstein. Wayne Miller assisted the primary creator of this work, which features the repeated image of a Peruvian Indian playing a flute, as well as many images by Homer Page and Henri Cartier-Bresson. It includes an image of diplomats from around the world sitting in the UN General Assembly, as well as images of hunger and suffering like White Angel Breadline and Migrant Mother. Including five hundred and three ? photographs from sixty-eight countries, for 10 points, name this exhibit created by Edward Steichen about the oneness of humanity.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faf8b3d831d6a004230" }, "answer" : "{Chinese remainder} theorem", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.55426380666904, "num" : 14, "question" : "One statement of this theorem relates a quotient ring of a ring R over the intersection of its ideals to the product ring formed by multiplying the quotient rings of R over individual ideals. This theorem may be used for constructing Gödel numbering for sequences, allowing the proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and it is central to solving problems of secret sharing by finding minimal combinations of shares to recover the whole. A more widely known application is representation of the private key in RSA. For 10 points, name this theorem which states that for two relatively prime integers r and s, there is an integer N such that N is congruent to a mod r and N is congruent to b mod s, where a and b are integers, named for the country in which it was formulated by Sun Zi.", "round" : "r10- Dartmouth-Truman State.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a00583b" }, "answer" : "{yeasts} [prompt on {fungi} before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.298055930296, "num" : 13, "question" : "An \"artificial chromosome\" named for these organisms can hold up to one million base pairs. In 2009, two species of these organisms, S. pombe and S. cerevisiae, were genetically engineered to produce vanillin. Another species, Candida albicans, is responsible for infections of the (*) genital area named after these organisms. Most of these organisms reproduce by budding, and one of them is commonly used by brewers. For 10 points, name these fungi, one species of which is used to leaven bread.", "round" : "tourn9-11.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40818b3d831d6a0073b7" }, "answer" : "{Franz Kafka}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5161572091747, "num" : 4, "question" : "This author wrote of an ape who has learned to act and think as a human in his story “A Report to an Academy”, while he dreams of swift motion in the ultra-brief sketch “The Wish To Be A Red Indian”. A character only called “The Officer” sets up a torture machine to execute himself in this author's story “In the Penal Colony”, while one of his works sees Josef K. put through the title process unaware of what crime he has committed. Author of The Castle and The Trial, this is, for 10 points, what Bohemian who depicted Gregor Samsa's change into a bug in The Metamorphosis?", "round" : "Round2Final.doc", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004aae" }, "answer" : "{John Kenneth Galbraith}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.80958348233253, "num" : 8, "question" : "An early work of this person attacks the idea that competition exists in industrial organization in discussing The Concept of Countervailing Power; it's entitled American Capitalism. A later work posits tension between “managerialism” and (*) socialism; that work corrects a previous work that argues against over-production of consumer goods and coined the term “conventional wisdom”. For 10 points— name this economist, the author of The New Industrial State and The Affluent Society.", "round" : "02_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a002176" }, "answer" : "Helios", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.68249338841997, "num" : 5, "question" : "One son of this god was so good at science that his brothers Macar, Actis, Triopus, and Candalus murdered him. This deity's cult was centered almost exclusively on the island of Rhodes, although the Etruscans worshiped a version of him named Usil. This father of Tenages entrusted some sacred animals to his daughters Lampetia and Phaethusa, who guarded them on Thrinacia. After this god was fired upon, he agreed to cede a golden cup to Heracles. Zeus's destruction of Odysseus's ship was prompted by his men eating the cattle of this deity. Later, this deity anointed his son with a magic oil, but was unable to prevent him from blackening the skin of the Ethiopians by failing to control the horses Pyrios, Aeos, Aethon, and Phlegon. For 10 points, name this chariot-riding father of Phaethon, an early Greek god of the sun.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - UCSD.doc", "seen" : 68, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f888b3d831d6a003934" }, "answer" : "A {Dance} to the {Music} of {Time}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.89155933493748, "num" : 20, "question" : "Flowery wreaths hang over a stone statue with two faces on the left side of this painting, just above a baby who is blowing bubbles through a golden pipe while sitting on an orange cloth.  In the top of this painting, a naked angel holds a large bronze ring while being pulled in an ornate gold chariot being pulled by two brown horses, a white horse, and a black horse, which follows a female angel in a shining robe dropping flower petals on the central figures of this painting.  Another baby on the right side of this painting holds a small hourglass next to a naked bearded man with gray wings, who plays the lyre while watching Poverty, Labour, Wealth and Pleasure hold hands and frolic in a circle.  For 10 points, name this painting by Nicholas Poussin.", "round" : "Round by Gecko Commando and Dallin Kelson.docx", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047fd" }, "answer" : "{electrolytes} [prompt on {ions}; prompt on {ionic solutions}; prompt on {non-ideal gases}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.8323471057228, "num" : 10, "question" : "The characteristic c to the one-half dependent concerning these entities appears in the Kohlrausch equation. The constant of protolysis appears in Ostwald's law of dilution concerning these entities. The Guldberg-Waage equation for chemical equilibrium in these entities was modified in a paper centered on obtaining the activity coefficient from the Debye-Huckel equation. Results of the dissociation of positively and negatively charged particles called ions, for 10 points, name these substances which conduct electric currents in addition to being depicted as sodium combined with water in Gatorade advertisements.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 01 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d52" }, "answer" : "{Ivan Petrovich Pavlov}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.6462684336584, "num" : 19, "question" : "His surgical skills were said to be so precise that he could insert a catheter into a femoral artery without anesthesia and produce no pain. This researcher used that technique on a procedure that maintains blood flow to a pouch which is isolated from the influence of food. He used that pouch to show how secretions from digestive glands facilitate digestion, as well as in an experiment where he caused those glands to secrete fluid without introducing any food. For 10 points, name this man whose experiments with dogs showed that ringing a bell could cause salivation, establishing the basics of classical conditioning.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 218, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee98b3d831d6a0013c3" }, "answer" : "{Federal Democratic Republic} of {Ethiopia} [accept {Abyssinia} until mentioned]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.4010298862122, "num" : 13, "question" : "One ruler of this country entrusted Charles Duncan Cameron to deliver a letter to Queen Victoria, but the letter was delayed for over a year, resulting in the ruler taking Cameron hostage. An 1868 expedition to rescue the hostages in this country was led by Robert Napier, who triumphed at the battle of Magdala, after which Emperor Tewodros II committed suicide. Oreste Baratieri was court-martialed after decisively losing to this country’s forces in 1896. This country won the Battle of Adowa against Italy during the reign of Menelik II, but was later attacked again by Mussolini in the Abyssinia Crisis. For 10 points, name this African nation once ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie from a capital at Addis Ababa.", "round" : "zFinals 2 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a0051ba" }, "answer" : "{Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.6159324680921, "num" : 12, "question" : "A piano opens with a tone row in octaves in this composer's Violin Sonata. This composer set Yevtushenko's poetry to the five movements of his Thirteenth Symphony, which commemorates the massacre of the Jews at Babi Yar. Critics accused this composer of making his ninth symphony too light-hearted. A march-like ostinato forms the invasion theme of this composer's seventh symphony, written around the Nazi attack of Russia. For 10 points, name this Soviet composer who feuded with Stalin and wrote the Leningrad Symphony.", "round" : "4q2-10.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f018b3d831d6a001963" }, "answer" : "{War Requiem}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 60.20652028941549, "num" : 3, "question" : "The baritone sings of “the blast of lightning from the east, the flourish of loud clouds” in this choral work's fourth movement, while in its third movement the composer introduces and then deconstructs a fugue, mirroring the inversion of the parable of Abraham and Isaac in the accompanying text. The opening bells in this work introduce the F sharp to C tritone, which recurs often as a motif for rest. In this work's last movement, the tenor and baritone repeatedly sing “Let us sleep now” in parallel to the chorus, which concludes with “requiescat in pace”. Earlier the tenor sings of escaping “down some profound dull tunnel” and addresses the baritone as a “strange friend”. This work was commissioned for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral. Drawing text from nine poems of Wilfred Owen as well as the Latin Mass, for 10 points, name this work by Benjamin Britten.", "round" : "Packet 06.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f638b3d831d6a002fef" }, "answer" : "{Beethoven's} Symphony {Number Five} in C Minor [or {Beethoven's Fifth}; prompt on partial answers]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.9082522103563, "num" : 11, "question" : "The third movement theme of this work was likely borrowed from Mozart's Symphony 40, the Great G Minor Symphony. The fourth movement of this symphony reprises the third-movement scherzo to interrupt the allegro theme. This work ends with twenty-nine C major chords after an extremely long coda, though its composer's next symphony contained an even longer final coda dubbed “the tail that wags the dog.” This symphony begins with a famous four-note “short-short-short-long” motif. For 10 points, name this symphony whose first four notes are described as “fate knocking on the door,” which precedes its composer's Pastoral symphony.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 8 - Done.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebd8b3d831d6a000959" }, "answer" : "{benzene} [or C6H6 before mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.1764129097573, "num" : 23, "question" : "An ethylene group is attached to this compound in the monomer that forms the plastic polystyrene (\"POLLY\"-sty-reen). Placing two methyl groups on this compound produces xylene (ZY-leen), while fully reducing this compound produces cyclohexane (SY-klo-hex-ain). (*) Friedrich Kekule (KECK-you-lee) determined the structure of this compound which consists of alternating single and double bonds, a system of delocalized electrons which gives it a property known as aromaticity. For 10 points, name this hydrocarbon with chemical formula C6H6.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f248b3d831d6a002127" }, "answer" : "{Orson Welles}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.49817054904997, "num" : 10, "question" : "This director made a film in which the smuggler Guy Van Stratten is hired to research the past of Mr. Arkadin. This director drew from five Shakespeare plays to create a complete story of Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight He directed a film that begins with a three-minute long continuous tracking shot that is interrupted with a car blowing up. That film features corrupt cop Hank Quinlan and stars Charlton Heston as drug agent Mike Vargas. This director of Touch of Evil made a film in which Jerry Thompson researches the life of the title character, who attempts to make Susan Alexander an opera star and whispers the word \"Rosebud\" on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this director of Citizen Kane.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Minnesota B + Dartmouth A + Miami C.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb28b3d831d6a0006d0" }, "answer" : "{Typhoid Mary} [or {Mary Mallon}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1486643326934, "num" : 18, "question" : "After being found working at the Sloane Maternity Hospital under an assumed name, this person was returned to North Brother Island and remained there until her 1938 death. She first drew authorities' attention after the (+) deaths of six members of the Warren family, and was finally tracked down by George Soper. In 1909 the New York Supreme Court denied her a writ of habeas corpus, but she was released the next year on the stipulation that she would not (*) cook. She was the first confirmation of Robert Koch's theory that a person could be infected with a bacterial disease but not appear sick. For 10 points, name this Irish immigrant who transmitted that disease to as many as forty-seven New Yorkers in the early twentieth century.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a00017e" }, "answer" : "{neutral} theory or {neutral mutation-random drift} theory or {NM-RD} theory [ {generously} prompt on “ {molecular clock} ” at any point before it’s mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 50.08946362859569, "num" : 3, "question" : "The McDonald-Kreitman test was originally used to test the validity of this theory, which is supported by the observation of third-position homoplasy. Its developer’s arguments for it centered on how the recently acquired Zuckerkandl-Pauling dataset could not be adequately explained by either Dobzhansky’s heterosis argument or Haldane’s substitution rate. Under this assumption, the fixation probability is inversely proportional to the effective population size. This theory is the foundation of the molecular clock method of dating species, and it serves as a null hypothesis in tests of selection. For 10 points, name this theory of molecular evolution proposed by Kimura that states that the majority of changes to an organism's genome have neither advantageous or disadvantageous effects on the organism.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-PennChicagoBCarletonFinal.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40718b3d831d6a007009" }, "answer" : "Casablanca", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 848.1334560899995, "num" : 15, "question" : "The husband of one Englishwoman in this film has his wallet stolen, and another character, whose English is “not so good,” toasts with his wife to America. Because the central character “despises” another character, he is entrusted some letters by Ugarte at its beginning, and in one of its scenes, “The Watch on the Rhine” is drowned out by “La Marseillaise” in a song duel. An order to “round up the usual suspects” in this film is issued by Captain Renault, allowing Victor and Ilsa to fly away. For 10 points, name this 1942 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 566, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002bff" }, "answer" : "{Our Man} in {Havana}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.96670983592048, "num" : 20, "question" : "The end of this novel features a game of checkers where pieces are substituted with small bottles of whiskey and whenever someone takes a piece he must drink the bottle. The protagonist is invited by Dr. Baum to give a speech at the blank club where he accidentally poisons the dog belonging to a waiter. Hawthorne gives the main character a copy of Charles Lamb's essays before Dr. Hasselbacher is shot. Captain Segura wants to marry the main character's daughter who precipitates the action of this novel by begging her father for a membership to Rotary Club to ride her horse. In this novel the secretary Beatrice Severn is assigned to assist the titular vacuum salesman who gets his second job to support his teenage daughter Milly. For 10 points, name this novel in which James Wormold works as a spy in Cuba, written by Graham Greene.", "round" : "Round 03.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e968b3d831d6a0000b5" }, "answer" : "{racially restrictive covenants} [or {racial covenants} ; or equivalents such as {covenants} which {prevent} non-whites from owning houses]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 40.78053994686343, "num" : 13, "question" : "State courts broke with existing legal precedent to uphold these policies in cases such as Los Angeles Investment Co. v. Gary and Fairchild v. Raines. They arose in response to the ruling in Buchanan v. Worley, and their legality was upheld by the Supreme Court case Corrigan v. Buckley, inspiring Charles Hamilton Houston to develop a strategy to fight them. After these policies were ruled not binding on their members, they were largely replaced by the strategy of blockbusting. The 1945 study Black Metropolis argues that these policies are responsible for preserving the ghetto. Horace Cayton claimed that at their height, they covered eighty percent of Chicago. By the time they were ruled unenforceable in Shelley v. Kraemer, they were responsible for most of the housing segregation in Northern cities. For 10 points, name these private agreements which prevented nonwhites from owning houses in white neighborhoods.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors5Final.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f958b3d831d6a003c39" }, "answer" : "{Theodore Roosevelt} [or {TR}; or {Teddy Roosevelt}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9253806504421, "num" : 4, "question" : "This man ordered a number of black soldiers dishonorably discharged in the aftermath of the Brownsville Affair. This president strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission by passing a law fining railroads offering rebates, the Elkins Act. The Gentlemen's Agreement was made with Japan during the presidency of this man, and the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed during his administration. This president who added a namesake corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was responsible for the building of the Panama Canal and ran under the Bull Moose Party for the presidency in 1912. For 10 points, identify this \"trust-buster\" Progressive president who passed the Square Deal.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a0001a4" }, "answer" : "{Uncle Vanya} [or {Dyadya Vanya} ]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 30.75272100581788, "num" : 2, "question" : "During an awkward silence in this play, one character remarks that it is “a fine day to hang oneself,” and he later tells another character that she has “mermaid blood.” An old woman in this play has spent her entire life reading pamphlets, and another character steals a bottle of morphine from a doctor, but he is convinced to return it before he uses it to commit suicide. This play ends with one character repeating the line “we shall rest” while Telegin plays his guitar. A doctor in this play feels that his true calling is in forestry, and after showing a map depicting the degeneration of the countryside, he kisses the unwilling Elena. The title character of this play rants about how another man knows nothing of art despite being a retired art professor, and he attempts to shoot that professor twice with a revolver after the professor expresses a desire to sell the estate where this play takes place. The doctor Astrov visits the estate of the professor Serebryakov in this play, and it was adapted from its author’s earlier work The Wood Demon. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov play whose title character is Ivan Voinitsky.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-UCLAASUIllinoisBCMUFinal.doc", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e4c" }, "answer" : "electrons", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5061990621034, "num" : 7, "question" : "An experiment featuring a nickel target and these particles was named for Davisson and Germer and showed that they have wave properties. An experiment featuring the deflection of silver atoms showed that these particles have quantized intrinsic angular momentum. These particles scatter photons in the Compton effect. Two of these particles together form Cooper pairs in the BCS theory of superconductivity, and they are freed from a metal by a photon in an effect described by  Einstein. For 10 points, name this particle, leptons whose antiparticles were postulated by Dirac, the negative form of beta radiation.", "round" : "11 HFT.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb78b3d831d6a00443f" }, "answer" : "{William Randolph Hearst}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.3912933794781, "num" : 5, "question" : "As a young man, he ran \"The Monarch of the Dailies\", a company inherited from his father. At a later point, he started the magazine Motor and would lose elections for the mayor of New York City and governor of New York in 1906 after serving four years as a Congressman from the state. The most famous period of his life had him refer to a Spanish general as \"Butcher Weyler\", publishing the scandalous de Lome letter, frequently depicting abused Cubans, and sensationalizing the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine as an act of Spanish sabotage, all as owner of the New York Journal. FTP, name this American journalist whose competition with Pulitzer's New York World led to the creation of yellow journalism.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40348b3d831d6a0061b0" }, "answer" : "{Know Nothings} [or {American} Party; or {Native American} Party]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.55499750967137, "num" : 6, "question" : "One member of this party, Levi Boone, incited the Lager Beer Riot when he proposed closing taverns on Sundays as Mayor of Chicago. John Neely Johnson defeated incumbent John Bigler to become Governor of California on this ticket, and Nathaniel Banks was this party's only Speaker of the House. This party's only national convention was held in Philadelphia, and they chose Andrew Jackson Donelson as their VP candidate. This party was originally founded as the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, and it disintegrated following an election in which it won only Maryland. Members of this party joined former Whigs to form the Constitutional Union Party which nominated Edward Everett and John Bell in the 1860 election, and this party gained its nickname from Horace Greeley. For 10 points, name this third party which ignored the slavery issue and garnered a fifth of the vote in 1856 for Milliard Fillmore by capitalizing on anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic hysteria.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 5 - Final.doc", "seen" : 63, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a0001a7" }, "answer" : "{pair production}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.91408204985783, "num" : 5, "question" : "The occurrence of this phenomenon explains the direct correlation between absorption coefficient and frequency at high frequencies. This phenomenon can occur in gravitational fields with acceleration greater than two times the speed of light squared over the Compton wavelength, and that instance of this phenomenon explains the nonexistence of micro black holes. Patrick Blackett first proposed this phenomenon while observing cosmic ray showers in a cloud chamber, and in order for this process to occur, a certain particle must possess energy greater than 1.022 MeV. The spontaneous occurrence of this phenomenon near the event horizon of a black hole results in the black hole losing energy through the process of Hawking Radiation. This phenomenon classically occurs when a photon passing near an atomic nucleus has energy equivalent to twice the rest mass of an electron. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which the photon splits into an electron and a positron.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-UCLAASUIllinoisBCMUFinal.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa68b3d831d6a00403b" }, "answer" : "{Bekenstein-Hawking} radiation or effect [prompt on “{black-body radiation}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.52847795328125, "num" : 22, "question" : "A Rindler observer near a Cauchy horizon sees an analogue of this phenomenon due to the Unruh effect. The power of this phenomenon decreases with increasing source mass, implying that currently-evaporating sources must be small. Its associated temperature is proportional to the surface gravity of the source, and it arises when one particle from a pair production event tunnels out through the event horizon. For 10 points, identify this type of thermal radiation that causes mass loss in black holes, named for the British physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - CMU + LASA A.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fca8b3d831d6a004885" }, "answer" : "Rastafarianism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.993794900598, "num" : 6, "question" : "Followers of this religion founded the now-destroyed Pinnacle Commune and were inspired by the tract “The Promise Key”, written by Leonard Howell. Followers of this religion gather in meetings called “reasonings” and “grounations,” and another well-known text of this religious movement was written by Robert Rogers. As well as following the Holy Piby, Revelation 5:5 and 19:16 are used to interpret statements made by Marcus Garvey, a precursor to this religion, whose followers ritually smoke marijuana and wear dreadlocks. Honoring Haile Selassie as God, for 10 points, name this Jamaican religion popularized by Bob Marley.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 08 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6d8b3d831d6a003276" }, "answer" : "{Byzantine} Empire [or {Nicaean} Empire; or {Eastern Roman} Empire; prompt on {Roman Empire}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.235871759709, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of the leaders of this polity has the message “You conquered all but a woman” inscribed on the side of his tomb. Centuries after that member of the Phokas family, this polity was ruled by the Lascarid Dynasty, which lost their power when John the Fourth was blinded at the age of ten and was replaced by Michael the Eighth, who organ- ized the Second Council of Lyon (lee-YONE). Some historians mark its beginning with the crowning of Arcadius, who ruled from what was sometimes referred to as New Rome. This polity was conquered by Mehmed the Second of the Ottoman Empire with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Name this empire that for long periods controlled what is now Greece, the Balkans, and Turkey.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407b8b3d831d6a007262" }, "answer" : "{Descartes-Snellius} law of {refraction} [accept {Descartes}' {law}; prompt on {law} of {diffraction}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3790683003608, "num" : 18, "question" : "The first anaclastics were designed using a form of this idea by Ibn Sahl. Its naïve form holds only in specular media, though it holds more generally for the o-ray. One of its sometime-namesakes derived it using spurious momentum conservation arguments, offending Fermat, who derived it rigorously from his principle of least time. For 10 points, name this law the gives the refracted angle in terms of the incident angle; a law usually named for its Dutch discoverer.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40828b3d831d6a00741d" }, "answer" : "{Hall} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.1742163607851, "num" : 7, "question" : "A quantized version of this effect states that conductance equals v times e squared over h, where e is the fundamental charge. That version was discovered by von Klitzing and posits the presence of positively charged “holes”. The basic principle underlying this is the Lorentz force, in which charge carriers subject to it initially drift away from the current line, resulting in an excess surface electrical charge on the side of the sample. For 10 points, identify this eponymous effect in which current flow perpendicular to an applied magnetic field generates an electric potential.", "round" : "Round7Final.doc", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e405d8b3d831d6a006b61" }, "answer" : "{Constantine} I [or {Constantine} the {Great}; or {Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus}; prompt", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4444516992662, "num" : 7, "question" : "A decree that this leader co-promulgated with Licinius granted toleration in his lands. He besieged the city of Marseille and may have forced its commander to commit suicide. That commander, Maximian, had a son who also fought against this man in a battle wherein that son, (*) Maxentius, died by drowning. This man had a vision of a cross in the sky on which was written, \"In this sign you will conquer,\" before that battle at Milvian Bridge. For 10 points, name this fourth century Roman emperor who was the first Christian emperor.", "round" : "tourn10-11.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a005847" }, "answer" : "Thor", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.3375773776788, "num" : 3, "question" : "This deity trips a figure named Lit and kicks him into a pyre. This deity, assisted by some items given by Grid, defeats Geirrod, but fails to wrestle Eli, who is really Old Age. This deity cannot pick up the cat of (*) Utgard-Loki, but does make Thialfi into his apprentice. This figure bears the sons Magni and Modi, kills Hrungnir (RUNG-neer) over his wife Sif, and goes fishing with Hymir (IM-eer), who cuts his line before he can rope in the Midgard Serpent. He is killed by that serpent at Ragnarok despite being able to wield Mjollnir (MYOLL-neer). For 10 points, name this Norse god of thunder and son of Odin.", "round" : "tourn9-12.pdf", "seen" : 457, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072b6" }, "answer" : "precession", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5278184735216, "num" : 4, "question" : "NMR-related imaging is based on the fact that resonant frequencies of nuclei experience the Larmor type of this and are proportional to magnetic field strength. For the torque-induced type, one can calculate velocity of this by dividing torque by spin angular momentum, a quantity often computed for the gyroscopic type and important in gyrocompasses. For 10 points, name this phenomenon where the axis of a rotating object changes direction, which can be applied in astronomy to Earth's changing axis as it revolves and rotates.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403a8b3d831d6a00631e" }, "answer" : "{Christian Charles Philip Bale}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.6384898293763, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man played Jim Hawkins in a 1990 film version of Treasure Island, three years after playing Jamie Graham in Empire of the Sun. He appeared as Pelagia's fiancée Mandras in Captain Corelli's Mandolin, voiced the title role in Howl's Moving Castle, and practiced Gun Kata as John Preston in Equilibrium.  He lost sixty pounds to play Trevor Reznik in The Machinist and appeared as yuppie-turned-serial-killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.  He tells Aaron Eckhart's character that “You're the symbol of hope I can never be” in a film that sees him chase Heath Ledger a lot.  For 10 points, name this actor who played the title role in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Harvard C.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40088b3d831d6a005704" }, "answer" : "{Abraham Harold Maslow}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 337.6453509253915, "num" : 15, "question" : "This psychologist wrote about \"The Need for Creative People\" in his posthumously published essay collection, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. In that book, he also explains the “Jonah complex.” After reading The (*) Organism by Kurt Goldstein, this psychologist created a concept that he arranged with esteem, belonging, safety, and physiological concerns. For 10 points, name this psychologist who put “self-actualization” atop of a pyramid that must be fulfilled in order, called his namesake “hierarchy of needs.”", "round" : "tourn8-12.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024cf" }, "answer" : "{Sun Quartets} (accept {Haydn String Quartets} until \"{Erdody}\" is mentioned, prompt {afterward}; accept {Opus 20} until \"{Opus 20}\" is mentioned, prompt {afterward})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.7784781975206, "num" : 15, "question" : "The composer of this set of pieces wrote \"Praise the Lord. Thus one friend flees another friend\" over an al rovescio fugal passage in the second. The third piece in G minor intersperses half measure pauses in the final movement and ends with a descent from piano to pianissimo, while the fifth, which Donald Tovey called its composer's most nearly tragic work, relies on a 6/8 Siciliana theme for its third movement. The sixth ends with a three subject fugue, which, like all the fugal finales amongst them, is played sempre sotto voce. They are in the same genre as the later opus 33 \"Russian\" and opus 76 \"Erdody\" works, and they were composed while their creator was Kapellmeister to Nikolaus (*) Ezterhazy. For 10 points, name this opus 20 set of six works by Franz Joseph Haydn, named for a celestial object.", "round" : "Lully 2.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa98b3d831d6a0040c6" }, "answer" : "Things {Fall Apart}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.09577579377219, "num" : 13, "question" : "One character in this novel tells a story in which the tortoise loses the smoothness of his shell after being invited to a feast by the birds. Reverend Smith replaces the tolerant Mr. Brown in this novel. The protagonist of this work wrestles with Amalinze the Cat, and is given custody of Ikemefuna. An exploding gun causes the protagonist of this work to accidentally kill a boy. Enoch unmasks the egwugwu causing the rampage and eventual suicide of the protagonist of this work. This novel takes place in Umuofia and takes its title from the Yeats poem “The Second Coming.” For 10 points name this novel about the Igbo Okonkwo, a work of Chinua Achebe.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Rice + Michigan.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f368b3d831d6a002566" }, "answer" : "The {Four Stages} of {Cruelty}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.78439712733962, "num" : 15, "question" : "One work in this series includes two skeletons on opposite sides of a room as a dog takes a bite into an apple, while another includes a crescent moon, a bat, and a curious looking man who leans over a fence with his lantern. Another depicts a horse collapsed on the ground as a man beats it. That work in this series is set at Thavies Inn Gate, and appears before the aforementioned depictions of the titular concept “In Perfection” as well as (*) “The Reward of” it. The first work in this series sees a bird's eyes being burned out while an arrow is shoved up the ass of a dog, and its setting is similar to that of it's creator's previous Gin Lane. for 10 points, identify this awesome series of engravings which leads up to the hanging and dissection of Tom Nero, a work by William Hogarth.", "round" : "Lully Finals Packet.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000d8e" }, "answer" : "{John Pierpont Morgan}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7424993449822, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man put up money for the Wardenclyffe communications tower designed by Tesla. He started the International Harvester Company. This man orchestrated the merger of Thomson-Houston Electric Company and Edison General Electric, creating General Electric. During the Panic of 1893, this man organized the replenishment of the U.S. gold reserves. This man bought the Carnegie Steel Company and combined it with other manufacturers to create U.S. Steel. For 10 points, name this American tycoon whose namesake firm is now combined with Chase.", "round" : "regionals-03.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c66" }, "answer" : "Cats", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.12534812279046, "num" : 10, "question" : "In this work, “Caviar” and “Strasburg Pie” are given as examples of appropriate “tokens of esteem.” One number was cut from its film version because Sir John Mills was too old to perform the dance moves. Two thief characters describe themselves as “Knockabout clowns” and “quick change comedians,” they are Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser. In this musical, Old Deuteronomy chooses Grizabella to be reborn and sing “Memory.” For 10 points, name this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based loosely on a work by T.S. Eliot's about the title animals.", "round" : "Claremont and Michigan.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402d8b3d831d6a006009" }, "answer" : "{Fravarane} [prompt on “{Zoroastrian creed}” until mentioned; prompt on “{Avesta}” since it is a part of it; prompt on “{Yasna}” for the {same reason}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.0046693359036, "num" : 6, "question" : "Curious lines in this text include “I renounce the theft and robbery of the cow”. The final lines of this text are sometimes separately recited at the end of the kusti prayer ritual. The speaker of this text rejects the yatu demons, and one figure praised in this text is called khwarena-possessing, referring to a mythical fiery luster. The speaker of this text vows to follow in the footsteps of Jamaspa and Frashaostra, while the first to recite this text may have been King Vishtaspa. This text's name translates as “I choose”, and it is found at Yasna 12. It begins “I declare myself a Mazda-worshipper”. For ten points, name this creed of the Zoroastrian faith.", "round" : "Round1.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec18b3d831d6a000a5a" }, "answer" : "{nuclear fusion} [prompt on {heating} before \"{Lawson}\"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7695631631649, "num" : 4, "question" : "One way to cause this process uses a gas and ion dump to neutralize ions, a technique called neutral beam injection. The Coulomb barrier must be overcome for it to occur. A commonly used apparatus to study this phenomena is a tokamak (\"TOE\"-kuh-mack\"). Natural ways to do it include CNO and the (*) proton-proton chain, which produces helium. In the late 1980's and early 1990's controversial reports claimed to have developed a \"cold\" version of this process. For 10 points, name this process where atomic nuclei combine.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 256, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40408b3d831d6a006476" }, "answer" : "{Anthills} of the {Savannah}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.14667967660353, "num" : 1, "question" : "This novel ends with the birth of a girl whose name means “may the path never close,” Amaechina. The protagonist tells a British poet nicknamed “Mad Medico” that “we were enslaved originally by Gordon's Dry Gin,” and is later shot by soldiers after giving an incendiary speech at the University of Bassa. This novel begins with delegates from the province of Abazon protesting the shutdown of their water-holes. The protagonist's critical editorials cause him to be fired from the National Gazette; his death causes Chris Oriko to resign his post as Commissioner of Information in Kangan. FTP, name this 1988 novel about Ikem Osodi, a reporter killed on orders of the ruthless dictator Sam, written by Chinua Achebe.", "round" : "Packet_7.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059ed" }, "answer" : "{George Washington}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.36071618599817, "num" : 11, "question" : "One painting of this figure shows in the background a woman in a pink dress picking from a tree, while a man in a white shirt and blue pants stands next to her holding a ladder. One portrait of this figure features a red book standing upright next to a green book leaning against the leg of a table, while that work shows this man holding the blade of a fencing sword in his left hand. The aforementioned work shows a man holding back a red curtain to point at this man as a child, who is being admonished by his father who is bending a tree with his right hand. In addition to being depicted in Grant Wood's Parson Weems' Fable, another painting shows this man with his right leg raised while members of his vessel row through ice and hold up a colonial flag. For 10 points, name this man depicted crossing the Delaware by Emmanuel Leutze, who had many portraits of himself completed by Gilbert Stuart.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059e5" }, "answer" : "{Goldberg} Variations", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.75575264506042, "num" : 3, "question" : "One movement of this work was described as a \"black pearl,\" and the standard Schirmer edition of this work was prepared by Ralph Kirkpatrick. Glenn Gould referred to one movement as the \"perfect Good Friday spell,\" and the eleventh movement is a four-voice fughetta The composer was introduced to this piece's dedicatee by Count Kaiserling, who gave him 100 louis-d'or as a reward. The penultimate section of this work is based on multiple folk songs including \"I have so long been away from you\" and \"Cabbage and turnips have driven me away.\" That movement is a quodlibet, while every third movement of this work is a canon, and this work was originally published as the fourth Clavier-Übung. The final movement is a note-for-note repeat of the opening aria. Featuring 30 inner movements sandwiched between an aria and aria da capo, for 10 points, name this set of variations for harpsichord with two manuals.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe38b3d831d6a004e3d" }, "answer" : "precession", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4616196118295, "num" : 13, "question" : "The motion of a magnetic moment about a magnetic field, common in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, is the Larmor type of this phenomenon. While one form of it, which may be visualized with Poinsot's construction, occurs when an object is close to a maximum or minimum principal axis, and this phenomenon is called \"gyroscopic\" when torque-induced. This motion is described by the change in the first Euler angle and its pure form occurs in the absence of nutation. For 10 points, name this motion of the axis of rotation of a spinning body.", "round" : "10 HFT.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb98b3d831d6a000893" }, "answer" : "lysosome", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.5648104089778, "num" : 9, "question" : "Saposins are proteins localized to this organelle. Gaucher's disease result from the dysfunction of this organelle and when Hexosaminidase A, a protein found in this organelle, is non-functioning, (*) gangliosides build up in neurons. Proteins bound for it are targeted using mannose-6-phosphate and in it, acid hydrolases process and breakdown items imported from endocytosis. For 10 points, name this acidic organelles that degrade unwanted cellular components and materials.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff38b3d831d6a00521a" }, "answer" : "{influenza} [or the {flu}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.6470852694474, "num" : 12, "question" : "The viruses that cause this disease have an enzyme called neuraminidase (NUR-uh-MIN-uh-dase) on their outsides, and they bind to sialic (sy-AL-ic) acid sugars on the cell surface. This disease may be treated by oseltamivir (OH-sel-TAM-uh-veer) and zanamivir (zuh-NAM-uh-veer). This disease is transmitted by orthomyxoviridae (OR-tho-MIX-oh-VEER-ih-day), whose serotypes (SEER-oh-\"types\") are classified according to an H-number-N-number convention. For 10 points, name this disease, recent varieties of which include the avian and the swine.", "round" : "4q2-13.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffc8b3d831d6a00544c" }, "answer" : "{Golgi apparatus} [or {Golgi body}; or {Golgi complex}, etc]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1249049943871, "num" : 12, "question" : "In plants, stacks of these structures are sometimes referred to as a dictyosome. Lysosomes are created in this structure, and they are named after the man who developed the \"black reaction\" to stain nervous tissue. They contain flattened disks known as (*) cisternae and they have two ends known as the cis and trans faces; the cis face typically receive protein vesicles sent from the rough endoplasmic reticulum. For 10 points, name this cell organelle whose main function is to process and package macromolecules.", "round" : "tourn10-09.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f158b3d831d6a001dd9" }, "answer" : "{Universal House} of {Justice}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.64568574773148, "num" : 7, "question" : "A document drafted by this organization foretells the \"the planetization of mankind\" and ends by declaring \"these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the Most Great Peace shall come\" – that work is entitled “The Promise of World Peace” and addressed to the “Peoples of the World.” This body's current members include Hooper Dunbar and Peter Khan, and it was established 100 years after a proclamation in the . Its constitution states its authority derives from the \"Centre of the Covenant\" and the \"Guardian of the Cause.\"  It was formed by election of nine members from the National Spiritual Assemblies, six years after the death of Shoghi Effendi, and this body is located in Haifa on the slopes of Mount Carmel. For 10 points, name this organization which enforces the Kitab i-Aqdas and renders judicial decisions on the Baha'i faith.", "round" : "Editor's Round (Finals 2).docx", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f878b3d831d6a0038f6" }, "answer" : "{Menelik II} [prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.30351507104933, "num" : 13, "question" : "In order to make his increasingly onerous tribute payments, this figure invaded Arussi; additionally, he had to approach the receiver of that tribute face down with a rock on his neck during the “Submission to Yohannes.” This figure, in a letter to Queen Victoria, assures the monarch that his country would continue to be as it had for the past 14 centuries “an island of Christianity in a sea of pagans.” His wife collaborated in choosing the site of the capital founded by this ruler and Taytu Betul provided its name meaning, “new flower.”  As a result of his most significant military victory, the Treaty of Wuchale was abrogated, which had previously established his country as a protectorate of a colonial power. Defeating Oreste Baratieri, For 10 points, name this Negus of Shewa who led his country into independence after his victory at Adowa an Emperor of Ethiopia.", "round" : "Round by Editors 1.docx", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a005563" }, "answer" : "{Mao Zedong} [or {Mao Tse-tung}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1505684845615, "num" : 18, "question" : "This person signaled his support for a loosening of censorship in his speech \"On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.\" This man's third wife became a key figure in the Gang of Four, which helped this man organize the Red Guards in support of the (*) Cultural Revolution. Earlier, this man was a key figure in the Long March, which allowed his party to come to power and launch such programs as the Great Leap Forward. For 10 points, name this politician who died in 1976 after twenty-seven years as the Communist leader of China.", "round" : "tourn11-07.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40618b3d831d6a006c69" }, "answer" : "{Josip Broz Tito} [or {Josip Broz}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.2248411916662, "num" : 12, "question" : "He rose to prominence at the Fifth Land Conference, and he later led his country through the Informbiro Period. His system of “symmetrical federalism” remade his country, and followed this man's leadership of the CPY partisans during World War II and the deposition of King Peter II. The theorist Edvard Kardelj supported this ruler's model of “national communism,” which balanced ethnic interests and led to his prominent role in the (*) Nonaligned Movement. For 10 points, name this longtime dictator of Yugoslavia.", "round" : "Round_03_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f028b3d831d6a001998" }, "answer" : "{Gian Lorenzo Bernini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.35488288244233, "num" : 10, "question" : "This artist painted two men in conversation, one with a book and a fish gesturing with his hand outside the painting and the other with a carpenter’s square. That work is his Saints Andrew and Thomas.  This man was invited by King Louis XIV to submit designs for the east facade of the Louvre, but those were ultimately rejected. One of his architectural works has twice-life-size angels standing atop four spiral columns and is a baldacchino. In one of his sculptures, a man chases a woman whose arms are raised and legs are turning into a tree trunk, while in another, a saint receives a spiritual spear-thrust from a hovering angel. For 10 points, name this Baroque sculptor of the Fountain of the Four Rivers, Apollo and Daphne and Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, as well as the final version of St. Peter’s Basilica.", "round" : "Packet 09.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004fca" }, "answer" : "{Diego Velazquez}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.4576570421923, "num" : 28, "question" : "This painter of Old Woman Frying Eggs depicted a pale skinned Bacchus partying with a bunch of drunks in Los Borrachos. This artist painted Cupid holding up a mirror in his Rokeby Venus. This artist depicted the victory of Ambrosio Spinola over the Dutch in The Surrender at Breda. In his most famous work, this artist depicts himself wearing a cross and holding a palette. That painting also includes a girl stepping on a dog and a dwarf, who serves as an attendant to the Infanta Margarita. For 10 points, name this court painter to Philip IV and artist of Las Meninas.", "round" : "4q1-09.pdf", "seen" : 272, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028d3" }, "answer" : "{Niels Henrik David Bohr}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.8372762766667, "num" : 29, "question" : "One constant named after this scientist is the magnetic dipole moment of an electron, his namesake magneton. His namesake ratio, approximately equal to 1/137, is also called the fine structure constant, and is the ratio between the velocity of electrons orbiting a nucleus and the speed of light. His model of an atom included a liquid drop of protons and neutrons in the nucleus, and replaced the Rutherford model. For 10 points, name this Danish physicist whose atomic model more importantly was the first to propose that electrons were in shells orbiting the nucleus.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Jarret FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef98b3d831d6a001751" }, "answer" : "{Titian} [or {Tiziano Vecellio}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.2643476722296, "num" : 13, "question" : "In one of this artist’s paintings, the inclusion of a stag’s skull foreshadows the fate of a man who glances past a red curtain at a group of women around a stone bath. In that work’s follow-up, a woman shoots a bow at a figure being devoured by hounds. In another work, this painter of Diana and Actaeon showed a constellation above a ship fading in the distance as one figure jumps from a chariot drawn by two cheetahs. In one of his paintings, Cupid stirs the water of a (*) sarcophagus between one nude and one clothed woman. The painter of Bacchus and Ariadne and Sacred and Profane Love showed a dog curled at the feet of a reclining nude in another work. For 10 points, name this painter of Venus of Urbino.", "round" : "Packet 4 - Prelims 4.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001591" }, "answer" : "{Aldous Huxley}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7779386264738, "num" : 19, "question" : "This man related finding himself standing in “Ten million emblems and mementos of Modern Love”\n during a beachside stroll with Thomas Mann in his essay on sanitation engineering, “Hyperion to a Satyr.”\n He represented D. H. Lawrence as Bill Hamblin in The World of Light, and earlier represented him as the\n painter Mark Rampion in a work also featuring excerpts from the journal of Philip Quarles. In another\n work, this man described the sport of Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy, the Bokanovsky process, and a caste\n system of Alphas through Epsilons. For 10 points, name this author of Point Counter Point who also\n envisioned the Malthusian Drill in his Brave New World.", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f848b3d831d6a003834" }, "answer" : "{Madama Butterfly} or {Madame Butterfly}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.7872157783713, "num" : 7, "question" : "This opera's final act begins with sailors singing \"Oh eh! Oh eh!,\" followed by the song \"Gia il sole!\" when the male lead arrives. In Act I, the male lead sings \"Amore o grillo,\" telling of his first encounter with the title character, who later fantasizes about her husband's return \"when the robin makes his nest\" in the aria \"Un bel dì.\" Kate is introduced to the title character by Sharpless, after which the title character blindfolds her son Dolore and kills herself. For 10 points, name this opera about Pinkerton's doomed marriage with Cio-Cio San, written by Giacomo Puccini.", "round" : "Round 07.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407b8b3d831d6a007271" }, "answer" : "cartilage", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.4673069212586, "num" : 10, "question" : "One area of it named for Meckel can be found on the mandibular arch, and Schmorl's nodes are protrusions of it that jut into the spine. Its hyaline variety protects the ends of bones in joints, while its fibrous variety comprises the discs found between vertebra. It consists of cells known as chondrocytes, forming a “model” skeleton for developing mammals until ossification, at which point it hardens into bone. For 10 points, name this type of connective tissue that comprises that human nose and the entirety of a shark's skeleton.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5c8b3d831d6a002e7a" }, "answer" : "{Titus Flavius Vespasianus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 42.38647797042503, "num" : 16, "question" : "One legend says that a gnat flew up this man's nose and caused him great pain by picking at his brain for years. Historians are still confused by this man's last words, “I have made but one mistake.” He put an end to the practice of instituting treason trials for those who slandered the emperor, saying he could not be insulted. This man had a controversial love affair with Berenice, the sister of Herod Agrippa, and also survived the revolt of Terentius Maximus, who claimed to be a returned Nero. Prior to his reign as emperor, he led a siege on (*) Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple on the behest of his father during the first Jewish-Roman War. During his own reign, this man presided over the inaugural games at the Colosseum and ran relief efforts after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. For 10 points, name this second member of the Flavian dynasty who was honored with a namesake arch.", "round" : "Round 11 - Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 72, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404e8b3d831d6a00679b" }, "answer" : "Spain", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.2050367211923, "num" : 12, "question" : "One author from this country was part of the so-called \"Generation of 1950\" and wrote The Family of Pascal Duarte and The Hive. Another author from this country was responsible for A Tragic Sense of Life as well as retelling of the Abel and Cain story, and was often paired with Ramon del Valle-Inclan and Azorin.  One figure from this country's \"Golden Age\" was said to have written 1500 plays, while another wrote of Pedro Crespo in The Mayor of Zalamea and of Prince Segismundo in Life is a Dream. FTP, name this country, home to the Generation of '98, Calderon de la Barca, and Lope de Vega, and which was the setting of the Ernest Hemingway novels The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls.", "round" : "HFT Round 09.doc", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb38b3d831d6a00431b" }, "answer" : "The {Nuer}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.6905818565283, "num" : 13, "question" : "In an essay from Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong, Keith Brown asserted that Samuel Huntington's use of kinship resembles the practices of this culture. Boys in this culture are initiated into adulthood by having six sharp lines carved into their foreheads, a ceremony called receiving gaar. Sharon Hutchinson discussed how this group incorporated money using cattle as the dominant metaphor of value in a book titled for the \"dilemmas\" of this culture. This culture is divided into separate communities called cieng. The first anthropologist to study this culture described their system of segmented lineage in three books, including Kinship and Marriage Among this culture. For 10 points, name this African culture studied by Evans-Pritchard, an ethnic group based in Southern Sudan.", "round" : "r20- Editors 6.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f738b3d831d6a0033f7" }, "answer" : "{Pequotyo War}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2317345661577, "num" : 20, "question" : "A major primary source of this event is the “relation” of Lion Gardiner, who fired on a group of vessels despite the presence of Abraham Swain's daughters. Prior to this conflict, the ransom of Tatobem's corpse prompted the retaliatory murder of John Stone, and it saw John Mason immolate hundreds of civilians in an action that failed to kill its target Sassacus, who was with a Niantic raiding party. This conflict began after John (*) Oldham was murdered on his way to Block Island and ended after the “Great Swamp Fight” near Fairfield. The Mystic Massacre occurred during this conflict, which was ended by the Treaty of Hartford. The Narragansett joined the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies in, for 10 points, what conflict that practically exterminated the namesake Indian tribe?", "round" : "Round 18.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000ca1" }, "answer" : "the U.S. {military draft} [or {conscription} or other synonyms or word forms]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.8231226280332, "num" : 12, "question" : "The 1968 Supreme Court case U.S. v. O’Brien held that burning a symbol of this policy is not constitutionally protected speech. In the 1860s, one could become exempt from this policy by paying three hundred dollars. That was one factor leading to an 1863 riot in New York against its use. For 10 points, identify this program which went dormant in 1973 and, were it to return, would use data from the Selective Service system.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40828b3d831d6a0073f6" }, "answer" : "{Fibonacci sequence/numbers}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4383617076091, "num" : 7, "question" : "The generating function for this construct has the closed-form solution of x over the quantity 1 minus x minus x squared. Euclid's algorithm has a worst case runtime when the inputs are consecutive numbers. Lucas numbers follow the same recurrence as this series but with starting inputs of 2 and 1, and it was originally developed in the Liber Abaci to follow the multiplication of rabbits. Converging to the golden ration is, for 10 points, what eponymous sequence whose first few terms are 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8?", "round" : "Round5Final.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d91" }, "answer" : "Saint {Stephen} I of Hungary [or {Szent Istvan} I; or {Vajk} of {Esztergom}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9925642544404, "num" : 8, "question" : "This monarch's Giselle supplied Bavarian knights who helped him defeat Koppany near Pannonhalma Abbey, where Astrik was installed by his father Geza. His country's constitution was named for an item he received from Sylvester II, the Holy Crown, while his decaying hand remains one of his country's most important relics. This ally of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II took most of the Carpathian basin as the first Arpad to unite a group of tribes which had broken from the Khazars. For 10 points, identify this Magyar prince, a saint who became the first King of Hungary, whose Christian name was chosen in honor of the first disciple to be martyred.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 13.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a003fe6" }, "answer" : "{Diego Garcia}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.6115402150899, "num" : 1, "question" : "Eclipse Bay and Rambler Bay are both found at this island, which contains Barton Point at one end and Simpson Point at the other end. Former settlements on this island included East Point and Minni Minni, home to a small population of Ilois forcibly evicted by the British in 1971. Part of the (*) Chagos Archipelago, military sites on this island were at the center of recent allegations as its use as a ? “black site” in the war on terror. Lying about 1,000 miles south of India, this is-for 10 points-what joint British and American possession, an atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean?", "round" : "GM2 round1.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Geography Monstrosity 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b73" }, "answer" : "{John Galsworthy}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.1419093539007, "num" : 14, "question" : "In one section of this author's best known work, the eight-year old Jon lives an idyllic life with all his wishes gratified; we learn that both Jon and his mother survive despite the father being told he could save only one of them. Another of this author's characters absconds with his wife's pearls and runs off to South America with a dancer, but returns to that wife, Winifred. He included two interludes titled “Awakening” and “Indian Summer” in his magnum opus, in which Michael Mont is invited to see a  picture gallery. This author described the wedding ceremony of (*) June and the architect Phillip Bosinney, who dies after learning that his mistress Irene had been raped by her own husband, Soames. Old and Young Jolyon are major characters in this author's trilogy consisting of The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let. For 10 points, identify this British author of The Forsyte Saga.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 11.docx", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a002525" }, "answer" : "{monkeys} [accept {apes} until {Thomas Rowlandson}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.61514535942115, "num" : 7, "question" : "In Vasari's Lives, it is reported that one of these creatures was taught by a student of Rosso Fiorentino to steal grapes and fruits and destroyed a priest's garden, and Thomas Rowlandson created depictions of their “faces” in a work. David Teniers the Younger depicted a “Guardroom with” these in one work, and it's not a horse, but George Stubbs painted a “Green” one of these. One of these is operated on in James Ensor's The Vile Vivisectors, and they appear in Henri Rousseau's (*) The Merry Jesters. Niccolo Boldrini created a work after Titian's satirizing of the Laocoon Group in which these creatures appear, and one of these appears on a leash in a pointillist work. For 10 points, identify this jungle animal appearing in Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte, as well as in a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo.", "round" : "Lully 7.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee78b3d831d6a001369" }, "answer" : "{William Cullen Bryant}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.78517365641892, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man wrote a poem in which he concludes the title month is “when brooks send up a cheerful tune.” Another of his works describes piercing the “Barcan wilderness” or the woods “where rolls the Oregon.” This poet of “June” concludes in another work that he who “guides through the boundless sky” the title creature on its “solitary way” will also lead his steps. In another poem, this man writes about lying down “with patriarchs of the infant world…all in one mighty sepulchre.” That best known poem of this author was written primarily when he was a teenager and has a title translated as “Meditation upon Death.” For 10 points, name this long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, who wrote the poems “To a Waterfowl” and “Thanatopsis.”", "round" : "Packet 6 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f108b3d831d6a001ca5" }, "answer" : "{Richard} I of England [or {Richard} the {Lionhearted}; or {Richard Couer} de {Lion}; prompt on {Richard}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.44814260071144, "num" : 9, "question" : "With Tancred of Lecce, this leader signed the Treaty of Messina, which freed his sister Joan and declared Arthur of Brittany to be his heir. This ruler separated the regulation of one group's business by starting the Exchequer of the Jews. This king won the Battle of Arsuf, which gave him possession of Joppa. This ruler supposedly laid siege to the castle Chalus for a hoard of gold, which led to his death by crossbow. Henry VI required 150,000 marks be paid as a ransom to free this leader after his capture on return from the Third Crusade. For 10 points, name this son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and successor of Henry II as king of England, whose epithet refers to his courage in battle.", "round" : "Maryland A.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eda8b3d831d6a00102b" }, "answer" : "{phosphorus} [accept {just P} before mention]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.3403594561387, "num" : 17, "question" : "An iodide of a methyl group attached an atom of this element, which is attached to three phenyl groups, is used to form the ylide for the Wittig reaction. The simplest example of a divalent compound breaking the octet rule is this element's pentachloride. This element comes in violet, black, red, and white allotropes. Found just below nitrogen on the periodic table, for 10 points, identify this element, number 15 with symbol P.", "round" : "21.pdf", "seen" : 269, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3a8b3d831d6a002657" }, "answer" : "Crusades", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2304.858556974214, "num" : 3, "question" : "During the seventh of these events, King Louis IX of France was captured in the Nile Delta. The fourth one was diverted to Constantinople with the help of the Doge of Venice. At the Council of Clermont (“Claremont”), Pope Urban II called for the first one, which recaptured Jerusalem in 1099. For 10 points, what medieval military campaigns saw Christian knights try to conquer the Holy Land?", "round" : "CMST_Round07.pdf", "seen" : 1534, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40688b3d831d6a006dfb" }, "answer" : "{iron} [or {Fe}; accept {ferrum} until mentioned]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3684804586228, "num" : 11, "question" : "One reagent containing this element along with hydrogen peroxide generates radical hydroxide groups and is used in the treatment of waste-water. In addition to Fenton's reagent, this was the central element complexing with two dienyl rings in the first observed metallocene. It can be isolated from its carbonate ore which is called siderite, and Bosch modified the Haber process by using the oxide of this element as a catalyst. For 10 points, identify this element which can alternatively be called ferrum.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c49" }, "answer" : "{Arthur Schopenhauer}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 465.9899759422988, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man examined the techniques that \"Bewilder  your opponent by Mere Bombast\" and \"Claim Victory Despite Defeat\" in The Art of Being Right. He argued that humans cause substantial damage to each other during intimacy, labeled as porcupine's dilemma. He wrote \"On Din and Noise\" in his Parerga und Parilopemina, but he is better known for arguing Dutch still lifes are the best type of art because beauty is seen in everyday objects. That work discusses asceticism as the denial of idea. For ten points, name this author The World as Will and Representation.", "round" : "FHTE R4 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 314, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec58b3d831d6a000b3c" }, "answer" : "{phosphate} ion [prompt on {PO43-}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0871550538577, "num" : 1, "question" : "The level of this ion in the blood is controlled by FGF23. Upon recieving a signal, epidermal growth factor receptor adds this to itself, starting an intercellular signaling cascade. Three of these ions are found in hydroxylapatite, which is a calcium containing compound that makes up bone. This ionic group is attached to proteins by kinases. It is found on the five (*) prime end of DNA. Three of them are attached to adenosine in ATP. For 10 points, name this ion composed of four oxygens and one phosphorus.", "round" : "tournament17-05.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a0026f7" }, "answer" : "{Mass} or {Missa}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.6519837807864, "num" : 4, "question" : "Leonel Power's “Alma Redemptoris,” a piece in this musical form, establishes unity through use of the cantus firmus. Josquin des Prez wrote one “ad Fugam” based on pre-existing music, while his composition of this type “sine Nomine” was completely original. Mozart wrote a “Great” one in C Minor, while one composed in B Minor is considered one of JS Bach's greatest works. Usually consisting of an Ordinary, including a “Kyrie” and a “Gloria,” FTP, what is this type of sacred composition meant to set the liturgy to music?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 13.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a003ffb" }, "answer" : "{silent majority}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 121.3902307113167, "num" : 21, "question" : "This term was less famously used in 1874 by writer and war correspondent Junius Henri Browne as a title for Harper's Magazine to describe the number of people dead being greater than the number of people living.  Republicans sometimes use it to explain election outcomes in which the media predicted that the Democratic candidate would win easily, but on election day, the Republican candidate came out on top.  In a 1963 speech, it referred to Americans that did not protest the Vietnam war or participate in the media.  For 10 points, what is this term popularized by Richard Nixon for a mass of people that do not express their opinions publicly?", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Brandeis + UCLA A.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40518b3d831d6a006854" }, "answer" : "{Heinrich Schliemann}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.7095111261588, "num" : 15, "question" : "This man served as a cabin boy on the ship Dorothea, which wrecked off the coast of the Netherlands en-route to Venezuela, and he was later assisted by Wilhelm Dorpfeld in his work at Tiryns. A business partner of Frank Calvert, this man consulted Emile Burnouf about his discovery of swastikas, while other findings of his included the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus, the so-called mask of Agamemnon, and the excavation of a site at Hisarlik. For 10 points, name this German archeologist who excavated Mycenae and Troy.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed18b3d831d6a000e23" }, "answer" : "{viruses} [or {HIV} before \"{example}\" is read; or {human immunodeficiency virus} before", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.5783899642993, "num" : 24, "question" : "The compound AZT is typically used to inhibit one specific example of this group. Members of this group can replicate using either the lysogenic or lytic cycles. One member of this group named T4 is known for attacking E. coli. These entities have a protein coat called a capsid. Members of this group that attack bacteria are called bacteriophages (back-TEER-ee-oh-FAY-jezz). For 10 points, name this group of infectious agents, which includes the tobacco mosaic and influenza varieties.", "round" : "regionals-07.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a002a2f" }, "answer" : "{Nadine Gordimer}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.4524992976803, "num" : 10, "question" : "In one of this author's novels, a mechanic named Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, meets a wealthy white woman named Julie whose car breaks down in the street. Besides The Pickup, another novel revolves around a dead body found on Mehring's farm, The [*] Conservationist, while a third novel by her features Maureen Smales, who flees to the village of the title character, their black servant, during a fictional civil war. For 10 points, name this Nobel laureate whose novel July's People was banned in her native South Africa.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 1 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f708b3d831d6a00332d" }, "answer" : "{Hector Berlioz}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9368185000494, "num" : 16, "question" : "One work by this composer is supposed to end with March for the Presentation of the Colours, but because that part often is omitted, it ends with Judex crederis, which is called both a hymn and a prayer. Another work, a requiem he was not paid for until he threatened to spread a rumor about the French government, is his Grande Messe des morts. The first symphony by this composer, whose sequel is known as Lélio, has its last three of five sections titled Scene in the Country, March to the Scaffold, and Dream of a Witches' Sabbath. Name this composer of Symphonie Fantastique.", "round" : "replacement.pdf", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f928b3d831d6a003b8c" }, "answer" : "{Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.5252817531582, "num" : 19, "question" : "The first wife of one protagonist created by this novelist leaves him for a taxi driver after four years of marriage, but dies in childbirth. Though not Thomas Pynchon, this author created a character named V, who is so disgusted with Mr. Goodman's biography of his half-brother that he writes one himself. This author described the conspiracy between Axel Rex and his lover Margot Peters to use and ruin the wealthy Albert Albinus. This author of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Laughter in the Dark wrote about Victor Wind, the son of the title character, who is fired by Dr. Hagen from the faculty of (*) Waindell College. He wrote about a production of The Enchanted Hunters put on by headmistress Miss Pratt in a novel whose central character murders Clare Quilty and lusts after nymphets like Dolores Haze. For 10 points, identify this author of Pnin and a novel about Humbert Humbert, Lolita.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004ba6" }, "answer" : "{Adrianople} [or {Edirne} or {Hadrianopolis}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.2848316654563, "num" : 11, "question" : "The site of one battle that happened after Versinikia, one battle called Yedrene by the Serbs who were fighting here with the Bulgarians under Ivanov saw this city taken from (*) Shukri Pasha. Khan Kaloyan killed Louis of Blois and captured and blinded the Latin Emperor Baldwin I here. Most notably, a battle here saw leaders such as Saphrax, Alatheus, and Fritigern victorious against the Emperor Valens, who died on the field. For 10 points, name this site, a city in modern Turkey.", "round" : "12_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea48b3d831d6a0003c4" }, "answer" : "Edward {Everett}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.93780300123617, "num" : 13, "question" : "This man’s older brother Alexander succeeded Caleb Cushing as the second U.S. Commissioner to China, two years after he'd declined an appointment to be the first Commissioner. That brother edited the North American Review, which published stories referring to this man as \"Old Granny,\" a title he received serving as president of Harvard, where students held rallies to burn his image in effigy. This first American to receive a Ph.D. in Germany drafted Commodore Matthew Perry’s letter to the Japanese during his four-month stint as Millard Fillmore’s Secretary of State. He resigned from the Senate after being absent for the vote on the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also known for being the running mate of John Bell in 1860, this man once declared “God bless the Union; it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defenses.” FTP, name this Whig orator from Massachusetts who delivered a two-hour keynote speech at Gettysburg.", "round" : "PACKET03Peterson.doc", "seen" : 47, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f128b3d831d6a001d1c" }, "answer" : "{Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.86734271491878, "num" : 2, "question" : "This philosopher named a form of perception the “analogon” in his work The Imaginary. He argued that feelings of despair and angst are not enough for individuals to hide behind “deterministic excuses,” arguing that one's essence is created and that the title concept “is a humanism” in one essay. In another work, he analyzed sexual desire in the context of “the look” and distinguished between the first title concept “in-itself,” “for-itself,” and “for-others,” while opposing living life in terms of the past or defining one's existence in terms of social role as examples of “bad faith.” For 10 points, name this French proponent of existentialism who wrote Being and Nothingness.", "round" : "UCSD.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40658b3d831d6a006d27" }, "answer" : "{Ontario} [prompt on {Canada} before “{province's}”]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 595.0747446638998, "num" : 18, "question" : "The southernmost point of this province is part of Point Pelee National Park, and the large Polar Bear Park is located along its northern coastline. This province's largest island is Manitoulin, which is also the world's largest island within a body of fresh water, and this lake-filled province is also home to one of the world's largest freshwater ports in (*) Thunder Bay. It is also the location of major border towns such as Sault Sainte Marie and Windsor, as well as the national capital of Ottawa. For 10 points, identify this most populous Canadian province with capital at Toronto.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 399, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d4a" }, "answer" : "{Alexis} I [or {Alexei Mikhailovich} Romanov]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.26399750006385, "num" : 18, "question" : "[MB] This ruler's siege of Riga was prolonged by his lack of a navy, an engagement in a war eventually resolved by the Treaty of Cardis.  His brother-in-law, who served as one of his chief ministers, was exiled following a revolt in Moscow that also resulted in the passing of the Sobornoye Ulozheniye law code.  After this leader signed the Treaty of Hadiach, he convened the Second Treaty of Pereyaslav which began \"The Ruin\" period in another country and which helped end the Khmelnytsky Rebellion.  The man who replaced his chief adviser Boris Morozov drew fire for altering the number of fingers used to cross oneself and made other changes to the align the Russian and ? Greek churches, Patriarch Nikon.  He also faced a significant revolt from the Cossack leader Stenka Razin.  The ruler who brought Ukraine under Russian control, he came to power after the death of Mikhail and was succeeded by Feodor III.  For 10 points, name this second notable Romanov tsar, whose reign saw the rise of the Old Believers, and who ruled from 1645 to 1676.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002e07" }, "answer" : "{Kingdom} of {Belgium} [accept {Koninkrijk België}, {Royaume} de {Belgique}, or {Königreich Belgien}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.06405158014967, "num" : 7, "question" : "One neo-impressionist from this country is best known for his painting Beach at Heist. A prominent Symbolist native of this country painted a boy holding a staff standing next to a creature with a woman's head and a leopard's body in The Caress. Those artists, Georges Lemmen and Fernand Khnopff, were members of a group which formed in this country when one of its members' paintings, The Oyster Eater, was not exhibited by existing organizations. That native of this country, a cofounder of the aforementioned Les (*) XX (lay vahnt,) depicted the horrrors of animal testing in his Vile Vivisectors and painted a work featuring a crowd of people underneath a large red banner reading “Vive la sociale.” For 10 points, identify this home country of James Ensor, also called home by such surrealists as Paul Delvaux and Rene Magritte.", "round" : "Round 06 - Michigan.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb18b3d831d6a0042b3" }, "answer" : "{Pafnuty Chebyshev}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.14023909717798, "num" : 4, "question" : "The second of this man's namesake functions is sometimes approximated as x minus the log of two pi. That the remainder when dividing prime numbers by 4 is more likely to be 3 than 1 is called this man's “bias”. His namesake distance operation is sometimes called the chessboard distance, and his two namesake polynomial sequences, symbolized T sub n and U sub n, have recursive definitions, as they are solutions to his namesake differential equation. He names a relation which was actually formulated by Bienaymé and states that no more than one over k squared of the total values are more than k standard deviations away from the mean of any probability distribution. For 10 points, name this Russian mathematician best known for that namesake inequality.", "round" : "r16- Magin.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f738b3d831d6a003409" }, "answer" : "{Crusader} States [accept {logical} equivalents; prompt on {specific} answers of “{Antioch},” “{Edessa},” “{Tripoly},” or “{Jerusalem}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.5159941716119, "num" : 18, "question" : "Methods by which these states were established include Thoros's agreement to adopt a son and the defeat of Yaghi-Siyan and Kerbogha. An enraged Qalawun completed their conquest after a relief force sent by Henry II found one happily occupied, became bored, and began massacring the populace for sport. The fortress of Kerak was built by Pagan the Butler to defend these states, which were endangered by the ill-advised raids of (*) Raynard de Chatillon. Their rulers included Bohemund of Taranto, a man known as “the Leper,” Baldwin IV, and the the Norman Tancred, who took the title “Prince of Galilee” after becoming the regent of the northernmost one, Edessa. Tripoli, Antioch, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem comprised, for 10 points, what kingdoms established in the Levant after their first namesake holy war?", "round" : "Round 19 Finals I.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d46" }, "answer" : "Waiting for the {Barbarians}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.71624526614323, "num" : 9, "question" : "A poem of this title asks “Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?” before noting “How serious people's faces have become.” That poem begins by asking “What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?” and ends by calling the titular people “a kind of solution.” In a novel of this title, Warrant Officer Mandel conducts a mock hanging of the protagonist, who has sexual fantasies about a young girl who belongs to the titular group of people. For 10 points, name this title shared by a Constantine Cavafy poem and a J.M. Coetzee novel in which the magistrate of a frontier town is imprisoned by Colonel Joll.", "round" : "Packet 06.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004ef3" }, "answer" : "{Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.6406001513824, "num" : 5, "question" : "In one novel by this author, Gloria crashes into a fire hydrant, and Adam disinherits his grandson Anthony Patch. He wrote about the failed courtship of Isabella Borge and Rosalind Connage by Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise. This author wrote a novel in which the \"valley of ashes\" is presided over by the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg and the world series is fixed by Meyer Wolfsheim. In that novel, George Wilson shoots the title character after his wife Myrtle is run over by Daisy, the object of affection of the West Egg neighbor of Nick Carraway. For 10 points, name the author of The Great Gatsby.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 239, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee38b3d831d6a00127d" }, "answer" : "{Michele Marie Bachmann} [or {Michele Marie Amble}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9675178858451, "num" : 12, "question" : "This politician said that an IRS plan to make buying breast-feeding equipment a medical expense was part of creating a nanny state in the U.S. In one speech, this politician claimed that \"we also know that the… founders …worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.\" Another slipup for this politician allegedly occurred because of the presence of multiple cameras, which made her look to the side of the screen while delivering the Tea Party rebuttal to Obama's 2011 State of the Union. For 10 points, name this Minnesota Representative expected to run for president in 2012.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e2f" }, "answer" : "{Eudora Welty}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5501814913005, "num" : 21, "question" : "One of this author's short stories tells of a woman named Phoenix Jackson who takes the title route despite being threatened by a hunter with a gun. That story is collected in this author's A Curtain of Green and is titled “A Worn Path.” This author wrote of Jamie Lockhart kidnapping and falling in love with Rosamund in The Robber Bridegroom and wrote about Laura McKelva returning to New Orleans to take care of the Judge in The Optimist's Daughter. For 10 points, name this female author of Delta Wedding and “Why I Live at the P.O.”", "round" : "Round_08_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400f8b3d831d6a0058b4" }, "answer" : "{Looking Backward}: 2000-1887", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1011455105617, "num" : 20, "question" : "This work is preceded by an “Author's Preface” written from Shawmut College, and the first chapter of the work proper contains an extended metaphor in which a “prodigious coach” driven by hunger represents society. Its sequel, which contains the “parable of the water tank”, is called Equality. Its protagonist's servant, Sawyer, dies in a fire, preventing him from [?] waking the protagonist from Dr. Pillsbury's hypnosis. This novel describes how all citizens spend three years after age 21 doing menial labor in service of the “Great Trust”, which has replaced all private monopolies. Its protagonist eventually falls in love with a descendent of Edith Bartlett, the daughter of Dr. Leete. For 10 points, identify this novel about Julian West's adventures in a circa-2000 socialist utopian U.S.A., a work of Edward Bellamy.", "round" : "FINALS.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e6d" }, "answer" : "the first {G.I. Bill} of {Rights} [or the {Serviceman's Readjustment} Act of 1944; do not accept", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9507656160276, "num" : 19, "question" : "This law was orchestrated by former RNC chairman Harry Colmery, and passed due to the last- minute vote of John Gibson. In addition to providing twenty-dollar-per-week unemployment benefits and subsidizing mortgages, it led to a campus construction boom and a social leveling in access to higher education, in an attempt to avoid the post-World War I blunders that led to the Bonus Army incident. For 10 points, name this 1944 act of Congress which provided subsidized tuition and living expenses for veterans attending college.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a00111b" }, "answer" : "{Noh play} [or {Noh} theatre; or {Nogaku play}; or {Nogaku} theatre]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 422.025355048012, "num" : 27, "question" : "The Feather Mantle and The Wind in the Pines are two well-known works of this genre, which is usually subdivided into five main categories, including ones called “wig” and “demon.” Works in this genre are accompanied by a group of four musicians and a chorus, who recite the chant utai (OO-“tie”). Usually interrupted by comedic interludes called kyogen, works of this genre would go on to influence kabuki (KAH-boo-kee) theatre. For 10 points, name this ancient form of Japanese theatre which usually sees the actors wear masks to express emotions.", "round" : "28.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40928b3d831d6a0077aa" }, "answer" : "{Cyrus} II, the {Great} (or accept either underlined part after {Cyrus so long} as it's {proceeded} by {Cyrus})", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.35054414835759, "num" : 5, "question" : "His mother, Mandane, was a princess and a famous inscription of his notes that his great-grandfather was Teipses and his father was a king of Anshan. He defeated rulers, such as Amasis II of Egypt, Nabonidus and Croesus of Lydia, but he died while fighting against the Massagetae. He defeated his grandfather, Astyages, and built his capital, Pasargadae at the site of that battle and he later attacked his father-in-law and captured Ecbatana. Believed to be the ideal king by Xenophon, his Stele tells how he captured Babylon without a battle and, according to the Bible, Daniel presented him with an ancient scroll of Isaiah on his entrance into Babylon. FTP, identify this son of Cambyses I and first king of the Medo-Persian empire.", "round" : "Princeton A - Texas A&M.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eff8b3d831d6a0018c7" }, "answer" : "hypothalamus <RY>", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7538141810801, "num" : 9, "question" : "One region in this structure is the site of BMAL-1-CLOCK dimerization and is located above the optic chiasm. The lateral and posterior portions of this structure produce orexins, deficits of which can lead to narcolepsy. The hypophyseal portal system connects this structure to the HPA axis. Contained in the diencephalon, it releases GHRH and CRH, as well as gonadotropin-releasing hormone, somatostatin, oxytocin, and vasopressin. It connects the nervous and endocrine systems by linking to the pituitary gland, and controls hunger, thirst, and homeostasis. For 10 points, name this brain region located beneath the thalamus.", "round" : "Round14.doc", "seen" : 268, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004ae5" }, "answer" : "Niger", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 103.220977060264, "num" : 11, "question" : "The Sultanate of Damagaram founded the second largest city in this country and The Erg of Bilma located in this country lies east of the Air Mountains. Zinder, was the site of WWI uprising of Touareg peoples against French colonialist forces. The (*) Grandee Mosque with its 171-step minaret lies in the east of its capital city which sits on its namesake river that drains into the Bight of Benin. For 10 points, name this nation bordered by Chad to the east and Algeria to the north with capital at Niamey.", "round" : "04_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 68, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059d5" }, "answer" : "{Albrecht Dürer}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.62838662369177, "num" : 6, "question" : "Two sylvan men with heraldic shields decorate the wings to his portrait of Oswolt Krel, while Job having water dumped on him and a depiction of two musicians make up his presumed Jabach Altarpiece. The foreshortened and lowered head of Thomas looking into a sarcophagus distinguishes one of his works, while another depicts St. Eustace and St. George at the wings of the Nativity. The painter of the Heller Altar and Paumgartner Atarpiece, he showed the Virgin under a green canopy supported by ribbons held by cherubs for a work exemplifying the influence of Venetian painting, Feast of the Rose Garlands. His various depictions of the Virgin and Child theme include Madonna with the Siskin and Madonna with Pear, while Frederick the Wise commissioned his depiction of The Martyrdom of Ten Thousand. He did various portraits of Emperor Maximilian, as well as a depiction of an Indian rhinoceros, and a painting which shows a rhombohedron surmounted by a human skull as well as an angel holding a compass. For 10 points, name this engraver and painter of works such as Melencolia I.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f098b3d831d6a001b26" }, "answer" : "{Peterloo} Massacre or {Battle} of {Peterloo}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.19442991553804, "num" : 7, "question" : "Henry Hunt and Mary Fildes were among the speakers at this event, whose aftermath saw the arrest of Samuel Bamford and charges of rampant alcoholism were leveled at Major Trafford and Captain Hugh Birley. Along with an earlier incident, this event inspired a plan by Arthur Thistlewood and Thomas Spence that was to have culminated with the (*) beheading of the entire cabinet at Lord Harrowby's dinner table, the Cato Street Conspiracy. Public meetings concerning church or state were banned by legislation following this event, which sparked unrest along with the earlier Spa Fields Riots. The Six Acts followed this event, in which a crowd protesting the recent Corn Laws was savagely charged by the 15th Hussars. For 10 points, name this 1819 massacre in Manchester, named to evoke Wellington's victory over Napoleon.", "round" : "FINAL_ASU_B+RPI.doc", "seen" : 52, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eec8b3d831d6a001486" }, "answer" : "{Brideshead Revisited}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 361.0489451370668, "num" : 5, "question" : "In this work, the central character meets his wife Celia Mulcaster while in South America and earlier\n learns about another family after meeting Anthony Blanche. One character in this work lives with a man\n named Kurt in Morocco and later recovers from alcoholism after joining a monastery in Tunisia. The\n protagonist breaks off his first marriage so he can marry Julia, who herself had been previously married to\n the Canadian businessman Rex Mottram. At the beginning of this work, the protagonist meets Lord\n Sebastian Flyte, a member of the aristocratic Marchmain family. Charles Ryder’s visit to the title residence\n occurs in, for 10 points, what novel by Evelyn Waugh?", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f458b3d831d6a002910" }, "answer" : "The Magic {Flute} or {Die Zauberflote} or {K(ochel}) 620", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.1542739665601, "num" : 23, "question" : "Emanuel Schikaneder wrote the libretto for this opera. Sarastro sings the aria \"In diesen heil'gen Hallen\" in Act II, Scene III of this opera, and the aria \"Der Holle Rache\" requires a range up to F6 for the soprano. Three child-spirits stopped the suicide of a feathered man, who uses his magic bells to reunite with his love, Papagena, and the Queen of the Night was cast into eternal night. Centering around the love of Pamina and Tamino, for 10 points, identify this opera in which the titular instrument can change the hearts of men, a work of Wolfgang Mozart.", "round" : "FKT 2010 Lei FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e30" }, "answer" : "{Dwight David} \"{Ike}\" {Eisenhower}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.2800425924361, "num" : 1, "question" : "This president presided over Operation Blue Bat in which 15,000 American soldiers were deployed to Lebanon, and his willingness to use armed force to fight communism in the Middle East is known as his doctrine. He issued Executive Order 10730 which put the Arkansas National Guard under Federal control to force integration of the Little Rock Nine, and under his presidency, Brown v. Board of Education was decided. For 10 points, name this Supreme Allied Commander during World War II who led the United States from 1953 to 1961.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a0008e9" }, "answer" : "First {Crusade} [prompt on partial answer]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0325545459054, "num" : 3, "question" : "One leader in this conflict was killed in the second battle of Ramla and was named Stephen II. Another figure in this conflict was named Peter the Hermit. This conflict was chronicled by Robert the Monk. This campaign began after a speech given by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont. A key battle in this conflict ended when a (*) Fatimid leader fled a certain holy city. For 10 points, name this military conflict in which Europeans sought to regain control of Jerusalem, which was the original campaign of this type.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ede8b3d831d6a001144" }, "answer" : "{memory leak}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.3702813528944, "num" : 4, "question" : "To deal with this problem in languages like C++, the idiom \"Resource Acquisition is Initialization\" is implemented. If this problem is unresolved, it can lead to programs to encountering segmentation faults. Computer languages such as Java have automatic means to resolve this situation known as garbage collection. For 10 points, name this situation in which the eponymous resource cannot be reacquired by the operating system.", "round" : "30.pdf", "seen" : 270, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408b8b3d831d6a007629" }, "answer" : "{José} de {Sousa Saramago}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.11558628594503, "num" : 8, "question" : "One of this author's short stories concerns a petitioner and a cleaning woman, who tries to answer his petition for a boat, while one of his novels ends on April 25th, 1974, the date of a revolution in this writer's home country. He set one of his novels in a location taken from a Platonic allegory, and Azio Corghi based a 1989 opera on this man's Memorial of the Convent. Another of this man's novel is set in 1936, when the title character returns home after 16 years abroad and wanders the city with the ghost of the poet Fernando Pessoa. More famous is a novel which depicts a landmass that detaches from a continent, forming the titular object, and another work about an illness that leaves people able to see only white light. Also the writer of Baltasar and Blimunda, for ten points, identify this author of The Stone Raft and Blindness.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Princeton A UIUC B Midwest.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb68b3d831d6a0007d6" }, "answer" : "{index} of {refraction} [prompt on {n}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.55773987458088, "num" : 13, "question" : "One paradox concerning this quantity, in which one calculation places it in the numerator but a formula for an identical quantity places it in the denominator, was raised by Peierls. A complex version of this quantity adds i plus the extinction coefficient, while one formula sets its square equal to a rational equation in terms of the coefficients B1 through 3 and C1 through 3. This quantity can be negative in artificial metamaterials. The arctangent of the ratio of this quantity for two materials gives Brewster's angle. Along with the sines of the angle of incidence and this quantity's namesake angle, it is used in Snell's Law. For 10 points, name this quantity that describes the speed of light in a medium, the namesake of a certain light-bending effect.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Eden Prairie + Maryland B.pdf", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a005009" }, "answer" : "{Kelly Clarkson}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.6160850063898, "num" : 28, "question" : "The first single off her debut album opens \"What if I told you it was all meant to be/would you believe me, would you agree?\". She also sang a song that bemoans that \"I used to stand so tall,\" recognizes that now, \"I'm barely hanging on,\" and concludes \"you won't get to see the tears I cry.\" Another song by this performer recalls that \"my heart can't possibly break/when it wasn't even whole to start with.\" For 10 points, name this singer of \"A Moment Like This,\" \"Because of You,\" and \"Behind These Hazel Eyes,\" who defeated Justin Guarini to become the first winner of American Idol.", "round" : "4q1-11.pdf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcb8b3d831d6a0048b6" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Bosworth Field}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0521591389552, "num" : 15, "question" : "During this battle, the earl of Oxford had one side draw up in a wedge between two banners, and Peter J. Foss has argued that this battle actually occurred at Redemore. The losing commander in this battle was buried at the Grey Friars monastery, while the winning commander landed at Milford Haven preceding this battle. The earl of Northumberland did not engage his troops in this battle during which the initial charge was led by the Duke of Norfolk, John Howard. Ending with the treachery of Thomas, Lord Stanley, for 10 points, name this battle which ended with the defeat of Richard III by Henry VII and ended the Wars of the Roses.", "round" : "DAFT 2009 Round 10 - Edited - Proofread.doc", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "DAFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0b8b3d831d6a001bb7" }, "answer" : "{Barack Obama}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.2543091487605, "num" : 5, "question" : "In one appearance by this character, he pledges to take down the crime-ridden city of Bomb Queen, who in retaliation attempts to discredit this man by stealing his sperm and impregnating herself with it. In another appearance, a caricature of this man is given the first name John and switches bodies with a Japanese teenager named Adachi, while in the comic book series Drafted a mostly-mute version of this man has his family disintegrated by aliens before taking up the mantle as leader of a group of survivors in Chicago. A notable issue of The (*) Amazing Spider-Man saw that hero expose an attempt by the Chameleon to steal this man’s most notable position by assuming his identity. FTP, name this real-life figure who in another disturbing manga travels to Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s residence for a sex scene involving John McCain and Hillary Clinton.", "round" : "FINAL_Penn.doc", "seen" : 80, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f5a8b3d831d6a002df7" }, "answer" : "{Krzysztof Penderecki} [accept {variants} of “{Penderecki's Symphony No. 8}”, or “{Songs} of {Transience}”, or “{Lieder der Vergänglichkeit}” before “{this composer}” is read]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.98908088030294, "num" : 12, "question" : "Settings of the three stanzas of Rilke's poem “The End of Autumn” are scattered throughout the twelve movements of this composer's choral eighth symphony, while the sole movement of his second symphony is in modified sonata form and features numerous quotations of “Silent Night”, giving it its informal nickname “Christmas”. Various tools are used to strike an iron bar in the second of his Lucretius-inspired pieces called De Natura Sonoris, while his other compositions include the electroencephalogram-inspired (*) Polymorphia and a symphony called Seven Gates of Jerusalem. An a cappella major triad at the end of the Stabat Mater and another major triad at the very end are the only exceptions to the atonality of his 1966 St. Luke Passion. His most famous work opens with a number of staggered dissonant blasts from the 52 stringed instruments for which it is scored; that work was originally titled “8:37”. For 10 points, identify this Polish composer of Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.", "round" : "Round 05 - Penn + Bruce et al.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032b4" }, "answer" : "{Scarlett O'Hara} [accept either or {both parts}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.5447850509081, "num" : 9, "question" : "This character gives birth to Ella Lorena Kennedy. Earlier, her friends learn about an upcoming marriage from Miss Pittypat Hamilton. That news leads this character to marry Pittypat's nephew Charles, and she gives birth to his son Wade after Charles dies. In her third marriage, this character marries a man who became wealthy blockade- running during the Civil War. Name this character who at first loves Ashley Wilkes and eventually manages Tara Plantation and marries Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff18b3d831d6a005197" }, "answer" : "Lake {Victoria} [prompt on {White Nile} until \"{lake}\"]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 594.2818419616669, "num" : 9, "question" : "The Ripon Falls are a natural outlet of this lake, and the Kendu and Homa Bays lie in its Winam Gulf. Near the city of Jinja, the Owen Falls Dam, which creates the Nalubaale Power Station, regulates the primary outflow of this lake. Ukerewe Island is the largest island in this body of water, which also contains the Ssese Islands. The cities of Entebbe and Kampala lie on this lake, and it is the source of the White Nile. For 10 points, name this lake bordered by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, which is the largest lake in Africa.", "round" : "4q2-09.pdf", "seen" : 395, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f538b3d831d6a002c75" }, "answer" : "Treaty of {Vereeniging}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 56.27759379777126, "num" : 20, "question" : "This treaty was signed in a mansion that formerly belonged to George Jesse Heys, the Melrose House. The Maritz Rebellion was an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the outcome of this treaty. Deneys Reitz went into exile rather than accept the terms of this treaty. Schalk W. Burger lost his position as President because of this treaty, which he was forced to sign. Opponents of this treaty were known as “bitter enders” because of their desire to instead fight to the bitter end. One party to this treaty agreed to accept British sovereignty in exchange for the promise of eventual autonomy for the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. For ten points, name this 1902 treaty that ended the Boer War.", "round" : "Round 09.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002377" }, "answer" : "{Seven Sacraments}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.67053806083277, "num" : 6, "question" : "Bernini reportedly knelt before one painting in the second group of these works, which depicted a mysterious veiled woman at the far left, though the rest of the scene simply showed the ceremony of Joseph and Mary. Another work in the second group reverses the composition of its artist's earlier depiction of The Death of Germanicus and shows a man in a yellow robe with candle in hand hunching over a dying Roman soldier. That second group currently resides in Scotland's National Gallery as part of the Sutherland loan and was commissioned by a man for whom the artist earlier painted Israelites Gathering the Manna. The last painting in the first group was destroyed by the fire at Belvoir Castle, where that group resided after being commissioned by Cassiano del Pozzo. The second group, however, is still intact and had been commissioned by Paul Freart de Chantelou. For 10 points, name these two series of paintings by Nicolas Poussin depicting scenes of marriage, ordination, penance, and eucharist.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 05 - The Great Slime Kings.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b85" }, "answer" : "Maccabees", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.70625400473364, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one non-canonical book of this name, all of the paper in a certain country is depleted, leading its ruler sentencing Jews to be crushed to death by elephant, all 500 of which end up getting drunk. The hero of another book of this name witnesses the dead bodies of several figures bearing amulets as idols of Jamnia and prays for them such that they might be free of sin. Eleazar and a woman with seven sons are martyrs present in that book of this name, which follows one which describes the foreskin (*) restoration of Jews subject to Hellenization by Antiochus IV. The hero of these Deuterocanonical books founded the Hasmonean Dynasty and commemorated an eight-day long flame by celebrating Hanukkah. For 10 points, identify these two books about a Judas who led a revolt against the Seleucids.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 12.docx", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40428b3d831d6a0064b6" }, "answer" : "Vathek", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.55136087141, "num" : 5, "question" : "[AR] While chilling on a mattress of feathers, slamming back flagons of Schiraz, the main character of this work sees Bababalouck followed by two dwarves. His mother had warned him in a message not to believe those “cubit-high messengers” or \"trust their pious frauds,\" and instead of eating their melons he should impale their bearers. Earlier, he added five extensions to his father's palace, on the hill of Pied Horses, some of which he named “The Temple of Melody,” “The Eternal or Unsatiating Banquet,” and “The Retreat of Joy, or the Dangerous.” In order to be brought to “a palace of subterranean fire,” the hideous Indian merchant-wizard, Giaour, demands that the title character, a ruler with an evil eye and a penchant for harems, sacrifice fifty of the most beautiful children in the land.  These and other licentious deeds eventually gets him an audience with Eblis in Hell. Loosely based on Haroun al Rashid's grandson, the ninth Abbasid Caliph, for 10 points, name this Gothic novel by William Beckford.", "round" : "Packet_of_Death.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eab8b3d831d6a000539" }, "answer" : "{Sabra} and {Shatila} Massacre", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.72700797347352, "num" : 12, "question" : "The probable lead perpetrator of this action had earned the nickname “Chef Edward” during similar forays a decade earlier, and went on to become a local warlord based in Zahle. One participant in this event defended his actions as a merely formally complying with UNSCR 520 during a $50 million libel suit against Time stemming from this event, which was preceded by a bomb detonation that killed Bachir Gemayel, enraging the Kataeb Party. Elie Hobeika’s forces were able to carry on slaughtering people through the night thanks to flares fired from a third party, which led the Kahan Commission to declare the sitting Defense Minister “personally responsible.” Hundreds of armed Phalangists were driven to the site of this event by the IDF, which had just invaded West Beirut. For 10 points, identify this 1982 massacre in which Ariel Sharon ushered pissed off, armed Lebanese Maronite into the two namesake Palestinian refugee camps and was then totally astonished when they slaughtered thousands of residents.", "round" : "2011 CO History Hoppes Ray.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a0024f4" }, "answer" : "“{Dali Atomicus}”", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.63664784189314, "num" : 14, "question" : "On the far right side of this photograph, a two step stool lies beneath a painting which includes an “A” and its shadow. The left side features a chair, of which only three legs are visible. Versions of this photograph before it was edited show no painting in the easel next to the central figure, who holds a stick up to his nose. A painting featuring a swan being straddled by a nude woman is partially covered on the right side by splashing (*) water, which violently tumbles like a waterfall on the left side of the photo. The photographer was not satisfied until the twenty-eighth shot, where three cats float above the ground, near the title surrealist artist. For 10 points, identify this Philippe Halsman work which centers around the painter of Swans Reflecting Elephants.", "round" : "Lully 4.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b4c" }, "answer" : "{Swan Lake} [{Lebedinoje ozero}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3261577538215, "num" : 33, "question" : "Riccardo Drigo revised the score of this work, adding in parts of the composer’s Eighteen Pieces for Piano. Julius Reisinger did the original choreography for this work, but performances today are based on the work of Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa. Prince Siegfried confesses his love to the wrong woman in this ballet, which also features the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. For 10 points, name this ballet by Tchaikovsky, in which Odette has been transformed into one of the title birds.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee38b3d831d6a001278" }, "answer" : "{Kitchen Cabinet} [do not accept \"{Andrew Jackson's Cabinet}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.0251874548849, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of this group's members published the Washington Globe and attempted to help negotiate the end of the Civil War by organizing the Hampton Roads Peace Conference. Another man who worked with this group also served as Postmaster General and founded Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf. Those members of this body were Francis Blair and Amos Kendall. Nicholas Biddle lamented that this group \"predominated over the parlor,\" and it was often consulted after the Peggy Eaton affair. For 10 points, name this informal group that advised President Andrew Jackson.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a00624f" }, "answer" : "{Saul Bellow}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.12730063591152, "num" : 5, "question" : "This author wrote of a title character who survives a mass shooting in Poland during the Holocaust before coming to America and fretting about the sanity of humanity. In a novel by this author, the protagonist makes a financial killing from a play based on his mentor, the commercially unsuccessful writer Von Humboldt Fleischer, based on the real-life writer Delmore Schwarz. In addition to Mr. Sammler's Planet and Humboldt's Gift, this author created a letter-writing character named Moses. For 10 points, name this author of Henderson the Rain King and Herzog.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 3.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40118b3d831d6a005923" }, "answer" : "John {dos Passos}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.5629229946062, "num" : 8, "question" : "This author was accused of portraying Americans as \"Time-reading, Republican Voters\" in a book about Jay Pignatelli. Another work sees one of the title characters meeting the sympathizer Genevieve and a man chucking two grenades at his hated sergeant. The other title character in that novel by this author is deserted by Mabe and promoted to corporal. Beyond Chosen Country and Three Soldiers, another of his works sees Bud Korpening committing suicide, as well as John Oglethorpe marrying Ellen Thatcher. Another novel sees Lloyd Wright designing buildings, Margo Dowling supporting communists and Charlie Anderson crashing cars. For ten points, name the author of Manhattan Transfer and The Big Money, the latter of which forms the U.S.A. Trilogy.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 2.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40268b3d831d6a005e3a" }, "answer" : "{Vanity Fair}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.0281184113119, "num" : 16, "question" : "One character in this novel rejects Glorvina O'Dowd despite pressure from his commanding officer. The protagonist is embarrassed when she lives with her former gardener Charles Raggles, and infuriates Miss Jemima when she flings a dictionary into the mud given to her as a graduation gift from Miss Pinkerton's Academy. William Dobbin marries a woman distraught because she never said good bye to her late husband, who died in the Battle of Waterloo, George Osborne, while the protagonist has a failed marriage with Rawdon Crawley. For 10 points, name this novel about Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp written by William Makepeace Thackeray.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0f8b3d831d6a001c8a" }, "answer" : "{continuous} [accept word forms]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.43569233710878, "num" : 3, "question" : "The Heine-Cantor theorem states that if there is compactness, this property is equivalent to its uniform variety. The Dirichlet function does not have this property anywhere. In Lesbegue integration, its absolute version holds for a function f on an interval if and only if there exists a function g such that the integral of g from the start of the interval to any point in the interval equals f. Its topological definition requires that the inverse of every open set be open.  A function f of x has this property at a point b if the limit of f of x as x approaches b is f of b. For 10 points, name this property of some functions, sometimes described as the ability to be drawn without raising a pencil.", "round" : "Lisle and Maryland B.doc", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f828b3d831d6a0037a2" }, "answer" : "In Cold {Blood}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.66516459663399, "num" : 7, "question" : "One scene in this work sees patrons of Hartman's Cafe berate Postmistress Clare for a comment she made to the Telegram. One character in this book likes to run over dogs on the road for fun and hangs out with a character who recounts how got pneumonia due to a nurse at a foster home putting him in a cold tub to cure him of his chronic bed wetting. That latter character had earlier lied about killing a man in Las Vegas. Bobby Rupp is devastated by the central action in this book, from which Eveanna and Beverly are partially spared. The central action in this work took place thanks to a tip given by Floyd Wells about a safe kept by the father of Nancy and Kenyon, and it ends with the execution of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. For 10 points, name this account of the murder of the Clutter Family by Truman Capote.", "round" : "UWashA.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbb8b3d831d6a004522" }, "answer" : "{acentric factor}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.58959777327254, "num" : 12, "question" : "The Korsten method sometimes replaces the Edmeister method for calculating this quantity, as the latter deviates significantly for heavier hydrocarbons in petroleum fractions. A more accurate method gives this quantity as a second order function of the Watson characterization number, and in a more often used formulation of that method, this quantity is multiplied by the first order term to give vapor (*) pressure. In addition to being used in the Lee-Kesler method, it is related to the negative logarithm of the reduced saturation pressure at a reduced temperature of 0.7. All fluids which have similar values for this quantity, reduced pressure, and reduced temperature have similar compressibility factors and display similar deviation from ideal behavior. Noble gases are defined to have a value of zero for this quantity, which was introduced by K. S. Pitzer. For 10 points, identify this quantity which describes the degree to which fluid molecules deviate from being spherically symmetric.", "round" : "2009 Chicago Open - Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2a8b3d831d6a0022ad" }, "answer" : "{Cretaceous} period", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 66.61415305477567, "num" : 2, "question" : "The Dakota sandstone Pierre Shale are two formations dating from this period, during which the Tethys Ocean became a shallow sea. Chalk deposits left by the Western Interior Seaway during this period formed the Smoky Hills Chalk in America, and the Dover Cliffs chalk in Europe was also formed at the same time. This period closed with the eruption of the Deccan Traps in India, which may be related to an impact that resulted in a thin layer of iridium forming between this period and the one that follows it. The Alvarezes posited that the KT boundary marks the stratigraphic border between this period and the Tertiary. For 10 points, name this period in which the T. Rex lived, the last period of the Mesozoic era that probably ended with a big meteor impact at Chixtulub.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - UCSD + Penn.pdf", "seen" : 42, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f8a8b3d831d6a0039a8" }, "answer" : "Word of {Faith} Movement [or Word of {Faith} Theology or {Word-Faith} Movement; accept “{Faith Movement}”, “{Faith Message}”, and “{Faith Formula}” but prompt on “{Faith}”; accept “{Positive Confession}”, “{Health} and {Wealth Theology}” and “{Prosperity Theology}” or {charismatic Pentecostal theology} before {each} is mentioned]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.88074511964805, "num" : 18, "question" : "In a 1980 paper rejecting this theological movement, the Assemblies of God denied its emphasis on “rhema”, or the spoken word, imbued by the Holy Spirit with God's creative and revelatory power. Other controversial beliefs of this theology include belief in Christ's spiritual death and the claim that humans are gods. The earliest basis for this theology appears in the writings of Baptist minister E.W. Kenyon, who developed belief in “positive confession” of Biblical promises, and it was popularized by Kenneth Hagin, who is regarded as the “father” of this movement. This theology is at the heart of popular devotional material such as the “Prayer of Jabez” and prominent contemporary promoters include T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Fred Price, and Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Emphasizing “health and wealth”, this is, for 10 points, what charismatic Pentecostal theology, often called “prosperity theology”?", "round" : "Round by Ruthlumbia and South Carolina.docx", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f168b3d831d6a001e05" }, "answer" : "{vagueness} (do not accept {ambiguity})", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 40.19443608913571, "num" : 10, "question" : "The earliest explorations of this philosophical property are attributed to Eubulides of Miletus.  One modern attempt to deal with this property adheres to the principle of least mutiliation and rejecting the notion of bivalent truth; this view is known as “supervaluation.”  Another approach to considering this property, called epistemicism, holds that there is some cutoff that is fundamentally unknowable. That view was advanced in Timothy Williamson's book on this property, which asserted that “no one knows whether I am thin.”  Responsible for the sorities paradox or the paradox of the heap, for 10 points, identify this property defined by C.S. Peirce as what happens when a concept's meaning is intrinsically uncertain.", "round" : "Editor's Round (PO 2).docx", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40208b3d831d6a005cc1" }, "answer" : "Daedalus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.4775401619263, "num" : 10, "question" : "While a guest of Cocalus, this figure brought about the death of one guest by filling his bath with boiling water. Pausanius believed this man to be the creator of carpentry, attributing to him items like the saw, the axe, and the plumb line. In one myth about this man, he is discovered when he uses an ant to thread a piece of string through a seashell; in another myth, this man pushes his nephew Perdix off of a high cliff because he is jealous of his potential as an inventor. Name this man whose symbol was a delta, who created the labyrinth for King Minos, and whose son Icarus died when he flew too close to the sun.", "round" : "07 TU.pdf", "seen" : 458, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002c93" }, "answer" : "A {Delicate Balance}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.18651014659554, "num" : 12, "question" : "One character in this play remarks that she put up with the “emancipated womanhood” of another character who enters playing an accordion. Another character asserts, “I find my liking you has limits... BUT THOSE ARE MY LIMITS!” in a speech called his “aria.” One character remembers his old cat, who stopped paying attention to him and was subsequently euthanized. This play opens with a discussion of what it would be like to go mad. The first scene of the second act ends when two characters appear with coats over their arms to announce they are going home and will return shortly with suitcases. The action of this play begins when two characters visit the central home because they fear an unnamed “terror,” and won't go home. Other characters in this play include the alcoholic Claire and a daughter separated from her fourth husband named Julia. Harry and Edna move into Julia's room and disturb the title condition in, for 10 points, what play set at the home of Tobias and Agnes, written by Edward Albee.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f218b3d831d6a002069" }, "answer" : "{Johann Christoph Friedrich} von {Schiller}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.72653805464506, "num" : 9, "question" : "This author wrote a work ending when Don Caesar commits suicide after killing his brother Don Manuel when he realizes the woman they were fighting over is actually their sister Beatrice. In one work by this author, the antagonist's son, Arnold, gets Henry of Halden to give up his oxen, then joins a group led by Walter Fürst. This author of The Bride of Messina included The Piccolomini as part of a trilogy in which the title character contends with the war commissioner Von Questenburg. This author also wrote a play in which Franz Moor gets his father to disown his brother Karl, who kills Amalia. For 10 points, name this playwright of the Wallenstein trilogy, The Robbers and William Tell.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Brown + VCU + Oklahoma.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40538b3d831d6a0068d7" }, "answer" : "Rastafarianism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.3179861591198, "num" : 1, "question" : "This religion's ceremonies include “bingis,” involving drumming all night, and “itation,” which is an Iyric abbreviation for meditation. This faith uses the l-tal dietary laws, and practitioners attempt to reach a consciousness named “I-and-I.” Their God, Jah, has his seat in Ethiopia, and they believe that all American blacks will be repatriated in Africa. For 10 points, name this religion that believed Haile Selassie was the messiah and which advocates smoking “ganja.”", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40568b3d831d6a006980" }, "answer" : "semiconductors", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.4447190926876, "num" : 25, "question" : "When heated, adatom pair chain structures form compact islands on the surface of one of these objects. A “compound” one of these objects is a likely source of solar cells. Ion implantation is used to create extra electrons or an “electron hole” in these objects in a process called “doping,” which results in the n and p types of these objects. The most common of these objects is elemental silicon. For 10 points, name these materials with intermediate conductivity, prevalent in integrated circuits.", "round" : "Round_14_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f138b3d831d6a001d5f" }, "answer" : "{Czechoslovakia} [accept {Czech Republic}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.4263880609069, "num" : 6, "question" : "The title character of one opera from this country becomes a spirit of death after she is rejected by a prince, and is the daughter of Vodnik, the water goblin. In another opera from this country, Emila Marty reveals that she has used an alchemist's formula to live three hundred years. Besides Rusalka and the Makropoulos Affair, Kostelnicka drowns the baby that the title character had with Steva in another opera from this country. The title character of another opera from this country tries to convince Vasek that she's undesirable so she can marry Jenik. Those are Jenufa and The Bartered Bride. For 10 points, name this home of Leon Janacek and Bedrich Smetana.", "round" : "Yale A.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40078b3d831d6a0056ff" }, "answer" : "{Sense} and {Sensibility}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6814961594064, "num" : 10, "question" : "The apothecary Mr. Harris is sent for when one character contracts an illness in this novel. The central family of this work is left impoverished after their father leaves Norland estate to his son by another marriage. Anne accidentally reveals her sister Lucy Steele's secret engagement to one character. Mr. Willoughby spurns (*) Marianne after learning she is poor, forcing her to settle for Colonel Brandon, and Edward Ferrars finally proposes to Elinor. For 10 points, name this Jane Austen in which the two Dashwood sisters represent the title qualities.", "round" : "tourn8-12.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f768b3d831d6a0034bf" }, "answer" : "{latent heat} of {vaporization} [or {enthalpy} of {vaporization}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.7579180384054, "num" : 16, "question" : "In the Riedel equation, this quantity divided by RT makes up one half of the equation. A characteristic exponent of 0.38 is used in Watson's equation for calculating this quantity given its value at another point. This can be derived from a combination of the B and C Antoine constants along with the second virial coefficient. It looses its meaning beyond the critical point. This energy is used to overcome the intermolecular interactions between molecules. For 10 points, name this energy required to convert a unit of liquid into a gas at the boiling point.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a0015a2" }, "answer" : "{Oregon} Territory [or {Oregon Country}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.0976697572041, "num" : 13, "question" : "This territory’s so-called “Lash Law” was circumvented by an 1855 act of Congress allowing the African-American George Washington Bush to keep his land. John Breckenridge’s 1860 running mate, Joseph Lane, served as its first territorial governor. Settlers in this territory used the Barlow Road as an alternative to crossing this territory’s major river; that crossing typically began at the (*) Dalles. It was made an official U.S. territory in 1848, four years after a James K. Polk campaign slogan promised to fight if its northern boundary did not reach 54 degrees 40 minutes. For 10 points, name this territory whose settlers, concentrated in the Willamette Valley, often journeyed there along a namesake trail.", "round" : "Packet 1 - Prelims 1.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6c8b3d831d6a00324a" }, "answer" : "{orthogonality} [accept {perpendicularity}; accept {normality}; accept word forms of any of the answer", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.6040736329742, "num" : 17, "question" : "One sequence of polynomials with this property begins one, then x, then three-halves x squared minus one half; the integral of any product of two of those from negative one to one equals zero. This term also refers to a specializa- tion of unitary matrices, namely, matrices whose transposes equal their inverses. A set with this property can be pro- duced by recursively subtracting vector projections; that is a basis produced by the Gram-Schmidt process. This term also describes vectors whose inner product, or dot product, is zero; as well as two lines whose slopes are opposite re- ciprocals. Give this property which applies to adjacent sides of a rectangle.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a00626b" }, "answer" : "integers", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.68935595965013, "num" : 5, "question" : "In an April fool's column, Martin Gardner claimed that \"e to the pi radical 163\" is one of these. The Eisenstein ones are proper supersets that are extended with complex numbers. They form an Abelian group when endowed with addition and a commutative ring when endowed with addition and multiplication, but they are not a field, as they lack multiplicative inverses. As a set, they have cardinality \"aleph 0\", although they cannot be enumerated monotonically. The floor and ceiling functions yield, for 10 points, what type or numbers represented with a bold “Z,” the set that is exactly the union of the natural numbers, their additive inverses, and zero.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Brown.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40038b3d831d6a005609" }, "answer" : "{Henrik Johan Ibsen}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7151541975327, "num" : 16, "question" : "This playwright wrote about a woman who forges her father's signature to get money from Krogstad. In one of this man's plays, waste pollutes baths that employ Dr. Thomas Stockmann. This man wrote a play where Judge (*) Brack discovers the owner of a pistol that Eilert Lovborg used to kill himself. George Tessman's wife shoots herself in a play by this author of An Enemy of the People. Torvald Helmer, a bank manager, is left by his wife Nora in another play by, for 10 points, what author of Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House ?", "round" : "tourn11-15.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40508b3d831d6a00681c" }, "answer" : "Abu {al-Qasim Muhammad ibn} '{Abd Allah ibn} '{Abd al-Muttalib ibn} Hashim", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 391.6360162927303, "num" : 17, "question" : "One of his early exploits was being injured in a battle at Uhud against an army led by Abu Sufyan, but he later won the Battle of the Ditch. This man was born into the Banu Hashim branch of the Quraysh tribe, and local opposition to his ideas led to his flight from his hometown, called the hegira. Despite several medieval examples to the contrary, most modern sects prohibit any artistic depiction of, for 10 points, what man who was visited by the angel Jibreel to transcribe the Quran, thus founding Islam?", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe88b3d831d6a004f7e" }, "answer" : "{Scott} v. {Sanford} [or {Sanford} v. {Scott}; or {Dred Scott} Decision]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1447043062653, "num" : 16, "question" : "One attorney in this Supreme Court case later served as Abraham Lincoln's Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair. As a result of Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion in this case, the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional. In a 7-2 decision, the Court in this case ruled that the plaintiff was not a citizen and therefore did not have the right to sue for his freedom. For 10 points, name this 1857 Supreme Court case in which a former slave who had lived in free territory sued for his freedom.", "round" : "4q1-07.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4d8b3d831d6a002b2b" }, "answer" : "Thanatopsis [MJ]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.455061015673, "num" : 11, "question" : "Locales in this poem include “the hills, / Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun”, and “Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste;” it also urges the reader to “Take the wings / Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness”. Beginning “To him who in the love of [*] Nature holds / Communion with her visible forms”, this poem describes those who “join the innumerable caravan”, saying to “go not, like the quarry-slave at night” but like  “one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams”. For 10 points, name this poem, a “meditation upon death” written at age 17 by William Cullen Bryant.", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 9 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 245, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40258b3d831d6a005e18" }, "answer" : "microtubules", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5601924208459, "num" : 4, "question" : "Vinblastine and taxol inhibit the assembly of these structures, and their depolymerization can be induced by colchicine. In Xenopus, the phosphorylation of the XMAP215 protein causes them to increase or decrease in size haphazardly, also called dynamic instability. They are nucleated at their minus ends at a gamma ring-complex found in their namesake “organizing centers.” Kinesin and dyenin transport organelles and molecules along them and they are found in a 9+2 arrangement in cilia and flagella. For 10 points, identify these entities that are made up of tubulin and which serve to drive the cell apart via motor function during daughter cell formation.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 19.doc", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40878b3d831d6a007523" }, "answer" : "{Parerga} and {Paralipomena} [accept: {Parerga und Paralipomena}]", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.25735687999986, "num" : 1, "question" : "One work in this collection criticizes “Neo-Catholicism” as “popular Hegelry” and advocates the use of Plato to stimulate philosophical thought while being wary of state intervention in the classroom to protect popular dogmas. Apart from “On Philosophy at the Universities”, this collection also contains sections called “On Din and Noise” and “A Few Words on Pantheism”, and it begins with the sections “Fragments for the History of Philosophy” and “Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real”. The second part of this work is titled “Stay yet systematically arranged thoughts on a variety of subjects”, which begins with “What a Man Represents”. The most famous part of this work connects vision, dreams, clairvoyance, and the supernatural as being direct expressions of the will that bypasses the usual senses; that section is called the “Essay on Spirit Seeing and Everything Connected Therewith”. For ten points, name this collection of short essays by Arthur Schopenhauer, with a two-part name.", "round" : "Round Finals.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408f8b3d831d6a007704" }, "answer" : "{Brideshead Revisited}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.93746125604957, "num" : 13, "question" : "Its narrator attended school with Apthorpe, who would later serve in the army with Guy Crouchback in another work by this book's author. The search for Effie lands Boy Mulcaster and the narrator in jail but they are bailed out by Rex Mottram, who later marries Julia. After meeting the narrator by vomiting into his window, Julia's brother Sebastian ends up serving in a monastery in Carthage. The siblings are the children of the staunchly Catholic Lady Marchmain, on whose death the narrator received his first commission. The story begins when the narrator, an architectural painter-turned-soldier, recognizes his new army camp as the titular mansion. FTP, name this novel narrated by Charles Ryder; a work by Evelyn Waugh.", "round" : "Chicago A.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fad8b3d831d6a0041b1" }, "answer" : "Graphene", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.33441827609204, "num" : 7, "question" : "Young and Kim have reported observations of Klein tunneling in heterojunctions of this, made possible by a unique band structure that simulates a relativistic wave equation with a greatly increased fine structure constant. Based on the presence of Dirac fermions, the anomalous quantum hall effect was predicted to occur in this before being observed by groups at Columbia and Manchester. Landau and Peierls argued that it could not exist, as divergent thermal fluctuations would cause it to melt at any temperature. Many groups struggled to produce it by epitaxial growth or intercalation of its quotidian parent compound, but the breakthrough in fabrication depended on 3M Scotch Tape. For 10 points, identify this material first isolated by Geim and Novoselov in 2004 and often touted as the next silicon, a two-dimensional single layer of hexagonally-arrayed carbon atoms.", "round" : "r05- Illinois-Maryland.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001578" }, "answer" : "{Alfred Emanuel Smith}, Jr.", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6165490406565, "num" : 17, "question" : "During a gubernatorial campaign, this man defeated Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., but his running mate’s loss\n left with him a Republican lieutenant governor. In one of this man’s speeches, he suggested it was folly to\n attack government entitlements by saying “Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.” This politician’s popular\n slogan was “Let’s look at the record.” This man crossed party lines to support Willkie and Landon instead\n of the Democratic candidate, who had described him as the “Happy Warrior.” Franklin Roosevelt\n succeeded him in his best known post. For 10 points, name this Governor of New York who lost the 1928\n presidential election to Herbert Hoover and was the first Catholic nominee for president.", "round" : "19.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0d8b3d831d6a001c0a" }, "answer" : "{Ithaca}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 46.2523533704225, "num" : 2, "question" : "One poem titled after this place asks the reader to “stop at Phoenician markets and purchase fine merchandise” and to “visit many Egyptian cities to learn and learn from scholars.” William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy is set in a fictional California town with this name. The poem titled after this place notes that “she has (*) nothing more to give you” and advises “pray that the road is long.” Another poem set here notes its port where “the vessel puffs her sail” and where “gloom the dark broad seas.” That poem describes this place as having a “still hearth, among these barren crags,” and claims it is populated by a “savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.” Residents of this place in another work include the nursemaid Eurycleia, the goatherd Eumaeus, and the loyal dog Argos. For 10 points, name this island where a group of suitors pester Penelope in the Odyssey.", "round" : "FINAL_VCU.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069ea" }, "answer" : "{Roe} v. {Wade} [or {Wade} v. {Roe}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.042702719802, "num" : 7, "question" : "The majority opinion in this case analyzed the creation of Lord Ellenborough's Act and ruled in favor of James Hallford. This decision expanded a previous case's doctrine of penumbras. Decided along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, its majority opinion was written by Justice Harry Blackmun, who argued that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizens the right to privacy, and ruled that the act in question was legal up to the first trimester. For 10 points, name this 1973 case that established a woman's right to an abortion.", "round" : "Round_04_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40488b3d831d6a006634" }, "answer" : "{Charles-Valentin Alkan} (6)", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.75309798843227, "num" : 12, "question" : "This composer included a barcarolette with an 18/8 time signature and a piece titled \"Odi profanum vulgus et arceo\" in his suite beginning with \"La vision,\" Esquisses. He composed \"grand etudes\" for the left hand, the right hand, and both hands reunited, as well as a massive Concerto for Solo Piano. Another of his works, a sonata containing movements subtitled \"Prometheus Bound\" and \"Quasi-Faust,\" is titled The Four Ages. His piano works include \"Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot,\" the programmatic etude The Railway, and Scherzo diabolique. This composer allegedly died by being crushed by a bookshelf after reaching for a volume of the Talmud. For twenty points, name this virtuosic 19th century French composer of etudes in every major and minor key.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 5.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaf8b3d831d6a000619" }, "answer" : "{Madame Emma Bovary} [accept either name]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 359.7693558076863, "num" : 1, "question" : "This character is embarrassed at a ball held by the Marquis d’Andervilliers shortly before moving to Yonville. To finance her frequent trips to Rouen, this character borrows money from Monsieur Lheureux, and swallows arsenic when she cannot repay him. This character has affairs with (*) Leon and Rodolphe because she is unhappy with her marriage to Charles, an incompetent country doctor. For 10 points, name this French adulteress created by Gustave Flaubert.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000cbf" }, "answer" : "\"The {Love Song} of {J. Alfred Prufrock}\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2956976343411, "num" : 8, "question" : "This is the title poem of a collection which also includes \"The Boston Evening Transcript\" and \"Portrait of a Lady\". The title speaker of this poem has a \"necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin\", and has \"measured out [his] life with coffee-spoons\". Near the end of the poem, the speaker laments that the mermaids \"will not sing to me,\" and earlier asks \"Do I dare to eat a peach?\" For 10 points, name this poem in which \"the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo,\" by T. S. Eliot.", "round" : "districts-05.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3b8b3d831d6a0026bc" }, "answer" : "{frogs} (accept {toads})", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 97.27961852657609, "num" : 6, "question" : "The Egyptian fertility goddess Heqmet is usually depicted as or with the head of this type of creature. In Greek myth, Leto, after birthing Artemis and Apollo, was forbidden to drink from a lake by some Lycian peasants, whom she turned into these creatures as punishment. In a tale sometimes attributed to Homer, one of these creatures accidentally drowns a mouse it is carrying on its back, leading to a war between the mice and these creatures. FTP what are these amphibians, one of which turns into a handsome prince after being kissed by a princess in a common fairy tale?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 10.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004ace" }, "answer" : "{Speeches} by {Abraham Lincoln} [accept {clear knowledge} equivalents, prompt on {stuff} like \"{Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses}\" or \"{Gettysburg Addresses}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 55.4817275851965, "num" : 14, "question" : "The final one of these notes \"no one man has authority to give up rebellion for any other man\".  Bliss and Nicolay give their names to copies of one, while another praised the Constitution and was given to at the (*) Cooper Union.  One was preceded by a lengthy discourse by Edward Everett, and another talks paying for of \"blood drawn by the lash\" and concludes \"with malice towards none\".  For 10 points, name these addresses, the most famous starting \"Four score and seven years ago.\"", "round" : "03_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a004094" }, "answer" : "{Maria Theresa} of {Austria}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.53651135950349, "num" : 4, "question" : "This person summoned Johann von Felbiger in an effort to improve primary education, and also founded an academy for oriental languages. The breaking up of freemason lodges shows this ruler's intolerance, as did the forced emigration of Protestants to Transylvania, and many of this ruler's reforms were instituted by Count Haugwitz. Wenzel Kaunitz failed to persuade this monarch to not reclaim Silesia from Frederick II. Earlier, Charles VI had ensured this ruler's succession by allowing female inheritance through the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. For 10 points, identify this archduchess whose 1740 ascension led to the War of Austrian Succession.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - OSU + Carleton A.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2b8b3d831d6a0022b7" }, "answer" : "Hamiltonian", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.2856518374756, "num" : 12, "question" : "The Thiemann operator is a candidate for this type of constraint, which would describe kinematics in quantum loop theory. Vector fields described by this adjective are obtained by rotating the gradient field components ninety degrees, and are important for determining equations of motion in phase space. Ehrenfest's theorem relates the time derivative of an observable with the commutator of this operator with that observable's operator. Cycles of this type touch every vertex of a graph once before returning to the starting vertex. When applied to wavefunctions, the operator of this type yields energy eigenvalues. For 10 points, give this term describing an operator that equals the sum of kinetic and potential energy, named for an Irish mathematician and represented by a capital H.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - UCSD + Penn.pdf", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbf8b3d831d6a004627" }, "answer" : "{Anarchy}, {State} and {Utopia}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.84214153350331, "num" : 14, "question" : "This book uses the examples of a woman with four suitors and Toscanini's retirement from the Symphony of the Air to argue that one has no right to any say in decisions which others have the right to make in its section “Having a Say Over What Affects You.” It notes that orchestra members are “ordered about by their conductor” and suggests that the relationship between subordination and low self esteem may be correlative rather than causative in “Meaningful Work.” In addition to defending moral “side constraints” it argues for the superiority of “filter devices” as opposed to “design devices “and presents a (*) thought experiment in which people sell stock in themselves in \"Demoktesis.\" It argues that we desire to \"live ourselves\" and criticizes hedonism with the experience machine thought experiment. This work claims that a titular concept arises through the invisible hand from dominant protection agencies and uses the Wilt Chamberlain argument that \"Liberty Upsets Patterns,\" to defend the entitlement theory of justice. For 10 points, name this attack on John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, written by Robert Nozick.", "round" : "Packet 12 - Geto Boyz Play Songs of Love.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002be6" }, "answer" : "{Gaius Marius}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.28186059487052, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man was allied with the Tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, and was bitterly opposed by the more conservative Quintus Caecilius Metellus. This man's final consulship was served alongside his ally Cinna. The supporters of this man were called the populares, and he was granted imperium to defeat the King of Numidia in the Juggurthic War. This winner of the battles of Vercellae and Aquae Sextiae saved Rome from the Cimbri and Teutones and served as consul seven times. For ten points, name this general who reformed the Roman army during the Late Republic, a rival of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a000018" }, "answer" : "{Good Morning} , {Midnight}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 30.61249814019538, "num" : 24, "question" : "This novel was fictionally adapted for radio on Madame Psychosis’ ‘Downer-Lit Hour’ and in reality by Selma Vaz Dias for the BBC in 1957, leading to its author’s rediscovery. In its Part 2, the protagonist reminisces about her black-and-white check coat while listening to L’Arlésienne, on the way to a Jewish painter’s studio where she watches him dance to Martinique music in a West African mask. The painter is Serge, who is introduced by the unusually named Russian, Nicolas Delmar. The protagonist’s actual name, Sophia, is revealed as she recalls being asked “Why didn’t you drown yourself in the Seine?” on her return to London, after which she used a “two-pound-ten” a week legacy to try to drink herself to death. “It Was All Due To An Old Fur Coat” is how a ten-day affair with the “mauvais garçon” gigolo, Réne, is summed-up by this novel’s protagonist, Sasha Jansen. For 10 points, identify this 1939 Jean Rhys novel that takes its paradoxical name from an Emily Dickinson poem.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c6d" }, "answer" : "{Abraham Harold Maslow}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.1246844809502, "num" : 13, "question" : "One theory that expanded the work of this man was Clayton Alderfer's regression theory, and the  ERG theory or Existence, Relatedness and Growth. He differentiated between humanistic and mechanistic science in The Psychology of Science and wrote Eupsychian Management.  He gave credit to Kurt Goldstein in developing a phase where there is a resistance to enculturation, a desire for solitude, and peak experiences. He argued that esteem, love and belonging, safety and physiological needs must be satisfied before self-actualization. For ten points, name this creator of a pyramidal hierarchy of needs.", "round" : "FHTE R6 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4d8b3d831d6a002b30" }, "answer" : "Rococo [DU]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.0532268292736, "num" : 16, "question" : "Hubert Gravelot illustrated books like Pamela and Tom Jones in this style, and Dominikus Zimmermann designed the Pilgrimage Church of Wies in this style. One practitioner of it depicted a stock character of commedia dell'arte, Gilles, and a student of [*] Francois Boucher painted another work of this movement, which features a gentleman spying on a carefree girl on The Swing. Notably featuring Embarkation for Cythera, for 10 points, Watteau and Fragonard are representatives of what early 18th century French art movement, featuring feminine lightness, cherubs, and playfulness?", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 9 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a00366d" }, "answer" : "{Aaron Copland}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.53230561129749, "num" : 12, "question" : "Serge Koussevitsky commissioned this man to write his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. He wrote an opera that opens with the arrival of Laurie Moss' graduation gown. Three ascending notes in the brass open a work by this man that debuted at tax time. He quoted folk songs like “Camptown Races” in a work that incorporates spoken-word readings of texts like the Gettysburg Address. He used themes from the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts” for ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. Another of his ballets contains a “Hoe Down.” He composed Fanfare for the Common Man and the ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid. For 10 points, name this composer of Appalachian Spring.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - EP Gaurav - Done.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb58b3d831d6a0043bc" }, "answer" : "{QCD} or {Quantum Chromodynamics}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.464577809209, "num" : 1, "question" : "In the chiral limit, the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model can be seen as a phenomenological version of this theory, and one version of it was formulated using an invariant equal to the trace of a path-ordered exponential known as the Wilson loop, and is referred to as the “lattice” variety.  Another version relies on a series of factorization theorems, called the “perturbative” variety. The Gell-Mann matrices are the infinitesimal generators of the SU(3) group, which is central to this theory, and Gross, Politzer, and Wilczek derived one feature of this theory, which states that particle interactions will become weak at shorter distances, known as asymptotic freedom. FTP, name this theory that explains the strong force in terms of quarks, gluons, and color charge.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Minnesota (final).doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f478b3d831d6a002998" }, "answer" : "{galaxies} [or {galaxy}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5698680232745, "num" : 5, "question" : "The Cigar one of these objects is an example of the starburst type, and starbursts can also occur when these objects collide. Seyfert ones of these contain active nuclei which are believed to contain supermassive black holes. Edwin Hubble created a “tuning fork” mechanism for classifying these as barred spiral, elliptical, or spiral. For 10 points, name these groups of billions of stars, which include the nearby Andromeda and our own Milky Way.", "round" : "Packet 2.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40598b3d831d6a006a51" }, "answer" : "orbitals", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.358800872229, "num" : 3, "question" : "The first four varieties of these were named based on the properties of their spectroscopic lines, and the Hartree-Fock method concerns another type. Doubling the azimuthal quantum number and adding one gives the number of these in a subshell. Molecular ones may be approximated by linear combination of atomic ones, while the Pauli exclusion principle states that their contents must have opposite spin. “Hybridized” according to the number of atoms to which an atom must bond, for 10 points, give this term for the regions in which an electron is likely to be found.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 272, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40278b3d831d6a005e65" }, "answer" : "the Scientific {Method}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.7257091477513, "num" : 5, "question" : "Otto Spengler advocated a “physiogmatic” approach instead of this concept. Imre Lakatos died before writing a promised work in support of this concept, which was to be paired with another work that eschewed this concept in favor of “Epistemological Anarchism.” In addition to Paul Feyerabend's work “Against” this concept, “The Fixation of Belief” claims that it is superior to tenacity, authority, or a priori because it creates objective truth. For 10 points, name this concept first outlined in Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, a systematic series of steps undertaken to produce scientific knowledge.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 3.doc", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a00601a" }, "answer" : "{Albert Camus}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.29170402488671, "num" : 2, "question" : "This man opened one work by musing that the twentieth century “was the century of fear” and arguing that individual humans must resist murdering or serving as accomplices to murder. In a more famous work, this man described “my revolt, my freedom, and my passion,” the consequences of grappling with reality in its true state. Later in that work, this man analyzed the lives of the “seducer, actor, conqueror, and artist,” the four examples of the so-called absurd life, before closing with an illustration of a figure filled with “silent joy” to see a rock rolling. For ten points, name this French writer of the essay collection Neither Victims Nor Executioners, who also proclaimed the Greek figure condemned to ceaselessly push a rock back and forth “happy” in his book The Myth of Sisyphus and wrote the novel The Stranger.", "round" : "Round2.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e34" }, "answer" : "{Savien Cyrano} de {Bergerac}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6937868962996, "num" : 5, "question" : "This character dies while visiting a convent, the result of a wound caused by having a heavy item dropped on his head. This character is a fictionalized version of an author who wrote The Pedant Imitated, Other Worlds, and A Voyage to the Moon. This character prohibits Montfleury from taking the stage, and ghostwrites letters for Christian de Neuvillette, who marries this man's love Roxanne. For 10 points, name this title character of an Edmond Rostand play, a large-nosed romantic of seventeenth- century France.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000cb2" }, "answer" : "{Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6008548105602, "num" : 29, "question" : "This man composed a work that was meant to be \"as Haydn might have written it, had he lived in our day,\" his Classical Symphony. This composer drew on themes from Slavic mythology for the ballet Ala and Lolli and reworked it for his Scythian Suite. In addition to composing the scores for Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky, this man composed a work in which the grandfather is represented by a bassoon and the duck is represented by an oboe. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f808b3d831d6a00372b" }, "answer" : "{Umayyad} caliphate [or {dynasty}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.69176212698221, "num" : 14, "question" : "Only one ruler of this group was later recognized as a caliph and not merely a secular king; that ruler is Abd al-Aziz. His father dealt with the rebellions by al-Mukhtar in Kufa and the combined forces of the Kharijites, Shi'ah, and Abd Allah ibn az-Zubayr in Iraq. This group was split between the Sufyanids, whose first leader attempted the first siege of Constantinople, and the Marwanids, whose last ruler, Marwan II, died at the Battle of the Great Zab River. They “won” the first Muslim civil war, beating out Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, and Mu'awiyah, the son of Abu Sufyan, was the first ruler of this polity. Ruling out of Damascus, for 10 points, what is this second Islamic caliphate?", "round" : "Illinois.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40808b3d831d6a007385" }, "answer" : "Ramayana", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.2990883912425, "num" : 15, "question" : "This work was influential for future poetry in its language by its introduction of the sloka meter. In one scene Kaikeyi reminds the king of his promise, and machinates to have her son placed on the throne. That son, Bharata, is aghast at his mother's behavior and places the title character's sandals on the throne once belonging to Dasaratha. Banished to the forest the main character, the prince of Ayodhya, along with his brother Laskmanna and the monkey-king Hanuman must fight the king of the Rakshahas. For 10 points, name this Sanskrit epic traditionally attributed to Valmiki which follows the life of the titular hero and his saving of his wife, the beautiful Sita from the demon Ravena.", "round" : "FINALS.rtf", "seen" : 460, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ee1" }, "answer" : "{Apocalypse} [accept {En Sabah Nur} before mentioned]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.237301581772, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man transformed Bennet Du Paris into one of his subordinates, and one group of his minions was known as the Dark Riders. An alternate timeline created by David Haller results in this figure ruling the world, and his rise came after he killed the Pharoh Rama-Tut, who was actually Kang the Conqueror in disguise. This figure believes in an extreme version of the survival of the fittest, and his will is usually carried out by his Four Horsemen. For 10 points, name this gray-skinned, immortal mutant, originally named En Sabah Nur, a major antagonist of the X-men.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 8.doc", "seen" : 565, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40378b3d831d6a006257" }, "answer" : "{Henry Clay}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.32954357541166, "num" : 6, "question" : "As a lawyer, this politician argued on behalf of the Second Bank of the U.S. in the Supreme Court case Osborn v. U.S. He pierced John Randolph's coat in a duel, and he used Friedrich List's ideas to develop his protectionist economic system. This man finished fourth in an election year that saw William Crawford earn votes despite suffering a debilitating stroke, and he swung the House of Representatives to John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in a move that lead to his appointment as Secretary of State in the “Corrupt Bargain.” For 10 points, name this man known as the “Great Compromiser,” a longtime Kentucky senator behind the Compromise of 1850.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Andrew Hart.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe68b3d831d6a004f08" }, "answer" : "sorting", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7791793420911, "num" : 26, "question" : "Fast methods for performing this function operate in O(n log n) (read: big \"oh\" of n log n) time, and include the \"merge\" and \"binary tree\" methods. The most common method to do this steps through an array, interchanging adjacent elements repeatedly until no changes are made on one full trip, called the \"bubble\" method. For 10 points, name this common operation, the act of interchanging members of a list until they are in a pre-defined order.", "round" : "4q1-03.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecf8b3d831d6a000db7" }, "answer" : "{European Jews}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.0764772358816, "num" : 18, "question" : "The Alhambra Decree affected certain members of this group, which geography divides into the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi. This group was subject to the blood libel, which was responsible for several pogroms against it. The most notable action against this group saw the attack of Kristallnacht and deportation of members of this group to places such as Dachau and Auschwitz. For 10 points, name this religious group persecuted during both the Spanish Inqusition and the Holocaust.", "round" : "regionals-04.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40718b3d831d6a007023" }, "answer" : "{Constantin Brâncu?i}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3055725258309, "num" : 18, "question" : "The man depicted a young girl clasping both hands to her chest in his The Prayer. He produced a gold, serrated object reminiscent of his best known work in Le Coq, and produced several Mademoiselle Poganys and Maiastras. Thirty meters of stacked rhombus shapes comprise his war tribute for his home country, The Endless Column, and he scandalized the Salon with his phallic Princess X. This artist of Sleeping Muse created several sleek, aerodynamic representations of a certain animal. For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 275, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002cb9" }, "answer" : "{Pugachev Rebellion} [prompt on “{Cossack Rebellion}” until mention]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.69363338593394, "num" : 12, "question" : "Salawat Yulayev was the most notable member of the Bashkir ethnic group to participate in this event, during which he attempted to capture the city of Kungur near Perm. General Zarubin Chaika helped lead this event, while General Alexander Bibikov was killed during this event. Participants in this event were targeted in retaliatory attacks led by General Peter Panin. This event's greatest achievement may have been the capture of Kazan, but this event was crushed at the Battle of Tsaritsyn. Participants in this event were angry that the serfs had not been freed by a certain Empress. For ten points, name this uprising against Catherine the Great, led by the namesake Cossack.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f078b3d831d6a001acf" }, "answer" : "ribosomes", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5521131563, "num" : 4, "question" : "In prokaryotes, this organelle binds to the Shine-Dalgarno box, and its size is measured in Svedberg units. This organelle begins its primary function in eukaryotes when it recognizes the Kozak sequence. Mitochondria possess their own variety of this organelle, and at the P and A sites located here, [*] aminoacyl-tRNA attaches. This organelle can be free or bound, and it is composed of a namesake type of RNA and separated into large and small subunits. Formed in the nucleolus and attached to rough endoplasmic reticulum, for 10 points, name this organelle, the site of RNA translation and protein synthesis.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f378b3d831d6a0025c5" }, "answer" : "{Ole Rolvaag}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.92103868559934, "num" : 15, "question" : "One of this author's characters imagines himself being told “Now you are on the way to Golgotha,” after he had to listen to Tom McDougal's accusations that his mother died a lunatic, while he is running for election. The title character of one of this author's novels witnesses a schism between St. Luke's Evangelical Church and the newly formed Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church. In that novel, its main character acts in a school play opposite Susie Doheny. In another novel, the protagonist uproots the stakes of Irish settlers and burns them, and that character perishes while trying to help out his neighbor (*) Hans Olsa, but he, the husband of Beret and settler of Spring Creek - Per Hansa, perishes in the snow. For 10 points, name this author of a trilogy of novels consisting of Their Fathers God, Peder Victorious and Giants in the Earth, a Norwegian-American writer. [Ike]", "round" : "Round 05.pdf", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406e8b3d831d6a006f41" }, "answer" : "integers", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5743198012933, "num" : 7, "question" : "De Bruijn defined a subset of these entities as “universally bad.” These objects can be represented using twos complement notation. Any real number can be converted to a number of this type using a function symbolized by square brackets, and the set of these numbers is denoted Z. A Diophantine equation restricts the solution space to these numbers, and rational numbers can be expressed as a ratio of two of these numbers. For 10 points, name this set of numbers that includes zero, all natural numbers, and their negatives.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a005078" }, "answer" : "{Congress} of {Vienna} [or equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9395203944295, "num" : 10, "question" : "This event resulted in Norway being kept by Sweden and Kraków (CRACK-cove) being established as a free city. This meeting condemned the slave trade, but did not outlaw it like one attendee had hoped. This meeting was interrupted by the Hundred Days. Great Britain was represented by Castlereagh at this meeting, which was also attended by Alexander I of Russia and Klemens von Metternich. For 10 points, name this meeting that led to the Concert of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars, which took place in the Austrian capital.", "round" : "4q1-15.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a002360" }, "answer" : "{piano concertos} of {Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.10221263696439, "num" : 3, "question" : "A slightly cut edition of the second of these compositions was prepared by Alexander Siloti, and the first of these contains one movement based on the cabaret song \"Il faut s'amuser, danser et rire,\" while another movement contains an allegro section inspired by a blind beggars' song. The third and last of these was constructed of unused material from the composer's unfinished \"Symphony in E-Flat.\" The composer received a bitter lashing from Anton Rubenstein after playing him the first of these works, which was premiered in Boston under B.J. Lang with Hans von Bulow as the soloist. That work opens with a four-note motif sounded by all four horns punctuated by orchestral chords, which starts in the home key of B-flat minor but quickly modulates to D-flat major. For 10 points, identify these works for a keyboard instrument and orchestra by the composer of the Pathetique Symphony.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 04 - The First Citizens of Contingency.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40698b3d831d6a006e1a" }, "answer" : "{North Carolina}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9962498303503, "num" : 21, "question" : "This state's governor during the Civil War was Zebulon Vance, and it was the site of a 1979 massacre of members of the Communist Workers Party by the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis. Governor William Tryon won the Battle of Alamance in this state, and during the Revolutionary War, it was the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. For 10 points, name this state that saw the Regulator Movement in the 1760s, the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960, and is home to a place nicknamed the \"Hornet's Nest\" by Cornwallis, the city of Charlotte.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f778b3d831d6a00350b" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Actium}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.3388917106204, "num" : 16, "question" : "The loser at this battle sent Antyllus to purchase his safe retirement in Athens, which was later brought to an end with the aid of the general Callus. The losing general employed a horseshoe formation and used Gaius Sosius to break the enemy lines, but had his strategy betrayed by the defector Quintus Dellius. Malaria-infected (*) vessels were set aflame and the remaining ships tied together before the losing general eventually fled this clash, whose winner stayed out of range of the enemy quinquiremes. It ensued after the victorious forces sailed from the Ionian Sea towards the Ambracian Gulf and was won by Marcus Agrippa. For 10 points, identify this victory for the forces of Octavian over those of Marc Antony and Cleopatra.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea08b3d831d6a0002d0" }, "answer" : "{Ronald Coase}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.3984213876538, "num" : 2, "question" : "Robert Ellickson wrote a paper about this thinker “and cattle” analyzing a famous example he uses in one paper. This man claimed that in a monopoly of durable goods, the seller will still have to lower their price to sell their product. He developed a theorem that is often exemplified by considering a train whose sparks damage crops in a farm. He developed a theorem, which was later named by George Stigler, which states in the presence of externalities, the efficiency of a company is independent of whether the party who created those externalities is liable for their cost. He wrote a paper that argues the formation of the titular groups occurred to reduce transaction costs. For 10 points, name this economist who wrote “The Nature of the Firm” and “The Problem of Social Cost.”", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - RPI A and Minnesota final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e407d8b3d831d6a0072ed" }, "answer" : "{Mathew Brady}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.578481759876, "num" : 16, "question" : "This man began to collect portraits of famous people in 1845, eventually compiling them into his 1850 A Gallery of Illustrious Americans.  At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he embarked on a project that costed $100,000 and would eventually bankrupt him.  Among his hired staff were Alexander Gardner and Timothy H. O'Sullivan (*) and 20 others, each of whom were given a mobile darkroom, capturing scenes of Civil War battlefields, including shots of Antietam which were exhibited in \"The Dead of Antietam\".  FTP -- Name this pioneering American photographer, who took the pictures of every president from John Quincy Adams to William McKinley.", "round" : "Round 10.rtf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d8d" }, "answer" : "{Kyoto Protocol}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.672550173942, "num" : 4, "question" : "This agreement is the subject of the Stern and Garmaut reports, and it described the Joint Implementation and CDM systems as part of its three Flexibility Mechanisms. It was the subject of 2007's Washington Declaration. Chad, Brunei, and Zimbabwe are among those who have not ratified this agreement, whose only Annex I non-ratifier is the United States. The successor to a prior plan outlined in Montreal, for 10 points, identify this agreement which concerns carbon emissions trading and global climate change, initially proposed in 1997 in the namesake Japanese city.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 13.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a0008ec" }, "answer" : "{Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.6692973969039, "num" : 6, "question" : "This leader was put under house arrest in his dacha during failed coup in August of his last year of rule. This man signed the INF Treaty and withdrew his country's troops from Afghanistan. One policy started under this leader involved the use of secret ballots in some elections as part of a restructuring. Another policy opened up some freedom of the press. Those policies started under this man were (*) perestroika and glasnost. For 10 points, name this man replaced in power by Boris Yeltsin who served as the final leader of the USSR before its collapse.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3c8b3d831d6a0026ed" }, "answer" : "{Carmina Burana}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.82805726500227, "num" : 15, "question" : "This composition has five sections containing thirteen movements, and is the first of a trilogy, collectively called \"Trionfi.\" It uses the comment lament form known as the “planctus” in numerous sections, including its “Planctus Ante Nescia. Its composer was an alleged Nazi sympathizer, though he claimed to have been a member of the White Rose resistance movement. Based on a thirteenth-century manuscript written by the Goliards and found in a Bavarian monastery in 1803, FTP, name this work whose best-known movement is \"O Fortuna,\" and which was composed by Carl Orff.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 12.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006532" }, "answer" : "The {Jewish} War [or the {Great Jewish Revolt}; or the First {Jewish-Roman} War – {basically} accept things {involving} the word \"{Jewish}\" and {fighting.}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.19245875231, "num" : 3, "question" : "This conflict started in Caesarea over a dispute about bird sacrifices. Agrippa II fled his capital with his sister, and the army of Cestius Gallus was decimated at the battle of Beth Horon, although the eventual Roman victory is celebrated on the arch of Titus. The Antonia fortress fell to the Romans shortly before the end of the siege of the capital, which had been begun by Vespasian, although Masada held out until 73 A.D. For 10 points, identify this war described by Josephus, during which the Second Jerusalem Temple was destroyed by the Romans.", "round" : "Round 3 - Vandy 2.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f608b3d831d6a002f3c" }, "answer" : "{Howards} End", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.87393856071867, "num" : 21, "question" : "The phrase \"Only connect...\" appears in the epigraph of this novel, and that phrase summarizes the protagonist's intention of helping her husband overcome his limitations. A drunk Jacky claims to be the mistress of one character at his wedding celebrations, and Jacky is the wife of a character who is murdered by Charles with a sabre. Helen bears the child of Leonard Bast in this novel, in which Ruth bequeaths the title structure to the protagonist. Henry Wilcox later changes his heart and resolves to give the titular house to his second wife, Margaret Schelgel. For 10 points, identify this novel in which the Wilcoxes and the Schlegels vie for the title residence, a work by E. M. Forster.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Finals 1 [DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS] - Done.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6e8b3d831d6a0032b6" }, "answer" : "{illegal drugs} [accept {logical} equivalents, {such} as {narcotics}; accept {more specific} answers; prompt on {Pro-}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6111938955729, "num" : 11, "question" : "From 1930 to 1962, this issue was overseen at the federal level by Harry Anslinger. In 1954, President Eisen- hower organized a five member Cabinet committee to address it. The Supreme Court faced this issue with Linder v. U.S., ruling that parts of the Harrison Act overstepped federal power. In 1973, the BNDD, ODALE, and other agen- cies were combined into a single agency within the Department of Justice to address it, and this issue became the focus of Nancy Reagan when she was First Lady. During the first Bush Administration, this issue was overseen by former Education Secretary William Bennett and former Florida Governor Bob Martinez, who were popularly called czars. Name this issue now overseen by the ONDCP and the DEA.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe18b3d831d6a004dff" }, "answer" : "Colorado", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 593.9004497972783, "num" : 14, "question" : "This state's Trail Ridge Road is the highest highway in the United States. This state contains Mt. Harvard, Mt. Princeton, and Mt. Yale in its Collegiate Peaks range, and its national parks include Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Containing Dinosaur National Monument on its western border and the historic Mesa Verde, its highest peak is Mt. Elbert, though another mountain in this state inspired “America the Beautiful.” For 10 points, identify this state, home to Pike's Peak, which contains the cities of Aurora, Boulder, and its capital, Denver.", "round" : "07 HFT.doc", "seen" : 395, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40238b3d831d6a005d55" }, "answer" : "the {Wainwright} Building", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5413220669143, "num" : 21, "question" : "The primary architect of this building was fond of calling its rooms “cells in a honeycomb.” This building's ornamentation is intended to make its supporting piers appear to be columns, and it was groundbreaking because part of its framework is semi-visible from the exterior. It was designed during its architect's partnership with Dankmar Adler that also resulted in their co-design of the Chicago Stock Exchange building, and this ten-story building has a terra cotta cornice and is constructed of red brick.  For 10 points, name this early building in the Chicago style, one of the first steel-framed skyscrapers, a Louis Sullivan designed St. Louis edifice.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 10.doc", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40888b3d831d6a00756a" }, "answer" : "The {Firebird} or {L'Oiseau} de {Feu} or {Zhar-ptitsa}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 59.01918265782297, "num" : 7, "question" : "A stretch of bars in 7/4 (“seven four”) time in this work's Finale was its composer's first use of metrical irregularity, and the composer noted his delight with its natural-harmonic string glissando in Expositions and Developments. The Sinfonietta on Russian Themes by the teacher of its composer informs the oboe melody in this work's Khorovod section, representing a round dance of thirteen princesses.  A solo bassoon represents the title creature luring a castle full of monsters to sleep in the Berceuse, after forcing them to exhaust themselves in the Infernal Dance of King Kastchei.  FTP, name this Stravinsky ballet in which the magical title creature gives Ivan one of its feathers.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Carleton A.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a0035ab" }, "answer" : "{Gibbs Free} Energy", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.99601863254793, "num" : 10, "question" : "The Clausius-Clapeyron equation assumes the change in this to be zero. Because this quantity is most useful when the substance in question is both isothermal and isobaric, a different quantity is used for explosive substances. An equation partially due to the namesake of this quantity gives the temperature dependence of this quantity for an ideal gas. A zero change in this quantity for a system implies that the system is in equilibrium, but a negative value for this quantity implies that a reaction is spontaneous. One may derive this by utilizing the Legendre transform on the internal energy of a system. For ten points, name this state function named for its American inventor, which measures the maximum amount of work attainable from a system, defined as enthalpy minus the product of temperature and entropy.", "round" : "Illinois A.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9f8b3d831d6a0002b1" }, "answer" : "The {Natural}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.30175689421594, "num" : 14, "question" : "One character in this novel performs several magic tricks including one where he making a dead herring appear in someone’s mouth. The protagonist visits the fortuneteller Lola and is dismayed to find out his lover Iris Lemon is a grandmother. After a bet between Sam Simpson and Walt Whammer goes awry, the main character is shot with a silver bullet by Harriet Bird. At the end of this novel, the title character is savaged in an article by Max Mercy after he obsessively courts Memo Paris, the girlfriend of his former rival Bump Bailey. Pop Fisher manages the title character who uses his bat Wonderboy. For 10 points, name this novel about baseball player Roy Hobbs, written by Bernard Malamud.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Maryland A and Boise State final.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005bec" }, "answer" : "{Assyrian} Empire", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.0626431526616, "num" : 10, "question" : "One ruler of this empire decapitated the \"braggart\" Teumman, king of Elam, and razed his capital of Hamanu, claiming in his chronicles that they had \"plotted evil\". That ruler also lost Egypt after Psamtik, with the help of Gyges of Lydia, rebelled. There were several phases of this empire, including one which climaxed during the rule of Tukulti-Ninurta I and another which reached the Mediterranean under Tiglath-Pileser I. Esarhaddon and Sennacherib, who conquered King Hezekiah, were other rulers of this empire. It was destroyed by the Medes and Chaldeans after the death of Asshurbanipal, and its major cities included Nineveh and Assur. For 10 points, name this Mesopotamian empire centered north of Babylon.", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f948b3d831d6a003c12" }, "answer" : "{Finnish} Mythology [accept the {Kalevala} before mention]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 97.06930268835276, "num" : 6, "question" : "In this mythology, the daughter of the death deity was blind and had nine sons who represented various diseases. One figure in this mythology turns a bunch of cows into bears, resulting in the death of a woman milking said cows. One character in this mythology builds himself a wife out of gold but finds her to be cold and unfeeling. One figure in this mythology refuses to marry the winner of a singing contest;  that contest sees the loser sink into a bog. Another figure in this mythology is killed after his hairbrush bleeds, leading his mother to use a giant (*) rake to fish his remains out of the bottom of the ocean. An important object in this mythology was forged from the jawbone of a pike, a musical instrument called the kantele. Another object was a mill that could create gold, called the sampo. For 10 points, name this mythology whose figures include Illmarinen, Kullervo, and Vanamoinen and whose tales are found in the Kalevala.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 8.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9c8b3d831d6a0001e8" }, "answer" : "{Lotus} Sutra [or Sutra on the White {Lotus} which is {Supreme Dharma} , or {Saddharma Pu??ar?ka S?tra} ]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 51.78718934953213, "num" : 10, "question" : "Daisaku Ikeda described this work’s “drama of fighting for justice against evil” in a book-length essay entitled “The Wisdom of [this].” Characters in this text include the dull-witted Sariputra, and it elaborates on the concept of upaya, or skillful means. Its opening states that its central figure is on Vulture’s Peak, or Gridhrakuta, and in it, Manjushri explains a mysterious ‘fine luster’ to Maitreya. Its third chapter tells a story in which playful children get a cart driven by white bulls from their father after being persuaded to escape the namesake place; that’s the Parable of the Burning House. Its twenty-fifth chapter is the first scriptural evidence of Avalokiteshvara, and it is the most important text of the Japanese Tendai and Nichiren schools. For 10 points, name this text, which claims everyone can reach Buddhahood, a foundational Mahayana Buddhist sutra.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-YaleFinal.doc", "seen" : 35, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa78b3d831d6a004059" }, "answer" : "{Michel Foucault}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.24513779766858, "num" : 9, "question" : "In one work, this thinker notes that a “veritable discursive explosion” took off in the seventeenth century, leading him to question the idea that Victorians were “imperial prudes.” In another work, this thinker considered the treatment of Robert-Francois Damiens in discussing an “economy of power.”  He claimed that a “great confinement” marked a shift in the treatment of the insane, and he also theorized that doctors divorce patients' bodies from their humanity using the “medical gaze.” This author of The Birth of the Clinic and Madness and Civilization also piggybacked on Jeremy Bentham's design for a prison in which all inmates can be seen by a single guard. For 10 points, name this philosopher who discussed the panopticon in his Disciple and Punish.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Dunbar + University of Minnesota A.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060d9" }, "answer" : "{Oxford} Movement [accept {Tractarian Movement} before “{tract}”]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.45027278130874, "num" : 17, "question" : "Leaders of this movement included the Mozley brothers and the poet John Keble. Edward Pusey's name is sometimes given to this movement, and groups founded from this movement include the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament and the Guild of All Souls, a group that meets to practice prayer for the dead. This movement supported by John Newman was advocated in the pamphlet series Tracts for the Times, and is thus also known as the Tractarian movement. For ten points, name this 19th century movement to introduce more Catholic practices into the Church of England, named for a British university.", "round" : "RoundFINALS.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000b08" }, "answer" : "{John Locke}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.2115224490408, "num" : 17, "question" : "As an Oxford student, this man collaborated with Robert Boyle to study the nature of human blood. He rebuked theologians who engaged in bitter debates over abstruse issues in his The Reasonableness of Christianity and advocated an end to persecution of Catholics in his Letter Concerning Toleration. This author of a \"fundamental constitution\" for the (*) Carolina colonies said that property rights derive from \"mixing labor\" with the land and advocated the protection of those rights with a social contract in the second part of his response to Robert Filmer's argument for the divine right of kings. For 10 points, name this author of Two Treatises on Government whose individual rights philosophy greatly influenced the American Founding Fathers.", "round" : "tournament17-02.pdf", "seen" : 307, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffa8b3d831d6a0053a2" }, "answer" : "{Titian} [or {Tiziano Vecelli}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.7590982785914, "num" : 10, "question" : "This artist left both his Death of Actaeon and Flaying of Marsyas unfinished at his death. One of his works shows a deity approaching an abandoned lover in a chariot pulled by two cheetahs, while another shows a sarcophagus and depicts two versions of a woman. In addition to (*) Bacchus and Ariadne and Sacred and Profane Love, he painted a depiction of a nude woman who covers her genitalia with one of her hands. For 10 points, name this Renaissance painter of the Venus of Urbino.", "round" : "tourn10-01.pdf", "seen" : 285, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f778b3d831d6a0034f2" }, "answer" : "{Bishop George Berkeley}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 467.1027932891157, "num" : 11, "question" : "This thinker was examined along with Malebranche by his best-known scholar, A. A. Luce. One work by this thinker claims that “some other will or spirit\" creates man's \"faint ideas\" and rejects Locke's distinction of primary and secondary qualities, and he described fluxions as the ideas of an \"infidel mathematician” in his anti-Newtonian (*) The Analyst. He illustrated the clash between the Platonic view of external forms and the the argument that observed characteristics occur only in the mind in a work featuring two philosophical personas. This tar-water enthusiast also posited that “to be is to be perceived” in his Treatise Concerning The Principles of Human Knowledge. For 10 points, name this British idealist who wrote Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 318, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e48" }, "answer" : "{Avram Noam Chomsky}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.7052874171641, "num" : 27, "question" : "This man proposed a theoretical framework called “principles and parameters,” and he reduced transformations to the operation “move alpha” before reducing them further to “internal Merge.” He criticized behaviorist views of language in a review of B.F. Skinner’s work Verbal Behavior. He discussed the concept of generative grammar in Syntactic Structures, and discussed the “language acquisition device” he theorized to be innate in children. For 10 points--name this linguist who works at MIT.", "round" : "regionals-08.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021f8" }, "answer" : "{Margaret Mead}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.06511464994401, "num" : 9, "question" : "One work by this writer introduces the idea of “postfigurative, cofigurative and prefigurative” societies. This writer's autobiography takes its name from a regional expression for a late cold spell that ruins a certain crop. The most vocal critic of this writer's work has attacked a commitment to write “for the Bishop Museum” and this writer's relationship with Dr. Charles Lane. Those attacks have come in books that describe “the Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth” and this writer being subject to “a Fateful Hoaxing.” Those attacks, launched by Derek Freeman, have claimed that this anthropologist misunderstood or was lied to by the teenage girls like Lola and Mala on the island of Ta'u. For 10 points, identify this author of Coming of Age in Samoa.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Chicago A + LASA.pdf", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f518b3d831d6a002c02" }, "answer" : "{Marcus Valerius Martialis}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.47914626938291, "num" : 4, "question" : "This author noted that a sheet of papyrus was his play thing and his dice box at the beginning of one work, and he notes that he “doesn't waste nuts” in a work depicting politicians wearing holiday caps. Those two works were a series of inscriptions for holiday presents called Xenia and Apophoreta. In one poem, he wrote that his farm was so small that it could fit under the wing of an insect, and another of his works concerns a woman with four teeth who coughed them out two at a time. Another poem offers an account of the opening of a stadium with descriptions of a rhinoceros, and in another work this poet notes that he lives in a tiny room that is so cold that Boreas would not want to live there. This author of the Liber Spectaculorum accused Tongilianus of burning down his own house, and wrote poems deriding Dr. Symmachus, Flora, and Aelia. The author wrote a poem to Domitian about censorship, and his sole collection consists of twelve books and over 1500 short poems. For 10 points, name this Silver Age Latin poet known for his epigrams.", "round" : "Round 04.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400d8b3d831d6a005826" }, "answer" : "The {Rite} of {Spring} [or Le {Sacre du Printemps}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.807349243667, "num" : 15, "question" : "The score for this ballet contains a pounding combination of an F flat chord and an E-flat seventh chord played two hundred times in its section \"Dances of the Adolescent Girls.\" This ballet climaxes with a young girl dancing herself to death in its final act, \"The Sacrifice.\" This ballet's awkward, primitive movements, choreographed by (*) Vaslav Nijinsky, and its strongly dissonant music inspired a riot at its 1913 premiere. For 10 points, name this ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky, which depicts a pagan ritual.", "round" : "tourn9-10.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed58b3d831d6a000f2b" }, "answer" : "spheres", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.5611954075284, "num" : 3, "question" : "Unit quaternions form the four dimensional analogue of one of these. The Kepler conjecture is about the maximum density possible in packing these. Like their two dimensional counterparts, they have antipodes. The surface of one of these contains all points in three dimensional space that have a distance of r from the center. The volume of one is equal to four thirds pi r squared. The cross sections of these are circles. For 10 points, name these shapes that looks like balls.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f148b3d831d6a001d91" }, "answer" : "{magnetic monopole} (prompt on {monopole}, do not accept {electric monopole})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.65811024894937, "num" : 4, "question" : "The SLIM experiment at Chacaltaya in Bolivia is an attempt to discover intermediate-mass ones; another bound comes from a Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment at the South Pole. On Valentine's Day in 1982, a possible but unconfirmed signal of one was recorded by Blas Cabrera. JJ Thomson showed that a static configuration of one separated from an electric charge by some distance has a classical angular momentum along the line between them. Restricting this angular momentum to be a multiple of one-half h-bar leads to the Dirac quantization condition, which is one way to understand why they famously could explain the quantization of electric charge. Another explanation involves Dirac strings. For 10 points, name this theoretical object that produces a B field similar to the E field produced by a point charge.", "round" : "Carleton UCLA - Final.docx", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f1f8b3d831d6a002001" }, "answer" : "chloroplasts", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.38763883477077, "num" : 15, "question" : "Transport across this organelle's membrane is facilitated by the tic and toc proteins. Lynn Margulis theorized that this lumen-containing organelle, like the mitochondrion, originated as a separate prokaryotic organism before it was taken into the eukaryotic cell in a process called endosymbiosis. Thylakoid stacks arranged in this organelle create grana, which are the location of a process in which ATP and NADPH are used to turn carbon dioxide into glucose. For 10 points, name this green plant organelle, the site of photosynthesis.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 5.pdf", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3feb8b3d831d6a005017" }, "answer" : "{Norse mythology} [or {Scandinavian mythology}; or {North Germanic mythology}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.7421881384216, "num" : 9, "question" : "?According to this myth system, the first being emerged from the mingling of ice and fire in a void called Ginnungagap (ginn-UN-guh-gap) and drank milk from the primordial cow Audhumla (odd-OOM-bluh). This belief holds that the bones of that giant, Ymir (IH-meer), were used to build the universe. In this myth system, there are nine realms in the universe, including the home of frost giants, Jotunheim (YOE-tun-highm), and the home of human beings, Midgard. For 10 points, identify this myth system that believes the universe is built around the tree Yggdrasil (IGG-druh-sill) and will be destroyed at Ragnarok.", "round" : "4q1-12.pdf", "seen" : 455, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eeb8b3d831d6a001417" }, "answer" : "{tRNA} [or {transfer} RNA; or {transfer ribonucleic} acid; prompt on {RNA}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.7907678841148, "num" : 9, "question" : "Different types of this molecule that perform the same function are called isoaccepting. This molecule\n contains inosine and reacts with a certain enzyme to undergo aminoacylation. This molecule assumes a\n cloverleaf-like structure containing D, T, and A arms needed to properly fit into the P and A sites of\n another molecule. Wobble base pairing was originally proposed to describe this molecule, which contains a\n three base region called an anticodon used during translation. For 10 points, name this form of RNA which\n directs an amino acid to a growing peptide chain and is synthesized in the ribosome from a corresponding\n mRNA strand.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3faa8b3d831d6a004122" }, "answer" : "Lake {Malawi} [accept {Lake Nyasa} until read]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.2447024742141, "num" : 21, "question" : "The Kirk Range and Viphya Mountains rise on the shores of this body of water, and Cape Maclear is a promontory of its southern section. The Monkey and Nkhata bays lie on this body of water, whose distributary flows through the Majete Game Reserve, and creates Lake Malombe. The Ruhuhu River is the main tributary of this lake, and the Likoma and Chizumulu islands lie in it. It is drained by the Shire River, which eventually flows into the Zambezi. For 10 points, name this lake of the Great Rift Valley which is bordered by Tanzania, Mozambique and its namesake nation, which has its capital at Lilongwe.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - UCLA B.doc", "seen" : 68, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eea8b3d831d6a0013e1" }, "answer" : "{Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dali} i {Domenech}, {Marquis} of {Dali} de {Pubol}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.5117874534335, "num" : 1, "question" : "This artist painted a woman sitting on some clouds and having her left breast fondled by a disembodied\n hand in Honey is Sweeter than Blood. He painted a flower growing from a cracked egg that crowns a silver\n construction right next to an identical gold one in another painting. This artist of Soft Construction with\n Boiled Beans and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus also painted a Sphinx with the head of Shirley Temple,\n as well as a painting that includes twenty-eight Venus de Milos and conveys the spirit of bullfighting. The\n Hallucenogenic Toreador is not as famous as his depiction of four melting clocks. For 10 points each,\n name this painter of The Persistence of Memory, a Spanish surrealist.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a0046aa" }, "answer" : "“The {Rocking-Horse} Winner”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.46746149007231, "num" : 3, "question" : "This story's protagonist thinks the phrase “filthy lucre” is actually “filthy lucker,” until disabused by his mother, who realizes that she has a “hard little place that could not feel any love” when her husband is unable to make good any of his prospects in town. Later, a plan is hatched to give that mother one thousand pounds on each birthday, but she insists on receiving it all at once, enabling her to sink deeper in debt by sending her son to Eton. Mostly taking place in a house filled with the whisper “There must be more money!,” this story sees the (*) gardener Bassett convince Uncle Oscar to join a partnership that makes thousands of pounds off the success of Sausavino, Lively Spark, and Daffodil, although its key member finally dies of exhaustion after divining that Malabar will be the Derby winner. For 10 points, name this story about the boy Paul, who gets lucky racing tips from the title toy, by D. H. Lawrence.", "round" : "Rd05.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b2a" }, "answer" : "The {Affluent Society}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.74044311186299, "num" : 18, "question" : "A chapter introduced in later editions of this work differentiates between “insular” and “case” poverty, while another chapter analyzes the growth in personal debt and is titled “The Bill Collector Cometh.” This work repeatedly decries the importance of production of goods in chapters such as “The Paramount Position of Production” and calls the desire to produce more “The Dependence Effect.” The author also criticizes politicians and economists who strive to be predictable to avoid controversy and calls that mentality “conventional wisdom.” For 10 points, identify this work, the magnum opus of John Kenneth Galbraith.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 4.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eeb8b3d831d6a001427" }, "answer" : "Vandals", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.6274116954301, "num" : 2, "question" : "The last ruler of one branch of these people fled battle after watching his brother Tzazo cut down at\n Tricamarum. Tribes of these people included the Hasdingi and the Silingi. Belisarius’s first great campaign\n was against a kingdom of these people led by Gelimer. These believers in Arianism persecuted other\n Christians after sacking Carthage and making it the capital of their North African kingdom. A letter sent by\n Licinia Eudoxia requesting assistance from their leader Gaiseric led to the 455 sack of Rome. For 10 points,\n identify this Germanic tribe whose name has become synonymous with destruction of property.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 225, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f228b3d831d6a0020be" }, "answer" : "histones", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.44238874362782, "num" : 10, "question" : "A 2010 study showed that G9a, which methylates one of these proteins, is downregulated after cocaine use. In 1990 the Grunstein lab at UCLA caused yeast mating efficiency to decrease by replacing a lysine at position 16 of one of these proteins with either arginine, glycine, or glutamine. That study showed that mutations in SIR3 could partially allow mutated forms of these proteins to repress the transcription of HML-alpha and HMR-alpha. The lysines on the tails of these proteins are reversibly acetylated by proteins such as GCN5. An octamer consisting of two each of the 2A, 2B, 3, and 4 members of this family of proteins forms the protein core of a nucleosome. For 10 points, name this family of proteins around which DNA is packed in chromatin.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Editors 2.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401d8b3d831d6a005c06" }, "answer" : "1915 {Armenian} Genocide", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9941264528316, "num" : 16, "question" : "Several of the men behind this event were later assassinated during the radical Operation Nemesis, headed by Shahan Natalie. Its opening phase included Red Sunday, in which leaders of the Dashnak and Hunchak parties were targeted, as well as the passage of the Tehcir Law, which permitted deportation. It was preceded by the Adana Massacre and the Hamidian Massacres, and one of the only successful resistances to it occurred at Van. Enver Pasha claimed the targeted group had helped the Russians, allowing attacks at Sivas, Diyarbak?r, and elsewhere in eastern Anatolia. For 10 points, identify this genocide committed by the Ottomans against an ethnic group of the Caucasus during World War I.", "round" : "Round 7.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee98b3d831d6a0013cf" }, "answer" : "{liquid crystals} [prompt on {nematic material} before {lipid membranes}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.0233763800935, "num" : 6, "question" : "One notable property of these materials can be described by Miezowicz geometries and store\n Frank-Oseen energy. They can suffer from radial hedgehog defects. A change in their orientation by an\n electric field occurs at the Fredericks transistion. The direction of the averaged orientation in these are\n characterized by directors. Lipid membranes in cells are believed to have the dynamics of these. Two\n classes of these are thermotropics and lyotropics. Their phases include columnar, smectic, and nematic.\n These have orientational, but not long range order. For 10 points, name these fluid materials with\n intermediate organizational properties that are used in TV and computer displays.", "round" : "01.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc78b3d831d6a0047e1" }, "answer" : "{Gulliver's Travels}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.95530482567847, "num" : 3, "question" : "One character in this work is criticized for not keeping up his estate, despite the fact that his is the only well-kept area surrounded by barren fields.  That character, Munodi, would also encourage the protagonist of this work to visit a university where one professor attempts to teach students math by having them eat wafers with mathematical proofs on them and one man writes a paper on the malleability of fire.  The protagonist later discovers that Alexander the Great died of excessive drinking and watches Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes describe their philosophies to Aristotle.  That protagonist would later be forced to leave one land when he bathes in a river and the horse-like rulers of that land see that he looks like a Yahoo.  For 10 points—name this work containing the lands of Laputa, Houyhnhnm, Brobdignag and Lilliput, a novel by Jonathan Swift.", "round" : "9.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40568b3d831d6a0069a9" }, "answer" : "{Herbert Hoover}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.1872627683916, "num" : 8, "question" : "This man defeated Frank Lowden to win his party's presidential nomination. As president, he signed the Norris-LaGuardia Act and created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The Secretary of Commerce for Warren Harding, he headed the American Food Administration in World War I, and this president chose to sign the Hawley-Smoot Tariff in response to the calamity that doomed his presidency. For 10 points, name this president who lost the 1932 election to Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff88b3d831d6a00535c" }, "answer" : "{Zen} Buddhism [or {Ch'an} Buddhism; prompt on {Buddhism}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 392.4711493880022, "num" : 15, "question" : "One book associated with this religion is translated as the \"Record of the Transmission of the Light.\" One common practice in this religion is counting one's breaths. One school in this religion was founded by Dogen, who emphasized \"practice-realization.\" Another school in this religion emphasizes riddles found in collections such as The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Record. Those riddles, known as koans, include \"Does a dog have Buddha-nature?\" and \"What is the sound of one hand clapping?\". For 10 points, name this offshoot of Buddhism that emphasizes meditation and is common in Japan.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-rmp.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e988b3d831d6a000128" }, "answer" : "{Rouen} Cathedral", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 35.195754599059, "num" : 6, "question" : "This building’s window depicting Joseph is inscribed Clemens vitrearius carnotensis me fecit, the only signed example of a window from its period. A Camille Pissarro painting portrays an old market in front of this building, one of whose towers was funded by allowing donors to eat butter during Lent. A tomb in this building supposedly contains the heart of Richard the Lion-Heart. Its transcept features the Bookseller’s Stairway, and its lantern tower was rebuilt with a cast-iron spire in the nineteenth century, making it the largest building in the world from 1876 to 1880. A set of paintings depicting light striking this building at different times of the day was painted in 1892 and 1893. For 10 points, name this cathedral in Northwestern France, the subject of a series of paintings by Claude Monet.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-IllinoisAandColumbiaFinal.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7d8b3d831d6a003694" }, "answer" : "Lebanon", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.66876601614058, "num" : 10, "question" : "The term of the first president of this country, Charles Debbas, was extended by one year after a proposal to break an electoral deadlock involving Emile Iddi. Iddi would later become the last president of this country under French control, which ended after the Battle of Damour in this country; a subsequent battle led to the Armistice of Acre. That French control had been guaranteed by the terms of the Sykes-Picot Treaty, and it was given its mandate over this country at the San Remo conference. Its National Pact established a division of power along its confessional cleavages, with the office of Prime Minister being reserved for Sunnis and the presidency being given to the Maronite majority. For 10 points, name this country, whose fifteen-year civil war saw invasions by both Israel and Syria, whose capital is Beirut.", "round" : "BSUNotreDame.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b8e" }, "answer" : "functions", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.922288231086, "num" : 16, "question" : "Mathematicians using the name Nicolas Bourbaki classified these entities into surjections, bijections, and injections, and these entities can be combined by using the output of one as the input of another in a process called composition. Injections are also called the one-to-one type of these, and whether an inverse one of these exists can be determined using the horizontal line test. For 10 points, identify this type of relation which can be classified using the vertical line test in which each element of the domain corresponds to exactly one element in the range.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ece8b3d831d6a000d51" }, "answer" : "{Ancient Greek} [or {Hellenike}]", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.2833612430841, "num" : 18, "question" : "In this language, the sound corresponding to “h” is rendered by a breath mark above the first vowel. This language uses acute, grave, and circumflex accents above vowels to denote different musical tones. Its word for sea can be rendered as either thalatta or thalassa. This language’s Koine [COY-nay] dialect is used for its version of the New Testament. This language’s primary dialects include Attic and Homeric. For 10 points, name this language, whose alphabet contains the letters alpha and beta.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc68b3d831d6a0047d2" }, "answer" : "Olympia", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.0626970527228, "num" : 9, "question" : "The fringe of a blanket is just visible beneath the central image of this work, and the central figure wears a brown wristband with a small tassel.  In the background, a large glass bowl lined with paper and filled with flowers is held by a black servant, who looks with a terrified wonder at the central figure of this work.  That central figure wears medium wooden heels with a silver strap and has a bow tied around her neck with black lace, and is sitting on a couch holding onto a tan blanket with one hand and covering her vagina with her other hand.  For 10 points—name this painting of a nude prostitute by Édouard Manet.", "round" : "8.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f958b3d831d6a003c54" }, "answer" : "Election of 1876 [accept {clear-knowledge} equivalents {such} as {presidential race} of {1876}; prompt on answers not {containing} “{1876}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.3502678768709, "num" : 10, "question" : "A Thomas Nast cartoon called the resolution of this event \"a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war\". Nominees for one party's candidate in this election included Roscoe Conkling, and this election saw an attempt to replace John Watts made by Oregon governor Lafayette Grover. This election was ultimately decided by a panel headed by Joseph Bradley rather than David Davis, and it was decided against a man who had fought Tammany Hall in New York, though the candidates reached a compromise that ended Reconstruction. For 10 points, identify this fraudulent election in which Samuel J. Tilden was defeated by Rutherford B. Hayes.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043fc" }, "answer" : "{IR} Spectroscopy [or {Infrared} Spectroscopy]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.71462764847092, "num" : 22, "question" : "**One type of this technique is beneficial because of the higher signals produced, the so-called Jacquinot Advantage. Another form of this technique, developed from techniques used in NMR, uses picosecond-long exposures to track dynamics, the so-called two dimensional or color-correlated form of it.  Samples can either be ground into a nonvolatile mull of nujol or spread across a pair of salt plates. In this technique, higher stretching frequencies tend to correspond to bonds to lighter elements like hydrogen, and one part of it is the group frequency region.  Containing the fingerprint region, for 10 points, name this type of spectroscopy that uses electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than visible light.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Orth-Bentley.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea98b3d831d6a0004b9" }, "answer" : "{“The Tragedy of the Commons} ”", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 39.33076435280964, "num" : 20, "question" : "A follow-up to this work contains essays like Daniel Fife’s “Killing the Goose” and the original author’s “Living on a Lifeboat.” He co-edited that follow-up to this work with John Baden, and this work’s conclusion has been notably contested by Elinor Ostrom. This essay refers to Gregory Bateson’s argument that guilt results in a “double bind” to show the ineffectiveness of the creation of anxiety as a deterrent. It quotes from an article by Wiesner and York about a nuclear arms race to demonstrate the existence of problems with no technical solution. The author claims that natural selection guarantees that “conscience is self-eliminating” when it comes to population control, and goes on to argue against the United Nations, as there should be no “freedom to breed.” Government management and privatization are suggested as two solutions to the title problem by this work's author Garrett Hardin, who uses the classic example of farmers overgrazing their cattle on public pastureland. FTP, name this paper titled for the situation where individuals exploit a publicly-held resource for personal benefit.", "round" : "PACKET15Carson.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec08b3d831d6a000a1e" }, "answer" : "{South Carolina}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.4672279339284, "num" : 13, "question" : "In this state, the \"Friendship Nine\" initiated the \"jail no bail\" strategy by insisting on serving their sentences after being arrested during a sit-in. During the Revolution, Nathanael Greene faced Alexander Stewart at Eutaw Springs in this state. A fifteen hundred dollar lottery payoff was used to plot a slave rebellion in this state by (*) Denmark Vesey. This state saw the battles of Cowpens and Camden during the Revolution and its Nullification movement was led by John Calhoun. For 10 points, name this first state to secede from the union, the site of Fort Sumter.", "round" : "07.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea38b3d831d6a00037f" }, "answer" : "{Magnetoresistance} [accept \" {Giant Magnetoresistane} \" or \" {Tunnel Magnetoresistance} \" before \"the simplest form \"]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 49.02108631306328, "num" : 3, "question" : "Thermal assisted switching and spin torque transfer are two applications of this phenomenon. Half-metals exhibit a strong form of this effect due to vanishing spin down density. Microwaves tuned to the cyclotron harmonics of two dimensional electron gases can cause unusually strong oscillations in this phenomenon, One form of this phenomenon takes place between two ferromagnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic layer, and is central to the field of spintronics, such as in hard disk read heads. The simplest form of this phenomenon is anisotropic and is proportional to one plus quantity mu B squared. FTPE, name this phenonomenon in which an applied B field changes the conductivity of a metal.", "round" : "FINALS2.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40848b3d831d6a007460" }, "answer" : "Marduk", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 682.3871082309633, "num" : 14, "question" : "Before undertaking his greatest feat, he ordered the Ubshu-kenna to submit to his authority if he was successful. On the E-Sagil Ziggurat, this figure is depicted as a snake-dragon holding a hoe-like tool called the marrn. His “majestic halo” and fierce glance killed Kingu, and then he sent a mighty wind into Kingu's consort, killing her and making of her ribs the vault of the heavens and earth. For 10 points, name this Babylonian deity, the slayer of the sky dragon Tiamat.", "round" : "RoundExtra.doc", "seen" : 450, "tournament" : "QuAC I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fef8b3d831d6a005112" }, "answer" : "{Emily Elizabeth Dickinson}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.5048332619481, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of this poet's poems states \"They shut me up in Prose.\" Another of this author's poems describes \"a certain slant of light on winter afternoons.\" This poet also wrote a poem about a \"narrow Fellow in the Grass,\" which was one of the few works she published during her lifetime. The speaker of one of her poems \"heard a fly buzz when [she] died.\" The speaker of another work by this poet rides in a carriage with the titular figure and immortality. For 10 points, name this poet who wrote \"Because I could not stop for Death,\" a woman known as the \"bard of Amherst.\"", "round" : "4q2-05.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40868b3d831d6a0074e3" }, "answer" : "{Amidah} or {Shmonah Esrei} or {Tfilat ha'Amidah}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.41769525269046, "num" : 21, "question" : "Mar ben Rabina wrote a common addition to this prayer, and \"b'ahavah\" was inserted into this prayer in response to Paul's epistle to the Romans. Between Shemini Atzeret and Passover, the words \"You cause the wind to blow and the rain to fall\" are added in one section of this prayer. The second section, skipped by members of the Reform movement, deals with the resurrection of the dead, and only versions said aloud include the \"kedushah\" section. For 10 points, name this central, often silent Jewish prayer whose names translate as \"standing\" or \"eighteen\".", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000ba8" }, "answer" : "the {Peasants}' {Revolt} [or {Wat Tyler's Rebellion}; do not accept or prompt on \"{Peasants}' {War}\"]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8411571511533, "num" : 20, "question" : "One participant in this event supposedly ordered the killing of Simon Sudbury. A more notable leader of this event was killed by Mayor William Walworth during an encounter in Smithfield. Among its causes was an unpopular bill suppressing the wages of workers, passed in the aftermath of the Black Death. John Ball and Jack Straw were two participants in this event aimed at an unpopular (*) poll tax levied by John of Gaunt, the regent for Richard II. For 10 points, name this English uprising of 1381.", "round" : "tournament17-09.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd28b3d831d6a004a68" }, "answer" : "{Daniel Defoe} [accept {Daniel Foe}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3504962925799, "num" : 5, "question" : "One work by this man recounts a 1665 epidemic, while the title character of another of this man's works escapes execution by “pleading her belly” and marries her brother. In addition to A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders, he wrote about a man who works as a planter in Brazil before taking to the sea and finding himself stranded on an island with a number of cannibals, including one he calls Friday. For 10 points, name this author of Robinson Crusoe.", "round" : "round11.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f378b3d831d6a0025b2" }, "answer" : "{Death} of a {Naturalist}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.62834989558905, "num" : 15, "question" : "One speaker in this collection recalls its addressee “dragging out long roots from the soft mulch,” and rhymes “to see” himself, “to set the darkness echoing.” Another poem in this work describes “milk in a bottle, corked sloppily with paper” and describes “the cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and the slap of soggy peat.” The title poem compares a slap and plop to “obscene threats” and describes creatures “poised like mud grenades.” Those creatures are (*) frogs that are “great slime kings” whose encounter with the narrator leads the speaker to undergo the title transformation. Also including a poem that ends “Between my finger and thumb the squat pen rests” it was the first collection of the author of District and Circle. Including “Personal Helicon” and “Mid-Term Break,” for 10 points, name this poetry collection that includes “Digging” written by Seamus Heaney. [Ike]", "round" : "Round 04.pdf", "seen" : 19, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa58b3d831d6a003fcf" }, "answer" : "sulfur", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.47085715993308, "num" : 20, "question" : "Two atoms of this element are key to the function of an enzyme which converts mercuric ions to mercury using NADPH, mercuric reductase. Four iron atoms and four of this element form a cluster central to the mechanism of aconitase, and a lab demonstration in which a boat floats on a clear, dense gas often uses this element's hexafluoride. The radioactive form of this element was used to label the capsid of viruses in the(*) Hershey-Chase experiment. This element is the central atom of a common polar aprotic solvent, and it is used to crosslink rubber in vulcanization. The most common allotrope of this element consists of an 8-membered ring with no side chains. For 10 points, name this element whose diprotic acid is formed in the contact process.", "round" : "The Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed78b3d831d6a000f71" }, "answer" : "{People’s Republic} of {China}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.1073022244964, "num" : 14, "question" : "The United States recently won permission from the WTO to impose steel tariffs on this nation, and a captured fishing trawler recently led this country to cut off shipments of rare earth minerals, though a claim that this country had simply met export quotas was made by the state news agency Xinhua. This nation also recently canceled diplomatic meetings with Norway in retaliation for the Nobel Committee awarding their Peace Prize to jailed activist Liu Xiaobo. For 10 points, name this Communist nation, the world’s most populous.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a004466" }, "answer" : "{Norman Rockwell}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.5450912406668, "num" : 4, "question" : "An African American girl is escorted into a school by several federal marshals in his work, The Problem We All Live With, while he further explored the Civil Rights Movement by depicting the murder of a civil rights worker in his Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi). Several pictures of Abraham Lincoln can be seen in his The Law Student, and a young child is shocked to find Santa Claus's costume in his parent's dresser in The Discovery. His other works include parents tucking in their children, a group of people praying and a grandmother bringing a Thanksgiving turkey to the table. FTP, name this American artist of Freedom from Want,  Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Worship from his Four Freedoms series, who also did the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 277, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a00445f" }, "answer" : "{Adrenaline} (Accept {epinephrine} until {stated})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7176206468138, "num" : 17, "question" : "Phenylethanolamine-N-methyl transferase is an enzyme that synthesizes this hormone present in both males and females. This catecholamine is derived from the amino acid tyrosine in a pathway that also produces L-dopamine. Synthesized using tartaric acid, ACTH regulates the production of this hormone. Activating the alpha-1, alpha-2, beta-1, and beta-2 receptors, it has a name that means “on the kidney” and is often used to treat asthma and cardiac arrest. FTP, name this hormone that boosts oxygen in the brain and muscles, often known as the “flight or fight” response, also known as epinephrine.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e63" }, "answer" : "Joe {Biden}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.1069670903496, "num" : 13, "question" : "This man presided over Robert Bork’s confirmation hearing as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a post he held from 1987 to 1995. He currently serves as the head of the Middle Class Working Families Task Force. In 2008, this man erroneously claimed that FDR appeared on television at the outset of the Great Depression. For 10 points, name this former Delaware senator and current Vice President.", "round" : "02.pdf", "seen" : 360, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f498b3d831d6a0029f8" }, "answer" : "{August Rodin}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.6025008491706, "num" : 17, "question" : "This artist created a large cloaked depiction of  Honore de Balzac and was accused of casting from a live model for The Age of Bronze. This artist sculpted Paolo and Francesca kissing and depicted several men with nooses around their necks in The Burghers of Calais. His most famous work sits at the top of a work containing the Three Shades, a massive bronze portal titled The Gates of Hell. For 10 points, name this French mentor of Brancusi and creator of The Thinker.", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 278, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401e8b3d831d6a005c30" }, "answer" : "{Umberto Eco}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2866719991434, "num" : 18, "question" : "The protagonist of one of this author's novels is carried to the Dutch vessel Daphne in a storm, and another novel sees Jorge de Burgos poison the pages of the second book of Aristotle's Poetics. In another novel by this author of The Island of the Day Before, three editors including Casaubon feed information about such varied subjects as voodoo and the Knights Templar to a computer called Abulafia. This man also wrote a novel in which William of Baskerville investigates the murders of several monks. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40558b3d831d6a006945" }, "answer" : "The {Leviathan}, or The {Matter}, {Forme} and {Power} of a {Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall} and {Civil}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 467.0487812482752, "num" : 24, "question" : "The first section of this work is a follow-up to its author's De Cive, and the fourth and final section of this work bashes clergymen who mix Aristotle with scripture as a \"confederacy of deceivers\" who would usher in the \"Kingdom of Darkness.\" Also containing sections \"Of Man\" and \"Of a Christian Common-Wealth,\" it concludes that an absolute monarchy is the best form of government. For 10 points, name this tome which labels human existence in the state of war \"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,\" written by Thomas Hobbes.", "round" : "Round_12_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 304, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eac8b3d831d6a000575" }, "answer" : "Prometheus", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 682.0861270197202, "num" : 8, "question" : "In the Theogony, Hesiod describes this figure as \"wily\" and \"ready-witted,\" and his story is also told in Hesiod's Works and Days. At Mekone (meh-CO-nay), he tries to trick Zeus by wrapping the bones of an ox inside its fat. He forecasts the travels of Io in a play by Aeschylus in which he is \"bound,\" a punishment which results from his theft of a certain item, which he hides in a reed. For 10 points, name this Titan who stole fire and gave it to humans.", "round" : "colonia-01.pdf", "seen" : 454, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a0016a6" }, "answer" : "{Stanley Milgram}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.45766698429361, "num" : 11, "question" : "In one of this man's experiments, he had a group of people feed dialogue to a student interacting with another person, who did not realize he was talking to multiple personalities. That experiment coined the term \"cyranoid\". In another of his experiments, he had groups watch an episode of Medical Center with different endings to see if a more violent ending would cause violent behavior. He sent packages to people in Omaha, Nebraska, seeing if they could eventually pass the packages on to Boston. This \"small world\" experiment reportedly showed there were \"six degrees of separation\". His most famous experiment was conducted at Yale University and was inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann. For 10 points, name this psychologist who conducted an experiment in which ordinary people demonstrated their obedience to authority by administering seemingly painful electric shocks to victims.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Minnesota B + Dartmouth A + Miami C.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d77" }, "answer" : "Battle of {Antietam} [accept “{Battle} of {Sharpsburg}” before mention]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.6794859438669, "num" : 4, "question" : "Much of the fighting in this battle was centered around Dunker's Church and Miller's cornfield. John Bell Hood led a Texas brigade that pushed back Joseph Hooker in this battle. During this engagement, Ambrose Burnside captured and held a stone bridge, and many soldiers were killed in a sunken road in this battle's so-called “Bloody Lane.” This battle lead to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and is sometimes called the Battle of Sharpsburg. For 10 points, identify this September 1862 battle fought in Maryland, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.", "round" : "01 HFT.doc", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401a8b3d831d6a005b19" }, "answer" : "{rivers} [accept equivalents like {streams}, {creeks}, etc. that {imply flowing water}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 65.52405241434462, "num" : 1, "question" : "These entities can be hierarchically classified based on the Strahler Order. The speed of objects in this kind of system varies by the sixth power of this system's speed by Brahm's law. Einstein wrote a paper about Baer's law, which claims that the hemisphere of the earth in which these bodies are situated affects erosion. When these bodies form underneath glaciers, they create braided ridges known as eskers. Their cross-sectional area multiplied by their average linear velocity gives their discharge. These bodies create ox-bow lakes when they cut off a meander. For 10 points, name these bodies of water exemplified by the Amazon and Mississippi.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 4.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fee8b3d831d6a0050df" }, "answer" : "The {Beatles}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.3024899510201, "num" : 17, "question" : "In one song, this band says that \"We would shout and swim about the coral that lies beneath the waves,\" if they were at the titular location. A folk song by this band sees the title character lose a shootout with Dan. Another song by this band laments a preacher \"writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear,\" and asks where all the lonely people come from. A guitarist for this band wrote a song that repeatedly states, \"I don't want to leave her now.\" For 10 points, name this band originally from Liverpool, England, that sang \"Rocky Raccoon,\" \"Eleanor Rigby,\" and \"Something.\"", "round" : "4q2-03.pdf", "seen" : 570, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef78b3d831d6a0016f4" }, "answer" : "{Stephen William Hawking}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.257856963668, "num" : 12, "question" : "With Thomas Hertog, this physicist suggested top-down cosmology as a way to address the anthropic principle. With Jim Hartle, this physicist suggested that the universe, despite being finite, has no spacetime boundary. The association of a temperature with every solution of the Einstein field equations that contains a causal horizon is named for him and for Gibbons. The (*) trans-Planckian problem arises in considering a phenomenon predicted by this physicist; pair-production near the event horizon of a black hole, a process named for Penrose, can cause the emission of his namesake radiation. For 10 points, name this recently retired Lucasian Chair, a British theoretical physicist.", "round" : "Packet 23 - Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 266, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd88b3d831d6a004ba4" }, "answer" : "Melville", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.94136859988794, "num" : 9, "question" : "An uncle and nephew with this surname reformed the Scottish education system and Church in the late 1500s. In addition to Andrew and James, a film by a man of this surname follows Jef Costello (*) and uses The Book of Bushido. One work of a man by this name involves the HMS Bellipotent and Captain Edward Vere. Jean-Pierre directed films like Les Enfants Terribles and Le Samourai.  For 10 points, give this surname also shared with the author of Whtie-Jacket, Billy Budd and Moby Dick.", "round" : "12_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024cc" }, "answer" : "Sunday in the {Park} with {George}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.78508214508183, "num" : 12, "question" : "Two characters in this musical argue over which of a pair of soldiers is better looking in the song “The One on the Left”. The Nurse has an affair with a coachman named Franz in this work, whose protagonist ponders two dogs in “The Day Off”. One character in this musical sings about the Folies-Bergere in “Color and Light”, and Louise reveals the affair between Freida and her father, Jules. The second act sees the unveiling of a work called (*) “Chromolume #7” and ends with the stage becoming a blank canvas that one character claims is “full of possibilities”. The protagonist has a daughter, Marie, with his girlfriend Dot, and the song “No Life” is used to describe his painting “Bathers at Asnieres”. For 10 points, identify this Sondheim musical about the artist of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.", "round" : "Lully 2.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40708b3d831d6a006fc9" }, "answer" : "dogs", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.9186600006651, "num" : 23, "question" : "Mary Cassatt's Portrait of a Little Girl depicts one of these sleeping on a chair next to the reclining title figure. One of these investigates a puddle of blood below the titular satyr in Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas. A black one stands at the center of Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and one sleeps on the bed in Titian's Venus of Urbino. For 10 points, name this animal, examples of which play poker in works by Cassius Coolidge.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000aff" }, "answer" : "{Eros} [or {Cupid}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.5704780158121, "num" : 8, "question" : "In Orphic tradition, this god is known as Phanes and is called the firstborn. The story of this male god and his love is first told in The Golden Ass, by Lucius Apuleius (app-uh-LAY-us). In that story, this figure leaves his lover after she drops oil on him while trying to see his face. This figure fathers Hedone (hud-OWN-ay), goddess of (*) pleasure, with his wife, the mortal Psyche. For 10 points, name this son of Aphrodite and Ares, a love god depicted with wings and a bow.", "round" : "tournament17-02.pdf", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f918b3d831d6a003b5f" }, "answer" : "{Crimean} War", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.06789055094123, "num" : 15, "question" : "One battle in this war saw a commander pass around a note saying “Let's start it”, which his generals misinterpreted as a command to begin attacking. A skirmish in this war saw AK Baumgarten defend Cetate. John Prettyjohns distinguished himself in one foggy battle of this war, which saw Dannenberg launch an assault against the Second-division-defended Home Hill.   One party in this war violated the London Straits Convention. The treaty that ended this war helped complete the (*) Tanzimat Reforms. This conflict also saw the siege of Silistria and the intervention of the French and British after the Massacre of Sinope. The Battle of Inkermann took place during this war, which included an almost year long siege of Sevastapol and the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. For 10 points, name this conflict named for a Ukranian peninsula.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 1.doc", "seen" : 36, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f358b3d831d6a00254e" }, "answer" : "\"The {Origin} of the Work of {Art}\"", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.94268719595857, "num" : 10, "question" : "This work claims truth is dominated by denial, which, in the form of a double concealment, is part of truth's nature as unconcealedness, and it later describes beauty as one way of truth shining forth. Collected in Off the Beaten Track, it describes the \"Ursprung\" or \"primal leap\" involved in the title event before ending with a quote from Holderlin's \"The Journey.\" It describes the phusis or \"emerging and rising in itself\" of a building that \"opens up a world\" but also sets \"this world back again on earth.\" Besides that discussion of a (*) Greek temple, this work also features an extended analysis of Van Gogh's portrayal of a pair of shoes. Declaring how its subject is brought into being by creators, for 10 points, name this essay by Martin Heidegger.", "round" : "Lully 9.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f488b3d831d6a0029dc" }, "answer" : "{Tommy Lee Jones}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 125.4042305240873, "num" : 6, "question" : "This actor played Abner Snopes in a 1980 TV adaptation of \"Barn Burning.\" This actor played a man who goes unarmed into the Oregon woods to confront the unbalanced assassin Aaron Hallam in The Hunted. He directed a film in which Mike Norton kills the title character, then is forced to dig him up and take him to Jimenez by Pete Perkins. The director of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, this actor described waking up after dreaming of his father riding on ahead to make a fire in \"all that dark, all that cold\" in a 2007 movie starring this actor as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. He played Colonel Hayes Hodge in Rules of Engagement and portrayed a marshall trying to capture Dr. Richard Kimble in the 1993 movie The Fugitive. For 10 points, name this actor who played Agent K, the mentor of Will Smith's Agent J, in Men in Black, and attempted to track down Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.", "round" : "r16- Magin.doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f288b3d831d6a002209" }, "answer" : "{John Rawls}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.20854768459685, "num" : 6, "question" : "Critics argued that this thinker treated organizations such as the UN and WTO as voluntary organizations, and not ones that are organized internally, in his last major work. He discussed the extent to which liberal democracies can deal with political arguments based on moral doctrines in \"The Idea of Public Reason Revisited\" and Political Liberalism. This author of The Law of Peoples wrote that social system should not \"encourage propensities and aspirations it is bound to repress and disappoint,\" in his magnum opus, which suggests that liberalist and socialist egalitarian outlooks can coexist and introduces the “difference principle.” Criticized by Michael Sandel and Robert Nozick, this is, for 10 points, which author who discussed the “veil of ignorance” in his A Theory of Justice?", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Eden Prairie + Maryland B.pdf", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002447" }, "answer" : "{Erwin Schrodinger}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5981260444969, "num" : 6, "question" : "This man's most famous paper may be his “Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem”, in which he developed an approach to determine energies of hydrogen-like atoms. That approach relies on an equation he names stating that i h-bar times the time derivative of a function is equal to that function's Hamiltonian. A thought experiment named for this man involves a Geiger counter's detection of an alpha particle causing poison to be released, so the central animal is simultaneously alive and dead. For 10 points, identify this Austrian namesake of a famous wave equation and a thought experiment involving a cat.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40668b3d831d6a006d72" }, "answer" : "The {Idiot} [accept {Idiot}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6145090158097, "num" : 2, "question" : "This novel features a scene in which the title character's fervent conversation causes him to knock over a priceless vase. The protagonist of this work stays up all night with the corpse of Natasya after she is murdered, and he is loved by the beautiful (*) Aglaya. This novel begins when the title character meets Parfen Rogozhin on a train from Switzerland, where the title character has been treated for epilepsy. For 10 points, name this novel about Prince Mishkin, the title dolt, a work by Fyodor Dostoevsky.", "round" : "Round_15_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 247, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40468b3d831d6a0065f0" }, "answer" : "{graphene} (6)", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.42728486075066, "num" : 6, "question" : "A group led by deHeer observed the fractal nature of resistance vs. magnetic field plots in this material, and a paper by Ostrovsky et al. proposed a model for the anomalous quantum hall effect observed in it based on Anderson localization instead of Landau level structures. Depositing it epitaxially on substrates such as silicon carbide can induce a band gap which it lacks because its conduction and valence bands meet at vertices of its Brillouin zones. Electrons moving through this material obey the Dirac equation for relativistic fermions, which allows one to test the Klein paradox, and it is also known for its ballistic transport of electrons, which makes it a valuable material for field-effect transistors. First isolated by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov in 2004, for twenty points, identify these sheets of sp2 hybridized carbons, which can be stacked to form graphite.", "round" : "Gaddis - Round 2.doc", "seen" : 44, "tournament" : "Gaddis I", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdf8b3d831d6a004d7b" }, "answer" : "{Great Expectations}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.8849192084745, "num" : 8, "question" : "The protagonist of this novel meets a character obsessed with “portable property” who refers to his father as “The Aged Parent.” The main character befriends Wemmick while working in the law firm of Herbert Pocket. In one scene the protagonist is nearly killed by the blacksmith Orlick in the same place where he had earlier met a man named “Provis” at the beginning of the novel. Mr. Jaggers gives the protagonist money sent from his benefactor Abel Magwitch. The protagonist of this novel falls in love with Estella while visiting the spinster Miss Havisham who was abandoned on her wedding day. For 10 points, name this novel about Pip, written by Charles Dickens.", "round" : "01 HFT.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc18b3d831d6a0046ac" }, "answer" : "A {Dream} Play [or {Ett Dromspel}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.95357725536451, "num" : 5, "question" : "One character in this play attempts to explain time as something which flies while he is talking, which causes one of his pupils to run away from class. That event follows an argument wherein one character attempts to explain that because one times one is one, two times two is two, but is unable to account for why two times three is not three when one times three is three. One character is an officer who paces about an opera house waiting for his lover Victoria, and demands to open a door with a hole shaped like a cloverleaf. This play features a scene where the protagonist and a poet see a ship whose crew chants \"Christ Kyrie\" as they see Jesus walking on water; that scene is set near (*) Fingal's cave, where the protagonist offers to convey the poet's words to God. The protagonist, sometimes called Agnes, has a child with an attorney who keeps reminding her of her duties, and towards the end, the protagonist enters a castle where she sheds her bonds with humanity and ascends to heaven. For 10 points, identify this play in which the Daughter of Indra descends to earth and observes the suffering of humanity, written by August Strindberg.", "round" : "Rd05.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed38b3d831d6a000e94" }, "answer" : "Jezebel", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.9965195660479, "num" : 25, "question" : "She appears in the Old Testament books of First and Second Kings as the wife of King Ahab of Israel and an ardent worshiper of Baal. She acquired Naboth's vineyard for her husband by plotting to have Naboth executed, an act which prompted the prophet Elijah to predict that dogs would eat her corpse. She was killed when her servants pushed her from a window as she stood awaiting an invading army. Name this Biblical figure whose name became synonymous with evil and an insult to women.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 256, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40158b3d831d6a005a06" }, "answer" : "The {Haywain}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.22547911666334, "num" : 16, "question" : "At the bottom of this painting a quack doctor is seen setting up a table with a large with a red heart on it to fool his customers, while on the right side a large priest sitting in a chair is seen forcing three nuns to pile grain into a sack. One section of this work is based on the Rotterdam Tondo and features three thieves tying a man to a tree, while the main figure is an emaciated man using his walking stick to drive off a dog snarling behind him. Along with “The Wayfarer,” the top of the central panel of this work features an amorous peasant couple embracing in bushes directly above an aristocratic couple making music. A train of nobles including an emperor and the pope pursue the title object of this painting as a pack of demons drag it to Hell. For 10 points, name this triptych named after a massive wagon representing the sin of avarice, created by Hieronymus Bosch.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40148b3d831d6a0059e9" }, "answer" : "{Dave Brubeck} (I {suppose you can} accept {Paul Desmond} until \"{Milhaud}\")", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.91148752509616, "num" : 7, "question" : "Joe Dodge was this man's drummer for a brief period but soon returned to his job as a bank teller when he got tired of traveling. He studied under Darius Milhaud thanks to the GI bill, and this man was accompanied by his son on bass and bass trombone on the album Paper Moon. He took over for the late Vince Guaraldi by writing the score for the Tv-miniseries This is America, Charlie Brown, and teamed up with Louis Armstrong to write the musical The Real Ambassadors. He became a hit on college campuses, leading to Jazz at Oberlin. He experimented 7/4 time in \"Unsquare Dance,\" which appeared on an album that went \"further\" than a predecessor, and he popularized a work in 5/4 which contrary to popular belief was actually written by his alto saxophone partner. For 10 points, name this jazz pianist and longtime collaborator with Paul Desmond, whose namesake quartet performed \"Blue Rondo a la Turk\" and \"Take Five\" on the album Time Out.", "round" : "KLEE - Round 6.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open KLEE Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402b8b3d831d6a005f7e" }, "answer" : "{Mau Mau} Uprising (accept Rebellion , Revolt , etc.)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 343.085443606833, "num" : 1, "question" : "One side in this incident responded by arresting people in Operation Jock Scott and more people in Operation Anvil after Oliver Lyttleton authorized Governor Evelyn Baring to declare Emergency. Ian Henderson was notorious for torturing prisoners, and the opposing side from the Aberdare Mountain resorted to guerilla warfare after the arrest of “General China” and the execution of Dedan Kimathi. The rebels were also known as the Land Freedom Army. Although the British had fewer casualties than the Kikuyu Central Association, its cost caused Britain to give up the colony. For 10 points, name this uprising in the 1950s, a manifestation of Kenyan nationalism.", "round" : "Packet 3.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402f8b3d831d6a00606b" }, "answer" : "Plato", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.25702307326719, "num" : 17, "question" : "In a work possibly written by this figure the “unwritten doctrine” is presented, which claims that a serious man in dealing with serious subjects “carefully avoids writing.” That work, the so-called Seventh Letter, belongs to a group of works whose authenticity is questioned such as Hippias Major. In another work, this author formulates the concept of the kairos, the ability of a judge to decide between the right and wrong moment to undertake an enterprise, and thus he rejects the sovereignty of the law in Statesmen. In yet another work, a figure informs us that love is a longing for immortality, a philosophy that figure learned from a female seer named Diotima. That work by this author also sees Alcibiades barge in and interrupt a party held in honor of Agathon. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek philosopher author of the Symposium and the Republic.", "round" : "Round5.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e938b3d831d6a00000d" }, "answer" : "{Bhima} or {Bhimasena}", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 51.41936660162173, "num" : 13, "question" : "While this figure is away, Jatasura abducts his companions. In another episode, this figure is saved from the snake Nahusa when one of his companions is able to answer correctly the question “what is a Brahmin?” In the kingdom of Virata, this figure is disguised as Ballava the cook, but kills the general Kichaka who had attempted to seduce the woman often called Krishn?. His union with the demoness Hidimb? produces Ghatotkaca, whose death later prevents Karna’s infallible spear from killing this figure’s brother. This figure, whose main epithet, Vrikodara, means “wolf-belly,” makes a vow to break the thigh of his wicked cousin. This son of the wind god Vayu fulfills that vow in mace combat when he fatally wounds Duryodhana. Fond of uprooting trees to use as weapons, his mother Kunti also bore his brothers Yudhisthira and Arjuna. For 10 points, identify this hot-tempered Pandava.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-BrownFinal.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fea8b3d831d6a004ffd" }, "answer" : "{Gaius Julius Caesar}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.6213086456992, "num" : 15, "question" : "This ruler was once captured and ransomed by Cilician pirates. This man refused to divorce his wife Cornelia when ordered to by Sulla. This man led his empire's first invasion of Britain. One work by this man focuses on his time fighting in Gaul. This ruler won the Battle of Pharsalus after the death of Crassus, which secured this man's victory in a civil war against Pompey. For 10 points, name this ruler who crossed the Rubicon in that war, and who was murdered on the Senate floor of Rome by Cassius and Brutus on the Ides of March.", "round" : "4q1-11.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028ef" }, "answer" : "{James Joyce}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.3420947925188, "num" : 5, "question" : "His first publication was a collection of 36 love poems entitled Chamber Music. Stephen Hero was a posthumous publication that contained large portions of another of his works, while Humphrey Chimpdon appears in another work, Finnegan's Wake. \"Eveline\", \"Araby\", \"The Dead\" and twelve other stories appear in one of his works depicting the middle class life of residents of the title city, while another work about Leopold Bloom contained allusions to a work by Homer. For 10 points, identify this Irish author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, and Ulysses. ", "round" : "FKT 2010 Joe FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec78b3d831d6a000ba3" }, "answer" : "{Mount Kilimanjaro}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.7960639735684, "num" : 15, "question" : "An October 2010 report noted that the Furtwängler Glacier near the summit of this mountain is rapidly melting. Home to the Chagga people, this mountain is known for Gilman's Point, a common stopping point located on the rim of a volcanic crater. Its actual summit of (*) Uhuru Peak can be reached by a variety of trails, many of which are accessible to those without climbing equipment. This mountain's name likely comes from Swahili. It is located in Tanzania. For 10 points, name this highest mountain in Africa.", "round" : "tournament17-09.pdf", "seen" : 401, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025f7" }, "answer" : "Wicked", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 4394.779703893932, "num" : 7, "question" : "At one point in this musical, Dr. Dillamond sings \"Something Bad.\" At another point, Madame Morrible announces that the main character is now an enemy of the town, and that character then sings \"Defying Gravity.\" The two heroines in it were originally played by Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. For 10 points, the relationship between Elphaba and Glinda is documented in what musical based on The Wizard of Oz?", "round" : "CMST_Round02.pdf", "seen" : 2937, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f058b3d831d6a001a5d" }, "answer" : "{osmosis} [prompt on {diffusion}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 2884.466150151799, "num" : 6, "question" : "A pressure associated with this process is a colligative (“co-LIG-uh-tiv”) property proportional to mass and temperature, and is defined as the hydrostatic (“HY-dro-STAT-ick”) pressure necessary to counteract this process. A “reverse” form of this process is sometimes used to purify water. For 10 points, name this movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.", "round" : "CMST_Round06.pdf", "seen" : 1930, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f618b3d831d6a002f72" }, "answer" : "{Roald Dahl}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.33452079864219, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one of his stories the protagonist referees a contest wherein a boy must work a lighter ten times in a row or he will lose his finger. In one of his works, the titular character and his father ruin Mr. Hazell's shooting party by drugging pheasants. In another work, the titular character goes to live with Miss Honey after using her psychic powers to defeat Miss Trunchbull. This author of Danny, the Champion of the World wrote about a character who shrinks after playing with television equipment. This man created Veruca Salt, a spoiled girl who clashes with a candy industrialist. For 10 points, name this author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Minnesota 2 - Done.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004948" }, "answer" : "{Alan Greenspan}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.6571704333182, "num" : 21, "question" : "He wrote that the gold standard protects from confiscation through inflation in a paper entitled Gold and Economic Freedom that appeared in Ayn Rand's Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal. Succeeding Paul Volcker in his most famous post, his speeches on irrational exuberance caused drops in stock prices, though his statement that liquidity will be provided eased the severity of a 1987 stock market crash. Criticized by some who claim that he may have caused the recent recession with his loose monetary policies, for 10 points, identify this American economist who was succeeded by Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.", "round" : "FKT Editor 3.rtf", "seen" : 220, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9a8b3d831d6a00018e" }, "answer" : "{German South-West Africa} (or {Deutsch-Südwestafrika} )", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 41.57162753911689, "num" : 5, "question" : "This colony got its started when a merchant got some land from local chief Joseph Fredericks after landing at Angra Pequeña Bay. One group from this territory destroyed a railway bridge at Okhandja and lost the Battle of Hamakari, after which they were forced to flee this location on the “Trail of Bones”. General Lothar von Trotha won the aforementioned battle. Walvis Bay was an enclave in this territory. During World War I, this territory was attacked at Ramansdrift in an offensive leading to the ultimate end of this colony once it was given as a mandate to its eastern neighbor. After Hendrik Witbooi’s unsuccessful rebellion in this territory, its Nama and Herero peoples were savagely killed by this colony’s rulers. Starting in 1890, this territory touched the Zambezi thanks to a strip of land ceded to it named after Chancellor Georg von Caprivi. Including the city of Windhoek, for 10 points, name this colony which lasted from 1884 to 1915, the predecessor of modern-day Namibia which was controlled from Berlin.", "round" : "2011 CO History Tabachnick Weiner.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403b8b3d831d6a006358" }, "answer" : "{dark matter}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.03418848128058, "num" : 11, "question" : "E.A. Valentijn and P.P. Van der Werf used their discovery of molecular hydrogen in NGC891 near Andromeda to explain this, and along with mircolensing it might be explained by the discovery of 38 white dwarfs in the Milky Way.  A large portion of it is known to be non-baryonic, and it was first postulated by Fritz Zwicky.  Some candidates for this include photinos and axions, which are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPS, or Massive Compact Halo Objects or MACHOs.  For 10 points, name this substance that makes up the vast majority of the universe's mass despite not being directly observable.", "round" : "ACF Fall 2008 - Missouri.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40288b3d831d6a005ec4" }, "answer" : "{Peter Grimes}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.6834810154978, "num" : 8, "question" : "The tenor in this opera meditates on constellations of the great Bear and Pleiades after entering a tavern called The Boar. One character in this opera describes how she found a jersey in the aria “embroidery in childhood” when she reveals her suspicions to Captain Balstrode. Swallow and Bob Boles lead a mob after the widowed schoolmistress Ellen Orford finds bruises on the neck of the title character's apprentice John. Based on the George Crabbe's The Borough, for 10 points, name this opera featuring the Four Sea Interludes about an abusive fisherman who sinks his own boat at sea, composed by Benjamin Britten.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 7.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40198b3d831d6a005af4" }, "answer" : "{flasks} [prompt on {more general} answers that {imply containers}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.43105837143958, "num" : 6, "question" : "A typical Dean-Stark apparatus contains two of these entities, one connected to a fractioning column and the other below a tap on a burette. One of these entities is sometimes named for Kitasato, and contains an arm that can be attached to an aspirator. In addition to that type named for Buchner, a version of these entities can have gas introduced into them via a side-arm, in the type named for Schlenk. The Florence type has a round bottom, and the version with vacuum-enclosing walls is named for Dewar. For 10 points, name these common pieces of laboratory glassware, exemplified by the Erlenmeyer type.", "round" : "MUT II - Minnesota 2.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40178b3d831d6a005a86" }, "answer" : "{Georges Bizet} [or {Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.67060320172459, "num" : 1, "question" : "The march from the finale of his first symphony was reused in a work that was heavily based on Donizetti's Don Pasquale, this man's Don Procopio. The aria \"Nour-Eddin, Roi de Lahore\" is sung by the title slave girl of another of his operas, while another of his works centers around Catherine Glover and is based on a Sir Walter Scott novel. In addition to Djamileh and The Fair Maid of Perth, he adapted his incidental music for a Daudet play into the L'Arlesienne suites and composed an opera in which the duet \"Au Fond du Temple Saint\" is sung by Zurga and Nadir, his The Pearl Fishers. For 10 points, identify this French composer who wrote Escamillo's \" Toreador Song\" and \"Habanera\" for his opera Carmen. ", "round" : "MUT II - Finals Packet 2 (intended for championship round).doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9f8b3d831d6a003e95" }, "answer" : "{Richard Hoffstadter}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.53810256230645, "num" : 14, "question" : "This thinker borrowed a phrase from Theodore Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality to term a phenomenon in which people mask “a profound if largely unconscious hatred of society” in empty vitriol as “The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt.” One book by this man introduced the study of “status anxiety” and argued that the New Deal differed from the Populist and Progressive movements because it was born out of economic hardship instead of prosperity. He claimed that the replacement of puritan with evangelical religion and the nature of Jacksonian egalitarianism were primary causes of a distrust of higher thought in American history. Another essay by this author of The Age of Reform traces anti-Freemason beliefs in nativist movements through the radical McCarthyism of his day to analyze the place of conspiracy theory in US politics. For 10 points, name this author of Anti-intellectualism in American Life and The Paranoid Style in American Politics.", "round" : "The Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a0070f2" }, "answer" : "{gallbladder} (prompt on {cholecyst})", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.195583443623, "num" : 2, "question" : "(JG) Its health may be tested with a HIDA scan, otherwise known as a cholescintigraphy [koh lih SINT ih gra fee]. Its cavities are called the Rokitansky-Aschoff [roh ki TAN skee ASH off] sinuses, and its out- put is regulated by the sphincter of Oddi. It can be affected by a condition called its \"strawberry\", and it drains into the duodenum. Cholecystokinin [KOH lih siss toh KI nihn] stimulates it to secrete the sub- stance with which it is most associated. It can be affected by stones, which are usually treated by remov- ing this organ. Name this organ of the digestive system that stores bile.", "round" : "r2tossups.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb58b3d831d6a000789" }, "answer" : "{Chairman} of the {Joint Chiefs} of {Staff} [or {CJCS}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.7205730625428, "num" : 19, "question" : "The person who served longest at this position was Earle Wheeler, and another who served in this position, John William Vessey, argued against the use of Marines in Lebanon. One man who held this position, John Shelton, popularized the use of the term “Dover Test,” regarding the American public’s ability to accept the return of (+) flag-draped caskets to Dover Air Force Base. Another man who served in this position under President Clinton, John Shalikashvili, wrote a 2007 op-ed in the New York Times against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The first person to hold this position was (*) Omar Bradley. For 10 points, Colin Powell served in what position during the first Gulf War, which is the highest ranked officer in the United States Armed Forces.", "round" : "12.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecd8b3d831d6a000d43" }, "answer" : "brain", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 394.7155966709834, "num" : 4, "question" : "This organ has been studied in the Aplysia genus of slugs by Eric Kandel. It is home to the suprachiasmatic (SOOP-ruhk-eye-as-MAT-ic) nucleus. It was divided into fifty-two regions by Korbinian Brodmann, and other regions of this organ include Wernicke's (VERN-ick-eez) area and Broca's area. It is surrounded by three membranes collectively known as the meninges (men-IN-jeez), and its stem is home to the pons and the medulla oblongata. For 10 points, name this organ which contains the temporal and frontal lobes.", "round" : "regionals-01.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd18b3d831d6a004a1c" }, "answer" : "{Mexico} Accept {United Mexican States}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.0667514307424, "num" : 8, "question" : "One novel from this country describes the magical cook Tita, Like Water for Chocolate. One author from this country wrote about the last days of Ambrose Bierce in The Old Gringo and about an ailing tycoon in The Death of Artemio Cruz. In addition to Carlos Fuentes, another author from this country wrote a poem inspired by an Aztec calendar, “Sun Stone,” and discussed his countrymen's identities in The Labyrinth of Solitude. For 10 points, name this home of Octavio Paz.", "round" : "round07.doc", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fde8b3d831d6a004d2b" }, "answer" : "{Letters} From a {Pennsylvania Farmer} [or {Letters} From a {Farmer} in {Pennsylvania} to the {Inhabitants} of the {British Colonies}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.52249362948351, "num" : 7, "question" : "[MB] The first document in this collection begins with the author stating \"I have received a liberal education, and have been engaged in the busy scenes of life\" before asserting \"the cause of one is the cause of all\".  The last section of these documents argues \"this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue\" and states \"you will be a 'Band of brothers'\" by opposing a \"minister ... that attempts to innovate a single iota.\"  Another document in this collection posits that because \"the spirit of violence being in some measure ... sheathed in commerce, colonies have been set up by the nations of Europe for the purposes of trade\".  Composed by the author of A Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, the city of Boston wrote a letter of appreciation to its author, who criticized taxes placed on New York in the first of these documents.  Written in reaction to the ? Townshend Act, its author would go on to write the Olive Branch Petition.  For 10 points, name these documents written by John Dickinson.", "round" : "Packet 6.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Gaddis II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7f8b3d831d6a00370f" }, "answer" : "{Bantu Migrations} [accept any answer about {Bantu peoples moving}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.92674800311215, "num" : 7, "question" : "The influence of the Nok culture is thought to have addressed one of the most salient features of this event to the people of the Benue Valley. The southernmost participants of this event were affected by areal diffusion of click consonants from the Khoisan, and this event is posited to have followed two routes, the western of which saw the settlement of the rain forests and the eastern of which saw travel through the savannahs into the Great Lakes area and Great Rift Valley and points south. Thought to have originated in Cameroon and tied to the spread of iron-smelting and agricultural development, this is, for 10 points, what mass movement of speakers of Niger-Congo languages across most of sub-Saharan Africa?", "round" : "Editors2.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404f8b3d831d6a0067f9" }, "answer" : "the {Magna Carta}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9277573400178, "num" : 11, "question" : "The fiftieth section of this document removed the relatives of Gerard of Athee from power, and its thirty- third section promised the removal of fish-weirs from local rivers. It also prevented the imposition of scutage without consent, and it was signed one year after its target lost the Battle of Bouvines. Its final section established a committee of Lords to check the power of the monarchy, and its thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth sections established the right of habeas corpus. For 10 points, name this document written by English barons, which was signed in Runnymede in 1215 by King John.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3efb8b3d831d6a0017f3" }, "answer" : "{Harry S. Truman}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.0278781994712, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man was implicated in the Fur Coat Affair, and he fired Attorney General Howard McGrath after that affair came to light. As president he issued Executive Order 9981, though he is perhaps better known for attempting to enact the Fair Deal. He encountered a major divide in his party when J. Strom Thurmond led away the Dixiecrats, and his widely successful but then-unrecognized whistle-stop campaign led to a famously incorrect Chicago Tribune headline. For 10 points, name this man who ordered the use of the atomic bomb and who did not lose to Thomas A. Dewey.", "round" : "Round03.doc", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f318b3d831d6a002433" }, "answer" : "{ribozymes} [accept {RNA enzyme} before the {giveaway}; accept {catalytic RNA} before the {giveaway}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 48.91200832277536, "num" : 14, "question" : "These molecules have been found to rescue photoreceptors from degeneration in models of retinitis pigmentosa, and one example of them has been implicated in many leukemias as a downregulator of p16-INK4a. “Water wires” folded into these molecules may serve as proton shuttles that enhance their activity. The only one of these that requires a small-molecule activator to function regulates the production of glucosamine-6-phosphate. Another notable example of these has G5, G8, and G12 motifs key to its function in a magnesium ion in its active site. These molecules can catalyze Diels-Alder reactions in vivo and hydrolyze their own phosphodiester bonds. For 10 points, the spliceosome might be and “Hammerhead” is one example of what RNA molecules that possess catalytic ability?", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 14 - The Gorilla Wrestles With The Superman.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40648b3d831d6a006cf6" }, "answer" : "{Johann Sebastian Bach} [prompt on {Bach}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.8348505515605, "num" : 15, "question" : "This composer wrote a work that includes a trio sonata for flute, violin, and continuo and a six- part ricercare based on a theme by Frederick the Great. This composer of the Musical Offering included the movement “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” in his (*) St. Matthew Passion. He composed two sets of twenty-four preludes and fugues in each key, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and wrote a series of six concertos dedicated to a Margrave. For 10 points, name this German Baroque composer of The Brandenburg Concertos.", "round" : "Round_09_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 279, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed88b3d831d6a000fd1" }, "answer" : "Poseidon", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.2021619514562, "num" : 17, "question" : "At Colonus, this god was known as Hippios, and he was the divine ancestor of the royal families of Thessaly and Messenia. This god was the father of a man who stretched and chopped people into fitting into his bed, Procrustes, and this god's main festival was the Isthmia. He saw to Odysseus' stranding on Calypso's island due to Odysseus blinding his son, the cyclops Polyphemus.For 10 points, name this Greek god of the sea.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 453, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec48b3d831d6a000afe" }, "answer" : "Islamic Republic of {Iran} [or {Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9710157266818, "num" : 7, "question" : "One leader of this modern country issued a farman in 1848 that abolished the importation of slaves by sea. That leader was part of this country's Qajar dynasty. A ruler of another dynasty in this modern country had a secret police called the Savak, led the White Revolution, and was almost ousted by Mohammad Mossadeq. That leader of the (*) Pahlavi dynasty lost power in this country after a revolution turned it into an Islamic republic. For 10 points, name this Middle Eastern country taken over in 1979 by supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini.", "round" : "tournament17-02.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb68b3d831d6a0007ac" }, "answer" : "{Vikings} [or {Norsemen}; or {Northmen}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.7217108968179, "num" : 8, "question" : "One contingent of these people were defeated by the Earl of Orkney at the Battle of Clontarf. A leader of these people descended from Mieszko I of Poland and won the Battle of the Holy River, although he’d later face a rebellion from his regent, Ulf Jarl. Prominent warriors among these people were called beserkers. For 10 points, name these seafaring people who launched numerous invasions of Europe during the Middle Ages.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f338b3d831d6a0024d6" }, "answer" : "{Water} Music", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 35.27247286611237, "num" : 3, "question" : "Two pieces from it, including “A Minuet for the French Horn”, were earlier published in “The Lady's Banquet”. One section of it is influenced by a fast dance with two beats to each measure that originated from the Auvergne. The last movement in this work is a royal pomp in the horns, and this work was modified down to six pieces by Sir Hamilton Harty. Besides the (*) “Bouree” section, its “Air” movement was influenced by English folk songs, which also comprise part of the 3/2 part entitled “Alla Hornpipe”. It begins with a notable French overture, and this work is often played with the Music from the Royal Fireworks. For 10 points, identify this set of suites by Handel which were played next to George I on a barge on the River Thames.", "round" : "Lully 3.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea38b3d831d6a000373" }, "answer" : "{Ryu Murakami} (prompt {Murakami}, of {course})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.33436755416915, "num" : 11, "question" : "One novel by this author ends with the newspaper headline \"Wild Superchickens! Ten Meters in a Single Bound!\" - the main character had put chickens on stage to imitate the Velvet Underground for his concert at the Morning Erection Festival. In another novel, a pet crocodile Gulliver enjoys the David Bowie song \"Uranus\" and lives in the apartment of a model named Anemone, who searches for the military toxin DATURA with her boyfriend, a genocidal pole vaulter. Yet another book has a man standing over a sleeping infant with an ice pick, trying to resist the urge to stab the baby. This author of Almost Transparent Blue and Coin Locker Babies wrote about a fat serial killer Frank who's guided on a sex tour in the novel In the Miso Soup. FTP, name this Japanese writer who, despite his name, is not related to the author of Sputnik Sweetheart.", "round" : "FINALS1.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f208b3d831d6a00203b" }, "answer" : "taxes", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.65197342564352, "num" : 7, "question" : "The rate of these entities should be higher when consumer elasticity is lower according to Ramsey's rule, which attempts to minimize the Harberger triangle for these entities. In the U.S., one of these measures based on currency exchange is named for James Tobin. Negative externalities can be corrected by one of these measures named for Pigou. Henry George proposed that a single one of them on land would reduce deadweight loss. Types of them include “value added” and “ad valorum.” For 10 points, name these charges levied by a government on its citizens.", "round" : "Early Autumn Collegiate Novice - Packet 8.pdf", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f268b3d831d6a0021ac" }, "answer" : "{Nixon} in {China}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.10742893745191, "num" : 17, "question" : "A soprano sings, \"I don't daydream and I don't look back\" after receiving a glass elephant during a visit to a glass factory at the start of this opera's second act. In this opera's last aria, a man asks \"How much of what we did was good?\" During the second act three characters start acting in the play The Red Detachment of Women. Alice Goodman wrote the libretto for this opera, which opens with \"The Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention\", sung to celebrate the landing of plane, while a foxtrot from the third act was adapted into The Chairman Dances. Chou En-Lai and Henry Kissinger, for 10 points, appear in what minimalist opera about a President's visit to an Asian country by John Adams", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Yale B + McMaster + Matt Bollinger.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcf8b3d831d6a0049b2" }, "answer" : "{Japan} [accept {Nippon-koku}; or {Nihon-koku}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7430196488276, "num" : 18, "question" : "One author from this country describes a man who sells his family's land to The Emperor in The Silent Cry. In addition to Oe, a poet from this country wrote about the sea at Sado and a frog jumping into a pond. In addition to the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, another author from this country described Lady Aoi's relationship with the title prince in The Tale of Genji. For 10 points, name this homeland of Basho and Lady Murasaki.", "round" : "round01.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa88b3d831d6a004092" }, "answer" : "{Herman Hesse}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.07891678926535, "num" : 2, "question" : "The Master of the Perfect World teaches the lute and zither to Han Fook in this man's short story “The Poet.” One of this author's characters is sentenced to eternal life after stabbing Hermine in a house of mirrors known as the Magic Theater. One of his protagonists studies at Escholz and Waldzel before becoming a master in the Order of Castalia and earning the title Magister Ludi. Another of this author's creations leaves home with Govinda, learns the ways of love from Kamala, and meets the ferryman Vasudeva in a quest for enlightenment. For 10 points, name this German-Swiss creator of Harry Haller, Joseph Knecht and a title Buddha figure, the author of Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game, and Siddhartha.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - OSU + Carleton A.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40018b3d831d6a00558e" }, "answer" : "Madrid", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 595.0166826671921, "num" : 19, "question" : "A New Year's Eve tradition in this city is to eat twelve grapes at the Puerta del Sol. Upon gazing upon this city's ornate Segovia Bridge, one figure suggested either selling the bridge or buying a new river. Though it sits on the banks of the tiny Manzanares, it boasts such attractions as a former hospital that became the Queen Sofia Museum and the Las Ventas (*) bullfighting ring. This city was originally a fortress defending Toledo (toe-LAY-doh), and was chosen as capital for its neutrality. For 10 points, name this home to the Prado and capital of Spain.", "round" : "tourn11-09.pdf", "seen" : 398, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6b8b3d831d6a003222" }, "answer" : "{phototropism} [accept word forms; prompt on {tropism} or word forms {thereof}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.4827284507919, "num" : 15, "question" : "Charles Darwin studied this phenomenon in oat coleoptiles (koh-lee-OP-tils), and Frits Went used agar blocks to determine that it was not the result of electrochemical impulses. Explained by the acid growth hypothesis, this process begins when indoleacetic (in-dohl-uh-SEE-tihk) acid lowers the pH (“P H”) of cell walls, allowing turgor pressure and expansin enzymes to elongate cells. Occurring only in response to wavelengths under 500 nanometers, name this type of growth in which auxin stimulates a plant to bend toward a light source.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404b8b3d831d6a0066d0" }, "answer" : "Chicago", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.3720055711456, "num" : 3, "question" : "William Le Baron Jenney's Home Insurance Building in this city was the first to use steel in its frame, while Daniel Burham and John Root's Montauk Building was the first termed a “skyscraper.” Its Auditorium Building was co-designed by Dankmar Adler, while the Unity Temple and Robie House can be found in its Oak Park suburb. One school named for this city is associated with Louis Sullivan, while another was founded by Mies van der Rohe, and it was the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. FTP, name this American city that is home to the Sears Tower.", "round" : "HFT Round 02.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "HFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fec8b3d831d6a005088" }, "answer" : "Rastafarianism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 392.0062582760584, "num" : 26, "question" : "Documents important to this religion include the Kebra Nagast and the Holy Piby. This religion's dietary restriction is known as I-tal. This religion labels undesirable products of western civilization as Babylon. This religion regards Marcus Garvey as a prophet and refers to God as Jah. Other key precepts of this religion include the smoking of Ganja and the belief that founder Haile Selassie will establish a perfect state called Zion. For 10 points, name this religion most commonly followed by dreadlock wearing Jamaicans.", "round" : "4q1-15.pdf", "seen" : 258, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa38b3d831d6a003f53" }, "answer" : "Kentucky", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 123.1923876334913, "num" : 6, "question" : "One major geological feature in this state is the Dripping Springs Escarpment, which forms the boundary of the Pennyroyal Plateau along with Muldraugh Hill. This state also contains a notable region of \"knobs\" formed by the Big Clifty Sandstone.  The defining feature of its most famous region arises from the unique soil of the Eden Shale Hills. The Sheltowee Trace passes through its Red River gorge while the Jackson Purchase area of its East includes a cross-river exclave. This state contains two geologically distinct coal basins. Also containing (*) Daniel Boone National Forest is, for 10 points, which state containing the cities of Louisville and Lexington, a state known for its bluegrass?", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025ef" }, "answer" : "{John Ernst Steinbeck}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "MS", "inc_random" : 2229.722007632256, "num" : 19, "question" : "This man described a trip around America with his poodle in Travels with Charley. In a novella by this man, George shoots Lennie to prevent him from being lynched. This man also wrote about the Joad family's attempt to escape the Depression by moving to California from Oklahoma. For 10 points, identify this American author of Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.", "round" : "CMST_Round01.pdf", "seen" : 1498, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f858b3d831d6a00389e" }, "answer" : "{Orhan Pamuk}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.9823562642559, "num" : 8, "question" : "In one novel by this man, Ka travels to a town to investigate a wave of schoolgirl suicides. In another novel, the Hoja switches identities with his Italian slave after his invention fails to defend the title structure. This author named Shevket's brother after himself in another work, which alludes to the story of Hüsrev and Shirin. Esther the Jewess delivers Black's love letters to Shekure in his novel centering on the murder of the miniaturist Elegant Effendi. Author of The White Castle, Snow, and My Name is Red, for 10 points, name this Turkish Nobel Laureate.", "round" : "Round 12.doc", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb88b3d831d6a004465" }, "answer" : "{Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9252657196485, "num" : 3, "question" : "While president, he made a controversial visit to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and would play a key role in bringing the two Libyans involved in the Lockerbie bombing to trial. He established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and published his 1994 autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. In 1963 he was tried for treason in the Rivonia Trial for his role in the Spear of the Nation. Although he was an initial proponent of non-violent action, he abandoned such ideas after the Sharpeville Massacre. He was later transferred to Pollsmoor Prison until being released by F.W. de Klerk. He spent much of his adult life at Robben Island and was succeeded as president by Thabo Mbeki. FTP, name this South African president that ended apartheid.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec88b3d831d6a000bef" }, "answer" : "Texas", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.6334439257625, "num" : 1, "question" : "One politician from this state noted the difference between the 1832 Democratic Convention and the one at which she gave the keynote address in 1976. In addition to Barbara Jordan, another politician from this state said George H.W. Bush was \"born with a silver foot in his mouth\" at the 1988 Democratic Convention. That governor of this state was Ann Richards. Another person from this state started the (*) \"War on Poverty\" as a part of his Great Society. For 10 points, name this home state of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.", "round" : "tournament17-13.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402e8b3d831d6a006039" }, "answer" : "Elamites", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.67885438958183, "num" : 11, "question" : "King Atta-hushu of these peoples introduced worship of the goddess Anunitum among them, but she was abandoned after his death. A shrine to the goddess Upurkuppak can be found at these peoples' temple complex of Chogha Zanbil, and in the north of their lands the goddess Pinikir was venerated. They worshipped the earth god Humban and the major triad of their pantheon was led by Inshushinak. The fact that they had a major goddess named Kiririsha supports theories that these people were related to the Dravidians. With capital at Susa, for ten points name this ethnic group that in ancient times lived just southeast of Mesopotamia.", "round" : "Round3.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002719" }, "answer" : "{Salmon} of {Knowledge} (or {Wisdom})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.62700386554934, "num" : 19, "question" : "In the Mabinogion, Cuhlwich ultimately has to consult one of these creatures to find Mabon, a great hunter needed to fulfill a quest. The best known one of these creatures in myth gained its namesake quality by eating hazelnuts that fell into Connla's Well, where this creature was finally caught by the poet Finnegas, who asked his boy servant to prepare it for him, whereupon he burned his thumb touching it while it cooked. FTP what is this piscine creature that when inadvertently touched by Finn MacCool granted him deep insight?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 2.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef68b3d831d6a0016d1" }, "answer" : "vacuum", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5066983047873, "num" : 23, "question" : "One phenomenon that happens under this condition occurs in the presence of two narrowly separated metal plates; it is characterized by a force proportional to the negative fourth power of their separation. A difference between the energy of the 2s and 2p energy levels owes to the interaction between electrons and this entity. The (*) Casimir effect and the Lamb shift arise due to the properties of this condition, which was used by the Newcomen steam engine to drive a piston. In Gaussian units, permittivity and permeability are both one at this condition. For 10 points, name this phenomenon where a volume of space contains very little matter.", "round" : "Packet 21 - TB 5.doc", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003f9d" }, "answer" : "L'Oreal", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.0768562057056, "num" : 14, "question" : "Throughout the 1990s, this company was the target of lawsuits over the firing of Jean Frydman, a Jewish board member, in order to comply with Arab League boycott rules. At the time, its American operations were led by Jacques Correze, who was a former Nazi collaborator alongside this company's founder, Eugene Schueller. Ironically, Scheuller's granddaughter and heir to the largest stake in this company married a Jewish man and converted to Judaism, shortly before suing a photographer who received billions of dollars in gifts, including Picasso and Matisse originals, from another shareholder in this company. That largest shareholder in this company was accused of providing a series of unmarked (*) envelopes to figures such as Eric Woerth, whose role as employment minister is in jeopardy due to that scandal after this company's largest shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt, was implicated in illegal financing of UMP campaigns. For 10 points, identify this corporation, which is at the center of a scandal involving Nicholas Sarkozy's government and is a French cosmetics giant.", "round" : "Round 8.doc", "seen" : 84, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f278b3d831d6a0021e7" }, "answer" : "{Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Phillip Cantor}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.65146359242499, "num" : 13, "question" : "This man proved that a function can be represented as a unique series of trigonometric functions. Along with Bernstein, this man names a theorem stating that two sets are equinumerous if each is equinumerous to a subset of the other. This man showed that there is a bijection between the points of the unit segment and all the points of an n- dimensional space. His namesake theorem states that the cardinality of a set is less than that of its power set. He introduced the idea that there are no sets with cardinalities between those of the naturals and the reals, the continuum hypothesis. For 10 points, name this German-born mathematician who used a diagonal argument to prove the uncountability of the reals.", "round" : "ACF Winter 2010 - Carleton + Sandy Huang + WUSTL.pdf", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Winter", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f048b3d831d6a0019e7" }, "answer" : "parabola", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5090553329792, "num" : 2, "question" : "This shape’s universal constant is root two plus the natural log of quantity one plus root two, and it has only one associated Dandelin sphere. When one of these curves is rolled along its mirror image, the cissoid of Diocles is formed, and if the focus of one of them is rolled along a straight line, a catenary results. As one focus of an ellipse moves to infinity with the other fixed, this curve is the [*] limit. A plane intersecting a cone parallel to its slant height forms this section. This curve is the locus of all points equidistant from the focus and the directrix. With an eccentricity of one, for 10 points, name this conic section, the graph of a quadratic function.", "round" : "Finals 2.doc", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f548b3d831d6a002cb7" }, "answer" : "La {Fanciulla del West} (accept {Girl} of the {Golden West})", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 58.95309913819656, "num" : 10, "question" : "In this opera's aria, “Ti Voglio Bene” one character tells the soprano that he will give her $1000 for a kiss. In “Ugh! Neve! Va! Riposati sul fieno” the tenor swears he has never met Nina Micheltorena, while at the beginning of the opera men named Happy, Harry, and Handsome help gather a fund to send Jim Larkens back home. The tenor does not reciprocate a whistle, which would have signaled a raid that would have killed the title character, who later cheats at a game of poker to save a man named Ramirez from Jack Rance. In the aria “Ch'ella mi creda” the tenor begs the chorus to tell his lover that he is “far away and free” and not to reveal that he was hanged by miners for being a bandit. For 10 points, Dick Johnson rides off into the sunset with Minnie at the end of this opera about the California Gold Rush by Puccini.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d3d" }, "answer" : "{Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí} I {Domenech}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.9625532620121, "num" : 20, "question" : "This artist created a self portrait as a kneeling monk in a painting that also contains a portrait of his wife on a banner held by the title character, who is stepping ashore near a sea urchin. An elephant wanders in the background while two tigers leap at a sleeping woman in another of his paintings. For 10 points, name this painter of The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, who depicted ants swarming a pocketwatch and some melting clocks in his The Persistence of Memory.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 1.doc", "seen" : 281, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f928b3d831d6a003bb6" }, "answer" : "{Thiamine} [accept {Thiamine pyrophosphate}; or {TPP}; accept {Vitamin B1} before mention]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.94357902882621, "num" : 19, "question" : "A derivative of this molecule is sensed by the only riboswitch found in higher eukaryotes, and its binding to that riboswitch creates an unstable splice variant. The complex mutated in Maple Syrup Urine Disease relies on this molecule as a cofactor. In E. Coli its synthesis depends on IscS and the products of an operon with C, E, F, S, G, and H genes, which separately synthesize its hydroxymethylpyrimidine moiety with its thiazole moiety. The ylid form of that thiazole cleaves a carbon-carbon bond on substrates. Transketolase uses this compound as a cofactor, and its also used in an enzyme with E1, E2, and E3 subunits that also uses a (*) lipoic acid tether, the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Deficiency of this compound comes in two forms; a wet form in which capillaries lose integrity, and a dry form which causes neuritis. That disease is beriberi. For 10 points, name this compound, also called vitamin B1.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 3.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9d8b3d831d6a000243" }, "answer" : "{Mass Effect} 1 [do not accept {Mass Effect 2} or other wrong answers]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.1432779093739, "num" : 11, "question" : "In this work, a character whose name is Cherokee for “we stand alone” encourages the protagonist to talk to a comrade who hails from Tuchanka, and refers to a legendary hero called “the Silent Step” in a speech that ends with the phrase “we will hold the line!” The characters listen to news reports about Christopher Kitt’s production of Hamlet and the protagonist’s encounter with Khalisah Al-Jilani while riding in an elevator, and Admiral Hackett asks the main character to disable a rogue virtual interface on the moon. “The keepers were the key” in a story told by Vigil on Ilos; and during a mission on Virmire, the protagonist has to choose between saving Kaidan Alenko and Ashley Williams. For 10 points, name this BioWare action RPG whose sequel may end with the death of its protagonist, Commander Shepard.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Cornell and Kansas State A final.doc", "seen" : 77, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fab8b3d831d6a00413b" }, "answer" : "simple {harmonic oscillator} [or {SHO}; prompt on “{spring}” or “{pendulum}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.8559062210843, "num" : 4, "question" : "The Rodrigues formula and Hermite polynomials figure into the analytic method for finding the wavefunctions of these systems. The allowed energies for these systems can be calculated using the ladder operators. A quantity determining peakedness for energy graphs of these systems is the dimensionless quality factor. Their behavior can be split into transient and steady-state motions when they are subjected to a sinusoidal driving force and a simple damping force, and they exhibit resonance at certain frequencies. For 10 points, name this kind of system whose periodic, sinusoidal motion is described by Hooke's law, examples of which include a mass on a spring and a simple pendulum.", "round" : "2009 ACF Fall edited - Yale B + Northwestern A.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "ACF Fall", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002730" }, "answer" : "{Blanche DuBois}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.43422444863245, "num" : 1, "question" : "A polka titled “Varsouviana,” the song to which this character danced with her husband in the moments before he shot himself, plays in her presence periodically. It is heard immediately after a Mexican woman selling “flowers from the dead” frightens her back into her sister's apartment in Scene Nine, where she re-joins Mitch, whom she had earlier instructed to put a Chinese paper lantern over a light bulb, as she doesn't want her age revealed by bright light. This protagonist had been dismissed from her position as a high school teacher for her improper relations with young male students after her husband's suicide, a time period during which she says she had to “rely on the kindness of strangers.” Driven mad by her rape at the hands of her brother-in-law Stanley, FTP who is this sister of Stella, the protagonist of A Streetcar Named Desire?", "round" : "DB 2010 round 4.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed28b3d831d6a000e70" }, "answer" : "{pitching a perfect game}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 848.1561639719641, "num" : 13, "question" : "This feat was accomplished by both Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward in 1880. In 2010, Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay accomplished this feat within twenty days of each other. Don Larsen accomplished it during the World Series, and it has also been accomplished by Sandy Koufax and Cy Young. For 10 points, name this feat in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base.", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 566, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c86" }, "answer" : "{prison} [or {jail}; or {correctional institution}; or {penitentiary}; or {penal} system; or {correctional}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 338.1989484878722, "num" : 19, "question" : "Hans Toch and Kenneth Adams's studies on these places include one on \"maladaptation\" in them. The Auburn Plan of them experimented with congregate work and the \"silent system.\" Alexis de Tocqueville originally came to America to study these. Michel Focault's Discipline and Punish is about these. Jeremy Bentham proposed one called the Panopticon. Philip Zimbardo ran an experiment on these facilities at Stanford. High security ones are called \"supermax.\" For 10 points, name these places of incarceration.", "round" : "districts-03.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f0c8b3d831d6a001bd3" }, "answer" : "{Cherenkov} radiation", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.09540648828261, "num" : 11, "question" : "RICH detectors use this effect to measure the velocity of subatomic particles. In a periodic medium, such as the surface of a diffraction grating, this effect requires no minimum velocity. Its spectral intensity is approximately proportional to the frequency, according to the (*) Frank-Tamm formula, so most of its energy is actually in the UV. Observatories such as IceCube and Super-Kamiokande use this effect to detect neutrinos. Created when a particle travels through a medium faster than the local speed of light, for ten points name of this type of radiation characterized by a blue glow in nuclear reactors.", "round" : "FINAL_UNC_A+OSU_B+UW_B.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "Terrapin Invitational", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9c8b3d831d6a003dcb" }, "answer" : "{Christopher Isherwood} [accept {Wystan Hugh Auden} until “{novel}”]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.98993447725661, "num" : 9, "question" : "One of this author's plays concerns the war between Ostnia and Westland, fictional countries that served as settings for two of his earlier works. In one of those plays, Alan Norman visits Paradise Park and the Ninevah Hotel after being chosen by lottery to search for the missing heir Sir Francis Crewe. He also wrote of Mr. A and Mrs. A who listen to the radio and comment on the death of the adventurer Michael Ransom. The title character of a novel written by this man is blackmailed by his assistant Schmidt and reveals to the narrator William Bradshaw that he is a spy for the French. A collection by this author includes the landlady Fraulein Schroeder and the decadent dancer Sally Bowles, whose story inspired the film Cabaret. For 10 points, name this author whose Mr. Norris Changes Trains is often included in The Berlin Stories, and who collaborated with his partner W.H. Auden on The Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea58b3d831d6a0003dd" }, "answer" : "Sir John Rushworth {Jellicoe}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.16344400425442, "num" : 17, "question" : "Early in this man's military career, he served as chief of staff for Edward Seymour, in which role he led a force to relieve Peking during the Boxer Rebellion which resulted in his near death when a bullet was shot into his lung. This subject of a biography by Reginald Bacon is better known for holding a post in which he was replaced by Rosslyn Wemyss, after which he became governor-general of New Zealand from 1920 to 1924. During his most famous action, he employed a conservative strategy in conflict with David Beatty, which led to rampant criticism from factions who attacked his 45-degree \"turn-away\" technique. This author of books like The Grand Fleet and The Crisis of the Naval War gradually fell out of favor with David Lloyd George and was dismissed in 1919. FTP, name this commander at the Battle of Jutland, a great British admiral during World War I.", "round" : "PACKET04Editors.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003fb7" }, "answer" : "The {Wild Duck} [or {Vildanden}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 32.10954641294666, "num" : 18, "question" : "One character in this play complains about the “marsh vapors” in his room and leaves a large puddle while trying to extinguish a fire. Another room in this play is filled with pictures of exotic lands procured by its former tenant, an old sea captain nicknamed “The Flying Dutchman.” A dinner part in its first act sparks the recurring theme of thirteen men at the table. Molvik is convinced that he is possessed by demons by (*) Dr. Relling, a man whose doctrine of illusion clashes with Greger's insistence on truth. The photographer Hialmar constantly seeks a great invention in this play in an effort to provide for the ailing daughter he suspects may have been fathered by Hakon Werle. For 10 points, name this Henrik Ibsen play which ends with Hedvig Ekdal shooting herself instead of the title bird.", "round" : "Round 9.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002882" }, "answer" : "{Franz Schubert}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.45866841007955, "num" : 5, "question" : "One song by this composer is based on The Lady of the Lake, and its original German text is often replaced with a Latin one. Besides “Ellen's Third Song,” this composer also wrote a work whose narrator obsesses over the color green and throws himself in a brook, and a song whose vocal line climaxes on lyrics about kissing while the piano mimics the title object. The former is Die schöne Müllerin. In one of his works, the performer sings in different ranges and modes to play all four characters: the narrator, the father, the child, and the supernatural title character. Known for lieder such as “Gretchen am Spinnrade” and “Der Erlkönig,” this is, for 10 points, what composer of “Death and the Maiden”?", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f578b3d831d6a002d44" }, "answer" : "{William Carlos Williams}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.5534884724766, "num" : 7, "question" : "This poet wrote about “poesy's transforming giant wing” in “The Uses of Poetry.” The speaker remorsefully addresses his wife in this author's long poem “Asphodel, that Greeny Flower.” He also wrote a pastoral poem beginning “on the road to the contagious hospital,” the title poem of his collection Spring and All. In one poem by this author, the speaker says “they were delicious, so sweet and so cold” to excuse himself for eating the plums that were in the icebox. That poem is entitled “This Is Just to Say.” For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote that “so much depends” on the titular object in “The Red Wheelbarrow.”", "round" : "Packet 06.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "MELD", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7e8b3d831d6a00369c" }, "answer" : "{Yasunari Kawabata}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.32508432585746, "num" : 18, "question" : "In one novel by this author, one character has an abortion, while her husband's mistress gets pregnant, although she says the child is not his. In that work, the protagonist hears the titular sound in his dreams, and in another in which the title character discovers that her parents abandoned her when she meets her twin. One novel has Kikuji dominated by Chicako, which prevents his love for a young woman with the titular kimono. In addition to The Sound of the Mountain and The Old Capital, another novel involves a tragic relationship between a geisha and Shimamura, and begins with the line \"The train came out of the long tunnel into\" the titular location.\" The earth lay white under the night sky.\" For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Thousand Cranes and Snow Country.", "round" : "BSUNotreDame.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Princeton Buzzerfest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ec98b3d831d6a000c1e" }, "answer" : "{Edvard Hagerup Grieg}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3233244153671, "num" : 5, "question" : "This composer of the concert overture \"In Autumn\" wrote a five-movement Baroque-style suite for string orchestra called \"In Holberg's Time.\" A tympani roll opens this man's Piano Concerto in A minor, his only completed concerto. He included \"Anitra's Dance\" and \"Morning Mood\" in a set of two four-movement suites taken from incidental music to an (*) Ibsen play. For 10 points, name this Norwegian composer whose \"In The Hall Of The Mountain King\" comes from his Peer Gynt Suites.", "round" : "tournament17-15.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 17", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebb8b3d831d6a000912" }, "answer" : "{Abraham Harold Maslow}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 338.0329637459945, "num" : 21, "question" : "This man described transpersonal psychology as the \"fourth force\" of psychology. One part of this psychologist's main creation came from the work of Kurt Goldstein. That creation included parts that this man labeled instinctoid or deficit. This man expanded upon those ideas in his work Toward a Psychology of Being. This man's main creation starts out with the (*) \"physiological\" and ends with the attainment of self-actualization. For 10 points, name this American psychologist who described human motivation through the creation of his Hierarchy of Needs.", "round" : "10.pdf", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 15", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40068b3d831d6a005699" }, "answer" : "Michigan", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1492526105139, "num" : 13, "question" : "In November 2008, the Democratic Caucus stripped a Congressman from this state of the chair of the Energy and Commerce committee. This state is represented by both of the two longest-serving current incumbents in the House, John Dingell and John (*) Conyers. Its former three-term Republican governor, John Engler, was unseated in 2002 by Canadian-born Jennifer Granholm. For 10 points, name this state, represented by Senator Carl Levin, which has been hit particularly hard by the troubles of Big Three auto makers.", "round" : "tourn8-07.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 8", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb68b3d831d6a0043cc" }, "answer" : "{snow} [do not accept “{ice}”]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.91831616614945, "num" : 17, "question" : "This material's deep layers are home to solid formations called depth hoares that can cause structural weakness in formations of it. At high altitudes, this material can form spike-like objects known as penitentes. When it is denser than 550 kilograms per cubic meter, this material is known as firn, and its compacted, resolidified form is called névé and formed via nivation. The calculation of mass balance compares the accumulation of this material to the rate of ablation; a positive measure indicates glaciation. For 10 points, name this form of solid precipitation that generally falls in white flakes during the winter.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - Minnesota (final).doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406e8b3d831d6a006f54" }, "answer" : "{Maya Angelou}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7109939095098, "num" : 2, "question" : "This poet wrote \"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies\" in Phenomenal Woman, and the birth of her son and her drug addiction feature in her autobiography Gather Together In My Name. Her other poetry collections include Now Sheba Sings the Song and Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die. She read her poem \"On the Pulse of Morning\" at Bill Clinton's inauguration, and another of her works was inspired by her recovery from childhood sexual abuse. For 10 points, name this poet of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.", "round" : "Round_07_HSAPQ_NSC2.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed18b3d831d6a000e13" }, "answer" : "{Pontiac's Rebellion} [or reasonable equivalents mentioning {Pontiac such} as {Pontiac's} uprising]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4335083877668, "num" : 8, "question" : "Henry Gladwin made a defense of a key outpost during this conflict, which included the Devil's Hole Massacre and the Battle of Bloody Run. During this conflict, Pennsylvania Governor John Penn ordered the arrest of men involved in the Paxton Boys massacre. It was in this conflict that Jeffery Amherst distributed smallpox-infected blankets to Indians at Fort Pitt. For 10 points, name this 1763 to 1764 Indian uprising in the Great Lakes region, led by the namesake Ottowa chief.", "round" : "regionals-07.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a003082" }, "answer" : "{Henri Matisse}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 422.3474183133803, "num" : 1, "question" : "Late in his life, this artist produced prints like The Knife Thrower and The Snail, known as his \"cutouts.\" He painted a figure with an unnaturally twisted buttock in a work subtitled \"Souvenir de Biskra,\" as well as a portrait of his wife with her face split in two by a \"green line.\" This painter of Blue Nude depicted the title color bleeding from the floor to the wallpaper in his painting The Red Room. He used a half-blue and half-green landscape to display five red figures in a circle in another painting, a scene reimagined in this artist's The Joy of Life. For 10 points, name this painter of The Dance, the leader of Fauvism.", "round" : "14.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee08b3d831d6a00119b" }, "answer" : "{Eugene Gladstone O'Neill}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 360.7024365605321, "num" : 23, "question" : "This playwright wrote a work in which Henry Smithers travels to an island ruled by the title character, The Emperor Jones. The problems of the Mannon family after the Civil War make up a work of his inspired by the Oresteia entitled Mourning Becomes Electra. Harry Hope’s saloon is the setting of his The Iceman Cometh. He wrote a playing taking place on one day in 1912 which shows the internal turmoil of the Tyrone family. For 10 points, name this author of Long Day’s Journey into Night.", "round" : "32.pdf", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ed68b3d831d6a000f42" }, "answer" : "{George Bernard Shaw}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9399488321505, "num" : 30, "question" : "This author of the essay \"How to Write a Popular Play\" wrote about a debate between Don Juan and the Devil in his play Man and Superman. This man tackled the Irish question in John Bull's Other Island, and fictionalized the story of Joan of Arc in Saint Joan. In another play, arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft donates money to the Salvation Army, to the chagrin of his daughter Barbara. This man's play about Henry Higgins' attempts to refine Eliza Doolittle was made into the musical My Fair Lady. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Major Barbara and Pygmalion.", "round" : "13.pdf", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Regular Season", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fae8b3d831d6a004211" }, "answer" : "{Bea Arthur} [or {Bernice Frankel}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 124.7368427657057, "num" : 7, "question" : "Her most major stage success was a Tony Award for playing Vera Charles in 1966's Mame, although her most remembered Broadway appearance is probably premiering the role of Yente in the original Fiddler on the Roof. This actress is the only woman specifically mentioned in the 1992 Beastie Boys ode to hot older women, \"Boomin' Granny.\" In the 1970's, she appeared in several episodes of All in the Family as Edith's liberal feminist cousin, a character which eventually got an eponymous spinoff sitcom of her own from 1972 to 1978. More recently, she appeared as the Amazon \"Femputer\" on an episode of Futurama, and had a 2000 cameo on a sitcom as an elderly babysitter who is taken away in an ambulance after singing the Abba song \"Fernando.\" In a scene from her most famous role, she unwittingly yells \"Condoms, Rose, CONDOMS!\" inside a crowded drugstore. For 10 points, name this actress who is best known for her role as Dorothy Zbornak, in which she starred alongside Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty on the sitcom The Golden Girls.", "round" : "r09- UCLA-South Carolina.doc", "seen" : 83, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb48b3d831d6a00436c" }, "answer" : "{Josiah} \"{Jed}\" {Bartlett}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.9834964533802, "num" : 7, "question" : "**This man authored The Theory and Practice of Macroeconomics in Developing Countries after attending the London School of Economics, a work for which he won a Nobel Prize. Like his ancestor, who signed the Declaration of Independence, this man served as Governor of New Hampshire.  His court appointments include Christopher Mulready and Evelyn Baker Lang, and he was wounded during an attack in Rosslyn.  He defeated future running-mate John Hoynes in the Democratic primaries with the help of his chief of staff, Leo McGarry, and is first mentioned in the phrase \"POTUS in a bicycle accident\" during the pilot episode. For 10 points, name this United States president played by Martin Sheen, a central character of The West Wing.", "round" : "2009 ACF Regionals - CMU.doc", "seen" : 82, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea38b3d831d6a00036d" }, "answer" : "King {Gesar}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 31.72693988773972, "num" : 5, "question" : "During one episode, he attempts to lasso a deer, but the deer ensnares him in his own lasso by dancing around him - this figure is only saved from choking when the deer is smacked with a stone. After coming out of his mother's womb, he manages to kill a flock of metal birds with a makeshift bow and arrow he'd just fashioned, just as a bird is about to spear him. He transforms himself into a gold fish and gets swallowed, so he can then transform into a wheel and defeat his opponent from inside his stomach. That opponent had a magic parrot, magpie, and crow who were sent out to obtain wives - leading to the kidnapping of this man's wife Zholmo. He also defeated a king who dined on children after that king kidnapped Maisa, though Maisa later duped him with a potion, leading his kingdom to be invaded by the state of Hor. FTP, name this great hero who vanquishes demons for his kingdom of Ling, and is the subject of a super long epic poem from Tibet.", "round" : "FINALS1.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffb8b3d831d6a0053e8" }, "answer" : "{Ming} Dynasty", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 344.3467985983006, "num" : 17, "question" : "This period saw the arrival of Matteo Ricci, and the \"Southern\" branch of this dynasty was ruled by the Prince of Fu after the suicide of the Chongzhen Emperor. It saw the use of the \"eight-legged essay\" in civil service examinations, as well as the restoration of the Grand Canal and construction of the Forbidden City by the Yongle Emperor, who sponsored (*) Zheng He's voyages. Coming to power after the White Lotus rebellion and founded by the Hongwu Emperor, for 10 points, name this dynasty following the Yuan and renowned for its pottery.", "round" : "tourn10-04.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40588b3d831d6a0069fb" }, "answer" : "War of the {Spanish Succession}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.2286979854107, "num" : 2, "question" : "In this conflict, one general the siege of Turin, and its main peace was supplemented by the treaties of Rastatt and Baden following victories by Eugene of Savoy. Queen Anne's War was its American analogue, and John Churchill gained renown with his victory at Blenheim in this conflict, and this war was preceded by a will granting Philip V the throne following the death of Charles II. For 10 points, name this war that lasted from 1701 to 1714 that was ended by the Peace of Utrecht which dealt with who would rule the namesake Iberian country.", "round" : "Round_05_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002ddb" }, "answer" : "Robert {Moses}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 41.99934021406807, "num" : 5, "question" : "Ole Singstad bitterly quarreled with this man, claiming he tried to sabotage Singstad's most notable projects. One work about this man featured a chapter called “One Mile,” describing this man's effects on the East Tremont community. This subject of the book Builder for Democracy was the focus of a controversial work by the author of (*) The Years of Lyndon Johnson. He received much of his power from Vincent Impellitteri and William O'Dwyer, who gave him free reign to implement plans promoting cars as the “lungs of the city.” His policies caused him to clash with Walter O'Malley about where to place an athletic stadium. A noted biography of this man is Robert Caro's The Power Broker. His policies were critiqued for destroying mixed-use urban neighborhoods in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. For 10 points, name this master planner of New York City, a nemesis of Jane Jacobs.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40318b3d831d6a0060fc" }, "answer" : "{Thomas Aquinas}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 47.83184909983538, "num" : 6, "question" : "This thinker calls man a “microcosmos” in a work directed to the King of Cyprus, and cites Aristotle's Politics in suggesting that merchants encourage interactions with foreigners, which are dangerous to civic customs in On Kingship. Martin de Azpilcueta of the Salamanca School utilizes this figure's articulation of the just price theory to formulate a cost-of-production theory of value. In a short opusculum to Pope Urban IV, this theologian outlines the teachings of the Latin Church in ostensible opposition to the Eastern Church in Against the Errors of the Greeks. It is apocryphal that a branch fell on his head while traveling on his way to the Second Council of Lyon leading to his death, and in this theologian's best known work, he articulated the Quinque viae or five arguments for the existence of God. A student of Albert Magnus, for 10 points, name this Catholic theologian who wrote Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 1 - Final.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea48b3d831d6a0003c7" }, "answer" : "Zaha {Hadid}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 35.36046180478296, "num" : 16, "question" : "This architect designed the interior of the Monsoon Restaurant in Sapporo, Japan and created the Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck. Other works include a nautilus-shaped tent erected in Central Park to house artwork inspired by the 2.55 handbag, the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, and the proposed design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House. Another project interchanges walls and floors \"like a ribbon in space\" - that museum, the MAXXI in Rome, contrasts with Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center, built as a series of cubes and prisms held together by stilts. This designer of the Guangzhou Opera House. and student of Rem Koolhaas, is best known for a building organized in a scissor-like manner to “connect [the] ground floor and first floor into a continuous field,\" - that project in Liepzig is the BMW Central Building. FTP, name this deconstructivist architect who was born in Iraq and studied in Britain, the first female recipient of the Pritzker Prize.", "round" : "PACKET03Peterson.doc", "seen" : 23, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400c8b3d831d6a0057ea" }, "answer" : "pressure", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2731191935018, "num" : 23, "question" : "Henry's law equates a version of this quantity to the product of solute concentration and a compound-dependent constant. It is directly proportional to (*) temperature according to Gay-Lussac's Law, and partial ones proportional to the mole fraction are covered by Dalton's Law. For 10 points, name this quantity measured in pascals and equal to force divided by unit area.", "round" : "tourn9-07.pdf", "seen" : 257, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40438b3d831d6a006529" }, "answer" : "{Marcel Proust}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.2935408055782, "num" : 15, "question" : "In one of this author's works, the narrator's mentor Bergotte dies while looking at Vermeer's View of Delft. This author collected his articles published in Le Figaro in Pleasures and Days, and attacked a literary critic who advocated studying the biographies of authors in Against Sainte-Beuve. Another of this author's works includes characters like the homosexual Baron de Charlus and Charles Swann, and ends with Time Regained. For 10 points, name this French author who explored the nuances of memory in his magnum opus In Search of Lost Time.", "round" : "Round 2 - UMD 1.doc", "seen" : 236, "tournament" : "Chitin", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40098b3d831d6a00576e" }, "answer" : "{Raphael} [or {Raphael Sanzio}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.8472513814922, "num" : 14, "question" : "This man painted Jesus wrapped in a red loincloth and flanked by two angels, one in red and one in green, in his depiction of the Crucifixion. The Hall of Constantine, Room of Heliodorus, and Room of the Fire in the Borgio were among the (*) stanzae painted for the Pope's residence by this artist. This painter of the Sistine Madonna painted a man in blue reclining on a series of steps near Averroes (AV-err-OH-ess) and Pythagoras. For 10 points, name this artist who painted The School of Athens.", "round" : "tourn9-02.pdf", "seen" : 280, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fcd8b3d831d6a004951" }, "answer" : "{Alexander Hamilton}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8439978873357, "num" : 9, "question" : "He was the only man from New York to have signed the Constitution. During the American Revolution, he eventually got promoted to being George Washington's Chief of Staff after having been a prominent officer in the New York militia. He helped to found the Coast Guard and the US Mint while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. He wrote that governors should be appointed by the president in the Federalist Papers, which he wrote with John Jay and James Madison. For 10 points, identify this man who was killed during a duel with Aaron Burr in New Jersey in 1804.", "round" : "FKT Jonathan Graham 2.rtf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a002885" }, "answer" : "{Thin-layer} chromatography or {TLC}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.29562711343169, "num" : 8, "question" : "Selection of reagents in this technique is often performed using the Prisma model, and for particularly complex samples multiple gradient development is often employed. In far-eastern blotting, this technique precedes a transfer to a PVDF membrane. Adding ninhydrin to the samples in this technique is a method to detect amines. Samples are commonly applied by using a small capillary tube. Commonly used on a panel of analgesics in introductory chemistry classes, this technique can use an iodine vapor as a developer. The retention factor is equal to the sample distance divided by the solvent front distance in this technique. It is also commonly used to separate the components of plant extracts. For 10 points, name this type of chromatography commonly performed on silica gel plates.", "round" : "Round 14 updated.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "EFT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f258b3d831d6a00213d" }, "answer" : "{Henry III} or {Henry} of {Winchester}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.39750144234858, "num" : 11, "question" : "This monarch won his crown after hiring the mercenary Falkes de Breaute, whose seasoned troops overwhelmed his foes and captured an old Norma Fortress. This man was not crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, because that man supported Louis VIII of France's claim to the throne at the time. Instead, this monarch relied on the support of a prolifically successful tournament champion, the 1st Earl of Pembroke, William Marshal, to secure his claim by winning the aforementioned Battle of Lincoln. His decision to fund a war in Sicily to secure a title for his son Edmund eroded his support, though his major domestic opponent would be killed by this man's son at the Battle of Evesham in the Second Barons' War. This father of Edward Longshanks succeeded John Lackland and was forced to sign the Provisions of Oxford by Simon de Montfort. For 10 points, identify this Plantagenet monarch of England, the third of his name.", "round" : "2010 - ACF Regionals - Rice + Claremont.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ff68b3d831d6a0052d1" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Turkey} [or {Turkiye Cumhuriyeti}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.2690515366849, "num" : 76, "question" : "The largest lake in this nation, located in its east about two hundred miles south of Kars, is Lake Van. The Pontic Mountains rise along the northern coast of this country and run eastward into Georgia. The Taurus Mountains follow the southern coast. The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers rise in this country before flowing south into Syria and Iraq. The European portion of this nation is separated by the Bosporus. For 10 points, name this nation located between the Black and Mediterranean Seas that contains the Anatolian Plateau.", "round" : "nasat-tryout-all.pdf", "seen" : 394, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NASAT Tryout Set", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fac8b3d831d6a004193" }, "answer" : "Bali", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 123.6874698449392, "num" : 1, "question" : "The giant waringin tree is sacred to inhabitants of this province. Klungklung was the seat of its native rulers until 1908. This province's highest point is the volcanic mountain Agung, which contains the mother temple of Pura Besakih. This province's major towns include Singaraja and the provincial capital of Denpasar. The temple Panataram Sasih of Pedjeng houses a bronze drum known as the moon of this region. In Hindu myth, a demon king of this name is sent to rule the underworld after he is stepped on by the avatar Vamana. This province was also the site of investigations that used \"thick description\" into a form of deep play centering on cockfighting. For 10 points, name this island located within the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia and east of Java, the site of terrorist bombings in 2002.", "round" : "r04- VCU.doc", "seen" : 84, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e948b3d831d6a000056" }, "answer" : "{Pangu} or {Pengu}", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 98.53005078714341, "num" : 16, "question" : "In one story, this being was held to have followed a beam of light at the end of which were two sisters, whom this being invited to stand on two mountains, thereby creating the sun and moon. In another legend, this being molded an ox out of clay and saliva and set it to carry the earth; so that the ox would not fall asleep, this being also created a clay rooster to keep watch on the ox. First described in the book A Chronicle of the Five Circles of Time as having the body of a snake and the head of a dragon, more common depictions of this deity have him as a giant with a horn on his head, which was supposed to get soft when it was his time to die. This being is one of the few who can send rain without the permission of the Jade Emperor, and according to the Wuyun Linianji, at his death this god’s body became the extremes of the earth while insects on it became people. Originally held to have hatched from a primordial egg, for ten points, identify this creator deity of Chinese myth, often considered the first man.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors10Final.doc", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eb38b3d831d6a0006f6" }, "answer" : "{Cyrus} the {Great} [or {Cyrus II}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.1459900361951, "num" : 10, "question" : "According to legend, this leader’s head was put in a jar of blood by Tomyris, the queen of the Massagetae. He supplanted an empire led by Astyages, establishing a capital at Ecbatana. He fought to a draw at Pteria with (*) Croesus of Lydia, but he dealt the Lydians a final defeat by taking Sardis in the Battle of Thymbra. Xenophon wrote a biography of this ruler, who conquered Babylon, freeing the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity. For 10 points, name this father of Cambyses who defeated the Median Empire as the founder of the Achaemenid Persian dynasty.", "round" : "06.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ National History Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f878b3d831d6a00390a" }, "answer" : "{Babi Yar}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.59844660037197, "num" : 13, "question" : "The narrator in one work with this title notes that people were stealing shoe laces and polish out of each other's hand in the section “Looting is a lot of fun, but you have to know how to do it.” In another work with this title, the speaker sees himself as Alfred Dreyfus and refers to his persecutors as “Philistines.” In that work's the author imagines a relationship between Anne Frank and Peter van Pels. In the novel with this title, Dina Pronicheva, an actress with the Kiev Puppet Theatre, is forced to walk to a ravine, undress and then is shot but manages to survive. That novel is subtitled, “A Document in Novel Form.” One work with this title was written by the author of Wild Berries and “Kazan University.” For 10 points, name this title shared by an Alexander Kuznetsov novel, and a symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich based on a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.", "round" : "Round by Editors 2.docx", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc48b3d831d6a004740" }, "answer" : "{Popol Vuh}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.70127703412436, "num" : 10, "question" : "The first part of this work begins, \"This is the account of how all was in suspense, all calm, in silence\" , and goes on to discuss how \"Tepeu and Gucumatz came together; then they conferred about life and right\".  In the third part of this work, Balam-Quitze and Naught travel to Tulán Zuiva, where a fire is put out by a hailstorm after it was given to those characters by Tohil.  In the second section of this work, the skull of Hun Hunahpú impregnates Xquic, who later gives birth to Hunahpú and Xbalanqué.  The lord of Xibalba is later defeated by those characters in a ball game, causing them to gain the moniker \"The Hero Twins\".  For 10 points—name this central religious text of the Mayans.", "round" : "10.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chipola Lit + Fine Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40558b3d831d6a006954" }, "answer" : "{René François Ghislain Magritte}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 421.3714455666486, "num" : 10, "question" : "This artist depicted the silhouette of a tree and a mansion with a bright blue sky and puffy clouds in his The Empire of Lights. He also depicted a bleeding woman on a bed as a man looks at a phonograph in his Menaced Assassin. Crescent moons can be seen over the bowler-hat wearing subjects of his The Mysteries of the Horizon, and another work shows a pipe with the phrase \"Ceci n'est pas une pipe.\" For 10 points, identify this artist of The Treachery of Images and Son of Man, who depicted a locomotive coming out of a fireplace in Time Transfixed.", "round" : "Round_13_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 282, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fe98b3d831d6a004fc3" }, "answer" : "{Brown} v. {Board} of {Education} of {Topeka}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 344.3968230655882, "num" : 21, "question" : "This case involved a collection of five distinct cases such as Briggs v. Elliott, and this case furthered the decision made earlier in Sweatt v. Painter. This case used in its argument an experiment showing a preference in doll selection by children as run by Mamie and Kenneth Clark. A follow-up case strengthened the decision in this case by declaring action be taken \"with all deliberate speed.\" For 10 points, name this case won by Thurgood Marshall, which made unlawful the practice of segregation in schools.", "round" : "4q1-09.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdc8b3d831d6a004c94" }, "answer" : "{Self-actualization} (or {self-transcendance})", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.7218287687283, "num" : 14, "question" : "Among the difficulties with this concept is that it is only defined by its inventor in essentially religious terms; it is hard for psychologists to identify.  Among those these is eupsychia, the culture that would be generated if 1,000 people with this condition lived on an island and built a utopia. Unlike the other concepts it is grouped with, it can never be fully satisfied. It stands at the apex of a group which includes physiological, safety, esteem, and cognitive needs.  For ten points, name this psychological concept, identified by Abraham Maslow at the top of his hierarchy of needs.", "round" : "FHTE R8 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a003423" }, "answer" : "{Patrick White}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 359.6851144290995, "num" : 3, "question" : "In one short story by this author, Szabo Tibor tells his lover that his money comes over the telephone because he is “Hoongahrian.” That story, “Miss Slattery and her Demon Lover,” appears in this man's collection The Burnt Ones. He used the suburb of Sarsaparilla as the setting for works like The Solid Mandala, and he wrote a novel that culminates in the mock crucifixion of Holocaust survivor Mordechai Himmelfarb, (*) Riders in the Chariot. This author wrote a book in which Nance and Hero are among the lovers of Hurtle Duffield, who had been sold to the wealthy Courtney family, as well as one in which Edmund Bonner's niece Laura Trevelyan bonds with the titular German explorer before he sets out to cross a continent. For 10 points, name this Australian novelist of The Vivisector and Voss.", "round" : "Round 20 Finals II.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef18b3d831d6a001592" }, "answer" : "{Mark Antony} [or {Marcus Antonius}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.1527743346523, "num" : 20, "question" : "According to Pliny, this man lost a bet when his lover drank a pearl dissolved in a glass of vinegar. This\n man violated sanctuary laws in ordering the death of Arsinoe IV at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. He\n paved the way for Herod the Great’s rule by killing Antigonus the Hasmonean after his disastrous attempt\n to recapture Crassus’s eagles from the Parthians. This target of Cicero’s Philippics lost a naval battle to\n Agrippa and defeated Cassius at Philippi. With Lepidus and Octavius, he formed the second triumvirate.\n For 10 points, name this loser at Actium, the friend of Julius Caesar and lover of Cleopatra", "round" : "20.pdf", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ecb8b3d831d6a000cb6" }, "answer" : "Aztecs", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 681.6387450422626, "num" : 33, "question" : "One god of these people created the moon by tossing his sister’s head into the sky after defeating her and his 400 brothers. After being impregnated by a ball of feathers, another deity of these people gave birth to twins, one of whom fights Tezcatlipoca (tez-KAHT-lee-POH-kuh) and is depicted as a “feathered serpent.” For 10 points, name these Mesoamerican people who misidentified Hernán Cortés to be their god Quetzalcoatl (KET-zul-koh-AH-tul).", "round" : "districts-04.pdf", "seen" : 453, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4f8b3d831d6a002ba2" }, "answer" : "The {Wanderers} [or the {Itinerants}; or {Peredvizhniki}; prompt on {Society} for {Traveling Art Exhibitions}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.52862291876227, "num" : 5, "question" : "One artist from this movement painted nineteen ghostly girls dressed in white gowns standing next to a river in Drowned Maidens. A landscape artist from this movement depicted three baby bears climbing the splintered trunk of a tree while the mother bear watches in Morning in a Pine Forest. Another artist painted Pontius Pilate extending his hand to a demonic looking Christ standing in the shadows in Quod Est Veritas?, and did a version of the Last Supper in which the figure of Christ was based on a photo of the editor of the newspaper The Bell. This movement developed into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions and one of its leaders painted a woman in black rising from her chair to face the title character, returned from political exile, in They Weren't Expecting Him. Ivan Shishkin, Nikolai Ge, and Ivan Kramskoi were members of this movement, whose leader depicted Ivan Sirko collaborating on an insulting letter to Mehmed IV in the painting The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. For 10 points, name this school of Russian realism whose members included Ilya Repin.", "round" : "Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 40, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e402c8b3d831d6a005fd9" }, "answer" : "{Bret Harte}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.8719720686786, "num" : 16, "question" : "The title character of a narrative poem by this author claims that “he did not understand” the game being played when 24 jacks are discovered in his sleeves. In addition “Plain Language from Truthful James,” also called “The Heathen Chinee,” he wrote about a town with only one woman, whose men reform their lives to help raise her baby. The townsman Kentuck and the boy die during a flash flood in that short story, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” For 10 points, what editor of the Overland Monthly wrote about a professional gambler who commits suicide during a snowstorm, John Oakhurst, in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”?", "round" : "Packet 7.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee38b3d831d6a001248" }, "answer" : "triangles", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.0675012674183, "num" : 27, "question" : "Ceva's theorem deals with lines constructed in these polygons, and Apollonius' theorem also deals with these polygons. The Euler line of one of them passes through several significant points, including the center of the nine-point circle. Their area can be calculated using Heron's formula. A fractal named for Sierpinski is based on these polygons, which have centroids, orthocenters, and circumcenters. For 10 points, name these polygons which may be scalene or equilateral.", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee28b3d831d6a001228" }, "answer" : "{James Thurber}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6878875533585, "num" : 29, "question" : "In one story by this writer, a star tackle mentions a train to meet his eligibility requirement of being able to name a mode of transportation. That tale, “University Days,” is recounted in this author’s autobiographical My Life and Hard Times. A character created by this man destroys an alibi, during his trial for murder, of his arm having been in a sling by exclaiming he is ambidextrous and punching an attorney. That character also pilots a Navy hydroplane and performs a miraculous surgery. For 10 points, name this American satirist who wrote \"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.\"", "round" : "03.pdf", "seen" : 242, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004a82" }, "answer" : "{Genghis Khan} [accept similar {sounding} things, like {Chingis Khan}; {also} accept {Temujin} before mentioned; do not accept or prompt on {Khan}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.207877338864, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man defeated his friend Jemukha in battle and was exiled by the Taychiut family after his father Yesugei's death. This man conquered the Khwarezmid Empire. He also defeated both the Xi Xia and Jin Dynasties, and after his death, he was succeeded not by Jochi or Chatagai, but by his third son, Ogodai. This man, born Temujin, conquered the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world. For 10 points, name this man, who united the Mongols.", "round" : "round12.doc", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a00355e" }, "answer" : "ether ", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.30985540850088, "num" : 18, "question" : "As heterocyclic chemical compounds, rings containing multiples of this functional group are useful as phase transfer catalysts. A special, especially reactive class of these can be formed by the reaction of trifluoroperacetic acid with an alkene. Other classes of this functional group include ketals and acetals. Its 120 degree bond angle results in a dipole. A common synthesis technique features the deprotonation of an alcohol, which subsequently reacts with an alkyl-halide. Other means of synthesis include Ullman condensation and the dehydration of alcohols. Used to link the monomers of carbohydrates, this functional group also serves as a both a Lewis and an Bronstead base. For 10 points, identify this functional group which is an alkoxy-substitued alkyl, alkene, or alkyne: an oxygen atom linking the carbons of two hydrocarbons.", "round" : "Charter + Swarthmore A.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f4a8b3d831d6a002a39" }, "answer" : "{Simon Bolivar}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.057002761867, "num" : 20, "question" : "This man directed the Admirable Campaign, and responded to Henry Cullen in his Letter from Jamaica. He described the failure of a movement led by Francisco de Miranda in the “Cartagena [*] Manifesto”. This winning commander at Carabobo joined with Antonio Jose de Sucre to win a victory at Ayacucho. The Guayaquil Conference saw the beginning of his partnership with Jose de San Martín, and he was the only president of Gran Colombia. For 10 points, name this leader of many South American independence movements, known as “the Liberator.”", "round" : "Ben Cooper 2010 Packet 1 COMPLETE.docx", "seen" : 230, "tournament" : "GDS Ben Cooper Memorial", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f698b3d831d6a0031ad" }, "answer" : "{collective farms} [accept {general} equivalents; accept {collectivization} of {agriculture}; accept", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.0459731849842, "num" : 1, "question" : "In one country, this policy was implemented with Duris' Laws, while in another country, this policy was proposed in a series of 1957 “Theses” within the government of Matyas Rakosi. In the country with which this policy is most associated, its chief proponent called for its temporary halt in an article entitled “Dizzy with Success.” This policy created kolkhozys, resulted in the death of millions in the Holodomor, and was one of the most notorious aspects of the Five Year Plan. For 10 points, name this general term for agricultural production imposed on the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, in which producers shared their land and resources.", "round" : "8.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee38b3d831d6a001270" }, "answer" : "{photoelectric} effect", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.3843407700769, "num" : 33, "question" : "This phenomenon was first noticed by Heinrich Hertz, who used a coil with a spark gap, though an early \"voltaic\" version of this phenomenon had been noted by Becquerel in 1839. Philipp Lenard noted this phenomenon's apparent contradiction of a theory proposed by Maxwell. The resolution of that problem posed by this effect saw the proposition of photons as quanta of light, which better explained the ejection of electrons noticed in this effect. For 10 points, name this physical effect that sees electrons emitted from matter that is struck by electromagnetic radiation, the explanation of which won Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics.", "round" : "05.pdf", "seen" : 259, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL States", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ffa8b3d831d6a0053ac" }, "answer" : "Sikhism", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.9599428558722, "num" : 20, "question" : "Members of this religion believe in protecting the “tenth gate” of the human body, through the wearing of a dastar. Also on the head, the principles of kesh and kanga command members of this religion to refrain from cutting their (*) hair and carry a comb at all times. Those are among the “Five Ks” that initiated adults in this religion must follow. For 10 points, identify this monotheistic faith, which grew out of the mingling of Hinduism and Islam in the Punjab (POON-job) region of India, and was founded by Guru Nanak.", "round" : "tourn10-01.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 10", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f058b3d831d6a001a26" }, "answer" : "{Vishnu} [prompt on “{Narasimha}” before “{half-man}, {half-lion}”, {don’t} accept afterwards]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 682.1915395024698, "num" : 2, "question" : "In one form, this god tears out of a pillar and kills a demon at twilight in a courtyard. This slayer of Hiranyakashipu has a form that is half-man, half-lion and lives on his snake Adishesha in the milky ocean. He also took three steps to conquer the three worlds in his form Vamana. In most depictions, this god is holding a mace, lotus, conch, and chakra, and he coerced Amrit from the asuras in the form of the temptress Mohini. The [*] Dashavatara consists of ten avatars of this deity, including Narasimha, Krishna, and Rama, and his wife is named Lakshmi. For 10 points, name this member of the Hindu trimurti, the preserver of the universe.", "round" : "Round 11.doc", "seen" : 456, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea38b3d831d6a000378" }, "answer" : "{Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot} (or the {Baron} de {Laune})", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 37.67536747036502, "num" : 16, "question" : "One of this man's most important public acts allowed foreigners to enter any trade except for barber and wigmaker - he did so by disbanding the guilds, or jurandes, and paying off the men who controlled them. He wrote a handbook for his two Chinese students entitled Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches. Before ascending to political power, he gave an oration entitled \"A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind,\" which argued that Christian ideals allowed for universal human progress. After putting down the Flour Wars, he gained infamy by issuing the Six Edicts, the most famous of which eliminated the corvee. This man, who was crippled in a duel with Pierre Soule, had his biography written by Condorcet and used his public post to espouse his Physiocrat beliefs. FTP, name this man appointed comptroller general in 1774 under Louis XVI, who was replaced with Jacques Necker.", "round" : "FINALS1.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40858b3d831d6a0074bc" }, "answer" : "{Johan Gottlieb Fichte}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.6309976412449, "num" : 3, "question" : "One of this man's works is subtitled “An Attempt to Force the Reader to Understand” while another is subtitled “The Towards the Blessed Life.” That work is analyzed the Enlightenment's place in history and is called Characteristics of the Present Age. His work was analyzed by a contemporary in The Fundamental Concepts and Principle of Ethics, and that book's author Karl Reinhold was a rival of this man. One of his books argues that self-consciousness was normatively constructed while in another he calls the self a substance and divides the titular concept into three principles. Besides Foundations of Natural Right and Science of Knowledge, this man posited the Tathandlung, or fact/act distinction and a work divided into the sections Doubt, Knowledge, and Faith titled Vocation of Man. Also known for his Addresses to the German Nation, for ten points name this idealist, the author of an Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 34, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f698b3d831d6a003183" }, "answer" : "{Theodore Roethke}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.9164019641466, "num" : 5, "question" : "In a poem by this author, the speaker declares \"I hate my epidermal dress\" and wishes to \"sleep immodestly\" as \"a most incarnadine and carnal ghost.\" This poet wrote \"I measure time by how a body sways\" in a poem whose first line describes the title character as \"lovely in her bones.\" This author of \"Epidermal Macabre\" and \"I Knew a Woman\" used four-line stanzas and lines of three iambs to mimic the title dance of a poem beginning \"the whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy.\" This poet wrote \"I feel my fate in what I cannot fear / I learn by going where I have to go\" in a villanelle which begins with the line \"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.\" For 10 points, name this poet from Michigan who wrote \"My Papa's Waltz\" and \"The Waking.\"", "round" : "6.pdf", "seen" : 237, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fed8b3d831d6a005097" }, "answer" : "{endoplasmic reticulum} [or {ER}]", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.1207182721701, "num" : 9, "question" : "The KDEL retention sequence signals which proteins remain in this organelle, and one of this organelle's functions is glycosylation (gly-COSS-ill-AY-shun) of proteins. COPI (cop one) and COPII (cop two) proteins aid in transporting proteins between the Golgi body and this organelle. The presence or absence of ribosomes on the surface of these organelles determines whether they are of the \"rough\" or \"smooth\" variety. For 10 points, name this organelle that helps fold and transport proteins.", "round" : "4q2-01.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f038b3d831d6a0019bb" }, "answer" : "{Andrea del Sarto} [accept either]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 59.33387878350914, "num" : 14, "question" : "Vasari tells how when this man’s wife wouldn’t sit still for a picture, he painted himself. This man’s Last Supper takes place in a room with a high arched ceiling and three windows above the table. A figure on a balcony outside the window is leaning his arm on the ledge and looking towards another, who is turning around to face the viewer.  St. Francis is to the right and St. John to the left of a title figure in another work. Angels grab the legs of that figure, who is standing on a pedestal into which is carved this man’s signature and the opening words of a hymn dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption. Carved into the edges of the pedestal are screaming winged figures, which give the painting its name.  For 10 points, name this “faultless painter” of Madonna of the Harpies.", "round" : "Packet 11.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "SACK", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd38b3d831d6a004a8b" }, "answer" : "King {Henry VIII} of England (accept {Henry} after \"{eighth}\"; prompt on it before)", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8441663475241, "num" : 20, "question" : "For writing Defense of the Seven Sacraments, this ruler was given the title \"Defender of the Faith.\" This ruler followed the advice of Thomas Cromwell to pass the Acts of Supremacy and arrested Cardinal Wolsey. After being refused an annulment, he founded the Church of England. For 10 points, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour, Catherine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn were some of the six wives of what English king, the eighth of his name?", "round" : "round12.doc", "seen" : 235, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f608b3d831d6a002f40" }, "answer" : "the {Watergate tapes} [or Nixon {tapes} before “{Nixon};” prompt on {less specific} but {still not-wrong} answers like {White House tapes}; or {Watergate}; or {tapes}; accept equivalents for “{tape}” like “{recording}”]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.09498927881941, "num" : 4, "question" : "One of these entities documents how “the boil had to be pricked.” These entities were the subject of a Supreme Court case that hinged on a term first defined in Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Co. v. U.S. A segment in one of these entities was allegedly the product of an awkward position called the “Rose Mary Stretch.” These entities were eventually given to John Sirica, and many of them chronicle exchanges with H.R. Haldeman. The 342nd of these objects, which Archibald Cox subpoenaed, contains an eighteen-and-a-half-minute-long pause. For 10 points, name these audio recordings central to the Supreme Court case U.S. v. Nixon, which discuss a certain break-in.", "round" : "MUT 2010 - Finals 2 [DO NOT READ FOR PRELIMS] - Done.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f948b3d831d6a003c1c" }, "answer" : "On the {Road}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.05881887488067, "num" : 16, "question" : "The mountain ranges around one city in this novel are described as “papier-mache” in a poem about the “doldrums” of that city, home to a staging of Fidelio attended by the main characters. One character takes up a job at a parking garage and another works as a security guard in a barracks for construction workers. The protagonist tries and fails to seduce the sex-addicted Rita Bettencourt, but exercises restraint with Lee Ann, the sulky girlfriend of his prep school friend (*) Remi Boncoeur. After spending fifteen days with Terry, the protagonist joins Stan Shepherd in a marijuana-filled sojourn to Mexico City, years after he leaves New York City for Denver to meet up with Dean Moriarty. Neal Cassady and William S Boroughs are fictionalized in, for 10 points, what autobiographical novel about Sal Paradise, written by Jack Kerouac?", "round" : "THUNDER Round 8.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ef08b3d831d6a001566" }, "answer" : "caches", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.5491067059338, "num" : 22, "question" : "Some of these make use of the Illinois Protocol, which is one of many algorithms that make use of the\n four words \"modified,\" \"shared,\" \"exclusive\" and \"invalid\" in order to prevent the \"false sharing\" problem\n inherent in these devices when trying to maintain their coherency. When implementing the write-back ones\n of these, an extra dirty bit is needed to maintain them. They can be direct mapped or set-associative at\n times, which allows them to hold more types of data. These devices exploit both temporal locality and\n spatial locality. For 10 points, identify these devices that store recently used bits of memory in order to\n speed up future access.", "round" : "18.pdf", "seen" : 265, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a0012f9" }, "answer" : "fluorescence", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.79720542137511, "num" : 15, "question" : "Because this effect usually produces low-intensity signals, an apparatus consisting of serial dynodes which amplify incoming signals are used in this type of spectroscopy. In one technique, resonant transfer of energy via this effect induces a signal from a nearby chromophore. It is used along with flow cytometry to sort cells in one technique, while the former technique is used to study protein-protein interactions and is called FRET. This effect occurs due to relaxation from an excited state without going through a triplet state.  For 10 points, identify this effect in which a substance emits light of a longer wavelength than the one it absorbs, which only lasts for short durations as opposed to phosphorescence.", "round" : "Packet 10 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 46, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045f8" }, "answer" : "Empedocles", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.18683304823935, "num" : 9, "question" : "Aristotle attributes the “Zion Dialectic” to this philosopher that theorized mules are infertile because their wombs are attached to their bellies. Another of his scientific theories is that salts are solidified because of the sun. One of this philosopher's works discusses that whatever is lawful extends through the wide-ruling air and boundless light, and a later part of it a father who killed his son with a prayer in preparation for a feast, and equates it with a time where the children kill their parents. This philosopher believed that animals housed sinful souls, and he also believed that there is a correlation between the soft blood of the body and the amount of air breathed in. This philosopher frequently referred to his “two-fold” truths, and he refers to entities that wander near the sea of life, those entities, are detached from the bodies, and are limbs. This man also theorized about the importance of a concept which makes many out of one, Strife. For ten points, name this philosopher who discussed the notion of the four elements before throwing himself into Mt. Etna.", "round" : "Packet 10 - Gentlemen from Sangala.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f388b3d831d6a0025f3" }, "answer" : "{Baltic} Sea", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "MS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 3440.27372179809, "num" : 3, "question" : "The island of Bornholm is in this body of water, which is connected by the Kiel (“KEEL”) Canal to the North Sea. One arm of this sea is the Gulf of Bothnia, and the large island of Saaremaa (“SAH-reh- MAH”) guards its Gulf of Riga (“REE-guh”). Five national capitals lie on this body of water, including Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, and Stockholm. For 10 points, name this sea south of Scandinavia.", "round" : "CMST_Round02.pdf", "seen" : 2288, "tournament" : "Collaborative MS Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f978b3d831d6a003ccf" }, "answer" : "{Bronislaw Malinowski}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.2302515753545, "num" : 13, "question" : "He claimed that the Oedipus complex Freud posited was not universal in Sex and Repression in Savage Society, and this man wrote the introduction to Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya as well as his own Magic, Science, and Religion. He listed basic human needs and institution types in a work that differentiates between basic biological and cultural needs, A Scientific Theory of Culture. His most famous work discusses canoe building and launching, as well as the kula exchange in Papua New Guinea, while his time in the Trobriand Islands was the basis for Coral Gardens and their Magic. For 10 points, name this functionalist Polish anthropologist and author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific.", "round" : "Round 3.doc", "seen" : 224, "tournament" : "TJ NAREN", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f348b3d831d6a00250e" }, "answer" : "{Harlequin's Carnival} [accept The {Carnival} of {Harlequin}]", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.22945485357195, "num" : 2, "question" : "A black hill is visible though a window at the top right hand corner of this painting, and an arrow with yellow and red feathers is visible underneath it. The room featured in the work is brightly lit, and a wavy black line juts across the center of this painting and forms a white fist, while a 2 and a 1 are seen on the (*) die on the left side of the work. Some black and yellow fish are sitting on a large purple table on the right side of this painting, while in the background, some black musical notes are on the wall. On the far left of this painting, a ladder juts up to the ceiling, an image which similarly appears in the artist's Dog Barking at the Moon. For 10 points, identify this surrealist painting by Joan Miro.", "round" : "Lully 6.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Arts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a005955" }, "answer" : "The {Dead}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7331343260594, "num" : 18, "question" : "One character referenced in this story is dressed in a Man-o-war suit and nurses to health a woman in Monkstown, while another character says \"I have a cow to pluck with you\" after she dances with the protagonist that imagines his wife with a blue felt hat and bronze hair in a painting called \"Distant Music.\" \"The Lass of Aughrim,\" is sung by Bartell D'arcy in this story that sees a debate on quoting Robert Browning. The protagonist's wife imagines being visited by a sick lover that dies while she is in a convent in Galway in this work set at the Morkan Sisters' Annual Dance on the Epiphany. Ending with a contemplation about Michael Fury, for ten points, identify this short story about Gretta Conroy and Gabriel, the final entry in James Joyce's Dubliners.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 4.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e9e8b3d831d6a000258" }, "answer" : "the {Bruce}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 55.38969295518473, "num" : 10, "question" : "One person known by this sobriquet dispatched Roger Mortimer at Kells but was defeated by John de Bermingham at the Battle of Faughart, ending his claim to be High King of Ireland. Another person of this surname married Walter to found the Stuart dynasty. That one, Marjorie, was the daughter of the most noted person to bear this name, whose embalmed heart was taken on crusade to the Battle of Teba. That man of this surname stabbed John Comyn to death on the altar of Greyfriars, sent a letter of independence to Pope John the Twenty-Second in the Declaration of Arbroath, and drove off Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn. For 10 points, give this dynastic name held by Scottish king Robert I.", "round" : "ACF Regionals 2011 - Editors 1 final.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40358b3d831d6a0061c6" }, "answer" : "Nickel", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.13999197795056, "num" : 7, "question" : "Archael methanogenesis relies on an enzyme that contains this metal in a tetrapyrrole, known as F430. This element is present along with iron and sulfor in pentlandite, and it also occurs in kamacite and taenite, which are found in meteors. Like calcium, this element's 48 isotope is doubly magic. It is present in the active site of prokaryotic glyoxylase, while Helicobacter pylori can be detected by using a rapid test for an enzyme containing this metal, urease. Columns of it are used to purify polyhistidine-tagged proteins, and this metal is purified by carbonylation in the Mond process. Another compound containing this metal is used to transform thioacetals to alkenes, and is created by adding NaOH to an alloy of this metal and aluminum. For 10 points, name this metal found in Raney's catalyst, with atomic number 28 and symbol Ni.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6 - Final.doc", "seen" : 43, "tournament" : "THUNDER", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f188b3d831d6a001e8f" }, "answer" : "{Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 39.60642379079945, "num" : 19, "question" : "Part 10 asserts that Epicurus' “old questions are yet unanswered,” while Part 7 posits a planet wholly inhabited by spiders.  In addition to citing Herbert of Cherbury's argument for the universal consent of mankind, another section references an article by Fontenelle to make the argument that “a skillful algebraist” would conclude that it is “necessity” rather than chance that explains why the products of 9 are composed of either 9 or a lesser product of 9.  J.G. Hamann notably translated this work, which is composed of 12 parts and articulated the ideas of Samuel Clarke into Gernan for Kant.  Published in 1779 and based in part on Cicero's The Nature of the Gods, it presents a series of discussions centered on Demea's and Philo's arguments against Cleanthes' deployment of “the argument from design.”  For 10 points, identify this exploration of the existence of God, a work by David Hume.", "round" : "Editor's Round Tiebreak 1.docx", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40578b3d831d6a0069be" }, "answer" : "{Capetian} Dynasty", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.8435513796285, "num" : 7, "question" : "Jean-Paul Laurens depicted the excommunication of the second ruler of this dynasty, which occurred when that ruler attempted to marry his distant cousin Berthe of Burgundy. Another member of this dynasty clashed with Pope Boniface VIII and moved the papacy to Avignon. In addition to Robert the Pious and Philip the Fair, this dynasty included Louis IX, commonly known as St. Louis. For 10 points, name this French dynasty that succeeded the Carolingians and was succeeded by the Valois, which was founded by Hugh in 987.", "round" : "Round_02_HSAPQACF1.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a00130d" }, "answer" : "electric {charge}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.6112175553571, "num" : 16, "question" : "For a baryon, this quantity is related to Baryon number, isospin, and strangeness according to the Gell-Mann-Nishijima formula. Dirac showed that the existence of a magnetic monopole would lead to a quantization of this quantity. A measure for this which is “effectively” felt by a valence electron is used to calculate electronegativity in the Allred-Rochow scale. Mass, angular momentum, and this are the only quantities which characterize black holes according to the “no hair” theorem. The flux at the surface of an arbitrary volume is proportional to this quantity according to Gauss’ law for electric fields. For 10 points, identify this property which is carried by electrons and protons but not neutrons.", "round" : "Packet 12 - finalized (updated).doc", "seen" : 79, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc08b3d831d6a00465c" }, "answer" : "{Julian Jaynes}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.16581532685086, "num" : 6, "question" : "This person wrote articles on the eighteenth-century German creationist Reimarus and psychology papers on the retention of light-dark discrimination in rats. A book by this man uses an Akkadian word for \"vagrants\" to describe Old Testament prophets in the section on the “Kabiru.” He moved towards his major theory in \"Unconditionally the Last Work On Tut and His Times,\" \"The Dragons of the Shang Dynasty,\" and \"Paleolithic Cave Paintings as Eidetic Images.” He defended that theory from the critique of Daniel (*) Dennett in another article, and in his last publications analyzed the historical dimension of the link between verbal hallucinations and schizophrenia. His major book uses examples from the Iliad to claim that the \"executive\" module was heard as the voice of the gods until a point around 1000 BCE, when humans were first able to conceive of themselves as mental entities following the unification of the left and right hemispheres. For 10 points, name this author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.", "round" : "Rd01.doc", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2d8b3d831d6a00234b" }, "answer" : "The {Circle} of {Chalk} [or {Chalk Circle}; or {Hui-Lan Ji}]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 30.80832652933895, "num" : 3, "question" : "After a character mentions a brotherhood that murders oppressors of the poor, the central character of this play gives a fur coat to her brother and throws a knife, which cuts the title object. An innkeeper is stiffed when drinks are bought to revive that brother, who along with the central character struggles through a snowstorm with two soldier-guards. This play ends when the new emperor is told of a dream where he ravishes the central character, whom he fell in love with when she drew the title object, but was unable to see for a year thereafter when Mr. Ma took her as his concubine. The merchant father hangs himself, leading Chang hi-Tang to be sold into a teahouse, but justice is dispensed when her son, who was placed in the title object, recognizes her rather than the murderess Mrs. Ma as the true mother. For 10 points, name this Yuan Dynasty play by Li Xingdao, of which a very loose “Caucasian” adaptation was made by Bertolt Brecht. ", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 03 - The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a00343d" }, "answer" : "{asteroids} [accept {asteroid belts}, etc]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.7150263239164, "num" : 9, "question" : "These objects are home to Colossus Wasps, which prey on another species that inhabits them, the exogorths. A particular one was the location for the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force outpost near Crustai, and another was where Maw Installation was situated. Shortly before stating a disdain for excuses, one character announces that these objects “do not concern me” to Admiral Piett. A sonic charge is used in a dogfight among these objects near (*) Geonosis, and another group of these is encountered as a result of an clash with Death Squadron; the chance of surviving that incident is given as 3,720 to 1. During an attempt to seek refuge within one of these objects, the presence of mynocks reveals that a space slug is impersonating a cave. For 10 points, name these objects which made up a field near the Hoth system that the Millennium Falcon flew into in The Empire Strikes Back", "round" : "Round 21AllStar.doc", "seen" : 560, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40128b3d831d6a005948" }, "answer" : "Decameron", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.1883643390611, "num" : 5, "question" : "At one point, a woman is so displeased with a knight's storytelling that she asks him to stop escorting her, and this book sees Solomon ordering a man to the Bridge of Geese. This work depicts a man showing people coal instead of a feather from the Archangel Gabriel and three jokesters pulling down the breeches of a judge. It closes with Gualtieri marrying Griselda and making her a Marchioness as the Marquis of Saluzzo, and it begins with a wicked man praised as a saint because he lies about his last rites in Ciappelletto. At other points, Neifile dictates the theme of painful loss and recompense, while the idea of \"when lovers must endure tragedy,\" is a theme chosen by Fiametta. For ten points, identify this collection of stories told during the Plague, 100 tales by Giovanni Boccacio.", "round" : "PRELIMS ROUND 4.doc", "seen" : 241, "tournament" : "Mahfouz Memorial Lit", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ebf8b3d831d6a0009dd" }, "answer" : "{William Carlos Williams}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7146265048067, "num" : 17, "question" : "This poet asked his wife for forgiveness in their old age in his three-volume work \"Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.\" Another work of his personifies a city which \"lives in the shadow of Passaic Falls.\" This author of Paterson claimed \"no ideas but in things,\" a maxim borne out by poems which describe the title object \"glazed with rainwater beside the white (*) chickens\" and apologize for eating \"the plums that were in the icebox.\" For 10 points, name this poet of \"The Red Wheelbarrow\" and \"This Is Just To Say.\"", "round" : "04.pdf", "seen" : 244, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 16", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f798b3d831d6a003571" }, "answer" : "Presidential Election of 1968 [accept {clear} equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.58019981370308, "num" : 16, "question" : "After this presidential election, the losing party set up a commission to review its nomination procedures, named after Donald Fraser and a Senator from South Dakota. One candidate who failed to win the Republican nomination said he had been “brainwashed” by the American military, while this election saw a strong third party challenger whose running mate was Air Force General Curtis LeMay. At the Democratic convention before this election, the Yippies satirically nominated “Pigasus,” while Mayor Richard Daley's police violently suppressed demonstrators in Chicago. For 10 points, name this presidential election which saw Richard Nixon defeat both George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey.", "round" : "Cheyne-Byrne.doc", "seen" : 38, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e403f8b3d831d6a00643c" }, "answer" : "After the {Fall}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.96882217237726, "num" : 3, "question" : "A 2004 revival of this work set it at Idlewild Airport, rather than against a blank backdrop. One subplot involves shrewish Louise's desire to be a “separate person,” while in another, Mickey rats on Lou, whose wife Elsie made him put flaws into his book on Soviet law. After being taken to a concentration camp by his new love Holga, its protagonist finally asks the audience whether love can exist in the title state in light of his second wife's rise from telephone operator to recording star and her death of an overdose on pills. For 10 points, name this play about lawyer Quentin's marriage to Maggie, a thinly-veiled depiction of the playwright's relationship with Marilyn Monroe, by Arthur Miller.", "round" : "Packet_4.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eab8b3d831d6a000533" }, "answer" : "{Amazon} River", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.22112812520936, "num" : 6, "question" : "Roger North led an Irish expedition to settle in the valley of this river, which ended in anarchy when Bernard O’Brien learned the language of its inhabitants, traveled up it to visit a queen called the “Great Lady” and organized local bowmen to fight against the Dutch and the Franciscans. Native ecology in the region around this river was described in a book by Betty Meggers, who called it “a counterfeit paradise.” More recent interpretations by Anna Roosevelt have stressed the long-term accomplishments of manioc-based civilizations like those that created the pottery of Marajo island at its mouth. An opera house named the Teatro [of this river] was built during its rubber boom in Manaus, a city at the confluence of the Rio Negro and this river. For 10 points, conquistador Francisco de Orellana voyaged down what river that he named after the warrior women of Greek myth?", "round" : "2011 CO History Hoppes Ray.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40898b3d831d6a0075af" }, "answer" : "Jeremiah", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 49.15469159348868, "num" : 13, "question" : "This man is the namesake of an apocryphal epistle, which in the Roman canon is appended as the sixth chapter as the book of Baruch. Baruch is also believed to be the author of the second part of this man's namesake book, who received his prophetic call in the 13th century of King Josiah. His book's 52nd chapter is a historical appendix largely taken from 2nd Kings, while chapters 7 and 26 contain his famous \"Temple sermon.\" This man preached during the reign of King Jehoiakim and King Zedekiah, the last king of Judah and his book also contains a set of his confessions. For ten points, identy this prophet, who saw the destruction of the Temple and the razing of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, and whose book is followed in the Old Testament by his Lamentations.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - Dartmouth A.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa48b3d831d6a003fc0" }, "answer" : "{Caspar David Friedrich}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 36.45313493185677, "num" : 5, "question" : "A woman with her back to the viewer looks out at a ship's mast in this artist's depiction of his wife Caroline Bommer, Woman at a Window. A redshirted man wearing white pants holds a hiking stick and leans back against a rocky outcropping in his Mountain Landscape with a Rainbow. This artist painted a well-dressed man on hands and knees peering over the Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, and some children hold a Swedish flag in his harbor view (*) The Stages of Life. His Tetschener Altar contains one of his many depictions of a cross in the mountains, and in this painter's most iconic image, a black clad man with a walking stick stands on a crag looking out over the mist. For 10 points, name this German Romantic painter of The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.", "round" : "The Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 24, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e406a8b3d831d6a006e61" }, "answer" : "{St. Bartholomew's} Day Massacre [or Massacre de la {Saint-Barthélemy}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9621070949361, "num" : 7, "question" : "One of its victims may have lamented that he was killed at “[the hands] of a valet”, or he may have unsuccessfully pleaded with Besme the German to “respect these white hairs”. It was the result of a fight that broke out during the wedding of Marguerite of Valois, and the aforementioned Gaspard de Coligny was its most famous victim. Scholars differ as to whether Henry of Guise or Catherine de Medici was the orchestrator of this attack. For 10 points, name this 1572 massacre of over 30,000 Huguenots which occurred on a certain saint's day.", "round" : "Round_11_HSAPQ_NSC1.pdf", "seen" : 231, "tournament" : "HSAPQ NSC 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40728b3d831d6a007036" }, "answer" : "{Milton Friedman}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.8001109007745, "num" : 12, "question" : "He postulated that one's economic decisions are motivated more by expected future income than current income in his “permanent income hypothesis,” and he referred to the Great Depression as the Great Contraction.  Having spoken highly of one book by John Maynard Keynes, a treatise on a certain kind of reform, he is better known for work with Edmund Phelps on the concept of a natural rate of unemployment.  The author of Capitalism and Freedom is,  for 10 points, what longtime advocate of laissez-faire economics and author of A Monetary History of the United States?", "round" : "NNT_Packet_1.doc", "seen" : 223, "tournament" : "NNT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40848b3d831d6a00747b" }, "answer" : "{cocks} [accept: {roosters}; prompt on “{chickens}”, do not accept “{hens}”]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 98.09364546812139, "num" : 1, "question" : "Among the Lithuanians, the demon Aitvaras is said to appear as this type of creature when he is indoors. Some early Athenian vase paintings contain images of a curious creature with the forequarters of a horse and the hindquarters of this type of creature. Ares transformed a youth into one of these creatures after that youth failed to prevented Helios from walking in on Ares sleeping with Aphrodite. In the Epic of Sundiata, the evil wizard Sumangaru can only be harmed by a body part of this animal. One of these creatures is vulnerable only to the rod Haevatein, which is owned by Loki, and has two meals and a sickle hidden under its wings. Fjalar is one of these creatures who lives among the frost giants, and the most famous one of these from Norse mythology is named for a body part of his that is made of gold. For ten points, Vidofnir and Gullinkambi are these kinds of creatures, whose crowing will signal Ragnorak.", "round" : "Round 2.doc", "seen" : 64, "tournament" : "RMP Fest", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004add" }, "answer" : "“{Hamlet} And His {Problems}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.96934659359977, "num" : 3, "question" : "In “Desire and its Interpretation” Lacan comments on this essay and says that the phrase “inexpressibly horrible” refers to a figure's opaque sexual desire. It asks if the author of this work's subject read An Apology for Raymond Sebond , and it claims that the emotions of the (*) titular figure are in “excess of the facts.” Introducing the concept of the “objective correlative” it claims Coriolanus is an “artistic success.” For 10 points – name this essay from T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood that deals with a certain prince of Denmark.", "round" : "04_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 30, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40228b3d831d6a005d14" }, "answer" : "{Gilbert Newton Lewis}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4621714374516, "num" : 17, "question" : "This scientist's later work concerned neutron refraction and the properties of deuterium. He introduced fugacity and the activity coefficient, and with Merle Randall, he built on the thermodynamic work of J. Willard Gibbs in his Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances. Linus Pauling promoted this chemist's model of chemical bonding. Identify this chemist whose namesake acids accept electron pairs, and who also developed a way to diagram molecular bonding and lone pairs, his namesake “dot structures”.", "round" : "finals 1 TU.pdf", "seen" : 261, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb08b3d831d6a004262" }, "answer" : "Woyzeck", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.16736891190521, "num" : 17, "question" : "One character in this play recommends a glass of schnapps with a pinch of powder for the main character's insomniac notion that the walls are speaking, as both occupy the same bed. At this work's beginning, that character is cutting canes in the undergrowth with Andres when he notices a part of the grass where a decapitated head once resembled a hedgehog. A pooping horse rendered the remark to “be natural,” but his doctor, who is angry at him for the natural act of pissing against a wall, asks him to do it in a bottle to evaluate his diet of peas. Later, the protagonist notices “The moon's like a bloody knife!” as he stands in a pool of water. For 10 points, after discovering an affair with the Drum Major, the title character murders his wife Marie in what posthumously performed and fragmented play by Georg Büchner?", "round" : "r12- Rutgers.doc", "seen" : 20, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40258b3d831d6a005e08" }, "answer" : "{Life} is {Beautiful} [or La {Vita e bella}]", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 847.9822976803407, "num" : 11, "question" : "This work opens with two characters driving through the countryside, and one of them recites a verse that repeatedly claims that the brakes are out.  The central character of this work is a bookstore-owner who rides away from an engagement dinner after stealing the bride-to-be for himself.  During the second half of this film, the protagonist convinces his son Joshua that they are playing a game in which 1000 points must be earned in order to win an American tank.  For 10 points, name this Italian film whose director and lead actor stood on his chair after winning an Oscar, a work set in a concentration camp that features Roberto Benigni (buh-NEE-nee).", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 18.doc", "seen" : 569, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd18b3d831d6a004a3e" }, "answer" : "{Margaret Mead}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 336.7306068376637, "num" : 4, "question" : "This person collaborated with James Baldwin on A Rap on Race and noted that females are the dominant figures in the Chambri Lake region in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. She interviewed 68 women between the ages of 9 and 20 for another work, and that book, criticized by Derek Freeman, studies the sexual development of adolescents in Polynesia. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who wrote Coming of Age in Samoa.", "round" : "round09.doc", "seen" : 220, "tournament" : "Fall Novice", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f508b3d831d6a002bda" }, "answer" : "{Malleus Maleficarum} [accept {Hammer} of the {Witches} early]", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.66095826383679, "num" : 2, "question" : "The extended title of this work notes that a subject that will be destroyed “as with a two-edged sword,” and this work's first section cites Aristotle's Physics in declaring that human bodies can only be altered by natural causes. This work was preceded by the similar work Formicarius by Johannes Nider. This work was authored by Kraemer and Sprenger, and it was simultaneously circulated by Pope Innocent VIII's bull Summis Desiderantes. This work notes the capabilities of its subjects to deprive men of their “virile member,” and sections of this work include one dealing with trials and executions. for 10 points, identify this medieval book, a manual on how to hunt down and uncover witches which can be translated as “Hammer of the Witches.”", "round" : "Round 02.doc", "seen" : 41, "tournament" : "Harvard International", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6a8b3d831d6a0031bd" }, "answer" : "{Clifford James Geertz}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 337.6182973966934, "num" : 17, "question" : "This man differentiated between swidden and sawah in a book written during his time on the Modjokuto Project. He distinguished between symbols that are \"models of\" the world and \"models for\" the world in his article \"Religion as a Cultural System.\" This author of Agricultural Involution stated that \"culture is public, because meaning is\"; another section of that work describes a complicated betting system, the role of the umpire, and men's identification with their participants in the title event, and is entitled Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who pioneered the use of thick description in The Interpretation of Cultures.", "round" : "8.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f6d8b3d831d6a003277" }, "answer" : "{Frederic Sackrider Remington}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.9197541121393, "num" : 5, "question" : "One sculpture by this artist shows a Paleolithic man hovering in a cave. Early in this artist's career, he was sent to South Carolina by Harper's Weekly as an artist-correspondent to cover an earthquake. Among this artist's works is a black-and-white picture that depicts a bicyclist challenging a stagecoach along a dusty road called The Right of the Road and a piece showing a cowboy and three native American guests gathered around a campfire titled Shotgun Hos- pitality. Another one of this artist's sculptures shows a small rattlesnake scaring a big horse. Name this western artist whose most famous work, a sculpture showing a man about to whip a horse, is Bronco Buster.", "round" : "09.pdf", "seen" : 284, "tournament" : "NTSS", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40798b3d831d6a0071e5" }, "answer" : "{Benvenuto Cellini}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 421.7286579434294, "num" : 10, "question" : "He created a brooch featuring Leda and the Swan for Gabbriello Cesarino, while a life-size marble crucifix by him was given to the Escorial. Mythological works by this man include Ganymede Riding the Eagle, a large silver Jupiter, and a statue of Mars for Fontainebleau. Neptune and Ceres appear in gold on a work given to Francis I and used for culinary purposes, while the title character of another work holds a sword aloft. For 10 points, identify this Florentine sculptor of Salt Cellar and Perseus with the Head of Medusa.", "round" : "Round 13.doc", "seen" : 276, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fdb8b3d831d6a004c78" }, "answer" : "Japan", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.7674213070422, "num" : 5, "question" : "One author from this country detailed a moneylender having an affair in The Wilde Geese. Another author from this country is famous for his play The Uprooted Pine and his plays about \"love suicides.\" Another author wrote Aghwee the Sky Monster and about a man who has cancer and wears goggles in The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away. A fourth author categorized \"embarrassing things\" in her Pillow Book, while a fifth described Heian court life in The Tale of Genji. For ten points, identify this home country of Oe Kenzaburo, and Lady Murasaki.", "round" : "FHTE R7 Final Final Final.rtf", "seen" : 247, "tournament" : "From Here To Eternity", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f068b3d831d6a001a92" }, "answer" : "{Chilean miners} [or {Copiapo miners}; accept equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.2436780738644, "num" : 5, "question" : "This group was denied wine for the celebration of its country’s bicentennial, and Pope Benedict XVI sent them rosaries. Maria Segovia was nicknamed Alcaldesa, or mayoress, of Camp Hope above them. Yonni Barrios was their nurse, Mario Gomez, the oldest, was their chaplain, and Mario Sepulveda hosted the video journals these people sent to the [*]outside world. Capsules, called palomas, sent glucose capsules and letters from the families of this group. Florencio Avalos was the first member of this group to go up via the Fenix 2 rescue vessel. Surviving for sixty-nine days, for 10 points, name this group of people rescued from the San Jose mine in the Atacama Desert.", "round" : "Round 5.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "St. Anselms and Torrey Pines", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f3d8b3d831d6a002715" }, "answer" : "Janissaries", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 55.36515138368122, "num" : 15, "question" : "This military force adhered to the teachings of the Sufi dervish saint Bektashi, as he had offered them blessings after this group was instituted by Murad I. They were disbanded after the 1826 Auspicious Incident after Mahmud II decided they had grown too powerful. Originally recruited by the devshirme, a forced tribute of Christian subjects to the sultan, FTP, name this military force of the Ottoman Empire.", "round" : "DB 2010 round 2.doc", "seen" : 37, "tournament" : "Delta Burke", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b88" }, "answer" : "Le {Père Goriot}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.77329471358098, "num" : 7, "question" : "In this novel, a woman stops on the way to dinner and demands that her date win six thousand francs gambling; that woman is later caught by her husband trying to sell the de Restaud family diamonds. Bianchon is one of two people at the title character's (*) deathbed at the Maison Vauquer, after that man is unable to move into a new apartment with Eugene de Rastignac as planned. Only empty carriages are sent by Delphine and Anastasia to their father's funeral. For 10 points, name this novel about an exploited Frenchman by Balzac.", "round" : "10_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e400b8b3d831d6a0057ba" }, "answer" : "liver", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.2403117383365, "num" : 21, "question" : "One disease that affects this entity comes in a primary biliary form, which results in xanthoma. This entity includes cavities such as the Space of Mall and the Space of Disse. Kuppfer cells in this organ degrade red blood cells. Scar tissue replaces functional tissue in (*) cirrhosis, a disease of this organ that can be caused by excessive alcohol use. For 10 points, hepatic veins drain blood from what organ, useful for detoxifying the blood?", "round" : "tourn9-05.pdf", "seen" : 263, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 9", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b6c" }, "answer" : "{No} One {Writes} to the {Colonel} (or {ElCoronel no tiene quien} le {escriba})", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.58663925505243, "num" : 5, "question" : "One character in this work fails to sell a painting and a wall clock. Alvaro had earlier bought that character's sewing machine and worked with her son before the son was killed by the mayor's men. The title character goes to the harbor every Friday to wait for the (*) mail and sells a rooster to Sabas before reneging on the deal. For 10 points, name this work where that rooster from Agustín and a pension check serve as hope for the title character in a Gabriel García Marquez work.", "round" : "09_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb28b3d831d6a0042e3" }, "answer" : "The {Second} Amendment", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 38.2745366608724, "num" : 5, "question" : "University of Texas professor Sanford Levinson questioned why this provision does not get more coverage in legal journals in an article titled for its \"embarrassing\" consequences. The 1886 Presser v. Illinois case, which said that this restriction does not apply at the state level, was challenged in April 2009 by a Ninth Circuit ruling which held that this amendment is now incorporated. The majority opinion in a recent case addressing this law noted that “a purposive qualifying phrase that contradicts the word or phrase it modifies is unknown this side of the looking glass, except, apparently, in some courses on Linguistics.” An earlier Supreme Court case addressing this amendment turned on the transportation of an item from Oklahoma to Arkansas in violation of a federal registration statute and the meaning of the phrase “well-regulated militia.” For 10 points, identify this subject of the DC v. Heller and U.S. v. Miller rulings, a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms.", "round" : "r18- Editors 4.doc", "seen" : 26, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005d89" }, "answer" : "Hashemite {Kingdom} of {Jordan} or {al-Urdunn}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.9614624558017, "num" : 23, "question" : "Habis al-Majali was a general for this polity, whose Eastern border may have been the product of Winston Churchill's indigestion. The first ruler of this country secured power after his brother was defeated at the Battle of Mayasul, and was succeeded by Talal. A rocky period in its history began with a raid on its town of Karameh, and saw the issuing of the Ten-Point Edict shortly before an outbreak of ethnic violence. That 1970 conflict, Black September, saw the expulsion of members of the PLO in an attempt to reassert Hashemite authority. For 10 points, name this country that abstained from the Yom Kippur War, ruled by Abdullah II from Amman.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 12.doc", "seen" : 234, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bf5" }, "answer" : "{Dame Daphne du Maurier}, {Lady Browning}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.13574883318506, "num" : 19, "question" : "In one novel by this author, Roger finally confesses his love for Isolda and dies on the last drug-filled visit by Dick to the 14th century. In another novel by this author, Doctor Baker sees the title character on the last day of her life and is visited by the magistrate Colonel Julyan and her cousin and lover Jake Favell. She wrote about Mary Yellan, who goes to live with her Aunt Patience, wife of Joss, the villainous proprietor of the title establishment. In one novel, she wrote about a farmhand and his community who are attacked by a group of suicidal (*) animals. This author of The House on the Strand and Jamaica Inn wrote about a dress ball ruined by the manipulation of Mrs. Danvers, the former housekeeper of the title character and Maxim de Winter. That novel by this author opens with the burning of the estate Manderley. For 10 points, identify this English author of “The Birds” and Rebecca.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 6.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee88b3d831d6a001398" }, "answer" : "{Berlin} [accept {East Berlin} or {West Berlin}]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 102.4633154941257, "num" : 7, "question" : "This city was the site of a 1953 strike by construction workers working on a massive boulevard project. Gail Halvorsen is a folk hero in this city, acquiring the nickname “Uncle Wiggly Wings.” This city was where the group Operation Consul killed a foreign minister who signed the Treaty of Rapallo and who also hailed from this city. Lucius Clay and Curtis LeMay planned Operation Vittles to provide aid to this city, while Marinus van der Lubbe was blamed for a 1933 arson attack which destroyed this city’s assembly house. Before becoming chancellor, Willy Brandt was mayor of this city. For 10 points, name this German city, the site of a notable postwar airlift which saw a namesake wall constructed to divide it in 1961.", "round" : "Packet 9 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 69, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f598b3d831d6a002de7" }, "answer" : "vorticity", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.79003091785125, "num" : 17, "question" : "Crocco's theorem relates this quantity to the temperature and velocity fields and to the streamline-normal gradients of the entropy and the stagnation enthalpy.  Lamb surfaces are everywhere tangent to this quantity and the velocity.  In the analogy between ideal MHD and incompressible fluid dynamics this quantity is paired with the magnetic field, in part because it is solenoidal.  The volume integral of this quantity's dot product with the velocity equals the (*) helicity, and in general this quantity equals the curl of the velocity.  For 10 points, name this quantity that vanishes in irrotational flow and whose line integral equals the circulation.", "round" : "Round 04 - Laferbrook Vintler.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "Minnesota Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fff8b3d831d6a0054f7" }, "answer" : "{Democratic Socialist Republic} of {Sri Lanka} [or {Shri Lamka Prajatantrika Samajaya di}", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 593.9752604037058, "num" : 15, "question" : "This nation's northern end is Jaffna Peninsula. This nation is nearly connected to its northwestern neighbor by a chain of limestone shoals called Adam's Bridge, but is in fact separated by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. Although the (*) Sinhalese people are the majority in this country, a minority ethnic group sponsors the militant Tamil Tigers. For 10 points, name this island nation that was once called Ceylon and is located in the Indian Ocean.", "round" : "tourn11-02.pdf", "seen" : 390, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Tournament 11", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f2f8b3d831d6a0023ba" }, "answer" : "a {comparator}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.45774508873001, "num" : 12, "question" : "One type of these with one input is symbolized by a triangle labeled with a hysteresis loop and was created to model squid nerve propagation; that one can be implemented by operating a tunnel diode near its inversion voltage or by grounding the inverting input of an op-amp and connecting the input signal to the non-inverting input with positive feedback. A simple but unreliable two-input one of these can be created by connecting an op-amp's inputs to the input signals with no feedback. The input quantization stage of an ADC is a parallel set of these with different reference levels, so one on its own functions as a one-bit ADC. For 10 points, name this type of circuit, the output of which switches between two states with the relative size of it input and which can thus be said to check the size of its input.", "round" : "2010 - Chicago Open - Round 08 - This Civilising Love of Death.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f938b3d831d6a003bde" }, "answer" : "Porphyrin", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 65.93302637361921, "num" : 17, "question" : "Alfred Treibs isolation of these compounds from petroleum created the field of organic geochemistry. Atsuhiro Osuka's group polymerized 1024 of these molecules in order to create a giant antenna. Intense absorption around 410 nm known as the Soret peak is characteristic for these compounds, whose mesotetraphenyl variety can be synthesized by refluxing methylbenzaldehyde and pyrrole under propionic acid reflux. Ferrocheletase is needed to synthesize them in humans. Humans synthesize them by combining succinyl-CoA with glycine in order to form alpha-aminolevulinic acid. Pheophytin contains one of them, though more famously they are coordinated to iron in heme. For 10 points, name these large cyclic compounds which contain four pyrroles coordinated to a central metal atom, found in chlorophyll.", "round" : "THUNDER Round 5.doc", "seen" : 45, "tournament" : "THUNDER II", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f658b3d831d6a0030a1" }, "answer" : "photons", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 395.618046597112, "num" : 9, "question" : "The ratio of the rate of emission of these particles to Auger ionization is proportional to the third power of atomic number. Dust particles lose momentum after interaction with these particles in Poynting-Robertson drag. Pair production generates an electron and positron from one of these particles. One cross-section for scattering of these particles by charges is given by eight pi over three times the square of the classical particle radius, that being the Thompson cross-section; another such cross-section is the Klein-Nishina formula. The energy of one of these is equal to Planck's constant times its frequency. For 10 points, name these particles that carry the electromagnetic force and travel at the speed of light because they are the quanta of light.", "round" : "15.pdf", "seen" : 260, "tournament" : "NASAT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f608b3d831d6a002f65" }, "answer" : "“{Convergence} of the {Twain}”", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.3342434996739, "num" : 1, "question" : "At one point the speaker describes jewels originally designed to give joy that “lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.”  In another section, this work poses the question, “What does this vaingloriousness down here?” before asserting that everything is stirred along and urged by the “Immanent Will.”  First published in its author's collection Satires of Circumstance, this work's seventh stanza depicts the preparation of a “sinister mate” in the “shadowy silent distance.”  Its opening line reads “In a solitude of the sea” and depicts the aftermath of the titular meeting between “the smart ship” and “a shape of ice.”  For10 points, identify this work subtitled “Lines on the Loss of the “Titanic,”” a poem by Thomas Hardy.", "round" : "Editor's Round (Finals 1).docx", "seen" : 21, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fee8b3d831d6a0050dd" }, "answer" : "{Republic} of {Georgia} [or {Sakartvelos Respublika}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9323730198666, "num" : 15, "question" : "This country's southwest is the autonomous province of Ajaria. The northwestern extension of this country is another ethnic enclave called Abkhazia. The most recent area of contention in this country is a region in its central north centered on Tshkinvali, where forces from this country fought with Russian troops in the fall of 2008. This country, which claims control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, is a Caucasian state that borders Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, and the Black Sea. For 10 points, name this country that shares its name with a U.S. state.", "round" : "4q2-03.pdf", "seen" : 233, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eaa8b3d831d6a0004d6" }, "answer" : "Leonid Ilyich {Brezhnev}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 42.11779630254023, "num" : 14, "question" : "This leader was opposed by Alexander Shelepin, who opposed this leader’s policy of collective leadership, which included the banning of any one individual holding the office of both General Secretary and Premier. One of this leader’s subordinates promoted a namesake reform movement prompted by the works of Evsei Lieberman; that subordinate was Alexei Kosygin. This leader’s tenure saw an agreement, the monitoring of which produced Human Rights Watch; those agreements were the Helsinki Accords. This leader’s reign saw the end of faster growth than the West, resulting in the beginning of the Era of Stagnation. For 10 points, name this head of the Soviet Union who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev.", "round" : "2011 CO History Blaszkiewicz Hang.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Chicago Open History", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40638b3d831d6a006cad" }, "answer" : "nucleolus", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 394.8805022104643, "num" : 11, "question" : "This organelle is the site of p53 localization due to proteasome inhibition. Spliceosomal RNA is regulated by the small RNA found here. During mitosis, the components of this structure are synthesized from chromosomal organizer regions, and this structure coalesces from ten smaller structures after cell division. It contains (*) fibrillar centers and the protein fibrillarin, which is involved in ribosomal RNA processing. For 10 points, name this organelle in which components of ribosomes are assembled, found within the nucleus.", "round" : "Round_06_HSAPQACF3.pdf", "seen" : 264, "tournament" : "HSAPQ ACF 3", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40248b3d831d6a005db3" }, "answer" : "{Bangkok} [or {Krung Thep}]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.4696696302854, "num" : 18, "question" : "The Jim Thompson House in this city commemorates that American's attempt to preserve its nation's culture, and its Erawan Hotel contains a shrine to Brahma. The port of this city is located at Klhong Toei, and this city was formerly divided into two municipalities, one of which was Thon Buri. The Chatuchak shopping extravaganza occurs weekly in this city, whose major sites include Wat Pho University and Wat Phra Kaew, which houses the Emerald Buddha. This city is located in the Chao Phraya River delta, and was modeled after the former capital Ayutthaya. For 10 points, name this home of the King Rama IX Park, the capital of Thailand.", "round" : "PACE NSC 2009 - Round 14.doc", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f848b3d831d6a003853" }, "answer" : "Yugoslavia <LC>", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 344.4525883358438, "num" : 17, "question" : "Alexander I became this country's first king after its establishment by the Corfu Declaration. One constituent of it was taken over by the separatist Ustasha regime. Partisans and Chetniks fought to liberate this country from the Axis during World War II. The head of its National Liberation Army became the first secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement. Formerly led by Josip Broz Tito, this country started to break apart in the 1990s. For 10 points, name this Balkan state formerly composed of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia.", "round" : "Round 08.doc", "seen" : 232, "tournament" : "Prison Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ead8b3d831d6a0005a3" }, "answer" : "{Stephen Crane}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 360.2698278506287, "num" : 10, "question" : "This author published the novella The Monster, as well as a book about the brothers Jimmie and Tommie, who are related to the titular \"girl of the streets,\" Maggie. The most famous novel by this man sees the death of Jim Conklin, and features characters as \"Loud Soldier,\" \"Tall Soldier,\" and \"Young Soldier,\" the last of whom is the protagonist, Henry Fleming. Henry survives a charge against a Confederate line in the most famous novel of, for 10 points, what American author of The Red Badge of Courage?", "round" : "colonia-02.pdf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "HSAPQ Colonia 2", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40768b3d831d6a00713b" }, "answer" : "{Nicene Creed}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 342.9620998864993, "num" : 1, "question" : "(JP) This writing was specially designed to combat the heresy of Arius of Alexandria. The addition of a clause that asserted that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son and the Father was approved by the Coun- cil of Toledo in 589 CE, which became a primary cause of the schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Name this statement of doctrine formulated by the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, which is still recited as part of every Catholic Mass.", "round" : "r6tossups.pdf", "seen" : 229, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f438b3d831d6a0028bc" }, "answer" : "\"Howl\"", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 360.7794704164844, "num" : 3, "question" : "The footnote of this poetic work features a repetitive Holy! mantra where the author asserts all is holy. Part III of this work repeats the mantra, I'm with you in Rockland. Considered one of the seminal works of the Beat generation, it details many of the hippies during the 50's starving hysterical naked. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness is a line from, for 10 points, what poem by Allen Ginsberg that shares its name with a sound a wolf makes?", "round" : "FKT 2010 DuPont FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f448b3d831d6a0028c9" }, "answer" : "The {Book} of {Mormon}: An {Account Written} by the {Hand} of {Mormon} upon {Plates Taken} from the {Plates} of {Nephi} [accept The {Book} of {Alma} prior to {section}]", "category" : "Religion", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 391.747963588452, "num" : 17, "question" : "This work tells of the story of Korihor, a man stricken dumb because of being an Anti-Christ and dissuading people from the Gospel. It contains a section called the Words of the son of the title figure. When asked about the original language of the source, the translator said it was Reformed Egyptian. This, discovered by a 14-year old farm boy in Palmyra, New York, was found on the Hill Cumorah. Discovered and translated by Joseph Smith, for 10 points, name this sacred work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.", "round" : "FKT 2010 DuPont FINAL.rtf", "seen" : 262, "tournament" : "Fall Kickoff Tournament", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd78b3d831d6a004b6a" }, "answer" : "{A(l)fonso} de {Albuquerque}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 56.05224712355994, "num" : 3, "question" : "This man planned to destroy Egypt by diverting the course of the Nile, and died on a ship after learning that he had been supplanted by his enemy, Lope Soares. He was assisted by Timoja in one endeavor, while another involved seizing Socotra before capturing (*) Hormuz. He built the first Portuguese fortress in Asia to protect Cochin before capturing Malacca. For 10 points, name this man who captured Goa after replacing Francisco de Almeida as governor of India, the namesake of a city in New Mexico.", "round" : "09_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 39, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f888b3d831d6a003947" }, "answer" : "The {Dagda} [or {Dagodeiwos}; or {Dag Dia}; or {Eochaid Ollathair}]", "category" : "Mythology", "difficulty" : "College", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 97.92055829591118, "num" : 19, "question" : "This god was once forced to consume a porridge that was enough for fifty men. One of this god's sons, who always had four birds hovering above his head, identified his future wife among 150 swans. This god was able to conceive that son by sending Elcmar on a nine-month journey, which enabled him to seduce Boann. Possessions of this god included a magical harp, an inexhaustible cauldron, and a club that could be used to both kill enemies and restore the dead to life. This lover of Morrigan and father of Aonghus was leader of the group that defeated the Fomorii at the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh. For 10 points, name this figure from Celtic myth who led the Tuatha De Danann, and was known as \"the good god.\"", "round" : "Round by Jason Loy Caleb Robbins and Billy Beyer.docx", "seen" : 66, "tournament" : "Sun n Fun", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fd48b3d831d6a004ac6" }, "answer" : "George {Steinbrenner}", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 120.3873408627696, "num" : 6, "question" : "His underlings include Mr. Cushman, who recommends him a man who brags of sleeping with his office's cleaning woman.  A fan of \"fancy mustard\" sandwiches, he discovers an employee hiding under his desk during a bomb (*) threat.  He notes how his people kept saying \"Ken Phelps, Ken Phelps\", and later describes Babe Ruth as a \"fat old man, with little-girl legs\".  For 10 points, name this Seinfeld character who made George Costanza an Assistant to the Traveling Secretary for the Yankees.", "round" : "03_fichte09.doc", "seen" : 78, "tournament" : "FICHTE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f748b3d831d6a00342b" }, "answer" : "{Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9696338432841, "num" : 11, "question" : "This man built a plurality over Radomiro Tomic in an election culminating in the death of his general, René Schneider. The telex network from Operation Cybersyn helped develop his economy, which relied on the ITT and Anaconda Corporations. Project FUBELT targeted this man, whose advisor Carlos Prats put two bullets in the fender of a red sports car in a bizarre case of gender confusion, helping to trigger the (*) Tanquetazo putsch against this man. This man's government also weathered the Cuban Packages scandal and a strike at El Teniente, the world's largest copper mine. Jorge Alessandri opposed this man, who supposedly committed suicide after a 1973 coup. For 10 points, name this socialist leader of Chile overthrown by Augusto Pinochet.", "round" : "Round 20 Finals II.doc", "seen" : 226, "tournament" : "PACE NSC", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ee68b3d831d6a00132e" }, "answer" : "{Simone} de {Beauvoir}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 48.12353824195452, "num" : 12, "question" : "This thinker wrote a work citing the narcissist, the prostitute, and the mystic as examples of “Justifications.” Another work claims that slaves unconscious of their slavery spend their whole life in an infantile mindset. That work by this thinker outlines the adventurer and the serious man as two of six character types which are differentiated based on their level of freedom. This philosopher’s best-known work begins with a section about the “Facts and Myths” of the title group. This author of The Ethics of Ambiguity concluded that “One is not born, but rather, becomes, a woman” in a work tracing the evolution of the woman as “the other.” For 10 points, name this French philosopher who wrote The Second Sex and was longtime Sartre’s lover.", "round" : "Packet 3 - finalized.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "MUT", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fb98b3d831d6a0044c4" }, "answer" : "{George Bernard Shaw}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 359.6863373529632, "num" : 19, "question" : "Novels by this author include one in which Lydia Carew falls in love with a prizefighter and another where the wealthy Marian Lind marries the inventor of the electro-motor, Edward Conolly. In addition to Cashel Byron's Profession and The Irrational Knot, this author wrote a work in which Frank Gardner is the love interest of the titular character, who is forced into prostitution by economic hardships. Another work by this author starts with a Serbian soldier entering the bedroom of Raina, the wife of a Bulgarian solider. In addition to Mrs. Warren's Profession and Arms and the Man, other works by this author concern a disillusioned Officer in the Salvation Army in one work and Henry Higgins' attempts to train Eliza Doolite in another. FTP, identify this author of Major Barbara and Pygmalion. ", "round" : "Round 6.doc", "seen" : 240, "tournament" : "BATE", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40548b3d831d6a0068ff" }, "answer" : "{Caesar Marcus Aurelius} Antoninus {Augustus}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 343.8029817852657, "num" : 12, "question" : "During this man's rule, the legal code began to diverge into separate scales of punishment for noblemen and commoners, known as “honestiores” and “humiliores.” His reign saw the introduction of a disease known as the Antonine Plague after he successfully defeated the Parthians. He ruled along with Verus after the death of Antoninus Pius, and this emperor's own death generally marks the end of the Pax Romana as it led to the accession of the unstable Commodus. For 10 points, name this emperor who ruled Rome from 161 to 180 CE.", "round" : "Round_10_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 227, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7a8b3d831d6a0035d1" }, "answer" : "Howl", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.35178258013912, "num" : 7, "question" : "One image in this poem describes men \"who walked all night with their shoes full of blood\" before finding a room full of \"steamheat and opium.\"  Another image contemplates men that \"ate lamb stem of the imagination\" and dreamed \"of the pure vegetable kingdom.\"  It compares sailors to \"American seraphim\" before describing a \"blond and naked angel\" in a Turkish bath.  The second part of this poem recites names for one figure such as \"the incomprehensible prison\" and \"whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen\" while the third part is a plea to another figure in Rockland--those figures are Moloch and Carl Solomon respectively.  For 10 points, name this Ginsberg poem that begins \"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.\"", "round" : "Maryland A.doc", "seen" : 29, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fc38b3d831d6a004703" }, "answer" : "The {Optimist's Daughter}", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 31.79308000719175, "num" : 12, "question" : "The main character in this novel stands in the driveway and “burns Milton's Universe” shortly after helping to evict a bird from the upstairs bedroom along with the maid Missouri. The title character of this novel finds a cache of letters about West Virginia that give insight into her mother. The central event of this novel is sparked when a woman throws herself onto her husband and screams “I tell you enough is enough! This is my birthday!” demanding to participate in the New Orleans Carnival outside. A man in this novel tells (*) Dr. Courtland that he survived the death of his first wife Becky and thus can survive surgery for a torn retina , but Major Bullock ultimately has to arrange the funeral of that man, who makes a widow of his uncouth Texan wife Fay. The title character leaves her fabric-designing business to return to Mount Salus, Mississippi, where she attends the funeral of Judge Clinton McKelva. For 10 points, name this novel about Laurel Hand, by Eudora Welty.", "round" : "Rd09.doc", "seen" : 22, "tournament" : "Chicago Open Literature", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f7c8b3d831d6a00361e" }, "answer" : "China", "category" : "Literature", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 45.55814560363069, "num" : 20, "question" : "One author from this country wrote a novel which ends with a man crying because he is no longer able to sell blood like he had to in the past to feed his family. Another author from this nation wrote a novel about an army doctor who waits 20 years to divorce the wife he doesn't love and marry his longtime nurse girlfriend. As well as those authors of Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and Waiting, this country produced an author who satirized its national character in a work about a peasant farmer who deludes himself into believing he has won all his life's conflicts, The True Story of Ah Q. Other works in this country include novels about 108 outlaws and another novel in which three men put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion go on to fight a civil war. For ten points, identify this country, the home of Yu Hua, Ha Jin, Lu Xun, as well as Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.", "round" : "Rice.doc", "seen" : 31, "tournament" : "Penn Bowl", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3e968b3d831d6a0000b4" }, "answer" : "Hubert {Dreyfus}", "category" : "Philosophy", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 39.63888455857523, "num" : 12, "question" : "In one paper, this philosopher cites Kierkegaard’s essay “The Present Age,” which argues that anonymity undermines commitment, to demonstrate why “Kierkegaard would have hated the Internet.” Another of this philosopher’s papers draws parallels between two philosophers’ use of the title concepts, and is titled “Being and Power.” With Paul Rabinow, this thinker authored a book entitled Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, and in 1997, he engaged in a notable debate with Daniel Dennett regarding the recent match between Kasparov and Deep Blue. In addition to writing a popular exposition of Heidegger’s Being and Time entitled Being-in-the-world, this thinker wrote a work which critiqued the biological, psychological, epistemological, and ontological assumptions “underlying persistent optimism,” and argues for the “role of the body in intelligent behavior.” For 10 points, identify this phenomenologist and Heidegger exponent, a Berkeley philosopher whose criticism against artificial intelligence is contained in What Computers Still Can’t Do.", "round" : "2011-ACFNationals-Editors5Final.doc", "seen" : 27, "tournament" : "ACF Nationals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e401b8b3d831d6a005b82" }, "answer" : "{Horn} of Africa [accept {Ethiopia} or {Abyssinia} until “{Cape}”]", "category" : "Geography", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 594.0776019063778, "num" : 4, "question" : "This region includes much of the district of Oromia, whose Bale Mountains contain a population of Simien Wolves. This region also contains the Ogaden Plateau, which has been a site of breakaway insurgents in recent years. The easternmost tip of this region is Cape Guardafui and its easternmost section is the region of Puntland. Off its coast lies the Socotra archipelago. To the north of this area are the Bab al-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden, while to its south is the Indian Ocean. For 10 points, name this region of Africa containing Somalia and Ethiopia.", "round" : "Round 10.doc", "seen" : 401, "tournament" : "MW GSAC XVII", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e404f8b3d831d6a0067f6" }, "answer" : "{amino acids}", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 395.4410608618055, "num" : 8, "question" : "These compounds react with reducing sugars in the Maillard reaction. These compounds can be formed using a cyanide nucleophile in the Strecker synthesis. A carboxyl group and a namesake nitrogen-containing group are found in these molecules, twenty of which are coded for in the human body. For 10 points, name these compounds, exemplified by tryptophan and phenylalanine, which are linked by peptide bonds to form proteins.", "round" : "Round_01_HSAPQ4Q.pdf", "seen" : 267, "tournament" : "HSAPQ 4Q 1", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3eca8b3d831d6a000c6b" }, "answer" : "{Daniel Webster}", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "HS", "inc_random" : 343.9194200097117, "num" : 27, "question" : "He was accused of being \"the pensioned agent of the manufacturing interest\" after New York and Boston businessmen supplemented his Senate income in 1845. He argued for his alma mater before the Supreme Court in Dartmouth v. Woodward. This man also had a debate with South Carolina's Robert Hayne over nullification. For 10 points, name this Massachusetts Whig statesman who negotiated an 1842 treaty establishing the border between Maine and New Brunswick with Baron Ashburton.", "round" : "districts-02.pdf", "seen" : 228, "tournament" : "HSAPQ VHSL Districts", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e40758b3d831d6a007105" }, "answer" : "{Baltimore Ravens} (accept partial answers)", "category" : "Trash", "difficulty" : "HS", "fixed" : -1, "inc_random" : 847.8770585218444, "num" : 2, "question" : "This team's first coach was Ted Marchibroda, and their current coach is the brother of Stanford's head football coach. Their current quarterback is in his rookie season out of the University of Delaware, and their current owner bought the team from Art Modell a few years after the franchise was relocated and renamed. They won their only Super Bowl, defeating the New York Giants thirty-four to seven. Name this AFC North team scheduled to play Dallas tonight whose nickname was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.", "round" : "r3tossups.pdf", "seen" : 568, "tournament" : "NTV", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2008 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3ea88b3d831d6a000488" }, "answer" : "(Frederick) {Childe Hassam}", "category" : "Fine Arts", "difficulty" : "Open", "fixed" : 1, "inc_random" : 35.50849173590541, "num" : 9, "question" : "This artist was given the nickname \"Muley\" and painted at a studio known as \"Bonero Terrace,\" which he fitted with a Victorian sofa. He wrote several letters to Florence Griswold, for whom he painted a two-panel door which shows nude bathers in the Lieutenant River. In one painting, he's shown topless with his shirt draped over an easel he's painting at, holding a rocket in his left hand. Other works of his show Celia Thaxter in her garden picking poppies and depict \"Allies Day, May 1917,\" as part of his \"Flag Series\" of paintings. His three depictions of the Congregational Church at Old Lyme made his name as a member of the art colony there. He joined John Henry Twachtman and J. Alden Weir in an artistic group known as The Ten, and began signing his name with a crescent moon to emphasize his Arabic descent, after he dropped his real first name Frederick. FTP, name this pioneer of American impressionism.", "round" : "PACKET13Gioia.doc", "seen" : 25, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2011 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fa08b3d831d6a003ea8" }, "answer" : "{Dirac Delta} function", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 49.08368214615621, "num" : 11, "question" : "It was originally used to describe a wave function in momentum space for a wave with definite momentum. The integral from -1 to 1 of this function of 1 over x is zero. An infinite series of evenly spaced ones is called a (*) comb, and the Fourier transform of that construct is another comb. The convolution of a function with this one simply yields the original function.  It was first rigorously defined mathematically by Laurent Schwartz. The integral of a function “f” multiplied by this function centered at point “a” is f(a) (“f of a”), and it is the derivative of a step function named after Heaviside. For 10 points, name this “improper” function with zero width, infinite height, and area one, often used to describe a sharp impulse.", "round" : "Round 1.doc", "seen" : 33, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Sunday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408d8b3d831d6a007690" }, "answer" : "{irrational} numbers", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 66.05747354389169, "num" : 6, "question" : "Hurwitz's Theorem gives the bounds for the best approximation to an arbitrary one of these. Ones that have periodic continued fractions are known as quadratic surds, and Rivoal proved that the form gamma of 2n+1 can generate infinitely many of them. Topologically, the set of them is a Baire space but is not locally compact. The Erdos-Borwein constant is this, as is Gelfond's constant, but this property is not known for pi to the e power or for the Euler-Mascheroni constant. FTP name these numbers that were feared by the Pythagoreans and that are non-terminating and non-repeating", "round" : "ACF Editors 1.doc", "seen" : 54, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2006 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3f9f8b3d831d6a003e84" }, "answer" : "silicon", "category" : "Science", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 50.01704269368201, "num" : 19, "question" : "Like the element immediately below it on the periodic table, when this element is surrounded by only hydrogen atoms, the resulting molecule acts as a high temperature superconducting solid at high pressures. It is commonly purified by reacting it with HCl to produce its trichloro form, and decomposing that molecule to deposit this element on heated rods, a process which can reduce impurities to less than 1 part per billion. That process is named after Siemens. One material with an extremely low glass transition temperature of below -125 degrees Celsius contains methyl side chains and a backbone made of oxygen alternating with this element. That polymer is widely used in shampoos and is cross-linked with boric acid to form silly putty. For 10 points, name this element located directly below carbon on the periodic table, a metalloid used in most computer chips.", "round" : "The Finals 1.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "VCU Open (Saturday)", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2010 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e408c8b3d831d6a00764e" }, "answer" : "The {Presentation} of {Self} in {Everyday Life}", "category" : "Social Science", "difficulty" : "College", "inc_random" : 46.81234455178492, "num" : 3, "question" : "It quotes Sartre's observation of a waiter in the cafe in a section on \"reality and contrivance,\" and ends with applications to management thinking. It describes the process of showing socially acceptable characteristics called mystification and notes that marginalized people tend to be forced into discredited groups. The concepts of \"line\" and \"disidentifiers\" are explained in the author's other works, Interactive Ritual and Stigma. Containing chapters on \"discrepant roles\" and \"performances,\" FTP name this work that takes a \"dramaturgical\" approach to the study of social interactions, based on the metaphor of an actor giving a performance, the best known work by Erving Goffman.", "round" : "2007 ACF Regionals - UCLA A MIT A.doc", "seen" : 32, "tournament" : "ACF Regionals", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2007 }
, { "__v" : 0, "_id" : { "$oid" : "506e3fbe8b3d831d6a0045c7" }, "answer" : "the {Liberian civil war} [or obvious equivalents]", "category" : "History", "difficulty" : "Open", "inc_random" : 43.0348922915291, "num" : 4, "question" : "One attempt to end this conflict created a Council of State that was last led by Ruth Perry, following other countries' attempts to mediate this conflict through such agreements as the Accra Clarification of the Akosombo Agreement. Starting as an ethnic conflict among the Gio, Mano, and Krahn, it escalated after the assassination of the head of the People's Redemption Council. A group involved in this conflict split during this event into two factions, led respectively by G.V. Kromah and (*) Roosevelt Johnson, and another participant in this conflict claimed that the Devil called him on the telephone and was known to play soccer with children's heads and dress his soldiers in women's clothing, but himself was named for his lack of attire as General Butt Naked. Early during this conflict Prince Johnson killled President Samuel Doe, and it eventually saw the victory of the National Patriotic Front. For 10 points, name this conflict which ended with the election of Charles Taylor.", "round" : "Packet 08 - The Lady's Not for Byrning.doc", "seen" : 28, "tournament" : "Chicago Open", "type" : "qb", "year" : 2009 }
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